I'm eagerly awaiting an android version of this. This software, an android phone and a robot platform controlled by the android phone: Cool stuff alert
You make a good point, personally I am a person that will listen to music 3-4 hours each day; for me a spotify premium subscription makes perfect sense. Still I can't see the real big problem of paying 100NOK a month for instant access to all (most) of the music you want. Even if you use it sporadically that is not a bad price. And it makes sense to pay more for the option to use your mobile devices. After all, spotify is a business, and they need to make their money somewhere. It is better that they actually differentiate between "pure" PC users and those who use mobile devices as well. You get what you pay for.
In regards to norwegian beer prices; I totally agree:)
That is just ridicilous. In Norwegian money, one month of spotify membership costs less than a beer bought at a pub*: and the amount of music you have available is excellent. If they really want the radio model with advertisements and a fixed playlist - listen to a goddamn radio station. Spotify is something completely different - you have full controll over what you are listening to.
*That is for the least expensive option, where you do not have the option to use it on mobile devices. For double this, or about one and a half beer you get the added possibility of installing the spotify application on mobile devices; including offline storage to not tax your wireless data plan.
#!/bin/bash # Send an "I am alive" ping to Canonical. This is used for surveying how many # original OEM installs are still existing on real machines. Note that this # does not send any user specific data; it only transmits the operating system # version (/var/lib/ubuntu_dist_channel), the machine product name, and a # counter how many pings were sent. # # (C) 2010 Canonical Ltd. # License: GPL v2 or later
simply unpack the tar.gz file and see for yourself what info it is transmitting. IMHO the whole thing i harmless.
How hard is it to say; change a disk in one of the submerged nodes ? or fix a loose ethernet cable ? If the nodes are separated in compartments, and you could isolate and drain one while servicing it, this would be really nice indeed.
If you are the kind of person that are in the danger zone of this happening (not that you would leave a computer with such sensitive information in your hotel room.); You would probably feel a lot better if you were able to checksum the bootloader when returning, maybe from an external usb drive. This would offcourse run it's own OS, not being done from the bootloader(for obvious reasons).
i was just about to check out ncat. Seems interesting. The only downside is that is can never reach the same critical mass as the vanilla nc, and hence you cannot rely on the more advanced functions on an unknown computer. would be cool though, SSL could be handy in some situations.
they seem to be filtering the signal quite a bit (obviosly), and a bandpass filter at a known frequency would take care of quite a lot of the random noise from the rest of the system.
This is actually quite interesting. With China putting a lot of prestige in being "better than the west", they may actually be able to pull of something good with this one (and hopefully, later missions). There is nothing like a bit of competition to get the party started. Their Changâ(TM)e 1 probe was a sucess, so why not this one ? they have at least proved themselves capable of space exploration, and the more space exploration, the better!
They could consider following the same model the Norwegian government used when oil was discovered in the sea outside Norway; create a lithium fund managed by the government, paid by taxes and exploration fees from the companies wanting to mine the lithium. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Oil_Fund. It worked for Norway, it might work for Bolivia too.
strange. This is on an almost clean windows XP install. Pushing the "Download now" button produces some loading and activity on the status bar, then stops and nothing happens.
It would be ironic if it was because of load problems on the servers, but i doubt it on a saturday night (and everything else is snappy on the site)
"Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 support the Windows 7 Beta download experience. "
It's even an experience just to download it, one that my Firefox seems not to enjoy.
I really hope this is better than vista. With XP gone from retail, this will probably be the OS installed and upgraded to on the few windows computers I manage.
Last year, I bought a HTC P4350 smartphone, mostly for the gadget factor and the fact that it had a touchscreen and a full qwerty keyboard. After about 6 months of getting frustrated, not getting the sync to work with linux and a lot of problems with windows mobile simply hanging all the time, I downgraded to a sony ericsson el cheapo cellphone. Now I use this, connected via bluetooth to my EEE 701, giving me a lot more screen and a lot more keyboard; this probably at the same price as I paid for the HTC when it was new. I also have an Ipod Touch, that I use a lot for surfing when at home, and when I'm in near wifi (at school etc), but the typing on that touchscreen is simply to painful to keep it going for any long ssh sessions. I long for the day of foldable screens and keyboards:)
damn,, i always miss the funny and press overrated - posting to clear mod. What about a "remove my mod" that is visible for a minute or two after you mod ?
but do you want the possibility to post anonymously (say, you are Chinese) just because people download shitty Hollywood movies and some top 20 music ? I would like an open internet, not a network being monitored left and right - some may even say this is already happening. We have to make it clear that monitoring traffic is not O.K . I want my personal messages to be personal, and not being read by a god damn agency somewhere.
funny thing, linksys actually demands activex on some of their mid-level managed switches. This combined with a crippled ssh/telnet setup, where you can't mange vlans and only watch port status, was quite the shock - and they even had a cisco sticker on the box!
Been reading the pdf the past days, and altough it seems as if there was many sensible voices over at microsoft, they had to much of a momentum forward, making it hard to change directions midcourse. it's really a pain reading those letters knowing what vista ended up at. I'm just hoping to find a reference like "this is ME all over again" somewhere in those letters, would have been so nice to hear that from the horses mouth:)
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I'm eagerly awaiting an android version of this. This software, an android phone and a robot platform controlled by the android phone: Cool stuff alert
You make a good point, personally I am a person that will listen to music 3-4 hours each day; for me a spotify premium subscription makes perfect sense. Still I can't see the real big problem of paying 100NOK a month for instant access to all (most) of the music you want. Even if you use it sporadically that is not a bad price. And it makes sense to pay more for the option to use your mobile devices. After all, spotify is a business, and they need to make their money somewhere. It is better that they actually differentiate between "pure" PC users and those who use mobile devices as well. You get what you pay for.
In regards to norwegian beer prices; I totally agree :)
That is just ridicilous. In Norwegian money, one month of spotify membership costs less than a beer bought at a pub*: and the amount of music you have available is excellent. If they really want the radio model with advertisements and a fixed playlist - listen to a goddamn radio station. Spotify is something completely different - you have full controll over what you are listening to.
*That is for the least expensive option, where you do not have the option to use it on mobile devices. For double this, or about one and a half beer you get the added possibility of installing the spotify application on mobile devices; including offline storage to not tax your wireless data plan.
that noone has posted this yet: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/partner/+files/canonical-census_0.1.tar.gz
It is a simple bash script with the following comments:
#!/bin/bash
# Send an "I am alive" ping to Canonical. This is used for surveying how many
# original OEM installs are still existing on real machines. Note that this
# does not send any user specific data; it only transmits the operating system
# version (/var/lib/ubuntu_dist_channel), the machine product name, and a
# counter how many pings were sent.
#
# (C) 2010 Canonical Ltd.
# License: GPL v2 or later
simply unpack the tar.gz file and see for yourself what info it is transmitting. IMHO the whole thing i harmless.
How hard is it to say; change a disk in one of the submerged nodes ? or fix a loose ethernet cable ? If the nodes are separated in compartments, and you could isolate and drain one while servicing it, this would be really nice indeed.
my favourite: 00:FA:CE:FE:ED
and for some more fun hex strings: hexspeak
If you are the kind of person that are in the danger zone of this happening (not that you would leave a computer with such sensitive information in your hotel room.); You would probably feel a lot better if you were able to checksum the bootloader when returning, maybe from an external usb drive. This would offcourse run it's own OS, not being done from the bootloader(for obvious reasons).
I think that this is exactly what they are doing, only that all the small tools are bundled in the same tarball.
i was just about to check out ncat. Seems interesting. The only downside is that is can never reach the same critical mass as the vanilla nc, and hence you cannot rely on the more advanced functions on an unknown computer. would be cool though, SSL could be handy in some situations.
they seem to be filtering the signal quite a bit (obviosly), and a bandpass filter at a known frequency would take care of quite a lot of the random noise from the rest of the system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEMPEST - the fact that these guidelines exist, means that this is in not new.
Hell, even the spanish inquisition had a default verdict.
Well, I didn't expect the spanish inquisition to come up in this context!
nobody expects the spanish inquisition!
This is actually quite interesting. With China putting a lot of prestige in being "better than the west", they may actually be able to pull of something good with this one (and hopefully, later missions). There is nothing like a bit of competition to get the party started. Their Changâ(TM)e 1 probe was a sucess, so why not this one ? they have at least proved themselves capable of space exploration, and the more space exploration, the better!
They could consider following the same model the Norwegian government used when oil was discovered in the sea outside Norway; create a lithium fund managed by the government, paid by taxes and exploration fees from the companies wanting to mine the lithium. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Oil_Fund. It worked for Norway, it might work for Bolivia too.
tried with IE now, it installs some kind of activex download manager. That was probably the reason Firefox couldn't handle it.
strange. This is on an almost clean windows XP install. Pushing the "Download now" button produces some loading and activity on the status bar, then stops and nothing happens.
It would be ironic if it was because of load problems on the servers, but i doubt it on a saturday night (and everything else is snappy on the site)
"Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 support the Windows 7 Beta download experience. "
It's even an experience just to download it, one that my Firefox seems not to enjoy.
I really hope this is better than vista. With XP gone from retail, this will probably be the OS installed and upgraded to on the few windows computers I manage.
Last year, I bought a HTC P4350 smartphone, mostly for the gadget factor and the fact that it had a touchscreen and a full qwerty keyboard. After about 6 months of getting frustrated, not getting the sync to work with linux and a lot of problems with windows mobile simply hanging all the time, I downgraded to a sony ericsson el cheapo cellphone. Now I use this, connected via bluetooth to my EEE 701, giving me a lot more screen and a lot more keyboard; this probably at the same price as I paid for the HTC when it was new. I also have an Ipod Touch, that I use a lot for surfing when at home, and when I'm in near wifi (at school etc), but the typing on that touchscreen is simply to painful to keep it going for any long ssh sessions. I long for the day of foldable screens and keyboards :)
real soon now ?
wrong ? no no, this is like the biggest bukkake, ever.
damn,, i always miss the funny and press overrated - posting to clear mod. What about a "remove my mod" that is visible for a minute or two after you mod ?
but do you want the possibility to post anonymously (say, you are Chinese) just because people download shitty Hollywood movies and some top 20 music ? I would like an open internet, not a network being monitored left and right - some may even say this is already happening. We have to make it clear that monitoring traffic is not O.K . I want my personal messages to be personal, and not being read by a god damn agency somewhere.
funny thing, linksys actually demands activex on some of their mid-level managed switches. This combined with a crippled ssh/telnet setup, where you can't mange vlans and only watch port status, was quite the shock - and they even had a cisco sticker on the box!
Been reading the pdf the past days, and altough it seems as if there was many sensible voices over at microsoft, they had to much of a momentum forward, making it hard to change directions midcourse. it's really a pain reading those letters knowing what vista ended up at. I'm just hoping to find a reference like "this is ME all over again" somewhere in those letters, would have been so nice to hear that from the horses mouth :)
and btw: it's 158 pages, not 185.
of this little "delicacy". mm, boiled sheep head.