Perhaps it's time for Indymedia to move to a cloud computing service such as Amazon's EC2. I imagine it becomes quite a lot harder to sieze a server in this kind of environment. Their server could be running pretty much anywhere (and would easily be restartable,) and their data could be replicated in multiple geographic locations.
Of course, the police could just get Amazon to shut down their account instead. It depends on whether the siezing of the server was to recover data, or to take down the service.
Ghosts n' Goblins wasn't on the list either. I have a GnG arcade cabinet. Me and a friend played the thing for the best part of a day on freeplay, but never quite managed to get past the second run-through.
1984 was also the year that Elite was released on the BBC. Why has nobody else mentioned this? I spent more hours playing that than any other game since, including Doom.
I built our media center PC for much less than that. It uses an old athlon XP 1200+ which is more than adequate for the job. The system runs freevo on a free linux distribution, has only 256Mb of RAM, and a cheap video card that does TV-out (cost about £15) which looks fine on my non-HD TV. The whole thing was put together for about £150. Although, admittedly that doesn't include the storage -- that went in the server in the attic. But, 6 300Gb drives left me with 1.4Tb of usable RAID5 space and I'd have still had change out of $2200 to buy an upgrade my desktoop PC.
Actually, if you look further down the comments, you'll find another post by Matt Nikki saying that he tried it again and it didn't work, so either he got lucky one time or something strange is going on.
I found it did pretty good on obscure stuff.
It correctly identified three different slayer songs that *I* couldn't differentiate between. It also got stuff by the Ozric Tentacles.
It didn't recognise Current 93, or me singing happy birthday though.
I'd be quite happy to see robots take over in motor racing. It'd be great to see what kind of machines people could come up with to get themselves round a track as quickly as possible, once all the design concerns related to human safety are removed.
It's also more practical financially, as in most of the large motor racing series there is already a substantial budget for hardware maintenance.;-)
Personally, I found myself quite suprised that support for this wasn't there already.
Commercial antivirus vendors should have implemented this. It seems ludicrous to me that the vendors of these products skipped a popular compression mechanism just because nobody had bothered to release a virus that understood it first. Security companies should be preemptively building in support for things like this. It's not as if it was an unpredictable issue.
The free(speech) ClamAV has support for this already, and I would hazard other compression formats as well. It obviously doesn't take *massive* developer effort to add support for things like this. And it's obviously something that people have already thought about it.
One of the reasons why we have such a problem with these things is that *even vendors of security products* don't seem to want to think proactively about issues that might arise. They wait for something to bite them in the ass before they fix it - leaving everyone vulnerable in the meantime.
There used to be a few speccy games on vinyl. In fact, a few 80's pop acts (Thompson Twins, Shakin' Stevens) released some as B-sides on some of their singles.
Apparently the game wasn't very good.
There's some more info on previous data-on-vinyl experiments here.
Hope this doesn't sound too much like an ad.
I work for a company that produces software for people who have trouble reading. Mostly aimed at learning disabilites, but also people who don't have English as a first language, etc.
We use a database of symbols (around 6,000) matched up to English words (about 23,000). The symbols are constructed with a consistent language structure, and are widely used in the UK.
We've produced a bunch of software tools that use them. From writing tools (click on the symbols in order to write a sentence) to a desktop publisher. I've been concentrating on internet stuff, and we're just about to release a web browser that displays web pages with symbols, too. We also produced an email client.
The good thing about the web browser, is that up 'till now, most existing symbol content is aimed at younger with people. Using a browser you can try approaching reading with a variety of different, more grown-up subject materials.
I shan't post a link, but if you're intereted you can google on "symbol web browser".
Here we have a LETS (local exchange trading scheme) set up that puts local people in touch with each other to trade their services. It's run by the local food co-op...
I pretty much do out-of-office-hours tech-support for babysitting, work on my car, and locally grown veg.
There's a "no moonlighting" clause in my contract, so it gets around that quite nicely.:-)
Feh. Some of us *still* have to use Windows for our jobs. Personally, I develop Windows software for a living (under vmware, under enlightenment, on linux, but still...) - and so as a result I still have to run explorer.
Running the KDE WM as an explorer replacement would lead me to having One Less MS Program Running On My Machine. Which, IMHO would be A Good Thing.
> I think we are a ways off from that. It would take considerable effort to port KDE off of cygwin and run it natively in windows.
Hmm... I wonder how much non-qt code there is in KDE. If it links directly to a bunch of non-qt libraries then I guess this would be a problem. I thought that KDE pretty much ran on top of Qt, so it might not be that hard to make it work if the underlying API were native.
> KDE wont use Qt4 until KDE4 which is at least a year off yet though.
Will a Qt3 program fail to compile against Qt4? I'd have presumed there'd be some backwards-compatibility in there. I guess that might have been too restrictive for the developers though.
> Are phishers going to bother trying to use this exploit if it works on less than 10% of their potential victims?
They sure are. Think about how many people actually respond to spam messages. It's probably much smaller than 0.01%, but it's still economical enough for the to send out the messages anyway. I'd be fairly confident that the same holds true for phishers, too.
I had my first computer experiences on an Apple ][, at age three or so. My dad was teaching me to read, and figured the computer could help.
It didn't have much in the way of graphics, per se, so he made a cardreader out of some LEDs and light sensors, and made up 256 punch cards each with a different picture on it. (cat, dog, train...)
He wrote a program, so that I'd insert the card, and would have to type the first letter (or later, the whole word) of the picture on the card. As a result, I picked up reading very quickly.
Incidentally, thanks to the Apple the first word I learned to spell wasn't my name... It was 'run'.
I have a thinkpad that overheats. It's pretty clogged and could do with a clean, but I'm not sure how to take the thing apart without breaking it. (If someone knows where I can find a service manual...?)
As a workaround for the heat problems, I use three rubber doorstops in a triangular formation to prop it up when I'm working on it. I haven't had a single heat-related crash since, and doorstops aren't much hassle to carry around in the bag.:-)
I've been using it for my root partition on my main desktop, and my laptop for a bit over a month. I do however use reiser3 partitions for/home as I don't want to lose any code.
Having said that, I haven't lost any data, or experienced any crashes... And it makes portage a lot snappier too.
Actually, DirectMusic (part of DirectX since version 7 or so) is not very dissimilar to iMuse, at least in concept. It lets you build blocks of music together, define transitions between them, and assign different 'groove levels' for them, so that the music can get more exciting as the action hots up, or you switch between 'moods', and so on. It's pretty good for creating dynamic soundtracks.
The thing is that synthesized MIDI music doesn't sound anything like as good as a digital soundtrack recorded in a professional studio, so it tends to get overlooked. Doing something with pre-recorded audio would be pretty hard to implement without using up masses of RAM for all the audio snippets and so on, and it would be hard to transition gracefully between them all.
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Perhaps it's time for Indymedia to move to a cloud computing service such as Amazon's EC2. I imagine it becomes quite a lot harder to sieze a server in this kind of environment. Their server could be running pretty much anywhere (and would easily be restartable,) and their data could be replicated in multiple geographic locations.
Of course, the police could just get Amazon to shut down their account instead. It depends on whether the siezing of the server was to recover data, or to take down the service.
Ghosts n' Goblins wasn't on the list either. I have a GnG arcade cabinet. Me and a friend played the thing for the best part of a day on freeplay, but never quite managed to get past the second run-through.
1984 was also the year that Elite was released on the BBC. Why has nobody else mentioned this? I spent more hours playing that than any other game since, including Doom.
Or across the sky in big, fiery letters?
I built our media center PC for much less than that. It uses an old athlon XP 1200+ which is more than adequate for the job. The system runs freevo on a free linux distribution, has only 256Mb of RAM, and a cheap video card that does TV-out (cost about £15) which looks fine on my non-HD TV. The whole thing was put together for about £150. Although, admittedly that doesn't include the storage -- that went in the server in the attic. But, 6 300Gb drives left me with 1.4Tb of usable RAID5 space and I'd have still had change out of $2200 to buy an upgrade my desktoop PC.
... and how long it will be before someone ports Doom to it.
Actually, if you look further down the comments, you'll find another post by Matt Nikki saying that he tried it again and it didn't work, so either he got lucky one time or something strange is going on.
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Yeah, I misread it too. I thought it was going to be about high-speed electric cats.
I found it did pretty good on obscure stuff. It correctly identified three different slayer songs that *I* couldn't differentiate between. It also got stuff by the Ozric Tentacles. It didn't recognise Current 93, or me singing happy birthday though.
If only they'd launched this a couple of months ago, then I wouldn't have had to spend so much time mangling the html the old-fashioned way. ;-)
I'd be quite happy to see robots take over in motor racing. It'd be great to see what kind of machines people could come up with to get themselves round a track as quickly as possible, once all the design concerns related to human safety are removed.
;-)
It's also more practical financially, as in most of the large motor racing series there is already a substantial budget for hardware maintenance.
Personally, I found myself quite suprised that support for this wasn't there already.
Commercial antivirus vendors should have implemented this. It seems ludicrous to me that the vendors of these products skipped a popular compression mechanism just because nobody had bothered to release a virus that understood it first. Security companies should be preemptively building in support for things like this. It's not as if it was an unpredictable issue.
The free(speech) ClamAV has support for this already, and I would hazard other compression formats as well. It obviously doesn't take *massive* developer effort to add support for things like this. And it's obviously something that people have already thought about it.
One of the reasons why we have such a problem with these things is that *even vendors of security products* don't seem to want to think proactively about issues that might arise. They wait for something to bite them in the ass before they fix it - leaving everyone vulnerable in the meantime.
There used to be a few speccy games on vinyl. In fact, a few 80's pop acts (Thompson Twins, Shakin' Stevens) released some as B-sides on some of their singles.
Apparently the game wasn't very good.
There's some more info on previous data-on-vinyl experiments here.
Hope this doesn't sound too much like an ad. I work for a company that produces software for people who have trouble reading. Mostly aimed at learning disabilites, but also people who don't have English as a first language, etc. We use a database of symbols (around 6,000) matched up to English words (about 23,000). The symbols are constructed with a consistent language structure, and are widely used in the UK. We've produced a bunch of software tools that use them. From writing tools (click on the symbols in order to write a sentence) to a desktop publisher. I've been concentrating on internet stuff, and we're just about to release a web browser that displays web pages with symbols, too. We also produced an email client. The good thing about the web browser, is that up 'till now, most existing symbol content is aimed at younger with people. Using a browser you can try approaching reading with a variety of different, more grown-up subject materials. I shan't post a link, but if you're intereted you can google on "symbol web browser".
Here we have a LETS (local exchange trading scheme) set up that puts local people in touch with each other to trade their services. It's run by the local food co-op...
:-)
I pretty much do out-of-office-hours tech-support for babysitting, work on my car, and locally grown veg.
There's a "no moonlighting" clause in my contract, so it gets around that quite nicely.
Feh. Some of us *still* have to use Windows for our jobs. Personally, I develop Windows software for a living (under vmware, under enlightenment, on linux, but still...) - and so as a result I still have to run explorer.
Running the KDE WM as an explorer replacement would lead me to having One Less MS Program Running On My Machine. Which, IMHO would be A Good Thing.
> I think we are a ways off from that. It would take considerable effort to port KDE off of cygwin and run it natively in windows.
Hmm... I wonder how much non-qt code there is in KDE. If it links directly to a bunch of non-qt libraries then I guess this would be a problem. I thought that KDE pretty much ran on top of Qt, so it might not be that hard to make it work if the underlying API were native.
> KDE wont use Qt4 until KDE4 which is at least a year off yet though.
Will a Qt3 program fail to compile against Qt4? I'd have presumed there'd be some backwards-compatibility in there. I guess that might have been too restrictive for the developers though.
I tried KDE on Cygwin a while back, without a great deal of success. (At least as far as using the window manager effectively was concerned.)
With any luck we'll soon be able to use KDE natively on windows, as a drop-in replacement for Explorer. That would be awesome.
> Are phishers going to bother trying to use this exploit if it works on less than 10% of their potential victims?
They sure are. Think about how many people actually respond to spam messages. It's probably much smaller than 0.01%, but it's still economical enough for the to send out the messages anyway. I'd be fairly confident that the same holds true for phishers, too.
Try searching on:
inurl:"axis-cgi/mjpg"
This gets you the mjpg stream every time. Works fine here on firefox 64-bit.
I had my first computer experiences on an Apple ][, at age three or so. My dad was teaching me to read, and figured the computer could help. It didn't have much in the way of graphics, per se, so he made a cardreader out of some LEDs and light sensors, and made up 256 punch cards each with a different picture on it. (cat, dog, train...) He wrote a program, so that I'd insert the card, and would have to type the first letter (or later, the whole word) of the picture on the card. As a result, I picked up reading very quickly. Incidentally, thanks to the Apple the first word I learned to spell wasn't my name... It was 'run'.
You don't have to get it over steam... You can buy it from a store if you like, with no connection required.
I have a thinkpad that overheats. It's pretty clogged and could do with a clean, but I'm not sure how to take the thing apart without breaking it. (If someone knows where I can find a service manual ...?)
:-)
As a workaround for the heat problems, I use three rubber doorstops in a triangular formation to prop it up when I'm working on it. I haven't had a single heat-related crash since, and doorstops aren't much hassle to carry around in the bag.
I've been using it for my root partition on my main desktop, and my laptop for a bit over a month. I do however use reiser3 partitions for /home as I don't want to lose any code.
Having said that, I haven't lost any data, or experienced any crashes... And it makes portage a lot snappier too.
Actually, DirectMusic (part of DirectX since version 7 or so) is not very dissimilar to iMuse, at least in concept. It lets you build blocks of music together, define transitions between them, and assign different 'groove levels' for them, so that the music can get more exciting as the action hots up, or you switch between 'moods', and so on. It's pretty good for creating dynamic soundtracks.
The thing is that synthesized MIDI music doesn't sound anything like as good as a digital soundtrack recorded in a professional studio, so it tends to get overlooked. Doing something with pre-recorded audio would be pretty hard to implement without using up masses of RAM for all the audio snippets and so on, and it would be hard to transition gracefully between them all.