I have had many cases where people had problem caused by linksys products. Often a firmware upgrade did the trick.
I think it was funny when I heard that Cisco bought Linksys, truly they wanted part of the low,low,low-end market for real this time.
And as others has pointed out, all network devices are not created equal, even if they perform the same function. In the case of SOHO products like these, it hardly matters. It only matter when some "bright" minds thinks they can same money on using SOHO products in their large scale networks.
I don't have a standalone DVD player, but I have a CD-ROM drive that can read DVDs. So yesterday I decided that I should get it to work so that I could watch the few DVD's I would come across.
So I installed the DVD player software that came with the drive. I had 2 DVD movies that came bundled with different stuff, not movies I wanted to watch but good enough for testing.
First problem, they were different regions so I had to search the internet for a Firmware to the drive that wouldn't increment the region change counter. It works I think, but the DVD player program still counts down.
Next problem, the DVD player program won't let me play the movie because it is copy protected and I have TV-OUT enabled. WTF, Now I do not have it enabled but my plan was to use it and watch the DVDs on my TV. So I am forced to watch them on the PC or buy some software on the internet that can bypass this.
After spending a couple of hours, I decided that DVD's were not worth the hassle for me anyway, I don't need a standalone player for the one movie I want to see every month and playing it on the PC is too much of a problem.
I am left with the feeling that they really don't want me to play their DVD's and their copyprotection attemps only works on those, like me, who are not really into it, and don't care enough about it to spend days to gain knowledge on the subject. But putting these roadblocks in the way to cripple the technology has just killed my interest in the media.
It was a bit slow for me too. then it went up and down a bit but now I have about 160kB/s down and 40kB/s up(I have a max on 56kB/s up on my line).
I'll leave it on until tomorrow, maybe longer.
Crybaby posting AC, not even funny, should rather be something like this: You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper in the world is a white guy, the best golfer in the world is a black guy, France is accusing the US of arrogance and Germany doesn't want to go to war.
That is really hard to imagine when you try to remember what happened. Go waaay back to the days of the Altair "computer", where hobbyists and future geeks would order the computer by mail. Go to meetings and swap programs and ideas. Then came Paul Allen and Bill Gates and wrote basic for it. It was a biz project from the beginning, aimed at making money. Now there is nothing wrong with making money, we all making money. But to imagine Microsoft as Open Source is really hard when you see how they complained about people swapping their Basic as they did with all the software for that computer. Now _selling_ software for the Altair seemed like overkill and I guess it was but it seemed that their plan worked quite well but to me it doesn't seem like Microsoft is built around the open source mind set at all(gasp):)
Some of us choose to have a structure that can handle peak loads in times like this, other choose not to. Of course it costs more money to be able to handle the load, and the hardware will sit idle most of the time. But it is a decision you just need to take. "Do we require that we can display full content at peak times".
Many sites have prepared for this pressure in the days before, specially when the 48 hour deadline came, another server or two got into the pool in the loadbalancers.:)
I just block servers and subnets of ISP's that bothers me. The list in the router is growing everyday. People trying to abuse webservers,scripts,proxies etc.
Just re-added entire Dialtoneinternet today, the slipped in my router upgrade and,, surprise +5000 attempts today to tunnel SMTP trough proxy CONNECT method. Even though I don't have a proxy, not even mod-proxy. A bunch of subnets from Worldcom/uunet also got in my list this winter for directory attacks to my mailserver.
Then I use the most nasty RBL etc lists for my mail server.
Anyone remembering playing "Seven Cities of Gold"?
I liked that a lot. and if I remember correctly, they managed to do some nice floppy loading without interrupting the game too much. I tried to make it work on the emulator, but for some reason it would not boot. Perhaps the memory are best preserved that way:)
Oh, another minor quibble, the allied web site O'Reilly Hacks Series has been slow
Which is why we are posting it on Slashdot, hoping that a bigger hammer will fix the problem
The sound is great, someone had some complaints about the analog output being to weak and a small hum. I don't know if that is a general problem since I only have used the digital output.
It should work with Mac too, I have seen a few Mac users on the mailing list. I connects just fine to my Linux box using Samba.
They release new firmware a couple of times each year, and more often beta versions are also available for one to play with.
I use it a lot for shoutcast/icecast and Windows media stations and of course to play my ripped CDs.
One of the things that really makes a great music expirence, is that you can select songs by many different ways, not only by album but also by fx. artist and category/type. I can only recomend it, but look at their message board and mailing list and judge by yourself.(but also remember that most of them are problemsolving forums). Also many people are writing their own frontend to the player such as Windows/php/java/whatever programs using the API.
On of my personal favorites is the party jukebox (ATaParty) when you turn a pc into a control interface where people can select songs add to the queue and you avoid having 10 people standing and changing CDs every minute.:D. Anyway more links are to be found here: http://www.tasman.nl/AT/
True, One of the reasons I got a Audiotron, was because of the optical output.
btw, they should have a new line of boxes out "any day now".
Oh yeah, and to all the "just build a PC". It's hard to explain, but a device like the audiotron works really well. Streaming and MP3s really get nicely integrated into your current setup in a way no homebuilt mp3/streaming-pc-player can to. It's easy to use with the remote or front panel. no fans humming, it just "feels" like another stereo component, which I think is cool.
I don't really think this will work, I am fairly sure they used the wrong oil.:D Just because it has oil in the name, does not mean that it all has the same properties... I mean, no. don't really know where to begin here. I hope it is a bogus setup, a troll or something.
Uh yeah, it's a real bitch!
If you have a user system on the site, you need to add a check box and a boolean value to the user table.
If you have a mailing list, it is hard to add a url in the end of the mail contains a ID number of the user record and a "random" 32 byte code that can be cross verified with the record in the database.
Or finally maybe just a url with the email as a value, that will send you a unsubscibe verification mail. You know, much like people really should have verifications mails when signing up.(
True, if you look at many of the posts and how they are moderated it seems like it, or maybe it is just a few and all the other is just following the "theme".
Anyhow, you just need to surf a few gamesite forums(for as long as you can stand it) and then come back here. You get the feeling there is a bit less posters with raging hormones here.
Another thing to clean, no thanks
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Well, let's say I got everything installed and it looked great. Then I would have to open it up every month(at least) to clean it. With all the air going though there, the housing won't look pretty for long.
I want to place one in one of my windows. Outside there's a crowded sidewalk. I am sure noone would mind me getting one cent for every person walking by, as I am sure they never will discover it.
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He's no Ellen Feiss, that's for sure.
Now where's my tshirt.
I have had many cases where people had problem caused by linksys products. Often a firmware upgrade did the trick.
I think it was funny when I heard that Cisco bought Linksys, truly they wanted part of the low,low,low-end market for real this time. And as others has pointed out, all network devices are not created equal, even if they perform the same function. In the case of SOHO products like these, it hardly matters. It only matter when some "bright" minds thinks they can same money on using SOHO products in their large scale networks.
I am _so_ sorry this is offtopic, and please to fuck yourself
and on a offtopic note. FreeBSD 4.8 is out RELEASE document. Go get it.
yes I noticed that too yesterday, so I downloaded it just to beat the crowd. :D I'll just do a MD5 on it to see if it's the right one.
I don't have a standalone DVD player, but I have a CD-ROM drive that can read DVDs. So yesterday I decided that I should get it to work so that I could watch the few DVD's I would come across.
So I installed the DVD player software that came with the drive. I had 2 DVD movies that came bundled with different stuff, not movies I wanted to watch but good enough for testing.
First problem, they were different regions so I had to search the internet for a Firmware to the drive that wouldn't increment the region change counter. It works I think, but the DVD player program still counts down.
Next problem, the DVD player program won't let me play the movie because it is copy protected and I have TV-OUT enabled. WTF, Now I do not have it enabled but my plan was to use it and watch the DVDs on my TV. So I am forced to watch them on the PC or buy some software on the internet that can bypass this.
After spending a couple of hours, I decided that DVD's were not worth the hassle for me anyway, I don't need a standalone player for the one movie I want to see every month and playing it on the PC is too much of a problem.
I am left with the feeling that they really don't want me to play their DVD's and their copyprotection attemps only works on those, like me, who are not really into it, and don't care enough about it to spend days to gain knowledge on the subject. But putting these roadblocks in the way to cripple the technology has just killed my interest in the media.
Is this a review or a April Fools Joke? Reading Slashdot today, is like watching Fox "News".
It was a bit slow for me too. then it went up and down a bit but now I have about 160kB/s down and 40kB/s up(I have a max on 56kB/s up on my line). I'll leave it on until tomorrow, maybe longer.
Breakout forever
Crybaby posting AC, not even funny, should rather be something like this:
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper in the world is a white guy, the best golfer in the world is a black guy, France is accusing the US of arrogance and Germany doesn't want to go to war.
That is really hard to imagine when you try to remember what happened. Go waaay back to the days of the Altair "computer", where hobbyists and future geeks would order the computer by mail. Go to meetings and swap programs and ideas. Then came Paul Allen and Bill Gates and wrote basic for it. It was a biz project from the beginning, aimed at making money. Now there is nothing wrong with making money, we all making money. But to imagine Microsoft as Open Source is really hard when you see how they complained about people swapping their Basic as they did with all the software for that computer. Now _selling_ software for the Altair seemed like overkill and I guess it was but it seemed that their plan worked quite well but to me it doesn't seem like Microsoft is built around the open source mind set at all(gasp) :)
Some of us choose to have a structure that can handle peak loads in times like this, other choose not to. Of course it costs more money to be able to handle the load, and the hardware will sit idle most of the time. But it is a decision you just need to take. "Do we require that we can display full content at peak times". :)
Many sites have prepared for this pressure in the days before, specially when the 48 hour deadline came, another server or two got into the pool in the loadbalancers.
They are evil
Ah finally Friday.
I just block servers and subnets of ISP's that bothers me. The list in the router is growing everyday. People trying to abuse webservers,scripts,proxies etc.
Just re-added entire Dialtoneinternet today, the slipped in my router upgrade and,, surprise +5000 attempts today to tunnel SMTP trough proxy CONNECT method. Even though I don't have a proxy, not even mod-proxy. A bunch of subnets from Worldcom/uunet also got in my list this winter for directory attacks to my mailserver.
Then I use the most nasty RBL etc lists for my mail server.
Anyone remembering playing "Seven Cities of Gold"? :)
I liked that a lot. and if I remember correctly, they managed to do some nice floppy loading without interrupting the game too much. I tried to make it work on the emulator, but for some reason it would not boot. Perhaps the memory are best preserved that way
Oh, another minor quibble, the allied web site O'Reilly Hacks Series has been slow
Which is why we are posting it on Slashdot, hoping that a bigger hammer will fix the problem
The sound is great, someone had some complaints about the analog output being to weak and a small hum. I don't know if that is a general problem since I only have used the digital output. :D. Anyway more links are to be found here: http://www.tasman.nl/AT/
It should work with Mac too, I have seen a few Mac users on the mailing list. I connects just fine to my Linux box using Samba. They release new firmware a couple of times each year, and more often beta versions are also available for one to play with. I use it a lot for shoutcast/icecast and Windows media stations and of course to play my ripped CDs.
One of the things that really makes a great music expirence, is that you can select songs by many different ways, not only by album but also by fx. artist and category/type. I can only recomend it, but look at their message board and mailing list and judge by yourself.(but also remember that most of them are problemsolving forums). Also many people are writing their own frontend to the player such as Windows/php/java/whatever programs using the API.
On of my personal favorites is the party jukebox (ATaParty) when you turn a pc into a control interface where people can select songs add to the queue and you avoid having 10 people standing and changing CDs every minute.
True, One of the reasons I got a Audiotron, was because of the optical output.
btw, they should have a new line of boxes out "any day now".
Oh yeah, and to all the "just build a PC". It's hard to explain, but a device like the audiotron works really well. Streaming and MP3s really get nicely integrated into your current setup in a way no homebuilt mp3/streaming-pc-player can to. It's easy to use with the remote or front panel. no fans humming, it just "feels" like another stereo component, which I think is cool.
I don't really think this will work, I am fairly sure they used the wrong oil. :D Just because it has oil in the name, does not mean that it all has the same properties... I mean, no. don't really know where to begin here. I hope it is a bogus setup, a troll or something.
Uh yeah, it's a real bitch!
If you have a user system on the site, you need to add a check box and a boolean value to the user table.
If you have a mailing list, it is hard to add a url in the end of the mail contains a ID number of the user record and a "random" 32 byte code that can be cross verified with the record in the database.
Or finally maybe just a url with the email as a value, that will send you a unsubscibe verification mail. You know, much like people really should have verifications mails when signing up.(
True, if you look at many of the posts and how they are moderated it seems like it, or maybe it is just a few and all the other is just following the "theme".
Anyhow, you just need to surf a few gamesite forums(for as long as you can stand it) and then come back here. You get the feeling there is a bit less posters with raging hormones here.
Well, let's say I got everything installed and it looked great. Then I would have to open it up every month(at least) to clean it. With all the air going though there, the housing won't look pretty for long.
Hey he is just following up on GWB's state of the union speech:
http://www.asu.net/bsh/union.wmv
I want to place one in one of my windows. Outside there's a crowded sidewalk. I am sure noone would mind me getting one cent for every person walking by, as I am sure they never will discover it.
Got me thinking about L.A. Story "Some of these buildings are over 20 years old."
The house I live in, is only 100 years old this year.