I have to wonder why this is news? Someone makes a half-way interesting bit of a driving simulator, but it's still missing lots of key components (like other drivers, or even a goal), and it gets posted? I know usually the comments on here are nonsensical, but usually the stories are better.:)
By the way, yes it does run fine in Wine.
It kinda looks like a flash animation/game. I wonder if that was intentional or not.
I managed to install spyware in Wine. What was worse is that I couldn't kill the freakin' processes. They lingered until I rebooted. there were no real ill effects from it, other than 3 or 4 processes that wouldn't go away. It tried to take over MSIE, which oddly enough didn't exist.:) After I rebooted, I simply cleaned up the files that didn't belong in my.wine directory. it was an interesting look at the anatomy of a single piece of spyware. It installed itself in about a dozen places, which were really obvious (cd ~/.wine ; find . -ctime 0)
They're pretty lucky I'm not posting the pictures of the damage we've gotten. By far, the internal damage done by the TSA has been the worst, but some of it's pretty good.
The Promise VTrak 15100 arrays are very large, heavy, and sturdy boxes. They have very thick plastic handles on the front to ease putting it in the rack (theoretically). In all reality, you can lift them from the floor by the handles, but unless you can manage to hold over 100 pounds horizontally just by the handles, you could arm-wrestle Arnold Swartznegger and win.:)
All four handles (two per unit) were crushed, smashed, or otherwise rendered non-existant in shipping.
One of the brand-new 1u machines, in the manufacturers box, had what appeared to be the hole created by a fork lift, in the side of it. You could see straight into the box. Luckly, whatever pierced the box missed the actual machine by a fraction of an inch..:) That one, I'm not sure UPS was the shipping company, so I won't blame them on that one.
I have worked in a warehouse before, and know how stuff gets handled. I know, most stuff makes it to it's destination in one piece, but I've also seen 28" TV's fall 30+ feet to their demise, when the forklift operator "thought" it was in place, only to find he missed by a little bit. I rescued a few of them, where they hadn't quite fallen, and the equipment I was driving was the only one that could get a person close enough to grab it.:)
I've also seen what happens when a forklift goes through the side of a pallet full of laundry detergent. That has to be the messiest stuff in the world.:)
I was only responsible for one piece of broken merchandise. I kinda bumped a pallet, by hand, which had another pallet behind it, which was no longer stacked properly. A recriprocating saw fell about 25' to the warehouse floor. Ya, when you get a broken item from the store, something like that may have happened to it. No visible damage, it goes to the store.
At least, working in a warehouse, the boxes are clearly marked to the contents. Shipping companies are generally screwed as far as that goes. they know it's cardboard, they know it weighs x pounds, but they have no clue what the contents are.
I'm gathering a nice pile of 500Mhz machines with 256Mb ram. I'm thinking of making a beowulf cluster in my living room.:) We're keeping anything newer than 1Ghz online. That's my cutoff for this upgrade cycle.
Actually, I have plenty of things to try out on 'em. Sometimes it's nice to have a few dozen old boxen laying around. The power company loves it, and my girlfriend... well... she has words for my own personal server farm in the living room. I can't repost most of them here.:) She should just wait til I get some racks installed..
I've been seriously considering a swarm of MythTV boxes..:) I'd show you my big tv, but it seems to be on a server that happens to be unplugged. For some reason my priorities are screwed up, and personal machines aren't important during server moves. Anyways, it's 8' tall. It's a DLP projector, showing against a plain white wall in a darkened room. It's really fun, but now I really see the need for Hi-Def everything.
I had to switch a RedHat machine from Grub to Lilo. that was a lot of fun. The version of lilo that they included didn't actually work right. For some reason, it had no concept of SCSI drives. I don't ask why... I replaced it with one I had compiled from scratch and packaged when I was trying to build my own distro. Sometimes that practice comes in very handy.:)
Really, I like lilo much better, just as long as you don't do something silly like "lilo ; shutdown -r now". Always make sure it kicked back a friendly message.:)
Aw, come on, the/dev/hd? errors are a pretty good clue the drive is screwed.:)
We've been doing data center moves this month, and checking/refurbishing every machine as it gets shipped over. I take any/dev/hd? error as "the machine got dropped, and the drive is dead". If it doesn't turn on or it kernel panics for no aparent reason, I consider it a dead motherboard. For most of our machines, that's a fairly good guess, since everything's integrated.
We have no expectation that any machine will arrive in one piece. The data is already transfered off to a new machine before we put it in a box. Ooohh, the wonders of 0 downtime.:)
We've been changing every hard drive anyways, because they all have a few years on them. We've only had one machine not turn on, and it's too old to mess with. The only real odd-ball case was one machine on which when we ran ifconfig, it would kernel panic. We're using identical images on every machine to start, and only 1 of 60 has done that, so I'm fairly sure it's a bad motherboard. Too bad, it was a nice dual 1.4Ghz machine. Oh wait, that's old now, isn't it?:)
We had two drives in an array fail, but that's the TSA's fault. That array was carried on an airplane, to be "sure" it was safe. It had more damage than any other piece of hardware, even the ones that UPS drop-kicked. I'm amazed by some of the damage I've seen. I haven't figured out how they bent some of the metal, since the boxes looked fine, and they were well packed.
Needless to say, I was knee deep in packing peanuts again tonight.
The truth is, even though they're an ISP, they're still a private company (as opposed to say a government entity), and can do anything they want. It's understandable that while involved in a conflict, they'd want to suppress the opposing side. Is it right? Not in the least.
I don't know Canadian law, and IANAL, but in America I know your Constitutional right to freedom of speech applies to the government supressing your speech. Plenty of people will reference the "yelling fire in a crowded theater" scenerio, but I'll go with this one instead. If you were to go into a Christian church, and draw a circle of protection on the floor (in a non-permanent way, of course), and start a [insert pagan tradition of your chioce here] ceremony, you'd be told to stop, probably not in the nicest terms.
Is it right for the telco to block the union's site from customers using that telco? No. Can they? Sure. Just like they can arbitrarly block "bad" web sites, spammers email or networks, or even potentially exploitable ports on user machines. They can do anything they'd like with their own equipment, they're under no obligation to provide service to "everything". Of course, when the word gets out that they've blocked something like this, which isn't in the best interest of their customers, it looks very bad for them.
As I work for an Internet Provider (hosting provider), I consider it unacceptable to block any particular network, and I won't do it. As a journalist and an advocate of free speech, I consider it very wrong. People do wrong things every day, it's up to the customers to make the decision of if they want to patronize a company who behaves this way.
I upgraded my TiVo about... ummm... 2 years ago, maybe? I had read the stuff on *how* to do it before that. I just hadn't wanted to break a perfectly good box.
I've done lots more than this. I have 3 TiVo's upgraded, hacked, and working now. Two are at my house, one at my girlfriends. It's nice when people give you "broken" boxes, just to find out they weren't all that broken. One did have a completely failed modem, but that was easy enough to deal with. (Hmm, how do you do a fresh install with no modem? Magic. hehe)
If he would have read up a little on the subject before making himself look like a complete freakin' moron, there are two pairs of boot/root partitions. 3/4 and 6/7 . They do this for upgrades. If you're using the 3/4 pair, the upgrade gets installed into the 6/7 pair. things that must survive through upgrades are kept in/var (partition 9). He completely missed the purpose of the MFS partitions. Those are the interesting ones, which the audio/video is actually stored. Hmmm. Imagine that. Dissecting a PVR, and actually wondering where the V goes.:)
It's very likely to have a boot/root pair empty, or just to confuse our winner a little more, both of them populated, but having different versions of the OS in them.
And... He did his examinations of the partitions the hardest way possible. There are plenty of boot CD's, which give support for the TiVo partition table (ya, ya, apple), and a few other customizations, to make things easy.
Oh, and his comment saying S2 is worse that S1 for hacking is just stupid.
God, I hope he didn't actually get paid to write that crap.
When you were conceived, your rights were taken away. You live under privileges given to you by those who rule over you. Most people don't like realizing that, so they accept the fact, and resign themselves to having "privileges" which may be taken away.
Laws, rights, and privileges are human concepts. We don't "own" anything. We can say that we do, but nature itself will remind us otherwise very frequently.
Why is driving a privilege? Because you're told so. You have to ask the state's permission to access public property. You can't drive, walk, or even ride a bicycle on their property without following their rules.
I started driving at 10 years old. It was a privilege granted by my parents. They allowed me to drive on our private property. It was completely illegal as far as the "laws" go, but since no law enforcers found out, no actions were taken against me.
At 14 I was caught riding a small motorcycle by law enforcers. Why was it illegal? The vehicle was licensed by every extend of the rules mandated. I followed all of their rules as outlined by the law makers, except for the pesky license rule. Due to my age, I'm not permitted independant travel.
Many times through my life, they've tested the right versus privilege of my travel. I have been stopped, interrogated, and my state issued documents checked to verify that the rule makers have received their tribute for me to travel. I paid for the "private" property I was using (the vehicle, the taxes on the vehicle, and even the taxes so the roads and associated equipment could work). Still, they have attempted to prove to themselves that I may or may not be worthy of travel in their public areas.
Because we humans believe we are so superior to anything else, we have dictated over nature how things must be. We will fine, imprison, or even execute anything which we don't believe are following our finite set of rules. Don't believe that? Check your local pound. Innocent animals being trapped and executed because they don't have a human to represent them.
I believe in "do not harm, to the best of my ability". If I decide to drive, I do not harm anything to the best of my ability, I have done nothing wrong. You can argue the simple fact of driving is doing harm. The roads have subdivided the natural lands. Any living thing that previously existed where the roads are now have been moved or killed. Even the emissions from our vehicles are toxic. Any happy green person will say "ride a bicycle", but they discount the fact that those are made out of metal, plastics, rubber, and other components, which all use something bad.
Your innocence or guilt are arbitrary human concepts. You won't find another species on the planet who judge each other in such ways. We are all innocent, because our laws are our own arbitrary entrapments.
I had a live cam site, where they'd turn up the heat to crash the machines they were using, so they didn't have to work. They were Windows machines. All it took was putting a thermistor into a little housing, so it plugged into the game port. I wrote a little QuickBasic program to read the value, and report it back. It took a little math to figure out the value to temperature conversions.
I'm sure it could be done in Linux too, but the machines I was working with were Win98 workstations. If you can read the value of a game port axis, you can read the thermistor. It was just a couple bucks for parts, and a few minutes of programming. You could wire the termistor to anywhere you'd like. Mine sat right on the game port, but if you want the ambient temperature of the room, you'd probably want it a bit farther away from the machine(s).
You'll need to find the pinout for a game port, to figure out where to put it. It wasn't very hard to do. Pinouts are available all over the Internet.
I hope they manage to do it better than their wireless service was with the IM 1100. That was an absolute piece of crap. I could get a connection, but don't expect to do anything on it. Latency was in the high 3 digit range (like 900ms pings), and even for a simple web page, you'd be waiting for 5 minutes.
The only practical thing I ever got it to do was send a webcam feed, while I was driving. One small picture every 5 minutes was ok for that.
The only upside was that it worked under Windows and Linux.:) it was just a regular serial device, as far as the comptuer was concerned. It had a short init string to turn it on, and then you'd fire up pppd.
I'll be happy if this new service works, assuming they're rolling it out to the whole country. I heard Verizon had one that worked pretty good. I don't really want an extra cell phone bill though.
Unfortunately, everyone moving out of Los Angeles, as it may fix Los Angeles air pollution problems, would create greater problems where the population moves.
The more obvious answer is population control. There are too many people, using too many resources, creating too many problems. Reduce the number of people, and you reduce the problem. There is no pretty solution for that though.
I move every year or two. That's no biggie. The smog problem was here before I got here, and it will still be here after I leave.
I'm not a tree-hugging hippie, but unless you're an industrialist idiot, you'd see the problem.
(Industrialist idiots would solve the problem by causing more pollution, so people would look back to the good old days when they could almost breathe the air.)
Los Angeles has a great layout. It's impractical for walking, and the mass transit suck. I keep telling people in LA that I love New York because it's one of the few cities I can fly in to, and not even consider renting a car, no matter how long my visit is.
Well, there are other reasons too. You gotta love the street meat.:)
Arrogant? Always. But those that know me know that. If you're unsure, check my journal.
A*hole? Hmmm. It seems any girlfriend I've had calls me one at some point. Other than that, unless you're an ex-girlfriend, you can't say it.
So, why do you consider me an arrogant a*hole? Or by omission in your list, why am I a Linux using democrat, and what would that have to do with me mocking the idea that great thinkers for centuries haven't been able to figure out visual perception? Or maybe the pollution in LA. If you have a problem with the statement about pollution in LA, you haven't lived there.
That's why I said "Great thinkers? Centuries? Bah.". They were saying in the article that great thinkers have been working on the problem for centuries. I think they've been asking the wrong thinkers.:)
Intelligence, and more precisely consciousness are random electrical impulses in a complex chemical environment.
Your thoughts, and even the fact that you think you are reading this, are irrational, and therefore non-existant.:)
There's a hill that I see frequently. If you're on top of the hill, you are *sure* the next hill is just below you. You are also sure that you're only about 50 feet above the bottom of the valley below.
If you go to the valley, you can see the original point is at least a couple hundred feet up, but both hill tops look equal
If you stand on the opposite hill, you now realize that this hill is 100 feet below the other, and still a long way from the bottom of the valley.
Everything is the perspective that our mind puts on it (and rolling back to the original thought), random electrical impulses, which are complete and utter nonsense.
You're really a single celled organism sitting in a mud puddle on a primordial planet, imaging what it would be like to be advanced. But who am I to knock it, I'm in the next mud puddle.
> The red light isn't pollution. You're looking at a moonset. It's a sunset, but dimmer.
Hmmmm..
When I lived in the lands far away, where they sky was clear of impurities, the moon would rise white.
When I moved to the land of {{COUGH}}{{COUGH}} pollution, the moon rises many colors.
For the last few days, it's been a nasty sickly red. It's the pollution. I've watched it rise over the smog.
Unless, you're simply saying that the moon isn't really colored red, that it's my perspective through the atmosphere, which is correct.:)
The pollution is still nasty. It's even eerier after the moon is a couple hours up, because you can see the haze over the city under the full moon light. I feel like I should be wearing some sort of air filter to go into the valley.
I was thinking the same thing a few nights ago, watching the moon rise over LA. Then I considered, "Near the ground, I consider it in proportion to the objects around it. In the sky, I have no reference"
Great thinkers? Centuries? Bah.
Now what they need to figure out is how to fix the pollution in LA. The moon is red until it gets above the smog. Well, that is if you're not *IN* the smog.
I have to assume that if someone managed to develop the technology to do time travel, they'd also need a decent time mapping system, or they'd end up doing something resembling the TV show "Sliders". You may find a home, at the right physical location, but would it be in what you know as your timeline?
While trying to avoid sounding like a complete lunitic, I'll try to explain the best I can. I'm no expert in paranormal events, so some of my phrasing may be a bit off. I was corrected on my experience of "Deja Vu" a few months ago, being told it's really "Precognition".
I was told when I was a kid that if I live through an event a second time, where I'm sure it couldn't have happened before, it was a "Deja Vu". This was clarified by someone more into paranormal phenomena to be a precognition. A deja vu is where you've lived it once, and you're living it again, even though you probably weren't able to have lived it once before. Use the example from the Matrix, where he sees a black cat run by, and then turns to see the same black can run by the same way again.
My precognitions usually happen years before the real event. They come in dreams. Usually they're very clear events, as viewed from my own eyes. Hollywood never portrays them like that, usually to show the stars involved in the scenes.
The most notable one was a conversation I had with 4 complete strangers. I went to a city I hadn't been to before, with a new friend. We met 4 of his friends there, and through the evening, we were having a conversation. We ended up in a library, and for 10 seconds through the conversation, I knew exactly what everyone was to say. At the point where I was suppose to say something, I didn't say a word. By not saying my part, the next person to speak didn't say anything, because I had changed the chain of events. They continued talking, it was just that it changed subtly.
Another changed event was visiting a strange house as a child. We went to a house, and I asked to play downstairs. I named very specific details of the downstairs of the house, because I **KNEW** I had been there before. They corrected me in that I had never been there before, because they had just moved in, but my details of the basement were absolutely correct, including an item of furnature which was left there by the previous owner. I may have changed this event by mentioning it too early, or it may have been changed by someone else changing plans.
My precognitions come more frequently when "something" is going to happen. The precognitions never have anything to do with the event that is going to happen, they're just like warnings that it will happen. The event isn't necessarly important to me, about half the time they are. I may get precognitions several times a day when the event is coming close. After the event, they can completely go away for a while. Sometimes it's weeks, sometimes it's years.
I can usually remember when the dreams are from. Usually they don't make sense at all, because of the time that I have the vision. I pass them off as a weird dream, until it really happens.
For example, I was dating this really nice girl. I dated her for years. While I was dating her, I had this dream. I was with this other girl in my car. This was a nice car, which at the time I didn't have anything like. I was at a particular intersection in a city I had never been in. I was messing with the air conditioning controls, because this girlfriend had changed something while I was driving. She was also talking on a cell phone to my ex-girlfriend (the girl I was dating when I had the dream), and their conversation was exactly from the dream.
When I had the precognition, I didn't see the girlfriend in the dream, because I was looking out at the traffic, which was a very specific part of the precognition. I didn't know what she'd look like, and I didn't realize what it was until it all happened. That dream was about 4 years previous to the event.
I spoke with someone who does remote viewing professionally. He's described some of his work. One that he told me about was an event that he was asked to view where something important to the investigat
Matter cannot be created nor destroyed. It is simply rearranged.
Now, the question fo where that matter may exist is something more interesting. If you're simply reassembled from the matter as it existed in that time, how many diverse places would it need to come from? Or, can the same matter from two different times exist in the same place at the same time?
I saw you do that. That's why we had to go afterwards and take care of the father of President Smith. Your killing Barnes lead to the more evil Smith to fill that void. Luckly no one messed with Clinton.:)
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I'd believe it's easier to be the idiot, than to be the psychopath.
Damn it Jim, I'm a SysAdmin, not a psychologist.
I have to wonder why this is news? Someone makes a half-way interesting bit of a driving simulator, but it's still missing lots of key components (like other drivers, or even a goal), and it gets posted? I know usually the comments on here are nonsensical, but usually the stories are better.
By the way, yes it does run fine in Wine.
It kinda looks like a flash animation/game. I wonder if that was intentional or not.
I managed to install spyware in Wine. What was worse is that I couldn't kill the freakin' processes. They lingered until I rebooted. there were no real ill effects from it, other than 3 or 4 processes that wouldn't go away. It tried to take over MSIE, which oddly enough didn't exist.
They're pretty lucky I'm not posting the pictures of the damage we've gotten. By far, the internal damage done by the TSA has been the worst, but some of it's pretty good.
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:) That one, I'm not sure UPS was the shipping company, so I won't blame them on that one.
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The Promise VTrak 15100 arrays are very large, heavy, and sturdy boxes. They have very thick plastic handles on the front to ease putting it in the rack (theoretically). In all reality, you can lift them from the floor by the handles, but unless you can manage to hold over 100 pounds horizontally just by the handles, you could arm-wrestle Arnold Swartznegger and win.
All four handles (two per unit) were crushed, smashed, or otherwise rendered non-existant in shipping.
One of the brand-new 1u machines, in the manufacturers box, had what appeared to be the hole created by a fork lift, in the side of it. You could see straight into the box. Luckly, whatever pierced the box missed the actual machine by a fraction of an inch..
I have worked in a warehouse before, and know how stuff gets handled. I know, most stuff makes it to it's destination in one piece, but I've also seen 28" TV's fall 30+ feet to their demise, when the forklift operator "thought" it was in place, only to find he missed by a little bit. I rescued a few of them, where they hadn't quite fallen, and the equipment I was driving was the only one that could get a person close enough to grab it.
I've also seen what happens when a forklift goes through the side of a pallet full of laundry detergent. That has to be the messiest stuff in the world.
I was only responsible for one piece of broken merchandise. I kinda bumped a pallet, by hand, which had another pallet behind it, which was no longer stacked properly. A recriprocating saw fell about 25' to the warehouse floor. Ya, when you get a broken item from the store, something like that may have happened to it. No visible damage, it goes to the store.
At least, working in a warehouse, the boxes are clearly marked to the contents. Shipping companies are generally screwed as far as that goes. they know it's cardboard, they know it weighs x pounds, but they have no clue what the contents are.
I'm gathering a nice pile of 500Mhz machines with 256Mb ram. I'm thinking of making a beowulf cluster in my living room. :) We're keeping anything newer than 1Ghz online. That's my cutoff for this upgrade cycle.
... well ... she has words for my own personal server farm in the living room. I can't repost most of them here. :) She should just wait til I get some racks installed..
:) I'd show you my big tv, but it seems to be on a server that happens to be unplugged. For some reason my priorities are screwed up, and personal machines aren't important during server moves. Anyways, it's 8' tall. It's a DLP projector, showing against a plain white wall in a darkened room. It's really fun, but now I really see the need for Hi-Def everything.
Actually, I have plenty of things to try out on 'em. Sometimes it's nice to have a few dozen old boxen laying around. The power company loves it, and my girlfriend
I've been seriously considering a swarm of MythTV boxes..
I had to switch a RedHat machine from Grub to Lilo. that was a lot of fun. The version of lilo that they included didn't actually work right. For some reason, it had no concept of SCSI drives. I don't ask why... I replaced it with one I had compiled from scratch and packaged when I was trying to build my own distro. Sometimes that practice comes in very handy. :)
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Really, I like lilo much better, just as long as you don't do something silly like "lilo ; shutdown -r now". Always make sure it kicked back a friendly message.
Aw, come on, the /dev/hd? errors are a pretty good clue the drive is screwed. :)
/dev/hd? error as "the machine got dropped, and the drive is dead". If it doesn't turn on or it kernel panics for no aparent reason, I consider it a dead motherboard. For most of our machines, that's a fairly good guess, since everything's integrated.
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We've been doing data center moves this month, and checking/refurbishing every machine as it gets shipped over. I take any
We have no expectation that any machine will arrive in one piece. The data is already transfered off to a new machine before we put it in a box. Ooohh, the wonders of 0 downtime.
We've been changing every hard drive anyways, because they all have a few years on them. We've only had one machine not turn on, and it's too old to mess with. The only real odd-ball case was one machine on which when we ran ifconfig, it would kernel panic. We're using identical images on every machine to start, and only 1 of 60 has done that, so I'm fairly sure it's a bad motherboard. Too bad, it was a nice dual 1.4Ghz machine. Oh wait, that's old now, isn't it?
We had two drives in an array fail, but that's the TSA's fault. That array was carried on an airplane, to be "sure" it was safe. It had more damage than any other piece of hardware, even the ones that UPS drop-kicked. I'm amazed by some of the damage I've seen. I haven't figured out how they bent some of the metal, since the boxes looked fine, and they were well packed.
Needless to say, I was knee deep in packing peanuts again tonight.
The simple answer is "no".
My opinion is "no".
The truth is, even though they're an ISP, they're still a private company (as opposed to say a government entity), and can do anything they want. It's understandable that while involved in a conflict, they'd want to suppress the opposing side. Is it right? Not in the least.
I don't know Canadian law, and IANAL, but in America I know your Constitutional right to freedom of speech applies to the government supressing your speech. Plenty of people will reference the "yelling fire in a crowded theater" scenerio, but I'll go with this one instead. If you were to go into a Christian church, and draw a circle of protection on the floor (in a non-permanent way, of course), and start a [insert pagan tradition of your chioce here] ceremony, you'd be told to stop, probably not in the nicest terms.
Is it right for the telco to block the union's site from customers using that telco? No. Can they? Sure. Just like they can arbitrarly block "bad" web sites, spammers email or networks, or even potentially exploitable ports on user machines. They can do anything they'd like with their own equipment, they're under no obligation to provide service to "everything". Of course, when the word gets out that they've blocked something like this, which isn't in the best interest of their customers, it looks very bad for them.
As I work for an Internet Provider (hosting provider), I consider it unacceptable to block any particular network, and I won't do it. As a journalist and an advocate of free speech, I consider it very wrong. People do wrong things every day, it's up to the customers to make the decision of if they want to patronize a company who behaves this way.
God, this is old news...
I upgraded my TiVo about
Even my journal on here covers more than his did.
http://slashdot.org/~JWSmythe/journal/98940
http://slashdot.org/~JWSmythe/journal/99310
http://slashdot.org/~JWSmythe/journal/99319
I've done lots more than this. I have 3 TiVo's upgraded, hacked, and working now. Two are at my house, one at my girlfriends. It's nice when people give you "broken" boxes, just to find out they weren't all that broken. One did have a completely failed modem, but that was easy enough to deal with. (Hmm, how do you do a fresh install with no modem? Magic. hehe)
If he would have read up a little on the subject before making himself look like a complete freakin' moron, there are two pairs of boot/root partitions. 3/4 and 6/7 . They do this for upgrades. If you're using the 3/4 pair, the upgrade gets installed into the 6/7 pair. things that must survive through upgrades are kept in
It's very likely to have a boot/root pair empty, or just to confuse our winner a little more, both of them populated, but having different versions of the OS in them.
And... He did his examinations of the partitions the hardest way possible. There are plenty of boot CD's, which give support for the TiVo partition table (ya, ya, apple), and a few other customizations, to make things easy.
Oh, and his comment saying S2 is worse that S1 for hacking is just stupid.
God, I hope he didn't actually get paid to write that crap.
You have no rights.
When you were conceived, your rights were taken away. You live under privileges given to you by those who rule over you. Most people don't like realizing that, so they accept the fact, and resign themselves to having "privileges" which may be taken away.
Laws, rights, and privileges are human concepts. We don't "own" anything. We can say that we do, but nature itself will remind us otherwise very frequently.
Why is driving a privilege? Because you're told so. You have to ask the state's permission to access public property. You can't drive, walk, or even ride a bicycle on their property without following their rules.
I started driving at 10 years old. It was a privilege granted by my parents. They allowed me to drive on our private property. It was completely illegal as far as the "laws" go, but since no law enforcers found out, no actions were taken against me.
At 14 I was caught riding a small motorcycle by law enforcers. Why was it illegal? The vehicle was licensed by every extend of the rules mandated. I followed all of their rules as outlined by the law makers, except for the pesky license rule. Due to my age, I'm not permitted independant travel.
Many times through my life, they've tested the right versus privilege of my travel. I have been stopped, interrogated, and my state issued documents checked to verify that the rule makers have received their tribute for me to travel. I paid for the "private" property I was using (the vehicle, the taxes on the vehicle, and even the taxes so the roads and associated equipment could work). Still, they have attempted to prove to themselves that I may or may not be worthy of travel in their public areas.
Because we humans believe we are so superior to anything else, we have dictated over nature how things must be. We will fine, imprison, or even execute anything which we don't believe are following our finite set of rules. Don't believe that? Check your local pound. Innocent animals being trapped and executed because they don't have a human to represent them.
I believe in "do not harm, to the best of my ability". If I decide to drive, I do not harm anything to the best of my ability, I have done nothing wrong. You can argue the simple fact of driving is doing harm. The roads have subdivided the natural lands. Any living thing that previously existed where the roads are now have been moved or killed. Even the emissions from our vehicles are toxic. Any happy green person will say "ride a bicycle", but they discount the fact that those are made out of metal, plastics, rubber, and other components, which all use something bad.
Your innocence or guilt are arbitrary human concepts. You won't find another species on the planet who judge each other in such ways. We are all innocent, because our laws are our own arbitrary entrapments.
I had a live cam site, where they'd turn up the heat to crash the machines they were using, so they didn't have to work. They were Windows machines. All it took was putting a thermistor into a little housing, so it plugged into the game port. I wrote a little QuickBasic program to read the value, and report it back. It took a little math to figure out the value to temperature conversions.
I'm sure it could be done in Linux too, but the machines I was working with were Win98 workstations. If you can read the value of a game port axis, you can read the thermistor. It was just a couple bucks for parts, and a few minutes of programming. You could wire the termistor to anywhere you'd like. Mine sat right on the game port, but if you want the ambient temperature of the room, you'd probably want it a bit farther away from the machine(s).
You'll need to find the pinout for a game port, to figure out where to put it. It wasn't very hard to do. Pinouts are available all over the Internet.
I hope they manage to do it better than their wireless service was with the IM 1100. That was an absolute piece of crap. I could get a connection, but don't expect to do anything on it. Latency was in the high 3 digit range (like 900ms pings), and even for a simple web page, you'd be waiting for 5 minutes.
:) it was just a regular serial device, as far as the comptuer was concerned. It had a short init string to turn it on, and then you'd fire up pppd.
The only practical thing I ever got it to do was send a webcam feed, while I was driving. One small picture every 5 minutes was ok for that.
The only upside was that it worked under Windows and Linux.
I'll be happy if this new service works, assuming they're rolling it out to the whole country. I heard Verizon had one that worked pretty good. I don't really want an extra cell phone bill though.
Oh, my mistake.
Unfortunately, everyone moving out of Los Angeles, as it may fix Los Angeles air pollution problems, would create greater problems where the population moves.
The more obvious answer is population control. There are too many people, using too many resources, creating too many problems. Reduce the number of people, and you reduce the problem. There is no pretty solution for that though.
I move every year or two. That's no biggie. The smog problem was here before I got here, and it will still be here after I leave.
I'm not a tree-hugging hippie, but unless you're an industrialist idiot, you'd see the problem.
(Industrialist idiots would solve the problem by causing more pollution, so people would look back to the good old days when they could almost breathe the air.)
Los Angeles has a great layout. It's impractical for walking, and the mass transit suck. I keep telling people in LA that I love New York because it's one of the few cities I can fly in to, and not even consider renting a car, no matter how long my visit is.
:)
Well, there are other reasons too. You gotta love the street meat.
Not to take a troll seriously, but....
Arrogant? Always. But those that know me know that. If you're unsure, check my journal.
A*hole? Hmmm. It seems any girlfriend I've had calls me one at some point. Other than that, unless you're an ex-girlfriend, you can't say it.
So, why do you consider me an arrogant a*hole? Or by omission in your list, why am I a Linux using democrat, and what would that have to do with me mocking the idea that great thinkers for centuries haven't been able to figure out visual perception? Or maybe the pollution in LA. If you have a problem with the statement about pollution in LA, you haven't lived there.
> So what's the big mystery?
:)
That's why I said "Great thinkers? Centuries? Bah.". They were saying in the article that great thinkers have been working on the problem for centuries. I think they've been asking the wrong thinkers.
Intelligence, and more precisely consciousness are random electrical impulses in a complex chemical environment.
Your thoughts, and even the fact that you think you are reading this, are irrational, and therefore non-existant.
There's a hill that I see frequently. If you're on top of the hill, you are *sure* the next hill is just below you. You are also sure that you're only about 50 feet above the bottom of the valley below.
If you go to the valley, you can see the original point is at least a couple hundred feet up, but both hill tops look equal
If you stand on the opposite hill, you now realize that this hill is 100 feet below the other, and still a long way from the bottom of the valley.
Everything is the perspective that our mind puts on it (and rolling back to the original thought), random electrical impulses, which are complete and utter nonsense.
You're really a single celled organism sitting in a mud puddle on a primordial planet, imaging what it would be like to be advanced. But who am I to knock it, I'm in the next mud puddle.
Oddly enough, someone sent me one of the examples from that page a few days ago, and I dug around until I found it. :)
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I was familiar with most of the examples. One that I hadn't seen before was Troxler fading example.
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/col_rapidAfterimage/
> The red light isn't pollution. You're looking at a moonset. It's a sunset, but dimmer.
Hmmmm..
When I lived in the lands far away, where they sky was clear of impurities, the moon would rise white.
When I moved to the land of {{COUGH}}{{COUGH}} pollution, the moon rises many colors.
For the last few days, it's been a nasty sickly red. It's the pollution. I've watched it rise over the smog.
Unless, you're simply saying that the moon isn't really colored red, that it's my perspective through the atmosphere, which is correct.
The pollution is still nasty. It's even eerier after the moon is a couple hours up, because you can see the haze over the city under the full moon light. I feel like I should be wearing some sort of air filter to go into the valley.
This is news?
I was thinking the same thing a few nights ago, watching the moon rise
over LA. Then I considered, "Near the ground, I consider it in proportion to the objects around it. In the sky, I have no reference"
Great thinkers? Centuries? Bah.
Now what they need to figure out is how to fix the pollution in LA. The
moon is red until it gets above the smog. Well, that is if you're not
*IN* the smog.
I have to assume that if someone managed to develop the technology to do time travel, they'd also need a decent time mapping system, or they'd end up doing something resembling the TV show "Sliders". You may find a home, at the right physical location, but would it be in what you know as your timeline?
Ahhh, someone who's willing to ask. :) Thanks. :)
While trying to avoid sounding like a complete lunitic, I'll try to explain the best I can. I'm no expert in paranormal events, so some of my phrasing may be a bit off. I was corrected on my experience of "Deja Vu" a few months ago, being told it's really "Precognition".
I was told when I was a kid that if I live through an event a second time, where I'm sure it couldn't have happened before, it was a "Deja Vu". This was clarified by someone more into paranormal phenomena to be a precognition. A deja vu is where you've lived it once, and you're living it again, even though you probably weren't able to have lived it once before. Use the example from the Matrix, where he sees a black cat run by, and then turns to see the same black can run by the same way again.
My precognitions usually happen years before the real event. They come in dreams. Usually they're very clear events, as viewed from my own eyes. Hollywood never portrays them like that, usually to show the stars involved in the scenes.
The most notable one was a conversation I had with 4 complete strangers. I went to a city I hadn't been to before, with a new friend. We met 4 of his friends there, and through the evening, we were having a conversation. We ended up in a library, and for 10 seconds through the conversation, I knew exactly what everyone was to say. At the point where I was suppose to say something, I didn't say a word. By not saying my part, the next person to speak didn't say anything, because I had changed the chain of events. They continued talking, it was just that it changed subtly.
Another changed event was visiting a strange house as a child. We went to a house, and I asked to play downstairs. I named very specific details of the downstairs of the house, because I **KNEW** I had been there before. They corrected me in that I had never been there before, because they had just moved in, but my details of the basement were absolutely correct, including an item of furnature which was left there by the previous owner. I may have changed this event by mentioning it too early, or it may have been changed by someone else changing plans.
My precognitions come more frequently when "something" is going to happen. The precognitions never have anything to do with the event that is going to happen, they're just like warnings that it will happen. The event isn't necessarly important to me, about half the time they are. I may get precognitions several times a day when the event is coming close. After the event, they can completely go away for a while. Sometimes it's weeks, sometimes it's years.
I can usually remember when the dreams are from. Usually they don't make sense at all, because of the time that I have the vision. I pass them off as a weird dream, until it really happens.
For example, I was dating this really nice girl. I dated her for years. While I was dating her, I had this dream. I was with this other girl in my car. This was a nice car, which at the time I didn't have anything like. I was at a particular intersection in a city I had never been in. I was messing with the air conditioning controls, because this girlfriend had changed something while I was driving. She was also talking on a cell phone to my ex-girlfriend (the girl I was dating when I had the dream), and their conversation was exactly from the dream.
When I had the precognition, I didn't see the girlfriend in the dream, because I was looking out at the traffic, which was a very specific part of the precognition. I didn't know what she'd look like, and I didn't realize what it was until it all happened. That dream was about 4 years previous to the event.
I spoke with someone who does remote viewing professionally. He's described some of his work. One that he told me about was an event that he was asked to view where something important to the investigat
Matter cannot be created nor destroyed. It is simply rearranged.
Now, the question fo where that matter may exist is something more interesting. If you're simply reassembled from the matter as it existed in that time, how many diverse places would it need to come from? Or, can the same matter from two different times exist in the same place at the same time?
I saw you do that. That's why we had to go afterwards and take care of the father of President Smith. Your killing Barnes lead to the more evil Smith to fill that void. Luckly no one messed with Clinton.