I think a lot of readers are missing the point. This is all about having fun. I love compiling a kernel, or a new piece of software as much as the next guy; and I get a kick when one of my programs finally does whart it's supposed to. But there is really somehting great about having a Dremel in your hands, cutting a hole for a new fan. All of these sites, PCMODS, Virtual Hideout, and even [H]ard|OCP originally started out as places to exchange idea and tools for overclocking, and coooling. Once people get started it can be a lot of fun! Adding a couple of fans to my machine is great.. I can flip one switch on my machine and watch my Motherboard temperatures drop; and know that it's not because I went out and bought a lot of expensive stuff, but because I took the time to do something myself. It is a little about showing off, but a lot of it is about pride. The fact that you can admire your own handiwork, and just the fun of the experience!
Great show guys! Anyone know what patches that Taco made to XFree? Did Jamie talk once in the whole show? And what is that about no ending music? Huh! I know I personally only listen to GiS for the intro and ending music, and my weekly assignment of what to send to Kurt! Actually it was a really fun show to listen to, although slightly dated... Discussion of the ongoing election and promises of a "Holiday Spectacular/Life Day Spectacular" with Lumpy and Itchy.
Proxys-4-all has been running a list of bothe anonymous and non-anonymous proxies for a few years. They are listed such that you can choose anon/non-anon, and then pick a domain (eg:.edu,.jp, etc.) from which you want to get a proxy, then it is just a matter of finding the one that is fastest for you from the list that it returns. PROXYS-4-ALL
I have been doing Satelite Oceanography analysis for 3 years now, as part of a research group. The main machine that we have been using for image processing and analysis is a SGI Octane, however we use IDL and SeaDAS to do most of our analysis not GIMP. We have however had very little problems even analysising GIGs of FLAT files simultaneously. While I know this may not help you much I can attest to the fact that the guys over at SGI have been very helpful to us, even loaning us a couple of extra machines when we had a small conference/course. We have also been using a set of O2s as terminals and to handle other services like DNS, file and print sharing, etc. While you do pay a bit of overhead to get the SGI name they are great machines with great service and a great company backing them up.
I have been using JAWS encryption on my Palm Pilot for over two years now, and I have loved it. You can set it so that the first few characters of something are still readable, like the Title or Subject, and encrypt the rest of the document on your palm using up to a 4096 bit key.
You can find more information here: http://www.rodeoisland.com/jaws/jaws_info3.htm
and find a review and help from ZDnet here: http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,24 03097-3,00.html
I thought from reading the post that he wanted ONE stream out to the existing Cable Wiring in the building. That one stream could then serve multiple TVs on the wire.
This isn't all that new. In the 80s there were a lot of experiments with computer designed "life-forms". From what I remember (I too am unable to find a link) the computer was fed the terrain data, much like you are talking about, however it designed polygon based "creatures" based on the data that you fed it. Really interesting work, and probably the direct precursor to what you are talking about.
I have been Using a Program called CookiePal for years to control the cookies I allow on my machine in Windows. You can also opt-out of doubleclick. Although if you don't allow them to use cookies it doesn't matter.
The only Banner Ad blockers thatI have seen simply prevent the display of pictures that are standard banner size: x pixels by x pixels.
That User policy is just a little bit intimidating!
Clause 5.7 "You must not use automated programs to continually send or receive high volumes of data via the Service." Well this clause nicely prohibits the use of programs like Gnutella, Napster, and their clones; along with just about every other distributed client software.
Clause 5.3 "You must not permit any person, other than adult members of your household or others with your express permission and under your personal supervision, to use the Service." While I don't really take offense to laying it out this plainly; but honestly how many of us allow absolutely anyone to walk into our house (remeber this a home based service only) and use our computers?
Clause 5.5 "<snip>...[You] must not in any circumstances connect servers which transmit data to the internet or cable network, such as ftp servers and chat servers." I am just curious as to how far they can/will carry this. Will they include samba/"network neighborhood" servers in this category? And what about functionalities such as W2K's time server?
Just a few of my thoughts. However if this is all that is offered, then those regulations can and should probably be over looked. I recently made the move from 26.4k modem to cable, and have loved it.
We all consider cooling to be of vital importance in our silicon based machines, don't we? What kind of new cooling device are they going to create/use that will keep the DNA from degrading or just plain denaturing? Not that this isn't an interesting experiment, but the actual implementation seems rather difficult and/or unstable.
Linux Journal had an article about GNU/Linux on a wristwatch with videoconferencing last month, here is a link to the appropriate month with a picture of the watch on the cover even!
http://www2.linuxjournal. com/lj-issues/issue75/index.html
As I have not used one of these Ghost/Restore CDs form an OEM I am not sure if this will work. However at the University I attend we use "loaner" laptops for different departments and research, we use a ghosted CD for OS restore (win98se and win2000) however these CDs only affect the C: partion on the disk. We tell users to put all of there data on D: or any other partion on the disk, so if they do need a OS reinstall they do no lose anything. Theses CDs also do no affect LINUX or BSD partitions on the disk I am happy to report. Again, whil I am not sure if this is the case with these new OEM CDs, I am just reporting what out experience has been; oh yes, these CDs were provided by DELL, but were specific to our institution rather than general OEM CDs.
While the local effects of cities on area weather patterns is interesting, especiaaly to it's residents, we should all be thinking about the global weather and what are collective cities are doing to change the way the planet functions. On that note I would like to put a plug in for The Casino-21 experiment they are hoping to use spare cycles; like Seti@Home or distributed.net to do global climate simulations. They are still in the preliminary stages, however it is a very noble goal. Last I knew they were looking for help coding some of the tools and applications neccessary; and I know that many of the/. readers are well versed in writing code, and many are kind enough to donate their services to projects like this.
Not even close, evidently you haven't been doing your homework. If you listened to "Geeks in Space: Slashdot Radio" you would know that we have a weekly assignment to email kurt@thepope.org about some interesting topic; such as how many a's you can put in the subject or your favorite gin drink.
Is there a central webpage where you can find information on upcoming tradeshows and conventions? I think it would be a great asset to our community and the computer community in general. Can anyone tell me if there is a site such as this. If not I am going to start one!
Will there be a live webcam at the wedding, or a video posted afterward? At least pictures like Chris and Christine's wedding? It was really great to see all of our favorite "characters" in one place, let alone dressed up like penguins.
I think (while maybe not a perfect example) that this is exactly what we need Data Haven's like Sealand for. This was not illegal in any real sense of the word, he was not pettling drugs or child porn. He was spoofing a known national identity. When a controversial organization such as PETA decides that they need a web site they are opening themselves up to a slew of attacks; both from crackers and other individuals who do not agree with their point of view. This individual has the right to say whatever he chooses, if he decides to put it on the web so others can freely access it, all the better. If PETA felt that people could be confused by a mockery of their own page about eating animals (that did not look like the actually PETA page) maybe they should reconsider who their target audience is. Had this been at the data haven what would have happened? This man had not violated any of SeaLand's rules. Would the page still be up?
Also is anyone yet mirroring the pages content? Just because the justice system is being short sited in setting precidents doesn't mean that this page should not still be available.
You have to remeber that as USB can only handle 12 mbps, the 10/100 USB ethernet doesn't net you that much extra speed, most likely not noticeable at all. If you are looking for a 10/100 I recomend the Linksys as it has both Linux and BSD support out there. Do remember though that these are closed machines, and just because you plug the ethernet into the USB it doesn't mean it will work. Most likely it will not; as I doubt they have included drivers for this in their install.
While not currently available for linux (at least that I have been able to find) PGP puts out a great product called PGPfone. Not only does it do voice over IP in decent quality it also Encrypts your conversation at whatever keylength that you specify, without noticeable signal degredation.
What I want to know is what are they going to do once they have an anonymous tip? Who will they be reporting this to? Will they post these individuals names on a web site (let's hope not) will they contact the faculty at the school? Will they compile a list of these individuals accessible to law inforcement agencies? And how are they going to verify that any of this information is true?
It also says that they are a "for-profit" group, how are they going to accomplish this? Sell the list of dangerous kids?
The Chip makers must be resorting to cutting corners somewhere if they are able to move up the release date 2 quarters. Has anyone heard anything about this? How are they capable of accelerating the production time like this, without compromising some feature or security or introducing bugs.
Here at Cornell University we pay over $80 a semester for access to the Campus Network, it is in fact a money making endevour for them. There have been threats of crack downs on programs like Napster and sites like DialPad, but nothing yet. As I also work for the campus computing center running the email system, I know that we in fact do not have a bandwidth problem, however that is an easy excuse for them. If they want to make reduce access, fine, I don't agree with it, however they do then need to stop charging students. I am sure this is similar to other campuses as well. If your campus does do this the first thing you should do is change all the default ports on things like Napster (they block the port not the protocol) and look into proxys
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I think a lot of readers are missing the point. This is all about having fun. I love compiling a kernel, or a new piece of software as much as the next guy; and I get a kick when one of my programs finally does whart it's supposed to. But there is really somehting great about having a Dremel in your hands, cutting a hole for a new fan. All of these sites, PCMODS, Virtual Hideout, and even [H]ard|OCP originally started out as places to exchange idea and tools for overclocking, and coooling. Once people get started it can be a lot of fun! Adding a couple of fans to my machine is great.. I can flip one switch on my machine and watch my Motherboard temperatures drop; and know that it's not because I went out and bought a lot of expensive stuff, but because I took the time to do something myself. It is a little about showing off, but a lot of it is about pride. The fact that you can admire your own handiwork, and just the fun of the experience!
Great show guys! Anyone know what patches that Taco made to XFree? Did Jamie talk once in the whole show? And what is that about no ending music? Huh! I know I personally only listen to GiS for the intro and ending music, and my weekly assignment of what to send to Kurt! Actually it was a really fun show to listen to, although slightly dated... Discussion of the ongoing election and promises of a "Holiday Spectacular/Life Day Spectacular" with Lumpy and Itchy.
Proxys-4-all has been running a list of bothe anonymous and non-anonymous proxies for a few years. They are listed such that you can choose anon/non-anon, and then pick a domain (eg: .edu, .jp, etc.) from which you want to get a proxy, then it is just a matter of finding the one that is fastest for you from the list that it returns.
PROXYS-4-ALL
I have been doing Satelite Oceanography analysis for 3 years now, as part of a research group. The main machine that we have been using for image processing and analysis is a SGI Octane, however we use IDL and SeaDAS to do most of our analysis not GIMP. We have however had very little problems even analysising GIGs of FLAT files simultaneously. While I know this may not help you much I can attest to the fact that the guys over at SGI have been very helpful to us, even loaning us a couple of extra machines when we had a small conference/course. We have also been using a set of O2s as terminals and to handle other services like DNS, file and print sharing, etc. While you do pay a bit of overhead to get the SGI name they are great machines with great service and a great company backing them up.
I have been using JAWS encryption on my Palm Pilot for over two years now, and I have loved it. You can set it so that the first few characters of something are still readable, like the Title or Subject, and encrypt the rest of the document on your palm using up to a 4096 bit key. You can find more information here:4 03097-3,00.html
http://www.rodeoisland.com/jaws/jaws_info3.htm
and find a review and help from ZDnet here:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2
I thought from reading the post that he wanted ONE stream out to the existing Cable Wiring in the building. That one stream could then serve multiple TVs on the wire.
While not nearly as environmental friendly, there are other amusing things to do with old wardware: http://www.massacre.org.uk/benchmarki ng. html
This isn't all that new. In the 80s there were a lot of experiments with computer designed "life-forms". From what I remember (I too am unable to find a link) the computer was fed the terrain data, much like you are talking about, however it designed polygon based "creatures" based on the data that you fed it. Really interesting work, and probably the direct precursor to what you are talking about.
I have been Using a Program called CookiePal for years to control the cookies I allow on my machine in Windows. You can also opt-out of doubleclick. Although if you don't allow them to use cookies it doesn't matter.
The only Banner Ad blockers thatI have seen simply prevent the display of pictures that are standard banner size: x pixels by x pixels.
That User policy is just a little bit intimidating!
Clause 5.7 "You must not use automated programs to continually send or receive high volumes of data via the Service." Well this clause nicely prohibits the use of programs like Gnutella, Napster, and their clones; along with just about every other distributed client software.
Clause 5.3 "You must not permit any person, other than adult members of your household or others with your express permission and under your personal supervision, to use the Service." While I don't really take offense to laying it out this plainly; but honestly how many of us allow absolutely anyone to walk into our house (remeber this a home based service only) and use our computers?
Clause 5.5 "<snip>...[You] must not in any circumstances connect servers which transmit data to the internet or cable network, such as ftp servers and chat servers." I am just curious as to how far they can/will carry this. Will they include samba/"network neighborhood" servers in this category? And what about functionalities such as W2K's time server?
Just a few of my thoughts. However if this is all that is offered, then those regulations can and should probably be over looked. I recently made the move from 26.4k modem to cable, and have loved it.
We all consider cooling to be of vital importance in our silicon based machines, don't we? What kind of new cooling device are they going to create/use that will keep the DNA from degrading or just plain denaturing? Not that this isn't an interesting experiment, but the actual implementation seems rather difficult and/or unstable.
Linux Journal had an article about GNU/Linux on a wristwatch with videoconferencing last month, here is a link to the appropriate month with a picture of the watch on the cover even!
http://www2.linuxjournal. com/lj-issues/issue75/index.html
As I have not used one of these Ghost/Restore CDs form an OEM I am not sure if this will work. However at the University I attend we use "loaner" laptops for different departments and research, we use a ghosted CD for OS restore (win98se and win2000) however these CDs only affect the C: partion on the disk. We tell users to put all of there data on D: or any other partion on the disk, so if they do need a OS reinstall they do no lose anything. Theses CDs also do no affect LINUX or BSD partitions on the disk I am happy to report. Again, whil I am not sure if this is the case with these new OEM CDs, I am just reporting what out experience has been; oh yes, these CDs were provided by DELL, but were specific to our institution rather than general OEM CDs.
While the local effects of cities on area weather patterns is interesting, especiaaly to it's residents, we should all be thinking about the global weather and what are collective cities are doing to change the way the planet functions. On that note I would like to put a plug in for The Casino-21 experiment they are hoping to use spare cycles; like Seti@Home or distributed.net to do global climate simulations. They are still in the preliminary stages, however it is a very noble goal. Last I knew they were looking for help coding some of the tools and applications neccessary; and I know that many of the /. readers are well versed in writing code, and many are kind enough to donate their services to projects like this.
Not even close, evidently you haven't been doing your homework. If you listened to "Geeks in Space: Slashdot Radio" you would know that we have a weekly assignment to email kurt@thepope.org about some interesting topic; such as how many a's you can put in the subject or your favorite gin drink.
Is there a central webpage where you can find information on upcoming tradeshows and conventions? I think it would be a great asset to our community and the computer community in general. Can anyone tell me if there is a site such as this. If not I am going to start one!
Will there be a live webcam at the wedding, or a video posted afterward? At least pictures like Chris and Christine's wedding? It was really great to see all of our favorite "characters" in one place, let alone dressed up like penguins.
I think (while maybe not a perfect example) that this is exactly what we need Data Haven's like Sealand for. This was not illegal in any real sense of the word, he was not pettling drugs or child porn. He was spoofing a known national identity. When a controversial organization such as PETA decides that they need a web site they are opening themselves up to a slew of attacks; both from crackers and other individuals who do not agree with their point of view. This individual has the right to say whatever he chooses, if he decides to put it on the web so others can freely access it, all the better. If PETA felt that people could be confused by a mockery of their own page about eating animals (that did not look like the actually PETA page) maybe they should reconsider who their target audience is.
Had this been at the data haven what would have happened? This man had not violated any of SeaLand's rules. Would the page still be up?
Also is anyone yet mirroring the pages content? Just because the justice system is being short sited in setting precidents doesn't mean that this page should not still be available.
You have to remeber that as USB can only handle 12 mbps, the 10/100 USB ethernet doesn't net you that much extra speed, most likely not noticeable at all. If you are looking for a 10/100 I recomend the Linksys as it has both Linux and BSD support out there. Do remember though that these are closed machines, and just because you plug the ethernet into the USB it doesn't mean it will work. Most likely it will not; as I doubt they have included drivers for this in their install.
One other "hidden" page is Taco's so called "cheesyportal" very amusing, and a good waste of time!
http://slashdot.org/cheesyportal.shtml
While not currently available for linux (at least that I have been able to find) PGP puts out a great product called PGPfone. Not only does it do voice over IP in decent quality it also Encrypts your conversation at whatever keylength that you specify, without noticeable signal degredation.
What I want to know is what are they going to do once they have an anonymous tip? Who will they be reporting this to? Will they post these individuals names on a web site (let's hope not) will they contact the faculty at the school? Will they compile a list of these individuals accessible to law inforcement agencies? And how are they going to verify that any of this information is true?
It also says that they are a "for-profit" group, how are they going to accomplish this? Sell the list of dangerous kids?
This is truly a scary day.
The Chip makers must be resorting to cutting corners somewhere if they are able to move up the release date 2 quarters. Has anyone heard anything about this? How are they capable of accelerating the production time like this, without compromising some feature or security or introducing bugs.
This fee is purely for access to the network, this is on top of everything else we pay for. If you want ether in your room, you pay this charge.
Here at Cornell University we pay over $80 a semester for access to the Campus Network, it is in fact a money making endevour for them. There have been threats of crack downs on programs like Napster and sites like DialPad, but nothing yet. As I also work for the campus computing center running the email system, I know that we in fact do not have a bandwidth problem, however that is an easy excuse for them. If they want to make reduce access, fine, I don't agree with it, however they do then need to stop charging students. I am sure this is similar to other campuses as well. If your campus does do this the first thing you should do is change all the default ports on things like Napster (they block the port not the protocol) and look into proxys