maybe so but i'd imagine connecting your scope to the network may be more of a pain than having it write to floppy depending on the situation (ie depending on if there is a network jack convininant to where you are using the scope).
i bought one because i basically needed to use floppies at the collage i was at (win98 machines so usb would have been a pita and most didn't have cd burners) internet was availible at collage but not where i was living at the time.
my new laptop didn't have a floppy drive and using the network to my older desktop was a pain so i bought a usb floppy drive. (its a sony oem one btw and yes my laptops bios recognises it and it boots quite happilly). At one point i think some manufacturs were even including usb floppy drives in the box with thier laptops.
unfortunately if you ever still win98 machines the drivers are not included with the OS and often flash sticks only seem to work on 98 with the manufacturers (i tried the generic one thats availible somewhere but couldn't get it to work).
CDR is ok for taking stuff from your machine to others but its not very good the other way as many machines still don't have burners.
well amds architecture won. intel is now the clone builder. (intel find this rather embarrasing which is why the chips they make that support amd64 aren't heavilly marketed as such)
otoh there is no doubt that intel can out-produce amd and will make 64 bit chips simply because they can make more in total.
switching to native amd64 will probablly take quite some time. driver issues are much bigger now than in the 286/386 days when people ran dos and there isn't a hugely pressing need at the consumer end yet but its the way things are headed.
one thing to remember is that the BBC get traffic to most uk internet users extremely cheap because they have direct peering arrangements with major uk isps and are on at least two major london traffic exchange points as well.
also the bbc are funded by the TV license which is essentially a tax. Afaict the main reason for keeping the TV license seperate from normal taxation is to make it harder for the government to get rid of the bbc (not impossible but much harder than just cutting its budget to almost nothing in a must pass budget bill).
they could possiblly call all the local cell networks and ask them what cellphones were active in the area at the time though.
you could also ask them to look for a phone that was contacted at the time of the blast and then immediately dissapeared from the system. that would be a pretty big clue wouldn't it?
when you buy one of theese phones is it recorded which one was bought when/where so they can look at when a particular one was bought and correlate with security tapes.
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the internet as we know it relies on UNIVERSAL names. who would wan't to put thier domain on a tld that could only be seen by a tiny fraction of users.
even if the big 3 go up in price there are other tlds in the normal system and there is also the posisbility of taking a name at the next level down (care is needed there to make sure its administered by someone reputable though).
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yes stopping someone reading something without a key is easy enough but thats NOT the goal of a drm system.
a drm system is meant to let you read it whilst not letting you copy/modify it. This is basically impossible to achive reliablly on an open system like the PC.
i have one server thats running sendmail rather than the debian standard exim and both aptitude dist-upgrade (the reccomended upgrade method) and apt-get dist-upgrade wanted to remove it even after i manually upgraded it to the sarge version first.
i ended up using apt-get upgrade to upgrade the bulk of the system then upgrading a load of stuff manually with apt-get install and then finally finishing the job with apt-get dist-upgrade
mind you red hat basically tell you too take the system offline and use the installer to upgrade which i find even less desirable than giving apt a bit of assistance with the upgrade process.
before upgrading read the release notes as they document other issues you could run into if you don't take care. but DO NOT follow those instructions blindly always check what apt-get or aptitude plans to remove before saying yes.
last i heared was the the initial reports were 7 but there were duplicate reports caused by people exiting the tube lines in opposite directions that were not initially correlated.
you got any links for info on this fast track system for getting security updates into testing?
and can dependency issues caused by building against versions of shared libraries from unstable prevent security updates from being fast tracked into testing?
having hung arround #ubuntu-motu on freenode i'd hardly call it a hostile fork. actully for the non-core stuff they tend to preffer to go via debian with updates rather than update directly themselves.
ubuntu seem to basically be a combination of polish up and alternative release process for debian
if you don't care about on/off hook detection then a lead to work with a modem would probablly be cheaper to make than his. all you need is a power supply (apparently 9V is high enough according to him i find this surprising myself) and a cheap homemade inductor to feed this supply to the line.
you wouldn't need to split the signal with a transformer if you were doing it with a modem and i think the transformer was a significant part of his cost..
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and ofc the PIC18F4550 which you should be able to get quite easilly as a free sample from microchip.
if its mainly the text thats valuable you can often get it from a file without too much knowlage of the format.
and i'm sure that theres abandonware sies with lots of old software if you really need to get it to read something.
maybe so but i'd imagine connecting your scope to the network may be more of a pain than having it write to floppy depending on the situation (ie depending on if there is a network jack convininant to where you are using the scope).
i bought one because i basically needed to use floppies at the collage i was at (win98 machines so usb would have been a pita and most didn't have cd burners) internet was availible at collage but not where i was living at the time.
my new laptop didn't have a floppy drive and using the network to my older desktop was a pain so i bought a usb floppy drive. (its a sony oem one btw and yes my laptops bios recognises it and it boots quite happilly). At one point i think some manufacturs were even including usb floppy drives in the box with thier laptops.
you could possiblly also have taken thier floppy image and built a bootable CD from it.
unfortunately if you ever still win98 machines the drivers are not included with the OS and often flash sticks only seem to work on 98 with the manufacturers (i tried the generic one thats availible somewhere but couldn't get it to work).
CDR is ok for taking stuff from your machine to others but its not very good the other way as many machines still don't have burners.
what is there to stop someone just creating a shell company transfering some assets and getting the shell company to bring suit?
well amds architecture won. intel is now the clone builder. (intel find this rather embarrasing which is why the chips they make that support amd64 aren't heavilly marketed as such)
otoh there is no doubt that intel can out-produce amd and will make 64 bit chips simply because they can make more in total.
switching to native amd64 will probablly take quite some time. driver issues are much bigger now than in the 286/386 days when people ran dos and there isn't a hugely pressing need at the consumer end yet but its the way things are headed.
yeah so the plane lands in havanna. BIG DEAL
the important thing is that without cockpit access they wouldn't be able to use the plane as a weapon.
one thing to remember is that the BBC get traffic to most uk internet users extremely cheap because they have direct peering arrangements with major uk isps and are on at least two major london traffic exchange points as well.
also the bbc are funded by the TV license which is essentially a tax. Afaict the main reason for keeping the TV license seperate from normal taxation is to make it harder for the government to get rid of the bbc (not impossible but much harder than just cutting its budget to almost nothing in a must pass budget bill).
they could possiblly call all the local cell networks and ask them what cellphones were active in the area at the time though.
you could also ask them to look for a phone that was contacted at the time of the blast and then immediately dissapeared from the system. that would be a pretty big clue wouldn't it?
when you buy one of theese phones is it recorded which one was bought when/where so they can look at when a particular one was bought and correlate with security tapes.
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the thing is downmods reduce karma. This makes people take them personally since if you lose too much karma the starting score of your posts goes down and you could possiblly even end up banned.
Out of interest if you belived your post to be offtopic why did you use karma bonus to post it at +2?
Yeah, and nothing says "third class" better than a domain name that's not in .com or .net
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.com are us buisnesses
.info and .biz are shit.
community sites can use
in most countries its considered perfectly acceptable for companies to use names in the natoinal tld.
the main people from whom i see there being no good alternative to
and btw i agree
the internet as we know it relies on UNIVERSAL names. who would wan't to put thier domain on a tld that could only be seen by a tiny fraction of users.
even if the big 3 go up in price there are other tlds in the normal system and there is also the posisbility of taking a name at the next level down (care is needed there to make sure its administered by someone reputable though).
yes stopping someone reading something without a key is easy enough but thats NOT the goal of a drm system.
a drm system is meant to let you read it whilst not letting you copy/modify it. This is basically impossible to achive reliablly on an open system like the PC.
i have one server thats running sendmail rather than the debian standard exim and both aptitude dist-upgrade (the reccomended upgrade method) and apt-get dist-upgrade wanted to remove it even after i manually upgraded it to the sarge version first.
i ended up using apt-get upgrade to upgrade the bulk of the system then upgrading a load of stuff manually with apt-get install and then finally finishing the job with apt-get dist-upgrade
mind you red hat basically tell you too take the system offline and use the installer to upgrade which i find even less desirable than giving apt a bit of assistance with the upgrade process.
before upgrading read the release notes as they document other issues you could run into if you don't take care. but DO NOT follow those instructions blindly always check what apt-get or aptitude plans to remove before saying yes.
to me it sounds most likely that if they do boot off the same CD it will be using two totally seperate boot mechanisms.
last i heared was the the initial reports were 7 but there were duplicate reports caused by people exiting the tube lines in opposite directions that were not initially correlated.
you got any links for info on this fast track system for getting security updates into testing?
and can dependency issues caused by building against versions of shared libraries from unstable prevent security updates from being fast tracked into testing?
an encoding issue would mean a strage mess of characters. question marks everywhere means lack of a suitable font.
afaict they are what NEXT reffered to as fat binaries. That is they contain the machine code for both systems.
having hung arround #ubuntu-motu on freenode i'd hardly call it a hostile fork. actully for the non-core stuff they tend to preffer to go via debian with updates rather than update directly themselves.
ubuntu seem to basically be a combination of polish up and alternative release process for debian
note: you don't have to forgo apt-get just because you build your own pakages
just set up a local repositry add it to your systems sources.list files and put any locally built packages there.
it is however true that woody was getting rather long in the tooth before sarge was released hopefully that won't be the case again with etch.
if you don't care about on/off hook detection then a lead to work with a modem would probablly be cheaper to make than his. all you need is a power supply (apparently 9V is high enough according to him i find this surprising myself) and a cheap homemade inductor to feed this supply to the line.
you wouldn't need to split the signal with a transformer if you were doing it with a modem and i think the transformer was a significant part of his cost..