To my understanding, Matroska is sort of meant to replace the physical DVD medium. Most of the things which can be done with a DVD can be done with Matroska. Chapters, subtitles, menu's, and all that goodness.
Have you considered any other means of reducing network load? For example, Squid? A significant portion of your traffic is likely your users visiting the same content-rich websites, like MySpace, Facebook, Youtube, etc. If you can locally cache this content (especially the Flash stuff) you'll probably see a large drop in load.
Is the Air Force somehow different from the Army in what they require for clearance? I talked to an Army recruiter last month about SIGINT and he told me up front that they drug test as a requirement.
While using my brother's new laptop, which has Vista on it, I have learned that Vista also does the following:
Invariably crashes while trying to install any aspect of the HalfLife2 Orange Box other than Steam
Locks up when trying to play Youtube videos full screened.
Takes well over 45 seconds to recognize my Lexar 512MB jump drive (about 2 seconds for Linux and 5 for XP)
Doesn't support AMD PowerNow, meaning the laptop clicks off due to heat issues after doing anything intensive for more than five minutes (like trying to watch a youtube video full screen)
The computer in question has no viruses, has all software and firmware updates, and has all the right drivers installed. The machine is definitely good enough to run Vista (or should be). It's a 2.0ghz Athlon64 with something like 768MB of RAM and a mobile FireGL graphics card. By the way, all of the stuff I listed Vista messing up on above works absolutely fine on XP SP2, on the same computer.
It's not real people. look after your actual life for a change....
True, it is a game of sorts, but since Linden dollars can be directly converted into real world currency, and many people actually make money that way, this is an actual problem. This isn't like somebody stealing your stuff in Wow, this is more like someone stealing your poker chips at a casino.
We're reaching a point where cross-platform applications are becoming much more common than they were 10 years ago. In many cases popular software has versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux, all of which generally work the same way and have the same features on each respective OS.
I think schools should take advantage of this and focus on using cross-platform software in the classroom whenever possible. Doing so almost guarantees that students will be able to use the same software at home that they use at school (no matter what OS they use at home). It also means that students who need to use a computer with an unfamiliar OS will still be able to get work done since the program(s) they are used to using will likely be available for that OS.
I worked as an instructor in the computer lab of a Boys and Girls Club for a few years, and this is about what I did. Ten computers in the lab had Windows 2k Professional on them, and a wide range of lower ends computers had Linux on them. I made sure all of the computers, regardless of OS, had Open Office, Firefox, Gaim (now pidgin), Thunderbird, Abiword, Gimp, and VideoLAN on them. I taught the children (ages ranging from 6 to 18) how to use the programs and the differing operating systems were never really a problem. Since all of the software was open source I was also able to give them all CD's which they could use to install the software at home or wherever else. In doing so, I made sure that our choice of operating systems did not negatively impact their education. I think schools need to do the same.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure you spelled it wrong. I'm pretty sure that it's spelled Subh Al-a'sha and is written by Qalqashanda. When looking for something like that spelling matters.
If you forget your password of get locked out somehow or another just check milw0rm and they'll have an exploit^H^H^H^H^H^H^H solution. Seriously though. I have seen several hosting companies use Ubuntu as a server, and I have yet to see a single one that didn't have some glaringly obvious hole it in. Ubuntu is probably the least secure of all the major distro's.
You don't have to deal with WGA
You don't have the hassle of re-activating it if you upgrade/change your hardware
You often don't have the hassle of entering and storing (without losing) the license key when you reinstall
And the obvious - that it's cheaper
Not only that, but there's kind of a big incentive, aside from the monetary one, for OEM's who install priated copies of windows. I've seen a pirated ISO of XP SP2 that:
has most general optimizations done already
comes with stupid stuff, like the alerter and messaging service, and remote assistance, turned off by default
It also has the option to automatically install a bunch of nice software. It just asks you about it when it's done with the install. It has open office, the sun JRE, a version of notepad with syntax highlighting and tabs, firefox (with the flash plugin, noscript, and adblock), thunderbird, avira antivir, and 7zip.
After it's done installing it asks if you want to make a backup. You pop in a DVD and it'll make a recovery disk you can boot from to restore the computer to exactly like it was at the time of installation
This means that instead of it taking around an hour and a half to install windows, tweak it so it acts right, and install all that software, it takes about a half hour. Also, customers really like having a recovery disk like that sometimes (the created disk, by the way, also acts as a regular XP install disk if you want it to).
It's better quality, in almost every way, than the "genuine" Windows XP OEM disks.
The article says that Burma licenses all computers to people, and that the government monitors all of the ISP's. That's how they apparently track these people down.
You can sniff cell phone calls using little more than a HAM radio. This technology doesn't make it any easier or harder. In fact, I don't think this way of routing calls has any security/privacy implications which aren't already an issue with normal cellphone call routing, with the exception that this method makes it harder to eavesdrop on a specific phone call, since the calls don't go through any central point.
I don't know about your area, but most of the schools around here have done something like this. Soon after they banned students from bringing flash drives to school unless a teacher "virus scans" them before each usage. They used the web filter to block access to any sort of free web hosting and most file-storage sites as well. The "virus scanner" not only scans the disks for malware, it copies everything on them to a shared drive on the network which system administrators and teachers are able to look through later.
This is more than likely a stunt exactly like was pulled with Echelon. They're "officially" deactivating it and will continue to fund it and operate it secretly using alternate funding.
I think ISP's fall more along the lines of something like a telephone company. Does the telephone company get in trouble if you use their service to make prank calls? No, not as long as they assist the police when someone misuses their service.
Yes, but there is actually some truth to modern music being crap. Back then, dynamic range compression didn't even exist. Now, it's used on just about every CD.
I don't think rolling the levels back to what they were in the 70's is even what needs to be done. I think the real issue is the breathalizer test itself. If I have 5 or 6 beers, I'm not drunk and can operate machinery without any noticable impairement. If my female friend who is much smaller than me has 2 beers she can barely walk, yet, we both blow about the same on a breathalizer. I think we either need to go back to just common-sense sobriety tests or possibly move to a more effective/accurate way of testing blood alcohol content, possibly based on the same principle as the insulin level testers diabetics use.
If you want to be able to ship log messages between servers reliably, securely, and with the ability to verify integrity I recommend setting up a silc server on your network and using it to handle that. Silc uses public key authentication and encryption, and has the option to sign messages (and check message signatures) to verify authenticity. Granted, silc is meant to be a chat protocol, but I see no reason it can't be used this way.
I have Windows XP and Gentoo Linux running side by side, and strangely, Gentoo scores 10 to 12 FPS faster in World of Warcraft, Warcraft III and even Doom 3. Granted they are commercial games, but if they can run in WINE that fast, I wonder what a direct Linux implementation would do. I just love seeing folks buying the headlines instead of blazing their own paths.
That's why the world is in the shape its in... the majority is always waiting for someone to save the day. You want desktop Linux? Then make it your desktop. Otherwise stop bitching and post some valid comments.
I've noticed the exact same thing about running games in Wine, as well as when comparing the Windows and Linux versions of Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Tournament GOTY, and Enemy Terrirtory. I think the main reason has do to with how Linux manages memory and system resources compared to Windows. Also, there's no Windows equivalent to running an X session with JUST a single game running inside of it, which helps out a lot when I'm tyring to run a game on my computer which is made with better hardware than I have in mind.
Along the same lines of discussion, I've noticed that nVidia graphics cards perform better under Linux than Windows. I've tested this not just from playing 3D games, but also doing heavy 3D animation with Maya.
I'm not a lawyer, although I sometimes portray one in an rpg. I imagine it is the plaintiff's job in such a case to prove a claim of something being unconstitutional. In this case, since the claim is being made in a countersuit, it's on Boggs to prove it's unconstitutional.
Ok, seeing as a movie theatre has no right to search you, you have the option of just leaving. If she didn't just leave to go to a less ridiculous theatre then it's her own fault she submitted to being searched.
I hate it when people say this sort of thing. This crap has happened to me before at a theatre and they refused to refund my ticket when I refused the search.
I really wish more companies had CEO's and presidents as logical and upfront as you seem to be. I ran a small time anonymizer for a long time and I ran into people complaining about the same sorts of things your company has run into. With so many pages including AJAX and other stuff like that it isn't really feasible to run a web based anonymizer except for special cases.
I've been using Linux for seven years or so now, and I have never personally seen any sort of warning telling me that I might be doing something illegal by using xmms, mplayer, xine, or any such piece of software, and I have in fact installed the necessary codecs. Gentoo, slackware, and debian don't have any sort of warning like that that I've seen, and I mess with slackware and gentoo systems every day.
I think you guys are all getting the wrong idea. Microsoft isn't likely to be so much as implementing, as much as being in the patent license business. IOW, the plan is to sue adware producers for patent infringement, driving them away from producing the adware that plagues their operating system products. They might license it to a select few companies who do adware that doesn't screw up someone's entire OS, but I think the general goal is to get rid of adware through brute force rather than fixing the technological problems that allow it to proliferate.
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To my understanding, Matroska is sort of meant to replace the physical DVD medium. Most of the things which can be done with a DVD can be done with Matroska. Chapters, subtitles, menu's, and all that goodness.
Have you considered any other means of reducing network load? For example, Squid? A significant portion of your traffic is likely your users visiting the same content-rich websites, like MySpace, Facebook, Youtube, etc. If you can locally cache this content (especially the Flash stuff) you'll probably see a large drop in load.
Is the Air Force somehow different from the Army in what they require for clearance? I talked to an Army recruiter last month about SIGINT and he told me up front that they drug test as a requirement.
The computer in question has no viruses, has all software and firmware updates, and has all the right drivers installed. The machine is definitely good enough to run Vista (or should be). It's a 2.0ghz Athlon64 with something like 768MB of RAM and a mobile FireGL graphics card. By the way, all of the stuff I listed Vista messing up on above works absolutely fine on XP SP2, on the same computer.
We're reaching a point where cross-platform applications are becoming much more common than they were 10 years ago. In many cases popular software has versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux, all of which generally work the same way and have the same features on each respective OS.
I think schools should take advantage of this and focus on using cross-platform software in the classroom whenever possible. Doing so almost guarantees that students will be able to use the same software at home that they use at school (no matter what OS they use at home). It also means that students who need to use a computer with an unfamiliar OS will still be able to get work done since the program(s) they are used to using will likely be available for that OS.
I worked as an instructor in the computer lab of a Boys and Girls Club for a few years, and this is about what I did. Ten computers in the lab had Windows 2k Professional on them, and a wide range of lower ends computers had Linux on them. I made sure all of the computers, regardless of OS, had Open Office, Firefox, Gaim (now pidgin), Thunderbird, Abiword, Gimp, and VideoLAN on them. I taught the children (ages ranging from 6 to 18) how to use the programs and the differing operating systems were never really a problem. Since all of the software was open source I was also able to give them all CD's which they could use to install the software at home or wherever else. In doing so, I made sure that our choice of operating systems did not negatively impact their education. I think schools need to do the same.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure you spelled it wrong. I'm pretty sure that it's spelled Subh Al-a'sha and is written by Qalqashanda. When looking for something like that spelling matters.
If you forget your password of get locked out somehow or another just check milw0rm and they'll have an exploit^H^H^H^H^H^H^H solution. Seriously though. I have seen several hosting companies use Ubuntu as a server, and I have yet to see a single one that didn't have some glaringly obvious hole it in. Ubuntu is probably the least secure of all the major distro's.
- has most general optimizations done already
- comes with stupid stuff, like the alerter and messaging service, and remote assistance, turned off by default
- It also has the option to automatically install a bunch of nice software. It just asks you about it when it's done with the install. It has open office, the sun JRE, a version of notepad with syntax highlighting and tabs, firefox (with the flash plugin, noscript, and adblock), thunderbird, avira antivir, and 7zip.
- After it's done installing it asks if you want to make a backup. You pop in a DVD and it'll make a recovery disk you can boot from to restore the computer to exactly like it was at the time of installation
This means that instead of it taking around an hour and a half to install windows, tweak it so it acts right, and install all that software, it takes about a half hour. Also, customers really like having a recovery disk like that sometimes (the created disk, by the way, also acts as a regular XP install disk if you want it to).It's better quality, in almost every way, than the "genuine" Windows XP OEM disks.
The article says that Burma licenses all computers to people, and that the government monitors all of the ISP's. That's how they apparently track these people down.
You can sniff cell phone calls using little more than a HAM radio. This technology doesn't make it any easier or harder. In fact, I don't think this way of routing calls has any security/privacy implications which aren't already an issue with normal cellphone call routing, with the exception that this method makes it harder to eavesdrop on a specific phone call, since the calls don't go through any central point.
I don't know about your area, but most of the schools around here have done something like this. Soon after they banned students from bringing flash drives to school unless a teacher "virus scans" them before each usage. They used the web filter to block access to any sort of free web hosting and most file-storage sites as well. The "virus scanner" not only scans the disks for malware, it copies everything on them to a shared drive on the network which system administrators and teachers are able to look through later.
This is obviously the kind of plan to discuss on the internet.
This is more than likely a stunt exactly like was pulled with Echelon. They're "officially" deactivating it and will continue to fund it and operate it secretly using alternate funding.
I think ISP's fall more along the lines of something like a telephone company. Does the telephone company get in trouble if you use their service to make prank calls? No, not as long as they assist the police when someone misuses their service.
Yes, but there is actually some truth to modern music being crap. Back then, dynamic range compression didn't even exist. Now, it's used on just about every CD.
I don't think rolling the levels back to what they were in the 70's is even what needs to be done. I think the real issue is the breathalizer test itself. If I have 5 or 6 beers, I'm not drunk and can operate machinery without any noticable impairement. If my female friend who is much smaller than me has 2 beers she can barely walk, yet, we both blow about the same on a breathalizer. I think we either need to go back to just common-sense sobriety tests or possibly move to a more effective/accurate way of testing blood alcohol content, possibly based on the same principle as the insulin level testers diabetics use.
If you want to be able to ship log messages between servers reliably, securely, and with the ability to verify integrity I recommend setting up a silc server on your network and using it to handle that. Silc uses public key authentication and encryption, and has the option to sign messages (and check message signatures) to verify authenticity. Granted, silc is meant to be a chat protocol, but I see no reason it can't be used this way.
Along the same lines of discussion, I've noticed that nVidia graphics cards perform better under Linux than Windows. I've tested this not just from playing 3D games, but also doing heavy 3D animation with Maya.
I'm not a lawyer, although I sometimes portray one in an rpg. I imagine it is the plaintiff's job in such a case to prove a claim of something being unconstitutional. In this case, since the claim is being made in a countersuit, it's on Boggs to prove it's unconstitutional.
I hate it when people say this sort of thing. This crap has happened to me before at a theatre and they refused to refund my ticket when I refused the search.
I really wish more companies had CEO's and presidents as logical and upfront as you seem to be. I ran a small time anonymizer for a long time and I ran into people complaining about the same sorts of things your company has run into. With so many pages including AJAX and other stuff like that it isn't really feasible to run a web based anonymizer except for special cases.
I've been using Linux for seven years or so now, and I have never personally seen any sort of warning telling me that I might be doing something illegal by using xmms, mplayer, xine, or any such piece of software, and I have in fact installed the necessary codecs. Gentoo, slackware, and debian don't have any sort of warning like that that I've seen, and I mess with slackware and gentoo systems every day.
You call patent litigation brute force? To me, what happened to that Russian spammer a while back is brute force.
I actually didn't know that. I think I'll have to check out the book and the movie now.