Do you agree that using a cable descrambler to get extra channels is stealing? Because it's the exact same thing.
No, that is not the same thing, because if I use a descrambler, all other people can STILL watch their channels without qualityloss. In fact, they won't even notice. I don't say that it's right to do so, just that it is not stealing.
I'll probably not switch away from KDE 3 anytime soon though.. I tried the last release candidate and wasn't very impressed.. GNOME is nice, but it still feels like everything is glued together instead of nicely integrated.. Maybe in a year or two..
Running your whole system as root is a BAD thing! I don't know if this has changed since the first preview-release, but to have no choice but to run as root is a crazy desicion! Lindows will be/is a security nightmare!
IMHO, the only good thing that can come out of Lindows is if they contribute some of their patches to WINE or Rewind...
Security bugs in software are inevitable : it is bound to happen , sooner or later.
That attitude is a big dangerous IMO.. That is an excuse for programmers to have bad/lazy coding habits and not program with security in mind..
Developing a good coding habit and learn and use all known techniques for creating secure code is the only good way to minimize security bugs.
Even in the year 2002, it's still common to find unchecked strcpy's in newly released code..
WHen you write software you should design it to be run as root on sensitive boxes without a firewall. But then you should run it chroot as a restricted user with minimal permissions anyway...
And of course, release securityfixes as fast as possible if bugs ARE found...
For leeching in the binaries-groups, Binary News Reaper is by far the best one! It can assemble parts from multiple servers, which is a great feature if you are using newsfeeds.com which has a per-server-per-day downloadlimit (17 servers, total of 10GB/day).. Too bad it's only freeware and not Open Source though..:(
If you only have a single server, PAN is a better bet, as it also supports "normal" Usenet-usage (discussions).. It's a shame that "assemble parts from multiple servers" is not even in the TODO-list for Pan..:(
For downloading whole groups there is a lot of options.. I've tried them all and I found UBH (Usenet Binary Harvester) to be the most powerful and flexible one.
Oh, I forgot.. You also get anonymous posting, access to more than 100000 newsgroups, a "spamkiller"-server, and the best of all.. On the dedicated servers there is more than a month retentiontime, even in the most active binaries-groups...
newsfeeds.com's Premium membership is $19.95/month or $159.60/year. That gives you access to 17 servers, many of which are dedicated to porn, binaries, multimedia and/or warez.. You get a downloadlimit of 300MB-1GB per server per day, which is a total of 10GB per day! I use it with BNR2 which collects the parts from all of the servers so you can use the full 10GB/day without having to connect to another server every time you reach the downloadlimit of one of them...
That's what I meant.. But I agree I was a bit unclear about it.. They should only be recompiled automatically if it is *required*...
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Gentoo has a thing called "profiles". If you change the profile from "default-1.0" to "default-1.0-gcc3", everything will be built with GCC 3.1. The ebuilds will install gcc3-specific patches if they are needed.. # ln -sf/usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0-gcc3/etc/ma ke.profile
Using profiles, you can also make company-specific distros and other specialized versions of Gentoo...
After being a fanatical Debian-user for four years, Gentoo was a "love at first sight"..:) I've been running Gentoo for about a year now and always when I find out about a new detail about it, I think to myself "Yes, this is how it SHOULD have been in the other distros also".. The only thing I'm missing is a way to make "recursive" library updates.. For example, if I upgrade libSDL to a new version, all apps that depends on SDL should be recompiled automatically.. There is still no easy way to do this in Gentoo, but I heard that it is comming in portage v2...
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The Hauppauge-cards work great with the bttv driver! I have one myself...
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I thought that was a standard open-source thing. When I bought my Debian CDs, they were $5. Of course, companies like Red Hat can charge lots of dough for support, but as I understand it, you're not allowed to charge for the sale of free software you simply downloaded and repackaged. But please correct me if I'm wrong.
Ok, I'll correct you.:) You're free to charge $1000000 for an Open Source HelloWorld.c that you found on the net if you want to, but you still have to make the sourcecode available to anyone who asks for it. And if ONE person buys it from you, he/she is free to give copies away to everybody in the world!
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I don't get what you mean, but mencoder (part of mplayer) can use the official DivX 5 to encode, among the other options (ffmpeg/libavcodec, XViD etc).
On a sidenote, this week they added support for RealVideo/RealAudio G2/v8 to mplayer cvs, using two of the.so/.dll-files from RP8.. Really cool! =)
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Using 3-pass encoding with mencoder with preprocessing, you can fit about 2 hours on a 700MB-CDR with pretty good quality. It's nearly impossible to see a difference on a TV anyway.. I use a 650MB-movie and that is enough to fit the.avi and the raw subtitle-stream (mplayer -dumpsub) together on a CD..
This week, support for RV20/RV30 (RealVideo and RealAudio G2+v8) was added to MPlayer CVS! It works great and now mencoder can even re-encode.rm movies to DivX.avi!:)
No need for that sucky Realplayer anymore, except for two of its.so-files..:)
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Do you agree that using a cable descrambler to get extra channels is stealing? Because it's the exact same thing.
No, that is not the same thing, because if I use a descrambler, all other people can STILL watch their channels without qualityloss. In fact, they won't even notice. I don't say that it's right to do so, just that it is not stealing.
Sorry I don't have any modpoints, buddy!
I'll probably not switch away from KDE 3 anytime soon though.. I tried the last release candidate and wasn't very impressed.. GNOME is nice, but it still feels like everything is glued together instead of nicely integrated.. Maybe in a year or two..
...P2P servers...
Duh...
Running your whole system as root is a BAD thing! I don't know if this has changed since the first preview-release, but to have no choice but to run as root is a crazy desicion!
Lindows will be/is a security nightmare!
IMHO, the only good thing that can come out of Lindows is if they contribute some of their patches to WINE or Rewind...
The swedes love a good mid summer party.
:)
Yupp, I'm still having a hangover..
Security bugs in software are inevitable : it is bound to happen , sooner or later.
That attitude is a big dangerous IMO.. That is an excuse for programmers to have bad/lazy coding habits and not program with security in mind..
Developing a good coding habit and learn and use all known techniques for creating secure code is the only good way to minimize security bugs.
Even in the year 2002, it's still common to find unchecked strcpy's in newly released code..
WHen you write software you should design it to be run as root on sensitive boxes without a firewall. But then you should run it chroot as a restricted user with minimal permissions anyway...
And of course, release securityfixes as fast as possible if bugs ARE found...
For leeching in the binaries-groups, Binary News Reaper is by far the best one! It can assemble parts from multiple servers, which is a great feature if you are using newsfeeds.com which has a per-server-per-day downloadlimit (17 servers, total of 10GB/day).. Too bad it's only freeware and not Open Source though.. :(
:(
If you only have a single server, PAN is a better bet, as it also supports "normal" Usenet-usage (discussions).. It's a shame that "assemble parts from multiple servers" is not even in the TODO-list for Pan..
For downloading whole groups there is a lot of options.. I've tried them all and I found UBH (Usenet Binary Harvester) to be the most powerful and flexible one.
Thanks! :)
No it isn't! A normal DivX DVD-rip is ~700MB...
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:)
Or maybe you were talking about pictures or crappy 30-second-clips?
I have about 60GB of bizarre-porn on my HD, only full DVD-rips
Oh, I forgot..
You also get anonymous posting, access to more than 100000 newsgroups, a "spamkiller"-server, and the best of all.. On the dedicated servers there is more than a month retentiontime, even in the most active binaries-groups...
newsfeeds.com's Premium membership is $19.95/month or $159.60/year. That gives you access to 17 servers, many of which are dedicated to porn, binaries, multimedia and/or warez.. You get a downloadlimit of 300MB-1GB per server per day, which is a total of 10GB per day! I use it with BNR2 which collects the parts from all of the servers so you can use the full 10GB/day without having to connect to another server every time you reach the downloadlimit of one of them...
Try Gentoo! It raawks! :))
Using your fist probably doesn't scare away the Goatse-trolls though...
Works perfectly in Konqueror (KDE3)! :)
That's what I meant.. But I agree I was a bit unclear about it..
They should only be recompiled automatically if it is *required*...
Gentoo has a thing called "profiles". If you change the profile from "default-1.0" to "default-1.0-gcc3", everything will be built with GCC 3.1. The ebuilds will install gcc3-specific patches if they are needed.. /usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0-gcc3 /etc/ma ke.profile
# ln -sf
Using profiles, you can also make company-specific distros and other specialized versions of Gentoo...
Yes, all ebuilds do that. If you find an ebuild that doesn't, it should be reported as a bug.
After being a fanatical Debian-user for four years, Gentoo was a "love at first sight".. :) I've been running Gentoo for about a year now and always when I find out about a new detail about it, I think to myself "Yes, this is how it SHOULD have been in the other distros also"..
The only thing I'm missing is a way to make "recursive" library updates.. For example, if I upgrade libSDL to a new version, all apps that depends on SDL should be recompiled automatically.. There is still no easy way to do this in Gentoo, but I heard that it is comming in portage v2...
The Hauppauge-cards work great with the bttv driver! I have one myself...
I thought that was a standard open-source thing. When I bought my Debian CDs, they were $5. Of course, companies like Red Hat can charge lots of dough for support, but as I understand it, you're not allowed to charge for the sale of free software you simply downloaded and repackaged. But please correct me if I'm wrong.
:)
Ok, I'll correct you.
You're free to charge $1000000 for an Open Source HelloWorld.c that you found on the net if you want to, but you still have to make the sourcecode available to anyone who asks for it. And if ONE person buys it from you, he/she is free to give copies away to everybody in the world!
I don't get what you mean, but mencoder (part of mplayer) can use the official DivX 5 to encode, among the other options (ffmpeg/libavcodec, XViD etc).
.so/.dll-files from RP8.. Really cool! =)
On a sidenote, this week they added support for RealVideo/RealAudio G2/v8 to mplayer cvs, using two of the
Using 3-pass encoding with mencoder with preprocessing, you can fit about 2 hours on a 700MB-CDR with pretty good quality. It's nearly impossible to see a difference on a TV anyway.. .avi and the raw subtitle-stream (mplayer -dumpsub) together on a CD..
I use a 650MB-movie and that is enough to fit the
Sorry for replying to myself, but that URL is supposed to be www.mplayerhq.hu, not .com.. :P
This week, support for RV20/RV30 (RealVideo and RealAudio G2+v8) was added to MPlayer CVS! It works great and now mencoder can even re-encode .rm movies to DivX .avi! :)
.so-files.. :)
No need for that sucky Realplayer anymore, except for two of its