I enjoy "The Office" and "Heroes" quite a bit. The people working on those shows do a great job and deserve to be well compensated for it. However, compensating people for a delivery method that is both painful and distasteful isn't something in my book of 'Smart Things To Do'. It's like paying someone to punch you in the face. NO Thanks.
I like to watch video, listen to audio and so forth on my terms, in the manner, time and space that makes me happy. I'm not pwn3d whenever I can avoid it. Bless the webtubes, they have broken the shackles that bind us. I really dont' feel bad about 'stealing' because the shows are already free! You can stream them from NBC's site, or even get them in delicious highest quality OTA HD(!) As long as you don't mind being treated to a healthy dose of the Ludovico Trea tment. Thank you folks who pick up the yummy HD and encode it on the machines and share on the networks we pay for.
BTW, I've purchased several hundred dollars of video from the ITS. I've got a compulsion to try to 'do the best thing' whenever possible. I felt that it was the almost perfect compromise. Even though $2 a show is way too much to charge. We've all been waiting for a price reduction, $5 is TOTALLY FUCKING INSANE!
So, lemme see... What's a good alternative? I use firefox to search tvrss.net and click to send to miro which in turn monitors the feed and regularly downloads new episodes into a directory watched by Visualhub and then re-encoded to H.264/AAC and finally exported directly into iTunes, then synced my AppleTV, iPhone, iPod and also my Xbox360 in the bedrooom (through Connect 360 from Nullriver software, who so kindly has provided the community with the AppTapp iPhone installer!)
And that's the crux, not precious IP, not ROI for a massive and archaic delivery infrastructure. I will NOT exchange my freedom of choice and the pursuit of my happiness to be the pawn of the media megalopoly. I spend lots and lots of money as a consumer, it's not like I'm not buying shit. So, don't force me to watch commercials and force me to be seated in front of your crap spigot in rapt attention. Watching your shows is just a thing I do, not something that does me.
Re:Denial of Service, abbreviated DoS
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Funny, but when I see 'DOS' I think of DOS/HASP. The IBM Disk Operating System with Houston Automatic Spooling Program (Later POWER) for the System/360 mainframes (AKA "NPL"). That's what I cut my teeth on.
You're thinking of PC-DOS or MS-DOS. The 'DOS' part is a generic acronym. A modifier is required for specificity.
Yes. Shutter lag is under.02 seconds on my low(est) end DSLR, the Nikon D50. Get the SB-600 speedlight and you've got a wonderful, fast imager. Of course you can always go up from there (get a D200 W/ the 18-200 VR lens & an SB-800!)
I had a Nikkormat EL when I was a kid. My mom got it when it came out (early '70s?) and after a season or two it got put away. I recovered it from a drawer and it became mine. Eventually (in the early 90's) a friend left it on a beach overnight and that was the end of the EL.:(
I had a few P&S digicams over the years, nice for snapshots but to put it into a single word: "Uninspiring".
Get a DSLR, the quality of your images and the depth of field possibilities are wonderful. In a word, photography has again become incredibly inspirational.
After looking at ~160 images from last night @ my brothers house I picked out about a dozen that are 'keepers'. I would never even imagine doing 160 frames with film just on a lark. I'd do a couple rolls, maybe more if I developed on my own, which meant B&W when I was younger, color you sent out.
I've decided my nephew is the cutest, brighest and most photogenic subject in the known universe. I'm going to go pick up the 55-200mm lens on my way over there tonight in fact(!)
BTW: Are there any other photo stores than Ritz? WTF? Hint: Ritz does price matching with online retailers such as B&H. Nuff said.
I'm sorry, but thanks for playing our game. Your description is completely incorrect my friend. FM has the "capture effect" wherein only ONE signal can be properly decoded.
Which ever signal is strongest at the receiver will "win" and be heard. If the signals are too close in strength, you won't get either properly.
With a commercial transmitter putting out several KW's but being 50 miles away and you putting out 100MW but being several yards away it is quite possible you will win out.
BTW, this is exactly what these products do. You don't need to be on an unused frequency (trying finding one of those in the Bay Area) Of course it helps quite a bit if the commercial signal is weak and easier to overcome.
Re:Life on Mars, yeah right!
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Methane on Mars?
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Actually, IMNSHO it is much more likely that there would be life on Mars than any other planet, especially extra-solar (not in our solar system)
Life tends to cluster, as the program of the same name graphically depicts. Mars is in many ways similar to earth and by virtue of this and it's proximity I would give it a significantly higher likelyhood of hosting life than planet "x"
There is a notion that life on earth was seeded from an extra solar source, like a comet. Material from Mars has been found on earth, the inverse may be true as well as a result of comet and other impacts.
A lot of thought has gone behind the notion of "Terraforming" Mars as well. The probability of success is not impossible.
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Handles? We don't need no Steenkin' HANDLES!
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Hackers Hall of Fame
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I'm mildy amused and peeved that for rms under "Handle" it says "none" and then on the next page it gives handles for Ritchie and Thompson (Their logins, just like rms!) there is rtm but not esr...
Bah!
Then as you peruse the other persons listed the author drops the whole classification scheme altogether. I think up against a deadline perhaps.
So, no more time for posing, time to crank out the (junk) article/feature. BAH!
I first started using UNIX systems by the courtesy of rms. His account on the *.ai.mit.edu cluster was unprotected by a password and his MOTD would welcome you and suggest you set up a profile and a DOTDIR variable to keep your rc's and other state within.
It was GREAT. Can you imagine such a thing? After some time he had to stop this and I'm sure it killed him to do it.
This author is (as usual for "journalists) treading in deep water and is lost. Why even try to be l337 and act like you know what or who a Hacker is or what a Cracker is contrasted to a Hacker and What Crackers were also Hackers, etc...
Since I'm in Virginia I suppose I'm a Cracker Hacker.:) The article's author would never understand the subtlety. *sigh*
The typical/. reader should be able to complete the study required to pass the Technician class license in 2 days, tops.
35 questions, 75% is a passing score. No Morse Code.
Go to QRZ.COM and on the left side select "Practice Examinations" and then choose the Technician test.
There are so few questions in the pool that some friends I've urged this to have passed merely by taking the examination over and over with no actual study!
The General class exam is just an extension of the Technician, also 35 questions/74% correct to pass. But for at least a few months still you'll need to pass the Element 1 (5WPM Morse) test. You just need to copy (receive) about 5 minutes of morse code and answer 7 of 10 questions correct -OR- 25 characters in a row. Hint: Most folks pass with the latter method.
Yes, you need a license for ANY amateur radio transmissions. You can have a lot of fun copying digital modes without a license though. Just a SW receiver, a audio cable and a soundcard/PC.
Look me up on QRZ.COM and email me and I'll be glad to help further.
73 de K4CQY
Re:Albemarle County, VA FD2002 (WA4TFZ)
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WA4TFZ!!!
I used to be a member of this club! I was very active in RACES/ARES with this club also.
Today, in Atlanta there are two previous members of this club operating during this weekends Field day, KD4DCY (Scott Johnson) and KD4CQY (Jon Gefaell, myself)
We were talking about WA4TFZ yesterday, many fond memories and regards to Hein, Harry (W2HD, former ARRL pres and current (?) QCWA pres, Ron (60 WPM mobile CW!) & better half (Carol (AA4KP? QSL card had her on a tower, what a climber!) and many more, we were naming them off by the dozens!
One field day at the firehouse I worked zillions of contacts, I'm a no-code (can't do that wetware modem thing) but I've always enjoyed operating HF with a control operator around.
Well, this should get modded down for being uninformative and useless, but I was BLOWN AWAY to find the comment I'm responding to. Charlottesville has always had a very active Geek culture, and I'm simply pleased as punch to find it still alive and represented on slashdot.
No, I was not looking at a man page for 'openssl passwd' (nor is there such a thing)
I was looking at the manpage for passwd(1) which states;
"The Unix standard algorithm crypt and the MD5-based BSD password algorithm 1 and its Apache variant apr1 are available."
Of course, my 'rant' wasn't that this (8 char limitation) isn't true, rather that it was 'unsubstantiated' and I asked for a verifiable citation.
The original author provided that substantiation and in fact he is quite correct.
Tomorrrow I'll go check my Jaguar system at work and check this further. I hope it's been fixed.
I find it curious that you state "If we're basing information on man pages" as if that was a curious or deprecated practice. I can only say 'RTFM' should be your mantra.
(Check out 'man -k' or 'apropos' to further your education, try 'man -k passwd' for starters)
The passwd.conf(5) man page has no options for the size of password to be hashed for md5 passwords, but thanks for your 'contribution'
The manpage for passwd(1) in Mac OS X 10.1.5 claims that password hashes can be in one of three formats, including MD5. An md5 password can be up to 255 characters, so where do we get this 8 character limit?
This story could be true, but it doesn't seem likely on the face of it.
Please followup with a verifiable citation or some sort. Otherwise this is a silly rumour.
If you associate with criminals and thieves you can expect some rough play.
Don't tell me this isn't about thievery, that's bullshit. When we find the "P2P File sharing service" that isn't ***primarily*** about enabling the unauthorized distribution of copyright and otherwise encumbered works then we can talk about legitimate.
I was a senior UNIX admin at Napster for a year, this doesn't make me an IP expert but I sure did spend a lot of time very close to this issue and some of the principle people and events. Not to mention my own collection which is about 50G ripped from my own CD's.
Morpheus/Kazaa/whatever. Why are you alarmed to find out they've got a knife at your back? They're crooks!
I was tinkering around and thought "Oh! MDK 8.2 should be available..." So I cruised over to/. and saw nothing there "Great!" methinks, I may be ahead of the flood.
So I started downloading. @ ~350KBPS, my usual best rate... This has been slowing and I can't figure why other than..... Did that @#$%!%! post something on/.?
Yup, story is posted.... sites are/.'ing
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Re:That link to Fatbrain always confuses me...
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The ORG TLD is not appropriate to a site which is intended to generate profit for a publicly held company, yes?
I've maintained an ORG domain for some time and I'd like to see that namespace true to it's roots and it's charter. Unfortunately we've been invaded by corporations in Sheep's clothing.
The notion of For Profit Corporations invading ORG space by using the/. community as a subtle inroad is a Bad Thing.
It's like your neighbours turning their garage into an afterhours nightclub. First they invite the neighbours over for a few drinks and some party fun.
Then more and more "strangers" show up over time. One day you notice that you're living next door to a commercial establishment and there goes the neighbourhood. Even if you can go over and drink BEER for FREE.
Of course, that doesn't mean anyone gives a rats @$$, but some of us do. Some more seriously and quietly than others.
And don't get me wrong,/. is my home page. I love it. I just don't make believe it's what it's not.
When I see commercial links I remember that we're the guests of a publicly held corporation which would like us to buy something.
That's the world as we know it, Marxism and Capitalism meet in Open Source.:)
Slashdot Mirror
I enjoy "The Office" and "Heroes" quite a bit. The people working on those shows do a great job and deserve to be well compensated for it. However, compensating people for a delivery method that is both painful and distasteful isn't something in my book of 'Smart Things To Do'. It's like paying someone to punch you in the face. NO Thanks.
I like to watch video, listen to audio and so forth on my terms, in the manner, time and space that makes me happy. I'm not pwn3d whenever I can avoid it. Bless the webtubes, they have broken the shackles that bind us. I really dont' feel bad about 'stealing' because the shows are already free! You can stream them from NBC's site, or even get them in delicious highest quality OTA HD(!) As long as you don't mind being treated to a healthy dose of the Ludovico Trea tment. Thank you folks who pick up the yummy HD and encode it on the machines and share on the networks we pay for.
BTW, I've purchased several hundred dollars of video from the ITS. I've got a compulsion to try to 'do the best thing' whenever possible. I felt that it was the almost perfect compromise. Even though $2 a show is way too much to charge. We've all been waiting for a price reduction, $5 is TOTALLY FUCKING INSANE!
So, lemme see... What's a good alternative? I use firefox to search tvrss.net and click to send to miro which in turn monitors the feed and regularly downloads new episodes into a directory watched by Visualhub and then re-encoded to H.264/AAC and finally exported directly into iTunes, then synced my AppleTV, iPhone, iPod and also my Xbox360 in the bedrooom (through Connect 360 from Nullriver software, who so kindly has provided the community with the AppTapp iPhone installer!)
And that's the crux, not precious IP, not ROI for a massive and archaic delivery infrastructure. I will NOT exchange my freedom of choice and the pursuit of my happiness to be the pawn of the media megalopoly. I spend lots and lots of money as a consumer, it's not like I'm not buying shit. So, don't force me to watch commercials and force me to be seated in front of your crap spigot in rapt attention. Watching your shows is just a thing I do, not something that does me.
Funny, but when I see 'DOS' I think of DOS/HASP. The IBM Disk Operating System with Houston Automatic Spooling Program (Later POWER) for the System/360 mainframes (AKA "NPL"). That's what I cut my teeth on.
You're thinking of PC-DOS or MS-DOS. The 'DOS' part is a generic acronym. A modifier is required for specificity.
But your point is very good and well taken.
OK, I'll 'bite' Here's what I've got swingin'
6M/768K 8Static, Speakeasy
1x 1.25Ghz Powerbook, Latest OS/X
1x 1Ghz Inspiron P3, XP Pro
1x AMD 3200+ Tbird MCE Dual ATSC tuners, 2x NEC 17" 1280x1024x8ms LCD
1x dual P3-1Ghz Centos 4.2
1x dual P3-500Mhz Centos 4.2
1x XEN domain (Offsite, out of state, mx, dns secondary, etc..)
2x WRT54G 1 WPA/AES Private, 1 Public/DMZ
1x Synology DS-101G+ NAS 300G SATA int
& 1x 300G eSATA & 2x Maxstor II 300G
1x HP Photosmart 8250 Printer
1x Hacked Xbox (250G)
1x Xbox 360
1x Comcast DVR
1x Tivo
1x Mitsubishi 1920x1080x8ms 37" LCD
Lots of good fun!
Yes. Shutter lag is under .02 seconds on my low(est) end DSLR, the Nikon D50. Get the SB-600 speedlight and you've got a wonderful, fast imager. Of course you can always go up from there (get a D200 W/ the 18-200 VR lens & an SB-800!)
:(
I had a Nikkormat EL when I was a kid. My mom got it when it came out (early '70s?) and after a season or two it got put away. I recovered it from a drawer and it became mine. Eventually (in the early 90's) a friend left it on a beach overnight and that was the end of the EL.
I had a few P&S digicams over the years, nice for snapshots but to put it into a single word: "Uninspiring".
Get a DSLR, the quality of your images and the depth of field possibilities are wonderful. In a word, photography has again become incredibly inspirational.
After looking at ~160 images from last night @ my brothers house I picked out about a dozen that are 'keepers'. I would never even imagine doing 160 frames with film just on a lark. I'd do a couple rolls, maybe more if I developed on my own, which meant B&W when I was younger, color you sent out.
I've decided my nephew is the cutest, brighest and most photogenic subject in the known universe. I'm going to go pick up the 55-200mm lens on my way over there tonight in fact(!)
BTW: Are there any other photo stores than Ritz? WTF? Hint: Ritz does price matching with online retailers such as B&H. Nuff said.
I'm sorry, but thanks for playing our game. Your description is completely incorrect my friend. FM has the "capture effect" wherein only ONE signal can be properly decoded.
Which ever signal is strongest at the receiver will "win" and be heard. If the signals are too close in strength, you won't get either properly.
With a commercial transmitter putting out several KW's but being 50 miles away and you putting out 100MW but being several yards away it is quite possible you will win out.
BTW, this is exactly what these products do. You don't need to be on an unused frequency (trying finding one of those in the Bay Area) Of course it helps quite a bit if the commercial signal is weak and easier to overcome.
Actually, IMNSHO it is much more likely that there would be life on Mars than any other planet, especially extra-solar (not in our solar system)
Life tends to cluster, as the program of the same name graphically depicts. Mars is in many ways similar to earth and by virtue of this and it's proximity I would give it a significantly higher likelyhood of hosting life than planet "x"
There is a notion that life on earth was seeded from an extra solar source, like a comet. Material from Mars has been found on earth, the inverse may be true as well as a result of comet and other impacts.
A lot of thought has gone behind the notion of "Terraforming" Mars as well. The probability of success is not impossible.
73
I'm mildy amused and peeved that for rms under "Handle" it says "none" and then on the next page it gives handles for Ritchie and Thompson (Their logins, just like rms!) there is rtm but not esr...
:) The article's author would never understand the subtlety. *sigh*
Bah!
Then as you peruse the other persons listed the author drops the whole classification scheme altogether. I think up against a deadline perhaps.
So, no more time for posing, time to crank out the (junk) article/feature. BAH!
I first started using UNIX systems by the courtesy of rms. His account on the *.ai.mit.edu cluster was unprotected by a password and his MOTD would welcome you and suggest you set up a profile and a DOTDIR variable to keep your rc's and other state within.
It was GREAT. Can you imagine such a thing? After some time he had to stop this and I'm sure it killed him to do it.
This author is (as usual for "journalists) treading in deep water and is lost. Why even try to be l337 and act like you know what or who a Hacker is or what a Cracker is contrasted to a Hacker and What Crackers were also Hackers, etc...
Since I'm in Virginia I suppose I'm a Cracker Hacker.
The typical /. reader should be able to complete the study required to pass the Technician class license in 2 days, tops.
35 questions, 75% is a passing score. No Morse Code.
Go to QRZ.COM and on the left side select "Practice Examinations" and then choose the Technician test.
There are so few questions in the pool that some friends I've urged this to have passed merely by taking the examination over and over with no actual study!
The General class exam is just an extension of the Technician, also 35 questions/74% correct to pass. But for at least a few months still you'll need to pass the Element 1 (5WPM Morse) test. You just need to copy (receive) about 5 minutes of morse code and answer 7 of 10 questions correct -OR- 25 characters in a row. Hint: Most folks pass with the latter method.
Yes, you need a license for ANY amateur radio transmissions. You can have a lot of fun copying digital modes without a license though. Just a SW receiver, a audio cable and a soundcard/PC.
Look me up on QRZ.COM and email me and I'll be glad to help further.
73 de K4CQY
WA4TFZ!!!
I used to be a member of this club! I was very active in RACES/ARES with this club also.
Today, in Atlanta there are two previous members of this club operating during this weekends Field day, KD4DCY (Scott Johnson) and KD4CQY (Jon Gefaell, myself)
We were talking about WA4TFZ yesterday, many fond memories and regards to Hein, Harry (W2HD, former ARRL pres and current (?) QCWA pres, Ron (60 WPM mobile CW!) & better half (Carol (AA4KP? QSL card had her on a tower, what a climber!) and many more, we were naming them off by the dozens!
One field day at the firehouse I worked zillions of contacts, I'm a no-code (can't do that wetware modem thing) but I've always enjoyed operating HF with a control operator around.
Well, this should get modded down for being uninformative and useless, but I was BLOWN AWAY to find the comment I'm responding to. Charlottesville has always had a very active Geek culture, and I'm simply pleased as punch to find it still alive and represented on slashdot.
Long live WA4TFZ!
Well, slap my ass and call me sally.
:(
I rechecked that man page for passwd(1) and it IS a openssl man page.
This is profoundly broken.
I stand by everything else I said and add that I hope the promised improvements to the man pages in Jaguar will fix this.
Thanks again
No, I was not looking at a man page for 'openssl passwd' (nor is there such a thing)
I was looking at the manpage for passwd(1) which states;
"The Unix standard algorithm crypt and the MD5-based BSD password algorithm 1 and its Apache variant apr1 are available."
Of course, my 'rant' wasn't that this (8 char limitation) isn't true, rather that it was 'unsubstantiated' and I asked for a verifiable citation.
The original author provided that substantiation and in fact he is quite correct.
Tomorrrow I'll go check my Jaguar system at work and check this further. I hope it's been fixed.
I find it curious that you state "If we're basing information on man pages" as if that was a curious or deprecated practice. I can only say 'RTFM' should be your mantra.
(Check out 'man -k' or 'apropos' to further your education, try 'man -k passwd' for starters)
The passwd.conf(5) man page has no options for the size of password to be hashed for md5 passwords, but thanks for your 'contribution'
Cheers
The manpage for passwd(1) in Mac OS X 10.1.5 claims that password hashes can be in one of three formats, including MD5. An md5 password can be up to 255 characters, so where do we get this 8 character limit?
This story could be true, but it doesn't seem likely on the face of it.
Please followup with a verifiable citation or some sort. Otherwise this is a silly rumour.
Thank you
If you associate with criminals and thieves you can expect some rough play.
Don't tell me this isn't about thievery, that's bullshit. When we find the "P2P File sharing service" that isn't ***primarily*** about enabling the unauthorized distribution of copyright and otherwise encumbered works then we can talk about legitimate.
I was a senior UNIX admin at Napster for a year, this doesn't make me an IP expert but I sure did spend a lot of time very close to this issue and some of the principle people and events. Not to mention my own collection which is about 50G ripped from my own CD's.
Morpheus/Kazaa/whatever. Why are you alarmed to find out they've got a knife at your back? They're crooks!
I was tinkering around and thought "Oh! MDK 8.2 should be available..." So I cruised over to /. and saw nothing there "Great!" methinks, I may be ahead of the flood.
/.?
/.'ing
So I started downloading. @ ~350KBPS, my usual best rate... This has been slowing and I can't figure why other than..... Did that @#$%!%! post something on
Yup, story is posted.... sites are
*sigh*
b
The ORG TLD is not appropriate to a site which is intended to generate profit for a publicly held company, yes? I've maintained an ORG domain for some time and I'd like to see that namespace true to it's roots and it's charter. Unfortunately we've been invaded by corporations in Sheep's clothing. The notion of For Profit Corporations invading ORG space by using the /. community as a subtle inroad is a Bad Thing.
It's like your neighbours turning their garage into an afterhours nightclub. First they invite the neighbours over for a few drinks and some party fun.
Then more and more "strangers" show up over time. One day you notice that you're living next door to a commercial establishment and there goes the neighbourhood. Even if you can go over and drink BEER for FREE.
Of course, that doesn't mean anyone gives a rats @$$, but some of us do. Some more seriously and quietly than others.
And don't get me wrong, /. is my home page. I love it. I just don't make believe it's what it's not.
When I see commercial links I remember that we're the guests of a publicly held corporation which would like us to buy something.
That's the world as we know it, Marxism and Capitalism meet in Open Source. :)