Yup, me too. At 30, I alone among my mates can hear the high pitched whine of a 50 Hz television set, which is fucking annoying. It drives me nuts whenever a TV is on in the vicinity. This is in spite of having gone to way too many loud rock concerts:) Another reason to leave the pub when they put a soccer game on. Needless to say I don't own a TV, which is a blessing in more ways than one.
By the way, does anyone know what frequency that'll be for a Norwegian set? I can't seem to find it through Google.
I must commend you on the guide linked in your sig, I assume you're the author. I read it, and it's very good. It probably won't make any new converts, but it's an extremely useful primer for the ones that are curious and seriously want to give Linux a whirl. Having been on Linux for a while, I would absolutely have benefited from it when I switched. I'll read it more thoroughly later, and come back to you with comments if I have any. No karma bonus because of OT, but to fellow Slashdotters: Give it a read, it's well written and definitely worth a look.
It mentions the tape in question, and also various other performances in the same vein.
A friend of mine who studies art told me that the audience and their reactions many times are an important part of the exhibit, especially in the more explicit performance acts.
Years ago, regarding a similar issue with Opera, I dealt with it by switching banks. Not that my bank earned a lot of money from my business anyway... Still, I let them know the reason why I switched, and why it was important to me. Now this bank support all browsers, as far as I know.
You need shell access at a box running an ssh-daemon, for instance a Linux-box at home.Then you use ssh or plink (for Windows) at the machine you're sitting at with the following syntax on the command line:
The first portnumber is the port you allocate at your workstation, and the second is the target port at the server you wish to access. Substitute localhost for whatever hostname or ip you want, it can be on your LAN or on the internet. This will create an ssh-tunnel, you can point your vnc-client to localhost:5900 at the client box, and the tunnel forwards it to the ssh server and establishes the connection from there. The connection is of course encrypted until it reaches the ssh server.
That way you can access all kinds of insecure or untrusted services at your local lan at home, while benefitting from the security and encryption of ssh.
If you want a SOCKS4 style proxy, you can use 'ssh -N -v -D 8080 username@server.ip'. Then you can use any software which supports proxies (most do). Just specify localhost:8080 as a SOCKS4 proxy, and you're set to go. Incredibly useful stuff, and really simple to do.
Of course - while this can be used to circumvent firewalls and other limitations at for instance your place of employment, it is stupid to use it for activity which your employer forbids. Besides the fact that you're still violating company policy, any admin worth their salt will notice the ssh connection, and can then take measures like investigating your work computer for traces.
It doesn't provide anonymity either, as the ip of the ssh server will show in whatevever logs which are kept at the target server.
Aw, sorry, coffee deprivationn caused me to post without engaging my brain. What I mentioned is the exact opposite, but I still find it interesting. Sorry about that, move along.
Have a look at Bitcomet and Bitlord for Windows. Bitlord is a rebranded version of the open source Bitcomet, albeit with fairly intrusive ads. True, they don't sell it, but I suspect they earn a fair bit of money from clicks. According to Google, neither "Bitcomet" nor "source"is not mentioned even once.
While it's been many summers since i took physics classes, I understand that certain quantum events ("At what time will this particular atom of a radioactive isotope decay") is in fact truly random. Not because we can't observe / don't know about all the parameters, but because they're inherently and fundamentally random from nature's side, and theoretically impossible to predict. I might be wrong, in which case I would love to be corrected by someone more knowledgeable than me:)
The recorded DVD-R are fully compatible to standard stand-alone or software based DVD-Players.
Anyone knows why dd and burning the resulting image wouldn't work? I'm not that knowledgeable about the subject, I just figure that they've thought of that somehow...
I instantly booted into Windows to check it out. I've seen all their previous demos, most are in the "small demo" cathegory, and are among the more impressive pieces of coding I've ever seen. I've seen a lot of demos, by the way.
The game has got almost 10 minutes of gameplay through changing environments, five different guns, four or five different enemies with distinct models, nice dynamiv lighting, the lot.
It ran perfectly well on my W2k/3000+ AMD64/1GB/GF6800GS, very smooth too. It seems I was lucky, judging from the other replies. I had to clean out some disk space for it, though:)
I believe these are the guys from farbrausch, check out their previous work here. Here is their current website, with some farbrausch demos thrown in as well.
By the way, if you like miniscule demos, you've got to check this out, too. 256 bytes, source code available.
To be fair, it's fairly simple to opt-out of, and one does get something in return for the tax (christenings, weddings, funerals etc. are all free of charge).
Don't know where you're from, but here in Norway the government church uses some pretty underhanded tactics to inflate the membership numbers.
It's NOT easy to opt out. I had to send them an application including my certificate of baptism without which you simply can't cancel your membership (WTF? I have my passport, any other ID you like, and you need my certificate of baptism?). Then they required me to show up in person to have a chat with a priest. He wouldn't let me cancel before I allowed him to try to convince me that I should stay, even though I was very negative. This was in 1992. It is not impossible, but it is artificially difficult.
When I quit, I still have to pay church tax. Why? The church gets a fixed yearly amount no matter how many members they have. That goes out of everyones income tax. Hopefully they're going to abolish the state church soon, as people are starting to get wise to how they operate, and many realises that they don't feel like / have to support it. Even though they don't get paid per member, they do point at their membership numbers in any argument regarding the fairness of having a state church.
Furthermore, they keep having "database problems" which obliterates their member lists. Solution? Include everyone again. Even members of other communities, whose lists they have access to. Of course without informing most of us. I have frankly no idea how long I was an unwilling member before I cancelled again last year. They couldn't even tell me, claimed they had no "Date of entry" field in their list.
Yes, it's true, and it happened to me and several friends. If you are a member of another faith community (Bhuddist, Islamic, whatever) they might send you or the community a letter to inform you of the fact that you are registered in several communities, as the others, who DO get subsidized based on the number of members, can't get support for your membership if you're also in the state church. In my case, I was just kept in the dark while I boosted their statistics for some undefined amount of time.
Damn, that reminds me that it's time for the yearly check to see if they've included me again...
Anybody who's silly enough to run sendmail in this day and age, given the alternatives
I'm in the process of setting up my own mail server right now, which MTA would you recommend for a low volume mailserver? Ease of administration is most important. I'm considering postfix and exim, but am open to suggestions.
While I speak English with a quite heavy Norwegian accent, I actually tried this with my English father-in-law who's learning Norwegian. It worked nice:) He's from Wakefield, West Yorkshire. I don't know if his dialect affected it in any way.
On a side note, my (bad) accent is frustrating at times. English and Americans I speak with find it funny that my English is close to perfect grammatically, my vocabulary is very good, while I sound like an immigrant on his second month in the US (or the Swedish chef:)
OK, I'll fess up... I have lots of MP3s. Music is very important to me.
Most of the MP3s I have, I have encoded myself from CDs borrowed from friends. I have occasionally downloaded as well, without any qualms whatsoever, because: I have bought a lot more CDs after discovering the wonder that is mp3, and electronic distribution in general. I've bought the whole back catalogue of several small bands to support the band, also because its a lot nicer to have the CD and inlay in my rack than to have an entry in a folder listing. For other bands I have bought just the albums I like the most.
Anathema, Katatonia, and Porcupine Tree are bands that I save up to complete in my collection because they're brilliant, I would never have been able to listen to them enough to become a fan if I had to pay for everything in advance. I've also listened to bands that I didn't like enough to buy, but no loss, I wouldn't have heard of them at all were it not for 'try before you buy' in the way of electronic distribution.
BTW, where I live it is NOT illegal to borrow an album and copy it for personal use, so most of my MP3s are technically legal anyway.
I'm not saying that everyone behaves like me, , but I'm fairly sure that the line of thought that 'every downloaded album is a lost sale' have absolutely nothing to do with reality. On the contrary, that the RIAA resorts to that kind of desperate logic at all means that they have already lost. Times are changing, people educate themselves, and see that their business model is unfair, unreasonable and archaic. When there is such an easy way to circumvent it, that's the route people will go.
The vowel ø in Norwegian is pronounced like the vowel sound in "sun".
Have føn:)
BTW, the astronomer mentioned (Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard, try it:) is something of an astronomer celebrity here. The press will always go to him when there are spectacular events, like this, or eclipses. He's done a great job to make astronomy accessible and fun to less technically inclined people, both by giving public lectures on fascinating subjects, and by writing a couple of books on "popularized astronomy".
Yes, people (mostly kids) DO go upwards of 48 hours without sleeping, showering, eating or even keeping their intake of liquid up.
Exhaustion due to lack of sleep, dehydration and low levels of blood sugar (is that correct?) is a real concern for those running the party.
32 hours doesn't sound that extreme to me, when I attended The Gathering '93 and '94 we kept it up in the same manner. We didn't game much though, mostly coding and using their über 1.5 Mbit internet connection:)
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It isn't. He was referring to his sister's friend.
Yup, me too. :)
At 30, I alone among my mates can hear the high pitched whine of a 50 Hz television set, which is fucking annoying. It drives me nuts whenever a TV is on in the vicinity. This is in spite of having gone to way too many loud rock concerts
Another reason to leave the pub when they put a soccer game on. Needless to say I don't own a TV, which is a blessing in more ways than one.
By the way, does anyone know what frequency that'll be for a Norwegian set?
I can't seem to find it through Google.
I'll be damned. You learn something new every day... :)
I also chuckled at the very idea, but I was too hasty as well
Thanks for the links!
I must commend you on the guide linked in your sig, I assume you're the author. I read it, and it's very good. It probably won't make any new converts, but it's an extremely useful primer for the ones that are curious and seriously want to give Linux a whirl. Having been on Linux for a while, I would absolutely have benefited from it when I switched.
I'll read it more thoroughly later, and come back to you with comments if I have any.
No karma bonus because of OT, but to fellow Slashdotters: Give it a read, it's well written and definitely worth a look.
I actually googled that, and in addittion to the heaps of expected results for such a query I found this:
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http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/0
It mentions the tape in question, and also various other performances in the same vein.
A friend of mine who studies art told me that the audience and their reactions many times are an important part of the exhibit, especially in the more explicit performance acts.
Years ago, regarding a similar issue with Opera, I dealt with it by switching banks.
Not that my bank earned a lot of money from my business anyway...
Still, I let them know the reason why I switched, and why it was important to me. Now this bank support all browsers, as far as I know.
Thanks! I'll remember that :)
Actually, it IS a geographic location in Norway :)
It is 1.5 hours drive from where I live, and a really beautiful place.
More info here.
Furthermore, I just searched for "End of the world" on google...
You need shell access at a box running an ssh-daemon, for instance a Linux-box at home.Then you use ssh or plink (for Windows) at the machine you're sitting at with the following syntax on the command line:
'ssh -N -v -L 5900:localhost:5900 username@server.ip'
The first portnumber is the port you allocate at your workstation, and the second is the target port at the server you wish to access. Substitute localhost for whatever hostname or ip you want, it can be on your LAN or on the internet.
This will create an ssh-tunnel, you can point your vnc-client to localhost:5900 at the client box, and the tunnel forwards it to the ssh server and establishes the connection from there. The connection is of course encrypted until it reaches the ssh server.
That way you can access all kinds of insecure or untrusted services at your local lan at home, while benefitting from the security and encryption of ssh.
If you want a SOCKS4 style proxy, you can use 'ssh -N -v -D 8080 username@server.ip'. Then you can use any software which supports proxies (most do). Just specify localhost:8080 as a SOCKS4 proxy, and you're set to go.
Incredibly useful stuff, and really simple to do.
Of course - while this can be used to circumvent firewalls and other limitations at for instance your place of employment, it is stupid to use it for activity which your employer forbids. Besides the fact that you're still violating company policy, any admin worth their salt will notice the ssh connection, and can then take measures like investigating your work computer for traces.
It doesn't provide anonymity either, as the ip of the ssh server will show in whatevever logs which are kept at the target server.
Aw, sorry, coffee deprivationn caused me to post without engaging my brain.
What I mentioned is the exact opposite, but I still find it interesting.
Sorry about that, move along.
Have a look at Bitcomet and Bitlord for Windows. Bitlord is a rebranded version of the open source Bitcomet, albeit with fairly intrusive ads.
True, they don't sell it, but I suspect they earn a fair bit of money from clicks. According to Google, neither "Bitcomet" nor "source"is not mentioned even once.
Wikipedia has a bit of info.
How do you conjugate "to grammar nazi"? .sig :)
Yes, I'm aware of my
While it's been many summers since i took physics classes, I understand that certain quantum events ("At what time will this particular atom of a radioactive isotope decay") is in fact truly random. Not because we can't observe / don't know about all the parameters, but because they're inherently and fundamentally random from nature's side, and theoretically impossible to predict. :)
I might be wrong, in which case I would love to be corrected by someone more knowledgeable than me
Just wondered about the captchas or whatever that people keep mentioning. I've seen lots of them, but never on Slasdot.
Where are they?
Anyone knows why dd and burning the resulting image wouldn't work?
I'm not that knowledgeable about the subject, I just figure that they've thought of that somehow...
Holy smoke, that game is impressive!
:)
I instantly booted into Windows to check it out. I've seen all their previous demos, most are in the "small demo" cathegory, and are among the more impressive pieces of coding I've ever seen. I've seen a lot of demos, by the way.
The game has got almost 10 minutes of gameplay through changing environments, five different guns, four or five different enemies with distinct models, nice dynamiv lighting, the lot.
It ran perfectly well on my W2k/3000+ AMD64/1GB/GF6800GS, very smooth too. It seems I was lucky, judging from the other replies. I had to clean out some disk space for it, though
I believe these are the guys from farbrausch, check out their previous work here.
Here is their current website, with some farbrausch demos thrown in as well.
By the way, if you like miniscule demos, you've got to check this out, too. 256 bytes, source code available.
OK, going to bed now.
Don't know where you're from, but here in Norway the government church uses some pretty underhanded tactics to inflate the membership numbers.
It's NOT easy to opt out. I had to send them an application including my certificate of baptism without which you simply can't cancel your membership (WTF? I have my passport, any other ID you like, and you need my certificate of baptism?). Then they required me to show up in person to have a chat with a priest. He wouldn't let me cancel before I allowed him to try to convince me that I should stay, even though I was very negative. This was in 1992. It is not impossible, but it is artificially difficult.
When I quit, I still have to pay church tax. Why? The church gets a fixed yearly amount no matter how many members they have. That goes out of everyones income tax. Hopefully they're going to abolish the state church soon, as people are starting to get wise to how they operate, and many realises that they don't feel like / have to support it. Even though they don't get paid per member, they do point at their membership numbers in any argument regarding the fairness of having a state church.
Furthermore, they keep having "database problems" which obliterates their member lists. Solution? Include everyone again. Even members of other communities, whose lists they have access to. Of course without informing most of us. I have frankly no idea how long I was an unwilling member before I cancelled again last year. They couldn't even tell me, claimed they had no "Date of entry" field in their list.
Yes, it's true, and it happened to me and several friends. If you are a member of another faith community (Bhuddist, Islamic, whatever) they might send you or the community a letter to inform you of the fact that you are registered in several communities, as the others, who DO get subsidized based on the number of members, can't get support for your membership if you're also in the state church. In my case, I was just kept in the dark while I boosted their statistics for some undefined amount of time.
Damn, that reminds me that it's time for the yearly check to see if they've included me again...
Yes, thanks!
There are lots of subtle differences like that between my native language (Norwegian) and English. Every bit of advice helps
I'm in the process of setting up my own mail server right now, which MTA would you recommend for a low volume mailserver?
Ease of administration is most important.
I'm considering postfix and exim, but am open to suggestions.
Hilarious, you made my day :)
While I speak English with a quite heavy Norwegian accent, I actually tried this with my English father-in-law who's learning Norwegian. It worked nice :)
:)
He's from Wakefield, West Yorkshire. I don't know if his dialect affected it in any way.
On a side note, my (bad) accent is frustrating at times. English and Americans I speak with find it funny that my English is close to perfect grammatically, my vocabulary is very good, while I sound like an immigrant on his second month in the US (or the Swedish chef
Vell, I joost cerry oon unyvey
OK, I'll fess up... I have lots of MP3s. Music is very important to me.
Most of the MP3s I have, I have encoded myself from CDs borrowed from friends.
I have occasionally downloaded as well, without any qualms whatsoever, because:
I have bought a lot more CDs after discovering the wonder that is mp3, and electronic distribution in general. I've bought the whole back catalogue of several small bands to support the band, also because its a lot nicer to have the CD and inlay in my rack than to have an entry in a folder listing. For other bands I have bought just the albums I like the most.
Anathema, Katatonia, and Porcupine Tree are bands that I save up to complete in my collection because they're brilliant, I would never have been able to listen to them enough to become a fan if I had to pay for everything in advance. I've also listened to bands that I didn't like enough to buy, but no loss, I wouldn't have heard of them at all were it not for 'try before you buy' in the way of electronic distribution.
BTW, where I live it is NOT illegal to borrow an album and copy it for personal use, so most of my MP3s are technically legal anyway.
I'm not saying that everyone behaves like me, , but I'm fairly sure that the line of thought that 'every downloaded album is a lost sale' have absolutely nothing to do with reality. On the contrary, that the RIAA resorts to that kind of desperate logic at all means that they have already lost. Times are changing, people educate themselves, and see that their business model is unfair, unreasonable and archaic. When there is such an easy way to circumvent it, that's the route people will go.
My two øre...
I'm Norwegian.
:)
:) is something of an astronomer celebrity here. The press will always go to him when there are spectacular events, like this, or eclipses. He's done a great job to make astronomy accessible and fun to less technically inclined people, both by giving public lectures on fascinating subjects, and by writing a couple of books on "popularized astronomy".
The vowel ø in Norwegian is pronounced like the vowel sound in "sun".
Have føn
BTW, the astronomer mentioned (Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard, try it
Cheers
You haven't been to many LAN-parties, have you?
:)
Yes, people (mostly kids) DO go upwards of 48 hours without sleeping, showering, eating or even keeping their intake of liquid up.
Exhaustion due to lack of sleep, dehydration and low levels of blood sugar (is that correct?) is a real concern for those running the party.
32 hours doesn't sound that extreme to me, when I attended The Gathering '93 and '94 we kept it up in the same manner. We didn't game much though, mostly coding and using their über 1.5 Mbit internet connection
Odi brassicum