not a chance, he's simply amazing imo, besides, he's part owner:) he's pretty much self taught for the most part. check out our website and portfolio steem.com the page and portfolio kinda out of date, but you can get the idea
Unfortunately, I don't have a Helvetica truetype font which means no antialiasing, so I can't compare the two properly.
I'm just your average programmer with a half ass eye, I can tell if it's hard to read, if it's a Helvetica knockoff, or if it's serif or sans-serif, but there's no way I can tell, or really care to tell if it's Arial or Helvetica.
After reading the differences in Arial and Helvetica, I hate to say it, but I kinda like Arial better because it's more of a "simplified" Helvetica, without a lot of the curves and decorations that Helvetica has. Because the simplificaction, it seems as tho arial is a bit easier to read as print a computer monitor. I'm all for giving people choices tho.
And btw, I just asked our graphic designer here, and he really doesn't care. He uses arial more because people are more used to it and everybody has it.
if you run debian add this to your/etc/apt/sources.list line:
#open office deb ftp://ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice unstable main contrib
then "apt-get install openoffice.org" I think it is..., if you have the msttcorefonts then openoffice should use those fonts if they're installed properly or so it seems. I can select and use Arial, etc.
Under debian you can "apt-get install msttcorefonts" and have nice microsoft fonts that they provide, including arial, ahhh arial... Under other dists, you probably have to manually find them and install them the trutype way.
It is a royal pain in the ass to install a ttf under linux, it's not just copy it to the directory, you have to do all other retarded things, add it to config files, etc. Maybe that's because I don't have xfstt installed, and rely on X11's built in ttf support.
If you use the debian mozilla, it gives you the option to turn on antialiasing on install of mozilla... ahhhh much better, it's not too overdone, thank goodness...
I'd say that if intelligence starts implying non reproduction, that's a pretty strong evolutionary pressure to lower the average intelligence and/or concern about our surroundings.
Never thought about it that way before, maybe the "replace yourselves" philosophy is the "right one". Bah, I gotta find myself a woman willing to commit first.... Hell I have to be willing to commit.:) But I guess with the replace yourselves philosohy we're breeding a "cultural elite" in a sense if your kids go on to be smart also, and inherit your estate, etc, which I'm also not sure is a good thing.... OH THE HUMANITY.
If you run linux, there's gaim (warning, source forge link, so unfortunately it's horribly slow, in fact, unresponsive to me at the moment, so I hope I got the link right ). It does aim/icq which is what I use, I'm pretty sure there are plugins to make it do more, but as I can't load the webpage, there really no way to me to easily tell. It's also not skinnable, which I consider to be a feature.:) It uses gtk, so it'll take on your gtk theme if you're into that.
it takes 12.2 hectares of land to support each American citizen and 6.29 for each Briton.)
Wow! Totally unsuported wild claim...sweet!
Heh, sorry, I just found that kinda ironic. I don't know about those numbers, but it's probably mostly true. Ya know why we "require" more land? Because we HAVE more land. If we all lived on a little island somewhere, our livestyle would be much more conservative I'm sure.
There are alternatives to "food". There's more than one type of food, no more cows to eat, try looking for fish, etc. If things become a real problem, then I hope people are smart enough to not make so many damn babies. If the US can't support itself anymore, then things will be done. And if not? Things will take care of themselves. (read as, people die of starvation, and voila, not as many people anymore) That's how it works. I dunno about you, but I'm leaning towards the don't have so many damn babies solution.
And yes, newer cars polute less. I don't know about an SUV poluting less than a 5 year old car, but I wager money that it polutes less than a 10 year car that burns a quart of oil every week, heck even if it didn't burn oil.
I'm definitely one of those, the Earth ain't going anywhere, it's if we're gonna kill oureselves off that worries me people. Well I don't so much as worry, as I'd be dissappointed if it happened.:)
A few cases that I've bought have case fans on the front, but not on the back. Simply moving my case fan from the front to back (blowing out) lowered my athlon 1.33ghz's temp by 10 deg C.
Ok, I'll try and be a little more accurate. this article states that google buys servers from rackable systems and king star computer. It looks like a 250W power supply is pretty standard on these small rack servers (king star ones anyway). But from what I understand, a 250W power supply doesn't draw 250 watts continuously all the time, that more of a max rating. So lets grab another number out of the air. Say 150 watts.
They don't directly inccur power costs though, their respective colo facilities do. I know google probably has at least one cage in Equinix from the (rather old article) above. And if you're a colo facility, I'd be willing to bet you might be able to get a better price on power than your average home user.
These days, I just don't answer blocked ID's, and my voicemail says so.
I'd love to do that, but unfortunately my sister's cell phone shows up as a "blocked id" she's in PIttsburgh w/ Nokia and I'm Gaithersburg, Maryland w/Sprint PCS. Kinda annoying, because if it weren't for that, I'd wouldn't answer blocked id's.
My current solution is once that I sniff that's it's a sales call, which usually takes me all of 2 seconds after noticing that no one greets with "hello" right away, because most sales calls are made by a machine that does dialing, once it determines that it's a person on the line, it passes the call to a human who does the talking, which can take a bit. Anyway I simply respond with "This is a cell phone, please don't call this number again".
For the above reason of how sales calls are placed I know some phone companies can give you a spam trap. Which basically means everytime someone calls you, the phone company takes the calls, asks the caller to press 1 to talk to a person, and then passes the call on to you. I had a friend who lives in Key West that had this feature, I wish more phone companies did, or maybe they do, and I just don't know.
That's what kills me, I'm a techie. Do/Did I like Pearl Jam, maybe one or two songs? Did I buy any cds? No. Do I have any songs from them in my 35 gig mp3 collection, not a one. I just checked.
Ok, Moby. Do/Did I like his music. Maybe one or two songs. That southside duet with Gwen was kinda cool, other than that, eh... ok albums. Looks like I have 4 songs, I remeber listening to one of them, southside, which I could easily ripped and encoded off the radio. Would I have bought the radio single? Not a chance.
I really haven't heard anything by him that much. I've been mostly stick various strains of electronica lately, which means about the only exposure to "pop" music I get is in my 5-10 minute drive to work or when I happen to fly by a rap video playing on mtv. Now after this article, I'm gonna have to go out and listen to the other 3 songs of him that I have and see how I like them. If they're good enough, I'll buy a cd or two. That's how it works for me.
I've dropped $75 in cd's before, after listening to a couple selected songs that I downloaded off a web site in mp3 format, and reading reviews to prove the other cd's live up to the the songs I listened to. (This was some underground, independent dark ambient web site) Band name is Raison D'Etre for those interested. No way in hell would I have even KNOWN about that guy (Peter Anderson) without the good ol net. There's quite a few other cds that I've bought this same exact way.
RIAA is just pissed because with the net they can't mass market as well. All the other independent people are getting tons of press by word of mouth alone. Which takes away sales from the big labels.
Thank you for putting up with my ramblings, and may God have mercy upon my soul.;)
It all depends on how much your willing to put up with. I bought the cheapest ram I could find on pricewatch, (512 meg stick), and it works great. Crap if I can remember where I bought it from now though. The machine is rock solid and hasn't crashed yet, (it runs linux of course). It's my workstation xchat/aim/icq/browsing/playing music/web server/samba file server/movie player/runs masquerading for the apt/occasional game server/client machine. It does lots of shit in other words, so it's not your run of the mill linux server that serves up 3 web pages a day and does maquerading.:)
Obviously with cheaper ram comes the risk that it might be shitty and you'll get burned. I was willing to take that risk and it paid off. Your mileage can and has varied.;)
The reason I took the risk was because I had some borrowed ram that I was using that my buddy didn't need back right away. So I was free to get some more ram, and if it doesn't work, I could take it back and try again. If I need ram now or for a critical machine or I didn't wanna dick around, then hell ya, name brand all the way.
The Alsa Project claims they don't and never will support software mixing from what I've read. Yet more than 1 app at a time can use my sound card, I assumed it was using hardware mixing.
And old faq can be found here where this is noted, I'm can't see to find anything newer.
I, for one, has yet to be happy with the capabilities of on board audio under linux. I'm not sure if it's a driver problem or what, I've tried both oss/free and the alsa drivers, and I've yet to get any onboard sound chip to play two sounds at once aka hardware mixing. (for instance, play an mp3, and hear icq sounds at the same time).
I've been buying cheap yamaha (ymf724/ymf744) cards and using the alsa drivers, you can play mutliple sound sources at the same time with them.
I'm not talking about using crappy software mixing daemons like esd/arts/nas those all make things sound like dirt IMHO. Death to software mixers, long live hardware mixing. I think windows also can do software mixing via direct sound, but your direct sound apps have to support it, and yes, it makes stuff sound like dirt too last I check, which admittedly, was quite awhile ago that I use a crappy sound card under windows.
I downloaded a movie on a 56k connection once, it took me nearly 4 days straight, but I did it.
And along that lines, I just built a new computer for my buddy, 60 gig hd. So he signs up on road runner and discovers "winmx". That hard drive got filled up in less than a month I'd say, because I got a phone call a month later when he asks, "how do I know how much space I have left"?
The funny thing is, that I used to be just like him, downloading those movies before they hit the theater, etc. I grew tired of it, shit quality, etc. My monster bandwidth habit was probably kicked maybe 2 years ago when I stopped caring about all the new shit out there. I'd rather just pay $5.50 for a matine and experience the movie the way it was supposed to be, rather than be dissapointed. And as far as music goes, there's really not that much new shit out there that interests me, maybe I'm getting old, and if there is, I just buy the damn cd now, sure beats fighting gnutella trying to download it from some guy that I pull 4KiB/sec from.:) Most of it's a time issue now, there's just other things I'd rather be doing than trying to download crap all the time.
I guess things change when you go from poor ass college student to a full time job.
It's all cool. You have your feelings about security, I have mine, no biggie.:)
Maybe that moderation comment was a bit too much, but it I thought it was kinda funny at the time so I typed it. Damn why does all my humor have to be at someone elses expense? Guess that's why I normally try to stick to self depricating humor.:)
I really didn't mean to attack your reputation whatsoever. I trust you fully, I would never even bother with an md5.
But *IF* I was paranoid and wanted to grab what I was positive was a trojan free copy of mozilla, I wouldn't trust an md5 from third party, even if your account is years old. For all I know, someone hijacked your account for the sole purpose of distributing a trojaned mozilla. Very doubtful yes, but possible. When I do care about security, I go all out, not half ass.
Ok, if I download mozilla off gnutella, I'm pretty sure no one had the time to mess with it wrap a trojan around it.
And if you say it's good (via md5), then I'm even more sure no one messed with it, seeing as how you seem like a nice guy and have been on slashdot awhile and I don't think you want to screw anyone. And the fact that you got modded all the way up to +5 means your absolutely cream of the crop.
But, if I download mozilla and compare the md5 that I got off of mozilla.org then I'm almost aboslutely positive that no one screwed with it, and if someone did screw with it, you can bet your cookies that there will be a huge press release about it and I will find out that I grabbed a trojaned version. Whereas with the first two methods, I probably wouldn't find out right away.
Securitywise, all that md5 sum means is that no one changed it after you posted it on gnutella. For all I know, you trojanized it yourself, or you downloaded it from somewhere else pre-trojaned.
Just an fyi.
So basically for an md5 sum to be any good, the md5 sum has to come from a reputable, secure source, such as mozilla.org, not some random person on slashdot.
That's the main reason I haven't bothered to buy one of those boxes yet. I really don't even care about ad filtering.
All I want is a set top box, no service, no nothing. What ever happened to recording channel 23 at 9pm for an hour? It's not exactly rocket science people. I don't want something recording more shit for me than I wanted. A fastforward 30 seconds feature is a plus, not really a necessity. I really don't watch that much TV, I like it that way, so I'm not in a big hurry to buy something that will entice me watch more.
One of these days I'll get my TV card drivers working right with my linux box and just record shows with that. One of the bad things about that is that I'll probably have to program my own interface because I probably won't be happy with anybody elses.:)
It's on my todo list, along with rewriting linux, I'll get to it eventually.:)
Heh.... it does make a whole lot more sense to name mpeg4 files.mp4, end users don't really care what the compression scheme is anyway, they just wanna play em, so as long as everyone uses.mp4 things will be fine. I just hope we don't see crap like.mp4,.mpg4,.mpeg4, etc.
On the other hand, I kinda like like the mpeg2 file extentions that people have been using, they're much more descriptive.
.m2v mpeg 2 video .m2a mpeg 2 audio (haven't seen this, but it makes sense)
That way you can tell a little more about the file than just, "it's media".
On the other hand, if everything is.mp4 then we only have to register one file extention.:)
One of the big things I know is the integration of the Alsa Sound drivers.
This is quite a big move and I'm glad, the old kernel sound drivers were getting horribly out of date and lacked many features, such as hardware mixing support to name one.
I've been compiling the alsa drivers as modules for the entire 2.4.x series, and am *really* glad I won't have to be doing that any longer.:)
Here's where things get kinda hairy and I'm not sure my initial information was correct. All the talks about being able to put a new OS on the XBox involved some sort of bios hack or chage, as there's certain security measures in the bios to make sure you can't change vital things like the OS. So if you change the OS, you're probably going to have to decompile and hack up the bios a little bit, after all this I doubt the machine will function as normal.
Here's what I'm pretty sure of: XBox's hd consists of 3 partitions, one for data, one for music, and a yet unused partition (or at least something to this extent). That partiton scheme seems kinda weird, you may be able to put linux on the unused partition, but how in the heck are you going to be able to bootstrap the thing without messing with the MBR? It's obviously no small task to put a different OS on the machine, or else someone would have done it already, LET alone, putting a new OS on it while retaining XBox compatiblity for games. Also, what happens when games finally start using that 3rd partiton for whatever reason?
Well from my understanding awhile ago, MS was selling the XBox at a loss at $300, it's now $200. Which makes that a substantial loss @ $200 if my initial information was correct, which quite possibly it might be not be, as I don't have hard proof of that information anywhere, and probably never will have proof....
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not a chance, he's simply amazing imo, besides, he's part owner :) he's pretty much self taught for the most part. check out our website and portfolio steem.com the page and portfolio kinda out of date, but you can get the idea
Unfortunately, I don't have a Helvetica truetype font which means no antialiasing, so I can't compare the two properly.
I'm just your average programmer with a half ass eye, I can tell if it's hard to read, if it's a Helvetica knockoff, or if it's serif or sans-serif, but there's no way I can tell, or really care to tell if it's Arial or Helvetica.
After reading the differences in Arial and Helvetica, I hate to say it, but I kinda like Arial better because it's more of a "simplified" Helvetica, without a lot of the curves and decorations that Helvetica has. Because the simplificaction, it seems as tho arial is a bit easier to read as print a computer monitor. I'm all for giving people choices tho.
And btw, I just asked our graphic designer here, and he really doesn't care. He uses arial more because people are more used to it and everybody has it.
if you run debian add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list line:
#open office
deb ftp://ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice unstable main contrib
then "apt-get install openoffice.org" I think it is..., if you have the msttcorefonts then openoffice should use those fonts if they're installed properly or so it seems. I can select and use Arial, etc.
Under debian you can "apt-get install msttcorefonts" and have nice microsoft fonts that they provide, including arial, ahhh arial... Under other dists, you probably have to manually find them and install them the trutype way.
It is a royal pain in the ass to install a ttf under linux, it's not just copy it to the directory, you have to do all other retarded things, add it to config files, etc. Maybe that's because I don't have xfstt installed, and rely on X11's built in ttf support.
If you use the debian mozilla, it gives you the option to turn on antialiasing on install of mozilla... ahhhh much better, it's not too overdone, thank goodness...
It's normally called camel hump notation.
:)
As in thisIsMyFunction() -- each capital letter is the hump. A 60 yo CS prof taught me this maybe 7 years ago.
I'd say that if intelligence starts implying non reproduction, that's a pretty strong evolutionary pressure to lower the average intelligence and/or concern about our surroundings.
:) But I guess with the replace yourselves philosohy we're breeding a "cultural elite" in a sense if your kids go on to be smart also, and inherit your estate, etc, which I'm also not sure is a good thing.... OH THE HUMANITY.
Never thought about it that way before, maybe the "replace yourselves" philosophy is the "right one". Bah, I gotta find myself a woman willing to commit first.... Hell I have to be willing to commit.
If you run linux, there's gaim (warning, source forge link, so unfortunately it's horribly slow, in fact, unresponsive to me at the moment, so I hope I got the link right ). It does aim/icq which is what I use, I'm pretty sure there are plugins to make it do more, but as I can't load the webpage, there really no way to me to easily tell. It's also not skinnable, which I consider to be a feature. :) It uses gtk, so it'll take on your gtk theme if you're into that.
it takes 12.2 hectares of land to support each American citizen and 6.29 for each Briton.)
:)
Wow! Totally unsuported wild claim...sweet!
Heh, sorry, I just found that kinda ironic. I don't know about those numbers, but it's probably mostly true. Ya know why we "require" more land? Because we HAVE more land. If we all lived on a little island somewhere, our livestyle would be much more conservative I'm sure.
There are alternatives to "food". There's more than one type of food, no more cows to eat, try looking for fish, etc. If things become a real problem, then I hope people are smart enough to not make so many damn babies. If the US can't support itself anymore, then things will be done. And if not? Things will take care of themselves. (read as, people die of starvation, and voila, not as many people anymore) That's how it works. I dunno about you, but I'm leaning towards the don't have so many damn babies solution.
And yes, newer cars polute less. I don't know about an SUV poluting less than a 5 year old car, but I wager money that it polutes less than a 10 year car that burns a quart of oil every week, heck even if it didn't burn oil.
I'm definitely one of those, the Earth ain't going anywhere, it's if we're gonna kill oureselves off that worries me people. Well I don't so much as worry, as I'd be dissappointed if it happened.
A few cases that I've bought have case fans on the front, but not on the back. Simply moving my case fan from the front to back (blowing out) lowered my athlon 1.33ghz's temp by 10 deg C.
Something to keep an eye out for at any rate...
doh, my math was off and someone already beat me to a better figure, oh well, I still have the interesting articles that I linked. ;)
Ok, I'll try and be a little more accurate. this article states that google buys servers from rackable systems and king star computer. It looks like a 250W power supply is pretty standard on these small rack servers (king star ones anyway). But from what I understand, a 250W power supply doesn't draw 250 watts continuously all the time, that more of a max rating. So lets grab another number out of the air. Say 150 watts.
.00346 =
150 WATTS * 10,000 = 1,500,000 * 3600 / 1000 = 5.4 million killowatts * 24 *
$448,416
They don't directly inccur power costs though, their respective colo facilities do. I know google probably has at least one cage in Equinix from the (rather old article) above. And if you're a colo facility, I'd be willing to bet you might be able to get a better price on power than your average home user.
here's another google article for those interested.
These days, I just don't answer blocked ID's, and my voicemail says so.
I'd love to do that, but unfortunately my sister's cell phone shows up as a "blocked id" she's in PIttsburgh w/ Nokia and I'm Gaithersburg, Maryland w/Sprint PCS. Kinda annoying, because if it weren't for that, I'd wouldn't answer blocked id's.
My current solution is once that I sniff that's it's a sales call, which usually takes me all of 2 seconds after noticing that no one greets with "hello" right away, because most sales calls are made by a machine that does dialing, once it determines that it's a person on the line, it passes the call to a human who does the talking, which can take a bit. Anyway I simply respond with "This is a cell phone, please don't call this number again".
For the above reason of how sales calls are placed I know some phone companies can give you a spam trap. Which basically means everytime someone calls you, the phone company takes the calls, asks the caller to press 1 to talk to a person, and then passes the call on to you. I had a friend who lives in Key West that had this feature, I wish more phone companies did, or maybe they do, and I just don't know.
That's what kills me, I'm a techie. Do/Did I like Pearl Jam, maybe one or two songs? Did I buy any cds? No. Do I have any songs from them in my 35 gig mp3 collection, not a one. I just checked.
;)
Ok, Moby. Do/Did I like his music. Maybe one or two songs. That southside duet with Gwen was kinda cool, other than that, eh... ok albums. Looks like I have 4 songs, I remeber listening to one of them, southside, which I could easily ripped and encoded off the radio. Would I have bought the radio single? Not a chance.
I really haven't heard anything by him that much. I've been mostly stick various strains of electronica lately, which means about the only exposure to "pop" music I get is in my 5-10 minute drive to work or when I happen to fly by a rap video playing on mtv. Now after this article, I'm gonna have to go out and listen to the other 3 songs of him that I have and see how I like them. If they're good enough, I'll buy a cd or two. That's how it works for me.
I've dropped $75 in cd's before, after listening to a couple selected songs that I downloaded off a web site in mp3 format, and reading reviews to prove the other cd's live up to the the songs I listened to. (This was some underground, independent dark ambient web site) Band name is Raison D'Etre for those interested. No way in hell would I have even KNOWN about that guy (Peter Anderson) without the good ol net. There's quite a few other cds that I've bought this same exact way.
RIAA is just pissed because with the net they can't mass market as well. All the other independent people are getting tons of press by word of mouth alone. Which takes away sales from the big labels.
Thank you for putting up with my ramblings, and may God have mercy upon my soul.
It all depends on how much your willing to put up with. I bought the cheapest ram I could find on pricewatch, (512 meg stick), and it works great. Crap if I can remember where I bought it from now though. The machine is rock solid and hasn't crashed yet, (it runs linux of course). It's my workstation xchat/aim/icq/browsing/playing music/web server/samba file server/movie player/runs masquerading for the apt/occasional game server/client machine. It does lots of shit in other words, so it's not your run of the mill linux server that serves up 3 web pages a day and does maquerading. :)
;)
Obviously with cheaper ram comes the risk that it might be shitty and you'll get burned. I was willing to take that risk and it paid off. Your mileage can and has varied.
The reason I took the risk was because I had some borrowed ram that I was using that my buddy didn't need back right away. So I was free to get some more ram, and if it doesn't work, I could take it back and try again. If I need ram now or for a critical machine or I didn't wanna dick around, then hell ya, name brand all the way.
The Alsa Project claims they don't and never will support software mixing from what I've read. Yet more than 1 app at a time can use my sound card, I assumed it was using hardware mixing.
And old faq can be found here where this is noted, I'm can't see to find anything newer.
I, for one, has yet to be happy with the capabilities of on board audio under linux. I'm not sure if it's a driver problem or what, I've tried both oss/free and the alsa drivers, and I've yet to get any onboard sound chip to play two sounds at once aka hardware mixing. (for instance, play an mp3, and hear icq sounds at the same time).
I've been buying cheap yamaha (ymf724/ymf744) cards and using the alsa drivers, you can play mutliple sound sources at the same time with them.
I'm not talking about using crappy software mixing daemons like esd/arts/nas those all make things sound like dirt IMHO. Death to software mixers, long live hardware mixing. I think windows also can do software mixing via direct sound, but your direct sound apps have to support it, and yes, it makes stuff sound like dirt too last I check, which admittedly, was quite awhile ago that I use a crappy sound card under windows.
I downloaded a movie on a 56k connection once, it took me nearly 4 days straight, but I did it.
:) Most of it's a time issue now, there's just other things I'd rather be doing than trying to download crap all the time.
And along that lines, I just built a new computer for my buddy, 60 gig hd. So he signs up on road runner and discovers "winmx". That hard drive got filled up in less than a month I'd say, because I got a phone call a month later when he asks, "how do I know how much space I have left"?
The funny thing is, that I used to be just like him, downloading those movies before they hit the theater, etc. I grew tired of it, shit quality, etc. My monster bandwidth habit was probably kicked maybe 2 years ago when I stopped caring about all the new shit out there. I'd rather just pay $5.50 for a matine and experience the movie the way it was supposed to be, rather than be dissapointed. And as far as music goes, there's really not that much new shit out there that interests me, maybe I'm getting old, and if there is, I just buy the damn cd now, sure beats fighting gnutella trying to download it from some guy that I pull 4KiB/sec from.
I guess things change when you go from poor ass college student to a full time job.
It's all cool. You have your feelings about security, I have mine, no biggie. :)
:)
Maybe that moderation comment was a bit too much, but it I thought it was kinda funny at the time so I typed it. Damn why does all my humor have to be at someone elses expense? Guess that's why I normally try to stick to self depricating humor.
I really didn't mean to attack your reputation whatsoever. I trust you fully, I would never even bother with an md5.
But *IF* I was paranoid and wanted to grab what I was positive was a trojan free copy of mozilla, I wouldn't trust an md5 from third party, even if your account is years old. For all I know, someone hijacked your account for the sole purpose of distributing a trojaned mozilla. Very doubtful yes, but possible. When I do care about security, I go all out, not half ass.
Ok, if I download mozilla off gnutella, I'm pretty sure no one had the time to mess with it wrap a trojan around it.
And if you say it's good (via md5), then I'm even more sure no one messed with it, seeing as how you seem like a nice guy and have been on slashdot awhile and I don't think you want to screw anyone. And the fact that you got modded all the way up to +5 means your absolutely cream of the crop.
But, if I download mozilla and compare the md5 that I got off of mozilla.org then I'm almost aboslutely positive that no one screwed with it, and if someone did screw with it, you can bet your cookies that there will be a huge press release about it and I will find out that I grabbed a trojaned version. Whereas with the first two methods, I probably wouldn't find out right away.
Securitywise, all that md5 sum means is that no one changed it after you posted it on gnutella. For all I know, you trojanized it yourself, or you downloaded it from somewhere else pre-trojaned.
Just an fyi.
So basically for an md5 sum to be any good, the md5 sum has to come from a reputable, secure source, such as mozilla.org, not some random person on slashdot.
That's the main reason I haven't bothered to buy one of those boxes yet. I really don't even care about ad filtering.
:)
:)
All I want is a set top box, no service, no nothing. What ever happened to recording channel 23 at 9pm for an hour? It's not exactly rocket science people. I don't want something recording more shit for me than I wanted. A fastforward 30 seconds feature is a plus, not really a necessity. I really don't watch that much TV, I like it that way, so I'm not in a big hurry to buy something that will entice me watch more.
One of these days I'll get my TV card drivers working right with my linux box and just record shows with that. One of the bad things about that is that I'll probably have to program my own interface because I probably won't be happy with anybody elses.
It's on my todo list, along with rewriting linux, I'll get to it eventually.
[gid@pimpbot:~] locate .mp2 |wc -l
.mp4, end users don't really care what the compression scheme is anyway, they just wanna play em, so as long as everyone uses .mp4 things will be fine. I just hope we don't see crap like .mp4, .mpg4, .mpeg4, etc.
.mp4 then we only have to register one file extention. :)
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Heh.... it does make a whole lot more sense to name mpeg4 files
On the other hand, I kinda like like the mpeg2 file extentions that people have been using, they're much more descriptive.
.m2v mpeg 2 video
.m2a mpeg 2 audio (haven't seen this, but it makes sense)
That way you can tell a little more about the file than just, "it's media".
On the other hand, if everything is
One of the big things I know is the integration of the Alsa Sound drivers.
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This is quite a big move and I'm glad, the old kernel sound drivers were getting horribly out of date and lacked many features, such as hardware mixing support to name one.
I've been compiling the alsa drivers as modules for the entire 2.4.x series, and am *really* glad I won't have to be doing that any longer.
Here's where things get kinda hairy and I'm not sure my initial information was correct. All the talks about being able to put a new OS on the XBox involved some sort of bios hack or chage, as there's certain security measures in the bios to make sure you can't change vital things like the OS. So if you change the OS, you're probably going to have to decompile and hack up the bios a little bit, after all this I doubt the machine will function as normal.
Here's what I'm pretty sure of: XBox's hd consists of 3 partitions, one for data, one for music, and a yet unused partition (or at least something to this extent). That partiton scheme seems kinda weird, you may be able to put linux on the unused partition, but how in the heck are you going to be able to bootstrap the thing without messing with the MBR? It's obviously no small task to put a different OS on the machine, or else someone would have done it already, LET alone, putting a new OS on it while retaining XBox compatiblity for games. Also, what happens when games finally start using that 3rd partiton for whatever reason?
Well from my understanding awhile ago, MS was selling the XBox at a loss at $300, it's now $200. Which makes that a substantial loss @ $200 if my initial information was correct, which quite possibly it might be not be, as I don't have hard proof of that information anywhere, and probably never will have proof....