I have tried to donate some money to Xiph.org before using Paypal. But it seems that Paypal did not want me to donate to Xiph. I kept getting hit by blank pages when I submitted forms. I tried on different days, but same problems.
Maybe many others too experienced the same problems and eventually gave up.
I have been trying to donate some money for the past 30 minutes with no luck. This is what I keep getting
------------ An error has occurred.
Because we are currently experiencing heavy traffic to our site, we were unable to complete your request. Try clicking the 'Refresh' button on your browser. If you are still unable to access the site, please try again later.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience.
Error 3004 ---------
I guess its a good thing. Too many slashdotters donating to a good cause?
I have this card. I bought it so that I could use
one card to play 3D games and do video capture.
Well I can play games just fine, except for commercial version of tuxracer that just doesn't want to start, however I have not been able to do video capture. Others on the Gatos mailing list have also been having similar problems. The good old Hauppage WinTV cards work really well for TV capture and even have Video4Linux2 drivers.
Thats okay. I didn't schedule that one. Probably another Slashdot user. I did not disable the cancel feature for guest users intentionally. Slashdot users want to be a little evil every now and then and want to cancel other people's scheduled TV recordings. I provide them their fix.:)
I too live in Portland, OR and emailed the Ricochet people, begging them to bring their service to Portland area. They died before letting me use their service. Bastards!
What did the Treo (vaopourware) offer over the Samsung I300 (I have one and I love it) anyways? I think the HandSpring people realized that they were late to the party and did not have, in Treo, a Samsung I300 killer.
Maybe they are giving themselves more time to re-think their strategy and add some really convincing features that would make consumers want to buy it.
In my case I did contact the previous owner of the domain to see if he wanted to sell it to me for $400. He said no. He had not done anything with the domain for years. So I only had one option left. I sat and waited, hoping that he'd forget to pay one year. Sure enough he did and I was all over it. NetSol sat on it for months. They wanted me to pay $50 to snapnames.com, who they have an agreement with to waitlist myself. Which I did. I was desperate. I really wanted the domain. I am now the happy owner of the domain. I have however a lowered opinion of Network Solutions. They are the scumbags of the industry.
Here is what I have so far : http://tv.cheema.com/vcr/ . Its in early stages of development and you may find some problems here and there. I plan to release the source under GPL once I get my employer's approval.
Warning : The system above is on a slow uplink so some pages may load slowly. At some point I will start using mod_gzip.
This would be great for the Tivo like software I have been working on. One of the problems with
closed systems like Tivo is that when the new technologies do become available, geeks like us cannot get the satisfaction of using them. With my OpenTivo/FreeTivo/CheemaTV project I hope to put together a software package that appeals to geeks.
Here is what I have so far : http://tv.cheema.com/vcr/
Its in early stages of development and you may find some problems here and there. I plan to release the source under GPL once I get my employer's approval.
Warning : The system above is on a slow uplink so some pages may load slowly. At some point I will start using mod_gzip.
I tried your trick and it worked for me, but then I tried DHCP and that worked also. The catch is that you have to set your system hostname to the one provided by AT&T when you signed up. If you do not, the DHCP server will not give you an IP address.
I did this once to determine my IP address and have now gone back to static IP address.
And ofcourse the DNS servers did not work, but that is an easy fix.
I am dumping my cable modem only because I have found that someone else in my apartment building has an open wireless access point with a DHCP server and a fat pipe to the Internet. I plan to piggy-back on their connection and save me $40/month I pay to AT&T@Home. Under normal circumstances I would not consider it seriously, but my job situtation is very unreliable. They could let us go any day now. My wife and I have totally gone in savings mode. Heck we even turned off our land line phone, to save money. We do have cell phones, so it made that decision a little easier.
For those interested here is the entire text of the usenet message. I thought it was an interesting piece and deserved to be repeated here on Slashdot :
From: Roy Stogner (roystgnr@iname.com)
Subject: The Philosophy of Linux (was Re: Gates Plays All the Engels)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
View: Complete Thread (10 articles) | Original Format Date: 1997/10/24
> So don't compare Linux with Marxism - an open design and development effort
> with no limitations on the capacity for either commercialism or free
> distribution has NOTHING in common with the conspiratorial, underhanded
> attempt to install a dictatorship through coercion.
I think one of the reasons people become so enthralled with the
economic/political philosophy of Linux (as opposed to the people who use
Linux, because, hey, free UNIX) is because it does something extremely
rare (I would say unprecedented) politically.
1. The Linux development model is a perfect communism. OK, this one
should start some shouting, but forget for a moment the whole "brutal
dictator takes over and screws up a nation" capital-C communism that
we've seen this century. Linux is a perfect example of what communism
was supposed to be: "From each according to his ability," with every
Linux developer contributing what he or she can toward free software,
"to each according to his needs," with most software GPLed and available
for free download to anyone who needs to use it - college kids with
programming and networking tools, businesses with database servers -
whatever you need, it is out there and it is yours for the asking.
Linux spans national borders, is unconscious of race, class, or
prejudice, and is available to anyone who wants it.
2. The Linux development model is a perfect libertarianism. In it's
simplest form: "no force," No developer is coerced into working on
Linux projects, no consumer is coerced into buying Linux. No
"Linux-only" sales strategies prevent you from having your choice of
OS. No forced incompatibilities try to hook users into one operating
system. "no fraud," Every piece of software under the GPL has source
code available, so there are no hidden APIs, no fine print in the
liscensing, no proprietary file formats to trap the consumer. There is
no marketing machine spitting out FUD to lure in computer illiterates.
There is no monolithic design to force everyone to use the same kernel,
same GUI, or same window manager. Everyone's contributions to or
benefits from Linux are purely by individual choice.
3. The Linux development model works. The GNU utilities may have
started by emulating earlier corporate designs, but they have ended up
surpassing them. The XFree86 people may not be able to afford
plastering "Where do you want to go today" over every computer magazine
in existance, but their free implementation of XWindows has made
possible window managers like Enlightenment which resemble where
Microsoft will be going in ten years. Open standards (which, in most
cases, means standards based on the plethora of Unices) work. The
entire world networks over IPv4 instead of IPX, communicates with HTML
instead of Word, and in general simply gets more out of open systems
than it can out of software companies which look out for the bottom line
more than for the consumer's interests.
Anyway, putting aside the unbounded praise for a minute (me, get carried
away? Never!), you have three conclusions. Linux is a perfect
libertarianism, a perfect communism, and it works. Until recently, I
would have said that the first two characteristics were impossible to
achieve, that they were doubly impossible to achieve together, and that
they were both incompatible with the third. The idea that all three
could describe the same system (even if it is a computing paradigm
instead of a state, more's the pity) is stunning.
---
Roy Stogner
The same thing happened to me last night on my ATT@Home cable connection. My wife and I were computing on our seperate computers last night and she yells out : "Hey did you do something to the Linux gateway again?"
That was that. We've been dead in water since then. I haven't called the service number yet. I hate phones.
Slashdot Mirror
I have tried to donate some money to Xiph.org before using Paypal. But it seems that Paypal did not want me to donate to Xiph. I kept getting hit by blank pages when I submitted forms. I tried on different days, but same problems.
Maybe many others too experienced the same problems and eventually gave up.
Okay its not much, but its a start.
I have been trying to donate some money for the past 30 minutes with no luck. This is what I keep getting
------------
An error has occurred.
Because we are currently experiencing heavy traffic to our site, we were unable to complete your request. Try clicking the 'Refresh' button on your browser. If you are still unable to access the site, please try again later.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience.
Error 3004
---------
I guess its a good thing. Too many slashdotters donating to a good cause?
Thanks for the info. Just donated $20. Not much I know, but hey if everybody here does that...
I am in Portland and would love to volunteer in helping out the school district move to Linux.
I'll be sending that email in a couple of minutes.
Cheema
See http://cheema.com/vcr/
I cannot release the source because I am doing some
related stuff at work and dont want to make them
unhappy.
Any particular reason you feel compelled to post
your propaganda here on Slashdot under a DVD story?
You almost smell of a Scientology activist.
I have this card. I bought it so that I could use one card to play 3D games and do video capture. Well I can play games just fine, except for commercial version of tuxracer that just doesn't want to start, however I have not been able to do video capture. Others on the Gatos mailing list have also been having similar problems. The good old Hauppage WinTV cards work really well for TV capture and even have Video4Linux2 drivers.
Thats okay. I didn't schedule that one. Probably another Slashdot user. I did not disable the cancel feature for guest users intentionally. Slashdot users want to be a little evil every now and then and want to cancel other people's scheduled TV recordings. I provide them their fix. :)
I put together a simple VCR using existing Linux tools. See it at : http://cheema.com/vcr. Warning, my uplink is very slow.
I use NVrec/ffmpeg for recording and grab the TV guide data from tvguide.com.
I had hoped to release the software under GPL but now that I am working on a very related product at work, it may not be kosher with my employer.
I wish they had some more details on how they did things and some downloadable software that shows
off their architecture.
I too live in Portland, OR and emailed the Ricochet people, begging them to bring their service to Portland area. They died before letting me use their service. Bastards!
I think it is you who is the troll. While I do
not agree with the language of the anonymous coward I agree with in spirit.
Word does not *run on your computer* when you access another computer via VNC.
Maybe that is the job of the Linux distributors.
They are the ones doing this work. The users should not have to go hunting for these nuggets.
What did the Treo (vaopourware) offer over the Samsung I300 (I have one and I love it) anyways? I think the HandSpring people realized that they were late to the party and did not have, in Treo, a Samsung I300 killer.
Maybe they are giving themselves more time to re-think their strategy and add some really convincing features that would make consumers want to buy it.
In my case I did contact the previous owner of the domain to see if he wanted to sell it to me for $400. He said no. He had not done anything with the domain for years. So I only had one option left. I sat and waited, hoping that he'd forget to pay one year. Sure enough he did and I was all over it. NetSol sat on it for months. They wanted me to pay $50 to snapnames.com, who they have an agreement with to waitlist myself. Which I did. I was desperate. I really wanted the domain. I am now the happy owner of the domain. I have however a lowered opinion of Network Solutions. They are the scumbags of the industry.
I do some of what you are shooting for under Linux. See http://tv.cheema.com/vcr/
Here is what I have so far : http://tv.cheema.com/vcr/ . Its in early stages of development and you may find some problems here and there. I plan to release the source under GPL once I get my employer's approval. Warning : The system above is on a slow uplink so some pages may load slowly. At some point I will start using mod_gzip.
Here is what I have so far : http://tv.cheema.com/vcr/ Its in early stages of development and you may find some problems here and there. I plan to release the source under GPL once I get my employer's approval.
Warning : The system above is on a slow uplink so some pages may load slowly. At some point I will start using mod_gzip.
I tried your trick and it worked for me, but then I tried DHCP and that worked also. The catch is that you have to set your system hostname to the one provided by AT&T when you signed up. If you do not, the DHCP server will not give you an IP address.
I did this once to determine my IP address and have now gone back to static IP address.
And ofcourse the DNS servers did not work, but that is an easy fix.
This guy reminds my of why world domination for Linux is bad. Do we really want people like this guy using Linux?
I am dumping my cable modem only because I have found that someone else in my apartment building has an open wireless access point with a DHCP server and a fat pipe to the Internet. I plan to piggy-back on their connection and save me $40/month I pay to AT&T@Home. Under normal circumstances I would not consider it seriously, but my job situtation is very unreliable. They could let us go any day now. My wife and I have totally gone in savings mode. Heck we even turned off our land line phone, to save money. We do have cell phones, so it made that decision a little easier.
For those interested here is the entire text of the usenet message. I thought it was an interesting piece and deserved to be repeated here on Slashdot :
From: Roy Stogner (roystgnr@iname.com)
Subject: The Philosophy of Linux (was Re: Gates Plays All the Engels)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
View: Complete Thread (10 articles) | Original Format Date: 1997/10/24
> So don't compare Linux with Marxism - an open design and development effort
> with no limitations on the capacity for either commercialism or free
> distribution has NOTHING in common with the conspiratorial, underhanded
> attempt to install a dictatorship through coercion.
I think one of the reasons people become so enthralled with the
economic/political philosophy of Linux (as opposed to the people who use
Linux, because, hey, free UNIX) is because it does something extremely
rare (I would say unprecedented) politically.
1. The Linux development model is a perfect communism. OK, this one
should start some shouting, but forget for a moment the whole "brutal
dictator takes over and screws up a nation" capital-C communism that
we've seen this century. Linux is a perfect example of what communism
was supposed to be: "From each according to his ability," with every
Linux developer contributing what he or she can toward free software,
"to each according to his needs," with most software GPLed and available
for free download to anyone who needs to use it - college kids with
programming and networking tools, businesses with database servers -
whatever you need, it is out there and it is yours for the asking.
Linux spans national borders, is unconscious of race, class, or
prejudice, and is available to anyone who wants it.
2. The Linux development model is a perfect libertarianism. In it's
simplest form: "no force," No developer is coerced into working on
Linux projects, no consumer is coerced into buying Linux. No
"Linux-only" sales strategies prevent you from having your choice of
OS. No forced incompatibilities try to hook users into one operating
system. "no fraud," Every piece of software under the GPL has source
code available, so there are no hidden APIs, no fine print in the
liscensing, no proprietary file formats to trap the consumer. There is
no marketing machine spitting out FUD to lure in computer illiterates.
There is no monolithic design to force everyone to use the same kernel,
same GUI, or same window manager. Everyone's contributions to or
benefits from Linux are purely by individual choice.
3. The Linux development model works. The GNU utilities may have
started by emulating earlier corporate designs, but they have ended up
surpassing them. The XFree86 people may not be able to afford
plastering "Where do you want to go today" over every computer magazine
in existance, but their free implementation of XWindows has made
possible window managers like Enlightenment which resemble where
Microsoft will be going in ten years. Open standards (which, in most
cases, means standards based on the plethora of Unices) work. The
entire world networks over IPv4 instead of IPX, communicates with HTML
instead of Word, and in general simply gets more out of open systems
than it can out of software companies which look out for the bottom line
more than for the consumer's interests.
Anyway, putting aside the unbounded praise for a minute (me, get carried
away? Never!), you have three conclusions. Linux is a perfect
libertarianism, a perfect communism, and it works. Until recently, I
would have said that the first two characteristics were impossible to
achieve, that they were doubly impossible to achieve together, and that
they were both incompatible with the third. The idea that all three
could describe the same system (even if it is a computing paradigm
instead of a state, more's the pity) is stunning.
---
Roy Stogner
Looks like somebody just learned how to do flash
animations and wanted to show off their skills.
Buncha newbies!!!
That was that. We've been dead in water since then. I haven't called the service number yet. I hate phones.