From the page: The project is not yet complete (hardware is 100% finished). The ultimate goal is to produce a player that can play of IDE harddisks, CD-roms and flashcards. Initially it is meant for home and car use (due to the probable size and power requirements of the first version). Later on, I'd like to reduce the size of the PCB and make it about the size of a 2.5" harddrive.
I wanna build one sooo bad. I've got a billion old HD's lying around rangin from 20MB to 1.2GB.
Maybe it won't make for a directly portable CD/mp3 player, but the fact that it's GPLed leaves the door open...
Could someone please enlighten me as to how this is any different then VCR-VCR (Analog-Analog) copying, which has been around for ages?
This is all hype. The MPAA is insanely overreacting.
The only real concern surrounding DVD's is a fear of digital-digital copying, which makes identical copies. Whats the big deal if you can capture it to analog?
I can do this with any video source by hooking up the TV out on my video card to the Composite Video on my TV tuner card. And Voila! I'm free to capture it. But it goes through the dreaded Digital-Analog-Analog-Digital.
I've been using Workspot for almost 3 months now, and its great.
As a student in an NT school, i'll often set IE to full screen and code away on some perl scripts.
The coolest thing about workspot is the fact that it offers the whole free storage thing too. Now some of you may think this is old news (X drive, etc), but to all the geeks out there, you can access this storage space via a Palm VII app! Basically, Its a wireless storage space like that.
And you also get free web hosting @ http://www.workspot.net/~username. With CGI! Mmmmm...
O ya, and the KDE kiks ass too. But don't try to run it in Netscape/MacOS. *crash*.
The only constraint has been bandwidth. The coolness loses its touch when the menu's are jerkin around on a 56k.
All in all, a perfect OS gateway for those with network access to the internet.
I've been using Workspot for almost 3 months now, and its great.
As a student in an NT school, i'll often set IE to full screen and code away on some perl scripts.
The coolest thing about workspot is the fact that it offers the whole free storage thing too. Now some of you may think this is old news (X drive, etc), but to all the geeks out there, you can access this storage space via a Palm VII app! Basically, Its a wireless storage space like that.
And you also get free web hosting @ http://www.workspot.net/~username. With CGI! Mmmmm...
O ya, and the KDE kiks ass too. But don't try to run it in Netscape/MacOS. *crash*.
The only constraint has been bandwidth. The coolness loses its touch when the menu's are jerkin around on a 56k.
All in all, a perfect OS gateway for those with network access to the internet.
Maybe its the past 12 factor kicking in, but I just thought of something...
So If its automagically linked, then this opens up a new door for cracks... A file can be brute force written until it is linked, and the user knows the file already exists. That way, One can get the contents of a file that one wouldnt otherwise have permission to...
IMHO, Apple is doing a very smart thing in releasing all these Developer Releases.
Changing so many things in an OS can be devistating, so when they realease a Dev Release, they get feedback. Most things have been said 1000 times but I really want to say...
Bring back the windowshade!
It is so much easier to go through windows by clicking on thier title bars, and not having to go all the way to the bottom of the screen. (a la The Dock)
Also, something I don't know if Apple's though of.. what happens with 2 monitors? And with full screen games?
Common apple. This is the feedback you want. Redo the Dock. Pleeeeez./nutt
Its got a great deal of info on how MacOS X and Quartz are a 3rd generation GUI, relying on vectors, and a great deal of pdf technology to speed things up. This decreases the amount of power needed to run a transformation like the genie effect by great amounts.
I think this is one of the most important issues of the upcoming years - can company's patent genes that exist in all of us?
Well, they won't be patening the gene itself, however the process by which it is created.
You can't patent a finger, but you can patent a process that will create fingers.
Much like IBM's patents on copper chips. They patented their process, which at the time, was the only process, of producing copper chips. They couldn't patent the use of copper in chips, that would be absurd. Thus people frantically started trying to create copper chips in altered ways.
But heres a thought: Imagine the lawsuits Man sues company for stealing his arm. *grin*
Re:Mac glquake should be pretty easy now
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Quake 1 GPL'ed
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I bow humbly, knowing that John Carmack replied to my mail. my 15 minutes of fame!
Excuse me while I go tell everyone I know...
:)
Thats great but what about other OS's?
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Quake 1 GPL'ed
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· Score: 2
This great news for every multi-OS quaker out there, but how will this effect the Mac port?
macsoft took time and money to do thier codin, and i really doubt they'll gpl THAT.
I know this is gonna be late to be moderated up, and i'm behind, but here's my seldom heard.02.
I just saw the South Park movie. I loved it. The message is great, and this is what I'm all about.
Why wasn't there a giant movement to stop pokemon?? Its VIOLENCE. SouthPark is cursing. and sex. Things that will come in due time for these children. Violence is the real problem.
O, love it. The slight dash of daily perversion, with the name deserving enough for the only server (file, ipmasq, web) in my house lan.
Proudly running red hat 6.0 for 22 days straight now (its only been in the house for 25!) My PowerMac G3 (as you can now figure, Servix is a netatalk server, too) is named NutSac -- i guess perversion keeps me sane...
There are a few things in this world that I just can't stand... One of them is misue of the word hacker.
I am a 15 year old swedish born american who is currently living in the States, but I spend my summers in sweden. I bring this up because on the two sides of the ocean...
hacker !=hacker.
During the summer I held a position as an in house tech sup at one of swedens largest IT companies, where my title was "Mac Hacker". I was the inhouse mac guru. The hacker. The guy that knew what he was doing. When family friends asked what I did, I said I was tech sup, fearing the use of the word hacker, because I didnt want them to think I was a cracker. In some cases they would reply-- "Oh, so your a real hacker when it comes to Macs then?" Damn straight.
My past fear of the word hacker explained Well you see, Here in the States, the words hacker and cracker are all to often confused. One doesnt want to be known as a hacker for fear of being known as a cracker. In sweden, a hacker is someone that is good with computers.
This is kind of like the word hack. A hack is something neat on computers, but many people think of it as an exploit.
good example: "I wote a nice perl hack late last night" is what i say if i wrote a nice little script for my webpage that does logins. bad example: "I just scripted a ritious hack... that server will be down for at least 3 days..." NO! that was a crack. your EVIL!
When my American friends ask me if im a hacker I'll respond: "Im a hacker yes, but Im not what your asking for..." I then explain the difference. Spread the message that hacking isn't cracking. PLEASE!
But after my experience this past summer, I now call my self a hacker. Im a proud one at that. If the government wants to arrest me for doing soemthing neat, then thats their problem.
Kinda like the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant where Homer Simpson works. Lots a little switches and do-hickeys. All scientific. Everybody is a phony. High security sure, but layed back work. They definately have doughnuts and vending machines. O ya, and they crack code nobody else can. But who care about that?!?;)
And the biggest parallel of them all? -- Evil Bosses...
I, nutt, am now coining a new phrase for the next millenium...here goes: "Backseat Hacking"
:p
There are obvious security problems involved... could you imagine the problems with IE5 autocomplete/password store?!?! And since every idiot in the world seems to have AOL, they'll all be checkin http://netmail.web.aol.com... you could hop a cab with a floppy in your pocket, and leave with 10 accounts... LOL
And yahoo finance.... Cookies would be a major problem.. these are the same problems that public libraries and such are having...
Well, good thing linux doesnt have IE.
Imagine installing Back Orifice on a cab comp... geez!!!!!! woa. It wont take long till they all realize this...3...2...1
The problem with broadband internet is Availability! I live in Bergen County, NJ... 20 minutes from manhatten. Suburbia, USA. Why isn't there a DSL or cable service here!?!?
I called cablevision about 2 years ago, and upon asking about internet services, the lady replied "No Sir, you can't watch our programs over the internet"....right.....
Cablevision is REALLY far behind on this one...ugh. Its only avaible in a spec of Connecticut. BUT! then I read that cable is all DHCP..doe! And I quickly realized that Cable would explode once in arrived (they havent even released a press release or anything... no plans)... so I would get stuck with a fractured connection. And they too have a no-serving policy. So over to (at the time) that new thing called ADSL...
Call up Bell (atlantic)... " O yea, that should arrive any day now(TM)"...right....
I was pumping the availability script with local phone numbers to see who had access -- turns out my (non-techy) friend who lives less then half a mile "as the crow flies" away, is in the circle... DAMNIT!
So here Im sitting, with a sub-400$ linux system and 3 Macs, and Appletalk network (with the linux box running netatalk), and an Epson printer... Waiting -- no wait... DIEING for broadband. I've even read up on IP masq. so I'll be ready.
I dont remember (Ever) using wang or pooper. Somehow I see that your reply seems to iconify exactly what I am fighting. It perturbs me that you could be inconcievably oxymoronic in the senset that you are puting down youths.
You seem to flame me, flame my kind, and then go support my kind
GRAND. You speek out of complete steriotypes. I happen to enjoy jazz, hate tool, love metallica, hate country, and enjoy the doors. I am not blind to the rest of my society, as you apparently are.
NOTE: I attend one of the toughest magnet schools in the country, I take precalc as a frosh. I get A's in English. And French. AND Im bilingual with Swedish as a mother-tounge.
I saw another post and though I'd add another $0.02.
Why are kids not allowed to chew gum in school? Because they stick gum under chairs... Why do kids stick gum under chairs?? Because they arent allowed to get up and throw it away.
Irony.
One of the smartest teachers I had was one that allowed us to chew gum. I stopped chewing gum after a month. and when I did chew gum, I threw it out.
Kids can handle it, but they're never given the chance. ... That makes $0.04
Yes, this all leads into the grand issue of censorship, right up there with abortion and gun control.
------------- My $0.02 ------------- Well, why does America, (and the rest of the world for that matter) have restricted movie ratings at all?
Answer: Parents that are one with the blindfold. These are the parents to the freinds that we all had as youths that werent allowed to come over when you were sick, and had to be home by 9:30.
Polititians must satisfy even the paranoid, for they are the stronger voice. Somehow there are no paranoid on our side -- at least not yet..!.
I can understand it, so I live with it. Its sad. But Im trying to fight it. Approach:
All these parents that stand for the paranoid clique of society want society to sheild itself from their kids. Why do we do this? What happened to majority rules?
If they want their kids to be spoon fed pre-chewed bits of food, (Thank the hacker manifesto for that one) why don't they do it themselves, and let the rest of us see our movies..!.
Polititians will argue that the freedom of choice doesnt apply to the children, as they are too young to decide. They dont have a stabilized judgement.
I am that child.
I am 15, and I have a friend that wasnt allowed to visit me in the hospital, nor are we allowed to play football on the grass when the Green-a-Lawn truck has been around, because we might eat the grass. OR we might bring the pesticides inside, and kill the furniture. GRAND.
Yes, I may be one of the more mature youngens, but I saw terminator when I was 8 and it rocked! period.
Slashdot Mirror
This is the coolest GPL project I know of, and these guys rule:
a in.html
/nutt
http://pages.hotbot.com/cooking/anton_verheijen/m
From the page:
The project is not yet complete (hardware is 100% finished). The ultimate goal is to produce a player that can play of IDE harddisks, CD-roms and flashcards. Initially it is meant for home and car use (due to the probable size and power requirements of the first version). Later on, I'd like to reduce the size of the PCB and make it about the size of a 2.5" harddrive.
I wanna build one sooo bad. I've got a billion old HD's lying around rangin from 20MB to 1.2GB.
Maybe it won't make for a directly portable CD/mp3 player, but the fact that it's GPLed leaves the door open...
funfunfun.
Could someone please enlighten me as to how this is any different then VCR-VCR (Analog-Analog) copying, which has been around for ages?
This is all hype. The MPAA is insanely overreacting.
The only real concern surrounding DVD's is a fear of digital-digital copying, which makes identical copies. Whats the big deal if you can capture it to analog?
I can do this with any video source by hooking up the TV out on my video card to the Composite Video on my TV tuner card. And Voila! I'm free to capture it. But it goes through the dreaded Digital-Analog-Analog-Digital.
Nobody likes that...whats the big deal?
I've been using Workspot for almost 3 months now, and its great.
/nutt
As a student in an NT school, i'll often set IE to full screen and code away on some perl scripts.
The coolest thing about workspot is the fact that it offers the whole free storage thing too. Now some of you may think this is old news (X drive, etc), but to all the geeks out there, you can access this storage space via a Palm VII app! Basically, Its a wireless storage space like that.
And you also get free web hosting @ http://www.workspot.net/~username. With CGI! Mmmmm...
O ya, and the KDE kiks ass too. But don't try to run it in Netscape/MacOS. *crash*.
The only constraint has been bandwidth. The coolness loses its touch when the menu's are jerkin around on a 56k.
All in all, a perfect OS gateway for those with network access to the internet.
I've been using Workspot for almost 3 months now, and its great.
/nutt
As a student in an NT school, i'll often set IE to full screen and code away on some perl scripts.
The coolest thing about workspot is the fact that it offers the whole free storage thing too. Now some of you may think this is old news (X drive, etc), but to all the geeks out there, you can access this storage space via a Palm VII app! Basically, Its a wireless storage space like that.
And you also get free web hosting @ http://www.workspot.net/~username. With CGI! Mmmmm...
O ya, and the KDE kiks ass too. But don't try to run it in Netscape/MacOS. *crash*.
The only constraint has been bandwidth. The coolness loses its touch when the menu's are jerkin around on a 56k.
All in all, a perfect OS gateway for those with network access to the internet.
Damn
My 900Mhz cordless phone isn't the fastest anymore!
I'll have to upgrade to the 2.4GHz phone.
Megahertz is everything, right?
/nutt
Maybe its the past 12 factor kicking in, but I just thought of something...
So If its automagically linked, then this opens up a new door for cracks...
A file can be brute force written until it is linked, and the user knows the file already exists. That way, One can get the contents of a file that one wouldnt otherwise have permission to...
Or does this not files with strict permissions?
I'm no NT guru...someone else enlighten me pleez.
IMHO, Apple is doing a very smart thing in releasing all these Developer Releases.
/nutt
Changing so many things in an OS can be devistating, so when they realease a Dev Release, they get feedback.
Most things have been said 1000 times but I really want to say...
Bring back the windowshade!
It is so much easier to go through windows by clicking on thier title bars, and not having to go all the way to the bottom of the screen. (a la The Dock)
Also, something I don't know if Apple's though of.. what happens with 2 monitors? And with full screen games?
Common apple. This is the feedback you want. Redo the Dock. Pleeeeez.
I must say, i learned a lot from the report the Arsificial Intelligentia over at arstechnica.com put up.
Check it here.
Its got a great deal of info on how MacOS X and Quartz are a 3rd generation GUI, relying on vectors, and a great deal of pdf technology to speed things up. This decreases the amount of power needed to run a transformation like the genie effect by great amounts.
Good stuff.
I think this is one of the most important issues of the upcoming years - can company's patent genes that exist in all of us?
Well, they won't be patening the gene itself, however the process by which it is created.
You can't patent a finger, but you can patent a process that will create fingers.
Much like IBM's patents on copper chips. They patented their process, which at the time, was the only process, of producing copper chips. They couldn't patent the use of copper in chips, that would be absurd. Thus people frantically started trying to create copper chips in altered ways.
But heres a thought: Imagine the lawsuits
Man sues company for stealing his arm.
*grin*
I bow humbly, knowing that John Carmack replied to my mail. my 15 minutes of fame!
Excuse me while I go tell everyone I know...
:)
This great news for every multi-OS quaker out there, but how will this effect the Mac port?
macsoft took time and money to do thier codin, and i really doubt they'll gpl THAT.
Anyone know more then me?
---
I know this is gonna be late to be moderated up, and i'm behind, but here's my seldom heard .02.
I just saw the South Park movie. I loved it. The message is great, and this is what I'm all about.
Why wasn't there a giant movement to stop pokemon?? Its VIOLENCE. SouthPark is cursing. and sex. Things that will come in due time for these children. Violence is the real problem.
I could rant for hours. I'm done.
Yes, if you actually followed the link, it is free... its in the two lines of text on the main page...
:)
V2_OS offers more speed, expandability, and hardware control for adventurous projects and easy programming FOR FREE!
or were you just going for first post?
A lot of thinking went into this one...
/nutt
Servix
O, love it. The slight dash of daily perversion, with the name deserving enough for the only server (file, ipmasq, web) in my house lan.
Proudly running red hat 6.0 for 22 days straight now (its only been in the house for 25!)
My PowerMac G3 (as you can now figure, Servix is a netatalk server, too) is named NutSac -- i guess perversion keeps me sane...
There are a few things in this world that I just can't stand... One of them is misue of the word hacker.
I am a 15 year old swedish born american who is currently living in the States, but I spend my summers in sweden. I bring this up because on the two sides of the ocean...
hacker !=hacker.
During the summer I held a position as an in house tech sup at one of swedens largest IT companies, where my title was "Mac Hacker". I was the inhouse mac guru. The hacker. The guy that knew what he was doing. When family friends asked what I did, I said I was tech sup, fearing the use of the word hacker, because I didnt want them to think I was a cracker. In some cases they would reply-- "Oh, so your a real hacker when it comes to Macs then?" Damn straight.
My past fear of the word hacker explained Well you see, Here in the States, the words hacker and cracker are all to often confused. One doesnt want to be known as a hacker for fear of being known as a cracker. In sweden, a hacker is someone that is good with computers.
This is kind of like the word hack. A hack is something neat on computers, but many people think of it as an exploit.
good example: "I wote a nice perl hack late last night" is what i say if i wrote a nice little script for my webpage that does logins.
bad example: "I just scripted a ritious hack... that server will be down for at least 3 days..." NO! that was a crack. your EVIL!
When my American friends ask me if im a hacker I'll respond: "Im a hacker yes, but Im not what your asking for..." I then explain the difference. Spread the message that hacking isn't cracking. PLEASE!
But after my experience this past summer, I now call my self a hacker. Im a proud one at that. If the government wants to arrest me for doing soemthing neat, then thats their problem.
/nutt
My NSA?
;)
Kinda like the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant where Homer Simpson works. Lots a little switches and do-hickeys. All scientific. Everybody is a phony. High security sure, but layed back work.
They definately have doughnuts and vending machines. O ya, and they crack code nobody else can. But who care about that?!?
And the biggest parallel of them all? -- Evil Bosses...
Mr. Burns = US Goverment
:p
-----
I, nutt, am now coining a new phrase for the next millenium...here goes: "Backseat Hacking"
:p
There are obvious security problems involved... could you imagine the problems with IE5 autocomplete/password store?!?! And since every idiot in the world seems to have AOL, they'll all be checkin http://netmail.web.aol.com... you could hop a cab with a floppy in your pocket, and leave with 10 accounts... LOL
And yahoo finance....
Cookies would be a major problem.. these are the same problems that public libraries and such are having...
Well, good thing linux doesnt have IE.
Imagine installing Back Orifice on a cab comp... geez!!!!!! woa.
It wont take long till they all realize this...3...2...1
-------
My Experience with Broadband...
...right....
The problem with broadband internet is Availability! I live in Bergen County, NJ... 20 minutes from manhatten. Suburbia, USA. Why isn't there a DSL or cable service here!?!?
I called cablevision about 2 years ago, and upon asking about internet services, the lady replied "No Sir, you can't watch our programs over the internet"....right.....
Cablevision is REALLY far behind on this one...ugh. Its only avaible in a spec of Connecticut. BUT! then I read that cable is all DHCP..doe! And I quickly realized that Cable would explode once in arrived (they havent even released a press release or anything... no plans)... so I would get stuck with a fractured connection. And they too have a no-serving policy. So over to (at the time) that new thing called ADSL...
Call up Bell (atlantic)... " O yea, that should arrive any day now(TM)"
I was pumping the availability script with local phone numbers to see who had access -- turns out my (non-techy) friend who lives less then half a mile "as the crow flies" away, is in the circle... DAMNIT!
So here Im sitting, with a sub-400$ linux system and 3 Macs, and Appletalk network (with the linux box running netatalk), and an Epson printer... Waiting -- no wait... DIEING for broadband. I've even read up on IP masq. so I'll be ready.
/nutt
I dont remember (Ever) using wang or pooper.
Somehow I see that your reply seems to iconify exactly what I am fighting. It perturbs me that you could be inconcievably oxymoronic in the senset that you are puting down youths.
You seem to flame me, flame my kind, and then go support my kind
GRAND. You speek out of complete steriotypes. I happen to enjoy jazz, hate tool, love metallica, hate country, and enjoy the doors. I am not blind to the rest of my society, as you apparently are.
NOTE: I attend one of the toughest magnet schools in the country, I take precalc as a frosh. I get A's in English. And French. AND Im bilingual with Swedish as a mother-tounge.
I saw another post and though I'd add another $0.02.
Why are kids not allowed to chew gum in school?
Because they stick gum under chairs...
Why do kids stick gum under chairs??
Because they arent allowed to get up and throw it away.
Irony.
One of the smartest teachers I had was one that allowed us to chew gum. I stopped chewing gum after a month. and when I did chew gum, I threw it out.
Kids can handle it, but they're never given the chance.
...
That makes $0.04
Yes, this all leads into the grand issue of censorship, right up there with abortion and gun control.
-------------
My $0.02
-------------
Well, why does America, (and the rest of the world for that matter) have restricted movie ratings at all?
Answer: Parents that are one with the blindfold.
These are the parents to the freinds that we all had as youths that werent allowed to come over when you were sick, and had to be home by 9:30.
Polititians must satisfy even the paranoid, for they are the stronger voice. Somehow there are no paranoid on our side -- at least not yet..!.
I can understand it, so I live with it. Its sad. But Im trying to fight it.
Approach:
All these parents that stand for the paranoid clique of society want society to sheild itself from their kids. Why do we do this? What happened to majority rules?
If they want their kids to be spoon fed pre-chewed bits of food, (Thank the hacker manifesto for that one) why don't they do it themselves, and let the rest of us see our movies..!.
Polititians will argue that the freedom of choice doesnt apply to the children, as they are too young to decide. They dont have a stabilized judgement.
I am that child.
I am 15, and I have a friend that wasnt allowed to visit me in the hospital, nor are we allowed to play football on the grass when the Green-a-Lawn truck has been around, because we might eat the grass. OR we might bring the pesticides inside, and kill the furniture. GRAND.
Yes, I may be one of the more mature youngens, but I saw terminator when I was 8 and it rocked! period.
Its called an OC3 aka 155MBps aka The big friggin cable that runs through your office...
Then its called a CD Burner. Once 1 copy is out in CD format, distribution is exponential...
Data capture probes: Apple demonstated thse in thier keynote...
example:
A speedometer was rigged to an ibook... then a guy holding an ibook jumped from the rafters of the jacob javitz center...
Over AirPort, one could see the graph on the big screen...
Jumping from the roof..whats next?? Anything for apple.