I think the url you've posted is a magazine article, not a book. Magazines will have "articleid=" on the url; books (AFAIThink) have "isbn=".
That, or Google just gave up all the protection thing, because on the url you posted I can select, right-click-copy with Firefox 1.0PR AND Internet Explorer on Windows XP SP2. (oh wait 'XP' has 'X' too;))
If it is a strong enough laser, you can just make it scan (a simple mirror attached to a small motor will do it). You'll create a light triangular plane, instead of a light line.
By staying at the side of the runway, and pointing your light 'wall' to the plane, you'll greatly enhance your chances that the pilot's window will cross the laser beam, and that the pilot's eye will be hit. A high-speed vibrating mirror with an adjustable vibration angle will further enhance your odds (you can have it crossing the window hit area more times per second).
Right, but if there's no lower limit for that, we'll eventually get to the kernel example. This is "News for nerds", not "News explained so a nerd's granny can understand"....and if someone bitches about not knowing the obvious (for a nerd), he gets flamed, and on the next time he'll google for knowledge before asking stupid questions, which is good for him and for the readability of Slashdot. If it's not an obvious question, someone will answer it, bitch the original poster, and he'll also learn.
It's a self-balancing system, and explaining what overclock is tips the balance to the dumb side.
...and I'll happily go to court and embarrass them revealing I'm just a stupid witness...
but if you are worried about the "Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix", that one they can quote from kernel.org. That would be more juicy. I guess they've never been there...
This is not new, and this is not wrong! You need to synch two signals. It's easier to delay one than to 'advance' the other.
PAL (not sure about other standards) TVs have 'delay lines' to synch chrominance and luminance signals. They used to be big analog devices, now they are part of the signal processing IC.
There was even an old tech joke about a guy who conected thousands of delay lines, and used them with the input/output reversed to make a TV set that could show the FUTURE!
I vaguely recall that there was something peculiar with the way analog delay lines would introduce the delay, but I learned that 20yrs ago, so I only remember the joke our teacher told.
...personal computers didn't have 5 1/4 magnetic storage, couldn't have their BIOS updated (unless you replaced the chip), and booted completely from their ROM - operating system AND (basic/BASIC) shell.
If you wanted to load an application, you'd use a cassete tape.
Flash BIOS?! You kid had it so good in your days...
1.
My Satellite 1805-S254 came with XP Home (won't make network logons although "help" shows how to do it - made me spend hours figuring what was wrong with my Samba!!), and NTFS partition.
I wanted to reinstall with FAT32 for a better dual-boot with Linux integration. The provided install media is a ghost image, and won't offer partitioning options!! I've contacted Toshiba support, and got no solution. I had to "borrow" a Partition Magic 7 XP to be able to convert it to FAT32, then go on with (parted) repartition and install Linux.
Now didn't I PAY for this Windows XP copy?? Why can't I choose how to install it?? Is this one more way of MS pushing vendors to make it harder for Linux?
2.
My boss' Satellite 2180CDT (yes this is a rare company where the boss don't get the newest notebook) needed a reinstall. The "Configuration Builder CD (Win98SE)" said it was the "Wrong Machine" and wouldn't let me use it. I found a comment in the Toshiba/Compuserve forum saying a clean formatted HD would not present the problem. Guess what: it didn't. On the same forum, a helpful Tosh Team said there was a small program to correct this. I asked for the program, but while I was waiting, I found out how to bypass the machine check routine and managed to install from the CD.
I've posted the simple procedure (basically you need to run a.bat directly from the CD) on the forum (that seems to be a common problem). The kind Tosh Team guy removed my post from "public view", and kindly told me not to "post methods for bypassing software copyright protection on a public forum". He did send me the workaround program (which I didn't use nor see what it does, but it seems like it "creates" the correct machine ID for the checking program).
I was not posting a copyright circumvention method, but a way of being able to install a software my company has PAID FOR, bypassing a BUG on the recovery CD. What is I didn't have internet access and wanted to reinstall? Would I have to wait for the patch diskette vie snail mail??
If we are paying for the bundled Windows license, shouldn't we get a DECENT and USABLE installation media, instead of a crippled ghost image or a poorly designed "copyright protection" mechanism that doesn't work right and it's plain naive??
If we paid for the bundled windows license, can't i chose to uninstall it from the hardware it came in, and install it somewhere else?? If not, everytime a notebook goes to retirement (or is converted into a linux network backup appliance, as it happened to some of our retired notebooks), shouldn't I be entitled to a refund??
TOSHIBA: I WANT MY XP AND 98SE INSTALLATIONS DISKS!!
IIRC, the guy at Independence Day wirelessly hacked into an alien mothership's computer with an Apple notebook. I suppose the OS you mention is REALLY good at interoperability.
Windows XP Home Edition (came with my notebook) can't even network logon - although "help" says it does. Windows 9X could do it!!!
Also note that due to the periodic mood of solar activity which causes an "expansion" of the atmosphere, more LEO bodies tend to get an early retirement.
We're close to a peak now; it's an 11 year cycle and SkyLab went down earlier due to this.
See it at Nasa
I'm not using Acrobat creator, but ghostscript's ps2pdf on a linux box. A virtual smb shared printer (a perl program) processes the files with ps2pdf.
customer wants to see/play with drawing
The conversion keeps the DWG "vectoriness" so the person seeing it (with pdf reader on any platform) can see/zoom quite a lot. No layer playing though.
without downloading the entire thing
You want the user to be able to download just a piece of a drawing, containing the area he wants to view? No way AFAIK. How would (s)he know what's the desired area without first downloading it all to have a "bird's eye view" of the whole?
..can print to pdf; that's not quite what we need (unless it is perhaps possible to script it out from a network connection...)
If with "scripting out" you mean making the conversion on demand according to a web interface selection, then I guess you'll need the help of a windows box to open and print (convert) the files, if the available linux CAD program which can read DWG aren't compatible enough for your files. But you can also have all DWGs converted to PDF first, and just "refresh" them from time to time, which would be faster.
...I'm trying to find a good convertor.:-)
If pdf is not quite what you need, what other cross-platform, free-viewer, open, established format do you want to convert the DWGs to? If pdf IS quite what you need, then ps2pdf is a good converter (not as good as Acrobat IMHO, but that's a matter of time, I guess).
The way it's setup here, it works with anything that can print. We do use AutoCAD LT 98 with it too. It's quite transparent for the users, and for the application.
If you want details on how to implement it, email me (same slashdot username, @rf.com.br)
Another option for sharing the DWGs and other AutoDesk formats is asking people to download the free DWG viewer from AutoDesk at:
their site or
their ftp
Because some partners and clients who are still using Office 95/97 (and even 2k itself) sometimes couldn't open our Office files, we now only send stuff in pdf (automatic conversion through a linux virtual shared printer and ps2pdf).
Then the only thing that forces us to have Office is that sometimes we RECEIVE stuff in those formats.
I'm thinking about this:
- Have one single license of Office 2k (or XP, for that matters) on a windows server on the network,
- setup VB/VBA programs/macros to automagically open any file it sees in such and such directories (shares) and both print them to the "pdf" printer (saving the original formatting) and saving them to a KOffice / StarOffice compatible Office older version (allowing edits).
Has anyone already done this? Would it be LEGAL? (I was about to setup Acrobat Writer in the windows server to create the pdfs, when I found out it was not legal, so I switched to gs)
I believe "printing" to pdf would be straightforward and easy from VB. What about saving? How would I open a file (disallowing its own - untrusty - macros to run) and then run a pre-defined macro which is not in the file itself?
Note: We amavis filter our emails, so conversion could even be activated upon email attachment arrival.
"Sndconfig is a text based tool that sets up the configuration files you'll need to use a sound card with a Red Hat Linux system. Sndconfig can be used to set the proper sound type for programs that use the/dev/dsp,/dev/audio, and/dev/mixer devices. The sound settings are saved by the aumix and sysV runlevel scripts."
You'll probably need sox, aumix, awesfx, and playmidi as prereqs to install it.
>How great can the audio be? It's mp3.
I agree and disagree; you can get CD-quality out of mp3 compression, but not at 40GB/750CDs: Higher quality will cost you more space.
(check R3MIX for excellent stuff on the subject)
>why wouldn't I just listen to my orignal CDs/LPs/8-tracks/whatever
Because doing this will generally make you listen to one CD at a time (or up to the limit of you CD changer). Then you have to get out of the couch to change it. (why do I need remote control?).
I'm converting all my CDs (all legal) to mp3. I leave xmms on "ramdom", and it can play for weeks (ok, two weeks and some days).
Anyway, for 1000 US I'd stuff my networked boxes with 40G HDs, and buy all the necessary CDs to fill'em up with mp3!
(pleaseplease guys don't start a war about "CD-quality not being quality")
Too late now; this was long ago. I've made a complete reinstallation.
Nevertheless before doing it, I tried to boot from the linux boot floppy, from a Win98 floppy, and from the RH install CD (I had the hopes to at least have the/home partition from the previous install intact). They all booted, but could not see/mount the HD partitions, so I think Win98 did wreck a lot of things:(
I was using a Windows98 program to capture video (the one that came with my Hauppauge).
I forgot the thing running (and didn't set a size limit). I *think* it tried to write a file bigger than 2G and crashed the machine. I *THINK*, because it wrecked all information on the HD; I COULD NOT EVEN BOOT THE LINUX PARTITION!!!
I only use the bttv driver under Linux since then (for quite a long time; when I started, I still had to change the bttv source to make it understand PAL-M).
It works quite well (Mainactor or xawtv); I just can't use the v4l module on XFree86 4.1.0 since it does not support PAL-M (tried a CVS one that did, but grabbing was not good). I capture at 320x240 @ 30fps, MotionJPEG, very few frames dropped (Celeron "514MHz", 384MRAM). About 8GB of my children home videos saved. When hardware-compression boards get cheap, I'll capture them again at a higher res. For now, this is as far as I think my hardware can get.
That was the last thing that required Win at home for me (I still keep a dual boot, so my kids can play educational CDs that only run on Mac/Win).
You may mod this as "Redundant"; I just needed to say something defending bttv. I has been very useful to me, even before this update. Thanks Gerd!
Code Red II killed (sterilized?) himself on September 30.
I've submitted an "ask Slashdot" by October 4 asking everybody to check their logs, but I was rejected.
Because Code Red I doesn't have the suicide code, it may show up again (CR2 had displaced it, but now it may come back. This is why you get NNNNNN again).
Although it stopped spawning, it does leave the backdoor installed. Unfortunately it does not "announce" it anymore.
Just when I was having fun... I hope CR1 gets back in the top parade.
Most (all?) DVD players (sold in Brazil) have a "secret" programming sequence to allow you to change the region of operation.
Unlike lots of PC DVD players, there's no limit for number of changes.
The sequences are not in the user's manual, of course, but any salesperson will have a notebook with all the codes, and will happily let you take note of he one you need - if you buy from him.
Is it the same everywhere? This makes the "region" system redundant...
GSM is a digital communications standard that is not limited to frequencys.
Correct. Just allow me to fix and add some other data:
US uses:
824MHz - 894MHz for "Cellular" (824-849MHz Phone->BaseStation, 869-894MHz BaseStation->Phone), using AMPS (analog), TDMA/IS136(or ANSI-136) and CDMA/IS95 (digital), with some IS136 operators testing GSM 800.
1850-1990MHz for "PCS" (1850-1910MHz Ph->BS, 1930-1990MHz BS->Ph), using CDMA, TDMA/IS136, and GSM (GSM was up and running in Europe when PCS appeared in the US. I know that "GSM standard is part of the PCS standard" was not exactly what you meant, but...)
Europe (and others) use:
880-960MHz (880-915MHz, 925-960MHz), and 1710-1880MHz (1710-1785MHz, 1805-1880MHz) for GSM.
Europe was a mess of different systems, and they've cleverly converged to GSM. The USA once had mostly AMPS, then diverged to a mess of different systems. Clever.
GSM was the result of a planned evolution; a list of desired features drove the engineering, and it always offered more features to the user than the American digital standards, which were likely driven by a "let's do something digital quick, before someone does it and get the market". Example: for many years IS95 and IS136 had NO FAX/DATA capabilities, while GSM had 9600 (this was fast, one day).
The number of GSM subscribers in Europe alone is much bigger than the number of all technologies subscribers (analog and digital) in all America (South, Central and North, including the USA;)).
Although GSM 1900 require more BaseStations than Cellular 800 due to less propagation of higher frequencies, it is not true for GSM 800 or GSM 900, coverage-wise.
GSM does have less conversations per MHz of freq.band than IS136 and IS95 (that may not be true if using half-rate channels, with lower audio quality), but the GSM infrastructure is normally cheaper than the ones for IS136 and IS95 (because in a way, GSM Base Stations are dummier than the IS136/IS95 ones), so operators can deploy more GSM sites than IS136/IS95 with the same money.
True, CDMA is the future, and a technologically superior solution (bear in mind that IS95 is CDMA, but CDMA is NOT IS95). Even GSM will probably migrate to a CDMA solution in the future (***CDMA is not IS95***).
GSM is a "open system" standard (ok, unless you want to design all the chips and algorithms from scratch, you DO have to pay royalties to someone if you manufacture a GSM phone or Base Station using them)
If you want to download the GSM standards (or part of it - it's probably about 10,000 pages by now), you can do it for free at etsi.
If you want to have or use the IS95 standards you have to pay (eia/tia). Although the IS95 (AKA CDMAone) standard is open (for ~360USD), the technology is Qualcomm proprietary.
By the way, Brazil had followed USA on the 800MHz band (we're mainly IS136 and IS95, few hard-headed AMPS users left), but our "PCS" will be GSM 1800 (European frequency). I have no complains about my IS136 phone or operator, but I'll be the first in line when they start selling GSM 1800 (like I was, for IS136).
Our web site has a very low traffic (our market is very restrict).
On the last few months I got more requests from IIS worms than requests for my home page during the past year.
"Oh, I'm sorry, all TV sets we've produced were found to generate RF interference and degrade the signal on all the TV network. We made a circuit patch available on all our distributors. If you bought one of our TVs, please come get one and install it yourself. Now you are the one to blame."
yk/var/log/httpd # head -1 access_log
216.35.116.87 - - [22/Sep/2000:07:04:47 -0300] "GET/robots.txt HTTP/1.0"
yk/var/log/httpd # tail -1 access_log
216.201.108.18 - - [28/Sep/2001:12:19:38 -0300] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1"
yk/var/log/httpd # grep "GET / " access_log | wc -l
13395
yk/var/log/httpd # egrep "(Jul|Aug|Sep)/2001.+GET / " access_log | wc -l
4167
yk/var/log/httpd # egrep "(Jul|Aug|Sep)/2001.+GET/default.ida" access_log | wc -l
3281
yk/var/log/httpd # egrep "(Jul|Aug|Sep)/2001.+GET/scripts" access_log | wc -l
11765
(obs: no, I don't have a/scripts directory, although I sometimes have fun with a "default.ida" perl script)
I totally agree with you about the importance of a competent IT staff. Any OS or web server (or browser, or email client) is only as secure as its admin (or user) can be.
I just wanted to comment on the "...IIS exploits used in Nimda were the same as those in Code Red." part.
Besides, at least here in Brazil, Windows/IIS(/Outlook/IE) skilled people are much easier to find than Linux/Apache(/Pine/Mozilla) skilled people, so TCO could be actually higher for non-MS solutions.
(never mind lots of so-called Win/IIS "skilled" people think they are web admins because they've dropped a Win2k installation CD on their PC and after some days found out the thing was serving web pages!)
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I think the url you've posted is a magazine article, not a book. Magazines will have "articleid=" on the url; books (AFAIThink) have "isbn=".
;))
That, or Google just gave up all the protection thing, because on the url you posted I can select, right-click-copy with Firefox 1.0PR AND Internet Explorer on Windows XP SP2. (oh wait 'XP' has 'X' too
If it is a strong enough laser, you can just make it scan (a simple mirror attached to a small motor will do it). You'll create a light triangular plane, instead of a light line.
By staying at the side of the runway, and pointing your light 'wall' to the plane, you'll greatly enhance your chances that the pilot's window will cross the laser beam, and that the pilot's eye will be hit. A high-speed vibrating mirror with an adjustable vibration angle will further enhance your odds (you can have it crossing the window hit area more times per second).
Am I going to jail for telling this?
Oops. Too early.
After uninstalling/reinstalling Noia for the 4th time, it finally loaded.
strange...
All the themes I was using with 0.9.3 (on WinXP) are not compatible with 1.0PR, and that includes the neat Noia 2.0.
I wonder if it's really a compatibility problem, or a bug.
Right, but if there's no lower limit for that, we'll eventually get to the kernel example. This is "News for nerds", not "News explained so a nerd's granny can understand". ...and if someone bitches about not knowing the obvious (for a nerd), he gets flamed, and on the next time he'll google for knowledge before asking stupid questions, which is good for him and for the readability of Slashdot. If it's not an obvious question, someone will answer it, bitch the original poster, and he'll also learn.
It's a self-balancing system, and explaining what overclock is tips the balance to the dumb side.
...and I'll happily go to court and embarrass them revealing I'm just a stupid witness...
but if you are worried about the "Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix", that one they can quote from kernel.org. That would be more juicy. I guess they've never been there...
I thought the exact same thing.
Will the day come for a post like: "Linux Kernel 2.6.9 released. Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, which is a..."
sad, sad...
This is not new, and this is not wrong! You need to synch two signals. It's easier to delay one than to 'advance' the other.
PAL (not sure about other standards) TVs have 'delay lines' to synch chrominance and luminance signals. They used to be big analog devices, now they are part of the signal processing IC.
There was even an old tech joke about a guy who conected thousands of delay lines, and used them with the input/output reversed to make a TV set that could show the FUTURE!
I vaguely recall that there was something peculiar with the way analog delay lines would introduce the delay, but I learned that 20yrs ago, so I only remember the joke our teacher told.
...personal computers didn't have 5 1/4 magnetic storage, couldn't have their BIOS updated (unless you replaced the chip), and booted completely from their ROM - operating system AND (basic/BASIC) shell.
If you wanted to load an application, you'd use a cassete tape.
Flash BIOS?! You kid had it so good in your days...
See the article about the signs on the last issue.
1.
.bat directly from the CD) on the forum (that seems to be a common problem). The kind Tosh Team guy removed my post from "public view", and kindly told me not to "post methods for bypassing software copyright protection on a public forum". He did send me the workaround program (which I didn't use nor see what it does, but it seems like it "creates" the correct machine ID for the checking program).
My Satellite 1805-S254 came with XP Home (won't make network logons although "help" shows how to do it - made me spend hours figuring what was wrong with my Samba!!), and NTFS partition.
I wanted to reinstall with FAT32 for a better dual-boot with Linux integration. The provided install media is a ghost image, and won't offer partitioning options!! I've contacted Toshiba support, and got no solution. I had to "borrow" a Partition Magic 7 XP to be able to convert it to FAT32, then go on with (parted) repartition and install Linux.
Now didn't I PAY for this Windows XP copy?? Why can't I choose how to install it?? Is this one more way of MS pushing vendors to make it harder for Linux?
2.
My boss' Satellite 2180CDT (yes this is a rare company where the boss don't get the newest notebook) needed a reinstall. The "Configuration Builder CD (Win98SE)" said it was the "Wrong Machine" and wouldn't let me use it. I found a comment in the Toshiba/Compuserve forum saying a clean formatted HD would not present the problem. Guess what: it didn't. On the same forum, a helpful Tosh Team said there was a small program to correct this. I asked for the program, but while I was waiting, I found out how to bypass the machine check routine and managed to install from the CD.
I've posted the simple procedure (basically you need to run a
I was not posting a copyright circumvention method, but a way of being able to install a software my company has PAID FOR, bypassing a BUG on the recovery CD. What is I didn't have internet access and wanted to reinstall? Would I have to wait for the patch diskette vie snail mail??
If we are paying for the bundled Windows license, shouldn't we get a DECENT and USABLE installation media, instead of a crippled ghost image or a poorly designed "copyright protection" mechanism that doesn't work right and it's plain naive??
If we paid for the bundled windows license, can't i chose to uninstall it from the hardware it came in, and install it somewhere else?? If not, everytime a notebook goes to retirement (or is converted into a linux network backup appliance, as it happened to some of our retired notebooks), shouldn't I be entitled to a refund??
TOSHIBA: I WANT MY XP AND 98SE INSTALLATIONS DISKS!!
IIRC, the guy at Independence Day wirelessly hacked into an alien mothership's computer with an Apple notebook. I suppose the OS you mention is REALLY good at interoperability.
Windows XP Home Edition (came with my notebook) can't even network logon - although "help" says it does. Windows 9X could do it!!!
Also note that due to the periodic mood of solar activity which causes an "expansion" of the atmosphere, more LEO bodies tend to get an early retirement. We're close to a peak now; it's an 11 year cycle and SkyLab went down earlier due to this. See it at Nasa
Yeah I know Acrobat creator can print to pdf
..can print to pdf; that's not quite what we need (unless it is perhaps possible to script it out from a network connection...)
...I'm trying to find a good convertor. :-)
I'm not using Acrobat creator, but ghostscript's ps2pdf on a linux box. A virtual smb shared printer (a perl program) processes the files with ps2pdf.
customer wants to see/play with drawing
The conversion keeps the DWG "vectoriness" so the person seeing it (with pdf reader on any platform) can see/zoom quite a lot. No layer playing though.
without downloading the entire thing
You want the user to be able to download just a piece of a drawing, containing the area he wants to view? No way AFAIK. How would (s)he know what's the desired area without first downloading it all to have a "bird's eye view" of the whole?
If with "scripting out" you mean making the conversion on demand according to a web interface selection, then I guess you'll need the help of a windows box to open and print (convert) the files, if the available linux CAD program which can read DWG aren't compatible enough for your files. But you can also have all DWGs converted to PDF first, and just "refresh" them from time to time, which would be faster.
If pdf is not quite what you need, what other cross-platform, free-viewer, open, established format do you want to convert the DWGs to? If pdf IS quite what you need, then ps2pdf is a good converter (not as good as Acrobat IMHO, but that's a matter of time, I guess).
Hi,
The way it's setup here, it works with anything that can print. We do use AutoCAD LT 98 with it too. It's quite transparent for the users, and for the application.
If you want details on how to implement it, email me (same slashdot username, @rf.com.br)
Another option for sharing the DWGs and other AutoDesk formats is asking people to download the free DWG viewer from AutoDesk at:
their site
or
their ftp
Joao
We currently use Office 2k.
Because some partners and clients who are still using Office 95/97 (and even 2k itself) sometimes couldn't open our Office files, we now only send stuff in pdf (automatic conversion through a linux virtual shared printer and ps2pdf).
Then the only thing that forces us to have Office is that sometimes we RECEIVE stuff in those formats.
I'm thinking about this:
- Have one single license of Office 2k (or XP, for that matters) on a windows server on the network,
- setup VB/VBA programs/macros to automagically open any file it sees in such and such directories (shares) and both print them to the "pdf" printer (saving the original formatting) and saving them to a KOffice / StarOffice compatible Office older version (allowing edits).
Has anyone already done this? Would it be LEGAL? (I was about to setup Acrobat Writer in the windows server to create the pdfs, when I found out it was not legal, so I switched to gs)
I believe "printing" to pdf would be straightforward and easy from VB. What about saving? How would I open a file (disallowing its own - untrusty - macros to run) and then run a pre-defined macro which is not in the file itself?
Note: We amavis filter our emails, so conversion could even be activated upon email attachment arrival.
He's probably talking about sndconfig:
/dev/dsp, /dev/audio, and /dev/mixer devices. The sound settings are saved by the aumix and sysV runlevel scripts."
"Sndconfig is a text based tool that sets up the configuration files you'll need to use a sound card with a Red Hat Linux system. Sndconfig can be used to set the proper sound type for programs that use the
You'll probably need sox, aumix, awesfx, and playmidi as prereqs to install it.
>How great can the audio be? It's mp3.
I agree and disagree; you can get CD-quality out of mp3 compression, but not at 40GB/750CDs: Higher quality will cost you more space.
(check R3MIX for excellent stuff on the subject)
>why wouldn't I just listen to my orignal CDs/LPs/8-tracks/whatever
Because doing this will generally make you listen to one CD at a time (or up to the limit of you CD changer). Then you have to get out of the couch to change it. (why do I need remote control?).
I'm converting all my CDs (all legal) to mp3. I leave xmms on "ramdom", and it can play for weeks (ok, two weeks and some days).
Anyway, for 1000 US I'd stuff my networked boxes with 40G HDs, and buy all the necessary CDs to fill'em up with mp3!
(pleaseplease guys don't start a war about "CD-quality not being quality")
Too late now; this was long ago. I've made a complete reinstallation.
/home partition from the previous install intact). They all booted, but could not see/mount the HD partitions, so I think Win98 did wreck a lot of things :(
Nevertheless before doing it, I tried to boot from the linux boot floppy, from a Win98 floppy, and from the RH install CD (I had the hopes to at least have the
Joao
I was using a Windows98 program to capture video (the one that came with my Hauppauge).
I forgot the thing running (and didn't set a size limit). I *think* it tried to write a file bigger than 2G and crashed the machine. I *THINK*, because it wrecked all information on the HD; I COULD NOT EVEN BOOT THE LINUX PARTITION!!!
I only use the bttv driver under Linux since then (for quite a long time; when I started, I still had to change the bttv source to make it understand PAL-M).
It works quite well (Mainactor or xawtv); I just can't use the v4l module on XFree86 4.1.0 since it does not support PAL-M (tried a CVS one that did, but grabbing was not good). I capture at 320x240 @ 30fps, MotionJPEG, very few frames dropped (Celeron "514MHz", 384MRAM). About 8GB of my children home videos saved. When hardware-compression boards get cheap, I'll capture them again at a higher res. For now, this is as far as I think my hardware can get.
That was the last thing that required Win at home for me (I still keep a dual boot, so my kids can play educational CDs that only run on Mac/Win).
You may mod this as "Redundant"; I just needed to say something defending bttv. I has been very useful to me, even before this update. Thanks Gerd!
Code Red II killed (sterilized?) himself on September 30.
I've submitted an "ask Slashdot" by October 4 asking everybody to check their logs, but I was rejected.
Because Code Red I doesn't have the suicide code, it may show up again (CR2 had displaced it, but now it may come back. This is why you get NNNNNN again).
Although it stopped spawning, it does leave the backdoor installed. Unfortunately it does not "announce" it anymore.
Just when I was having fun... I hope CR1 gets back in the top parade.
Most (all?) DVD players (sold in Brazil) have a "secret" programming sequence to allow you to change the region of operation.
Unlike lots of PC DVD players, there's no limit for number of changes.
The sequences are not in the user's manual, of course, but any salesperson will have a notebook with all the codes, and will happily let you take note of he one you need - if you buy from him.
Is it the same everywhere? This makes the "region" system redundant...
GSM is a digital communications standard that is not limited to frequencys.
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Correct. Just allow me to fix and add some other data:
US uses:
824MHz - 894MHz for "Cellular" (824-849MHz Phone->BaseStation, 869-894MHz BaseStation->Phone), using AMPS (analog), TDMA/IS136(or ANSI-136) and CDMA/IS95 (digital), with some IS136 operators testing GSM 800.
806MHz - 866MHz for "SMR" - iDEN/Nextel (806-821MHz Ph->BS, 851-866 BS->Ph)
1850-1990MHz for "PCS" (1850-1910MHz Ph->BS, 1930-1990MHz BS->Ph), using CDMA, TDMA/IS136, and GSM (GSM was up and running in Europe when PCS appeared in the US. I know that "GSM standard is part of the PCS standard" was not exactly what you meant, but...)
Europe (and others) use:
880-960MHz (880-915MHz, 925-960MHz), and 1710-1880MHz (1710-1785MHz, 1805-1880MHz) for GSM.
Europe was a mess of different systems, and they've cleverly converged to GSM. The USA once had mostly AMPS, then diverged to a mess of different systems. Clever.
GSM was the result of a planned evolution; a list of desired features drove the engineering, and it always offered more features to the user than the American digital standards, which were likely driven by a "let's do something digital quick, before someone does it and get the market". Example: for many years IS95 and IS136 had NO FAX/DATA capabilities, while GSM had 9600 (this was fast, one day).
The number of GSM subscribers in Europe alone is much bigger than the number of all technologies subscribers (analog and digital) in all America (South, Central and North, including the USA
Although GSM 1900 require more BaseStations than Cellular 800 due to less propagation of higher frequencies, it is not true for GSM 800 or GSM 900, coverage-wise.
GSM does have less conversations per MHz of freq.band than IS136 and IS95 (that may not be true if using half-rate channels, with lower audio quality), but the GSM infrastructure is normally cheaper than the ones for IS136 and IS95 (because in a way, GSM Base Stations are dummier than the IS136/IS95 ones), so operators can deploy more GSM sites than IS136/IS95 with the same money.
True, CDMA is the future, and a technologically superior solution (bear in mind that IS95 is CDMA, but CDMA is NOT IS95). Even GSM will probably migrate to a CDMA solution in the future (***CDMA is not IS95***).
GSM is a "open system" standard (ok, unless you want to design all the chips and algorithms from scratch, you DO have to pay royalties to someone if you manufacture a GSM phone or Base Station using them)
If you want to download the GSM standards (or part of it - it's probably about 10,000 pages by now), you can do it for free at etsi.
If you want to have or use the IS95 standards you have to pay (eia/tia). Although the IS95 (AKA CDMAone) standard is open (for ~360USD), the technology is Qualcomm proprietary.
By the way, Brazil had followed USA on the 800MHz band (we're mainly IS136 and IS95, few hard-headed AMPS users left), but our "PCS" will be GSM 1800 (European frequency). I have no complains about my IS136 phone or operator, but I'll be the first in line when they start selling GSM 1800 (like I was, for IS136).
Our web site has a very low traffic (our market is very restrict).
/var/log/httpd # head -1 access_log
/robots.txt HTTP/1.0"
/var/log/httpd # tail -1 access_log
/var/log/httpd # grep "GET / " access_log | wc -l
/var/log/httpd # egrep "(Jul|Aug|Sep)/2001.+GET / " access_log | wc -l
/var/log/httpd # egrep "(Jul|Aug|Sep)/2001.+GET /default.ida" access_log | wc -l
/var/log/httpd # egrep "(Jul|Aug|Sep)/2001.+GET /scripts" access_log | wc -l
/scripts directory, although I sometimes have fun with a "default.ida" perl script)
On the last few months I got more requests from IIS worms than requests for my home page during the past year.
"Oh, I'm sorry, all TV sets we've produced were found to generate RF interference and degrade the signal on all the TV network. We made a circuit patch available on all our distributors. If you bought one of our TVs, please come get one and install it yourself. Now you are the one to blame."
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216.201.108.18 - - [28/Sep/2001:12:19:38 -0300] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1"
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I totally agree with you about the importance of a competent IT staff. Any OS or web server (or browser, or email client) is only as secure as its admin (or user) can be.
I just wanted to comment on the "...IIS exploits used in Nimda were the same as those in Code Red." part.
Besides, at least here in Brazil, Windows/IIS(/Outlook/IE) skilled people are much easier to find than Linux/Apache(/Pine/Mozilla) skilled people, so TCO could be actually higher for non-MS solutions.
(never mind lots of so-called Win/IIS "skilled" people think they are web admins because they've dropped a Win2k installation CD on their PC and after some days found out the thing was serving web pages!)