I'm not sure if this is an IE-specific, but it does limit who can use their page. OK full details: 1. Mom finds sight that sells stuff to only retailers (not a problem as she runs a store and this would be good for the store). 2. Fills out stuff, gets a username and password. 3. Go to sign in, prices don't work. She complains and they ask what version of IE she is running? (She's running Firebird 0.7 aka Firefox 0.7 IIRC)(It's a Win95 machine that my parents don't feel like moving off of quite yet. It is hidden behind a firewall) 4. I look at it. Sign in page is located like "/sys/login/" or something. 5. When You login the cookie sent back from their server has "path=", So no path. (Yes, it has "path=;" in it) Spec I can find (and Firefox and Opera seem to follow) is that if no path is specified, then you use the path of the page. IE does something else. 6. Attempt to view page with prices located at like "/catalog/". IE shows prices because it is sending the cookie. Firefox and Opera don't send the cookie because the path is different. 7. We email back to them what I found, haven't heard anything back yet.
At least, this is my best guess as to why the prices show up in IE (tested with 5.5 and 6, don't have access to 7), and not Firefox or Opera.
An IE requiring site because of the way the path in the cookies is set.
There was an Ask Slashdot on a similar thing a few weeks ago. The comments answer to that seemed to boil down to: 1. Contact manufacture about your policy concerning drive with data on them 2. Most seemed to accept just the face plate once contacted 3. Send in face plate 3.5(opt) Destroy rest of dead drive 4. Get replacement drive
The whole CD-R thing was because the developers left something enabled in the BIOS that they shouldn't have. While it was nice for speeding development it shouldn't have made it into the retail model.(Read about that here under the "Pirates Strike Back" entry about 1/2 way down the page) From what I have read some of the early games had checks to make sure they were on the GD-ROMs, but then they just kinda forgot about checking it because it was hidden. Some of the last Dreamcasts wouldn't work with that method, although a way around Sega's fix was found.
You then had people writing the programs to dump out the GD-ROMs (after they booted their code via a CD-R) out the serial port (1GB via a 115Kb/s RS-232 connection) or later the broad band adapter (10Mb/s). You shrink some of the data and now you have a 700MB CD image. (Shrink as in downsample audio, decrease bitrate in videos, drop unneccsary files, ect.)
I think it would be end up being easier to just use the ip over firewire stuff and just make it appear as a network drive. (or any network, just said firewire because has a listed max of 400 Mb/s versus 10/100 ethernet having a 100Mb/s max)
Either that or just buy some $50 (or less) firewire enclosures.
I don't know about a dedicated tube amp mp3 player, but I remember seeing a motherboard a few weeks ago with tubes in the built-in sound card stuff. Found the product page and there is quite a bit on google from pre-April 1st, so I think that one is real. So get the motherboard and you could build your own mp3 player, although it probably won't be as portable as you might like.
How about completly not worrying about an internal battery. Many of the laptops I have seen run on either 12, 19, or 24 volts DC. Get yourself a good localAC -> DC powersupply and keep a battery array (this sounds like the UPSes the other people are suggesting), and just keep the laptops plugged into there. Would also solve the main problem with the UPSes in that you already are prepped for running from a DC source. Of course, depending on the laptops you get you now have to offer the several different voltages, or get converters to bring the voltage down.
Besides, don't most people hit the monitor? Like the poor CRT had anything to do with the problem!!?
I actually had a crt monitor where the blue gun would sometimes stop firing, so I had a nice yellow screen. (It was running Linux, and spent most of the time at a console prompt). Sometimes running a program with a lot of blue would fix it, like Midnight Commander, sometimes it would just randomly flicker back in to color when sitting there, so I am pretty sure it was the monitor and not the connection to the computer. Often though, I either slapped the damn thing silly, or picked it up about 6-12 inches and dropped it. It was a great way of dealing with stress. (Yes, people did ask if I felt better after smacking the monitor around).
To go with the mix of sugar and complex carbs: A PB&J sandwich would work. The jelly/jam should have some sugar(either added or from the fruit), then you have some protein from the peanut butter(you will likely have some sugar in there as well depending on the brand), and the complex carbs from the bread.
Actually, crackers and jam/jelly would probably work as well if you want a bunch of bite size snacks. Just make yourself up a plate to snack on. Rice/Corn Cakes with PB & Jelly/Jam also work if you don't want/can't have bread.
Honey would also work if you don't want jelly/jam.
Exact idea(well similar) to what my friend and I intend to do next year in our apartment. A box with 600GB of storage, some decent power(XP 2800+) with a dual tuner mpeg capture card (PVR-500) is going to be less than $800. (Box is going to be a general purpose media storage/print/internet gateway box as well as the mythTV backend. If we get bored it might be hooked up to the TV as well and use it as front end)
I agree that Xboxes(en?) make good front ends. I got a Xebian build on mine with the mythTv running. I Just wish it was a bit more powerful so I could watch @ 1.5x on more of my shows.
Really getting OT, for some reason everything looks better when displayed @ 480p(from Xbox) than the composite from my VCR into my display, despite the fact it is from the same source. Heck might have to do with the fact that black on the composite in is a sort of grey, and black on the RGB/Component(via a transcoder) in on the display is a nice black. Might also just be in my head.
When my sister was working at the district attorney office, if she called out house from there, the caller ID showed up as "out of area", but if she called our cell phones it showed up as ( I think ) 0393.
Always the same number, so we knew who it was, but it was odd. Perhaps your carrier isn't receiving the caller ID info, and your carrier is just sticking some number on there to indicate that.
I think any good quality connection jump can make it obvious, when the source is good to begin with. (Composite -> S-Video, S-Video -> Component, Component -> 480p/720p/1080i ) It is kinda pointless using a component connection, such as running 720p on a NTSC signal as you mentioned. DVDs and most game systems can give you a better source signal than most any analog TV signal.
Case in point: 13" Commodore monitor. Has composite in on the front, and S-Video on the back(actually it was 2 RCAs but they were labeled and could be used for S-Video with the right passive cable).
Using Composite, and then switching to s-video on my original playstation. Night and day difference. I could see somethings looked lower quality, but flipping back and forth, saw that it was because they had intended for the signal to get blurred by the drop down to composite.
Made it kinda hard to view composite on a 27" screen at a relatives because it seemed so blurry. Even S-Video now seems low because I run component in for everything I can, and progressive for the stuff that supports it (XBox: 480p/720p/1080i, Gamecube: 480p. DVD Player: 480p). Heck, 1/2 the reason I run progressive is that the rescan @ 480i/NTSC stuff is annoying to me(CRT monitor) (about 15.75 KHz IIRC vs 31.5 KHz for 480p, 33ish for 1080i, and 42(45?) for 720p )
Well, given that I can get a generic cable that would work for $2 ($1.75/each quanities > 10,) it even includes the ferite filter. Froogle seems to show that to be about the lowest you can get, unless you go eBay.
I would bet it would be about $0.25/cable in bulk, and another $0.50 - $1 for shipping.
So $6-10.5 million, if you have every elegible person apply I wanna guess.
Everything I have read has been fairly scarce on the details. So far I know that it has something to do with the power cord, and that when there have been problems, it has been contained to the console or power cord tip.
If it is something internal, I seriously don't think a new power cord is going to help (unless it has like a fuse inline or something and the console pulls to much when the thing starts to smoke). Is it just a better connection? Were people having the cord come out slightly and arcing?
Just a thought, they want to verify that the disc is a legitimate copy before the movie is shown right? How about having the DVD-Jukebox thing hooked to an actual DVD Holding Jukebox, so it can verify the disc exists before allowing the content to be unlocked. It could cache the key in memory, and the keys would be purged if the disc is removed from the jukebox. (or if the jukebox is opened or something).
Advantage, you would still have your nice system Disadvantage: If you have several people all wanting to play different discs you are going to have to wait for each disc to be read and its key cached.
You would still have the problem that they want the disc durring playback, hmm. Maybe this is an OK compromise though because you have to have the disc to do anything any way and if the disc isn't there it can't be verified and thus can't be played. Either that or setup a DVD Holding jukebox with several drives that can hold the discs. Or just claim the entire DVD Holding jukebox is a drive, and thus all the discs are in the drive, their is just some high access time for some discs.
Similar thing here. They call the railline through my home town Washington Central, hasn't been called that for years. It has been BNSF for about the last 5 or more that I can recall of the top of my head.
Makes you wonder where they aquired the information if some of these things are that much out of date.
Simple, lock the BIOS settings so you can't change configuration and set to boot from hard drive, and never boot from removable media.
No need to boot from CD on machines that are configured, and if they need to be booted from CD for some reason, the person is there with the password to change the BIOS settings.
Expanding on that, how about a big clear plastic bag that the keyboard gets stuffed into (a sort of keyboard condom if you will).
Get wireless and you can (hopefully) do a good job of sealing that up so you wouldn't have to worry about it falling into the sink. If it is wired, I'm not sure how well it could get sealed up, but it could be played with probably so that the cord exiting the bag is some distance away so a drop in the kitchen sink doesn't mean keyboard death due to water).
To answer question 3, using the page linked in an above post: (http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/lowpwr.html#PART)
PENALTIES FOR OPERATION WITHOUT A PERMIT OR LICENSE ...
Presently, the maximum penalty for operating an unlicensed or "pirate" broadcast station (one which is not permitted under Part 15 or is not a Carrier Current Station) is set at $10,000 for a single violation or a single day of operation, up to a total maximum amount of $75,000
I used an older version (0.5a) because the newer version I could find (0.6.2) said "unsupported image version." Burning it right now, going to test it in a few hours (when I get home where my dreamcast is).
TEMPEST @ Wikipedia Another article with some more links. I think the original poster may be referring to the Van Eck Phreaking, not TEMPEST as TEMPEST is the US code limiting the radiation out from electronic equipment, and Van Eck Phreaking is actually receiveing the signal emitted from the equipment. Actually for more go to Google and look up "Van Eck Phreaking"
Perhaps they mean large in comparison to primates. Most of the primate pictures I can remember have nothing, whereas a human has something on the rear.
For the humans that have large butts, do you see them running faster or slower than humans with smaller butts?
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I'm not sure if this is an IE-specific, but it does limit who can use their page.
OK full details:
1. Mom finds sight that sells stuff to only retailers (not a problem as she runs a store and this would be good for the store).
2. Fills out stuff, gets a username and password.
3. Go to sign in, prices don't work. She complains and they ask what version of IE she is running? (She's running Firebird 0.7 aka Firefox 0.7 IIRC)(It's a Win95 machine that my parents don't feel like moving off of quite yet. It is hidden behind a firewall)
4. I look at it. Sign in page is located like "/sys/login/" or something.
5. When You login the cookie sent back from their server has "path=", So no path. (Yes, it has "path=;" in it) Spec I can find (and Firefox and Opera seem to follow) is that if no path is specified, then you use the path of the page. IE does something else.
6. Attempt to view page with prices located at like "/catalog/". IE shows prices because it is sending the cookie. Firefox and Opera don't send the cookie because the path is different.
7. We email back to them what I found, haven't heard anything back yet.
At least, this is my best guess as to why the prices show up in IE (tested with 5.5 and 6, don't have access to 7), and not Firefox or Opera.
An IE requiring site because of the way the path in the cookies is set.
There was an Ask Slashdot on a similar thing a few weeks ago. The comments answer to that seemed to boil down to:
1. Contact manufacture about your policy concerning drive with data on them
2. Most seemed to accept just the face plate once contacted
3. Send in face plate
3.5(opt) Destroy rest of dead drive
4. Get replacement drive
The whole CD-R thing was because the developers left something enabled in the BIOS that they shouldn't have. While it was nice for speeding development it shouldn't have made it into the retail model.(Read about that here under the "Pirates Strike Back" entry about 1/2 way down the page) From what I have read some of the early games had checks to make sure they were on the GD-ROMs, but then they just kinda forgot about checking it because it was hidden.
Some of the last Dreamcasts wouldn't work with that method, although a way around Sega's fix was found.
You then had people writing the programs to dump out the GD-ROMs (after they booted their code via a CD-R) out the serial port (1GB via a 115Kb/s RS-232 connection) or later the broad band adapter (10Mb/s). You shrink some of the data and now you have a 700MB CD image. (Shrink as in downsample audio, decrease bitrate in videos, drop unneccsary files, ect.)
I haven't seen anything like that either.
I think it would be end up being easier to just use the ip over firewire stuff and just make it appear as a network drive. (or any network, just said firewire because has a listed max of 400 Mb/s versus 10/100 ethernet having a 100Mb/s max)
Either that or just buy some $50 (or less) firewire enclosures.
Looking at the article, if they are sharing the video/music/ect for internal use they might be punishable.
It just says in the article "shared folder." Doesn't say that the shared folder has to be publically availble.
Could be interesting depending on how the actual law is worded.
Every time I tried that in a bash shell, it would kill the shell after minute.
/bin/true ] ; do sh -c '`yes`' ; done
../bash/subst.c:4197: cannot reallocate 268435456 bytes (0 bytes allocated)"
So you might want to expand that to
while [
so when this happens:
"sh: xrealloc:
It just restarts it. (Hmm, the comment appears to be formatted correctly for the command).
I don't know about a dedicated tube amp mp3 player, but I remember seeing a motherboard a few weeks ago with tubes in the built-in sound card stuff.
Found the product page and there is quite a bit on google from pre-April 1st, so I think that one is real.
So get the motherboard and you could build your own mp3 player, although it probably won't be as portable as you might like.
How about completly not worrying about an internal battery. Many of the laptops I have seen run on either 12, 19, or 24 volts DC.
Get yourself a good localAC -> DC powersupply and keep a battery array (this sounds like the UPSes the other people are suggesting), and just keep the laptops plugged into there.
Would also solve the main problem with the UPSes in that you already are prepped for running from a DC source. Of course, depending on the laptops you get you now have to offer the several different voltages, or get converters to bring the voltage down.
Besides, don't most people hit the monitor? Like the poor CRT had anything to do with the problem!!?
I actually had a crt monitor where the blue gun would sometimes stop firing, so I had a nice yellow screen. (It was running Linux, and spent most of the time at a console prompt). Sometimes running a program with a lot of blue would fix it, like Midnight Commander, sometimes it would just randomly flicker back in to color when sitting there, so I am pretty sure it was the monitor and not the connection to the computer.
Often though, I either slapped the damn thing silly, or picked it up about 6-12 inches and dropped it. It was a great way of dealing with stress. (Yes, people did ask if I felt better after smacking the monitor around).
To go with the mix of sugar and complex carbs:
A PB&J sandwich would work. The jelly/jam should have some sugar(either added or from the fruit), then you have some protein from the peanut butter(you will likely have some sugar in there as well depending on the brand), and the complex carbs from the bread.
Actually, crackers and jam/jelly would probably work as well if you want a bunch of bite size snacks. Just make yourself up a plate to snack on.
Rice/Corn Cakes with PB & Jelly/Jam also work if you don't want/can't have bread.
Honey would also work if you don't want jelly/jam.
Exact idea(well similar) to what my friend and I intend to do next year in our apartment.
A box with 600GB of storage, some decent power(XP 2800+) with a dual tuner mpeg capture card (PVR-500) is going to be less than $800.
(Box is going to be a general purpose media storage/print/internet gateway box as well as the mythTV backend. If we get bored it might be hooked up to the TV as well and use it as front end)
I agree that Xboxes(en?) make good front ends. I got a Xebian build on mine with the mythTv running. I Just wish it was a bit more powerful so I could watch @ 1.5x on more of my shows.
Really getting OT, for some reason everything looks better when displayed @ 480p(from Xbox) than the composite from my VCR into my display, despite the fact it is from the same source. Heck might have to do with the fact that black on the composite in is a sort of grey, and black on the RGB/Component(via a transcoder) in on the display is a nice black. Might also just be in my head.
When my sister was working at the district attorney office, if she called out house from there, the caller ID showed up as "out of area", but if she called our cell phones it showed up as ( I think ) 0393.
Always the same number, so we knew who it was, but it was odd.
Perhaps your carrier isn't receiving the caller ID info, and your carrier is just sticking some number on there to indicate that.
I think any good quality connection jump can make it obvious, when the source is good to begin with. (Composite -> S-Video, S-Video -> Component, Component -> 480p/720p/1080i )
It is kinda pointless using a component connection, such as running 720p on a NTSC signal as you mentioned. DVDs and most game systems can give you a better source signal than most any analog TV signal.
Case in point: 13" Commodore monitor. Has composite in on the front, and S-Video on the back(actually it was 2 RCAs but they were labeled and could be used for S-Video with the right passive cable).
Using Composite, and then switching to s-video on my original playstation. Night and day difference. I could see somethings looked lower quality, but flipping back and forth, saw that it was because they had intended for the signal to get blurred by the drop down to composite.
Made it kinda hard to view composite on a 27" screen at a relatives because it seemed so blurry.
Even S-Video now seems low because I run component in for everything I can, and progressive for the stuff that supports it (XBox: 480p/720p/1080i, Gamecube: 480p. DVD Player: 480p).
Heck, 1/2 the reason I run progressive is that the rescan @ 480i/NTSC stuff is annoying to me(CRT monitor) (about 15.75 KHz IIRC vs 31.5 KHz for 480p, 33ish for 1080i, and 42(45?) for 720p )
That should have been $10.5-17.5 million. Somewhere I got an 8 stuck in my head instead of 14.
Even then I still messed up my math...
Well, given that I can get a generic cable that would work for $2 ($1.75 /each quanities > 10,) it even includes the ferite filter. Froogle seems to show that to be about the lowest you can get, unless you go eBay.
I would bet it would be about $0.25/cable in bulk, and another $0.50 - $1 for shipping.
So $6-10.5 million, if you have every elegible person apply I wanna guess.
Of course this is all just guessing.
Everything I have read has been fairly scarce on the details. So far I know that it has something to do with the power cord, and that when there have been problems, it has been contained to the console or power cord tip.
If it is something internal, I seriously don't think a new power cord is going to help (unless it has like a fuse inline or something and the console pulls to much when the thing starts to smoke).
Is it just a better connection? Were people having the cord come out slightly and arcing?
Just a thought, they want to verify that the disc is a legitimate copy before the movie is shown right?
How about having the DVD-Jukebox thing hooked to an actual DVD Holding Jukebox, so it can verify the disc exists before allowing the content to be unlocked. It could cache the key in memory, and the keys would be purged if the disc is removed from the jukebox. (or if the jukebox is opened or something).
Advantage, you would still have your nice system
Disadvantage: If you have several people all wanting to play different discs you are going to have to wait for each disc to be read and its key cached.
You would still have the problem that they want the disc durring playback, hmm. Maybe this is an OK compromise though because you have to have the disc to do anything any way and if the disc isn't there it can't be verified and thus can't be played. Either that or setup a DVD Holding jukebox with several drives that can hold the discs.
Or just claim the entire DVD Holding jukebox is a drive, and thus all the discs are in the drive, their is just some high access time for some discs.
Similar thing here. They call the railline through my home town Washington Central, hasn't been called that for years.
It has been BNSF for about the last 5 or more that I can recall of the top of my head.
Makes you wonder where they aquired the information if some of these things are that much out of date.
Simple, lock the BIOS settings so you can't change configuration and set to boot from hard drive, and never boot from removable media.
No need to boot from CD on machines that are configured, and if they need to be booted from CD for some reason, the person is there with the password to change the BIOS settings.
Expanding on that, how about a big clear plastic bag that the keyboard gets stuffed into (a sort of keyboard condom if you will).
Get wireless and you can (hopefully) do a good job of sealing that up so you wouldn't have to worry about it falling into the sink.
If it is wired, I'm not sure how well it could get sealed up, but it could be played with probably so that the cord exiting the bag is some distance away so a drop in the kitchen sink doesn't mean keyboard death due to water).
cdirip
rips the iso/audio stuff right out.
I used an older version (0.5a) because the newer version I could find (0.6.2) said "unsupported image version." Burning it right now, going to test it in a few hours (when I get home where my dreamcast is).
I have always wanted a way to force an address bar on those dang popups.
So as another poster already said, it doesn't stop the redirection, but it does let you see the address you have been redirected to.
TEMPEST @ Wikipedia
Another article with some more links.
I think the original poster may be referring to the Van Eck Phreaking, not TEMPEST as TEMPEST is the US code limiting the radiation out from electronic equipment, and Van Eck Phreaking is actually receiveing the signal emitted from the equipment.
Actually for more go to Google and look up "Van Eck Phreaking"
Perhaps they mean large in comparison to primates. Most of the primate pictures I can remember have nothing, whereas a human has something on the rear.
For the humans that have large butts, do you see them running faster or slower than humans with smaller butts?