I don't know if this is legal, but have you thought of rebroadcasting the news that is available in other formats? With coutcast or icecast it's possible just to broadcast out whatever is playing over the soundcard as an Mp3.
I cary a 3.5" mini cd full of diagnostics programs for winblows, because god knows you need them when dealing with windows and windows users. Here is a list of what's on the disc.
First of all it's a basic MS-DOS bootable disk with all the functionality of a regular MS-DOS boot CD (fdisk, format, edit, etc) and a few utilities such as Fresh Diagnose VNC server and viewer NessusWX Fresh Diagnose is an excellent benchmark/testing utility. VNC is for accessing remote desktops (Great for lazy people such as myself) NessusWX is a windows interface for Nessus security scanner. A must for checking default installations of any OS. All the extra utilites are freeware. MS-DOS is of course copyrighted.
I agree that a dreamcast is a stupid idea. It's bulky and relatively expensive, plus it needs to be modded. I did something similar to this to prove to a company I do work for that their network is easy to hack from the inside. I used my Palm m505 with ethernet adapter, running linux with a packet sniffer hat constantly logged traffic over 1 specific cat 5 cable. The great thing aout it was I was able to hide it within a vent. So no one stole my palm to give to their kids.
If you're already using winblows, to test X apps, just VNC to the application you want, and then run the stress test on the VNC session. All mouse clicks and keypresses will be performed on the remote computer. That way you can use the same program across platforms, instead of figuring out a seperate application for each OS you test.
You can also reverse this process if you'd rather use your linux box to test winblows.
Mandrake is for windows users to try out linux so they can say it sucks, because they tried a user friendly linux distro and still couldn't get it to do anything.
I guess if you can't point and click a button and have everything done for you, you can't use Linux.
Last time I saw one of these it was uber expensive, almost the cost of a digital camera. Besides that, it would still have to convert digital to analog which is never as good as pure digital or pure analog, depending on the situation. Photograph in analog by all means, but stick with scanners to digitize it:)
I had a customer who wanted a laptop for maritime use, where the salty sea air and extreme temperatures can cause havoc on normal machines.
In my search I found the Panasoc Toughbook, which is made specifically for extreme conditions.
Also, look into downgrading the processors. If you only need an MP3 player, any pentium class will do, and with cooling modifications meant for todays CPU's you will never have a problem with overheating.
Yes it is possible, and without using a horrible excuse for an operating system such as windows. This is possible with any video card that has dual outputs. Also if you have two desktops with it's own monitor, look into x2vnc.
As a follow up on my earlier post, it seems you may be slightly misguided as to what VNC can do on an X windows system. It is simple to serve a single window from VNC, you just add what you want to run in your ~/.vnc/xstartup script.
Ex. I have wine serving MS Word, with jus this in my xstartup
#!/bin/bash wine office.exe
Simple as that. However the Windows version is not nearly as agile. That's due to the lack of hooks supported by windows' sub standard GUI. So if you want to use windows, you're gonna have to go with a sub standard application such as citrix. Be prepared to shell out.
I use VNC http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ and x0rbfs http://www.hexonet.de/software.en/ server to export my:0 desktop out to any other computers, and all that is required is a java capable web browser. VNC is also truly cross-platform application, I can output my linux desktop to my palm over a wireless connection.
There is also a ton of other things you can use VNC for, such as application service providing.
Maybe you should look that definition up for yourself.
ironic Pronunciation Key (-rnk) also ironical (-rn-kl) adj. Characterized by or constituting irony. Given to the use of irony. See Synonyms at sarcastic. Poignantly contrary to what was expected or intended: madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker
Your post was in no way ironic. Evidence of your lack of cerebral capacities. you probably think everything in Alanis Morisette's stupid ironic song is ironic too..
"The fact that you're still taking my bait doesn't say much for your intelligence."
Bait? What are you some pedophile necropheliac or something? My posting to your post only shows that I reply to people the reply to my comments. Your reply to my initial post which wasn't "bait" doesn't say much for your intelligence.
Here's another conspiracy theory for you. Disney is making crop circles because it's run by aliens! All crop circles are made by aliens, it's just that they are aliens in human forms. That way they can just claim is was a "hoax" while all the time beaming messages back up to the mother ship, where an army of Bill Gates clones waits for the oppurtunity to strike and install Windows on everything! Techonology will be set back to prehistoric times!
Actually your the idiot, I posted to tell you that your an idiot, not that I don't usually respond to trolling morons. That was just a side note to let you know how incrediblt stupid you are.
I don't usually respond to trolls, but this just hit me as incredibly stupid. Your posting on this saturday afternoon to complain that people are posting on saturday afternoon?
I love it! Now I'm gonna have to find out how to use all of my LED's for other purposes. Anyone have any ideas on how to use my CD-ROM LED to show ethernet utilizaion?
If the CD spins backwards, and reads data in reverse, why shouldn't you be able to write the bitstream in the order it will be read? Unless it reads from outside to in, this seems feasible.
And as far as your point of where the HDD would be, several distrobutions load a run completely in a ram drive, and still more are able to run as live CD's.
This may not be applicable, but I knwo there exists applications for windows that do what you want.. and you can serve an appliaction and just poll the window. However performance will most likely be degraded unless you're on a gigabit network.
This brings up an interesting point. Programes like DeCSS are illegal because they attempt to avert imposed copyright protection. But an application that polls a window to convert into an mpeg isn't necessarily for piracy, so I don't think could be considered illegal until used in an illegal fashion.
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I don't know if this is legal, but have you thought of rebroadcasting the news that is available in other formats? With coutcast or icecast it's possible just to broadcast out whatever is playing over the soundcard as an Mp3.
I cary a 3.5" mini cd full of diagnostics programs for winblows, because god knows you need them when dealing with windows and windows users. Here is a list of what's on the disc. First of all it's a basic MS-DOS bootable disk with all the functionality of a regular MS-DOS boot CD (fdisk, format, edit, etc) and a few utilities such as
Fresh Diagnose
VNC server and viewer
NessusWX
Fresh Diagnose is an excellent benchmark/testing utility.
VNC is for accessing remote desktops (Great for lazy people such as myself)
NessusWX is a windows interface for Nessus security scanner. A must for checking default installations of any OS.
All the extra utilites are freeware. MS-DOS is of course copyrighted.
hth
I agree that a dreamcast is a stupid idea. It's bulky and relatively expensive, plus it needs to be modded. I did something similar to this to prove to a company I do work for that their network is easy to hack from the inside. I used my Palm m505 with ethernet adapter, running linux with a packet sniffer hat constantly logged traffic over 1 specific cat 5 cable. The great thing aout it was I was able to hide it within a vent. So no one stole my palm to give to their kids.
If you're already using winblows, to test X apps, just VNC to the application you want, and then run the stress test on the VNC session. All mouse clicks and keypresses will be performed on the remote computer. That way you can use the same program across platforms, instead of figuring out a seperate application for each OS you test.
You can also reverse this process if you'd rather use your linux box to test winblows.
Mandrake is for windows users to try out linux so they can say it sucks, because they tried a user friendly linux distro and still couldn't get it to do anything.
I guess if you can't point and click a button and have everything done for you, you can't use Linux.
Last time I saw one of these it was uber expensive, almost the cost of a digital camera. Besides that, it would still have to convert digital to analog which is never as good as pure digital or pure analog, depending on the situation. Photograph in analog by all means, but stick with scanners to digitize it :)
I had a customer who wanted a laptop for maritime use, where the salty sea air and extreme temperatures can cause havoc on normal machines.
In my search I found the Panasoc Toughbook, which is made specifically for extreme conditions.
Also, look into downgrading the processors. If you only need an MP3 player, any pentium class will do, and with cooling modifications meant for todays CPU's you will never have a problem with overheating.
Yes it is possible, and without using a horrible excuse for an operating system such as windows. This is possible with any video card that has dual outputs. Also if you have two desktops with it's own monitor, look into x2vnc.
As a follow up on my earlier post, it seems you may be slightly misguided as to what VNC can do on an X windows system. It is simple to serve a single window from VNC, you just add what you want to run in your ~/.vnc/xstartup script.
Ex. I have wine serving MS Word, with jus this in my xstartup
#!/bin/bash
wine office.exe
Simple as that. However the Windows version is not nearly as agile. That's due to the lack of hooks supported by windows' sub standard GUI. So if you want to use windows, you're gonna have to go with a sub standard application such as citrix. Be prepared to shell out.
There's nothing wrong with Athlons.. People who trash on AMD remind me of the smae people who trash on Linux.
FreeBSD is great for security! Glad to hear there's an updated version, but if I see any exploits for it soon I;m gonna be upset.
I use VNC http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ and x0rbfs http://www.hexonet.de/software.en/ server to export my :0 desktop out to any other computers, and all that is required is a java capable web browser. VNC is also truly cross-platform application, I can output my linux desktop to my palm over a wireless connection.
There is also a ton of other things you can use VNC for, such as application service providing.
Hope this is helpfule!
I'm sure Disney pays off the farmers before they start trashing crops, with an extra bonus to shut the hell up about it.
Maybe you should look that definition up for yourself.
ironic Pronunciation Key (-rnk) also ironical (-rn-kl)
adj.
Characterized by or constituting irony.
Given to the use of irony. See Synonyms at sarcastic.
Poignantly contrary to what was expected or intended: madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker
Your post was in no way ironic. Evidence of your lack of cerebral capacities. you probably think everything in Alanis Morisette's stupid ironic song is ironic too..
"The fact that you're still taking my bait doesn't say much for your intelligence."
Bait? What are you some pedophile necropheliac or something? My posting to your post only shows that I reply to people the reply to my comments. Your reply to my initial post which wasn't "bait" doesn't say much for your intelligence.
Here's another conspiracy theory for you. Disney is making crop circles because it's run by aliens! All crop circles are made by aliens, it's just that they are aliens in human forms. That way they can just claim is was a "hoax" while all the time beaming messages back up to the mother ship, where an army of Bill Gates clones waits for the oppurtunity to strike and install Windows on everything! Techonology will be set back to prehistoric times!
Actually your the idiot, I posted to tell you that your an idiot, not that I don't usually respond to trolling morons. That was just a side note to let you know how incrediblt stupid you are.
I don't usually respond to trolls, but this just hit me as incredibly stupid. Your posting on this saturday afternoon to complain that people are posting on saturday afternoon?
Now I know why they call you trolls.
They can have all the multi processing power they want. Not having anti-aliasing just sucks.
I love it! Now I'm gonna have to find out how to use all of my LED's for other purposes. Anyone have any ideas on how to use my CD-ROM LED to show ethernet utilizaion?
If the CD spins backwards, and reads data in reverse, why shouldn't you be able to write the bitstream in the order it will be read? Unless it reads from outside to in, this seems feasible. And as far as your point of where the HDD would be, several distrobutions load a run completely in a ram drive, and still more are able to run as live CD's.
This may not be applicable, but I knwo there exists applications for windows that do what you want.. and you can serve an appliaction and just poll the window. However performance will most likely be degraded unless you're on a gigabit network.
This brings up an interesting point. Programes like DeCSS are illegal because they attempt to avert imposed copyright protection. But an application that polls a window to convert into an mpeg isn't necessarily for piracy, so I don't think could be considered illegal until used in an illegal fashion.