There would not be a black mark on my credit rating. It would be a black mark on their software that was stupid enough to try to charge to an expired card. I'm fairly sure that one thing out there NOT controlled by M$ is my credit rating.
This is the perfect situation for one time use numbers (the one I personally use is MBNA ShopSafe). If it is a $19.99 annual fee (I have no idea what it is, I use PS2 and PC games), then you create a credit card with a spending limit of $20 (and 11 month expiration). They cannot charge you more than that. Then, one of two things happens. (1) After 11 of the 12 months they call you with a friendly reminder that your card expires soon - so you either cancel then or go and increase spending limit and expiration of fake credit card. (2) After 12 months, they try to charge to a now expired card, fail, and either contact you or your service is just shut off. If you wanted the service back, call them up and give them a new card number.:)
I was a co-op, and a SysAdmin. Bad combo. I was erasing a directory, and there where a bunch of annoying hidden files and directories. So I said "No Prob!" rm -rf.* would do it!
Wiped out 2TB. That may not sound like too much now, but this was 1996! This was a server that had just consolidated about two weeks before (onto an Auspex machine) from 5 or 6 Sun servers. The fones starting ringing... FAST!
For those not in the know, that recursively follows every.. directory until it hits root, then goes forward from there!
- RR
I didn't think you cared, but since you asked...;)
Anything online that is long enough to actually fit, I use 'RevRagnarok' (gee, look around this post). That's just become my online alter ego. http://www.revragnarok.com/ explains the reasons - basically, Ragnarok is just such an interesting story, etc, and I am also a legally ordained minister. Many of my friends now refer to me as "Rev" in Real Life(TM) and even at work (which can get embarassing).
For some of the console games, just "Ragnarok" fits. Or some shorter form. Then when they say (in games like FF8) that we need to get to the Ragnarok I think "But I'm right here ppl..."
RevR or even RR is used sometimes, like when I am very limited. Just, contrary to my evil friend's obsession, never 'Rag' or 'RevRag'!;)
Some previous ones: absorto (in middle school a spanish->english dictionary said it meant 'mentally lost') X-Phile (loved that show early on)
Another reason this won't work - our good friends at MacroVision...
You can actually dub ANY DVD to a TiVo. It will record it happily, and flag that it is a protected stream. When it plays back, it will insert the MacroVision crap back into the analog video stream to stop you from recording it to VCR. So if your VCR or DVD recorder are MacroVision compliant, you're not able to do it. However, you _can_ use the TiVo to timeshift (and maximize) your Netflix subscriptions. (shh!)
...somehow on Sept 11th all the cellphones (sic) used on airplanes didn't melt down the cell network on the eastern seaboard
Define meltdown. I work in a building about 20 minutes outside of DC. When the Pentagon was hit, my cell phone was absolutely USELESS. Only one call got thru - my GF's cell - and that is because she is on the same network. All land-line junctions were in use. I call that meltdown.
A friend of mine was one of the people walking home in NYC from his work and his did NOTHING. He dialed and nothing happened. Again, I call that meltdown.
I think the problem with 'one song at a time' is that is not how the revenue model (which IMHO needs to be changed anyway) is set up for the current music industry. The general idea is to get you hooked on the one to three songs they release on the radio (which you are listening to for free, ahem, I mean for your time listening to commercials) so you will go out and buy the full album, where you make the (sometimes incorrect) assumption that you would like most of the other tracks.
I'm coming from the software side, so for me an FPGA has always been kind of an hardware accelerator for my software.
Then please, find a hardware engineer to help you. I make my money as an ECE (working with FPGAs since 1995), and let me tell you that the worst VHDL/Verilog/whatever source code that I have seen is always written by software programmers. Unless you are a programmer that can context switch into thinking about what happens to your data at the gate level, you may want to hold back.
This isn't to bash programmers (I've done that too, I'm typing this instead of paying attention in a J2EE class), but to just make sure you know that they are different worlds and both need their own knowledge bases. No, I haven't looked at JHDL, so I do not know how efficient they might be at mapping to the gate/LUT level. But I doubt it would be anywhere close to good VHDL run thru Synplify Pro. I say good VHDL because you can write bad stuff too - I have a coworker whose VHDL looks like verbal schematics... but I digress.;)
Summary: (programming FPGAs != programming generic CPUs). Be sure to acknowledge that.;)
*WAY* back when, when Apple Computer Company came on the scene, a little record company called Apple Records was upset about it. They had a few lesser-known artists, such as The Beatles. (I think they were founded by them. Not sure.)
Fight ensued - end result - they are considered separate enough.
Then comes the Macintosh. It makes noise! I mean sound! So what is the name of the first Macintosh system sound? "Sosumi" Say it out loud...
Just a little useless trivia to make the Monday a little more bearable...
Check google for more. "apple computer vs apple records sosumi" works well.
I'd love to see standard TiVos contain multiple tuners.
Just today I got the 'news you can use' newsletter from TiVo - and they say in no uncertain terms in the Q&A section that there will never be a multi-tuner analog TiVo. Cannot blame them, a majority of the hardware is the MPEG encoding. The DirecTiVo is just dumping the D-TV signal to the hard drive with no encoding needed.
They site the reason being that analog TV going bye-bye in place of HDTV and digital cable. I use my IR blaster with my Com-crap digital cable box with no problem at all. Except you cannot surf. Not that TiVo users bother with live LIVE TV - the 6 second delay is unbearable to try surfing. I used an old contact lens box to create a remote "fort" and have never missed a recording from stray IR signals.
(Shameless plug) Plus with tivo_mail my TiVo checks my email!;)
You don't need to restart qmail-send. qmail-remote is invoked every time a remote message is to be sent, and will read smtproutes at that time.
OK. I'm lazy, I don't read man pages a lot. Some programs re-read all the time. Some re-read on USR1. Others on HUP. I just restart everything I change configs on and then no worries, I know it read it.;)
qmail-showctl simply displays the contents of all the control files in a human readable format.
True. The reason I used it is it shows that the file is correctly in place. Example (FUBAR'd name):
[4 root@ragnarokjr:/var/qmail/control]#
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-showctl
qmail home directory:/var/qmail.
[[[snip]]]
smptroutes: I have no idea what this file does.
You also have to assume that their servers WORK. When I had Verizon's DSL (Baltimore area, less than a year ago) I was getting over 30 messages of SPAM (only, I never EVER gave ANYONE that account) a day and their servers would often be so bogged down that mail would bounce. In fact, it even made local news one time it was so bad!
Their mail server is the reason I went thru the trouble of even setting up my own SMTP server!
- RR
(See my other post for the qmail fix for this AOL/EarthLink problem)
I know for a fact that they are NOT telling their customers.
I tried explaining it to an AOL user. She called me on the fone as she was real-time chatting with a "support" person. She explained it all to the moron. [ Sorry, let me expand - the 'support' moron not the one who is an actual AOL luser;) ]
So what happens? I got a "test email" from the support drone. All it said was "test email from AOL". My friend could NOT explain to the support moron the difference between INCOMING and OUTGOING mail. So not even the support people knew. I even pasted the entire error message from their SMTP servers and sent it to her, she forwarded it to the support person, and that STILL didn't help any.
Oh well. See my other post for the AOL/EarthLink (qmail) fix.
This problem has been around for about 4 weeks or so. I just gave up, but the woman couldn't mail her mom or sister.:( Earthlink has the same SPAM 'solution.'
Anyway, here's how to fix if you have qmail. You need to create a file/var/qmail/control/smtproutes if it doesn't exist. In it, you need to replace smtp.comcast.net shown below with your own ISP's mail server:
The without the dot gets user@aol.com and the with is for user@domain.aol.com . Restart qmail your favorite way. You can check with qmail-showctl to see if it worked.
- RR
I've had SOME of this already... and more!
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I got an ethernet card from 9thtee a while back, it is great! I then got a program called "tivoweb" which lets me remotely record, and even search future listings with a REAL keyboard (I like to compare it to my NetFlix list every now and then and queue up movies on the TiVo that I don't care about all those DVD goodies).
Then there is my e-mail on my TiVo with the shameless plug of tivo_mail that I found a while back and people seem to like it.;)
But seriously, I made that circuit 2 months ago on a project at work in VHDL and I have the CVS logs to prove it. It's pretty standard - have a counter off a known clock to compare the counter off an unknown clock. I was using it to ensure my buddy's code was handing me start pulses at the appropriate rate. Mine even reported the high and low counts along with a true/false "good" signal.
I knew that patent stuff was getting out of hand but this is nuts. I am sure you can pick up any VHDL or Verilog cookbook and find a similar ckt.
I guess those Adobe folks are on crack... have you seen PS run on a Mac vs Windows??? It is SO much faster doing nearly all filters. The 3rd party ones even show considerable differences.
- RR
I have two identically sized drives (80GB). Every weekend, I take down the machine for about an hour and Ghost disk 1 to disk 2 (60GB used takes 50 minutes). Then I hide disk 2 in the BIOS (disable the controller). An EXACT backup of the OS. People ask why I don't just do RAID - well, I trust the hardware not to fail more than myself - if I f* it up, with RAID, yippee I have to copies of crap.
Another option I did in the past is to have a very basic host OS and a virtual machine with all the important stuff. You take down the virtual machine, copy the file that is its "hard drive" to somewhere else, and boot it back up. Now you can split that file across CD-R, move to another PC, etc. This solution is also very nice if you have catastrophic failure, you can recover much faster with new hardware and not worry about the right drivers, etc, because your important system always has the same peripherals - the VM ones. Kernel just boots right up.
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TiVo of course! Ethernet, e-mail checker, etc, etc... ;)
There would not be a black mark on my credit rating. It would be a black mark on their software that was stupid enough to try to charge to an expired card. I'm fairly sure that one thing out there NOT controlled by M$ is my credit rating.
- RR
This is the perfect situation for one time use numbers (the one I personally use is MBNA ShopSafe). If it is a $19.99 annual fee (I have no idea what it is, I use PS2 and PC games), then you create a credit card with a spending limit of $20 (and 11 month expiration). They cannot charge you more than that. Then, one of two things happens. (1) After 11 of the 12 months they call you with a friendly reminder that your card expires soon - so you either cancel then or go and increase spending limit and expiration of fake credit card. (2) After 12 months, they try to charge to a now expired card, fail, and either contact you or your service is just shut off. If you wanted the service back, call them up and give them a new card number. :)
- RR
I was a co-op, and a SysAdmin. Bad combo. I was erasing a directory, and there where a bunch of annoying hidden files and directories. So I said "No Prob!" rm -rf .* would do it!
Wiped out 2TB. That may not sound like too much now, but this was 1996! This was a server that had just consolidated about two weeks before (onto an Auspex machine) from 5 or 6 Sun servers. The fones starting ringing... FAST!
For those not in the know, that recursively follows every .. directory until it hits root, then goes forward from there!
- RR
Right near the NRA HQ... National Firearms Museum ;)
Nice... even better, thanx. Lost, but in a good way.
- RR
I didn't think you cared, but since you asked... ;)
;)
Anything online that is long enough to actually fit, I use 'RevRagnarok' (gee, look around this post). That's just become my online alter ego. http://www.revragnarok.com/ explains the reasons - basically, Ragnarok is just such an interesting story, etc, and I am also a legally ordained minister. Many of my friends now refer to me as "Rev" in Real Life(TM) and even at work (which can get embarassing).
For some of the console games, just "Ragnarok" fits. Or some shorter form. Then when they say (in games like FF8) that we need to get to the Ragnarok I think "But I'm right here ppl..."
RevR or even RR is used sometimes, like when I am very limited. Just, contrary to my evil friend's obsession, never 'Rag' or 'RevRag'!
Some previous ones:
absorto (in middle school a spanish->english dictionary said it meant 'mentally lost')
X-Phile (loved that show early on)
- RR
Another reason this won't work - our good friends at MacroVision...
You can actually dub ANY DVD to a TiVo. It will record it happily, and flag that it is a protected stream. When it plays back, it will insert the MacroVision crap back into the analog video stream to stop you from recording it to VCR. So if your VCR or DVD recorder are MacroVision compliant, you're not able to do it. However, you _can_ use the TiVo to timeshift (and maximize) your Netflix subscriptions. (shh!)
- RR
- This was NOT due to the cellphones in the planes, more due to the overloading of the networks due to call volume.
OK. Then how can you say that the cell phones on the planes did or did not contribute? - ...somehow on Sept 11th all the cellphones (sic) used on airplanes didn't melt down the cell network on the eastern seaboard
Define meltdown. I work in a building about 20 minutes outside of DC. When the Pentagon was hit, my cell phone was absolutely USELESS. Only one call got thru - my GF's cell - and that is because she is on the same network. All land-line junctions were in use. I call that meltdown.A friend of mine was one of the people walking home in NYC from his work and his did NOTHING. He dialed and nothing happened. Again, I call that meltdown.
- From page:
- Presentation slides from Finding Bugs is Easy, invited talk, MASPLAS 2003
I get error 403 - permission error. I'll look at the other PDF later tonite I hope.- - RR
PS. I like parenthesis!I'm coming from the software side, so for me an FPGA has always been kind of an hardware accelerator for my software.
Then please, find a hardware engineer to help you. I make my money as an ECE (working with FPGAs since 1995), and let me tell you that the worst VHDL/Verilog/whatever source code that I have seen is always written by software programmers. Unless you are a programmer that can context switch into thinking about what happens to your data at the gate level , you may want to hold back.
This isn't to bash programmers (I've done that too, I'm typing this instead of paying attention in a J2EE class), but to just make sure you know that they are different worlds and both need their own knowledge bases. No, I haven't looked at JHDL, so I do not know how efficient they might be at mapping to the gate/LUT level. But I doubt it would be anywhere close to good VHDL run thru Synplify Pro. I say good VHDL because you can write bad stuff too - I have a coworker whose VHDL looks like verbal schematics... but I digress.
Summary: (programming FPGAs != programming generic CPUs). Be sure to acknowledge that.
Well, that is like Apple and... Apple.
*WAY* back when, when Apple Computer Company came on the scene, a little record company called Apple Records was upset about it. They had a few lesser-known artists, such as The Beatles. (I think they were founded by them. Not sure.)
Fight ensued - end result - they are considered separate enough.
Then comes the Macintosh. It makes noise! I mean sound! So what is the name of the first Macintosh system sound? "Sosumi" Say it out loud...
Just a little useless trivia to make the Monday a little more bearable...
Check google for more. "apple computer vs apple records sosumi" works well.
- RR
You can see here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=60679&cid=5724 232 how I fixed the mail problem with AOL and EarthLink.
- RR
Runs Linux
;)
TiVo = Yes
DirecTiVo = Yes
TWC Box = No
Money goes into AOL pockets
TiVo = No
DirecTiVo = No
TWC Box = Yes
- RR
I'd love to see standard TiVos contain multiple tuners.
;)
Just today I got the 'news you can use' newsletter from TiVo - and they say in no uncertain terms in the Q&A section that there will never be a multi-tuner analog TiVo. Cannot blame them, a majority of the hardware is the MPEG encoding. The DirecTiVo is just dumping the D-TV signal to the hard drive with no encoding needed.
They site the reason being that analog TV going bye-bye in place of HDTV and digital cable. I use my IR blaster with my Com-crap digital cable box with no problem at all. Except you cannot surf. Not that TiVo users bother with live LIVE TV - the 6 second delay is unbearable to try surfing. I used an old contact lens box to create a remote "fort" and have never missed a recording from stray IR signals.
(Shameless plug) Plus with tivo_mail my TiVo checks my email!
-RR
OK. I'm lazy, I don't read man pages a lot. Some programs re-read all the time. Some re-read on USR1. Others on HUP. I just restart everything I change configs on and then no worries, I know it read it.
qmail-showctl simply displays the contents of all the control files in a human readable format.
True. The reason I used it is it shows that the file is correctly in place. Example (FUBAR'd name):
- RR
You also have to assume that their servers WORK. When I had Verizon's DSL (Baltimore area, less than a year ago) I was getting over 30 messages of SPAM (only, I never EVER gave ANYONE that account) a day and their servers would often be so bogged down that mail would bounce. In fact, it even made local news one time it was so bad!
Their mail server is the reason I went thru the trouble of even setting up my own SMTP server!
- RR
(See my other post for the qmail fix for this AOL/EarthLink problem)
I know for a fact that they are NOT telling their customers.
;) ]
I tried explaining it to an AOL user. She called me on the fone as she was real-time chatting with a "support" person. She explained it all to the moron. [ Sorry, let me expand - the 'support' moron not the one who is an actual AOL luser
So what happens? I got a "test email" from the support drone. All it said was "test email from AOL". My friend could NOT explain to the support moron the difference between INCOMING and OUTGOING mail. So not even the support people knew. I even pasted the entire error message from their SMTP servers and sent it to her, she forwarded it to the support person, and that STILL didn't help any.
Oh well. See my other post for the AOL/EarthLink (qmail) fix.
- RR
Anyway, here's how to fix if you have qmail. You need to create a file
The without the dot gets user@aol.com and the with is for user@domain.aol.com . Restart qmail your favorite way. You can check with qmail-showctl to see if it worked.
- RR
I got an ethernet card from 9thtee a while back, it is great! I then got a program called "tivoweb" which lets me remotely record, and even search future listings with a REAL keyboard (I like to compare it to my NetFlix list every now and then and queue up movies on the TiVo that I don't care about all those DVD goodies).
;)
Then there is my e-mail on my TiVo with the shameless plug of tivo_mail that I found a while back and people seem to like it.
- RR
OK... so my last post wasn't the best... :(
But seriously, I made that circuit 2 months ago on a project at work in VHDL and I have the CVS logs to prove it. It's pretty standard - have a counter off a known clock to compare the counter off an unknown clock. I was using it to ensure my buddy's code was handing me start pulses at the appropriate rate. Mine even reported the high and low counts along with a true/false "good" signal.
I knew that patent stuff was getting out of hand but this is nuts. I am sure you can pick up any VHDL or Verilog cookbook and find a similar ckt.
I guess I was wrong before... Intel is on crack!
- RR
I guess those Adobe folks are on crack... have you seen PS run on a Mac vs Windows??? It is SO much faster doing nearly all filters. The 3rd party ones even show considerable differences. - RR
I have two identically sized drives (80GB). Every weekend, I take down the machine for about an hour and Ghost disk 1 to disk 2 (60GB used takes 50 minutes). Then I hide disk 2 in the BIOS (disable the controller). An EXACT backup of the OS. People ask why I don't just do RAID - well, I trust the hardware not to fail more than myself - if I f* it up, with RAID, yippee I have to copies of crap.
Another option I did in the past is to have a very basic host OS and a virtual machine with all the important stuff. You take down the virtual machine, copy the file that is its "hard drive" to somewhere else, and boot it back up. Now you can split that file across CD-R, move to another PC, etc. This solution is also very nice if you have catastrophic failure, you can recover much faster with new hardware and not worry about the right drivers, etc, because your important system always has the same peripherals - the VM ones. Kernel just boots right up.
- RR