Timezones don't change daily like AV or spam holes - it should have gone in stable.
I guess I'm biased living in New Zealand, like most of the folks complaining on the Debian list... But the timezone still changed, and it did so after the stable distribution was released. How often it is actually changed is beside the point, it _does_ change, and it is in no way a security-related fix. Volatile is just the place for tzdata to live in.
I fully agree with the debian folks, this package should absolutely not be pushed to stable until it has passed through whatever tests it needs to. I may be biased not living in New Zealand, but pushing this patch out prematurely would mean risking every debian installation worldwide.
It seems to me many users just want to install debian-stable, run an apt-get update now and then, and not having to do anything else with their system. Getting tzdata installed (either by adding the volatile repository, or just getting this specific package) is dead simple, and anyone who can't manage that shouldn't be put in charge of running a server.
That would also mean that Apple really wouldn't care too much about someone breaking the encryption, although RIAA might force them to.
I just ordered an Airport Express, just to stream audio from my laptop (sucky speakers, can't stand a cable). If I can stream from other sources, great. Even better would be to have other units (any computer) act as "iTunes speakers".
A satellite in geostationary orbit that is left to itself (when it runs out of thruster fuel that is used to keep it in place) doesn't lose altitude, but rather the orbit gets elliptical and slightly "skewed" from the Earth's equatorial plane (I think the Moon is to blame for this, might be other factors as well). The result is that the satellite appears to be moving in a figure-eight (as seen from the Earth's surface). A normal geostationary satellite is not visible from the south pole (it is a few degrees below the horizon), but one in deteriorating orbit can sometimes be seen from the south pole.
Oh, I don't know, what does the 'R' stand for? Redundancy?
(Software RAID-1 in Linux rules. At least for my purposes)
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Maybe, maybe not. They might just bump the sizes up a bit, and keep the same price for the "small", "medium" and "large" models (has happened before). You would have to pay as much to get an iPod, but less $/GB. The question then is just what the three models will be (I don't think they ever have sold more than three models at a time). Either way, they'll surely drop one of the models when adding a new one, and probably the smallest one (15), which whould leave 20, 40 and 60. Or, they could go 20, 30, 60. We'll see.
They haven't even got the startup sequence right, which should be the easiest part since there is no user interaction. There shouldn't be any icons popping up at the bottom before the "Welcome to Macintosh" window is displayed. And from that first impression, it just goes downhill. Sure, they have done a lot of work, but It would be nicer to have something that actually gives the _feel_ of an old mac, instead of implementing a lot of crappy games.
Yes of course, I do do the same fiddly work with things on the Mac. I can burn a CD and re-rip (which you cannot do with all WMA protected files).
One protection is stripped, conversion to other formats is very easy in iTunes - one menu item, and you have an MP3. I can batck convert my entire library from the command line with one find command. I don't need to screw with a WAV or third party plugins.
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With ITMS, I get a DRM file with predictable properties and restrictions. And if those restrictions are unacceptable to me (for instance, sharing restrictions) I can remove them easily.
So, you consider converting WMA->WAV->whatever to be more cumbersome than burning in iTunes, ripping , and converting? I don't.
The DiskWriter plugin is not third-party. It comes with Winamp. Made by Nullsoft.
And why should iTMS DRM be more predictible than WMA? Apple, as well as any WMA-selling online music store could change their restrictions at any time. Still woulnd't affect the songs you have already bought, though.
wav file full bandwidth mono is 705.6 kbps, ...
Where did you get the 16 khz sampling rate from?
A WAV file of CD quality (16 bits, 44.1KHz, 2 channels), yes. In general,
WAV files can have different sample rates, bits/sample or number of channels.
FYI, for stereo, you don't half the sampling rate. Sampling rate is calculated per frame, or number of channels. So a 44.1 khz stereo signal does not make a 22.05 khz mono signal. It's still 44.1.
In order to fit twice as many channels into a certain bitrate, you have to halve the sample rate or the number of bits per sample.
In 128kbps, you can only fit a rather crappy WAV data stream in mono, and if you want stereo in the same bitrate, you have to halve the quality of each channel (double the crapness).
So you are saying that a language should be banned/discontinued just because it is possible to write crappy programs with it?
There are lots of examples of good VB programs too, just as there is lots of crap written in C/C++/whatever. Just because it is a lot easier in VB (compared to most other common languages/IDEs)to get a nice, GUIy program running and at least somewhat functional, does not make it bad. It's just easier for people who aren't that skilled to write programs, and stopping people from being able to do that can never be a good thing.
Assuming you mean "Hey moron. You CAN put 99% of allregular, honestly purchased DVD-movies on a DVD-R without recompression", I still must say "Hell no!"
About 80% of all "real" DVD movies I own (a quite varied mix) are DVD-9:s, usually about 6-7GB in size, way too much for a single layer DVD+/-R[W]. After removing all unnecessary parts (extras, spanish and french soundtrack and such), it's still usually 5-6GB. Even some DVD-5 movies are bigger than a DVD-R can take (since pressed discs fit a bit more data). About one in five movies can be copied to DVD-R without recompression, and about half of those need to have the extras&crap removed.
Well, if not a PC, I would at least consider it a _workstation_. And at least the admins setting the stuff up, should be able to access the "BIOS setup" (or something equivalent, which I just assume it has somewhere). You can be sure that anyone trying to hack it will know how too.
If there's no way of "logically" disabling booting from floppies (or other removable media), you'll have to disable it physically. Unplug/remove it, or fill it with plastic padding (my favourite for dealing with those 3½" plastic pieces of hell). Or just use one of those locks. Of course it's obvious that it's there, but it works. It can't easily be removed without destroying the floppy drive, which means that you still can't access the floppy, which is the whole point.
Most PC:s/workstations can disable booting from removable media, have password access to the setup menu, and a physically locked case (so you can't connect other harddrives, or reset the password). If you don't do this, there's really no way to stop people from booting whatever they want, unless they actually break into the box (which could have some kind of alarm). And for any major OS (including Windows NT, and most *nix-likes), there are bootable CD's/floppies with grandma-simple tools to steal or set passwords.
Check your facts yourself. He was tried in a US military court, and aquitted. By some NATO treaty (and as ruled by an italian court), he actually is under US jurisdiction, not Italian.
The Audi A2, which actually is _in production_ (and has been for a couple of years) has a "locked" hood/bonnet too. There's just a small hatch where you can fill up washer fluid and cooling water .
There isn't a chance in hell, or at least in Sweden, that you could get fired for saying that kind of stuff about your work. In case you haven't noticed, we have better employee-rights/protection laws than most others (regardless which union you might or might not be in). That's assuming the blue-lips-are-dangerous thing isn't a big, closely guarded trade secret, regarding which you have signed an NDA.
By the way, I got fired this Monday. I don't even _have_ a working environment. And my laptop has crashed, so I'm forced to leave bed to read/.
If the media did care, they could take their share of responsibility too (yeah, right). Any amount of attention to the games in question will just increase interest in them and their likely sequels. If GTA VC is banned somehow, kids will just want it even more ("forbidden fruit"). Banning it in, say, a US State would just make it more popular where it is still legally sold, and it would no doubt be "smuggled in" anyway.
If he's predicting things for a certain year, he damned well should consider the _whole_ year! For all we know, everything might (or might _not_) happen on new years eve.
They have. The virus tries downloading from http://www.home.no/jberg/jituxramon.exe, which is now a 404. But I guess it wouldn't be too hard for the creator to spread a new virus with a different URL (or perhaps several redundant ones), and also having the exe do all sorts of mischief.
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Streamed songs are Ogg Vorbis, downloaded songs are MP3.
How about http://tinyurl.com/y5Kk6QE then?
(no, I didn't set up that link, but _someone_ did)
I can literally see my house from here.
While kind of cool, some buildings and roads get rather squiggly.
You can probably have it, provided you...
Hack the Gibson!
I guess I'm biased living in New Zealand, like most of the folks complaining on the Debian list... But the timezone still changed, and it did so after the stable distribution was released. How often it is actually changed is beside the point, it _does_ change, and it is in no way a security-related fix. Volatile is just the place for tzdata to live in.
I fully agree with the debian folks, this package should absolutely not be pushed to stable until it has passed through whatever tests it needs to. I may be biased not living in New Zealand, but pushing this patch out prematurely would mean risking every debian installation worldwide.
It seems to me many users just want to install debian-stable, run an apt-get update now and then, and not having to do anything else with their system. Getting tzdata installed (either by adding the volatile repository, or just getting this specific package) is dead simple, and anyone who can't manage that shouldn't be put in charge of running a server.
The ISO 8601 standardized way:
2006-06-06
That would also mean that Apple really wouldn't care too much about someone breaking the encryption, although RIAA might force them to.
I just ordered an Airport Express, just to stream audio from my laptop (sucky speakers, can't stand a cable). If I can stream from other sources, great. Even better would be to have other units (any computer) act as "iTunes speakers".
A satellite in geostationary orbit that is left to itself (when it runs out of thruster fuel that is used to keep it in place) doesn't lose altitude, but rather the orbit gets elliptical and slightly "skewed" from the Earth's equatorial plane (I think the Moon is to blame for this, might be other factors as well). The result is that the satellite appears to be moving in a figure-eight (as seen from the Earth's surface).
A normal geostationary satellite is not visible from the south pole (it is a few degrees below the horizon), but one in deteriorating orbit can sometimes be seen from the south pole.
Why use RAID for that?
Oh, I don't know, what does the 'R' stand for? Redundancy?
(Software RAID-1 in Linux rules. At least for my purposes)
Maybe, maybe not. They might just bump the sizes up a bit, and keep the same price for the "small", "medium" and "large" models (has happened before). You would have to pay as much to get an iPod, but less $/GB. The question then is just what the three models will be (I don't think they ever have sold more than three models at a time).
Either way, they'll surely drop one of the models when adding a new one, and probably the smallest one (15), which whould leave 20, 40 and 60. Or, they could go 20, 30, 60. We'll see.
They haven't even got the startup sequence right, which should be the easiest part since there is no user interaction.
There shouldn't be any icons popping up at the bottom before the "Welcome to Macintosh" window is displayed.
And from that first impression, it just goes downhill. Sure, they have done a lot of work, but It would be nicer to have something that actually gives the _feel_ of an old mac, instead of implementing a lot of crappy games.
Yes of course, I do do the same fiddly work with things on the Mac. I can burn a CD and re-rip (which you cannot do with all WMA protected files).
One protection is stripped, conversion to other formats is very easy in iTunes - one menu item, and you have an MP3. I can batck convert my entire library from the command line with one find command. I don't need to screw with a WAV or third party plugins.
...
With ITMS, I get a DRM file with predictable properties and restrictions. And if those restrictions are unacceptable to me (for instance, sharing restrictions) I can remove them easily.
So, you consider converting WMA->WAV->whatever to be more cumbersome than burning in iTunes, ripping , and converting? I don't.
The DiskWriter plugin is not third-party. It comes with Winamp. Made by Nullsoft.
And why should iTMS DRM be more predictible than WMA? Apple, as well as any WMA-selling online music store could change their restrictions at any time. Still woulnd't affect the songs you have already bought, though.
You can easily convert a 1.5Mbs wav to a 128Kbps .wav.
.083 seconds!
All you have to do is limit the length of the song to
Yes, that, and stretch time so that it lasts 12 times as long.
Hold on I'm a little lost here.
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Indeed you are.
wav file full bandwidth mono is 705.6 kbps,
Where did you get the 16 khz sampling rate from?
A WAV file of CD quality (16 bits, 44.1KHz, 2 channels), yes. In general, WAV files can have different sample rates, bits/sample or number of channels.
FYI, for stereo, you don't half the sampling rate. Sampling rate is calculated per frame, or number of channels. So a 44.1 khz stereo signal does not make a 22.05 khz mono signal. It's still 44.1.
In order to fit twice as many channels into a certain bitrate, you have to halve the sample rate or the number of bits per sample. In 128kbps, you can only fit a rather crappy WAV data stream in mono, and if you want stereo in the same bitrate, you have to halve the quality of each channel (double the crapness).
So you are saying that a language should be banned/discontinued just because it is possible to write crappy programs with it?
There are lots of examples of good VB programs too, just as there is lots of crap written in C/C++/whatever. Just because it is a lot easier in VB (compared to most other common languages/IDEs)to get a nice, GUIy program running and at least somewhat functional, does not make it bad. It's just easier for people who aren't that skilled to write programs, and stopping people from being able to do that can never be a good thing.
Assuming you mean "Hey moron. You CAN put 99% of allregular, honestly purchased DVD-movies on a DVD-R without recompression", I still must say "Hell no!"
About 80% of all "real" DVD movies I own (a quite varied mix) are DVD-9:s, usually about 6-7GB in size, way too much for a single layer DVD+/-R[W]. After removing all unnecessary parts (extras, spanish and french soundtrack and such), it's still usually 5-6GB. Even some DVD-5 movies are bigger than a DVD-R can take (since pressed discs fit a bit more data).
About one in five movies can be copied to DVD-R without recompression, and about half of those need to have the extras&crap removed.
Well, if not a PC, I would at least consider it a _workstation_. And at least the admins setting the stuff up, should be able to access the "BIOS setup" (or something equivalent, which I just assume it has somewhere). You can be sure that anyone trying to hack it will know how too.
If there's no way of "logically" disabling booting from floppies (or other removable media), you'll have to disable it physically. Unplug/remove it, or fill it with plastic padding (my favourite for dealing with those 3½" plastic pieces of hell).
Or just use one of those locks. Of course it's obvious that it's there, but it works. It can't easily be removed without destroying the floppy drive, which means that you still can't access the floppy, which is the whole point.
Most PC:s/workstations can disable booting from removable media, have password access to the setup menu, and a physically locked case (so you can't connect other harddrives, or reset the password). If you don't do this, there's really no way to stop people from booting whatever they want, unless they actually break into the box (which could have some kind of alarm). And for any major OS (including Windows NT, and most *nix-likes), there are bootable CD's/floppies with grandma-simple tools to steal or set passwords.
Check your facts yourself. He was tried in a US military court, and aquitted.
By some NATO treaty (and as ruled by an italian court), he actually is under US jurisdiction, not Italian.
The Audi A2, which actually is _in production_ (and has been for a couple of years) has a "locked" hood/bonnet too. There's just a small hatch where you can fill up washer fluid and cooling water .
Not anymore. Now the top result actually is the /. front page, and this story is the third hit (the former #1 is now placed second).
There isn't a chance in hell, or at least in Sweden, that you could get fired for saying that kind of stuff about your work. In case you haven't noticed, we have better employee-rights/protection laws than most others (regardless which union you might or might not be in). That's assuming the blue-lips-are-dangerous thing isn't a big, closely guarded trade secret, regarding which you have signed an NDA.
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By the way, I got fired this Monday. I don't even _have_ a working environment. And my laptop has crashed, so I'm forced to leave bed to read
If the media did care, they could take their share of responsibility too (yeah, right).
Any amount of attention to the games in question will just increase interest in them and their likely sequels. If GTA VC is banned somehow, kids will just want it even more ("forbidden fruit"). Banning it in, say, a US State would just make it more popular where it is still legally sold, and it would no doubt be "smuggled in" anyway.
If he's predicting things for a certain year, he damned well should consider the _whole_ year! For all we know, everything might (or might _not_) happen on new years eve.
They have. The virus tries downloading from http://www.home.no/jberg/jituxramon.exe, which is now a 404.
But I guess it wouldn't be too hard for the creator to spread a new virus with a different URL (or perhaps several redundant ones), and also having the exe do all sorts of mischief.