i can confirm that, through a decent capture card, gaming systems are perfectly playable. I have a compro videomate TV, its about the bottom of the range, and the delay is not perceptible. (assuming i'm not using any timeshifting functions, etc).
What i can NOT get this card to do is stream properly. I decided it'd be a fun experiment to see if i could use a wireless controller and my laptop to stream video over the network and play games in another room of the house, but no matter what button i tweaked, i couldn't get the delay for windows media encoder below about 8 seconds. The drivers for my tuner card are buggy as fuck. As in, when i use VLC to open open it, my computer bluescreens.
I think that if i could get the lag down to about 400 ms it would be playable albeit a bit annoying, but even if its 1s its still a cool experiment. If any slashdotters have any suggestions i'd be happy to hear them.
being a geek on the "squad" is overrated. have you ever seen the "geek squad pc repair cd" that you buy in best buy? The paths on the disc are broken. You guys call yourself geeks? Stop it, you're giving us all a bad name.
You, my friend, no nothing of encryption. I am by no means an expert, but let me educate you a little.
Current synchronous algorithms (e.g. AES, Blowfish) are exceptionally secure. 256-bit AES, for example is rated as secure enough for top secret information, stuff that neds to stay encrypted decades into the future.
As a quick test, i just AES-256 encrypted a 10MB file using my celeron 850. It took about 5 seconds. There is absolutely no reason why any recent pocketpc can't encrypt/decrypt a VOIP call on the fly.
The only problem with synchronous algorithms is key exchange. Both parties need to have the same key, and therefore need to have a way to communicate unintercepted.
This is where asynchronous algorithms come into play. An asynchronous algorithm has two seperate keys for the encrypted data: The public key, and the private key. The public key can only be usd o encrypt data, and the private key can only be used to decrypt it. So: Alice gives Bob her publi key. Bob uses the public key to encrypt his AES-256 key, and ten send this back to Alice. Alice then decrypts this using her private key, and then alice and bob can have a secre VOIP conversation.
Sounds complicated? A similar procedure takes place in a matter of seconds whenever you connect to an SSL website.
So in conclusion, effective encryption technologies are available to the masses. And ave been, for some time. For ayone who really cares, the technology is there to securely encrypt any communications you want.
If anyone wants some links to some apps, let me know.
How easy or not Myth is to set up depends on your hardware. In particular, TV card support is a bit dodgy in Linux,and if you don't have a compatible card, good luck. Also some cards require extensive configuration to be done and still don't work right. If you do your research beforehand and buy a card that is supported you should have very few problems.
You also might experience any of the other standard configuration difficulties with linux - video, soundcard, etc. But again, if you have compatible hardware it shouldn't be a problem.
And if you're wondering who I'm going to lay blame to for the configuration mess, it's the hardware manufacturers, but NOT for lack of support for non-Windows systems. It's because every single manufacturer has to use a different method of communication between the card and driver. HELLO - It's a TV card. How big a deal of it is it for them all to standardize on one interface?
I am a satisfied iinet customer, on their 40GB/month (peak/offpeak split) plan. The plan itself is AU$69.95 a month, but the trap with iinet is that to be able to get 2+, you have to have a landline with them, which is $33/month, and line rental can be had for as little at $17/month elsewhere. So in reality its more like $80/month.
But the service is fast, the local mirrors have a good range of content, and the upload speed rocks.
If there was ever a study pointing out the obvious, this is one of them. Ever popped all the key caps off a 3 year old keyboard that's had tens of KG of food eaten over it, and several liters of liquids ranging from water to coffee to vodka spilt into it, not to mention the ammount of nutella that somehow gets in there.
The gunk you find below those key caps is probably some of the most disgusting stuff you'll ever see in real life.
If you're takling about embedded versions of the OS, they don't count for the purpose of my argument. If you're talking about win CE versions that run on x86 hardware, then that's kinda irrelevant as well.
Will current versions of CE run natively on a g3 or g4 mac for instance? and if so, where can i get this? its news to me.
I get what you (and many other replies) are saying about how some windows (NT4 and earlier i believe) could be run on other platforms. But that's the past, and this is now. No current version of windows will run on anything other than x86 or x86_64.
Not that I care, personally. I haven't had a non-x86 box in a long time.
I expect that in a couple of years, the market will have been flooded by generic region-free players that play both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, and probably don't even require HDCP.
but the lookup would still not go to the dns - the host would still get 127.0.0.1 from its internal dns lookup, and would try to connect to a webserver running on itself. If there isn't one, you'll get a connection refused error.
You might care about PS3's DRM. Apperently Sony is trying to figure out a way to prevent used games from being played on it. And they are apparently working on preventing you from playing your games on any other system than your own (so you can't take your game to a friends place and play there). SCEA is just as scummy, greedy and paranoid as Sony Music is.
Sony stated that they did not intend to use the patent they filed on this for the PS3.
while I suspect he's joking, assuming he isn't, what evidence do you predict they will use against him? it's awfully easy to fake MAC addresses and such so as to leave no evidence
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Given Apple's reliance on IBM for its chips up until recently, I highly doubt they would even consider giving money to SCO for any reason.
How could linux FUD POSSIBLY benefit Apple anyway? Increase sales on Xserves?
d'oh, ok you're right...I thought, cause i have a couple of ma15+ games..
d'oh, ok you're right, my bad. I thought cause i have a couple of ma15+ games...
umm, yes we do. would you please stop commenting on something you know nothing about
http://www.oflc.gov.au/special.html?n=291&p=134#1
ummmm...where are you from exactly? What's the R rating for? (I'm from Brisbane, Australia)
http://www.oflc.gov.au/special.html?n=291&p=134#1
i use the compropvr softare, which is included with the tuner card. Surely your ati card came with its own capture software?
wait, is this an agp card, with video capture capabilities? If so, then good luck. The agp slot is really only designed for one-way communication
how long till we see hacked versions of skype available on bittorrent that do not enforce these stupid restrictions?
i can confirm that, through a decent capture card, gaming systems are perfectly playable. I have a compro videomate TV, its about the bottom of the range, and the delay is not perceptible. (assuming i'm not using any timeshifting functions, etc).
What i can NOT get this card to do is stream properly. I decided it'd be a fun experiment to see if i could use a wireless controller and my laptop to stream video over the network and play games in another room of the house, but no matter what button i tweaked, i couldn't get the delay for windows media encoder below about 8 seconds. The drivers for my tuner card are buggy as fuck. As in, when i use VLC to open open it, my computer bluescreens.
I think that if i could get the lag down to about 400 ms it would be playable albeit a bit annoying, but even if its 1s its still a cool experiment. If any slashdotters have any suggestions i'd be happy to hear them.
being a geek....is underrated...
being a geek on the "squad" is overrated. have you ever seen the "geek squad pc repair cd" that you buy in best buy? The paths on the disc are broken. You guys call yourself geeks? Stop it, you're giving us all a bad name.
You, my friend, no nothing of encryption. I am by no means an expert, but let me educate you a little.
Current synchronous algorithms (e.g. AES, Blowfish) are exceptionally secure. 256-bit AES, for example is rated as secure enough for top secret information, stuff that neds to stay encrypted decades into the future.
As a quick test, i just AES-256 encrypted a 10MB file using my celeron 850. It took about 5 seconds. There is absolutely no reason why any recent pocketpc can't encrypt/decrypt a VOIP call on the fly.
The only problem with synchronous algorithms is key exchange. Both parties need to have the same key, and therefore need to have a way to communicate unintercepted.
This is where asynchronous algorithms come into play. An asynchronous algorithm has two seperate keys for the encrypted data: The public key, and the private key. The public key can only be usd o encrypt data, and the private key can only be used to decrypt it. So: Alice gives Bob her publi key. Bob uses the public key to encrypt his AES-256 key, and ten send this back to Alice. Alice then decrypts this using her private key, and then alice and bob can have a secre VOIP conversation.
Sounds complicated? A similar procedure takes place in a matter of seconds whenever you connect to an SSL website.
So in conclusion, effective encryption technologies are available to the masses. And ave been, for some time. For ayone who really cares, the technology is there to securely encrypt any communications you want.
If anyone wants some links to some apps, let me know.
How easy or not Myth is to set up depends on your hardware. In particular, TV card support is a bit dodgy in Linux,and if you don't have a compatible card, good luck. Also some cards require extensive configuration to be done and still don't work right. If you do your research beforehand and buy a card that is supported you should have very few problems.
You also might experience any of the other standard configuration difficulties with linux - video, soundcard, etc. But again, if you have compatible hardware it shouldn't be a problem.
And if you're wondering who I'm going to lay blame to for the configuration mess, it's the hardware manufacturers, but NOT for lack of support for non-Windows systems. It's because every single manufacturer has to use a different method of communication between the card and driver. HELLO - It's a TV card. How big a deal of it is it for them all to standardize on one interface?
I am a satisfied iinet customer, on their 40GB/month (peak/offpeak split) plan. The plan itself is AU$69.95 a month, but the trap with iinet is that to be able to get 2+, you have to have a landline with them, which is $33/month, and line rental can be had for as little at $17/month elsewhere. So in reality its more like $80/month.
But the service is fast, the local mirrors have a good range of content, and the upload speed rocks.
If there was ever a study pointing out the obvious, this is one of them. Ever popped all the key caps off a 3 year old keyboard that's had tens of KG of food eaten over it, and several liters of liquids ranging from water to coffee to vodka spilt into it, not to mention the ammount of nutella that somehow gets in there. The gunk you find below those key caps is probably some of the most disgusting stuff you'll ever see in real life.
If you're takling about embedded versions of the OS, they don't count for the purpose of my argument. If you're talking about win CE versions that run on x86 hardware, then that's kinda irrelevant as well.
Will current versions of CE run natively on a g3 or g4 mac for instance? and if so, where can i get this? its news to me.
how would THAT be news?
I get what you (and many other replies) are saying about how some windows (NT4 and earlier i believe) could be run on other platforms. But that's the past, and this is now. No current version of windows will run on anything other than x86 or x86_64.
Not that I care, personally. I haven't had a non-x86 box in a long time.
I expect that in a couple of years, the market will have been flooded by generic region-free players that play both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, and probably don't even require HDCP.
i'm curious to know which game would you consider worthwhile?
haha talk about subtle humor. That HAS to be the funniest thing i have read in a long time.
I for one have to keep multiple client apps running at one:
MSN Messenger
Yahoo Messenger
Google Talk
ICQ
And its looking like I'll have to get Skype sooner or later as well.
So yes, people DO keep multiple client apps open.
as an australian, i am going to look at that for as long as i can without throwing up...to make the most of my right to while i still have it
Can anyone else say "double standard"?
This is despicable behavoir on Microsoft's part.
but the lookup would still not go to the dns - the host would still get 127.0.0.1 from its internal dns lookup, and would try to connect to a webserver running on itself. If there isn't one, you'll get a connection refused error.
You might care about PS3's DRM. Apperently Sony is trying to figure out a way to prevent used games from being played on it. And they are apparently working on preventing you from playing your games on any other system than your own (so you can't take your game to a friends place and play there). SCEA is just as scummy, greedy and paranoid as Sony Music is.
Sony stated that they did not intend to use the patent they filed on this for the PS3.
while I suspect he's joking, assuming he isn't, what evidence do you predict they will use against him? it's awfully easy to fake MAC addresses and such so as to leave no evidence