I really like how so many PPC based OS's are coming out, morphos, amigaos, etc. And with QEMU allowing cpu emulation on the PPC, soon it wont matter which CPU you have, you can run any OS you want.
Second Life's case, images as large as 2048x2048 are delivered interactively to the client viewer, with a single packet providing enough detail for distant textures. As the user approaches textures, additional packets are delivered to the client, providing a progressive increase in detail with very low latency, thanks to Jpeg2000's ability to deliver fine-grained increases
So if I understand. Jpeg2000 format is layered, with each additional layer delivering higher detail, when you downloaded all the layers you have the full high resolution image.
Doesn't Ogg Vorbis do something like this, your bandwidth determines how many layers you can stream at once, the more layers you can download at once, and the higher quality the stream.
Not to familiar with PNG, does it also use wavelet compression?
You dont pay for ads from the telco, those are excluded from your bill.
But yes, if someone else outside the Telco spams you, KA-Ching! BTW, there has already been 3rd party telco's SMSing you and charging your local carrier, forgot about the article, but it was last summer. Think the FCC stepped up and took care of it, but I cant remember the players.
Have not read the article, but we had an LBS (location Based Service) scavenger hunt when we launched the service at work. We had to find the closet resturant, directions, etc. Was quite fun. The deal was to get everyone thinking about all the uses, and not just think of it as "Spying on someone"
The phone beeps the person if you look them up, they know you did a lookup on thier location. And you can turn it off. The privacy is still there.
I read the other day, Disney is using LBS to move people quickly through the park, offering discounts, telling them which rides have the short lines, etc. Kinda like on-star on steriods. Lots of companies use LBS on trucks, nice to see it used for normal consumers.
So, really, LBS is pretty damn nice, it can be abused, but if your provider is a schmuck and does that crap, move. Number portability:)
Anyone else notice lots of the posts are about cellphones, telcos, and releated technology. I tell you Wireless Telco's are going to be the large ISP's of the future...
But isn't Dolby Pro Logic IIx for creating natural surround from stereo for music/movies while EAX allows game developers to create surround sound reflections for 3d enviroments?
And Creative has breakout boxes, multiple inputs, surround emulation software, accelerated audio, EAX# and A3D compatible, support for most games, etc. (And DRM)
I don't see this killing off creative, but will hurt its marketshare from non-gamers.
On the flip side, Creative labs have been quite stale, only minor updates to its Audio card line. They have been adding many other products, they even have mini-pc's, gfx, burners, mice, keyboards, etc.. - Secondlife
Also newer Amiga's have PCI slots, Amiga 1200 Towers have PCI slots and drivers for normal PC based hardware. But Sun's PC card does work rather well, and if you have to use windows, its a nice option.
I have a sunblade 100 on my desk, upgraded from an Ultra (dont know if I would call it an upgrade...) But I was only using it for xwindows and running screen on it. Finally decided to put SuSE on it, but the version was getting old, and Suse dropped Sparc. I threw Gentoo Sparc on it the other day, even went in testing source portage, and put every application I wanted. Even had the updated Opera browser. Runs rather well, even upgraded to 2.6.1.
5 years ago, most of my admin utilities where Solaris based, Then they moved to Web-based, Java and linux. I don't really need a solaris box anymore, even to administor solaris applications.
Our NOC uses sun stations all day, with citrix for windows software. They need to have 3 monitors running X, so they can have multiple terminals and applications open. Have to admit, Sun with CDE might look fugly, its the most stable OS/GUI around. And when you can't afford to crash with that much data open, Sun Unix on Sun Hardware is rock solid.
But other than a Network Operation Centers, or very specialized applications(are there any?), why would you use this as a desktop replacement? Seems a rather small market.
Actually, I installed cygwin on a windows xp pro box, I would love to use Samba, then I could do domain authentication, while the box is not in the domain. Same way I setup solaris boxes, samba shares that use the windows domain for access, but nothing else.
So, yes, Samba for windows (or cygwin) would solve my problem. Samba is more than just SMB/CIFS, it emulates a domain controller or forwards authentication to a domain controller. Something windows does not do, unless its a member of the domain.
Ive been using Mandrake for years, great desktop and server install. Been using SuSE on sun hardware, but its getting dated. Moved my sun boxes to Gentoo awhile back, best move ever. Now I hear SuSE is going to support Sun hardware again, should be interesting.
Have to saw, best outta the box experience is Knoppix bootable cd. Great visuals, good selection of applications, and everything worked without setup.
But mandrake unstable? No freaking way. I run email/web servers on mandrake, no problems, ever. And when I do boot into linux on my laptop, vmware, winex, all runs everything.
I tell ya, stuff is rock stable now, nothing like the older 1.x kernel distros. Processes just dont crash, linux boxes stay up for ever.
Humm, also some sites that might be considered art, but its really webmasters or design firms, so they are filled with artists. (Most are flash based.)
All joking aside, If we are talking Internet art (sites/computer/etc)
Couple sites I think have artistic value.
1. 3d modeling should count, and I really like skinshack the 3dmodels people design for counterstrike. It is art after all, but its the downloads not the site. I liked weapon-hacks, the 3d work was amazing, but with CS sites going down, its not up anymore.
2. As a site that looks like art, Go-l.com Looks kinda like apple.com, but the site is pure eye-candy, which is art in my eyes. (And the specs for the machines are eye-candy as well, geek think...)
Free speech is nice, but not when it is used to kill people, or to attempt to kill people or to encourage people to kill people.
Hate to play devils advocate, but if its ok to talk about war, its ok to talk about hate speech, there is no difference. Unless you are giving direct orders, with times, dates with specific plans of attack, it should be free speech. Telling people to support a cause, even if it is bloody should be free speech. When you tell people they can't support a cause by using hate crime/terrorism laws, its censorship and a tool to enforce political and moral values.
And reading the charges in the indictment, it basically says he ran the IANA (Islamic Assembly of North America) and a bunch of sites and even some net radio stations. One of his sites a webblog, someone posted instructions about suicides by bombing aircraft, he owns the site, this means hes the ring leader. And since there are large number of payments (over 3 million dollars) to members of IANA by supporting countries, Cairo, Egypt, Montreal, Canada, Riyadh, Saudia Arabia, Jordan and Pakistan, that further supports hes a terrorist. And he didnt list IANA on his VISA applications for school, so he must have lied. (He only listed ACM & IEEE)
Sounds like the fed's are regularly reading the weblogs to check for such action. 1 post from someone doesn't make IANA a terrorist group. But I suspect the person who did the post, did it from outside America. (If not, wouldnt Homeland security go after the poster?)
I think this guy is fucked, with so little fall guys these days, this looks like a win for homeland security. "We Got another one!". And top it off, hes not an American, so he has no free speech rights.
But I'm playing office chair politics, I dont have any more facts that whats in the indictment, which doesn't read all that above board for the USA. They only listed 1 post about terrorism, and its from someone else.
BTW, Glad I'm an American and I can still post abo
Anyone notice its all SVCD or VCD dvdrips? I know the ease of playing on the DVD player is attractive, but for the same size you can have a nice Divx release with AC3 sound. Or even a nice dual Divx CD set.
How many people here went and downloaded GordianKnot and tried to rip some DVDs? Takes dayd, hard as hell.
I'd rather download a rip off the net for a DVD I own that try to rip a DVD with the current set of utilities. SVCD is a different story, being mpeg2. (Sounds like fair use to me)
10 mbits common place by 2007? say hello to zooming movie downloads:)
Linux ISO's are so common at 2-5 disc sets, Why would 700 meg DIVX CD's be any different for downloading, now? You only rent a couple movies, you could just download a couple movies at night and burn them to CD.
The website lists 393 seed hosts. Of course, I tried over 40 and couldn't connect. Unless it has really bad nat/firewall support, which is pretty bad, everyone uses nat routers. You have to have to support passive transfers with multi nat'ed hosts.
I still think you it comes down to the encryption. With enough hosts you could figure out which virtual address are the most reponsive for replies. And make a best guess that person is responsible. Attack in numbers, and then over time, find out which IP's respond, fall back to normal IP logging. Then ask your ISP who had which IP's over time, and go after that user.
I liked how they stated, the virtual addresses and routing tables will be tweaked for best anti-spaming and spoof checking.
Seems like they are working hard on the transport, after thats perfected, then you can add all the features like hash checking, multipart downloads, and file searching.
I like this much better than freenet. Sorry, no internal search engine, and everyone has to give up disk space for cache.
- Secondlife for programmers, artists and designers.
Most federal judges will grant the FBI warrants over the phone within minutes. This just clarifies what the FBI can go after on finacial investigations. If the FBI wants to investigate someone they will, warrants or not. Dont kid yourself, not everything every police agency does is above board. But the majority of FBI agents are hard working, family people who worry about personal rights also.
The only thing that pisses me off, is they include this as a rider to another bill so it gets passed. A few things I'd like to change are.
1. No riders. 2. No fancey names like Patriot Act. (Protect the Children Act, etc..) 3. Daily updates on bills that are voted on, educate the people. 4. Stats on which way your congress critter is voting on issues. 5. Balanced Budget Act.
I work a 60 hour week, and with my personal life, I barely have time to see what my elected officals are doing. I'd also like to change the way we vote. Instant Runoff voting.(IRV) This would make it easier for 3rd/4th parties to run and take office. And you dont have to worry about wasting a vote.
You don't understand, this is a simple upgrade for local radio stations to add digital. Sirius and XM radio are already an option or standard on new cars. Expect to see HD radio included in car radios also.
This is like tv's going from Black and white to color, its a simple, its better, its about time.
BTW, I listen to talk radio and Howard Stern, this will be a great improvement over sound quality.
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I really like how so many PPC based OS's are coming out, morphos, amigaos, etc. And with QEMU allowing cpu emulation on the PPC, soon it wont matter which CPU you have, you can run any OS you want.
Are we almost near processor independance day?
Second Life's case, images as large as 2048x2048 are delivered interactively to the client viewer, with a single packet providing enough detail for distant textures. As the user approaches textures, additional packets are delivered to the client, providing a progressive increase in detail with very low latency, thanks to Jpeg2000's ability to deliver fine-grained increases
;)
So if I understand. Jpeg2000 format is layered, with each additional layer delivering higher detail, when you downloaded all the layers you have the full high resolution image.
Doesn't Ogg Vorbis do something like this, your bandwidth determines how many layers you can stream at once, the more layers you can download at once, and the higher quality the stream.
Not to familiar with PNG, does it also use wavelet compression?
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BTW, wheres the linux SL client.
You dont pay for ads from the telco, those are excluded from your bill.
But yes, if someone else outside the Telco spams you, KA-Ching! BTW, there has already been 3rd party telco's SMSing you and charging your local carrier, forgot about the article, but it was last summer. Think the FCC stepped up and took care of it, but I cant remember the players.
Sounds like a very good reason for me to remain cell-phone-free.
Or turn off the sound for incoming SMS, and use it for voice only. Or ask your telco turn off SMS service for your phone.
But if you are in still living in your parents basement, ya, no need for a cellphone. Analog will do. (-;
Have not read the article, but we had an LBS (location Based Service) scavenger hunt when we launched the service at work. We had to find the closet resturant, directions, etc. Was quite fun. The deal was to get everyone thinking about all the uses, and not just think of it as "Spying on someone"
:)
The phone beeps the person if you look them up, they know you did a lookup on thier location. And you can turn it off. The privacy is still there.
I read the other day, Disney is using LBS to move people quickly through the park, offering discounts, telling them which rides have the short lines, etc. Kinda like on-star on steriods. Lots of companies use LBS on trucks, nice to see it used for normal consumers.
So, really, LBS is pretty damn nice, it can be abused, but if your provider is a schmuck and does that crap, move. Number portability
Anyone else notice lots of the posts are about cellphones, telcos, and releated technology. I tell you Wireless Telco's are going to be the large ISP's of the future...
Thats the biggest microsoft smart phone ive ever seen!
But isn't Dolby Pro Logic IIx for creating natural surround from stereo for music/movies while EAX allows game developers to create surround sound reflections for 3d enviroments?
And Creative has breakout boxes, multiple inputs, surround emulation software, accelerated audio, EAX# and A3D compatible, support for most games, etc. (And DRM)
I don't see this killing off creative, but will hurt its marketshare from non-gamers.
On the flip side, Creative labs have been quite stale, only minor updates to its Audio card line. They have been adding many other products, they even have mini-pc's, gfx, burners, mice, keyboards, etc..
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Secondlife
Also newer Amiga's have PCI slots, Amiga 1200 Towers have PCI slots and drivers for normal PC based hardware. But Sun's PC card does work rather well, and if you have to use windows, its a nice option.
I have a sunblade 100 on my desk, upgraded from an Ultra (dont know if I would call it an upgrade...) But I was only using it for xwindows and running screen on it. Finally decided to put SuSE on it, but the version was getting old, and Suse dropped Sparc. I threw Gentoo Sparc on it the other day, even went in testing source portage, and put every application I wanted. Even had the updated Opera browser. Runs rather well, even upgraded to 2.6.1.
5 years ago, most of my admin utilities where Solaris based, Then they moved to Web-based, Java and linux. I don't really need a solaris box anymore, even to administor solaris applications.
Our NOC uses sun stations all day, with citrix for windows software. They need to have 3 monitors running X, so they can have multiple terminals and applications open. Have to admit, Sun with CDE might look fugly, its the most stable OS/GUI around. And when you can't afford to crash with that much data open, Sun Unix on Sun Hardware is rock solid.
But other than a Network Operation Centers, or very specialized applications(are there any?), why would you use this as a desktop replacement? Seems a rather small market.
Actually, I installed cygwin on a windows xp pro box, I would love to use Samba, then I could do domain authentication, while the box is not in the domain. Same way I setup solaris boxes, samba shares that use the windows domain for access, but nothing else.
So, yes, Samba for windows (or cygwin) would solve my problem. Samba is more than just SMB/CIFS, it emulates a domain controller or forwards authentication to a domain controller. Something windows does not do, unless its a member of the domain.
Ive been using Mandrake for years, great desktop and server install. Been using SuSE on sun hardware, but its getting dated. Moved my sun boxes to Gentoo awhile back, best move ever. Now I hear SuSE is going to support Sun hardware again, should be interesting.
Have to saw, best outta the box experience is Knoppix bootable cd. Great visuals, good selection of applications, and everything worked without setup.
But mandrake unstable? No freaking way. I run email/web servers on mandrake, no problems, ever. And when I do boot into linux on my laptop, vmware, winex, all runs everything.
I tell ya, stuff is rock stable now, nothing like the older 1.x kernel distros. Processes just dont crash, linux boxes stay up for ever.
Humm, also some sites that might be considered art, but its really webmasters or design firms, so they are filled with artists. (Most are flash based.)
http://www.lo9ic.com/v4/
http://www.2advanced.com/ (some really awesome flash on this site)
http://www.plotdev.com
http://www.freefordesign.com
http://www.nakedworlddoc.com (Just visually neat)
http://www.itcatmedia.com
Good collection of links at http://www.phong.com/tutorials/archive.php
All joking aside, If we are talking Internet art (sites/computer/etc)
Couple sites I think have artistic value.
1. 3d modeling should count, and I really like skinshack the 3dmodels people design for counterstrike. It is art after all, but its the downloads not the site. I liked weapon-hacks, the 3d work was amazing, but with CS sites going down, its not up anymore.
2. As a site that looks like art, Go-l.com Looks kinda like apple.com, but the site is pure eye-candy, which is art in my eyes. (And the specs for the machines are eye-candy as well, geek think...)
Reading about how they support ntfs in Captive
It says they use ntfs.sys and even ntoskrnl.exe from your XP partition.
Wondering if there are legal problems with this.
Free speech is nice, but not when it is used to kill people, or to attempt to kill people or to encourage people to kill people.
Hate to play devils advocate, but if its ok to talk about war, its ok to talk about hate speech, there is no difference. Unless you are giving direct orders, with times, dates with specific plans of attack, it should be free speech. Telling people to support a cause, even if it is bloody should be free speech. When you tell people they can't support a cause by using hate crime/terrorism laws, its censorship and a tool to enforce political and moral values.
And reading the charges in the indictment, it basically says he ran the IANA (Islamic Assembly of North America) and a bunch of sites and even some net radio stations. One of his sites a webblog, someone posted instructions about suicides by bombing aircraft, he owns the site, this means hes the ring leader. And since there are large number of payments (over 3 million dollars) to members of IANA by supporting countries, Cairo, Egypt, Montreal, Canada, Riyadh, Saudia Arabia, Jordan and Pakistan, that further supports hes a terrorist. And he didnt list IANA on his VISA applications for school, so he must have lied. (He only listed ACM & IEEE)
Sounds like the fed's are regularly reading the weblogs to check for such action. 1 post from someone doesn't make IANA a terrorist group. But I suspect the person who did the post, did it from outside America. (If not, wouldnt Homeland security go after the poster?)
I think this guy is fucked, with so little fall guys these days, this looks like a win for homeland security. "We Got another one!". And top it off, hes not an American, so he has no free speech rights.
But I'm playing office chair politics, I dont have any more facts that whats in the indictment, which doesn't read all that above board for the USA. They only listed 1 post about terrorism, and its from someone else.
BTW, Glad I'm an American and I can still post abo
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My url for all the Emulators didnt get included in the link.
emerge dosemu
or
emerge dosbox (and dosbox-cvs for that newest version)
Gentoo has a nice collection of emulators.
Anyone notice its all SVCD or VCD dvdrips? I know the ease of playing on the DVD player is attractive, but for the same size you can have a nice Divx release with AC3 sound. Or even a nice dual Divx CD set.
How many people here went and downloaded GordianKnot and tried to rip some DVDs? Takes dayd, hard as hell.
I'd rather download a rip off the net for a DVD I own that try to rip a DVD with the current set of utilities. SVCD is a different story, being mpeg2. (Sounds like fair use to me)
10 mbits common place by 2007? say hello to zooming movie downloads :)
:)
Linux ISO's are so common at 2-5 disc sets, Why would 700 meg DIVX CD's be any different for downloading, now? You only rent a couple movies, you could just download a couple movies at night and burn them to CD.
What we need is an iTunes for Divx movies.
Yes, not clicking on a topic is hard work. (-;
But yes, this should also be linked to Ask Slashdot.
Seems to be a firewall/passive issue, I bound a port and it connected. But didnt work without a bound 4900 port. Strange.
The website lists 393 seed hosts. Of course, I tried over 40 and couldn't connect. Unless it has really bad nat/firewall support, which is pretty bad, everyone uses nat routers. You have to have to support passive transfers with multi nat'ed hosts.
I still think you it comes down to the encryption. With enough hosts you could figure out which virtual address are the most reponsive for replies. And make a best guess that person is responsible. Attack in numbers, and then over time, find out which IP's respond, fall back to normal IP logging. Then ask your ISP who had which IP's over time, and go after that user.
I liked how they stated, the virtual addresses and routing tables will be tweaked for best anti-spaming and spoof checking.
Seems like they are working hard on the transport, after thats perfected, then you can add all the features like hash checking, multipart downloads, and file searching.
I like this much better than freenet. Sorry, no internal search engine, and everyone has to give up disk space for cache.
-
Secondlife for programmers, artists and designers.
Most federal judges will grant the FBI warrants over the phone within minutes. This just clarifies what the FBI can go after on finacial investigations. If the FBI wants to investigate someone they will, warrants or not. Dont kid yourself, not everything every police agency does is above board. But the majority of FBI agents are hard working, family people who worry about personal rights also.
The only thing that pisses me off, is they include this as a rider to another bill so it gets passed. A few things I'd like to change are.
1. No riders.
2. No fancey names like Patriot Act. (Protect the Children Act, etc..)
3. Daily updates on bills that are voted on, educate the people.
4. Stats on which way your congress critter is voting on issues.
5. Balanced Budget Act.
I work a 60 hour week, and with my personal life, I barely have time to see what my elected officals are doing. I'd also like to change the way we vote. Instant Runoff voting.(IRV) This would make it easier for 3rd/4th parties to run and take office. And you dont have to worry about wasting a vote.
There is no local radio anymore. It's all Clear Channel and...somebody else.
They still play local radio ads, local news and local weather reports, school closings.
Try to buy a car without a radio. (-;
This is a product looking for a market.
You don't understand, this is a simple upgrade for local radio stations to add digital. Sirius and XM radio are already an option or standard on new cars. Expect to see HD radio included in car radios also.
This is like tv's going from Black and white to color, its a simple, its better, its about time.
BTW, I listen to talk radio and Howard Stern, this will be a great improvement over sound quality.