I can certainly understand your perspective - that's my exact experience a few years ago.
Recently, however, I've taken another fstab at it using Gentoo. I've come to learn much more about Linux that I've ever understood, thanks to the crisp documentation and hands-on aspect of Gentoo.
Thus far, my experiences with building MythTV on Gentoo, with all sorts of crazy features (gaming, VFD text displays, universal remote support, PS2 gamepads, HDTV capture and TV output, etc) has been extremely positive.
My problem now? Spending absurd amounts of money modding the hell out of my MythTV box. I bought one of those dedicated Media PC cases, and am going crazy installing lighted pushbutton switches, rewiring my PSU to be like an XConnect, running neon lights all over the place, soundproofing the heck out of the machine. I've spent almost $2k on this box! But, it has Dual layer DVD-R, half terabyte of hard drive space, can record two HD channels, and looks more A/V than my A/V receiver! Buying a similar box from Sony costs about $1,200, which doesn't let you play games, run Windows apps via Wine, or have file sharing and version control services.
I'll take that over Tivo any day of the week for $2000, Alex! And now I don't have to worry about some product manufacturer farking around with my rights after I've bought a lifetime subscription to their service.
First, I doubt a thermal "camera" was being used, since thermal cameras are useful only if you need to be able to visually interpret temperature patterns. More likely, a simple infrared sensor was used, which measures the ratio of the energy radiated by an object at a given temperature to the energy emitted by a blackbody at the same temperature.
skin temp is about 20 degrees cooler
Thermal sensors don't measure "skin temperature". They measure the aggregate amount of heat energy surrounding a body, or in the case of simple room sensors, the aggregate temperature of room "sections".
That movie was dumb as hell
Do you object to the film purely on technical merit, or do you just dislike the plot in general? I thought the plot was great, with important overarching themes that appeal to both the technical and non-technical person.
Seriously, this "audial cracking" is a great idea (which I coincedentally thought of while watching "Sneakers".) Combine it with a laser microphone, and you can "sniff" passwords from far away, without requiring any additional equipment to be installed on the site being compromised.
we were forced to depart from our planned schedule of destruction and try and run over it with the car
It sounds like running over it with a car wouldn't be terribly difficult. I hope it wasn't something they had to try too hard to do.
What they should consentrate on is making it scratch proof, I can't stand so many scratches.
I second that. Having a beautiful piece of art like an iPod Nano get marred by scratches is terrible! I bought a Sony PSP screen protector and cut it to size to protect my Nano. The PSP screen protector is 5 bucks, but it's nice and thick, and will keep my Nano looking beautiful.
AAC is fine for jogging and driving, but when I want to really sit and listen, I consider Uncompressed, FLAC, or Apple Lossless rips of CD's to be the minimum sound quality tollerable.
God bless you. I bet you're one of those audiophiles that I revere like God, who can hear that "an audio system resolves so clearly that you can hear Eric Clapton's 3rd nasal hair vibrate ever so lighly when he sings the refrain of Layla live, augmenting the tonal quality that he gives his chords when his thumb glides ever so slightly down the guitar pick."
Personally, I can't hear the difference between Back in Black at 192bpm vs. played back on one of those newfangled devices that "adds" information back into uncompressed waveform, allowing us to hear the music as the artist truly intended.
Then again, maybe it's because I don't have 24 karat gold speaker cords that were woven by maiden virgins under the full moon of an Aquaries retrograde.
While doing a spot check of security at work, I was surprised to find many employees had taped their passwords to the bottom of their keyboard or mouse.
Uhm, if someone tapes the password to the bottom of their keyboard, how do they type it in?
How nice! I just bought a 1920's Royal typewriter on ebay for $35, for the explicit purpose of turning it into a PC case. The insides are huge, have glass windows on the side (take that, PC!) and will be a perfect housing for a micro-atx motherboard.
My final mod will consist of sticking a 19" LCD monitor out of the back, ala Animatrix "Detective Story".
Your example wasn't altruism. Altruism requires exceeding the general expectations of self-sacrifice. Since it was your friend, I assume that you met the general expectations of self-sacrifice, not exceeded them. However, if it was a stranger and you had nothing to gain from it, I would be much more convinced by your argument.
This is one of the reasons why I scoffed at the notion that Linux is more secure, because people didn't really understand buffer overruns and port 80 and I/O issues 10 years ago.
At least, people at a certain company didn't...
When you look at the issue of buffer overruns, eight to 10 years ago in software development, you did not know how much space you might need for something so you just create a big buffer zone to allow things to happen. Who knew that people could go exploit that and use that buffer space to do malicious things?
I think it's important to look at the flip side, too. Doctors who are in their 50's learned medicine 30 years ago, and often haven't kept up to date on all the latest medical findings. For example, the advice I receive from my doctor for certain common illnesses is a bit outdated, and somewhat dangerous.
trivial techniques which should never have been patented in the first place. If this goes to court, the judge might think so too. It could be the start of patent reforms.
And it could be very unlikely that none of these patents, or their challenges, will lead to patent reform, espcially if it relies upon the actions of a judge.
Tims Berners-Lee complains about this... Tims Berners-Lee complains about that... For the father of the web, this guy does an awful lot of complaining about it.
Sometimes, the father needs to take his child down. I think he needs to take more extreme actions. Like domain terrorism, or something.
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Heheh, thanks for calling me retard. It reminds me of when your mom was into those spanking games.
No, but think about this, retard:
If you have nearly 500GB in data, how many backups can you make?
Why would you spend upwards of $200 just to be able to make one backup?
If you RAID the 500GB drives, how do you perform incremental backups?
How can you make offsite backups easily by using a second hard drive? What, use USB or Firewire and wait 5 hours for all the files to transfer?
What happens if both drives are fried during the same incident, like if a UPS goes faulty and cooks your system?
What do you back up 500GB hard drives onto? 125 DVD-Rs for $150?
Recently, however, I've taken another fstab at it using Gentoo. I've come to learn much more about Linux that I've ever understood, thanks to the crisp documentation and hands-on aspect of Gentoo.
Thus far, my experiences with building MythTV on Gentoo, with all sorts of crazy features (gaming, VFD text displays, universal remote support, PS2 gamepads, HDTV capture and TV output, etc) has been extremely positive.
My problem now? Spending absurd amounts of money modding the hell out of my MythTV box. I bought one of those dedicated Media PC cases, and am going crazy installing lighted pushbutton switches, rewiring my PSU to be like an XConnect, running neon lights all over the place, soundproofing the heck out of the machine. I've spent almost $2k on this box! But, it has Dual layer DVD-R, half terabyte of hard drive space, can record two HD channels, and looks more A/V than my A/V receiver! Buying a similar box from Sony costs about $1,200, which doesn't let you play games, run Windows apps via Wine, or have file sharing and version control services.
I'll take that over Tivo any day of the week for $2000, Alex! And now I don't have to worry about some product manufacturer farking around with my rights after I've bought a lifetime subscription to their service.
First, I doubt a thermal "camera" was being used, since thermal cameras are useful only if you need to be able to visually interpret temperature patterns. More likely, a simple infrared sensor was used, which measures the ratio of the energy radiated by an object at a given temperature to the energy emitted by a blackbody at the same temperature.
skin temp is about 20 degrees cooler
Thermal sensors don't measure "skin temperature". They measure the aggregate amount of heat energy surrounding a body, or in the case of simple room sensors, the aggregate temperature of room "sections".
That movie was dumb as hell
Do you object to the film purely on technical merit, or do you just dislike the plot in general? I thought the plot was great, with important overarching themes that appeal to both the technical and non-technical person.
WHAT?!?!?! You're not a geek, what are you doing posting on /.???
Or, an even easier way, give them candy:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3639679.stm
Seriously, this "audial cracking" is a great idea (which I coincedentally thought of while watching "Sneakers".) Combine it with a laser microphone, and you can "sniff" passwords from far away, without requiring any additional equipment to be installed on the site being compromised.
It sounds like running over it with a car wouldn't be terribly difficult. I hope it wasn't something they had to try too hard to do.
What they should consentrate on is making it scratch proof, I can't stand so many scratches.
I second that. Having a beautiful piece of art like an iPod Nano get marred by scratches is terrible! I bought a Sony PSP screen protector and cut it to size to protect my Nano. The PSP screen protector is 5 bucks, but it's nice and thick, and will keep my Nano looking beautiful.
God bless you. I bet you're one of those audiophiles that I revere like God, who can hear that "an audio system resolves so clearly that you can hear Eric Clapton's 3rd nasal hair vibrate ever so lighly when he sings the refrain of Layla live, augmenting the tonal quality that he gives his chords when his thumb glides ever so slightly down the guitar pick."
Personally, I can't hear the difference between Back in Black at 192bpm vs. played back on one of those newfangled devices that "adds" information back into uncompressed waveform, allowing us to hear the music as the artist truly intended.
Then again, maybe it's because I don't have 24 karat gold speaker cords that were woven by maiden virgins under the full moon of an Aquaries retrograde.
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Sounds like this old network called ArpaNet.
Uhm, if someone tapes the password to the bottom of their keyboard, how do they type it in?
Well, they need some way to fight off the sentient nanobots!
My final mod will consist of sticking a 19" LCD monitor out of the back, ala Animatrix "Detective Story".
Proper English is:
try to minimize
not:
try and minimize
I'm just going for my dialy troll mod, since I seem to be getting many troll and overrated mods for posts that don't deserve them.
I thought that rich people got what they wanted?
Your example wasn't altruism. Altruism requires exceeding the general expectations of self-sacrifice. Since it was your friend, I assume that you met the general expectations of self-sacrifice, not exceeded them. However, if it was a stranger and you had nothing to gain from it, I would be much more convinced by your argument.
Good thing Bill Gates doesn't run Adobe... Otherwise he'd be releasing a press statement proclaiming how dangerous open software is.
Here's hoping to United States' returned to proper grammar and editorial spellchecking.
At least, people at a certain company didn't...
When you look at the issue of buffer overruns, eight to 10 years ago in software development, you did not know how much space you might need for something so you just create a big buffer zone to allow things to happen. Who knew that people could go exploit that and use that buffer space to do malicious things?
Apparently not Microsoft...
Taylor: We continue to do the same things that we've been doing in the last couple of years
You mean perpetually patch IE security flaws?
I think it's important to look at the flip side, too. Doctors who are in their 50's learned medicine 30 years ago, and often haven't kept up to date on all the latest medical findings. For example, the advice I receive from my doctor for certain common illnesses is a bit outdated, and somewhat dangerous.
And it could be very unlikely that none of these patents, or their challenges, will lead to patent reform, espcially if it relies upon the actions of a judge.
Tims Berners-Lee complains about this... Tims Berners-Lee complains about that... For the father of the web, this guy does an awful lot of complaining about it.
Sometimes, the father needs to take his child down. I think he needs to take more extreme actions. Like domain terrorism, or something.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2121636