I'm extremely suspect of this blurb as the AppleTalk quote isn't from the article.
That's a quote from reader comments made by someone who is so far out of touch with OS X it isn't even funny.
Is this really how stupid Window-Fanboyism has gotten that the complaints are over OS X services that aren't even turned on out of the box? I've got two Macs running OS X and I didn't even know they were still capable of using AppleTalk until I started poking around in System Preferences to see how to turn the service on. Sure, it works and it's easy to set up zones but why anyone would use AppleTalk to try to talk between Macs and peripherals these days is beyond me.
Bonjour makes discovery extremely easy and the negotiation happens automagically.
And this reset permissions crap? I'm lost. Really. I have no clue what that guy is talking about. The only time I ever reset permissions on anything was when I wanted to move some GarageBand Loops to a place the system owned without adding them to GB through drag-and-drop. The only reason I had to take ownership of the directory was because I wasn't using sudo from the terminal.
The submission is pure flamebait. Slashdot moderators need to go back to moderator school.
The next time a Canadian tells you how superior the metric system is just reach over and grab the yardstick you bought from The Real Canadian Superstore and smack them on the head. I'm an ex-patriot (sic) USian who moved to Canada about ten years ago. When I first came thought I would have a lot of trouble converting my mind over to the "new" way of measuring things. I'd been exposed to the metric system in school but had never actually used the measuring system outside of the classroom. Lucky for me Canada isn't really a metric country so the transition never really occurred.
My only hurdle was figuring out how fast to drive due to the fact that my '64 Valiant didn't have the secondary metric marks for the speedometer. I made a mock speedometer with both systems marked on the "dial" and taped it to the back side of my sun visor. When I needed to know how fast to go I flipped the visor down and checked. It didn't take too long for my brain to start to automatically make the conversion. I also learned fairly quickly what 90KPH actually felt like as I headed down the road and after a while didn't use my speedometer at all.
Temperature, speed and government forms? Yes, those are metric. Everything else is a godawful mess. I've travelled all over Canada. It's the same disaster everywhere. The implementation never took hold no matter what Parliament told you. Metric is rocket science in Canada. Life is still imperial.
Hardware stores are a major holdout as they use a mishmash of metric and imperial measurements. M8 Robertsons, 2X4's, 80mil tarps and 1/2 inch OSB. When I plan garage projects and need to buy wood I always end up shifting my brain back into US-style measurement to do the drawings because the measurements are all equally divisible by eight instead of ten.
Many Trades in Canada seem to work in the imperial system as well. During a recent strike I took a hiatus from switch design and worked as a gronk for the UA in a pipe fabrication shop. All the measurements for the ID and OD of the pipe were in inches. No one ordered by metric and ironically many of the stainless steel projects were destined for metric countries.
The only real place I see active use of the metric system outside of the government in Canada is when it benefits the proprietor. For example: Grocery stores seem to price bulk and deli in gram increments because the price looks good. 100 grams is such a bargain! When you calculate things out in kilos or pounds... Ow, my wallet hurts!
Recently, I scanned and placed 20+ pages of my old high school writing on my blog to provide continuity between some old diary entries I had converted to blog and my current blog entries.
I didn't edit the pages much but I did obscure signatures and addresses on the top of some of the pages as some of my poems were submitted for publication in a local zine.
I first tried block selecting and pixellating the text I wanted to obscure with Gimp.
I wasn't happy with the results as there seemed to be a lot of clues left behind that might enable someone to reverse engineer the text.
So, I decided to undo the pixellating and picked the smudge tool instead.
Since you control the H&V coords for the dragging tool manually It's like scrubbing crayon off a wall.
Just scrub until the data is gone.
Seems to me that this is a much safer way than pixellation to strip out unwanted data while still leaving the suggestion of text in the image.
Great, where exactly am I supposed to plug in my USB-powered powered USB hub so that I can recharge my USB-powered phone? I can't connect it to my USB-powered laptop because I can't find a PC with a free USB port to recharge and my battery is dead.
All these laws did was kick an aftermarket of USB-connectored wall-warts into overdrive. I've got two of these devices already for iPod recharging when travelling. Griffin makes a nice one with a flexible dock cable. I just leave the cable plugged into the wall wart and wrap the cord around it when I am not using the charger. I keep the other charger as a backup as the Griffin has enough available current to charge two video iPods if I use a cheapo brain-dead USB 1.1 mini-hub as a Y-splitter.
This is extremely short-sighted legislation and moves the proprietary device issues to the connector on the phone. Right now, we've already got a dogs breakfast of devices with cables that are USB on one end and device unique on the other. I've got three different usb cables on my desk right now and none of them have the same connector. One of them is a standard USB mini jack but the other two are Frankenconnectors from the depths of product design hell.
Using these types of cables to plug my cell phone into a USB port would be handy but I just happen to have a Dell laptop at work. Since my laptop bag is already full of proprietary USB cables it's going to be a lot of fun trying to dig through the spaghetti. I'll have to upgrade the powered hub I use, too. Although the newer 610's are better about USB than some of the older models I still have to connect to "shore power" to plug in some of the hungrier devices I own. The Dell just doesn't put out enough juice to supply USB juice to multiple devices appropriately. Neither does the keyboard USB port on my iMac, come to think of it.
Good thing I have a stack of chained powered hubs at home.
Have you ever read the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act? I'm not so sure who is winning the asshat race but it still might not be Australia.
Don't forget about the Communications Decency Act, either. That gives the US bonus inches for sure.
I have around 400 CDs in my personal collection. (Maybe 500 now?) My all-time record was 2000 which is an absolute pain in the ass if you actually deal with the physical media.
Many years ago-- while I was in the military-- I got tired of carrying around all the stupid plastic cases and migrated all my music to alphabetical CD binders. It was never an optimal solution for me because buying a new cd meant yanking all the discs out of the binder and shuffling them around to keep things easy to find. The binders were fairly difficult to use and were extremely dangerous to take on the road without a copilot to play DJ.
CDs in these binders seemed to be on a fast track to destruction. It was easy to scratch the surface of a CD with the zippers if you weren't careful. I once forgot a binder in the back of my car and warped approximately thirty CDs. A friend sat on one of the binders and shattered the first three pages of CDs... so on and so on. Lots of hassles I really hated to deal with but it was either binders or dead weight.
When computers caught up to CD ROM media in realtime playback with enough fidelity for me to stand the acoustic tradeoff I bought a few large swappable drives and started ripping my audio to mp3. I used UDF formatted CDRW's to dump MP3's to a Sony ATRAC/MP3 cd walkman for the times I wanted portable music and had my home computer as a permanent jukebox system. (I tried the Sony way and found ATRAC to be both cumbersome, slow and inferior.) The whole process was extremely time and labour intensive and involved numerous software packages that were never really designed to work together.
I managed with this setup for a few years until I found CDEX. CDEX automated a lot of the process of sorting rips by artist, album, and track. I was still bound to the "ghost" of physical media because I still had to shuffle albums on CDRW to be able to listen to whatever I wanted at any given time. I also had to plan my musical selections in advance. I did this for a couple of years and although not happy with the system, it worked so I made do. I never actually thought I wanted an iPod. I thought people who bought them were dumb. I basically thought "What the fuck do I need another MP3 player for? I've already got one."
One weekend I was at a friend's lake house. He had brought his laptop and a USB drive he used for his iTunes library. I'd brought a few new CDs I hadn't stripped from their cases yet and I brought them in so we could all listen to them. While we were listening to the first one he took the rest of the CDs and stuffed one into his laptop drive. (This wasn't to steal music... We were drinking and didn't want to fuck with having to change CDs every 30 minutes in a single-slot deck.) iTunes popped up and sucked the music into his USB drive and then spit out the CD. He worked his way through my stack, made a few clicks to set up a play list and then hooked up his iPod and synced to the library. Then, he dropped the iPod in a dock and started the playlist he'd just created.
(This was all on Windows, by the way. Not that it really matters to this story but there wasn't any fanboy Mac drug dealer peer pressure.)
At the time, I basically ignored the player. I already had an MP3 player but I wanted iTunes. All that work I did keeping my music portable and sorted... Gone. I was floored. What would have taken me hours to do even with CDEX helping me sort took minutes with iTunes. When I went home, I immediately downloaded iTunes and migrated my existing MP3 library over. Since I had been meticulous about ID3 tags the library imported without any user invervention other than me saying "yes" when iTunes asked if I wanted the program to keep my music sorted for me. I then spent the next two days filling in the gaps in my mp3 library. I didn't actually own an iPod but the ease of dealing with both physical media and also purchasing new songs virtually is what really sold me. I'd given up on the tactile fulfillment in handling packaging long ago so migrating to digital-on
This seems like a non-issue to me. Caller-ID is manipulated on the receiving end (i.e. MY PHONE) and not on the calling end. Google obscures outbound CLID to the buisiness I contact and spoofs inbound CLID to me, presenting it as the business. If I enter in an invalid number, the call will die. The only reason someone might enter someone else's number is to do a sort of "niki-niki-nine-doors" phone prank. Since IP's are logged and you have to put a valid number there are a lot of logs that might be present (ip, ss7, sip, etc.) that will be left behind. I wonder if it's really worth bothering with the cheap thrill anyway since you can't hide in the bushes and watch the pizza guy go to your neighbour's door over the internet?
Telco equipment is designed to run off of a -48 volt supply but that supply is usually a -52 volt UPS system with numerous batteries in a string and tons of available current. I've seen several people zap themselves and/or arc flash and destroy wrenches in a power bay by not being careful. If you're thinking that telco -48 is "pretty safe" then get the hell out of the rack room before you kill yourself or someone else. Remember... It's not the voltage that kills you, it's the current. Unless of course, the voltage is high enough. Then, the current will flow.
I know I'm just feeding a troll here but you're completely out to lunch. I work for an ILEC and we just used Asterisk in one of our labs to simulate IP carriers to test tandeming SIP based traffic.
We found Asterisk to be very RFC compliant. The only bug we tripped over was when we generated packets with ";npdi=yes" in the URI parameters. Technically, this was MY fault as this bug was actually fixed in a previous version of Asterisk and we were running old code.
Once I recompiled the new version our tests ran very smoothly. What we actually found is that a major switch vendor (who shall remain nameless) isn't so RFC compliant after all.
Bzzzzzzzzzt! Wrong, try again. You have to pay attention if you're going to play along. The Chinese government is not being stopped from censoring the internet. What we are actually discussing here is Wikipedia's refusal to bow down to a censor in order to be served within the boundaries of a "trusted realm." (Trusted meaning from the perspective of the Chinese government.)
To put this in simple terms... This is like the strata council in the condo across the street coming over and knocking on your door to ask you to change the colour of your privately-owned single detached home because it doesn't match their approved paint schemes.
I work in an organization that swears by Visio for system drawings.
Recently, I was working in a lab environment using Asterisk on my laptop to simulate an international IP carrier. Since I was "stuck" in linux-land during this project I used Dia to draw all my network and VoIP diagrams.
I actually found it much easier and faster to use Dia as a diagramming tool.
On a whim, I decided to "fink install dia" this morning. Seems to work just fine. The only problem I have now will be explaining to people: "How did you do that with Visio?"
... I throw Mutorrent and Shareaza at them to see if they stick.
It may not be very scientific or fair to do this but those are the only Windows programs I actually miss.
Neither Wine or CrossOver can run these programs yet. So, Parallels still gets my vote thus far. It may be a kitchen sink approach but it actually works.
There are plenty of sewing machine treadles in the world, too -- I hope someone can figure out a way to combine them with the new design.
I experimented with taking a spare keyboard, mouse and monitor and hooking them onto an exercise bicycle so that I could work out while using my computer. The motion required to turn the pedals made it very difficult to use a mouse and read the screen. I wonder if a treadle might have similar issues.
I ended up using hotkeys to replace most of my mouse movements. I eventually went back to using the equipment for it's proper purpose: drying clothes.
For the past two days I have been remotely participating in a Siemens hiQ 4200 operations and maintenance course. Although I can hear my fellow students over VoIP and view the presentation over a slideshow I'm finding that I miss the simple interaction of person to person communications. It's been very easy to get distracted by e-mail and things that are happening in real life. I've been thinking that there should be a video feed to go along with the audio and text presentation. Even a simulated instructor would be better than the way delivery is going on here now. Of course, the droning on about ssh sessions and unix administration might have something to do with why I'm having trouble keeping focused.
A little known fact about Pintos... If you were lucky enough to have the 2.3 OHC then with a bit of mods you could actually have smoked people by hitting the gas instead of the brake. I've seen a 2.3 do very well in brackets and time trials. Even better is when ya drop a V8 into a 2000 pound car. Of course, that means serious tranny and front end mods and never starting up in first gear!
Your comments make me wonder if you've ever used Garageband for more than five minutes. Format conversion is easy!
All you have to do is save a full bitrate AAC into iTunes. Then, you change your encoder setting to AIFF, WAV, MP3 or AAC and then right-click the file and convert to whatever format you desire. As long as you're going from lossless to lossless codecs you can choose any number of open source tools to do secondary conversions to whatever oddball file format you wish.
DRM'ed music is only so until you burn it and re-rip the file. To me, this is only an issue if you plan on circumventing licenses. (Want to get the song on another Mac? Pssst... OurTunes or iPod hidden directory digital hole.)
I can't really comment on iDVD as I've never had occasion to use the program but I'm sure there are similar ways to get around proprietary formats.
The fuck is a "molasses," but "bit molasses" just sounds dumb.
By treacle, I mean that good old 17th-century English (south? wtf?) definition of: "the uncrystallized syrup produced in the process of refining sugar."
Molasses pours in a big slow glob and then trickles down to nothing. Eventually, you're waiting while the very last drips come out of the container.
.. my isp (shaw) didn't use Ellacoya traffic shapers to filter BT (and most other p2p) traffic down to a snail's pace right now.
I would be amazed to see any BT traffic over about 10kB/s these days. It's not Bit torrent... It's bit treacle.
Paying for video-on-demand and then having to wait a week to watch the show doesn't seem very enticing to me. Of course, Shaw has their own VOD mechanisms via digital cable so this filtering may just be a thinly veiled part of the Big Plan to Screw Consumers.
Since when is a portable microcomputer/hard drive combo that just happens to play video and audio expensive? Throw in the fact that it hooks up to your tv, doesn't skip and keeps the party rocking until 4am and I'm sold. You're hung up on the idea that the iPod is an expensive mp3 player. It's not... It's a portable microcomputer with adaptable firmware and a hackable docking i/o port for under $500. Personally, I find the price vs. feature quite fair.
I'm a firm believer in a hardware FW/ AntiVir PE / Spybot combo for people that insist on using Windows...
AntiVir Personal Edition has been installed on my Mother-in-law's computer for a couple of years now. Her router has been set up to limit ports to the few applications she actually needs. Spybot is also set up to automatically update, search for and remove spyware on every boot.
She used to have constant virus infection problems until I introduced her to the product(s). She's not dumb, but she is ESL (english as a second language) so she doesn't always understand what the computer is asking her and occasionally clicks "YES" when she should have clicked "NO."
I used to have to remotely repair her PC using VNC on a constant basis. Now, it is almost a self-cleaning oven.
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1: When calling someone out for mutiliating the English language it is always best to attempt to spell "exciting" correctly.
Can't hypothesize your way out of a paper bag? Whip out Slick WIllies "what is is" approach...
Well... It depends what you call a snowflake/planet/god/hybrid vehicle. *sigh*
Wow, revisionist history sanitation theories in application!
Didn't we just do this last year with planets?
I'm extremely suspect of this blurb as the AppleTalk quote isn't from the article.
That's a quote from reader comments made by someone who is so far out of touch with OS X it isn't even funny.
Is this really how stupid Window-Fanboyism has gotten that the complaints are over OS X services that aren't even turned on out of the box? I've got two Macs running OS X and I didn't even know they were still capable of using AppleTalk until I started poking around in System Preferences to see how to turn the service on. Sure, it works and it's easy to set up zones but why anyone would use AppleTalk to try to talk between Macs and peripherals these days is beyond me.
Bonjour makes discovery extremely easy and the negotiation happens automagically.
And this reset permissions crap? I'm lost. Really. I have no clue what that guy is talking about. The only time I ever reset permissions on anything was when I wanted to move some GarageBand Loops to a place the system owned without adding them to GB through drag-and-drop. The only reason I had to take ownership of the directory was because I wasn't using sudo from the terminal.
The submission is pure flamebait. Slashdot moderators need to go back to moderator school.
The next time a Canadian tells you how superior the metric system is just reach over and grab the yardstick you bought from The Real Canadian Superstore and smack them on the head. I'm an ex-patriot (sic) USian who moved to Canada about ten years ago. When I first came thought I would have a lot of trouble converting my mind over to the "new" way of measuring things. I'd been exposed to the metric system in school but had never actually used the measuring system outside of the classroom. Lucky for me Canada isn't really a metric country so the transition never really occurred.
My only hurdle was figuring out how fast to drive due to the fact that my '64 Valiant didn't have the secondary metric marks for the speedometer. I made a mock speedometer with both systems marked on the "dial" and taped it to the back side of my sun visor. When I needed to know how fast to go I flipped the visor down and checked. It didn't take too long for my brain to start to automatically make the conversion. I also learned fairly quickly what 90KPH actually felt like as I headed down the road and after a while didn't use my speedometer at all.
Temperature, speed and government forms? Yes, those are metric. Everything else is a godawful mess. I've travelled all over Canada. It's the same disaster everywhere. The implementation never took hold no matter what Parliament told you. Metric is rocket science in Canada. Life is still imperial.
Hardware stores are a major holdout as they use a mishmash of metric and imperial measurements. M8 Robertsons, 2X4's, 80mil tarps and 1/2 inch OSB. When I plan garage projects and need to buy wood I always end up shifting my brain back into US-style measurement to do the drawings because the measurements are all equally divisible by eight instead of ten.
Many Trades in Canada seem to work in the imperial system as well. During a recent strike I took a hiatus from switch design and worked as a gronk for the UA in a pipe fabrication shop. All the measurements for the ID and OD of the pipe were in inches. No one ordered by metric and ironically many of the stainless steel projects were destined for metric countries.
The only real place I see active use of the metric system outside of the government in Canada is when it benefits the proprietor. For example: Grocery stores seem to price bulk and deli in gram increments because the price looks good. 100 grams is such a bargain! When you calculate things out in kilos or pounds... Ow, my wallet hurts!
Recently, I scanned and placed 20+ pages of my old high school writing on my blog to provide continuity between some old diary entries I had converted to blog and my current blog entries.
I didn't edit the pages much but I did obscure signatures and addresses on the top of some of the pages as some of my poems were submitted for publication in a local zine.
I first tried block selecting and pixellating the text I wanted to obscure with Gimp.
I wasn't happy with the results as there seemed to be a lot of clues left behind that might enable someone to reverse engineer the text.
So, I decided to undo the pixellating and picked the smudge tool instead.
Since you control the H&V coords for the dragging tool manually It's like scrubbing crayon off a wall.
Just scrub until the data is gone.
Seems to me that this is a much safer way than pixellation to strip out unwanted data while still leaving the suggestion of text in the image.
Great, where exactly am I supposed to plug in my USB-powered powered USB hub so that I can recharge my USB-powered phone? I can't connect it to my USB-powered laptop because I can't find a PC with a free USB port to recharge and my battery is dead.
All these laws did was kick an aftermarket of USB-connectored wall-warts into overdrive. I've got two of these devices already for iPod recharging when travelling. Griffin makes a nice one with a flexible dock cable. I just leave the cable plugged into the wall wart and wrap the cord around it when I am not using the charger. I keep the other charger as a backup as the Griffin has enough available current to charge two video iPods if I use a cheapo brain-dead USB 1.1 mini-hub as a Y-splitter.
This is extremely short-sighted legislation and moves the proprietary device issues to the connector on the phone. Right now, we've already got a dogs breakfast of devices with cables that are USB on one end and device unique on the other. I've got three different usb cables on my desk right now and none of them have the same connector. One of them is a standard USB mini jack but the other two are Frankenconnectors from the depths of product design hell.
Using these types of cables to plug my cell phone into a USB port would be handy but I just happen to have a Dell laptop at work. Since my laptop bag is already full of proprietary USB cables it's going to be a lot of fun trying to dig through the spaghetti. I'll have to upgrade the powered hub I use, too. Although the newer 610's are better about USB than some of the older models I still have to connect to "shore power" to plug in some of the hungrier devices I own. The Dell just doesn't put out enough juice to supply USB juice to multiple devices appropriately. Neither does the keyboard USB port on my iMac, come to think of it.
Good thing I have a stack of chained powered hubs at home.
Have you ever read the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act? I'm not so sure who is winning the asshat race but it still might not be Australia.
Don't forget about the Communications Decency Act, either. That gives the US bonus inches for sure.
I have around 400 CDs in my personal collection. (Maybe 500 now?) My all-time record was 2000 which is an absolute pain in the ass if you actually deal with the physical media.
Many years ago-- while I was in the military-- I got tired of carrying around all the stupid plastic cases and migrated all my music to alphabetical CD binders. It was never an optimal solution for me because buying a new cd meant yanking all the discs out of the binder and shuffling them around to keep things easy to find. The binders were fairly difficult to use and were extremely dangerous to take on the road without a copilot to play DJ.
CDs in these binders seemed to be on a fast track to destruction. It was easy to scratch the surface of a CD with the zippers if you weren't careful. I once forgot a binder in the back of my car and warped approximately thirty CDs. A friend sat on one of the binders and shattered the first three pages of CDs... so on and so on. Lots of hassles I really hated to deal with but it was either binders or dead weight.
When computers caught up to CD ROM media in realtime playback with enough fidelity for me to stand the acoustic tradeoff I bought a few large swappable drives and started ripping my audio to mp3. I used UDF formatted CDRW's to dump MP3's to a Sony ATRAC/MP3 cd walkman for the times I wanted portable music and had my home computer as a permanent jukebox system. (I tried the Sony way and found ATRAC to be both cumbersome, slow and inferior.) The whole process was extremely time and labour intensive and involved numerous software packages that were never really designed to work together.
I managed with this setup for a few years until I found CDEX. CDEX automated a lot of the process of sorting rips by artist, album, and track. I was still bound to the "ghost" of physical media because I still had to shuffle albums on CDRW to be able to listen to whatever I wanted at any given time. I also had to plan my musical selections in advance. I did this for a couple of years and although not happy with the system, it worked so I made do. I never actually thought I wanted an iPod. I thought people who bought them were dumb. I basically thought "What the fuck do I need another MP3 player for? I've already got one."
One weekend I was at a friend's lake house. He had brought his laptop and a USB drive he used for his iTunes library. I'd brought a few new CDs I hadn't stripped from their cases yet and I brought them in so we could all listen to them. While we were listening to the first one he took the rest of the CDs and stuffed one into his laptop drive. (This wasn't to steal music... We were drinking and didn't want to fuck with having to change CDs every 30 minutes in a single-slot deck.) iTunes popped up and sucked the music into his USB drive and then spit out the CD. He worked his way through my stack, made a few clicks to set up a play list and then hooked up his iPod and synced to the library. Then, he dropped the iPod in a dock and started the playlist he'd just created.
(This was all on Windows, by the way. Not that it really matters to this story but there wasn't any fanboy Mac drug dealer peer pressure.)
At the time, I basically ignored the player. I already had an MP3 player but I wanted iTunes. All that work I did keeping my music portable and sorted... Gone. I was floored. What would have taken me hours to do even with CDEX helping me sort took minutes with iTunes. When I went home, I immediately downloaded iTunes and migrated my existing MP3 library over. Since I had been meticulous about ID3 tags the library imported without any user invervention other than me saying "yes" when iTunes asked if I wanted the program to keep my music sorted for me. I then spent the next two days filling in the gaps in my mp3 library. I didn't actually own an iPod but the ease of dealing with both physical media and also purchasing new songs virtually is what really sold me. I'd given up on the tactile fulfillment in handling packaging long ago so migrating to digital-on
This seems like a non-issue to me. Caller-ID is manipulated on the receiving end (i.e. MY PHONE) and not on the calling end. Google obscures outbound CLID to the buisiness I contact and spoofs inbound CLID to me, presenting it as the business. If I enter in an invalid number, the call will die. The only reason someone might enter someone else's number is to do a sort of "niki-niki-nine-doors" phone prank. Since IP's are logged and you have to put a valid number there are a lot of logs that might be present (ip, ss7, sip, etc.) that will be left behind. I wonder if it's really worth bothering with the cheap thrill anyway since you can't hide in the bushes and watch the pizza guy go to your neighbour's door over the internet?
Telco equipment is designed to run off of a -48 volt supply but that supply is usually a -52 volt UPS system with numerous batteries in a string and tons of available current. I've seen several people zap themselves and/or arc flash and destroy wrenches in a power bay by not being careful. If you're thinking that telco -48 is "pretty safe" then get the hell out of the rack room before you kill yourself or someone else. Remember... It's not the voltage that kills you, it's the current. Unless of course, the voltage is high enough. Then, the current will flow.
I know I'm just feeding a troll here but you're completely out to lunch. I work for an ILEC and we just used Asterisk in one of our labs to simulate IP carriers to test tandeming SIP based traffic.
We found Asterisk to be very RFC compliant. The only bug we tripped over was when we generated packets with ";npdi=yes" in the URI parameters. Technically, this was MY fault as this bug was actually fixed in a previous version of Asterisk and we were running old code.
Once I recompiled the new version our tests ran very smoothly. What we actually found is that a major switch vendor (who shall remain nameless) isn't so RFC compliant after all.
Bzzzzzzzzzt! Wrong, try again. You have to pay attention if you're going to play along. The Chinese government is not being stopped from censoring the internet. What we are actually discussing here is Wikipedia's refusal to bow down to a censor in order to be served within the boundaries of a "trusted realm." (Trusted meaning from the perspective of the Chinese government.)
To put this in simple terms... This is like the strata council in the condo across the street coming over and knocking on your door to ask you to change the colour of your privately-owned single detached home because it doesn't match their approved paint schemes.
I work in an organization that swears by Visio for system drawings.
Recently, I was working in a lab environment using Asterisk on my laptop to simulate an international IP carrier. Since I was "stuck" in linux-land during this project I used Dia to draw all my network and VoIP diagrams.
I actually found it much easier and faster to use Dia as a diagramming tool.
On a whim, I decided to "fink install dia" this morning. Seems to work just fine. The only problem I have now will be explaining to people: "How did you do that with Visio?"
... I throw Mutorrent and Shareaza at them to see if they stick.
It may not be very scientific or fair to do this but those are the only Windows programs I actually miss.
Neither Wine or CrossOver can run these programs yet. So, Parallels still gets my vote thus far. It may be a kitchen sink approach but it actually works.
I experimented with taking a spare keyboard, mouse and monitor and hooking them onto an exercise bicycle so that I could work out while using my computer. The motion required to turn the pedals made it very difficult to use a mouse and read the screen. I wonder if a treadle might have similar issues.
I ended up using hotkeys to replace most of my mouse movements. I eventually went back to using the equipment for it's proper purpose: drying clothes.
For the past two days I have been remotely participating in a Siemens hiQ 4200 operations and maintenance course. Although I can hear my fellow students over VoIP and view the presentation over a slideshow I'm finding that I miss the simple interaction of person to person communications. It's been very easy to get distracted by e-mail and things that are happening in real life. I've been thinking that there should be a video feed to go along with the audio and text presentation. Even a simulated instructor would be better than the way delivery is going on here now. Of course, the droning on about ssh sessions and unix administration might have something to do with why I'm having trouble keeping focused.
A delivery model that actually works? I watch video podcasts and movies on my tv all the time using my iPod.
A little known fact about Pintos... If you were lucky enough to have the 2.3 OHC then with a bit of mods you could actually have smoked people by hitting the gas instead of the brake. I've seen a 2.3 do very well in brackets and time trials. Even better is when ya drop a V8 into a 2000 pound car. Of course, that means serious tranny and front end mods and never starting up in first gear!
Sheesh, tell me about it. I've been trying to explain a similar setup to my wife for years.
There's just one problem. When the power goes out the TV resets to channel 2 from AV-1 and the universal remote(s) can't change the input.
Getting up and pushing the channel down button on the actual TV seems to be the impossible task.
Odd thing is, she's no stranger to technology...
She uses digital cameras and photo printers and she changed from Windows to OSX this year without even batting an eye. Go figure.
Your comments make me wonder if you've ever used Garageband for more than five minutes. Format conversion is easy!
All you have to do is save a full bitrate AAC into iTunes. Then, you change your encoder setting to AIFF, WAV, MP3 or AAC and then right-click the file and convert to whatever format you desire. As long as you're going from lossless to lossless codecs you can choose any number of open source tools to do secondary conversions to whatever oddball file format you wish.
DRM'ed music is only so until you burn it and re-rip the file. To me, this is only an issue if you plan on circumventing licenses. (Want to get the song on another Mac? Pssst... OurTunes or iPod hidden directory digital hole.)
I can't really comment on iDVD as I've never had occasion to use the program but I'm sure there are similar ways to get around proprietary formats.
The fuck is a "molasses," but "bit molasses" just sounds dumb.
By treacle, I mean that good old 17th-century English (south? wtf?) definition of: "the uncrystallized syrup produced in the process of refining sugar."
Molasses pours in a big slow glob and then trickles down to nothing. Eventually, you're waiting while the very last drips come out of the container.
.. my isp (shaw) didn't use Ellacoya traffic shapers to filter BT (and most other p2p) traffic down to a snail's pace right now.
I would be amazed to see any BT traffic over about 10kB/s these days. It's not Bit torrent... It's bit treacle.
Paying for video-on-demand and then having to wait a week to watch the show doesn't seem very enticing to me. Of course, Shaw has their own VOD mechanisms via digital cable so this filtering may just be a thinly veiled part of the Big Plan to Screw Consumers.
Since when is a portable microcomputer/hard drive combo that just happens to play video and audio expensive? Throw in the fact that it hooks up to your tv, doesn't skip and keeps the party rocking until 4am and I'm sold. You're hung up on the idea that the iPod is an expensive mp3 player. It's not... It's a portable microcomputer with adaptable firmware and a hackable docking i/o port for under $500. Personally, I find the price vs. feature quite fair.
I'm a firm believer in a hardware FW/ AntiVir PE / Spybot combo for people that insist on using Windows...
AntiVir Personal Edition has been installed on my Mother-in-law's computer for a couple of years now. Her router has been set up to limit ports to the few applications she actually needs. Spybot is also set up to automatically update, search for and remove spyware on every boot.
She used to have constant virus infection problems until I introduced her to the product(s). She's not dumb, but she is ESL (english as a second language) so she doesn't always understand what the computer is asking her and occasionally clicks "YES" when she should have clicked "NO."
I used to have to remotely repair her PC using VNC on a constant basis. Now, it is almost a self-cleaning oven.
In all seriousness... That chart IS helpful to someone with a redneck grammar background.
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English is my second language. I grew up speaking Upper Texan.
That thar chart are purty helpful when I is fixin ta get out my scribbler.
I'm now learning to speak Canadian.
It's easy. Just speak with proper diction and say "For fuck's sakes!" a lot.