Hrm... I suppose that would be why you must take the Windows Applications course to graduate from my high school. Microsoft influence at the highest levels of my school!
Once you take that, you never have to use the PCs again and the other classes (no programming, just graphics) use the mac labs. Not that they're any better or more stable, I think I'm just spoiled since I use linux at home.
I use a program called amavis that replaces procmail. It supports multiple scanners (I use uvscan with a cronjob to update the info every day). If there's a virus attached to the message, it's bounced back and a warning is sent to root. I haven't seen it in action except for a virus test pattern since my mailserver only has 2 users, but it seems pretty good:)
At least, I think that's it. I got the new version of RealAudio, but when I go to play stuff, it just makes a lot of noise. Only when I have the volume setting down to the lowest notch do I get something vaguely resembling speech (still quite staticky). Anyone else have this problem?
In my experiences at high school, it seemed every piece of software they had was pirated. Note the word "seemed", I'm not making any accusations...
The first piece of software I saw was the FoolProof security dealio in the windows lab. It was shareware and expired in the middle of class. The next day, a new shareware copy was up.
(fwiw, you should never underestimate the ingeuity of a complete fool, as I estimate that it would take anyone worth their salt 30 seconds to disable. Note the word "estimate", I'm not making any accusations again.)
The other one was a quicktime panorama generator in the mac lab. The students were directed to disable the network connection before running it. When I tried executing the program with the network still on, it complained that someone else with the same license key was using it.
So, unregistered shareware and software without a proper site license. I'm certainly not implying anything, you can make the decisions on your own.
Sorry for the pissy nature of this message, but with all of the incidents of school totalitarian control lately, I wouldn't want to get myself expelled or sued for libel.
This is a bastard comment... but... proximity to yahoo makes plenty of sense! Let's say that I register yaho.com, yahooo.com, and a few other misspellings. They're all quite close to yahoo. Now, I just put up a page with an ad banner and a meta tag to redirect the user to yahoo in X seconds. I make [dirty] ad money off of bad spellers or typists by being close to yahoo!
I'm unsure what the profit margins are on this kind of thing, but I always regret having images turned on when I misspell a domain name...
I'm crossing my fingers that this will work with my G200... I just got the G200 GLX module compiled today (and I wrote a thing on how I did it here) and it almost works with Blender tolerably... that is, it's nice and speedy, but the lighting disappears sometimes.
Maybe I should switch mirrors, this blasted quake download has been running all day... well, I'll keep you posted if I ever finish getting q3test:P
If you don't want to put up all the cash for BeOS and this new product, check out terminatorX. All you need is a linux box, X11, a mouse, and a couple of wave files. It's great fun scratching up a bunch of Hitchhiker's Guide clips to a breakbeat:)
Well, hoo-ray for 3dfx. Nice to see someone officially supporting linux for once. In other news, Matrox finally has some G200 specs, available on their site. I just downloaded all 574 pages of them and I'll definitely be trying to cram some rudimentary G200 support into Mesa the next chance I get.
Heh, there was a new ad banner above slashdot today -- for penguin caffeinated mints! I've always wondered where you can get these things... slashdot comes through again:)
It was just recently that I learned that you could download these files. "This is great," I thought, "for once somebody has done something useful. Now I can cache domains over the local net!" So, I eagerly ftped to the directory, and noting the small file size, I read the README. It explained basically the same thing that this article did. Curses, foiled again!
I have mixed feelings about buycomp. I, too, had to suffer a wait as they delayed my Hauppauge TV card. However, they sent me a giant mouse pad to make up for it. Of course, I use a Wacom tablet for input so this was a useless gift, but their heart was in the right place:) And their prices sure are nice...
Here's an excerpt from DDJ about it (Jun 1998, admittedly in Swaine's Flames:) --
This miraculous scheme is called "Chaffing and Winnowing," and it is remarkably simple: The sender breaks the message up into packets, possibly as small as a single bit, but not necessarily. A serial number is appended to each packet to keep them straight.
The sender then appends to each packet an authentication code computed as a function of the packet contents and a secret authentication key. The secret key is created and shared by the sender and receiver using existing, tested technology, and there are well-known methods for creating the authentication code, too.
The sender then generates bogus packets, containing duplicate serial numbers, plausible but different message contents, and erroneous authentication keys, and sends off the whole mess of valid and bogus packets.
Now, without the authentication key, it is impossible to reconstruct the message. But with the authentication key, it's automatic: The bogus packets are rejected and only the valid ones come through, producing the original message.
Well, that hopefully cleared things up a bit. Chaffing and winnowing, is of course, free to export under current US laws. It just goes to show you how stupid the crypto export controls are...
Supposedly, you can get primitive 3D support with a bunch of hacks starting here. It involves using ancient versions of XFree and Mesa, so I haven't tried it. However, you may be able to learn something about the card by reading the sources...
I'm really hoping that XFree 4 will have 3D acceleration for the G200 card, but Matrox (who I annoy on a monthly basis about this) still refuses to release any information or write any drivers. The card is still really nice in X with 16M of video RAM, though:)
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Hrm... I suppose that would be why you must take the Windows Applications course to graduate from my high school. Microsoft influence at the highest levels of my school!
Once you take that, you never have to use the PCs again and the other classes (no programming, just graphics) use the mac labs. Not that they're any better or more stable, I think I'm just spoiled since I use linux at home.
I use a program called amavis that replaces procmail. It supports multiple scanners (I use uvscan with a cronjob to update the info every day). If there's a virus attached to the message, it's bounced back and a warning is sent to root. I haven't seen it in action except for a virus test pattern since my mailserver only has 2 users, but it seems pretty good :)
Yes, that did it. Silly me, I set the execute bit instead of the write bit :)
You can get it at http://www.silicon.com/html/2_ desktop200599sl.rm.ram
At least, I think that's it. I got the new version of RealAudio, but when I go to play stuff, it just makes a lot of noise. Only when I have the volume setting down to the lowest notch do I get something vaguely resembling speech (still quite staticky). Anyone else have this problem?
In my experiences at high school, it seemed every piece of software they had was pirated. Note the word "seemed", I'm not making any accusations...
The first piece of software I saw was the FoolProof security dealio in the windows lab. It was shareware and expired in the middle of class. The next day, a new shareware copy was up.
(fwiw, you should never underestimate the ingeuity of a complete fool, as I estimate that it would take anyone worth their salt 30 seconds to disable. Note the word "estimate", I'm not making any accusations again.)
The other one was a quicktime panorama generator in the mac lab. The students were directed to disable the network connection before running it. When I tried executing the program with the network still on, it complained that someone else with the same license key was using it.
So, unregistered shareware and software without a proper site license. I'm certainly not implying anything, you can make the decisions on your own.
Sorry for the pissy nature of this message, but with all of the incidents of school totalitarian control lately, I wouldn't want to get myself expelled or sued for libel.
This is a bastard comment... but... proximity to yahoo makes plenty of sense! Let's say that I register yaho.com, yahooo.com, and a few other misspellings. They're all quite close to yahoo. Now, I just put up a page with an ad banner and a meta tag to redirect the user to yahoo in X seconds. I make [dirty] ad money off of bad spellers or typists by being close to yahoo!
I'm unsure what the profit margins are on this kind of thing, but I always regret having images turned on when I misspell a domain name...
I'm crossing my fingers that this will work with my G200... I just got the G200 GLX module compiled today (and I wrote a thing on how I did it here) and it almost works with Blender tolerably... that is, it's nice and speedy, but the lighting disappears sometimes.
:P
Maybe I should switch mirrors, this blasted quake download has been running all day... well, I'll keep you posted if I ever finish getting q3test
If you don't want to put up all the cash for BeOS and this new product, check out terminatorX. All you need is a linux box, X11, a mouse, and a couple of wave files. It's great fun scratching up a bunch of Hitchhiker's Guide clips to a breakbeat :)
Well, hoo-ray for 3dfx. Nice to see someone officially supporting linux for once. In other news, Matrox finally has some G200 specs, available on their site. I just downloaded all 574 pages of them and I'll definitely be trying to cram some rudimentary G200 support into Mesa the next chance I get.
Heh, there was a new ad banner above slashdot today -- for penguin caffeinated mints! I've always wondered where you can get these things... slashdot comes through again :)
It was just recently that I learned that you could download these files. "This is great," I thought, "for once somebody has done something useful. Now I can cache domains over the local net!" So, I eagerly ftped to the directory, and noting the small file size, I read the README. It explained basically the same thing that this article did. Curses, foiled again!
I have mixed feelings about buycomp. I, too, had to suffer a wait as they delayed my Hauppauge TV card. However, they sent me a giant mouse pad to make up for it. Of course, I use a Wacom tablet for input so this was a useless gift, but their heart was in the right place :) And their prices sure are nice...
Well, that hopefully cleared things up a bit. Chaffing and winnowing, is of course, free to export under current US laws. It just goes to show you how stupid the crypto export controls are...
Supposedly, you can get primitive 3D support with a bunch of hacks starting here. It involves using ancient versions of XFree and Mesa, so I haven't tried it. However, you may be able to learn something about the card by reading the sources...
:)
I'm really hoping that XFree 4 will have 3D acceleration for the G200 card, but Matrox (who I annoy on a monthly basis about this) still refuses to release any information or write any drivers. The card is still really nice in X with 16M of video RAM, though
That's all well and good. Now where are the Matrox G200 3D drivers? :)