People haven't contributed anything special to the scanning engine. They would have to strip that out, but as already mentioned, it was no biggie. They hold the rest of the copyright, and are legally allowed to change the licence, but they cannot restrict any usage of previously released source code.
Uhm. I will have to guess what you mean by your post. If you are referring to the amount of available units, I'd say that Gamepark did pretty well with the supply for the GP32. GBAX.com did run out of stock a few times, but there were never any critical shortage of units for a longer period of time.
You do realize that this is a handheld console? The storage capacity of SD cards should be enough for a lot of apps (emulators), some music, maybe an episode of American Dad, plus tonnes of snes, nes, and gameboy ROMS.
Some time around March, I started receiving a number of random instant messages from people I've never met before. Apparantly, my AIM alias had been added to at least two online lists and people all over the world were busy importing me as a buddy.
I say "at least two" because the people who contacted me fell into one of two camps: people who thought they were contacting a celebrity and people who thought they were contacting a robot. As I talked to more and more of these folks, I began to discover something really disturbing about myself:
I consistently fail to be perceived as human.
When this first started happening, a typical conversation with a celebrity admirer would go something like this (participant's IM handle is fabricated):
angelcutie42: hi!
jmstriegel: hey. what's up? do i know you?
angelcutie42: no
angelcutie42: someone gave me a bunch of screen names. i heard you are a celebrity.
jmstriegel: that's weird. i'm afraid i'm not a celeb at all.
angelcutie42: oh.
angelcutie42: bye
This was entertaining at first, but it quickly became a bit depressing as the angelcutie42s of the wired world would, one after the other, decide I wasn't worth talking to if I wasn't a celebrity. Want to know what it's like being dumped by a random groupie 5 times a day? Not good at all, thank you very much.
So that's when I started hamming it up a bit. I'm not really proud of it, but my fans wanted a celebrity.. so I gave them one:
sexybumkin123: hey.. so you're famous right?
jmstriegel: Who me? I'm a movie star.
jmstriegel: Shit, I gotta go.
jmstriegel: My limo just arrived and Paris wants her damned sidekick back.
sexybumkin123: Oh my god. Come back!
sexybumkin123: I love you!!!!
My groupies loved it. The more celebrity balogna I manufactured, the more they ate it, and the more they loved me.
Then, something strange started happening. As my career as an artificial celebrity started to take off, I began to receive some strange IMs from a whole new class of random people. These new admirers were convinced I was a robot... and it suddenly became clear to me that something was very wrong.
Nobody would believe I was human. In one troubling conversation after another, I felt my intellectual teeter-totter quickly tip from from actual to artificial.
fratburger86: hey. so you're a sex bot?
jmstriegel: umm, no. who the hell are you?
fratburger86: yeah you are! i found your im online
jmstriegel: that's fine and all, but i'm pretty sure you have me confused with someone else.
fratburger86: just a normal chat bot then?
jmstriegel: nope. i'm human
fratburger86: ok. sure.
fratburger86: asl?
jmstriegel: no thanks.
fratburger86: what?
jmstriegel: i'm not really interested in any conversation that starts with "asl"
fratburger86: oh come on. say something sexy.
jmstriegel: seriously, i think you want to talk to someone else.
fratburger86: i knew it!!!
fratburger86: you are totally a robot!
This is where things took a turn for the worse.
I mentioned already that I couldn't convince a single person that I wasn't a chat bot. It's one thing for people to think you are artificially intelligent. I can live with that, I guess. What really killed me was that the more I tried proving my "actual" intelligence, the more my "artificial" intelligence would get called into question. Take this pivotal conversation:
jmstriegel: no, really. I'm quite human.
jmstriegel: test me if you want
shymuffin32: ok
shymuffin32: why do you like music?
jmstr
I know about, AmigaONE, Genisi/Pegasos, Apple, and that you could purchase Apple-parts from ebay or something. Are there any other ways (which are within a student's price range), to have a working Linux/PPC system? It does not need to be _blazing fast_, but OK for a typical office computer.
Sir, that is a feature, not a bug:) I am pretty sure they did this to make sure the kernel will forever stay GPLv2'ed, and that violators step on many toes at a time.
We had a similar law in Norway, that would permit you to link to warez as long as you were not hosting it yourself. The problem is, the guy running napster.no (which linked to full music downloads), got convicted. That court ruling effectively made linking to warez illegal, although the law still is the same. That might happen in Sweden as well, but until that, The Pirate Bay is safe.
I have experienced some crashed with my nokia phones (do not blame me, I got them for free). Bugs in firmwares and stuff are also to blame, like this cute little Sony Ericsson bug: here
Sort of like switching to DVORAK
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· Score: 1
I wanted to change to DVORAK to learn touch typing, and most "tutorials" said that one should tear off all the keys and rearrange them to the DVORAK layout. I call bullshit. I found a picture of the layout, then made it a sticky on the top of the screen. So, every time i forgot a key, I had to look up, not down. Looking down would not really help either, as the keyboard was still a QWERTY-keyboard.
I have wanted to test some real SATA controllers against SCSI controllers for some time now, to see how good SATA has become. I once thought that cheap controllers like Sil 3114 is cheap crap that manufacturers put on their boards simply to provide SATA-support, and that software RAID was a cheap, but insufficient solution, since I have followed the principle that hardware does the job best. "A more expensive controller, means more hardware", was my initial guess, but it seems that even the cheap controllers are worthy. Software RAID also performs very well. SATA is no longer some gag for disk systems that are supposed to perform well, and many myths have been dispelled by my test.
I will not go as far as to say that you shall place your bet on cheap controllers or software RAID. The reason is simple, in a expensive controller, there is much more functionality, that a cheap controller can just dream about. Functionality like hot-spare drives and hot-swap, just to mention some. I do not want to recommend SATA over SCSI in a while either. The lifespan of a SCSI drive is in most casese many times as long as a vanilla SATA-disk. When you choose a solution, it should last. If you have machines that has a big fat controller, RAID50, then SATA might be something for you. If you have a machine that needs redundancy on the internal drives, but where changing controllers, or even buying them in the first place has been in the way, then software RAID might be the solution for you.
I shall be careful to mock the LSI controller, as I think there might be a problem with the way the test machine talks to it. I think the new Megaraid driver in the kernel might be the problem. Either it needs to mature, or it is simply that it does not like 64-bit Linux. I have not tampered too much with the default settings, but it runs superparanoid verification algorithms when it sends and recieves data. I have not fleshed the BIOS on any of the controllers.
Adaptecs controllers do very well. Everything was not perfect with them, and the aacraid driver in the kernel was too old for both of the controllers. From their website, I found something that looked like source code (Adaptec seems to rely on 100% RPM based distros), and I could bouild my own module. After that, no problem. A little minus is that the aacraid does not report how long the controller has gotten in building the array after you have set up a RAID. By looking at the SCSI-BIOS after some hours, I got to verify that the array was built.
I want to warn everyone that is going to buy a controller. Carefully check that the controller is supported in the kernel! I use Google to check for references to the card on mailing lists, but that does not help much when you have Debian, and all that exist is binary RedHat drivers.
Now, run to your console and test your disk system. This test does only give you indications on what to choose. I allow myself to give you one final advice: Run tests for yourself.
A late reply, noone will ever care, but here goes:
whois microsoft.com:
canonix:~ nichotin$ whois microsoft.com
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the.com and.net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/
for detailed information.
MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZ.IS.0WNED.AND.HAX0RED.BY.SUB7.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.LIVE.FOREVER.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS. COM
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.SLAPPED.IN.THE.FACE.BY.MY.BL UE.VEINED.SPANNER.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.BEATEN.WITH.MY.SPANNER.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.WAREZ.AT.TOPLIST.GULLI.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.WANADOODOO.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.SUX.BUT.PYROFREAK.ORG.RULEZ.AND.DIOX YTECH.NET.DELETED.GANDI.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.SMELLS.SIMPLECODES.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.GIVE.UP.BECAUSE.LINUXISGOD.CO M
MICROSOFT.COM.RAWKZ.MUH.WERLD.MENTALFLOSS.CA
MICROSOFT.COM.OHMYGODITBURNS.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.LIVES.AT.SHAUNEWING.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.AS.COOL.AS.SIMPLECODES.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.IN.BED.WITH.CURTYV.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.GOD.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.STEAMING.HEAP.OF.FUCKING-BULLSH IT.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.ITS.OWN.CRACKLAB.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.A.PRESENT.COMING.FROM.HUGHESMISS ILES.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.FLINGS.POO.AT.MONKEYCORE.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.FILLS.ME.WITH.BELLIGERENCE.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.CAN.GO.FUCK.ITSELF.AT.SECZY.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.ARE.GODDAMN.PIGFUCKERS.NET.NS-NOT-IN -SERVICE.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.AND.MINDSUCK.BOTH.SUCK.HUGE.ONES.AT. EXEGETE.NET
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I saw a couple of the pictures, and spotted those beige desktop g3s, and some 8600's and stuff. I recently found a full dumpster of those at my school, and I had to bring as many as I could carry home. I also took a huge load of 3com pci cards.
Anyway, those are usable computers, at least by the standard of the norwegian school system. Those 50 or so machines just lying there in the dumpster is more way better than what many schools have.
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People haven't contributed anything special to the scanning engine. They would have to strip that out, but as already mentioned, it was no biggie. They hold the rest of the copyright, and are legally allowed to change the licence, but they cannot restrict any usage of previously released source code.
You know, you need computer systems to coordinate the help effort. I am sure he did not waste his time and fooled around.
Umm. So if that was so much hassle, why didn't you write all your stuff yourself?
Uhm. I will have to guess what you mean by your post. If you are referring to the amount of available units, I'd say that Gamepark did pretty well with the supply for the GP32. GBAX.com did run out of stock a few times, but there were never any critical shortage of units for a longer period of time.
You do realize that this is a handheld console? The storage capacity of SD cards should be enough for a lot of apps (emulators), some music, maybe an episode of American Dad, plus tonnes of snes, nes, and gameboy ROMS.
... just because Gamepark actually encourages people to make homebrew apps, unlike other manufacturers.
Some time around March, I started receiving a number of random instant messages from people I've never met before. Apparantly, my AIM alias had been added to at least two online lists and people all over the world were busy importing me as a buddy.
I say "at least two" because the people who contacted me fell into one of two camps: people who thought they were contacting a celebrity and people who thought they were contacting a robot. As I talked to more and more of these folks, I began to discover something really disturbing about myself:
I consistently fail to be perceived as human.
When this first started happening, a typical conversation with a celebrity admirer would go something like this (participant's IM handle is fabricated):
This was entertaining at first, but it quickly became a bit depressing as the angelcutie42s of the wired world would, one after the other, decide I wasn't worth talking to if I wasn't a celebrity. Want to know what it's like being dumped by a random groupie 5 times a day? Not good at all, thank you very much.
So that's when I started hamming it up a bit. I'm not really proud of it, but my fans wanted a celebrity.. so I gave them one:
My groupies loved it. The more celebrity balogna I manufactured, the more they ate it, and the more they loved me.
Then, something strange started happening. As my career as an artificial celebrity started to take off, I began to receive some strange IMs from a whole new class of random people. These new admirers were convinced I was a robot... and it suddenly became clear to me that something was very wrong.
Nobody would believe I was human. In one troubling conversation after another, I felt my intellectual teeter-totter quickly tip from from actual to artificial.
This is where things took a turn for the worse.
I mentioned already that I couldn't convince a single person that I wasn't a chat bot. It's one thing for people to think you are artificially intelligent. I can live with that, I guess. What really killed me was that the more I tried proving my "actual" intelligence, the more my "artificial" intelligence would get called into question. Take this pivotal conversation:
I know about, AmigaONE, Genisi/Pegasos, Apple, and that you could purchase Apple-parts from ebay or something. Are there any other ways (which are within a student's price range), to have a working Linux/PPC system? It does not need to be _blazing fast_, but OK for a typical office computer.
Well, since the main goal of DRM is vendor lock-ins, an open standard like this might prove interesting.
This is DRM done right, in a way. I mean, since the real goal of DRM is vendor lock-ins, an open DRM standard could be interesting.
As long as it is a clean room design, it should be legal for Real. Courts may think otherwise though.
Sir, that is a feature, not a bug :) I am pretty sure they did this to make sure the kernel will forever stay GPLv2'ed, and that violators step on many toes at a time.
We had a similar law in Norway, that would permit you to link to warez as long as you were not hosting it yourself. The problem is, the guy running napster.no (which linked to full music downloads), got convicted. That court ruling effectively made linking to warez illegal, although the law still is the same. That might happen in Sweden as well, but until that, The Pirate Bay is safe.
I have experienced some crashed with my nokia phones (do not blame me, I got them for free). Bugs in firmwares and stuff are also to blame, like this cute little Sony Ericsson bug: here
I wanted to change to DVORAK to learn touch typing, and most "tutorials" said that one should tear off all the keys and rearrange them to the DVORAK layout. I call bullshit. I found a picture of the layout, then made it a sticky on the top of the screen. So, every time i forgot a key, I had to look up, not down. Looking down would not really help either, as the keyboard was still a QWERTY-keyboard.
Ok, here is a rough translation:
I have wanted to test some real SATA controllers against SCSI controllers for some time now, to see how good SATA has become. I once thought that cheap controllers like Sil 3114 is cheap crap that manufacturers put on their boards simply to provide SATA-support, and that software RAID was a cheap, but insufficient solution, since I have followed the principle that hardware does the job best. "A more expensive controller, means more hardware", was my initial guess, but it seems that even the cheap controllers are worthy. Software RAID also performs very well. SATA is no longer some gag for disk systems that are supposed to perform well, and many myths have been dispelled by my test.
I will not go as far as to say that you shall place your bet on cheap controllers or software RAID. The reason is simple, in a expensive controller, there is much more functionality, that a cheap controller can just dream about. Functionality like hot-spare drives and hot-swap, just to mention some. I do not want to recommend SATA over SCSI in a while either. The lifespan of a SCSI drive is in most casese many times as long as a vanilla SATA-disk. When you choose a solution, it should last. If you have machines that has a big fat controller, RAID50, then SATA might be something for you. If you have a machine that needs redundancy on the internal drives, but where changing controllers, or even buying them in the first place has been in the way, then software RAID might be the solution for you.
I shall be careful to mock the LSI controller, as I think there might be a problem with the way the test machine talks to it. I think the new Megaraid driver in the kernel might be the problem. Either it needs to mature, or it is simply that it does not like 64-bit Linux. I have not tampered too much with the default settings, but it runs superparanoid verification algorithms when it sends and recieves data. I have not fleshed the BIOS on any of the controllers.
Adaptecs controllers do very well. Everything was not perfect with them, and the aacraid driver in the kernel was too old for both of the controllers. From their website, I found something that looked like source code (Adaptec seems to rely on 100% RPM based distros), and I could bouild my own module. After that, no problem. A little minus is that the aacraid does not report how long the controller has gotten in building the array after you have set up a RAID. By looking at the SCSI-BIOS after some hours, I got to verify that the array was built.
I want to warn everyone that is going to buy a controller. Carefully check that the controller is supported in the kernel! I use Google to check for references to the card on mailing lists, but that does not help much when you have Debian, and all that exist is binary RedHat drivers.
Now, run to your console and test your disk system. This test does only give you indications on what to choose. I allow myself to give you one final advice: Run tests for yourself.
A late reply, noone will ever care, but here goes:
.com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/
for detailed information.
MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZ.IS.0WNED.AND.HAX0RED.BY.SUB7.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.LIVE.FOREVER.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS. COM
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.SLAPPED.IN.THE.FACE.BY.MY.BL UE.VEINED.SPANNER.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.BEATEN.WITH.MY.SPANNER.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.WAREZ.AT.TOPLIST.GULLI.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.WANADOODOO.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.SUX.BUT.PYROFREAK.ORG.RULEZ.AND.DIOX YTECH.NET.DELETED.GANDI.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.SMELLS.SIMPLECODES.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.GIVE.UP.BECAUSE.LINUXISGOD.CO M
MICROSOFT.COM.RAWKZ.MUH.WERLD.MENTALFLOSS.CA
MICROSOFT.COM.OHMYGODITBURNS.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.LIVES.AT.SHAUNEWING.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.AS.COOL.AS.SIMPLECODES.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.IN.BED.WITH.CURTYV.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.GOD.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.STEAMING.HEAP.OF.FUCKING-BULLSH IT.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.ITS.OWN.CRACKLAB.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.A.PRESENT.COMING.FROM.HUGHESMISS ILES.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.FLINGS.POO.AT.MONKEYCORE.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.FILLS.ME.WITH.BELLIGERENCE.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.CAN.GO.FUCK.ITSELF.AT.SECZY.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.ARE.GODDAMN.PIGFUCKERS.NET.NS-NOT-IN -SERVICE.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.AND.MINDSUCK.BOTH.SUCK.HUGE.ONES.AT. EXEGETE.NET
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whois microsoft.com: canonix:~ nichotin$ whois microsoft.com Whois Server Version 1.3 Domain names in the
Seriously, it was not meant as a joke.
Didn't anyone notice?
Yes. You are right. Shared Source works extremely well on those that think seeing the source == security.
In theory they could just do as they did with Sharman Networks.
the lightbulb industry lobbies the congress to ban LED technology that will ruin the market for lightbulbs.
Search for broadcom on sourceforge, and you will find a project for reverse engineering the driver.
I saw a couple of the pictures, and spotted those beige desktop g3s, and some 8600's and stuff. I recently found a full dumpster of those at my school, and I had to bring as many as I could carry home. I also took a huge load of 3com pci cards. Anyway, those are usable computers, at least by the standard of the norwegian school system. Those 50 or so machines just lying there in the dumpster is more way better than what many schools have.