Ha, but Webster says: anarchy \An"arch*y\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. anarchie. See
1. Absence of government; the state of society where there is
no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political
confusion.
Spread anarchy and terror all around. --Cowper.
2. Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.
There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it,
in authors and their re?koning of years. --Fuller.
What most AV-devices are missing is a bidirectional remote control with large screen. It would be great to have a remote with 256x256pixel or 40x25 screen, plenty of space for song, artist or genre names. Or maybe a even bigger screen with GUI and touch screen.
It really depends how the MP3-player is optimized. With a general player software P90 might be to slow but a player optimized for P90 is fast enough to play all normal bitrates. Even 80486 has enough power to play MP3 (if you allow some precision drop)
Dunno what happens, but I have installed WinACE, WinRAR and WinZIP ja now when I right-click a.zip-file I get a menu with three Extract To selections (one for each program). So I should be possible to accomplish with shell-extensions.
Well the site says:
- "Every.hqx encoded classic application is decoded by Explorer itself (that's the default, Stuffit Expander isn't used) and then AUTOMATICALLY STARTED!
If this actually happens then Mac uses are fucked, otherwise it's the users stupidity.
* long file names (with spaces & special symbols) [Win95, not as versatile]
- only 32 chars
* multitasking: Desk Accessories [Win3 - 1989, not as versatile]
- Hindered by using only one menubar instead of every application having its own menubar in the window
* Speech synthesis (Macintalk). [SoundBlaster about 1987, but not as widely used and not a system function]
- Amiga had speech synthesis and even Commodore 64 had speech synthesis programs and modules
* Multiprocessing (using cards like YARC and Radius Rocket) [1993 WinNT -- 2000 with Win2000 to popularize]
- required special support from programs.
* Virtual Memory [1991 Win31 - 1993 WinNT, 1995 to popularize]
- Never works on Mac. Eg. iMac with 96MB memory + virtualmemory and running IE and Netscape swaps the whole browser to swap when switched to background (this due to bad memory management)
Fortunately Mac OS X is changing these things to better.
We now have three choises. We can keep using the current headers or someone reverse-engineers the information again and licenses it under GPL or we can reverse-engineer the BSD headers. I don't see why it would be impossible to reverse-engineer opensourced code/programs, it is even a bit easier than binary only code.
Don't want to reboot my machine
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Linux Kernel 2.4.10
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I think it is finally time to write a new kernel that supports Linux kernels as module so I could just compile a new Linux kernel and then with modconf just unload the old one and kick in the new one. This is because usually I wait until the machine crashes before doing kernel updates. This is bad due to stability of Linux. Last time my server crashed it had 397 days of uptime (and the crash was a IDE hardware error), now the machine has 347 days and this time I hope to exceed the 400 day limit, but this forces me to use 2.2.14 kernel (until next crash).
Many DVDs support different viewing angles already (mostly pr0n DVDs) so what is new in this HDTV thingy. Even the video stream is MPEG-2 except that HDTV uses higher bitrates (if using higher resolution, but if lower resolution is used, it really cannot be called HDTV), the bitrates are from 10mbps to 18.5mbps and this doubles with the angles and eats alot of bandwidth.
My guess is that people actually put set-top boxes under the TV where the VCR usually is or then beside the TV. This is because the wife wont allow men to remove the flower on top of the TV (which is one big reason for TV fires)
Why? A webserver isn't distributing the binaries, but if you sell a machine with GPL'ed programs installed you have to give the source code or a way to get the source code (ftp etc.)
I can create a blackbox for my private use and modify (or just install) GPL'ed programs and I don't have to give the source code to anyone. I can make webservices without the need to distribute the source code (see ASP loophole in GPL). But what happens if I put this blackbox to my clients network and charge for the service of eg. networked-CD-images, I still own the box, it is mine, just happens to be in the other companys network, but they aren't using the programs, only the services, I'm using the programs because a executed them.
Comics work quite nicely on WAP
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With a good artist and writer you can have a popular comic on WAP, Flip&Mick has been around for 400+ episodes so far and you can check it out with WAP phone/browser at (Remember IE is not a WAP browser):
If instead of 100,000,000 people sending non-back-doored encrypted messages, only 500 people are sending them, how would you rate the FBI/NSA/CIA's relative ability to investigate these individuals for threats of terrorism? In scenario 2, when they see a message using unapproved encryption, they can choose to look into it.
Reality check: Instead of 100,00,000 people sending non-crypted messages, only 500 people are send crypted messages. People that today use strong crypto will continue to use strong crypto. People using plaintext might switch to backdoored-crypto because it becomes available in Outlook/Eudora/etc. Criminals will use whatever they are currently using, because they really don't care about the law.
I wonder, if crypto is illegal in U.S., would you get arrested if you got an email from Europe with strong crypto and saved it to your harddrive? Are you allowed to open it or forward it??
It really doesn't change anything if some country has given a haven for suspected or believed to be terrorist, that doesn't give any right to hurt the civilians of that country and that is what happens if US launches fighters. That is as bad as terrorist attacks. Send groundtroops to fight soldiers or send some CIA BlackOps snipers to remove those dictators. Don't hurt innocent people!
Keep it cool US!
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I just hope that US wont do anything stupid, like bomb some country to stoneage, and while doing it, kill thousands of innocent people in the name of justice and democracy. It would be like throwing gasoline to flames. But then again, US has a long history of lynching people, but instead of the town doing the act the US has called other villages to help. Just great..
High rotation speed might also be bad. I've noticed that none of my 5400 rpm hdd have crashed (IBM Deskstars and Maxtors) but my 3 IBM Deskstars running at 7200 rpms have all crashed, mostly on spin-up problems.
Ah, when will people understand why there is a time,datetime,timestamp etc. types in databases (dunno if MySQL has them, PostgreSQL has:) It is so easy to say:
INSERT INTO blah (data,timestamp) VALUES ($data,'now()');
or even simpler if just define that default for timestamp (or what ever you use) is now() (or similar).
This way things will broke when you run out of bits. Or use datetime, it holds time values between 4713 BC and AD 1465001 at microsecond resolution, that should be enough for anyone:P
This is just my luck. I read Slashdot this morning, went out and bought a DDR motherboard and now I check Slashdot again and there is a link to DDR mobo review. If I only had waited for an hour or two. Why me??!
You download the movie, it saves the time somewhere on your machine. This gives you two options. First you find where the time is stored and hack it. Or you change your own time. Unless the movie checks time from external server (requires you to be only while watching) there is no way for a program to know if internal clock has been tampered with. You may even create a network booting OS that always looks the same after boot so you can download the movie from your own server multiple times (if the system uses some obscure file tranfer protocal then just log all traffic with your Linux box and replay the log to download the movie again)
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Ha, but Webster says:
anarchy \An"arch*y\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. anarchie. See 1. Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.
Spread anarchy and terror all around. --Cowper.
2. Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.
There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their re?koning of years. --Fuller.
You can always use IPSEC or similar with the 802.11b and voila, your net is secure.
What most AV-devices are missing is a bidirectional remote control with large screen. It would be great to have a remote with 256x256pixel or 40x25 screen, plenty of space for song, artist or genre names. Or maybe a even bigger screen with GUI and touch screen.
It really depends how the MP3-player is optimized. With a general player software P90 might be to slow but a player optimized for P90 is fast enough to play all normal bitrates. Even 80486 has enough power to play MP3 (if you allow some precision drop)
Here is some information on FUNET with nice map of connections and speeds, http://www.csc.fi/suomi/funet/verkko.html.en
Dunno what happens, but I have installed WinACE, WinRAR and WinZIP ja now when I right-click a .zip-file I get a menu with three Extract To selections (one for each program). So I should be possible to accomplish with shell-extensions.
Well the site says: .hqx encoded classic application is decoded by Explorer itself (that's the default, Stuffit Expander isn't used) and then AUTOMATICALLY STARTED!
- "Every
If this actually happens then Mac uses are fucked, otherwise it's the users stupidity.
Why do you say that. There is nothing that prohibits you from compiling Linux with some other compiler. People just tend to compile it with GCC.
Some remarks on these Mac milestones:
* long file names (with spaces & special symbols) [Win95, not as versatile]
- only 32 chars
* multitasking: Desk Accessories [Win3 - 1989, not as versatile]
- Hindered by using only one menubar instead of every application having its own menubar in the window
* Speech synthesis (Macintalk). [SoundBlaster about 1987, but not as widely used and not a system function]
- Amiga had speech synthesis and even Commodore 64 had speech synthesis programs and modules
* Multiprocessing (using cards like YARC and Radius Rocket) [1993 WinNT -- 2000 with Win2000 to popularize]
- required special support from programs.
* Virtual Memory [1991 Win31 - 1993 WinNT, 1995 to popularize]
- Never works on Mac. Eg. iMac with 96MB memory + virtualmemory and running IE and Netscape swaps the whole browser to swap when switched to background (this due to bad memory management)
Fortunately Mac OS X is changing these things to better.
We now have three choises. We can keep using the current headers or someone reverse-engineers the information again and licenses it under GPL or we can reverse-engineer the BSD headers. I don't see why it would be impossible to reverse-engineer opensourced code/programs, it is even a bit easier than binary only code.
I think it is finally time to write a new kernel that supports Linux kernels as module so I could just compile a new Linux kernel and then with modconf just unload the old one and kick in the new one. This is because usually I wait until the machine crashes before doing kernel updates. This is bad due to stability of Linux. Last time my server crashed it had 397 days of uptime (and the crash was a IDE hardware error), now the machine has 347 days and this time I hope to exceed the 400 day limit, but this forces me to use 2.2.14 kernel (until next crash).
Many DVDs support different viewing angles already (mostly pr0n DVDs) so what is new in this HDTV thingy. Even the video stream is MPEG-2 except that HDTV uses higher bitrates (if using higher resolution, but if lower resolution is used, it really cannot be called HDTV), the bitrates are from 10mbps to 18.5mbps and this doubles with the angles and eats alot of bandwidth.
My guess is that people actually put set-top boxes under the TV where the VCR usually is or then beside the TV. This is because the wife wont allow men to remove the flower on top of the TV (which is one big reason for TV fires)
Why? A webserver isn't distributing the binaries, but if you sell a machine with GPL'ed programs installed you have to give the source code or a way to get the source code (ftp etc.)
I can create a blackbox for my private use and modify (or just install) GPL'ed programs and I don't have to give the source code to anyone. I can make webservices without the need to distribute the source code (see ASP loophole in GPL). But what happens if I put this blackbox to my clients network and charge for the service of eg. networked-CD-images, I still own the box, it is mine, just happens to be in the other companys network, but they aren't using the programs, only the services, I'm using the programs because a executed them.
With a good artist and writer you can have a popular comic on WAP, Flip&Mick has been around for 400+ episodes so far and you can check it out with WAP phone/browser at (Remember IE is not a WAP browser):
http://wap.movingentertainment.com/hosted/flipmick /nokia/
That pink liquid is called fluorinert, it is electrically non-conductive so you can even submerge you whole mobo in it, but it's really expensive.
Reality check: Instead of 100,00,000 people sending non-crypted messages, only 500 people are send crypted messages. People that today use strong crypto will continue to use strong crypto. People using plaintext might switch to backdoored-crypto because it becomes available in Outlook/Eudora/etc. Criminals will use whatever they are currently using, because they really don't care about the law.
I wonder, if crypto is illegal in U.S., would you get arrested if you got an email from Europe with strong crypto and saved it to your harddrive? Are you allowed to open it or forward it??
Keep in mind that not every country has democracy, many of these terrorist havens are dictatorships.
It really doesn't change anything if some country has given a haven for suspected or believed to be terrorist, that doesn't give any right to hurt the civilians of that country and that is what happens if US launches fighters. That is as bad as terrorist attacks. Send groundtroops to fight soldiers or send some CIA BlackOps snipers to remove those dictators. Don't hurt innocent people!
I just hope that US wont do anything stupid, like bomb some country to stoneage, and while doing it, kill thousands of innocent people in the name of justice and democracy. It would be like throwing gasoline to flames. But then again, US has a long history of lynching people, but instead of the town doing the act the US has called other villages to help. Just great..
High rotation speed might also be bad. I've noticed that none of my 5400 rpm hdd have crashed (IBM Deskstars and Maxtors) but my 3 IBM Deskstars running at 7200 rpms have all crashed, mostly on spin-up problems.
Ah, when will people understand why there is a time,datetime,timestamp etc. types in databases (dunno if MySQL has them, PostgreSQL has :) It is so easy to say:
:P
INSERT INTO blah (data,timestamp) VALUES ($data,'now()');
or even simpler if just define that default for timestamp (or what ever you use) is now() (or similar).
This way things will broke when you run out of bits. Or use datetime, it holds time values between 4713 BC and AD 1465001 at microsecond resolution, that should be enough for anyone
This is just my luck. I read Slashdot this morning, went out and bought a DDR motherboard and now I check Slashdot again and there is a link to DDR mobo review. If I only had waited for an hour or two. Why me??!
You download the movie, it saves the time somewhere on your machine. This gives you two options. First you find where the time is stored and hack it. Or you change your own time. Unless the movie checks time from external server (requires you to be only while watching) there is no way for a program to know if internal clock has been tampered with. You may even create a network booting OS that always looks the same after boot so you can download the movie from your own server multiple times (if the system uses some obscure file tranfer protocal then just log all traffic with your Linux box and replay the log to download the movie again)