I run an AppleTV and have done the following non-standard things with it:
-Hacked it to enable SSH and read/write FS
-Installed Mplayer and XBMC
-Made it so a folder called ATV on my desktop computer automatically syncs with the ATV using rsync regularly so whatever I have downloaded is always on the ATV
-Ordered and installed a Broadcom CrystalHD mini PCI card that renders video and takes processing that away from the ATV's limited CPU
-Installed kexts that support the above and a nightly build of XBMC so I can now play 720 and 1080p media using XBMC
Works perfect for me. I could install Linux on it but both myself and my partner love Apple's movie rental system and the iTunes integration for our music. So by applying the above hacks we get everything we need.
It does also support network shares with a bit of hacking.
I used to quite ritually read his Diary online at http://www.linux.org.uk/diary/ until he started writing it in Welsh!
Did anyone else suffer from a similar fate?
In my first flat me and my flatmates (roommates) networked our house. All we had on hand was a knife sharpener and a Mallet. So, knife sharpener was placed against the wall, and given a nice thumb with the mallet. The entry wounds (my name for them) were quite nice and neat, only about 3 cm diameter of disturbed wall. However, the exit wounds on some walls had cracks up to about 1 metre long and actual openings of about 10 cm in diameter.
However, a few well placed posters and a lenient landlord helped:)
All in all, it was a nice reliable, albeit co-ax, network.
Nowadays I have a nice neat network, using lots of cable ties, packing tape and lots of Cat5. I am currently doing free computer work for a sparky friend in the hope that I can get some Cat5 installed for free when I buy my own home.
With my first PC I brought, back in 1996 it came with a Realtech 10 mbit combo network card. We tried for a couple of days to get it working in DOS and just could not get it going.
So we decided to try and fry the card and return it and get a different model. So, we put it in the oven for a cpl of minutes, got it nice and warm, then we took turns at dragging our feet over the carpet and touching the components. And then, to finish off we had a game of soccer with it (don't do this with bare feet).
So now, I take this card back to the shop to say that it doesn't work and I want a new one. They promptly throw it in a machine to test it and it works perfectly.
Anyway, a couple of days later we found the correct DOS drivers for the card, and I used the card until the end of 2001 when I moved to a 10/100 card. Also at some point in the cards life it was removed from my machine with the machine on, and still works perfectly. I still have the card now in case I ever need a reliable combo network card.
As far as I can see (and forgive me if I am wrong) this means that a resident in Missouri or Colorado can sue a Spammer if they Spam. Now what happens if the Spammers business is not a Missouri or Colorado registered company, can the Spam recipient still sue? If they can, what happens when the Spammer lives in a country where Spam is not illegal?
Considering most of my Spam originates from Korea, China, and other Asian countries, and an increasing amount from South America, is this law (or any future laws) really going to stop this?
We really need, as a start, a consortium of countries, hopefully including some asian and south america countries, to band together and make some global laws. Once these have proved successful there should be increasing pressure on other countries in join this consortium. Until then, I think users and ISPs just need to take more steps in developing Spam blocking techniques and precedures.
Footnote : Is really making spam illegal even going to stop Spam? If Spam was totally outlawed, each time you receive a Spam, are you going to Sue the Spammer? What happens if the spammer is hard to trace? How do you go about Sueing a Chineese Spammer? Maybe changing laws is not the way to stop spam, but what is?
Recently.bank.nz was put through the aproval process for the 2nd time, and failed to reach the 70% support required. Basically I see it being totally pointless to have a.bank.nz tld as there are only about 10 different banks in NZ. (and they all have the relevant.co.nz TLD)
But, finally a tld comes out that is worth supporting, and fits me perfectly. And reading through all the latest postings on the InternetNZ mailing list, I think it has a good chance of getting put through. I am definately voting for it, though I am a bit biased as I just want a.geek.nz for an IRC host:)
Some useful links, which may or may not be redundant:
All in all its a pretty good time for domain names in NZ, with our new Shared Registry System (SRS) just coming online last Saturday. Finally some competition in NZ for domain registrations.
This is really great news for the Debian developers and the Debian userbase. Debian is a great installation but has one of the more complicated, unfriendly installers out there. This first puts off people changing to Debian from other dists. and secondly stops linux newbies trying out Debian.
Hopefully this installer turns out to be as easy to use as installing Redhat, but hopefully will stay non bloated and run on low spec machines. Just out of interest has anyone ever tried the Mandrake or Redhat graphical installers run on a low spec machine? Does Mandrake include a command line only option like Redhat does?
I was shocked when I quickly browsed through this thread to find no links to the "No Registration Required" version of the article. So rather than whining (hmmm, isn't that what I am doing now..) here is the link. I complety struggle to keep track of my own username and passwords for different sites, so hence do not really want to sign up for the New York times online. Im sure other people are in this boat. Enjoy!
Recently to get screenshots for a Knowledge base we had to install pretty much all versions of Windows, though not including Windows 3.1. However, we only had a Windows 95a Upgrade CD, rather than a full install, so on went Windows 3.11.
The machine wasnt particularly a high spec machine, a Celeron 800 with 128 Meg of RAM. Dos loaded in about 1 second after the Bios finished doing its thing. Windows 3.1 loaded in about a second, and took almost another second to display everything. All in all, you could go from turning a machine on to being in Solitaire in about 10 seconds.
When I first opened up both this thread and the news article, I was disapointed to find that I needed a NYT account, but couldnt really be bothered getting an account. Was real nice to see the first visible post being a useful link. Somone mod the parent up!!
Where I work we all _used_ to use ICQ as our instant messaging client, which was great for phone messages and just leaving messages for people when they were away from their desk. We all predominantly used Windows, so we just used the Mirabilis client, with a couple of people using Licq (ie. myself at home).
This was all great, until an employee refused to use ICQ and wanted to use MSN. Some people have converted to Trillian, some people are with ICQ, and one person on MSN. I myself hate Trillian, and cannot find a good client that supports both MSN and ICQ so have stuck with Mirabilis ICQ. For the ICQ users to contact the MSN user we have gone back to the archaeic form of post-it notes.
What we need is a system that lets people use their favourite client, possibly with some alterations, on a general chat network. Then we can have the users that love their MSN client talking happily to the users using their ICQ client, maybe even chatting to some Yahoo Instant Messaging users. Sounds great!
I do not know if this will change much really. Most people I know when doing a server install just install the bare minimum. For example, with Redhat and Debian I just install the basic development, C/C++ stuff, and sometimes named. Once this is installed I always compile what I need from source, which is normally the latest Apache 1.3, MySQL and PHP. I think you will find a lot of people do this, rather than relying on the default installs of Apache, etc, which sometimes are not put in peoples prefered locations (I like having everything in/usr/local, rather than in/var like MySQL used to go in older versions of Redhat). There is also a hugely creater degree of customizing that can be done when compiling from source.
I see no real reason to go to Apache 2.0, mainly because I know it works as it is, and I am familiar with the current version. Once we have a real need for something in 2.0 we will change, or when there is a critical bug in 1.3 that no one wants to fix (hopefully this does not happen)
Considering this is basically Debain 3.0 along with KDE 3, Gnome 2 and OpenOffice, then isn't this just a Woody CD along with an extra's CD, with a better installer?
Talking of which, when I last installed Woody, it took about 5 - 10 minutes, and was the simplest installer I have used to install a linux distro for a while. I dont know what all the gripe is about Debians installer. As long as you can handle selecting what packages you want, and install a module for your network card (and if you can't do this, why are you running linux?) then I do not believe the Debian installer is a very hard installer to use.
All of this is coming from a Slackware user from way back.
So, if MS has their way, in about 5 years time we can all walk around wearing blue screens of death?
Or maybe, as linux seems to be heading down the embedded systems path, we will be able to hax our own clothes in the future and display whatever we want?
Would be nice to see / have one of these for debs. Most people dont worry too much about dependencies on Debian, apt-get being what it is, but would still be nice to see what requred what on my system.
Havn't about 20 other similar people already posted this lame comment? Sorry for sounding abrupt but it just seems like half of these posts I am reading are stating the same thing, and Im reading at +2. I would hate to see how many people there would be if I read at 0 or -1.
This is the concept that the Russians used in Arthur C Clarkes 2010. The only problem was that there was some angry Europans there who decided to demolish the ship.
Arthur C Clarke had a few other correct predictions in his novels, maybe the Russians should take heed.
So honestly I don't see where the problem is here, most people can go to the midnight showing and still be up in time for work the next day.
Myself, I havn't gone yet. Living in New Zealand I could have been one of the first to see the film, but choose not to. Maybe Im just getting old (22).
Slashdot Mirror
I run an AppleTV and have done the following non-standard things with it:
-Hacked it to enable SSH and read/write FS
-Installed Mplayer and XBMC
-Made it so a folder called ATV on my desktop computer automatically syncs with the ATV using rsync regularly so whatever I have downloaded is always on the ATV
-Ordered and installed a Broadcom CrystalHD mini PCI card that renders video and takes processing that away from the ATV's limited CPU
-Installed kexts that support the above and a nightly build of XBMC so I can now play 720 and 1080p media using XBMC
Works perfect for me. I could install Linux on it but both myself and my partner love Apple's movie rental system and the iTunes integration for our music. So by applying the above hacks we get everything we need.
It does also support network shares with a bit of hacking.
I believe one of the pre-requisites to living in Canada is being able to spell Canada.
I used to quite ritually read his Diary online at http://www.linux.org.uk/diary/ until he started writing it in Welsh! Did anyone else suffer from a similar fate?
I thought of a great witty reply, but its just not my day :(
"Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING."
In my first flat me and my flatmates (roommates) networked our house. All we had on hand was a knife sharpener and a Mallet. So, knife sharpener was placed against the wall, and given a nice thumb with the mallet. The entry wounds (my name for them) were quite nice and neat, only about 3 cm diameter of disturbed wall. However, the exit wounds on some walls had cracks up to about 1 metre long and actual openings of about 10 cm in diameter.
:)
However, a few well placed posters and a lenient landlord helped
All in all, it was a nice reliable, albeit co-ax, network.
Nowadays I have a nice neat network, using lots of cable ties, packing tape and lots of Cat5. I am currently doing free computer work for a sparky friend in the hope that I can get some Cat5 installed for free when I buy my own home.
With my first PC I brought, back in 1996 it came with a Realtech 10 mbit combo network card. We tried for a couple of days to get it working in DOS and just could not get it going.
So we decided to try and fry the card and return it and get a different model. So, we put it in the oven for a cpl of minutes, got it nice and warm, then we took turns at dragging our feet over the carpet and touching the components. And then, to finish off we had a game of soccer with it (don't do this with bare feet).
So now, I take this card back to the shop to say that it doesn't work and I want a new one. They promptly throw it in a machine to test it and it works perfectly.
Anyway, a couple of days later we found the correct DOS drivers for the card, and I used the card until the end of 2001 when I moved to a 10/100 card. Also at some point in the cards life it was removed from my machine with the machine on, and still works perfectly. I still have the card now in case I ever need a reliable combo network card.
As far as I can see (and forgive me if I am wrong) this means that a resident in Missouri or Colorado can sue a Spammer if they Spam. Now what happens if the Spammers business is not a Missouri or Colorado registered company, can the Spam recipient still sue? If they can, what happens when the Spammer lives in a country where Spam is not illegal?
Considering most of my Spam originates from Korea, China, and other Asian countries, and an increasing amount from South America, is this law (or any future laws) really going to stop this?
We really need, as a start, a consortium of countries, hopefully including some asian and south america countries, to band together and make some global laws. Once these have proved successful there should be increasing pressure on other countries in join this consortium. Until then, I think users and ISPs just need to take more steps in developing Spam blocking techniques and precedures.
Footnote : Is really making spam illegal even going to stop Spam? If Spam was totally outlawed, each time you receive a Spam, are you going to Sue the Spammer? What happens if the spammer is hard to trace? How do you go about Sueing a Chineese Spammer? Maybe changing laws is not the way to stop spam, but what is?
Recently .bank.nz was put through the aproval process for the 2nd time, and failed to reach the 70% support required. Basically I see it being totally pointless to have a .bank.nz tld as there are only about 10 different banks in NZ. (and they all have the relevant .co.nz TLD)
:)
But, finally a tld comes out that is worth supporting, and fits me perfectly. And reading through all the latest postings on the InternetNZ mailing list, I think it has a good chance of getting put through. I am definately voting for it, though I am a bit biased as I just want a.geek.nz for an IRC host
Some useful links, which may or may not be redundant:
Outline of the process
More info
NZ Registry Services
All in all its a pretty good time for domain names in NZ, with our new Shared Registry System (SRS) just coming online last Saturday. Finally some competition in NZ for domain registrations.
This is really great news for the Debian developers and the Debian userbase. Debian is a great installation but has one of the more complicated, unfriendly installers out there. This first puts off people changing to Debian from other dists. and secondly stops linux newbies trying out Debian.
Hopefully this installer turns out to be as easy to use as installing Redhat, but hopefully will stay non bloated and run on low spec machines. Just out of interest has anyone ever tried the Mandrake or Redhat graphical installers run on a low spec machine? Does Mandrake include a command line only option like Redhat does?
I was shocked when I quickly browsed through this thread to find no links to the "No Registration Required" version of the article. So rather than whining (hmmm, isn't that what I am doing now..) here is the link. I complety struggle to keep track of my own username and passwords for different sites, so hence do not really want to sign up for the New York times online. Im sure other people are in this boat. Enjoy!
click here
I normally find this link a lot more informative than the parent link.
Recently to get screenshots for a Knowledge base we had to install pretty much all versions of Windows, though not including Windows 3.1. However, we only had a Windows 95a Upgrade CD, rather than a full install, so on went Windows 3.11.
The machine wasnt particularly a high spec machine, a Celeron 800 with 128 Meg of RAM. Dos loaded in about 1 second after the Bios finished doing its thing. Windows 3.1 loaded in about a second, and took almost another second to display everything. All in all, you could go from turning a machine on to being in Solitaire in about 10 seconds.
When I first opened up both this thread and the news article, I was disapointed to find that I needed a NYT account, but couldnt really be bothered getting an account. Was real nice to see the first visible post being a useful link. Somone mod the parent up!!
Where I work we all _used_ to use ICQ as our instant messaging client, which was great for phone messages and just leaving messages for people when they were away from their desk. We all predominantly used Windows, so we just used the Mirabilis client, with a couple of people using Licq (ie. myself at home).
This was all great, until an employee refused to use ICQ and wanted to use MSN. Some people have converted to Trillian, some people are with ICQ, and one person on MSN. I myself hate Trillian, and cannot find a good client that supports both MSN and ICQ so have stuck with Mirabilis ICQ. For the ICQ users to contact the MSN user we have gone back to the archaeic form of post-it notes.
What we need is a system that lets people use their favourite client, possibly with some alterations, on a general chat network. Then we can have the users that love their MSN client talking happily to the users using their ICQ client, maybe even chatting to some Yahoo Instant Messaging users. Sounds great!
I do not know if this will change much really. Most people I know when doing a server install just install the bare minimum. For example, with Redhat and Debian I just install the basic development, C/C++ stuff, and sometimes named. Once this is installed I always compile what I need from source, which is normally the latest Apache 1.3, MySQL and PHP. I think you will find a lot of people do this, rather than relying on the default installs of Apache, etc, which sometimes are not put in peoples prefered locations (I like having everything in /usr/local, rather than in /var like MySQL used to go in older versions of Redhat). There is also a hugely creater degree of customizing that can be done when compiling from source.
I see no real reason to go to Apache 2.0, mainly because I know it works as it is, and I am familiar with the current version. Once we have a real need for something in 2.0 we will change, or when there is a critical bug in 1.3 that no one wants to fix (hopefully this does not happen)
Also for a good bit of information of what Libranet has check out this
Considering this is basically Debain 3.0 along with KDE 3, Gnome 2 and OpenOffice, then isn't this just a Woody CD along with an extra's CD, with a better installer?
Talking of which, when I last installed Woody, it took about 5 - 10 minutes, and was the simplest installer I have used to install a linux distro for a while. I dont know what all the gripe is about Debians installer. As long as you can handle selecting what packages you want, and install a module for your network card (and if you can't do this, why are you running linux?) then I do not believe the Debian installer is a very hard installer to use.
All of this is coming from a Slackware user from way back.
So, if MS has their way, in about 5 years time we can all walk around wearing blue screens of death?
Or maybe, as linux seems to be heading down the embedded systems path, we will be able to hax our own clothes in the future and display whatever we want?
Would be nice to see / have one of these for debs. Most people dont worry too much about dependencies on Debian, apt-get being what it is, but would still be nice to see what requred what on my system.
Shouldn't that be Chindow? (drop the s)
Havn't about 20 other similar people already posted this lame comment? Sorry for sounding abrupt but it just seems like half of these posts I am reading are stating the same thing, and Im reading at +2. I would hate to see how many people there would be if I read at 0 or -1.
This is the concept that the Russians used in Arthur C Clarkes 2010. The only problem was that there was some angry Europans there who decided to demolish the ship.
Arthur C Clarke had a few other correct predictions in his novels, maybe the Russians should take heed.
How do I get a job at your work?
Do I need to send a CV outlining my experience with Starcraft, War2 and possibly Command and Conquer?
Any true geek would see the midnight showing.
Any true geek can survive on four hours of sleep.
So honestly I don't see where the problem is here, most people can go to the midnight showing and still be up in time for work the next day.
Myself, I havn't gone yet. Living in New Zealand I could have been one of the first to see the film, but choose not to. Maybe Im just getting old (22).