Does this qualify as the oldest movie with real computer hacking?
The computer that controls all teh traffic lights in Turin has its tape replaced with a special programme - designed by Benny Hill of all people.
This of course is used to force gridlock on the city while our heroes escape in 3 (red white and blue) minis by driving on pavements and through buildings.
Just a Quick correction - patching Icecast may sound scarey.... if it does then prepare to be disappointed. You need to patch the Linux Kernel or at least build a special kernel module to sneak past certain limitations in teh Xing Encdoer which stops it reading from pipes.
Would It qualify as a conspiracy theory if I pointed out that the Beta version of xingmp3enc (released before Real bought them) worked fine without any need to hoodwink it into working?
If you use icecast then any reasonable CPU these days will saturate a 100MB ethernet with plenty of CPU to spare. So using a big CPU doesn't get you that much extra.
For example using LiveIce and Icecast on the same machine I can encode live audio and saturate my 100Mbit card on a PIII.
Never Mind Quicktime's streaming server - there's been an open source streaming audio solution on linux for 2 years... Icecast is the server of choice now.
Umm becauase every new verion of MS Office has a file format which is incompatible with the old versions? And if one person upgrades then to read their documents then everyone has to upgrade...
I mean Rosetta has only been worked on for the last decade....
People started work on Rosetta before Linus started work on Linux.
Anyway - this is an amazingly cool mission, but I'm not sure of their chances of orbiting a small outgassing body, especially since the measurements of the comet make it look smaller and smaller every time we look at it;-)
Stardust is the US response - they want to fly through the tail of a comet and pick up dust in an aerogel capture system for return to earth.
OK Bad things first (1) The audio is 32Kbit.... too fast for modems... (2) The encoder isn't the best one in the world - good encoders can give the same quality at 16Kbit (3)The Announcers need a bit more practice and pace - that'll come with time and practice
I can forgive them for all these - commercial encoders cost money, and the free encoders are no good below 32kbit.
The Good Things (1) It's Not Real Audio! (2) users on slow links can Download it. (3) They're using a non-commercial encoder (4) The First story they mentioned was my series on animation on linuxpower.com
This last one is actually oddly ironic - since I started mp3 radio on Linux back in 1997 - I was one of the first - so it's spooky that the first mention should be for me... even if it's completely unrelated to mp3 radio (mp3serv/Icecast/LiveIce)
Oh... A new Icecast capable Plugin...
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Guess I'll need to step up the work on LiveIce.... I need a GUI (any GTK experts out there;-)
I'm sure some of you have tred debugging a system via the internet and wished you could get your hands on teh machien to figure it out.
In astronomy we only see things from one angle.
Anyway... we don't get enough money to do all the research we';d like to - if you want answers you need to get the Governments to give us the resources to get them;-)
Well.... This is a bit irritating... but then again most people using 2.2 are bleeding edge hacker types who will think very little of making a new kernel.
Now... has anyone tried the exploit on other OS's?
Icecast with the Variable bitrate xingmp3 encoder beats RA G2 hands down - especially at low bitrates..... of course most people arne't aware that mp3/2.5 can go down to 8Kbit encoding.
Learn about these things before making stupid judgments like that... you'll only look stupid.
*All* superconductors have a limit to their current carrying - this is because the Magnetic fields generated by the current tend to disrupt the cooper pairs. So - build a suitable supercondictive circuit and you can turn the flow of current between two points on and off...
Well it#s probably some interesting new design that they're really interested in.
B ut the Sennsitivity is still lacking to see Jupiter.
I'm glad to find something closer to our solar system - all thos gas giants on 3 day orbits were starting to make the chances of life elsewhere look less and less likely.
Give them free time on a Community Beowulf
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We're wprking on the subject... but the limitation is the observations...
Ahhh... slight problem is that all that kinetic enery that the asteroid has is still contained in all those pebbles.
So all that energy is conveniently dumped into the atmosphere, superheating hte air and turning the air into an oven.
Rememebr the second fragment in deep impact? Rememebr it getting broken up? Rememebr everyone escaping into the mountains?
Now imagine everyone spontaneously combusting due tot he heat in the air.... imagine all teh forests cathing fire.... imagine all teh ozone being destroyed... imagine the real nuclear winter afterward
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Yeah - 23 January this year there was a big one - the estimated energy release was equivalent to converting twice the mass of the sun into energy.
This was the first GRB to be observer in the optical during the burst - they build a special fast tracking telescope that could point anywhere on the sky in 3 seconds.
Best bit is.... the computer hardware running this is running linux.
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Does this qualify as the oldest movie with real computer hacking?
The computer that controls all teh traffic lights in Turin has its tape replaced with a special programme - designed by Benny Hill of all people.
This of course is used to force gridlock on the city while our heroes escape in 3 (red white and blue) minis by driving on pavements and through buildings.
Just a Quick correction - patching Icecast may sound scarey.... if it does then prepare to be disappointed. You need to patch the Linux Kernel or at least build a special kernel module to sneak past certain limitations in teh Xing Encdoer which stops it reading from pipes.
Would It qualify as a conspiracy theory if I pointed out that the Beta version of xingmp3enc (released before Real bought them) worked fine without any need to hoodwink it into working?
Of Course It's Suitable for Live Streaming.... I mean I'm the author of LiveIce and I['m pretty damn sure that I can stream live.
(and even before shoutcast came along you could use mp3serv to broadcast live from linux...)
If you use icecast then any reasonable CPU these days will saturate a 100MB ethernet with plenty of CPU to spare. So using a big CPU doesn't get you that much extra.
For example using LiveIce and Icecast on the same machine I can encode live audio and saturate my 100Mbit card on a PIII.
Never Mind Quicktime's streaming server - there's been an open source streaming audio solution on linux for 2 years... Icecast is the server of choice now.
Of course... it's never quite as good as the Guiness served in Ireland...
Slashdot has to have a party here in Ireland...
Alternativvely I could just invite a load of total stranger to my flat like I usually do.
Distributed.net don't have one for download...
;-)
I guess they had to hack together their own
Why can't we just use our old packages?
Umm becauase every new verion of MS Office has a file format which is incompatible with the old versions? And if one person upgrades then to read their documents then everyone has to upgrade...
I mean Rosetta has only been worked on for the last decade....
;-)
People started work on Rosetta before Linus started work on Linux.
Anyway - this is an amazingly cool mission, but I'm not sure of their chances of orbiting a small outgassing body, especially since the measurements of the comet make it look smaller and smaller every time we look at it
Stardust is the US response - they want to fly through the tail of a comet and pick up dust in an aerogel capture system for return to earth.
Rosetta looks much more interesting.
I recorded my own version of adminspotting in one of my radio shows.... you can download the mp3 from http://szyzyg.arm.ac.uk/~ spm/live_mpegs/adminspotting.mp3.
..... but still amusing
It's a bit old now
OK Bad things first
(1) The audio is 32Kbit.... too fast for modems...
(2) The encoder isn't the best one in the world - good encoders can give the same quality at 16Kbit
(3)The Announcers need a bit more practice and pace - that'll come with time and practice
I can forgive them for all these - commercial encoders cost money, and the free encoders are no good below 32kbit.
The Good Things
(1) It's Not Real Audio!
(2) users on slow links can Download it.
(3) They're using a non-commercial encoder
(4) The First story they mentioned was my series on animation on linuxpower.com
This last one is actually oddly ironic - since I started mp3 radio on Linux back in 1997 - I was one of the first - so it's spooky that the first mention should be for me... even if it's completely unrelated to mp3 radio (mp3serv/Icecast/LiveIce)
Guess I'll need to step up the work on LiveIce.... I need a GUI (any GTK experts out there ;-)
Well... Astronomy is a difficult system..
;-)
I'm sure some of you have tred debugging a system via the internet and wished you could get your hands on teh machien to figure it out.
In astronomy we only see things from one angle.
Anyway... we don't get enough money to do all the research we';d like to - if you want answers you need to get the Governments to give us the resources to get them
Nova Velorum appeared about a week ago (but slashdot didn' think that a new star in the sky was worth reporting.....:-( ).
It's the brightest Nova for 20 years - second magnitude - brighter than most of the stars in teh sky.
Eta Carinae is fun...
Well....
This is a bit irritating... but then again most people using 2.2 are bleeding edge hacker types who will think very little of making a new kernel.
Now... has anyone tried the exploit on other OS's?
Icecast with the Variable bitrate xingmp3 encoder beats RA G2 hands down - especially at low bitrates..... of course most people arne't aware that mp3/2.5 can go down to 8Kbit encoding.
Learn about these things before making stupid judgments like that... you'll only look stupid.
*All* superconductors have a limit to their current carrying - this is because the Magnetic fields generated by the current tend to disrupt the cooper pairs. So - build a suitable supercondictive circuit and you can turn the flow of current between two points on and off...
Well it#s probably some interesting new design that they're really interested in.
Like Icecast....
Especially since a lot of Linux 2.2 users can't use real audio right now.
If SP5 has the same effect as SP4 does (50% drop in disk speed) then I've no problems with that..
Ummm That should be Mindcraft right?
This is an alramingly common mistake - poor netcraft.
B ut the Sennsitivity is still lacking to see Jupiter.
I'm glad to find something closer to our solar system - all thos gas giants on 3 day orbits were starting to make the chances of life elsewhere look less and less likely.
We're wprking on the subject... but the limitation is the observations...
Hey - read 'Nemesis' by Bill Napier - same idea - a High Tech Thriller - and the only work of fiction to mention linux. (except for MS press releases)
Ahhh... slight problem is that all that kinetic enery that the asteroid has is still contained in all those pebbles.
.... imagine all teh forests cathing fire.... imagine all teh ozone being destroyed... imagine the real nuclear winter afterward
So all that energy is conveniently dumped into the atmosphere, superheating hte air and turning the air into an oven.
Rememebr the second fragment in deep impact? Rememebr it getting broken up?
Rememebr everyone escaping into the mountains?
Now imagine everyone spontaneously combusting due tot he heat in the air
;-)
Yeah - 23 January this year there was a big one - the estimated energy release was equivalent to converting twice the mass of the sun into energy.
This was the first GRB to be observer in the optical during the burst - they build a special fast tracking telescope that could point anywhere on the sky in 3 seconds.
Best bit is.... the computer hardware running this is running linux.