Quite a few webcams are based on various Sunplus bridge chips, which have excellent Linux support through the SPCA drivers. The driver author, Michel Xhaard, has a list of supported cameras along with a rough quality rating.
Accurate figures are difficult to come by. But some of us do get those kinds of volumes of spam. One of my mailboxes averages almost 10 an hour. A few others approach that rate, I'm not really sure as I've got several layers of spam filtering in place now. Other accounts that have not been as well exposed online get much less spam.
You may have successfully protected your email address and have ordered from businesses with some degree of integrity. You may also have a spam filter in place somewhere.
ha!
I have the same board running Linux. Or at least a board using the same hack on the 81x chipset (I thought mine was an 815). Picked it all up cheap, too. Now I just need faster hard drives.
I'm with you, I never really got into Counterstrike, instead stayed with the dwindling TFC gamers.
TF2 has been hinted at but not announced by Valve (unless you count the announcement years ago that never materialized). I'll bet it was being worked on concurrently and when it became obvious that Valve wasn't going to make the Sept 2003 release date all resources were put on finishing HL2. They'll probably be able to get it out the door now that launch is done with.
Yes, aside from the AMD64 NX bit, they've added some overflow detection. According to this article they do it by placing a cookie after the end of buffers and then checking this cookie for changes.
They call it 'software-enforced DEP(Data Execution Prevention)' and more information can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875352 and codeguru has the best description I've found.
If you have XP with SP2 you can go to Control Panel, System, Advanced, Performance Settings button and choose the Data Execution Prevention tab to play with settings.
From the brief look at the website it seems that they emphasize that email only works with select providers. So does that mean it won't work with MY POP3 or are they just covering their ass when so Joe Schmoe can't complain it doesn't access his corporate Exchange server?
I just did something like this.
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Client wants to extend network to a shop enclosed in a metal building, primarily for internet access. Two Linksys bridges, one with its antenna sticking out a little holde in the side of the building and one inside. Set the bridges to different IP numbers and different frequencies (channels) and one wireless device, in my case a laptop computer, can connect. If more then one wireless device needed to connect in the shop I'd use an AP instead of just the bridge.
As others have noted, using a USB cable and an antenna cable might be making things more difficult than you need. Try pushing power and ethernet as close as you can to the antennas so you can put the wireless devices with the antennas.
Blizzard has also used it to distribute World of Warcraft videos. And Bram was working with Valve on Steam (NYT article), another legitimate use in the gaming world.
Technically, it appears that Skype only uses a third party to facilitate a direct connection between the two NATed hosts. I've heard this described as NAT Punching and I'm still a bit fuzzy on how it works.
As for spyware, a little research into the history of the Kazaa client would reveal that the people who introduced the spyware did so after they bought the technology from the developers. The Skype people are the original developers and had nothing to do with the spyware included in the install. Remember for a time you could download the Morpheus client and participate on the same P2P network as Kazaa without spyware. It wasn't until Morpheus and Kazaa had a falling out and Morpheus no longer worked on the Kazaa network that you saw the spyware free KazaaLite clients coming out.
I'm curious about why they are your primary credit card processor. I know many merchant account providers are worthless liars and frauds but there are some honest ones out there as well, have you looked at setting up an account with one, even as a backup?
Hey speaking of the maps and models, anyone know where they are generating the nice 3D looking views as if from orbit, but it looks like the heights are exaggerated and the rendering is fairly high quality? I've seen a few here and there this hurricane season but it would be nice to find the source.
that works out to 100 to 200 data points to represent our galaxy. I wonder if they will get recognizeable spiral structures, etc?
Are they modeling any of the physical (star formation, etc) interactions of matter or just the gravitational interaction. It seemed like the latter, but the article did mention the apparent non-interaction of dark matter.
Seeing as how Voyager left this little planet with approximately the same galactic orbit and hasn't been running engines for all that long, its going to stay in the same galactic neighborhood for quite a while.
Name another vector drawing format that is as widely supported in browsers. While we'd all wish SVG was it, it simply hasn't achieved the installed base of clients that Flash has.
While the animation capabilities of Flash have been widely misused, there are still examples of useful interactive animations that would take a great deal more bandwidth done any other way.
Flash is also useful for font embedding. While both Netscape and Microsoft came up competing technologies that never really caught on, Flash and a touch of JavaScript allows supporting browsers (most of them) to substitute bandwidth friendly Flash for larger, fixed resolution images in a web standardscompliant process. And while you might think that the few fonts your browser usually displays are fine, the/. crowd's fascination with anti-aliased font technologies like FreeType illustrates the need for properly rendered text. And if I can't convince you, try talking about the sorry state of web typograpy with your local font geek.
Starcraft came out approximately 6 months after TA.
Starcraft's strengths were the completely disparate races available to play. TA's two factions were very similar from the beginning. What TA (Cavedog) did right was keep supplying new units and leave the game open enough to modify.
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Quite a few webcams are based on various Sunplus bridge chips, which have excellent Linux support through the SPCA drivers. The driver author, Michel Xhaard, has a list of supported cameras along with a rough quality rating.
Anyone see the irony of the comment spam at the bottom of one of the linked articles?
How long before my ID is low enough to get me a job?
You may have successfully protected your email address and have ordered from businesses with some degree of integrity. You may also have a spam filter in place somewhere.
ha! I have the same board running Linux. Or at least a board using the same hack on the 81x chipset (I thought mine was an 815). Picked it all up cheap, too. Now I just need faster hard drives.
TF2 has been hinted at but not announced by Valve (unless you count the announcement years ago that never materialized). I'll bet it was being worked on concurrently and when it became obvious that Valve wasn't going to make the Sept 2003 release date all resources were put on finishing HL2. They'll probably be able to get it out the door now that launch is done with.
Yes, aside from the AMD64 NX bit, they've added some overflow detection. According to this article they do it by placing a cookie after the end of buffers and then checking this cookie for changes. They call it 'software-enforced DEP(Data Execution Prevention)' and more information can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875352 and codeguru has the best description I've found. If you have XP with SP2 you can go to Control Panel, System, Advanced, Performance Settings button and choose the Data Execution Prevention tab to play with settings.
From the brief look at the website it seems that they emphasize that email only works with select providers. So does that mean it won't work with MY POP3 or are they just covering their ass when so Joe Schmoe can't complain it doesn't access his corporate Exchange server?
As others have noted, using a USB cable and an antenna cable might be making things more difficult than you need. Try pushing power and ethernet as close as you can to the antennas so you can put the wireless devices with the antennas.
Is that postmortem available online?
Blizzard has also used it to distribute World of Warcraft videos. And Bram was working with Valve on Steam (NYT article), another legitimate use in the gaming world.
According to this article, Skype licensed a proprietary codec from Global IP Sound.
As for spyware, a little research into the history of the Kazaa client would reveal that the people who introduced the spyware did so after they bought the technology from the developers. The Skype people are the original developers and had nothing to do with the spyware included in the install. Remember for a time you could download the Morpheus client and participate on the same P2P network as Kazaa without spyware. It wasn't until Morpheus and Kazaa had a falling out and Morpheus no longer worked on the Kazaa network that you saw the spyware free KazaaLite clients coming out.
I'm curious about why they are your primary credit card processor. I know many merchant account providers are worthless liars and frauds but there are some honest ones out there as well, have you looked at setting up an account with one, even as a backup?
According to this guy, Tomcat 5 is faster than Resin 3 and Resin supposedly has some compatibility issues. Resin 2.x turned in a mixed performance.
FreeCache is the one that caches files over 5MB, Coral caches everything it can.
Maybe we could terraform Mars this way.
Hmm, maybe I should be posting this to the USPTO instead of /., after all, I have an idea AND the implementation!
Hey speaking of the maps and models, anyone know where they are generating the nice 3D looking views as if from orbit, but it looks like the heights are exaggerated and the rendering is fairly high quality? I've seen a few here and there this hurricane season but it would be nice to find the source.
And if firefox is still beta, Mozilla has been in release for a while (although it is slower).
Are they modeling any of the physical (star formation, etc) interactions of matter or just the gravitational interaction. It seemed like the latter, but the article did mention the apparent non-interaction of dark matter.
Seeing as how Voyager left this little planet with approximately the same galactic orbit and hasn't been running engines for all that long, its going to stay in the same galactic neighborhood for quite a while.
I think the obvious conclusion is that you are a better Python / Web developer than your girlfriend is a PocketPC.NET developer.
If he posted more to his blog, I'd add it to the daily read. As it is, I can visit /. and save myself the effort.
While the animation capabilities of Flash have been widely misused, there are still examples of useful interactive animations that would take a great deal more bandwidth done any other way.
Flash is also useful for font embedding. While both Netscape and Microsoft came up competing technologies that never really caught on, Flash and a touch of JavaScript allows supporting browsers (most of them) to substitute bandwidth friendly Flash for larger, fixed resolution images in a web standards compliant process. And while you might think that the few fonts your browser usually displays are fine, the /. crowd's fascination with anti-aliased font technologies like FreeType illustrates the need for properly rendered text. And if I can't convince you, try talking about the sorry state of web typograpy with your local font geek.
Starcraft came out approximately 6 months after TA. Starcraft's strengths were the completely disparate races available to play. TA's two factions were very similar from the beginning. What TA (Cavedog) did right was keep supplying new units and leave the game open enough to modify.
It was going to be a pretty cool game.