I've been running GBPVR for about a year now. I went to it when I couldn't get Myth running (at the time the PVR150 was barely supported). I've tried Myth 2 times since then and keep going back to GBPVR. I just downloaded and burned MythDora; I'll try that soon, this will be the first time I've tried one of the dedicated Myth distros. Crossing my fingers. GBPVR actually works totally find. I would just rather run Myth because it's a little more flexible, and I have some jobs that I need a 24-hour-on machine for and would like a linux box around to do them.
Another remote might be an option but I need a blaster as well since I use satellite. Besides, I *have* a remote and blaster, and they work just fine under Windows and GBPVR so I don't really want to spend money because Linux is hard to set up. Of course, if I ever go with Linux on the desktop I'll probably have to spend money due to Linux shortcomings because it looks like there will never be good drivers for my Canon i960. You can argue that this is Canon's fault for not releasing programming info, but it still equates to stuff that doesn't work right under Linux.
It's a 3 part video on how to click "next" a bunch of times. It shows how to set up the box if you have exactly the hardware that guy happens to have. I had that figured out a year ago, but it's been 3 tries since then and I still haven't gotten Myth working. Always it mostly works but some damn thing stops me. Last time I couldn't get LIRC working right. I don't even remember what the previous ones were.
I tried building my myth box on ubuntu last weekend. Ubuntu and myth were trivial, but I spent a good 6 hours and read about a dozen howtos and couldn't get lirc running my pvr150 remote and blaster. Even if everything else is working perfectly, it's a no-go without lirc. This happens to me every time; everything except for one dumb thing works and I'm SOL.
I'm assuming that they'll actually roll this out universally. See, it'll be a NEW DRM scheme, because THIS time they'll get it right, see? And they'll be able to PR-swing the irritation they're causing users that have to update/replace their players, because they're doing it to GIVE US MORE RIGHTS. See, they're GOOD GUYS!!!
If they put a few hundred million dollars into developing the new scheme, this time it might even last long enough for some discs to be released in the stores before it's cracked. But probably not.
So then if I *WANT* to allow anyone to attach to my router and use my bandwidth freely, how do I do it? I have been just leaving the router open. I figure that WEP is the equivalent of posting "no trespassing" signs. It won't actually stop anyone that wants to use the connection but it makes it obvious that they're not welcome.
If you're saying that the presumption must be that even if a connection is open, you're not welcome, then how do I set up a hot spot that I want people to use? Do I need to put my physical address in the SSID so they can come and ask? I don't want people to physically bother me asking, I just want them to use it. I guess the SSID could read "FREE WIFI HELP YOURSELF" but that's kind of kludgy.
NOBODY has original install discs anymore. Go buy a PC and see if you get original install discs. You're screwed. The best you can hope for now is that your machine allowed you to make a set of full system restore discs when you got it. Some of those will allow you to restore individual files, but many of these utilities just re-image your system drive, so you lose everything on there that was installed since the machine was new (at least, anything on the boot partition).
I'd say this is probably MORE destructive to people with legitimate copies, who probably just have such images. The pirates are more likely to have install CDs.
It won't work for people like me either; you know, people who FOR SOME REASON the mag strips on our IDs mysteriously get erased within minutes of receiving them in the mail. Probably related to the effect that causes anything we own with RFID tags to mysteriously get burn marks around the chips.
I could, except that I wouldn't have any sense of suspense if for some reason I was forced to watch the superbowl live.
I have no problem watching movies months after release. I'm not sure why it's so hard to avoid spoilers. Hell, I look up on usenet at hit movies that were released in the last year or two and the titles aren't even familiar, I have to go to IMDB to see what the heck they're about. I certainly don't know what happened in them.
I'm ambivalent to the sound of guns. I like the occasional hour of target practice, but I don't really care how much noise the weapon makes. It could be totally silent, that'd be cool, but I don't really care.
We have cell phones, but we also keep our land line because we have almost completely useless coverage at our house. We can get a signal but it's barely there, and calls drop out about every 2 minutes, and if someone calls us, half the time they go to voice mail because our phones happen to not be connected right that moment. If they ever fix the coverage out at our house, we'll think about dropping the land line, but as it is, it's the only 99%+ reliable communications we have, and phone service is considered a life-critical application.
Do you think that if there's a guy holed up somewhere with ONE nuke, that us having nukes is going to affect anything? Is he going to hold off using it because he's afraid of getting nuked? No. Are we going to nuke whatever country he's holed up in to take him out? Hell no. Are we even going to nuke North Korea to try to deny them their nukes? No. I can't think of any scenario at all where we would actually use nukes. We've gotten too good at precision bombing, we're not going back to carpet bombing. Hell, there's an uproar now when we miss a building with a terrorist inside and hit a residence next door. What would happen to a leader who authorized vaporizing an entire city of civilians to take out a resistance movement?
OK, given that, you are only releasing something like 80-90% as much carbon; all the petrochemicals that are used in the production and transport of the ethanol.
If we could direct the money logically, rather than how the corn lobbiests want, we'd be making ethanol from switchgrass or something where you get something like a 12:1 payback, and the crops grow on lands that are not suitable for food crops.
Any moron can make something loud. Just look at Harleys (I mean what the owners do to them, not how they come from the factories). It takes brains and work and technology to make things quiet, and it takes intelligence to recognize that. All the noise in the world is a serious problem. If I had to choose between two identical houses, I'd pay a ton of extra money for the one that was in a much quieter area. Teenagers like to make a lot of noise; they have a lot of hormones and no brains, and think that being the one with the loudest whatever will get them laid. Some of them grow out of it.
The first thing I have to do when I get a new machine or peripheral is to disconnect all the useless LEDs (pimp LEDs) and a lot of time I have to use resistors or smoked plastic to dial down the brightness. Lots of times they use blue LEDs which are just stupid bright; those get replaced with different colors pretty often.
E85 cars are mainly a gimmick. The auto manufacturers love it because they get to make a practically free change (some extra computer firmware and maybe a specific gravity detector for the fuel) and they get to count it as a vastly higher mileage car; I think they get to rate it as though it was only burning the 15% of gas that it does (IE 20 MPG / 0.15 = 133 mpg), even though the vast majority of E85 cars that are sold will never see a drop of E85, and even though burning ethanol releases even more greenhouse gases than burning gasoline does; you burn 80% as much fossil fuels to make a unit of ethanol as the amount of energy that's in the ethanol, then you have to actually burn the ethanol.
Don't even get me started on hydrogen.
I'm waiting for a good electric, myself. The could make a damn sweet one for a decent price if they wanted to. I have friends who are driving electrics made 10 or more years ago that would work fine for many people, but they're expensive because not many are made. Electrics at least have the POTENTIAL to be really clean.
A friend worked at an auto supplier company, he was in charge of all the networks and stuff there. They had the red "IT only" isolated plugs because it was a very dirty environment with lots of heavy equipment and the power at any random outlet was truly horrible.
One janitor got a bug up his butt and decided he'd use those outlets for his floor polisher, "because the next closest outlet is another 10 feet away" and apparently he couldn't be bothered to walk that far. It was a big and crufty enough piece of equipment that he blew up the nearest power supply whenever he did it. These were not cheap machines either, and they were crucial to the operation of the line. So whenever he did it there was about $400 in parts, a call-out, and an hour or two of downtime on the line at probably $20,000 an hour.
After about 3 of these my friend figured out what was going on, and lurked until he caught the guy plugging in, and confronted him. The guy got belligerent and said basically "Screw you, big fancy white shirt in a tie, I'll do whatever the f**k I want, I don't give a crap if it costs the company $30,000 every time I do it, and I'm in the union so good luck doing anything about it!"
Turns out, a VP was lurking around the corner and witnessed the whole thing. The guy got a quick lesson that the union wasn't the impenetrable barrier to justice that he thought it was. He was on his ass in the street in about 10 minutes.
You always hope for that kind of instant karma, but you rarely get it.
They already don't let us use the bandwidth that our DOCSYS 2.0 modems are capable of. What's the point in getting a modem that's 50x faster than what they'll allow us to use instead of only 2x faster? The end result is the same.
I suppose they're going to use this as another level to sell. My idiot neighbor bought the highest speed connection he could buy so it would "improve his gaming response" - really he could have bought the cheapest connection, because he doesn't need speed, he needs low latency. I told him this but he didn't believe me. If they offered an even higher speed connection, he'd buy it and still only use 256Kbps of it.
I still haven't watched half the shows from the 1990s that I keep meaning to, and I haven't been bothered by spoilers yet. Someday I might even find out what the names of some of the TV shows from this century are.
OK, I do keep up on some shows. None of them are from the U.S.
If the cracks are a result of flexing and were not due to bad solder joints, then this is probably a result of the low-lead solder drive. Low lead solders can't stand flexing because they're not as soft.
The wind by the side of the road is linked to the wind in the traffic lane. Slowing down the one will drag down the other.
Honestly this is just a ridiculous idea. There's a hell of a lot more and more consistent winds that occur naturally in almost all parts of the world that we haven't begun to tap yet. I'm not sure why people latch on to goofy ideas like this.
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I've been running GBPVR for about a year now. I went to it when I couldn't get Myth running (at the time the PVR150 was barely supported). I've tried Myth 2 times since then and keep going back to GBPVR.
I just downloaded and burned MythDora; I'll try that soon, this will be the first time I've tried one of the dedicated Myth distros. Crossing my fingers.
GBPVR actually works totally find. I would just rather run Myth because it's a little more flexible, and I have some jobs that I need a 24-hour-on machine for and would like a linux box around to do them.
Another remote might be an option but I need a blaster as well since I use satellite. Besides, I *have* a remote and blaster, and they work just fine under Windows and GBPVR so I don't really want to spend money because Linux is hard to set up.
Of course, if I ever go with Linux on the desktop I'll probably have to spend money due to Linux shortcomings because it looks like there will never be good drivers for my Canon i960. You can argue that this is Canon's fault for not releasing programming info, but it still equates to stuff that doesn't work right under Linux.
It's a 3 part video on how to click "next" a bunch of times. It shows how to set up the box if you have exactly the hardware that guy happens to have. I had that figured out a year ago, but it's been 3 tries since then and I still haven't gotten Myth working. Always it mostly works but some damn thing stops me. Last time I couldn't get LIRC working right. I don't even remember what the previous ones were.
I tried building my myth box on ubuntu last weekend. Ubuntu and myth were trivial, but I spent a good 6 hours and read about a dozen howtos and couldn't get lirc running my pvr150 remote and blaster. Even if everything else is working perfectly, it's a no-go without lirc. This happens to me every time; everything except for one dumb thing works and I'm SOL.
I'm assuming that they'll actually roll this out universally. See, it'll be a NEW DRM scheme, because THIS time they'll get it right, see? And they'll be able to PR-swing the irritation they're causing users that have to update/replace their players, because they're doing it to GIVE US MORE RIGHTS. See, they're GOOD GUYS!!!
If they put a few hundred million dollars into developing the new scheme, this time it might even last long enough for some discs to be released in the stores before it's cracked. But probably not.
So then if I *WANT* to allow anyone to attach to my router and use my bandwidth freely, how do I do it? I have been just leaving the router open. I figure that WEP is the equivalent of posting "no trespassing" signs. It won't actually stop anyone that wants to use the connection but it makes it obvious that they're not welcome.
If you're saying that the presumption must be that even if a connection is open, you're not welcome, then how do I set up a hot spot that I want people to use? Do I need to put my physical address in the SSID so they can come and ask? I don't want people to physically bother me asking, I just want them to use it. I guess the SSID could read "FREE WIFI HELP YOURSELF" but that's kind of kludgy.
NOBODY has original install discs anymore. Go buy a PC and see if you get original install discs. You're screwed.
The best you can hope for now is that your machine allowed you to make a set of full system restore discs when you got it. Some of those will allow you to restore individual files, but many of these utilities just re-image your system drive, so you lose everything on there that was installed since the machine was new (at least, anything on the boot partition).
I'd say this is probably MORE destructive to people with legitimate copies, who probably just have such images. The pirates are more likely to have install CDs.
Wouldn't that make the reporter guilty of circumventing an access control mechanism?
That DMCA sure is a versatile tool, isn't it?
It won't work for people like me either; you know, people who FOR SOME REASON the mag strips on our IDs mysteriously get erased within minutes of receiving them in the mail. Probably related to the effect that causes anything we own with RFID tags to mysteriously get burn marks around the chips.
I could, except that I wouldn't have any sense of suspense if for some reason I was forced to watch the superbowl live.
I have no problem watching movies months after release. I'm not sure why it's so hard to avoid spoilers. Hell, I look up on usenet at hit movies that were released in the last year or two and the titles aren't even familiar, I have to go to IMDB to see what the heck they're about. I certainly don't know what happened in them.
I'm ambivalent to the sound of guns. I like the occasional hour of target practice, but I don't really care how much noise the weapon makes. It could be totally silent, that'd be cool, but I don't really care.
We have cell phones, but we also keep our land line because we have almost completely useless coverage at our house. We can get a signal but it's barely there, and calls drop out about every 2 minutes, and if someone calls us, half the time they go to voice mail because our phones happen to not be connected right that moment.
If they ever fix the coverage out at our house, we'll think about dropping the land line, but as it is, it's the only 99%+ reliable communications we have, and phone service is considered a life-critical application.
Do you think that if there's a guy holed up somewhere with ONE nuke, that us having nukes is going to affect anything? Is he going to hold off using it because he's afraid of getting nuked? No. Are we going to nuke whatever country he's holed up in to take him out? Hell no. Are we even going to nuke North Korea to try to deny them their nukes? No. I can't think of any scenario at all where we would actually use nukes. We've gotten too good at precision bombing, we're not going back to carpet bombing. Hell, there's an uproar now when we miss a building with a terrorist inside and hit a residence next door. What would happen to a leader who authorized vaporizing an entire city of civilians to take out a resistance movement?
OK, given that, you are only releasing something like 80-90% as much carbon; all the petrochemicals that are used in the production and transport of the ethanol.
If we could direct the money logically, rather than how the corn lobbiests want, we'd be making ethanol from switchgrass or something where you get something like a 12:1 payback, and the crops grow on lands that are not suitable for food crops.
Any moron can make something loud. Just look at Harleys (I mean what the owners do to them, not how they come from the factories). It takes brains and work and technology to make things quiet, and it takes intelligence to recognize that.
All the noise in the world is a serious problem. If I had to choose between two identical houses, I'd pay a ton of extra money for the one that was in a much quieter area.
Teenagers like to make a lot of noise; they have a lot of hormones and no brains, and think that being the one with the loudest whatever will get them laid. Some of them grow out of it.
The first thing I have to do when I get a new machine or peripheral is to disconnect all the useless LEDs (pimp LEDs) and a lot of time I have to use resistors or smoked plastic to dial down the brightness. Lots of times they use blue LEDs which are just stupid bright; those get replaced with different colors pretty often.
E85 cars are mainly a gimmick. The auto manufacturers love it because they get to make a practically free change (some extra computer firmware and maybe a specific gravity detector for the fuel) and they get to count it as a vastly higher mileage car; I think they get to rate it as though it was only burning the 15% of gas that it does (IE 20 MPG / 0.15 = 133 mpg), even though the vast majority of E85 cars that are sold will never see a drop of E85, and even though burning ethanol releases even more greenhouse gases than burning gasoline does; you burn 80% as much fossil fuels to make a unit of ethanol as the amount of energy that's in the ethanol, then you have to actually burn the ethanol.
Don't even get me started on hydrogen.
I'm waiting for a good electric, myself. The could make a damn sweet one for a decent price if they wanted to. I have friends who are driving electrics made 10 or more years ago that would work fine for many people, but they're expensive because not many are made. Electrics at least have the POTENTIAL to be really clean.
That's odd. We've had CCW since 2001 here in Michigan, and I've never, ever seen a "no firearms" sign.
I support taking them away from all nations. There's no justification for weapons of that type anymore. Nobody should have them.
A friend worked at an auto supplier company, he was in charge of all the networks and stuff there. They had the red "IT only" isolated plugs because it was a very dirty environment with lots of heavy equipment and the power at any random outlet was truly horrible.
One janitor got a bug up his butt and decided he'd use those outlets for his floor polisher, "because the next closest outlet is another 10 feet away" and apparently he couldn't be bothered to walk that far. It was a big and crufty enough piece of equipment that he blew up the nearest power supply whenever he did it. These were not cheap machines either, and they were crucial to the operation of the line. So whenever he did it there was about $400 in parts, a call-out, and an hour or two of downtime on the line at probably $20,000 an hour.
After about 3 of these my friend figured out what was going on, and lurked until he caught the guy plugging in, and confronted him. The guy got belligerent and said basically "Screw you, big fancy white shirt in a tie, I'll do whatever the f**k I want, I don't give a crap if it costs the company $30,000 every time I do it, and I'm in the union so good luck doing anything about it!"
Turns out, a VP was lurking around the corner and witnessed the whole thing. The guy got a quick lesson that the union wasn't the impenetrable barrier to justice that he thought it was. He was on his ass in the street in about 10 minutes.
You always hope for that kind of instant karma, but you rarely get it.
They already don't let us use the bandwidth that our DOCSYS 2.0 modems are capable of. What's the point in getting a modem that's 50x faster than what they'll allow us to use instead of only 2x faster? The end result is the same.
I suppose they're going to use this as another level to sell. My idiot neighbor bought the highest speed connection he could buy so it would "improve his gaming response" - really he could have bought the cheapest connection, because he doesn't need speed, he needs low latency. I told him this but he didn't believe me. If they offered an even higher speed connection, he'd buy it and still only use 256Kbps of it.
Nope, wrong state. Also this bridge is much more modest, just a stone railway bridge over a single road.
I still haven't watched half the shows from the 1990s that I keep meaning to, and I haven't been bothered by spoilers yet. Someday I might even find out what the names of some of the TV shows from this century are.
OK, I do keep up on some shows. None of them are from the U.S.
If the cracks are a result of flexing and were not due to bad solder joints, then this is probably a result of the low-lead solder drive. Low lead solders can't stand flexing because they're not as soft.
The wind by the side of the road is linked to the wind in the traffic lane. Slowing down the one will drag down the other.
Honestly this is just a ridiculous idea. There's a hell of a lot more and more consistent winds that occur naturally in almost all parts of the world that we haven't begun to tap yet. I'm not sure why people latch on to goofy ideas like this.