> Reportedly similar problems exist with Unreal Tournament 2003
Exactly this happens on my system. Maybe it is because I have more than 1 CD drive, and maybe it is because they are DVD writers rather than normal CD readers.
The fix is to download the demo version from their website, unpack it with WinZip and copy the UT2003.EXE into the full game installations' system\ folder.
Actually the sat broadcaster transmits his encrypted content right into my home.
I didn't ask him to do so, and I can't prohibit him from doing so. Why shouldn't I be
allowed to receive the transmission that he purposefully focuses on my house?
I'd be "stealing" if I would go out an tap a subscribers wires or otherwise bring the
content into my house. But I'm not doing so. I rather examine what the broadcaster transmits
into my house, without my consent.
> [X] Standard software install system - LSB, Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse
Well, he said "standard software install system" and not "standard system software install". That's a difference.
I expect that every APPLICATION installs itself through a standard system. I am sick of reading an HOWTO for SpamAssassin, another HOWTO for Samba, and a whole portfolio for LoopAES which even gives me a free trip through the depths of kernel recompliation HOWTOs.
When installing Linux applications, groups.google is your friend. Just about any question you might come up with, has already been asked before, because Linux is so damn difficult to administer.
Windows shows the way to go. Click next to start, click next to accept license, click next to accept destination folder, click next to accept default installation type, click next to finalize, click next to reboot (if applicable - system level application).
Guide a novice computer user through this process twice, and she'll be able to do it herself.
The test results that were collected from internet users, are questionable. Some users took it as competition, as in "who identifies most files correctly" and not "which file sounds best". They found that, when played back in WinAmp, the spectral analyser display gave information about the frequency bandwidth. This is an indicator to the compression of the wave.
This information was public on HEISEs (publisher of Ct magazine and conductor of the test) news server well before the end of the test. Nobody knows how many testers have judged for "political" motivations rather than perceived sound quality.
Wouldn't it be possible to embedd a TCP/IP stack together with ethernet hardware into an "iSCSI client PCI card" which appears to the host system as normal SCSI controller? This would completely hide the networking aspects from the host system, and all driver issues were solved. It could boot from such a drive, even to an MSDOS6 prompt!
The program can automatically discard downloaded chunks that don't satisfy the checksum. Many broadband users have excessive spare bandwidth anyway (eg download 25k/s typ of possible 110k/s max), so unless ??AA tops up on bandwidth, they won't even slow down their targets.
Why ban all laptops, just because the CREW doesn't know them? Wouldn't it be better to just ask the owner and decide then? After all, many owners know.
Well, the thing is that nature has other design goals than industry.
Biologic evolution doesn't try to let EVERY SINGLE individual survive. Nature doesn't trade-off between reliability and fitness. If some particular species of birds, for example, are fitter and stronger than others, they will survive as long as the environment permits. Nature won't automatically add "safety margins" to improve the birds. They won't develop ability to survive in a different, FUTURE environment, until that change actually takes place. Then, and ONLY then, evolution selects those birds that cope better. But until then, the "stronger" birds are prefered over those that might survive the change without further adaption.
This is totally contrary to industry desires. Industry wants a product to be as fail safe as possible. I'm not talking about "good" products as opposed to "stupid" products, no. I mean products that are made from components with huge tolerance margins. If a component is 1% too large, and has to be thrown away, it lost revenue. Therefore, the designers take into account IN ADVANCE, that such errors can happen. They design the product so that it can be built with +1% and -1% components and still satisfy quality control.
Industry wants as many INDIVIDUAL products as possible to be "good" (=sellable). Trades-offs are accepted and industry prefers cheap-to-manufacture products over experimental-state-of-the-art any time.
Compare birds with airplanes. Nature simply "produces" as many birds as possible, each a little bit different from the others. A lot of them die before being given birth. Another large percentage dies before the first flight. How many die before their 50th flight? How many actually exhaust their expected lifetime?
Airplanes, on the other hand, are carefully designed to resist every imaginable fault. They won't crash on their first flight. Well.. some may, but this certainly isn't PART OF THE PROCEDURE. We don't want to select the "good" airplanes by just letting them all fly and see which ones don't crash.
We want products that work, and although the product is suboptimal for this very reason, we still prefer it this way. I don't want to be the unlucky customer whose new purchase is a "weaker" one. I can almost see people in the stores, opening a bunch of boxes just to select (no pun intended) the "better" one.
> Species that adapt to changing rules survive. Being able to adapt to > changing rules requires that you carry along extra genes that may not > be useful right now but could help you in different environments.
There's another requirement: you have to carry along the ability and the will to mutate!
The "genetic" super computer will be MORE fragile. It will mutate "out of the blue" even when there is no necessity. You have to live with extra downtime. If you didn't, you would be permanently stuck once environment really changes in an unexpected way.
Well, if all circuits had been "designed" using these methods, we would have to fear every day that they suddenly stop working. Just look at the global warming phenomena - the delicately balanced mechanisms of our planet are broken by some minor environmental pollution. Floods and thunderstorms are the result.
Heck, I would certainly return my "evolutionary designed" super computer when it stopped working for minor (but unexpected) influences.
GSM handets are twofold: the ME (mobile equipment) and SIM (subscriber identity module). Both together form the MS (mobile station).
This split was done to avoid exactly the situation you describe. A handset may be transferred to another person, without notifying the airtime provider. You take out the SIM (a miniature smart card) and plug it into another handset. Off you go!
The IMEI is often ignored by the network. There exists a database of stolen handsets (in Dublin), but most airtime providers don't interface with that database. In fact, stolen handsets work in more than 50% of all GSM networks (without IMEI change).
I have made a script for traffic shaping with LINUX. It has the following advantages over many other scripts:
1. it is not fair. It is designed to play Quake3 online, so Q3 traffic always has priority
2. it requires only one NIC. most solutions require one NIC for LAN and another one for the WAN uplink
3. it is able to serve SAMBA shares at high speed. most solutions cap all NIC traffic, and your file systems becomes dog slow. my solution caps LAN traffic at a different rate (in my case LAN=90mbit, DSL_in=450kbit, DSL_out=110kbit).
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> Reportedly similar problems exist with Unreal Tournament 2003
Exactly this happens on my system. Maybe it is because I have more than 1 CD drive, and
maybe it is because they are DVD writers rather than normal CD readers.
The fix is to download the demo version from their website, unpack it with WinZip and
copy the UT2003.EXE into the full game installations' system\ folder.
jetmarc
Maybe clever lawyers should hire a telemarketer to find more people to join a class-action suit against DNC-violating companies..
Actually the sat broadcaster transmits his encrypted content right into my home. I didn't ask him to do so, and I can't prohibit him from doing so. Why shouldn't I be allowed to receive the transmission that he purposefully focuses on my house? I'd be "stealing" if I would go out an tap a subscribers wires or otherwise bring the content into my house. But I'm not doing so. I rather examine what the broadcaster transmits into my house, without my consent.
> [X] Standard software install system - LSB, Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse
Well, he said "standard software install system" and not "standard system software
install". That's a difference.
I expect that every APPLICATION installs itself through a standard system. I am
sick of reading an HOWTO for SpamAssassin, another HOWTO for Samba, and a
whole portfolio for LoopAES which even gives me a free trip through the depths of
kernel recompliation HOWTOs.
When installing Linux applications, groups.google is your friend. Just about any question
you might come up with, has already been asked before, because Linux is so damn
difficult to administer.
Windows shows the way to go. Click next to start, click next to accept license,
click next to accept destination folder, click next to accept default installation
type, click next to finalize, click next to reboot (if applicable - system level
application).
Guide a novice computer user through this process twice, and she'll be able to do it herself.
jetmarc
95 KB @ 32kbps 8fps KTTECH still is only 24 seconds of video.
> they mention that different view angles would be used to generate different
> speckle patterns.
The obvious circumvention technology for this is the hologram. It generates
different (programmable) patterns for different view angles.
jetmarc
The test results that were collected from internet users, are questionable. Some
users took it as competition, as in "who identifies most files correctly" and not
"which file sounds best". They found that, when played back in WinAmp, the
spectral analyser display gave information about the frequency bandwidth. This
is an indicator to the compression of the wave.
This information was public on HEISEs (publisher of Ct magazine and conductor
of the test) news server well before the end of the test. Nobody knows how many
testers have judged for "political" motivations rather than perceived sound quality.
jetmarc
You can take a peek into the insides of GSM phones here:
6 8/ inside_t68.html
http://www.inside-gsm.com/inside-gsm_home.html
A fairly new model is the Ericsson T68 (comes with color LCD):
http://www.inside-gsm.com/Ericsson/T68/Inside_T
jetmarc
Wouldn't it be possible to embedd a TCP/IP stack together with ethernet hardware
into an "iSCSI client PCI card" which appears to the host system as normal SCSI
controller? This would completely hide the networking aspects from the host
system, and all driver issues were solved. It could boot from such a drive, even
to an MSDOS6 prompt!
Marc
The program can automatically discard downloaded chunks that don't satisfy the
checksum. Many broadband users have excessive spare bandwidth anyway (eg
download 25k/s typ of possible 110k/s max), so unless ??AA tops up on bandwidth,
they won't even slow down their targets.
ED2K quicklinks show how moderation and secure hashes work in reality. You get the damn right file. See Sharereactor et al.
Why ban all laptops, just because the CREW doesn't know them? Wouldn't it be better to just ask the owner and decide then? After all, many owners know.
Well, the thing is that nature has other design goals than industry.
Biologic evolution doesn't try to let EVERY SINGLE individual survive. Nature
doesn't trade-off between reliability and fitness. If some particular species
of birds, for example, are fitter and stronger than others, they will survive as
long as the environment permits. Nature won't automatically add "safety margins"
to improve the birds. They won't develop ability to survive in a different, FUTURE
environment, until that change actually takes place. Then, and ONLY then,
evolution selects those birds that cope better. But until then, the "stronger"
birds are prefered over those that might survive the change without further
adaption.
This is totally contrary to industry desires. Industry wants a product to be as
fail safe as possible. I'm not talking about "good" products as opposed to
"stupid" products, no. I mean products that are made from components with huge
tolerance margins. If a component is 1% too large, and has to be thrown
away, it lost revenue. Therefore, the designers take into account IN ADVANCE, that
such errors can happen. They design the product so that it can be built with +1%
and -1% components and still satisfy quality control.
Industry wants as many INDIVIDUAL products as possible to be "good" (=sellable).
Trades-offs are accepted and industry prefers cheap-to-manufacture products over
experimental-state-of-the-art any time.
Compare birds with airplanes. Nature simply "produces" as many birds as possible,
each a little bit different from the others. A lot of them die before being
given birth. Another large percentage dies before the first flight. How many die
before their 50th flight? How many actually exhaust their expected lifetime?
Airplanes, on the other hand, are carefully designed to resist every imaginable
fault. They won't crash on their first flight. Well.. some may, but this certainly
isn't PART OF THE PROCEDURE. We don't want to select the "good" airplanes
by just letting them all fly and see which ones don't crash.
We want products that work, and although the product is suboptimal for this very
reason, we still prefer it this way. I don't want to be the unlucky customer
whose new purchase is a "weaker" one. I can almost see people in the stores,
opening a bunch of boxes just to select (no pun intended) the "better" one.
Marc
> Species that adapt to changing rules survive. Being able to adapt to
> changing rules requires that you carry along extra genes that may not
> be useful right now but could help you in different environments.
There's another requirement: you have to carry along the ability and the will
to mutate!
The "genetic" super computer will be MORE fragile. It will mutate "out of
the blue" even when there is no necessity. You have to live with extra downtime.
If you didn't, you would be permanently stuck once environment really changes
in an unexpected way.
Marc
Well, if all circuits had been "designed" using these methods, we would
have to fear every day that they suddenly stop working. Just look at
the global warming phenomena - the delicately balanced mechanisms of
our planet are broken by some minor environmental pollution. Floods and
thunderstorms are the result.
Heck, I would certainly return my "evolutionary designed" super computer
when it stopped working for minor (but unexpected) influences.
jetmarc
Yeah great, so lets rush out to buy video phones and make sure that they're set to OFF.
So, when you have sex you put on the glasses to your partner :-) Whole new opions..
> ...I have the impression, that more than 80% of
> all outgoing emails from hotmail are SPAM.
They are not. It would be too inefficient to send them out by the web interface of Hotmail. You are looking at fake addresses.
> you get an email from Microsoft telling you that
> you've nearly reached your limit, and you should
> upgrade for only $x a month.
Funny thing is that you can not block these messages with the "block sender" feature.
IMEI != ESN
GSM handets are twofold: the ME (mobile equipment) and SIM (subscriber identity module). Both together form the MS (mobile station).
This split was done to avoid exactly the situation you describe. A handset may be transferred to another person, without notifying the airtime provider. You take out the SIM (a miniature smart card) and plug it into another handset. Off you go!
The IMEI is often ignored by the network. There exists a database of stolen handsets (in Dublin), but most airtime providers don't interface with that database. In fact, stolen handsets work in more than 50% of all GSM networks (without IMEI change).
.. and thus thiefs won't stop changing IMEI codes just because the law requests them to. After all they STOLE the mobile, which is prohibited too.
I have made a script for traffic shaping with LINUX. It has the following advantages over many other scripts:
F -8 &oe=utf-8&selm=af3f5bb5.0203270727.3058629%40posti ng.google.com
1. it is not fair. It is designed to play Quake3 online, so Q3 traffic always has priority
2. it requires only one NIC. most solutions require one NIC for LAN and another one for the WAN uplink
3. it is able to serve SAMBA shares at high speed. most solutions cap all NIC traffic, and your file systems becomes dog slow. my solution caps LAN traffic at a different rate (in my case LAN=90mbit, DSL_in=450kbit, DSL_out=110kbit).
You find a copy of the script in usenet:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UT
Marc