If you're running OS X the best application for this is TVShows (http://tvshows.sourceforge.net/). It uses launchd to check tvrss.net every so often so it is completely transparent when the GUI isn't running. It uses a ruby script to run through a xml file to determine which TV shows to grab.
You can have it download to a folder or have it start your torrent client automatically. Personally I use it with rtorrent and I see almost no CPU usage.
My XBMC plays all of the above and more. It's a staple in my living room and even passes the wife acceptance factor. Everything is served from a Debian server using the XBMC streaming protocol.
I can't wait until the linux port is complete and I can start doing HD stuff.
Bob Dole has quite a few from me. I have quite a few I just found. Heck I even stole my ex-girlfriends when she broke up with me because I knew there was $100+ on it so I could get $.10 off a gallon of gas.
What computer do you have? My understanding is that Pixelmator passes most of the work off onto the GPU, which depending on your situation, may or may not be better.
I'm not a heavy photo editor. I just take pictures and for the most part leave them alone.
MacOS X users should check out Pixelmator. It's relatively new into the arena and isn't as powerful as Photoshop, but it covers most of the basics (Including layers). I've played with it a bit and it looks awesome.
When you're unplugged and your battery goes empty does it automatically hibernate? As in the next time you find power you resume from exactly where you were? Say you leave it on your kitchen table because you were./ing at breakfast. You go to work and come home. Battery is 'dead' and it won't wake up, but as soon as you find power it wakes up from where you were.
If you close your lid and leave your laptop for X days, enough for the battery to go dead and it refuses to wake up from sleep. When you plug into power does it reboot or resume from where you slept at?
I'm not asking about what you can configure I'm talking about straight from the install DVD.
I thought the penal system was supposed to help rehabilitate people too? If you take someone that's 28 years old and throw them in prison for 20 years. You're going to have a 48 year old person that has absolutely no chance of earning a decent wage.
Look at Frank Abagnale Jr, for all the crimes he commited he spent less than 5 years in prison. He was then offered a deal to work with the government for free and then started his own firm based around catching fraud. He's worth more now than what he originally stole.
I'm not saying slap them on the wrists, but give them a reasonable sentence and help rehabilitate them. You may end up with the next Frank working on your IT department security audit. Instead I, as a tax payer, get to pay for 20 years of these guys in prison for changing a few grades. No body died, no one was physically harmed while we have rapists and murderers receiving similar sentences. Where is the logic in that?
It's been available but it hasn't "Just Worked". Half the time I try to hibernate with XP I get some driver error message. It'll go through all the steps to hibernate and then within a few seconds after wake itself back up.
If I close the lid and put it away, it's dumb enough to run its battery completely dead. I even have "Critical Battery Alarm" set to Hibernate at 3%. But if I close my lid and put it in my desk drawer, the next morning the battery is completely dead. Even after I plug it back in I have to go through the 'reboot' sequence all over again.
My Macbook pro is the exact opposite. If I forget about it it'll hibernate itself. I don't see why this isn't part of any OS as is. If my battery runs low enough it'll hibernate itself. Next time I plug it in, it automatically comes back from where it was. XP allows me that extra 30 seconds of run time but then again when I do find power I have to start from scratch. My Macbook Pro has an "uptime" of a little over a week (Since the Leopard install) even though I've run the battery 'dead' twice because the OS is smart enough to shut itself down properly
I would be willing to bet that Linux has all of these features too. But I would also be willing to bet that they don't work as seamlessly as OS X.
Nokia 1100 I've used one as my personal phone for quite some time. Bare bones. Fits in the palm of my hand. Good reception and call quality.
Picked it up, unlocked, for $30 on eBay. It's been to hell and back again. I did lie a bit.
It isn't *just* a phone. It has a LED on the top of it, probably the most useful addition to a cellphone ever. I use it all the time when I drop my keys in my car. You can turn the 'flashlight' on or off rather easily.
Take a few volunteers pay them $15 a day and split them up into Prisoners and Guards. These are just normal people off the street. The experiment had to be canceled early because of the psychological trauma that the Prisoners were experiencing. And we're not talking 30 days of 60 days in, the experiment was canceled in 6 days.
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely
They're also Mice. An ant can lift 50x its own body weight... even if that's only a few grams. A flea can jump X it's own length, even if that's only a few feet.
Still 6km is over 3.5 miles. I'd like to see the majority of./ers walk that, let alone run at a pace like this mouse has done.
You can't Command-Click URLs in Terminal anymore. As long as I can remember (OS 8 days) if you Command-Double clicked on a URL it opened the URL. I used this all the time in Ircle and definitely use it all the time now with irssi and pork. For some reason this doesn't work in the "new" terminal.
Spotlight is so much faster now finding applications that it's replaced QuickSilver.
What about a "Home Theater" for the rest of us? People that just want some basic surround sound and something that is going to entertain family and friends and not break the bank.
I regularly watch FatWallet for deals and occasionally run across a refurb high quality 5.1 receiver for ~$100. Occasionally they have the old nasty noone wants them anymore 480i projectors for My TV. Yes. I'm using my TV Speakers.
Why does everyone think of a $10k system with 1080p and $500 hand made speakers when they hear "Home Theater." The above system will eventually be built and it'll be enough of a 'theater' for me after investing in some blackout curtains.
It works great. Cost me less than a real Porsche would have anyway.
Reverse doesn't work, sometimes I can't turn left, and sometimes it stalls on the highway. But take that Porsche and your integrated Engine/Car financial model.
I'm kinda a freak because I went to school and just studied what interested me without regard to how I was going to apply it to getting a job, but most people I know checked salaries, and went for things where they thought they could make money.
First I have every copy of every e-mail I've ever gotten (since this was implemented) in gmail. Second google does all my spam filtering for me (which is nice for a catchall). I just checked and I have 20k+ spam and I rarely get any spam anymore.
Although I use IMAP, I still copy everything back to my local machine because I've changed e-mail hosts over the years it was the only way to make sure I control my own stuff. It's survived Eudora to Mail.app and about 5 machines. It's now backed up daily to 1 local and 1 offsite server....
Cthon98> hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars Cthon98> ********* see! AzureDiamond> hunter2 AzureDiamond> doesnt look like stars to me Cthon98> AzureDiamond> ******* Cthon98> thats what I see AzureDiamond> oh, really? Cthon98> Absolutely AzureDiamond> you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2 AzureDiamond> haha, does that look funny to you? Cthon98> lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as ******* AzureDiamond> thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that Cthon98> yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as ****** AzureDiamond> awesome! AzureDiamond> wait, how do you know my pw? Cthon98> er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 ause its your pw AzureDiamond> oh, ok.
Apple: 15,810 Microsoft: 61,000 Microsoft has a little under 4 times the number of employees Apple has.
They both do Hardware: xBox vs Apple Line (I think apple probably has more employees on their hardware than Microsoft.) They both do MP3: iPod vs Zune (It should be a wash in employee #'s) They both do Office Suite: iWork vs Office (Office has obviously more employees than iWork) They both do "Family" apps: iLife vs Microsoft Movie Maker, etc. (iLife probably has more) They both do an OS: OS X vs XP/Vista. (With out a doubt XP/Vista has more employees on it than OS X)
You'd think that they'd be able to do something right. Heck AppleMaybe it's bureaucracy collapsing the whole thing. Maybe what Microsoft needs is a Steve, a dictator, someone that says what goes and no questions from above. Back in the day Apple wasn't run like this and we had Copeland and all other "Next OSes" there were some iffy products (OpenDoc). Then Apple bought NeXT. Steve came back and the rest is history. (And about 3000% in the stock market).
Sandbox it. Apple's done it pretty well with Rosetta and Classic before that and 68k emulation before that. Parallels does an awesome job with XP, I don't even know I'm running windows other than the taskbar is visible. I can double click a *.exe file from anywhere and it just launches in XP and runs right next to my OS X windows. Drag, Drop, Copy & Paste all work seamlessly. The Only problem I have is key commands. Control- in Windows and Command-* in OS X. And this is a 3rd party company that doesn't have access to all the APIs.
Make it a 'free' download (after you're declared "Authentic") or include it as a package. [X] Windows XP Compatibility mode [ ] Windows 98 Compatibility mode [ ] DOS Compatibility mode
With multi-core processors showing up this should be trivial to do.
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If you're running OS X the best application for this is TVShows (http://tvshows.sourceforge.net/). It uses launchd to check tvrss.net every so often so it is completely transparent when the GUI isn't running. It uses a ruby script to run through a xml file to determine which TV shows to grab.
You can have it download to a folder or have it start your torrent client automatically. Personally I use it with rtorrent and I see almost no CPU usage.
My XBMC plays all of the above and more. It's a staple in my living room and even passes the wife acceptance factor. Everything is served from a Debian server using the XBMC streaming protocol.
I can't wait until the linux port is complete and I can start doing HD stuff.
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Bob Dole has quite a few from me. I have quite a few I just found. Heck I even stole my ex-girlfriends when she broke up with me because I knew there was $100+ on it so I could get $.10 off a gallon of gas.
What computer do you have? My understanding is that Pixelmator passes most of the work off onto the GPU, which depending on your situation, may or may not be better.
I'm not a heavy photo editor. I just take pictures and for the most part leave them alone.
MacOS X users should check out Pixelmator. It's relatively new into the arena and isn't as powerful as Photoshop, but it covers most of the basics (Including layers). I've played with it a bit and it looks awesome.
It also does full screen editing http://www.pixelmator.com/i/hp/pixelmator-fullscreen.jpg">http://www.pixelmator.com/i/hp/pixelmator-fullscreen.jpg
When you're sleeping will it go straight from sleep -> hibernate? I know XP messes this up.
Also, if you set it up, it didn't "Just Work". I'm going to play with Ubuntu tonight (under VMWare) and I'll see what the defaults are.
When you're unplugged and your battery goes empty does it automatically hibernate? As in the next time you find power you resume from exactly where you were? Say you leave it on your kitchen table because you were ./ing at breakfast. You go to work and come home. Battery is 'dead' and it won't wake up, but as soon as you find power it wakes up from where you were.
If you close your lid and leave your laptop for X days, enough for the battery to go dead and it refuses to wake up from sleep. When you plug into power does it reboot or resume from where you slept at?
I'm not asking about what you can configure I'm talking about straight from the install DVD.
I thought the penal system was supposed to help rehabilitate people too? If you take someone that's 28 years old and throw them in prison for 20 years. You're going to have a 48 year old person that has absolutely no chance of earning a decent wage.
Look at Frank Abagnale Jr, for all the crimes he commited he spent less than 5 years in prison. He was then offered a deal to work with the government for free and then started his own firm based around catching fraud. He's worth more now than what he originally stole.
I'm not saying slap them on the wrists, but give them a reasonable sentence and help rehabilitate them. You may end up with the next Frank working on your IT department security audit. Instead I, as a tax payer, get to pay for 20 years of these guys in prison for changing a few grades. No body died, no one was physically harmed while we have rapists and murderers receiving similar sentences. Where is the logic in that?
It's been available but it hasn't "Just Worked". Half the time I try to hibernate with XP I get some driver error message. It'll go through all the steps to hibernate and then within a few seconds after wake itself back up.
If I close the lid and put it away, it's dumb enough to run its battery completely dead. I even have "Critical Battery Alarm" set to Hibernate at 3%. But if I close my lid and put it in my desk drawer, the next morning the battery is completely dead. Even after I plug it back in I have to go through the 'reboot' sequence all over again.
My Macbook pro is the exact opposite. If I forget about it it'll hibernate itself. I don't see why this isn't part of any OS as is. If my battery runs low enough it'll hibernate itself. Next time I plug it in, it automatically comes back from where it was. XP allows me that extra 30 seconds of run time but then again when I do find power I have to start from scratch. My Macbook Pro has an "uptime" of a little over a week (Since the Leopard install) even though I've run the battery 'dead' twice because the OS is smart enough to shut itself down properly
I would be willing to bet that Linux has all of these features too. But I would also be willing to bet that they don't work as seamlessly as OS X.
Nokia 1100 I've used one as my personal phone for quite some time. Bare bones. Fits in the palm of my hand. Good reception and call quality.
Picked it up, unlocked, for $30 on eBay. It's been to hell and back again. I did lie a bit.
It isn't *just* a phone. It has a LED on the top of it, probably the most useful addition to a cellphone ever. I use it all the time when I drop my keys in my car. You can turn the 'flashlight' on or off rather easily.
How has the Standford Prison Experiment not been mentioned yet?
Take a few volunteers pay them $15 a day and split them up into Prisoners and Guards. These are just normal people off the street. The experiment had to be canceled early because of the psychological trauma that the Prisoners were experiencing. And we're not talking 30 days of 60 days in, the experiment was canceled in 6 days.
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely
They're also Mice. An ant can lift 50x its own body weight... even if that's only a few grams. A flea can jump X it's own length, even if that's only a few feet.
./ers walk that, let alone run at a pace like this mouse has done.
Still 6km is over 3.5 miles. I'd like to see the majority of
Are there any side effects, such as sudden death?
Do you have to select it first? That was what was fast about the old method.
Command-Double Click and it figured out the start and end of the URL.
You can't Command-Click URLs in Terminal anymore. As long as I can remember (OS 8 days) if you Command-Double clicked on a URL it opened the URL. I used this all the time in Ircle and definitely use it all the time now with irssi and pork. For some reason this doesn't work in the "new" terminal.
Spotlight is so much faster now finding applications that it's replaced QuickSilver.
What about a "Home Theater" for the rest of us? People that just want some basic surround sound and something that is going to entertain family and friends and not break the bank.
I regularly watch FatWallet for deals and occasionally run across a refurb high quality 5.1 receiver for ~$100. Occasionally they have the old nasty noone wants them anymore 480i projectors for My TV. Yes. I'm using my TV Speakers.
Why does everyone think of a $10k system with 1080p and $500 hand made speakers when they hear "Home Theater." The above system will eventually be built and it'll be enough of a 'theater' for me after investing in some blackout curtains.
It works great. Cost me less than a real Porsche would have anyway.
Reverse doesn't work, sometimes I can't turn left, and sometimes it stalls on the highway. But take that Porsche and your integrated Engine/Car financial model.
Would this work on Tomato / DD-WRT?
I just checked and I do have iptables on my router.
I punched in the command but I don't really know if it's working. Where does this log to?
For some of us it was the same thing...
BSME. 06.
I do something similar with my own domain.
catchall@mydomain.com -> me@gmail.com -> myaddress@mydomain.com
First I have every copy of every e-mail I've ever gotten (since this was implemented) in gmail. Second google does all my spam filtering for me (which is nice for a catchall). I just checked and I have 20k+ spam and I rarely get any spam anymore.
Although I use IMAP, I still copy everything back to my local machine because I've changed e-mail hosts over the years it was the only way to make sure I control my own stuff. It's survived Eudora to Mail.app and about 5 machines. It's now backed up daily to 1 local and 1 offsite server....
I think this is the data from that study: http://www.exstatic.org/images/pirates_vs_gw.jpg
Apple released one a few years ago. They called it the Mini.
Laptop components everywhere.
Cthon98> hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
Cthon98> ********* see!
AzureDiamond> hunter2
AzureDiamond> doesnt look like stars to me
Cthon98> AzureDiamond> *******
Cthon98> thats what I see
AzureDiamond> oh, really?
Cthon98> Absolutely
AzureDiamond> you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
AzureDiamond> haha, does that look funny to you?
Cthon98> lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
AzureDiamond> thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
Cthon98> yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as ******
AzureDiamond> awesome!
AzureDiamond> wait, how do you know my pw?
Cthon98> er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 ause its your pw
AzureDiamond> oh, ok.
Apple: 15,810 Microsoft: 61,000 Microsoft has a little under 4 times the number of employees Apple has.
They both do Hardware: xBox vs Apple Line (I think apple probably has more employees on their hardware than Microsoft.)
They both do MP3: iPod vs Zune (It should be a wash in employee #'s)
They both do Office Suite: iWork vs Office (Office has obviously more employees than iWork)
They both do "Family" apps: iLife vs Microsoft Movie Maker, etc. (iLife probably has more)
They both do an OS: OS X vs XP/Vista. (With out a doubt XP/Vista has more employees on it than OS X)
You'd think that they'd be able to do something right. Heck AppleMaybe it's bureaucracy collapsing the whole thing. Maybe what Microsoft needs is a Steve, a dictator, someone that says what goes and no questions from above. Back in the day Apple wasn't run like this and we had Copeland and all other "Next OSes" there were some iffy products (OpenDoc). Then Apple bought NeXT. Steve came back and the rest is history. (And about 3000% in the stock market).
Sandbox it. Apple's done it pretty well with Rosetta and Classic before that and 68k emulation before that. Parallels does an awesome job with XP, I don't even know I'm running windows other than the taskbar is visible. I can double click a *.exe file from anywhere and it just launches in XP and runs right next to my OS X windows. Drag, Drop, Copy & Paste all work seamlessly. The Only problem I have is key commands. Control- in Windows and Command-* in OS X. And this is a 3rd party company that doesn't have access to all the APIs.
Make it a 'free' download (after you're declared "Authentic") or include it as a package.
[X] Windows XP Compatibility mode
[ ] Windows 98 Compatibility mode
[ ] DOS Compatibility mode
With multi-core processors showing up this should be trivial to do.