To be fair, they ARE working on a 360 port of GHII, to be released early March with more songs than the PS2 version of the game, and possibly downloadable content. If you happen to have a 360/are thinking of buying a 360, let that factor into your decision. I myself have been waffling back and forth on whether to get a used PS2 (100USD) and GHII (80USD), which is likely the only game I'll ever play for that console. My flatmate has a 360 now though, so I'll probably just buy GHII for it when it comes out and play it on that system. I was looking forward to a "Guitar Hero I songs on the Guitar Hero II engine" game, but we might actually end up seeing that with GHII on the 360 with the downloadable content, or at least I really hope so. One thing's for certain though - I'm confused and a little angry about Harmonix no longer developing the series, and I can't understand why RedOctane would want to screw over such a profitable and fun franchise.
I've done something similar to this not too long ago, only somewhat in reverse:
I was burning a whole bunch of video DVDs in one sitting. I was using particularly cheap Playo DVDs that were on sale somewhere or another on the last black Friday. These disks were very thin and flimsy. I had gone into assembly-line mode where I had gotten the "insert dvd, fiddle with k3b, remove dvd, label while inserting other dvd, place on second spindle" etc down and was going pretty fast. However, I managed to grab TWO of these really thin DVDs which were stuck together and placed them in the burner. They were about as thick together as about one and a quarter normal pressed DVDs, and so fit just fine in the drive. Linux doesn't spin up the DVD until you actually access the drive (assuming you aren't using some sort of automounter) so at first I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. I set up k3b for the next ISO image and clicked burn.
K3b managed to actually get the drive initialized and start burning before I started getting tons of syslog messages from growisofs about failures and a horrible smell and grinding noise issued forth from the server. I ended up having to kill tons of processes and fiddle with eject commands as root to get the drive to finally stop and eject. Both of the disks were scratched horribly but what was worse was that the drive hasn't worked since. It had somehow managed to warp the drive tray enough to make the discs contact the lens and ruin it. A (slightly) expensive mistake.
Exactly - while at university everyone has a 100 Mbps ethernet link to the college LAN and by extension the internet, and through my usenet subscription I nearly always got around 70 Mb/sec. Granted, I had to open up about 10 connections at once - no single TCP/IP connection could sustain that kind of speed across the internet without getting packet mangled and QOS'd to death - but I still got that kind of speed.
I assume that if you're using crystal Drano it comes in solid form and won't react too well with the aluminum without some medium to react in, and that's why you dissolve it in water. Liquid drano is probably fine without water but now drano comes with all sorts of strange additives that are not exactly conductive to our "research" and that's why you probably want the original crystal stuff.
I've noticed Highpoint has good hardware support in *Nix too. I've got two low-end Highpoint cards (2 channel ATA each) running 6x250 drives in my tower case in a software raid-6. I get fairly decent speed, an hdparm -t just gave me 45 MiB/sec and there are other users accessing the array at the moment as well. CPU usage on the 2.8 celeron (ha) never peaks above 4 percent while reading and 8 percent while writing. Linux raid is amazing in its capabilities. Maybe in a few years I'll upgrade to six of these 750 gb drives in that raid-6 array.;)
If there's a standard key then mail thieves can get it (swipe it from the mail carrier?) and open every single locking box there is, that easily. Sounds like a security hole to me.
I had mod points for this story but decided to reply here instead...
I am a freshman at Clemson, and wasn't really surprised to learn they required laptops when I applied. They encourage you to buy one of their Thinkpads. It does make the IT department's job much easier - they set them up with a dual partition, and when the students inevitably get the latest AIM virus it's a simple task to image over the C partition since all the device drivers can be standardized because all the hardware is the same. It's just like the way apple works, in my opinion.
However, they don't force you to buy a Clemson laptop - I'm typing this on a Asus Z71V, a great linux laptop, and I see about 1 out of every 5 or so people have a non-IBM laptop. Also, DCIT actively encourages dual booting into *nix and maintains dual-boot Ubuntu images preconfigured for their thinkpads, along with supporting an active Linux user group. Also, many of the workstations here run Solaris and if you take a comp sci class it's pretty much required you learn basic *nix commands. So it is a pretty good policy here, IMO. Forcing everyone to have a laptop - one kind or another - gives people a great tool to work with.
Except you can have my word that the costs of Bellsouth's internet will NOT go down a single cent even though they get extra cash from content providers. Do you really think that an ISP would do something like this to save their customers money? Bahahahah.
"Royal" probably designates the group that did the bootleg, these groups like to take credit for their work and put their name in the filename. Often, a lot of prestige comes from getting the first, best rip of a movie out and some of these groups can put out a bootleg quite fast and very well. They have it down to a science - it's really interesting.
You completely missed the point of the GP's post. I believe he was trying to say that computer offenses are more often feared because it's something new and not understandable by the general public. The party he mentioned was busted by the police, meaning it was probably full of underage people who were drinking. This didn't get in the paper and I bet everyone there got a slap on the wrist instead of getting suspended/expelled. Forging emails is wrong, sure, but what the GP did isn't particularly offensive - he just sent a prank email saying the Olsen twins were attending his uni.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say about his story being the tip of an iceberg, but you're right about his "pranks" not being as harmful as the ones elsewhere in the thread -- and that's exactly what he was trying to get across, is that the other people's pranks are celebrated and computer-related pranks are punished.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go cough up some more phlegm on my laptop screen. Stupid common colds.
You seem to be right - usually my internet skills don't fail me when looking for something but this time apparently this thing has disappeared from nearly all corners of the net. However, I found it on ebay for 10 GBP + 5 GBP shipping worldwide here. Apparently it's been involved in some sort of distribution conflict for a while and the only people selling it are "unofficial".
I'm currently typing on a laptop running a 2.4 Ghz dothan. It casually benchmarks at the same level as a 3.8Ghz Prescott. Not really bad seeing as how the whole system draws less power at full load than the prescott by itself does at idle.
I saw Acceptance live and my buddy bought Phantoms. Says he's having trouble ripping the music to his computer - I think "Sony." I walk over, and of course, they're signed with Sony. Now I'm going to have to get that crap off his computer.
Also, Switchfoot is actually a pretty big band nowadays with 3 or 4 albums out, huge in the angsty teen sector, as is Acceptance and possibly several others on that list.
That would work well, and wouldn't need any source of IR light to run, however, far infrared cameras are VERY expensive - think thousands of dollars for every piece of IR firefighting gear I've seen. They would have the added problem of firing at anything hot - you need better detection and intelligent kill sensing so your automated sentry guns don't sit there and perforate a newly dead car engine that's 2000F while the relatively cold 98F people run up to it and turn it off. Also you run into desert situations in the sun where the people are colder than the surroundings - you really would have to have motion detection and shoot at anything that moves. For your average office situation - shoot the marketroid, if you will - it would be fine, if you don't mind spending money.
Remember, to see heat you need "far IR" cameras which detect IR that is umm... far from the visible spectrum. A "near IR" camera is what Nightshot and your average night vision goggles work with, and it detects the IR that is almost red. With these you can't see heat, you just see light. Those wouldn't work well at all for our purpose, other than the fact that they're dark green on a light green background and thus you'd just have to filter to black and white to get good outlines - but you can do that with a color CMOS anyways and then you get cool color AVI files for all the internet to see.
I don't own one of the modern LiDE scanners (I have a first gen LiDE scanner that was parallel and hence required seperate power and didn't stand vertically) but there's a lip around the scanner bed so if you wanted to you could stand it on end and the piece of paper would sit there on the lip with the lid closed. It wouldn't work for books or magazines but for single sheets of paper it would do fine.
Ah, but really Otherpower and the people on there aren't about saving money - they're about living off the grid, independent of others, and I respect that. Sure, they don't have fancy machines to wind their alternators, but they do a damn sight better than I could, and they do it without help. It's nice to see a family living all by itself, growing its own food, making its own electricity, maintaining its own equipment. It's not something you see often.
Here in the southern US a "gimp" is someone with a bad limp or crippling disease. We often (jokingly) call people with a broken leg or sprained ankle a gimp. I've never heard the other definitions but they make sense.
It makes about as much sense to call your piece of software a cripple as it does to name it something random just to make it start with K or G. This is part of the reason OSS is tough for beginners - they don't even try to make it user-friendly.
You're absolutely right. It doesn't help the idiotic users that the machines are absolutely user-unfriendly. I work in a grocery store with a set of U-scan machines. The bag racks are on this giant lazy susan that has a scale. The system measures weight of the lazy susan and calculates whether they're trying to take items out or something. This works all well and good except it's SLOW. You have to scan an item and drop it in a bag and then wait about 4 seconds for the weight to register before it'll let you scan another. If you're expecting to scan 20 of something it's going to take you about 5 minutes. A person has to run the cashier station at all times too, the machines can't even really run by themselves. This person has to press the "flashing red light" icon to reset the scale if it detects a problem like a missing item, and you have to do this about every 2.3 seconds if the customer is leaning on the scale. DAMMIT GET YOUR FREAKING ARM OF THE SCALE! Argh. Anyways. It's hard as hell to run the machines when it's busy because you're running 4 registers at once in reality. Also, you have to track down who is who and get them to sign their credit card slips or they'll just leave them.
Those machines also require about an hour of maintenence every day when you have to empty all the bill/coin acceptors and refill the change dispensers. The code the machines are running actually works pretty smoothly other than the scale issue and interface problems, they must have hired some good coders for them this time around. The machines run XP though, the most unstable application they could have picked for a POS system.
As for the NORMAL registers, they're even worse. They're old as hell (they run OS/2 Warp for christsakes) and there are tons of bugs in the program. Press clear too many times while you're trying to scan a check? BANG, the machine locks up and you have to reboot it. Fortunately, the system stores current application data in a central server, so when it comes back up, it comes back up to the same transaction in the same place you left off. However... They take (no lie) 20 minutes to boot up. Occasionally the machines will just malfunction for no reason. The other day the ENTIRE EFT system was down and we had to do ALL credit, debit, EBT, gift cards, WIC, and checks manually, which is a HUGE PITA and we had all our registers open and customers were still way backed up. The cause? We're currently remodeling and someone tripped over a network cable. The entire thing died for a whole day because no one knows how to troubleshoot it. The registers freeze when you try to print information on a check so you have to get the customers to write it out. The system is so limited and quirky I'm surprised it works at all.
The Kmart next to us had a self-check system for a few weeks and then abandoned it. We, however, still have ours. These four registers take up the space of three normal ones that could do 5 times as much work for about half the cost, despite having to pay cashiers. They only pay us $6/hour anyways and they stopped giving raises this year. They can afford to keep someone up front the whole night. But simply because they think it'll cost more (it's cheaper in reality) they send everyone home after 12 and the night stockers manage U-scan if someone uses it and they happen to be in the vicinity. If something goes wrong and the customer can't find a stocker, they're screwed.
Altogether, the machines are pretty stupid. Moreso when a customer with TWO BUGGIES FULL OF GROCERIES comes through U-scan when there are unoccupied cashiers. They take at least 45 minutes to check out because it's so slow. We don't care about customer service though, we'd rather be stupid and run U-scan.
I don't think we're going to get buggies with these screens anytime soon. They would all be broken within a week. Carts are abused HARD and they're pretty expensive, around $500 per cart, without adding this stuff. This isn't very viable technology, IMO.
I don't think so, I have a version of Shoutcast from Back in the Day before winamp had a pro version, and there's no limitation. I didn't think shoutcast was pay software now anyways...
Also, it shouldn't matter what version (paid or free) of Winamp you run shoutcast on, it's just a plugin
If you have a random Windows box sitting around doing nothing, you can setup Winamp along with Shoutcast to achieve exactly what you want. Use WA to listen to your streams/play songs and just have Shoutcast rebroadcasting all the time as a high-quality MP3 stream. So simple any idiot can do it, even me.
Here I'm still on $15/month 300 hours a month dialsuck. No bandwidth caps or port blocking but that doesn't help much when max speed is 5 kB/s. If I wanted DSL I could pay $57.90/month for 768/128. Static IP addresses are an additional $25/month and installation is $95. Only the local phone company offers it. It's a blatant huge fucking ripoff and when you say demand more, I say we should.
I remember first reading 1984. That was about 4 or so years ago, when I was 13. I didn't understand about a third of the stuff, but I remember thinking, "Hey, this stuff isn't so strange, a lot of it happens already today!" That's scary if then I (and probably other not-so-innocent-minded kids) thought it wasn't so strange that the government could do any damn thing it wanted, including making people simply disappear. Now I'm thinking George Orwell was prescient, and it frightens me. Too bad no one in the real world seems to see our police state developing.
In democratic America, government takes freedoms from YOU.
Sound familiar?
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To be fair, they ARE working on a 360 port of GHII, to be released early March with more songs than the PS2 version of the game, and possibly downloadable content. If you happen to have a 360/are thinking of buying a 360, let that factor into your decision. I myself have been waffling back and forth on whether to get a used PS2 (100USD) and GHII (80USD), which is likely the only game I'll ever play for that console. My flatmate has a 360 now though, so I'll probably just buy GHII for it when it comes out and play it on that system. I was looking forward to a "Guitar Hero I songs on the Guitar Hero II engine" game, but we might actually end up seeing that with GHII on the 360 with the downloadable content, or at least I really hope so. One thing's for certain though - I'm confused and a little angry about Harmonix no longer developing the series, and I can't understand why RedOctane would want to screw over such a profitable and fun franchise.
A few. For example, Apollo One was a particularly infamous incident where a ground escape system would have been useful.
Nope, different Wang:
Wang Laboratories
Wang Labs was founded by the now deceased An Wang.
In which case it should have been "CRAZY DAVES' FIREWORKS". Maybe.
I was burning a whole bunch of video DVDs in one sitting. I was using particularly cheap Playo DVDs that were on sale somewhere or another on the last black Friday. These disks were very thin and flimsy. I had gone into assembly-line mode where I had gotten the "insert dvd, fiddle with k3b, remove dvd, label while inserting other dvd, place on second spindle" etc down and was going pretty fast. However, I managed to grab TWO of these really thin DVDs which were stuck together and placed them in the burner. They were about as thick together as about one and a quarter normal pressed DVDs, and so fit just fine in the drive. Linux doesn't spin up the DVD until you actually access the drive (assuming you aren't using some sort of automounter) so at first I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. I set up k3b for the next ISO image and clicked burn.
K3b managed to actually get the drive initialized and start burning before I started getting tons of syslog messages from growisofs about failures and a horrible smell and grinding noise issued forth from the server. I ended up having to kill tons of processes and fiddle with eject commands as root to get the drive to finally stop and eject. Both of the disks were scratched horribly but what was worse was that the drive hasn't worked since. It had somehow managed to warp the drive tray enough to make the discs contact the lens and ruin it. A (slightly) expensive mistake.
Exactly - while at university everyone has a 100 Mbps ethernet link to the college LAN and by extension the internet, and through my usenet subscription I nearly always got around 70 Mb/sec. Granted, I had to open up about 10 connections at once - no single TCP/IP connection could sustain that kind of speed across the internet without getting packet mangled and QOS'd to death - but I still got that kind of speed.
I assume that if you're using crystal Drano it comes in solid form and won't react too well with the aluminum without some medium to react in, and that's why you dissolve it in water. Liquid drano is probably fine without water but now drano comes with all sorts of strange additives that are not exactly conductive to our "research" and that's why you probably want the original crystal stuff.
I've noticed Highpoint has good hardware support in *Nix too. I've got two low-end Highpoint cards (2 channel ATA each) running 6x250 drives in my tower case in a software raid-6. I get fairly decent speed, an hdparm -t just gave me 45 MiB/sec and there are other users accessing the array at the moment as well. CPU usage on the 2.8 celeron (ha) never peaks above 4 percent while reading and 8 percent while writing. Linux raid is amazing in its capabilities. Maybe in a few years I'll upgrade to six of these 750 gb drives in that raid-6 array. ;)
If there's a standard key then mail thieves can get it (swipe it from the mail carrier?) and open every single locking box there is, that easily. Sounds like a security hole to me.
I am a freshman at Clemson, and wasn't really surprised to learn they required laptops when I applied. They encourage you to buy one of their Thinkpads. It does make the IT department's job much easier - they set them up with a dual partition, and when the students inevitably get the latest AIM virus it's a simple task to image over the C partition since all the device drivers can be standardized because all the hardware is the same. It's just like the way apple works, in my opinion.
However, they don't force you to buy a Clemson laptop - I'm typing this on a Asus Z71V, a great linux laptop, and I see about 1 out of every 5 or so people have a non-IBM laptop. Also, DCIT actively encourages dual booting into *nix and maintains dual-boot Ubuntu images preconfigured for their thinkpads, along with supporting an active Linux user group. Also, many of the workstations here run Solaris and if you take a comp sci class it's pretty much required you learn basic *nix commands. So it is a pretty good policy here, IMO. Forcing everyone to have a laptop - one kind or another - gives people a great tool to work with.
Except you can have my word that the costs of Bellsouth's internet will NOT go down a single cent even though they get extra cash from content providers. Do you really think that an ISP would do something like this to save their customers money? Bahahahah.
"Royal" probably designates the group that did the bootleg, these groups like to take credit for their work and put their name in the filename. Often, a lot of prestige comes from getting the first, best rip of a movie out and some of these groups can put out a bootleg quite fast and very well. They have it down to a science - it's really interesting.
You completely missed the point of the GP's post. I believe he was trying to say that computer offenses are more often feared because it's something new and not understandable by the general public. The party he mentioned was busted by the police, meaning it was probably full of underage people who were drinking. This didn't get in the paper and I bet everyone there got a slap on the wrist instead of getting suspended/expelled. Forging emails is wrong, sure, but what the GP did isn't particularly offensive - he just sent a prank email saying the Olsen twins were attending his uni.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say about his story being the tip of an iceberg, but you're right about his "pranks" not being as harmful as the ones elsewhere in the thread -- and that's exactly what he was trying to get across, is that the other people's pranks are celebrated and computer-related pranks are punished.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go cough up some more phlegm on my laptop screen. Stupid common colds.
You seem to be right - usually my internet skills don't fail me when looking for something but this time apparently this thing has disappeared from nearly all corners of the net. However, I found it on ebay for 10 GBP + 5 GBP shipping worldwide here. Apparently it's been involved in some sort of distribution conflict for a while and the only people selling it are "unofficial".
The P-M isn't stuck at 2.13, not by a long shot!
I'm currently typing on a laptop running a 2.4 Ghz dothan. It casually benchmarks at the same level as a 3.8Ghz Prescott. Not really bad seeing as how the whole system draws less power at full load than the prescott by itself does at idle.
I saw Acceptance live and my buddy bought Phantoms. Says he's having trouble ripping the music to his computer - I think "Sony." I walk over, and of course, they're signed with Sony. Now I'm going to have to get that crap off his computer.
Also, Switchfoot is actually a pretty big band nowadays with 3 or 4 albums out, huge in the angsty teen sector, as is Acceptance and possibly several others on that list.
That would work well, and wouldn't need any source of IR light to run, however, far infrared cameras are VERY expensive - think thousands of dollars for every piece of IR firefighting gear I've seen. They would have the added problem of firing at anything hot - you need better detection and intelligent kill sensing so your automated sentry guns don't sit there and perforate a newly dead car engine that's 2000F while the relatively cold 98F people run up to it and turn it off. Also you run into desert situations in the sun where the people are colder than the surroundings - you really would have to have motion detection and shoot at anything that moves. For your average office situation - shoot the marketroid, if you will - it would be fine, if you don't mind spending money.
Remember, to see heat you need "far IR" cameras which detect IR that is umm... far from the visible spectrum. A "near IR" camera is what Nightshot and your average night vision goggles work with, and it detects the IR that is almost red. With these you can't see heat, you just see light. Those wouldn't work well at all for our purpose, other than the fact that they're dark green on a light green background and thus you'd just have to filter to black and white to get good outlines - but you can do that with a color CMOS anyways and then you get cool color AVI files for all the internet to see.
I don't own one of the modern LiDE scanners (I have a first gen LiDE scanner that was parallel and hence required seperate power and didn't stand vertically) but there's a lip around the scanner bed so if you wanted to you could stand it on end and the piece of paper would sit there on the lip with the lid closed. It wouldn't work for books or magazines but for single sheets of paper it would do fine.
Ah, but really Otherpower and the people on there aren't about saving money - they're about living off the grid, independent of others, and I respect that. Sure, they don't have fancy machines to wind their alternators, but they do a damn sight better than I could, and they do it without help. It's nice to see a family living all by itself, growing its own food, making its own electricity, maintaining its own equipment. It's not something you see often.
It makes about as much sense to call your piece of software a cripple as it does to name it something random just to make it start with K or G. This is part of the reason OSS is tough for beginners - they don't even try to make it user-friendly.
Those machines also require about an hour of maintenence every day when you have to empty all the bill/coin acceptors and refill the change dispensers. The code the machines are running actually works pretty smoothly other than the scale issue and interface problems, they must have hired some good coders for them this time around. The machines run XP though, the most unstable application they could have picked for a POS system.
As for the NORMAL registers, they're even worse. They're old as hell (they run OS/2 Warp for christsakes) and there are tons of bugs in the program. Press clear too many times while you're trying to scan a check? BANG, the machine locks up and you have to reboot it. Fortunately, the system stores current application data in a central server, so when it comes back up, it comes back up to the same transaction in the same place you left off. However... They take (no lie) 20 minutes to boot up. Occasionally the machines will just malfunction for no reason. The other day the ENTIRE EFT system was down and we had to do ALL credit, debit, EBT, gift cards, WIC, and checks manually, which is a HUGE PITA and we had all our registers open and customers were still way backed up. The cause? We're currently remodeling and someone tripped over a network cable. The entire thing died for a whole day because no one knows how to troubleshoot it. The registers freeze when you try to print information on a check so you have to get the customers to write it out. The system is so limited and quirky I'm surprised it works at all.
The Kmart next to us had a self-check system for a few weeks and then abandoned it. We, however, still have ours. These four registers take up the space of three normal ones that could do 5 times as much work for about half the cost, despite having to pay cashiers. They only pay us $6/hour anyways and they stopped giving raises this year. They can afford to keep someone up front the whole night. But simply because they think it'll cost more (it's cheaper in reality) they send everyone home after 12 and the night stockers manage U-scan if someone uses it and they happen to be in the vicinity. If something goes wrong and the customer can't find a stocker, they're screwed.
Altogether, the machines are pretty stupid. Moreso when a customer with TWO BUGGIES FULL OF GROCERIES comes through U-scan when there are unoccupied cashiers. They take at least 45 minutes to check out because it's so slow. We don't care about customer service though, we'd rather be stupid and run U-scan.
I don't think we're going to get buggies with these screens anytime soon. They would all be broken within a week. Carts are abused HARD and they're pretty expensive, around $500 per cart, without adding this stuff. This isn't very viable technology, IMO.
I don't think so, I have a version of Shoutcast from Back in the Day before winamp had a pro version, and there's no limitation. I didn't think shoutcast was pay software now anyways...
Also, it shouldn't matter what version (paid or free) of Winamp you run shoutcast on, it's just a plugin
If you have a random Windows box sitting around doing nothing, you can setup Winamp along with Shoutcast to achieve exactly what you want. Use WA to listen to your streams/play songs and just have Shoutcast rebroadcasting all the time as a high-quality MP3 stream. So simple any idiot can do it, even me.
Here I'm still on $15/month 300 hours a month dialsuck. No bandwidth caps or port blocking but that doesn't help much when max speed is 5 kB/s. If I wanted DSL I could pay $57.90/month for 768/128. Static IP addresses are an additional $25/month and installation is $95. Only the local phone company offers it. It's a blatant huge fucking ripoff and when you say demand more, I say we should.
In democratic America, government takes freedoms from YOU. Sound familiar?
~n17ikh~