Interesting... I have been thinking about a car mp3 palyer too, but I certainly wasn't planning on putting in a hard drive, the vibrations/jumping from the car would probably kill most desktop hard drives in a matter of a couple of months (especially on quebec roads). I was thinking of doing it with a boot disk/CD loading what it needs into a ramdrive then playing the mp3's off a CD (maybe make all my MP3 CD's bootable...) .
CD-ROM's also tend to initialize faster than hard drives...
Another option would be to find some way too store the OS on a flash card and a way to boot off it, flash RAM cards are getting pretty cheap nowadays with all the digital cameras around.
As several people have mentioned before, if you have the cd then you could rip it easier than downloading mp3's from mp3.com. I guess the RIAA is going after people who make mp3/vorbis encoders and ripping progs. Heck, why not throw in CD-ROM manufacturers in the crew just for good measure (for making CD-ROM's capable of ripping copywrited CD's, not all CD-ROM's can do this, I remember searching for a CD-ROM that could in the early day's of MP3's)
I dont think aerons are necessary, i'm sitting in a $100 chair i got at bureau en gros (the quebec equivilant of staples) and its great, i can sit in it for hours on end with no problems, it's far years better than my old wooden chair...
What does eyesignt have to do with tech ability?
I know maybe 1 near-sighted geek in my University, I have 20/15 vision, only need caffiene once a day and I don't have carpal tunnel (thats mostly from mouse usage.. hard to get it from punching on a commandline all day)
Another good one is ask what kind of keyboard they use.. it its some "Internet keyboard" or something similar, dont hire them but if its some huge clicky keyboard then go for it!
The Canadian Discovery Channel had thing a few weeks agin on @discovery.ca about how music helps atheltes get into "The Zone", a frame of mind where mind and body are one, where the athlete is working on pure instinct. They said that athletes get by far their best performance when they are in this state of mind. I know that I have gotten in that frame of mind several times while playing games, where I just seem to do everything right without thinking about it, everything becomes instinct. It's probably because gaming hones reaction times and concentration, when you're playing a fast-paced game, there is rarely time to think about what you are going to do, you just have to do it.
They also mentioned that it usually takes years of training to be able to get into this state of mind, gaming probably provides good mental training because reaction speeds need to be just as fast for alot of video games as they do for many sports.
I have also noticed this sometimes when I'm coding, but not as often as when I'm gaming.
I got a SSN for a summer job I had in the US working at a summer camp last year, I am probably never going to use it again and my SIN (Social Insurance Number) is NEVER requested because it's illegal unless they NEED the info (employer, bank and sometimes Credit Card Company)
I'm not even sure that the SSN is still valid, I think it expired when my work visa expired.
Coulden't Network Solutions track down the domains that were registered, then cancel them, or even better try to trace where the domains are so they can tryck down who did this. They could probably trace someone to an ISP just bi either checking the DNS servers on the domain or concating the hosting service and getting them to log next time the person connects to the server to upload files, connect to IRC (prolly half of them are vanity hosts for IRC) or whatever.
Power lines do have a certain amount of resistance, and all the power plants here are approxametly 900km from anything resembling densly populated regions, the transmission of powere that kind of distance has pretty incredible losses due to resistance of the power lines, even considering that it is transmitted at 500 000 volts
Actually, Jupiter does have a small fusion reaction going on inside it, it gives off about the same amount of light as it reflects from the sun, so the Jupiter we see in the sky is about twice as bright as it should be.
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That's interesting, especially considering that here in Quebec pretty much all electricity is provided by a Crown corporation called Hydro Quebec, its basically a monopoly and the company is run by the government, but in Quebec we have some of the cheapest and most reliable electricity in the world, we actually WAY more than we can use, and we sell ALOT of it to Ontario and the US.
One thing that I have thought about, is that we have way more than we can possibly use, and that's AFTER losing more than 80% of it in transit, imagine what room-temperature superconductivity could do, we could run 1 cable from here to California and take care of their energy problems for good, at the same time as becoming the richest province in Canada:)
I take it you don't shop at Radio Shack or Compucenter much, both those stores want all your info everytime you buy anything, they wont sell it to you unless you give them the info (with the system they use, the cash wont register a transaction unless it knows who's making the purchase)
Price Club, and a few others are essentially the same. Theres even a local computer store that does it.
I have an OpenBSD firewall set up at home, and I gave up looking into hits (usually just DNS'ing the IP and finding out who was trying to connect to me) as I would usually get 200+ hits a day, (and no I don't log FTP connections). I personally dont care too much who hits on my firewall, the only ones I really care about at this point are actual connections to my daemons.
Videotron is not bad... i just got a cable modem in yesterday, and being the first one in my area to get it (it's been available for less than a week) the repeaters they had on the lines weren't 2-way yet, they brought my modem over yesterday and after the realized it wasn't working, the tech put in a call, and later that day they started changing repeaters. It wasnt until today that my connection started working, but that's prolly because they had to change the switchbox for the whole neighborhood, even taking off tv service for about 10 minutes.
Anyway, after all that, my cable modem is finally up and running, and I should also mention that I never spent more than 15 minutes waiting on the phone line.
Now if they would just do somehting about the 6gig download quota and the 1gig upload quota I would be really happy.
I was thinking of maybe using chemically-powered nanotech... there's a lot of energy in just about any matter, you just need to find a way to get it out
Maybe some sort of quantum-power would work too... at those sizes it could be possible to take advantage of some of the sub-atomic forces to generate power...
Its not really like trying the windows as much as checking which windows are there...
Connecting and checking for various vulnerabilities is more like trying the doors to see if they are locked.
I sometimes portscan a server to see what serives they have open, good example: portscanning an IRC server to see what ports they open so you can get alternate ports to use to connect to irc.
If/when we ever develop truly useful nanotech this will easily come to pass... along with just about every other dream of that sort..
Nanotech on a level that can rearrange matter on an subatomic scale could potentially solve MANY of our current problems, from pollution (nanites that change pollutants into O2 for example), food could be created almost effortlessly, nanites in the body could keep us VERY healthy...
There are downsides too.. they could be used VERY effectively to create a doomsday weapon.. or make our problems even worse.. like a nanotechnological disease... (ala Deus-Ex)
I think you`ve been watching too many movies like the alien(s) series and that new comedy one. There may be life on mars, but the chances its anything more than single-cell microbes are EXTREMELY small, especially since we already have some basic analises that didnt find any sign of life.
If there is life that is radically different from life on earth, then what are the chances that it would be able to infect a bio-organism. (a good analgy is computer viruses, if the life is radically different than on earth, then it would probably be just as compatible with our life as computer viruses are)
iptables is GPL, and the *BSD kernel is the BSD license, it probably would not work very well to try and use both licenses in the same kernel. Also, I don`t think it would be very easy to put iptables in the *BSD kernel, it was designed specifically for Linux, and ther BSD kernel has quite a different structure from the linux kernel. Putting it in the BSD kernel would probably require pretty much a complete rewrite, and if you`re going to do that, you might as well just design your own implementation.
Also, ipfilter is a little easier to set up than iptables, iptables uses shell scripts with a BUNCH of commands, while ipfilter uses a configuration file, I would expect that the OpenBSD people would want to stay with the config file approach, and they will probably try to make it compatible with ipfilter config files, or at least have an emulation layer like ipfilter has for ipchains and ipfwadm.
I'm running ximian 1.4, it's great except i ahd to diable nautilus because it was incredibly slow and constantly using 100% of my CPU power. I'm running a 1Ghz Thunderbird with 512MB ram, so i rather doubt its my hardware...
Prolly some stupis library incompatibility or something, but I usually use commandline for file management anyway so its not really a problem.
I think that if it benefits society as a whole then some ideas should not be owned by a single person. This goes right back to the generic drug debate, if the "Intellectual Property" is something that could change people's lives, then I don't think that a single company has the right to charge exorbant amounts for it.
I also want to point out that in theory Communism is a GREAT idea, it just sucks in pratice because of corruption on the part of people in power. I don't think that a single person should be able to have well over a billion dollars while other people die of starvation.
If it can be activate over the phone, then what stops someone from reverse-engineering the system and writing a little program that generates asctivation codes, I'm not 100% up on this, but im 90% sure that it's already been done. In this case its actually less of a hassle to install a pirated version than a licensed one.
heh, you think that's bad?
im doing an internship for my school, im coding a database app (no, not hardcoded passwords), but it doesnt use SQL server, it used read/write shared.mdb file, all the servers have everything shared with full read/write access. It's pretty pitiful, but the whole system is fortunately behind a firewall that's admin'ed by compitent admins.
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Interesting... I have been thinking about a car mp3 palyer too, but I certainly wasn't planning on putting in a hard drive, the vibrations/jumping from the car would probably kill most desktop hard drives in a matter of a couple of months (especially on quebec roads). I was thinking of doing it with a boot disk/CD loading what it needs into a ramdrive then playing the mp3's off a CD (maybe make all my MP3 CD's bootable...) .
CD-ROM's also tend to initialize faster than hard drives...
Another option would be to find some way too store the OS on a flash card and a way to boot off it, flash RAM cards are getting pretty cheap nowadays with all the digital cameras around.
What's a business that is spread over 250 miles doing using a cable modem connection? you should have a connection that is more reliable like a T1
As several people have mentioned before, if you have the cd then you could rip it easier than downloading mp3's from mp3.com. I guess the RIAA is going after people who make mp3/vorbis encoders and ripping progs. Heck, why not throw in CD-ROM manufacturers in the crew just for good measure (for making CD-ROM's capable of ripping copywrited CD's, not all CD-ROM's can do this, I remember searching for a CD-ROM that could in the early day's of MP3's)
I dont think aerons are necessary, i'm sitting in a $100 chair i got at bureau en gros (the quebec equivilant of staples) and its great, i can sit in it for hours on end with no problems, it's far years better than my old wooden chair...
What does eyesignt have to do with tech ability? I know maybe 1 near-sighted geek in my University, I have 20/15 vision, only need caffiene once a day and I don't have carpal tunnel (thats mostly from mouse usage.. hard to get it from punching on a commandline all day) Another good one is ask what kind of keyboard they use.. it its some "Internet keyboard" or something similar, dont hire them but if its some huge clicky keyboard then go for it!
I hate those stupid "Zoom Zoom" ads too, and as a mozilla user I don't have to worry about the popups either...
The Canadian Discovery Channel had thing a few weeks agin on @discovery.ca about how music helps atheltes get into "The Zone", a frame of mind where mind and body are one, where the athlete is working on pure instinct. They said that athletes get by far their best performance when they are in this state of mind. I know that I have gotten in that frame of mind several times while playing games, where I just seem to do everything right without thinking about it, everything becomes instinct. It's probably because gaming hones reaction times and concentration, when you're playing a fast-paced game, there is rarely time to think about what you are going to do, you just have to do it.
They also mentioned that it usually takes years of training to be able to get into this state of mind, gaming probably provides good mental training because reaction speeds need to be just as fast for alot of video games as they do for many sports. I have also noticed this sometimes when I'm coding, but not as often as when I'm gaming.
I got a SSN for a summer job I had in the US working at a summer camp last year, I am probably never going to use it again and my SIN (Social Insurance Number) is NEVER requested because it's illegal unless they NEED the info (employer, bank and sometimes Credit Card Company) I'm not even sure that the SSN is still valid, I think it expired when my work visa expired.
Coulden't Network Solutions track down the domains that were registered, then cancel them, or even better try to trace where the domains are so they can tryck down who did this. They could probably trace someone to an ISP just bi either checking the DNS servers on the domain or concating the hosting service and getting them to log next time the person connects to the server to upload files, connect to IRC (prolly half of them are vanity hosts for IRC) or whatever.
Power lines do have a certain amount of resistance, and all the power plants here are approxametly 900km from anything resembling densly populated regions, the transmission of powere that kind of distance has pretty incredible losses due to resistance of the power lines, even considering that it is transmitted at 500 000 volts
Actually, Jupiter does have a small fusion reaction going on inside it, it gives off about the same amount of light as it reflects from the sun, so the Jupiter we see in the sky is about twice as bright as it should be.
(slightly offtopic)
:)
That's interesting, especially considering that here in Quebec pretty much all electricity is provided by a Crown corporation called Hydro Quebec, its basically a monopoly and the company is run by the government, but in Quebec we have some of the cheapest and most reliable electricity in the world, we actually WAY more than we can use, and we sell ALOT of it to Ontario and the US.
One thing that I have thought about, is that we have way more than we can possibly use, and that's AFTER losing more than 80% of it in transit, imagine what room-temperature superconductivity could do, we could run 1 cable from here to California and take care of their energy problems for good, at the same time as becoming the richest province in Canada
I take it you don't shop at Radio Shack or Compucenter much, both those stores want all your info everytime you buy anything, they wont sell it to you unless you give them the info (with the system they use, the cash wont register a transaction unless it knows who's making the purchase) Price Club, and a few others are essentially the same. Theres even a local computer store that does it.
I have an OpenBSD firewall set up at home, and I gave up looking into hits (usually just DNS'ing the IP and finding out who was trying to connect to me) as I would usually get 200+ hits a day, (and no I don't log FTP connections). I personally dont care too much who hits on my firewall, the only ones I really care about at this point are actual connections to my daemons.
Theres plenty available around here... Course we can still get Q3A in the tin box at stores around here....
Videotron is not bad... i just got a cable modem in yesterday, and being the first one in my area to get it (it's been available for less than a week) the repeaters they had on the lines weren't 2-way yet, they brought my modem over yesterday and after the realized it wasn't working, the tech put in a call, and later that day they started changing repeaters. It wasnt until today that my connection started working, but that's prolly because they had to change the switchbox for the whole neighborhood, even taking off tv service for about 10 minutes. Anyway, after all that, my cable modem is finally up and running, and I should also mention that I never spent more than 15 minutes waiting on the phone line. Now if they would just do somehting about the 6gig download quota and the 1gig upload quota I would be really happy.
I was thinking of maybe using chemically-powered nanotech... there's a lot of energy in just about any matter, you just need to find a way to get it out Maybe some sort of quantum-power would work too... at those sizes it could be possible to take advantage of some of the sub-atomic forces to generate power...
Its not really like trying the windows as much as checking which windows are there... Connecting and checking for various vulnerabilities is more like trying the doors to see if they are locked. I sometimes portscan a server to see what serives they have open, good example: portscanning an IRC server to see what ports they open so you can get alternate ports to use to connect to irc.
If/when we ever develop truly useful nanotech this will easily come to pass... along with just about every other dream of that sort.. Nanotech on a level that can rearrange matter on an subatomic scale could potentially solve MANY of our current problems, from pollution (nanites that change pollutants into O2 for example), food could be created almost effortlessly, nanites in the body could keep us VERY healthy... There are downsides too.. they could be used VERY effectively to create a doomsday weapon.. or make our problems even worse.. like a nanotechnological disease... (ala Deus-Ex)
I think you`ve been watching too many movies like the alien(s) series and that new comedy one. There may be life on mars, but the chances its anything more than single-cell microbes are EXTREMELY small, especially since we already have some basic analises that didnt find any sign of life. If there is life that is radically different from life on earth, then what are the chances that it would be able to infect a bio-organism. (a good analgy is computer viruses, if the life is radically different than on earth, then it would probably be just as compatible with our life as computer viruses are)
iptables is GPL, and the *BSD kernel is the BSD license, it probably would not work very well to try and use both licenses in the same kernel. Also, I don`t think it would be very easy to put iptables in the *BSD kernel, it was designed specifically for Linux, and ther BSD kernel has quite a different structure from the linux kernel. Putting it in the BSD kernel would probably require pretty much a complete rewrite, and if you`re going to do that, you might as well just design your own implementation.
Also, ipfilter is a little easier to set up than iptables, iptables uses shell scripts with a BUNCH of commands, while ipfilter uses a configuration file, I would expect that the OpenBSD people would want to stay with the config file approach, and they will probably try to make it compatible with ipfilter config files, or at least have an emulation layer like ipfilter has for ipchains and ipfwadm.
I'm running ximian 1.4, it's great except i ahd to diable nautilus because it was incredibly slow and constantly using 100% of my CPU power. I'm running a 1Ghz Thunderbird with 512MB ram, so i rather doubt its my hardware... Prolly some stupis library incompatibility or something, but I usually use commandline for file management anyway so its not really a problem.
I think that if it benefits society as a whole then some ideas should not be owned by a single person. This goes right back to the generic drug debate, if the "Intellectual Property" is something that could change people's lives, then I don't think that a single company has the right to charge exorbant amounts for it.
I also want to point out that in theory Communism is a GREAT idea, it just sucks in pratice because of corruption on the part of people in power. I don't think that a single person should be able to have well over a billion dollars while other people die of starvation.
If it can be activate over the phone, then what stops someone from reverse-engineering the system and writing a little program that generates asctivation codes, I'm not 100% up on this, but im 90% sure that it's already been done. In this case its actually less of a hassle to install a pirated version than a licensed one.
heh, you think that's bad? im doing an internship for my school, im coding a database app (no, not hardcoded passwords), but it doesnt use SQL server, it used read/write shared .mdb file, all the servers have everything shared with full read/write access. It's pretty pitiful, but the whole system is fortunately behind a firewall that's admin'ed by compitent admins.