Does anybody still pay attention to these guys? I mean, okay, people seemed to like The Matrix (although I never understood why) but everything since then has been uniformly awful.
"Everything since"? According to IMDB they've done the Matrix trilogy, a few Matrix related anime and video games, and then V for Vendetta which was a fucking awesome movie. What are you smoking?
I guess what I'm asking is, what combination of software did you end up using for your Media Center PC?
I just use MiniMyth on my Epia. It looks like it uses the OpenChrome Xorg driver. All the backend recording is handled on an old 1.4 GHz Athlon system with 600 GB of storage and two Hauppauge PVR 250 MPEG2 encoders and the diskless Epia sits in my entertainment center and boots MiniMyth via PXE over the network from a TFTP server.
Also forget the mpeg-decoder onboard. Chances are their drivers don't even support their very own chip.
Stop spreading bullshit FUD. The MPEG2 decoder hardware has been supported for years now in open source. My MythTV frontend, a Via EPIA M10000 running at 1 GHz uses the MPEG2 decoding hardware when playing back video saved from my backend's Hauppauge PVR 250 hardware mpeg2 encoders just fine with very little CPU usage. The only problems arise when you try playing DivX or MPEG4 streams.
uhm... IIRC VMWare doesn't even support 3d acceration.
You recall incorrectly. VMWare Fusion and Parallels support a number of DirectX 8.1 3D accelerated games. Granted, they don't support the newest DirectX 9 or 10 games, but that support will come eventally... in the mean time we can play older DirectX and OpenGL games.
I clicked on the link and just get a blank page. Is their entire page an advertisement being blocked by my Adblock extension? How ironic unless that was their intent.
This sounds like the same thing I recently read about in the Spamhaus FAQ. They mention they always invoke "Security for Costs", which is apparently some U.K. privilege in civil trials, since you can never trust spammers to ever pay up after losing their frivolous lawsuits. It sounds like this type of thing is badly needed, if it isn't already available, to people defending themselves in U.S. courts against underhanded organizations like the RIAA.
Jesus. Ok, it's all right to have a little bit of suspicion with regards to motives here, but "Manhattan 1984"? That's a bit much, isn't it?
Are you going to be saying the same thing when the government passes a law that requires remote access to your web cam for terrorist tracking purposes and that all new TVs produced after a certain date have cameras built in that allow two way communication via cable, satellite, or terrestrial over the air bands?
What I find telling is that the manual dexterity of a 10 year old is adequate to the task of disassembling the OLPC, pulling the motherboard, then putting it all back together again.
Guided step by step by some hipster-looking amish geek dude in the background. If I stood behind someone and told them exactly how to disassemble something I'm sure they could take apart an iBook G3 and put it back together perfectly too even though it's very complicated. Honestly, to me, that OLPC seemed like a major nightmare to take apart. I counted at least a dozen screws before I got bored and stopped paying attention. Dozens of screws to replace a motherboard in a laptop that's aimed at the third world? It should be two screws and a couple of snaps, tops. Snap to pull off the LCD to get to the motherboard underneath, unplug a ribbon cable from the LCD, couple of screws holding the motherboard in, remove a ribbon cable that goes to keyboard and that's IT. These things are too god damn complicated to be worked on in the field.
What would you rather be running for your production on your brand new HP Opteron or IBM Opteron server: Redhat Linux or Sun Solaris 10?
If those were my only two choices then I'd pick Red Hat. I've never used Solaris 10 for more than anything but messing around, but I've used Solaris 9 and below extensively and frankly, their package management system sucks ass. up2date/yum/apt-get blows away Sun's patch management system hands down. I know they were trying to assemble some god-awful Java tool that would make patches easier the last time I checked, but it was nowhere near as nice as the packaging tools on Linux. I'd like to see Sun just ditch their PKG format altogether and adopt Debian's DPKG format and use aptitude or synaptic for management.
I am hoping they finally started to figure risks of using a MS only technology rather than platform independent, documented frameworks such as OpenGL, OpenAL.
I've always wondered about this. It seems that the single biggest problem with porting Windows games to Mac or Linux is lack of DirectX support, so why do developers even use this broken technology to begin with instead of OpenGL? Is it easier to program for? Presumably Windows also supports OpenGL so why not make games that are easily ported like id does?
Or did they simply state "We can't sell Vista otherwise, those FPS racing teens will buy it for DX10".
Well, obviously that is the reason. There's no reason Windows 2000 Pro wasn't sufficient to run today's modern games if they had just released the latest DirectX libraries for it, but then they wouldn't have sold Windows XP and dragged gamers into the wonderful world of DRM and activation. I was more than happy to keep using Windows 2000 Pro on my gaming machine and didn't need any of the features of Windows XP.
That's about the same Comcast charges, and their PVR allows you to record encrypted HD and digital channels, something Myth cannot do.
Does it also have 2 TB of storage and let you watch you watch the recordings on any device or transfer them to your iPod? I can do that with MythTV. I couldn't care less about encrypted HD broadcasts or HDTV in general since I don't have an HDTV, but if I did I could receive the broadcast HD channels which is where 99% of the content I'd want to watch is. The only time I ever record any non-broadcast-network TV is during the summer when the networks are in reruns and even then it's just stuff like Food Network or HGTV... not a huge demand for HD there.
I subscribe to Netflix and I'd just be happy if they supported Macs instead of just Windows. As it is now I can't make any use of their service that I am apparently entitled to. I'm probably one of their model customers though since I've had the same set of 3 movies for 3 or 4 months now and I just forget to return them.
Or you could just use Noscript or disable Java... but hey, I'm totally for using totally inconvenient solutions to problems if you can have cool sound effects.
This demo didn't work on my iPhone either. Just another reason to use the Superior JesusPhone over standard web technologies... no annoying Java, Flash, or third party apps to exploit!
Instead of comparing nationalized health care to Medicare, which must compete with private insurance companies, wouldn't it make more sense to find another nation that has complete nationalized health care and look at how they're doing it? Do Canadians like their health care system or do they prefer to supplement it with private insurance? What about in the U.K.? Does France have nationalized health care? Frankly, I'd prefer to spend $500 billion a year towards providing every American the same level of health care instead of using it to fund a war machine which, even in peace time, has an itch to start conflicts to justify itself. Cut the DoD budget to $10 billion and reallocate the rest of its budget to a new health care system.
I'm sure someone would say AppleTV, but that's the stupidest device I've ever seen. It doesn't have SVIDEO or Composite outputs, only HDMI, yet it's not powerful enough to play HDTV resolution video! Why Steve? Why? Throw an SVIDEO output on the god damn thing and I'd probably buy one for a MythTV frontend, but I'm not going to go out and replace my 32" CRT with an HDTV just to play standard definition television!
And it's not like it started with them - the FBI wiretap enthusiasts like Louis Freeh, the NSA anti-public-crypto people, the Echelon project, etc. all date to the Clinton or GHWBush/Reagan administrations or earlier.
J. Edgar Hoover was doing warrant-less wiretaps of American Citizens before Bill Clinton was even born.
The title is simply worded poorly. It should say "IRS employees unusually susceptible to social engineering schemes". Face it, if they're willing to give out their own username and password, it wouldn't take much more skill for someone to convince them to give up information about people they don't even know if you presented the request in a believable manner.
Another way of looking at this, is that the people who download the music aren't going to buy it anyway, so why not encourage them to download your brother's music
That's a common excuse used, but it rarely holds any water. If you weren't going to buy it anyway then why did someone spend the time to download it in the first place? Obviously they're interested in the music so if P2P sites weren't available it is likely many more people would have bought it. I can't just go steal a BMW because "I wouldn't have bought it since it was too expensive, so stealing it is OK."
Now would be a good time to start bringing it up with management and working on your transition plan. Do you think the pointy-haired bosses are going to start the initiative to migrate? Stuff like this comes from the bottom up. Network administrators must go into weekly meetings with their heads held high and advocate the IPv6 transition during every opportunity. Is it going to be costly? Probably... start asking for a bigger budget over the next few years so you can transition your older non-IPv6 compatible equipment. Don't cry on 1-1-2011 when your backbone providers shuts off IPv4 and your customers can't check their account balances anymore because you were lazy.
At this point, what's the business incentive to migrate to IPv6?
Other than not being able to talk to anyone else after IPv4 is shut off on the backbone? Nothing, nobody is forcing you to communicate with anyone else if you choose not to.
Slashdot Mirror
I clicked on the link and just get a blank page. Is their entire page an advertisement being blocked by my Adblock extension? How ironic unless that was their intent.
This sounds like the same thing I recently read about in the Spamhaus FAQ. They mention they always invoke "Security for Costs", which is apparently some U.K. privilege in civil trials, since you can never trust spammers to ever pay up after losing their frivolous lawsuits. It sounds like this type of thing is badly needed, if it isn't already available, to people defending themselves in U.S. courts against underhanded organizations like the RIAA.
What are you talking about? The picture shows it is 10cm wide. Do you know how to use a ruler?
Sounds like you're describing the Star of Life symbol that EMTs use... though it's usually blue.
I subscribe to Netflix and I'd just be happy if they supported Macs instead of just Windows. As it is now I can't make any use of their service that I am apparently entitled to. I'm probably one of their model customers though since I've had the same set of 3 movies for 3 or 4 months now and I just forget to return them.
Or you could just use Noscript or disable Java... but hey, I'm totally for using totally inconvenient solutions to problems if you can have cool sound effects.
This demo didn't work on my iPhone either. Just another reason to use the Superior JesusPhone over standard web technologies... no annoying Java, Flash, or third party apps to exploit!
Anyone else have Weird Al in their head singing "This exploit's just six words long..."?
Instead of comparing nationalized health care to Medicare, which must compete with private insurance companies, wouldn't it make more sense to find another nation that has complete nationalized health care and look at how they're doing it? Do Canadians like their health care system or do they prefer to supplement it with private insurance? What about in the U.K.? Does France have nationalized health care? Frankly, I'd prefer to spend $500 billion a year towards providing every American the same level of health care instead of using it to fund a war machine which, even in peace time, has an itch to start conflicts to justify itself. Cut the DoD budget to $10 billion and reallocate the rest of its budget to a new health care system.
I'm sure someone would say AppleTV, but that's the stupidest device I've ever seen. It doesn't have SVIDEO or Composite outputs, only HDMI, yet it's not powerful enough to play HDTV resolution video! Why Steve? Why? Throw an SVIDEO output on the god damn thing and I'd probably buy one for a MythTV frontend, but I'm not going to go out and replace my 32" CRT with an HDTV just to play standard definition television!
The title is simply worded poorly. It should say "IRS employees unusually susceptible to social engineering schemes". Face it, if they're willing to give out their own username and password, it wouldn't take much more skill for someone to convince them to give up information about people they don't even know if you presented the request in a believable manner.
Now would be a good time to start bringing it up with management and working on your transition plan. Do you think the pointy-haired bosses are going to start the initiative to migrate? Stuff like this comes from the bottom up. Network administrators must go into weekly meetings with their heads held high and advocate the IPv6 transition during every opportunity. Is it going to be costly? Probably... start asking for a bigger budget over the next few years so you can transition your older non-IPv6 compatible equipment. Don't cry on 1-1-2011 when your backbone providers shuts off IPv4 and your customers can't check their account balances anymore because you were lazy.