So there would be nothing to identify this to XBox Live as anything other than a dead-stock XBox.
True, if you only connect to Live with the original BIOS. But they blacklist based on MAC addresses, so if you ever connect with the modded BIOS, your XBox will be permanently banned, even if you later switch back to the original.
I just noticed this too, and updated my sig. Basically, they changed it so that the bonus is configurable by the reader, like how you can give +1 to friends and whatnot.
Unfortunately, when they made this change, they set the default value to +0, taking away the bonus you normally get. I say they should have set it to the old +1 by default; perhaps they'll fix it in the next update.
Check it out; go to your prefs page and set the high-karma modifier to +1. You should see your posts starting at 2 again. But it doesn't mean anyone else will, unless they've changed their prefs too.:P
Wine is not an emulator, so it won't work on Mac (PPC). I'll have to get Wine up and running on my linux box one of these days tho; so far I've been too lazy to set up the Windows partition and mounts.
Hmm, might it be possible to implement query forwarding in Kazaa Lite to allow more widespread access to the FastTrack network?
I guess downloading files from FastTrack clients is not a problem; there are many apps out there to do that. So if Kazaa Lite could forward (to FastTrack) a query it receives from a non-FastTrack client, then return the FastTrack results to the non-FT client... wonder if that could work?
Whoops, guess I didn't have my brain in straight. I was thinking back a couple months ago, we had to send my girlfriend's Fujitsu HD in under warranty, because it was intermittently not being recognized. Disk was probably fine, interface was a bit shot, though, I guess. We still managed to mirror and wipe it when it did come up okay one time.
you would think that a someone in the biz of "free sharing" would make their code as open as possible
Kazaa makes their money off of the advertising and spyware they bundle with KMD (the Kazaa app). By opening up the code or the FastTrack protocol, they would cut off their revenue stream.
Given two ways of accessing the FastTrack network, one with ads and spyware, one without, which would you choose? As it is, Kazaa Lite probably puts a significant dent in their revenues. They don't want to add to that problem.
Does anyone know of any efforts to crack the FastTrack protocol by reverse-engineering KMD? I would love to see a client for my Mac and/or Linux box.
I have had 2 drives fail well within the warranty period, and did not return them for just this reason.
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/disk has been mentioned several times as a way to wipe a disk. What information do you have on there that's so confidential that a pass (or several passes) with dd won't suffice? Seems like a waste of money to not take advantage of your warranty.
With RAID 1 (mirroring), your write rate is no faster; if anything, it's slightly slower. But you're right when it comes to read performance; it can be up to twice as fast, with the two drives behaving like a stripe set.
The space in the URL was breaking it. Here's a real link.
I have to say, even though I don't smoke, and don't like people smoking around me, I think this would be a very unfair law. Smoking is addictive, and it's not fair that if someone can't quit, that they should lose their job. Fine, make them pay a surcharge to cover the higher insurance rates for smokers, but that's it.
You would have to (theoretically) pay duty, which includes provincial and federal taxes. I'm not sure if you'd pay the levy though. Can anyone say for sure?
The ping command isn't the only way to ping a computer. It just happens to be the most commonly-used tool for the job. It sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to a host, and checks for corresponding ICMP ECHO_RESPONSE packets to come back. But any program could do this, and present the resulting data however it chooses. The fact that someone has said that it's possible to present it as a sound wave shouldn't be newsworthy.
you get a list of ping times, which scroll by at a rate of about 2 per second or so.
Many implementations of the ping command let you choose how often pings are performed. On my box, the default is every second, which is sufficient for most purposes.
This doesn't show you the truly short-term behaviour of the connection.
I don't think they are talking about pinging at very small intervals. This would clog the network, and the doctor wouldn't be able to react any faster really if 100 pings were sent every second instead of 1.
When an hour long show contains 22 minutes worth of show
Actually, the standard primetime slots have 22 minutes of show content every half hour usually. Syndicated reruns may cut some content to fit in more ads, but it certainly doesn't take it down to 22 minutes in a full hour.
An asteroid 1000 km in diameter is about 40e15 kg mass
Yes, but we're not usually talking about asteroids 1000 km in diameter hitting us. The largest known asteroid is Ceres, with a diameter of 933 km. There are only four known asteroids with a diameter greater than 340 km. They're (presumably) (relatively) easy to find, and fairly rare.
The problem is with a smaller asteroid, one that is still large enough to cause a globally catastrophic collision, but small enough that we don't see it until it's too late to do anything. The threshold diameter for an asteroid to cause a global catastrophe is thought to be only about 1 km. Try recalculating with something in that range.
You want to guess how many times I have heard someone say they wanted more spam? Twice
I'd actually be interested to know why even those two people wanted more spam.
Anyone who actually wants spam is probably hoping to get in on one of these great opportunities holding money for someone in Africa, or is really desperate to be better in bed. If that's the case, they should be protected from spam; they're gullible enough to throw their money away.
And then only after sending repeated e-mails to the developers to let them know there's interest.
That doesn't mean there's enough interest. The Mac market share is under 5%. There's not often much money to be made porting to Mac, at least not relative to the amount you can make writing software for Windows.
Sad but true, it's a vicious cycle. Windows gets market share because there's a larger market (and thus more profit to be made) developing for Windows and so Windows is a more appealing platform since more software is available.
Of course, with Microsoft doing everything it can to drive consumers away these days (Palladium, FUD, etc.), Mac may have a chance. I hope so; I love my iBook.
...but it is vitally important that you actually let Apple know if you like their stance!
Anyone know what the best webpage or email addy at Apple is for this kind of feedback? Standard "feedback" webpages are usually about "how do you like our site?" or will go to a customer-service person who thinks "oh, that's nice" and moves on, since there's no complaint or problem that they have to resolve.
not true about collection agencies charging up-front
Didn't say they did.
they usually negotiate for about 50% of the amount due that they can collect
My point was that they do want some money, and they can't just tack it onto your bill to the company. You're going to be giving up 50% of your fee to a collection agency, when in court, you could get the whole fee.
Also, without an agreement in place regarding payment, the company might want to take it to court anyway to get a legal decision on whether payment was necessary. Just because you get a collection agency on your side doesn't mean the company has to pay. If that were the case, well hey, I can use a bit of money, maybe I'll send a collection agency after you, despite the fact that you don't legally owe me anything.:)
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True, if you only connect to Live with the original BIOS. But they blacklist based on MAC addresses, so if you ever connect with the modded BIOS, your XBox will be permanently banned, even if you later switch back to the original.
Unfortunately, when they made this change, they set the default value to +0, taking away the bonus you normally get. I say they should have set it to the old +1 by default; perhaps they'll fix it in the next update.
Check it out; go to your prefs page and set the high-karma modifier to +1. You should see your posts starting at 2 again. But it doesn't mean anyone else will, unless they've changed their prefs too. :P
Backslash(dot)? Somebody's a Windows user!
Sorry ... :P
Wine is not an emulator, so it won't work on Mac (PPC). I'll have to get Wine up and running on my linux box one of these days tho; so far I've been too lazy to set up the Windows partition and mounts.
I guess downloading files from FastTrack clients is not a problem; there are many apps out there to do that. So if Kazaa Lite could forward (to FastTrack) a query it receives from a non-FastTrack client, then return the FastTrack results to the non-FT client ... wonder if that could work?
Whoops, guess I didn't have my brain in straight. I was thinking back a couple months ago, we had to send my girlfriend's Fujitsu HD in under warranty, because it was intermittently not being recognized. Disk was probably fine, interface was a bit shot, though, I guess. We still managed to mirror and wipe it when it did come up okay one time.
Kazaa makes their money off of the advertising and spyware they bundle with KMD (the Kazaa app). By opening up the code or the FastTrack protocol, they would cut off their revenue stream.
Given two ways of accessing the FastTrack network, one with ads and spyware, one without, which would you choose? As it is, Kazaa Lite probably puts a significant dent in their revenues. They don't want to add to that problem.
Does anyone know of any efforts to crack the FastTrack protocol by reverse-engineering KMD? I would love to see a client for my Mac and/or Linux box.
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/disk has been mentioned several times as a way to wipe a disk. What information do you have on there that's so confidential that a pass (or several passes) with dd won't suffice? Seems like a waste of money to not take advantage of your warranty.
Jimbo writes the note, then reads it back.
Jimbo: "Eat up Martha? Bah!"
Jimbo throws the Newton, hitting Martin in the head.
With RAID 1 (mirroring), your write rate is no faster; if anything, it's slightly slower. But you're right when it comes to read performance; it can be up to twice as fast, with the two drives behaving like a stripe set.
I have to say, even though I don't smoke, and don't like people smoking around me, I think this would be a very unfair law. Smoking is addictive, and it's not fair that if someone can't quit, that they should lose their job. Fine, make them pay a surcharge to cover the higher insurance rates for smokers, but that's it.
You would have to (theoretically) pay duty, which includes provincial and federal taxes. I'm not sure if you'd pay the levy though. Can anyone say for sure?
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3. profit!!!
Sorry...
"ooh! and sorny!"
The ping command isn't the only way to ping a computer. It just happens to be the most commonly-used tool for the job. It sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to a host, and checks for corresponding ICMP ECHO_RESPONSE packets to come back. But any program could do this, and present the resulting data however it chooses. The fact that someone has said that it's possible to present it as a sound wave shouldn't be newsworthy.
you get a list of ping times, which scroll by at a rate of about 2 per second or so.
Many implementations of the ping command let you choose how often pings are performed. On my box, the default is every second, which is sufficient for most purposes.
This doesn't show you the truly short-term behaviour of the connection.
I don't think they are talking about pinging at very small intervals. This would clog the network, and the doctor wouldn't be able to react any faster really if 100 pings were sent every second instead of 1.
Oops. One of the few times I didn't hit preview, and I screwed up the tags. I didn't mean to be shouting.
Actually, the standard primetime slots have 22 minutes of show content every half hour usually. Syndicated reruns may cut some content to fit in more ads, but it certainly doesn't take it down to 22 minutes in a full hour.
See this Slashdot story from 28 October.
Actually, I just did a ps ajx, and it looks like the Dock has been using about 7 times as much processor time as the Finder on my iBook.
Yes, but we're not usually talking about asteroids 1000 km in diameter hitting us. The largest known asteroid is Ceres, with a diameter of 933 km. There are only four known asteroids with a diameter greater than 340 km. They're (presumably) (relatively) easy to find, and fairly rare.
The problem is with a smaller asteroid, one that is still large enough to cause a globally catastrophic collision, but small enough that we don't see it until it's too late to do anything. The threshold diameter for an asteroid to cause a global catastrophe is thought to be only about 1 km. Try recalculating with something in that range.
Hmm, you haven't blocked their reply to you, have you? ;)
I'd actually be interested to know why even those two people wanted more spam.
Anyone who actually wants spam is probably hoping to get in on one of these great opportunities holding money for someone in Africa, or is really desperate to be better in bed. If that's the case, they should be protected from spam; they're gullible enough to throw their money away.
That doesn't mean there's enough interest. The Mac market share is under 5%. There's not often much money to be made porting to Mac, at least not relative to the amount you can make writing software for Windows.
Sad but true, it's a vicious cycle. Windows gets market share because there's a larger market (and thus more profit to be made) developing for Windows and so Windows is a more appealing platform since more software is available.
Of course, with Microsoft doing everything it can to drive consumers away these days (Palladium, FUD, etc.), Mac may have a chance. I hope so; I love my iBook.
Anyone know what the best webpage or email addy at Apple is for this kind of feedback? Standard "feedback" webpages are usually about "how do you like our site?" or will go to a customer-service person who thinks "oh, that's nice" and moves on, since there's no complaint or problem that they have to resolve.
Didn't say they did.
they usually negotiate for about 50% of the amount due that they can collect
My point was that they do want some money, and they can't just tack it onto your bill to the company. You're going to be giving up 50% of your fee to a collection agency, when in court, you could get the whole fee.
Also, without an agreement in place regarding payment, the company might want to take it to court anyway to get a legal decision on whether payment was necessary. Just because you get a collection agency on your side doesn't mean the company has to pay. If that were the case, well hey, I can use a bit of money, maybe I'll send a collection agency after you, despite the fact that you don't legally owe me anything. :)