in the 60's , 70's and 80's , when it was slow news week, the common nerd/geek magazine would sport an article on flying cars; in 90's and 00's , it is 3D TV (or 3D computer screens).
feel free to pump up the score (and dont forget to restart spamd if you use it)
since the above was not enough , I started using
FuzzyOCR , and it works great
(the number of image spam went from 10/day to 0/ever);
so I am planning to
package it for Debian ;
but the web page hints that there may be some security problem, so I am investigating.
I guess that most people praising Virtual Earth (VE from here on) did not try it on spots outside the U.S.A.
(Disclaimer: I run Firefox on Linux,so I did not test the new 3D VE services. )
I tried comparing the 2d services: open both maps.google.com and virtual earth , set them to hybrid, and zoom into "Paris, France" for example; click here
(google)
and
(VE).
Google lets you zoom all way down, you can see people walking on streets (that picture of Hotel de Ville is gorgeous!); with VE, building are smeared out at a 1mile=2inch scale, and then you cannot zoom further.
The same is true for "rome, italy".
Instead , in Tokio, you can zoom to smallest detail in VE: but still, Google zooms about 4x more than VE (you judge by
(google)
and
(VE)).
nice site (unfortunately some parts do not work ok with Flash 9 (beta) for linux); but it shows a lot of limitations when you try to use the "communicate -> contacts" part to send them an email. The interface requires you to keep your mouse on a text field to enter text - ok , I can do that, it was this way in the early days of X11/Athena interface ; but how am I supposed to send the message ?!? and, when I started moving the mouse around to try to send the message , I lost the whole text ! damn it! either there is a bug in Flash , or it poorly designed.
a similar project is
babybot. Short extract:
Our scientific goal is that of uncovering the mechanisms of the functioning of the brain by building physical models of the neural control and cognitive structures. In our intendment physical model are embodied artificial systems that freely interact in a not too unconstrained environment. Also, our approach derives from studies of human sensorimotor and cognitive development with the aim of investigating if a developmental approach to building intelligent systems may offer new insight on aspects of human behavior and new tools for the implementation of complex, artificial systems.
(BTW: that project has been around since 2000.... )
I do encrypt only/home (that is in its own partition) ; I do not care for/etc ,/var (/var/mail is always empty in my laptop ) . I am not encrypting swap, and I know it is not a good idea.
My 2cents: if you do not encrypt the whole root fs, do remember to move/root/.ssh into an encrypted volume. In my case,
I am trying it (inside Firefox and Mozilla as well) and it works perfectly. Two comments. (1) with Flash 7, audio was skippy (I have a cheapo onboard audio card; with Flash 9, I can finally enjoy youtube and the like. (2) today/. was linking to a article linking to
http://www.bush-of-ghosts.com/ ; with Flash 7, it showed blank ; with Flash 9 , it works.
you should try
Gwenole Beauchesne's
nspluginwrapper
.
Linux.com
says:
The screenshot you see here shows the Adobe Flash plugin -- a 32-bit, i386-only download -- running happily inside a 64-bit AMD64 build of Firefox. Beauchesne lists Flash, Adobe Reader (formerly known as Acrobat Reader), DejaVu Libre, JPEG2000, Mplayerplug-in, and RealPlayer as working "reasonably well" at this time.
just for the record: the post claims that
``the storage mechanism extracts the 120 "strongest" features from an image to create something called a "wavelet transform"''
but this is quite misworded. Indeed
if you look into the original research project,
you see that
``the algorithm performs a
wavelet transform
on every image, and then collects just the few largest coefficients from this transform''.
Hmmm. I can confirm that 2.0beta2 reports "2.0b2" in the about window. It may be that I had installed 2.0beta2 , but never upgraded it for long time, and then I upgraded from 2.0b2 to 2.0rc3 . I am not so sure anymore, please ignore the comment regarding 2.0rc2:->
I just told my Firefox 2.0rc2 to autoupgrade ; now when I ask "about Mozilla Firefox", it says "Firefox 2.0" - whereas 2.0rc2 said "2.0rc2" . So this , under the hood, is already 2.0 ; IMHO the dev team thinks that, most probably, there will not be a 2.0rc4, so they are betting on this to really be 2.0.
Actually, if your phone is GSM, then you can already do that.
First and foremost, you must write down your
IMEI number.
Simply type *#06# into your cell phone. It may look like: AA-BBBBBB-CCCCCC-D . That is the serial number of the phone, and it will not change if the SIM is changed. Write it down into a safe place.
When your phone is stolen, report that number to the police. They will report it to
the providers, that will lock down the cell phone for good; moreover, if the phone is ever turned on, they may be able to track the thief whereabouts, using standard cell tecnology; that, and an identikit, may actually help them arrest the thief.
A friend of mine, (who is in IT business) did all of the above, and she really had the thief arrested and prosecuted.
Another word: WEBDAV. If you ever tried to set up a WebDAV enabled WWW site with Apache,
you will find out
that WinXP has totally skrwd the WebDAV support (that was working in W2K);
after losing a lot of time on it, I found
this,
and yet it did not work completely OK.
If you
Google around, you will find many people
bashing MS for this.
Slashdot Mirror
most the paper in my snail-mail box is advertising. I fail to see why I should pay 20$/month to convert it into more SPAM for my e-mail box.
in the 60's , 70's and 80's , when it was slow news week, the common nerd/geek magazine would sport an article on flying cars; in 90's and 00's , it is 3D TV (or 3D computer screens).
I guess that most people praising Virtual Earth (VE from here on) did not try it on spots outside the U.S.A. (Disclaimer: I run Firefox on Linux,so I did not test the new 3D VE services. ) I tried comparing the 2d services: open both maps.google.com and virtual earth , set them to hybrid, and zoom into "Paris, France" for example; click here (google) and (VE). Google lets you zoom all way down, you can see people walking on streets (that picture of Hotel de Ville is gorgeous!); with VE, building are smeared out at a 1mile=2inch scale, and then you cannot zoom further. The same is true for "rome, italy". Instead , in Tokio, you can zoom to smallest detail in VE: but still, Google zooms about 4x more than VE (you judge by (google) and (VE)).
too bad the cooler looks like may aunt's hair dryer.
why dont they make it with a CPU kinda socket , so we can unplug the CPU and plug this GPU in its place instead? it would be more fair..
10 (not counting tabs in Firefox)
nice site (unfortunately some parts do not work ok with Flash 9 (beta) for linux); but it shows a lot of limitations when you try to use the "communicate -> contacts" part to send them an email. The interface requires you to keep your mouse on a text field to enter text - ok , I can do that, it was this way in the early days of X11/Athena interface ; but how am I supposed to send the message ?!? and, when I started moving the mouse around to try to send the message , I lost the whole text ! damn it! either there is a bug in Flash , or it poorly designed.
a similar project is babybot. Short extract: Our scientific goal is that of uncovering the mechanisms of the functioning of the brain by building physical models of the neural control and cognitive structures. In our intendment physical model are embodied artificial systems that freely interact in a not too unconstrained environment. Also, our approach derives from studies of human sensorimotor and cognitive development with the aim of investigating if a developmental approach to building intelligent systems may offer new insight on aspects of human behavior and new tools for the implementation of complex, artificial systems. (BTW: that project has been around since 2000.... )
So they need a "1.83GHz Intel Core Duo" to light a pumpkin?
the linked talk also won the price for " The Most Gratuitous Use Of The Word Kinda In A Serious Scientific Presentation".
My 2cents: if you do not encrypt the whole root fs, do remember to move
I am trying it (inside Firefox and Mozilla as well) and it works perfectly. Two comments. (1) with Flash 7, audio was skippy (I have a cheapo onboard audio card; with Flash 9, I can finally enjoy youtube and the like. (2) today /. was linking to a article linking to
http://www.bush-of-ghosts.com/ ; with Flash 7, it showed blank ; with Flash 9 , it works.
you should try Gwenole Beauchesne's nspluginwrapper . Linux.com says: The screenshot you see here shows the Adobe Flash plugin -- a 32-bit, i386-only download -- running happily inside a 64-bit AMD64 build of Firefox. Beauchesne lists Flash, Adobe Reader (formerly known as Acrobat Reader), DejaVu Libre, JPEG2000, Mplayerplug-in, and RealPlayer as working "reasonably well" at this time.
"earth w/o people" implies "no more cowboyneal option in the polls" ! hmm, an unexpected benefit
just for the record: the post claims that ``the storage mechanism extracts the 120 "strongest" features from an image to create something called a "wavelet transform"'' but this is quite misworded. Indeed if you look into the original research project, you see that ``the algorithm performs a wavelet transform on every image, and then collects just the few largest coefficients from this transform''.
whatever I draw, this picture at http://www.flickr.com/photos/96302514@N00/58916441 / is always in the list of results!
Hmmm. I can confirm that 2.0beta2 reports "2.0b2" in the about window. It may be that I had installed 2.0beta2 , but never upgraded it for long time, and then I upgraded from 2.0b2 to 2.0rc3 . I am not so sure anymore, please ignore the comment regarding 2.0rc2 :->
I just told my Firefox 2.0rc2 to autoupgrade ; now when I ask "about Mozilla Firefox", it says "Firefox 2.0" - whereas 2.0rc2 said "2.0rc2" . So this , under the hood, is already 2.0 ; IMHO the dev team thinks that, most probably, there will not be a 2.0rc4, so they are betting on this to really be 2.0.
So, when you run the antivirus, does it disassemble the RNA as well?
(here comes the quote nazi:)
A communications disruption can mean only one thing - invasion. (MP3)
What about a small fridge to put alongside the stereo cainet? You may put your soda, beer, and PS3 inside it.
indeed there is plenty of kernel modules that may rootkit your system hard: they hide themselves, hide selected files from the FS, redirect commands, can give root privileges. can execute commands sent from a remote host. If someone can install modules in the kernel , then security is skrwd. (std-disclaimer: I did not RTFA)
Actually, if your phone is GSM, then you can already do that.
First and foremost, you must write down your IMEI number. Simply type *#06# into your cell phone. It may look like: AA-BBBBBB-CCCCCC-D . That is the serial number of the phone, and it will not change if the SIM is changed. Write it down into a safe place.
When your phone is stolen, report that number to the police. They will report it to the providers, that will lock down the cell phone for good; moreover, if the phone is ever turned on, they may be able to track the thief whereabouts, using standard cell tecnology; that, and an identikit, may actually help them arrest the thief.
A friend of mine, (who is in IT business) did all of the above, and she really had the thief arrested and prosecuted.
Another word: WEBDAV. If you ever tried to set up a WebDAV enabled WWW site with Apache, you will find out that WinXP has totally skrwd the WebDAV support (that was working in W2K); after losing a lot of time on it, I found this, and yet it did not work completely OK. If you Google around, you will find many people bashing MS for this.