Run VMWare with either esound output if it supports it natively, or using esddsp, and you can use esdmon to tap the current esd buffers and dump them to disk. Then just run them through Lame, et voila.
I have mixed feelings about the program in the title. It's a very cool hack, but I hope they don't take away the 'casual listening' on networks feature from iTunes under corporate pressure from folks who don't understand what an audio scraper is, because I really liked it. It really goes well with Wifi/Rendevous.
Some days I have a wistful dream of an internet where the courts keep their nose out, and if your big corporate website gets defaced, the police would tell you, "Well, you shouldn't have connected it to the internet. You knew the risks."
Afraid that cat is long out of the bag though. And I kind of like services like Internet banking.
But I wish there were more people writing distro reviews. OSNews seems to be one of the few sources that get any play on here, ( heck, they may be one of the few sources full stop ), and it would be nice if we could get some variety of opinion / requirements / analysis from a variety of different viewpoints.
The gaming, productivity and utility software industries have hundreds of review sites spanning all over the web, and while I recognise that individual distro releases rarely represent as big a market impact to Joe Public as, say, the latest iD game, it would be nice to see a bit more heterogeny.
Just another thought - these reviews all seem to have to rush themselves, and rarely have time to evaluate long term issues or strengths that arise after a bit of persistant use ~ an example has been the recent rave reviews in the print media of Panther, which I adore, but had several showstopper bugs in.0 which nobody seemed to pick up on until they starting munching on user preferences for breakfast.
I'm not sure, but I think the eTerm and aTerm transparency effects are only pseudotransparent. This means it never quiiite looks right. When I was working on iDesk, we had to screw around with all this crap, and it would be a thousand times easier if we could just tweak an alpha value on the window instead of handblending against a stored root window.
Also, I'm not sure again, but I thought the thumbnailed apps in E were static screenshots? In OSX the application continues to run, I think. I seem to recall watching a DVD wriggling away down in the dock, totally unintellegibly. I know it works with way with Expose.
This guys work with the compositor is exciting - I'd like to rewrite iDesk to take advantage of these new server extensions... where do I sign up?
Ok, sure, you compromise a Mechwarrior or 007: Nightfire savegame, execute your buffer overflow, and your virus is in core. ( Assuming your victim has either game, and that they'll then go and load that particular save. )
Now tell me, how are you going to infect the Mechwarrior/007 savegame in the first place? Few people take advantage of the ability to use USB mass storage as XBox memory cards, and of those, fewer still would be dim enough to download trojanned savegames from an unknown source. Even then, where is your virus going to go to?
I think Grandparents conclusions are in fact perfectly reasonable.
Sure... but how do people call you? Even if you arrange to be at a certain phone at a certain time and it accepts incoming calls, there will be someone using it at the appointed time.
Anyone that's had to share a family / dorm room / hotel phone knows what I'm talking about.
As a kid, my parents gave me a book about the mysterious future. But they'd already been reading it for ten years, so it was a bit dated by then. Anyway, it had disposable clothes - tennis skirts, shorts and tops made of paper.
I've never seen these go live, but I can imagine what fun could be had with a court full of paper sports clothing and the waterbucket.
I see the value in clarifying your will according to this standard. I'm scoring an 11 right now. How low do you plan to go (actually, I'm asking you and the grandparent seriously about this since you've thought about it and seem informed) before your spouse has you put under?
Since you asked so politely, I don't mind answering, even if it is a bit personal. I should first point out that the Scale is generally broken down into its three component values - it is almost never quoted as a single number, and I apologise for giving this impression. Second, the scale is used for assessing people suffering from extreme trauma - they are not going to unplug someone who has obviously good chances for recovery, if their GCS scores are temporarily depressed.
My figures are E2V3M4, a Glasgow Coma Score of 9. 8 or less is generally considered 'severe brain damage'. My desired Glasgow Outcome Score ( see the link below ) is 3 or higher.
My results are biased due to an overriding phobia of losing my intellect and sense of self. I'm also Donor A, and long periods of ( pointless ) life support in a vegetative state can apparently reduce suitability of organs for successful transplant. I hope this answers your question satisfactorily.
It might be worth noting my hypocrisy in that I do not currently have a living will - however, I have made my GCS figures and other wishes known to my family. I should however codify these in a notarised document.
Finally, trauma scoring is complicated, and the Glasgow Coma Scale is only one of many measuring systems. You can read about more at trauma.org. Check out in particular the Revised Trauma Scoring. I don't have the medical knowledge to dictate wishes based on these more elaborate scores ( heck, I had trouble with parts of the M number on the GCS ).
There seems to be a real disparity of distribution here. Half the posters are saying they've never seen a BT device, let alone used one, where as others ( and myself ) can't turn around in the office or the local coffee house without tripping over one ( or its wireless signature ).
Perhaps the problem with Bluetooth market penetration ( apart from the fact that unless someone is using an external dongle you can't tell if they're using it... ) is that its only being rolled out in, I dunno, more technically oriented market areas.
but doesn't this mean that instead of collecting thousands of weak packets in RFMon you just need to collect one packet from each network and brute force it?
If I understand correctly, WEP is vulnerable to this as well. You can capture one packet, decode it against a given passphrase, and then see if the IP header on the decoded packet has a correct checksum. Rinse, lather, repeat.
Lets just say that it takes a lot less time to find a set of weak ISV values.
If it's a big problem, you can always use the -fetchonly argument to emerge to cache packages on your system ahead of time. emerge -fetchonly -u world && emerge -u world isn't too bad.
The missing mirrors problem is not as bad as it used to be. They now have round robin mirrors serving various geographical areas. The real problem is where they do something stupid ( weirdo dependancies, etc ) and it then propagates out to all the mirror sites before someone nails it down.
If its sitting between render and download, it might be downloading the images anyway, and just never displaying them. That way, instead of destroying your impressions market, it will just destroy advertiser trust and confidence in banner marketing campaigns.
Ok. Assuming this is correct, where are the torrent of switchers? The price certainly is right.
I can only conclude that there is still something missing. Because if its ready for the desktop now, and people are still not flipping over, then it's probably never going to happen.
YLFI
Full disclosure: I have a Gentoo desktop. I don't consider it ready for prime time. I think normal, non-technical people should buy Apples ( but for gods sake not at revision A of any of their products ).
At least it will be out, apparently, on December 3. Better late than never.
I have it for XBox. I'll buy it again for Mac. Same as I bought UT2K3 for Mac after buying it for my Linux machines.
If they want to develop for XBox, that's their decision, Bungee is a company, not a charity. I am greatful in the extreme that we got a Mac port at all - its not exactly a platform famous for its gaming.
The Library level was the worst level of *any* video game I've ever played
Huh. A friend and I were playing through that level on co-op just the other night, and we enjoyed it immensely. Just like everyone else, I can't tell you *why* I enjoyed it, but I did. Trying to keep up with Guilty Spark 343 ( cute little fella ) was pretty enjoyable. And there's a real visceral thrill to cutting through the flood with a shotgun and rifle butt.
I also enjoyed the little things that GS343 was saying about 'recognition', 'class 12 battlesuits', etc etc. It added a little bit of background mystery to exactly who the ringbuilders were. Not sure if everyone got a chance to catch it over the sound and fury of the firefights though.
YLFI
P.S. The manual states that the grunts don't speak english, but that the grunts are the only covenant race for which we've developed automatic translation. Not a great excuse, but I found the understandable language to be a nice touch.
This is very true, the more hardware is supported by Linux the better.
An unfortunate problem with this sometimes is striking a balance between the communities desire for freedom and legal compliance. Nowhere is this more apparent than when dealing with wifi cards.
Laws about permissable signal strength and which wavelengths are unregulated vary quite a bit from country to country ( for example, if memory serves correctly, Japan has 802.11b bands up to 13, while Australia only goes up to 10 ).
Making different cards for different countries is going to be expensive. So perhaps legal compliance can be handled in the driver! This is a good idea, but people like myself want our drivers open so we can tinker with them, use them in monitor mode, etc. The problem is, if we can do these things, we can usually unlock the other foreign nation specific features of the card, e.g. running your wifi net on channel 13 to escape detection by your average scanner.
And this creates headaches for the vendor, because suddenly their FCC or whatever compliance is called into question, and hence the legality of their product. Not a nice place to be, business wise.
Sticky situation, and I'm not sure what the best solution is.
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Run VMWare with either esound output if it supports it natively, or using esddsp, and you can use esdmon to tap the current esd buffers and dump them to disk. Then just run them through Lame, et voila.
I have mixed feelings about the program in the title. It's a very cool hack, but I hope they don't take away the 'casual listening' on networks feature from iTunes under corporate pressure from folks who don't understand what an audio scraper is, because I really liked it. It really goes well with Wifi/Rendevous.
YLFISome days I have a wistful dream of an internet where the courts keep their nose out, and if your big corporate website gets defaced, the police would tell you, "Well, you shouldn't have connected it to the internet. You knew the risks."
Afraid that cat is long out of the bag though. And I kind of like services like Internet banking.
YLFIBut I wish there were more people writing distro reviews. OSNews seems to be one of the few sources that get any play on here, ( heck, they may be one of the few sources full stop ), and it would be nice if we could get some variety of opinion / requirements / analysis from a variety of different viewpoints.
The gaming, productivity and utility software industries have hundreds of review sites spanning all over the web, and while I recognise that individual distro releases rarely represent as big a market impact to Joe Public as, say, the latest iD game, it would be nice to see a bit more heterogeny.
Just another thought - these reviews all seem to have to rush themselves, and rarely have time to evaluate long term issues or strengths that arise after a bit of persistant use ~ an example has been the recent rave reviews in the print media of Panther, which I adore, but had several showstopper bugs in .0 which nobody seemed to pick up on until they starting munching on user preferences for breakfast.
YLFIp.s. Worst run on sentance ever.
I'm not sure, but I think the eTerm and aTerm transparency effects are only pseudotransparent. This means it never quiiite looks right. When I was working on iDesk, we had to screw around with all this crap, and it would be a thousand times easier if we could just tweak an alpha value on the window instead of handblending against a stored root window.
Also, I'm not sure again, but I thought the thumbnailed apps in E were static screenshots? In OSX the application continues to run, I think. I seem to recall watching a DVD wriggling away down in the dock, totally unintellegibly. I know it works with way with Expose.
This guys work with the compositor is exciting - I'd like to rewrite iDesk to take advantage of these new server extensions... where do I sign up?
-- YLFI / curiousMore importantly, Forum 2000...
Corey... my little pizza pie!
YLFIEh, it's cool. I'm quite sure Belkin have some backdoor to flash them all over the internet from their underground lair.
What could possibly go wrong?
YLFIYour grandmother needs a 3Ghz box to check her email on? Who is she, Lady Ada Lovelace?
YLFIOk, sure, you compromise a Mechwarrior or 007: Nightfire savegame, execute your buffer overflow, and your virus is in core. ( Assuming your victim has either game, and that they'll then go and load that particular save. )
Now tell me, how are you going to infect the Mechwarrior/007 savegame in the first place? Few people take advantage of the ability to use USB mass storage as XBox memory cards, and of those, fewer still would be dim enough to download trojanned savegames from an unknown source. Even then, where is your virus going to go to?
I think Grandparents conclusions are in fact perfectly reasonable.
YLFIOn a similar note, there is already an Optimus Rhyme, and they are awesome.
7. IF Ready THEN Rock ELSE NextI like this one best!
YLFISure... but how do people call you? Even if you arrange to be at a certain phone at a certain time and it accepts incoming calls, there will be someone using it at the appointed time.
Anyone that's had to share a family / dorm room / hotel phone knows what I'm talking about.
YLFIAs a kid, my parents gave me a book about the mysterious future. But they'd already been reading it for ten years, so it was a bit dated by then. Anyway, it had disposable clothes - tennis skirts, shorts and tops made of paper.
I've never seen these go live, but I can imagine what fun could be had with a court full of paper sports clothing and the waterbucket.
YLFIDude, you totally Owed that guy.
YLFIGene, go home.
Since you asked so politely, I don't mind answering, even if it is a bit personal. I should first point out that the Scale is generally broken down into its three component values - it is almost never quoted as a single number, and I apologise for giving this impression. Second, the scale is used for assessing people suffering from extreme trauma - they are not going to unplug someone who has obviously good chances for recovery, if their GCS scores are temporarily depressed.
My figures are E2V3M4, a Glasgow Coma Score of 9. 8 or less is generally considered 'severe brain damage'. My desired Glasgow Outcome Score ( see the link below ) is 3 or higher.
My results are biased due to an overriding phobia of losing my intellect and sense of self. I'm also Donor A, and long periods of ( pointless ) life support in a vegetative state can apparently reduce suitability of organs for successful transplant. I hope this answers your question satisfactorily.
It might be worth noting my hypocrisy in that I do not currently have a living will - however, I have made my GCS figures and other wishes known to my family. I should however codify these in a notarised document.
Finally, trauma scoring is complicated, and the Glasgow Coma Scale is only one of many measuring systems. You can read about more at trauma.org. Check out in particular the Revised Trauma Scoring. I don't have the medical knowledge to dictate wishes based on these more elaborate scores ( heck, I had trouble with parts of the M number on the GCS ).
YLFIThere seems to be a real disparity of distribution here. Half the posters are saying they've never seen a BT device, let alone used one, where as others ( and myself ) can't turn around in the office or the local coffee house without tripping over one ( or its wireless signature ).
Perhaps the problem with Bluetooth market penetration ( apart from the fact that unless someone is using an external dongle you can't tell if they're using it... ) is that its only being rolled out in, I dunno, more technically oriented market areas.
YLFIHeh, my experimental data might be hobbled by the fact that I wrote the cracker in Python while sitting utterly sleep deprived in a starbucks ;-)
LearnToSpells link looks interesting - will have to check it out!
YLFIIf I understand correctly, WEP is vulnerable to this as well. You can capture one packet, decode it against a given passphrase, and then see if the IP header on the decoded packet has a correct checksum. Rinse, lather, repeat.
Lets just say that it takes a lot less time to find a set of weak ISV values.
YLFIIf it's a big problem, you can always use the -fetchonly argument to emerge to cache packages on your system ahead of time. emerge -fetchonly -u world && emerge -u world isn't too bad.
The missing mirrors problem is not as bad as it used to be. They now have round robin mirrors serving various geographical areas. The real problem is where they do something stupid ( weirdo dependancies, etc ) and it then propagates out to all the mirror sites before someone nails it down.
YLFIIf its sitting between render and download, it might be downloading the images anyway, and just never displaying them. That way, instead of destroying your impressions market, it will just destroy advertiser trust and confidence in banner marketing campaigns.
Wheeee...
YLFIHow is it crap? I think it's a fascinating idea. See also: Von Neumanns (sp?) Catastrophe.
YLFIOk. Assuming this is correct, where are the torrent of switchers? The price certainly is right.
I can only conclude that there is still something missing. Because if its ready for the desktop now, and people are still not flipping over, then it's probably never going to happen.
YLFIFull disclosure: I have a Gentoo desktop. I don't consider it ready for prime time. I think normal, non-technical people should buy Apples ( but for gods sake not at revision A of any of their products ).
I mentioned this above, but I have a citation for it now: Macsoft press release, on InsideMacGames - Halo for Mac to ship December 3rd.
I agree, parent should cease their complaining.
YLFIAt least it will be out, apparently, on December 3. Better late than never.
I have it for XBox. I'll buy it again for Mac. Same as I bought UT2K3 for Mac after buying it for my Linux machines.
If they want to develop for XBox, that's their decision, Bungee is a company, not a charity. I am greatful in the extreme that we got a Mac port at all - its not exactly a platform famous for its gaming.
YLFIHuh. A friend and I were playing through that level on co-op just the other night, and we enjoyed it immensely. Just like everyone else, I can't tell you *why* I enjoyed it, but I did. Trying to keep up with Guilty Spark 343 ( cute little fella ) was pretty enjoyable. And there's a real visceral thrill to cutting through the flood with a shotgun and rifle butt.
I also enjoyed the little things that GS343 was saying about 'recognition', 'class 12 battlesuits', etc etc. It added a little bit of background mystery to exactly who the ringbuilders were. Not sure if everyone got a chance to catch it over the sound and fury of the firefights though.
YLFIP.S. The manual states that the grunts don't speak english, but that the grunts are the only covenant race for which we've developed automatic translation. Not a great excuse, but I found the understandable language to be a nice touch.
An unfortunate problem with this sometimes is striking a balance between the communities desire for freedom and legal compliance. Nowhere is this more apparent than when dealing with wifi cards.
Laws about permissable signal strength and which wavelengths are unregulated vary quite a bit from country to country ( for example, if memory serves correctly, Japan has 802.11b bands up to 13, while Australia only goes up to 10 ).
Making different cards for different countries is going to be expensive. So perhaps legal compliance can be handled in the driver! This is a good idea, but people like myself want our drivers open so we can tinker with them, use them in monitor mode, etc. The problem is, if we can do these things, we can usually unlock the other foreign nation specific features of the card, e.g. running your wifi net on channel 13 to escape detection by your average scanner.
And this creates headaches for the vendor, because suddenly their FCC or whatever compliance is called into question, and hence the legality of their product. Not a nice place to be, business wise.
Sticky situation, and I'm not sure what the best solution is.
YLFI