I realize I'm a professor and very well educated, but so are you guys (after all, anyone using Linux is probably in the top 3 percentile for raw intelligence).
I think your use of a rush-Limbaugh-ism ought to disqualify your comments in general
I think your inability to put forth a cogent argument ought to disqualify your comments in general. Sorry, but argumentum ad hominem doesn't cut it.
"If Howard Dean had his way, Saddam Hussein would still be in power today, not in prison..." -Joe Lieberman
This is true. And 459 Americans who are now dead, would be alive.
You forgot to mention that Saddam's death toll, which is by most estimates about three orders of magnitude greater, is no longer increasing.
If you could make the choice of saddam being in power or sacrificing the lives of people you loved, would you have made that choice.
To get rid of that cancer on the human race? Absolutely. The UN had its thumb up its ass and was unwilling to do a thing to stop the murder, rape, and torture carried out on a daily basis in Iraq. It was unwilling to enforce any of the eightteen Security Council resolutions passed against Iraq. It looked the other way while France, Germany, Russia, and North Korea kept selling Saddam weapons systems and related equipment. Saddam Hussein was a threat to the world on the same scale as Hitler and Stalin. That we eliminated that threat at a loss of hundreds (vs. the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands lost in your average war) is an acceptable trade for the millions in Iraq who are no longer under his thumb...or for the billions elsewhere in the world who are a little bit safer tonight.
Joe Leiberman is a punk.
I don't agree with most of his social policies, but this is one occasion where he is right on the money. If Howard Dean had his way, Saddam and his thugs would still be tossing dissidents into industrial meat grinders (head-first if you're lucky, feet-first if you're not so lucky), kidnapping and raping women randomly pulled off the streets, and bankrolling terrorists and their training.
2003: Brian Binnie breaks the sound barrier in a home-built spacecraft prototype (but ordinary people fly faster than sound on a regular basis)
Except that, sadly, Brian Binnie breaks the sound barrier in a home-built spacecraft prototype the same year that commercial supersonic flights were discontinued.
There's also that phrase, "ordinary people." I'd think that most of the people who flew the Concorde wouldn't fit under most people's definition of "ordinary people."
Sadly, I know a ton of people who have never heard of Chuck Yeager. He was not part of my academic curriculum. The only reason I heard of him at a young age was the video game named after him.
The only textbooks I recall running across that mentioned him would've been for AFJROTC...and there's a fair chance most of the kids taking that would've learned of Chuck Yeager on their own anyway. About the only aerospace milestones you're likely to run across in the average haskrool history textbook are the Wright brothers' first flight and Apollo 11...and even those aren't guaranteed. (It's not even guaranteed that most kids will ever take a real history course before college...instead of history and civics, they're more likely to end up in some watered-down "social studies" classes instead.)
Are these both male, both female, or a mix? I mean I dont want 50 of these things next Christmas
If they breed, at least it'd save you the expense of buying them again next year. You could go into business and sell them off...it'd defray the cost of the other stuff.
Three French Hens
You want me to PAY for these!?
I'm boycotting french stuff, so they're right out...domestic hens would be a good substitute.
Gee, do ya think maybe the American dollar is down due to George W's ridiculous economic policies?
Those wouldn't be the same "ridiculous" economic policies that led to last quarter's ~9% annualized economic growth (best in nearly 20 years), would they? Ordinary people have more money in their pockets now, and they're starting to spend a bit now that we've managed to go more than two years without another 9/11.
Dammit, this was about Christmas. Now look what's happened.
I didn't bring politics into this discussion, but that won't stop me from calling bullsh*t on other people's specious claims.
Simple. Because new music will be released with it and on old player would people people can listen only to old music.
You say that as if that would be a Bad Thing...given what gets passed off as "music" nowadays, I'm not so sure that would necessarily be a Bad Thing.
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No it's not. It's operating a regular radio, probably even one that's FCC approved. All radios 'leak' out this form of RF when in use.
Only superheterodyne tuners do this. Regenerative tuners will do this only if they're improperly adjusted. TRF tuners will never do this. I guess that means it's time to break out the old Atwater Kent...
-rw: the most compatable format out there that can be read by 99.999% of the readers out there
+rw: newer and almost as compatable around 95% or so as long as your OS or third party app supports packet writing.
I think you're confusing recordable and rewritable. -R is the most compatible, followed by +R, -RW, and +RW.
Burners that handle both + and - formats are getting cheap. Fry's has a 4x dual-format burner for just under $100 now (it's cheaper in-store than on their website)...tested it on the MythTV box I'm putting together, and while dvdrecord and cdrecord-prodvd don't work too well with it, dvd+rw-tools (which now burns - media as well) works great with it.
I don't believe anything more than 128mb was standard for a 400mhz pentium 2 system. So, unless the computer has been upgraded (removing it from the caterogy of a "win98 machine" imo) then you're not going be able to run windows XP very well.
As cheap as memory is nowadays, there's no excuse to not upgrade. My Win32 boxen, my G3, and my Linux server all have at least 256MB. The first machine I had with that much memory in it ran Win98 under VMware on Linux (used Win98 for IE, Money, and pcAnywhere (this was long before Mozilla and VNC) and Linux for everything else)...that was nearly four years ago.
True as it is, I seriously doubt you want to install XP on a semi-old PC. 98 will run on a number of PCs just fine, but try to add XP and it becomes an almost unusably slow machine.
It runs surprisingly well on a 450-MHz K6-III with 256 MB of RAM (video is an equally-old ATI Xpert 98 AGP). It takes much less time to boot up than Win2K, too. If you turn off most of the eye candy (I leave only font anti-aliasing and "show windows while dragging" enabled, even on fast hardware) and revert to the pre-XP look and feel, it works fairly well on even modest hardware. (I don't know that I'd try running it on less than 256 MB, but the same applied to Win2K as well.)
In Sweden for example, they have two tax brackets, 0% and 57% -- the top bracket begins at 10% above the mean wage. Therefore, most Swedes pay no income tax; less than half pay all.
Am I supposed to believe that this is a Good Thing? A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on Paul's support.
Do you think Sweden isn't healthy?
Fiscally, no. If you believe it's so great, though, why don't you move to their socialist worker's paradise and leave those of us in the free world alone?
The top 5% of wage-earners pay over half of all income-tax revenue, the top 10% pay nearly two-thirds, and the top 50% of wage-earners pay nearly all of the income-tax revenue (96.03%, to be more exact).
Who makes up these categories? If you're earning at least $128k per year, you're in the top 5%...very comfortable, but not wealthy. To be in the top 50%, though, you need only pull in as little as $28k. We're awfully close to having half of the population being able to soak the other half of the population...a Bad Thing for the continued health of our nation.
I ask because I have an XP 1700 that I might use for something like this. However, I have an older Haupauge card and the card is darn unstable. Crashes regularly, even in Windows, and has done with two different motherboard chipsets (both VIA, however).
It doesn't help that Hauppage only provides VfW drivers, not WDM drivers like everybody else is using now. I've used a bunch of less-expensive capture cards for which WDM drivers were provided and have never run into trouble with them. (Capture software that uses VfW (like VirtualDub) can access WDM capture devices through a translation layer. Capture software that uses DirectShow would work better, though...an example here is Virtual VCR.)
There's an open-source WDM driver for Bt8x8 capture devices that you might want to look at if you haven't already...as long as the hardware Hauppage provides is halfway decent, this driver might let you make better use of it.
But, the www.ssai.us/ievuln.html example isn't correct because when you go to the fake microsoft site, it shows the real address, not the fake one at the top... It's only in the status bar that is shows the fake address.
I didn't catch that that was part of the problem...and now that I understand that part of it, it would appear that Mozilla isn't vulnerable to it (I have some posts further down that say it is, based on what I figured out earlier).
For a chuckle, go back here (it's changed now), click through, and see where you go. (No, it's not goatse.cx, tubgirl, or one of those other gross-out sites.)
This article at securityfocus says IE 6 and possibly earlier versions of IE. No Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, Links, Safari, Konq, Firebird, etc.
Mozilla 1.5 for Win32 is vulnerable. I still had Mozilla 1.2.1 (yes, it's ancient; no, it's not used regularly) for Linux on another box; it's vulnerable. Konqueror 3.1.1, however, isn't.
You're right.. I can't get it to work with anything other than the unescape function in Javascript. So this kind of rules out HTML emails, as virtually all email clients ignore Javascript as a security precaution.
The character before the @ really needs to be a NUL (0x00), not 0x01...makes sense when you consider that most C string-handling functions treat NUL as end-of-string. Try this...in IE, the status bar says Microsoft, but the link goes to my website instead. If you view the source, you'll see <a href="http://www.microsoft.com%00@alfter.us/"> in it.
Hmm...come to think of it, Mozilla exhibits the same behavior. The difference I see between them is that after you click through, IE shows the URL as http://alfter.us/, while Mozilla shows it as http://www.microsoft.com%00@alfter.us/.
Why do so many keep parroting this nonsense about video eating RAM? I have a system with 384MB of RAM and it does just fine. In fact, it's not appreciably faster than it was with 128MB of RAM at doing just video. No machine will be unless you are one of those who insists Adobe makes the only competent video editor and you need all that ram just to provide it with decent "scratch space."
At full tilt avisynth eats up about 120MB. It'll do that all day, even with a complex filter, because a frame of video is only a few MB - video simply doesn't NEED any more RAM.
I have TMPGEnc encoding from an Avisynth script right now. (The script is a simple one that's only doing inverse 3:2 pulldown on the source.) With it producing DVD-compatible video, it's using about 100 MB, give or take a bit. Loading the same script into VirtualDub and hitting "play" results in memory usage of about 80 MB. I'd have to agree that video editing isn't a memory hog...what you really need is lots of storage (capturing from TV at 720x480 and compressing with Huffyuv chews through 20 GB/hr or so) and fast processors. My home and work systems are both dual Athlon MPs (1900 @ work, 2100 @ home) with tons of storage, but I don't see any need to upgrade them beyond the 512 MB each that they have.
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Unless there was some pr0n up in another window...
That was almost as bad as goatse.cx...now the trolls have another picture to trick everybody into seeing. Thanks a lot. :-P
$40 won't buy much of a TV (maybe some 5" B&W job), but it'll buy a capture card with a stereo tuner.
So now we know this guy has a Slashdot account...
I guess it's time to thaw out John Wayne...he's gonna be pretty pissed off, having been on ice all this time.
I think your inability to put forth a cogent argument ought to disqualify your comments in general. Sorry, but argumentum ad hominem doesn't cut it.
You forgot to mention that Saddam's death toll, which is by most estimates about three orders of magnitude greater, is no longer increasing.
To get rid of that cancer on the human race? Absolutely. The UN had its thumb up its ass and was unwilling to do a thing to stop the murder, rape, and torture carried out on a daily basis in Iraq. It was unwilling to enforce any of the eightteen Security Council resolutions passed against Iraq. It looked the other way while France, Germany, Russia, and North Korea kept selling Saddam weapons systems and related equipment. Saddam Hussein was a threat to the world on the same scale as Hitler and Stalin. That we eliminated that threat at a loss of hundreds (vs. the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands lost in your average war) is an acceptable trade for the millions in Iraq who are no longer under his thumb...or for the billions elsewhere in the world who are a little bit safer tonight.
I don't agree with most of his social policies, but this is one occasion where he is right on the money. If Howard Dean had his way, Saddam and his thugs would still be tossing dissidents into industrial meat grinders (head-first if you're lucky, feet-first if you're not so lucky), kidnapping and raping women randomly pulled off the streets, and bankrolling terrorists and their training.
There's also that phrase, "ordinary people." I'd think that most of the people who flew the Concorde wouldn't fit under most people's definition of "ordinary people."
The only textbooks I recall running across that mentioned him would've been for AFJROTC...and there's a fair chance most of the kids taking that would've learned of Chuck Yeager on their own anyway. About the only aerospace milestones you're likely to run across in the average haskrool history textbook are the Wright brothers' first flight and Apollo 11...and even those aren't guaranteed. (It's not even guaranteed that most kids will ever take a real history course before college...instead of history and civics, they're more likely to end up in some watered-down "social studies" classes instead.)
If they breed, at least it'd save you the expense of buying them again next year. You could go into business and sell them off...it'd defray the cost of the other stuff.
I'm boycotting french stuff, so they're right out...domestic hens would be a good substitute.
Those wouldn't be the same "ridiculous" economic policies that led to last quarter's ~9% annualized economic growth (best in nearly 20 years), would they? Ordinary people have more money in their pockets now, and they're starting to spend a bit now that we've managed to go more than two years without another 9/11.
I didn't bring politics into this discussion, but that won't stop me from calling bullsh*t on other people's specious claims.
You say that as if that would be a Bad Thing...given what gets passed off as "music" nowadays, I'm not so sure that would necessarily be a Bad Thing.
Only superheterodyne tuners do this. Regenerative tuners will do this only if they're improperly adjusted. TRF tuners will never do this. I guess that means it's time to break out the old Atwater Kent...
I think you're confusing recordable and rewritable. -R is the most compatible, followed by +R, -RW, and +RW.
Burners that handle both + and - formats are getting cheap. Fry's has a 4x dual-format burner for just under $100 now (it's cheaper in-store than on their website)...tested it on the MythTV box I'm putting together, and while dvdrecord and cdrecord-prodvd don't work too well with it, dvd+rw-tools (which now burns - media as well) works great with it.
You can turn in your Geek ID on the way out, as you won't have any further need for it. The geek that has not seen WarGames is not the true geek.
As cheap as memory is nowadays, there's no excuse to not upgrade. My Win32 boxen, my G3, and my Linux server all have at least 256MB. The first machine I had with that much memory in it ran Win98 under VMware on Linux (used Win98 for IE, Money, and pcAnywhere (this was long before Mozilla and VNC) and Linux for everything else)...that was nearly four years ago.
It runs surprisingly well on a 450-MHz K6-III with 256 MB of RAM (video is an equally-old ATI Xpert 98 AGP). It takes much less time to boot up than Win2K, too. If you turn off most of the eye candy (I leave only font anti-aliasing and "show windows while dragging" enabled, even on fast hardware) and revert to the pre-XP look and feel, it works fairly well on even modest hardware. (I don't know that I'd try running it on less than 256 MB, but the same applied to Win2K as well.)
Am I supposed to believe that this is a Good Thing? A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on Paul's support.
Fiscally, no. If you believe it's so great, though, why don't you move to their socialist worker's paradise and leave those of us in the free world alone?
Wrong.
The top 5% of wage-earners pay over half of all income-tax revenue, the top 10% pay nearly two-thirds, and the top 50% of wage-earners pay nearly all of the income-tax revenue (96.03%, to be more exact).
Who makes up these categories? If you're earning at least $128k per year, you're in the top 5%...very comfortable, but not wealthy. To be in the top 50%, though, you need only pull in as little as $28k. We're awfully close to having half of the population being able to soak the other half of the population...a Bad Thing for the continued health of our nation.
It doesn't help that Hauppage only provides VfW drivers, not WDM drivers like everybody else is using now. I've used a bunch of less-expensive capture cards for which WDM drivers were provided and have never run into trouble with them. (Capture software that uses VfW (like VirtualDub) can access WDM capture devices through a translation layer. Capture software that uses DirectShow would work better, though...an example here is Virtual VCR.)
There's an open-source WDM driver for Bt8x8 capture devices that you might want to look at if you haven't already...as long as the hardware Hauppage provides is halfway decent, this driver might let you make better use of it.
I didn't catch that that was part of the problem...and now that I understand that part of it, it would appear that Mozilla isn't vulnerable to it (I have some posts further down that say it is, based on what I figured out earlier).
For a chuckle, go back here (it's changed now), click through, and see where you go. (No, it's not goatse.cx, tubgirl, or one of those other gross-out sites.)
Mozilla 1.5 for Win32 is vulnerable. I still had Mozilla 1.2.1 (yes, it's ancient; no, it's not used regularly) for Linux on another box; it's vulnerable. Konqueror 3.1.1, however, isn't.
The character before the @ really needs to be a NUL (0x00), not 0x01...makes sense when you consider that most C string-handling functions treat NUL as end-of-string. Try this...in IE, the status bar says Microsoft, but the link goes to my website instead. If you view the source, you'll see <a href="http://www.microsoft.com%00@alfter.us/"> in it.
Hmm...come to think of it, Mozilla exhibits the same behavior. The difference I see between them is that after you click through, IE shows the URL as http://alfter.us/, while Mozilla shows it as http://www.microsoft.com%00@alfter.us/.
For something that bills itself as a "mini-server," I'd hope that it's smaller than a PS/2...wouldn't make much sense if it was larger.
Q: What's the difference between the Weekly World News and the New York Times?
A: The Weekly World News tells you that it makes up its stories.
I have TMPGEnc encoding from an Avisynth script right now. (The script is a simple one that's only doing inverse 3:2 pulldown on the source.) With it producing DVD-compatible video, it's using about 100 MB, give or take a bit. Loading the same script into VirtualDub and hitting "play" results in memory usage of about 80 MB. I'd have to agree that video editing isn't a memory hog...what you really need is lots of storage (capturing from TV at 720x480 and compressing with Huffyuv chews through 20 GB/hr or so) and fast processors. My home and work systems are both dual Athlon MPs (1900 @ work, 2100 @ home) with tons of storage, but I don't see any need to upgrade them beyond the 512 MB each that they have.