I recently rode Goliath a couple times. Its a great ride. That long corkscrew got me too (though I remember it being a descending corkscrew). The first time was really bad for me. Tunnel vision all the way. I almost blacked out. It was great. The second time it wasn't so bad, only fuzzy vision around the edges. I guess thats what its like to have the blood pulled out of your head and shoved into your legs. For me this kicked is just at the end of the corkscrew, so it wasn't a continuous sensation. This is exactly why I ride roller coasters. I wish I had an accelerometer to know how many positive Gs were in that turn.
I tried (vanilla)mosix a while back. It was cool, but had some real world drawbacks. If you start a process on a node and that process opens a socket, opens a file, or uses shared memory, then that process is stuck on that node. So if you start 10 dnet processes on one node, they won't migrate to idle nodes because they have open sockets (to the key server).
I don't know if this is the case any longer, I heard rumor that all these things were going to be implimented, so it'll be an interesting project to watch.
I doubt that the DMCA will ever be tested in the US Supreme Court, especially in a criminal case. The corporations who put the law in place won't risk lost profits by letting the DMCA be test against the Constitution at the highest level. They will continue to beat people (and small companies) with it, then they will either get the case dropped or thrown out.
There is something severely wrong with the check and balances system of the US Gov't. Laws don't have to be constitutional to be passed. Corporations (or AG Ashcroft) just have to keep the nconstituional laws from being tested all the way up to the SC. What we really need is a judiciary review of new laws (before they go into effect) which pits them against the constitution.
Now days we call the 2nd full moon in a calender month a blue moon. But that was not the original definition.
Usually a season has 3 full moons, the last one often being called the harvest moon. On occasion, a season has 4 full moons. The last moon in the season is still the harvest moon. The 3rd full moon in a season with 4 full moons is the Blue Moon.
Intellectual Property laws cannot be enforced in a digital world without a strong police state. So we will end up with either the abolition of IP laws and the entire concept of IP or we will end up with a strong police state that essentially polices peoples thoughts and ideas. I think that in the long run, there will be no middle ground.
Australia has the largest sound stage in the world. The second largest one is in England, but the Australian one is cheaper to use. Lucas and company made comments about this while making The Phanton Menace. A Huge sound stage is obviously a requirement for doing some of the large scale CG scenes that are found in the matrix and TPM.
This might be a little anti-/. which usually isn't like me, but:
There is a point to backdoors, even if the terrorists DON'T used crypto software with it. The Gov't has a limited (huge, but still limited) ammount of cracking capability. By requiring people to use software with back doors they can dramatically decrease the ammount of data that will need to be brute force cracked. Encrypted data without backdoors will automatically come up as suspicious, and since there will be less of it, they will be able to decrypt it more quickly. So even if criminals don't use the backdoor'ed crypto software, this type of software will still help law enforcement.
So now It'll be more than someone's gnutella client that takes a crap on my network. --
"You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet
might be running loose in your pants."
There might be opensource solutions (possible out of Heroine Virtual), but not many people will be able to view your content. Real reaches the broadest audience, and it works well, I've used it with Video For Linux 2 and a Winnov Videum board for capture.
I do get frustrated by not being able to view Windows media sites such as this Penguin Cam. You could also do it with quicktime, but then you loose linux viewers due to the lack of a sorenson codec. We need something opensource, ubiquitous, and cross-platform, but as they say about NASA: Pick Two.
-JungleBoy --
"You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet
might be running loose in your pants."
Ok, so kernel 2.2 has multicast support. Ok, so kernel 2.2 has channel bonding support. But does it have multicast of channel bonding? Nope, I've tried and begged and sweet talked the 2.2 kernel to try to get multicast to work over channel bonding. Finally I vim'ed up/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/bonding.c and found this commented function:
I began to weep because, Yes, the function is empty. All I want for Christmas is multicast over channel bonding. Of course, the 2.4-test kernels reliably crash when they bring down bonded interfaces, which sucks because the kernel also likes to panic on fsck. What fun.
Linus, I hope you are listening. Because I want 2.4 someday! Thank You.
-JungleBoy --
"You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet
might be running loose in your pants."
This link to Toms Hardware has some info about the upcoming athlon chipsets. It looks like Via's SMP/DDR chipset (KX266) should be out by then end of the year.
Of course, I think I'll wait for the second itteration of these chipsets. By then they will have most of the kinks worked out, and the platform optimized. Also, by then the Athlon will be much faster per dollar.
--
"You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet
might be running loose in your pants."
Aw man, when I first glanced at the post, I read it as 'Stimulating Life of the Red Planet', and thought, 'Cool, we're finally going to teraform that thing'
What a bummer that we are simulting life, it we want a self sustaining colony on mars we need to start terra forming the planet. We should start by dusting the surface with cyanobacteria. Some species can exist on carbon dioxide, water, sun, and sold rocks. THis would start to oxygenate the atmosphere and begin to build a carbon soil layer.
So, lets get to work! Since NASA is so good a crashing things on mars, lets just start pummelling it with canisters of bacteria.
Where does Wolfenstein 3D fit into 3D gaming history? I'm fairly certain that it was the first pc 3D game(feel free to correct me). What were the comparable arcade games before Wolf3D?
Could it be said that John Carmack owns the 3D fps game? And is the game concept now shared due to quake being under GPL.
I was thinking about this the other day with repect to car stereo toys. The only car mp3 players is Empeg (I think). The problem is that it has a hard drive and needs to be loaded up.
Ideally I'd build a car audio player with a crusoe processor and embeded linux, kinda like the demo'ed web pads, but for mp3s. I'd have the player be able to read cd audio, cdrom (iso9660+joliett) + dvdram (for a high end version). I'd have the player search for.mpu (playlist files) first, then catalog the mp3s on the disk. This way, you wouldn't have to take the player out of your car to load it (or however it is done with Empeg. Also, I'd have the player cache the crap out of the songs, to prevent skipping.
In the End you would end up with a fairly low memory, diskless player. You would just hop in your car and throw in a regular CD, or a CDROM or DVDRAM or your favorite songs and have hours of music at hand. I bet someone could do this for half the price (sans dvd) of Empeg (US$1000 last time I check). I'm not a hardare hacker, so I wouldn't know where to start, but if someone wants to give it a try, I'd be happy to test a prototype.:)
What we really need is a list of domains and subnets to which we may silently refuse cookies.
Mozilla does this. In the Preferences, under Advanced->Cookies I choose "Accept only cookies that get sent back to the original server" AND "Warn me before accepting cookies." This will enable the cookie manager. Now when ANYONE offers you a cookie, not only can you accept or reject the cookie, you can tell Mozilla to remember your decision.
You can then go to Tasks->Personal Managers->Cookie Manager to manager your cookies. From there you can view and delete cookies under the "Stored Cookies" tab. Under the "Website Settings" tab you can see which sites can or can't set cookies. By deleting entries from here you will be questioned about it the next time the site tries to set a cookie.
For example, The only cookie I have stored is the user cookie from/., also/. is the only site allowed to set cookies. For the first several sessions the user has to make a bunch of choices on who can and can't set cookies. But since these are remembered between sessions, eventually you don't have to bother with cookie choices to much.
I think this is a great method of managing cookies, I don't see need for anything else, nor can I think of anything else that could be added.
I've been using the daily build since M14-crypto. Most are really good. I usually dl them in the morning, do really heavy browsing (a viewing developed pages), then I leave all my mozilla windows running until the next morning. Memory does not appear to leak, and only on rare occasion do forms get quirky. oh, and the Mozilla cookie manager is awesome. (I'm on linux 2.2.14/rh6.1)
You refer to Stanly Miller's experiment which generated amino acids abiotically via a pathway already known to science at the time. Oh and this was definately NOT in darwins notes, unless he writes note beyond his grave.
I find it interesting that this experiment is used as proof of an abiotic origin of life. To bad living organisms use a totally different _enzymatic_ pathway to produce amino acids (building blocks of protiens). Miller's experiment showed absolutely nothing in relation to the origin of life on this planet.
First, I'm not a CS type person. My most valuable book for programming, especially linux is Beginning Linux Programming. This little jewel covers a wide range of topics and languages used on linux systems. Everything from bash to c to perl/cgi to tcl/tk to x. There is a new edition out (2nd) which appears to cover gtk+ for gnome as well. I've not looked at this one. I think that every Beginning Linux Programmer need Beginning Linux Programming. Andrew N.
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Except that astronauts are sitting on top of a Big Controled Bomb[tm]. The shuttle SRBs are one of the largest controlled explosions ever engineered.
But I'd still Ride 'em if they offered me a seat.
Have Fun
The JungleBoy
I recently rode Goliath a couple times. Its a great ride. That long corkscrew got me too (though I remember it being a descending corkscrew). The first time was really bad for me. Tunnel vision all the way. I almost blacked out. It was great. The second time it wasn't so bad, only fuzzy vision around the edges. I guess thats what its like to have the blood pulled out of your head and shoved into your legs. For me this kicked is just at the end of the corkscrew, so it wasn't a continuous sensation. This is exactly why I ride roller coasters. I wish I had an accelerometer to know how many positive Gs were in that turn.
Any way here is a URL to the coaster: Goliath.
Have fun!
The JungleBoy
I tried (vanilla)mosix a while back. It was cool, but had some real world drawbacks. If you start a process on a node and that process opens a socket, opens a file, or uses shared memory, then that process is stuck on that node. So if you start 10 dnet processes on one node, they won't migrate to idle nodes because they have open sockets (to the key server).
I don't know if this is the case any longer, I heard rumor that all these things were going to be implimented, so it'll be an interesting project to watch.
Good Luck Open Mosix!
-The JungleBoy
Dude, I hauled down the files just before posting that.
The JungleBoy
The files are still on sourceforge's ftp server.
:)
ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/bnetd
Don't hurt yourself.
-The JungleBoy
I doubt that the DMCA will ever be tested in the US Supreme Court, especially in a criminal case. The corporations who put the law in place won't risk lost profits by letting the DMCA be test against the Constitution at the highest level. They will continue to beat people (and small companies) with it, then they will either get the case dropped or thrown out.
There is something severely wrong with the check and balances system of the US Gov't. Laws don't have to be constitutional to be passed. Corporations (or AG Ashcroft) just have to keep the nconstituional laws from being tested all the way up to the SC. What we really need is a judiciary review of new laws (before they go into effect) which pits them against the constitution.
-JungleBoy
Now days we call the 2nd full moon in a calender month a blue moon. But that was not the original definition.
Usually a season has 3 full moons, the last one often being called the harvest moon. On occasion, a season has 4 full moons. The last moon in the season is still the harvest moon. The 3rd full moon in a season with 4 full moons is the Blue Moon.
You can find this history in Sky and Telescope
Intellectual Property laws cannot be enforced in a digital world without a strong police state. So we will end up with either the abolition of IP laws and the entire concept of IP or we will end up with a strong police state that essentially polices peoples thoughts and ideas. I think that in the long run, there will be no middle ground.
The JungleBoy
Australia has the largest sound stage in the world. The second largest one is in England, but the Australian one is cheaper to use. Lucas and company made comments about this while making The Phanton Menace. A Huge sound stage is obviously a requirement for doing some of the large scale CG scenes that are found in the matrix and TPM.
-JungleBoy
This might be a little anti-/. which usually isn't like me, but:
There is a point to backdoors, even if the terrorists DON'T used crypto software with it. The Gov't has a limited (huge, but still limited) ammount of cracking capability. By requiring people to use software with back doors they can dramatically decrease the ammount of data that will need to be brute force cracked. Encrypted data without backdoors will automatically come up as suspicious, and since there will be less of it, they will be able to decrypt it more quickly. So even if criminals don't use the backdoor'ed crypto software, this type of software will still help law enforcement.
-JungleBoy
3Ghz of cpu power:
$1500
2GB of DDR RAM:
$900
Watching others' faces when you compile the kernel in 0.06 seconds:
Priceless
--
"You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet
might be running loose in your pants."
So now It'll be more than someone's gnutella client that takes a crap on my network.
--
"You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet
might be running loose in your pants."
Ok, is it me or does this planned test sound like an Urban Legend in the making.
-The JungleBoy
--
"You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet
might be running loose in your pants."
There might be opensource solutions (possible out of Heroine Virtual), but not many people will be able to view your content. Real reaches the broadest audience, and it works well, I've used it with Video For Linux 2 and a Winnov Videum board for capture.
I do get frustrated by not being able to view Windows media sites such as this Penguin Cam. You could also do it with quicktime, but then you loose linux viewers due to the lack of a sorenson codec. We need something opensource, ubiquitous, and cross-platform, but as they say about NASA: Pick Two.
-JungleBoy
--
"You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet
might be running loose in your pants."
Ok, so kernel 2.2 has multicast support. Ok, so kernel 2.2 has channel bonding support. But does it have multicast of channel bonding? Nope, I've tried and begged and sweet talked the 2.2 kernel to try to get multicast to work over channel bonding. Finally I vim'ed up /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/bonding.c and found this commented function:
/* fake multicast ability */
static void set_multicast_list(struct device *dev)
{
}
I began to weep because, Yes, the function is empty. All I want for Christmas is multicast over channel bonding. Of course, the 2.4-test kernels reliably crash when they bring down bonded interfaces, which sucks because the kernel also likes to panic on fsck. What fun.
Linus, I hope you are listening. Because I want 2.4 someday! Thank You.
-JungleBoy
--
"You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet
might be running loose in your pants."
This link to Toms Hardware has some info about the upcoming athlon chipsets. It looks like Via's SMP/DDR chipset (KX266) should be out by then end of the year.
Of course, I think I'll wait for the second itteration of these chipsets. By then they will have most of the kinks worked out, and the platform optimized. Also, by then the Athlon will be much faster per dollar.
--
"You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet
might be running loose in your pants."
Aw man, when I first glanced at the post, I read it as 'Stimulating Life of the Red Planet', and thought, 'Cool, we're finally going to teraform that thing'
What a bummer that we are simulting life, it we want a self sustaining colony on mars we need to start terra forming the planet. We should start by dusting the surface with cyanobacteria. Some species can exist on carbon dioxide, water, sun, and sold rocks. THis would start to oxygenate the atmosphere and begin to build a carbon soil layer.
So, lets get to work! Since NASA is so good a crashing things on mars, lets just start pummelling it with canisters of bacteria.
JungleBoy
I am not a laywer (But I play one on TV.)
IANALBIPOOTV ?
8-)
Bye bye little karma, any decent Karma Whore would have logged out for this post.
Where does Wolfenstein 3D fit into 3D gaming history? I'm fairly certain that it was the first pc 3D game(feel free to correct me). What were the comparable arcade games before Wolf3D?
Could it be said that John Carmack owns the 3D fps game? And is the game concept now shared due to quake being under GPL.
JungleBoy
I was thinking about this the other day with repect to car stereo toys. The only car mp3 players is Empeg (I think). The problem is that it has a hard drive and needs to be loaded up.
.mpu (playlist files) first, then catalog the mp3s on the disk. This way, you wouldn't have to take the player out of your car to load it (or however it is done with Empeg. Also, I'd have the player cache the crap out of the songs, to prevent skipping.
:)
Ideally I'd build a car audio player with a crusoe processor and embeded linux, kinda like the demo'ed web pads, but for mp3s. I'd have the player be able to read cd audio, cdrom (iso9660+joliett) + dvdram (for a high end version). I'd have the player search for
In the End you would end up with a fairly low memory, diskless player. You would just hop in your car and throw in a regular CD, or a CDROM or DVDRAM or your favorite songs and have hours of music at hand. I bet someone could do this for half the price (sans dvd) of Empeg (US$1000 last time I check). I'm not a hardare hacker, so I wouldn't know where to start, but if someone wants to give it a try, I'd be happy to test a prototype.
JungleBoy
What we really need is a list of domains and subnets to which we may silently refuse cookies.
Mozilla does this. In the Preferences, under Advanced->Cookies I choose "Accept only cookies that get sent back to the original server" AND "Warn me before accepting cookies." This will enable the cookie manager. Now when ANYONE offers you a cookie, not only can you accept or reject the cookie, you can tell Mozilla to remember your decision.
You can then go to Tasks->Personal Managers->Cookie Manager to manager your cookies. From there you can view and delete cookies under the "Stored Cookies" tab. Under the "Website Settings" tab you can see which sites can or can't set cookies. By deleting entries from here you will be questioned about it the next time the site tries to set a cookie.
For example, The only cookie I have stored is the user cookie from /., also /. is the only site allowed to set cookies. For the first several sessions the user has to make a bunch of choices on who can and can't set cookies. But since these are remembered between sessions, eventually you don't have to bother with cookie choices to much.
I think this is a great method of managing cookies, I don't see need for anything else, nor can I think of anything else that could be added.
JungleBoyI've been using the daily build since M14-crypto. Most are really good. I usually dl them in the morning, do really heavy browsing (a viewing developed pages), then I leave all my mozilla windows running until the next morning. Memory does not appear to leak, and only on rare occasion do forms get quirky. oh, and the Mozilla cookie manager is awesome. (I'm on linux 2.2.14/rh6.1)
Jungleboy
this sounds like a good setup for an april fools hoax to me.
JB
You refer to Stanly Miller's experiment which generated amino acids abiotically via a pathway already known to science at the time. Oh and this was definately NOT in darwins notes, unless he writes note beyond his grave.
I find it interesting that this experiment is used as proof of an abiotic origin of life. To bad living organisms use a totally different _enzymatic_ pathway to produce amino acids (building blocks of protiens). Miller's experiment showed absolutely nothing in relation to the origin of life on this planet.
(Yeah, Yeah, flamebait)
Andrew N.
First, I'm not a CS type person. My most valuable book for programming, especially linux is Beginning Linux Programming. This little jewel covers a wide range of topics and languages used on linux systems. Everything from bash to c to perl/cgi to tcl/tk to x. There is a new edition out (2nd) which appears to cover gtk+ for gnome as well. I've not looked at this one. I think that every Beginning Linux Programmer need Beginning Linux Programming. Andrew N.