Zip adds error detection though, so you dont get halfway through watching it then have it freeze. It also lets it pass firewalls and prevents browsers from trying to stream it.
I've just completed a study on how BSD IS NOT DYING.
Everyone look at me whoopty friggin do.
I'm sure congress is scrambling to convene an emergency session to discuss some jim nobodies claims.
The courts will decide, in the end. The law is more about intent than the tools you used. You dont say "your honor, it wasnt a knife, it was a sharpened spoon!". Whats relevent is that someone was stabbed.
4% is a damn high mortality rate, especially considering we don't know how it's spread. And it could easily climb. Did you look up the remission/cure rate too? AFAIK, noone has 'got over' SARS.
Open source has the potential to be more secure than closed source
Well, thats kind of a silly statement. I could say closed source has the potential to be more secure than open source and still be correct.
Heck in this case, MSFT found their own hole and patched it. If it was an OS JRE with this flaw, then chances are equally good it would be found by a "blackhat" first.
Not only that, I've noticed that work on open source projects has slowed to a crawl since the dotcom bust.
I figure people realized that the 1) something with computers 2) ? 3) profit! business model doesnt work.
Many major OS projects just seem to be dead in the water, and havent seen a new major release in months/years. I remember when there was some new and major update for something weekly.
Oh well, let's you and I just take our troll and flamebait moderations and move on.
Because linux is no more secure, despite what you read here on slashdot or other zealot forums.
The samba root exploit, and the ability to brute force the root password via swat, went a decade without being patched. They were exploited endlessly.
The 'thousand monkeys at a thousand keyboards' approach to Open Source software is no more effective than piecewise regression testing at a commercial house.
In short, Windows still dominates the desktop because security-wise, there's nothing else for the x86 architecture to beat it, and feature-wise, it reigns supreme.
>Now if you have 64 bits you actually have 2^64 which is an outrageously huge number
2^32 used to be an outrageously huge number, as well. Remember the days when a top-of-the-line box had 640k of ram, and a 20 MB harddrive was considered gigantic? 4 gigabytes was an absolutely ridiculous number to throw around back then.
For most software, it really doesnt matter. The big thing is the 4 gig memory ceiling on a 32 bit app. It's not really so much a speed issue. 64 bit computing wont make a game or AIM or email any better. All that stuff can just run along happily in 32 bit mode.
SQL Server will ship a 64 bit native version, this is one of the few apps I know of that can really make use of a 64 bit system right now.
I see this as something to help shove some big iron out of giant datacentres, but it hardly affects the average Joes desktop, if at all.
In fact, is the XP Home edition getting 64 bit support too? I wouldnt be surprised if they didnt bother.
Two requiring a subscription, and one a goofy PR piece about wingnut FPGA "computers" that cost 200Gs and up.
Anyways. The FPGA machines sound intriguing, but really arent as 'all powerful' as the non-techie Forbes piece makes them out to be. Not everything is parralellizable, not everything is conducive to dynamically altering the instruction set as you run it.
The traditional von neumman architecture is the best solution for many processing tasks, lots of stuff is just conducive to a sequentially operating processor. It's probably the best for all around general computing.
And 200 grand is probably better spent on a beowulf cluster of something than one of these boxes, but I'm sure they have a niche of usefulness somewhere.
I dont expect to see the traditional computer go anywhere anytime soon.
No, the activation 'scheme' is to ensure its running on one machine at a time. You call MS to 'reactivate' - they purge the old record from the database, and put on a new one - when you install on another machine. (They've never really 'turned on' the activation servers to enforce this stuff).
Its like my cable provider only allowing my account to be used from one cablemodem at a time. If I replace it, I have to call and tell them, they purge the old MAC address and enter the new one.
Personally, I think its a bunch of crap and a show of good faith is in order. But then there are probably millions of the same copy of windows 2000 installed on machines. MSFT is after all, a publicly traded for-profit company.
No, you got a discount from the retail cost of ME for the OEM copy that came bundled with your laptop. The OEM license is limited and for that computer and that computer only.
If you pay full retail for a boxed copy, you can use it as long as you want, so long as you only use it on one machine at a time.
If I sign a 4 year maintanaince contract with Pedros lawn care, I have to keep paying even if I move and the new owners dont want them running around the yard spraying pesticide.
The same goes with many other maintanaince/support contracts. Dont like it? Do business with someone else.
We have customers who still contractually pay for support on HP big iron boxes that havent been plugged in for years.
Another case of MSFT doing the same thing everyone else does, execpt (heres the kicker!) for some reason it's "evil" because you dont like windows.
Big fat whoop. MS Licensing is a business support contract, and pretty much a standard one at that.
The site was isonews. Dedicated to posting.nfos and tracking all the releases in the warez scene. While they didnt link to downloads, or allow site advertising in the forums, the forums were full of people talking about how to copy this or play that on whichever console.
The site was not about 'backups', it was not about linux, it was not about fair use. It was about piracy.
And he sold Xbox modchips. He couldnt sit and yammer in court about fair use rights or running linux legally. He sold them for a specific purpose - playing illegal copies.
You can also make something of the fact that he was convicted for selling the 1st gen modchip Enigmah. Basically all xbox mods are bios hacks/replacements. The enigmah had a hacked version of the xbox bios.
Newer mods are basically blank flashroms. (Homebrew mods are blank flashroms) I don't see how you could be convicted selling those, unless you specifically make a point of saying the device is for playing pirated software.
I'm all against the government abusing its power.. Yeah yeah. But this guy abused his (and by extension everyone elses) "fair use" rights.
Screw him. He and people like him are the reason the DMCA passed in the first place.
I was recently reading in Astronomer Monthly magazine that scientists now believe they can get usable signals from Voyager, long after they should be too faint, because they are amplified by the giant gas cloud that hovers around Uranus.
Circuit board = home etched? protoboard? breadboard? lets say 10 bucks
Miscellaneous electronic parts = all the resistors, capacitors, 555 timer IC, d-sub connectors that I saw used... Oh, lets say another 10 bucks (although if you dont buy that crap in bulk it'd easily cost more).
Fudging the numbers to get on slashdot = priceless.
It's relatively cheaply built? Seriously, I handled one at the local import shop and, well, you get what you pay for.
The D-pad and buttons are at once stiff and cheap-feeling, you constantly feel like they're going to fall off in your hand. They're also inaccurate and unresponsive. It's not nearly as well designed as, well, any other handheld I've used. It's not 'fun' to play. It's like replacing your fancy dual-shock 2 PS2 controller for one of the $5 aftermarket pieces of crap.
And a faster processor has to be MUCH MUCH faster (not a few mhz faster) and have a richer command set if it plans to emulate other systems well.
GB/NES goes about 50%, and it's been around a while, and these emulators are quite mature source-wise. I don't forsee some breakthrough coding trick to make them 100%. Still, I guess it's good enough for RPGs like pokemon or final fantasy.
SNES/Genesis/TG16/PS2/Xbox whatever, all a pipe dream so far as this device is concerned. If you want a good handheld emu platform you'd be better off looking at the pocketpcs in the $1000 range.
It's worth noting that emulators for the GBA are much farther along than for this device. If you had the cheese, a GBA flash-link and 256mbit cart might be a better toy.
As it is, it's a neat gizmo, but it's not a GBA killer. The Neo Geo Pocket came much closer to being a GBA killer IMO (I love that thing).
IMO it's a really cheap and crappy PDA, not a really good gaming platform.
I wouldnt buy one to play games on, but I would just to hack around and write pornographic little apps and then go show my friends "the new pokemon game", etc, etc..
When I installed 2.2.8a the other day, my cups printer became unavailable via samba (but still works locally) and I cannot login to swat - no matter what.
Not as root, not as a member of @wheel, not even after I completely deleted all traces of samba and rebuilt and reinstalled, and readded user account to smbpasswd. I was using my old (pre upgrade conf), replaced it with just the basics, took my machine off the domain and put it on a second workgroup.
It just gives out 401s no matter what I do, where I browse from.
WTF is up with that? Did this happen to anyone else, and if so, how did you resolve it? (and if not, WTF is up with that?)
Frankly I prefer the windows update 3 times a day, because at least it doesnt cripple my system for a week, which seems to happen every time a 'patch' comes out for an open source project. Not a troll, well, a troll but WTF happened to my machine?
One of you know-it-alls tell me off now and tell me how to fix it so's I can log in to swat, and then fix its printer support.
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Zip adds error detection though, so you dont get halfway through watching it then have it freeze. It also lets it pass firewalls and prevents browsers from trying to stream it.
Wow, official support!
Linux needs to "officially support" something thats transparent to the OS, since it overrides BIOS settings.
I've just completed a study on how BSD IS NOT DYING.
Everyone look at me whoopty friggin do.
I'm sure congress is scrambling to convene an emergency session to discuss some jim nobodies claims.
The courts will decide, in the end. The law is more about intent than the tools you used. You dont say "your honor, it wasnt a knife, it was a sharpened spoon!". Whats relevent is that someone was stabbed.
Oh well, blah blah blah etcetera.
You: "What is my next appointment?"
PDA-phone: "RTFM!"
If you are deemed a public health hazard (and the CDC has the authority to declare you such), you can be forced into quarantine.
People are quarantined regularly for TB.
We wouldnt use webcams to enforce it, more likely the leg transmitters that cons use.
In short, yes it would be legal.
And I'd rather have FUD run rampant than those who are infected, at least when we dont know how the disease is spread.
A 4% or so mortality rate on a grand scale would indeed be of Black Plague proportions.
The film "outbreak" is over-the-top hollywood, but pretty accurate so far as how the government is prepared to handle something like this.
4% is a damn high mortality rate, especially considering we don't know how it's spread. And it could easily climb. Did you look up the remission/cure rate too? AFAIK, noone has 'got over' SARS.
Open source has the potential to be more secure than closed source
Well, thats kind of a silly statement. I could say closed source has the potential to be more secure than open source and still be correct.
Heck in this case, MSFT found their own hole and patched it. If it was an OS JRE with this flaw, then chances are equally good it would be found by a "blackhat" first.
Not only that, I've noticed that work on open source projects has slowed to a crawl since the dotcom bust.
I figure people realized that the 1) something with computers 2) ? 3) profit! business model doesnt work.
Many major OS projects just seem to be dead in the water, and havent seen a new major release in months/years. I remember when there was some new and major update for something weekly.
Oh well, let's you and I just take our troll and flamebait moderations and move on.
Because linux is no more secure, despite what you read here on slashdot or other zealot forums.
The samba root exploit, and the ability to brute force the root password via swat, went a decade without being patched. They were exploited endlessly.
The 'thousand monkeys at a thousand keyboards' approach to Open Source software is no more effective than piecewise regression testing at a commercial house.
In short, Windows still dominates the desktop because security-wise, there's nothing else for the x86 architecture to beat it, and feature-wise, it reigns supreme.
Just wait until the first time they click on a goatse link.
>Now if you have 64 bits you actually have 2^64 which is an outrageously huge number
2^32 used to be an outrageously huge number, as well. Remember the days when a top-of-the-line box had 640k of ram, and a 20 MB harddrive was considered gigantic? 4 gigabytes was an absolutely ridiculous number to throw around back then.
Just reminiscing, that's all.
For most software, it really doesnt matter. The big thing is the 4 gig memory ceiling on a 32 bit app. It's not really so much a speed issue. 64 bit computing wont make a game or AIM or email any better. All that stuff can just run along happily in 32 bit mode.
SQL Server will ship a 64 bit native version, this is one of the few apps I know of that can really make use of a 64 bit system right now.
I see this as something to help shove some big iron out of giant datacentres, but it hardly affects the average Joes desktop, if at all.
In fact, is the XP Home edition getting 64 bit support too? I wouldnt be surprised if they didnt bother.
Two requiring a subscription, and one a goofy PR piece about wingnut FPGA "computers" that cost 200Gs and up.
Anyways. The FPGA machines sound intriguing, but really arent as 'all powerful' as the non-techie Forbes piece makes them out to be. Not everything is parralellizable, not everything is conducive to dynamically altering the instruction set as you run it.
The traditional von neumman architecture is the best solution for many processing tasks, lots of stuff is just conducive to a sequentially operating processor. It's probably the best for all around general computing.
And 200 grand is probably better spent on a beowulf cluster of something than one of these boxes, but I'm sure they have a niche of usefulness somewhere.
I dont expect to see the traditional computer go anywhere anytime soon.
No, the activation 'scheme' is to ensure its running on one machine at a time. You call MS to 'reactivate' - they purge the old record from the database, and put on a new one - when you install on another machine. (They've never really 'turned on' the activation servers to enforce this stuff).
Its like my cable provider only allowing my account to be used from one cablemodem at a time. If I replace it, I have to call and tell them, they purge the old MAC address and enter the new one.
Personally, I think its a bunch of crap and a show of good faith is in order. But then there are probably millions of the same copy of windows 2000 installed on machines. MSFT is after all, a publicly traded for-profit company.
Pedros Lawn Care is the actual name of the company I use.
If you find it offensive, take it up with Pedro. (Who wont give a shit, Pedro is no doubt rolling in cash).
Get over yourself.
No, you got a discount from the retail cost of ME for the OEM copy that came bundled with your laptop. The OEM license is limited and for that computer and that computer only.
If you pay full retail for a boxed copy, you can use it as long as you want, so long as you only use it on one machine at a time.
If I sign a 4 year maintanaince contract with Pedros lawn care, I have to keep paying even if I move and the new owners dont want them running around the yard spraying pesticide.
The same goes with many other maintanaince/support contracts. Dont like it? Do business with someone else.
We have customers who still contractually pay for support on HP big iron boxes that havent been plugged in for years.
Another case of MSFT doing the same thing everyone else does, execpt (heres the kicker!) for some reason it's "evil" because you dont like windows.
Big fat whoop. MS Licensing is a business support contract, and pretty much a standard one at that.
With GNU/Linux, you don't have to worry about being supported at all!
The site was isonews. Dedicated to posting .nfos and tracking all the releases in the warez scene. While they didnt link to downloads, or allow site advertising in the forums, the forums were full of people talking about how to copy this or play that on whichever console.
The site was not about 'backups', it was not about linux, it was not about fair use. It was about piracy.
And he sold Xbox modchips. He couldnt sit and yammer in court about fair use rights or running linux legally. He sold them for a specific purpose - playing illegal copies.
You can also make something of the fact that he was convicted for selling the 1st gen modchip Enigmah. Basically all xbox mods are bios hacks/replacements. The enigmah had a hacked version of the xbox bios.
Newer mods are basically blank flashroms. (Homebrew mods are blank flashroms) I don't see how you could be convicted selling those, unless you specifically make a point of saying the device is for playing pirated software.
I'm all against the government abusing its power.. Yeah yeah. But this guy abused his (and by extension everyone elses) "fair use" rights.
Screw him. He and people like him are the reason the DMCA passed in the first place.
I was recently reading in Astronomer Monthly magazine that scientists now believe they can get usable signals from Voyager, long after they should be too faint, because they are amplified by the giant gas cloud that hovers around Uranus.
Taplight = 5 bucks or so
PIC Programmer = hmm 30-50 bucks for a DIY kit
Circuit board = home etched? protoboard? breadboard? lets say 10 bucks
Miscellaneous electronic parts = all the resistors, capacitors, 555 timer IC, d-sub connectors that I saw used... Oh, lets say another 10 bucks (although if you dont buy that crap in bulk it'd easily cost more).
Fudging the numbers to get on slashdot = priceless.
what there's not to like
It's relatively cheaply built? Seriously, I handled one at the local import shop and, well, you get what you pay for.
The D-pad and buttons are at once stiff and cheap-feeling, you constantly feel like they're going to fall off in your hand. They're also inaccurate and unresponsive. It's not nearly as well designed as, well, any other handheld I've used. It's not 'fun' to play. It's like replacing your fancy dual-shock 2 PS2 controller for one of the $5 aftermarket pieces of crap.
And a faster processor has to be MUCH MUCH faster (not a few mhz faster) and have a richer command set if it plans to emulate other systems well.
GB/NES goes about 50%, and it's been around a while, and these emulators are quite mature source-wise. I don't forsee some breakthrough coding trick to make them 100%. Still, I guess it's good enough for RPGs like pokemon or final fantasy.
SNES/Genesis/TG16/PS2/Xbox whatever, all a pipe dream so far as this device is concerned. If you want a good handheld emu platform you'd be better off looking at the pocketpcs in the $1000 range.
It's worth noting that emulators for the GBA are much farther along than for this device. If you had the cheese, a GBA flash-link and 256mbit cart might be a better toy.
As it is, it's a neat gizmo, but it's not a GBA killer. The Neo Geo Pocket came much closer to being a GBA killer IMO (I love that thing).
IMO it's a really cheap and crappy PDA, not a really good gaming platform.
I wouldnt buy one to play games on, but I would just to hack around and write pornographic little apps and then go show my friends "the new pokemon game", etc, etc..
Aww damn!
And I already got some paint drying that I planned on watching. My evenings pretty full. Maybe I can listen to these discussions another time.
When I installed 2.2.8a the other day, my cups printer became unavailable via samba (but still works locally) and I cannot login to swat - no matter what.
Not as root, not as a member of @wheel, not even after I completely deleted all traces of samba and rebuilt and reinstalled, and readded user account to smbpasswd. I was using my old (pre upgrade conf), replaced it with just the basics, took my machine off the domain and put it on a second workgroup.
It just gives out 401s no matter what I do, where I browse from.
WTF is up with that? Did this happen to anyone else, and if so, how did you resolve it? (and if not, WTF is up with that?)
Frankly I prefer the windows update 3 times a day, because at least it doesnt cripple my system for a week, which seems to happen every time a 'patch' comes out for an open source project. Not a troll, well, a troll but WTF happened to my machine?
One of you know-it-alls tell me off now and tell me how to fix it so's I can log in to swat, and then fix its printer support.
(ldd says libcups and all is linked in fine)
Plug em in
Wires are the future
When all you wireless guys cancer ridden corpses are long since buried, those of us with wires will be enjoying the fruits of the new millenium.
Ever try to assasinate someone with piano 'air'? No. You need wire.