When the shit hits the fan eventually, just switch your (v)fat mounts over to umsdos, use umssync on Linux and some (to be written) virtual filesystem plugin on Windows to keep long file names and the "--linux-.---" files in sync.
Your link gets you a TCP/IP stack, but you still need to get a packet driver to talk to your network hardware.
In case you didn't get one with your device (like if you got a cheap NE2000 clone with no disks from the bargain bin or if you want to use a modem), take a look here:
What exactly should the government be doing? Waiting patiently for the next attack?
Well, let them get the h*ll back to the negotiation table and start solving some problems for a change, instead of forever creating new ones.
Let's start with the Israel/Palestine conflict. According to many, this is a major, if not the root, cause of terrorism threats supported by people in the Middle East.
If you want to help, why not sign the petition here? (Plug? Yes. Shameless? Absolutely NOT!)
"The only sure way to stop terrorism is to stop people wanting to become terrorists."--Me
$ 69.00 for an Asus WL-500g Deluxe $ 56.00 for a generic 160 GB hard-drive $ 5.00 for an USBIDE adapter $ zilch (well, Internet use) for an OpenWRT or Unslung distro $ zilch (well, some Internet use and study time) for setting it all up -------- $130.00 for your BitTorrent suckblowing wireless router / NAS device.
(All taken off cheapest listing on Froogle, I didn't even bother checking eBay: probably much cheaper.)
O yeah, did I tell you that it can also be a WiFi hotspot, Web server, eDonkey(ed2k) client, gIFt client, Asterisk phone box, Webcam server/security monitor, WiFi sniffer, virus scanner, IRC bot server, SHOUTcast stream grabber, etc., etc., at no extra $ ?
Maybe not all of the above all at the same time but you get my drift. Also, for those who _do_ give a damn about the environment and energy use: comparing this setup with running a (farm of) PC's 24/7, the Asus will do its job burning just 20 Watts + the power needed by external peripherals like hard drives, Webcams etc.
Simple solution: use a meta search engine. That way Google will still log what you type in the search box, but it will be linked to the IP(s) of the meta search engine server(s).
(What meta search engines are and what their URLs are is left as an exercise for the reader)
We don't, although some may claim that we may have suffered infection already, not in our computers but in our brains. If this malware will ever be indexed in a virus database it will probably be labeled:
Just imagine Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, staring at the cryptic blue screen error message on the washing machine, while her pants, still with hot grits all over them, are forever locked away inside...
100000 boxes on the shelf 100000 boxes Take one off, play the tapes 99999 boxes on the shelf 99999 boxes Take one off, play the tapes 99998 boxes on the shelf... <yawn/>
And it can't even play AAC files. That's right. No MPEG-4 audio. In 2006.
This is because of hardware/documentation limitations of the Archos devices that Rockbox was originally developed for.
Hardware limitation: The main CPU in Archos devices simply isn't powerful enough to decode AAC (let alone MP3) on it's own. Documentation limitation: There is no documentation available on programming the DSP part of the Micronas codec/DSP in the Archos devices, period. If you have an inside contact at Micronas, please try to persuade them to release some. Even with documentation, there may just be too little RAM/Flash ROM on the chip to hold any more advanced decoding code anyway.
I don't know anything about whether AAC will be supported on non-Archos devices, please ask the developers.
All this and more can be found in the Rockbox FAQ. Check it out!
Of course every posting starts with IANA. How else would your computer know what parameters to pass in the various protocols it uses when posting to Slashdot? Who else makes sure the '.org' TLD isn't taken over by the porn industry or Scientology? Who else assigns the IP ranges to the Regional Internet Registries that Slashdot's ISP uses?
Yep, cheers to IANA for keeping all that organized.
You did the right thing by replying. Mod points are not meant to be used for expressing support or disagreement, instead they should be used for indicating the quality of comments.
The Roomba has been the ultimate in word-of-mouth marketing, by the way. Since buying one I've had three other people buy just by hearing my description of it, and they in turn have inspired about three more people each to buy one. Great little devices.
Geez, has iRobot gone the MLM (Amway) too? Have you gone Emerald yet? How big is your upline? Are the bonuses any good? Just joking (I hope...)
Their most important political strategy has been to keep announcing things that Americans should be afraid of and announcing that they're strong decisive leaders who can protect us from the enemies that are trying to kill your children and hate your freedom.
Syd Barret wrote a brilliant song about this way back when. (Quoted with the deepest respect):
Effervescing Elephant
An Effervescing Elephant with tiny eyes and great big trunk once whispered to the tiny ear the ear of one inferior that by next June he'd die, oh yeah! because the tiger would roam. The little one said: "Oh my goodness I must stay at home! and every time I hear a growl I'll know the tiger's on the prowl and I'll be really safe, you know the elephant he told me so." Everyone was nervy, oh yeah! and the message was spread to zebra, mongoose, and the dirty hippopotamus who wallowed in the mud and chewed his spicy hippo-plankton food and tended to ignore the word preferring to survey a herd of stupid water bison, oh yeah! And all the jungle took fright, and ran around for all the day and the night but all in vain, because, you see, the tiger came and said: "Who me?! You know, I wouldn't hurt not one of you. I'd much prefer something to chew and you're all to scant." oh yeah! He ate the Elephant
Personally, I find the thought of one single place for 95% of our source code scarey as hell. What if they should go away without notice?
I think that not making backups of your hard work is a very bad idea, no matter where it is stored, whether on the server in your closet or on a server somewhere on the Canary Islands or anywhere else.
We got to trading personal emails with patches attached since the listserver doesn't allow attachments.
Hmm... why not paste the patches into the messages? As far as I know, that's the way things were designed to work[*], allowing anyone to mix patches and regular text, making it easy to pass them around.
*: That's what the Great Big GNU called 'patch' said the other night. He said something like: "Hmm... Looks like a new-style context diff to me..."
You are right. What should make a difference (besides a general attitude of being considerate towards others) is whether users paid money for the software they use. If they did, I think they have the right to expect a certain level of service (within reasonable limits). With OSS, I think users ought to be content with the right to use and modify the software at all, in whatever shape or form it currently is.
I would gladly oblige, but I can't because that would reveal information about me which I like to keep private. Let it suffice to say that I was in a Catch-22 situation because the bug was marked as being resolved because no confirmations had been submitted for a while, I couldn't confirm the bug because I didn't have 'confirmbugs' privileges, which I could only gain after succesfully submitting bug reports, and I couldn't re-open the bug because that was flagged (and flamed) as a dupe...
Some time ago I filed a bug report for Mozilla Thunderbird using BugZilla. Actually, I reproduced a bug which had been reported before but had been auto-marked 'RESOLVED' by some script due to lack of activity.
Naturally I had first tried to 'confirm' the previous bug but was greeted with alarm bells, newspaper headline size fiery red text and whatnot informing me that I had tried to perform an illegal action, (lacking sufficient privilege). Which made me wonder, I was just trying to be helpful, or was I?
Within my report I noted the fact that that the bug had been reported before, stating the bug ID# of the former and my failure to confirm that bug.
Within days the maintainer for the relevant codebase replied, igniting his flame-thrower and pointing it at me blazing full thrust: asking why I had dared to dupe an existing bug report, stating that confirmation of bugs was a privilege awarded only those who had shown consistent good bug-reporting behaviour in the past, etcetera.
Needless to say, I have given up on reporting Thunderbird bugs altogether. If this is the way they treat users who are willing to help development by donating their time and effort writing bug reports, let 'em have it.
Slashdot Mirror
...and then, deaf-blind people will sue because the sites aren't accessible using Braille screen-readers.
When the shit hits the fan eventually, just switch your (v)fat mounts over to umsdos, use umssync on Linux and some (to be written) virtual filesystem plugin on Windows to keep long file names and the "--linux-.---" files in sync.
Almost.
Your link gets you a TCP/IP stack, but you still need to get a packet driver to talk to your network hardware.
In case you didn't get one with your device (like if you got a cheap NE2000 clone with no disks from the bargain bin or if you want to use a modem), take a look here:
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/msdos/pktdrvr
Well, let them get the h*ll back to the negotiation table and start solving some problems for a change, instead of forever creating new ones.
Let's start with the Israel/Palestine conflict. According to many, this is a major, if not the root, cause of terrorism threats supported by people in the Middle East.
If you want to help, why not sign the petition here?
(Plug? Yes. Shameless? Absolutely NOT!)
"The only sure way to stop terrorism is to stop people wanting to become terrorists."--Me
D'uh.
$ 69.00 for an Asus WL-500g Deluxe
$ 56.00 for a generic 160 GB hard-drive
$ 5.00 for an USBIDE adapter
$ zilch (well, Internet use) for an OpenWRT or Unslung distro
$ zilch (well, some Internet use and study time) for setting it all up
--------
$130.00 for your BitTorrent suckblowing wireless router / NAS device.
(All taken off cheapest listing on Froogle, I didn't even bother checking eBay: probably much cheaper.)
O yeah, did I tell you that it can also be a WiFi hotspot, Web server, eDonkey(ed2k) client, gIFt client, Asterisk phone box, Webcam server/security monitor, WiFi sniffer, virus scanner, IRC bot server, SHOUTcast stream grabber, etc., etc., at no extra $ ?
Maybe not all of the above all at the same time but you get my drift. Also, for those who _do_ give a damn about the environment and energy use: comparing this setup with running a (farm of) PC's 24/7, the Asus will do its job burning just 20 Watts + the power needed by external peripherals like hard drives, Webcams etc.
Don't forget the brain of the user reading the language. It can make him/her do the strangest of things...
"Language is a virus..." - William S. Burroughs
Simple solution: use a meta search engine. That way Google will still log what you type in the search box, but it will be linked to the IP(s) of the meta search engine server(s).
(What meta search engines are and what their URLs are is left as an exercise for the reader)
Salvaged with much effort from the charred remains of the toaster's hard drive:
/netbsd: slot0 on fire /netbsd: panic: out of fire hydrant, call 911
Aug 2 07:22:46 toaster
Aug 2 07:22:53 toaster
We don't, although some may claim that we may have suffered infection already, not in our computers but in our brains.
If this malware will ever be indexed in a virus database it will probably be labeled:
Paranoia.MindOS
Malware bypassing the standard Windows API for writing a file and using a method not covered by the AV's file monitor perhaps?
Just imagine Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, staring at the cryptic blue screen error message on the washing machine, while her pants, still with hot grits all over them, are forever locked away inside...
100000 boxes on the shelf ... />
100000 boxes
Take one off, play the tapes
99999 boxes on the shelf
99999 boxes
Take one off, play the tapes
99998 boxes on the shelf
<yawn
Just ask the Chinese to walk the Moon in front of the (HDTV) camera a few times before they get busy opening the first Dim Sum restaurant there...
The Rockbox Wiki (currently offline, use Google cache) shows support for other formats for the supported iRiver models, iPod models and the iAudio X5.
This is because of hardware/documentation limitations of the Archos devices that Rockbox was originally developed for.
Hardware limitation: The main CPU in Archos devices simply isn't powerful enough to decode AAC (let alone MP3) on it's own.
Documentation limitation: There is no documentation available on programming the DSP part of the Micronas codec/DSP in the Archos devices, period. If you have an inside contact at Micronas, please try to persuade them to release some. Even with documentation, there may just be too little RAM/Flash ROM on the chip to hold any more advanced decoding code anyway.
I don't know anything about whether AAC will be supported on non-Archos devices, please ask the developers.
All this and more can be found in the Rockbox FAQ. Check it out!
I asume that every posting starts with IANA*
Of course every posting starts with IANA. How else would your computer know what parameters to pass in the various protocols it uses when posting to Slashdot? Who else makes sure the '.org' TLD isn't taken over by the porn industry or Scientology? Who else assigns the IP ranges to the Regional Internet Registries that Slashdot's ISP uses?
Yep, cheers to IANA for keeping all that organized.
You did the right thing by replying. Mod points are not meant to be used for expressing support or disagreement, instead they should be used for indicating the quality of comments.
The Roomba has been the ultimate in word-of-mouth marketing, by the way. Since buying one I've had three other people buy just by hearing my description of it, and they in turn have inspired about three more people each to buy one. Great little devices.
Geez, has iRobot gone the MLM (Amway) too? Have you gone Emerald yet? How big is your upline? Are the bonuses any good?
Just joking (I hope...)
Sure that should be Barrett not Barret.
Their most important political strategy has been to keep announcing things that Americans should be afraid of and announcing that they're strong decisive leaders who can protect us from the enemies that are trying to kill your children and hate your freedom.
Syd Barret wrote a brilliant song about this way back when.
(Quoted with the deepest respect):
Effervescing Elephant
An Effervescing Elephant
with tiny eyes and great big trunk
once whispered to the tiny ear
the ear of one inferior
that by next June he'd die, oh yeah!
because the tiger would roam.
The little one said: "Oh my goodness I must stay at home!
and every time I hear a growl
I'll know the tiger's on the prowl
and I'll be really safe, you know
the elephant he told me so."
Everyone was nervy, oh yeah!
and the message was spread
to zebra, mongoose, and the dirty hippopotamus
who wallowed in the mud and chewed
his spicy hippo-plankton food
and tended to ignore the word
preferring to survey a herd
of stupid water bison, oh yeah!
And all the jungle took fright,
and ran around for all the day and the night
but all in vain, because, you see,
the tiger came and said: "Who me?!
You know, I wouldn't hurt not one of you.
I'd much prefer something to chew
and you're all to scant." oh yeah!
He ate the Elephant
Personally, I find the thought of one single place for 95% of our source code scarey as hell. What if they should go away without notice?
I think that not making backups of your hard work is a very bad idea, no matter where it is stored, whether on the server in your closet or on a server somewhere on the Canary Islands or anywhere else.
We got to trading personal emails with patches attached since the listserver doesn't allow attachments.
Hmm... why not paste the patches into the messages? As far as I know, that's the way things were designed to work[*], allowing anyone to mix patches and regular text, making it easy to pass them around.
*: That's what the Great Big GNU called 'patch' said the other night.
He said something like: "Hmm... Looks like a new-style context diff to me..."
You are right. What should make a difference (besides a general attitude of being considerate towards others) is whether users paid money for the software they use. If they did, I think they have the right to expect a certain level of service (within reasonable limits). With OSS, I think users ought to be content with the right to use and modify the software at all, in whatever shape or form it currently is.
I would gladly oblige, but I can't because that would reveal information about me which I like to keep private. Let it suffice to say that I was in a Catch-22 situation because the bug was marked as being resolved because no confirmations had been submitted for a while, I couldn't confirm the bug because I didn't have 'confirmbugs' privileges, which I could only gain after succesfully submitting bug reports, and I couldn't re-open the bug because that was flagged (and flamed) as a dupe...
Some time ago I filed a bug report for Mozilla Thunderbird using BugZilla. Actually, I reproduced a bug which had been reported before but had been auto-marked 'RESOLVED' by some script due to lack of activity.
Naturally I had first tried to 'confirm' the previous bug but was greeted with alarm bells, newspaper headline size fiery red text and whatnot informing me that I had tried to perform an illegal action, (lacking sufficient privilege). Which made me wonder, I was just trying to be helpful, or was I?
Within my report I noted the fact that that the bug had been reported before, stating the bug ID# of the former and my failure to confirm that bug.
Within days the maintainer for the relevant codebase replied, igniting his flame-thrower and pointing it at me blazing full thrust: asking why I had dared to dupe an existing bug report, stating that confirmation of bugs was a privilege awarded only those who had shown consistent good bug-reporting behaviour in the past, etcetera.
Needless to say, I have given up on reporting Thunderbird bugs altogether. If this is the way they treat users who are willing to help development by donating their time and effort writing bug reports, let 'em have it.