Now I use Mp3s on my home computer, as well as my person cd player, which supports mp3s.
Pretty much everyone I know does have mp3s, and still uses them, and still downloads them.
Of course there are the ones who probably encoded their entire collection of cds to a different format, but will the personal cd player support ogg or aac anytime soon?
Maybe if the personal cd player maker will allow us to use open source standards, I think that will be great.
I remember reading something about this a while ago. It said that BMW tried to move away from using Windows CE on their high end 740/750(I believe), and if not the 5 series, because they felt that the CE operating system couldn't do what they need.
They were seeking open source alternatives. Linux, obviously came to mind.
Speaking of plagiarism:
My college had a shell script, called big brother that would run diffs against everyone's shell scripts in the same section, as well as other ones to check for similarity.
It was funny enough that two people got caught with a rate of about 96% (the shell scripts were only like 150 lines or so). Basically they copied everything, except the name and student numbers.
They were warned! I guess they have a nice note on their transcript.
I was also able to recover a Windows 2000 partition with Knoppix. I was able to mount the ntfs partition as read-only, and then transfer the data over ftp to one of my *nix boxes.
Well, I've installed the google desktop search, and of course I'm prompted by the classic error message saying that I need the administrator account to install it.
So I switch to my 'root' account (not admin), and install it, and worked flawlessly. Of course I had to give it a test shot, and it worked great. Did exactly what it said it did.
Now, I just greated some word files on my desktop to see if it would work, and obviously it did. It's interesting to see that the desktop search actually runs as a daemon. It is also nicely integrated with the google website providing a consistent interface.
The only that I would bitch about is that you can't run it from a non-admin account, which doesn't serve the purpose of the program. And no, run-as doesn't work either.
Now assuming the average user has Windows XP home edition, and they only use the administrator account, this utility would work flawless.
Perhaps there will be some support in the future for Netscape's and e-mail.
Hmm, wonder if this handy google utility will beat Microsoft's database filesystem, this is really interesting to see how it would develop. Keep up the good work google.
Despite my stings, it still seems a great little utility.
"If someone transfers your credit report or medical history, you have no way of knowing," Tien said. "The natural feedback we expect in the physical world just doesn't work in the area of information. You have to be careful."
Imagine if some poor smuck walks by, and they OCR his face and pull his file(s) from the choicepoint db, and after they see these red letters across: Bad Credit.
I actually remember playing a game using just my finger a while ago. It was connected to a sensor, and I was able to play this simple skying game. It was a bit hard at first to control, but then I got the hang of it.
This was at some sort of computer fair that was set up about 6-7 years ago, but it was definitely interesting. I'm not exactly sure how many of you had this amazing opportunity. Is there a place where one can purchase such devices for the home user?
I remember they were selling packages with the product itself & games. One of the card games included was where the computer can actually detect if you're lying based on your heartbeat/pulse. I didn't have a chance to play that game at that time.
Anybody had similar experiences that they would like to share?
Check out Marcel's linux mailing list:
http://www.salmar.com/mailman/listinfo/wftl-lug
Definitely worth a try for the mailing list lovers. I used to subscribe, but not anymore, I don't have any more time.
Try out this website, Linux chicks:
http://hackersplayground.org/humor/linuxchicks/40. html
I actually printed out the OpenBSD brunette on 3rd page. Damn she's hot!
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I believe in the old DOS days, when you went typed in 'format c:' you were still prompted if you really wanted to do it.
/v:"null" /q > null
There is a hack, that allows you to pipe an answer to format, such as follows:
echo y | format c:
Now that would format the c hard drive quick, and, set its volume, and pipe all output to null.
Hmm, excellent for automation.
Now I use Mp3s on my home computer, as well as my person cd player, which supports mp3s.
Pretty much everyone I know does have mp3s, and still uses them, and still downloads them.
Of course there are the ones who probably encoded their entire collection of cds to a different format, but will the personal cd player support ogg or aac anytime soon?
Maybe if the personal cd player maker will allow us to use open source standards, I think that will be great.
I remember reading something about this a while ago. It said that BMW tried to move away from using Windows CE on their high end 740/750(I believe), and if not the 5 series, because they felt that the CE operating system couldn't do what they need.
They were seeking open source alternatives. Linux, obviously came to mind.
Sorry, I don't have the link handy.
Speaking of plagiarism: My college had a shell script, called big brother that would run diffs against everyone's shell scripts in the same section, as well as other ones to check for similarity. It was funny enough that two people got caught with a rate of about 96% (the shell scripts were only like 150 lines or so). Basically they copied everything, except the name and student numbers. They were warned! I guess they have a nice note on their transcript.
Off the cd clustering:
http://bofh.be/clusterknoppix/
Hmm, bofh? Bastard operator from hell.
I was also able to recover a Windows 2000 partition with Knoppix. I was able to mount the ntfs partition as read-only, and then transfer the data over ftp to one of my *nix boxes.
Thank god for knoppix!
It's a life saver.
Will I get different hex numbers in the dump? I just wonder how a blue screen might look like. :)
Well, I've installed the google desktop search, and of course I'm prompted by the classic error message saying that I need the administrator account to install it.
So I switch to my 'root' account (not admin), and install it, and worked flawlessly. Of course I had to give it a test shot, and it worked great. Did exactly what it said it did.
Now, I just greated some word files on my desktop to see if it would work, and obviously it did. It's interesting to see that the desktop search actually runs as a daemon. It is also nicely integrated with the google website providing a consistent interface.
The only that I would bitch about is that you can't run it from a non-admin account, which doesn't serve the purpose of the program. And no, run-as doesn't work either.
Now assuming the average user has Windows XP home edition, and they only use the administrator account, this utility would work flawless.
Perhaps there will be some support in the future for Netscape's and e-mail.
Hmm, wonder if this handy google utility will beat Microsoft's database filesystem, this is really interesting to see how it would develop. Keep up the good work google.
Despite my stings, it still seems a great little utility.
"If someone transfers your credit report or medical history, you have no way of knowing," Tien said. "The natural feedback we expect in the physical world just doesn't work in the area of information. You have to be careful."
Imagine if some poor smuck walks by, and they OCR his face and pull his file(s) from the choicepoint db, and after they see these red letters across: Bad Credit.
You see the FBI agent: "Call VISA, we got him!".
That would just be hilarious.
I actually remember playing a game using just my finger a while ago. It was connected to a sensor, and I was able to play this simple skying game. It was a bit hard at first to control, but then I got the hang of it.
This was at some sort of computer fair that was set up about 6-7 years ago, but it was definitely interesting. I'm not exactly sure how many of you had this amazing opportunity. Is there a place where one can purchase such devices for the home user?
I remember they were selling packages with the product itself & games. One of the card games included was where the computer can actually detect if you're lying based on your heartbeat/pulse. I didn't have a chance to play that game at that time.
Anybody had similar experiences that they would like to share?
Check out Marcel's linux mailing list: http://www.salmar.com/mailman/listinfo/wftl-lug
Definitely worth a try for the mailing list lovers. I used to subscribe, but not anymore, I don't have any more time.
The funny thing is that you don't even get the ability to create PDFs with Ms Office, but have to purchase Adobe's version, Adobe Writer.
OpenOffice's PDF writer might not be perfect, but gets the job done.
Link seems to be down right now, 404. :(
Try out this website, Linux chicks: http://hackersplayground.org/humor/linuxchicks/40. html
I actually printed out the OpenBSD brunette on 3rd page. Damn she's hot!