What would be really cool is if some company pulled a Red Hat, or Suse, etc., with MythTV whereby they offer their "version" of a MythTV distribution bundled with hardware and all
There are a couple of small vendors who do this already. The systems all seem to be priced to compete with the various Commercial PVR-type systems -- $600-1200.
While searching for Ubuntu & MythTV, I ran into https://monolithmc.com/, who I ships a computer preloaded with MythTV & Ubuntu.
In this case, we ended up using the Read Receipt feature in Outlook. However, most of the recipients blocked the receipt response. Several other people allowed the read receipt through the first time, but blocked it the second time after we pointed out "Look, we got the read receipt response. We know you at least glanced at our email. Please help us out!"
"Email means that someone can ignore you instantly"... this after sending 25 emails and making 10 phone calls to someone else in the organization, and that person's supervisor, and the supervisor's supervisor.
I've seen a few LED bulbs, and they all seem to flicker at an annoying frequency. I am assuming that this flicker is being fixed with new, better circuitry.
I remember Flourescent Lights flickering around the same frequency in the 70s though the early 90s --- most of those problems went away as the new electronic ballasts were introduced.
There are 5 revisions of this card (A through E), and at least two sets of drivers. My refurbished card from Tigerdirect contained drivers & an application for Revision E, but the card was Revision A . Rev A had different drivers and a different wireless management application.
I bought a bunch of Dlink DWL-520 wireless cards from Tigerdirect (refurbished, mail in rebate, etc. etc). These cards came to $20 apiece, which was a pretty good deal in 2004. You probably know this card -- it's called the 'DWL-520', but could actually be one of 6 different cards, each containing a different wireless chip--- each requiring it's own driver. A piece of crap-- but I wasn't willing to spend more money on a wireless network justyet.
However, after I installed the card, Windows 2000 would crash with the following BSOD:
*** NETR33X.SYS - Address F828B908 base at F827B000, Datestamp 3ecdaf93
Annoying as heck-- somewhat expected from a cheap network card.
So one day I was wat home downloading Fedora with bittorrent--- my DSL connection was maxxed out. There was too much interference on the line, so I hit the little 'channel' button to switch to a different channel.
As soon as I hit the button on the phone -- *boom*, the computer threw up the Blue Screen of Death. ANd sure enough, I reboot, hit the button on the phone-- and *boom* -- Computer crashes again.
I have since replaced all of the D-Link cards with cards from other manufacturers.
"Creating new viruses for the purpose of testing and education is generally not considered a good idea," wrote Igor Muttik of McAfee's antivirus lab on a public company blog this week. "Viruses can leak and cause real trouble."
All these years I've assumed that AV Companies created hundreds of virus varients in a closed lab somewhere so that they could proactively test their product against against new probable varients? How does McAfee anticipate new threats? Do they wait for a new virus to be released into the wild, and then release a corresponding patch? I thought they tried to be more proactive...
I'm not some AV expert, but it seems like most new virus outbreaks are due to varients of existing viruses. Some of varients are caught when the AV software finds a match to an existing virus signature, but sometimes the signatures do not match.
On the downside, I can't find that cartoon picture anywhere on the web. You'll just have to trust me. Believe it or not, one person has accused me as being a pawn in the Jewish world conspiracy because I could not produce that picture.
I still have a geography book from the 1970s which describes Russia or the USSR as a godless dictatorship and Iran as a friendly tourist destination and ally of the US. I've held 60-year-old children's textbooks from Nazi Germany describing Hitler as a brave Nordic warrior fighting against the "Dirty Jews", complete with cartoon drawings showing the 'evil' Jewish bankers (complete with stereotypically large noses and evil squity eyes) and landlords evicting the 'poor Aryan families'. I've read dozens of books and articles about Nazi history, but nothing has had the impact of that childrens schoolbook.
These objects are more permanent then an electronic copy. If a powerful group wanted to 'rewrite history', they could never destroy all of the old copies of these text. There are hundreds or thousands of copies of these same texts laying around in attics, closets and museums throughout the the US and Europe.
It is different with eBooks. Unless some effort is taken to preserve the old and pro old text, it may become impossible to find old versions of the text. The electronic text will be updated with a new version, copywright forbids unauthorized copies and distribution of the text, backups are lost, digital copies will degrade-- are there any digital archivists who are keeping a copy of these texts? In a decade, I doubt that there will be any surviving copies of this exact version of the text.
Perhaps the publisher may retain a digital copy on a CD in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard". Will this old text be available to historians or anyone who requests it?
Before anybody gets too excited, note that this is a Press Release from the Manufacturer of the device. Yahoo isn't "reporting" anything-- they are simply forwarding a Press Release from the PRNewswire.
This company is certainly not the first company to promote an easy-to-use bomb detector, or to talk about how their product is better then the competitor's products.
That number will allow you to opt out of pre-approved offers of credit who follow the rules of the big credit bureaus (worked great for me).
However, it will not prevent the credit bureaus from selling your name and information to other companies for other reasons, and it will not hide your credit report from anyone.
Also, some credit companies don't use the big credit bureaus, and will instead compile information from other sources. If you have a home loan for example; your name, address and value of the loan are available at some county and state offices.
I suggest a new term for the internet world-- Colberted.
"Yes, one day my public site was discussing Hungarian Bridges, but then these monkeys flew out of the sky and started posting. Now we're discussing Icelandic ducks and Chinese lay-midwifery. Ouch! I think I just got Colberted".
Not to be confused with "Colbertism, a 16th Century French practice of mercantilist protectionism.
Thanks for clarifying. When I read that "Wired is reporting that Kapor is throwing 5 Million USD at the Open Source Applications Foundation" -- I saw the phrase "Kapor IS throwing 5 Million USD" and assumed something new is happening with this project.
Sometimes it does matter what the meaning of the word "is" is.
When the OSAF announce Chandler a few years ago, I was looking forward to a decent Cross-platform Open-Source PIM. Now, there seem to be a couple dozen PIM applications on the horizon--- including some of the new web-based organizers.
Debian is a great distro. If you're happy with Debian, there is no reason to switch.
I switched to Ubuntu because, at the time Debian did not offer the packages that I wanted (PHP5, x.org and others) in the stable tree. Actually--- I don't think x.org was in Debian unstable either. I've been burned by Debian testing too many times to rely on it.
Lies! Lies I say! They can definately fit more then 7 people in that room. In fact, I clearly see approximately 15 members of the Denver Nuggets Dancers inside of one of our top-security military bases!
Most of Linksys' routers do not run Linux. Many models of the the WRT54G line (and it's decendants) run Linux. However, lately Linksys started to use the VxWorks kernel instead of Linux, starting with the WRT54G version 5.0 .
So, they send you an email regarding the alert, but don't describe any DETAILS about the alert. Instead, they ask you to click on a URL. Often, the URL doesn't work, because the server crashed under heavy load --thousands of people all clicked on the URL at the same time!
Why not just put the details inside the body of the email message.
I've been on the the CERT lists (and the Old system for 9 years now, and they have never abused the system to my knowledge. Granted, CERT is only for computers, but it is similar to some of the new proposed lists.
I also signed up for the Safe Community Alert Network, which is some sort of private-public partnership between SBC/ATT & various other organizations. Various government State, County & City agencies in California have referred me to ScanUSA.
ScanUSA does send me Amber Alerts, notifications about nearby fires, etc. However some of those Amber Alerts & Fire Alerts are from San Diego, which is 500 miles from me. Not very relevant.
The vast majority of the messages have been spam-ish -- I got notifications about the COPS program (COPS uses *very* agressive fundraising techniques), non-urgent warnings regardiing West Nile Virus, reminding me to wear sunscreen, and notifications about upcoming meeting for the County Health Department.
Here's the kicker: I'm only signed up for "Critical" alerts. I shouldn't be getting any of these--- but I do.
I would never sign up for SMS alerts from this organization. Way too much Spam.
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What would be really cool is if some company pulled a Red Hat, or Suse, etc., with MythTV whereby they offer their "version" of a MythTV distribution bundled with hardware and all
There are a couple of small vendors who do this already. The systems all seem to be priced to compete with the various Commercial PVR-type systems -- $600-1200.
While searching for Ubuntu & MythTV, I ran into https://monolithmc.com/, who I ships a computer preloaded with MythTV & Ubuntu.
In this case, we ended up using the Read Receipt feature in Outlook. However, most of the recipients blocked the receipt response. Several other people allowed the read receipt through the first time, but blocked it the second time after we pointed out "Look, we got the read receipt response. We know you at least glanced at our email. Please help us out!"
"Email means that someone can ignore you instantly"... this after sending 25 emails and making 10 phone calls to someone else in the organization, and that person's supervisor, and the supervisor's supervisor.
I wonder why manufacturers are still using cheap AC/DC conversion technology ... is the 'flicker free' technology really that more expensive?
I've seen a few LED bulbs, and they all seem to flicker at an annoying frequency. I am assuming that this flicker is being fixed with new, better circuitry.
I remember Flourescent Lights flickering around the same frequency in the 70s though the early 90s --- most of those problems went away as the new electronic ballasts were introduced.
The President of Diebold made a speach last week. I saw it on YouTube--- it's a bit contraversial.
He says he is "committed to helping deliver the Republicans to Pluto next year".
To: Pluto "luto@planets.org"
'luto'? This is an obvious phishing attempt.
Shouldn't we let that take place before we fry them in oil?
That depends. How much energy is required to fry them in oil? Is this energy free?
There are 5 revisions of this card (A through E), and at least two sets of drivers. My refurbished card from Tigerdirect contained drivers & an application for Revision E, but the card was Revision A . Rev A had different drivers and a different wireless management application.
However, after I installed the card, Windows 2000 would crash with the following BSOD:
Annoying as heck-- somewhat expected from a cheap network card.
So one day I was wat home downloading Fedora with bittorrent--- my DSL connection was maxxed out. There was too much interference on the line, so I hit the little 'channel' button to switch to a different channel.
As soon as I hit the button on the phone -- *boom*, the computer threw up the Blue Screen of Death. ANd sure enough, I reboot, hit the button on the phone-- and *boom* -- Computer crashes again.
I have since replaced all of the D-Link cards with cards from other manufacturers.
"Creating new viruses for the purpose of testing and education is generally not considered a good idea," wrote Igor Muttik of McAfee's antivirus lab on a public company blog this week. "Viruses can leak and cause real trouble."
All these years I've assumed that AV Companies created hundreds of virus varients in a closed lab somewhere so that they could proactively test their product against against new probable varients? How does McAfee anticipate new threats? Do they wait for a new virus to be released into the wild, and then release a corresponding patch? I thought they tried to be more proactive...
I'm not some AV expert, but it seems like most new virus outbreaks are due to varients of existing viruses. Some of varients are caught when the AV software finds a match to an existing virus signature, but sometimes the signatures do not match.
On the downside, I can't find that cartoon picture anywhere on the web. You'll just have to trust me. Believe it or not, one person has accused me as being a pawn in the Jewish world conspiracy because I could not produce that picture.
Paper books still have a permanence which
I still have a geography book from the 1970s which describes Russia or the USSR as a godless dictatorship and Iran as a friendly tourist destination and ally of the US. I've held 60-year-old children's textbooks from Nazi Germany describing Hitler as a brave Nordic warrior fighting against the "Dirty Jews", complete with cartoon drawings showing the 'evil' Jewish bankers (complete with stereotypically large noses and evil squity eyes) and landlords evicting the 'poor Aryan families'. I've read dozens of books and articles about Nazi history, but nothing has had the impact of that childrens schoolbook.
These objects are more permanent then an electronic copy. If a powerful group wanted to 'rewrite history', they could never destroy all of the old copies of these text. There are hundreds or thousands of copies of these same texts laying around in attics, closets and museums throughout the the US and Europe.
It is different with eBooks. Unless some effort is taken to preserve the old and pro old text, it may become impossible to find old versions of the text. The electronic text will be updated with a new version, copywright forbids unauthorized copies and distribution of the text, backups are lost, digital copies will degrade-- are there any digital archivists who are keeping a copy of these texts? In a decade, I doubt that there will be any surviving copies of this exact version of the text.
Perhaps the publisher may retain a digital copy on a CD in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard". Will this old text be available to historians or anyone who requests it?
Before anybody gets too excited, note that this is a Press Release from the Manufacturer of the device. Yahoo isn't "reporting" anything-- they are simply forwarding a Press Release from the PRNewswire.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060816/lnw002.html?.v
This company is certainly not the first company to promote an easy-to-use bomb detector, or to talk about how their product is better then the competitor's products.
That number will allow you to opt out of pre-approved offers of credit who follow the rules of the big credit bureaus (worked great for me).
However, it will not prevent the credit bureaus from selling your name and information to other companies for other reasons, and it will not hide your credit report from anyone.
Also, some credit companies don't use the big credit bureaus, and will instead compile information from other sources. If you have a home loan for example; your name, address and value of the loan are available at some county and state offices.
I suggest a new term for the internet world-- Colberted.
"Yes, one day my public site was discussing Hungarian Bridges, but then these monkeys flew out of the sky and started posting. Now we're discussing Icelandic ducks and Chinese lay-midwifery. Ouch! I think I just got Colberted".
Not to be confused with "Colbertism, a 16th Century French practice of mercantilist protectionism.
Oh my god, thank you sir! Some people misplace videos of the moon landings, I misplace slashdot articles. Thank you for finding it!
...
I was getting worried that someone had overwritten the article with a blog from MySpace
Thanks for clarifying. When I read that "Wired is reporting that Kapor is throwing 5 Million USD at the Open Source Applications Foundation" -- I saw the phrase "Kapor IS throwing 5 Million USD " and assumed something new is happening with this project.
Sometimes it does matter what the meaning of the word "is" is.
When the OSAF announce Chandler a few years ago, I was looking forward to a decent Cross-platform Open-Source PIM. Now, there seem to be a couple dozen PIM applications on the horizon--- including some of the new web-based organizers.
Debian is a great distro. If you're happy with Debian, there is no reason to switch.
I switched to Ubuntu because, at the time Debian did not offer the packages that I wanted (PHP5, x.org and others) in the stable tree. Actually--- I don't think x.org was in Debian unstable either. I've been burned by Debian testing too many times to rely on it.
Lies! Lies I say! They can definately fit more then 7 people in that room. In fact, I clearly see approximately 15 members of the Denver Nuggets Dancers inside of one of our top-security military bases!
Linksys routers run Linux.
Most of Linksys' routers do not run Linux. Many models of the the WRT54G line (and it's decendants) run Linux. However, lately Linksys started to use the VxWorks kernel instead of Linux, starting with the WRT54G version 5.0 .
Each of these email alerts looks something like this:
So, they send you an email regarding the alert, but don't describe any DETAILS about the alert. Instead, they ask you to click on a URL. Often, the URL doesn't work, because the server crashed under heavy load --thousands of people all clicked on the URL at the same time!
Why not just put the details inside the body of the email message.
I'm on a couple of these kinds of lists already.
I've been on the the CERT lists (and the Old system for 9 years now, and they have never abused the system to my knowledge. Granted, CERT is only for computers, but it is similar to some of the new proposed lists.
I also signed up for the Safe Community Alert Network, which is some sort of private-public partnership between SBC/ATT & various other organizations. Various government State, County & City agencies in California have referred me to ScanUSA.
ScanUSA does send me Amber Alerts, notifications about nearby fires, etc. However some of those Amber Alerts & Fire Alerts are from San Diego, which is 500 miles from me. Not very relevant.
The vast majority of the messages have been spam-ish -- I got notifications about the COPS program (COPS uses *very* agressive fundraising techniques), non-urgent warnings regardiing West Nile Virus, reminding me to wear sunscreen, and notifications about upcoming meeting for the County Health Department.
Here's the kicker: I'm only signed up for "Critical" alerts. I shouldn't be getting any of these--- but I do.
I would never sign up for SMS alerts from this organization. Way too much Spam.
A link in my previous message was broken. This one should work:
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows
Thanks to the AC for pointing this out.
So I think you made a bad assumption there :P
GnuCash is NOT available for Windows yet. It may be available in the future, or it may be possible to compile your own.
According to the wiki: "FAQ: Is it possible to compile GnuCash on Windows? A: Currently, no".