Multi source framegrabber if a maximum of two simultaneous colour sources or six simulaneous b&w sources and six channels maximum works for you go for the ellips rio full framegrabber. http://www.ellips.nl
They told me they were wanted to develop a linux driver but were unable to do so (it's a small company) and would happily assist anyone interested in developing it.
Currently this guy is developing a linux driver that seems to have the basics running. The card itself is a wonderfull product and it seems to work flawlessly in all systems I've tried.
English is not my native language so sometimes when I don't know a word I have to guess it's meaning from the context. The last year or so I have come to the following:
Terrorist: used by people to indicate other people that say or do things that the first group of people doesn't approve of, doesn't understand or isn't receiving any money for. War on terrorism: The act of violating every basic human right of terrorists. Peace: A situation where all terrorists are either dead or in prison.
From your post I see my self guessed definitions are pretty close to the real meaning of those words. (and boy will the world be a quiet place when the American government finally decides there's peace)
It's actually quite a long time ago (little over a year I think) The spam company they used was recently in a legal battle with dutch internet provider xs4all about wether or not the spammer was allowed to send spam to xs4all members (spammer lost) But I can't remember the name of the spam company and I can't find anything english (or dutch) right now. I'll look into it and post here this evening.
right... I'm back (co workers know everything) the paper was called NRC (www.nrc.nl, dutch) spam company was called abfab (www.abfab.nl I guess) Turns out it happened around the 20th of october 2001.
this is the only link in English I can find right now http://www.xs4all.nl/uk/news/overview/abfab.h tml
a search on google.nl for nrc spam returns a few usefull links but they're all in dutch.
Or, if you're like me and you only read mail in your preview pane (saves a click) an alternative is to use a firewall to stop outlook from contacting any remote adress other than your mail server. That way those evil tagged images wil never even appear on your screen. (Which will also save you some explaining when you receive yet another html-pr0n spam while your pointy haired boss is looking over your shoulder.)
1. If I get a reply to a spam I sent to adress x then adress x is used and read by someone
2. If I know of an adress that is used and read by someone Then I will add that adress to all e-mail lists I send mail to.
not unsubscribing is usually the best tactic for spam not sent by a business you know. Large well known companies usually (but not allways) do act upon unsubscribe requests.
Legitimate businesses usually refrain from actual spamming because they are easy to find and easy to get back at.
A major dutch newspaper (I'm dutch) once sent several tens of thousand e-mails through a known spammer advertising subscriptions. They received more than 10 thousand complaint e-mails, a few people canceled the subscription they already had and all public e-mail adresses they had were subscribed to so much e-mail/spam lists by disgruntled recipients of their spam that their internal e-mail system got overloaded several times during the following month.
I must disagree with you on this point.
Yes they should know better, and yes, they probably didn't keep their servers entirely up to date with the latest security updates, but nothing would have happened if nobody had written this worm.
Next thing the police tells me I'm to blame for the latest break in in my house because my door wasn't patched against the latest models crowbar.
They just suffered a lot of damage because some jerk somewhere lacks a decent moral and ethical education.
If you want to move in permanently you should try finding a job on-line at a dutch company. Many dutch companies are desperate for skilled IT workers so they try and attract workers via every channel possible. And when they hire you they'll probably help you get set up here (I'm dutch)
This probably works for most european countries. Duthc immigration laws are pretty restrictive so that can be a problem, but if you've got a job at a dutch company, again, that is much easier.
Be prepared for a slight culture shock though. Oh, and pick up the briliantly funny book "the undutchables" (isbn 0962500631) describes us wonderfully.
This is what everybody with a bit of sense in her or himself knew since somwhere in '98. If you look closely at the companies making up the NASDAQ, you'd find that their value is based largely on the fact that somewhere in the near future investors expect them to grow as large as microsof or AOL. Now that might have been possible in 1997 or so (for companies to grow as large and dominant as Microsoft or AOL) but not anymore. So we have a large body of tech companies (in wich we all own stocks) that, to justify their combined value have to grow significantly faster than the market they're in. Problem is, their combined value already makes up a large part of the market. So right now a large part (I'd say more than half) of the market has to grow way faster than said market. Which, of course, is mathematically impossible. Of course we are not stupid, so we just "fail" to notice that and keep pouring our money (which is based on the value of our stocks or stock options) into tech stocks to get more money to put into stocks etc. etc. etc....
This of course only goes as far as the point at wich somebody says: "hey, but wait a minute, what are the odds of those companies actually growing to twice the size of microsoft?"
Which, appearantly, is right about now. (the funk soul brother:) So: "run everybody, run and hide while you can, or you'll get splattered by the remnants of exploding soap bubble economies and soap in your eyes sucks."
Basically this Shiller guy gave the game away. He's a traitor! All investors run to your attorneys to be the first to file suit against him for your damages, that should at least keep the second most important part of the american economy running. *sigh* back to lawschool again, and I was just beginning to enjoy this internet thing.....
Uh *duh* Goth != Metallica Read up on your music styles old person
And, Metallica might well be the band "losing" the most money to napster. I just did a few searches and "metallica" returned more than 100 results with ping 0, while "Garth Brooks" returned only 11, true, britney spears was in the hundreds to but then again somebody had to tell her that australia was actually pretty far away and not "somewhere south of new mexico" so maybe she also isn't very "up to speed" on that internet thing...
Open source music!! Or would that be open sheet music? Yeah! Milions of former linux-geeks start spending their free time working and reworking their open source songs until those songs are the most stable, versatile, extendible of the planet...
or would stable versatile music made by several thousand different people be boring?
Metallica provides us with something we want but cannot legally obtain ourselves and it's just fair that we pay them for that.
Theft is theft even when you're stealing from a group of very rich guys, even when the chance of getting caught is zero because everybody on the web is an anonymous coward.
If you have such significant problems with paid music, do the sensible thing, start an "open music" movement, protest, write letters, bla.... Just using the fact that you think metallica "charges to much" for their music or whatever as an excuse for theft is really weak. If any of the people complaining about metallica really felt strongly about what they're shouting the ACLU would have had ten times the membership it has, or there would have been a free music foundation where artists deposit the rights to older songs when they think they've gotten enough out of that music, so as to let everybody copy it to hearts content.
Right now napster users are just criminals (albeit very small ones) that are complaining they got caught.
---Electronic Shock Resistance? Root Mean Square? why is everybody discussing that here?---
What would really be interesting is an algorithm-like solution of chess. A (small) set of rules that provides an immediate and ideal answer to any possible move by the other party.
It is highly improbable that there will be one "ideal game" (ie one fixed sequence of moves to be made by either color to win the game no matter what the other color does). But a set of rules on how to respond "ideal" might actually be possible.
And then maybe the storage space required to hold this set of rules will actually be smaller than some weird number like the amount of hydrogen atoms in the known universe or whatever. That would be a "giant step for chess-player-kind" (and probably still a pretty huge step for one chess player)
The solution is really simple IMHO. take on the parents! give a parent a nice cap or a shirt for every hour spent just playing with his/her kid the way the kid wanted. (this therefore does not count taking your kid to IKEA) And let people anonimously denounce parents that are suspected of not paying enough attention to their kids (ie two parents with full time jobs) Throw in a "parent licence" and we've got a well rounded program I'd say.
in the words of scott adams: "Most induhviduals end up having children. That's a bit like putting a poodle in the cockpit of the spac shuttle and saying, "let's see what happens."
the trick here is separating the parents that say: "He's good with guns and explosives but he doesn't harm anyone" from those that say: "he's good with computers but he doesn't harm anyone."
Not to belittle the sheer amount of computing power that was applied here or the effort that went into creating a client for said effort but I still object to calling this a "breaking" of an algorithm. Sure, they've found the key, but change the key and the same amount of computing power will be needed to find that one so what have we learned here? What was so great?
This is about as cool as a guy who claims he can open every safe and when asked to demonstrate sits down in front of it and starts turning the wheel until he gets the combination by accident. Everybody knows you can do it that way.
Now if the attack had taken just a few sheets of paper, a pencil and a calculator, then I'd be impressed.
Apple is IMHO a pure hardware vendor, I wouldn't even be surprised if they budgeted their software development efforts under the marketing department. The outside of the imac or G3, the Aqua GUI of the new MacOS and all colorfull adverts are just there to create an image for the apple hardware. Opening up the source of any part of apple created software won't mean their computers become cheaper, it'll just mean their image just became a little better in a part of the hardware market that used to dislike them for their crappy OS. So now linux geeks will also start buying apple hardware because apple is a company that embraces the open source movement. Apple couldn't care less that the first thing we do is wipe out MacOS and install a linux distro as long as we buy that G3 or imac.
This is just proper marketing for a company that get's it's money from hardware and it's image from software. If they keep on this track I'll have to start buying APPL stock.
I can see it now. Porn sites start copying the five words of large portal and news sites and in the event of a 404 for one of those sites you automatically get redirected to the site you really "wanted" to visit anyway.
Anybody know if this is going to be an actual standard or just something usefull until a new truly robust adressing system gets adopted. It might be on the site but that's sort of unreachable right now.
They used to be pretty good at delaying the succes of a new product by claiming they would have a better product ready within a few months. but 2001? sjeeezz.... where do they think the mobile market will be by then? Every company that wants to put a cool mobile device on the market should do it now and -thus- should use a transmeta chip. There simply isn't anything else in the high-end mobile processor area right now.
By the time intell releases it's little project it had better be a really kickass powerhouse of the high-MHz/low-power-use kind. I'm selling my intel stocks for now.
You can't use it in all places of course but I know of a few places where voice control might be usefull..
In a car for instance, especially if it's connected to an on-line traffic report or on-line maps and has built in GPS. At a meeting. No more "who will be taking notes this time?"-silence before every meeting. just flop you PDA on the table and synchronize with everyone afterwards.
I think this like al other things with "limited" use will find a niche to operate in. a very large one to as far as I'm concerned.
With the current increase in voice controlled appliances some serious work should be done on the privacy and safety field. Most people probably know the exceedingly funny dilbert strip in which Dilbert has been given a voice controlled PC and Wally expresses his jealousy by "DELETING A FILE". In the Netherlands (where I live) we had a very funny commercial for a voice controlled mobile phone. A guy is standing in the street with his boss and says "mother" to his phone to demonstrate the coolness of his new device. He talks to his mother for a sec and hangs up. After that two people right next to them get in an argument and one of the guys shouts "asshole" to the other (dutch equivalent actually) at wich point the boss's mobile phone rings.....
This is of course funny and theory right now but There will come a point at wich people will want to be sure device reacts to their voice commands and no one else's. I wonder how this problem is going to be tackled. In the meantime I guess with the coming of voice operated pc to the workplace we will be getting seperate offices again to prevent us from interfering with each other's work. That is IMHO at least a good thing(tm)
I really like the idea of a vector based GUI. I think that looking at more "organic" shapes is easier on the eyes than looking at all those squares and blocks. but right now I say "why?" Why use a vector based windowing system on a monitor that can only display squares and blocks efficiently. The moment a vector based windowing system becomes usefull even unavoidable is when we have "analog" monitors as in "monitors that can actually display vectors" as opposed to the current "monitors that diplay bitmaps" IMHO this vector based windowing system is just a marketing buzz-word induced waste of cpu-time. Now that the competition is already ahead on all the current words (preemptive multitasking, multi-user, journaling file system,.....) they just invented a new one.
You are right of course. But on the other hand, the person withdrawing 49.95 from one million credit cards would probably have an account somwhere, and when their reputation is at stake creditcard companies can probably exert more pressure on the swiss banks than interpol squared.
And with my creditcard I'm responsible for nothing if my bank can't give me a slip of paper with my autograph on it or other proof that I did indeed benefit from an order, so I just look at my statements very closely every motnth.
I agree with you that you can live without a computer. People have done that for a long time and will keep on doing it for some time to come.)
But I still think that it's a draconian sentence. He should be forbidden to use computers for certain things such as systems administration, software development and stuff. Simply disallowing him to use computers is a draconian verdict of a bunch of people that think he can make power plants explode by looking at a library PC.
true true, But of how many of your on-line friends do you know the snailmail address? And that's not all. This guy is going to have to buy a typewriter to write a resume cause less and less companies accepts hand-written ones. and there are probably some other things he can't do now that he can't use a computer. This sentence is still similar to a dokter being forbidden to use metal tools.
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Try finding these files somewhere.
Multi source framegrabber if a maximum of two simultaneous colour sources or six simulaneous b&w sources and six channels maximum works for you go for the ellips rio full framegrabber. http://www.ellips.nl
They told me they were wanted to develop a linux driver but were unable to do so (it's a small company) and would happily assist anyone interested in developing it. Currently this guy is developing a linux driver that seems to have the basics running. The card itself is a wonderfull product and it seems to work flawlessly in all systems I've tried.
English is not my native language so sometimes when I don't know a word I have to guess it's meaning from the context. The last year or so I have come to the following:
Terrorist: used by people to indicate other people that say or do things that the first group of people doesn't approve of, doesn't understand or isn't receiving any money for.
War on terrorism: The act of violating every basic human right of terrorists.
Peace: A situation where all terrorists are either dead or in prison.
From your post I see my self guessed definitions are pretty close to the real meaning of those words. (and boy will the world be a quiet place when the American government finally decides there's peace)
It's actually quite a long time ago (little over a year I think)
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The spam company they used was recently in a legal battle with dutch internet provider xs4all about wether or not the spammer was allowed to send spam to xs4all members (spammer lost) But I can't remember the name of the spam company and I can't find anything english (or dutch) right now. I'll look into it and post here this evening.
right... I'm back (co workers know everything)
the paper was called NRC (www.nrc.nl, dutch)
spam company was called abfab (www.abfab.nl I guess) Turns out it happened around the 20th of october 2001.
this is the only link in English I can find right now
http://www.xs4all.nl/uk/news/overview/abfab.
a search on google.nl for nrc spam returns a few usefull links but they're all in dutch.
Or, if you're like me and you only read mail in your preview pane (saves a click) an alternative is to use a firewall to stop outlook from contacting any remote adress other than your mail server. That way those evil tagged images wil never even appear on your screen. (Which will also save you some explaining when you receive yet another html-pr0n spam while your pointy haired boss is looking over your shoulder.)
spammers follow these simple rules:
1. If I get a reply to a spam I sent to adress x
then adress x is used and read by someone
2. If I know of an adress that is used and read by someone
Then I will add that adress to all e-mail lists I send mail to.
not unsubscribing is usually the best tactic for spam not sent by a business you know. Large well known companies usually (but not allways) do act upon unsubscribe requests.
Legitimate businesses usually refrain from actual spamming because they are easy to find and easy to get back at.
A major dutch newspaper (I'm dutch) once sent several tens of thousand e-mails through a known spammer advertising subscriptions. They received more than 10 thousand complaint e-mails, a few people canceled the subscription they already had and all public e-mail adresses they had were subscribed to so much e-mail/spam lists by disgruntled recipients of their spam that their internal e-mail system got overloaded several times during the following month.
I must disagree with you on this point.
Yes they should know better, and yes, they probably didn't keep their servers entirely up to date with the latest security updates, but nothing would have happened if nobody had written this worm.
Next thing the police tells me I'm to blame for the latest break in in my house because my door wasn't patched against the latest models crowbar.
They just suffered a lot of damage because some jerk somewhere lacks a decent moral and ethical education.
If you want to move in permanently you should try finding a job on-line at a dutch company. Many dutch companies are desperate for skilled IT workers so they try and attract workers via every channel possible. And when they hire you they'll probably help you get set up here (I'm dutch)
This probably works for most european countries. Duthc immigration laws are pretty restrictive so that can be a problem, but if you've got a job at a dutch company, again, that is much easier.
Be prepared for a slight culture shock though. Oh, and pick up the briliantly funny book "the undutchables" (isbn 0962500631) describes us wonderfully.
Well, *duh*
:)
This is what everybody with a bit of sense in her or himself knew since somwhere in '98.
If you look closely at the companies making up the NASDAQ, you'd find that their value is based largely on the fact that somewhere in the near future investors expect them to grow as large as microsof or AOL.
Now that might have been possible in 1997 or so (for companies to grow as large and dominant as Microsoft or AOL) but not anymore. So we have a large body of tech companies (in wich we all own stocks) that, to justify their combined value have to grow significantly faster than the market they're in. Problem is, their combined value already makes up a large part of the market. So right now a large part (I'd say more than half) of the market has to grow way faster than said market. Which, of course, is mathematically impossible. Of course we are not stupid, so we just "fail" to notice that and keep pouring our money (which is based on the value of our stocks or stock options) into tech stocks to get more money to put into stocks etc. etc. etc....
This of course only goes as far as the point at wich somebody says: "hey, but wait a minute, what are the odds of those companies actually growing to twice the size of microsoft?"
Which, appearantly, is right about now. (the funk soul brother
So:
"run everybody, run and hide while you can, or you'll get splattered by the remnants of exploding soap bubble economies and soap in your eyes sucks."
Basically this Shiller guy gave the game away.
He's a traitor!
All investors run to your attorneys to be the first to file suit against him for your damages, that should at least keep the second most important part of the american economy running.
*sigh* back to lawschool again, and I was just beginning to enjoy this internet thing.....
Uh *duh*
Goth != Metallica
Read up on your music styles old person
And, Metallica might well be the band "losing" the most money to napster.
I just did a few searches and "metallica" returned more than 100 results with ping 0, while "Garth Brooks" returned only 11, true, britney spears was in the hundreds to but then again somebody had to tell her that australia was actually pretty far away and not "somewhere south of new mexico" so maybe she also isn't very "up to speed" on that internet thing...
Open source music!!
Or would that be open sheet music?
Yeah!
Milions of former linux-geeks start spending their free time working and reworking their open source songs until those songs are the most stable, versatile, extendible of the planet...
or would stable versatile music made by several thousand different people be boring?
Metallica provides us with something we want but cannot legally obtain ourselves and it's just fair that we pay them for that.
Theft is theft even when you're stealing from a group of very rich guys, even when the chance of getting caught is zero because everybody on the web is an anonymous coward.
If you have such significant problems with paid music, do the sensible thing, start an "open music" movement, protest, write letters, bla.... Just using the fact that you think metallica "charges to much" for their music or whatever as an excuse for theft is really weak.
If any of the people complaining about metallica really felt strongly about what they're shouting the ACLU would have had ten times the membership it has, or there would have been a free music foundation where artists deposit the rights to older songs when they think they've gotten enough out of that music, so as to let everybody copy it to hearts content.
Right now napster users are just criminals (albeit very small ones) that are complaining they got caught.
---Electronic Shock Resistance? Root Mean Square? why is everybody discussing that here?---
What would really be interesting is an algorithm-like solution of chess.
A (small) set of rules that provides an immediate and ideal answer to any possible move by the other party.
It is highly improbable that there will be one "ideal game" (ie one fixed sequence of moves to be made by either color to win the game no matter what the other color does). But a set of rules on how to respond "ideal" might actually be possible.
And then maybe the storage space required to hold this set of rules will actually be smaller than some weird number like the amount of hydrogen atoms in the known universe or whatever. That would be a "giant step for chess-player-kind" (and probably still a pretty huge step for one chess player)
Yeah,e gif.html
here's a link.
http://etv.et.tudelft.nl/commissies/lustrum/mov
The solution is really simple IMHO.
take on the parents!
give a parent a nice cap or a shirt for every hour spent just playing with his/her kid the way the kid wanted. (this therefore does not count taking your kid to IKEA)
And let people anonimously denounce parents that are suspected of not paying enough attention to their kids (ie two parents with full time jobs)
Throw in a "parent licence" and we've got a well rounded program I'd say.
in the words of scott adams:
"Most induhviduals end up having children. That's a bit like putting a poodle in the cockpit of the spac shuttle and saying, "let's see what happens."
the trick here is separating the parents that say: "He's good with guns and explosives but he doesn't harm anyone" from those that say: "he's good with computers but he doesn't harm anyone."
Not to belittle the sheer amount of computing power that was applied here or the effort that went into creating a client for said effort but I still object to calling this a "breaking" of an algorithm. Sure, they've found the key, but change the key and the same amount of computing power will be needed to find that one so what have we learned here? What was so great?
This is about as cool as a guy who claims he can open every safe and when asked to demonstrate sits down in front of it and starts turning the wheel until he gets the combination by accident. Everybody knows you can do it that way.
Now if the attack had taken just a few sheets of paper, a pencil and a calculator, then I'd be impressed.
Apple is IMHO a pure hardware vendor, I wouldn't even be surprised if they budgeted their software development efforts under the marketing department.
The outside of the imac or G3, the Aqua GUI of the new MacOS and all colorfull adverts are just there to create an image for the apple hardware. Opening up the source of any part of apple created software won't mean their computers become cheaper, it'll just mean their image just became a little better in a part of the hardware market that used to dislike them for their crappy OS. So now linux geeks will also start buying apple hardware because apple is a company that embraces the open source movement. Apple couldn't care less that the first thing we do is wipe out MacOS and install a linux distro as long as we buy that G3 or imac.
This is just proper marketing for a company that get's it's money from hardware and it's image from software. If they keep on this track I'll have to start buying APPL stock.
I can see it now.
Porn sites start copying the five words of large portal and news sites and in the event of a 404 for one of those sites you automatically get redirected to the site you really "wanted" to visit anyway.
Anybody know if this is going to be an actual standard or just something usefull until a new truly robust adressing system gets adopted. It might be on the site but that's sort of unreachable right now.
They used to be pretty good at delaying the succes of a new product by claiming they would have a better product ready within a few months. but 2001? sjeeezz.... where do they think the mobile market will be by then? Every company that wants to put a cool mobile device on the market should do it now and -thus- should use a transmeta chip. There simply isn't anything else in the high-end mobile processor area right now.
By the time intell releases it's little project it had better be a really kickass powerhouse of the high-MHz/low-power-use kind. I'm selling my intel stocks for now.
You can't use it in all places of course but I know of a few places where voice control might be usefull..
In a car for instance, especially if it's connected to an on-line traffic report or on-line maps and has built in GPS.
At a meeting. No more "who will be taking notes this time?"-silence before every meeting. just flop you PDA on the table and synchronize with everyone afterwards.
I think this like al other things with "limited" use will find a niche to operate in. a very large one to as far as I'm concerned.
With the current increase in voice controlled appliances some serious work should be done on the privacy and safety field.
Most people probably know the exceedingly funny dilbert strip in which Dilbert has been given a voice controlled PC and Wally expresses his jealousy by "DELETING A FILE". In the Netherlands (where I live) we had a very funny commercial for a voice controlled mobile phone. A guy is standing in the street with his boss and says "mother" to his phone to demonstrate the coolness of his new device. He talks to his mother for a sec and hangs up. After that two people right next to them get in an argument and one of the guys shouts "asshole" to the other (dutch equivalent actually) at wich point the boss's mobile phone rings.....
This is of course funny and theory right now but There will come a point at wich people will want to be sure device reacts to their voice commands and no one else's. I wonder how this problem is going to be tackled.
In the meantime I guess with the coming of voice operated pc to the workplace we will be getting seperate offices again to prevent us from interfering with each other's work. That is IMHO at least a good thing(tm)
I really like the idea of a vector based GUI. I think that looking at more "organic" shapes is easier on the eyes than looking at all those squares and blocks. but right now I say "why?"
Why use a vector based windowing system on a monitor that can only display squares and blocks efficiently. The moment a vector based windowing system becomes usefull even unavoidable is when we have "analog" monitors as in "monitors that can actually display vectors" as opposed to the current "monitors that diplay bitmaps" IMHO this vector based windowing system is just a marketing buzz-word induced waste of cpu-time. Now that the competition is already ahead on all the current words (preemptive multitasking, multi-user, journaling file system,.....) they just invented a new one.
You are right of course.
But on the other hand, the person withdrawing 49.95 from one million credit cards would probably have an account somwhere, and when their reputation is at stake creditcard companies can probably exert more pressure on the swiss banks than interpol squared.
And with my creditcard I'm responsible for nothing if my bank can't give me a slip of paper with my autograph on it or other proof that I did indeed benefit from an order, so I just look at my statements very closely every motnth.
I agree with you that you can live without a computer. People have done that for a long time and will keep on doing it for some time to come.)
But I still think that it's a draconian sentence. He should be forbidden to use computers for certain things such as systems administration, software development and stuff. Simply disallowing him to use computers is a draconian verdict of a bunch of people that think he can make power plants explode by looking at a library PC.
true true, But of how many of your on-line friends do you know the snailmail address? And that's not all. This guy is going to have to buy a typewriter to write a resume cause less and less companies accepts hand-written ones. and there are probably some other things he can't do now that he can't use a computer. This sentence is still similar to a dokter being forbidden to use metal tools.