1. Take open source graphics software 2. Remove banknote detection module 3. Profit!
The problem is proving (2) as long as I keep the modified software to myself. Oops - of course I meant-- as long as the counterfeiter keeps the modified software to himself. Come on, criminals break laws. A law more or less isn't going to make that much of a difference.
Chello en Tiscali top-spreaders of viruses A database with infected pc's is the foundation of
an ambitions project that should reduce the flood of
virus emails
A number of Dutch providers is currently testing a worm
blocker based on an extensive database of infected pc's.
This file has been kept up-to-date since 2 weeks ago by
BIT, a provider for businesses. In this database, amongst
other things, is visible from which IP address which
virus is being spread.
Other providers can use this database to inform their own
customers that their computer is infected and bothering
other people, explains Alex Bik of BIT. Self-propagating
viruses (worms) are causing more and more trouble, both
to private users and providers.
BIT itself has been using the automatic blacklist-system
since last week, to protect their customers against the
ever growing stream of virus mails. By now, a large number
of Dutch [internet] providers, including XS4ALL, Zonnet
and IS Internet Services, also have access to the data.
Port 25
In its database, BIT keeps track from which IP addresses
virus mails are sent. This sending [of emails] often
takes place directly via port 25 from infected computers.
As soon as more than 2 infected emails arrive at BIT
within 25 hours, the IP address is blacklisted for 24
hours. However, the ip-addresses of mail servers of known
providers are not added to the database.
Chello tops the list
The list shows that other providers, too, can benefit from
the blacklist. Customers of Chello, Tiscali and @home top
the list of major virus spreaders (over 1000 virus emails).
The topper is an ip-address at Tiscali, from which as much
as 12000 sober G-mails have been sent.
In total, Chello leads with over 27000 sent virus mails with
the 25 main 'spreaders', followed by Tiscali (almost 23000),
@home (almost 20000), Wanadoo (over 14000), HCCnet (almost
13000) and Planet [internet] (almost 12000).
To prevent drifting offtopic too much, there are bunches of tips on newsgroup rec.audio.pro. I would contact you via your site but I'm not sure if you're Eric or Clint.
My god this guy sings to his food, I've been laughing my ass off here;) If you want to add a bit more depth in the recordings, try recording some instruments (in your case, the acoustic guitar would be the instrument of choice) using 2 mics pointing towards the guitar with the heads together, under a 90 degree angle for a nice wide stereo sound. You're absolutely right about the harddrive sound though-- it's completely absent. There are lots of tricks that help improving perceived sound quality- denoising, using stereo, proper equalizing, reverb (can cover up some noises too) and so on. Having a silent machine is nice, but not critical for good sounding recordings.
Personally, unfortunately, I think that audio work on Linux, especially a bit more serious software, simply isn't 'there' yet. I've tried many audio editors on Linux.
My experience is as follows: some have big trouble compiling (ardour), there are many packages that restrict themselves to the most basic functionality (for denoising I usually have to resort to gwc, equalizing is nearly impossible without realtime preview), and I've seen many many crashes and strange behaviour (audacity: left button for zoom in, right button for... zoom in even further?? -- Stop button crashes the program?)
Currently, I'm using planet ccrma ALSA kernel, rezound for most audio editing, text mode 'record' for recording sounds (rock solid advice from Davy, while Rezound has some problems with clicks and pops recording a bit longer files), gwc for denoising, and soundtracker for putting together multiple tracks. And I'm not even mixing yet. And has anyone gotten MIDI input to work? Fortunately, there's also a shitload of format conversion utilities that fortunately *do* work.
Nowadays, under Windows (blasphemy, I know), I would probably simply go for cooledit (adobe audition) and/or cubase, and have proper MIDI support as well.
I'm not just complaining; I've contributed to several open source audio (and related) projects, but many of them are simply not stable enough. I'd like to know of anyone who has different experiences!
sample a 1 second clip of nothing and subtract it from your recording and you remove all system noise. It's not exactly just subtracting, but that's besides the point, I'm trying to karmawhore here. In a linux setup, you can use good old flaky Gnome Wave Cleaner for this. Make a backup of your wave first, then clean. Under Windows, cooledit (nowadays adobe audition) is decent for denoising.
I am (used to be) an audio engineer. Hard disks can make enough noise to be a bother when the computer is in the same room as where the actual recording is being done, especially when recording soft sounds (fans are a problem too). Directing the microphones away from the sound you don't want helps. Close miking helps too. But nowadays, in a regular home environment, I find nothing beats passing the microphone cables under the (closed) door.
You can make biodiesel out of fresh oil even easier than out of used oil. Seemingly it is simple enough to make biodiesel from food oil, to allow people doing it at home without a lot of specialized equipment. Now I doubt I'll ever go that far, but it certainly is good news-- once demand goes up, there will definitely be companies (most likely the current oil industry) that will do the brewing on a much larger scale, and cheaper (to the point where it will cost them almost nothing).
At the same time, a blooming food oil industry already exists. This industry knows how to mass produce oil from vegetable sources and *is* currently making a profit out of their product (otherwise the industry wouldn't exist).
I don't think it is far from the point where food oil can actually be a viable alternative to fossil oil. In several european countries, a liter of (food) oil currently costs about the same as a liter of gasoline: both in Portugal and the Netherlands it is about a euro per liter (although diesel is admittedly slightly cheaper). To the average person, to burn a liter of oil is easier than to consume it, so probably the food oil industry could use a bit of upscaling to meet demands of car owners once oil gets to expensive, a few decades from now. I guess investors who say they want to help save the planet may put their money where their mouth is and get a little something in return, as well. All it takes is a few decades of patience. I don't believe that we, the human race will manage to destroy all life on the planet though, even if we try real hard--I think we'll go before many single-cell species. but that's another discussion.
I've been waiting for a device like this! Now I can convert my entire image collection to.BMP and bring so many fewer images along with me! (Unless, of course, the.bmp file format has evolved to support superior data compression. I'd look it up but I'm too lazy now. Anyone clue me in?)
What I really like though is the interesting other side of the story: The other formats are all de facto industry standards, and MS didn't invent them. Is this good news or what?
"Having your db engine do encryption is great...if your biggest threat is an attacker reading the binary db image from disk." Actually, you have a point over there. Previous poster already pointed out, binary db images may also be read from backup tape.
Then there's Lotus Notes, where binary images of a subset of each database are replicated to the user, allowing for offline database use, for example on a laptop. Of course the local user has admin access to all local data (Which makes sense, I guess; physical access to local data + password pretty much gives you access to everything anyway), any access control is provided on the server level. If someone is not allowed to have or update certain data, the server won't let them have/write it. (And no, I don't think this is a very secure scheme).
The actual problem isn't in having the data in a local database, the problem is *unauthorized* (!) physical access. Supposedly whoever has access to the local database is allowed to see and modify all data that's in there. As is the case with backup tapes, if that laptop with data gets stolen by an Evil Hacker (tm), the database better be encrypted. Same if the server is robbed. There are scenarios where encryption is useful, where all good intentions with proper ACL settings and such are actually less useful than encryption.
I'm almost surprised coffee shops didn't catch on to this "more caffeine gets people hooked faster" insight earlier. Dude!! In your country coffee shops actually sell coffee? It's joints and space cake where I come from man! Most customers couldn't care less about caffeine! -- oh wait, I think they call the places that you describe 'coffee houses' in Holland.
16000 bullets per second, assuming each of them is 2 inches (5cm) long, makes 80000 cm=800m of bullets per second if no space is left in between. The bullets would have to travel at least at 800 m per second. According to this, that should indeed be reachable.
Somebody once commented about the physics of movies that Rambo couldn't possibly keep firing and firing and firing all that much time because the weight of all the bullets he fired would get to be way too heavy to carry around.
I'm not very well informed about weaponry, but if a bullet weighs ten grams, then a minute worth of bullets (1 million of them) weighs 10 million grams or 10000 kilograms. I don't know, but basically such a fast gun to me seems not much more than a great way to overload your apache chopper, and a fantastic way to run out of bullets real fast.
Could this be real? Possibly. Practical? I doubt it. There's only so much more benefit of spitting out even more bullets per second.
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They're in the bottom picture.
Ah yes, the TI speak and spell, most known for the mod that allowed it to phone home!
1. Take open source graphics software
2. Remove banknote detection module
3. Profit!
The problem is proving (2) as long as I keep the modified software to myself. Oops - of course I meant-- as long as the counterfeiter keeps the modified software to himself. Come on, criminals break laws. A law more or less isn't going to make that much of a difference.
My first +5 :D :D :P :P *bounces around happily*
Chello en Tiscali top-spreaders of viruses
A database with infected pc's is the foundation of an ambitions project that should reduce the flood of virus emails
A number of Dutch providers is currently testing a worm blocker based on an extensive database of infected pc's. This file has been kept up-to-date since 2 weeks ago by BIT, a provider for businesses. In this database, amongst other things, is visible from which IP address which virus is being spread.
Other providers can use this database to inform their own customers that their computer is infected and bothering other people, explains Alex Bik of BIT. Self-propagating viruses (worms) are causing more and more trouble, both to private users and providers.
BIT itself has been using the automatic blacklist-system since last week, to protect their customers against the ever growing stream of virus mails. By now, a large number of Dutch [internet] providers, including XS4ALL, Zonnet and IS Internet Services, also have access to the data.
Port 25
In its database, BIT keeps track from which IP addresses virus mails are sent. This sending [of emails] often takes place directly via port 25 from infected computers. As soon as more than 2 infected emails arrive at BIT within 25 hours, the IP address is blacklisted for 24 hours. However, the ip-addresses of mail servers of known providers are not added to the database.
Chello tops the list
The list shows that other providers, too, can benefit from the blacklist. Customers of Chello, Tiscali and @home top the list of major virus spreaders (over 1000 virus emails). The topper is an ip-address at Tiscali, from which as much as 12000 sober G-mails have been sent.
In total, Chello leads with over 27000 sent virus mails with the 25 main 'spreaders', followed by Tiscali (almost 23000), @home (almost 20000), Wanadoo (over 14000), HCCnet (almost 13000) and Planet [internet] (almost 12000).
To prevent drifting offtopic too much, there are bunches of tips on newsgroup rec.audio.pro. I would contact you via your site but I'm not sure if you're Eric or Clint.
My god this guy sings to his food, I've been laughing my ass off here ;) If you want to add a bit more depth in the recordings, try recording some instruments (in your case, the acoustic guitar would be the instrument of choice) using 2 mics pointing towards the guitar with the heads together, under a 90 degree angle for a nice wide stereo sound. You're absolutely right about the harddrive sound though-- it's completely absent. There are lots of tricks that help improving perceived sound quality- denoising, using stereo, proper equalizing, reverb (can cover up some noises too) and so on. Having a silent machine is nice, but not critical for good sounding recordings.
Personally, unfortunately, I think that audio work on Linux, especially a bit more serious software, simply isn't 'there' yet. I've tried many audio editors on Linux.
My experience is as follows: some have big trouble compiling (ardour), there are many packages that restrict themselves to the most basic functionality (for denoising I usually have to resort to gwc, equalizing is nearly impossible without realtime preview), and I've seen many many crashes and strange behaviour (audacity: left button for zoom in, right button for... zoom in even further?? -- Stop button crashes the program?)
Currently, I'm using planet ccrma ALSA kernel, rezound for most audio editing, text mode 'record' for recording sounds (rock solid advice from Davy, while Rezound has some problems with clicks and pops recording a bit longer files), gwc for denoising, and soundtracker for putting together multiple tracks. And I'm not even mixing yet. And has anyone gotten MIDI input to work? Fortunately, there's also a shitload of format conversion utilities that fortunately *do* work.
Nowadays, under Windows (blasphemy, I know), I would probably simply go for cooledit (adobe audition) and/or cubase, and have proper MIDI support as well.
I'm not just complaining; I've contributed to several open source audio (and related) projects, but many of them are simply not stable enough. I'd like to know of anyone who has different experiences!
I always had to stand at a 90 degree angle to my system Tip: you can get rid of most of the noise by switching of your monitor.
sample a 1 second clip of nothing and subtract it from your recording and you remove all system noise. It's not exactly just subtracting, but that's besides the point, I'm trying to karmawhore here. In a linux setup, you can use good old flaky Gnome Wave Cleaner for this. Make a backup of your wave first, then clean. Under Windows, cooledit (nowadays adobe audition) is decent for denoising.
I am (used to be) an audio engineer. Hard disks can make enough noise to be a bother when the computer is in the same room as where the actual recording is being done, especially when recording soft sounds (fans are a problem too). Directing the microphones away from the sound you don't want helps. Close miking helps too. But nowadays, in a regular home environment, I find nothing beats passing the microphone cables under the (closed) door.
You can make biodiesel out of fresh oil even easier than out of used oil. Seemingly it is simple enough to make biodiesel from food oil, to allow people doing it at home without a lot of specialized equipment. Now I doubt I'll ever go that far, but it certainly is good news-- once demand goes up, there will definitely be companies (most likely the current oil industry) that will do the brewing on a much larger scale, and cheaper (to the point where it will cost them almost nothing).
At the same time, a blooming food oil industry already exists. This industry knows how to mass produce oil from vegetable sources and *is* currently making a profit out of their product (otherwise the industry wouldn't exist).
I don't think it is far from the point where food oil can actually be a viable alternative to fossil oil. In several european countries, a liter of (food) oil currently costs about the same as a liter of gasoline: both in Portugal and the Netherlands it is about a euro per liter (although diesel is admittedly slightly cheaper). To the average person, to burn a liter of oil is easier than to consume it, so probably the food oil industry could use a bit of upscaling to meet demands of car owners once oil gets to expensive, a few decades from now. I guess investors who say they want to help save the planet may put their money where their mouth is and get a little something in return, as well. All it takes is a few decades of patience. I don't believe that we, the human race will manage to destroy all life on the planet though, even if we try real hard--I think we'll go before many single-cell species. but that's another discussion.
I've been waiting for a device like this! Now I can convert my entire image collection to .BMP and bring so many fewer images along with me! (Unless, of course, the .bmp file format has evolved to support superior data compression. I'd look it up but I'm too lazy now. Anyone clue me in?)
What I really like though is the interesting other side of the story: The other formats are all de facto industry standards, and MS didn't invent them. Is this good news or what?
Then again, no- for once all of them are on-topic. D'oh!
"Having your db engine do encryption is great...if your biggest threat is an attacker reading the binary db image from disk." Actually, you have a point over there. Previous poster already pointed out, binary db images may also be read from backup tape.
Then there's Lotus Notes, where binary images of a subset of each database are replicated to the user, allowing for offline database use, for example on a laptop. Of course the local user has admin access to all local data (Which makes sense, I guess; physical access to local data + password pretty much gives you access to everything anyway), any access control is provided on the server level. If someone is not allowed to have or update certain data, the server won't let them have/write it. (And no, I don't think this is a very secure scheme).
The actual problem isn't in having the data in a local database, the problem is *unauthorized* (!) physical access. Supposedly whoever has access to the local database is allowed to see and modify all data that's in there. As is the case with backup tapes, if that laptop with data gets stolen by an Evil Hacker (tm), the database better be encrypted. Same if the server is robbed. There are scenarios where encryption is useful, where all good intentions with proper ACL settings and such are actually less useful than encryption.
You got it all wrong. Area 51 is real, he's real, and the government is a hoax.
but it's not in theaters in Europe yet, you insensitive clod!
Don't just stand there complaining, do something! Bring out the dog whistles already!
Fortunately I didn't give them my username.
McBride: "Shoot, we forgot to ask for the birth certificates of FSF members."
I'm almost surprised coffee shops didn't catch on to this "more caffeine gets people hooked faster" insight earlier. Dude!! In your country coffee shops actually sell coffee? It's joints and space cake where I come from man! Most customers couldn't care less about caffeine! -- oh wait, I think they call the places that you describe 'coffee houses' in Holland.
to the untrained eye it seems to say "Downloading mp3s is legal" - but to the same untrained eye it seems to tell uploading isn't.
I think we have a significant chance of a sacrificial lamb in Linux' cause... Hmmmmmmmm shoarma
Do not go to american movies.
Well, I guess the world can always try to develop a taste for Bollywood productions.
16000 bullets per second, assuming each of them is 2 inches (5cm) long, makes 80000 cm=800m of bullets per second if no space is left in between. The bullets would have to travel at least at 800 m per second. According to this, that should indeed be reachable.
Somebody once commented about the physics of movies that Rambo couldn't possibly keep firing and firing and firing all that much time because the weight of all the bullets he fired would get to be way too heavy to carry around.
I'm not very well informed about weaponry, but if a bullet weighs ten grams, then a minute worth of bullets (1 million of them) weighs 10 million grams or 10000 kilograms. I don't know, but basically such a fast gun to me seems not much more than a great way to overload your apache chopper, and a fantastic way to run out of bullets real fast.
Could this be real? Possibly. Practical? I doubt it. There's only so much more benefit of spitting out even more bullets per second.