> But the magazine cover says "everything you need to be evil."
actually it's "everything you need to be evil*" and there's a little box at the bottom with the footnote in it. can't quite make it out in that picture but it ends with "for self-defence only. Don't break the law!".
that said, i did think it was an unwise choice when i saw it on the shelves in whsmiths. and this month's says "defeat the CIA" on the front of it (is about encryption), which is also asking for trouble.
and besides they publish all their prices online. the fact that they are different from the prices in the shops and different between individual shops appears to have passed him by. i bet he shops in waitrose...
i tried Fedora 12 and the last thing i see is the nouveau messages and then the screen goes black. the laptop continues to boot, i just can't see what it's doing. if i hit ctrl-alt-delete it'll reboot and the wifi light comes on so i think it's all ok apart from the screen. (12 beta was fine as it didn't use nouveau but i did one upgrade too many. have tried the F12 live cd and it's the same)
have tried nouveau.modeset=1 whilst booting (a list of other options would be nice, but i couldn't find one). have tried disabling the module. i've deleted all the nouveau drivers from the root partition in an attempt to force it to use something else but i guess it's using the versions in the initrd file(?). have tried booting single user. nothing.
other people have raised this as a bug but all the developers do is ask them to post further details. but they can't because they can't see what it's doing. is kinda frustrating.
Westminster tube station is itself worth a visit if you like modern buildings.
and the big reveal as you exit opposite the houses of parliament is quite something.
(Newton's grave is in the abbey if the parent isn't clear)
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my X has stopped working since they started using nouveau. doesn't seem to understand my newish card (NVidia G130M) with an odd resolution (1366x768). i haven't debugged it much more than that, just switched back to using ubuntu on the other partition (which is missing ethernet and wireless support but at least i can see something)
(nouveau page says that NV50 is supported so i should be ok. will try again.)
the issue of Wired (american edition (17.10?) bought in the uk, the one that's already available via the web) that i picked up yesterday claimed in the editor's preamble to do the same thing.
personally i spend the first 5 minutes of reading any issue of wired ripping the adverts out. ads for cigarettes that they always print on stiffer card and which makes it impossible to leave the mag open on your desk are the first to go...
"In 1998 Michael Reid found a new position requiring more than 24 quarter turns to solve. The position, named by him as 'superflip composed with four spot' needs 26 quarter turns."
(could depend on the metric i suppose, face turns or quarter turns)
i did brute force all the corner solutions once, a piffling 88 million permutations, maximum of 11 face turns. but coding up solutions to smaller problems, 24 perms for the first corner, 21 for the second etc and making sure step n+1 doesn't mess up the cubelets put in place by step n is easier and looks more interesting (imo, because you can see what it's doing, unlike the optimal solutions which look like random twisting)
i think there's a fair number of speculators in that 2500 - just look on ebay.
if you'd've asked me last week if i'd every be buying a NIN cd i'd've said no. but i downloaded the nine tracks and like them enough to do something more about it. will be interesting to see what the markup is on the cds when they hit the (english) stores in a month or so.
(actually, i have a bunch of the Nothing versions of various Warp releases that he helped put out in america so i have a modicum of respect for him for that)
ZX81 here too, specifically a type-in from C&VG or somewhere which involved navigating through ever narrower and more closely spaced gaps whilst the screen scrolled vertically. first thing i ever modified too, i think, just to change the player character graphic. was very simple, sinclair basic, ran in 1k.
i think boomkat do flacs for pretty much everything that they have as mp3s, bleep only for the 'bigger' things. neither are exactly popular music stores but, hey, some of us prefer this stuff. flac comes at a premium too, a quid or two, but it's nice to have the choice.
> In case people don't know why the parent made that post > - you can't make any sort of turn on red in the UK. > Red means stop, and stop is what it means. No wiggle room.
unless you are a cyclist who *appear* to be able to ignore traffic lights, especailly those on pelican crossings.
article not fud, i am certainly seeing problems with mine.
what i'm seeing is that when i go to use the drive after a period of inactivity it's been remounted readonly with an unflushed journal error (it's ext3 on an Edgy box). umount, fsck and mount and it's good to go again but, y'know, less than ideal. haven't noticed the USB1 issue, possibly because of the remounting.
bought about a month ago, too late to exchange... i did notice a lack of linux compatability info on the box but i'm used to that. found websites saying they'd formatted them to ext3 but no-one mentioned the above issue. struck me as odd that it didn't have an 'off' switch.
somewhere between Edgy and Feisty my computer (an asus a6km) stopped being able to use the cpu throttling feature which resulted in the processor being clamped at 1800MHz and the fan being constantly on, even when idle. not good. think this was a kernel thing rather than a ubuntu thing but it was enough to get me to reinstall Edgy.
maybe the same is true of the machine in the test.
(i have to boot with -noacpi on my model, which suggests that powernowd shouldn't ever work but it's fine on Edgy, broken on Feisty)
although i also seem to remember a press release from record companies a few months later saying that they wouldn't chase anybody for this. which is good, given that a lot of the stuff i listen to is vinyl only and they don't make portable 12" players...
i only ask because i had a better-than-usual phishing attempt this morning telling me my ebay account had been 'restricted' and it wouldn't be too hard to harvest 1200 passwords from the above without hacking ebay itself.
email text:
"A33 TKO NOTICE: Restricted Account Access
We have taken steps to secure your eBay account, including review of your personal information and placing a temporary restriction on your account. Any activity has been cancelled and any associated fees have been credited to your account. We assure you that your credit card and bank details are stored on a secure server and cannot be viewed by anyone.
Your account is currently blocked from listing and bidding on items, and from sending email through Ask Seller a Question or Contact eBay member. To restore full access to your account, please follow the instructions in this email."
"Currently, 20 pence pieces and 50 pence pieces are legal tender in amounts up to 10 pounds; 5 pence pieces and 10 pence pieces are legal tender in amounts up to 5 pounds; and 1 penny pieces and 2 pence pieces are legal tender in amounts up to 20 pence."
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one of these is half the price (five quid) and performs way better than the official Rubik's cubes.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/pro...
> But the magazine cover says "everything you need to be evil."
actually it's "everything you need to be evil*" and there's a little box at the bottom with the footnote in it. can't quite make it out in that picture but it ends with "for self-defence only. Don't break the law!".
that said, i did think it was an unwise choice when i saw it on the shelves in whsmiths. and this month's says "defeat the CIA" on the front of it (is about encryption), which is also asking for trouble.
http://www.linuxformat.com/files/lxf_covers/158-big.jpg
there was a reply in the letters pages the following week from a boss at tescos saying that there is no such policy...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/blog/2011/sep/16/tesco-shopping-supermarket-prices-check-writing?commentpage=4#comment-12473653
and besides they publish all their prices online. the fact that they are different from the prices in the shops and different between individual shops appears to have passed him by. i bet he shops in waitrose...
as the grandparent mentioned. d'oh.
Steve Albini wrote that first 8)
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
i tried Fedora 12 and the last thing i see is the nouveau messages and then the screen goes black. the laptop continues to boot, i just can't see what it's doing. if i hit ctrl-alt-delete it'll reboot and the wifi light comes on so i think it's all ok apart from the screen. (12 beta was fine as it didn't use nouveau but i did one upgrade too many. have tried the F12 live cd and it's the same)
have tried nouveau.modeset=1 whilst booting (a list of other options would be nice, but i couldn't find one). have tried disabling the module. i've deleted all the nouveau drivers from the root partition in an attempt to force it to use something else but i guess it's using the versions in the initrd file(?). have tried booting single user. nothing.
other people have raised this as a bug but all the developers do is ask them to post further details. but they can't because they can't see what it's doing. is kinda frustrating.
(this with a newish 130M btw)
Westminster tube station is itself worth a visit if you like modern buildings.
and the big reveal as you exit opposite the houses of parliament is quite something.
(Newton's grave is in the abbey if the parent isn't clear)
my X has stopped working since they started using nouveau. doesn't seem to understand my newish card (NVidia G130M) with an odd resolution (1366x768). i haven't debugged it much more than that, just switched back to using ubuntu on the other partition (which is missing ethernet and wireless support but at least i can see something)
(nouveau page says that NV50 is supported so i should be ok. will try again.)
the issue of Wired (american edition (17.10?) bought in the uk, the one that's already available via the web) that i picked up yesterday claimed in the editor's preamble to do the same thing.
personally i spend the first 5 minutes of reading any issue of wired ripping the adverts out. ads for cigarettes that they always print on stiffer card and which makes it impossible to leave the mag open on your desk are the first to go...
the checkout box at www.globalscaletechnologies.com lets you get an estimate for shipping. this is what it gave me (posting to London):
SheevaPlug Dev Kit (UK) £62.17
Shipping And Tax Estimate
Shipping: (FedEx International Priority) £29.43 (GBP)
Tax: £0.00 (GBP)
Total: £91.60 (GBP)
but i'm not sure i believe the Tax at 0.00 - i thought anything over £18 or so attracted taxes AND handling fees, some of them very steep.
Griffith Observatory in LA has one.
http://www.griffithobservatory.org/exhibits/brotunda.html
that's probably a bit too long a drive though.
given the date it's actually "God Save The King"
wikipedia mentions a worse case:
"In 1998 Michael Reid found a new position requiring more than 24 quarter turns to solve. The position, named by him as 'superflip composed with four spot' needs 26 quarter turns."
(could depend on the metric i suppose, face turns or quarter turns)
i did brute force all the corner solutions once, a piffling 88 million permutations, maximum of 11 face turns. but coding up solutions to smaller problems, 24 perms for the first corner, 21 for the second etc and making sure step n+1 doesn't mess up the cubelets put in place by step n is easier and looks more interesting (imo, because you can see what it's doing, unlike the optimal solutions which look like random twisting)
i think there's a fair number of speculators in that 2500 - just look on ebay.
if you'd've asked me last week if i'd every be buying a NIN cd i'd've said no. but i downloaded the nine tracks and like them enough to do something more about it. will be interesting to see what the markup is on the cds when they hit the (english) stores in a month or so.
(actually, i have a bunch of the Nothing versions of various Warp releases that he helped put out in america so i have a modicum of respect for him for that)
ZX81 here too, specifically a type-in from C&VG or somewhere which involved navigating through ever narrower and more closely spaced gaps whilst the screen scrolled vertically. first thing i ever modified too, i think, just to change the player character graphic. was very simple, sinclair basic, ran in 1k.
http://www.boomkat.com/
http://www.bleep.com/
i think boomkat do flacs for pretty much everything that they have as mp3s, bleep only for the 'bigger' things. neither are exactly popular music stores but, hey, some of us prefer this stuff. flac comes at a premium too, a quid or two, but it's nice to have the choice.
> In case people don't know why the parent made that post
> - you can't make any sort of turn on red in the UK.
> Red means stop, and stop is what it means. No wiggle room.
unless you are a cyclist who *appear* to be able to ignore traffic lights, especailly those on pelican crossings.
article not fud, i am certainly seeing problems with mine.
what i'm seeing is that when i go to use the drive after a period of inactivity it's been remounted readonly with an unflushed journal error (it's ext3 on an Edgy box). umount, fsck and mount and it's good to go again but, y'know, less than ideal. haven't noticed the USB1 issue, possibly because of the remounting.
bought about a month ago, too late to exchange... i did notice a lack of linux compatability info on the box but i'm used to that. found websites saying they'd formatted them to ext3 but no-one mentioned the above issue. struck me as odd that it didn't have an 'off' switch.
somewhere between Edgy and Feisty my computer (an asus a6km) stopped being able to use the cpu throttling feature which resulted in the processor being clamped at 1800MHz and the fan being constantly on, even when idle. not good. think this was a kernel thing rather than a ubuntu thing but it was enough to get me to reinstall Edgy.
maybe the same is true of the machine in the test.
(i have to boot with -noacpi on my model, which suggests that powernowd shouldn't ever work but it's fine on Edgy, broken on Feisty)
the EUCD thing (european copyright version of dmca as i understand it) of 2003 certainly had a no-format-shifting clause in it.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2123616/copyright-law-catches-uk-surfers
although i also seem to remember a press release from record companies a few months later saying that they wouldn't chase anybody for this. which is good, given that a lot of the stuff i listen to is vinyl only and they don't make portable 12" players...
or bleep.com
http://www.bleep.com/search.php?search=Boards+of+Canada
(have also recently discovered redpoint who remind me a lot of BoC and who provide free legal downloads via hiddenmusic: http://www.hiddenmusic.co.uk/news/whyfree/
)
yes, 2nd http in url was a giveaway but i was helped by my webmail displaying the content as http source rather than rendering it properly 8)
they'd also used one of my throwaway email addresses scrapped from some forum website.
(sorry, didn't realise that slashdot would linkify that url.)
are they sure ebay itself was hacked?
i only ask because i had a better-than-usual phishing attempt this morning telling me my ebay account had been 'restricted' and it wouldn't be too hard to harvest 1200 passwords from the above without hacking ebay itself.
email text:
"A33 TKO NOTICE: Restricted Account Access
We have taken steps to secure your eBay account, including review of your
personal information and placing a temporary restriction on your account. Any
activity has been cancelled and any associated fees have been credited to your
account. We assure you that your credit card and bank details are stored on a
secure server and cannot be viewed by anyone.
Your account is currently blocked from listing and bidding on items, and from
sending email through Ask Seller a Question or Contact eBay member. To restore
full access to your account, please follow the instructions in this email."
login to your account link was:
http://us.ebayobjects.com/2c;13012399;10693575;h?http://61.9.146.244/signin.ebay.co.uk/ws/?eBayISAPI.dll?co_partnerid=2&siteid=0&UsingSSL=1
ie it had a susipicious 2nd address in url, one which resolves to australia
from wikipedia (for england):
"Currently, 20 pence pieces and 50 pence pieces are legal tender in amounts up to 10 pounds; 5 pence pieces and 10 pence pieces are legal tender in amounts up to 5 pounds; and 1 penny pieces and 2 pence pieces are legal tender in amounts up to 20 pence."
but scotland is different, yes.