Today is my birthday. Obviously, the moon is turning blood red to mark the dawn of a new era, the era in which I rise to rule mankind. Tonight is my night. Pray that you're on my good side...
Western Digital's caviar models from 1.0GB up to 4.0GB are notorious for failing. At my company we use Gateway computers, which have WD, quantum, and maxtor drives. The WD's have a high rate of failure, such as developing bad sectors, and of course the Clunk of Death, where one day you turn the machine on and the drive just sits there going "clank clank clank clank clank..." Now, the new Expert line is a different story. They're licensed from IBM technology and should be just as reliable.
You are underestimating the stupidity of the average American. Otherwise, we wouldn't need instructions such as "heat and serve" on a can of soup. "Uhhh... how am I supposed to eat what's in this here metal can?" So, to add to your microwave cooking directions: 6) When microwave dings, open the door and remove the food. It might be hot, because you have just been cooking it. 7) Peel the plastic film off the tray. It might be hot, because you have just been cooking it. 8) Insert a fork into the food in a scooping fashion. You might need to use the fork to break certain food items into smaller pieces first. 9) Lift the fork towards your face, while making sure the food stays on the fork. Put the fork partially into your mouth, so that the food comes off of the fork and into your mouth. The food might be hot, because you have just been cooking it. Do not eat the fork. Do not stick the fork into your eye. 10) Repeat steps 8 and 9 until there is no food left on the tray, or you are no longer hungry. WARNING: Attempting to continue eating when you are no longer hungry may result in vomiting.
Well app my slass and ball me a citch you forse hucker. I guess I'll learn to live with 0.7Mb-- just as long as the bandwidth is all mine and I get low pings! However, my SDSL connection is always 45 days away from reality, no matter when I ask. Here in Georgia, you have to move way out to the boonies in order to get a cable modem. Truly bizarre.
(what follows is somewhat rant-ish.) I graduated in '96, from Emory University in Atlanta. All the dorms had fast net access my final year there, but I lived off-campus with a 28.8, and a LAN built on Thinnet (Coax-- remember that? And those annoying little terminators?) We couldn't download worth a crap, but boy did my roommates and I play a lot of Doom on the LAN. It doesn't seem like long ago at all (even watching the video I took when I was a frosh in '93 made it seem like yesterday) but then I shudder to think how much things have changed even since I graduated. Some things stay the same though. We have 3 gaming systems in our apartment (with 2 people), and the slowest is a P2-300/128MB with SLI'd voodoo2's. We have everything going through a 10/100 switch, and one NT box (serving 8GB of MP3's and running all the game servers) and one linux (SuSE) box for testing purposes, soon to be a firewall and additional MP3 share among other things. In a couple months, we upgrade our main systems to Athlons, and then there will be 5 game-worthy clients sitting around our apartment. So what's our internet connection? ......56k modems. I'm SO sick and tired of seeing broadband ads on TV, DSL ads on my ISP's site, and every other fast-access company telling me about the great services that aren't available in my apartment complex yet! However, 700k SDSL will be installed "real soon now" from the ISP my roommate works for. They are "in the preliminary stages of considering to begin thinking about processing applications, maybe."
You college kids... you're so spoiled. You just wait till you get out into the real world and have to suffer with sub-ethernet speeds. Hahahaha. And then a year after YOU graduate, all the dorms will have 10-gigabit connections, and people will be watching streaming HDTV with dolby digital surround over the net!! HA!!!!
The Higgs particle (if it exists) would be a very important step in determining what exactly gives particles mass. If photons and electrons are both just ethereal packets of probability waves, why does the electron have mass, and therefore inertia? Start Here. And then, try this other link.
I wonder where the asteroid belt fits into all of this. It's sitting in that gap where a planet should be between Mars and Jupiter. Perhaps it's the remnants of another planet that had its own violent collision, but gravitational attraction between all of the pieces wasn't strong enough to pull them back into a planet again? As for orpheus, if it formed in an orbit close enough to Earth 1.0's, it's possible it could have been perturbed enough to cross Earth's orbit and eventually hit it during one pass. However, if Mars was the remains of Orpheus, it seems like Mars' orbit would be much more eccentric than it is. Whatever happened, the beginning of our solar system was violent. Uranus got knocked nearly sideways (that's gotta hurt.) Hopefully things have settled down now, but Shoemaker-Levy showed us the water's not totally safe yet. We might even have an Earth 3.0 (hopefully we'll have moved elsewhere by then), and Earth 3.0 wouldn't have enough time to spawn any more advanced civilizations before the sun goes red giant and eats it up. That's depressing...
I can't wait for the day that I can do everything I need to, music-wise, on Linux. Jazz++ has all the features of expensive high-end sound software? If Cakewalk Home Studio is considered high-end, then sure. This is where Linux sure could use some more hardware support. I'm currently using Cakewalk Pro Audio in Winderz, and here's why: 1) Native soundfont support! Maybe someday Linux will have soundfont support with the SBLive. I load up to 64MB worth of soundfont banks into memory, 32MB of which can be used at any given time by the Live card. GM/XG doesn't do it for me. CL has good OS driver support now, so maybe it won't be long. 2) Multiple soundcard support? Maybe Linux does this, but if it does, the current version of Jazz++ doesn't (didn't see a feature list for v4 on the site). I've got an SBLive and a Turtle Beach Pinnacle, which is hooked up to my DAT for digital transfers. They get along surprisingly well under Win98. 3) Cakewalk has a very nice built-in patch manager, with name search. It's a good thing, too, because my wavestation has 500+ ROM patches that I'd hate to have to enter the names for (that's a Cakewalk feature, most studio software under windows or mac does something similar). 4) Linux has nearly non-existent support for external MIDI I/O ports. I'm using the joystick ports on both my soundcards (Wavestation SR and Proteus MPS on external interfaces). External MIDI support may be there on the Pinnacle but it's not on the current Live drivers last time I checked. And what about real multiport midi interfaces like MOTU? 5) I surely don't have what I consider high-end hardware, but no MIDI sequencer can be called "professional" if it doesn't have support for digital mixers, multi-port digital I/O cards (Like Event Layla, etc), ADAT, etc. However, if your job is strictly to create GM MIDI sequences, then Jazz++ under Linux may fit the bill just fine (especially if v4 is free as in beer). The problem is that there's just not much need for GM sequences anymore.
The way I see it, Linux multimedia support is where Win3.11 was back when the Mac was the multimedia king, and there wasn't any REAL studio software for Windows. I'll give it some time-- I like Cakewalk P/A because I know it inside and out, and if the day eventually comes when Cakewalk (or Cubase) runs natively under Linux, supporting all my hardware, that will be a very happy day. In the meantime, I gotta stick with what works.
Based on his picture at the top of the MSNBC story, I guess he's the new host of Jesus and Pals.
I suppose we need a new book in the bible now that the Savior has returned-- "And the Lord said, I have given unto you a savior. Again. His name shall be Mudge. Try to treat Him a little more nicely this time."
I wonder what name he puts on his tax returns. Somehow I don't think the IRS respects the hacker names like congress did. This post is clearly off-topic.
>>there is profit being made by OfficeMax or Best Buy.
And as we all know, profit is Evil. You must be a member of the "boycott every company that makes a profit" crowd.
However, according to that article, you can buy a nice new Sony TV and get $400 off of that as well. Tip #1: ignore the salespeople. Tip #2: buy a cheap machine, format the proprietary software right off the drive, and install your favorite Linux distro. By the way, not everything's a conspiracy, either.
I just had a thought-- does anybody know of a way to get X10 remote functionality into the mindstorms computer? I have the free X10 kit they gave away a while back, as well as the MP3Anywhere wireless A/V transmitter. Building a robot that could control the lights might actually be useful, somehow, although I don't exactly know HOW useful yet. One way to do it would be to use the X10 serial port dongle which is a remote transmitter for any X10 device, and rig up a 9-pin port on the Lego brick, perhaps with its own power supply.
I think Jim Carrey is going to wind up being one of those started-out-doing-stupid-humour actors who wins oscars later on. Remember the days when Tom Hanks' resume included Bosom Buddies, Splash, The Money Pit, and Bachelor Party? Two of my favorite "funny" Tom Hanks movies are The Man with One Red Shoe, and Joe vs. the Volcano (which everybody else seemed to hate.) Now he's become a top-notch "serious" actor without all the cheesy sappiness that Robin Williams is known for, who seems to play the same character in every movie now. As for Carrey, Liar Liar showed he's a real actor, and the Truman Show proved it. I haven't seen MOTM yet. But you never know, someday he may do something like Saving Private Ryan.
It's not very often that theories such as this are proven "wrong." Take Newtonian physics, for example. Newton's equations of motion are still valid as long as objects aren't moving too quickly, or aren't too small. It doesn't make sense to start figuring in relativity when finding the trajectory of a baseball. But obviously when objects approach the speed of light, relativity has to be accounted for. One thing that relativity is for the most part NOT compatible with, is quantum mechanics. This doesn't mean that relativity or QM are wrong, it just means another theory integrated the two needs to come about (Grand Unified Theory). Relativity shows us the horse's face, Quantum mechanics/field theory show us the horse's ass, and the grand unified theory will show us the entire horse. All we know right now is that the horse's ass can get very messy.
Seems like you could pull the drives out and mount their Ext2 filesystems on another box. That's the only way I can think of to make changes to the source and update the TiVo with it. I bet you could even get bash on there and use the infrared remote port as a TTY. However, I have not the money to tinker with such an expensive toy.
You know, if a group of physicists really put their minds to it, they could devise a way to vaporize the entire planet in a millisecond. I guess that makes them brilliant. If I tell the world how to do it I am just a bad guy enabling malicious evil scientists. If I don't tell the world I am just a clueless boaster.
If anyone is seriously interested in this topic, I suggest studying up on M-theory, and pay close attention to the energy potential regarding De Sitter space. Then you just have to spend some long nights experimenting with the correct particle interactions (use your own equipment, of course) until you finally create your own Type 1A supernova explosion.
If you don't want to do all that work yourself you are going to have to trust me.:-) Things never work like they're supposed to, but if this DOES work, you risk destroying your lab equipment, your house, Earth, the sun and eight other planets, Proxima Centauri, and roasting any planets that happen to be orbiting nearby stars. But you'll prove to everybody how smart you are by demonstrating a serious flaw in the existing version of our universe.
To non-technical people, anything computer geeks do seems "brilliant." Some people are absolutely amazed, and in awe of my divine gift, when I do a TRACERT from a Windoze box! Of course, the l0pht people play on this when it comes to the media, and make statements like "We can take down the entire internet in 30 minutes."
No, it's money lost, unless the company also stops paying all expenses for a day (including employee paychecks) which isn't likely to happen. The amount of money actually lost would be considerably less than 18M, but it's still money lost. It's not the kind of loss that a 18M per day company won't easily recover from, though.
Looking at the back of the TiVo box (on their site), it looks like there are only A/V connectors along with the serial remote. How would you go about getting a shell open on the TiVo and start tweaking? Via a remote session on the modem port (can it auto-answer) or rig up something via the infrared/serial connection? Once that's done, it seems like it would be easy to upgrade the hard drive inside and mount other volumes. And if we open the box up (voiding the warranty of course), maybe there's even a hidden PCI slot in there, for some 100BT ethernet action! Now I'm just speculating of course, without having read in-depth about the TiVo hardware...
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>>I wouldn't use redrat if it was the last OS on earth.
RedHat isn't an OS, it's a distribution. But I'm sure you knew that.
Today is my birthday. Obviously, the moon is turning blood red to mark the dawn of a new era, the era in which I rise to rule mankind. Tonight is my night. Pray that you're on my good side...
Western Digital's caviar models from 1.0GB up to 4.0GB are notorious for failing. At my company we use Gateway computers, which have WD, quantum, and maxtor drives. The WD's have a high rate of failure, such as developing bad sectors, and of course the Clunk of Death, where one day you turn the machine on and the drive just sits there going "clank clank clank clank clank..."
Now, the new Expert line is a different story. They're licensed from IBM technology and should be just as reliable.
You are underestimating the stupidity of the average American. Otherwise, we wouldn't need instructions such as "heat and serve" on a can of soup. "Uhhh... how am I supposed to eat what's in this here metal can?"
So, to add to your microwave cooking directions:
6) When microwave dings, open the door and remove the food. It might be hot, because you have just been cooking it.
7) Peel the plastic film off the tray. It might be hot, because you have just been cooking it.
8) Insert a fork into the food in a scooping fashion. You might need to use the fork to break certain food items into smaller pieces first.
9) Lift the fork towards your face, while making sure the food stays on the fork. Put the fork partially into your mouth, so that the food comes off of the fork and into your mouth. The food might be hot, because you have just been cooking it. Do not eat the fork. Do not stick the fork into your eye.
10) Repeat steps 8 and 9 until there is no food left on the tray, or you are no longer hungry. WARNING: Attempting to continue eating when you are no longer hungry may result in vomiting.
Well app my slass and ball me a citch you forse hucker.
I guess I'll learn to live with 0.7Mb-- just as long as the bandwidth is all mine and I get low pings! However, my SDSL connection is always 45 days away from reality, no matter when I ask. Here in Georgia, you have to move way out to the boonies in order to get a cable modem. Truly bizarre.
(what follows is somewhat rant-ish.)
I graduated in '96, from Emory University in Atlanta. All the dorms had fast net access my final year there, but I lived off-campus with a 28.8, and a LAN built on Thinnet (Coax-- remember that? And those annoying little terminators?) We couldn't download worth a crap, but boy did my roommates and I play a lot of Doom on the LAN. It doesn't seem like long ago at all (even watching the video I took when I was a frosh in '93 made it seem like yesterday) but then I shudder to think how much things have changed even since I graduated.
Some things stay the same though. We have 3 gaming systems in our apartment (with 2 people), and the slowest is a P2-300/128MB with SLI'd voodoo2's. We have everything going through a 10/100 switch, and one NT box (serving 8GB of MP3's and running all the game servers) and one linux (SuSE) box for testing purposes, soon to be a firewall and additional MP3 share among other things. In a couple months, we upgrade our main systems to Athlons, and then there will be 5 game-worthy clients sitting around our apartment. So what's our internet connection?
......56k modems. I'm SO sick and tired of seeing broadband ads on TV, DSL ads on my ISP's site, and every other fast-access company telling me about the great services that aren't available in my apartment complex yet! However, 700k SDSL will be installed "real soon now" from the ISP my roommate works for. They are "in the preliminary stages of considering to begin thinking about processing applications, maybe."
You college kids... you're so spoiled. You just wait till you get out into the real world and have to suffer with sub-ethernet speeds. Hahahaha. And then a year after YOU graduate, all the dorms will have 10-gigabit connections, and people will be watching streaming HDTV with dolby digital surround over the net!! HA!!!!
The Higgs particle (if it exists) would be a very important step in determining what exactly gives particles mass. If photons and electrons are both just ethereal packets of probability waves, why does the electron have mass, and therefore inertia?
Start Here.
And then, try this other link.
I wonder where the asteroid belt fits into all of this. It's sitting in that gap where a planet should be between Mars and Jupiter. Perhaps it's the remnants of another planet that had its own violent collision, but gravitational attraction between all of the pieces wasn't strong enough to pull them back into a planet again?
As for orpheus, if it formed in an orbit close enough to Earth 1.0's, it's possible it could have been perturbed enough to cross Earth's orbit and eventually hit it during one pass. However, if Mars was the remains of Orpheus, it seems like Mars' orbit would be much more eccentric than it is.
Whatever happened, the beginning of our solar system was violent. Uranus got knocked nearly sideways (that's gotta hurt.) Hopefully things have settled down now, but Shoemaker-Levy showed us the water's not totally safe yet. We might even have an Earth 3.0 (hopefully we'll have moved elsewhere by then), and Earth 3.0 wouldn't have enough time to spawn any more advanced civilizations before the sun goes red giant and eats it up. That's depressing...
I can't wait for the day that I can do everything I need to, music-wise, on Linux. Jazz++ has all the features of expensive high-end sound software? If Cakewalk Home Studio is considered high-end, then sure.
This is where Linux sure could use some more hardware support. I'm currently using Cakewalk Pro Audio in Winderz, and here's why:
1) Native soundfont support! Maybe someday Linux will have soundfont support with the SBLive. I load up to 64MB worth of soundfont banks into memory, 32MB of which can be used at any given time by the Live card. GM/XG doesn't do it for me. CL has good OS driver support now, so maybe it won't be long.
2) Multiple soundcard support? Maybe Linux does this, but if it does, the current version of Jazz++ doesn't (didn't see a feature list for v4 on the site). I've got an SBLive and a Turtle Beach Pinnacle, which is hooked up to my DAT for digital transfers. They get along surprisingly well under Win98.
3) Cakewalk has a very nice built-in patch manager, with name search. It's a good thing, too, because my wavestation has 500+ ROM patches that I'd hate to have to enter the names for (that's a Cakewalk feature, most studio software under windows or mac does something similar).
4) Linux has nearly non-existent support for external MIDI I/O ports. I'm using the joystick ports on both my soundcards (Wavestation SR and Proteus MPS on external interfaces). External MIDI support may be there on the Pinnacle but it's not on the current Live drivers last time I checked. And what about real multiport midi interfaces like MOTU?
5) I surely don't have what I consider high-end hardware, but no MIDI sequencer can be called "professional" if it doesn't have support for digital mixers, multi-port digital I/O cards (Like Event Layla, etc), ADAT, etc. However, if your job is strictly to create GM MIDI sequences, then Jazz++ under Linux may fit the bill just fine (especially if v4 is free as in beer). The problem is that there's just not much need for GM sequences anymore.
The way I see it, Linux multimedia support is where Win3.11 was back when the Mac was the multimedia king, and there wasn't any REAL studio software for Windows. I'll give it some time-- I like Cakewalk P/A because I know it inside and out, and if the day eventually comes when Cakewalk (or Cubase) runs natively under Linux, supporting all my hardware, that will be a very happy day. In the meantime, I gotta stick with what works.
Wow, who woulda thought. On my income tax return, I put "Puppy, Alexander Caustic the III."
Based on his picture at the top of the MSNBC story, I guess he's the new host of Jesus and Pals.
I suppose we need a new book in the bible now that the Savior has returned--
"And the Lord said, I have given unto you a savior. Again. His name shall be Mudge. Try to treat Him a little more nicely this time."
I wonder what name he puts on his tax returns. Somehow I don't think the IRS respects the hacker names like congress did.
This post is clearly off-topic.
>>there is profit being made by OfficeMax or Best Buy.
And as we all know, profit is Evil. You must be a member of the "boycott every company that makes a profit" crowd.
However, according to that article, you can buy a nice new Sony TV and get $400 off of that as well.
Tip #1: ignore the salespeople.
Tip #2: buy a cheap machine, format the proprietary software right off the drive, and install your favorite Linux distro. By the way, not everything's a conspiracy, either.
...and when Win2000 is sold at that same CompUSA, it'll be equivalent to aliens giving the entire population a rectal probe in the night!
I just had a thought-- does anybody know of a way to get X10 remote functionality into the mindstorms computer? I have the free X10 kit they gave away a while back, as well as the MP3Anywhere wireless A/V transmitter. Building a robot that could control the lights might actually be useful, somehow, although I don't exactly know HOW useful yet.
One way to do it would be to use the X10 serial port dongle which is a remote transmitter for any X10 device, and rig up a 9-pin port on the Lego brick, perhaps with its own power supply.
I think Jim Carrey is going to wind up being one of those started-out-doing-stupid-humour actors who wins oscars later on.
Remember the days when Tom Hanks' resume included Bosom Buddies, Splash, The Money Pit, and Bachelor Party? Two of my favorite "funny" Tom Hanks movies are The Man with One Red Shoe, and Joe vs. the Volcano (which everybody else seemed to hate.)
Now he's become a top-notch "serious" actor without all the cheesy sappiness that Robin Williams is known for, who seems to play the same character in every movie now.
As for Carrey, Liar Liar showed he's a real actor, and the Truman Show proved it. I haven't seen MOTM yet. But you never know, someday he may do something like Saving Private Ryan.
It's not very often that theories such as this are proven "wrong." Take Newtonian physics, for example. Newton's equations of motion are still valid as long as objects aren't moving too quickly, or aren't too small. It doesn't make sense to start figuring in relativity when finding the trajectory of a baseball.
But obviously when objects approach the speed of light, relativity has to be accounted for.
One thing that relativity is for the most part NOT compatible with, is quantum mechanics. This doesn't mean that relativity or QM are wrong, it just means another theory integrated the two needs to come about (Grand Unified Theory). Relativity shows us the horse's face, Quantum mechanics/field theory show us the horse's ass, and the grand unified theory will show us the entire horse. All we know right now is that the horse's ass can get very messy.
That means that on the last move, a knight takes opponent's rook, and then it's checkmate.
No, but I got a Diabolo for Christmas this morning, and I'm making it my new hobby.
Seems like you could pull the drives out and mount their Ext2 filesystems on another box. That's the only way I can think of to make changes to the source and update the TiVo with it.
I bet you could even get bash on there and use the infrared remote port as a TTY.
However, I have not the money to tinker with such an expensive toy.
You know, if a group of physicists really put their minds to it, they could devise a way to vaporize the entire planet in a millisecond. I guess that makes them brilliant. If I tell the world how to do it I am just a bad guy enabling malicious evil scientists. If I don't tell the world I am just a clueless boaster.
:-) Things never work like they're supposed to, but if this DOES work, you risk destroying your lab equipment, your house, Earth, the sun and eight other planets, Proxima Centauri, and roasting any planets that happen to be orbiting nearby stars. But you'll prove to everybody how smart you are by demonstrating a serious flaw in the existing version of our universe.
If anyone is seriously interested in this topic, I suggest studying up on M-theory, and pay close attention to the energy potential regarding De Sitter space. Then you just have to spend some long nights experimenting with the correct particle interactions (use your own equipment, of course) until you finally create your own Type 1A supernova explosion.
If you don't want to do all that work yourself you are going to have to trust me.
To non-technical people, anything computer geeks do seems "brilliant." Some people are absolutely amazed, and in awe of my divine gift, when I do a TRACERT from a Windoze box!
Of course, the l0pht people play on this when it comes to the media, and make statements like "We can take down the entire internet in 30 minutes."
Hell, I can't write C worth a crap, and I could take down much of the internet in only *TEN MINUTES.*
All I'd need is a backhoe.
yes-- 3 seconds for the new server to kick in, with the same security hole that the cracked server had.
Perhaps it takes some time to find and plug the leak?
No, it's money lost, unless the company also stops paying all expenses for a day (including employee paychecks) which isn't likely to happen.
The amount of money actually lost would be considerably less than 18M, but it's still money lost. It's not the kind of loss that a 18M per day company won't easily recover from, though.
Looking at the back of the TiVo box (on their site), it looks like there are only A/V connectors along with the serial remote. How would you go about getting a shell open on the TiVo and start tweaking? Via a remote session on the modem port (can it auto-answer) or rig up something via the infrared/serial connection?
Once that's done, it seems like it would be easy to upgrade the hard drive inside and mount other volumes. And if we open the box up (voiding the warranty of course), maybe there's even a hidden PCI slot in there, for some 100BT ethernet action!
Now I'm just speculating of course, without having read in-depth about the TiVo hardware...