If you use the "/s" flag, then you won't need to hit 'ok' everytime. It will apply the changes without needing confirmation, so it should go a little faster.
FWIW, I can see HBO HD on the firewire port of my Scientific Atlanta 8300 HD in NYC on Time Warner. I know very little about this but I plugged in my Macbook Pro, installed Apple's Firewire SDK and was able to record that content and play it back with no problems. Thanks for reporting. We'll issue a fix for this within a few days.
It seems everytime GAIM had a new version, GAIM-Encryption seemed to always be there with a new release of their plugin to work with it. But now that they made all these changes to Pidgin, I don't think Gaim-Encryption has followed suit. Has anyone been able to get the encryption plugin working with Pidgin? The installer for 3.0beta8 doesn't recognize Pidgin and, despite forcing an install, Pidgin won't pick up on the encryption plugin.
I'd say that's the only thing keeping me from embracing Pidgin at the moment. Otherwise, the new UI looks nice.
How long until we have a repeat of the IM wars? One network is going to want to be compatible with another network, but can't because that network won't open up its protocols. One network might even join forces and share compatibility with other networks (e.g., Friendster, Facebook) to take on one giant, established network (Myspace).
Hopefully, someone will come out with some kind of meta-network that lets me join each network and keeps up-to-date a basic compatibility (e.g., like GAIM and Trillian do for IM).
How many people will buy Vista-ready PC's but not actually bother to buy it when it comes out? Too many. Non-technical types who make up a good number of Windows users will not bother to upgrade past what they get with their computer at purchase time.
Unless MS bundle coupons for Vista with Windows XP this buying season, they can forget about people making any effort to do buy it and do the upgrade.
"RealNetworks executives said the technology was distinguished from other similar systems by the fact that it permitted 'intelligent' streaming of data in potentially congested networks."
Dammit! I just got finished patenting all the stupid ways of doing it...
In other news, the RIAA and major music industry conglomerates have announced new terms for customers purchasing and listening to their members' music.
"All people do with their CDs and iPods is listen to them. People think that they don't have to pay anything else beyond the initial purchase price. But what they don't understand is that they need to pay royalties every time they listen to them," said RIAA spokesman, Bob Degalhart. "Every song you play on your stereo or iPod should require some form of small micropayment to us for the right to even play that music. Everyone should realize that purchasing the music is only the first of many steps."
The RIAA and the industry plans to push legislation to require all stereo equipment, MP3 players, and hearing aids be fitted with special software that is capable of completing micropayment transaction per listen. Industry member Sony says that it has special software available for installation on home PCs for this purpose and plans to deploy it in the near future.
WebCT and Blackboard merging? This is very good news. The resulting future product will be world-class, stable, and very usable. Consolidation can be a good thing when more effort can be put into fewer parts.
Yes, I tried that. It didn't work for me. Besides, I thought the point of the ntp daemon was to synchronize itself daily, so I don't have to resort to such tactics. It's set to use pool.ntp.org, so it can't be a connection problem.
I have a MythTV box and I'm tired of maintaining it (Gentoo-based VIA EPIA 1.0ghz C3 Nehemiah utilizing Hauppauge PVR 250). I value my time and I hate tinkering with the system to keep it working (e.g., NTP won't run as often as it should, so my recordings are off by 20-30 secs and I have to login and manually run ntpdate).
I really want to sell the whole thing that cost me over $400 to build and switch to a Tivo. With Tivo, I could spend $200 on a box (get $150 back in a rebate) and pay $14/mo for service. Sounds good so far. This 1-yr contract doesn't bother me as much (like with my cell phone) as long as the thing works. The only real worry is the DRM and the fact that they control their service from afar.
I know people are going to say "blah blah, this is why you should switch to MythTV." Has anyone been successful in prototyping a Mythbox (such that it just works for long periods of time without having to worry about tweaks and workarounds)? If so, please tell me how.
Otherwise, I'm afraid Tivo seems the better way to go if you value your free time.
I wonder how they'll approach this. Will it be generic BSD certfication, much like LPI's? LPI's goal was to be distro-agnostic.
I'm sure it might be nice for the BSD cert to be agnostic as well, perhaps with specialities in the different "distros" - Open, Free, Net, etc. But would that be worth it?
And would Solaris and Mac OS X kinda count, since they are (somewhat) BSD-based?
1. MS buying Giant means putting a great anti-spyware product into Windows. Windows becomes *stronger* at stopping such attacks.
2. MS possibly buying Claria means that Microsoft could eliminate one of the biggest pieces of spyware out there. In other words, Claria/Gator becomes *weaker*.
Now, it's possible that things will look like this:
"Wasn't Half Life 2 the game that was rumored to be an nVidia-only game?"
Sure! Only NVidia chipsets will have this feature^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbug. And only Valve can exploit this functionality in its new HL2 game (until the usual copycats catch up).
ATI users will just have to do without this specific rendering functionality or ditch their card and buy NVidia.
I'm sure technology for detecting duplicate Slashdot stories is classified as well. Slashdot editors want it to stay secret. Trolls would like to see it stay secret as well else they'd have less to troll on about.
Only die-hard Slashdot readers would like to see such a technology because it would make our lives much easier.
We believe *you* are infringing on *our* trademark. Our ability to "sniff" is our livelihood. Not to mention, we hold prior art for any kind of "sniffing."
But Bowers' lawyer countered that Baystate had two weeks in its development schedule to examine Bowers' software, giving the software vendor time to look at more than the user interface. "They had two weeks to reverse engineer his software," countered Bowers' lawyer, Frederic Meeker, of Banner and Witcoff, of Washington, D.C. "Two weeks is a long time -- that's a lot of looking."
You mean to tell me that this guy's argument is "they had time to do it, so thus they did it" ?!!! Never mind that two weeks is really not that much time unless the "features" they "lifted" were not too complicated.
I can't believe this case has lasted this long because of that reasoning. I don't know if this would be legal precedent, but I imagine SCO could say Linux developers had twenty years to look at and use AT&T UNIX.
Why not just encrypt the whole hard drive or the just sensitive data? To the thief, it's as good as it being erased.
Besides, in either case, if the thief were an enterprising individual they could recover the data. Empty hard drive? Just do a low level scan. Encrypted hard drive? Spend lots of time and resources trying to crack the key.
With that, why not go for the least destructive measure? Unless, of course, Phoenix is going for the Mission Impossible market -- this laptop will erase itself in 20 secs...
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If you use the "/s" flag, then you won't need to hit 'ok' everytime. It will apply the changes without needing confirmation, so it should go a little faster.
/s file.dll
e.g., regsvr32
Sincerely,
Time Warner Support
It seems everytime GAIM had a new version, GAIM-Encryption seemed to always be there with a new release of their plugin to work with it. But now that they made all these changes to Pidgin, I don't think Gaim-Encryption has followed suit. Has anyone been able to get the encryption plugin working with Pidgin? The installer for 3.0beta8 doesn't recognize Pidgin and, despite forcing an install, Pidgin won't pick up on the encryption plugin.
I'd say that's the only thing keeping me from embracing Pidgin at the moment. Otherwise, the new UI looks nice.
How long until we have a repeat of the IM wars? One network is going to want to be compatible with another network, but can't because that network won't open up its protocols. One network might even join forces and share compatibility with other networks (e.g., Friendster, Facebook) to take on one giant, established network (Myspace).
Hopefully, someone will come out with some kind of meta-network that lets me join each network and keeps up-to-date a basic compatibility (e.g., like GAIM and Trillian do for IM).
How many people will buy Vista-ready PC's but not actually bother to buy it when it comes out? Too many. Non-technical types who make up a good number of Windows users will not bother to upgrade past what they get with their computer at purchase time.
Unless MS bundle coupons for Vista with Windows XP this buying season, they can forget about people making any effort to do buy it and do the upgrade.
"RealNetworks executives said the technology was distinguished from other similar systems by the fact that it permitted 'intelligent' streaming of data in potentially congested networks."
Dammit! I just got finished patenting all the stupid ways of doing it...
No Internet Packet Left Behind?
Many Bothans died to bring us this information...
photo
The chance of replicating this exact DNA sequence is one in 33 trillion
Never tell me the odds!
In other news, the RIAA and major music industry conglomerates have announced new terms for customers purchasing and listening to their members' music.
"All people do with their CDs and iPods is listen to them. People think that they don't have to pay anything else beyond the initial purchase price. But what they don't understand is that they need to pay royalties every time they listen to them," said RIAA spokesman, Bob Degalhart. "Every song you play on your stereo or iPod should require some form of small micropayment to us for the right to even play that music. Everyone should realize that purchasing the music is only the first of many steps."
The RIAA and the industry plans to push legislation to require all stereo equipment, MP3 players, and hearing aids be fitted with special software that is capable of completing micropayment transaction per listen. Industry member Sony says that it has special software available for installation on home PCs for this purpose and plans to deploy it in the near future.
Dear Users,
WebCT and Blackboard merging? This is very good news. The resulting future product will be world-class, stable, and very usable. Consolidation can be a good thing when more effort can be put into fewer parts.
Sincerely,
Oracle and Peoplesoft
Yes, I tried that. It didn't work for me. Besides, I thought the point of the ntp daemon was to synchronize itself daily, so I don't have to resort to such tactics. It's set to use pool.ntp.org, so it can't be a connection problem.
Probably a Gentoo issue of some kind.
I have a MythTV box and I'm tired of maintaining it (Gentoo-based VIA EPIA 1.0ghz C3 Nehemiah utilizing Hauppauge PVR 250). I value my time and I hate tinkering with the system to keep it working (e.g., NTP won't run as often as it should, so my recordings are off by 20-30 secs and I have to login and manually run ntpdate).
I really want to sell the whole thing that cost me over $400 to build and switch to a Tivo. With Tivo, I could spend $200 on a box (get $150 back in a rebate) and pay $14/mo for service. Sounds good so far. This 1-yr contract doesn't bother me as much (like with my cell phone) as long as the thing works. The only real worry is the DRM and the fact that they control their service from afar.
I know people are going to say "blah blah, this is why you should switch to MythTV." Has anyone been successful in prototyping a Mythbox (such that it just works for long periods of time without having to worry about tweaks and workarounds)? If so, please tell me how.
Otherwise, I'm afraid Tivo seems the better way to go if you value your free time.
A phone based on Al Roker was destined to be a failure anyway.
I wonder how they'll approach this. Will it be generic BSD certfication, much like LPI's? LPI's goal was to be distro-agnostic.
I'm sure it might be nice for the BSD cert to be agnostic as well, perhaps with specialities in the different "distros" - Open, Free, Net, etc. But would that be worth it?
And would Solaris and Mac OS X kinda count, since they are (somewhat) BSD-based?
At first people thought:
1. MS buying Giant means putting a great anti-spyware product into Windows. Windows becomes *stronger* at stopping such attacks.
2. MS possibly buying Claria means that Microsoft could eliminate one of the biggest pieces of spyware out there. In other words, Claria/Gator becomes *weaker*.
Now, it's possible that things will look like this:
1. Anti-spyware becomes *weaker*.
2. Claria/Gator becomes *stronger*.
So much for doing the right thing(s).
Hey, speaking of which, I know a great place you can test out those railguns:
"Wasn't Half Life 2 the game that was rumored to be an nVidia-only game?"
Sure! Only NVidia chipsets will have this feature^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbug. And only Valve can exploit this functionality in its new HL2 game (until the usual copycats catch up).
ATI users will just have to do without this specific rendering functionality or ditch their card and buy NVidia.
I'm sure technology for detecting duplicate Slashdot stories is classified as well. Slashdot editors want it to stay secret. Trolls would like to see it stay secret as well else they'd have less to troll on about.
Only die-hard Slashdot readers would like to see such a technology because it would make our lives much easier.
Dear NAI,
We believe *you* are infringing on *our* trademark. Our ability to "sniff" is our livelihood. Not to mention, we hold prior art for any kind of "sniffing."
We will see you in court.
Sincerely,
Drug-Sniffing Canines
"Wouldn't it be better to call it LinCE?" I wince at that suggestion. I know, very punny...
RIAA: Now that millions upon millions of people have been exposed to the pleasures of filetrading... STOP IT!!!
[holds gun to own head]
RIAA: Don't make me pull the trigger now... Put down the MP3's or I swear I'll do something that I will regret...
I can't believe this case has lasted this long because of that reasoning. I don't know if this would be legal precedent, but I imagine SCO could say Linux developers had twenty years to look at and use AT&T UNIX.
Once again, stupidity rules the day.
Why not just encrypt the whole hard drive or the just sensitive data? To the thief, it's as good as it being erased.
Besides, in either case, if the thief were an enterprising individual they could recover the data. Empty hard drive? Just do a low level scan. Encrypted hard drive? Spend lots of time and resources trying to crack the key.
With that, why not go for the least destructive measure? Unless, of course, Phoenix is going for the Mission Impossible market -- this laptop will erase itself in 20 secs...
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