downloaded Ethereal, a packet sniffer, and it has built in filters for extracting AIM messages out of the packets AIM sends. And in an environment such as a college dorm where there might be plenty of people connected via hubs (i.e. anyone on the hub can snoop everyone else's packets), this is a good thing to have... not that I would know anything about that...
Actually, you're not safe in a switched environment either. See dsniff for more information.
It goes 213 Main, 217 Main, 215 Main, 219 Main...
Why? Ghawd knows, but it's been that way forever.
In Japan, buildings are numbered by the order in which they were built. While this might work in small areas where people know what was built when, it makes it a nightmare to find things in a large city like Tokyo. I recall trying to find the Sony Center and we went down the street several times before stopping to ask someone who didn't know where was the place that were talking about until we said "Sony Center".
I personally like to record them into ogg format while taking notes. Before I got a laptop, I used to use my palm IIIc with a keyboard to take notes. One professor commented that if the clicking disturbed my classmates then I'd have to take it on a pad, but nobody ever did. I've got a graphics tablet now, so I think I'll be using that for the pictures, etc. What I like best about taking notes like this is that I've got them in one thing that I can take everywhere. Before, I'd have to carry around separate notebooks after a while because the amount of stuff written down becomes huge. I can also type a lot faster than I can write with them, not to mention that it's a lot neater.
Maybe if I get some time, I'll throw together some sort of logging script that brings all of this stuff together.
I'm seeing 106.96K/s from AU - not bad...
wget http://files.ausgamers.com:81/wolf/enemyterritory/ et-linux-2.55.x86.run
Yeah, but I'm getting 234 kB/s off of bittorrent:). My, I love how it's the only thing that actually gets faster as more people hit it. Reminds me of the scene in the Matrix Reloaded where Neo is fighting the fifty agent smiths, only without Neo or the agents or the cool computer generated background.
Damn beat me to the main point. Not only has DDR been here first, but it already has a Korean clone (PUMP It Up, which is more original than this) and a freeware/OS variation (Stepmania). This is just weak.
By the way, recent cvs checkouts of stepmania build on linux, although there are still some temporary nasties, like statically built custom SDL libraries, but it certainly does work alright for testing purposes, (still alsa only for sound though).
How could it possibly be bad for world peace that not only one (violent) country can direct their bombs accurately??
Most guided missile systems don't use GPS for navigation--gps is mainly a way for people to figure out where they're at. Not only that, but it also might take a little while (less than a minute or so, usually) for a GPS unit to acquire a satellite, which isn't the best in a combat situation. It might be cool if the European system is more accurate though, especially for wardriving.
Jesus. Scan to get out? Glad there wasn't a fire! (Yeah, sure, it'll fail open. We think.)
IIRC, it's fire code that buildings with those sort of doors automatically unlock when the fire alarm is going off. Of course, if someone was plotting corporate espionage, don't be too surprised when your building suddenly bursts into flames..
How many Athalon powered laptops do you see kicking around?
I dunno but I've seen a hell of a lot of pentium based systems running around:-)
Seriously though, running the same processor on both the desktop and laptop doesn't really mean too much to the consumer, aside from the fact that it might lower production costs a bit. That said, I spend a lot of my time on my ibook even though my Athlon-based linux box and my Pentium-based FreeBSD box do a lot of stuff in the background. They do what they do great, but probably the issue with using them is that you have to know how to use them before you can leverage the power. I was somewhat impressed that OS X nicely integrates a lot of the stuff that I'm used to behind pretty GUI wrappers, and that's really what I find nice about it, not necessarily that it just "works" with things. Everything seems to work with things, though I have to admit that a lot of software put out by a certain Redmond based company seems to have a lot more bugs than other vendors, likely related to the sheer number of developers thrown at the project. So, for what I do, MOL seems to be a pretty nifty idea. I wonder how well vanilla Darwin runs on it..
No, they didn't. They loaded the worm into memory, then ran WinHex to discover the strings that the binary loaded. We -tried- cracking the binary, but it's PE compressed, which makes it a little harder to get in to. No reverse engineering took place.
So.. by the same token, does that mean that if you have say a DVD--for example--and it has copy protection on it, and you say..oh, yank the playing video stream from your memory that's already decrypted, then you aren't violating the DMCA and fair use prevails?
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However, with my non-.mac server, I get logged into the root directory, and have to navigate to my home directory. When I get there, for some reason, the Finder doesn't see that I have write privileges, and won't allow me to upload anything there. I suspect I'm not the only person in this situation.
Well, now that you mention it..
I ended up just installing gftp via fink and then used that in the meantime. It is rather odd though.
Personally, I use OS X, Linux and Windows for different things. I think that there are different tools to get stuff done. I like using OS X on my ibook for the majority of the stuff I do because I'm often walking around on campus, though I still use my Linux box for a lot of things because it does those things well.
I'm typing this right now on Konqueror on my (gentoo) linux box, while I'm waiting for patches to finish applying on my windows install running inside virtual pc on the ibook.
After that's done, I'll take my ibook with me and eat while I surf stuff on the wireless network on campus. Following that, I'll probably finish setting up our servo cd burner tethered to a windows xp machine.
They are all workable, but for the machine that offers the least headaches, I'd have to go with the ibook.
I've spoken to one of the developers when he visited us to give a talk, and he said (more or less paraphrased) "We know somebody is going to get linux running on the xbox. When that happens, Microsoft is probably going to sue them. Until that time, we made it pretty difficult to do that because you have to have it signed by Microsoft and the developer's kit uses different keys than the regular xbox." He also did mention that it runs a stripped down version of the w2k kernel. It was also an interesting demo because his devkit ran mame and some other cool stuff.
Something the MS people told us..
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One of the guys that worked on the X-Box had a presentation here at Texas A&M and mentioned something to the effect of the X-Box originally being an idea that someone found on the internet and would have a lot more functionality, i.e. tivo-like capabilities, etc in addition to gameplay. I wonder if this was published earlier on..
Well, I don't necessarily agree with this logic, but consider the fact that 30 years ago you couldn't record the show, edit out the commercials, and watch it again and again with the greatest of ease, now could you? I mean, you could, but it took two VCRs (did they exist then?) and a lot of time. Now receiving a TV signal is as good as having a commercial-free perfect recording of it. And that's why it's different. (This isn't a troll or anything, it's the truth. Whether or not you agree that it should be treated differently is your own business, but the technology has changed.)
Well, thirty years ago you could simply record it without the commercials--I know I used to stop and start the recording while I was watching shows and after a while, you get quite good at just keeping the commercials from being recorded.
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Mplayer works quite well for quicktime, as does the crossover plugin..I don't see any reason to bother installing the real crap to try to view movie trailers now.
My phone supports e-mail as it is and it's not very difficult to whip up a script to do that. I already have my phone configured to receive messages from my web site, so setting something up to poll a e-mail address isn't too difficult.
Maybe I'm behind the curve here, but is there anything that's preventing OS X from running on ix86? I know that OS X is build on FreeBSD and FreeBSD can run on multiple platforms. As such, if Apple released OS X for ix86 wouldn't that _truly_ make a dent and expedite the [IMHO, inevitable] paradigm shift from windows? Granted Apple might lose _somewhat_ in hardware sales, but wouldn't they make much more in software sales of a superior OS?
Actually, there isn't really anything, darwin will actually build on x86 systems and run. Then it would be a matter of recompiling all the other code, i.e. aqua, etc. on an x86 machine. However, Apple choses not to do this and for good reason. They don't want to go head to head with microsoft, yes, but also they don't want to jeopardize macintosh hardware sales. This really is where they make most of their money and also helps minimize piracy. If any guy can go buy cheap ia32 hardware and then throw OS X on there, then people won't be as inclined to purchase the, IMHO, overpriced Apple hardware. However, I do agree--it would be damn cool.:)
My School (Texas A&M University) installed a traffic shaper on the link between the residential network and the rest of the university a year ago after the entire network was becoming bogged down with all the p2p traffic. Following how slow the entire network became, I'm inclined to agree with their decision.
Well, it isn't too much of a surprise--Apple has always reaped most of its profits through the sell of hardware. The iPod was a bit different from a lot of the products in this respect because it is such cool product that there is a high demand for it by Windows users as well as Mac users. Thus, they had someone make windows software for it and wached their sales take off;).
I tried out the demo with my GF2MX / 1.4 GHz CPU / 256 MB DDR RAM and it ran just fine. I'm not normally into gaming, but the fact that the installer worked without a hitch on my distro of choice (gentoo) was almost a surprise to me. The gameplay itself was good, and the game was relatively smooth. I'd suggest downloading the demo and give it a shot.
"Microsoft has never used Windows's native control set. A perfect example of this is Office XP. Office XP, although XP branded, supports none of XP's skinning abilities...It's as if they want Office to be its own operating system"
Amusing that you should say that, because Microsoft has different teams that do each (The operating system team and the office team) which have different ideas about how one should do UI. Office XP has it's own special UI compared to the Windows UI and the developers don't really care about the operating systems team.
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downloaded Ethereal, a packet sniffer, and it has built in filters for extracting AIM messages out of the packets AIM sends. And in an environment such as a college dorm where there might be plenty of people connected via hubs (i.e. anyone on the hub can snoop everyone else's packets), this is a good thing to have... not that I would know anything about that...
Actually, you're not safe in a switched environment either. See dsniff for more information.
It goes 213 Main, 217 Main, 215 Main, 219 Main...
Why? Ghawd knows, but it's been that way forever.
In Japan, buildings are numbered by the order in which they were built. While this might work in small areas where people know what was built when, it makes it a nightmare to find things in a large city like Tokyo. I recall trying to find the Sony Center and we went down the street several times before stopping to ask someone who didn't know where was the place that were talking about until we said "Sony Center".
I personally like to record them into ogg format while taking notes. Before I got a laptop, I used to use my palm IIIc with a keyboard to take notes. One professor commented that if the clicking disturbed my classmates then I'd have to take it on a pad, but nobody ever did. I've got a graphics tablet now, so I think I'll be using that for the pictures, etc. What I like best about taking notes like this is that I've got them in one thing that I can take everywhere. Before, I'd have to carry around separate notebooks after a while because the amount of stuff written down becomes huge. I can also type a lot faster than I can write with them, not to mention that it's a lot neater.
Maybe if I get some time, I'll throw together some sort of logging script that brings all of this stuff together.
I'm seeing 106.96K/s from AU - not bad... wget http://files.ausgamers.com:81/wolf/enemyterritory/ et-linux-2.55.x86.run
Yeah, but I'm getting 234 kB/s off of bittorrent :). My, I love how it's the only thing that actually gets faster as more people hit it. Reminds me of the scene in the Matrix Reloaded where Neo is fighting the fifty agent smiths, only without Neo or the agents or the cool computer generated background.
Damn beat me to the main point. Not only has DDR been here first, but it already has a Korean clone (PUMP It Up, which is more original than this) and a freeware/OS variation (Stepmania). This is just weak.
By the way, recent cvs checkouts of stepmania build on linux, although there are still some temporary nasties, like statically built custom SDL libraries, but it certainly does work alright for testing purposes, (still alsa only for sound though).
How could it possibly be bad for world peace that not only one (violent) country can direct their bombs accurately??
Most guided missile systems don't use GPS for navigation--gps is mainly a way for people to figure out where they're at. Not only that, but it also might take a little while (less than a minute or so, usually) for a GPS unit to acquire a satellite, which isn't the best in a combat situation. It might be cool if the European system is more accurate though, especially for wardriving.
Jesus. Scan to get out? Glad there wasn't a fire! (Yeah, sure, it'll fail open. We think.)
IIRC, it's fire code that buildings with those sort of doors automatically unlock when the fire alarm is going off. Of course, if someone was plotting corporate espionage, don't be too surprised when your building suddenly bursts into flames..
How many Athalon powered laptops do you see kicking around?
I dunno but I've seen a hell of a lot of pentium based systems running around :-)
Seriously though, running the same processor on both the desktop and laptop doesn't really mean too much to the consumer, aside from the fact that it might lower production costs a bit. That said, I spend a lot of my time on my ibook even though my Athlon-based linux box and my Pentium-based FreeBSD box do a lot of stuff in the background. They do what they do great, but probably the issue with using them is that you have to know how to use them before you can leverage the power. I was somewhat impressed that OS X nicely integrates a lot of the stuff that I'm used to behind pretty GUI wrappers, and that's really what I find nice about it, not necessarily that it just "works" with things. Everything seems to work with things, though I have to admit that a lot of software put out by a certain Redmond based company seems to have a lot more bugs than other vendors, likely related to the sheer number of developers thrown at the project. So, for what I do, MOL seems to be a pretty nifty idea. I wonder how well vanilla Darwin runs on it..
No, they didn't. They loaded the worm into memory, then ran WinHex to discover the strings that the binary loaded. We -tried- cracking the binary, but it's PE compressed, which makes it a little harder to get in to. No reverse engineering took place.
So.. by the same token, does that mean that if you have say a DVD--for example--and it has copy protection on it, and you say..oh, yank the playing video stream from your memory that's already decrypted, then you aren't violating the DMCA and fair use prevails?
However, with my non-.mac server, I get logged into the root directory, and have to navigate to my home directory. When I get there, for some reason, the Finder doesn't see that I have write privileges, and won't allow me to upload anything there. I suspect I'm not the only person in this situation.
Well, now that you mention it..
I ended up just installing gftp via fink and then used that in the meantime. It is rather odd though.
Personally, I use OS X, Linux and Windows for different things. I think that there are different tools to get stuff done. I like using OS X on my ibook for the majority of the stuff I do because I'm often walking around on campus, though I still use my Linux box for a lot of things because it does those things well.
I'm typing this right now on Konqueror on my (gentoo) linux box, while I'm waiting for patches to finish applying on my windows install running inside virtual pc on the ibook.
After that's done, I'll take my ibook with me and eat while I surf stuff on the wireless network on campus. Following that, I'll probably finish setting up our servo cd burner tethered to a windows xp machine.
They are all workable, but for the machine that offers the least headaches, I'd have to go with the ibook.
I've spoken to one of the developers when he visited us to give a talk, and he said (more or less paraphrased) "We know somebody is going to get linux running on the xbox. When that happens, Microsoft is probably going to sue them. Until that time, we made it pretty difficult to do that because you have to have it signed by Microsoft and the developer's kit uses different keys than the regular xbox." He also did mention that it runs a stripped down version of the w2k kernel. It was also an interesting demo because his devkit ran mame and some other cool stuff.
One of the guys that worked on the X-Box had a presentation here at Texas A&M and mentioned something to the effect of the X-Box originally being an idea that someone found on the internet and would have a lot more functionality, i.e. tivo-like capabilities, etc in addition to gameplay. I wonder if this was published earlier on..
Well, I don't necessarily agree with this logic, but consider the fact that 30 years ago you couldn't record the show, edit out the commercials, and watch it again and again with the greatest of ease, now could you? I mean, you could, but it took two VCRs (did they exist then?) and a lot of time. Now receiving a TV signal is as good as having a commercial-free perfect recording of it. And that's why it's different. (This isn't a troll or anything, it's the truth. Whether or not you agree that it should be treated differently is your own business, but the technology has changed.)
Well, thirty years ago you could simply record it without the commercials--I know I used to stop and start the recording while I was watching shows and after a while, you get quite good at just keeping the commercials from being recorded.
Mplayer works quite well for quicktime, as does the crossover plugin..I don't see any reason to bother installing the real crap to try to view movie trailers now.
My phone supports e-mail as it is and it's not very difficult to whip up a script to do that. I already have my phone configured to receive messages from my web site, so setting something up to poll a e-mail address isn't too difficult.
Wait wait..is your home affiliate WXMI? It pulled that up for me too, but I don't see my local affiliate anywhere around there.
Maybe I'm behind the curve here, but is there anything that's preventing OS X from running on ix86? I know that OS X is build on FreeBSD and FreeBSD can run on multiple platforms. As such, if Apple released OS X for ix86 wouldn't that _truly_ make a dent and expedite the [IMHO, inevitable] paradigm shift from windows? Granted Apple might lose _somewhat_ in hardware sales, but wouldn't they make much more in software sales of a superior OS?
Actually, there isn't really anything, darwin will actually build on x86 systems and run. Then it would be a matter of recompiling all the other code, i.e. aqua, etc. on an x86 machine. However, Apple choses not to do this and for good reason. They don't want to go head to head with microsoft, yes, but also they don't want to jeopardize macintosh hardware sales. This really is where they make most of their money and also helps minimize piracy. If any guy can go buy cheap ia32 hardware and then throw OS X on there, then people won't be as inclined to purchase the, IMHO, overpriced Apple hardware. However, I do agree--it would be damn cool. :)
My School (Texas A&M University) installed a traffic shaper on the link between the residential network and the rest of the university a year ago after the entire network was becoming bogged down with all the p2p traffic. Following how slow the entire network became, I'm inclined to agree with their decision.
Well, it isn't too much of a surprise--Apple has always reaped most of its profits through the sell of hardware. The iPod was a bit different from a lot of the products in this respect because it is such cool product that there is a high demand for it by Windows users as well as Mac users. Thus, they had someone make windows software for it and wached their sales take off ;).
I tried out the demo with my GF2MX / 1.4 GHz CPU / 256 MB DDR RAM and it ran just fine. I'm not normally into gaming, but the fact that the installer worked without a hitch on my distro of choice (gentoo) was almost a surprise to me. The gameplay itself was good, and the game was relatively smooth. I'd suggest downloading the demo and give it a shot.
"Microsoft has never used Windows's native control set. A perfect example of this is Office XP. Office XP, although XP branded, supports none of XP's skinning abilities...It's as if they want Office to be its own operating system"
Amusing that you should say that, because Microsoft has different teams that do each (The operating system team and the office team) which have different ideas about how one should do UI. Office XP has it's own special UI compared to the Windows UI and the developers don't really care about the operating systems team.
Well I've exceeded my bandwidth for today. Thanks for trying, click on another mirror. Cheers :)
I downloaded the other 6.7 avi version, so that's available too. Likely, you'll probably want to download that one--though I'm leaving the others up.
.. I can't think of a better use of college bandwidth :)
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All of them here
I have 3 versions that I've mirrored:
A 34.8 MB mpeg
16.2 MB wmv
and a 2.4 MB wmv
Enjoy