I will hack, slash or code me a way to watch my content. Currently I record off an mpeg converted to divx or vcd depending on the quality of the input. This is my right, Im using it for personal use. I will also pick up a tivo and hack it also. There will always be "Hacker Way" to do it.
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The day the police raid my door to stop me from breaking copy protection in my own home, is the day I become a freedom fighter, and start the war of revolution. Many people are starting to think the same way, when will people say NO, and take up arms against a corporate controlled police force.
It might be a un-popular view to believe in personal freedoms. But where are the people standing up for my rights? Do I need to protect them with a gun? Voting doesn't work when the majority is brainwashed with political correctness and sound bites.
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"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes." - Robert Francis Kennedy
No. You cant download when all your upstream is being used.
If there was bandwidth capping as the default this would help. Also need to fix resume. Basically, put a decent client that has QOS built in by default, and can resume files from multiple sites. I never had a problem uploading, but when I want a file on a modem, and only 2 have the file I want, its mostly likely 1/2 way during the download, the user will log off. I have a directory of incompletes that never get resumed. Also, I have to connect to a large (again) LARGE amount of hosts to find the file I need. Its like finding a needle in the haystack. This is where a directory service like napster kicked ass. Finding the file.
But then if you want britney spears mp3s you will find thousands of hits...
This is going to sound like a broken record, but its hard to have a computer when you don't even have electricity.
Id like to hear people from countries where they had to skimp and save for computers, like India, where even thou the pay is low, people still buy computers and Internet access.
I have a friend in Croatia, and he talks about how he seen people get killed in the local wars, worried about getting drafted, and not being able to finish college. Digital Divide, how about stopping the damn race/holy wars so people can at least progress from the iron age.
Since the guy got modded down to a -1, but makes some sense, alot of good posts are getting modded down lately. Disclaimers because 1/2 the people dont understand the post.
Heres his post.
Re:Patrick Warburton (Score:-1)
by GigsVT on Thu January 10, 07:11 PM (#2821310) [Alter Relationship]
(User #208848 Info | http://www.poetrycontestonline.com/) OK, I need to rant.
The fucking moderation system is broken when we have to fucking post disclaimers by any goddamn joke that some fucking 12 year old moderator might not get, because he is too busy whacking off to read a book every now and then, or even fucking read the item that is linked to a story before pressing that moderation button.
The reason we don't see as many really funny posts anymore is because people are afraid to be witty in a subtle way because some fucking kid doesn't get the joke and thinks it's "Offtopic" or "Flamebait".
If you think M2 is a solution, think again. That is not fucking feedback, that is fucking random slaps on the wrist for moderating. How is the moderator to know which moderation he did that was unfair? It could have been any one of five different moderations.
I don't get mod points anymore, I guess I qualify as a compulsive reloader since I read slashdot daily, and post more than once a day usually.
This whole thing is bullshit. Prior restraint, through the fear of being moderated down IS censorship. Wouldn't it be censorship if the government just made your voice so quiet that no one much would hear you?
I don't buy any of this bullshit. I'm sick of humor being moderated offtopic. I'm sick of fucking snowball effects because moderators never read at -1 nested. I've found that when I have had a post modded up to 3, it is much more likely to snowball to 5. When a post gets down to 0 or -1, it has very little chance of ever seeing the light of day again, even if it was unfairly moderatod.
Anyway, fuck you moderators that don't think about what you are doing before hitting submit. If it looks like a joke, even a little, then give it the benefit of the doubt. Maybe you just don't get it, and it really is hilarious.
I'm done now. Posted at +2 so more people will read. Go ahead, I've got 50 more karma to burn.
I dual boot windows/linux, and under linux I run vmware with windows. Linux is free, Vmware costs 1/2 the price of lindows. I just wonder if I can play games under Lindows, I have to boot back for some games. (Thou I hear RTCW has linux binaries, need to check that out)
a) The Court's consideration of what an individual must prove to demonstrate a substantial limitation in the major life activity of performing manual tasks is guided by the ADA's disability definition. "Substantially" in the phrase "substantially limits" suggests "considerable" or "to a large degree," and thus clearly precludes impairments that interfere in only a minor way with performing manual tasks.
Most people spend 9+ hours at work. That makes it a very substantial part of a persons life.
Just cause she can brush her teeth they voted against her. Again, its a slap in the face by Judges who are appointed for life.
Wheres the Open Divx codecs?
Allot of closed codecs with high license models seem to be the only ones competing. I want to see more open hardware and less reliance on costly software.
BTW, Realplayer is icky. With 200meg quality divx ep's of Star Trek Enterprise, I can fit 3-4 on a CD.
Most career people their job is their life. If you have to switch jobs you have to be retrained, and still need to take extra precautions about your illness. To say that a person's job is not their life is a slap in the face by Judges who are appointed for life.
Sorry, shuold of called the message topic
Message forums (Slash) are killing off Usenet.
Message forums (Slash) are killing off Google.
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Allot of the good gurus are moving over to slash ran message forums. Talking to a guy who is a perl guru, he has moved most of his perl help requests from usenet to Perl Mongers. I've been seeing this trend in the last few years, as independent subjects are moving over to a website based web forums. I even spend more time reading 5 mailing lists and a dozen message forums, and dont touch usenet anymore.
With these message forums and mailing lists not linked to a usenet group, there is a lot of wasted knowledge that is not shared. I would love to see a slash-mod or some type of mailing list enhancement that posts a overview or some kind of daily message post to usenet.
The whole idea of usenet was knowledge sharing, not binaries and spam ads. Glad google has saved usenet, but some effort needs start using it again.
Humm, Maybe Slashdot should enhance a usenet forum? Thou 5-20,000 posting a day on a usenet might be a little much. Maybe only 2+ posts make a moderated usenet group.
Not many people can say they know the entire system, every program, every lib, dll or driver.
Windows and Linux(or BSD) for the whole distribution take hundreds of megabytes. Yes, Even thou linux the kernel can boot up under a meg and give you a shell its rather useless other than a rescue disk.
Windows XP is a great workstation os. There is just so much going on you need 3rd party utilities to see whats happening. Tasks running in the background, files loading and unloading, registry updates/calls, files trying to update themselves, etc.. And then there is all the tweaks you have to put on for common sense options, tcp/ip QOS at 80% wasting 20% of your bandwidth, Explorer and Internet Explorer sharing the same memory if 1 crashes they both crash, Turning off Last access attribute in ntfs for performance, etc... Play around with sys-internals utilities you can see programs looking for missing fonts, updates to the registry, all kinds of system functions.
Linux on the other hand is rather up front with what it needs. You see what libs a program needs with ldd. lsof shows all files open and what program is using them. Good for a server, more secure when you know whats running. Bad points are the software releases, even thou most of the software is free, it can either not compile, not like the version of libraries you have, or need libraries you cant find. You don't have these problems on the windows os.
Even thou things are getting more complex, things are getting better. Good linux distributions that install and detect most hardware, X configuration, less configuration and more operation. Windows XP has a nice GUI, very intelligent user interface, more stable, great workstation os.
Only thing that scares me, is if M$ goes totally.net. I like being in control of my OS, and Linux isn't ready to take over the Desktop yet. Maybe in 10 years Games and Applications will run on any OS, but until then, M$ will keep the market.
I dont see the OS as perfected yet, but its come along way since DOS.
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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. - Chinese Proverb
I run proxomitron at work, I noticed that i kept hitting google when I was working on a company website. Later I noticed Google was already indexing my website. Like most users I trusted google wouldnt bounce my URLs off google, but they did.
Also, I started using Tiny firewall and started to block alot of software. Couple things I noticed, alot of m$ software trys to talk to the net. Office, Explorer, Windows Networking (not plain tcp/ip), m$ hardware drivers for mouse and keyboard, media player.
Also using a firewall stopped alot of freeware programs that grabs ad's worked great, they just couldnt get the banner ads or talk to the net.
We also use firewall software on our Sun production boxes we use EFS, encyrpted firewall software. It has a nice ACL list you can really lock down traffic. Only open port 80 for web traffic, and only to the load balancers, only allow SSH on the control network. Sometimes while your putting in a new network, the firewall ruleset is very basic, locking down the boxes help add a some security, and everything is logged to a logging server.
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I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. - Johnny Carson
slight off topic, but im replying to svwolfpack...
Msn messenger doesnt support socks5 correctly, but I was able to use trillian for msn thru socks. In fact every IM it has aol/icq/yahoo/msn and IRC works thru a socks server now.
Humm, Why is it, when something cool comes out you cant compiled it on linux?
Had to get the files q2source-3.21.zip and quake2-ref_softaa-0.1.tar.gz
then it complained of some files missing, had to get MesaLib-4.0.1.tar.gz and svgalib-1.4.3.tar.gz. Dont know if they are the correct version but it had the includes It needed.
I installed suse 7.3 on my sparc 5 today, lets just say 3 hours later, KDE took 5 minutes to load, control panel also takes 5 minutes to load. OUCH!
Back to Icewm, and at least its some what snappier.
Side note, my sun blade 100 kept puking at random points of the suse install, that box will scream with kde when the linux is fully ported. BTW, damn it sun, support the creator 3d elite!
I was also trying to decide 50 inch HDTV or 60 inch projection. I went for the 60 inch Projection.
1. Letter box was actually Bigger on the 60 inch.
2. DVD looked the same on both. (I didnt have progressive scan, so cant tell ya..)
3. TV I watch was all NTSC, waste for the HDTV.
4. Money, 2500 for the 60 inch, or 6500 for complete 50 inch HDTV setup.
5. Normal TV is larger on the 60 inch. It was either squished, stretched, or had wasted space on the HDTV.
6. I watch a 27inch in the bedroom while im on the computer or jay leno when im going to sleep. The 60 inch was for movies and some TV, but wasnt my main tv.
1 Drawback with the projection, the kids watched too much disney channel, and the logo started to burn. Lucky I caught it in time, its very very light and I dont see it unless the screen is the same color. But make sure you dont have logos on for days.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. - Hunter S. Thompson
As I result I've done a LOT of server and network upgrades over Thanksgivings, Labor Days, Memorial Days, etc.
Whoa! Working for a phone/wireless data company, I can tell you that is the WORST time to do work. We have black out periods where we cant even touch the hardware/software. And every major holiday is a black out period.
We have police, fire departments, public saftey, delivery services, etc all counting on reliable communications for these critical times.
The best time for us, is late, really late, like 3am eastern time. You can only do so much with clustering, if you have to patch or fix a service/service, its either customer or convenance, and customers pay the bills.
Same said for network, server and application outages. Ops centers are always staffed.
And the fun starts too, everyone gets thier new wireless device on xmas, and we see that everyone and thier brother decided to use the service. Humm, no cpu at max alarms, good good.
But on the good side, we are just on call, nothing we cant fix remotely. God I love unix and vpn.
Slashdot Mirror
Name one.
That would be breaking the law if I posted it. (-;
I will hack, slash or code me a way to watch my content. Currently I record off an mpeg converted to divx or vcd depending on the quality of the input. This is my right, Im using it for personal use. I will also pick up a tivo and hack it also. There will always be "Hacker Way" to do it.
//rant
The day the police raid my door to stop me from breaking copy protection in my own home, is the day I become a freedom fighter, and start the war of revolution. Many people are starting to think the same way, when will people say NO, and take up arms against a corporate controlled police force.
It might be a un-popular view to believe in personal freedoms. But where are the people standing up for my rights? Do I need to protect them with a gun? Voting doesn't work when the majority is brainwashed with political correctness and sound bites.
rant//
"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes." - Robert Francis Kennedy
No. You cant download when all your upstream is being used.
If there was bandwidth capping as the default this would help. Also need to fix resume. Basically, put a decent client that has QOS built in by default, and can resume files from multiple sites. I never had a problem uploading, but when I want a file on a modem, and only 2 have the file I want, its mostly likely 1/2 way during the download, the user will log off. I have a directory of incompletes that never get resumed. Also, I have to connect to a large (again) LARGE amount of hosts to find the file I need. Its like finding a needle in the haystack. This is where a directory service like napster kicked ass. Finding the file.
But then if you want britney spears mp3s you will find thousands of hits...
This is going to sound like a broken record, but its hard to have a computer when you don't even have electricity.
Id like to hear people from countries where they had to skimp and save for computers, like India, where even thou the pay is low, people still buy computers and Internet access.
I have a friend in Croatia, and he talks about how he seen people get killed in the local wars, worried about getting drafted, and not being able to finish college. Digital Divide, how about stopping the damn race/holy wars so people can at least progress from the iron age.
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War is not nice. - Barbara Bush
Since the guy got modded down to a -1, but makes some sense, alot of good posts are getting modded down lately. Disclaimers because 1/2 the people dont understand the post.
Heres his post.
Re:Patrick Warburton (Score:-1)
by GigsVT on Thu January 10, 07:11 PM (#2821310) [Alter Relationship]
(User #208848 Info | http://www.poetrycontestonline.com/) OK, I need to rant.
The fucking moderation system is broken when we have to fucking post disclaimers by any goddamn joke that some fucking 12 year old moderator might not get, because he is too busy whacking off to read a book every now and then, or even fucking read the item that is linked to a story before pressing that moderation button.
The reason we don't see as many really funny posts anymore is because people are afraid to be witty in a subtle way because some fucking kid doesn't get the joke and thinks it's "Offtopic" or "Flamebait".
If you think M2 is a solution, think again. That is not fucking feedback, that is fucking random slaps on the wrist for moderating. How is the moderator to know which moderation he did that was unfair? It could have been any one of five different moderations.
I don't get mod points anymore, I guess I qualify as a compulsive reloader since I read slashdot daily, and post more than once a day usually.
This whole thing is bullshit. Prior restraint, through the fear of being moderated down IS censorship. Wouldn't it be censorship if the government just made your voice so quiet that no one much would hear you?
I don't buy any of this bullshit. I'm sick of humor being moderated offtopic. I'm sick of fucking snowball effects because moderators never read at -1 nested. I've found that when I have had a post modded up to 3, it is much more likely to snowball to 5. When a post gets down to 0 or -1, it has very little chance of ever seeing the light of day again, even if it was unfairly moderatod.
Anyway, fuck you moderators that don't think about what you are doing before hitting submit. If it looks like a joke, even a little, then give it the benefit of the doubt. Maybe you just don't get it, and it really is hilarious.
I'm done now. Posted at +2 so more people will read. Go ahead, I've got 50 more karma to burn.
Doesnt RTCW (Wolfenstien), Q3A and Tribe2 also have linux ports?
Not if you already own windows. :)
I dual boot windows/linux, and under linux I run vmware with windows. Linux is free, Vmware costs 1/2 the price of lindows. I just wonder if I can play games under Lindows, I have to boot back for some games. (Thou I hear RTCW has linux binaries, need to check that out)
a) The Court's consideration of what an individual must prove to demonstrate a substantial limitation in the major life activity of performing manual tasks is guided by the ADA's disability definition. "Substantially" in the phrase "substantially limits" suggests "considerable" or "to a large degree," and thus clearly precludes impairments that interfere in only a minor way with performing manual tasks.
Most people spend 9+ hours at work. That makes it a very substantial part of a persons life.
Just cause she can brush her teeth they voted against her. Again, its a slap in the face by Judges who are appointed for life.
Wheres the Open Divx codecs?
Allot of closed codecs with high license models seem to be the only ones competing. I want to see more open hardware and less reliance on costly software.
BTW, Realplayer is icky. With 200meg quality divx ep's of Star Trek Enterprise, I can fit 3-4 on a CD.
Damn mod this person up.
Most career people their job is their life. If you have to switch jobs you have to be retrained, and still need to take extra precautions about your illness. To say that a person's job is not their life is a slap in the face by Judges who are appointed for life.
Too bad its not like the old west, people could still be shot for being stupid.
Couple of people on my list, some spam and some isps. (-;
Sorry, shuold of called the message topic
Message forums (Slash) are killing off Usenet.
Allot of the good gurus are moving over to slash ran message forums. Talking to a guy who is a perl guru, he has moved most of his perl help requests from usenet to Perl Mongers. I've been seeing this trend in the last few years, as independent subjects are moving over to a website based web forums. I even spend more time reading 5 mailing lists and a dozen message forums, and dont touch usenet anymore.
With these message forums and mailing lists not linked to a usenet group, there is a lot of wasted knowledge that is not shared. I would love to see a slash-mod or some type of mailing list enhancement that posts a overview or some kind of daily message post to usenet.
The whole idea of usenet was knowledge sharing, not binaries and spam ads. Glad google has saved usenet, but some effort needs start using it again.
Humm, Maybe Slashdot should enhance a usenet forum? Thou 5-20,000 posting a day on a usenet might be a little much. Maybe only 2+ posts make a moderated usenet group.
Not many people can say they know the entire system, every program, every lib, dll or driver.
.net. I like being in control of my OS, and Linux isn't ready to take over the Desktop yet. Maybe in 10 years Games and Applications will run on any OS, but until then, M$ will keep the market.
Windows and Linux(or BSD) for the whole distribution take hundreds of megabytes. Yes, Even thou linux the kernel can boot up under a meg and give you a shell its rather useless other than a rescue disk.
Windows XP is a great workstation os. There is just so much going on you need 3rd party utilities to see whats happening. Tasks running in the background, files loading and unloading, registry updates/calls, files trying to update themselves, etc.. And then there is all the tweaks you have to put on for common sense options, tcp/ip QOS at 80% wasting 20% of your bandwidth, Explorer and Internet Explorer sharing the same memory if 1 crashes they both crash, Turning off Last access attribute in ntfs for performance, etc... Play around with sys-internals utilities you can see programs looking for missing fonts, updates to the registry, all kinds of system functions.
Linux on the other hand is rather up front with what it needs. You see what libs a program needs with ldd. lsof shows all files open and what program is using them. Good for a server, more secure when you know whats running. Bad points are the software releases, even thou most of the software is free, it can either not compile, not like the version of libraries you have, or need libraries you cant find. You don't have these problems on the windows os.
Even thou things are getting more complex, things are getting better. Good linux distributions that install and detect most hardware, X configuration, less configuration and more operation. Windows XP has a nice GUI, very intelligent user interface, more stable, great workstation os.
Only thing that scares me, is if M$ goes totally
I dont see the OS as perfected yet, but its come along way since DOS.
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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. - Chinese Proverb
I run proxomitron at work, I noticed that i kept hitting google when I was working on a company website. Later I noticed Google was already indexing my website. Like most users I trusted google wouldnt bounce my URLs off google, but they did.
Also, I started using Tiny firewall and started to block alot of software. Couple things I noticed, alot of m$ software trys to talk to the net. Office, Explorer, Windows Networking (not plain tcp/ip), m$ hardware drivers for mouse and keyboard, media player.
Also using a firewall stopped alot of freeware programs that grabs ad's worked great, they just couldnt get the banner ads or talk to the net.
We also use firewall software on our Sun production boxes we use EFS, encyrpted firewall software. It has a nice ACL list you can really lock down traffic. Only open port 80 for web traffic, and only to the load balancers, only allow SSH on the control network. Sometimes while your putting in a new network, the firewall ruleset is very basic, locking down the boxes help add a some security, and everything is logged to a logging server.
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I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. - Johnny Carson
slight off topic, but im replying to svwolfpack...
Msn messenger doesnt support socks5 correctly, but I was able to use trillian for msn thru socks. In fact every IM it has aol/icq/yahoo/msn and IRC works thru a socks server now.
Opting out only works if its not a monopoly.
Anyone have a working mirror for the file above? I have found 0.3.0 but 0.4.0 stable isnt on the the 1 mirror i found.
Humm, Why is it, when something cool comes out you cant compiled it on linux?
../ref_gl/gl_draw.c
../ref_gl/gl_local.h:39,
../ref_gl/gl_draw.c:23:
Had to get the files q2source-3.21.zip and quake2-ref_softaa-0.1.tar.gz
then it complained of some files missing, had to get MesaLib-4.0.1.tar.gz and svgalib-1.4.3.tar.gz. Dont know if they are the correct version but it had the includes It needed.
Then
gcc -Dstricmp=strcasecmp -g -fPIC -I/usr/local/src/Mesa-2.6/include -I/usr/include/glide -o debugi386-glibc/ref_gl/gl_draw.o -c
In file included from
from
../ref_gl/qgl.h:484: parse error before `0x84C0'
make[1]: *** [debugi386-glibc/ref_gl/gl_draw.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/temp/quake2-3.21/linux'
make: *** [build_debug] Error 2
Any ideas?
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. - Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
I installed suse 7.3 on my sparc 5 today, lets just say 3 hours later, KDE took 5 minutes to load, control panel also takes 5 minutes to load. OUCH!
Back to Icewm, and at least its some what snappier.
Side note, my sun blade 100 kept puking at random points of the suse install, that box will scream with kde when the linux is fully ported. BTW, damn it sun, support the creator 3d elite!
I was also trying to decide 50 inch HDTV or 60 inch projection. I went for the 60 inch Projection.
1. Letter box was actually Bigger on the 60 inch.
2. DVD looked the same on both. (I didnt have progressive scan, so cant tell ya..)
3. TV I watch was all NTSC, waste for the HDTV.
4. Money, 2500 for the 60 inch, or 6500 for complete 50 inch HDTV setup.
5. Normal TV is larger on the 60 inch. It was either squished, stretched, or had wasted space on the HDTV.
6. I watch a 27inch in the bedroom while im on the computer or jay leno when im going to sleep. The 60 inch was for movies and some TV, but wasnt my main tv.
1 Drawback with the projection, the kids watched too much disney channel, and the logo started to burn. Lucky I caught it in time, its very very light and I dont see it unless the screen is the same color. But make sure you dont have logos on for days.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. - Hunter S. Thompson
Here in Seattle, Verizon(aka GTE) wouldnt put my Covad dsl in, But the tech said he would put in DSL from GTE, it was installed in a week.
I could care less about who it was from, just glad I had DSL. But it was a still an illegal tactic.
Blockbuster closes at midnight. But to be honest, at 2:38 you really watch "Virtual Jenna Jameson"
As I result I've done a LOT of server and network upgrades over Thanksgivings, Labor Days, Memorial Days, etc.
Whoa! Working for a phone/wireless data company, I can tell you that is the WORST time to do work. We have black out periods where we cant even touch the hardware/software. And every major holiday is a black out period.
We have police, fire departments, public saftey, delivery services, etc all counting on reliable communications for these critical times.
The best time for us, is late, really late, like 3am eastern time. You can only do so much with clustering, if you have to patch or fix a service/service, its either customer or convenance, and customers pay the bills.
Same said for network, server and application outages. Ops centers are always staffed.
And the fun starts too, everyone gets thier new wireless device on xmas, and we see that everyone and thier brother decided to use the service. Humm, no cpu at max alarms, good good.
But on the good side, we are just on call, nothing we cant fix remotely. God I love unix and vpn.