I and hopefully millions of other nerds around the globe too remember this story. Since then, whenever in IRL a topic of acquiring Belkin hardware has come up, I have reminded the potential buyers about the adware incident and will keep doing this for looong time in the future too:)
Hmm, don't really know how the "w" and "v" got changed, damn. Maybe I was too eager to write under the influence of high doses of caffeine, or maybe the suggested phonetic similiarity of the two characters in finnish caused this. Can't really tell.
What does the summary mean by saying "the awesomely named Helsingin Sanomat website"? Is it perhaps the typo "Helsingen Sanomat" in the actual article? Something else? I really don't know what's so awesome about it. "Sanomat" is just a word meaning newspaper in finnish. Just like in "The New York Times" or "The Sydney Morning Herald". City name and newspaper suffix. Nothing else.
If you like Guitar Hero as a concept, I'd recommend checking out Frets On Fire, an open source quitar playing game, where the aim is to "play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible". Totally addicting.
Is there a proper format of the vid anywhere? Xvid, mpeg or similiar? My mplayer on Linux can't seek this.flv correctly, and the flash version loses audio sync.
Looks sweeet. According to the manual, it can even operate in directory-driven mode! Just the thing I've been looking for. What can you say about the UI as a user? Now, if there only was a SDK available...
Mods: Why this was modded as flamebait? This product seems IMHO very reasonable.
The main initial reason for my switch was my win 2k throwing a BSOD whenever I put the Sneakers DVD into the DVD drive:) I didn't want to pay for XP and check, whether that would have worked. (And yes, I tried every possibly way to fix this; reainstalled windows completely, installed necessary patches and drive firmware, with no success.) So I made a dual-boot machine by installing SuSE Linux. After a short while I realized that keeping a 40 gig vfat partition for sharing data between the OS'es was something I didn't like. I wanted an interoperable, journaling rw filesystem, but couldn't achieve it. So I said "Fuck this" and little by little transferred all the data to Linux side. It was hard in the beginning (had to switch Ati graphics card to nVidia) but eventually everything worked out ok.
Lets say you play games which are accessed via Valve's Steam platform; games like Half-Life 2 or Counter-Strike:Source. Then Valve makes yet another stupid update through Steam and breaks your Cedega version operability with those games. This has happened in the past and will happen many times in the future. Personally, my HL2 and CS:S games have been in unplayable state since Steam update on 10th of August. New Cedega versions haven't cured the problem for me. But I don't complain, as I had a great summer playing those games. Maybe the upcoming Cedega 5 fixes this for some time. Valve could also cater more for Linux users, and port the games natively to Linux. Would it be too hard?
"last" is indeed a very useful command; I use it mainly to pinpoint the physical location of a person I might want to make contact with on campus area:) Goes well with IRC:
1. <LeetGirl> joins a channel from a university computer
2. Get her username and host and ssh in to the same machine.
3. last | grep -i username | head -n 5
4. Check remote host for her connection; if it represents a machine in a computer classroom, hop in and say "hi" to start a conversation:) Or just sit quietly in the back row and occasionally get a glimpse of her beauty *sigh*
This reminds me of one day, when I was reading my access_logs and discovered that some bastard was hotlinking to a "Powered by SuSE" png button on my server. He had placed the image in his.sig on some forum and didn't bother to host the pic in his own web-space. I wanted to teach him a lesson, and thus the "Powered by Goatse" image was born. After setting Apache to serve the new picture instead, requests dropped dramatically during the next week:)
There have actually been some rumours about Nokia (the market leader in cell phone industry) switching their smartphone OS'es to Linux in favour of easier and faster developement of 3rd party applications. A nice move, I'd say.
After seeing Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 1 (and partly 2) I've been a huge fan of robotics and cyborgs. I'm also a bit angry for not being born about 70 or so years later when these kinds of implants would possibly be quite common. If someone offered to implant me with some of the finest technology from GitS:SAC, I'd give an instant 'go ahead'.
I put whatever I want in my Referer header. If you don't like it in your logs, don't log it.
I don't mind actual users spoofing their Referers, but the situation is IMHO a bit different when there are multiple machines doing automated referer spamming at a rate of, say 400 requests per minute. Even though it is not likely to be illegal to spoof Referer headers, the aforementioned situation could be easily interpreted as a criminal offence, at least where I live.
How about hacking also more features to the On-The-Go playlist in general? At least with my 3rd generation iPod I am unable to remove or shift titles I accidentially placed to it. Just erase the whole list and try to get it right next time:(
And I'm also missing a directory-based file explorer which I am used to using in the custom software I play mp3's with on my server.
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When next time writing about EDGE vs. 3G, try taking your head out of your collective iAss first. Thank you.
This is simply the most useable Linux distribution I have ever tried. I highly recommend new Linux users to check out this release :)
It's Delft University of Technology, not Delt as the summary reads.
There's an easy fix for this, just buy Nokia N95 and enjoy. HTH.
I and hopefully millions of other nerds around the globe too remember this story. Since then, whenever in IRL a topic of acquiring Belkin hardware has come up, I have reminded the potential buyers about the adware incident and will keep doing this for looong time in the future too :)
Hmm, don't really know how the "w" and "v" got changed, damn. Maybe I was too eager to write under the influence of high doses of caffeine, or maybe the suggested phonetic similiarity of the two characters in finnish caused this. Can't really tell.
What does the summary mean by saying "the awesomely named Helsingin Sanomat website"? Is it perhaps the typo "Helsingen Sanomat" in the actual article? Something else? I really don't know what's so awesome about it. "Sanomat" is just a word meaning newspaper in finnish. Just like in "The New York Times" or "The Sydney Morning Herald". City name and newspaper suffix. Nothing else.
As in those currently having only MS software?
If you like Guitar Hero as a concept, I'd recommend checking out Frets On Fire, an open source quitar playing game, where the aim is to "play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible". Totally addicting.
Marital Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment? Yeah, technology has gone too far.
Indeed. Also known as ssh, finger, last, head, tail and grep. Based on a true story...
So now we don't really own our TVs?
No, now TV owns you!
Is there a proper format of the vid anywhere? Xvid, mpeg or similiar? My mplayer on Linux can't seek this .flv correctly, and the flash version loses audio sync.
Can this technology also be used to monitor dupes?
you insensitive clod!
Looks sweeet. According to the manual, it can even operate in directory-driven mode! Just the thing I've been looking for. What can you say about the UI as a user? Now, if there only was a SDK available...
Mods: Why this was modded as flamebait? This product seems IMHO very reasonable.
The main initial reason for my switch was my win 2k throwing a BSOD whenever I put the Sneakers DVD into the DVD drive :) I didn't want to pay for XP and check, whether that would have worked. (And yes, I tried every possibly way to fix this; reainstalled windows completely, installed necessary patches and drive firmware, with no success.) So I made a dual-boot machine by installing SuSE Linux. After a short while I realized that keeping a 40 gig vfat partition for sharing data between the OS'es was something I didn't like. I wanted an interoperable, journaling rw filesystem, but couldn't achieve it. So I said "Fuck this" and little by little transferred all the data to Linux side. It was hard in the beginning (had to switch Ati graphics card to nVidia) but eventually everything worked out ok.
Lets say you play games which are accessed via Valve's Steam platform; games like Half-Life 2 or Counter-Strike:Source. Then Valve makes yet another stupid update through Steam and breaks your Cedega version operability with those games. This has happened in the past and will happen many times in the future. Personally, my HL2 and CS:S games have been in unplayable state since Steam update on 10th of August. New Cedega versions haven't cured the problem for me. But I don't complain, as I had a great summer playing those games. Maybe the upcoming Cedega 5 fixes this for some time. Valve could also cater more for Linux users, and port the games natively to Linux. Would it be too hard?
Care to elaborate?
"last" is indeed a very useful command; I use it mainly to pinpoint the physical location of a person I might want to make contact with on campus area :) Goes well with IRC: :) Or just sit quietly in the back row and occasionally get a glimpse of her beauty *sigh*
1. <LeetGirl> joins a channel from a university computer
2. Get her username and host and ssh in to the same machine.
3. last | grep -i username | head -n 5
4. Check remote host for her connection; if it represents a machine in a computer classroom, hop in and say "hi" to start a conversation
This reminds me of one day, when I was reading my access_logs and discovered that some bastard was hotlinking to a "Powered by SuSE" png button on my server. He had placed the image in his .sig on some forum and didn't bother to host the pic in his own web-space. I wanted to teach him a lesson, and thus the "Powered by Goatse" image was born. After setting Apache to serve the new picture instead, requests dropped dramatically during the next week :)
There have actually been some rumours about Nokia (the market leader in cell phone industry) switching their smartphone OS'es to Linux in favour of easier and faster developement of 3rd party applications. A nice move, I'd say.
After seeing Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 1 (and partly 2) I've been a huge fan of robotics and cyborgs. I'm also a bit angry for not being born about 70 or so years later when these kinds of implants would possibly be quite common. If someone offered to implant me with some of the finest technology from GitS:SAC, I'd give an instant 'go ahead'.
I put whatever I want in my Referer header. If you don't like it in your logs, don't log it.
I don't mind actual users spoofing their Referers, but the situation is IMHO a bit different when there are multiple machines doing automated referer spamming at a rate of, say 400 requests per minute. Even though it is not likely to be illegal to spoof Referer headers, the aforementioned situation could be easily interpreted as a criminal offence, at least where I live.
How about hacking also more features to the On-The-Go playlist in general? At least with my 3rd generation iPod I am unable to remove or shift titles I accidentially placed to it. Just erase the whole list and try to get it right next time :(
And I'm also missing a directory-based file explorer which I am used to using in the custom software I play mp3's with on my server.