Well the two little screws are really just 300-ohm RF, so you'll need a 300 to 70 ohm adapter, available for a couple bucks. Then RF to composite (or s-video), which a VCR will do for you (there are adapters from Radio Shack too). Then from composite to component. I don't know of any adapters off the top of my head for this, but since they're both analogue, just do some Googling and I'm sure some will turn up. The last step would be component to HDMI, which require some kind of digitisation. No idea how you'd do that; probably with a PC.
The irony is that Toshiba, who supports HD-DVD, helped design the Cell processor, which is in the PlayStation 3, which uses Blu-Ray. Toshiba, the new AOL?
it used to be an okay magazine, and i loved some of their little boxes, like 'expired, tired, wired.' stuff like, 'cassette, CD, iPod' or 'html, xslt, xhtml.' the ones that were especially funny were ones repeated, like, 'battlestar galactica, star trek, battlestar galactica,' because they were so true. other than that, it was just the writers blabbering about how much they thought they knew about technology 5 years from now, and of course it was all just bullshit that sounded really cool to 12 year-old boys; it was sort of like popular mechanics but even LESS technical, with more of a focus on computers and gadgets in particular and the culture that surrounds them rather than the military's latest super-secret x-plane. it was just as stupid, though. I can't believe I subscribed for two years.
Ubuntu, folks. Ubuntu. It defaults to Gnome (and you can always switch to KDE), works out of the box, has a huge variety of software available (as it is 95% Debian). It's just really up to date and stable, works great on x86 (and x86-64) and PPC in my experience, plus there's a liveCD version. Ubuntu is probably the one distro I don't have any serious complaints about; Fedora Core is just a pile of shit compared to Ubuntu, as there is no easy way to update from, for example, FC3 to FC4. With Ubuntu you just use apt-get. For older hardware, I'd say Debian and perhaps IceWM or fluxbox.
In case anyone doesn't get this joke, it's in reference to a Japanese video game called Katamari Damacy (Damachii) with a cult following. It involves rolling a small sticky ball around through towns, cities, and the countryside that picks up objects (starting with small objects, like thumbtacks); as the ball grows bigger, the ball is able to obtain larger objects, like cars, and so on, eventually being able to pick up entire large pieces of the landscape. This is actually a great analogy to the growing popularity of Linux, I think. As the marketshare and mindshare of OSS grows, so do its chances of scoring a big customer, like municipal Vienna. Hobbyists are the paperclips, and the cities are, well, the cities. I applaud both OSS developers and Vienna for making this happen.
Dude, you're really confused. BSD doesn't run on the Treo 600. A quick googling shows a number of pages detailing how to use a Treo with a BSD system, as in, hotsynching or connecting to the internet. Likewise, those Debian packages don't run ON cell phones, they're just FOR cell phones (as in data exchange and mobile internet). Same with that last page, for BSD and mobile devices. You actually think BSD runs a Sony Ericsson T39, do you? I'd sure like to see that.
the von Clausewitz recommendation simply doesn't apply here. In the real world, with nations, armies, food, ammunition, and natural resources, you need to pick your enemies wisely. In the computer world, it hardly matters, because there is no real risk to you in trying to crack some encryption of Microsoft's, and weaker schemes are too easy to crack such that they can actually be *boring*. A lot of crackers, white or black hat, just aim for the biggest target for the thrill of it, because that's the whole point.
Because sometimes the free market doesn't work speedily in the interests of the consumer and common good, you asshat. This is why there are pollution regulations, automobile crash tests, minimum wages, and class-action lawsuits.
Totally irrelevant, dude. The whole argument of that paper really only applies if adult content is *forced* to use that domain. Otherwise, there really is no way to censor anything.
KAZAKHSTAN'S SPACESHIP JUNKYARD A EurasiaNet Photo Essay by Jonas Bendiksen Text by Laara Matsen
On April 16, Russia announced that it would henceforth launch military satellites at the Pletsnesk cosmodrome in northern Russia, ending the practice of launching satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This shift will deprive Kazakh children of the chance to watch some satellites take off, though Baikonur will remain the launchpad for commercial "birds" and manned missions. As these photos show, it will also spare Kazakhs the fallout, literal and otherwise, that occurs in a launch's wake.
All space-bound rockets consist largely of fuel tanks and booster stages that fall back to earth when spent, never reaching orbit. In landlocked Baikonur, Russia's primary launching complex in Kazakhstan, these spaceships crash to earth. This photo essay visits the areas where the supporting rockets land, and shows the people living under the flight paths who contend with flaming spaceship wrecks several times each month.
Apart from the fear of having a spaceship crash through their roofs, residents in the area complain of the ill effects of leftover toxic rocket fuel. With the relocation of Russian military launches, more than half of which currently take off from Baikonur, these people may get some relief. However, one group of people is probably sorry to see Baikonur lose business; the region's scrap metal dealers are getting rich trading metal from the rockets' titanium alloy hulls.
I can back this up. I have a Motorola DPC mobile from 1992 or so, and it uses AMPS. The thing is built like a tank (although it's basically the size of your average cordless phone, so no worries there), and the signal it puts out, something around 5 watts, is almost invincible. In a cinder-block building that's halfway underground in the middle of Indiana, my (GSM) Cingular phone dies. So does my friend's Nextel. And another friend's (CDMA) Verizon. The AMPS is clear as a bell.
You do know that iTunes can batch-convert WMAs into MP3 or AAC, right? And that AAC, a *standard* audio format, sounds a lot better than WMA? As for the size difference of the Gmini veresus the iPod, smaller player almost always means smaller display, or smaller controls, or smaller battery, or all of these things. Really now, consider an iPod. The seamless music management and better interface alone make it worth it.
In case anyone doesn't get it, if you try a barrel roll in an aeroplane if you're too low and you roll too slowly, you crash and burn. When your 'foil is perpendicular to the horizon you aren't really generating any lift, so gravity pulls you down.
One of the reasons that Time Warner wants to spin off AOL (basically get rid of them) is that AOL is one of the stupidest companies I've ever known. Virtually all of AOL's assets, except for the wildly popular AIM, are worthless: their flagship subscription dialup service was killed by broadband (and a lot of people get broadband from Time Warner...). Netscape was killed by IE and now, Firefox (which came from Netscape's source...). Nullsoft's WinAmp was killed by iTunes, and meanwhile, AOL partners with Apple on iTunes. AIM is pretty much all that's keeping them going, and even that is being threatened (only on the horizon so far, but coming up fast) by XMPP. AIM (with IM, email, weather, news, games, and downloads) is essentially what AOL once was, but it's just all ad-supported now. When AIM goes down the tubes, replaced by Jabber, text-messaging, and h.264 video calling, America Online will be completely dead. TW understands this. They want to get rid of the liability that's AOL as soon as possible.
Well this is all nice and good, but it's also proof that the feds don't understand the internet yet. Since I can plug a VoIP phone in anywhere, how is the dispatch going to know where you are like they would with a POTS line? Run a traceroute??
Asshat. Don't you want these kind of products to be done right before they're released to the public? You actually expect a product to be developed and tested, marketed, shipped, and sold, all in a single day?
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Dude, he was asking how much the adapter, the CT-479, in the article was. It's $42.49.
Well the two little screws are really just 300-ohm RF, so you'll need a 300 to 70 ohm adapter, available for a couple bucks. Then RF to composite (or s-video), which a VCR will do for you (there are adapters from Radio Shack too). Then from composite to component. I don't know of any adapters off the top of my head for this, but since they're both analogue, just do some Googling and I'm sure some will turn up. The last step would be component to HDMI, which require some kind of digitisation. No idea how you'd do that; probably with a PC.
The irony is that Toshiba, who supports HD-DVD, helped design the Cell processor, which is in the PlayStation 3, which uses Blu-Ray. Toshiba, the new AOL?
be it breaking CSS
I use Firefox you insensitive clod.
it used to be an okay magazine, and i loved some of their little boxes, like 'expired, tired, wired.' stuff like, 'cassette, CD, iPod' or 'html, xslt, xhtml.' the ones that were especially funny were ones repeated, like, 'battlestar galactica, star trek, battlestar galactica,' because they were so true. other than that, it was just the writers blabbering about how much they thought they knew about technology 5 years from now, and of course it was all just bullshit that sounded really cool to 12 year-old boys; it was sort of like popular mechanics but even LESS technical, with more of a focus on computers and gadgets in particular and the culture that surrounds them rather than the military's latest super-secret x-plane. it was just as stupid, though. I can't believe I subscribed for two years.
Ubuntu, folks. Ubuntu. It defaults to Gnome (and you can always switch to KDE), works out of the box, has a huge variety of software available (as it is 95% Debian). It's just really up to date and stable, works great on x86 (and x86-64) and PPC in my experience, plus there's a liveCD version. Ubuntu is probably the one distro I don't have any serious complaints about; Fedora Core is just a pile of shit compared to Ubuntu, as there is no easy way to update from, for example, FC3 to FC4. With Ubuntu you just use apt-get. For older hardware, I'd say Debian and perhaps IceWM or fluxbox.
In case anyone doesn't get this joke, it's in reference to a Japanese video game called Katamari Damacy (Damachii) with a cult following. It involves rolling a small sticky ball around through towns, cities, and the countryside that picks up objects (starting with small objects, like thumbtacks); as the ball grows bigger, the ball is able to obtain larger objects, like cars, and so on, eventually being able to pick up entire large pieces of the landscape. This is actually a great analogy to the growing popularity of Linux, I think. As the marketshare and mindshare of OSS grows, so do its chances of scoring a big customer, like municipal Vienna. Hobbyists are the paperclips, and the cities are, well, the cities. I applaud both OSS developers and Vienna for making this happen.
Dude, you're really confused. BSD doesn't run on the Treo 600. A quick googling shows a number of pages detailing how to use a Treo with a BSD system, as in, hotsynching or connecting to the internet. Likewise, those Debian packages don't run ON cell phones, they're just FOR cell phones (as in data exchange and mobile internet). Same with that last page, for BSD and mobile devices. You actually think BSD runs a Sony Ericsson T39, do you? I'd sure like to see that.
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Hello!! Multicasting!?!?!
the von Clausewitz recommendation simply doesn't apply here. In the real world, with nations, armies, food, ammunition, and natural resources, you need to pick your enemies wisely. In the computer world, it hardly matters, because there is no real risk to you in trying to crack some encryption of Microsoft's, and weaker schemes are too easy to crack such that they can actually be *boring*. A lot of crackers, white or black hat, just aim for the biggest target for the thrill of it, because that's the whole point.
1. Intentionally post wrong link 2. Reply to oneself with correct link 3. ???? 4. Karma!
every time [some software engineer] says, 'nobody will go to the trouble of doing that,' there's some kid in Finland who will
Yeah, but no one will ever go through the hassle of writing a free clone of Unix. I mean, come on.
Because sometimes the free market doesn't work speedily in the interests of the consumer and common good, you asshat. This is why there are pollution regulations, automobile crash tests, minimum wages, and class-action lawsuits.
Totally irrelevant, dude. The whole argument of that paper really only applies if adult content is *forced* to use that domain. Otherwise, there really is no way to censor anything.
Well, thanks to LFS, Linux is finally ready for the desktop. ...guys?
For everyone's info, a PC bang is just an internet café. They're called PC bangs in South Korea. They almost always have a focus on games.
here, have a nice big helping of article text.
KAZAKHSTAN'S SPACESHIP JUNKYARD
A EurasiaNet Photo Essay by Jonas Bendiksen
Text by Laara Matsen
On April 16, Russia announced that it would henceforth launch military satellites at the Pletsnesk cosmodrome in northern Russia, ending the practice of launching satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This shift will deprive Kazakh children of the chance to watch some satellites take off, though Baikonur will remain the launchpad for commercial "birds" and manned missions. As these photos show, it will also spare Kazakhs the fallout, literal and otherwise, that occurs in a launch's wake.
All space-bound rockets consist largely of fuel tanks and booster stages that fall back to earth when spent, never reaching orbit. In landlocked Baikonur, Russia's primary launching complex in Kazakhstan, these spaceships crash to earth. This photo essay visits the areas where the supporting rockets land, and shows the people living under the flight paths who contend with flaming spaceship wrecks several times each month.
Apart from the fear of having a spaceship crash through their roofs, residents in the area complain of the ill effects of leftover toxic rocket fuel. With the relocation of Russian military launches, more than half of which currently take off from Baikonur, these people may get some relief. However, one group of people is probably sorry to see Baikonur lose business; the region's scrap metal dealers are getting rich trading metal from the rockets' titanium alloy hulls.
I can back this up. I have a Motorola DPC mobile from 1992 or so, and it uses AMPS. The thing is built like a tank (although it's basically the size of your average cordless phone, so no worries there), and the signal it puts out, something around 5 watts, is almost invincible. In a cinder-block building that's halfway underground in the middle of Indiana, my (GSM) Cingular phone dies. So does my friend's Nextel. And another friend's (CDMA) Verizon. The AMPS is clear as a bell.
Will you marry me?
You do know that iTunes can batch-convert WMAs into MP3 or AAC, right? And that AAC, a *standard* audio format, sounds a lot better than WMA? As for the size difference of the Gmini veresus the iPod, smaller player almost always means smaller display, or smaller controls, or smaller battery, or all of these things. Really now, consider an iPod. The seamless music management and better interface alone make it worth it.
In case anyone doesn't get it, if you try a barrel roll in an aeroplane if you're too low and you roll too slowly, you crash and burn. When your 'foil is perpendicular to the horizon you aren't really generating any lift, so gravity pulls you down.
One of the reasons that Time Warner wants to spin off AOL (basically get rid of them) is that AOL is one of the stupidest companies I've ever known.
Virtually all of AOL's assets, except for the wildly popular AIM, are worthless: their flagship subscription dialup service was killed by broadband (and a lot of people get broadband from Time Warner...). Netscape was killed by IE and now, Firefox (which came from Netscape's source...). Nullsoft's WinAmp was killed by iTunes, and meanwhile, AOL partners with Apple on iTunes. AIM is pretty much all that's keeping them going, and even that is being threatened (only on the horizon so far, but coming up fast) by XMPP. AIM (with IM, email, weather, news, games, and downloads) is essentially what AOL once was, but it's just all ad-supported now. When AIM goes down the tubes, replaced by Jabber, text-messaging, and h.264 video calling, America Online will be completely dead.
TW understands this. They want to get rid of the liability that's AOL as soon as possible.
Well this is all nice and good, but it's also proof that the feds don't understand the internet yet. Since I can plug a VoIP phone in anywhere, how is the dispatch going to know where you are like they would with a POTS line? Run a traceroute??
Asshat. Don't you want these kind of products to be done right before they're released to the public? You actually expect a product to be developed and tested, marketed, shipped, and sold, all in a single day?
George Harrison!?
I want to tell you
My head is filled with things to say
When you're here
All those words, they seem to slip away
When I get near you
The games begin to drag me down
It's all right
I'll make you maybe next time around
Thank you, thank you. Try the veal.