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I love my mythtv installation, it is what made me move over to Linux for good.
The only "issue" is that MPEG-4 really puts strain on my CPU, holding a Athlon 2600+ at ~60% while encoding.
I now do homework for the next day's courses instead of watching adult swim and the daily show at night. I also watched some football games with it, and having a frame-by-frame slow-mo is wonderful. What's even better is never watching commercials, cuts the time of shows way down. Even with a crappy four year old bt878-based capture card I get fine picture on my 19" monitor, which is better in color and brightness than my 19" TV.
I tried Freevo, which was horrid. I never got it to work correctly. But with a fresh installation of gentoo I had more trouble locating drivers for my TV card than getting mythtv set up and recording. The biggest major hurdle when installing was figuring out that my microphone was selected at the recording device, so I had to swap it to line in.
It wasn't point-and-click easy to set up, but it worked, and I suppose that's all that matters. Now that it is installed I havn't had one crash except when alsa was already in use and I tried to watch a recorded show (I really need a sound card with hardware mixer support).
It is almost impossible to open the door of a car when it is floating in the water, too much pressure on the outside. So the accepted thing to do it to roll down the windows and wait for the car to flood, and then open the door when the presure is equalised.
Adblockis a much more powerful tool than Mozilla's built-in "block images" feature. It lets you see a list of all blockable elements on a page, with those already blocked highlighted. It can also block flash (has a little tab on the flash animation). It used to not block flash, but now I don't bother to install the "flsh click to view" plugin because I don't need it. This and mouse gestures are all I need.
It also allows wildcarding, so instead of having to block every single fastclick server, you can just have "*fastclick*" in your preferences and you get 0 ads from fastclick (the one who serves the "1000 free smiley" ads).
If you want better sound from your laptop you may want to look into the Echo Indigo. I've never heard it myself, but I've been interested in it for a while.
My biggest beef with laptop sound is the headphone jacks. I can somewhat understand the use of cheap opamps to drive the speakers and headphones (but better chips wouldn't cost more than a few dollars for each unit), but I cannot excuse the use of plastic jacks for the headphone output. For something that is going to be plugged into a great deal, a little bit higher quality would go a long way.
Also something to remember is that the highest preformance cards often contains the newest technology. This is especially true for power-saving features in laptops. A new 90nm process chip with variable voltage and memory/core clock speed will use less power than an older 130nm process chip with only core clock speed throttling. Every little bit helps.
I think this case the problem is nobody with a high profile has gotten busted. So it is the same idea, but instead of the punishment being too low to stop them, they think the odds are very much in their favor. It is like Jaywalking to the spammers right now. They know there is a law aganst it, but they don't know of anybody actually getting in trouble for doing it and they don't think it is hurting anybody.
If in a month the FBI (under directions from the FTC) raided the homes of and arrested 100 out of the 200 people on the ROSKO list, I would put good money down that the ratio of email complying with the CAN-SPAM act would go up dramaticly. I really think the key would be taking their computers in a raid, because they are likely loaded with IP addresses of hacked computers, open relays, and perhaps even tools/viruses to hack computers.
It looks to me that the CPU itself doesn't have any pins on it, just little gold contacts. The motherboard has all the pins on it, and the locking mechanism is really just something to hold the CPU down against those pins to make contact.
That's quite different from the standard today where the arm locks the pins of the cpu into the socket of the motherboard. I could be wrong, but that's what I think I see in the pictures.
Hey, you should be proud. England's scientists and engineers have joined the exclusive club of people able to point at a hole on another planet and say "I did that."
Just think about it, to get to Mars they had to get a spacecraft going faster than a bullet in just the right direction so that a few months in the future it would hit something that is little more than a red speck in the night sky.
Watching on NASATV was a bit trying on the nerves. It went from "Holy shit, we have signal!" to "Oh shit, we don't have signal... try to remain calm" for ten mins, followed by "Woooooo! We found it again!"
Just remember to take action if you get one of these spam messages. Print the spam, write and sign a letter explaining that the representitive in question lost your votes and donations because of it, and send it to their office. The campaign managers know that for every letter written and sent in there are hundreds, possibly thousands, of people who feel exactly the same way but were too busy/lazy to write a letter about it. If they get enough letters they will stop sending spam.
I really don't care about the subscription list exception, but they way they hope to get people onto those lists is disgusting. Have a big rally or something where you have cards for people to fill in their email address, but don't spam. I just know there will be people who will get spammed by represenitives for another state or district.
It is sweet justice. Either Newsweek or Time had an article a year or so ago about spam and anitspammers. One guy was so annoyed by a spammer that kept sending the same spam to him (the guy must not have had a filter) so he bought something from the spammer.
The buisness that was spamming was then listed on his credit card statement. He sued them and won something like $1,000 from them for ignoring his opt-out requests. He had a statement about his technique for finding the spammer that went something like "They could hide from me, but nobody can hide from American Express"
I wish credit card companies had fake numbers to give to these spammers and paypal fraud artists that would automatically trigger alarms when they ran through for verification. This would be a great way for people to track down who is actually profiting from the spam. A good-guy version of the trojan horse, if you will.
I actually don't see any mention of the GPL on any of the pages, or in the downloadable source.
Doesn't this mean that nobody else is allowed to distribute it? I mean, MS could still get in a whole lot of trouble for inclusing this code in its patch, but they wouldn't risk losing source code.
CS 1.5 does work quite well under wine in my experience. The voice chat send was broken, but that isn't a big deal if you can yell at the other people across the room, and you can type short team messages. Framerate is solid for me, quite playable. Most annoying is a sound lag of 100ms or so that I experience ocasionally. Likely I just screwed up a setting when installing Gentoo or alsa.
Assuming you have wine set up, run the HL installer, then the CS installer, just like in Windows. Set up your controls and resolution and you should be good to go.
Steam (and therefore CS 1.6) is pretty much windows only though.
I don't think that the city is paying for the transmitters, just allowing them to be set up on public property without the company being forced to pay for the location. So, the company pays for the transmitters, but not the land or building space where they are deployed.
Well, if you, like most spammers, fire off a couple hundred thousand emails the states will have plenty of counts to go around. I'm sure they will learn how to share.
Assuming each email is a separate illegal act (which seems to be the case considering current do-not-call legislation that treats every bad call as a different offence), you could be looking at thousands of years in prison even if the sentancing guidelines were somewhere around 30days per count.
I just haven't had a good experience with the use of wireless as a last mile solution. I think that these long distance links are a great idea, especially if they are resistant to weather like you say, but wireless shouldn't be used at the ends of them to distribute the data.
I find the different antennta choices interesting. Would there be anything in the way of using a high gain antenna that works with 802.11b for 802.11g? Would the higher data rate cause trouble?
(note, I wrote a 300 word reply, talking about my WISP's infrastructure and potential trouble with it, when i realised that it was all rambling. I saved it in case anyone is genuinely curious as to how they run their network and what troubles they have had. Just say if you'd like to see it)
Not if my WISP is any indication of the direction wireless is headed.
Current problems I have encountered:
Frequent dropped connections, hourly most of the time, will come back after a min or so
Not able to scale well. As I said a few months ago, wired networks merely slowed down when the viruses hit in Sept, the wireless network simply turned off for about a month until it was fixed
Packetloss, very bad at times
Then there's also the whole security issue
That's not including the company-specific problems I have had (aformentioned month-long blackout, nonexistant after-buisness-hours support, etc). Not to mention that I don't have a real IP address, just 10.0.x.x, useless for a lot of stuff. I suppose this makes sense when you have a wildly fluctuating mass of people on your service, but it is still a pain. All this may just be one bad experience, but it has led to a distrust of the idea of 802.11a/b/g wireless deployed on a large scale
Some of the trouble likely stems from the open frequency band 802.11b uses. I can only guess the packetloss spikes are from somebody else in the complex using the microwave or something. Of course, you can do what my WISP did and get the apartment complex/housing area to ban all private APs ($300 per day of operation fine, ouch!), but that still does nothing about 2.4GHz wireless phones, cheap microwaves, and other devices that could interfere. Not to mention: what happens if it rains? I doubt a long distance microwave link would take too kindly to a lot of moisture in the atmosphere.
On a side note, since I will obviously be dropping this ISP in favor of DSL or cable as soon as my contract comes up, am I pretty much SOL in terms of their wireless AP ban? I mean, running multiple drops of cat-5e to every room is doable, but I'd like to avoid it if possible. I get the feeling that this is a grey area where they can pretty much say whatever they want.
What I would realy like to see is this: instead of targeting kazaa specifically, somebody needs to make up some sort of Gator replacement. Get a project going to keep up with recent updates to GAIN and create a set of fake Dlls or even a sandbox for GAIN to be alone in.
I really don't mind seeing ads in the software while I am using it, so I would be fine if GAIN still served random ads to the software. What I don't like is being barraged with ads while I am not using the software, and having my privacy violated by tracking. If someone could come up with a way to limit Gator to just giving the software ads to display, I'd be much more willing to use adware.
a bit off-topic I know, but if the ads weren't so damned annoying and intrusive, maybe people wouldn't turn to stuff like K++.
You have ten possible fingerprints, two eyes, and a virtually unlimited collection of phrases for voice identification.
Add in various combinations (e.g.: left eye + right index finger then left thumb) and things could get pretty complicated and tougher to compleatly capture.
I can't get to the site, but he's my ramble: I think the tablets are an interesting take on the notebook/laptop (whichever you call it). As a student, I feel that if they ever came down in price they could be very useful for taking notes on. A laptop works decently for some classes where the majority of the notes are non-symbolic, but trying to take notes in a math or physics class is simply impossible, with the subscipts and sketches.
But, how do you protect that screen? Something big like that just seems to be a huge scratch and scuff collector. Is this the case or am I just missing something obvious again?
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The only "issue" is that MPEG-4 really puts strain on my CPU, holding a Athlon 2600+ at ~60% while encoding.
I now do homework for the next day's courses instead of watching adult swim and the daily show at night. I also watched some football games with it, and having a frame-by-frame slow-mo is wonderful. What's even better is never watching commercials, cuts the time of shows way down. Even with a crappy four year old bt878-based capture card I get fine picture on my 19" monitor, which is better in color and brightness than my 19" TV.
I tried Freevo, which was horrid. I never got it to work correctly. But with a fresh installation of gentoo I had more trouble locating drivers for my TV card than getting mythtv set up and recording. The biggest major hurdle when installing was figuring out that my microphone was selected at the recording device, so I had to swap it to line in.
It wasn't point-and-click easy to set up, but it worked, and I suppose that's all that matters. Now that it is installed I havn't had one crash except when alsa was already in use and I tried to watch a recorded show (I really need a sound card with hardware mixer support).
Oh, and Don't Panic.
It also allows wildcarding, so instead of having to block every single fastclick server, you can just have "*fastclick*" in your preferences and you get 0 ads from fastclick (the one who serves the "1000 free smiley" ads).
My biggest beef with laptop sound is the headphone jacks. I can somewhat understand the use of cheap opamps to drive the speakers and headphones (but better chips wouldn't cost more than a few dollars for each unit), but I cannot excuse the use of plastic jacks for the headphone output. For something that is going to be plugged into a great deal, a little bit higher quality would go a long way.
Also something to remember is that the highest preformance cards often contains the newest technology. This is especially true for power-saving features in laptops. A new 90nm process chip with variable voltage and memory/core clock speed will use less power than an older 130nm process chip with only core clock speed throttling. Every little bit helps.
If in a month the FBI (under directions from the FTC) raided the homes of and arrested 100 out of the 200 people on the ROSKO list, I would put good money down that the ratio of email complying with the CAN-SPAM act would go up dramaticly. I really think the key would be taking their computers in a raid, because they are likely loaded with IP addresses of hacked computers, open relays, and perhaps even tools/viruses to hack computers.
That's quite different from the standard today where the arm locks the pins of the cpu into the socket of the motherboard. I could be wrong, but that's what I think I see in the pictures.
Just think about it, to get to Mars they had to get a spacecraft going faster than a bullet in just the right direction so that a few months in the future it would hit something that is little more than a red speck in the night sky.
Watching on NASATV was a bit trying on the nerves. It went from "Holy shit, we have signal!" to "Oh shit, we don't have signal... try to remain calm" for ten mins, followed by "Woooooo! We found it again!"
Just remember to take action if you get one of these spam messages. Print the spam, write and sign a letter explaining that the representitive in question lost your votes and donations because of it, and send it to their office. The campaign managers know that for every letter written and sent in there are hundreds, possibly thousands, of people who feel exactly the same way but were too busy/lazy to write a letter about it. If they get enough letters they will stop sending spam.
I really don't care about the subscription list exception, but they way they hope to get people onto those lists is disgusting. Have a big rally or something where you have cards for people to fill in their email address, but don't spam. I just know there will be people who will get spammed by represenitives for another state or district.
More like identify the morons who are responsible and vote them out of office.
The buisness that was spamming was then listed on his credit card statement. He sued them and won something like $1,000 from them for ignoring his opt-out requests. He had a statement about his technique for finding the spammer that went something like "They could hide from me, but nobody can hide from American Express"
I wish credit card companies had fake numbers to give to these spammers and paypal fraud artists that would automatically trigger alarms when they ran through for verification. This would be a great way for people to track down who is actually profiting from the spam. A good-guy version of the trojan horse, if you will.
Doesn't this mean that nobody else is allowed to distribute it? I mean, MS could still get in a whole lot of trouble for inclusing this code in its patch, but they wouldn't risk losing source code.
Assuming you have wine set up, run the HL installer, then the CS installer, just like in Windows. Set up your controls and resolution and you should be good to go.
Steam (and therefore CS 1.6) is pretty much windows only though.
along with the >900ms ping times that go along with it.
At least, that's how I read it.
Assuming each email is a separate illegal act (which seems to be the case considering current do-not-call legislation that treats every bad call as a different offence), you could be looking at thousands of years in prison even if the sentancing guidelines were somewhere around 30days per count.
Well, actually they got the memo, along with anybody else who was curious enough to read those misplaced emails.
Remember they said no more non-critical patches this month. So likely we will not see a patch until min-January.
I find the different antennta choices interesting. Would there be anything in the way of using a high gain antenna that works with 802.11b for 802.11g? Would the higher data rate cause trouble?
(note, I wrote a 300 word reply, talking about my WISP's infrastructure and potential trouble with it, when i realised that it was all rambling. I saved it in case anyone is genuinely curious as to how they run their network and what troubles they have had. Just say if you'd like to see it)
Current problems I have encountered:
Frequent dropped connections, hourly most of the time, will come back after a min or so
Not able to scale well. As I said a few months ago, wired networks merely slowed down when the viruses hit in Sept, the wireless network simply turned off for about a month until it was fixed
Packetloss, very bad at times
Then there's also the whole security issue
That's not including the company-specific problems I have had (aformentioned month-long blackout, nonexistant after-buisness-hours support, etc). Not to mention that I don't have a real IP address, just 10.0.x.x, useless for a lot of stuff. I suppose this makes sense when you have a wildly fluctuating mass of people on your service, but it is still a pain. All this may just be one bad experience, but it has led to a distrust of the idea of 802.11a/b/g wireless deployed on a large scale
Some of the trouble likely stems from the open frequency band 802.11b uses. I can only guess the packetloss spikes are from somebody else in the complex using the microwave or something. Of course, you can do what my WISP did and get the apartment complex/housing area to ban all private APs ($300 per day of operation fine, ouch!), but that still does nothing about 2.4GHz wireless phones, cheap microwaves, and other devices that could interfere. Not to mention: what happens if it rains? I doubt a long distance microwave link would take too kindly to a lot of moisture in the atmosphere.
On a side note, since I will obviously be dropping this ISP in favor of DSL or cable as soon as my contract comes up, am I pretty much SOL in terms of their wireless AP ban? I mean, running multiple drops of cat-5e to every room is doable, but I'd like to avoid it if possible. I get the feeling that this is a grey area where they can pretty much say whatever they want.
I really don't mind seeing ads in the software while I am using it, so I would be fine if GAIN still served random ads to the software. What I don't like is being barraged with ads while I am not using the software, and having my privacy violated by tracking. If someone could come up with a way to limit Gator to just giving the software ads to display, I'd be much more willing to use adware.
a bit off-topic I know, but if the ads weren't so damned annoying and intrusive, maybe people wouldn't turn to stuff like K++.
Add in various combinations (e.g.: left eye + right index finger then left thumb) and things could get pretty complicated and tougher to compleatly capture.
Like everything else, the fish were likely found to cause cancer in the state of California.
But, how do you protect that screen? Something big like that just seems to be a huge scratch and scuff collector. Is this the case or am I just missing something obvious again?