xmms-ipv6 patched failed for me, as mpg123 latest version failed (wanted to use my v4 to read v6) so here is a little trick on how to read the stream:
use latest mpg123 & an ipv6 enabled lynx: lynx -dump http://ipv6.lkml.org:8000/difm |./mpg123 -v -
or use latest cvs mpg321 with a read-patch applied (which is in the bug list of sourceforge mpg321 project), else it will read the stream too fast and use same kind of command than before
why does it matter? for desktop because of stuff like this: enemy-territory]$ file et.x86 et.x86: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), for GNU/Linux 2.0.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
try to run that on a ppc and tell me how it worked?
most commercial compagnies release already only windows software, some of them do linux, but binaries only, they won't support all platforms, don't believe in that.
But if you only use open source soft you can recompile, maybe others platforms would be better , cheaper, and provide competition, what is damn needed in this fscked capitalism world where big compagnies mostly don't care about "1 user"
In belgium (like in france), we now have to pay taxes on CDR's
The same kind of taxes that we already had on video tapes.
Only, the cdr taxes are to give money to "music artist" that have been unrightfully copied.
So, i pay a tax for it, doesn't i have the right to copy whatever audio cd i want?
What about cdrs that are legally used to copy a linux distribution?
What about cdrs that are used to copy divx movies or whatever?
Politicians are incredibly stupid, as big compagnies (sorry, but they're mostly american) doing protectionism & keeping their prices way too high to maximize profit
No, but since the movie is planned for release in december as the others were, they saw they were short on time to render the scenes, so they bought more cpu power, to complete it in time =)
i've been to some little lan parties, and participated to the organization of some too (only the network part, not financial)
prices may vary, i once paid ~23Euros for a 3 day lan party/demo party with internet access and a very huge screen (about 900 ppl were present, this was 6 years ago;) )
To the last one i have participated, prices were more like 15Euros for a 2 day one (70 ppl, in a school), but think how many ppl will come, and how much it will cost to you to rent the place, and all other "debts", will there be prices for the first one? etc
Ask for a pre-inscription for, let us say 5 or 10 bucks, this will force the ppl to come, and if they don't, you still will have money for the 'debts'
Don't forget to get a place for ppl to sleep in a room with "no noise". Food & drinks to sell to them
Ask for them to come with ear headphones, or it will get very noisy, also ask for them to come with their own rj45 cables since only the switches should be pre-installed and wired
If you receive the network equipment, check it's at least a 100mbit/s one! (yeah, last time i had to manage 70ppl it was a fscking 10mbit/s, a hell to administrate, one file transfer and the pings were getting toooooo high, pita, and i was a newbie on QoS at that time:) )
Games shouldn't take that much bandwith, about 10KB/sec is already high, the most problem will appear when ppl are playing & others are copying files over the network. Try to get a gigabit backbone, if possible, but this depends on how many ppl will come. And No hubs, only switches!
To all i've went, there were always electrical problems, 1 pc can take easily 220Watts if not more, with let us say maximum 10Amperes on 220Volts: ~2200Watts, which means: avoid more than 10 pcs on the same electrical circuit, depends on how good the electrical installation is.
Cheaters should be banned, maybe you could think of some rules to follow like, for CS: seting up servers to fade to black when dead etc, no skin alteration,..., maybe it would be a good idea to get punkbuster running, if possible?
or in extreme conditions: http://fragzone.medialt.ru/files/movi es/cheaterlow.wmv:))
If possible get some reserve hardware like 1 or 2 network cards, rj45 cables (yes, ppl will forget it, but if they need it, sell it ?:) )
Worst electrical problem i saw was when one guy pushed his wire so hard that it broke the electric socket, shorting it, it took us almost 1 hour to find out the problem...;)
Advertising: most internet, ppl talking on irc, it also got on the radio (sponsored), a sponsor got us the servers & another one got us the (very poor quality) network equipment
It's all i can think at the moment, hope this helps (a bit?)
Why is Mars so hard? by Jeff Foust Monday, June 2, 2003
This June will see the beginning of the most ambitious exploration of the Red Planet in a quarter-century. If all goes well, three launch vehiclesâ"one Soyuz and two Deltaâ"will lift off this month, placing four spacecraft on trajectories that will bring them to Mars by this December and January. Those spacecraft include the first European Mars orbiter, Mars Express; Beagle 2, the British lander built with a mix of public and private funding; and NASAâ(TM)s twin Mars Exploration Rovers, perhaps the most advanced Mars spacecraft even built. They will be joined at Mars by Nozomi, a Japanese-built Mars mission launched in 1998 and forced to take the long road to Mars because of thruster problems.
This should be an exciting time for those interested in Mars exploration, and for scientists and activists alike, it is. If these missions are successful, they should offer new insights about what happened to the planetâ(TM)s water and the potential for past or even present life there: some of the most important questions in planetary science and astrobiology today.
The catch is, if these missions are successful. The history of robotic exploration of Mars, stretching back more than four decades, is littered with failed missions and dashed hopes. Some of these failures can be chalked up to the growing pains of early planetary exploration, when a wide variety of spacecraft of all types failed. Others, particularly the 1999 failures of NASAâ(TM)s Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) and Mars Polar Lander (MPL), are more indicative of management, programmatic, and other problems, rather than purely technical issues. Understanding these problems, and acting to correct them, are critical if current and future missions are to succeed in studying the Red Planet. The star-crossed history of Martian exploration
Mars has been one of the most popular destinations for missions beyond the Earth. Since 1960 the United States and the former Soviet Union have launched 34 missions to Mars: 15 by the US and 19 by Russia and the former USSR. NASAâ(TM)s success rate is not too bad: nine of those 15 missions, including the Mars Global Surveyor and 2001 Mars Odyssey missions still in progress, can be considered successes. Russiaâ(TM)s luck has not been nearly as good: 14 of its 19 missions failed, and only oneâ"Zond 3â"can be considered a complete success; the remaining four are, at best, partial successes. Overall 20 of the 34 American and Russian Mars missions, or 59 percent, failed. Four of the seven NASA Mars missions since Vikingâ"Mars Observer, MCO, MPL, and Deep Space 2â"have failed.
Digging into those statistics in greater detail shows some interestingâ"and troublingâ"trends. Many of the failed missions, particularly those launched in the 1960s, were lost because of launch vehicle failures, not because of any fault with the spacecraft itself. Many Russian spacecraft, from the earliest âoeMarsnikâ missions of 1960 to Mars 96, either failed to leave a parking orbit around the Earth or never made it into Earth orbit into the first place. However, in the last 30 years only one mission out of 16 attemptedâ"Mars 96â"was lost due to a launch vehicle malfunction. This can be most likely attributed to the maturity of launch vehicle development, including the use today of vehicles whose designs date back literally decades.
The problem with Mars exploration now appears to be with spacecraft themselves. Four of the seven NASA Mars missions flown since the twin Viking missionsâ"Mars Observer, MCO, MPL, and Deep Space 2â"have failed, all due to spacecraft problems of one manner or another. (MCO is a borderline case, since there was no technical problem with the spacecraft itself, but rather with how ground controllers operated it.) The only other NASA Mars missions to fail, Mariner 3 in 1964 and Mariner 8 in 1971, were each lost due to launch veh
This is why gfx drivers should be open source, not to detect backdoors, but to detect performance cheatings!:)
Also, if it was open source, maybe ppl could get all those annoying bugs out of their drivers, since it seems nvidia guys just can't release a 100% stable stuff
What about ati? Are they "stable"? (especially when multiple X servers are running, on normal screen & tv at the same time?)
This game has 3 different "camps", the american: high-tech ones; the chinees: much meat available for war
and the terrorists: using cars to explode tanks etc
Of course the missions are always to "win" and control the world... An example: with terrorists you have to use 3 groups of riotting ppl to destroy a whole city to get money. With that money you build your base and destroy the other players
Maybe this is too "close" to reality for germany, but hey, this is only a game, strategy one in full 3D, using chemicals, nuclear, etc =)
Verry good one if you like the c&c, only remark would be the 3D enginge, which you need some time to adapt too
there seems to be problems with perl in the rh 8: when using a non blocking pipe of a shell command, you only get the first line back instead of all the lines (this was noticed when using dvd::rip;) )
also a friend who has a perl script for his dxr card , on the open devfile perl segfaults
when he puts debug mode: it works
There are some problems:) Beware
But many limbo/null bugs were finally fixed
So i would recommend to upgrade if you use the older beta, but if you have a stable working 7.x system, maybe wait for rh 8.1:)
We know speeds above 40x can made some cds explodes (already happened here), what if the cdrom has some chip on its side, won't the cds already vibrate at more than 12x speed?
Let's wait and see if that product really hits the market. Another great cracking-challenge will appear;)
Another link talking of lilo:
http://liloaid.ecce.co.uk/
It's too bad he's ripping that network appart begging for money. Maybe he should sell his body to internet, like experiencing cyber-sex-irc-with-webcam for money?
pr0n is probably the number1 commerce of the internet;)
Anyway, i don't know him, but i see a lot of ppl talking about him. So he's a famous guy... with no money;)
But our community doesn't live through begging, it lives on sharing knowledge freely He didn't understand that, he's not deserving running an 'openprojects' server.
Slashdot Mirror
i've read some parts of the article written by a Microsoft employee hosted on the Microsoft website.
My point of view?
This is MS trying to "sell" their products again
"look it can do this, it can do that"
"fast" ?
i don't know if we can trust their objectivity.
At least, i don't.
*working on important stuff you have to finish that day*
Alert Alert! Windows has detected that a new update is available from windowsupdate.microsoft.com (yeah the other site was disabled
Do you want to apply the update? Ok - Cancel; *CLICK*OK*
Are you sure? *Yes*
Downloading, please wait... (poor 56k owners)
Installing, please wait...
Windows has now to reboot your computer, please wait
*Nooooo* My word document!
Cruel world, isn't it?
because you're not a slashdot subscriber
xmms-ipv6 patched failed for me, as mpg123 latest version failed (wanted to use my v4 to read v6)
so here is a little trick on how to read the stream:
use latest mpg123 & an ipv6 enabled lynx:
lynx -dump http://ipv6.lkml.org:8000/difm |
or use latest cvs mpg321 with a read-patch applied (which is in the bug list of sourceforge mpg321 project), else it will read the stream too fast
and use same kind of command than before
The crazy french academy have made more damage to words than email/courriel
there is also:
cd-rom: cédérom (same pronuncation, but it looses its first meaning)
streamer: dévideur
shareware partagiciel
freeware gratuiciel
etc etc, i don't like this practice of trying to put french words which then loose its ethymology
other examples on
http://www.ac-amiens.fr/academie/pedagogie/Ec
why does it matter? for desktop because of stuff like this:
enemy-territory]$ file et.x86
et.x86: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), for GNU/Linux 2.0.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
try to run that on a ppc and tell me how it worked?
most commercial compagnies release already only windows software, some of them do linux, but binaries only, they won't support all platforms, don't believe in that.
But if you only use open source soft you can recompile, maybe others platforms would be better , cheaper, and provide competition, what is damn needed in this fscked capitalism world where big compagnies mostly don't care about "1 user"
too bad they did not compared it to gnomemeeting
:)
an open source h323 soft compatible with netmeeting for all *nix, but dunno if it is still with msn6, would be nice to check this
In belgium (like in france), we now have to pay taxes on CDR's
The same kind of taxes that we already had on video tapes.
Only, the cdr taxes are to give money to "music artist" that have been unrightfully copied.
So, i pay a tax for it, doesn't i have the right to copy whatever audio cd i want?
What about cdrs that are legally used to copy a linux distribution?
What about cdrs that are used to copy divx movies or whatever?
Politicians are incredibly stupid, as big compagnies (sorry, but they're mostly american) doing protectionism & keeping their prices way too high to maximize profit
They've created piracy.
No, but since the movie is planned for release in december as the others were, they saw they were short on time to render the scenes, so they bought more cpu power, to complete it in time =)
i've been to some little lan parties, and participated to the organization of some too (only the network part, not financial)
;) )
:) )
..., maybe it would be a good idea to get punkbuster running, if possible?
i es/cheaterlow .wmv :))
:) )
;)
prices may vary, i once paid ~23Euros for a 3 day lan party/demo party with internet access and a very huge screen (about 900 ppl were present, this was 6 years ago
To the last one i have participated, prices were more like 15Euros for a 2 day one (70 ppl, in a school), but think how many ppl will come, and how much it will cost to you to rent the place, and all other "debts", will there be prices for the first one? etc
Ask for a pre-inscription for, let us say 5 or 10 bucks, this will force the ppl to come, and if they don't, you still will have money for the 'debts'
Don't forget to get a place for ppl to sleep in a room with "no noise". Food & drinks to sell to them
Ask for them to come with ear headphones, or it will get very noisy, also ask for them to come with their own rj45 cables since only the switches should be pre-installed and wired
If you receive the network equipment, check it's at least a 100mbit/s one! (yeah, last time i had to manage 70ppl it was a fscking 10mbit/s, a hell to administrate, one file transfer and the pings were getting toooooo high, pita, and i was a newbie on QoS at that time
Games shouldn't take that much bandwith, about 10KB/sec is already high, the most problem will appear when ppl are playing & others are copying files over the network. Try to get a gigabit backbone, if possible, but this depends on how many ppl will come. And No hubs, only switches!
To all i've went, there were always electrical problems, 1 pc can take easily 220Watts if not more, with let us say maximum 10Amperes on 220Volts: ~2200Watts, which means: avoid more than 10 pcs on the same electrical circuit, depends on how good the electrical installation is.
Cheaters should be banned, maybe you could think of some rules to follow like, for CS: seting up servers to fade to black when dead etc, no skin alteration,
or in extreme conditions:
http://fragzone.medialt.ru/files/mov
If possible get some reserve hardware like 1 or 2 network cards, rj45 cables (yes, ppl will forget it, but if they need it, sell it ?
Worst electrical problem i saw was when one guy pushed his wire so hard that it broke the electric socket, shorting it, it took us almost 1 hour to find out the problem...
Advertising: most internet, ppl talking on irc, it also got on the radio (sponsored), a sponsor got us the servers & another one got us the (very poor quality) network equipment
It's all i can think at the moment, hope this helps (a bit?)
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Why is Mars so hard?
by Jeff Foust
Monday, June 2, 2003
This June will see the beginning of the most ambitious exploration of the Red Planet in a quarter-century. If all goes well, three launch vehiclesâ"one Soyuz and two Deltaâ"will lift off this month, placing four spacecraft on trajectories that will bring them to Mars by this December and January. Those spacecraft include the first European Mars orbiter, Mars Express; Beagle 2, the British lander built with a mix of public and private funding; and NASAâ(TM)s twin Mars Exploration Rovers, perhaps the most advanced Mars spacecraft even built. They will be joined at Mars by Nozomi, a Japanese-built Mars mission launched in 1998 and forced to take the long road to Mars because of thruster problems.
This should be an exciting time for those interested in Mars exploration, and for scientists and activists alike, it is. If these missions are successful, they should offer new insights about what happened to the planetâ(TM)s water and the potential for past or even present life there: some of the most important questions in planetary science and astrobiology today.
The catch is, if these missions are successful. The history of robotic exploration of Mars, stretching back more than four decades, is littered with failed missions and dashed hopes. Some of these failures can be chalked up to the growing pains of early planetary exploration, when a wide variety of spacecraft of all types failed. Others, particularly the 1999 failures of NASAâ(TM)s Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) and Mars Polar Lander (MPL), are more indicative of management, programmatic, and other problems, rather than purely technical issues. Understanding these problems, and acting to correct them, are critical if current and future missions are to succeed in studying the Red Planet.
The star-crossed history of Martian exploration
Mars has been one of the most popular destinations for missions beyond the Earth. Since 1960 the United States and the former Soviet Union have launched 34 missions to Mars: 15 by the US and 19 by Russia and the former USSR. NASAâ(TM)s success rate is not too bad: nine of those 15 missions, including the Mars Global Surveyor and 2001 Mars Odyssey missions still in progress, can be considered successes. Russiaâ(TM)s luck has not been nearly as good: 14 of its 19 missions failed, and only oneâ"Zond 3â"can be considered a complete success; the remaining four are, at best, partial successes. Overall 20 of the 34 American and Russian Mars missions, or 59 percent, failed.
Four of the seven NASA Mars missions since Vikingâ"Mars Observer, MCO, MPL, and Deep Space 2â"have failed.
Digging into those statistics in greater detail shows some interestingâ"and troublingâ"trends. Many of the failed missions, particularly those launched in the 1960s, were lost because of launch vehicle failures, not because of any fault with the spacecraft itself. Many Russian spacecraft, from the earliest âoeMarsnikâ missions of 1960 to Mars 96, either failed to leave a parking orbit around the Earth or never made it into Earth orbit into the first place. However, in the last 30 years only one mission out of 16 attemptedâ"Mars 96â"was lost due to a launch vehicle malfunction. This can be most likely attributed to the maturity of launch vehicle development, including the use today of vehicles whose designs date back literally decades.
The problem with Mars exploration now appears to be with spacecraft themselves. Four of the seven NASA Mars missions flown since the twin Viking missionsâ"Mars Observer, MCO, MPL, and Deep Space 2â"have failed, all due to spacecraft problems of one manner or another. (MCO is a borderline case, since there was no technical problem with the spacecraft itself, but rather with how ground controllers operated it.) The only other NASA Mars missions to fail, Mariner 3 in 1964 and Mariner 8 in 1971, were each lost due to launch veh
Probably not with microsoft
l ly _happened_with_the_columbia.jpg
http://unix.rulez.org/~calver/pictures/what_rea
This is why gfx drivers should be open source, not to detect backdoors, but to detect performance cheatings! :)
:)
Also, if it was open source, maybe ppl could get all those annoying bugs out of their drivers, since it seems nvidia guys just can't release a 100% stable stuff
What about ati? Are they "stable"? (especially when multiple X servers are running, on normal screen & tv at the same time?)
Greetings,
Me.
This game has 3 different "camps", the american: high-tech ones; the chinees: much meat available for war
and the terrorists: using cars to explode tanks etc
Of course the missions are always to "win" and control the world... An example: with terrorists you have to use 3 groups of riotting ppl to destroy a whole city to get money. With that money you build your base and destroy the other players
Maybe this is too "close" to reality for germany, but hey, this is only a game, strategy one in full 3D, using chemicals, nuclear, etc =)
Verry good one if you like the c&c, only remark would be the 3D enginge, which you need some time to adapt too
Imagine a world where you can have bio-upgrades like memory chips (programmable, usefull to pass exams)
Then later: communications chips using wi-fi or bluetooth with api to google.com the ultimate research solution! =)
linux is still missing some posix 1003.1b features (realtime extensions)
;)
I was especially thinking to message queues
Yeah, there are other implementing it like RTlinux etc, but it's still not in the main linux tree
it's all i can think for now
What about universities/schools themselves using pirated software!?
Software for "free" like Windows, Office, Rational Rose, Visual Studio (and
Giving them away to the students.
And you want to stop filesharing between students? Yeah yeah yeah
this again is a ruling done by people that are thechnology-unaware.
Why do they never ask experts about what they think that should be done?
Or should we all go for some chinees-kind of internet, firewalled by the state, censored by the state?
scroll lock is useful on *nix systems in console
it really does lock the screen so you can read it =)
the only keys i don't use in linux are the flag keys & menu key
Nvidia should not forget to debug their drivers, i've had problems with ALL of them for linux.
(Last bug report, they replied: "we know", but 2 months after, there's still no update)
Closed source is really not a solution in the long term
there seems to be problems with perl in the rh 8: when using a non blocking pipe of a shell command, you only get the first line back instead of all the lines (this was noticed when using dvd::rip ;) )
:) Beware
:)
also a friend who has a perl script for his dxr card , on the open devfile perl segfaults
when he puts debug mode: it works
There are some problems
But many limbo/null bugs were finally fixed
So i would recommend to upgrade if you use the older beta, but if you have a stable working 7.x system, maybe wait for rh 8.1
I remember some guy saying:
"640KB ought to be enough for everybody"
have you played monkey island 1 and 2? ;)
;)))
;)
those are the best games on the world for me
at second place, quake 3
4th: day of tent, indianajones4
5th: sam & max
And what about the good 'balance' of cd's?
We know speeds above 40x can made some cds explodes (already happened here), what if the cdrom has some chip on its side, won't the cds already vibrate at more than 12x speed?
Let's wait and see if that product really hits the market. Another great cracking-challenge will appear
Another link talking of lilo:
http://liloaid.ecce.co.uk/
It's too bad he's ripping that network appart begging for money. Maybe he should sell his body to internet, like experiencing cyber-sex-irc-with-webcam for money?
pr0n is probably the number1 commerce of the internet
Anyway, i don't know him, but i see a lot of ppl talking about him. So he's a famous guy... with no money
But our community doesn't live through begging, it lives on sharing knowledge freely
He didn't understand that, he's not deserving running an 'openprojects' server.
But should we care that much?
"Get A Life!"