if the device already supports bluetooth, why not transfer the audio over it aswell, and use wireless earpieces for it?
anyone seen wireless bluetooth headphones for sale anywhere? other than those headsets for gsm phones
I'm debian user myself, and I tried pirated version of xandros on one system just to kill boredom once and I was surprised just how easy it was to install.
I had raw system, unpartitioned hd, sound card, tuner card, 2 network cards, realtek and some nvidia, cd-burner, matrox g450.
I threw the install cd in and booted, 5, that's FIVE mouse clicks, reboot and I had fully installed operating system including just about everything I needed for daily use.
Only thing missing was pre-tuned tv-channels, but that wasn't big problem.
I tested the system for about a week, and recommended it for couple of friends who bought it and liked it.
Myself being poor student, decided to format and go back to my vanilla debian use.
Seriously, if you need desktop linux for office, I recommend xandros.
It's good value for the money, and if you want the latest progs for home use, just throw in more apt sources and upgrade using unstable debian packages.
+40c heat in desert, -40c frost in finland,
deep mud, pouring rain, dust, dirt...
Environment puts the hardware to strain and wearing extra weight while taking cover from enemy fire, or just on transfer march to somewhere doesn't sound very tempting to me..
Sure it would be nice to have gps locator and map which would give you exact location all the time, but once you run out of duracells, you're lost in the woods. Compass+paper map weights much less than gps+some cpu device with map display and endures diving to dirt better.
Uniforms shouldn't really contain any electronics at all. They are one of the most strained items in the army, crawling in ground gets them dirty and they need to be washed every now and then. Having to remove and reattach bunch of electronics to them before and after laundry would add much work to equipment maintenance.
The page 2 in the article refers transferring some of the carried weight to robotic mule. I don't think it's very convinient to drag some robot around in battlefield since the terrain adapts from plains to steep cliffs and water areas to cross.
The robots would also add another step in logistics.. more stuff to drag to battlefield and back.
Modern warfare is very fast advancing on battlefield, and sadly most of the infantry tactics still are based on stationary warfare.
Mounting night goggles to helmet doesn't really help that much nor does radio headsets.. simply too fragile in real combat.
it would require host based IDS.. by using network based one you might end up having funny effects, like in case of false alarm, the IDS would shut down connections from your net to outside world.. that would be nasty to debug in a production environment
the problem with IDS systems is encrypted traffic
if someone wants to attack your network, they can easily implement proxy which will encrypt all the traffic they transfer and thus disabling the IDS's ability to analyze the traffic
throw away kdm/gdm
start X without window manager
daemonize pearpc running OS X
export DISPLAY=linuxbox_emulating:0
and run OS X as primary gui from linux
He has nice point of increasing the anonymity.
But what prevents one from sending the email he crafted without actually having a wlan basestation to begin with?
Does he really expect his isp to drive by and check wether he has one publically available to everyone or not?
I'd assume any isp would take his word for it and if he continued the dumb user act towards the isp, he might avoid the closing of his connection while downloading all the warez he can get.
If he really runs such setup, I'd suggest him to place another firewall between his network and wlan with port filtering which blocks spam sending.
He can always create vpn tunnel from his wireless machines to his network as needed for sending email etc.
Knoppix is great sysadmin tool to carry around.
I've fixed several NT machines with it skipping the need of complete reinstall.
The read/write ntfs driver is what makes the cd so powerful.
In most of the cases I've come across, it's enough to throw the cd in, reboot, mount the root ntfs, edit/replace boot.ini or some other system file with error, save, reboot, and there you have it, working NT box.
It's awesome if you know what you're doing with it.
I'd love to see what the army is really developing.
Most of these weapons are just old ideas with gee-wish factor.
But then again, if slashdot posted something that army wanted to keep secret, we might find banner saying "servers ceased due national security issues " on front page next time we logged in.
Why would anyone bother to encode at that rate? Not for storage purposes I hope.
Storage space is cheap, so why not just encode at 192-320kbps and get the good quality audio for listening.
Most of the time when you are listening at home by the computer, which probably is hooked to your $5000 high-end stereo set you can enjoy the crystal clear sound of the high-bitrate files.
For the road where storage space is limited, you won't be able to carry those 7.1 speaker systems with you naturally. You can easily re-encode those files with lower bitrate so it'll take less space.
I use simple perl script I found with google and with little tuning it now creates perfect 31Mb or 63Mb copy of the album I choose from my music library to fit in my portable players internal memory or the smartmedia card.
Perfect for home, perfect for the road.
Works for me atleast.
Simple question that comes in mind, why would you want to do that in first place?
Most office suites have come far since their first release and most of them are pretty usable already.
Sure there are many custom programs that were written 15 years ago which source has been lost 10 years ago and porting to other platform isn't possible. But question arises, should you keep running those or migrate to some other software and renew the hardware running aswell?
For many people/companies this is question of expense, if the migration process takes too long, it possibly means losing lots of money during downtime if everything doesn't go as smoothly as planned.
From my point of view, this running windows applications on linux is just some insane hype term that just won't die away.
I don't want to see linux running outlook express and thus spreading all email viruses as well as those n+1 unpatched windows boxes out there.
Would people actually install important patches to windows software running on linux?
The platform difference would probably cause thinking like "hey, I'm running linux, I don't need to install that upgrade", and thus another million spam drone boxes appear.
That's one thing I'd love to have.
It's nice to be able to access windows terminal server from linux using rdesktop, but I'd love to access my linux desktop from vanilla windows machine without installing VNC clients and local Xservers in order to run the software I need.
Why don't I just install that vnc software?
Because most of the computers I tend to use won't allow that. The local policy rules block installing non-specified software, which is good. Keeps unwanted adaware etc away from the workstations.
Every windows workstation has the remote desktop client installed in them.
Is it secure to run remote desktop you say? Well, probably not, but I could always tunnel it through ssh. Same goes for X you say, yes, but still you need the local Xserver etc to run the progs and that doesn't work.
So any bored coders willing to take the challenge and create Xrdpd server?
I did some research while ago, wether warwalking/wardriving is legal here in Finland. Surprisingly I found section from the radio law that states receiving transmissions that weren't intended to you directly are illegal to receive.
Meaning if you don't own the accesspoint or have legal access to it, you can be sentenced with this law, and the sentence goes up to 2 years in prison. That makes warwalking pretty extreme sports if there's someone who wants to try if this law holds in court.
using quantum mirrors, you could possibly split the light stream into two separate streams without altering the quantum state, and get perfect copy of the data real time
Slashdot Mirror
like you said, but this would be something
if the device already supports bluetooth, why not transfer the audio over it aswell, and use wireless earpieces for it?
anyone seen wireless bluetooth headphones for sale anywhere? other than those headsets for gsm phones
I'm debian user myself, and I tried pirated version of xandros on one system just to kill boredom once and I was surprised just how easy it was to install.
I had raw system, unpartitioned hd, sound card, tuner card, 2 network cards, realtek and some nvidia, cd-burner, matrox g450.
I threw the install cd in and booted, 5, that's FIVE mouse clicks, reboot and I had fully installed operating system including just about everything I needed for daily use.
Only thing missing was pre-tuned tv-channels, but that wasn't big problem.
I tested the system for about a week, and recommended it for couple of friends who bought it and liked it.
Myself being poor student, decided to format and go back to my vanilla debian use.
Seriously, if you need desktop linux for office, I recommend xandros.
It's good value for the money, and if you want the latest progs for home use, just throw in more apt sources and upgrade using unstable debian packages.
uninstalled from my comp and in liquid form in my coffee cup
+40c heat in desert, -40c frost in finland,
deep mud, pouring rain, dust, dirt...
Environment puts the hardware to strain and wearing extra weight while taking cover from enemy fire, or just on transfer march to somewhere doesn't sound very tempting to me..
Sure it would be nice to have gps locator and map which would give you exact location all the time, but once you run out of duracells, you're lost in the woods. Compass+paper map weights much less than gps+some cpu device with map display and endures diving to dirt better.
Uniforms shouldn't really contain any electronics at all. They are one of the most strained items in the army, crawling in ground gets them dirty and they need to be washed every now and then. Having to remove and reattach bunch of electronics to them before and after laundry would add much work to equipment maintenance.
The page 2 in the article refers transferring some of the carried weight to robotic mule. I don't think it's very convinient to drag some robot around in battlefield since the terrain adapts from plains to steep cliffs and water areas to cross.
The robots would also add another step in logistics.. more stuff to drag to battlefield and back.
Modern warfare is very fast advancing on battlefield, and sadly most of the infantry tactics still are based on stationary warfare.
Mounting night goggles to helmet doesn't really help that much nor does radio headsets.. simply too fragile in real combat.
it would require host based IDS.. by using network based one you might end up having funny effects,
like in case of false alarm, the IDS would shut down connections from your net to outside world..
that would be nasty to debug in a production environment
the problem with IDS systems is encrypted traffic
if someone wants to attack your network, they can easily implement proxy which will encrypt all the traffic they transfer and thus disabling the IDS's ability to analyze the traffic
1226282 will be the one doing your surgery, next time you're in hospital
throw away kdm/gdm
start X without window manager
daemonize pearpc running OS X
export DISPLAY=linuxbox_emulating:0
and run OS X as primary gui from linux
wouldn't that be nifty if it worked?
well, gotta use that beowulf cluster for something, so why not emulate ppc with it
He has nice point of increasing the anonymity.
But what prevents one from sending the email he crafted without actually having a wlan basestation to begin with?
Does he really expect his isp to drive by and check wether he has one publically available to everyone or not?
I'd assume any isp would take his word for it and if he continued the dumb user act towards the isp, he might avoid the closing of his connection while downloading all the warez he can get.
If he really runs such setup, I'd suggest him to place another firewall between his network and wlan with port filtering which blocks spam sending.
He can always create vpn tunnel from his wireless machines to his network as needed for sending email etc.
Knoppix is great sysadmin tool to carry around.
I've fixed several NT machines with it skipping the need of complete reinstall.
The read/write ntfs driver is what makes the cd so powerful.
In most of the cases I've come across, it's enough to throw the cd in, reboot, mount the root ntfs, edit/replace boot.ini or some other system file with error, save, reboot, and there you have it, working NT box.
It's awesome if you know what you're doing with it.
clearly it was test run with enigma and says:
F.I.R.S.T._.P.O.S.T
I'd love to see what the army is really developing.
Most of these weapons are just old ideas with gee-wish factor.
But then again, if slashdot posted something that army wanted to keep secret, we might find banner saying "servers ceased due national security issues " on front page next time we logged in.
Why would anyone bother to encode at that rate? Not for storage purposes I hope.
Storage space is cheap, so why not just encode at 192-320kbps and get the good quality audio for listening.
Most of the time when you are listening at home by the computer, which probably is hooked to your $5000 high-end stereo set you can enjoy the crystal clear sound of the high-bitrate files.
For the road where storage space is limited, you won't be able to carry those 7.1 speaker systems with you naturally. You can easily re-encode those files with lower bitrate so it'll take less space.
I use simple perl script I found with google and with little tuning it now creates perfect 31Mb or 63Mb copy of the album I choose from my music library to fit in my portable players internal memory or the smartmedia card.
Perfect for home, perfect for the road.
Works for me atleast.
Simple question that comes in mind, why would you want to do that in first place?
Most office suites have come far since their first release and most of them are pretty usable already.
Sure there are many custom programs that were written 15 years ago which source has been lost 10 years ago and porting to other platform isn't possible.
But question arises, should you keep running those or migrate to some other software and renew the hardware running aswell?
For many people/companies this is question of expense, if the migration process takes too long, it possibly means losing lots of money during downtime if everything doesn't go as smoothly as planned.
From my point of view, this running windows applications on linux is just some insane hype term that just won't die away.
I don't want to see linux running outlook express and thus spreading all email viruses as well as those n+1 unpatched windows boxes out there.
Would people actually install important patches to windows software running on linux?
The platform difference would probably cause thinking like "hey, I'm running linux, I don't need to install that upgrade", and thus another million spam drone boxes appear.
three basic rules in science when creating new things
1. can you blow it up?
2. can you have sex with it?
3. can you profit from it?
if atleast one condition is filled, it might be worth researching/funding
It's in my fridge.
And if anyone wants it, feel free to collect.
But do take some jar to contain it with. I think it's moving.
naturally would buy 80085 shares or if the money was right 800713,5
That's one thing I'd love to have.
It's nice to be able to access windows terminal server from linux using rdesktop, but I'd love to access my linux desktop from vanilla windows machine without installing VNC clients and local Xservers in order to run the software I need.
Why don't I just install that vnc software?
Because most of the computers I tend to use won't allow that. The local policy rules block installing non-specified software, which is good.
Keeps unwanted adaware etc away from the workstations.
Every windows workstation has the remote desktop client installed in them.
Is it secure to run remote desktop you say? Well, probably not, but I could always tunnel it through ssh. Same goes for X you say, yes, but still you need the local Xserver etc to run the progs and that doesn't work.
So any bored coders willing to take the challenge and create Xrdpd server?
I did some research while ago, wether warwalking/wardriving is legal here in Finland. Surprisingly I found section from the radio law that states receiving transmissions that weren't intended to you directly are illegal to receive. Meaning if you don't own the accesspoint or have legal access to it, you can be sentenced with this law, and the sentence goes up to 2 years in prison. That makes warwalking pretty extreme sports if there's someone who wants to try if this law holds in court.
using quantum mirrors, you could possibly split the light stream into two separate streams without altering the quantum state, and get perfect copy of the data real time