I have also had performance problems with MPlayer with a Thinkpad T21 p3 800. Namely, in order to play DVDs, I have to play them as root in console mode with -vo vesa. I can play DiVX in x as non-root, but never once have I been able to get the OSD to come up. I'm not convinced it even exists!;) I'm a total n00b wrt DVD playing and ripping, and the AcidRip front-end made ripping a total breeze. I found some hdparm drive tweaking tips somewhere, and while X comes FLYING up now, the changes still weren't enough to stop the skipping. Oh, and when I try to run mplayer with -vo vesa as a non-root user on the console, I get some error about not being able to access memory.
shouldn't take THAT long to fill 500GB with a continuous full usenet feed at 128k or 256k. maybe a week or two. More realistically, cron a binary harvester against localhost, expire articles every few days, and stream mp3's through your stereo using MServ to vote up and down individual tracks. Now THAT's what I call "the sounds of the Internet":)
I guess you could say I started on a GUI.. I used a Sparc running OpenWindows at work for a couple of years before leaving for the Intel world. When my friend first showed me Linux ('95), he brought up OpenLook to help me feel comfortable in the new environment. It was a very painless transition. When I first started downloading Slackware updates (over 28.8k), I would have over 30 windows open across 9 desktops downloading disk images for a couple of days.
You're absolutely right. They will need to learn the CLI at some point. But keep the context in mind, here. We're talking about a week in the life of 8 year olds. If an 8 year old needs to maintain a server, then kids are advancing faster than even I thought. The kid will learn the CLI before s/he gets a job running a server, even if it's in high school (five or six years from now).
depends on what they're doing with/in the house.. i totally hear you, but I wouldn't spend too much time on the cement slab if I were holding interior decorating classes. I'm honestly leaning towards considering the CLI an advanced topic, especially for preteen learners. I certainly appreciate your view, however.
Sarcastic or not, here. Lets you create compressed filesystems (including CD-ROMs) that can only be read under Linux, particularly those live CDs that are stuffed beyond capacity.
Please don't inflict your treacherous upbringing on the next generation. If they start off learning how to use computers the "easy way", who knows what comfort level they'll achieve after just a few years. They might actually grow up and teach *us* a thing or two about what computers are "supposed to do". By God, man, don't just sit there and say "no GUI for the newcomers". It's safe to say that you (nor I, nor anyone) don't know *everything* there is to know about computers, and how all people interact best with them. Some kids may not (will not) work well with the CLI, but I still welcome them to our community.
And yes, I started on the Commodore PET some 22 years ago and fully understand that which you speak of.
That is not alot of time. I driving instructor said 5 minimum.
5 car lengths sounds more like it. Here in the states, we are *actually* told 1 car length per 10mph is a safe bet. 50mph = 5 car lengths on average. As someone who learned to drive in NJ, all this talk about safe driving is actually the funniest thing I've heard all day. So thanks for the laughs.
He missed a big market for people wanting to get the DeCSS code tattooed on them.. I'd like to see a collection of ThinkGeekish one-liners or icons..
the I/O power button right over your heart.. chmod +x/bin/laden.. "tattoo" in binary.. WTF? STFU the LNX or MP3 oval sticker foo on one arm and bar on the other (or knuckles like jake & elwood)..
newzbot.com - lets you search for open NNTP servers by various criteria including newsgroup name. Everyone does indeed have usenet access, provided 119 outbound isn't blocked by the ISP.
Besides, my proposal wasn't to read the newsgroups and cut and paste the kernel patches like what you see today.. just develop a standard way to post binaries to some new comp.os.linux.binaries.patches[.kernel] groups and harvest them. If apt (or rpm, or buildkernel) was to get a standard way to harvest usenet binaries and cryptographically verify them, then kernel patches could be distributed by someone on a 56k modem instead of a 250Mbit pipe.
Comcast (at least in my area, and I'm 20 miles from corporate hq) blocks all my outbound p2p connections at their routers. And that's the biggest fish in the pond. It's going to get a lot worse from here for everyone. Easy-to-use p2p is on the way out, but Usenet isn't going anywhere.
do you have a *pure* USB box? I have one of those 7-USB port PCs with not ONE other type of I/O connector on it, and at boot, I get slammed with kbd timeouts for about two minutes before it settles down and takes me to a login.
Which brings me to this stupid question. Has anyone considered pushing patches out as GPG-signed binaries in usenet? I mean, jeez, what a way to bump up the "mirrors" list. It seems almost too easy to script up a batch job to harvest binaries from something like a c.o.l.binaries.patches and c.o.l.binaries.patches.kernel. When utwente burned and people were panicking b/c security.debian.org was down for a day or two, it made me think about how to really jack up the mirrors list. I would prefer p2p, but as that get blocked to oblivion, the last great large-scale distribution network is usenet. Imagine hundreds of thousands of people running cron-apt against their news server instead of pointing right at the distribution center.
I haven't tried any of the Bayesian stuff (yet), but I imagine it'll have a similar hit-ratio.
Actually, I just switched from my shell hoster's systemwide spam filter (no idea what it was, but it puts X-Spam-Warning in the header) to the Bogofilter Bayesian spam filter running only in my shell account. I planned ahead and saved up over 250 spam emails (and 590 non-spam) for its first day of training. After three weeks of catching 35 and missing about 4 spams a day, it *just* marked its first legit one as spam today -- HiltonHonors assumed I wanted HTML mail and never referenced my name after the To: line. Not that HTML mail is necessarily a trigger for everyone, but it is for me.
If your mail goes through a shell account somewhere along the way, I would definitely recommend trying it out. After using pine for so many years, I can visually scan hundreds of emails in my spam folder for known senders in less than a minute. Under a minute every few days is okay by me.
I know its a throwback to the days of yore, but those accounts are required to accept mail per RFC 2142 (scroll down to #5). In this world of total non-compliance, lets offer a moment of silence in memory of how the Internet was *intended* to run.:)
I'm still training my Bogofilter, so I'm down to about 3 getting through a day. I just checked my spam dumping ground to answer your question, and I found 141 sitting there from the last 4 days.
I went with the "assume Bogofilter is right" configuration. When a new email is determined to be spam, it is indexed by Bogofilter and dumped in the spam folder. If not, it indexes the msg as "non-spam" and dumps it in my inbox. I have to save the spam that got through to a new "isspam" folder and occasionally force Bogofilter to re-index messages in that folder as spam.
Some of us have been on Usenet since long before that meant we were "asking for it". That damage can't be undone.
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"we can usually find the guy who wrote the code and ask him." Must be nice...
Why is this so spectacular? I have regularly chatted with the developers of OSS apps I use. Go to Sourceforge and get used to it! If you're thinking about the applications custom-written for Google, well, then its really scary if you (and 3 or 4 others) think its amazing that they get to ask questions to the developers they *hired* to write this stuff!
and here I *just* got over the whole "line of site" thing enough to stop hovering over the reply button. Thanks a lot!:) Seriously though, "line of site"?? That's not a typo. That's just a blatant error. And its annoying. Almost as annoying as all the posts nitpicking about spelling errors.
anything that has a cost associated with it is "ridiculously expensive" to some slashdotters. you'll never get a cellphone if you wait for everyone here to agree that a certain carrier is worth the money.
is that on some items, especially phones, you bring in the old dead one and we replace it with the same model or a newer model with the same features right then and there
Maybe POTS phones, but not cellphones. Well, let me back up. When I bought my StarTAC, I bought the walk-in warranty. Immediately found out the clamshell joint was loose, and the power kept cutting out. I walked back in two days after purchase, and the salesperson replaced it immediately.
A year later, the power socket became loose on the mainboard. I specifically asked if I could get credit towards a new replacement (not even asking for a free upgrade that you implied) and was told "nope, we have to send it out." I was without my cellphone for over 2 weeks, and it sucked really bad. Recently, I finally dumped Verizon and went to Nextel. A friend of mine works in Nextel's regional repair center a couple towns away, and he has promised 1 hour service, tops for my i95cl. In fact, they typically just move the SIM card to a new phone and say, "have a nice day!" Good bye Verizon and good bye Radio Shack service.
When I told one counter guy, "I already get enough catalogs", he replied, "well that's how we track your warranty, too." I replied, "the serial number will be enough." He replied, "No it won't. Have a nice day" and handed me my bag.
somehow i knew you'd be sending us to mrtg charts, but i was hoping it was going to chart eth0 traffic or something.. you know, give us a goal, something to work towards!!:)
I want to know what they found when they tried to search the confiscated modem for evidence. Since the modems are configured by TFTP, I can't imagine that they store the configuration in non-volatile RAM during non-powered situations. As such, the instant they unplugged the modem, they should have lost all the evidence it had to offer. The real meat of the evidence will be in the TFTP server and modem config editor on the PC. Still no reason to confiscate the VCR, except to show just how unprepared the FBI is to handle computer crimes.
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I have also had performance problems with MPlayer with a Thinkpad T21 p3 800. Namely, in order to play DVDs, I have to play them as root in console mode with -vo vesa. I can play DiVX in x as non-root, but never once have I been able to get the OSD to come up. I'm not convinced it even exists! ;) I'm a total n00b wrt DVD playing and ripping, and the AcidRip front-end made ripping a total breeze. I found some hdparm drive tweaking tips somewhere, and while X comes FLYING up now, the changes still weren't enough to stop the skipping. Oh, and when I try to run mplayer with -vo vesa as a non-root user on the console, I get some error about not being able to access memory.
satellite usenet
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shouldn't take THAT long to fill 500GB with a continuous full usenet feed at 128k or 256k. maybe a week or two. More realistically, cron a binary harvester against localhost, expire articles every few days, and stream mp3's through your stereo using MServ to vote up and down individual tracks. Now THAT's what I call "the sounds of the Internet"
I guess you could say I started on a GUI.. I used a Sparc running OpenWindows at work for a couple of years before leaving for the Intel world. When my friend first showed me Linux ('95), he brought up OpenLook to help me feel comfortable in the new environment. It was a very painless transition. When I first started downloading Slackware updates (over 28.8k), I would have over 30 windows open across 9 desktops downloading disk images for a couple of days.
You're absolutely right. They will need to learn the CLI at some point. But keep the context in mind, here. We're talking about a week in the life of 8 year olds. If an 8 year old needs to maintain a server, then kids are advancing faster than even I thought. The kid will learn the CLI before s/he gets a job running a server, even if it's in high school (five or six years from now).
depends on what they're doing with/in the house.. i totally hear you, but I wouldn't spend too much time on the cement slab if I were holding interior decorating classes. I'm honestly leaning towards considering the CLI an advanced topic, especially for preteen learners. I certainly appreciate your view, however.
Sarcastic or not, here. Lets you create compressed filesystems (including CD-ROMs) that can only be read under Linux, particularly those live CDs that are stuffed beyond capacity.
Please don't inflict your treacherous upbringing on the next generation. If they start off learning how to use computers the "easy way", who knows what comfort level they'll achieve after just a few years. They might actually grow up and teach *us* a thing or two about what computers are "supposed to do". By God, man, don't just sit there and say "no GUI for the newcomers". It's safe to say that you (nor I, nor anyone) don't know *everything* there is to know about computers, and how all people interact best with them. Some kids may not (will not) work well with the CLI, but I still welcome them to our community.
And yes, I started on the Commodore PET some 22 years ago and fully understand that which you speak of.
That is not alot of time. I driving instructor said 5 minimum.
5 car lengths sounds more like it. Here in the states, we are *actually* told 1 car length per 10mph is a safe bet. 50mph = 5 car lengths on average. As someone who learned to drive in NJ, all this talk about safe driving is actually the funniest thing I've heard all day. So thanks for the laughs.
Read this in the meantime.
He missed a big market for people wanting to get the DeCSS code tattooed on them.. I'd like to see a collection of ThinkGeekish one-liners or icons..
/bin/laden..
the I/O power button right over your heart..
chmod +x
"tattoo" in binary..
WTF?
STFU
the LNX or MP3 oval sticker
foo on one arm and bar on the other (or knuckles like jake & elwood)..
newzbot.com - lets you search for open NNTP servers by various criteria including newsgroup name. Everyone does indeed have usenet access, provided 119 outbound isn't blocked by the ISP.
Besides, my proposal wasn't to read the newsgroups and cut and paste the kernel patches like what you see today.. just develop a standard way to post binaries to some new comp.os.linux.binaries.patches[.kernel] groups and harvest them. If apt (or rpm, or buildkernel) was to get a standard way to harvest usenet binaries and cryptographically verify them, then kernel patches could be distributed by someone on a 56k modem instead of a 250Mbit pipe.
Comcast (at least in my area, and I'm 20 miles from corporate hq) blocks all my outbound p2p connections at their routers. And that's the biggest fish in the pond. It's going to get a lot worse from here for everyone. Easy-to-use p2p is on the way out, but Usenet isn't going anywhere.
do you have a *pure* USB box? I have one of those 7-USB port PCs with not ONE other type of I/O connector on it, and at boot, I get slammed with kbd timeouts for about two minutes before it settles down and takes me to a login.
Which brings me to this stupid question. Has anyone considered pushing patches out as GPG-signed binaries in usenet? I mean, jeez, what a way to bump up the "mirrors" list. It seems almost too easy to script up a batch job to harvest binaries from something like a c.o.l.binaries.patches and c.o.l.binaries.patches.kernel. When utwente burned and people were panicking b/c security.debian.org was down for a day or two, it made me think about how to really jack up the mirrors list. I would prefer p2p, but as that get blocked to oblivion, the last great large-scale distribution network is usenet. Imagine hundreds of thousands of people running cron-apt against their news server instead of pointing right at the distribution center.
not only that, but it was a dupe from 15 posts up! at least the original reposter (Seinfeld? Reposter?) posted AC.
I haven't tried any of the Bayesian stuff (yet), but I imagine it'll have a similar hit-ratio.
Actually, I just switched from my shell hoster's systemwide spam filter (no idea what it was, but it puts X-Spam-Warning in the header) to the Bogofilter Bayesian spam filter running only in my shell account. I planned ahead and saved up over 250 spam emails (and 590 non-spam) for its first day of training. After three weeks of catching 35 and missing about 4 spams a day, it *just* marked its first legit one as spam today -- HiltonHonors assumed I wanted HTML mail and never referenced my name after the To: line. Not that HTML mail is necessarily a trigger for everyone, but it is for me.
If your mail goes through a shell account somewhere along the way, I would definitely recommend trying it out. After using pine for so many years, I can visually scan hundreds of emails in my spam folder for known senders in less than a minute. Under a minute every few days is okay by me.
That's why I block those accounts
:)
I know its a throwback to the days of yore, but those accounts are required to accept mail per RFC 2142 (scroll down to #5). In this world of total non-compliance, lets offer a moment of silence in memory of how the Internet was *intended* to run.
I'm still training my Bogofilter, so I'm down to about 3 getting through a day. I just checked my spam dumping ground to answer your question, and I found 141 sitting there from the last 4 days.
I went with the "assume Bogofilter is right" configuration. When a new email is determined to be spam, it is indexed by Bogofilter and dumped in the spam folder. If not, it indexes the msg as "non-spam" and dumps it in my inbox. I have to save the spam that got through to a new "isspam" folder and occasionally force Bogofilter to re-index messages in that folder as spam.
Some of us have been on Usenet since long before that meant we were "asking for it". That damage can't be undone.
"we can usually find the guy who wrote the code and ask him." Must be nice...
Why is this so spectacular? I have regularly chatted with the developers of OSS apps I use. Go to Sourceforge and get used to it! If you're thinking about the applications custom-written for Google, well, then its really scary if you (and 3 or 4 others) think its amazing that they get to ask questions to the developers they *hired* to write this stuff!
and here I *just* got over the whole "line of site" thing enough to stop hovering over the reply button. Thanks a lot! :) Seriously though, "line of site"?? That's not a typo. That's just a blatant error. And its annoying. Almost as annoying as all the posts nitpicking about spelling errors.
anything that has a cost associated with it is "ridiculously expensive" to some slashdotters. you'll never get a cellphone if you wait for everyone here to agree that a certain carrier is worth the money.
is that on some items, especially phones, you bring in the old dead one and we replace it with the same model or a newer model with the same features right then and there
Maybe POTS phones, but not cellphones. Well, let me back up. When I bought my StarTAC, I bought the walk-in warranty. Immediately found out the clamshell joint was loose, and the power kept cutting out. I walked back in two days after purchase, and the salesperson replaced it immediately.
A year later, the power socket became loose on the mainboard. I specifically asked if I could get credit towards a new replacement (not even asking for a free upgrade that you implied) and was told "nope, we have to send it out." I was without my cellphone for over 2 weeks, and it sucked really bad. Recently, I finally dumped Verizon and went to Nextel. A friend of mine works in Nextel's regional repair center a couple towns away, and he has promised 1 hour service, tops for my i95cl. In fact, they typically just move the SIM card to a new phone and say, "have a nice day!" Good bye Verizon and good bye Radio Shack service.
When I told one counter guy, "I already get enough catalogs", he replied, "well that's how we track your warranty, too." I replied, "the serial number will be enough." He replied, "No it won't. Have a nice day" and handed me my bag.
somehow i knew you'd be sending us to mrtg charts, but i was hoping it was going to chart eth0 traffic or something.. you know, give us a goal, something to work towards!! :)
Perhaps they found child pornography, law enforcement can't release information about that to the press.
Don't be so sure.
I want to know what they found when they tried to search the confiscated modem for evidence. Since the modems are configured by TFTP, I can't imagine that they store the configuration in non-volatile RAM during non-powered situations. As such, the instant they unplugged the modem, they should have lost all the evidence it had to offer. The real meat of the evidence will be in the TFTP server and modem config editor on the PC. Still no reason to confiscate the VCR, except to show just how unprepared the FBI is to handle computer crimes.