just use virtual pc to install a crap version of windows on your mac. i have been using dvdbackup for mac and could not find a comparable version of dvdshrink (except for dvd2one which is expensive). even through emulation on a g4, the new virtual pc is pretty fast. encoding an entire dvd in 18 minutes... so if you can get past the "puke" factor of allocating some hard disk space for windows, i think it is a fantastic product. also you can use it to try out "test" operating systems like windows media center from winbeta.org or even the new fedora 3 before putting it on your main server. now i just wonder if i can run some old legacy solaris apps?:)
who is the ITAA? are they funded by Diebold or something? I don't trust any of these consumer groups anymore because there is no central agency you can refer to verifying that a group actually does what it's charter is for. lots of groups that appear to be for the consumer really have someone else in mind. like a bunch of banks get together and form a banking rights for people group but you know who the end results of it are going to benefit. maybe bill gates can start a people for the slow of linux in government (PSLG) concerned citizens group to "help" inform journalists how windows needs to be tested in order to be superior...
I guess a lot of these replies are right on target.
I should have switched to SUSE at the beginning of the whole RH to Fedora migration, but I already had all my config files all tweaked out.
I really like FC2. I think i am just going to stay with it on the main server and live in the OS X laptop environment. Now if only they would come out with OS X for x86:)
i just got a tape player connector to cd kit (a tape with a line jack out of it) and hooked it into my zaurus. my zaurus has 802.11 already so you just ftp into and transfer in whatever you want onto a 1 GB sd card. an added extra is that you can transfer in movies for your passenger to watch also...
i may be wrong on this one too but the grateful dead and phish have already given permission for all of their music to be freely shared however you like...
so if you don't want to be a total p2p leech, just rip all of their cd's to put in your shared folder
i liked the old skool "Max" controller which had turbo for pumping millions of rounds of laser bolts into gradius style enemies.
i am pretty happy with two of these for multi-player enemy slaying... tremon usb controller $0.99
these work with turbo for the following emulators:
atari/ 11-Aug-2004 08:50
gameboy_advance/ 29-Nov-2003 11:04
n64/ 11-Aug-2004 08:51
nes/ 07-May-2004 21:22
sega/ 29-Apr-2004 10:32
snes/ 05-Sep-2004 19:53
i couldn't get it to work with mame in linux and
have had a bad time with mame in general...
hey, why did i get modded offtopic? i sure don't want to register for their contest if i have a.009% chance of winning the money vs. 10% chance of having to go to jury duty...
do they select you for jury duty using voter registration records? everyone i have ever talked to who has been selected for jury duty has been registered to vote... is this a coincidence?
current job listings
who wants to volunteer for a covert subversion operation in database erasure?:)
you can help melissa_valenzuela@mpaa.org write their sniffing software with advanced skills such as Excel and Access... har har dee har har
this sounds like some troll article trying to normalize the public opinion that open source software is analogous to communism...
i don't see anyone being forced to produce software in prison camps for open source party bosses.
if you are walking down the street and you help someone change a tire because they need help, is this a new economic force at work? NO
we live in such an anti-altruistic corporate society that the concept of anyone doing something just because they like it or because it fills a badly needed void without monetary gain seems totally alien to the average economist.
this will only suppress people trying to get into your various info servers (telnet, ftp etc...) you will still get the vast script kiddie assault every day on port 80. you can allow people you want to connect to you on vpn or other services by adding their static ip to the file.
hosts.allow # # hosts.allow This file describes the names of the hosts which are # allowed to use the local INET services, as decided # by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server. #
# Prevent those with no reverse DNS from connecting. ALL : PARANOID : RFC931 20 : deny
# Allow anything from localhost. Note that an IP address (not a host # name) *MUST* be specified for portmap(8). ALL : 127.0.0.1 : allow # internal ip ALL : 192.168.1.100 : allow ALL : 192.168.1.200 : allow ALL : 192.168.1.201 : allow ALL : 192.168.1.202 : allow ALL : 192.168.1.203 : allow ALL : 192.168.1.204 : allow ALL : 192.168.1.205 : allow ALL : 192.168.1.206 : allow ALL : 192.168.1.207 : allow ALL : 192.168.1.208 : allow ALL : 192.168.1.209 : allow ALL : 192.168.1.210 : allow
# other people you like go here ALL : 00.000.000.00 : allow
# You need to be clever with finger; do _not_ backfinger!! You can easily # start a "finger war". fingerd : ALL \
: spawn (echo Finger. | \/usr/bin/mail -s "tcpd\: %u@%h[%a] fingered me!" root) & \
: deny
hosts.deny # # hosts.deny This file describes the names of the hosts which are # *not* allowed to use the local INET services, as decided # by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server. # # The portmap line is redundant, but it is left to remind you that # the new secure portmap uses hosts.deny and hosts.allow. In particular # you should know that NFS uses portmap!
# The rest of the daemons are protected. ALL : ALL \
: severity auth.info \
: twist/bin/echo "Eat a dog poop. You are not welcome to use %d from %h..."
i think that pdf's and the availability of the free adobe viewer have pretty much obsoleted ocr. ocr has to be babysat also. it is not 100% reliable like scanning to pdf is...
we use a windows pci card in our solaris cad
workstations. solaris has a native software that
links you into a windows environment to use outlook and access network drives. it is only a 700 celeron though:)
i have downloaded via bittorrent and watched the three part series mentioned in this previous post... slashdot
i think the real problem with patents is that they
were created as a system to protect an individuals idea.
then when companies were allowed to assume the rights of an individual via incorporation, they are then on par with competing against an individual.
if my rave is getting hard to follow, what i am getting at is that patents were manageable because at the time of their conception,
they were thought of as individuals would be submitting them to the government. the government would have vastly more resources than an individual right? so they could be able to handle the workload.
when corporations began to use the 1886 14th Amendment case in the U.S. Supreme Court about assuming the same rights as an individual, that opened the door to a situation where
1. the person being reviewed has a great many
more resources than the reviewer.
2. the person being reviewed may have more influence than the reviewer.
3. the person being reviewed may be able to exhaust the reviewer.
i got lasik about two years ago and it was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. i weighed all the risks and decided that i had a huge percentage chance of something really great happening and a tiny percentage chance of something absolutely horrible...
one of the places i looked at for my decision was www.surgeryeyes.com
Slashdot Mirror
just use virtual pc to install a crap version of windows on your mac. i have been using dvdbackup for mac and could not find a comparable version of dvdshrink (except for dvd2one which is expensive). even through emulation on a g4, the new virtual pc is pretty fast. encoding an entire dvd in 18 minutes... so if you can get past the "puke" factor of allocating some hard disk space for windows, i think it is a fantastic product. also you can use it to try out "test" operating systems like windows media center from winbeta.org or even the new fedora 3 before putting it on your main server. now i just wonder if i can run some old legacy solaris apps? :)
who is the ITAA? are they funded by Diebold or something? I don't trust any of these consumer groups anymore because there is no central agency you can refer to verifying that a group actually does what it's charter is for. lots of groups that appear to be for the consumer really have someone else in mind. like a bunch of banks get together and form a banking rights for people group but you know who the end results of it are going to benefit. maybe bill gates can start a people for the slow of linux in government (PSLG) concerned citizens group to "help" inform journalists how windows needs to be tested in order to be superior...
I guess a lot of these replies are right on target. I should have switched to SUSE at the beginning of the whole RH to Fedora migration, but I already had all my config files all tweaked out. I really like FC2. I think i am just going to stay with it on the main server and live in the OS X laptop environment. Now if only they would come out with OS X for x86 :)
what reason do we have for upgrading now? these rapid release schedules are TOO rapid. i have stopped even looking for binary rpms anymore.
- People like insipid Gestalt psychology explanations.
- People like to feel like they are in the "know" about things.
- People will always try to organize random occurrences into coherent theories so they don't have to remember quite as many things as seperate entities.
hey, i just came up with a social revelation to write down in pop-psychology texts now too, didn't I?i just got a tape player connector to cd kit (a tape with a line jack out of it) and hooked it into my zaurus. my zaurus has 802.11 already so you just ftp into and transfer in whatever you want onto a 1 GB sd card. an added extra is that you can transfer in movies for your passenger to watch also...
so does that mean it could be available in Fedora Core III?
i may be wrong on this one too but the grateful dead and phish have already given permission for all of their music to be freely shared however you like...
so if you don't want to be a total p2p leech, just rip all of their cd's to put in your shared folder
i guess you have to buy one of these
here is a non-ebay source with more than 2 left
i am pretty happy with two of these for multi-player enemy slaying...
tremon usb controller $0.99
these work with turbo for the following emulators:
atari/ 11-Aug-2004 08:50
gameboy_advance/ 29-Nov-2003 11:04
n64/ 11-Aug-2004 08:51
nes/ 07-May-2004 21:22
sega/ 29-Apr-2004 10:32
snes/ 05-Sep-2004 19:53
i couldn't get it to work with mame in linux and
have had a bad time with mame in general...
hey, why did i get modded offtopic? i sure don't want to register for their contest if i have a .009% chance of winning the money vs. 10% chance of having to go to jury duty...
do they select you for jury duty using voter registration records? everyone i have ever talked to who has been selected for jury duty has been registered to vote... is this a coincidence?
current job listings :)
who wants to volunteer for a covert subversion operation in database erasure?
you can help melissa_valenzuela@mpaa.org write their sniffing software with advanced skills such as Excel and Access... har har dee har har
this sounds like some troll article trying to normalize the public opinion that open source software is analogous to communism... i don't see anyone being forced to produce software in prison camps for open source party bosses. if you are walking down the street and you help someone change a tire because they need help, is this a new economic force at work? NO we live in such an anti-altruistic corporate society that the concept of anyone doing something just because they like it or because it fills a badly needed void without monetary gain seems totally alien to the average economist.
this will only suppress people trying to get into your various info servers (telnet, ftp etc...) you will still get the vast script kiddie assault every day on port 80. you can allow people you want to connect to you on vpn or other services by adding their static ip to the file.
/usr/bin/mail -s "tcpd\: %u@%h[%a] fingered me!" root) & \
/bin/echo "Eat a dog poop. You are not welcome to use %d from %h..."
hosts.allow
#
# hosts.allow This file describes the names of the hosts which are
# allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
# by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
#
# Prevent those with no reverse DNS from connecting.
ALL : PARANOID : RFC931 20 : deny
# Allow anything from localhost. Note that an IP address (not a host
# name) *MUST* be specified for portmap(8).
ALL : 127.0.0.1 : allow
# internal ip
ALL : 192.168.1.100 : allow
ALL : 192.168.1.200 : allow
ALL : 192.168.1.201 : allow
ALL : 192.168.1.202 : allow
ALL : 192.168.1.203 : allow
ALL : 192.168.1.204 : allow
ALL : 192.168.1.205 : allow
ALL : 192.168.1.206 : allow
ALL : 192.168.1.207 : allow
ALL : 192.168.1.208 : allow
ALL : 192.168.1.209 : allow
ALL : 192.168.1.210 : allow
# other people you like go here
ALL : 00.000.000.00 : allow
# You need to be clever with finger; do _not_ backfinger!! You can easily
# start a "finger war".
fingerd : ALL \
: spawn (echo Finger. | \
: deny
hosts.deny
#
# hosts.deny This file describes the names of the hosts which are
# *not* allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
# by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
#
# The portmap line is redundant, but it is left to remind you that
# the new secure portmap uses hosts.deny and hosts.allow. In particular
# you should know that NFS uses portmap!
# The rest of the daemons are protected.
ALL : ALL \
: severity auth.info \
: twist
health care documents are being OCRed? no wonder i got a gender reassignment surgery instead of a wart removed >;)
i think that pdf's and the availability of the free adobe viewer have pretty much obsoleted ocr.
ocr has to be babysat also. it is not 100% reliable like scanning to pdf is...
have you ever used fluxbox with linux?
fluxbox
there is no way any windows desktop can beat that speed.
we use a windows pci card in our solaris cad workstations. solaris has a native software that links you into a windows environment to use outlook and access network drives. it is only a 700 celeron though :)
slashdot
i think the real problem with patents is that they were created as a system to protect an individuals idea.
then when companies were allowed to assume the rights of an individual via incorporation, they are then on par with competing against an individual.
if my rave is getting hard to follow, what i am getting at is that patents were manageable because at the time of their conception,
they were thought of as individuals would be submitting them to the government. the government would have vastly more resources than an individual right? so they could be able to handle the workload.
when corporations began to use the 1886 14th Amendment case in the U.S. Supreme Court about assuming the same rights as an individual, that opened the door to a situation where
1. the person being reviewed has a great many more resources than the reviewer.
2. the person being reviewed may have more influence than the reviewer.
3. the person being reviewed may be able to exhaust the reviewer.
text from ancient sleep manual :)
1:go have sex with someone/something.
2:wait for nature to kick in.
3:repeat cycle if needed
i got lasik about two years ago and it was
the greatest thing that ever happened to me.
i weighed all the risks and decided that i had a huge percentage chance of something really great
happening and a tiny percentage chance of
something absolutely horrible...
one of the places i looked at for my decision was
www.surgeryeyes.com
now you can have your head scanned and have a really scare tombstone !!! :)
this is probably someones answer as how to equalize voice over ip with plain old telephone taxes...