All that is a steep price for avoiding DRM that (in my experience) never gets in the way. Of course, all this changes when suddenly a bunch of content becomes impossible to record, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there (or when it gets here, across the big pond).
So you have 1 hour to set up windows, but now you can't watch anything because it's DRM'd so you need to invest in another package.
So now you are going to spend a couple of hours thinking about what new system to use, a couple of hours to backup all important stuff from the existing box, and (say) three hours to setup (Insert new PVR solution here)
When you look at it like that, it would have been quicker to choose the solution that was least likely to screw you over at a later date. You would have saved a few hours if you carefully considered this initially. The price for DRM is very high when you factor in the "oh shit, DRM" cost. It's not like we didn't know it was going to happen.
Even better get a Gumstix and the addon Etherstix. You can then connect it to your NAS server over ethernet. I run a similar arrangement myself, and in general I find the Gumstix too slow to handle heavy torrents.
This is what I was getting at. The model that was available at the time had a 32bit processor. Sorry if I was than less than clear.
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Did you read the RTFA Mr AC Troll?
"When I bought it, my Dell Dimension 8200 was fairly state-of-the-art (a few stats for the experts: Pentium 4 processor running at 2GHz, 384MB of RAM, a 64MB graphics card, and a Creative SB Live audio card)."
Pentium4 as in Intel.
complaints Filed in new Jersey:- Claims 1) Wiring 3x $9000 to personal accounts 2) $10000 to pay rent on apartment on a monthly basis 3) Paying large personal credit card bills 4) $6000 for liposuction 5) tens of thousands on "personal spending"
Surely this is just plans for a CNC goo dispensing machine? I modded a £120 manual milling machine to laser acetate, surely it's only 1 more step to attach a syringe and screw thread dispenser. Total cost £200. Seems a hell of a lot cheaper than $2500 (estimated, it's plans remember)
It is good news that more open source toolkits are becoming available, I would love to check this out...
the problem is the demos don't seem to work in Konqueror (3.5.5) although I am not surprised. Funnily enough I have problems with Gmail in Konqueror, it freezes, and some of the features just don't work.
It would be nice to see some patches against GWT to support these browsers, now it's open, we can.
Agreed. We saw this happen in the 90's and it seemed to go away for a little while. Now (spit) Myspace has set the standard for truly appalling web design, it's opened the floodgates for any old bozo to make a site with animated graphics and yellow text on a yellow background. Not to mention the potential for _insert drug here_ websites trying to hawk their wares easily.
Two steps forward, one step back.
You know, It is as if millions of web users suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
I did send a letter to oftel about this, I also sent a copy to orange. To date nothing has happened.
From what I understand from talking to oftel, the best they can do is to order range to an internal review, which is biased at best. They will look at my notes and see that is was a customer error and should have "read the contract". Case closed.
My lazy ass aside, I am not willing to take this further than the oftel complaint. I could spent more time persuing this, but as I consider this time completely wasted, and could have been charged out to a client, I would have a net loss.
As one of their customer service reps said "You will know for next time", and yes I will certainly know what to do when my contract is due for renewal.
It's people like you and Orange that jump to conclusions before even considering the facts.
I have had this very same problem over in the UK. Orange mobile quoted me in pence/kb for their Orange World internet (free for evening and weekends, charged at fixed rate in the day). I got my first months bill in at nearly £300. They made exactly the same 100 fold conversion error in the quote. Unfortunately for me they wouldn't recognise the error, and had to pay. Forgoing the fact that they misrepresented the Orange World internet completely by saying it was entirely free, it's still a poor show on Orange's part.
I guess I am just lucky it's free in the evenings and weekends, I would hate to see my bill otherwise.
This is a lesson to UK Orange customers, buy an unlimited Vodafone PCMCIA card. It's much cheaper.
Of all of the historical things you could used as an example, you choose Nazism.
If you didn't have such a good point I might have called Godwin's law on you.
No, it doesn't necessarily make it better, but someone with time and inspiration could do so.
I play text based MUD's (yes, still), and most of those are forks from the original (open Source) DikuMUD code. This then led to the more widely forked MERC engine. Some forks are good, some are bad.
yeah, I couldn't agree more with your comment. What I was trying to say was that I at least need to be contactable just in case something really bad happens. If shit really hits the fan, then the most you will get is 5 minutes on the phone for guidance. Last time I was away someone had to phone me for the admin password for my dev box, as a patch I was working on hadn't been committed to SVN, and turned out that it was needed. Rather than re-implement they called me. This was an unforseeable event, and one which cost me 1 minute of my time, and I called back at my convenience. I was NOT trying to imply that I am on the hotline all day taking business related calls. I am not one of these blackberry junkies sitting on the beach sending emails. When I go away I take a tent, walking shoes and some beans; No electricity, no laptop, no PDA.
Agreed we have it pretty bad in the UK, and there are certain extreme lengths one can go to in saving money... unfortunately for me your case is not valid over here.
An cheap house costs 5x income. You get about 5 square feet to play with. We don't have mobile housing over here, the only real option is renting. If you rent a house you get more like 2 square feet of space.
There is a large drive over here in terms of efficiency. Being an island, it makes it expensive to import fuel. Fuel is expensive, and energy saving lightbulbs cheap.
Maybe I should consider a move to the US (after regime change, of course)
If your life doesn't allow for it, what are you doing even bothering to live?
Thanks for the encouragement, please excuse me while I hang myself.
Are your monthly expenses so big that you can't pay them for 24 months with zero income?
Is this the fabled 2 year buffer in the bank account? I don't know any one person who doesn't have to work the arse off to make enough money to live. I agree that some people spend more money than needed on non essential items, but competition in the market is so great that even cutting those out (internet/tv/phone) makes little difference.
If I got rid of non-essentials, I would cut my (admittedly higher than average) income by little more than £100/m That would take me approx 18 years to make that two year buffer.
Unless you earn the top brass money, you have to live as the cash flows in.
Back on topic... The above is related. People put so much emphasis on work because it is their lifeline to living. If you can afford to let your work ethic slip, then you either don't care about income, or are too rich to worry. When I go away I have to at least check my phone messages once a day, even with the trained monkey in my place things can still go wrong. It's a tragic fact of society that things need to be fixed yesterday, unfortunately this seeps into holiday time.
To be completely thorough, a developer should set up both white- and blacklists in order to cover all bases.
I can't help but feel that most developers have at least a little common sense and do something along those lines anyway.
I often write little validate_input(char *string, char *format) that checks all input string from a user are simple, but more often than not very effective. How is this any different from using white and black lists. Any coder worth their salt would do something to stop malicious input, but no one in completely infallible.
Security of anything in this world is near on impossible. Hackers will get around anything given time.
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So you have 1 hour to set up windows, but now you can't watch anything because it's DRM'd so you need to invest in another package.
So now you are going to spend a couple of hours thinking about what new system to use, a couple of hours to backup all important stuff from the existing box, and (say) three hours to setup (Insert new PVR solution here)
When you look at it like that, it would have been quicker to choose the solution that was least likely to screw you over at a later date. You would have saved a few hours if you carefully considered this initially. The price for DRM is very high when you factor in the "oh shit, DRM" cost. It's not like we didn't know it was going to happen.
They actually pay to buy our scrap. They own it. It is up to them if they want to harvest it for the goodies. We have no right to complain here.
Even better get a Gumstix and the addon Etherstix. You can then connect it to your NAS server over ethernet. I run a similar arrangement myself, and in general I find the Gumstix too slow to handle heavy torrents.
I have no idea, but it looks like some sort of unique id.
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an image from the now slashdotted page is here, it shows what gets sent to MS
http://img266.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wgahp5.p
This is what I was getting at. The model that was available at the time had a 32bit processor. Sorry if I was than less than clear.
Read The Fucking Article RTFA not RTFM.
Did you read the RTFA Mr AC Troll? "When I bought it, my Dell Dimension 8200 was fairly state-of-the-art (a few stats for the experts: Pentium 4 processor running at 2GHz, 384MB of RAM, a 64MB graphics card, and a Creative SB Live audio card)." Pentium4 as in Intel.
In case anyone has no idea what this is all about, I summarised the points:
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* Joint Director Kevin Medina was removed from the company for embezzlement of funds due to Registerfly's inability to pay it's upsream registrars.
source http://registerflies.com/docman/cat_view.html
complaints Filed in new Jersey:- Claims
1) Wiring 3x $9000 to personal accounts
2) $10000 to pay rent on apartment on a monthly basis
3) Paying large personal credit card bills
4) $6000 for liposuction
5) tens of thousands on "personal spending"
* they terminated Kevin Medina
http://registerflies.com/docman/doc_download-5.ht
* Kevin Medina caused other untold system problems *not verified from any source, just speculation on registerflies
* Registerfly seem to be concentrating on fixing this.
Pretty confusing though.
"I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days."
I prefer the "e" and "o" in people as they seem to be missing from your posts.
Yeah, perfectly is you don't mind it crapping out Firefox on some sites. Thank god for session saver.
not far off, or at least thats what google ads currency conversion dept seem to think.
Surely this is just plans for a CNC goo dispensing machine? I modded a £120 manual milling machine to laser acetate, surely it's only 1 more step to attach a syringe and screw thread dispenser. Total cost £200. Seems a hell of a lot cheaper than $2500 (estimated, it's plans remember)
It is good news that more open source toolkits are becoming available, I would love to check this out...
the problem is the demos don't seem to work in Konqueror (3.5.5) although I am not surprised. Funnily enough I have problems with Gmail in Konqueror, it freezes, and some of the features just don't work.
It would be nice to see some patches against GWT to support these browsers, now it's open, we can.
Agreed. We saw this happen in the 90's and it seemed to go away for a little while. Now (spit) Myspace has set the standard for truly appalling web design, it's opened the floodgates for any old bozo to make a site with animated graphics and yellow text on a yellow background. Not to mention the potential for _insert drug here_ websites trying to hawk their wares easily.
Two steps forward, one step back.
You know, It is as if millions of web users suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
I did send a letter to oftel about this, I also sent a copy to orange. To date nothing has happened. From what I understand from talking to oftel, the best they can do is to order range to an internal review, which is biased at best. They will look at my notes and see that is was a customer error and should have "read the contract". Case closed. My lazy ass aside, I am not willing to take this further than the oftel complaint. I could spent more time persuing this, but as I consider this time completely wasted, and could have been charged out to a client, I would have a net loss. As one of their customer service reps said "You will know for next time", and yes I will certainly know what to do when my contract is due for renewal. It's people like you and Orange that jump to conclusions before even considering the facts.
I have had this very same problem over in the UK. Orange mobile quoted me in pence/kb for their Orange World internet (free for evening and weekends, charged at fixed rate in the day). I got my first months bill in at nearly £300. They made exactly the same 100 fold conversion error in the quote. Unfortunately for me they wouldn't recognise the error, and had to pay.
Forgoing the fact that they misrepresented the Orange World internet completely by saying it was entirely free, it's still a poor show on Orange's part.
I guess I am just lucky it's free in the evenings and weekends, I would hate to see my bill otherwise.
This is a lesson to UK Orange customers, buy an unlimited Vodafone PCMCIA card. It's much cheaper.
Hmm... sounds interesting, got a link?
Of all of the historical things you could used as an example, you choose Nazism. If you didn't have such a good point I might have called Godwin's law on you.
Interesting stuff. Thanks for filling me in on the info.
I only mentioned Diku as it was (in my limited experience) the most widely used codebase.
Correct me if I am wrong.
No, it doesn't necessarily make it better, but someone with time and inspiration could do so.
I play text based MUD's (yes, still), and most of those are forks from the original (open Source) DikuMUD code. This then led to the more widely forked MERC engine. Some forks are good, some are bad.
It's the choice that matters.
yeah, I couldn't agree more with your comment. What I was trying to say was that I at least need to be contactable just in case something really bad happens. If shit really hits the fan, then the most you will get is 5 minutes on the phone for guidance. Last time I was away someone had to phone me for the admin password for my dev box, as a patch I was working on hadn't been committed to SVN, and turned out that it was needed. Rather than re-implement they called me. This was an unforseeable event, and one which cost me 1 minute of my time, and I called back at my convenience.
I was NOT trying to imply that I am on the hotline all day taking business related calls. I am not one of these blackberry junkies sitting on the beach sending emails. When I go away I take a tent, walking shoes and some beans; No electricity, no laptop, no PDA.
Agreed we have it pretty bad in the UK, and there are certain extreme lengths one can go to in saving money... unfortunately for me your case is not valid over here.
An cheap house costs 5x income. You get about 5 square feet to play with. We don't have mobile housing over here, the only real option is renting. If you rent a house you get more like 2 square feet of space.
There is a large drive over here in terms of efficiency. Being an island, it makes it expensive to import fuel. Fuel is expensive, and energy saving lightbulbs cheap.
Maybe I should consider a move to the US (after regime change, of course)
Is this the fabled 2 year buffer in the bank account? I don't know any one person who doesn't have to work the arse off to make enough money to live. I agree that some people spend more money than needed on non essential items, but competition in the market is so great that even cutting those out (internet/tv/phone) makes little difference. If I got rid of non-essentials, I would cut my (admittedly higher than average) income by little more than £100/m That would take me approx 18 years to make that two year buffer.
There are some eye opening statistics here http://www.poverty.org.uk/summary/key_facts.htm
Unless you earn the top brass money, you have to live as the cash flows in.
Back on topic... The above is related. People put so much emphasis on work because it is their lifeline to living. If you can afford to let your work ethic slip, then you either don't care about income, or are too rich to worry. When I go away I have to at least check my phone messages once a day, even with the trained monkey in my place things can still go wrong. It's a tragic fact of society that things need to be fixed yesterday, unfortunately this seeps into holiday time.
My 2p
I agree. I was disappointed with the lack of closure. It actually read more like an advert for HP, and how amazing they are.
RE: validating input fields...
I can't help but feel that most developers have at least a little common sense and do something along those lines anyway.
I often write little validate_input(char *string, char *format) that checks all input string from a user are simple, but more often than not very effective. How is this any different from using white and black lists. Any coder worth their salt would do something to stop malicious input, but no one in completely infallible.
Security of anything in this world is near on impossible. Hackers will get around anything given time.