Since it's a new company where the software got developed while ALSA was available, I have to question why they released a "public" linux version that still does not offer ALSA, even after every second post in their linux forums asked for it.
Then there's also the possibility that, had their software been open-sourced, someone would have already added ALSA functionality to it; But that's for a different thread.
Why would such firmware be available in the driver to be uploaded to the chipset every time, instead of being copied once to a re-writeable ROM on the hardware somewhere ?
Not a BSOD, but one of the ATM machines in a Royal Bank branch in Montreal had crashed, and lo and behold it was sitting at a black screen with a white C:\> prompt (or A:\> - I don't remember).
I was too curious to just let it be - I punched a couple of keys on the keypad and it wrote the digits I typed, but after 1-2 seconds I guess some watchdog kicked in and the thing blanked and flashed then showed an out-of-service notice.
make menuconfig, don't change anything, exit.
copy the.config file from your old kernel source directory to the new one.
make menuconfig again, doublecheck the options as well as look at any ne ones.
My girlfriend's HP laptop suddenly developed a "vary-dark-screen" weirdness where everything worked except the screen was EXTREMELY dark, but you could see that the stuff was there. This included the POST in the BIOS which told me it was not a software problem.
I did some searching online and it was apparent it's a fairly common problem related to the "inverter" component. Either the wire's loose and just needed to bere-seated, or the inverter itself (a tiny board) has gone bad and needed to be replaced.
I didn't feel like pulling any stunts, and laptop was only a couple of months old, so I decided to take it back where it was bought from (Future Shop on St. Catherine st. in Montreal, Canada - Same parent company as Best Buys in the States).
The technician there looked at it, scratched his head, said he's never seen this problem before, and that he'd have to ship it to HP for them to take a look. He took the laptop, gave us a slip of paper, and said he'd call us when it's ready fr pickup.
I completely forgot about it until, OVER A MONTH LATER, my girlfriend mentioned that she still did not have her laptop. A call to Future Shop got us "we don't know where youre laptop is . . . call us back in a few days"
A few days after we call, and we're told "oh, your laptop has been here for a while.. come pick it up"... "Where was the phone call we were told we'll receive ?"... "I don't know".
So between Future Shop, HP, and possibly even a few border crossings, it takes over a month to replace a $60 inverter or a 10-second wire re-adjustment.
Bah, games, I don't have time for them, so none of these companies are getting any of my money anyways. The XBox is worthless to me, even if it can run Linux. I'd rather use the money to assemble yet another x86 box to run Linux/*BSD on.
But the XBOX is an x86 architecture and evidently CAN run linux, it's also comparatively cheap.
I've been researching this myself for a while and one of the problems I faces was actually finding a case that resembles a VCR in dimensions rather than the traditional TOWER-pc. Here are a few links to interesting cases/systems that you might find interesting:
For the ones that come with a mobo/any hardware I cannot vouch for how well they work under linux (or windows for that matter).. These are just bookmarks from some initial research I did.
I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic or not.
But, YES.
The US acted on the will of its people through their represented officials.
It is the people who drilled themselves into this dillema; they financed an unneeded war out of their own pockets causing an astounding debt to accumulate. Surely they would have anticipated that Iraq will need money once the war is over and have taken that into account!
The responsibility for re-building Iraq to a state equal to, or better than it's previous state is the sole responsibility of the United States and it's allies that joined the war. Everyone who had nothing-to-do-with it has already absolved themselves of both the guilt associated with the unneeded deaths, the financial requirements of war, and responsibility of the betterment of that country's future.
It's simple common sense and fairness.
Stats from my bittorrent window right now:
Download rate: 267 kB/s
Upload rate: 279 kB/s
so obviously there's some sort of problem on your end.
Did you read the readme ? are your upload ports open ?
Hello Kevin,
I bought your book and enjoyed it very much; however it struck me that most of the "cons" that were transcripted appeared too simplistic and obvious.
Is that because me, a reader of a book dealing with social engineering, has in mind that this is a con, or are people really that gullible and the transcript is actually how it happens ?
As-symmetric cryptography does not work like that.
The XBOX has the public key in it.
Microsoft has the private key.
Microsoft SIGNS each CD with the private key. By signing it, they are not including the private key in the CD, but a "checksum" that uses the private key + the contents to generate a unique signature.
When the XBOX reads the CD, it uses the signature + the public key to see if there's a match.
So as you can see, the private key is nowhere near the xbox.
No they can't.
Each CD you pop in has to be signed by the private key (that only MS knows). The public key built-into every xbox is used to verify weather the CD should run or not.
Which means there's only 1 public key, and only 1 private key. All CDs are signed by the same private key, and all xboxes are fitted with the same public key.
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Skype still uses OSS under linux.
Since it's a new company where the software got developed while ALSA was available, I have to question why they released a "public" linux version that still does not offer ALSA, even after every second post in their linux forums asked for it.
Then there's also the possibility that, had their software been open-sourced, someone would have already added ALSA functionality to it; But that's for a different thread.
http://www.look.ca/page.asp?intNodeID=16641
Disclaimer: I work for the above-mentioned company.
Possibly a newbie question:
Why would such firmware be available in the driver to be uploaded to the chipset every time, instead of being copied once to a re-writeable ROM on the hardware somewhere ?
The last time I installed XFCE it went something like this:
# emerge xfce
(wait a few minutes)
Done.
http://www.topfx.com/futureshop.shtml
We're doing just what you've described, although the cafe pays for the hardware as opposed to a tip-jar model.
We have lots of documentation at our WIKI. The NodeSetup page might be exactly what you're asking for.
I was too curious to just let it be - I punched a couple of keys on the keypad and it wrote the digits I typed, but after 1-2 seconds I guess some watchdog kicked in and the thing blanked and flashed then showed an out-of-service notice.
So I, random customer or investor X, wish to contact AT&T by email, and I can't becasue my ISP's mailserver is not on AT&T's allow list ?
Sounds like the cure is worse than the problem. Why have a mailserver at all then ?
AMSN is great, but look at the footprint, it's a memory pig.
make menuconfig, don't change anything, exit. copy the .config file from your old kernel source directory to the new one.
make menuconfig again, doublecheck the options as well as look at any ne ones.
I did some searching online and it was apparent it's a fairly common problem related to the "inverter" component. Either the wire's loose and just needed to bere-seated, or the inverter itself (a tiny board) has gone bad and needed to be replaced.
I didn't feel like pulling any stunts, and laptop was only a couple of months old, so I decided to take it back where it was bought from (Future Shop on St. Catherine st. in Montreal, Canada - Same parent company as Best Buys in the States).
The technician there looked at it, scratched his head, said he's never seen this problem before, and that he'd have to ship it to HP for them to take a look. He took the laptop, gave us a slip of paper, and said he'd call us when it's ready fr pickup.
I completely forgot about it until, OVER A MONTH LATER, my girlfriend mentioned that she still did not have her laptop. A call to Future Shop got us "we don't know where youre laptop is . . . call us back in a few days"
A few days after we call, and we're told "oh, your laptop has been here for a while.. come pick it up"... "Where was the phone call we were told we'll receive ?" ... "I don't know".
So between Future Shop, HP, and possibly even a few border crossings, it takes over a month to replace a $60 inverter or a 10-second wire re-adjustment.
But the XBOX is an x86 architecture and evidently CAN run linux, it's also comparatively cheap.
Or am I missing something ?
http://www.littlepc.com/m /pro_slm_detail.php?UID=335&MODEL=MS-6243
c ts.html
c ifications/model.cfm?mn=EEC-5000
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/slim_pc/sl
http://www.partshelf.com/giggmaxmodgb.html
http://www.storever.com/
http://www.linux-works.com/browser/html/our_produ
http://www.evalue-tech.com/evalueweb/products/spe
For the ones that come with a mobo/any hardware I cannot vouch for how well they work under linux (or windows for that matter).. These are just bookmarks from some initial research I did.
I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic or not. But, YES. The US acted on the will of its people through their represented officials. It is the people who drilled themselves into this dillema; they financed an unneeded war out of their own pockets causing an astounding debt to accumulate. Surely they would have anticipated that Iraq will need money once the war is over and have taken that into account! The responsibility for re-building Iraq to a state equal to, or better than it's previous state is the sole responsibility of the United States and it's allies that joined the war. Everyone who had nothing-to-do-with it has already absolved themselves of both the guilt associated with the unneeded deaths, the financial requirements of war, and responsibility of the betterment of that country's future. It's simple common sense and fairness.
is enough. There's something magical every april 1st that turns /. into a garbage can
Stats from my bittorrent window right now: Download rate: 267 kB/s Upload rate: 279 kB/s so obviously there's some sort of problem on your end. Did you read the readme ? are your upload ports open ?
http://www.donkeynuts.com comes to mind!
Tampa Bay Buckaneers just won the superbowl.
Hello Kevin, I bought your book and enjoyed it very much; however it struck me that most of the "cons" that were transcripted appeared too simplistic and obvious. Is that because me, a reader of a book dealing with social engineering, has in mind that this is a con, or are people really that gullible and the transcript is actually how it happens ?
People like feeling lucky. It's the same force that drives millions to buy lottery tickets.
As-symmetric cryptography does not work like that. The XBOX has the public key in it. Microsoft has the private key. Microsoft SIGNS each CD with the private key. By signing it, they are not including the private key in the CD, but a "checksum" that uses the private key + the contents to generate a unique signature. When the XBOX reads the CD, it uses the signature + the public key to see if there's a match. So as you can see, the private key is nowhere near the xbox.
No they can't. Each CD you pop in has to be signed by the private key (that only MS knows). The public key built-into every xbox is used to verify weather the CD should run or not. Which means there's only 1 public key, and only 1 private key. All CDs are signed by the same private key, and all xboxes are fitted with the same public key.
The clients report back in bulk. They are NOT going to receive 2^2048 replies packets.
In Canada, one of the largest cell phone providers, Fido (http://www.fido.ca) charges for all SMS messages, including incoming.