You can make your camera automount through, well, automount, the usb-storage module and vfat. There is no need for LUFS in that case. It is already transparent.
Mounting audio CDs has also been done (both as a discrete filesystem and UFS layers), however there are certain "issues" which then become clear why LUFS may not be the right option. For example, it is currently not possible (and isn't possible really according to the standard) to arbitrarily seek into a track reliably. Some drives allow for sector positioning, but not all. This is because audio tracks do not contain positioning information in each block. Jitter can be expected, and the file metaphor could be somewhat broken on a less-than-perfect CD when two consequetive reads of the same audio chunk aren't identical; one has to think of some clever caching schemes in that case. It is much easier to read and deal with problems when processing the entire track at once from beginning to end. Hence cdparanoia. Making it into a file may seem interesting, but it isn't incredibly useful (since it's not reliable, and that implication shouldn't be implied by forcing the file system metaphor on top of it).
The same can be said of making virtual encoded versions of audio available through the same interface. The stream cannot be completed at arbitrary seek points; OGG's bit allocation protocol makes breaks at certain (but not obvious) points for framing information. MP3s (unless at constant bitrate) have the same issue. The file really has to be already be encoded in a straight shot, kept in RAM, and then it can be read arbitrarily.
So why not write a script to do that? It's not hard; there's only about 14,000 projects on freshmeat that do exactly that, CDDB tie-ins and all.
The filesystem metaphor shouldn't be forced onto abstractions that don't support arbitrary seeking, reading, writing, truncating, updating, locking.
As long as the purpose only makes sense inside the window manager environment...
I'm talking about the cdburning drag+drop, digital camera browsing, play-list "mounting", etc.
These things make sense inside the window management space because they are useful abstractions for use inside a graphical file manager. However, they are probably not too useful for the general unix environment (i.e. command line, generic VFS calls, some of which may have no translation... fcntl on a candidate for including on a blank CD, whaaaa?)
Some of those abstractions are rather nifty. Others (like SSHFS) are probably overkill or not low-level enough to be truely useful to be implemented at such a high level.
Question... does LUFS support automatic protocol in the path? I'm talking about doing something like this:/mnt/lufs/proto/host/path
Which might come back with an error if you need to ssh-agent, or klog, or something like that. (I wouldn't advocate/mnt/lufs/proto/user:auth@host/path)
you can go to Guitar Center and buy a cheap omni and royalty-free sample discs, an Audigy or Santa Cruz, and pick up a copy of Impulse Tracker, Buzz, or whatever.
Plus you can burn CDs of your heinous creations.
Why exactly is this news for nerds? Whom among you: is reading Slashdot right now, and doesn't have the means to pick up a cheap mic, some sounds effects, and download free tracking software?
So it exists for the PS2: big whoop. It's like when Mario Paint came out for the SNES and there was a mouse.
HOLY SHIT LIKE THAT HADN'T BEEN DONE BEFORE!!!11!!
An improvement:
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Some slashdotters noted that
The money may have been better spent on an insulating foam sleeve.
The peltier cooler could actually heat the beer up if the excess heat generated is not managed.
Clearly, this calls for combining the features of both! First, obtain the "beer bra" and cut a peltier-sized hole in the bottom. Affix the cooler to the surrounding insulator with lots of glorious duct tape. Arrange the backup batteries on the outside of the insulating foam. And there you have it! The hot side of the cooler and the batteries won't raise the temperature of the beer, and the foam will also help it stay cool. Furthermore, this system could greatly speed the cooling of beer originally at room temperature. Now if someone would kindly build this device and mail it me, I would be most grateful.
::makes kissy face::
Pleeeeese... you big strong hacker you.
You missed the joke...
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Laa laa laa, I'm this nice Norwegian friend with his laptop. Hey, my buddy routed ethernet out his window to the lawn where we're hangin out. Schweeet, I brought my expensive laptop and I want to browse the web... Here we go, ***CLICK*** ::the distinct smell of money^H^H^H^H^Hlaptop catching fire is noticable to all assembled::
He was trying to imply that you might accidentally plug the CAT5 "power-cable" into a laptop or some such which would NOT assume it would be fed 12V @ 11A from an ATX supply (and would attempt to sink the current to prevent signal reflections... OUCH)
The simulation (if it exists) is betting on the fact that most people who fire bullets randomly don't care where they land. The system might be free to take the bullet and do whatever with it, including recomitting it into mineral ore. It's probably too small to consider proper accounting unless you are in a situation where a) you care about it b) the bullets trajectory implies a landing near something interesting to another part of the simulation.
When you ask, well what happends to the bullet, then you are making it interesting. The simulation already knows you care about those sort of things and has made the appropriate resource allocation.
All that being said, I more strongly agree with the multi-verse model. But the world-as-simulation is also a valid argument, but it is less appealing. I mean, we can't even get a proper JVM...:-(
Google is under no obligation to make pagerank have any qualities other than what it deems to be important to google's users.
Consider this: if google takes tecnhological measures against SearchKing specifically, then google has invested its own resources into purposefully debasing SearchKing results. The only reason it would do that is because Google believes SearchKing is skewing the value of pagerank away from google's intent, thus making the metric less useful to Google users. In other words, the sites that SearchKing make popular must not actually be representative of the search terms. By investing its own time and money into combating sites who skew pagerank, it defines its own monetary value for the pagerank according to its own terms.
Kinda obvious, once you've thought about it.
Sites who invest in SearchKing's services would be better off in terms of getting good Google rankings if they applied that money to improving their own site content. I speculate that this may be universally true, given enough time for Google to react with any technological countermeasures. Anyone care to do a study?:)
Rather than adapt to Google's strategy by introducing new countermeasures, SearchKing decides to file this frivoulous civil suit. That money would have been better spent on the former, and it would be all fair in the spirit of capitalism and healthy competetion.
I'm glad that judge had enough good sense to see that this was a sham, despite the hi-tech, abstract nature of the dispute.
SearchKing believes they can set a price on the value of a pagerank and sell it to consumers (by using appropriate technology investment to increase the pagerank value). However, 1) Google has not granted resale right to this entity, and more importantly 2) it is too volatile to monetize. It's like trying to predict the % change at close of penny stocks.
Google is under no obligation to stabilize this "good", which then helps SearchKing capitalize on it.
It may seem (at first) that one could assign a monetary value to pagerank because (at least for popular sites) pagerank is relatively stable with respect to other sites of similar popularity. But the reason why a site achieves page rank is because of popularity.
By attempting to inflate a site's pagerank through a monetary transaction (thus using artificial methods), you are essentially trying to buy popularity with money. Unfortunately, paying SearchKing won't make other people like your site more, so that transaction won't work (unless SearchKing can make everyone visit the site in question, and then like it).
I think SearchKing and its employees' grasp on reality is a little bit deficient.
I heard it in a movie... i forget which one. Sorry 'bout that.
Bai bai!
Re:Listening to the conference call
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Still More:
SCO: "*cough* we are so fucking screwed *cough* going to love the looks on the faces of nay-sayers in June"
SCO: "Wow I am the biggest faggot that ever walked the earth."
SCO: "I think I'd like to sing a song about muppets" (this must be how dogs see)
Bad End
And the anonymous coward's PC bursts into flames..
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... as all the whiney, arrogant pie-holes determine his IP address despite his posting AC and drown the box with ping floods, spam, and all other sorts of geeky nasty things.
I think the flames have something to do with the dust that was collecting in the back near the GeForceFX-brand vacuum cleaner. You should invest in an air can, man.
Oh, $c0 sux. (not ot)
I wouldn't say that...
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the "investor club" over here I talked to during lunch, and my daddy who's a CFO... neither had heard of the SCO debacle, or even knew who SCO is. But they all knew about the Microsoft AOL agreement.
So, some job their doing staying in the spotlight. They're (SCO) just trying to make us suffer: of this I am sure.
Because in RL, you'll never get to see that. The closest you'll get to it is the whatever the prop department of CSI trundles out.
Games have to give you something that you don't see everyday, or give you the chance to be something that you're not. That's why computer adaptation of board games suck (unless you're playing online... see there it is!)
Usually this involves being strong enough to maim someone with your bare hands, or the ability to run real fast away from an explosion. I mean, how cool is that! New technology makes this false reality easier to implement. Before, you had to do with cartoons... not anymore/
It could also be that game designers are uninspired and so the easy way to make a game fun is to add cheesecake, and unfortunately, the Right (and the Left too) won't allow sex, so violence it is. How insipid.
And in any case, plenty of kids like games that aren't violent too... chess, card games, DDR, sports and racing simulators...
That being said, I like Quake III and Breakout clones.
The defendant's dad "is sure that game" had something to do with it.
At the same time, this kid was "afraid to go home", hence why he slept on the victims floor. Afraid to go home to the same parents who are now trying to shunt the blame away from them.
Anyone have links to people at AOL they can bitch to? WE WANT W A S T E!!
Thank god I already downloaded the source.
bzzzzt... sorry.
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So, when an incoming connection comes into the head-end, and then the incoming socket data is routed over the network to the remote machine running the accepting thread instance, and the reply is shuttled back over to the head-end, and then forwarded to the internet... how is that any better than having Apache running on each server individually behind a load-balancer?
It would be nice to run a database or app. server in the mosix cluster with a web front-end. Apache itself will not scale over the cluster.
Re:firewall? we don't need no stinkin' firewall!
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Okay, so right, bring in your laptop and box for NAT with a programmable MAC on a USBethernet adapter (so you don't have to break the seal), have a WAP outside, and you have the potential for a situation. System won't notice the laptop behind the NAT, which in turn is acting as a gateway for the Internet. IPSec (if req.) can be handled by creating a bridge interface on the trusted box. (I assume you somehow have mitigated the fact that SIPRNET and the Internet have conflicting address spaces)
But to go through all that trouble of bringing in that shit (which you aren't allowed to do anyway, and are constantly reminded as such) signifies malicious intent, in which you have a range of possible modes of clandestine access.
You could also print stuff out and don't tell anyone, then sell it in the abandoned warehouse district. Seems easier to me.;P
...So they can get to the Internet. The WEP is to prevent freeloaders.
Air gap, buddy.
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still won't protect you from someone connecting a (supposedly) secure laptop with a spare wireless card in it...
SIPRNET facilities are closed areas wherein RF-transmit capable devices are not allowed. This means no cell phones, wireless cards, etc. Most procedure documents specifically disallow mobile equipment in the lab; only fixed and inspected equipment is allowed to make SIPRNET connections. Just getting a machine hooked up with an active connection is a huge affair involving letters and inspections and signatures and shit.
If you hook up something to SIPRNET without getting approval, you could get your ass dragged through the paper trenches. ^_^ Those "accidents" are generally avoided in this draconian manner.
I can spell Internet, balance brackets, defeat evil net monsters, and make touch decisions. I just got my citizenship, and my papers are in order. Plus I'm TS/COMSEC/Ultra-Magik/Double-Plus-Good cleared. Suspicious, reserved, and low-key (except for the bizarre hair color).
Remember: Rei for Information Goddess^H^H^H^H^H^HMinister^H^H^H^H^H^H^H whatever-the-positions'-name-is: to make everything right in the cyber-world.
Apparently they've got two weeks to look for candidates, so slashdot -- get cracking, send in your letters of recommendation!
I was slightly put off by the chip on your shoulder. Ignorance is not an excuse to ridicule.
It wasn't OT either (not compared to other things that get posted in these threads).
Constructive response might have been: You got PIXRouter confused? And this is why if you want to learn about network security forget about dicking around with Cisco equipment unless you plan on taking a class and/or buying some at a liquidation auction.
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You can make your camera automount through, well, automount, the usb-storage module and vfat.
There is no need for LUFS in that case. It is already transparent.
Mounting audio CDs has also been done (both as a discrete filesystem and UFS layers), however there are certain "issues" which then become clear why LUFS may not be the right option. For example, it is currently not possible (and isn't possible really according to the standard) to arbitrarily seek into a track reliably. Some drives allow for sector positioning, but not all. This is because audio tracks do not contain positioning information in each block. Jitter can be expected, and the file metaphor could be somewhat broken on a less-than-perfect CD when two consequetive reads of the same audio chunk aren't identical; one has to think of some clever caching schemes in that case.
It is much easier to read and deal with problems when processing the entire track at once from beginning to end. Hence cdparanoia. Making it into a file may seem interesting, but it isn't incredibly useful (since it's not reliable, and that implication shouldn't be implied by forcing the file system metaphor on top of it).
The same can be said of making virtual encoded versions of audio available through the same interface. The stream cannot be completed at arbitrary seek points; OGG's bit allocation protocol makes breaks at certain (but not obvious) points for framing information. MP3s (unless at constant bitrate) have the same issue. The file really has to be already be encoded in a straight shot, kept in RAM, and then it can be read arbitrarily.
So why not write a script to do that? It's not hard; there's only about 14,000 projects on freshmeat that do exactly that, CDDB tie-ins and all.
The filesystem metaphor shouldn't be forced onto abstractions that don't support arbitrary seeking, reading, writing, truncating, updating, locking.
Otherwise, why make it into a filesystem?
As long as the purpose only makes sense inside the window manager environment...
/mnt/lufs/proto/host/path
/mnt/lufs/proto/user:auth@host/path)
I'm talking about the cdburning drag+drop, digital camera browsing, play-list "mounting", etc.
These things make sense inside the window management space because they are useful abstractions for use inside a graphical file manager. However, they are probably not too useful for the general unix environment (i.e. command line, generic VFS calls, some of which may have no translation... fcntl on a candidate for including on a blank CD, whaaaa?)
Some of those abstractions are rather nifty. Others (like SSHFS) are probably overkill or not low-level enough to be truely useful to be implemented at such a high level.
Question... does LUFS support automatic protocol in the path? I'm talking about doing something like this:
Which might come back with an error if you need to ssh-agent, or klog, or something like that. (I wouldn't advocate
you can go to Guitar Center and buy a cheap omni and royalty-free sample discs, an Audigy or Santa Cruz, and pick up a copy of Impulse Tracker, Buzz, or whatever.
Plus you can burn CDs of your heinous creations.
Why exactly is this news for nerds? Whom among you: is reading Slashdot right now, and doesn't have the means to pick up a cheap mic, some sounds effects, and download free tracking software?
So it exists for the PS2: big whoop. It's like when Mario Paint came out for the SNES and there was a mouse.
HOLY SHIT LIKE THAT HADN'T BEEN DONE BEFORE!!!11!!
Clearly, this calls for combining the features of both! First, obtain the "beer bra" and cut a peltier-sized hole in the bottom. Affix the cooler to the surrounding insulator with lots of glorious duct tape. Arrange the backup batteries on the outside of the insulating foam.
And there you have it! The hot side of the cooler and the batteries won't raise the temperature of the beer, and the foam will also help it stay cool. Furthermore, this system could greatly speed the cooling of beer originally at room temperature.
Now if someone would kindly build this device and mail it me, I would be most grateful.
Pleeeeese... you big strong hacker you.
Laa laa laa, I'm this nice Norwegian friend with his laptop.
::the distinct smell of money^H^H^H^H^Hlaptop catching fire is noticable to all assembled::
Hey, my buddy routed ethernet out his window to the lawn where we're hangin out. Schweeet, I brought my expensive laptop and I want to browse the web...
Here we go, ***CLICK***
He was trying to imply that you might accidentally plug the CAT5 "power-cable" into a laptop or some such which would NOT assume it would be fed 12V @ 11A from an ATX supply (and would attempt to sink the current to prevent signal reflections... OUCH)
The simulation (if it exists) is betting on the fact that most people who fire bullets randomly don't care where they land. The system might be free to take the bullet and do whatever with it, including recomitting it into mineral ore. It's probably too small to consider proper accounting unless you are in a situation where a) you care about it b) the bullets trajectory implies a landing near something interesting to another part of the simulation.
:-(
When you ask, well what happends to the bullet, then you are making it interesting. The simulation already knows you care about those sort of things and has made the appropriate resource allocation.
All that being said, I more strongly agree with the multi-verse model. But the world-as-simulation is also a valid argument, but it is less appealing. I mean, we can't even get a proper JVM...
Google is under no obligation to make pagerank have any qualities other than what it deems to be important to google's users.
:)
Consider this: if google takes tecnhological measures against SearchKing specifically, then google has invested its own resources into purposefully debasing SearchKing results. The only reason it would do that is because Google believes SearchKing is skewing the value of pagerank away from google's intent, thus making the metric less useful to Google users. In other words, the sites that SearchKing make popular must not actually be representative of the search terms. By investing its own time and money into combating sites who skew pagerank, it defines its own monetary value for the pagerank according to its own terms.
Kinda obvious, once you've thought about it.
Sites who invest in SearchKing's services would be better off in terms of getting good Google rankings if they applied that money to improving their own site content. I speculate that this may be universally true, given enough time for Google to react with any technological countermeasures. Anyone care to do a study?
Rather than adapt to Google's strategy by introducing new countermeasures, SearchKing decides to file this frivoulous civil suit. That money would have been better spent on the former, and it would be all fair in the spirit of capitalism and healthy competetion.
I'm glad that judge had enough good sense to see that this was a sham, despite the hi-tech, abstract nature of the dispute.
The fallacy?
Assigning a monetary value to pagerank.
SearchKing believes they can set a price on the value of a pagerank and sell it to consumers (by using appropriate technology investment to increase the pagerank value). However, 1) Google has not granted resale right to this entity, and more importantly 2) it is too volatile to monetize. It's like trying to predict the % change at close of penny stocks.
Google is under no obligation to stabilize this "good", which then helps SearchKing capitalize on it.
It may seem (at first) that one could assign a monetary value to pagerank because (at least for popular sites) pagerank is relatively stable with respect to other sites of similar popularity. But the reason why a site achieves page rank is because of popularity.
By attempting to inflate a site's pagerank through a monetary transaction (thus using artificial methods), you are essentially trying to buy popularity with money. Unfortunately, paying SearchKing won't make other people like your site more, so that transaction won't work (unless SearchKing can make everyone visit the site in question, and then like it).
I think SearchKing and its employees' grasp on reality is a little bit deficient.
::droooolsss::
::makes a coy face::
ooh! Heh, sorry, didn't see you there.
I heard it in a movie... i forget which one. Sorry 'bout that.
Bai bai!
Still More:
SCO: "*cough* we are so fucking screwed *cough* going to love the looks on the faces of nay-sayers in June"
SCO: "Wow I am the biggest faggot that ever walked the earth."
SCO: "I think I'd like to sing a song about muppets" (this must be how dogs see)
Bad End
... as all the whiney, arrogant pie-holes determine his IP address despite his posting AC and drown the box with ping floods, spam, and all other sorts of geeky nasty things.
I think the flames have something to do with the dust that was collecting in the back near the GeForceFX-brand vacuum cleaner. You should invest in an air can, man.
Oh, $c0 sux. (not ot)
the "investor club" over here I talked to during lunch, and my daddy who's a CFO... neither had heard of the SCO debacle, or even knew who SCO is. But they all knew about the Microsoft AOL agreement.
So, some job their doing staying in the spotlight. They're (SCO) just trying to make us suffer: of this I am sure.
Because in RL, you'll never get to see that. The closest you'll get to it is the whatever the prop department of CSI trundles out.
Games have to give you something that you don't see everyday, or give you the chance to be something that you're not. That's why computer adaptation of board games suck (unless you're playing online... see there it is!)
Usually this involves being strong enough to maim someone with your bare hands, or the ability to run real fast away from an explosion. I mean, how cool is that! New technology makes this false reality easier to implement. Before, you had to do with cartoons... not anymore/
It could also be that game designers are uninspired and so the easy way to make a game fun is to add cheesecake, and unfortunately, the Right (and the Left too) won't allow sex, so violence it is. How insipid.
And in any case, plenty of kids like games that aren't violent too... chess, card games, DDR, sports and racing simulators...
That being said, I like Quake III and Breakout clones.
Draw your own conclusions.
...the defense is grasping for straws.
The defendant's dad "is sure that game" had something to do with it.
At the same time, this kid was "afraid to go home", hence why he slept on the victims floor. Afraid to go home to the same parents who are now trying to shunt the blame away from them.
Sounds like a great family, eh?
Anyone have links to people at AOL they can bitch to? WE WANT W A S T E!!
Thank god I already downloaded the source.
So, when an incoming connection comes into the head-end, and then the incoming socket data is routed over the network to the remote machine running the accepting thread instance, and the reply is shuttled back over to the head-end, and then forwarded to the internet... how is that any better than having Apache running on each server individually behind a load-balancer?
It would be nice to run a database or app. server in the mosix cluster with a web front-end. Apache itself will not scale over the cluster.
you got trolled. Wasn't it obvious?
YHL. HAND. v_v;;
Okay, so right, bring in your laptop and box for NAT with a programmable MAC on a USBethernet adapter (so you don't have to break the seal), have a WAP outside, and you have the potential for a situation. System won't notice the laptop behind the NAT, which in turn is acting as a gateway for the Internet. IPSec (if req.) can be handled by creating a bridge interface on the trusted box. (I assume you somehow have mitigated the fact that SIPRNET and the Internet have conflicting address spaces)
;P
But to go through all that trouble of bringing in that shit (which you aren't allowed to do anyway, and are constantly reminded as such) signifies malicious intent, in which you have a range of possible modes of clandestine access.
You could also print stuff out and don't tell anyone, then sell it in the abandoned warehouse district. Seems easier to me.
That hasn't prevented anyone from doing it with binary drivers either.
...So they can get to the Internet. The WEP is to prevent freeloaders.
Air gap, buddy.
still won't protect you from someone connecting a (supposedly) secure laptop with a spare wireless card in it...
SIPRNET facilities are closed areas wherein RF-transmit capable devices are not allowed. This means no cell phones, wireless cards, etc. Most procedure documents specifically disallow mobile equipment in the lab; only fixed and inspected equipment is allowed to make SIPRNET connections. Just getting a machine hooked up with an active connection is a huge affair involving letters and inspections and signatures and shit.
If you hook up something to SIPRNET without getting approval, you could get your ass dragged through the paper trenches. ^_^ Those "accidents" are generally avoided in this draconian manner.
You know you want me in charge. Better than someone who can't pronounce: /.
Any objections?
I can spell Internet, balance brackets, defeat evil net monsters, and make touch decisions. I just got my citizenship, and my papers are in order. Plus I'm TS/COMSEC/Ultra-Magik/Double-Plus-Good cleared. Suspicious, reserved, and low-key (except for the bizarre hair color).
Remember: Rei for Information Goddess^H^H^H^H^H^HMinister^H^H^H^H^H^H^H whatever-the-positions'-name-is: to make everything right in the cyber-world.
Apparently they've got two weeks to look for candidates, so slashdot -- get cracking, send in your letters of recommendation!
I was slightly put off by the chip on your shoulder. Ignorance is not an excuse to ridicule.
It wasn't OT either (not compared to other things that get posted in these threads).
Constructive response might have been: You got PIXRouter confused? And this is why if you want to learn about network security forget about dicking around with Cisco equipment unless you plan on taking a class and/or buying some at a liquidation auction.