The Extigy supports 5.1 Dolby Digital, and even has a hardware Dolby Digital decoder built in. It was your config-OSS only supports 2 channels. You needed ALSA.
Because we're being space efficient. Think of all the extra space, both on disks, and on paper, that one extra character in so many words takes. The English language has far too many letters which are just there-and serve no purpose. Elimination of any one (such as the U when unnecessary, as in this case) is a good thing.
Seriously though, it's because we're lazy.
It'll be a couple days before this site is hacked I'm sure-the servers have to cool back down and come online before it can be found that the MPAA runs an unpatched copy of II5, on Windows 2000 with no service packs, and uses the admin password "password"
Just an explination. I seem to remember that Windows uses memory from the highest address down, whereas Linux starts at the lowest address and works up. This, if you had some bad memory at a low address, it would allow Windows to boot still (most likely)
And someone else mentioned it-Memtest86 is indespensible!
But if BCM (Big Computer Manufacturer) inc. gets grief from enough users, they will think twice about signing a contract that says they will ship windows on all their PC's, and instead make it an option, much like Dell does with the floppy drive.
It _IS_ meaningful though. I'm going to assume the copy the plantiff had was an OEM copy, so Microsoft didn't even make $200 off it-closer to $20 prob to begin with. By the time all of Microsoft's costs were added up, I'm sure it was at least $2000. In other words, if one out of every 100 people that have Windows forced upon them do this, Microsoft breaks even. If enough people do this, it will stop us from have Windows forced upon us by computer OEM's.
Not only is the entire GCCIS building covered with WiFi, but a significant portion of the rest of the campus is also. Any kind of common or dining area is covered. It's sorta strange-you get used to having a laptop in your backpack and being able to pull it out and get internet access anywhere, then suddenly when you go home, you can no longer do that.
WiFi has been useful many times during class, but I'll admit to having used it to goof off during class too.
I'll bet you think VHS looks just as good as a DVD also. Because that output is analog, and DVD is digital, and (almost) any device with a DVI input will be a digital display technology. That output is also NTSC, which means it is interlaced. With DVI, I could output the picture to my DVI enabled projector in 720p, avoiding interlacing artifacts (from film sources) and avoiding a needless D>A>D conversion. Additionally, I spare the video the death that's called NTSC.
While DVI outputs don't mean much to Joe Sixpack, espeically today, for projectors, it would be a very good thing.
Next up on Slashdot:
BitKeeper bought out by RIAA. The RIAA finally found someone with more-threatening legal tactics than their own, and has purchased that company to help improve their legal threats.
Show me a cheaper smartcard reader than the ones sold by pirate TV dealers. I'll bet you find that the ones sold by Dish/DTV hacking dealers cost 1/2 the price of a normal computer security smart card reader, and they are more flexible. Even if the programmers are designed for hacking, they still have perfectly legimate uses, and I'd certainly have bought one to save $100 (over the price of a more "white collar unit) if I needed a smart card reader. FYI, I don't even own any DirecTV receivers, so don't think I'm trying to defend myself. I'm saying that even if the cards can be used for hacking DTV, there no more legal than a CDR because it can be used to copy a CD.
This isn't practicle for a few reasons. Namely, heat dissipation. Even potting the board in epoxy wouldn't stop hackers-with a little heat, epoxy can be removed relatively easily.
Damn Slashdot Lameness Filters-won't let me post the article itself, complaining of too much whitespace. Anyway, go here to read it, very interesting:
http://kaizo.us/mirrors/phrack/phrack06/p06-10
I'm just barely past Linux Newbit and had no problem getting Debian to work on my Dell Inspiron 4150. Accelerated video, Wifi, Ethernet, Sound, DVD Playback, etc. The only things that didn't work, were the modem, and possibly the TV out (Never tried it). Same on my Dell Inspiron 4000. And my HP Pavilion N5125. I've never had any major issues getting Linux running on a notebook. Any issue I've had with linux, I've just as much of a problem with Windows at some point.
As to why not a Mac, I've got 3 reasons. Price, expandability, and propritary. First off, I hate everything propritary, so that alone hurts the mac's case bigtime with me. I do not like being at one vendor's mercy, which is why I'm switching my desktop to Linux. Second price. You can get a cheap PC from Dell for $250. The cheapest mac you can get from Apple is like $800. I toyed with the idea of a 12.1" ibook (it's the only mac notebook I don't find ugly) but it has no PCMCIA slots, so I have no futher interest in it. Apple takes things like the Airport connectors, which are PCMCIA and makes them slightly propritary, just because they are apple. This is why I am not interested in a mac.
Show me a current apple motherboard and CPU bundle for about $200 I can drop in a ATX case and I'll get one to play with, but I'm not dropping $800 on a low end mac when I can build a very respectable PC for the same amount.
You know, this is 100% true. I'm an RIT student (Hey LogicX) and RIT gives SHIT back to the computer community. We don't have a private OSS archive, much less a public one. RIT is one big fucking leech.
Except for analog cell phones. In spite of their transmissions being unencrypted, the government (in the US) has ruled that intercepting cell phone calls is illegal. Cordless phones are fair game though-go figure:-)
Look at the old IBM NetStations/Network Stations or the WinTerm (can't think of who makes them at the moment) the NetStations are a tiny box with parallel, serial, video out, ethernet, keyboard, mouse, and 1 PCMCIA slot. They net boot. They can be linux terminals or windows terminals. You can get them off eBay for about $20.
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The Dayton Hamvention is _THE_ electrions show of the year. In the world. It's huge-you can't get through it in one day-I've tried for the past 3 years. This is going to be my fourth year going. If it's even remotely related to being electronic (including computers) someone is selling it there. The prices are great-no shipping (great for those heavy items as opposed to eBay) and you can often get great deals-I've picked up things for as little as 1/4 of what they fetch on eBay-at hamfests, deals are the norm, not the exception. After going to a hamfest, you'll realize how pathetic little computer shows like the Market Pro ones are-this is GIGANTIC!!!! GO!!!!!!!!! You WILL have a blast!
This is why I still like my 7 year old Canon BJC-600e/610/620's-they are dumb. They don't try and pull any of the cute BS modern printers do-they just print. For the occasional color, I use them, otherwise, I use a laser. Next printer on my shopping list is a color laser-inkjets cost too much to run.
I don't have an HP inkjet cartridge in front of me to verify this, but I thought that HP InkJet cartridges were warrantied for their lifetime until all the ink is used, I know the toner cartridges are at least. If it's under warranty, just send it back to HP and HP will send you a brand new full cartridge-bonus!
I will say though I don't agree with this-maybe pop up a warning that reccomends you change the cartridge, but it shouldn't FORCE you to...
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The Extigy supports 5.1 Dolby Digital, and even has a hardware Dolby Digital decoder built in. It was your config-OSS only supports 2 channels. You needed ALSA.
It's been done before, at least on highways. Years ago I've seen on TV this had been done by universities, so I'm sure it's still progressing today.
Because we're being space efficient. Think of all the extra space, both on disks, and on paper, that one extra character in so many words takes. The English language has far too many letters which are just there-and serve no purpose. Elimination of any one (such as the U when unnecessary, as in this case) is a good thing. Seriously though, it's because we're lazy.
It'll be a couple days before this site is hacked I'm sure-the servers have to cool back down and come online before it can be found that the MPAA runs an unpatched copy of II5, on Windows 2000 with no service packs, and uses the admin password "password"
Just an explination. I seem to remember that Windows uses memory from the highest address down, whereas Linux starts at the lowest address and works up. This, if you had some bad memory at a low address, it would allow Windows to boot still (most likely) And someone else mentioned it-Memtest86 is indespensible!
It wasn't a contest though. If you were eligable, and submitted the information, you will receive one.
But if BCM (Big Computer Manufacturer) inc. gets grief from enough users, they will think twice about signing a contract that says they will ship windows on all their PC's, and instead make it an option, much like Dell does with the floppy drive.
It _IS_ meaningful though. I'm going to assume the copy the plantiff had was an OEM copy, so Microsoft didn't even make $200 off it-closer to $20 prob to begin with. By the time all of Microsoft's costs were added up, I'm sure it was at least $2000. In other words, if one out of every 100 people that have Windows forced upon them do this, Microsoft breaks even. If enough people do this, it will stop us from have Windows forced upon us by computer OEM's.
Not only is the entire GCCIS building covered with WiFi, but a significant portion of the rest of the campus is also. Any kind of common or dining area is covered. It's sorta strange-you get used to having a laptop in your backpack and being able to pull it out and get internet access anywhere, then suddenly when you go home, you can no longer do that. WiFi has been useful many times during class, but I'll admit to having used it to goof off during class too.
I'll bet you think VHS looks just as good as a DVD also. Because that output is analog, and DVD is digital, and (almost) any device with a DVI input will be a digital display technology. That output is also NTSC, which means it is interlaced. With DVI, I could output the picture to my DVI enabled projector in 720p, avoiding interlacing artifacts (from film sources) and avoiding a needless D>A>D conversion. Additionally, I spare the video the death that's called NTSC. While DVI outputs don't mean much to Joe Sixpack, espeically today, for projectors, it would be a very good thing.
Next up on Slashdot: BitKeeper bought out by RIAA. The RIAA finally found someone with more-threatening legal tactics than their own, and has purchased that company to help improve their legal threats.
Show me a cheaper smartcard reader than the ones sold by pirate TV dealers. I'll bet you find that the ones sold by Dish/DTV hacking dealers cost 1/2 the price of a normal computer security smart card reader, and they are more flexible. Even if the programmers are designed for hacking, they still have perfectly legimate uses, and I'd certainly have bought one to save $100 (over the price of a more "white collar unit) if I needed a smart card reader. FYI, I don't even own any DirecTV receivers, so don't think I'm trying to defend myself. I'm saying that even if the cards can be used for hacking DTV, there no more legal than a CDR because it can be used to copy a CD.
We can't presume intelligence in a government official, where as a computer is not bribed by money...excuse me...campaign donations.
This isn't practicle for a few reasons. Namely, heat dissipation. Even potting the board in epoxy wouldn't stop hackers-with a little heat, epoxy can be removed relatively easily.
Damn Slashdot Lameness Filters-won't let me post the article itself, complaining of too much whitespace. Anyway, go here to read it, very interesting: http://kaizo.us/mirrors/phrack/phrack06/p06-10
I'm just barely past Linux Newbit and had no problem getting Debian to work on my Dell Inspiron 4150. Accelerated video, Wifi, Ethernet, Sound, DVD Playback, etc. The only things that didn't work, were the modem, and possibly the TV out (Never tried it). Same on my Dell Inspiron 4000. And my HP Pavilion N5125. I've never had any major issues getting Linux running on a notebook. Any issue I've had with linux, I've just as much of a problem with Windows at some point. As to why not a Mac, I've got 3 reasons. Price, expandability, and propritary. First off, I hate everything propritary, so that alone hurts the mac's case bigtime with me. I do not like being at one vendor's mercy, which is why I'm switching my desktop to Linux. Second price. You can get a cheap PC from Dell for $250. The cheapest mac you can get from Apple is like $800. I toyed with the idea of a 12.1" ibook (it's the only mac notebook I don't find ugly) but it has no PCMCIA slots, so I have no futher interest in it. Apple takes things like the Airport connectors, which are PCMCIA and makes them slightly propritary, just because they are apple. This is why I am not interested in a mac. Show me a current apple motherboard and CPU bundle for about $200 I can drop in a ATX case and I'll get one to play with, but I'm not dropping $800 on a low end mac when I can build a very respectable PC for the same amount.
What's the URL? Thanks.
You know, this is 100% true. I'm an RIT student (Hey LogicX) and RIT gives SHIT back to the computer community. We don't have a private OSS archive, much less a public one. RIT is one big fucking leech.
Except for analog cell phones. In spite of their transmissions being unencrypted, the government (in the US) has ruled that intercepting cell phone calls is illegal. Cordless phones are fair game though-go figure :-)
This is made for Xerox printers, but I've used it with other brands:l e Downloader Utility.exe
ftp://ftp.tekcolor.com/ftp_dir/ALL/W9NT2000/NA/Fi
Look at the old IBM NetStations/Network Stations or the WinTerm (can't think of who makes them at the moment) the NetStations are a tiny box with parallel, serial, video out, ethernet, keyboard, mouse, and 1 PCMCIA slot. They net boot. They can be linux terminals or windows terminals. You can get them off eBay for about $20.
The Dayton Hamvention is _THE_ electrions show of the year. In the world. It's huge-you can't get through it in one day-I've tried for the past 3 years. This is going to be my fourth year going. If it's even remotely related to being electronic (including computers) someone is selling it there. The prices are great-no shipping (great for those heavy items as opposed to eBay) and you can often get great deals-I've picked up things for as little as 1/4 of what they fetch on eBay-at hamfests, deals are the norm, not the exception. After going to a hamfest, you'll realize how pathetic little computer shows like the Market Pro ones are-this is GIGANTIC!!!! GO!!!!!!!!! You WILL have a blast!
As of windows 2000 at least, the readme files on the CD did include that aknoledgement.
This is why I still like my 7 year old Canon BJC-600e/610/620's-they are dumb. They don't try and pull any of the cute BS modern printers do-they just print. For the occasional color, I use them, otherwise, I use a laser. Next printer on my shopping list is a color laser-inkjets cost too much to run.
I don't have an HP inkjet cartridge in front of me to verify this, but I thought that HP InkJet cartridges were warrantied for their lifetime until all the ink is used, I know the toner cartridges are at least. If it's under warranty, just send it back to HP and HP will send you a brand new full cartridge-bonus! I will say though I don't agree with this-maybe pop up a warning that reccomends you change the cartridge, but it shouldn't FORCE you to...