I suppose next someone will show how to make your own chemical weapons at home.
You would be surprised, nay, astounded, at what sort of terrorist skills you could learn in a high school chemistry class.
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What does the W stand for, smart guy? This also applies to the A in apple's format. These tards (W & A) should stick to making OS's.
AAC stands for "Advanced Audio Codec" not Apple-something-something. It's been around a lot longer than iTunes and Quicktime 6, too. There are free encoders and players available, including an xmms plugin, but somehow I doubt the open-source versions will play DRMed files.:(
If it is to be saved, ever, it needs to be broken up into multiple smaller NNTP networks. Each could have its own culture, policies, unique content, etc. Eventually, some sort of meta-index would appear, to direct users to the content and culture they want to find.
You just have to be careful that it doesn't turn into another IRC; 12 different competing networks, all packed with script kiddies wanting to run their own versions of alt.pr0n alt.binaries.warez and rec.flame.infantile.
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Can someone please explain to me why WMA is flourishing?
Because it *sounds better* at the same bitrate than MP3. I'm sorry you hate it for political reasons (I don't use it either; too much DRM baggage and too tied to WMP), but it is a technically superior codec!
I have two AMD Athlon MP 2000+'s in on a Tyan Tiger MPX motherboard, and a gig of ram, in a full-tower case with four intake fans -- one on the bottom front, one on the side middle over the cards, and two in the middle back under the power supply. The exhaust fan is the PS, of course.
First problem! You need at least as many exhaust fans as you have intakes, maybe one more if you are counting the PS fan as an exhaust. Turn the two in the back of your case around, and I bet the CPU temperatures will drop 10 or 15 degrees.
When running Windows 2000 on this machine, the operating temp as reported by the BIOS runs between 50c and 60c.
When I run Gentoo Linux [gentoo.org], set up from a stage1 install and compiled specifically for the Athlon MP, the machine crashes as the temperature rises to 75c.
Are you playing UT2k3 in Windows, or using Office? Compiling code (something gentoo does *a lot* of!) taxes the CPUs and generates quite a bit of heat, writing a letter in Word doesn't. That might explain the difference in Windows and Linux operating temps. Also, make sure you have "make CPU idle calls when idle" option set in your kernel config, and check this thread in the gentoo forums about enabling halt-cooling in the chipset. It doesn't specifically mention your board, but it has links to sites that might.
Case in point: the driver published in SOURCE FORM by NVidia builds upon information which they are unwilling to release to the public.
I don't think that's the case. It's been a while since I've installed nVidia drivers, but IIRC they use the same method as the old commercial OSS drivers. There is a thin "glue" layer that is compiled to match your kernel, and linked to a binary driver that contains all the code that does real work.
11:52 AM, CST: MPAA announces major anti-piracy initiative, including summary in-theater executions of people carrying in video cameras.
Slashdot response: Boooo! Burn the MPAA! Down with Hollywood! Help, help, we're being repressed! Boycott all MPAA movies forever, support independent cinema!
12:28 PM, CST: $MPAA_afillitaed_studio releases trailer for $shitty_summer_scifi/horror_movie. (or the next Matrix rehash, or Lord of the Rings: part n+1, or Star Trek: We can't believe anyone still watches these movies, or whatever)
Slashdot Response: oooh! shiny! I wanna shell out $7 to the forces of evil see this!
Wouldn't it be nice if you could install fonts the same way, regardless of your Linux distribution?
(troll=condescending gentoo user)Yeah, I think everyone should be able to type "emerge ttf-bitstream-vera" and have them installed automagically!(/troll)
Seriously though, fontconfig *is* fixing this. Copying.ttf files into ~/.fonts will be universal once fontconfig 2 and Xfree 4.3 trickle down into all the distros. Expect support in Redhat and Mandrake real soon now (if it's not out already), and in Debian-stable sometime in early 2007.:)
Don't be such a downer! In what, thirty years or so?, they'll all have died or retired, and we'll have our rights back.
That depends on whose administration they die or retire under. If a few of them were to keel over this week, they would likely be replaced by far right-wingers, since the democrats in congress don't have the spine to oppose Bush on anything. (How does the phrase "Chief Justice Ashcroft" sound to you?)
So now wait, you want my machine to route traffic from your neighborhood into mine, so you can download pr0n from the people on my block. What's my incentive to invest the time and money to acquire and maintain the equipment to do that? Somehow I doubt the Cisco bunny is going to leave routers, switches and cat-5 cables hidden around the house this weekend!:)
The fact that you do not care doesn't matter. It is not an opinion you can 'disagree' with. It is a statement of technical fact.
Yes it does, and yes, we can disagree.
"mp3 files contain less information than uncompressed cdda" is a technical fact. "mp3 encoders tend to cut off frequencies above 20kHz" is a technical fact. "mp3s are inferior to CDs" is a value judgment, and while it is based on facts, it is not in itself a fact.
You need to have a recent version of mplayer, and the windows media 9.dlls. It looks like you need wmv9dmod.dll and wma9dmod.dll installed in your windows binary codec path (usually/usr/lib/win32)
... in an area where children die from drinking water from the local river. Get the "life support" infrastructure back to "up and running" state, then think about getting the internet up.
Because, you know, the most efficient way for water engineers, doctors, and all the other people who make "life support" infrastructure work involves communication via messengers in jeeps. Get real! There are massive challenges facing the people trying to rebuild that infrastructure, and they're going to need access to information and expertise from outside of their local area. Setting up an improved telecommunications infrastructure could help get those water treatment plants, hospitals, etc up and running again faster than would otherwise be possible.
The trend is that during times of war or other crisis, civil liberties get short shrift. After the crisis is over, things tend to go back to normal. We'll see how it goes this time.
That's the beauty of a "war on terrorism". The crisis never ends!
For the love of God, NOOOOOOOOO!!!! It's like MS Office 95 but slower, uglier, and less stable. Why in fuck's sake would I want that anywhere near my computer? If OpenOffice wants to be anything other than a joke in poor taste, it needs to make a few improvements, and pronto.
1: Rewrite the interface in a standard toolkit. FLTK, GTK or QT would be acceptable, I'm not trying to start a toolkit flamewar (well, only an anti-whatever-OO-uses flamewar). Whatever it's using now is glacially slow and looks like a bad copy of Win95's interface.
2: Stop pretending to be a windowmanager. We have whole programs devoted to just that task! Dialog windows should have standard titlebars the same as any other X window, not the ugly Win95-ripoff titlebars the OpenOffice puts on them. Getting rid of the StarOffice desktop was a good start here, but it needs to be carried through to it's conclusion. Let the OS handle moving windows, drawing titlebars, etc.
3: Speed. OO needs more of it. MS Office ain't quick, but it still loads WAY faster than OpenOffice. Right now, I can go downstairs and make a cup of tea between the time I click "OpenOffice Writer" in the gnome menu and the time it's open and ready to write. This should get better when (if) they move to a standard GUI toolkit instead of whatever statically-linked crap it's using now.
All an RPM package can do is tell you what libraries it needs to install properly. It's up to you to go to rpmfind.net and spend your free time searching for the package that provides those libs. Portage and apt-get can tell you what *packages* to install to get those dependency libraries. Portage will even download, compile, and install all a package's dependencies in the right order automagically!
As for the rest of your post... I hope you were trolling!
Who cares? Apple prices it's hardware like every machine is hand-chiseled by a Tibetan monk from a solid block of pure, polished, weapons-grade unobtanium!
Standard CDs hold 650MB or about 72 minutes of CDDA music. Since most albums are only 45 minutes long or so, there's plenty of room left on the disc for.wma files.
So long as Microsoft, Apple, and other companies allow the development of device drivers, all DRM technologies can be defeated.
True.
What, you thought Microsoft driver signing was implemented to protect/your/ security? It's the start of Palladium-plating the operating system. Windows XP will install unsigned drivers (after showing you an ominous-looking warning). Don't expect the next version of Windows to allow that. Once you have verified and signed drivers being loaded by a verified and signed kernel, most of the obvious holes in DRM are closed. Don't expect the next version of Windows Media player to play secured files on your computer if your audio/video drivers are not signed by Microsoft!
Given that IPv4 space is no longer at risk of being exhausted... That's not really a given, you ought to prove it. Barring genocide or a complete halt to the current trend in internet access growth, I don't think IPv4 is going to last forever.
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I suppose next someone will show how to make your own chemical weapons at home.
You would be surprised, nay, astounded, at what sort of terrorist skills you could learn in a high school chemistry class.
What does the W stand for, smart guy? This also applies to the A in apple's format. These tards (W & A) should stick to making OS's.
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AAC stands for "Advanced Audio Codec" not Apple-something-something. It's been around a lot longer than iTunes and Quicktime 6, too. There are free encoders and players available, including an xmms plugin, but somehow I doubt the open-source versions will play DRMed files.
If it is to be saved, ever, it needs to be broken up into multiple smaller NNTP networks. Each could have its own culture, policies, unique content, etc. Eventually, some sort of meta-index would appear, to direct users to the content and culture they want to find.
You just have to be careful that it doesn't turn into another IRC; 12 different competing networks, all packed with script kiddies wanting to run their own versions of alt.pr0n alt.binaries.warez and rec.flame.infantile.
Can someone please explain to me why WMA is flourishing?
Because it *sounds better* at the same bitrate than MP3. I'm sorry you hate it for political reasons (I don't use it either; too much DRM baggage and too tied to WMP), but it is a technically superior codec!
I have two AMD Athlon MP 2000+'s in on a Tyan Tiger MPX motherboard, and a gig of ram, in a full-tower case with four intake fans -- one on the bottom front, one on the side middle over the cards, and two in the middle back under the power supply. The exhaust fan is the PS, of course.
First problem! You need at least as many exhaust fans as you have intakes, maybe one more if you are counting the PS fan as an exhaust. Turn the two in the back of your case around, and I bet the CPU temperatures will drop 10 or 15 degrees.
When running Windows 2000 on this machine, the operating temp as reported by the BIOS runs between 50c and 60c.
When I run Gentoo Linux [gentoo.org], set up from a stage1 install and compiled specifically for the Athlon MP, the machine crashes as the temperature rises to 75c.
Are you playing UT2k3 in Windows, or using Office? Compiling code (something gentoo does *a lot* of!) taxes the CPUs and generates quite a bit of heat, writing a letter in Word doesn't. That might explain the difference in Windows and Linux operating temps. Also, make sure you have "make CPU idle calls when idle" option set in your kernel config, and check this thread in the gentoo forums about enabling halt-cooling in the chipset. It doesn't specifically mention your board, but it has links to sites that might.
Not yet. Give it another 10 years.
Case in point: the driver published in SOURCE FORM by NVidia builds upon information which they are unwilling to release to the public.
I don't think that's the case. It's been a while since I've installed nVidia drivers, but IIRC they use the same method as the old commercial OSS drivers. There is a thin "glue" layer that is compiled to match your kernel, and linked to a binary driver that contains all the code that does real work.
11:52 AM, CST: MPAA announces major anti-piracy initiative, including summary in-theater executions of people carrying in video cameras.
Slashdot response: Boooo! Burn the MPAA! Down with Hollywood! Help, help, we're being repressed! Boycott all MPAA movies forever, support independent cinema!
12:28 PM, CST: $MPAA_afillitaed_studio releases trailer for $shitty_summer_scifi/horror_movie. (or the next Matrix rehash, or Lord of the Rings: part n+1, or Star Trek: We can't believe anyone still watches these movies, or whatever)
Slashdot Response: oooh! shiny! I wanna shell out $7 to the forces of evil see this!
Wouldn't it be nice if you could install fonts the same way, regardless of your Linux distribution?
.ttf files into ~/.fonts will be universal once fontconfig 2 and Xfree 4.3 trickle down into all the distros. Expect support in Redhat and Mandrake real soon now (if it's not out already), and in Debian-stable sometime in early 2007. :)
(troll=condescending gentoo user)Yeah, I think everyone should be able to type "emerge ttf-bitstream-vera" and have them installed automagically!(/troll)
Seriously though, fontconfig *is* fixing this. Copying
Don't be such a downer! In what, thirty years or so?, they'll all have died or retired, and we'll have our rights back.
That depends on whose administration they die or retire under. If a few of them were to keel over this week, they would likely be replaced by far right-wingers, since the democrats in congress don't have the spine to oppose Bush on anything. (How does the phrase "Chief Justice Ashcroft" sound to you?)
So now wait, you want my machine to route traffic from your neighborhood into mine, so you can download pr0n from the people on my block. What's my incentive to invest the time and money to acquire and maintain the equipment to do that? Somehow I doubt the Cisco bunny is going to leave routers, switches and cat-5 cables hidden around the house this weekend! :)
OTOH, I think "Firebird" and "Thunderbird" are pretty lame names, and I wish Moz would go back to the old ones.
Like what? "Netscape 3.0 gold"?
The fact that you do not care doesn't matter. It is not an opinion you can 'disagree' with. It is a statement of technical fact.
Yes it does, and yes, we can disagree.
"mp3 files contain less information than uncompressed cdda" is a technical fact.
"mp3 encoders tend to cut off frequencies above 20kHz" is a technical fact.
"mp3s are inferior to CDs" is a value judgment, and while it is based on facts, it is not in itself a fact.
Because on Slashdot, we only have to deal with Eugenia's whining once in a while, while it's all over OSnews.
Works for me too...
.dlls. It looks like you need wmv9dmod.dll and wma9dmod.dll installed in your windows binary codec path (usually /usr/lib/win32)
You need to have a recent version of mplayer, and the windows media 9
... in an area where children die from drinking water from the local river. Get the "life support" infrastructure back to "up and running" state, then think about getting the internet up.
Because, you know, the most efficient way for water engineers, doctors, and all the other people who make "life support" infrastructure work involves communication via messengers in jeeps. Get real! There are massive challenges facing the people trying to rebuild that infrastructure, and they're going to need access to information and expertise from outside of their local area. Setting up an improved telecommunications infrastructure could help get those water treatment plants, hospitals, etc up and running again faster than would otherwise be possible.
Why don't you all just sod off and NOT BUY ANY MORE CD'S!!!!!!!
Then, the RIAA constituent companies will lose money and be forced to deal with the issue.
We are. They are. This is how they intend to "deal with it".
Yes.
Write your comment on the back of a check for $12,000,000 and mail it to your state's Republican party.
The trend is that during times of war or other crisis, civil liberties get short shrift. After the crisis is over, things tend to go back to normal. We'll see how it goes this time.
That's the beauty of a "war on terrorism". The crisis never ends!
OpenSource is here to stay!
For the love of God, NOOOOOOOOO!!!!
It's like MS Office 95 but slower, uglier, and less stable. Why in fuck's sake would I want that anywhere near my computer? If OpenOffice wants to be anything other than a joke in poor taste, it needs to make a few improvements, and pronto.
1: Rewrite the interface in a standard toolkit. FLTK, GTK or QT would be acceptable, I'm not trying to start a toolkit flamewar (well, only an anti-whatever-OO-uses flamewar). Whatever it's using now is glacially slow and looks like a bad copy of Win95's interface.
2: Stop pretending to be a windowmanager. We have whole programs devoted to just that task! Dialog windows should have standard titlebars the same as any other X window, not the ugly Win95-ripoff titlebars the OpenOffice puts on them. Getting rid of the StarOffice desktop was a good start here, but it needs to be carried through to it's conclusion. Let the OS handle moving windows, drawing titlebars, etc.
3: Speed. OO needs more of it. MS Office ain't quick, but it still loads WAY faster than OpenOffice. Right now, I can go downstairs and make a cup of tea between the time I click "OpenOffice Writer" in the gnome menu and the time it's open and ready to write. This should get better when (if) they move to a standard GUI toolkit instead of whatever statically-linked crap it's using now.
In two words: Dependency Hell
All an RPM package can do is tell you what libraries it needs to install properly. It's up to you to go to rpmfind.net and spend your free time searching for the package that provides those libs. Portage and apt-get can tell you what *packages* to install to get those dependency libraries. Portage will even download, compile, and install all a package's dependencies in the right order automagically!
As for the rest of your post... I hope you were trolling!
Who cares? Apple prices it's hardware like every machine is hand-chiseled by a Tibetan monk from a solid block of pure, polished, weapons-grade unobtanium!
Standard CDs hold 650MB or about 72 minutes of CDDA music. Since most albums are only 45 minutes long or so, there's plenty of room left on the disc for .wma files.
So long as Microsoft, Apple, and other companies allow the development of device drivers, all DRM technologies can be defeated.
/your/ security? It's the start of Palladium-plating the operating system. Windows XP will install unsigned drivers (after showing you an ominous-looking warning). Don't expect the next version of Windows to allow that. Once you have verified and signed drivers being loaded by a verified and signed kernel, most of the obvious holes in DRM are closed. Don't expect the next version of Windows Media player to play secured files on your computer if your audio/video drivers are not signed by Microsoft!
True.
What, you thought Microsoft driver signing was implemented to protect
Given that IPv4 space is no longer at risk of being exhausted...
That's not really a given, you ought to prove it.
Barring genocide or a complete halt to the current trend in internet access growth, I don't think IPv4 is going to last forever.