Gotta disagree on this one. Losing TV/VCR/whatever remotes is *so* frickin' easy, that there is *no excuse* not to have all the functions available on the front panel (or some hidden panel).
TerminatorX is (pick three of the following): 1. Up to (at least) version 3.60 now. 2. Not particularly "laggy" on my box (caveats: IANADJ, YMMV, and I haven't given it that hard of a workout. Oh yeah, and my box is a 300mhz/32meg AMD) 3. Free as in GPL, so no $40 investment required.
And if you're going to have remappable keyboard shortcuts, they ought to be system wide, not just app-by-app. At least for stuff like cut & paste, save, etc., where the command exists in all apps.
Call me cynical, but anybody who says "80s music rox" probably isn't old enough to remember "back then." With the obvious exception of the 10% not covered by Sturgeon's Law.
> "Well, Taco you can start making slashdot look less childish by using a decent Microsoft icon, instead of the Bill Gates borg."
I've always been partial to some of the ones that come with XBill... (google for it yerself, it's worldwide 2lazy2link nite...)
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Or run all traffic through an encrypted layer on top of IP. Each machine knows its own "magic number", but nobody else's... so it works like this: 1. Alice sends a search packet looking for "Foobar Blooze.mp3, send to #666.420." 2. Bob (& possibly other hosts) respond, sending the file out to all connections. Only those that know the secret number 666.420 need save the data. 3. If Alice wants another search, she can discard #666.420 and come up with another, evil-drug-influenced secret number.
Granted, this system would be fscking horribly slow, Alice2Bob on a fat t1 would be like Gnutella on dialup, but it could be implemented securely & anonymously. Come to think of it, isn't this broadly similar to how Freenet works today?
How could you *disprove* J. Random Gnutelluser is my friend, though? IANAL (quoth the slashdot hordes), but the burden of proof in US law rests with the accuser, not the accused. So I could just say, "ph34rph4kt0r? Known 'im for years on IRC... ditto with, uhh, 164.13.92.12... top drawer mate, top drawer..."
Reminds me of a composer I read about years ago in Wired, who was doing a peice using the waveforms of various stars, planets etc., as picked up by radio telescope. Alas, though, Google hath failed me in finding the reference...
I seem to recall seeing freshmeat posts about the FOLK kernel with similar aims (ie linux+every possible patch, look n' see what breaks). Anybody know if this is the same project?
Either way, it seems a good idea so He-Who-Doesn't-Scale has a good idea of which bleeding edge patches sorta work, which ones work great but are too specialised, and which ones barf & die spectacularly:-)
Remember the Sandbenders, from William Gibson's _Idoru_? They were like this hippie commune who built beautiful, work of art computers on the theory that the insides were gonna be worthless real quick anyway, so why not make a gorgeous case and swap in new guts when it was time to upgrade? Makes (slightly) more sense than buying a whole new Beige Box 6000XP every year and a half...
I dunno about Kazaa, but other p2p programs already use a variety of different ports. How hard would it be to use a "legit" port like the std ones for SMTP, HTTP, etc, to discover other nodes, then negotiate a connection over some random port?
You'd've loved the 60s Hammond combo organ we had when I was growing up, mash enough keys at once=instant (TOS) transporter/phaser sounds. And as far as "No longer considered geeky", well, Trek still has a place in the Geek Code, right?
Hell, they'll probably sell a few more of 'em to/. readers. Just imagine, now not only is it an mp3/ogg player you can use with yer linux box, it's (potentially) a hard drive for your digicam/pda/whatever. Wonder if it has a good enough display to run Mame?
Beg to differ. There's nothing stopping somebody from running $OSofCHOICE on an xbox and rebooting the box to play (official, MS-endorsed) games. Using this technique to run burned/pirated copies of discs might be a bigger worry, but wide availability of modchips to do this hasn't hurt the PS[X,2] all that badly.
> This project improves upon traditional hyperlinks by creating a signature of the target page, selecting a set of very rare words that uniquely identify the page, and relying on a search engine query for those rare words to find the page in the future
Okay, here goes my mileage varying: I found ALSA a trifle clumsy to install, and expect it to remain so until it comes with the kernel, but on my soundcard (a GUS MAX), it kicks major ass all over OSS/Free. OSS/Free doesn't even do full duplex on my soundcard....
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Gotta disagree on this one. Losing TV/VCR/whatever remotes is *so* frickin' easy, that there is *no excuse* not to have all the functions available on the front panel (or some hidden panel).
TerminatorX is (pick three of the following):
1. Up to (at least) version 3.60 now.
2. Not particularly "laggy" on my box (caveats: IANADJ, YMMV, and I haven't given it that hard of a workout. Oh yeah, and my box is a 300mhz/32meg AMD)
3. Free as in GPL, so no $40 investment required.
Jaysus, who designed that thing, David Cronenburg?
And if you're going to have remappable keyboard shortcuts, they ought to be system wide, not just app-by-app. At least for stuff like cut & paste, save, etc., where the command exists in all apps.
Call me cynical, but anybody who says "80s music rox" probably isn't old enough to remember "back then." With the obvious exception of the 10% not covered by Sturgeon's Law.
> "Well, Taco you can start making slashdot look less childish by using a decent Microsoft icon, instead of the Bill Gates borg."
I've always been partial to some of the ones that come with XBill... (google for it yerself, it's worldwide 2lazy2link nite...)
Or run all traffic through an encrypted layer on top of IP. Each machine knows its own "magic number", but nobody else's... so it works like this:
1. Alice sends a search packet looking for "Foobar Blooze.mp3, send to #666.420."
2. Bob (& possibly other hosts) respond, sending the file out to all connections. Only those that know the secret number 666.420 need save the data.
3. If Alice wants another search, she can discard #666.420 and come up with another, evil-drug-influenced secret number.
Granted, this system would be fscking horribly slow, Alice2Bob on a fat t1 would be like Gnutella on dialup, but it could be implemented securely & anonymously. Come to think of it, isn't this broadly similar to how Freenet works today?
The publishers have a hidden agenda behind their hidden agenda, though: When reading books is outlawed, only the kool kidz will read books.
How could you *disprove* J. Random Gnutelluser is my friend, though? IANAL (quoth the slashdot hordes), but the burden of proof in US law rests with the accuser, not the accused. So I could just say, "ph34rph4kt0r? Known 'im for years on IRC... ditto with, uhh, 164.13.92.12... top drawer mate, top drawer..."
Clearly, sir, you do not work for Logitech.
Reminds me of a composer I read about years ago in Wired, who was doing a peice using the waveforms of various stars, planets etc., as picked up by radio telescope. Alas, though, Google hath failed me in finding the reference...
I seem to recall seeing freshmeat posts about the FOLK kernel with similar aims (ie linux+every possible patch, look n' see what breaks). Anybody know if this is the same project?
:-)
Either way, it seems a good idea so He-Who-Doesn't-Scale has a good idea of which bleeding edge patches sorta work, which ones work great but are too specialised, and which ones barf & die spectacularly
Remember the Sandbenders, from William Gibson's _Idoru_? They were like this hippie commune who built beautiful, work of art computers on the theory that the insides were gonna be worthless real quick anyway, so why not make a gorgeous case and swap in new guts when it was time to upgrade? Makes (slightly) more sense than buying a whole new Beige Box 6000XP every year and a half...
Yeah, maybe they can send me a spare kernel panic too, I've been waiting years to see what one looks like.
I dunno about Kazaa, but other p2p programs already use a variety of different ports. How hard would it be to use a "legit" port like the std ones for SMTP, HTTP, etc, to discover other nodes, then negotiate a connection over some random port?
You'd've loved the 60s Hammond combo organ we had when I was growing up, mash enough keys at once=instant (TOS) transporter/phaser sounds. And as far as "No longer considered geeky", well, Trek still has a place in the Geek Code, right?
It's spelled XP, not Xfree.
Turns out they do.
IANAGT (guitar tech), but isn't the even vs odd harmonics issue in tube amps partly a product of how they're wired (ie class A vs class AB?)
Hell, they'll probably sell a few more of 'em to /. readers. Just imagine, now not only is it an mp3/ogg player you can use with yer linux box, it's (potentially) a hard drive for your digicam/pda/whatever. Wonder if it has a good enough display to run Mame?
when you can just do this:
Wee! I'm never typing "cd $oldpwd" again!
(catches self going esc-:wq. urk.)
Beg to differ. There's nothing stopping somebody from running $OSofCHOICE on an xbox and rebooting the box to play (official, MS-endorsed) games. Using this technique to run burned/pirated copies of discs might be a bigger worry, but wide availability of modchips to do this hasn't hurt the PS[X,2] all that badly.
> This project improves upon traditional hyperlinks by creating a signature of the target page, selecting a set of very rare words that uniquely identify the page, and relying on a search engine query for those rare words to find the page in the future
Takes all the fun out of Googlewacking, doesn't it?
Okay, here goes my mileage varying: I found ALSA a trifle clumsy to install, and expect it to remain so until it comes with the kernel, but on my soundcard (a GUS MAX), it kicks major ass all over OSS/Free. OSS/Free doesn't even do full duplex on my soundcard....