"leave camels out of its activities altogether." If not being herded around in the desert, handled by camel herders, then what are camels for? Advertising smokes I guess. And more importantly, won't somebody please think of the dromedaries?
"I don't know where you get your delusions, laser brain." - Leia
Well, now we know Han was trying to kick and lasers were his methadone... And, from the footer on/. right now..
"It's easier to take it apart than to put it back together. -- Washlesky"
There are similar add-ons for Chrome, but Vimperator on Firefox is fabulous for my needs. Everything else looks a cluttered, redundant mess. I am despise the URL bar.
You may be on a north-facing hillside, but perhaps you have a neighbor that has the appropriate aspect to pick up satellite, in line-of-sight to you, by way of which you could pay for satellite to his location (for the use of his property/power he gets to share your broadband), and then construct a wireless bridge to your location?
DirecTV's product page has a picture that strikes me as depressing and conflicting; two happy kids, running towards the sea on a beautiful day with a nerf football ready to play catch, a beautiful "wife", all dragging dad in tow who just can't part with his boob tube. Put the gadget down and play with your kids, dude! And how are you going to see that LCD in the bright sun anyway?
Just the same, I signed up. I'm thinking one of these would be great to have when I'm on the road..
And especially if the article tells outright lies to make its (dubious) case:
From the article: "The nickel is mined and smelted at a plant in Sudbury, Ontario. This plant has caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that NASA has used the 'dead zone' around the plant to test moon rovers. The area around the plant is devoid of any life for miles.
The plant is the source of all the nickel found in a Prius' battery and Toyota purchases 1,000 tons annually. Dubbed the Superstack, the plague-factory has spread sulfur dioxide across northern Ontario, becoming every environmentalist's nightmare. "
"The ore deposits in Sudbury are part of a large geological structure known as the Sudbury Basin, believed to be the remnants of a 1.85-billion year old meteorite impact crater. Sudbury ore contains profitable amounts of many elements, especially transition metals, including platinum. It also contains an unusually high concentration of sulfur. When nickel-copper ore is smelted, this sulfur is released into the environment, where it is toxic to vegetation. Carried aloft, it combines with atmospheric water to form sulfuric acid. This contaminates atmospheric water, resulting in a phenomenon known as acid rain.
As a result, Sudbury was widely, although not entirely accurately, known for many years as a wasteland. In parts of the city, vegetation was devastated, both by acid rain and by logging to provide fuel for early smelting techniques, as well as wood for the reconstruction of Chicago after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The resulting erosion exposed bedrock, which was charred in most places to a pitted, dark black appearance. There was not a complete lack of vegetation in the region, however. Paper birch and wild blueberry are notable examples of plants which thrived in the acidic soils, and even during the worst years of the city's environmental damage, not all parts of the city were equally affected.
During the Apollo manned lunar exploration program, NASA astronauts trained in Sudbury, to become familiar with shatter cones, a rare rock formation connected with meteorite impacts. However, the popular misconception that they were visiting Sudbury because it purportedly resembled the lifeless surface of the moon dogged the city for years.
In the late 1970s, private, public, and commercial interests combined to establish an unprecedented "regreening" effort. Lime was spread over the charred soil of the Sudbury region by hand and by aircraft. Seeds of wild grasses and other vegetation were also spread. In twenty years, over three million trees were planted. The ecology of the Sudbury region has recovered dramatically, due both to the regreening program and improved mining practices, and in 1992 the city was given the "Local Government Honours Award" by the United Nations, in honour of its innovative community-based strategies in environmental rehabilitation. More recently, the city has begun to rehabilitate the slag heaps that surround the Copper Cliff smelter area, with the planting of grass and trees."
Seconded. I use Bibble Pro on OSX and Linux (Fedora Core formerly 4 and 5, now on 6, and it runs on Windows, but i don't use it there). This is a product isn't worth the money that BibbleLabs asks for it; it's worth three times as much at least. Correction to the parent post: It's $130; if they raised the price to $500, I would pay it without blinking; it's that good at what it does. The licensing allows you to install the software on more than one OS so long as only the original purchaser uses the software and only on one machine at a time, which works fine by me. There isn't anything comparable on Linux. On OS X, there are many competitors; I've tried most of them, including Photoshop CS2 with Camera Raw, Aperture, iPhoto (yuck), each beta of Lightroom, and many others. Bibble is equal to or better than every alternative.
It's fast. It's multi-processor aware. It's extremely customizable. It's rock-steady stable (never crashed on me, ever).It's RAW processing engine is of very high quality, and it's highly tunable, though there are plenty of one-click default optimizers that are surprisingly accurate (decent auto-leveling, integrated NoiseNinja, Perfectly Clear). The batch queuing as referenced in the parent is extremely flexible to help you find the workflow that works best for you. Like to work within one window? Bibble does that. Do you want separate windows? Bibble does that; it's a highly customizable interface. The fact that you can run it on every major OS is gravy (it's a universal binary on OSX, unlike Photoshop).
One caveat: it does not work with DNG, due to some very well argued philosophical reasons.
I've processed thousands of images with it (Pentax PEF is mostly what I work with, and some NEFs). Along with VMWare Workstation, it's the finest commercial software I have used on Linux, though I use it principally on a PowerBook with OSX. I'm glad to hear there is progress being made on the open-source front for working with RAW on Linux, but for right now and likely a long time to come, Bibble me, baby.
I have a great fondness for IBM buckling spring keyboards as that's where I cut my teeth (well, actually first on an IBM Selectric). Anyway, some years ago I bought two Endura Pro Unicomp keyboards from PC Keyboard. Clicky key goodness. Spendy, but indestructible. Loud, but I kind of like it, especially when I am typing while angry. Best of all, on request they will hard-swap keys, which is what I had them do, now typing away quite happily with the l-control key back where it belongs and caps lock reglegated out of the way. It makes a _huge_ difference in all-day typing sessions to not make that stretch off the home row to reach ctrl.
Like many, I would formerly accomplish this with custom x-configs, registry hacks in Windows, and other tactics, but this is just better. And permanent.
Great. Kazaa just gave me asthma.
Well, let's just get the MPAA and the RIAA to file some lawsuits against these bad aP2Ps. That'll fix their wagon. They've got to learn that it's wrong to steal the pharmaceutical industry's property.
Wait. What?
I tried to read this article and all I could think of was that AMD is mad that strafe jumping got patched and that Intel learned how to bunny hop. I'm hung over. Need sleep.
"they were able to coat peripheral atoms near the peak with nitrogen"
Nitrogen?? That chunk who wears a dress-size seven? She sneezes crisco. Sharp? Yeah, like a marble. Wake me up when we get to Kate Moss waif-like Hydrogen. Then I can carve my initials on tubby Boron.
With that dubious justification, at least The Man finally figured out a way to take nail the virus writers and spammers. Get the Treasury Department to bust them for tax evasion. Capone 'em!
I would respectfully offer an alternate opinion regarding performance and power. I have used a Fujitsu 4200rpm 30GB drive and a Hitachi 5400rpm drive 40GB prior to my current Hitachi 7200rpm 60GB drive, all in a Dell latitude D600 running whatever version of Fedora was/is current.
The 7200rpm drive is significantly faster on boot. Last I timed, I think it was close to 20 seconds faster than the 4.2k. Applications jump up when launched, and gnome panel menus draw almost instantly when first opened as opposed to looking like they will open "when they get around to it". OpenOffice launches much more quickly as well. I timed the boot and the application performance a while back. I don't have the numbers handy on the machine I am at but it was a substantial difference. Moving large chunks of data like multimedia files is night and day. 27MB/sec sustained transfer rates on the 7.2k vs. what was it, 14MB/sec iirc, on the 4.2k? It's quite perceivable.
Battery life is practically identical; the 7.2k drive draws three watts active as opposed to 2.7 on the 4200, whereas they both idle at around.8 watts. With the drive set to spin down after 10 seconds of inactivity and commit journal writes every 10 minutes, the drive is idle most of the time anyway. And even then, those numbers are not even on the radar as far as major factors in power draws on the system. One notch of brightness on the lcd draws more than that.
I would not have changed drives just for the performance increase. However, I needed more space and the performance boost was a nice side benefit with no downsides except the capital outlay.
> As I understand it, preshared-key WPA is little or no more secure than WEP. It may depend upon your key.
WEP keys can be discovered by packet collection (one must collect a lot of packets, but once that's done there are tools that make the key discovery trivial) regardless of the complexity of the key.
WPA keys can be discovered with four collected packets and a brute force dictionary tool, if a weak passphrase is used.
WPA-PSK with a strong passphrase greater than 20 characters in length would be a difficult target for which to solve with currently available tools.
Agreed, I don't read that post to say that described the stack as "sub par".
I did notice something interesting. If you look through the sponsorships he received, a significant amount ($14,000) was pledged was by Pair Networks. They are one of the larger hosting providers in the U.S. and hundreds FreeBSD servers at their data center in Pittsburgh. It is unlikely that they would grant 14 stacks of high society at something they did not research and find to be of direct benefit. I am not an employee of Pair, but I have been a customer for seven years.
Metcalfe - modern software corporations know how to align the interests of the people. They know how to motivate people. They know how to sustain themselves over a long period of time, whereas I'm suspicious about the motivational structure of an open-source community and wonder whether it's sustainable.
Linux: 1991. Slack, April 1993. Debian, August 1993. How long until he would agree that it is sustainable? Is this the same Polaris Ventures? It's a high tech VC. That explains his suspicion of the motivational structure of people who are not concerned solely with the ROI to stockholders.
And, I am quite capable of aligning my own interests, thank you.
That sound like exactly the sort of thing I would want to have in the press if I were Microsoft. Report that theoretical demand is high and that you may not meet those theoretical numbers, which causes an upswing in pre-orders, which results in high demand, which you report.. Wash, rinse repeat. Smart.
Slashdot Mirror
"leave camels out of its activities altogether." If not being herded around in the desert, handled by camel herders, then what are camels for? Advertising smokes I guess. And more importantly, won't somebody please think of the dromedaries?
I liked it when rocks took thousands of years to be nudged around by hunks of ice. These new rocks are pushovers.
"I don't know where you get your delusions, laser brain." - Leia Well, now we know Han was trying to kick and lasers were his methadone. .. And, from the footer on /. right now..
"It's easier to take it apart than to put it back together. -- Washlesky"
There are similar add-ons for Chrome, but Vimperator on Firefox is fabulous for my needs. Everything else looks a cluttered, redundant mess. I am despise the URL bar.
Humor is rooted in pain and suffering. Story at 11. and 11. and 11.
"Said differently" being the key phrase.
You may be on a north-facing hillside, but perhaps you have a neighbor that has the appropriate aspect to pick up satellite, in line-of-sight to you, by way of which you could pay for satellite to his location (for the use of his property/power he gets to share your broadband), and then construct a wireless bridge to your location?
DirecTV's product page has a picture that strikes me as depressing and conflicting; two happy kids, running towards the sea on a beautiful day with a nerf football ready to play catch, a beautiful "wife", all dragging dad in tow who just can't part with his boob tube. Put the gadget down and play with your kids, dude! And how are you going to see that LCD in the bright sun anyway? Just the same, I signed up. I'm thinking one of these would be great to have when I'm on the road..
And especially if the article tells outright lies to make its (dubious) case:
From the article: "The nickel is mined and smelted at a plant in Sudbury, Ontario. This plant has caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that NASA has used the 'dead zone' around the plant to test moon rovers. The area around the plant is devoid of any life for miles.
The plant is the source of all the nickel found in a Prius' battery and Toyota purchases 1,000 tons annually. Dubbed the Superstack, the plague-factory has spread sulfur dioxide across northern Ontario, becoming every environmentalist's nightmare. "
Now compare that to Wikipedia's entry on Greater Sudbury:
"The ore deposits in Sudbury are part of a large geological structure known as the Sudbury Basin, believed to be the remnants of a 1.85-billion year old meteorite impact crater. Sudbury ore contains profitable amounts of many elements, especially transition metals, including platinum. It also contains an unusually high concentration of sulfur. When nickel-copper ore is smelted, this sulfur is released into the environment, where it is toxic to vegetation. Carried aloft, it combines with atmospheric water to form sulfuric acid. This contaminates atmospheric water, resulting in a phenomenon known as acid rain.
As a result, Sudbury was widely, although not entirely accurately, known for many years as a wasteland. In parts of the city, vegetation was devastated, both by acid rain and by logging to provide fuel for early smelting techniques, as well as wood for the reconstruction of Chicago after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The resulting erosion exposed bedrock, which was charred in most places to a pitted, dark black appearance. There was not a complete lack of vegetation in the region, however. Paper birch and wild blueberry are notable examples of plants which thrived in the acidic soils, and even during the worst years of the city's environmental damage, not all parts of the city were equally affected.
During the Apollo manned lunar exploration program, NASA astronauts trained in Sudbury, to become familiar with shatter cones, a rare rock formation connected with meteorite impacts. However, the popular misconception that they were visiting Sudbury because it purportedly resembled the lifeless surface of the moon dogged the city for years.
In the late 1970s, private, public, and commercial interests combined to establish an unprecedented "regreening" effort. Lime was spread over the charred soil of the Sudbury region by hand and by aircraft. Seeds of wild grasses and other vegetation were also spread. In twenty years, over three million trees were planted. The ecology of the Sudbury region has recovered dramatically, due both to the regreening program and improved mining practices, and in 1992 the city was given the "Local Government Honours Award" by the United Nations, in honour of its innovative community-based strategies in environmental rehabilitation. More recently, the city has begun to rehabilitate the slag heaps that surround the Copper Cliff smelter area, with the planting of grass and trees."
bibble and bibblepro (my favorite)
Seconded. I use Bibble Pro on OSX and Linux (Fedora Core formerly 4 and 5, now on 6, and it runs on Windows, but i don't use it there). This is a product isn't worth the money that BibbleLabs asks for it; it's worth three times as much at least. Correction to the parent post: It's $130; if they raised the price to $500, I would pay it without blinking; it's that good at what it does. The licensing allows you to install the software on more than one OS so long as only the original purchaser uses the software and only on one machine at a time, which works fine by me. There isn't anything comparable on Linux. On OS X, there are many competitors; I've tried most of them, including Photoshop CS2 with Camera Raw, Aperture, iPhoto (yuck), each beta of Lightroom, and many others. Bibble is equal to or better than every alternative.
It's fast. It's multi-processor aware. It's extremely customizable. It's rock-steady stable (never crashed on me, ever).It's RAW processing engine is of very high quality, and it's highly tunable, though there are plenty of one-click default optimizers that are surprisingly accurate (decent auto-leveling, integrated NoiseNinja, Perfectly Clear). The batch queuing as referenced in the parent is extremely flexible to help you find the workflow that works best for you. Like to work within one window? Bibble does that. Do you want separate windows? Bibble does that; it's a highly customizable interface. The fact that you can run it on every major OS is gravy (it's a universal binary on OSX, unlike Photoshop).
One caveat: it does not work with DNG, due to some very well argued philosophical reasons.
I've processed thousands of images with it (Pentax PEF is mostly what I work with, and some NEFs). Along with VMWare Workstation, it's the finest commercial software I have used on Linux, though I use it principally on a PowerBook with OSX. I'm glad to hear there is progress being made on the open-source front for working with RAW on Linux, but for right now and likely a long time to come, Bibble me, baby.
I have a great fondness for IBM buckling spring keyboards as that's where I cut my teeth (well, actually first on an IBM Selectric). Anyway, some years ago I bought two Endura Pro Unicomp keyboards from PC Keyboard. Clicky key goodness. Spendy, but indestructible. Loud, but I kind of like it, especially when I am typing while angry. Best of all, on request they will hard-swap keys, which is what I had them do, now typing away quite happily with the l-control key back where it belongs and caps lock reglegated out of the way. It makes a _huge_ difference in all-day typing sessions to not make that stretch off the home row to reach ctrl. Like many, I would formerly accomplish this with custom x-configs, registry hacks in Windows, and other tactics, but this is just better. And permanent.
Great. Kazaa just gave me asthma. Well, let's just get the MPAA and the RIAA to file some lawsuits against these bad aP2Ps. That'll fix their wagon. They've got to learn that it's wrong to steal the pharmaceutical industry's property. Wait. What?
I tried to read this article and all I could think of was that AMD is mad that strafe jumping got patched and that Intel learned how to bunny hop. I'm hung over. Need sleep.
"they were able to coat peripheral atoms near the peak with nitrogen"
Nitrogen?? That chunk who wears a dress-size seven? She sneezes crisco. Sharp? Yeah, like a marble. Wake me up when we get to Kate Moss waif-like Hydrogen. Then I can carve my initials on tubby Boron.
Meh. Tell me when it can do 88 mph and produce 1.21 jigowatts. Or eat banana peels and coffee grounds. Regards, Doc Brown
With that dubious justification, at least The Man finally figured out a way to take nail the virus writers and spammers. Get the Treasury Department to bust them for tax evasion. Capone 'em!
Email him a tinyurl warning him that Tuttle's site has been coopted by an outside suspect, likely terrorist-affiliated organization.
I would respectfully offer an alternate opinion regarding performance and power. I have used a Fujitsu 4200rpm 30GB drive and a Hitachi 5400rpm drive 40GB prior to my current Hitachi 7200rpm 60GB drive, all in a Dell latitude D600 running whatever version of Fedora was/is current.
.8 watts. With the drive set to spin down after 10 seconds of inactivity and commit journal writes every 10 minutes, the drive is idle most of the time anyway. And even then, those numbers are not even on the radar as far as major factors in power draws on the system. One notch of brightness on the lcd draws more than that.
The 7200rpm drive is significantly faster on boot. Last I timed, I think it was close to 20 seconds faster than the 4.2k. Applications jump up when launched, and gnome panel menus draw almost instantly when first opened as opposed to looking like they will open "when they get around to it". OpenOffice launches much more quickly as well. I timed the boot and the application performance a while back. I don't have the numbers handy on the machine I am at but it was a substantial difference. Moving large chunks of data like multimedia files is night and day. 27MB/sec sustained transfer rates on the 7.2k vs. what was it, 14MB/sec iirc, on the 4.2k? It's quite perceivable.
Battery life is practically identical; the 7.2k drive draws three watts active as opposed to 2.7 on the 4200, whereas they both idle at around
I would not have changed drives just for the performance increase. However, I needed more space and the performance boost was a nice side benefit with no downsides except the capital outlay.
Best regards,
Michael
> As I understand it, preshared-key WPA is little or no more secure than WEP. It may depend upon your key.
WEP keys can be discovered by packet collection (one must collect a lot of packets, but once that's done there are tools that make the key discovery trivial) regardless of the complexity of the key.
WPA keys can be discovered with four collected packets and a brute force dictionary tool, if a weak passphrase is used.
WPA-PSK with a strong passphrase greater than 20 characters in length would be a difficult target for which to solve with currently available tools.
Here is a good short read on the topic.
Short story about Brother Fax machines:
Drum died on Brother fax; replacement cost from provider: $160; new unit with drum and toner: $169 after rebate.
Rebuilt drum, best price from a froogle search: $76.
What would you do? I bought the new machine.
Agreed, I don't read that post to say that described the stack as "sub par".
I did notice something interesting. If you look through the sponsorships he received, a significant amount ($14,000) was pledged was by Pair Networks. They are one of the larger hosting providers in the U.S. and hundreds FreeBSD servers at their data center in Pittsburgh. It is unlikely that they would grant 14 stacks of high society at something they did not research and find to be of direct benefit. I am not an employee of Pair, but I have been a customer for seven years.
By the way, Pair's Mirrors are quite handy.
Try jpeg2000 in lossless mode.
Another decent overview is available at O'Reilly.
2000's lossy mode is superior to jpg as well.
Metcalfe - modern software corporations know how to align the interests of the people. They know how to motivate people. They know how to sustain themselves over a long period of time, whereas I'm suspicious about the motivational structure of an open-source community and wonder whether it's sustainable.
Linux: 1991. Slack, April 1993. Debian, August 1993. How long until he would agree that it is sustainable? Is this the same Polaris Ventures? It's a high tech VC. That explains his suspicion of the motivational structure of people who are not concerned solely with the ROI to stockholders.
And, I am quite capable of aligning my own interests, thank you.
The term I like to use to describe "crashing" while riding a motorcylce or skiing:
Acceleration poisoning.
That sound like exactly the sort of thing I would want to have in the press if I were Microsoft. Report that theoretical demand is high and that you may not meet those theoretical numbers, which causes an upswing in pre-orders, which results in high demand, which you report.. Wash, rinse repeat. Smart.