-Homebrew $200 firewalls (routers, gateways, etc) with much, much greater capabilities than those little D-Link units.
I agree that there are tons of possibilites for the Nano-ITX boards, but I don't think a custom $200 firewall/router is one of them... They only have one ethernet port, and I don't see an easy way to add more. (Yes, USB is an option, but yuck. Is it really worth it?) I've never heard of a regular Ethernet mini-pci NIC before.
Want a hackable router? Why not consider something more along the lines of the Linksys WRT54G. I've had mine for about a month and I love it. $80, runs Linux, and includes 802.11g.
Some may scoff at changing a release name to suit customers and corporate supporters, but it is a simple and useful thing to do.
Yes. Anyone who doesn't have enough of a sense of humor to appreciate the name "Stoned Beaver" shouldn't be using a developement kernel. Most people don't know what Linux is. Why would they care the the code name for 2.6.0-test10 is? If the debate was over the code name for kernel 2.6, then, well maybe it would be different.
This may be a really bad idea, I've been trying to keep up with anti-spam tactics as long as I can remember, but I'm no expert in them. Nor do I claim to remember everything ever discussed about them. I think my idea is new though.
What if, instead of making an obligitory whitelist, one made a voluntary centralized blacklist. I work at a university, and we are having more and more problems with students sending spam from their no-longer-secure computer. We're working on several different solutions. (Education is the obvious one, but is futile for a certain percentage...) The bottom line is that the IP addresses on our student network should not be sending email.
What if there was voluntary system where one could just enter in a range of IP addresses, convirm via email queried from whois records, and blacklist them? (We have more liberal policies, so we would allow students to opt-out.) Seems like that's already happening on a much cruder scale when mailservers blocklist DSL ranges.
Is a little company from Utah turning into the spoiler of the open-source software movement?
The SCO Group yesterday escalated its campaign to reap profits from corporate users of the Linux operating system, announcing that it wants companies to pay licensing fees. SCO is holding fast to its contention that Linux is "an unauthorized derivative of Unix," which it owns the code and copyright for. "SCO acknowledged it is seeking to bolster sagging sales by wringing revenue out of its rights to Unix, an older operating system from which Linux was derived," The Wall Street Journal reported.
It doesn't sound like the many credible journalists are taking this threat seriously. The same post article quotes quite a few other news sources (including/.) that have less than supportive opinions of SCO.
All of my CDs are ripped and stored on my computer. (Like many other people out there.) I run Linux and have the xmms LIRC plugin and patch that allows you to type in a three digit number and load a CD. (eg. If I want to listen to Tom Petty's Greatest Hits, I punch in "630" on a remote and hit load on my IR remote. It's an awesome jukebox setup for common CDs that I have memorized, but there is no way I want to memorize 700+ of them.
I want more! I would love to have a Palm Pilot with hacked IR hardware (... because of that pesky distance issue) that can store a complete list of my music and send the corresponding IR commands to my computer.
The thing that drives me crazy is that it's totally possible with the technology available now! Palms have database programs that far exceed what I would need, and Omni remote is far in advance of what would be required also. If I had any Palm programming experience whatsoever, I would try and hack something together.
Is there any sort of open source anything for the Palm platform that would allow this type of interfacing easily? I'm thinking Python/Perl.
I understand the idea of using statistics to reduce the number of transactions with the same results, but I don't understand how Peppercoin makes up the difference. A credit card still needs to be billed in the end, right?
If I buy the $.50 music track online, I as a consumer still need to be charged $.50. The only method I can see to make this worthwhile is grouping the charges. ie. Peppercoin charges each consumer once a month/when a set amount is reached.
But how does this differ from a micropayment system without the statistical gimics? I don't quite grasp the advantage of using this token system. Merchants who are using Peppercoins as currency are already operating without credit card per transaction fees, so why does it matter how many tokens are redeemed through Peppercoin?
Obviously something is going on here, but I don't get it. Can someone clarify a bit?
The secret to enjoying Slashdot is to realize that it should not be taken too seriously.
No, the secret to enjoying Slashdot is to realize that it isn't a single consciousness with only one viewpoint. It has 450,000+ users, many of whom think differently than one another. If you get caught up in believing that everyone here thinks the same thoughts and believes the same things, you're missing the point.
Sure, there are tons of copycat thinkers here; however, even they are feeding from different schools of thought.
For example: I have no problem with the concept of copyright. It has a valid purpose. I have problems with infinite congressional extensions of copyright: they destroy this purpose. I have problems with technology being used in combination with law to restrict my rights on my own hardware to inforce copyright and restrict fair use.
The GPL gives *more* rights than you would normally have as far as software goes. I'm not an expert on the GPL, you won't see me arguing the finer points of OS licenses, however I do understand the basics and have come to my own opinion based on my understanding.
When you actually look at one person's beliefs, it's quite easy to see how someone can believe that abusing the GPL license like Castle has done is naughty, and at the same time believe that the RIAA, MPAA, and CSS are evil also.
Can't Mplayer do this already? It has an option for playing using an edit decision list (EDL). I've never used this feature, but have been meaning to try it out. It allows you to have a file that tells mplayer to jump over certain parts of the movie, mute the audio, etc.
Found this interesting too, see this page it shows a student at BYU as helping to develop the EDL feature. For those of you who don't know, BYU is a LDS (Mormon) school in Utah. Cleanflicks caters mostly to Mormons. (It's a Utah company.)
I can't wait until someone uses this Mormon-developed feature to edit movies down to just the vulgar language and nudity...
There have been many books writen trying to detail the escapades of early computer hackers, usually portraying them as pranking youth involved in gang like wars for power and street prestige.
Knowing what you do from all your escapades, do you enjoy reading fiction that is generally classified as "cyber punk"?
Has anyone seen the classic skate movie Gleaming the Cube with Christian Slater and Tony Hawk? (Among others...) It's been a while since I've seen it, but one of them has a burried cement pipe in the backyard as a hangout. It's much simpler than these plans, but I always wanted one when I was younger.
Awesome movie too. (Although it may not exactly cater to the Slashdot crowd...)
there are beacons that ham radio operators have been using for years to bounce signals off of
If I remember correctly, it is simply the moon's surface itself that amateur radio operators bounce the signals off of. Nothing artificial (eg beacons) about it.
Since when is it illegal to sell R rated movies to minors? Last time I checked, the R rating, just like any other movie rating, is an optional tradmark that *can* be applied, but is not required.
When was the last time you heard about anyone being fined for selling an R rated movie to a minor? Admiting a minor to an R rated movie?
It's optional. Stores create their own policies to placate their customers.
However, I may be wrong, and I'd welcome anyone to quote actual law.
Ok... I bite. Kelvin is an absolute scale so saying "300 kelvin" (kelvin is a lowercase word) is not a shortened version of "300 degrees kelvin." Saying "degrees kelvin" is just plain wrong.
Anyone want to draw a cartoon with an angry tree explaining this?
I just feel that 2,401 machines out of millions are statistically not "big enough" to make this poll accurate.
Then don't "feel"... Calculate. You'll see that 2,401 is enough for just about any significance level you can think of. Statisticians deal with this stuff all the time. A sample of 2,401 is HUGE for this. Most Gallup polls only use a sample of 1,000 or so to calculate the opinion of the entire adult population of the United States. See: this You're correct about the Linux poll probably not being a representative sample, but even that isn't known for sure. Care to take the data from this poll, data from a random sample and preform a simple hypothesis test? (Hint: It's expensive, time consuming, and in the end they might be the same.)
The libraries in my area are very anti-censorship, and would like to remain that way. (With optional filtering for those patrons who would like to use it for their children, etc). They've had several public meetings seeking public input on filtering.
So while a legislative victory would be nice, it's easy for some library systems to just say forget it and do without the federal funding and headache of mandatory filtering.
Remember, when Clinton entered office in 93, there WERE NO COMPUTERS in the White House! They still USED TELETYPES. In 93!
Not true... While I don't contest the idea that the Federal Government may have some very stagnant technology in certain areas, the above statement is not true. The White House *did* have email (and therefore computers) in 1993.
See this site (from a 30 sec Google search) for more details.
Hmm, where do I start citing studies that show the negative effects of negative reinforcement (read: punishment)
A small point, but negative reinforcement is *not* the same thing as punishment. This is a very common misconception. Negative reinforcement is a concept relating to operant conditioning and learning theory.
Examples?
Positive reinforcement: If a mother gives her child candy for being good, this is positive reinforcement. By rewarding the child, she is reinforceing the child behaving well.
Negative reinforcement: Your car is filthy and it drives you crazy. You decide to clean it out, and it feels great to have a clean car. Cleaning the car removed the adversive stimulus, making you more likely to clean it next time. This mechanism is theorized to be involved in many forms of drug addiction. (Life is difficult, drugs remove anxiety, more likely to use drugs later.)
This keywords feature under Mozilla is one of the most understated features I've ever seen. IMHO, it is just as good as tabbed browsing in terms of usefulness. For example, take the word banana. Look at what I can do by using keywords, Mozilla, and just typing in the URL bar:
g banana -- Search Google for the word banana
gg banana -- Search Google Groups for the word banana
d banana -- Look up a definition for the word banana
t banana -- Look up banana in Roget's Thesaurus
ef banana -- Translate the word banana into French
fe banane -- Translate the French word "banane" into English, "banana"
The keywords feature is totally customizable and expandable for just about any site that uses forms. (Although I'm sure that there are some sites out there that use dynamic hidden fields to prevent this type of action.) Check it out.
The funny thing is that Dell started selling the Epson 1250 after that and I hear they work great with Linux. Argh!
Not quite... For the most part, Epson scanners are very well supported under linux. (I'm using the 1240 on my machine with Redhat 7.2... Very easy hardware setup.) However, the Epson 1250 is an exception. See: this for more information. I hear it's possible to get the 1250 working partially with the HP 2200c driver, but full support isn't available yet.
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Want a hackable router? Why not consider something more along the lines of the Linksys WRT54G. I've had mine for about a month and I love it. $80, runs Linux, and includes 802.11g.
...Hotmail goes down on Friday, and you're the first to know on Sunday!
Him? or Her?
I paid her $5 today, she replied with a very quick thank you.
I agree that everyone should consider doing so.
Yes. Anyone who doesn't have enough of a sense of humor to appreciate the name "Stoned Beaver" shouldn't be using a developement kernel. Most people don't know what Linux is. Why would they care the the code name for 2.6.0-test10 is? If the debate was over the code name for kernel 2.6, then, well maybe it would be different.
Besides, forrest creatures using drugs is funny.
What if, instead of making an obligitory whitelist, one made a voluntary centralized blacklist. I work at a university, and we are having more and more problems with students sending spam from their no-longer-secure computer. We're working on several different solutions. (Education is the obvious one, but is futile for a certain percentage...) The bottom line is that the IP addresses on our student network should not be sending email. What if there was voluntary system where one could just enter in a range of IP addresses, convirm via email queried from whois records, and blacklist them? (We have more liberal policies, so we would allow students to opt-out.) Seems like that's already happening on a much cruder scale when mailservers blocklist DSL ranges.
Is a little company from Utah turning into the spoiler of the open-source software movement?
The SCO Group yesterday escalated its campaign to reap profits from corporate users of the Linux operating system, announcing that it wants companies to pay licensing fees. SCO is holding fast to its contention that Linux is "an unauthorized derivative of Unix," which it owns the code and copyright for. "SCO acknowledged it is seeking to bolster sagging sales by wringing revenue out of its rights to Unix, an older operating system from which Linux was derived," The Wall Street Journal reported.
It doesn't sound like the many credible journalists are taking this threat seriously. The same post article quotes quite a few other news sources (including /.) that have less than supportive opinions of SCO.
This is my dream remote setup:
All of my CDs are ripped and stored on my computer. (Like many other people out there.) I run Linux and have the xmms LIRC plugin and patch that allows you to type in a three digit number and load a CD. (eg. If I want to listen to Tom Petty's Greatest Hits, I punch in "630" on a remote and hit load on my IR remote. It's an awesome jukebox setup for common CDs that I have memorized, but there is no way I want to memorize 700+ of them.
I want more! I would love to have a Palm Pilot with hacked IR hardware (... because of that pesky distance issue) that can store a complete list of my music and send the corresponding IR commands to my computer.
The thing that drives me crazy is that it's totally possible with the technology available now! Palms have database programs that far exceed what I would need, and Omni remote is far in advance of what would be required also. If I had any Palm programming experience whatsoever, I would try and hack something together.
Is there any sort of open source anything for the Palm platform that would allow this type of interfacing easily? I'm thinking Python/Perl.
Any hints?
Anyone else sick of this damn state too?
I don't know... Ask the Dixie Chicks?
I understand the idea of using statistics to reduce the number of transactions with the same results, but I don't understand how Peppercoin makes up the difference. A credit card still needs to be billed in the end, right?
If I buy the $.50 music track online, I as a consumer still need to be charged $.50. The only method I can see to make this worthwhile is grouping the charges. ie. Peppercoin charges each consumer once a month/when a set amount is reached.
But how does this differ from a micropayment system without the statistical gimics? I don't quite grasp the advantage of using this token system. Merchants who are using Peppercoins as currency are already operating without credit card per transaction fees, so why does it matter how many tokens are redeemed through Peppercoin?
Obviously something is going on here, but I don't get it. Can someone clarify a bit?
No, the secret to enjoying Slashdot is to realize that it isn't a single consciousness with only one viewpoint. It has 450,000+ users, many of whom think differently than one another. If you get caught up in believing that everyone here thinks the same thoughts and believes the same things, you're missing the point.
Sure, there are tons of copycat thinkers here; however, even they are feeding from different schools of thought.
For example: I have no problem with the concept of copyright. It has a valid purpose. I have problems with infinite congressional extensions of copyright: they destroy this purpose. I have problems with technology being used in combination with law to restrict my rights on my own hardware to inforce copyright and restrict fair use.
The GPL gives *more* rights than you would normally have as far as software goes. I'm not an expert on the GPL, you won't see me arguing the finer points of OS licenses, however I do understand the basics and have come to my own opinion based on my understanding.
When you actually look at one person's beliefs, it's quite easy to see how someone can believe that abusing the GPL license like Castle has done is naughty, and at the same time believe that the RIAA, MPAA, and CSS are evil also.
Found this interesting too, see this page it shows a student at BYU as helping to develop the EDL feature. For those of you who don't know, BYU is a LDS (Mormon) school in Utah. Cleanflicks caters mostly to Mormons. (It's a Utah company.)
I can't wait until someone uses this Mormon-developed feature to edit movies down to just the vulgar language and nudity...
There have been many books writen trying to detail the escapades of early computer hackers, usually portraying them as pranking youth involved in gang like wars for power and street prestige.
Knowing what you do from all your escapades, do you enjoy reading fiction that is generally classified as "cyber punk"?
Awesome movie too. (Although it may not exactly cater to the Slashdot crowd...)
Since when is it illegal to sell R rated movies to minors? Last time I checked, the R rating, just like any other movie rating, is an optional tradmark that *can* be applied, but is not required.
When was the last time you heard about anyone being fined for selling an R rated movie to a minor? Admiting a minor to an R rated movie?
It's optional. Stores create their own policies to placate their customers.
However, I may be wrong, and I'd welcome anyone to quote actual law.
Ok... I bite. Kelvin is an absolute scale so saying "300 kelvin" (kelvin is a lowercase word) is not a shortened version of "300 degrees kelvin." Saying "degrees kelvin" is just plain wrong.
Anyone want to draw a cartoon with an angry tree explaining this?
It's funny. Laugh.
Then don't "feel"... Calculate. You'll see that 2,401 is enough for just about any significance level you can think of. Statisticians deal with this stuff all the time. A sample of 2,401 is HUGE for this. Most Gallup polls only use a sample of 1,000 or so to calculate the opinion of the entire adult population of the United States. See: this You're correct about the Linux poll probably not being a representative sample, but even that isn't known for sure. Care to take the data from this poll, data from a random sample and preform a simple hypothesis test? (Hint: It's expensive, time consuming, and in the end they might be the same.)
One thing I didnt realize is how little funding our library system receives from the Federal Government... $6,500 out of a budget of $18 million!
So while a legislative victory would be nice, it's easy for some library systems to just say forget it and do without the federal funding and headache of mandatory filtering.
Not true... While I don't contest the idea that the Federal Government may have some very stagnant technology in certain areas, the above statement is not true. The White House *did* have email (and therefore computers) in 1993.
See this site (from a 30 sec Google search) for more details.
A small point, but negative reinforcement is *not* the same thing as punishment. This is a very common misconception. Negative reinforcement is a concept relating to operant conditioning and learning theory.
Examples?
Positive reinforcement: If a mother gives her child candy for being good, this is positive reinforcement. By rewarding the child, she is reinforceing the child behaving well.
Negative reinforcement: Your car is filthy and it drives you crazy. You decide to clean it out, and it feels great to have a clean car. Cleaning the car removed the adversive stimulus, making you more likely to clean it next time. This mechanism is theorized to be involved in many forms of drug addiction. (Life is difficult, drugs remove anxiety, more likely to use drugs later.)
See the following pages for more details:
What is Negative Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcement, Escape, and Advoidance Learning
Bill Cosby... As a security consultant? Yikes.
This keywords feature under Mozilla is one of the most understated features I've ever seen. IMHO, it is just as good as tabbed browsing in terms of usefulness. For example, take the word banana. Look at what I can do by using keywords, Mozilla, and just typing in the URL bar:
g banana -- Search Google for the word banana
gg banana -- Search Google Groups for the word banana
d banana -- Look up a definition for the word banana
t banana -- Look up banana in Roget's Thesaurus
ef banana -- Translate the word banana into French
fe banane -- Translate the French word "banane" into English, "banana"
The keywords feature is totally customizable and expandable for just about any site that uses forms. (Although I'm sure that there are some sites out there that use dynamic hidden fields to prevent this type of action.) Check it out.
Not quite... For the most part, Epson scanners are very well supported under linux. (I'm using the 1240 on my machine with Redhat 7.2... Very easy hardware setup.) However, the Epson 1250 is an exception. See: this for more information. I hear it's possible to get the 1250 working partially with the HP 2200c driver, but full support isn't available yet.
I was able to get it to work with this exact search:
(As of 11:10am PDT)
"site:xenu.net scientology"
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