The FCC is claiming the right to regulate "all interstate radio and wire communication," not only wireless. (read the fine PDF cited above)
CB doesn't require a license anymore; you just have to use certified gear and there are rules which someone can complain to the FCC if you break.
I think the risk of the FCC regulating PC and ATSC tuner card makers and ISPs is worse than requiring internet licenses for individuals. I think they got out of CB licensing because it was too much of a pain in the ass & didn't generate enough revenue (I remember $5 licenses ca. 1975). There was no ARRL to handle the paperwork.
Worst case scenario: ISPs are required to install "smart filter/search" Echelon-like systems that watch for "pirated" content and snuff it while also giving a "kill switch" instant DMCA-takedown mechanism for MPAA-paid mercenaries to use.
iTunes doesn't show you the actual bitrate as it plays through a VBR MP3 file. I use EncSpot if I want to know the gory details, but if I just want to confirm that a VBR starts out at 32kbps (fade-in from silence), a quick play in WinAmp is great.
I also don't want iTunes adding test files to its dang library.
Now for listening to music instead of testing it, iTunes is pretty cool.
I don't want him, you can have him, he's too meta for me.
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The app I use that pretends to be a soundcard, but records the audio to a file (compressing through lameenc.dll if you want) is TotalRecorder for twelve bucks. Comes with a scheduler. I might use it to record HHGG and All Things Considered, but I'd have to leave my power hungry PC on 24/7. I think instead I'll get Audio Hijack Pro & use my new iBook. I'm also ripping vinyl these days and Audio Hijack Pro (or Total Recorder Pro if I wanted to pay the $25 to upgrade) will split tracks on silent bits.
If you want to pay someone else to do this for you, Audible has some NPR programs available.
You measure the impulse response of your desired tube system
Mmmmmmm..... if I recall correctly, an impulse is theoretically "white" so the response represents the system's response to all frequencies. That's with a n infinitely narrow (time) and high (amplitude) impulse.
The problem with tube modeling is that the system is non-linear. The frequency response *changes* with amplitude. I've also heard that it changes with the blend of tones, though I take that with a grain of salt. The claim is that a strong bass note (for example) will affect the frequency response in upper registers.
I see the problem as an ignorance of the effects of inductance & reactance. RC systems are fairly easy to model digitally, but RLC systems are less well understood by digital implementors who blew through analog class without much respect.
Tube amps have giant-o-normous output transformers for matching high impedance tube outputs to low impedance speakers (I think- I'm one of those analog diss-ers trying to learn at a late age).
This causes low damping factor- the ability of the amp to deal with back EMF of the speaker and control it "tightly."
Bob Carver built some transistor amps with low damping factor as a demonstration that much of the tube "sound" was this simple property. High damping factors was something tube people always strived for so when transistor amps could do it easily, people *chose* to build amps that way.
Transformers also have problems like core saturation. Something that strikes me odd is that better (electrically, not audiophile-tweaky) transformers which might actually sound less "tubey" are valued by audiophiles.
Incidentally, tube guitar amps have an advantage of high input impedance: good when dealing with a monster coil like a guitar pickup. Bipolar transistor pre-amp stages are not a good idea, but FETs work if you want to be able to carry your amp outside on a cold night after practicing without hearing the sound of glass breaking. Anyone remember VOMs?
I'm planning on building one of these to drive a pair of these.
You seem to understand some things about the process. Maybe you can tell us how the damn committee hearings are scheduled? I've been checking Capitol Hearings every few days now since June 22 when the bill was read (twice in one day? doesn't that remove the check that multiple readings are supposed to ensure?).
Capitol Hearings is the only place I've found with free audio of committee hearings but you have to grab it live. (I use Total Recorder)
FedNet archives audio of hearings, but only makes a selected few available for free and then only for a few days. FedNet's audio quality is also inferior to CapitolHearings'.
I used the audio from the "Fritz Chip" hearing for a song. I'm always looking for more material, though it's hard to beat a Hollings, Eisner & Valenti cage match.
They collected prepared testimony and flew in the witnesses, so they planned for this. Why couldn't they pre-announce it by more than two days???
And how appealing is it to pick up your dust bunny covered keyboard that your kid spilled Sprite on last week to type an email while squinting across the living room at your TV?
Big HDTVs will make living room convergence possible. I think we're still 5 years away from it, though. My HDTV is a front projector which only works at night & burns expensive bulbs every 2000 hours and it was three kilobucks. Big LCDs and plasmas for $1k that are really HD, not 480p "EDTV" could do it.
Multiple views of a sporting event or surfing IMDB while watching the Oscars isn't much fun for a group on regular TV (everyone will fight for the remote), but with HD, you can leave up the "producer's view" in one window & switch angles or websurf in another.
My company does digital camera chips and firmware. We were bought by a company that had a "no personal storage devices" policy.
Every person's desk has at least one card reader and a drawer full of CompactFlash, SmartMedia and SD cards.
They bought another company that relies on storage cards & moved 'em to the main office so this violation of the employee manual is happening there too, giving the verbal amendment (Director-level people saying "don't worry") to the employment contract more teeth. It would be hard to fire someone for a violation with 20 other violators going free.
They think Apple should have basically started a completely new label.
Apple could have.
It's quite reasonable for a computer and consumer electronics company to want to remain that, but Apple is big enough and has built the distribution channel (iTunes + iPod) to start another label. They are doing "exclusive" content at ITMS, so someone's realized that content can drive iPod sales.
CDs for sale at Starbucks are from Hear Music which only sell there and at one of the five company-owned stores. They do license tracks from Big 5 record labels, but in the past, they signed their own artists. They seem to have shifted to "Artist's Choice" and other compilations exclusively, but this model is still open for exploitation. How 'bout a label that sells burned-on-site CD-Rs at independent coffeeshops?
I'm perfectly happy to allow everyone in the U.S. to own as many guns of any caliber as they want, as long as everyone is required to take a mandatory gun safety and training class before they can own one.
Yeah, we're doing a pretty good job with automobiles (not).
The RM-VL900 does not have non-volatile memory. If you (or someone in your household) removes the batteries & they stay out for more than 5 minutes or so, it loses all programming.
Mine lasted 3 years before this happened, but I'm now debating whether to buy another one to do a one-step-clone-the-whole-remote (nice feature) or pay the more-than-Sony-but-a-whole-lot-less-than-Philips money for a Home Theater Master.
I'll probably just repogram the thing & be hopeful.
As the built-in components database is limited & not expandable, I end up programming every button for every component (including my Sony TiVo) except my Sony TV & DVD.
as soon as Audi pulled out of LeMans Bentley started winning, an engineer/designer swap over to the Bentley factory and a quick bit of rebadging.:)
It's a bit more than a rebadging. The Audi R8s are open cockpit LMPs & the Bentley is a closed-cockpit GTP.
The prototype '00 car, the one that never raced, did benefit from the R8C experience, but only in as much as the early car showed us what not to do! [....] There was not a great deal of carry over of design staff between R8C and subsequent Bentley projects.
Where I work, we can't make *outbound* connections on anything but 80 and 443 and all connections are through a "transparent" http proxy (on 80- not sure how the SSL stuff works), so my sshd at home listening on port 80 wasn't reachable.
What finally worked was using httptunnel with hts running at home on port 80, then sshd listening to localhost:arbitraryport. I can run ssh with reverse port forwarding so I can get access to work machines from home.
We run htc on a Mac w/ MacOS X sitting in a corner of the USB test lab. No one realizes that it's a unix box that we have root on. The NFS exports on the Solaris boxes are set up without authentication because you'd have to create a user matching a Solaris user on a client box. Knoppix anyone?
[yes I'm aware there are security risks in what we're doing & such hackery could be a fire-able offense. That's why I use the authorized VPN solution now that I've proven the backdoor is doable.]
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I have a 6 year old Passat- the first year with the 1.8T engine and build in (Emden) Germany.
I have electrical problems, one of which is very common in early B5 Passats.
However, I'm chipped (APR) and I have no worries about the Bosch ECU and Audi engine having anything to do with the electrical problems. In addition, the ECU doesn't have much affect on emissions. The catalytic converter is there to clean up your exhaust & the ECU mostly just keeps it alive by keeping the air/fuel ratio good. Run a little rich and you might kick up the emissions a bit but run very rich (so gas burns in the cat instead of the engine) or lean & you'll burn up the cat. Replacing the exhaust cat-back will have nearly no affect on emissions either.
A cat-bypass lever like some Viper mods have for track work is totally different.
Electrical problem: 1) trunk switch does't work so light doesn't come on & auto-relock if no door opened for 1 minute logic fires even if trunk opened 2) passenger side door switch also broken so auto-relock 3) driver's window switches flaky. It's $70 for a new switch module, but I blame the "convenience computer" that controls things also as it seems to have bad debounce logic & some "guessing" logic in case it misses the half-down or up on the way to full-down or up.
To be specific RAW != TIFF because TIFF has an RGB triad per pixel (assuming we're talking digital cameras here so the TIFF isn't CMYK or grayscale or 1-bit) but RAW will be in Bayer or some other pattern of RGB or CYGM where each pixel only has a level for one color.
Bad pixels may not have been interpolated over yet and white balance may not have been applied.
I dunno what they do about black frame subtraction. You want to take an exposure with the shutter closed right before or after the main one so you get a noise profile based on current temperature. This would make the RAW file 2x, but Canon losslessly compresses their RAW & the black frame should compress very well.
Who here uses MS Media Player to play their mp3 files?
I do, on Windows XP, because I'm trying to avoid booting it at all. The only thing I can't do on Linux so far is edit DV video, update the phonebook on my cellphone and do my taxes with TurboTax.
If I install WinAmp, ExactAudioCopy, cygwin, and emacs, I'll be tempted to boot Windows more often.
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GAGIN is "get around Get It Now" and is a copy of Qualcomm's AppLoader for BREW (distributed without permission of course) with a binary patcher to let it do more than load BREW apps.
It let me see files, but not download or upload them to my 1monthold Motorola T720c.
BALpatches are other binary patches to AppLoader.
If you get the "update" for Motorola TrueSync 3.1, you can install it without having an earlier version (again, in violation of the EULA) and use a $16 USB or serial cable to syncronize Outlook or PalmDesktop to your phone. It also comes with USB drivers (for Windows of course) to handle the USB-to-serial (I think the T720 just has a Prolific chip or integrated IP to handle USB) and let you use the phone as a modem.
PST is a Motorola app for messing with all sorts of really deep, nasty stuff in your phone. The guy who distributes it (google beavermjr) supplies a patch, but that didn't come down right for me, so I don't know what it does. PST comes with a large collection of USB drivers, so I assume the app isn't talking to the phone with a set of AT-command extensions.
HowardForums have a lot of frustrated Verizon subscribers discussing how to use the capabilities their phones already come with without paying VZW $more.
I have a Windows COM port "interposer" that watches traffic & colors in the display window according to direction. It would be good for reverse-engineering the protocol for implementation in open source. I'll post the name when I find it again.
Here's a mirror.
I was going to moderate parent as informative, but thought I'd do this instead. File doesn't seem so big, but I guess there are a lot of/.ers.
I guess you did say virtually no problems not completely no problems. I've had a couple of minutes of signal loss this winter for maybe 99.96% uptime.
I lost it today for about 1/2 minute when the red stuff on this map (55 dBz echos) passed overhead bringing some light hail along with the sideways rain.
The only irritation is that my multifunction remote isn't set up to control the sat box quite right. I usually use a standalone TiVo to change channels, but when the signal drops out completely, the box wants you to press channel up or down, not key in a channel number (as TiVo does).
That and my failure to notice that my son was 20 minutes "behind" real time so grabbing the right remote & pressing keys did nothing made it a bit irritating.
Not anywhere as bad as the fuzzy analog & half D-1 (352x480) soft digital on the cable co formerly known as TCI. Maybe if they'd followed through on the "high-speed internet" line on the trucks when it was AT&T broadband I'd be less annoyed, but no-one's spent any $$ on infrastructure in the last 10 years so we have no HDTV and no cable modems. Time-Warner is a whole other story...
Don't get me wrong. I love my iPod, but removing buttons does not make something more simple.
Changing the context of a button only works when you can change its label too.
Amen! I hate the smudges that touchscreens end up with, but I do like the straightforwardness of the UI. PalmOS standard apps is the best example of this I've seen.
"soft" keys around a display are next in usability, but they have to have enough. Someone borrowed my logic analyzer with built-in 'scope & I got his tiny, but crappy Tektronix 'scope. I've used a (very $$$) TDS320 with softkeys on the right side & bottom, but this one only had them on the right side, so you had to press multiple times to cycle through options.
The point I don't see anyone making is that ease of use has three elements: 1st use, learning curve & experienced use. I'm sure Adobe Illustrators 5-kinds-of-click using shift, ctrl, alt & combos is very quick once you learn it, but it's horrible to learn.
The iPod has a nice compromise between newbie & experienced use. You can select & play songs without reading the manual & it will turn itself off if you pause it for a long time, so you don't even need to know that. Then you can learn about hold-play for OFF, hold menu for backlight, and key combos for reset and force-firewire.
You can also customize the main menu. Everything you need is accessible before you do that, but experienced use is enhanced when you punt the stuff you never use (Genres).
I can drive the iPod with occasional glances at the screen, but I don't have to hunt for buttons with an iSkin on it.
For cameras, having direct control of shutter speed, aperture and focus and direct readout of EV values makes learning photography easier. It also makes adjusting these values faster for the experienced user. I'm seeing some of the digital control cameras (Canon Elan) with two knobs that can be those controls, but can scroll menus & crap in an alternate mode. That seems like a good compromise.
Meta-keys are even worse for kids. I just can't figure out why LeapFrog tries to make their products do 20 different things, 'causing the buttons to change meaning.
I want to build two kids electronic toys: a box with an alphabet of keys, backspace & enter that displays typed text on a TV & text-to-speeches it when you hit enter. My (preschool) son thought tts was the coolest thing on a Mac at work & I think this would help him with alphabet & reading.
Don't make the thing do word games & be a word processor & add 20 more buttons. Just make it do one thing.
The other toy is a subtractive analog synth (or digital simulation of such) with four or five knobs for volume, pitch, low pass filter resonance and cutoff frequency, LPF VCO, pitch modulation VCO and 3 oscillator shape switches. Make it battery powered & portable with its own amp & speaker. Kids love wierd noises.
Neurosmith is closer than LeapFrog with their word vs. shape toy, but their music cube thing is just too abstract.
I will never understand why Linux and NetBSD are currently looked down upon in the embedded corporations currently
Because they're fucking HUGE.
The uCLinux kernel for 68k which is more compact than SPARClite, but maybe less so than x86, is 512K.
That's a stripped-down kernel with no MMU support and the special uClib C standard library designed to take less space.
I'm working on a digital camera with 512K of flash and 8MB of SDRAM. That flash is divided into 7 64K sectors and 8+16+16+32K little sectors. We use the upper 64K for sensor calibration data and the lower 64K for a boot block that can be locked so you can recover a camera with a bad firmware load.
That leaves 384K for everything else. Our kernel is Precise/MQX from ARC International and it's 30K !.
Oh, and the RAM is needed for image processing and buffering movie frames on their way out to NAND flash, so your piggy kernels can't have it.
While I'd like some things from uCLinux and busybox and netBSD, I have to be very selective. I'm presently porting elf2flt to the Metaware tools for ARC so we can dynamically load code resources. We'll also get a real log facility and monitor soon and maybe someday the Almquist shell.
At least MQX and the Metaware tools are reasonably cheap and we get kernel and library sources (and ARC CPU hackable RTL instead of a giant impenetrable lump like ARM). I've heard nothing but irritation with WindRiver's high pricing and closed-IP attitude.
their expression of NUMA first shipped in BSD-based Dynix
Sorry, I was completely wrong. Turns out that earlier Dynix was SMP before SMP was commoditized (e.g. Win NT support) & NUMA didn't come out until 1996.
Looking at old USENET postings in comp.arch about IA-64 and Project Monterey, I do get the sense that IBM kind of fucked over SCO. However, whether any IP from that project 1) is SCO's and 2) is in Linux is very much in doubt. SCO didn't do the kind of parallel processing that IBM brought to the project with their Sequent IP, so why does SCO think they own it?
I believe that NUMA was developed independent of OS, and implementations were done for both the Unix derived Dynix and Linux. NUMA is not directly derived from Unix anyway.
The ideas behind NUMA might be open/academic but looking at Sequent's history, it appears that their expression of NUMA first shipped in BSD-based Dynix before the AT&T/Berkeley suit was settled. They (and Sun & others?) took out SysV licenses during that mess & Dynix/ptx is Unix-based.
It's an extreme interpretation of "derivative works" to call anything that linked with the Unix source such a beast and it's a stretch to say that the BSD implementation was a derivative work of Unix because that version of BSD might not have been clean of AT&T source, but that's where I thought SCO was going earlier.
However, look at Linus's recent statements about binary kernel modules that #include kernel headers being derived works of the kernel. AFAIK, he hasn't recanted.
Now that they're asking for AIX source, it seems that they're trying to ignore the "derived works authored by IBM are IBM's not the Unix licensor" part of the contract.
The Sequent IP chain is suffiently bizzare that I think they'd have a better chance of confusing a judge into agreeing with them on that.
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The FCC is claiming the right to regulate "all interstate radio and wire communication," not only wireless. (read the fine PDF cited above)
CB doesn't require a license anymore; you just have to use certified gear and there are rules which someone can complain to the FCC if you break.
I think the risk of the FCC regulating PC and ATSC tuner card makers and ISPs is worse than requiring internet licenses for individuals. I think they got out of CB licensing because it was too much of a pain in the ass & didn't generate enough revenue (I remember $5 licenses ca. 1975). There was no ARRL to handle the paperwork.
Worst case scenario: ISPs are required to install "smart filter/search" Echelon-like systems that watch for "pirated" content and snuff it while also giving a "kill switch" instant DMCA-takedown mechanism for MPAA-paid mercenaries to use.
iTunes doesn't show you the actual bitrate as it plays through a VBR MP3 file. I use EncSpot if I want to know the gory details, but if I just want to confirm that a VBR starts out at 32kbps (fade-in from silence), a quick play in WinAmp is great.
I also don't want iTunes adding test files to its dang library.
Now for listening to music instead of testing it, iTunes is pretty cool.
I don't want him, you can have him, he's too meta for me.
The app I use that pretends to be a soundcard, but records the audio to a file (compressing through lameenc.dll if you want) is TotalRecorder for twelve bucks. Comes with a scheduler. I might use it to record HHGG and All Things Considered, but I'd have to leave my power hungry PC on 24/7. I think instead I'll get Audio Hijack Pro & use my new iBook. I'm also ripping vinyl these days and Audio Hijack Pro (or Total Recorder Pro if I wanted to pay the $25 to upgrade) will split tracks on silent bits.
If you want to pay someone else to do this for you, Audible has some NPR programs available.
You measure the impulse response of your desired tube system
Mmmmmmm..... if I recall correctly, an impulse is theoretically "white" so the response represents the system's response to all frequencies. That's with a n infinitely narrow (time) and high (amplitude) impulse.
The problem with tube modeling is that the system is non-linear. The frequency response *changes* with amplitude. I've also heard that it changes with the blend of tones, though I take that with a grain of salt. The claim is that a strong bass note (for example) will affect the frequency response in upper registers.
I see the problem as an ignorance of the effects of inductance & reactance. RC systems are fairly easy to model digitally, but RLC systems are less well understood by digital implementors who blew through analog class without much respect.
Tube amps have giant-o-normous output transformers for matching high impedance tube outputs to low impedance speakers (I think- I'm one of those analog diss-ers trying to learn at a late age).
This causes low damping factor- the ability of the amp to deal with back EMF of the speaker and control it "tightly."
Bob Carver built some transistor amps with low damping factor as a demonstration that much of the tube "sound" was this simple property. High damping factors was something tube people always strived for so when transistor amps could do it easily, people *chose* to build amps that way.
Transformers also have problems like core saturation. Something that strikes me odd is that better (electrically, not audiophile-tweaky) transformers which might actually sound less "tubey" are valued by audiophiles.
Incidentally, tube guitar amps have an advantage of high input impedance: good when dealing with a monster coil like a guitar pickup. Bipolar transistor pre-amp stages are not a good idea, but FETs work if you want to be able to carry your amp outside on a cold night after practicing without hearing the sound of glass breaking. Anyone remember VOMs?
I'm planning on building one of these to drive a pair of these.
A very similar kit is availble from "Antique Electronics" and S5.
The build will give me a chance to bone up on my languishing soldering skills, but more importantly, I want to build a nice case like this guy did.
You seem to understand some things about the process. Maybe you can tell us how the damn committee hearings are scheduled? I've been checking Capitol Hearings every few days now since June 22 when the bill was read (twice in one day? doesn't that remove the check that multiple readings are supposed to ensure?).
Capitol Hearings is the only place I've found with free audio of committee hearings but you have to grab it live. (I use Total Recorder)
FedNet archives audio of hearings, but only makes a selected few available for free and then only for a few days. FedNet's audio quality is also inferior to CapitolHearings'.
I used the audio from the "Fritz Chip" hearing for a song. I'm always looking for more material, though it's hard to beat a Hollings, Eisner & Valenti cage match.
They collected prepared testimony and flew in the witnesses, so they planned for this. Why couldn't they pre-announce it by more than two days???
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And how appealing is it to pick up your dust bunny covered keyboard that your kid spilled Sprite on last week to type an email while squinting across the living room at your TV?
Big HDTVs will make living room convergence possible. I think we're still 5 years away from it, though. My HDTV is a front projector which only works at night & burns expensive bulbs every 2000 hours and it was three kilobucks. Big LCDs and plasmas for $1k that are really HD, not 480p "EDTV" could do it.
Multiple views of a sporting event or surfing IMDB while watching the Oscars isn't much fun for a group on regular TV (everyone will fight for the remote), but with HD, you can leave up the "producer's view" in one window & switch angles or websurf in another.
I would not expect a government agency to be in the business of selling records, but helping people, yes, that I would expect.
Well, I'm sure glad my government set up Folkways records through the Smithsonian.
My company does digital camera chips and firmware. We were bought by a company that had a "no personal storage devices" policy.
Every person's desk has at least one card reader and a drawer full of CompactFlash, SmartMedia and SD cards.
They bought another company that relies on storage cards & moved 'em to the main office so this violation of the employee manual is happening there too, giving the verbal amendment (Director-level people saying "don't worry") to the employment contract more teeth. It would be hard to fire someone for a violation with 20 other violators going free.
They think Apple should have basically started a completely new label.
Apple could have.
It's quite reasonable for a computer and consumer electronics company to want to remain that, but Apple is big enough and has built the distribution channel (iTunes + iPod) to start another label. They are doing "exclusive" content at ITMS, so someone's realized that content can drive iPod sales.
CDs for sale at Starbucks are from Hear Music which only sell there and at one of the five company-owned stores. They do license tracks from Big 5 record labels, but in the past, they signed their own artists. They seem to have shifted to "Artist's Choice" and other compilations exclusively, but this model is still open for exploitation. How 'bout a label that sells burned-on-site CD-Rs at independent coffeeshops?
I'm perfectly happy to allow everyone in the U.S. to own as many guns of any caliber as they want, as long as everyone is required to take a mandatory gun safety and training class before they can own one. Yeah, we're doing a pretty good job with automobiles (not).
The RM-VL900 does not have non-volatile memory. If you (or someone in your household) removes the batteries & they stay out for more than 5 minutes or so, it loses all programming.
Mine lasted 3 years before this happened, but I'm now debating whether to buy another one to do a one-step-clone-the-whole-remote (nice feature) or pay the more-than-Sony-but-a-whole-lot-less-than-Philips money for a Home Theater Master.
I'll probably just repogram the thing & be hopeful.
As the built-in components database is limited & not expandable, I end up programming every button for every component (including my Sony TiVo) except my Sony TV & DVD.
as soon as Audi pulled out of LeMans Bentley started winning, an engineer/designer swap over to the Bentley factory and a quick bit of rebadging. :)
It's a bit more than a rebadging. The Audi R8s are open cockpit LMPs & the Bentley is a closed-cockpit GTP.
The prototype '00 car, the one that never raced, did benefit from the R8C experience, but only in as much as the early car showed us what not to do! [....]
There was not a great deal of carry over of design staff between R8C and subsequent Bentley projects.
Where I work, we can't make *outbound* connections on anything but 80 and 443 and all connections are through a "transparent" http proxy (on 80- not sure how the SSL stuff works), so my sshd at home listening on port 80 wasn't reachable.
What finally worked was using httptunnel with hts running at home on port 80, then sshd listening to localhost:arbitraryport. I can run ssh with reverse port forwarding so I can get access to work machines from home.
We run htc on a Mac w/ MacOS X sitting in a corner of the USB test lab. No one realizes that it's a unix box that we have root on. The NFS exports on the Solaris boxes are set up without authentication because you'd have to create a user matching a Solaris user on a client box. Knoppix anyone?
[yes I'm aware there are security risks in what we're doing & such hackery could be a fire-able offense. That's why I use the authorized VPN solution now that I've proven the backdoor is doable.]
I have a 6 year old Passat- the first year with the 1.8T engine and build in (Emden) Germany.
I have electrical problems, one of which is very common in early B5 Passats.
However, I'm chipped (APR) and I have no worries about the Bosch ECU and Audi engine having anything to do with the electrical problems. In addition, the ECU doesn't have much affect on emissions. The catalytic converter is there to clean up your exhaust & the ECU mostly just keeps it alive by keeping the air/fuel ratio good. Run a little rich and you might kick up the emissions a bit but run very rich (so gas burns in the cat instead of the engine) or lean & you'll burn up the cat. Replacing the exhaust cat-back will have nearly no affect on emissions either.
A cat-bypass lever like some Viper mods have for track work is totally different.
Electrical problem: 1) trunk switch does't work so light doesn't come on & auto-relock if no door opened for 1 minute logic fires even if trunk opened 2) passenger side door switch also broken so auto-relock 3) driver's window switches flaky. It's $70 for a new switch module, but I blame the "convenience computer" that controls things also as it seems to have bad debounce logic & some "guessing" logic in case it misses the half-down or up on the way to full-down or up.
RAW data is just not an image yet.
Parent is spot-on.
To be specific RAW != TIFF because TIFF has an RGB triad per pixel (assuming we're talking digital cameras here so the TIFF isn't CMYK or grayscale or 1-bit) but RAW will be in Bayer or some other pattern of RGB or CYGM where each pixel only has a level for one color.
Bad pixels may not have been interpolated over yet and white balance may not have been applied.
I dunno what they do about black frame subtraction. You want to take an exposure with the shutter closed right before or after the main one so you get a noise profile based on current temperature. This would make the RAW file 2x, but Canon losslessly compresses their RAW & the black frame should compress very well.
Who here uses MS Media Player to play their mp3 files?
I do, on Windows XP, because I'm trying to avoid booting it at all. The only thing I can't do on Linux so far is edit DV video, update the phonebook on my cellphone and do my taxes with TurboTax.
If I install WinAmp, ExactAudioCopy, cygwin, and emacs, I'll be tempted to boot Windows more often.
I have WMP 9 and Real Player in their least private settings because I don't believe I have any privacy from Chained software anyway.
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GAGIN is "get around Get It Now" and is a copy of Qualcomm's AppLoader for BREW (distributed without permission of course) with a binary patcher to let it do more than load BREW apps.
It let me see files, but not download or upload them to my 1monthold Motorola T720c.
BALpatches are other binary patches to AppLoader.
If you get the "update" for Motorola TrueSync 3.1, you can install it without having an earlier version (again, in violation of the EULA) and use a $16 USB or serial cable to syncronize Outlook or PalmDesktop to your phone. It also comes with USB drivers (for Windows of course) to handle the USB-to-serial (I think the T720 just has a Prolific chip or integrated IP to handle USB) and let you use the phone as a modem.
PST is a Motorola app for messing with all sorts of really deep, nasty stuff in your phone. The guy who distributes it (google beavermjr) supplies a patch, but that didn't come down right for me, so I don't know what it does. PST comes with a large collection of USB drivers, so I assume the app isn't talking to the phone with a set of AT-command extensions.
HowardForums have a lot of frustrated Verizon subscribers discussing how to use the capabilities their phones already come with without paying VZW $more.
I have a Windows COM port "interposer" that watches traffic & colors in the display window according to direction. It would be good for reverse-engineering the protocol for implementation in open source. I'll post the name when I find it again.
Here's a mirror. I was going to moderate parent as informative, but thought I'd do this instead. File doesn't seem so big, but I guess there are a lot of /.ers.
virtually no problems
I guess you did say virtually no problems not completely no problems. I've had a couple of minutes of signal loss this winter for maybe 99.96% uptime.
I lost it today for about 1/2 minute when the red stuff on this map (55 dBz echos) passed overhead bringing some light hail along with the sideways rain.
The only irritation is that my multifunction remote isn't set up to control the sat box quite right. I usually use a standalone TiVo to change channels, but when the signal drops out completely, the box wants you to press channel up or down, not key in a channel number (as TiVo does).
That and my failure to notice that my son was 20 minutes "behind" real time so grabbing the right remote & pressing keys did nothing made it a bit irritating.
Not anywhere as bad as the fuzzy analog & half D-1 (352x480) soft digital on the cable co formerly known as TCI. Maybe if they'd followed through on the "high-speed internet" line on the trucks when it was AT&T broadband I'd be less annoyed, but no-one's spent any $$ on infrastructure in the last 10 years so we have no HDTV and no cable modems. Time-Warner is a whole other story...
Don't get me wrong. I love my iPod, but removing buttons does not make something more simple.
Changing the context of a button only works when you can change its label too.
Amen! I hate the smudges that touchscreens end up with, but I do like the straightforwardness of the UI. PalmOS standard apps is the best example of this I've seen.
"soft" keys around a display are next in usability, but they have to have enough. Someone borrowed my logic analyzer with built-in 'scope & I got his tiny, but crappy Tektronix 'scope. I've used a (very $$$) TDS320 with softkeys on the right side & bottom, but this one only had them on the right side, so you had to press multiple times to cycle through options.
The point I don't see anyone making is that ease of use has three elements: 1st use, learning curve & experienced use. I'm sure Adobe Illustrators 5-kinds-of-click using shift, ctrl, alt & combos is very quick once you learn it, but it's horrible to learn.
The iPod has a nice compromise between newbie & experienced use. You can select & play songs without reading the manual & it will turn itself off if you pause it for a long time, so you don't even need to know that. Then you can learn about hold-play for OFF, hold menu for backlight, and key combos for reset and force-firewire.
You can also customize the main menu. Everything you need is accessible before you do that, but experienced use is enhanced when you punt the stuff you never use (Genres).
I can drive the iPod with occasional glances at the screen, but I don't have to hunt for buttons with an iSkin on it.
For cameras, having direct control of shutter speed, aperture and focus and direct readout of EV values makes learning photography easier. It also makes adjusting these values faster for the experienced user. I'm seeing some of the digital control cameras (Canon Elan) with two knobs that can be those controls, but can scroll menus & crap in an alternate mode. That seems like a good compromise.
Meta-keys are even worse for kids. I just can't figure out why LeapFrog tries to make their products do 20 different things, 'causing the buttons to change meaning.
I want to build two kids electronic toys: a box with an alphabet of keys, backspace & enter that displays typed text on a TV & text-to-speeches it when you hit enter. My (preschool) son thought tts was the coolest thing on a Mac at work & I think this would help him with alphabet & reading.
Don't make the thing do word games & be a word processor & add 20 more buttons. Just make it do one thing.
The other toy is a subtractive analog synth (or digital simulation of such) with four or five knobs for volume, pitch, low pass filter resonance and cutoff frequency, LPF VCO, pitch modulation VCO and 3 oscillator shape switches. Make it battery powered & portable with its own amp & speaker. Kids love wierd noises.
Neurosmith is closer than LeapFrog with their word vs. shape toy, but their music cube thing is just too abstract.
LSD/THC
Nah, his symptoms sound more like crack/coke/meth withdrawl-induced psychosis.
To see the world through Darl's eyes, you might try a "nightmare hallucinogen" like mandrake or jimson weed. An unguided peyote trip could do it too.
I will never understand why Linux and NetBSD are currently looked down upon in the embedded corporations currently
Because they're fucking HUGE.
The uCLinux kernel for 68k which is more compact than SPARClite, but maybe less so than x86, is 512K.
That's a stripped-down kernel with no MMU support and the special uClib C standard library designed to take less space.
I'm working on a digital camera with 512K of flash and 8MB of SDRAM. That flash is divided into 7 64K sectors and 8+16+16+32K little sectors. We use the upper 64K for sensor calibration data and the lower 64K for a boot block that can be locked so you can recover a camera with a bad firmware load.
That leaves 384K for everything else. Our kernel is Precise/MQX from ARC International and it's 30K !.
Oh, and the RAM is needed for image processing and buffering movie frames on their way out to NAND flash, so your piggy kernels can't have it.
While I'd like some things from uCLinux and busybox and netBSD, I have to be very selective. I'm presently porting elf2flt to the Metaware tools for ARC so we can dynamically load code resources. We'll also get a real log facility and monitor soon and maybe someday the Almquist shell.
At least MQX and the Metaware tools are reasonably cheap and we get kernel and library sources (and ARC CPU hackable RTL instead of a giant impenetrable lump like ARM). I've heard nothing but irritation with WindRiver's high pricing and closed-IP attitude.
their expression of NUMA first shipped in BSD-based Dynix
Sorry, I was completely wrong. Turns out that earlier Dynix was SMP before SMP was commoditized (e.g. Win NT support) & NUMA didn't come out until 1996.
Looking at old USENET postings in comp.arch about IA-64 and Project Monterey, I do get the sense that IBM kind of fucked over SCO. However, whether any IP from that project 1) is SCO's and 2) is in Linux is very much in doubt. SCO didn't do the kind of parallel processing that IBM brought to the project with their Sequent IP, so why does SCO think they own it?
I believe that NUMA was developed independent of OS, and implementations were done for both the Unix derived Dynix and Linux. NUMA is not directly derived from Unix anyway.
The ideas behind NUMA might be open/academic but looking at Sequent's history, it appears that their expression of NUMA first shipped in BSD-based Dynix before the AT&T/Berkeley suit was settled. They (and Sun & others?) took out SysV licenses during that mess & Dynix/ptx is Unix-based.
It's an extreme interpretation of "derivative works" to call anything that linked with the Unix source such a beast and it's a stretch to say that the BSD implementation was a derivative work of Unix because that version of BSD might not have been clean of AT&T source, but that's where I thought SCO was going earlier.
However, look at Linus's recent statements about binary kernel modules that #include kernel headers being derived works of the kernel. AFAIK, he hasn't recanted.
Now that they're asking for AIX source, it seems that they're trying to ignore the "derived works authored by IBM are IBM's not the Unix licensor" part of the contract.
The Sequent IP chain is suffiently bizzare that I think they'd have a better chance of confusing a judge into agreeing with them on that.