My phone line currently runs through my cable along with my TV and Internet. That's why they added a UPS to the line. Basically my entire house is VOIP because they cut it off at the box rather than at the phone. But I still get a dial-tone when the power is out because the UPS is there to save my arse.
That's basically when the phone comany does anyway. They have lots of batteries connected to the lines to provide juice for when THEIR power goes out.
Stick with the supported platforms, son. Dink around with your favorite distro on your own box(es). I've gone one dedicated FreeBSD 5.1 box and one dual boot windows/Debian testing box. I wouldn't think of pushing Debian branded linux in favor of something like RedHat. With RedHat or SuSE you've got a substantial corporation behind you. Not just the distros but the companies who support those platforms as well.
There's plenty of help on the internet at large, but they arent paid to have an answer to you in any amount of time. They don't even have to answer your questions at all. In fact they could simply call you a tart and a fop and go frig yourself or something strange like that instead.
Evangelize Linux, to be sure. But stick with what's supported. You'd rather have IBM or RedHat to point a finger at when it doesn't work rather than sitting on your thumbs and trying to explain to your boss once again why Debian was the superior choice.
They bitched when cassette tapes were released. They bitched when VCRs were released. They bitched when BetaMax was released. They bitched when DAT was released. (and for the most part, won in the states) They'll continue to bitch as more and better recording devices are invented.
Get used to it, there's a long history of bitching and whining and moaning coming out of the (MP|RI)AA.
True enough, the hash function's fine.:) It found a clash but it was the same record. The actual request times were more than 2 seconds off. So the second "clashing" record gets kept. All four servers are ntp synched, so I am (almost) sure that they are never more than half a second apart from one another. It'd been quite a while since I looked at the code, forgot that the second test was time, and then byte-check. Time's are much quicker to compare than an entire string. In all cases the times were always different.
I find clashes "ALL THE TIME" with MD5. I wrote a scriptie that does some data munging. It creates specialized logs ("clickstreams") of my employers public website. It takes input from four separate log servers, two, and then two redundant. To avoid logging the same thing twice it does an MD5 on some of the data. If the MD5 is different, great, keep the record. If it is the same, it does a byte by byte check of the strings and if the strings are actually different it keeps the 'new' record and increments a 'clash' counter. Clashes are still fairly rare, but I get about 2 or 3 a week at least on around 20-30 thousand records per day.
"HashClash" has been around since the first hash function was written.:) You got 30 items and 20 buckets? You're gonna have to either stick two things in a bucket, or get more buckets (larger hash domain/more bits).
Funny thing is, depending on my mood, I'll listen to just about all of these. Yes, even Britney. She IS pretty hot.:) But I aint no MCS[ED]. Just your standard code monkey.
Right, tell me what restaurants are using recycled oil please. I'm not eating there!
I worked through college at a Hardees (Carl's Jr. in some parts). We filtered the oil once, maybe twice and put it right back into the fryers. Once it started smoking, or was too dark, we dumped the used oil into a special oil dumpster on the lot. Once in a while a recycler would pick it up and we'd get paid maybe $50-100 for about 150-200 gallons of used oil. It is generally used for things like cosmetics and soaps after heavy processing.
One night though somebody broke a board out of the back fence behind the oil dumpster and stuck their hose in. They freaking STOLE the oil. It was one of the oil recycle trucks too! Talk about ballsy. I'm not sure it would be worth stealing, but apparently it was to somebody.
-- meyerdg@swr999:~/bin/xterms $ uname -a FreeBSD swr999 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #2: Mon Nov 24 08
root@swr999:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SPECIFIC i386 --
It's been rock solid in many respects, but there have been some (not so) small details which make me want to switch back to Linux.
- Sound card doesn't work, but that may very well be my own shortfall. - Vesa mode console is not supported on my video card, but works like a charm under linux. (this relates to a problem switching between X and console mode causing lockups in both BSD and Linux)
There are some packages which don't work for whatever reason which I find extremely useful, xxdiff for one..
I've started migrating back to Linux, but not too far away.. Debian testing is my choice these days. A bit less stable but everything works.
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Yeahbut...
From the STATUS page linked off the main page from the story:
"This page is offline. Sorry for the inconvenience."
D'oh! Slashdotted!:) They need more participants, methinks.
The point is somewhat garbled, and there are really two issues here.
First, is the copyright itself. Second is the method of distribution.
For the copyright, certainly the RIAA has every right to defend that. Never has it been so easy to make and distribute copies of works as it is today. It's so easy that the only cost to any individual is maybe a small twinge of guilt, if that!
I don't think the CD is dead yet, there is plenty that can still be done with it. One is lowering the price, SIGNIFICANTLY. The other is add extra value content, like the secret websites that can only be accessed while the disk is in the drive.
Suing won't work, bending to keep up with the market will. Probably the best thing that the RIAA as a whole can do is create a place where any RIAA title can be purchased, unencumbered, for a reasonable price.
I think each member trying to put up its own system of sales and protections won't work. They don't act as individuals when approaching congress, why act as individuals when selling music in a new medium?
Could also take that to mean, because MS SO aggressively defended its IP, he decided to switch over to OpenSource and this has helped him build his business further, cheaper.
What if somebody picked up a pack of razors then decided not to buy them later on while still shopping. Rather than returning to the razor isle, he sets them down right there. Later somebody else see's them sitting there and picks them up.
Now the store saw him pick them up, but didn't notice the remainder of the interaction with that particular pack of razor blades. Now you've just tweaked the system.
So if I don't set them back down in the same isle I could get searched as I walk out because I didn't purchase razor blades?
But they also give props to the *nix users in their FAQ:
That or... the web company they're using is comprised of McSE's (McSystemsEngineer w/cheese is 10 cents extra...) and other similar ilk and haven't a clue about the unix oriented crowd.
-D
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It's not just a receiver, it's also a transmitter. It will search for an 'open' frequency and then begin transmitting on it. It can record from radio as well, so that makes it somewhat like a Tivo for the radio.
Most of the world doesn't even KNOW what Ogg-Vorbis is.
I'd suspect that the same can be said of AAC. Outside of the Apple world it's not known. Most people know and use mp3 and/or wma. Not because either of them is better but because that's what they know about and that's what the tools they're willing to learn offer to them.
Nobody can claim rights to "The." It's a freakin article! Except maybe "The The" or something. Either way, when you talk about it you'd be talking about "The Browser". Which it really is the only REAL browser, no?:)
Imagine if BSD were the one in the spotlight. We might be reading a book with "BAMP" in the title. See how wrong that is? Thank your lucky stars that it's Linux and NOT BSD.
(removing tongue from cheek...)
-diggem
Anybody look at the site?
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Most of the people are going looking to win the money to do something with it. Mostly it falls into two categories.
1. Help myself 2. Help others
Not sure how MS is going to make more money by building libraries in Ghana.:P Unless they put Windows computers in the library and bring the kiddies and people up using their software of course!
This is why the industry will never (1) go along with the net for distribution and (2) why they will use their resources now to STIFLE this technology - they won't be the first to jump off the cliff, and if anyone else jumps, they're the 800lb gorilla holding the rope around their necks.
They're going to continuously loose money fighting it, eventually the little guys emusic.com, mp3.com etc.. who are already distributing music this way will win out. It's natural evolution, just that the money the record companies have collected over the past 9-10 decades is keeping them from having to change just yet.
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Ed Begley(sp?) Jr. drives off in a small go-kart sized vehicle "powered by [his] own sense of self satisfaction."
It just bothers me that the government is solving problems by disabling technology instead of leveraging it.
Your disable is their lever. Go figure.
My phone line currently runs through my cable along with my TV and Internet. That's why they added a UPS to the line. Basically my entire house is VOIP because they cut it off at the box rather than at the phone. But I still get a dial-tone when the power is out because the UPS is there to save my arse.
That's basically when the phone comany does anyway. They have lots of batteries connected to the lines to provide juice for when THEIR power goes out.
Stick with the supported platforms, son. Dink around with your favorite distro on your own box(es). I've gone one dedicated FreeBSD 5.1 box and one dual boot windows/Debian testing box. I wouldn't think of pushing Debian branded linux in favor of something like RedHat. With RedHat or SuSE you've got a substantial corporation behind you. Not just the distros but the companies who support those platforms as well.
There's plenty of help on the internet at large, but they arent paid to have an answer to you in any amount of time. They don't even have to answer your questions at all. In fact they could simply call you a tart and a fop and go frig yourself or something strange like that instead.
Evangelize Linux, to be sure. But stick with what's supported. You'd rather have IBM or RedHat to point a finger at when it doesn't work rather than sitting on your thumbs and trying to explain to your boss once again why Debian was the superior choice.
6 gmail invites are available by sending a message to the above address with the word 'slashdot' in the body...
:)
Was that moded insightful because it was really insightful or for the 6 gmail invites?
modder typing an email to ckwop:
"Dude, I just modded you up on slashdot, how about one o them gmail invites?"
They bitched when cassette tapes were released.
They bitched when VCRs were released.
They bitched when BetaMax was released.
They bitched when DAT was released. (and for the most part, won in the states)
They'll continue to bitch as more and better recording devices are invented.
Get used to it, there's a long history of bitching and whining and moaning coming out of the (MP|RI)AA.
Just be sure that your right to fair use is protected.
Meh... open mouth, insert foot...
:) It found a clash but it was the same record. The actual request times were more than 2 seconds off. So the second "clashing" record gets kept. All four servers are ntp synched, so I am (almost) sure that they are never more than half a second apart from one another. It'd been quite a while since I looked at the code, forgot that the second test was time, and then byte-check. Time's are much quicker to compare than an entire string. In all cases the times were always different.
True enough, the hash function's fine.
I find clashes "ALL THE TIME" with MD5. I wrote a scriptie that does some data munging. It creates specialized logs ("clickstreams") of my employers public website. It takes input from four separate log servers, two, and then two redundant. To avoid logging the same thing twice it does an MD5 on some of the data. If the MD5 is different, great, keep the record. If it is the same, it does a byte by byte check of the strings and if the strings are actually different it keeps the 'new' record and increments a 'clash' counter. Clashes are still fairly rare, but I get about 2 or 3 a week at least on around 20-30 thousand records per day.
:) You got 30 items and 20 buckets? You're gonna have to either stick two things in a bucket, or get more buckets (larger hash domain/more bits).
"HashClash" has been around since the first hash function was written.
I'da moderated this to a 6 insightful but they don't go any higher.
:P
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Guess I'll use my points to quash trolls instead.
Funny thing is, depending on my mood, I'll listen to just about all of these. Yes, even Britney. She IS pretty hot. :) But I aint no MCS[ED]. Just your standard code monkey.
Right, tell me what restaurants are using recycled oil please. I'm not eating there!
I worked through college at a Hardees (Carl's Jr. in some parts). We filtered the oil once, maybe twice and put it right back into the fryers. Once it started smoking, or was too dark, we dumped the used oil into a special oil dumpster on the lot. Once in a while a recycler would pick it up and we'd get paid maybe $50-100 for about 150-200 gallons of used oil. It is generally used for things like cosmetics and soaps after heavy processing.
One night though somebody broke a board out of the back fence behind the oil dumpster and stuck their hose in. They freaking STOLE the oil. It was one of the oil recycle trucks too! Talk about ballsy. I'm not sure it would be worth stealing, but apparently it was to somebody.
Been running 5.1 since it first came out.
--
meyerdg@swr999:~/bin/xterms
$ uname -a
FreeBSD swr999 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #2: Mon Nov 24 08
root@swr999:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SPECIFIC i386
--
It's been rock solid in many respects, but there have been some (not so) small details which make me want to switch back to Linux.
- Sound card doesn't work, but that may very well be my own shortfall.
- Vesa mode console is not supported on my video card, but works like a charm under linux. (this relates to a problem switching between X and console mode causing lockups in both BSD and Linux)
There are some packages which don't work for whatever reason which I find extremely useful, xxdiff for one..
I've started migrating back to Linux, but not too far away.. Debian testing is my choice these days. A bit less stable but everything works.
Yeahbut...
:) They need more participants, methinks.
From the STATUS page linked off the main page from the story:
"This page is offline. Sorry for the inconvenience."
D'oh! Slashdotted!
LONG time ago (mid to late 80s). So NO FREAKIN PATENTS!
:)
http://www.wearcam.org/
Steve Mann is a nerd God.
The point is somewhat garbled, and there are really two issues here.
First, is the copyright itself. Second is the method of distribution.
For the copyright, certainly the RIAA has every right to defend that. Never has it been so easy to make and distribute copies of works as it is today. It's so easy that the only cost to any individual is maybe a small twinge of guilt, if that!
I don't think the CD is dead yet, there is plenty that can still be done with it. One is lowering the price, SIGNIFICANTLY. The other is add extra value content, like the secret websites that can only be accessed while the disk is in the drive.
Suing won't work, bending to keep up with the market will. Probably the best thing that the RIAA as a whole can do is create a place where any RIAA title can be purchased, unencumbered, for a reasonable price.
I think each member trying to put up its own system of sales and protections won't work. They don't act as individuals when approaching congress, why act as individuals when selling music in a new medium?
It's MUCH more interesting if you play it on "fast forward" with a side benefit of being less time consuming.
Could also take that to mean, because MS SO aggressively defended its IP, he decided to switch over to OpenSource and this has helped him build his business further, cheaper.
What if somebody picked up a pack of razors then decided not to buy them later on while still shopping. Rather than returning to the razor isle, he sets them down right there. Later somebody else see's them sitting there and picks them up.
Now the store saw him pick them up, but didn't notice the remainder of the interaction with that particular pack of razor blades. Now you've just tweaked the system.
So if I don't set them back down in the same isle I could get searched as I walk out because I didn't purchase razor blades?
But they also give props to the *nix users in their FAQ:
That or... the web company they're using is comprised of McSE's (McSystemsEngineer w/cheese is 10 cents extra...) and other similar ilk and haven't a clue about the unix oriented crowd.
-D
It's not just a receiver, it's also a transmitter. It will search for an 'open' frequency and then begin transmitting on it. It can record from radio as well, so that makes it somewhat like a Tivo for the radio.
Most of the world doesn't even KNOW what Ogg-Vorbis is.
I'd suspect that the same can be said of AAC. Outside of the Apple world it's not known. Most people know and use mp3 and/or wma. Not because either of them is better but because that's what they know about and that's what the tools they're willing to learn offer to them.
Nobody can claim rights to "The." It's a freakin article! Except maybe "The The" or something. Either way, when you talk about it you'd be talking about "The Browser". Which it really is the only REAL browser, no? :)
Imagine if BSD were the one in the spotlight. We might be reading a book with "BAMP" in the title. See how wrong that is? Thank your lucky stars that it's Linux and NOT BSD.
(removing tongue from cheek...)
-diggem
Most of the people are going looking to win the money to do something with it. Mostly it falls into two categories.
:P Unless they put Windows computers in the library and bring the kiddies and people up using their software of course!
1. Help myself
2. Help others
Not sure how MS is going to make more money by building libraries in Ghana.
This is why the industry will never (1) go along with the net for distribution and (2) why they will use their resources now to STIFLE this technology - they won't be the first to jump off the cliff, and if anyone else jumps, they're the 800lb gorilla holding the rope around their necks.
They're going to continuously loose money fighting it, eventually the little guys emusic.com, mp3.com etc.. who are already distributing music this way will win out. It's natural evolution, just that the money the record companies have collected over the past 9-10 decades is keeping them from having to change just yet.
Woohoo!