Sendmail/DID/ have a bad record... but it barely rates a mention these days. Time to bring yourself into the current day rather than trying to suck the rotten marrow out of last century's carcass.
Why bother giving sendmail another crack at making your system rootable when it's such a pain in the ass to set up in the first place? I'd rather install qmail and get on with life.
I've wondered about it ever since all the fuss about how to count votes. Can anyone rationalize why convicted criminals shouldn't be allowed to vote (or why they should)?
It's bad enough that welfare recipients are allowed to vote (they'll vote for whoever keeps the goodies rolling in), but allowing convicted felons to vote would be even worse. We're not talking about speeders and jaywalkers here...we're talking about murderers, rapists, molesters, etc. Just as a welfare queen is more likely to vote for someone who'll maintain her in the style to which she has become accustomed, a felon is more likely to vote for some soft-on-crime wuss who probably wouldn't have put him away for 40-to-life to begin with. It's another way of granting the vote to people who have the least interest in the continued proper functioning of our society.
Have you actually ever read any of the documents they make you sign before you buy a car?
If I want to add nitrous to my S10, lower it so that it scrapes the pavement, replace its cargo box with an RV body, or whatever, there's not a thing Chevy can do about it (except maybe void the warranty if too much nitrous causes the engine to blow up). The only condition on my continued ownership of the truck is that I carry comprehensive-loss insurance coverage until the loan is paid off. If I had paid cash up front instead of financing it for the next five years, even that condition wouldn't apply. Beyond that, I can do what I want with it. Any attempt to impose restrictions would be laughed out of court.
Not true, by providing contract in a TEXTBOX HTML element, an argument could be made that SonicBlue is implicitly allowing editing AND submission of your changes to the contract.
That depends on whether the edit box is, in fact, editable. I don't have much experience with HTML forms (specifically, I don't know if an edit box in a form can be made read-only), but in the software I write, an edit box can be marked read-only. The program can dump text into it, but the user can't change the text. If you can do the same with an HTML form, Sonicblue would be crazy to leave the box editable.
(Of course, if it is editable, just make whatever changes you want and make a screen dump before you click "I Agree." If they bitch at you for doing something they don't like, you have documentation to back up your position.)
they present you with a description of the program (so you can decide whether to record this episode of DS9), a genre (so you can record all Sci-Fi program), actors (at least in the case of TiVo, so you can set up a "wishlist" to record all shows with Avery Brooks), a "rerun" flag (so you don't get 15 copies of the same episode), etc, etc..
I actually don't think I'd use those features...
That's what everybody who's never used a TiVo says.
Umm, I use Yahoo!TV listings, and they're free. I don't use Replay or Tivo, so maybe I'm missing something. But I don't see why I'd need much more than program name and time.
How do you sort out new episodes from reruns? Going into more detail, can you build up a listing of what particular episodes have been recorded recently, so that you don't re-record them unless asked to do so? That's why a TiVo (or anything that claims to provide similar functionality) needs more detailed information to function properly.
When you buy a VCR you agree not to make copies of copyrighted movies and sell them with it...
Where's the piece of paper you signed that says that? Yeah, I didn't think so...the closest thing to an "agreement" regarding the purchase of your VCR is that you gave Best Buy, Circuit City, or whoever $X and they gave you a VCR in exchange. I'm not saying that making and selling moviez is a Good Thing, but let's try to avoid distorting the truth, m'kay? The MPAA does enough of that.
Tell me that today you would rather buy a 60GB GXP than a comparable Maxtor drive.
I'd buy a stone tablet and a chisel before I'd buy another Maxtor. I've had way too many of them go bad (three 5.1GB drives in five months a few years back, an 80-gigger more recently, and one or two more in between). By comparison, my 45GB 75GXP, two 60GB 60GXPs, and two 60GB 120GXPs have performed flawlessly.
Sad to see big blue out of the hard drive business, they have made a lot of contributions to computing.
Yeah, it's really sad. I'll espacially miss the 75gxp series.
Mine's still hauling the mail after about a year and a half, with no hint of possible trouble. (Then again, I don't overclock and I don't buy sh*tty components (cheap power supplies and such).)
I wonder if we can change out the stock tube (if it is a 12AX7) to maybe.. an old coke bottle sylvania or a squeeky clean russion SovTek tube:)
The pix at HardOCP include some closeups of the firebottle...turns out it's a Sovtek 6922, an industrial-grade equivalent of the 6DJ8 twin triode (the European equivalent is ECC88). Here's a page about the 6922 and friends from what sounds like an audiophoole perspective. (The historical info is interesting, though.)
Is it of any use on a motherboard? Sure. It's great gimmick to sell to idiots. So how do they get stereo out of a single tube? It looks too small to be the two-tubes-in-one variety.
It's probably a dual triode...a 12AX7 or something similar. 2 sections of 3 pins each (cathode, grid, plate) plus three for the heater (center-tapped so you can run it on 6V or 12V) makes 9 pins total, which was fairly common.
(I looked for clues that this might've been an April Fool's joke, but didn't see anything to say that was the case.)
If you have the wrong combination of splitters, signal amplifiers, and unshielded cables, then you're actually broadcasting the cable signal.
Nonsense.
You don't have any signal amplifiers, and what "unshielded cables" you are talking about? Coax cable is shielded.
I'm not sure about "broadcasting" the signal either, but if crappy cables and splitters (of the type you'd find at $DISCOUNT_STORE) can cause problems from outside signals getting in, it would follow that there might be some leakage of the cable signal outside these parts. (I had some cable-modem problems recently that were tracked to a crappy 3-way splitter (the proper type is two 2-way splitters, cascaded internally, with the 3-dB tap going to the cable modem, built with the back lid soldered all around) and some flaky ends on cables (RG-6 originally provided by the cable company) that I had shortened to reduce clutter behind the TV.)
Cox Communications in the Texas Panhandle, which I've written about before does this. You gotta have either basic analog cable or digital cable before they'll let you have a cable modem account.
Cox runs the cable system in Las Vegas as well, but you can get cable-modem service without TV. That's how we're hooked up at work. They charge an extra $10 per month for that type of service, but they will hook you up for cable-modem-only service.
I don't know, but perhaps they cannot prevent people from doing this (other than inspecting their house).
All that's needed to block cable TV to cable-modem-only subscribers is a trap. If you had read the article, you would've known this.
I used to live under the approach to one of the runways at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas. I pretty much had to subscribe to cable to get a decent signal; every time an airliner passed overhead, TV signals would bounce off of it and produce some really bad ghosting. At the time, a "broadcast-basic" plan was available that would get you the first 15 or so channels (including all local channels) for about $3 per month (this was back in '92 or '93). Since that was all I really wanted at the time, I signed up and put the rabbit ears away. A trap was installed in the line to block all of the other channels...tuning to them produced only static.
You can't "steal" what the cable company doesn't make available to you in the first place.
So when I ask for my money back you guys can figure out which account to credit.
You store the last four digits and ask for the full number at refund time. It's what the big chain stores do...look at a receipt; it'll typically have on it the last four digits of whatever card you used. You have enough information to know which card to accept for the refund, but not enough that a disgruntled/dishonest employee (or the 1337 h4X0r who just 0wn3d j00) can do something bad with it.
I recently got a Tivo and was disapointed that it doesnt auto skip commercials.
There's a backdoor code to convert one of the buttons into 30-second skip, but I find fast-forward to be easier to use and more precise.
Tivo also doesnt allow for file sharing.
These guys have Ethernet adapters that you can add to your TiVo. Software is out there that'll extract the streams in TiVo's proprietary format and convert them to ordinary MPEG-2 video and audio streams. Once you have those, you can use your favorite editing and compression software to make VCDs, SVCDs, DVDs, Divx files, or whatever.
I have the entire first season of Enterprise (without ads) on SVCD. Most episodes came from my TiVo.
Buyers should be aware that "lifetime" means the life of said unit, not your lifetime. So as soon as the HDD, which is writing pretty much all the time, dies, you are supposed to pay another "lifetime" membership.
That's why you back up the HD (just like with your computer). Besides, if a service center replaces your TiVo, your lifetime subscription will be transferred to it.
(The 14GB drive that came with my TiVo was removed a few months ago; it's now in a FireWire case that I can take between home and work. I now have a 100GB 7200rpm hard drive (WD1000BB) in the TiVo. 30-some-odd hours at best quality (or is it more?) is a Good Thing.)
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Good point, valentyn. With slightly different spin, the ability of anyone to challenge data would have been seen as a Good Thing. I have no idea why you were modded "Offtopic."
Because the moderators are crack whores. (I can feel the karma burning away right now...)
You sure can buy an entire computer with monitor and OS and many other peripherals for less. I'll stick to the same online company to show it can be done without effort.
You're comparing Sun hardware (usually fairly decent, isn't it?) to a system built around a PC Chips (aka Piece-o-Sh*t) motherboard? Let's see what we can build with something a bit better (prices are from Newegg):
Biostar M7VKQ motherboard (MicroATX, VIA KL133) $49.00
AMD Duron 900MHz OEM $35.00
Kingston ValueRAM 256MB PC133 SDRAM $43.00
MS Win2K Pro SP2 $141.00 (XP suXors)
Enlight EN-7150AJ MicroATX case w/PS $38.00
Cooler Master DP5-5G11A heatsink/fan $4.00
Focus FK2001 keyboard $18.00 (not the cheapest you can get, but it clicks:-) )
MS PS/2 IntelliMouse (OEM) $11.00
Western Digital 400BB 40GB 7200rpm HD $74.00
Teac FD235 3.5" floppy drive $9.00
Toshiba SD-R1202 CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive $93.00
KDS VS-7P 17" monitor $119.00
Not counting the cost to ship all those parts, you're looking at $634. Drop Win2K from the order and you're down to $493. (Hmm...looks like I only ended up reinforcing your point, even with the better hardware. Damn, this stuff's getting cheap!)
Why is kowtowing to the W3C party line considered to be a good thing?
Because it's a published standard that anybody can implement in a browser. In addition to IE and Mozilla, a properly-written page should render in any browser to the best of that browser's capabilities. Anything less is a sign of laziness on the part of the page designer.
It's bad enough that a large chunk of the web is IE-only. Do you really want to create a large chunk that's Mozilla-only? What good would that do?
Right now it is kind of hard to develop browser skins, XUL apps, and even web content for a browser that has major changes every week. Now we can finally develop content that can last on this browser.
You shouldn't develop web content for Mozilla any more than you should develop web content for Internet Explorer. You should be writing to the established standards. I'm a fairly recent convert to Mozilla (started with 1.0RC1) and have seen too many pages that don't render properly because they were written to deal with IE's idiosyncracies. A web full of pages that do the same with Mozilla would be no better.
Mems is the technology behind DLP the movie theater light projection. The only problems I have heard is that it takes some adjustment a few hours for you eyes to adjust to the rapid flashes, friends will likely get a headache the first time they come over.
If that was the case, I'd think all the people who saw AotC on digital screens would've complained by now.
Where? If you're paying that much for electricity, you're getting ass-raped. I'd figure that $0.10/kWh or less would be a bit more typical. (I'm paying about $0.08/kWh, and that's after substantial rate increases.)
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Why bother giving sendmail another crack at making your system rootable when it's such a pain in the ass to set up in the first place? I'd rather install qmail and get on with life.
It's bad enough that welfare recipients are allowed to vote (they'll vote for whoever keeps the goodies rolling in), but allowing convicted felons to vote would be even worse. We're not talking about speeders and jaywalkers here...we're talking about murderers, rapists, molesters, etc. Just as a welfare queen is more likely to vote for someone who'll maintain her in the style to which she has become accustomed, a felon is more likely to vote for some soft-on-crime wuss who probably wouldn't have put him away for 40-to-life to begin with. It's another way of granting the vote to people who have the least interest in the continued proper functioning of our society.
You've never watched Caddyshack, have you?
If I want to add nitrous to my S10, lower it so that it scrapes the pavement, replace its cargo box with an RV body, or whatever, there's not a thing Chevy can do about it (except maybe void the warranty if too much nitrous causes the engine to blow up). The only condition on my continued ownership of the truck is that I carry comprehensive-loss insurance coverage until the loan is paid off. If I had paid cash up front instead of financing it for the next five years, even that condition wouldn't apply. Beyond that, I can do what I want with it. Any attempt to impose restrictions would be laughed out of court.
That depends on whether the edit box is, in fact, editable. I don't have much experience with HTML forms (specifically, I don't know if an edit box in a form can be made read-only), but in the software I write, an edit box can be marked read-only. The program can dump text into it, but the user can't change the text. If you can do the same with an HTML form, Sonicblue would be crazy to leave the box editable.
(Of course, if it is editable, just make whatever changes you want and make a screen dump before you click "I Agree." If they bitch at you for doing something they don't like, you have documentation to back up your position.)
That's what everybody who's never used a TiVo says.
How do you sort out new episodes from reruns? Going into more detail, can you build up a listing of what particular episodes have been recorded recently, so that you don't re-record them unless asked to do so? That's why a TiVo (or anything that claims to provide similar functionality) needs more detailed information to function properly.
Where's the piece of paper you signed that says that? Yeah, I didn't think so...the closest thing to an "agreement" regarding the purchase of your VCR is that you gave Best Buy, Circuit City, or whoever $X and they gave you a VCR in exchange. I'm not saying that making and selling moviez is a Good Thing, but let's try to avoid distorting the truth, m'kay? The MPAA does enough of that.
I'd buy a stone tablet and a chisel before I'd buy another Maxtor. I've had way too many of them go bad (three 5.1GB drives in five months a few years back, an 80-gigger more recently, and one or two more in between). By comparison, my 45GB 75GXP, two 60GB 60GXPs, and two 60GB 120GXPs have performed flawlessly.
Mine's still hauling the mail after about a year and a half, with no hint of possible trouble. (Then again, I don't overclock and I don't buy sh*tty components (cheap power supplies and such).)
The pix at HardOCP include some closeups of the firebottle...turns out it's a Sovtek 6922, an industrial-grade equivalent of the 6DJ8 twin triode (the European equivalent is ECC88). Here's a page about the 6922 and friends from what sounds like an audiophoole perspective. (The historical info is interesting, though.)
It's probably a dual triode...a 12AX7 or something similar. 2 sections of 3 pins each (cathode, grid, plate) plus three for the heater (center-tapped so you can run it on 6V or 12V) makes 9 pins total, which was fairly common.
(I looked for clues that this might've been an April Fool's joke, but didn't see anything to say that was the case.)
ewww...I don't think we needed to know about that...
I'm not sure about "broadcasting" the signal either, but if crappy cables and splitters (of the type you'd find at $DISCOUNT_STORE) can cause problems from outside signals getting in, it would follow that there might be some leakage of the cable signal outside these parts. (I had some cable-modem problems recently that were tracked to a crappy 3-way splitter (the proper type is two 2-way splitters, cascaded internally, with the 3-dB tap going to the cable modem, built with the back lid soldered all around) and some flaky ends on cables (RG-6 originally provided by the cable company) that I had shortened to reduce clutter behind the TV.)
Cox runs the cable system in Las Vegas as well, but you can get cable-modem service without TV. That's how we're hooked up at work. They charge an extra $10 per month for that type of service, but they will hook you up for cable-modem-only service.
All that's needed to block cable TV to cable-modem-only subscribers is a trap. If you had read the article, you would've known this.
I used to live under the approach to one of the runways at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas. I pretty much had to subscribe to cable to get a decent signal; every time an airliner passed overhead, TV signals would bounce off of it and produce some really bad ghosting. At the time, a "broadcast-basic" plan was available that would get you the first 15 or so channels (including all local channels) for about $3 per month (this was back in '92 or '93). Since that was all I really wanted at the time, I signed up and put the rabbit ears away. A trap was installed in the line to block all of the other channels...tuning to them produced only static.
You can't "steal" what the cable company doesn't make available to you in the first place.
You store the last four digits and ask for the full number at refund time. It's what the big chain stores do...look at a receipt; it'll typically have on it the last four digits of whatever card you used. You have enough information to know which card to accept for the refund, but not enough that a disgruntled/dishonest employee (or the 1337 h4X0r who just 0wn3d j00) can do something bad with it.
There's a backdoor code to convert one of the buttons into 30-second skip, but I find fast-forward to be easier to use and more precise.
These guys have Ethernet adapters that you can add to your TiVo. Software is out there that'll extract the streams in TiVo's proprietary format and convert them to ordinary MPEG-2 video and audio streams. Once you have those, you can use your favorite editing and compression software to make VCDs, SVCDs, DVDs, Divx files, or whatever.
I have the entire first season of Enterprise (without ads) on SVCD. Most episodes came from my TiVo.
That's why you back up the HD (just like with your computer). Besides, if a service center replaces your TiVo, your lifetime subscription will be transferred to it.
(The 14GB drive that came with my TiVo was removed a few months ago; it's now in a FireWire case that I can take between home and work. I now have a 100GB 7200rpm hard drive (WD1000BB) in the TiVo. 30-some-odd hours at best quality (or is it more?) is a Good Thing.)
Because the moderators are crack whores. (I can feel the karma burning away right now...)
You're comparing Sun hardware (usually fairly decent, isn't it?) to a system built around a PC Chips (aka Piece-o-Sh*t) motherboard? Let's see what we can build with something a bit better (prices are from Newegg):
Not counting the cost to ship all those parts, you're looking at $634. Drop Win2K from the order and you're down to $493. (Hmm...looks like I only ended up reinforcing your point, even with the better hardware. Damn, this stuff's getting cheap!)
Because it's a published standard that anybody can implement in a browser. In addition to IE and Mozilla, a properly-written page should render in any browser to the best of that browser's capabilities. Anything less is a sign of laziness on the part of the page designer.
It's bad enough that a large chunk of the web is IE-only. Do you really want to create a large chunk that's Mozilla-only? What good would that do?
You shouldn't develop web content for Mozilla any more than you should develop web content for Internet Explorer. You should be writing to the established standards. I'm a fairly recent convert to Mozilla (started with 1.0RC1) and have seen too many pages that don't render properly because they were written to deal with IE's idiosyncracies. A web full of pages that do the same with Mozilla would be no better.
If that was the case, I'd think all the people who saw AotC on digital screens would've complained by now.
Where? If you're paying that much for electricity, you're getting ass-raped. I'd figure that $0.10/kWh or less would be a bit more typical. (I'm paying about $0.08/kWh, and that's after substantial rate increases.)