I just downloaded playfair-0.2.tar.gz off the UNC mirror with no problems.
The Easynews mirror (what I normally use) didn't have it. It might not have synced over yet. UNC had it. I just wrote a Gentoo ebuild (cribbed it from another ebuild, really) for it, and it grabbed it from the Belnet mirror.
Speaking of the ebuild, here it is:
# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $
# Short one-line description of this package.
DESCRIPTION="Playfair enables fair use of iTunes Music Store downloads."
src_compile() {
econf || die
emake || die "emake failed"
}
src_install() {
einstall || die
}
Dump it in/usr/local/portage/media-sound/playfair, make sure PORTDIR_OVERLAY is set in/etc/make.conf, and issue emerge --fetchonly playfair && (cd/usr/local/portage/media-sound/playfair; ebuild playfair-0.2.ebuild digest) && emerge playfair to install.
So I suppose that you think that just because you purchased a copy of a book you're entiteld to do whatever you want with the contents? Up to and including violating copyright laws?
Quit yer trolling...who said anything about violating copyright laws? If I'm working on my car and want to refer to some pages out of the shop manual, I'll make a copy of the relevant pages and work from those so the manual doesn't get dirtied up. That is fair use. Another example of fair use is dubbing a CD to tape so I can play it in my car (which doesn't have a CD player). That's also fair use. How, then, is stripping the DRM off an.m4p so I can convert it to Ogg Vorbis for playback on my Palm (an example of format-shifting analogous to the aforementioned CD-to-tape dub) not fair use? It's only copyright infringement if I turn around and put the resulting.m4a files up on $P2P_NETWORK or otherwise distribute them to others.
What a GREAT idea! Anyone know if there is anything like FlashBlock for Internet Explorer? I do Active-X development and need IE for my job, but I'm short of uninstalling flash to get rid of those damn adds.
You are aware that Mozilla and IE can coexist on the same computer, right? You can keep using IE where you must (for me, it's only used for Windows Update and installing the Platform SDK) and start using Mozilla for everything else.
AdBlock is probably the single most useful Mozilla extension.
I had been using Squid for years with an ad-blocking add-on. After my home server's hard drive crashed, I reloaded Gentoo onto the replacement drive, but left off Squid and configured Adblock on my other computers (running a mix of WinXP, Linux, and Mac OS X). It's worked so well that I'll probably just keep things this way. It's especially handy for my notebook, as it saves me from having to switch proxy settings every time I move between home, work, and elsewhere. It's relatively easy to port settings between machines, but you can kill >90% of ads with maybe half-a-dozen rules that take a minute to key in.
It's good news for people who like making fun of people who use Windows.
The ad-killing features (popup blocking and the Adblock & Flashblock add-ons, specifically) in Mozilla work just as well with the Win32 version as they do with other versions.
You're not alone. CBS News reported this as a straight news story this morning, on the drive in to work. (I wish I could say I'm kidding, but I'm not...and they wonder why fewer and fewer people are getting their news from the Big Three. I heard it at 8 AM PT; it's probably been on earlier this morning and will probably continue for a bit longer.)
Furthermore, I have several Republican friends who are angry at Bush, but will nevertheless vote for him for fear of the alternatives. So anger and voting intent are not necessarily well correlated.
The way I'd put it is that I'd rather vote for Bush and get 70-80% (or whatever) of what I want than allow Kerry to win and get 0% of what I want. You might've noticed similar arguments in favor of Ahnold in the California recall; McClintock might well have been the better conservative, but the political reality in that state was that Schwarzenegger was the candidate who was better able to score a win for the GOP.
Is Bush perfect? No...his capitulation to the Democrats on education spending and campaign-finance "reform" are a couple of his less-than-stellar moments. You'd be hard-pressed to find a perfect candidate, though, no matter which way your political leanings tend to sway. Is he better than the alternatives? IMNSHO, absolutely.
Clear Channel... most recently dropped Howard Stern after he began to speak out against Bush.
I call bullsh*t. Stern's a pottymouth of long standing, and Clear Channel no doubt didn't want to be on the wrong end of a massive fine from the FCC after another of his bouts of verbal diarrhea.
At 170 dpi, it will be a bit of a strain for my eyes. It looks interesting but I'll wait for at least 300 dpi.
170 dpi is better than most dot-matrix printers deliver, and they were readable enough. I used to crank out papers on an Apple Imagewriter at 144 dpi, and nobody ever complained about the legibility.
I even have a password manager on my usb flash drive because I can't keep up with password. I could use one password for everything but that's insecure too.
While using one password everywhere is asking for trouble, I don't think you need a different password for every single site you visit. While I wouldn't recommend using the same uid/password for/. that you use for online banking access, using the same uid/password for/. and other online forums (AnandTech, Ars Technica, or whatever) doesn't seem to me to be much of a risk. There are fewer than a half-dozen passwords that I use; which one gets used at any given time depends on the intended use.
The only place I use Passport, IIRC, is Hotmail...it's good for testing mail servers to see if they're talking to the outside world. Other than that, it doesn't get used for anything. Passport has my name and password, and that's about it. They don't have addresses, credit-card numbers, or anything else like that. (They especially don't have my credit-card numbers. I'd rather nobody have those any longer than they need them to complete a sale.)
This seems like an oxymoron, but how come this torrent is so slow with this many people supposedly on it?
Slow? You call ~1.3 Mbps slow? I thought it came through fairly quickly. (Considering that my downstream bandwidth here is 1.5 Mbps, I suspect that the connection was nearly maxed out, with most of the remaining 200 kbps going to overhead, etc.)
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156 megs! I used to have a hard drive that size.
N00b!:-) I've had hard drives smaller than that, you insensitive clod!
I just burned my first DVDs using USB2 in a long time, and I was finding that yes, they were indeed faster with Firewire.
FireWire 0wnz j00. I have a Pioneer DVR-105 in a FireWire case, and it burns full DVDs in about 15 minutes. You can also do other stuff on the computer while it's burning, which I suspect you wouldn't be able to do with a USB burner.
If everyone switches to Linux or Mac OS then you'll start to see viruses for those operating systems.
I'd like to see someone try to write a virus or worm that affects plain-text-only mail readers like Mutt. That would be a clever hack. I also suspect it'd be damn near impossible to pull off. How badly would you have to screw up something that displays plain text for a vulnerability to appear?
The moron who had the "bright" idea to start sending HTML in email needs to be taken out back and shot.
Sadly, many Windows laptops let the batteries get eaten in S2R mode *before* saving to disk. This is just bone-headed policy, though, not an architectural problem. Users can fix it if they understand what they're doing. (Although, to be fair, the location and size of the S2D file or partition can be a problem, especially if you've increased the amount of RAM and the S2D partition wasn't enlarged to match...)
Hibernation, under both WinXP and Win2K, writes to a file in the root filesystem. As long as there's enough free space, you're all set...there's no need to make sure a hibernation partition is configured. There are BIOS-based (presumably OS-independent) hibernation schemes that might want a suitably large partition for their exclusive use, but Windows doesn't use those AFAIK. I wouldn't be surprised if newer notebooks don't even have such a built-in capability. (IIRC, my HP doesn't.) On the next boot, if a valid hibernation file is found, the system state is restored from it; otherwise, it goes through the normal boot process.
IIRC, some older Compaq-machines had this sort of thing with their BIOS; once the disk went bad on these, that was it. Instant boat-anchor.
Not quite. Core BIOS functions were stored in ROM. The stuff that went on the HD was configuration & diagnostic software, not too different from the floppy you would've used to configure a PC/AT back in the day.
You used to be able to download this software from Compaq so you could install it on a new drive. If you still had access to the original drive, you could also have it back up its diagnostic software to floppy so you could install it on a new drive without having to download it. (Looks like the downloads are still available...have a look here, for instance. "Computer Setup/VP and PC Diagnostics" is the package you'd download and install to reload the setup software (in this case, for a Deskpro 2000).)
This sucks. I don't know if anything can be done legally, but we can slashdot the hell out of the offending site, right?
Um, given that I assume the reason carorcar.com copied someone else's site in the first place was to get money from advertiser revenue from page hits, doesn't that just help their scheme make more money?
When you're filtering all ads (or doing something like while true; do lynx -dump http://www.carorcar.com/ >dev/null; done), the ads aren't getting pulled through.
I reference "The Washington Post", you come back with "NewsMax.com"?
How is one any less credible than the other? Is NewsMax less credible simply because it doesn't fit your worldview? I'm pretty sure there's a book or two about that.
And you're suggesting that losing millions of jobs with health care benefits and high wages but gaining lots of massage therapists and manicurists (with no health care benefits and fairly low wages) is somehow a good thing?
A job is a job...do you think anybody works the same job forever? There are too many people in this country (including you, apparently) who believe that certain kinds of employment are somehow beneath them. When times get tough (or when you're just starting out), you take what work you can get, keeping an eye out for something better all the while. You might not get everything you want right away, but at least you can still take some measure of self-respect from not going on the dole.
You're also not taking into consideration the unsustainability of the dot-com boom. FedExing bags of dog food to people at a lower cost than you'd pay for the same bag if you drove down to Wal-Mart is not a sustainable model. Implementing said business model on the Internet didn't make it any more sustainable. These entirely predictable business failures have forced a reconsideration of how the few survivors of the boom do business. Can you still get a $100k+ job writing crappy webpages and VB apps for 5 hours a week, leaving the other 35 hours open for gathering around the office foosball table? Hell no...but if you have real, valuable skills and are willing to accept reasonable pay for it, there is work out there for you.
Of course, it's always much easier to blame someone else for your own shortcomings than to do something productive. It may be cathartic, but mindless anger doesn't put food on the table.
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The Easynews mirror (what I normally use) didn't have it. It might not have synced over yet. UNC had it. I just wrote a Gentoo ebuild (cribbed it from another ebuild, really) for it, and it grabbed it from the Belnet mirror.
Speaking of the ebuild, here it is:
# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
z "
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $
# Short one-line description of this package.
DESCRIPTION="Playfair enables fair use of iTunes Music Store downloads."
HOMEPAGE="http://playfair.sourceforge.net/"
SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/playfair/${P}.tar.g
LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="x86"
IUSE=""
DEPEND=""
S=${WORKDIR}/${P}
src_compile() {
econf || die
emake || die "emake failed"
}
src_install() {
einstall || die
}
Dump it in /usr/local/portage/media-sound/playfair, make sure PORTDIR_OVERLAY is set in /etc/make.conf, and issue emerge --fetchonly playfair && (cd /usr/local/portage/media-sound/playfair; ebuild playfair-0.2.ebuild digest) && emerge playfair to install.
Quit yer trolling...who said anything about violating copyright laws? If I'm working on my car and want to refer to some pages out of the shop manual, I'll make a copy of the relevant pages and work from those so the manual doesn't get dirtied up. That is fair use. Another example of fair use is dubbing a CD to tape so I can play it in my car (which doesn't have a CD player). That's also fair use. How, then, is stripping the DRM off an .m4p so I can convert it to Ogg Vorbis for playback on my Palm (an example of format-shifting analogous to the aforementioned CD-to-tape dub) not fair use? It's only copyright infringement if I turn around and put the resulting .m4a files up on $P2P_NETWORK or otherwise distribute them to others.
You are aware that Mozilla and IE can coexist on the same computer, right? You can keep using IE where you must (for me, it's only used for Windows Update and installing the Platform SDK) and start using Mozilla for everything else.
I had been using Squid for years with an ad-blocking add-on. After my home server's hard drive crashed, I reloaded Gentoo onto the replacement drive, but left off Squid and configured Adblock on my other computers (running a mix of WinXP, Linux, and Mac OS X). It's worked so well that I'll probably just keep things this way. It's especially handy for my notebook, as it saves me from having to switch proxy settings every time I move between home, work, and elsewhere. It's relatively easy to port settings between machines, but you can kill >90% of ads with maybe half-a-dozen rules that take a minute to key in.
Adblock 0wnz j00.
The ad-killing features (popup blocking and the Adblock & Flashblock add-ons, specifically) in Mozilla work just as well with the Win32 version as they do with other versions.
"Mid-morning on the 2nd" is still ~18 hours away. Hell, midnight is still nearly 9 hours away!
You're not alone. CBS News reported this as a straight news story this morning, on the drive in to work. (I wish I could say I'm kidding, but I'm not...and they wonder why fewer and fewer people are getting their news from the Big Three. I heard it at 8 AM PT; it's probably been on earlier this morning and will probably continue for a bit longer.)
Who's the assclown who modded the parent up?
The way I'd put it is that I'd rather vote for Bush and get 70-80% (or whatever) of what I want than allow Kerry to win and get 0% of what I want. You might've noticed similar arguments in favor of Ahnold in the California recall; McClintock might well have been the better conservative, but the political reality in that state was that Schwarzenegger was the candidate who was better able to score a win for the GOP.
Is Bush perfect? No...his capitulation to the Democrats on education spending and campaign-finance "reform" are a couple of his less-than-stellar moments. You'd be hard-pressed to find a perfect candidate, though, no matter which way your political leanings tend to sway. Is he better than the alternatives? IMNSHO, absolutely.
I call bullsh*t. Stern's a pottymouth of long standing, and Clear Channel no doubt didn't want to be on the wrong end of a massive fine from the FCC after another of his bouts of verbal diarrhea.
Somebody who wants to nuke his system...it's not going to boot up too well when /sbin/init and friends aren't marked executable.
170 dpi is better than most dot-matrix printers deliver, and they were readable enough. I used to crank out papers on an Apple Imagewriter at 144 dpi, and nobody ever complained about the legibility.
While using one password everywhere is asking for trouble, I don't think you need a different password for every single site you visit. While I wouldn't recommend using the same uid/password for /. that you use for online banking access, using the same uid/password for /. and other online forums (AnandTech, Ars Technica, or whatever) doesn't seem to me to be much of a risk. There are fewer than a half-dozen passwords that I use; which one gets used at any given time depends on the intended use.
The only place I use Passport, IIRC, is Hotmail...it's good for testing mail servers to see if they're talking to the outside world. Other than that, it doesn't get used for anything. Passport has my name and password, and that's about it. They don't have addresses, credit-card numbers, or anything else like that. (They especially don't have my credit-card numbers. I'd rather nobody have those any longer than they need them to complete a sale.)
Slow? You call ~1.3 Mbps slow? I thought it came through fairly quickly. (Considering that my downstream bandwidth here is 1.5 Mbps, I suspect that the connection was nearly maxed out, with most of the remaining 200 kbps going to overhead, etc.)
N00b! :-) I've had hard drives smaller than that, you insensitive clod!
FireWire 0wnz j00. I have a Pioneer DVR-105 in a FireWire case, and it burns full DVDs in about 15 minutes. You can also do other stuff on the computer while it's burning, which I suspect you wouldn't be able to do with a USB burner.
They're coming to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids...that's what Red asteroids do.
Verbing weirds English.
I'd like to see someone try to write a virus or worm that affects plain-text-only mail readers like Mutt. That would be a clever hack. I also suspect it'd be damn near impossible to pull off. How badly would you have to screw up something that displays plain text for a vulnerability to appear?
The moron who had the "bright" idea to start sending HTML in email needs to be taken out back and shot.
Hibernation, under both WinXP and Win2K, writes to a file in the root filesystem. As long as there's enough free space, you're all set...there's no need to make sure a hibernation partition is configured. There are BIOS-based (presumably OS-independent) hibernation schemes that might want a suitably large partition for their exclusive use, but Windows doesn't use those AFAIK. I wouldn't be surprised if newer notebooks don't even have such a built-in capability. (IIRC, my HP doesn't.) On the next boot, if a valid hibernation file is found, the system state is restored from it; otherwise, it goes through the normal boot process.
Not quite. Core BIOS functions were stored in ROM. The stuff that went on the HD was configuration & diagnostic software, not too different from the floppy you would've used to configure a PC/AT back in the day.
You used to be able to download this software from Compaq so you could install it on a new drive. If you still had access to the original drive, you could also have it back up its diagnostic software to floppy so you could install it on a new drive without having to download it. (Looks like the downloads are still available...have a look here, for instance. "Computer Setup/VP and PC Diagnostics" is the package you'd download and install to reload the setup software (in this case, for a Deskpro 2000).)
I think only the goatse.cx guy could manage to do that, so it shouldn't be a problem for the rest of us.
When you're filtering all ads (or doing something like while true; do lynx -dump http://www.carorcar.com/ >dev/null; done), the ads aren't getting pulled through.
How is one any less credible than the other? Is NewsMax less credible simply because it doesn't fit your worldview? I'm pretty sure there's a book or two about that.
A job is a job...do you think anybody works the same job forever? There are too many people in this country (including you, apparently) who believe that certain kinds of employment are somehow beneath them. When times get tough (or when you're just starting out), you take what work you can get, keeping an eye out for something better all the while. You might not get everything you want right away, but at least you can still take some measure of self-respect from not going on the dole.
You're also not taking into consideration the unsustainability of the dot-com boom. FedExing bags of dog food to people at a lower cost than you'd pay for the same bag if you drove down to Wal-Mart is not a sustainable model. Implementing said business model on the Internet didn't make it any more sustainable. These entirely predictable business failures have forced a reconsideration of how the few survivors of the boom do business. Can you still get a $100k+ job writing crappy webpages and VB apps for 5 hours a week, leaving the other 35 hours open for gathering around the office foosball table? Hell no...but if you have real, valuable skills and are willing to accept reasonable pay for it, there is work out there for you.
Of course, it's always much easier to blame someone else for your own shortcomings than to do something productive. It may be cathartic, but mindless anger doesn't put food on the table.
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