This just sounds totally christian! Notifying your parents?! Restricting you from contacting other people?! This site will go down like the name "The New Yardbirds"! If it doesn't fall down under the weight of its own stupidity, someone is bound to push it over. That, if it happens, will undoubtedly lead to moans of "evil hacker scumbags"; but the truth is, if you go out in a baggy suit with a squirty flower, a bright frizzy wig, a red nose and big flappy shoes, somebody's going to take you for a clown.
On The Register's hardware page there is a review of a valve amplifier for the iPod. I checked out the valve number and apparently, to those of us who grew up with Mullard (later Philips) numbers, it's an ECC88. That makes it a double triode.
So how are they running three speakers from it? Assuming the valve is not just for show..... I suppose they could be inverting the phase to one channel using a transformer, re-inverting it at the speaker by reversing the connections and bridging the subwoofer between the two channels to give a "sum" signal. AMI stereo juke boxes used that sort of wiring scheme {except they didn't need a transformer at the input, since the left and right coils of the pickup are electrically separate: four wires, not three}. AMI and Rockola were using valves long after Wurlitzer and Seeburg had switched to transistors.
I personally think digital sources and valves don't play well together anyway: they make the digital artefacts sound worse. Tried it, didn't like it, back to trannies -- at least they disguise the "digitalness".
And the ready-made amplifier module this guy used is just completely cheating! At least he could have done something like bridge together a pair of TDA2030s for each channel {they're just op-amps, except these ones will source or sink an ampere or so without batting an eyelid} and used yet another 2030 to make a self-resonant switch-mode supply for the iPod.
Yeah..... that wouldn't be bad. Of course, you could build your own with any old 80486 and a network card, but it'd eat power. I suppose there is a need for stuff like that in industry: the factory where I used to work used to build their own custom test rigs, plumbed into a PC via a simple 32-way I/O card with an 8-bit bus connection, and we can't have been the only people needing ad-hoc test gear.
Anything that speaks ethernet ought to be able to speak wireless. You could be onto something there.....
into the user port of my BBC model B. That's right, it had a dedicated user I/O port you could just plug homemade stuff into, and a built-in 12-bit ADC with 4-way MUX. One of the things Beebs were good for was in labs, because you could interface them to almost any scientific instrument based on analogue electronics..... if you had a chart recorder output you were good to go already, otherwise you just wired a 6.3mm jack to the terminals pf the meter movement.
The thing about the new fast buses is, you need a bigger initial investment to develop random stuff for them. Seems there's no room for Fred-in-the-shed tinkerers anymore..... we just have to use our computers for the things they want us to.
See, that's another way The Little Guy is losing out. The old parallel port was always a good standby for connecting homemade stuff. The old 8- and 16-bit expansion buses were easy to interface to; you could buy an inexpensive PCB with some address decoding logic and an area with just breadboard-style copper strips where you could build your own weird and wonderful circuitry. {Of course, the fact that it only ran at up to 8MHz made the design a little easier; hell, that's practically DC by modern standards.}
Now you've made me think about the combined printer and {Kempston-compatible} joystick interface I designed for the Spectrum, and all the stuff I just plugged
But this is happening in Europe, where no money changes hands before the verdict is accepted -- or else it would be considered perverting the course of justice.
Giving away money to charity that you should never have had in the first place, does not make it O.K. Any charitable organisation with any bollocks should refuse the money Gates is offering, just on general principle. I know there are a few groups of people that I'd rather starve to death than accept food from.....
Turnover is how much money comes into your company plus how much money goes out of your company. Profit is how much money comes into your company minus how much money goes out of your company. Profitability is the ratio of profit to turnover.
Turnover is just a measure of how active your business is in the market, since every transaction you perform, whether spending or earning, contributes to it.
Except in most of Europe, (1) no licence is required to use software since that is part of your Statutory Rights of Fair Dealing, and (2) the Microsoft EULA is unenforcible anyway since it is at odds with other Statutory Rights (like local courts having jurisdiction). And of course, being governments and and all that, they could always change the law just to make sure. Then they won't even be using the software illegally, and Microsoft won't have a leg to stand on.
Not quite. All embryos have two proto-gonads, a proto-uterus and a proto-clitoris. What should happen is that in a boy, the proto-gonads develop into testicles, the proto-uterus pops right out through the vaginal opening to form the scrotum, the bollocks work their way down into the bag and the proto-clitoris grows into a penis. In a girl, everything stays in place on the inside. Either way the appropriate connecting tubes form according to what ended up where.
There's a theory stating that other factors beside XY chromosomes can lead to false triggering of the masculinisation process {irreversible once it has started}, which certainly would explain the disparity between the numbers of male-to-female transsexuals {women born boys} and female-to-male transsexuals {men born girls}. There's another theory stating that being male is actually shit {you die sooner, have to work harder, you get blamed for all the evils of the world, have to wear boring clothes &c.}, which equally would explain the disparity.
What's more, tuna are predators. They eat smaller fish, that probably ate even smaller fish, and so on. All the poisonous shit that any of those fish ever ate is eventually going to find its way into the predators at the top of the food chain. Tuna is a great source of Persistent Organic Pollutants and heavy metals. Eat enough of the shit and when you die, your body will be officially classified as Hazardous Waste.
The v-chip.org site only talks about sets "13 inches and larger" but doesn't give an equivalent in proper measuring units. Does this mean that if you used a conversion ratio of, say 40mm. to the inch, you could make a 51cm. TV set without a v-chip?
You were running an RPM-based distribution. That says it all, really. It's my experience that all RPM based distributions are flaky as hell. Best I can say is that they're good for learning how to compile stuff from tarballs. It's Debian all the way for me now.
Web browsing was fine, as I used Firefox (and still do), except of course sites that required ActiveX.
Do any modern sites still actually require ActiveX? Which ones?
I like Konqueror myself. It just fits in better with KDE [quelle surprise].
KDE was unstable; the built in menu editor never worked. I have no idea why, but no matter how I tried (via the config tool or by creating files manually) I could never get new programs added.
Before KDE, all distributions had their own menu editor systems [obsolete today]. The distributor may well have munged KDE to read from their own menu editor system, but not write back to it.
Sound card support was spotty. It'd work, but die for no reason. Rebooting sometimes fixed it, sometimes not. I couldn't just buy a new USB printer and plug it in to have it work. Not Linux's fault I know, but at the end of the day, I just don't care. I want the printer to work, and I don't want to have to wonder if the next new gadget I buy will work.
Could be difficult. Microsoft are coercing hardware manufacturers into pretending that their products don't work with Linux. The truth is that a lot of the time, they don't work well with Windows either.
USB camera would cause the system to lock sometimes; or it would die in the middle of copying files off it, 'unmount' but still be mysterously mounted.. this problem woudl persist across reboots as well.
Never, ever compile usb-storage hard into the kernel. Always make it as a module. You can then rmmod and modprobe it if this happens. Those cameras do the same thing to Windows boxes too, by the way.
The desktop was flacky; it'd have random locks, tray programs would just not load the next time. Kopete was a pain in the ass too; I know, being shut out by MS or Yahoo isn't Linux's fault. But Trillian handles updates alot better. To upgrade Kopete, I had to update just about every KDE library on the system. It wasn't easy, and then in the end, it still didn't work. All that effort for an IM program???
I always had more joy with GAIM than with Kopete, though the latter is starting to show some promise now.
The problem was similar for other applications; to even get a program installed I had to either compile from source (requring library upgrades) or RPM (also requiring upgrades). I couldn't get a graphical interface to Postgres; it either wouldn't run because of some wierd library dependancy or wouldn't compile, because I didn't have some other obscure library.
It seems to me that your experience was marred by a version shift [KDE2 to KDE3?] This sometimes happens with Debian Unstable. It'll never happen with Debian Stable -- if there is a big enough shift, migration tools will be supplied as part of the package and run during the postinstall. It won't happen often with Testing either, but you'll have to compile at least one Unstable package if you use Testing for any length of time.
KOffice or OpenOffice doesn't cut it when you're posting your resume online for potential employers. It never looked right when viewed with Word.
But it would have looked just fine when viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF creation is almost built-in to Linux).
Give Kubuntu a try. Just keep your mind open and don't expect it to be exactly like Windows.
Linux has had a web browser almost as long as it had a telnet client. Which was ever since it had networking -- most Linux implementations use the BSD telnet client, which is based on the PD NCSA telnet client. Windows 98 also has a modified NCSA telnet client built-in.
You could try Damn Small Linux on one of those old boxes. You might just be surprised by what it can do.
I have a mortgage. No savings account on Earth is ever going to pay me more interest than I'm paying out on my mortgage, because that's how all banks make their money in the first place: by charging borrowers more interest than they pay out to investors. I see no point in having "savings" while I have an outstanding loan hanging over my head: it will only work out more expensive in the long run. If I have spare money, I just make a repayment against my mortgage. If I needed extra money, beyond my overdraft facility, I could just add it on to my mortgage; so far, touch wood, I haven't had to.
Just what is the whole big deal with online banking anyway? I've never seen the attraction.
There are exactly two reasons, and two reasons alone, why I ever visit a bank. One, the rare one, is to pay in some money or a cheque through the hole-in-the-wall machine. The other one, the common one, is to draw out money through the hole-in-the-wall machine. The HITW can also tell my balance; but I generally know how much is in there, give or take a ton. Between transactions, I hardly care how much is in the bank as long as it's more than nothing. I know how much my wages are, I know how much my regular outgoings are and I know how much extra I've been putting in or taking out.
Unless and until they come out with some software that allows me to scan pound notes with my own scanner and have my bank account credited, and print out pound notes from my own printer and have my account debited, I will have reason to visit the bank. And if said software is not Open Source, then I will still continue to visit the bank.
Which kind of makes me wonder..... is there any country in the world whose Ministry of Information Technology has decreed that the words "open" or "free" must not be used in connection with any project that does not meet certain standards of openness and freedom?
I was alive and mucking about with computers in the 1980s and the "next big thing" was always going to be magnetic bubble memory. That never materialised. The closest thing I remember, apart from endless articles oversimplifying how the "bubbles" "moved along" like an old-fashioned drum memory, was a preview of a portable computer which was going to be built using bubble memory.
What I'd really like to see is a magnetic memory device using the same remanence phenomena of which Gutmann spoke in his paper on secure deletion. It ought to be possible to store several bits {possibly an infinite number?} in each location, on the basis that storing new data does not completely obliterate the old data. I have never seen anything like that in practice, except an old open-reel tape recorder with a "trick recording" button which disconnected the erase head, allowing you to e.g. play an instrument and then record your voice over the top.
I thought the DVD specification included from the outset the ability to age-restrict material on a scene-by-scene basis. Every DVD player I've ever owned has a parental control setting which allows the player to skip certain scenes. By default it is set to the most permissive level, and I've never felt the need to change it..... unlike the region setting, which I change to ANY straight away.
I confess to never having used the parental control feature, because I'm old enough already, so I don't know how well supported it is {if at all} by discs. And all my DVD players have a "fast forward" button on the remote..... if I can't reach that, I just look in a different direction or shut my eyes.
But the barcode on the CD identifies which one it is..... on most of the CDs in my collection, the EAN is just the matrix number with a few extra digits fore and aft. So certain CDs would just have to be marked as "age restricted goods" when they were entered onto the store's stock control and pricing system in the first place. The till could then flash up a warning when they are sold. Not that difficult.
Anyway, kids hear -- and use -- worse language in school playgrounds.
Yeah, but "ATTACK THE FORT AT SUNSET", "DEFEND THE BRIDGE AT NOON" and "MY DAUGHTER HAS THE PILES" are all equally plausible plaintexts for the same given ciphertext.....
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This just sounds totally christian! Notifying your parents?! Restricting you from contacting other people?! This site will go down like the name "The New Yardbirds"! If it doesn't fall down under the weight of its own stupidity, someone is bound to push it over. That, if it happens, will undoubtedly lead to moans of "evil hacker scumbags"; but the truth is, if you go out in a baggy suit with a squirty flower, a bright frizzy wig, a red nose and big flappy shoes, somebody's going to take you for a clown.
Debian don't consider the kernel part of the distribution. It's still Sarge, whether it's running on 2.2 (yes, you can), 2.4 or 2.6.
On The Register's hardware page there is a review of a valve amplifier for the iPod. I checked out the valve number and apparently, to those of us who grew up with Mullard (later Philips) numbers, it's an ECC88. That makes it a double triode.
..... I suppose they could be inverting the phase to one channel using a transformer, re-inverting it at the speaker by reversing the connections and bridging the subwoofer between the two channels to give a "sum" signal. AMI stereo juke boxes used that sort of wiring scheme {except they didn't need a transformer at the input, since the left and right coils of the pickup are electrically separate: four wires, not three}. AMI and Rockola were using valves long after Wurlitzer and Seeburg had switched to transistors.
So how are they running three speakers from it? Assuming the valve is not just for show
I personally think digital sources and valves don't play well together anyway: they make the digital artefacts sound worse. Tried it, didn't like it, back to trannies -- at least they disguise the "digitalness".
And the ready-made amplifier module this guy used is just completely cheating! At least he could have done something like bridge together a pair of TDA2030s for each channel {they're just op-amps, except these ones will source or sink an ampere or so without batting an eyelid} and used yet another 2030 to make a self-resonant switch-mode supply for the iPod.
Yeah ..... that wouldn't be bad. Of course, you could build your own with any old 80486 and a network card, but it'd eat power. I suppose there is a need for stuff like that in industry: the factory where I used to work used to build their own custom test rigs, plumbed into a PC via a simple 32-way I/O card with an 8-bit bus connection, and we can't have been the only people needing ad-hoc test gear.
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Anything that speaks ethernet ought to be able to speak wireless. You could be onto something there
into the user port of my BBC model B. That's right, it had a dedicated user I/O port you could just plug homemade stuff into, and a built-in 12-bit ADC with 4-way MUX. One of the things Beebs were good for was in labs, because you could interface them to almost any scientific instrument based on analogue electronics..... if you had a chart recorder output you were good to go already, otherwise you just wired a 6.3mm jack to the terminals pf the meter movement.
..... we just have to use our computers for the things they want us to.
The thing about the new fast buses is, you need a bigger initial investment to develop random stuff for them. Seems there's no room for Fred-in-the-shed tinkerers anymore
See, that's another way The Little Guy is losing out. The old parallel port was always a good standby for connecting homemade stuff. The old 8- and 16-bit expansion buses were easy to interface to; you could buy an inexpensive PCB with some address decoding logic and an area with just breadboard-style copper strips where you could build your own weird and wonderful circuitry. {Of course, the fact that it only ran at up to 8MHz made the design a little easier; hell, that's practically DC by modern standards.}
Now you've made me think about the combined printer and {Kempston-compatible} joystick interface I designed for the Spectrum, and all the stuff I just plugged
But this is happening in Europe, where no money changes hands before the verdict is accepted -- or else it would be considered perverting the course of justice.
Giving away money to charity that you should never have had in the first place, does not make it O.K. Any charitable organisation with any bollocks should refuse the money Gates is offering, just on general principle. I know there are a few groups of people that I'd rather starve to death than accept food from .....
Turnover is how much money comes into your company plus how much money goes out of your company. Profit is how much money comes into your company minus how much money goes out of your company. Profitability is the ratio of profit to turnover.
Turnover is just a measure of how active your business is in the market, since every transaction you perform, whether spending or earning, contributes to it.
Except in most of Europe, (1) no licence is required to use software since that is part of your Statutory Rights of Fair Dealing, and (2) the Microsoft EULA is unenforcible anyway since it is at odds with other Statutory Rights (like local courts having jurisdiction). And of course, being governments and and all that, they could always change the law just to make sure. Then they won't even be using the software illegally, and Microsoft won't have a leg to stand on.
Not quite. All embryos have two proto-gonads, a proto-uterus and a proto-clitoris. What should happen is that in a boy, the proto-gonads develop into testicles, the proto-uterus pops right out through the vaginal opening to form the scrotum, the bollocks work their way down into the bag and the proto-clitoris grows into a penis. In a girl, everything stays in place on the inside. Either way the appropriate connecting tubes form according to what ended up where.
There's a theory stating that other factors beside XY chromosomes can lead to false triggering of the masculinisation process {irreversible once it has started}, which certainly would explain the disparity between the numbers of male-to-female transsexuals {women born boys} and female-to-male transsexuals {men born girls}. There's another theory stating that being male is actually shit {you die sooner, have to work harder, you get blamed for all the evils of the world, have to wear boring clothes &c.}, which equally would explain the disparity.
What's more, tuna are predators. They eat smaller fish, that probably ate even smaller fish, and so on. All the poisonous shit that any of those fish ever ate is eventually going to find its way into the predators at the top of the food chain. Tuna is a great source of Persistent Organic Pollutants and heavy metals. Eat enough of the shit and when you die, your body will be officially classified as Hazardous Waste.
The v-chip.org site only talks about sets "13 inches and larger" but doesn't give an equivalent in proper measuring units. Does this mean that if you used a conversion ratio of, say 40mm. to the inch, you could make a 51cm. TV set without a v-chip?
What exactly is a "virius" ?
I like Konqueror myself. It just fits in better with KDE [quelle surprise]. Before KDE, all distributions had their own menu editor systems [obsolete today]. The distributor may well have munged KDE to read from their own menu editor system, but not write back to it. Could be difficult. Microsoft are coercing hardware manufacturers into pretending that their products don't work with Linux. The truth is that a lot of the time, they don't work well with Windows either. Never, ever compile usb-storage hard into the kernel. Always make it as a module. You can then rmmod and modprobe it if this happens. Those cameras do the same thing to Windows boxes too, by the way. I always had more joy with GAIM than with Kopete, though the latter is starting to show some promise now. It seems to me that your experience was marred by a version shift [KDE2 to KDE3?] This sometimes happens with Debian Unstable. It'll never happen with Debian Stable -- if there is a big enough shift, migration tools will be supplied as part of the package and run during the postinstall. It won't happen often with Testing either, but you'll have to compile at least one Unstable package if you use Testing for any length of time. But it would have looked just fine when viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF creation is almost built-in to Linux).
Give Kubuntu a try. Just keep your mind open and don't expect it to be exactly like Windows.
Are you sure you have to use Windows?
Linux has had a web browser almost as long as it had a telnet client. Which was ever since it had networking -- most Linux implementations use the BSD telnet client, which is based on the PD NCSA telnet client. Windows 98 also has a modified NCSA telnet client built-in.
You could try Damn Small Linux on one of those old boxes. You might just be surprised by what it can do.
I have a mortgage. No savings account on Earth is ever going to pay me more interest than I'm paying out on my mortgage, because that's how all banks make their money in the first place: by charging borrowers more interest than they pay out to investors. I see no point in having "savings" while I have an outstanding loan hanging over my head: it will only work out more expensive in the long run. If I have spare money, I just make a repayment against my mortgage. If I needed extra money, beyond my overdraft facility, I could just add it on to my mortgage; so far, touch wood, I haven't had to.
Just what is the whole big deal with online banking anyway? I've never seen the attraction.
There are exactly two reasons, and two reasons alone, why I ever visit a bank. One, the rare one, is to pay in some money or a cheque through the hole-in-the-wall machine. The other one, the common one, is to draw out money through the hole-in-the-wall machine. The HITW can also tell my balance; but I generally know how much is in there, give or take a ton. Between transactions, I hardly care how much is in the bank as long as it's more than nothing. I know how much my wages are, I know how much my regular outgoings are and I know how much extra I've been putting in or taking out.
Unless and until they come out with some software that allows me to scan pound notes with my own scanner and have my bank account credited, and print out pound notes from my own printer and have my account debited, I will have reason to visit the bank. And if said software is not Open Source, then I will still continue to visit the bank.
Which kind of makes me wonder ..... is there any country in the world whose Ministry of Information Technology has decreed that the words "open" or "free" must not be used in connection with any project that does not meet certain standards of openness and freedom?
I was alive and mucking about with computers in the 1980s and the "next big thing" was always going to be magnetic bubble memory. That never materialised. The closest thing I remember, apart from endless articles oversimplifying how the "bubbles" "moved along" like an old-fashioned drum memory, was a preview of a portable computer which was going to be built using bubble memory.
What I'd really like to see is a magnetic memory device using the same remanence phenomena of which Gutmann spoke in his paper on secure deletion. It ought to be possible to store several bits {possibly an infinite number?} in each location, on the basis that storing new data does not completely obliterate the old data. I have never seen anything like that in practice, except an old open-reel tape recorder with a "trick recording" button which disconnected the erase head, allowing you to e.g. play an instrument and then record your voice over the top.
There is much prior art to block this. Just telephone any big business and see! Press one if you wish to ..... and all that stuff.
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It would be supremely ironic if the USPTO are using a voice menu on their telephone system, and don't laugh it out of the door
I thought the DVD specification included from the outset the ability to age-restrict material on a scene-by-scene basis. Every DVD player I've ever owned has a parental control setting which allows the player to skip certain scenes. By default it is set to the most permissive level, and I've never felt the need to change it ..... unlike the region setting, which I change to ANY straight away.
..... if I can't reach that, I just look in a different direction or shut my eyes.
I confess to never having used the parental control feature, because I'm old enough already, so I don't know how well supported it is {if at all} by discs. And all my DVD players have a "fast forward" button on the remote
But the barcode on the CD identifies which one it is ..... on most of the CDs in my collection, the EAN is just the matrix number with a few extra digits fore and aft. So certain CDs would just have to be marked as "age restricted goods" when they were entered onto the store's stock control and pricing system in the first place. The till could then flash up a warning when they are sold. Not that difficult.
Anyway, kids hear -- and use -- worse language in school playgrounds.
Yeah, but "ATTACK THE FORT AT SUNSET", "DEFEND THE BRIDGE AT NOON" and "MY DAUGHTER HAS THE PILES" are all equally plausible plaintexts for the same given ciphertext .....
They have, but it's labelled "reply to this".