I've used that on web sites I had in 1997? Its been a while, but this is nothing new. Its a new way to do the same old tricks. And it only works in an old browser, and Safari.
This isn't exactly true. Root login is disabled, but the root account is very real. Every startup item, and every bsd script in/etc is run as root on startup (not every script in/etc is run on startup, understand, but the ones that are are run as root).
I still agree with your point though - this is anything but a worm or virus. Its just an evil shell script.
I had to open it up too.
But, after thinking about it, imagine if you DIDN'T need to. Imagine if it was clear as day that those two squares were the same color.
Human hearing is from approximately 20Hz to 20kHz. Waveforms begin allowing themselves to be manifested as radio (versus acoustic air-moving sound waves) around 30kHz.
The United States, Canada, and Mexico use a power grid with alternating current, changing polarity at the speed of 60 times per second, or 60Hz. This is the sound you get when you plug in audio equipment and turn the volume way up, or touch the tip of that cord going to your guitar, with the amp cranked.
Thats not to say that ELF/VLF radio waves aren't harmful, but, I think we need to set the facts straight.
I can't see how that would matter any, as you are still comparing a valid network request, and html render time. In fact, it may be more valid a test, as internet traffic between you and your ISP is relatively constant, where as internet traffic from your computer to, say, slashdot.org, is likely a more bumpy road.
Just get a chroma/blue-screen analog device, and use powerpoint on a mac with two monitors.
One monitor to show the powerpoint application, the other to show the slide output. Now make the background pure blue, and insert text. Split the output from the slide-show screen so you have a composite output, and a vga output. Take the composite output into an analog chroma-key device, and you're set.
I agree with you 100%, and let me add a little re-inforcement here...
Someone once said, those who prefer security over freedom deserve neither. There's also, "Give me liberty or give me death."
At any rate, these people are talking about preserving freedom in the face of danger. This country was founded on freedom and danger, rebels, people seeking religious freedom, etc.
If you consider what the above AC is talking about, he's saying, don't screen people for finger nail clippers and the like, rather, just put inplace a security system to actually DEAL with an immediate threat.
Multi-layered is the key - just teasing the american (and alien) public with silly security check points that do nothing but delay the average joe that wants to get home and see grandma is completely pointless, and does nothing to handle an actuall situation.
Give us our freedom, and give those who would take it none. Or something like that. Its a careful balance, eh?
modern cell phones hardly approach 1 watt. What you're generally looking at is an average output of.3 watts. Most modern cell phones will vary in power to compensate for weak signal reports too, so in larger metro areas, power output will be/considerably/ lower.
Also worth noting is how the power radiates out from a cell phone anteanna: omnidirectional. In other words, the standard cell phone antenna is not a 'point source' of power, so your loose adaptation of what I can only guess is an audio speaker radiation formula isn't completely valid here.
Also, cell phones use a far lower amount of bandwidth than an AM radio station. Where an AM radio station (Amplitude Modulation, any frequency) might use +/- 5kHz, cell phones use far less (an analog cell phone uses about +/-5 though).
The higher frequency of a cellular phone does put it closer to microwave radiation, which we all know has the potential to really/fry/ things...
So, yes, we are closer to cell phones, wifi, and the like, so the power exposure factor may be higher. But, the output power is SO much lower, not to mention the duty cycle, I don't think it could be that similar in health-aspects.
Also, low frequencies tend to act very differently over distances, versus high frequencies.
The whitepaper goes on to state that the long-term goal of this system is to catalog every human creation in existence that can be expressed by a digital medium.
...is that we have achieved amplifiers based on transistors that are more accurate than human hearing. Once you achieve that, there is no point in having anything else.
Any effect, such as that of a tube amp, a vinyl player, or whatever else makes music better for you, can be emulated. Any distortion, clipping, overloading, whatever.
I must stop you here and say that tubes have a better transient response than transistors. Having said that, how can you emulate better transient response with DSP?
Thats like trying to wash cloths with dirty water.
Consider though, how much easier it is to repair tube gear than transistor gear.
If a tube goes bad, you pull it out, and stick a new one in.
And its usually fairly obvious which tube it is.
With transistors, its entirely different. Bust out the 'scope, get a schematic, and start tracing. Ok, no signal here.. lets unsolder that part, test it... shit, its ok... hmm... maybe its the summing amp... unsolder that... nope, hmm...
Overall, tube gear is really easy to fix, compared with solid state. I guess thats why so much broken solid state equipment gets trashed or replaced today, rather than fixed.
Also, for an audiophile, spending $100 per year on completely new kick-ass tubes is no big deal, its totally worth it.
Consider that the life of a tube can extend to over 30 years too. If the sound changes, re-bias. And if its really bad, spend the $10 on a new tube.
And believe me, I've tried many a DSP plugin that supposedly has a 'tube' sound. The problem with this, is your audio has to go through an ADC and then a DAC. Which totally destroys any sort of audio quality. What you're left with is a 'warmer' digital sound. What a load of shit.
You can't polish a turd. Converting audio to digital to make it sound like something analog is just stupid.
Not to mention total destruction of transient response, and dynamic range, and frequency response, of the converters.
When you consider that well designed tube gear sounds better than digital and solid state gear, you realize that emulation with DSP can't possibly take its place - its still going to pass through op amps, converters, and the like.
Yes yes yes, and believe me, you get what you pay for.
In the world of audio recording, tubes are preferred by newbies because of their nice distortion. These preamps and other devices typically run tubes at unheard of low plate voltages (try 45 volt plates, as opposed to 350). This gives your sound an exaggerated 'tubey' sound. New engineers get excited over this lack of definition.
Real tube gear exhibits FAR better frequency response, transient response, and phase coherency. And these tubes all run with the proper plate voltages.
As for the home Audiophile, properly built and designed tube amps will always be best. No transistor can possibly exhibit the transient response of a tube. Also, there are distortions that come from the slow response time of transistors (and op amps) that distort phase.
So, tubes are better, sound for sound.
well, this just shows how little you know on the subject.
The tubes don't have to handle the current. The transformer does the bulk of that.
Furthermore, EVERY high powered TV and Radio station you've ever heard of uses tubes for output amplification. So, take 700 WLW in cincinnati, outputting half a million watts. Thats all tubes.
Sorry, its TRANSISTORS that can't handle the current.
And if you really want a 2000 watt audio amp, you're probably anything but an audiophile.
THX does not stand for the Tomlinson Holman EXperimen. Tom was the engineer for the THX, as well as SMPTE b-chain reproduction, but the references to THX date to well before that time. I've heard Mr. Lucas had "THX 1138" as a license plate in college. And of course, there's the many film references.
...is a Debian boot floopy. Custom-compile a kernel that supports your USB or Memory Stick/Compact Flash/Whatever devices, put it on the floppy. Format the external media so that linux can read it (and it may already be able to, so the choice to format may come down to performance).
Make a short script to mount the external media on boot up, and install everything you need from there.
Obviously, having another computer running a BSD or Linux distro will greatly help you achieve this.
Don't be surprised if the fruits of your labor yield a very fast graphical linux box.
Slashdot Mirror
I was waiting for someone to say that.
I've used that on web sites I had in 1997? Its been a while, but this is nothing new. Its a new way to do the same old tricks. And it only works in an old browser, and Safari.
When Bush gets interested in AMERICAN security (as opposed to Irai Secuirty, Afghan Security, Saudi Security, Corporation Security, etc), let me know.
The real test of liberal tolerance isn't in how we treat our friends- it's in how we treat our enemies.
Your post, my friend, appears at odds with your signature.
It's not clear, though, how serious Kerry truly is
Is this supposed to be news?
Root is disabled by default on all shipping Mac's
This isn't exactly true. Root login is disabled, but the root account is very real. Every startup item, and every bsd script in /etc is run as root on startup (not every script in /etc is run on startup, understand, but the ones that are are run as root).
I still agree with your point though - this is anything but a worm or virus. Its just an evil shell script.
And it doesn't even open a backdoor! How lame! :p
...this is the beginning of a Brave New World
Acoustic waves and electromagnetic waves are completely different.
This is exactly my point.
Whether a wave is acoustic or electromagnetic has nothing to do with its frequency.
While it may be possible to create sound pressure waveforms over 1mHz, something tells me that wouldn't be entirely easy, if even possible
I had to open it up too. But, after thinking about it, imagine if you DIDN'T need to. Imagine if it was clear as day that those two squares were the same color.
ELF, 30-3000 Hz VLF, 3-30 kHz
I call Bullshit.
Human hearing is from approximately 20Hz to 20kHz. Waveforms begin allowing themselves to be manifested as radio (versus acoustic air-moving sound waves) around 30kHz.
The United States, Canada, and Mexico use a power grid with alternating current, changing polarity at the speed of 60 times per second, or 60Hz. This is the sound you get when you plug in audio equipment and turn the volume way up, or touch the tip of that cord going to your guitar, with the amp cranked.
Thats not to say that ELF/VLF radio waves aren't harmful, but, I think we need to set the facts straight.
I can't see how that would matter any, as you are still comparing a valid network request, and html render time. In fact, it may be more valid a test, as internet traffic between you and your ISP is relatively constant, where as internet traffic from your computer to, say, slashdot.org, is likely a more bumpy road.
Where can I get the source code, or binary for that matter, of dnslog? All I can find is its a popular username to use for DNS daemon accounts.
Just get a chroma/blue-screen analog device, and use powerpoint on a mac with two monitors.
One monitor to show the powerpoint application, the other to show the slide output. Now make the background pure blue, and insert text. Split the output from the slide-show screen so you have a composite output, and a vga output. Take the composite output into an analog chroma-key device, and you're set.
I agree with you 100%, and let me add a little re-inforcement here...
Someone once said, those who prefer security over freedom deserve neither. There's also, "Give me liberty or give me death."
At any rate, these people are talking about preserving freedom in the face of danger. This country was founded on freedom and danger, rebels, people seeking religious freedom, etc.
If you consider what the above AC is talking about, he's saying, don't screen people for finger nail clippers and the like, rather, just put inplace a security system to actually DEAL with an immediate threat.
Multi-layered is the key - just teasing the american (and alien) public with silly security check points that do nothing but delay the average joe that wants to get home and see grandma is completely pointless, and does nothing to handle an actuall situation.
Give us our freedom, and give those who would take it none. Or something like that. Its a careful balance, eh?
modern cell phones hardly approach 1 watt. What you're generally looking at is an average output of .3 watts. Most modern cell phones will vary in power to compensate for weak signal reports too, so in larger metro areas, power output will be /considerably/ lower.
Also worth noting is how the power radiates out from a cell phone anteanna: omnidirectional. In other words, the standard cell phone antenna is not a 'point source' of power, so your loose adaptation of what I can only guess is an audio speaker radiation formula isn't completely valid here.
Also, cell phones use a far lower amount of bandwidth than an AM radio station. Where an AM radio station (Amplitude Modulation, any frequency) might use +/- 5kHz, cell phones use far less (an analog cell phone uses about +/-5 though).
The higher frequency of a cellular phone does put it closer to microwave radiation, which we all know has the potential to really /fry/ things...
So, yes, we are closer to cell phones, wifi, and the like, so the power exposure factor may be higher. But, the output power is SO much lower, not to mention the duty cycle, I don't think it could be that similar in health-aspects.
Also, low frequencies tend to act very differently over distances, versus high frequencies.
The whitepaper goes on to state that the long-term goal of this system is to catalog every human creation in existence that can be expressed by a digital medium.
Umm, yeah, except those which are copyrighted.
Well, I have to tell ya, I've been fixing stuff long enough that, for me, tubes are easier.
Granted, lots of people feel the opposite - I guess it depends on what you learned on.
All I know about Bush is I had a job when Clinton was president.
If thats all you know, no wonder.
If you really want that old "vaccum tube" feel to the sound, try injecting just a touch of 60 or 120 Hz hum into the output.
Consider, however, the fact that CMRR of an opamp is on the order of 60-80 dB, and the CMRR of a transformer coupled tube amp is well over 100dB.
Translation: a well built tube amp will have supremely less hum than the typical transistor amp.
...is that we have achieved amplifiers based on transistors that are more accurate than human hearing. Once you achieve that, there is no point in having anything else.
Any effect, such as that of a tube amp, a vinyl player, or whatever else makes music better for you, can be emulated. Any distortion, clipping, overloading, whatever.
I must stop you here and say that tubes have a better transient response than transistors. Having said that, how can you emulate better transient response with DSP? Thats like trying to wash cloths with dirty water.Consider though, how much easier it is to repair tube gear than transistor gear. If a tube goes bad, you pull it out, and stick a new one in. And its usually fairly obvious which tube it is. With transistors, its entirely different. Bust out the 'scope, get a schematic, and start tracing. Ok, no signal here.. lets unsolder that part, test it... shit, its ok... hmm... maybe its the summing amp... unsolder that... nope, hmm... Overall, tube gear is really easy to fix, compared with solid state. I guess thats why so much broken solid state equipment gets trashed or replaced today, rather than fixed. Also, for an audiophile, spending $100 per year on completely new kick-ass tubes is no big deal, its totally worth it. Consider that the life of a tube can extend to over 30 years too. If the sound changes, re-bias. And if its really bad, spend the $10 on a new tube.
And believe me, I've tried many a DSP plugin that supposedly has a 'tube' sound. The problem with this, is your audio has to go through an ADC and then a DAC. Which totally destroys any sort of audio quality. What you're left with is a 'warmer' digital sound. What a load of shit. You can't polish a turd. Converting audio to digital to make it sound like something analog is just stupid. Not to mention total destruction of transient response, and dynamic range, and frequency response, of the converters. When you consider that well designed tube gear sounds better than digital and solid state gear, you realize that emulation with DSP can't possibly take its place - its still going to pass through op amps, converters, and the like.
Yes yes yes, and believe me, you get what you pay for. In the world of audio recording, tubes are preferred by newbies because of their nice distortion. These preamps and other devices typically run tubes at unheard of low plate voltages (try 45 volt plates, as opposed to 350). This gives your sound an exaggerated 'tubey' sound. New engineers get excited over this lack of definition. Real tube gear exhibits FAR better frequency response, transient response, and phase coherency. And these tubes all run with the proper plate voltages. As for the home Audiophile, properly built and designed tube amps will always be best. No transistor can possibly exhibit the transient response of a tube. Also, there are distortions that come from the slow response time of transistors (and op amps) that distort phase. So, tubes are better, sound for sound.
well, this just shows how little you know on the subject.
The tubes don't have to handle the current. The transformer does the bulk of that.
Furthermore, EVERY high powered TV and Radio station you've ever heard of uses tubes for output amplification. So, take 700 WLW in cincinnati, outputting half a million watts. Thats all tubes.
Sorry, its TRANSISTORS that can't handle the current.
And if you really want a 2000 watt audio amp, you're probably anything but an audiophile.
THX does not stand for the Tomlinson Holman EXperimen. Tom was the engineer for the THX, as well as SMPTE b-chain reproduction, but the references to THX date to well before that time. I've heard Mr. Lucas had "THX 1138" as a license plate in college. And of course, there's the many film references.
The obvious answer, is "THX for all the money"
He has 128 megs of physical ram. Given the likely low memory usage of this installation, operating without a swap partition should be fine.
...is a Debian boot floopy. Custom-compile a kernel that supports your USB or Memory Stick/Compact Flash/Whatever devices, put it on the floppy. Format the external media so that linux can read it (and it may already be able to, so the choice to format may come down to performance).
Make a short script to mount the external media on boot up, and install everything you need from there.
Obviously, having another computer running a BSD or Linux distro will greatly help you achieve this.
Don't be surprised if the fruits of your labor yield a very fast graphical linux box.