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  1. Re:I dunno.. on Hacking A PC Around The Sun PCI IIPro? · · Score: 2

    Nope, you'd have to basically rewrite the drivers. And when I say drivers, I use it loosly, cuz it's mostly userland and wouldn't be available to those with educational access to the Solaris source.

    Best bet to make them work, I think, would be to buy a cheap Ultra. Any of the PCI UltraSPARC would accept and run a SunPCi, so I assume they will support a single SunPCi II.

  2. Re:Forget the privacy implications on Authentication is the Key · · Score: 2

    Moronic, sure.. But so are the millions that want it. And only Microsoft, who has experience in the 'So you got hacked! What am I supposed to do about it. You only paid us $40K for out software, you didn't pay us to make it secure!' business is going to be moronic enough to try it.

  3. Re:So name the open source alternatives on Authentication is the Key · · Score: 2

    They're not.. They're just going to make sure that every bit of software running on their OS requires authenticated user credentials to run, and the only place they're going to let you get that authentication is passport.

  4. Re:Frightening possibilities.... on Eye in the Sky Busts Fraudulent Farmers · · Score: 2

    My guess is they just called up the USGS and asked them for a picture the USGS took anyway.. Hell, they prolly even paid the $40-50 the USGS usually wants..

    So no.. Unless they paid that expert witness a half mil.

  5. Re:I dunno.. on Hacking A PC Around The Sun PCI IIPro? · · Score: 2

    Here I am, sitting in front of a term, and I want to see the files sitting on the cards virtual image. I do ls, the host sends a request to the card for the directory listing, the card sends a request to the host for a chunk from the virtual drive, the card plays some decoding and FS games and hands the host back arguably the same data the host had in the first place..

  6. I dunno.. on Hacking A PC Around The Sun PCI IIPro? · · Score: 5

    The old SiS based ones with the IDE header (Are they still SiS?), you stand a chance.. All you have to do is suck power off a backplane, or just rig it. I seem to recall you could leave them running when taking the system down for diag, so long as system power wasn't cycled, so the keybd and mouse hooks aren't relied upon nor even expected all of the time.

    The newer ones use firmware and a host driver to emulate the primary IDE/SCSI device. How their scheme works precisely is beyond me.. One thing I remember that was funny about the old ones; You couldn't touch the card's drive images unless the card was running, and it was treated just like another device even though it was not much more than a raw file on the HD.. So I'm guessing you basically have a pair of incestous HAL, on in firmware in the card, one in software on the host playing games on who is going to what. The host's first driver playing read-write for buffered FS data like a overglorified HDC so the host didn't have to know about the FS, and the card providing raw data to the host's (logically) second driver from a firmware cheat like another giant HDC, but doing it directly from a read handed to it by the host...

    I'd say no go, sorry.

  7. Re:Apple and StarWars on Star Wars Episode I DVD - October 16, 2001 · · Score: 1

    Making fun of Apple's ads is more fun than making fun of Gateways? Well, save that annoying 60's-ish one I heard on the radio this morning..

  8. Re:a lot faster than 2200mph... on Rental Car + GPS = Speeding Ticket · · Score: 3

    7,500 gallons?!?! Are you smoking crack? That's 0.4 miles per gallon. Take a real belcher, like the Ford Excursion. It gets 24 highway.. That's 125 gallons.

    Even my old 1979 Camaro, which got 10 mpg highway on premium because of a variety of 'enhancements' would only need 300 gallons..

  9. Re:Listen!! on Insanely Audiophile · · Score: 1

    My audio hardware is of excellent quality and will outlast any of the mass-market Circuit City units by 15 years, easy

    True, but if and when that tube goes, you're screwed. As is, you try finding a triode that was in common use in the sixties, with millions of devices using them, and you're SOL. Or if you're not, it's because the Russians still use them in their radar stations and it's cheaper for them to keep the factory open then it is to refit for SS..

  10. Re:doesn't really translate ... on Insanely Audiophile · · Score: 3

    Um, yes it does. Addiciton is addiction. Be it psychological or physical, its still an addiction.

    You're just addicted to a costlier substance that does less bodily harm. I smoke, and I'll put myself in the same boat with the crack fiend and the audiophile.

    Perhaps you're still in denial, trying to rationalize your purchase of that $30,000 preamp away, by calling it a hobby, instead of what it is.

  11. Re:Exercise your External Rotators. on Slashback: Carpal, Displays, Asylum · · Score: 1

    Hehe.. They've been trying it since the cap, and I've only lost 95 karma.

  12. Re:Exercise your External Rotators. on Slashback: Carpal, Displays, Asylum · · Score: 1

    Umm, so what am I going to do with my 200? They won't fit. Hell, goatse.cx guy would have a hard time..

    Spork off!

  13. Re:It's theirs on Who Owns The Data/Apps? · · Score: 2

    Standard storage contract reads like thus;

    'You pay us [x]. We agree to store your data, not to exceed [x] limit, for a period of [x]. We provide a guaranteed avalibility of [x], and bandwidth of [x]. We will provide [x] number of backups on [x] schedule. No transfer of ownership, nor any license is created, in respest to but not limited completly to protection of law such as copyright. Access to client data will be limited to the extent required to ensure its safety. This includes integrity checks, file system scans, and backups.'

    There is usally a disclaimer of consequental damages due to loss, etc, but you get the idea.

  14. I'm sorry, but.. on Ethically Monitoring Your Kid's Net Access · · Score: 5

    How exactly would you explain www.goatse.cx to your eleven year old daughter? I don't have kids, but the thought of having to try and explain that phenomena to another *adult* scares me.

  15. Re:It's theirs on Who Owns The Data/Apps? · · Score: 2

    Did you note the 'public' lot part? Public lot requires the police to lawfully remove it, as an abandoned vehicle. Even in private lots, it may very well take the police to move it in order to be 100% clear.

    As for manipulating the data, it surely is. As well as a number of torte offenses, peeking at or manipulating the data can be construed as anything from copyright infringement to unlawful disclosure of trade secret to industrial espionage.

  16. Re:Back up those assertions, please on Voice Over IP for Linux Games? · · Score: 1

    Wait, WTH is going on with the cookies?

  17. Re:Back up those assertions, please on Voice Over IP for Linux Games? · · Score: 1

    Well excuse my caps! They were in deference to the replied-to post! (Oh and bidirectional, compound that implied condition as another error as well)

    Not logged in, guess who.

  18. Re:Another site / What's stacking? on Getting Into Space, One Way Or Another · · Score: 5

    You take ten or twenty pictures right in a row, assign them all a translucency value (20 images, each is only 5% opaque) and stick them on top of each other, lining up some specific feature or by simple edge detection. Minimizes atmospheric effects and effects from the CCD camera.

  19. Re:Speak Freely for Unix on Voice Over IP for Linux Games? · · Score: 2

    If you're referring to the ohphone that is a part of the OpenH323 stuff, you're only right because of the bitrates involved. The largest amount of bandwidth you can eat with SF is about equivalent to what you consume using G.723, one of the better compression ratio H323 modes.

    Also, using H323 as a carrier would mean you need at least a 1/4 cycle (You are only sending or receiving data 1/4 of the time) peak throughput equivalent to a capped cable modem; I've used Speak Freely on as little as a 9600 baud modem in 100% cycle operation.

  20. Re:Let's make one... on Voice Over IP for Linux Games? · · Score: 4

    GSM, the standard used in cell-phones, works fine with less than 1/5th of that bandwidth (bidirectional in 2.4-2.8kbps, will do realtime compression in a 486, and there are freely available GSM compressors.

    There are also public domain encoders for the military voice standards, LPC and LPC10. Those are usable in as little as .96kbps, but they sound horrible. in comparison.

  21. Re:Speak Freely for Unix on Voice Over IP for Linux Games? · · Score: 2

    I use it all the time. (GF in CA, I'm in MI) The Linux version can be a bitch on some soundcards (ES137x and S3 SonicVibes) compared to the Windows version.

    What else to say? It'll do multicast conversations, and coexist nicely in LPC10 mode with Quake on a 56K so long as you don't mind not being to hear Quake save the CD audio.. The delay can be unbearable. If I yell into the mic, I can hear myself five seconds later some nights. Others, it's nearly instantaneous.

  22. Re:Give me a break on Washington Spam Law Upheld · · Score: 2

    since no one entity can dictate what another country can or can't do.

    Hahaha!

    Since when does national sovereignty count for squat? Treaties? The EU? The US/Russians (mostly the US) invading the banana-republic-du-jour?

  23. Heh on The Lamps Are The Network · · Score: 2

    We already do this.

    Your backside emits a controlled burst of a carbon compound called methane through a shutter called the anus. It quickly spreads around the area, where it is (hopefully) picked up by other humans with a device called a 'nose'. This nose sends signals along nerves to your brain, where the intended message is quickly decoded and the recipient yells, "d00d, wh0 f4rt3d?!?!"

  24. Re:Bad thing? on CD burning Will Never Be The Same · · Score: 2

    There are no artists, only the recording industry. Or haven't you been listening to Courtney Love?

  25. Re:An atomic bomb in a toolbox? on Duct Tape · · Score: 2

    Explain this to the Brownstone device. A 31lb nuclear munition the United States Department of Defense punished us with in the sixties. Expected yield was .7 Hiroshima devices, effective blast radius over three miles. Unfortunatly, thr mortar it was attached to had a range 1 mile less than that..

    Don't ask me about the nuclear anti-aircraft missiles with a range 3 miles less than blast..