Start video editing and see how you feel about it.
<zombie>More memory, must have more memory... </zombie>
IME, video editing/compression isn't much of a memory hog. Compression, though, will chew up all the processing time you can throw at it. A faster processor (or multiple processors) will do you more good than a ton of memory.
I really don't get my information from the people like michael moore or al frankin. Really i think they are funny but not where you find out whats really going on. People like noam chomsky and howard zinn are the people I listen to.
I'm not sure which is worse: getting your info from Michael Moore or getting it from Noam Chomsky. I find both of those prospects frightening.
AOL blocks a lot of legitimate email as well, however. If you prefer to run your own email server (for example, about half of all the Linux broadband users on Slashdot) then you cannot send to an AOL user...
I run my own mail server on a cable-modem connection with a static IP, and my mail gets through to AOLers just like it does to everybody else. Are you on a static or dynamic IP block, and if it's static, is it on any RBLs? (The/28 we have on our DSL at work is RBL'd because of Sprint's incompetence WRT snuffing out spammers, but the cable-modem IPs are all OK. Cable-modem service at home and at work is through Cox.)
it's very easy to find a public machine that allows me to authenticate via https as opposed to one that has an ssh client.
I've yet to find a publicly-accessible Win32 machine that was locked down tight enough that I couldn't pull a PuTTY binary off my home webserver and run it. Mozilla won't work, but IE gives you the option to run binaries right after they're downloaded without saving them anywhere in particular. You could even run it directly from this link provided by the author. (That IE allows this is a security hole through which you could drive a Mack truck, but such is the state of security on your average Windows box. That doesn't stop me from taking advantage of it if I can. It's not like I'd run a fork-bomb type of program that throws up a bunch of windows pointing to goatse.cx and/or tubgirl.com...)
I have this ancient version running on a Quadra 610, and after checking "Show century" in the Date & Time cdev, it showed that it was indeed in 2004 and not 1904.
(Given that my Apple IIGS got through Y2K without a hiccup, I'm not particularly surprised that there were no issues with newer hardware either.)
The dual-boot WinXP/Gentoo box I'm using right now disagrees with you. I let LILO write itself to the MBR on/dev/hdb. The first block of/dev/hdb is then copied to a file on a floppy:
Upon booting into WinXP, the flie is copied to c:\ and boot.ini is modified to add a Linux boot option...something like this is added after (or before) the WinXP boot option:
c:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"
On booting, the first thing you get is the NT boot loader, which gives you options for Linux or WinXP. If you select Linux, LILO takes over. If you select WinXP, it boots as it normally does.
Remember 56k modems. There was US Rebotic's X2, and Rockwells K56Flex. Which one was the winner? V90.
Neither x2 nor K56flex were intended to be permanent 56K solutions; they were stopgap measures provided until the ITU got off its ass and rolled out V.90.
I still have the USR Sportster Voice 56K modem that got flashed from x2 to V.90...haven't fired it up in a while.
...the Leadtek Winfast TV2000XP Deluxe seems to work better under Linux than it does under Windows. It's just another BT878-based capture card with TV/FM tuner and a remote control, but the WDM driver supplied by Leadtek sucks ass (try getting both audio and video working with it) and the capture/PVR software drops frames. This driver and this capture program work much better under Windows.
Under Linux, you can use the kernel bttv driver, the current CVS of lirc, and MythTV to make a PVR that works better than the software bundled with the card. If all you want is simple TV playback, tvtime will do that. (tvtime's useful to keep around for TV-card debugging anyway, and it's more polished than xawtv.)
(If you buy the NTSC version of this card and want to use it under Linux, you'll need to edit drivers/media/video/bttv-cards.c so that the tuner will be set up properly. Search for "Leadtek WinFast 2000/ WinFast 2000 XP", scroll down to the.tuner_type= line, and change it from 5 to TUNER_PHILIPS_NTSC. If you don't do this, the tuner and the remote control won't work properly.)
A TiVo will control most digital cable boxes...where I live, Cox uses the Scientific-Atlanta Explorer 2x00 series, and it works fine with that. Plug the included IR blaster into the port on the back of the TiVo, position the blaster over the IR receiver window on the box, and use S-video and stereo audio cables to connect the two.
You're not going to find a TiVo (or any other device, for that matter) that will decode anybody's digital cable all by itself...there are too many different standards to support.
Considering that these are the same people who can't figure out how to properly use a punch-card ballot, is it at all surprising that they'd get taken for a ride by Nigerian scammers?
Except for the folks on dialup. And don't say you can't get a worm from dialup. The payloads are really tiny - it doesn't take that long on 56K. I have personally seen two computers infected with blaster via a dialup connection. If you're on there browsing the web for more than 30 minutes or so, the chances are quite good you'll get one, what with all the scans happening. Most ISPs are blocking the ms networking ports at their border, but within a segment, it's a free for all.
The only hardware solution is to get a 2nd PC to be the gateway and run iptables on it (not practical), or to get an Apple Airport which will do that for you (because it has a built-in modem), but that's too expensive. I haven't found any other hardware solutions for dialup users - do any exist that are reasonably priced? (read: no more expensive than a linksys home router)
3Com used to have a device it called a "LAN modem"...it was a 56K modem, router, and 4-port (?) hub all in one box. A currently-available product that would do the same thing is the Actiontec Dual PC Modem...Fry's sells these for about $70. The specs page says it has a built-in firewall, and you can combine it with a switch, wireless access point, or whatever to make it available to more than two computers.
(A quick check indicates that while 3Com has discontinued the OfficeConnect 56K LAN Modem, the OfficeConnect Dual 56K LAN Modem is a currently-available product. It'll combine two dial-up connections and make them available. At about $300, it's considerably more expensive than the Actiontec product...and if you're going to pay for two phone lines and two dial-up accounts, you might as well bite the bullet and upgrade to broadband.)
An Anonymous Reader writes "If you recently set up a new PC with Windows XP, or if you had the pleasure to do a 'reinstall from scratch,' you probably found that many XP systems as they are shipped today are not patched against common issues like Blaster. Given that these worms are still going strong, it doesn't take long for a new system to be infected."
I had to nuke & rebuild my parents' machine this past Thanksgiving. I set up a dial-up connection on it and proceeded to the Windows Update site. It wasn't able to get through the first round of updates (which would've been Win2K SP4) before it was hit by the Blaster worm. (I ended up reinstalling Windows again and sharing my notebook's dial-up connection over a crossover cable to finally get it up and running. Downloading tens of megabytes of updates over dial-up sucks.:-P )
Dealing with the worms in circulation is bad enough when you at least have one "hardened" PC to fend off attacks while you get a new machine up and running. Someone who's buying/building a new PC who doesn't have access to another system is screwed in the present environment if the new machine is to run Windows. (Mac OS X, Linux, etc. aren't viable options for all people in all situations, as much as we might like for them to be.)
So, I wonder what pets think of our modern video and audio systems?
With the big-screen TV my parents bought a few months ago, one of their dogs starts growling/barking/howling when she sees another dog on-screen. How's that for an answer?
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So do I, and I applaud them cause it sure is one uglay ass machine
Your link was to a Model I, not a CoCo...you can see what a CoCo looked like here. The chiclet keyboard wasn't all that great, but that was fixed in the latermodels.
My linux box is back in my dorm room, but I think the nvidia drivers are mostly closed source. They use an opensource wrapper just to comply with the GPL.
I just had a run-in with a driver that demonstrates why an open-source driver is much preferred. Until now, I've not had reason to tweak driver source to get something working.
Over the past few days, I've been setting up a MythTV box on a spare machine. This machine is equipped with a Radeon VE clone (built by FIC, IIRC) with S-video/composite output. I grabbed the GATOS driver source, built that, and got the TV-out jack working great...
...until I moved the computer from the bedroom to the living room and tried firing it up with just the TV plugged in.
The X server detected that nothing was plugged into the VGA port and said "no video for you!" Isolating the offending code and fixing it so it'll work with just the TV-out jack in use was just a few minutes' work. (The patch was posted to the gatos-devel mailing list, if anybody's interested.)
If the driver supplied by nVidia for its cards exhibited the same behavior (since I don't have any of their cards at home, I can't say if they do), what would you do? Lash up some sort of dongle to fool the card into thinking a monitor is plugged in, and hope you don't blow up your card? That doesn't sound like much of a plan.
Or more importantly, I want my diary to be readable in 20 years, thank you very much.
Do what I do; write it in plain text.
HTML would work as well, if you need some markup. (One of these days, I'll have my Nibble collection archived on CD-ROM...the articles will use HTML, while program listings will use plaintext. The programs will also be saved in ShrinkIt archives, ready to run.)
Basically they are saying our schools are secular and so all religious identity is banned. I really don't have a problem with that. People can believe what they like but I don't want it forced on me.
So instead, you'll force your views on them. How nice of you. How tolerant. Not!
(It's not totally unexpected, given where it's happening, though...it's not like anybody's ever mistaken france for a free country.)
If history is anything to go by, that contraption won't be worth a thing until SpaceShipThreePointOne is built.
You know, that's probably not an entirely silly thing to say. I mean this thing had only been up 15 minutes or so when it crashed. Scary looking pictures- I think it's not supposed to swerve off the runway like that:-)
Maybe they were operating under the belief that any landing from which you can walk away is a good landing.:-)
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IME, video editing/compression isn't much of a memory hog. Compression, though, will chew up all the processing time you can throw at it. A faster processor (or multiple processors) will do you more good than a ton of memory.
I'm not sure which is worse: getting your info from Michael Moore or getting it from Noam Chomsky. I find both of those prospects frightening.
http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/flashblock. xpi
I run my own mail server on a cable-modem connection with a static IP, and my mail gets through to AOLers just like it does to everybody else. Are you on a static or dynamic IP block, and if it's static, is it on any RBLs? (The /28 we have on our DSL at work is RBL'd because of Sprint's incompetence WRT snuffing out spammers, but the cable-modem IPs are all OK. Cable-modem service at home and at work is through Cox.)
More like a troll and an impostor, actually...the real MonTemplar has a JE about it.
If you spelled her name correctly, you might get better results. Garbage in, garbage out.
Are you sure that it's packets that they're sniffing? Certain other, umm, substances come to mind...
I've yet to find a publicly-accessible Win32 machine that was locked down tight enough that I couldn't pull a PuTTY binary off my home webserver and run it. Mozilla won't work, but IE gives you the option to run binaries right after they're downloaded without saving them anywhere in particular. You could even run it directly from this link provided by the author. (That IE allows this is a security hole through which you could drive a Mack truck, but such is the state of security on your average Windows box. That doesn't stop me from taking advantage of it if I can. It's not like I'd run a fork-bomb type of program that throws up a bunch of windows pointing to goatse.cx and/or tubgirl.com...)
(Given that my Apple IIGS got through Y2K without a hiccup, I'm not particularly surprised that there were no issues with newer hardware either.)
Verbing weirds language, and that's a prime example.
The dual-boot WinXP/Gentoo box I'm using right now disagrees with you. I let LILO write itself to the MBR on /dev/hdb. The first block of /dev/hdb is then copied to a file on a floppy:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt &&
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/mnt/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 &&
umount /mnt
Upon booting into WinXP, the flie is copied to c:\ and boot.ini is modified to add a Linux boot option...something like this is added after (or before) the WinXP boot option:
c:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"
On booting, the first thing you get is the NT boot loader, which gives you options for Linux or WinXP. If you select Linux, LILO takes over. If you select WinXP, it boots as it normally does.
Neither x2 nor K56flex were intended to be permanent 56K solutions; they were stopgap measures provided until the ITU got off its ass and rolled out V.90.
I still have the USR Sportster Voice 56K modem that got flashed from x2 to V.90...haven't fired it up in a while.
Under Linux, you can use the kernel bttv driver, the current CVS of lirc, and MythTV to make a PVR that works better than the software bundled with the card. If all you want is simple TV playback, tvtime will do that. (tvtime's useful to keep around for TV-card debugging anyway, and it's more polished than xawtv.)
(If you buy the NTSC version of this card and want to use it under Linux, you'll need to edit drivers/media/video/bttv-cards.c so that the tuner will be set up properly. Search for "Leadtek WinFast 2000/ WinFast 2000 XP", scroll down to the .tuner_type= line, and change it from 5 to TUNER_PHILIPS_NTSC. If you don't do this, the tuner and the remote control won't work properly.)
You're not going to find a TiVo (or any other device, for that matter) that will decode anybody's digital cable all by itself...there are too many different standards to support.
Considering that these are the same people who can't figure out how to properly use a punch-card ballot, is it at all surprising that they'd get taken for a ride by Nigerian scammers?
3Com used to have a device it called a "LAN modem"...it was a 56K modem, router, and 4-port (?) hub all in one box. A currently-available product that would do the same thing is the Actiontec Dual PC Modem...Fry's sells these for about $70. The specs page says it has a built-in firewall, and you can combine it with a switch, wireless access point, or whatever to make it available to more than two computers.
(A quick check indicates that while 3Com has discontinued the OfficeConnect 56K LAN Modem, the OfficeConnect Dual 56K LAN Modem is a currently-available product. It'll combine two dial-up connections and make them available. At about $300, it's considerably more expensive than the Actiontec product...and if you're going to pay for two phone lines and two dial-up accounts, you might as well bite the bullet and upgrade to broadband.)
lynx -dump "http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=90474&cid=\
7803746" | sed "s/download.fedora.redhat.com\/pub\/fedora\
\/linux \/core\/1\/i386\/iso/www.gentoo.org/g" | more
(Try it...if you cut-and-paste it, it works!)
I had to nuke & rebuild my parents' machine this past Thanksgiving. I set up a dial-up connection on it and proceeded to the Windows Update site. It wasn't able to get through the first round of updates (which would've been Win2K SP4) before it was hit by the Blaster worm. (I ended up reinstalling Windows again and sharing my notebook's dial-up connection over a crossover cable to finally get it up and running. Downloading tens of megabytes of updates over dial-up sucks. :-P )
Dealing with the worms in circulation is bad enough when you at least have one "hardened" PC to fend off attacks while you get a new machine up and running. Someone who's buying/building a new PC who doesn't have access to another system is screwed in the present environment if the new machine is to run Windows. (Mac OS X, Linux, etc. aren't viable options for all people in all situations, as much as we might like for them to be.)
With the big-screen TV my parents bought a few months ago, one of their dogs starts growling/barking/howling when she sees another dog on-screen. How's that for an answer?
Your link was to a Model I, not a CoCo...you can see what a CoCo looked like here. The chiclet keyboard wasn't all that great, but that was fixed in the later models.
I just had a run-in with a driver that demonstrates why an open-source driver is much preferred. Until now, I've not had reason to tweak driver source to get something working.
Over the past few days, I've been setting up a MythTV box on a spare machine. This machine is equipped with a Radeon VE clone (built by FIC, IIRC) with S-video/composite output. I grabbed the GATOS driver source, built that, and got the TV-out jack working great...
The X server detected that nothing was plugged into the VGA port and said "no video for you!" Isolating the offending code and fixing it so it'll work with just the TV-out jack in use was just a few minutes' work. (The patch was posted to the gatos-devel mailing list, if anybody's interested.)
If the driver supplied by nVidia for its cards exhibited the same behavior (since I don't have any of their cards at home, I can't say if they do), what would you do? Lash up some sort of dongle to fool the card into thinking a monitor is plugged in, and hope you don't blow up your card? That doesn't sound like much of a plan.
If they were going for shiny things, though, wouldn't that mean they'd be buying CDs instead of downloads?
HTML would work as well, if you need some markup. (One of these days, I'll have my Nibble collection archived on CD-ROM...the articles will use HTML, while program listings will use plaintext. The programs will also be saved in ShrinkIt archives, ready to run.)
So instead, you'll force your views on them. How nice of you. How tolerant. Not!
(It's not totally unexpected, given where it's happening, though...it's not like anybody's ever mistaken france for a free country.)
Maybe they were operating under the belief that any landing from which you can walk away is a good landing. :-)