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Living Room / Re: warning sign generator
« on: July 01, 2006, 06:40 PM »
here's one for gjehle:


 ;)

HAHAHAH great one :D

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Living Room / warning sign generator
« on: July 01, 2006, 02:30 PM »
following in the footsteps of my previous post on signs (link)
here's something to make your very own warning signs

http://www.warningsigngenerator.com/


looking for more generator stuff? check out this thread by mouser

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Living Room / Re: db90h makes news with his linksys router hack
« on: June 27, 2006, 06:52 AM »
nice hack

tho i prefere the older wrt54g, like my 1.1, which comes with more ram and flash as the vxworks version (since vxworks has much smaller footprint than normal embedded linux solutions)

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Living Room / Finally! Sudoku where it belongs!
« on: June 19, 2006, 04:11 PM »
Tired of sudoku here, sudoku there, sudoku fucking everywhere?
Finally someone thought of something smart, put sudoku where it belongs

http://www.iwantoneo...o?productCode=SODOKU

fight the hype!
wipe!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Years
« on: June 12, 2006, 04:45 PM »
words of wisdom

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YAReG - read ReiserFS partitions in Windows

This tool only supports reading, tho that's better than nothing at all.
No installation is necessary, just un-pack and run yareg.exe, it will auto-detect the reiserfs partitions you have on your system.
The only dependency is the .NET framework, which you can also download from the page in case it is missing

And without further ado, the tool:
http://yareg.akucom.de/


Ext2(3) Installable File System For Windows

This one is also able to access ext3 partitions, full access with read and write on top of that
You need to run the installer for this one, since it is somewhat bigger but offers way more features, too.

Website for Ext2 IFS:
http://www.fs-driver.org/


P.S.:
All the tools are free and released under the GPL

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Living Room / Collection of funny signs (high-res!)
« on: June 11, 2006, 03:32 AM »
in case you like funny signs but can't afford to buy them, check out this page
quite a collection of high resolution images of various funny signs

http://zoned.dk/plug...hp?e=gallery&f=8

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irfan view, even got batch processing

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gentoo linux
my user: 34
my system: 126

just for the kick of it, those are my user's processes:
/bin/sh kdeinit dcopserver klauncher
kded kxkb kaccess kwrapper
ksmserver kwin kdesktop kicker
klipper korgac kgpg gkrellm2
kwalletmanager kmix kmail gaim
knotify amarokapp xchat-2 /bin/bash
java kio_imap4 kio_imap4 konqueror
kio_file /bin/bash /opt/firefox/firefox-bin konsole
/bin/bash /bin/bash kio_pop3

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geez, people should just stop comparing apples and pears
considering the fact that the linux desktops are customizable to a high degree...
take this eg:
ever started a default suse installation? or knoppix?
you notice in the blink of an eye that what you look at is KDE
i have people coming up to me asking me what desktop i use, since they do not fucking notice that it's in fact.. KDE ;)
screenshot, see for yourself

i'm not saying that the usuablity test is crap, i see there are tons of problems with the usablity for all kinds of linux desktops
but well, remember back in the days when you first sat down in front of that windows machine?
maybe all those people are just totally biased and expect everything to work like their beloved windows box
give em a mac, or a sun, whatever ;)

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Living Room / Re: Is firewire better than USB?
« on: June 06, 2006, 08:23 AM »
if you have security concerns, i would choose usb over firewire
afaik firewire devices are directly dma capable and able to address all of your memory resulting in an device you can plug in and dump a RAM image (including but not limited to eg. passwords stored in plain somewhere in memory)
for all i know BSD developers use this to get memory images for debugging after the kernel went into total lockdown

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lol
that's some funny shit :D

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Living Room / Ever called shotgun and got into a fight?
« on: June 06, 2006, 07:55 AM »
fear no more!
here are the shotgun rules!

a pretty extensive list of how and when to call shotgun:
http://www.shotgunrules.com/

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Living Room / Awesome advertising
« on: June 06, 2006, 07:26 AM »
Look at these advertisements, cool idea :D
http://www.hemmy.net...reative-advertising/

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it is not so much about speed, as it is about address space (for both, physical and virtual memory)
also, just loading your box full of ram wont help in terms of speedup after a certain point

one main reason this (switch to 64bit) was done is the server market, where you have to address enormous amounts of storage/memory.
another thing is: consumers expect of their software to work with any filesize, you want to open up a 2GB or 4GB file.. well that's not trivial, the 4GB limit of 32bit pointers can be "fixed" using 64bit offsets (slower on 32bit machines) but you can't load that _whole_ thing into your virtual memory, since that one isn't able to address it. no way fixing this without nasty workarounds.

the end-consumer is just used to pay off the development costs by buying high priced CPUs in the beginning.

once the chip manufacturing plant amortised itself and the manufacturers are able to better control power consumption the same chips will be used in embedded systems in a few years.

embedded systems are the real market, not consumer PCs or servers.
after all almost all manufactured processors world wide are used in the embedded market (try to think of something electronic you bought lately that doesn't have a processor (vacuum cleaners have em, your coffee machine of course, the dish washing maschine.. all of em)).
the embedded stuff just limps behind the others by a few years.


it basically comes down to this:

1) the server people needed more address space
2) the consumer is told they need 64bit (a few actually do, very few), and they are willing to pay a high price for the new CPUs, paying off the development (see gamers, they are willing to pay everything)
3) the embedded market will profit from cheap 64bit cores in a few years

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maybe try this one
http://html2text.sourceforge.net/

besides there should be enough perl modules too

and yes, links2 does it too

easy to get a batch script using those

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Living Room / Re: Unprotected Wireless Lans?
« on: May 05, 2006, 08:17 AM »
none, mine is save, and i disabled my cousin's wifi next door
and i live pretty much in the country side ;)

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Living Room / Re: size-changing USB flash drives
« on: May 05, 2006, 08:12 AM »
http://www.plusminus.ru/flashbag.html :-*
(gotta be a joke, though)

i dont think it's a joke
i dont even think it's a bad idea "just because"
i just think it not practical

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Living Room / Re: Earth. Overpopulated or not?
« on: May 05, 2006, 08:08 AM »
hehe, it was mentioned several times, but for all your comp sci peeps
the whole thing in simple words:

ressource conflicts lead to deadlocks
and scheduling to starvation

;)

tho i _think_ right now there would be enough food to feed everyone
since a DAMN lot of food produced in the "western world" is unused and thrown away.

i'm not implying anything with that, having enough ressources doesn't mean having a blanco cheque for population growth

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Living Room / Re: Anyone actually use rewriteable media?
« on: May 05, 2006, 08:03 AM »
i've never used a RW CDR or DVDR, never ever since i got my first burner
the write-once media is just dirt cheap, so i dont have to bother about spending time on formatting the RW media

there's only one downside to the USB stick drive thingy
like all flash based storage it ages pretty fast
a single cell (bit) of the flash survives for something like 10000 write cycles, then it dies (the cell, not the whole memory)

compared to a the usual RW media, that's a _very_ long lifespan tho ;)


anyways, a little side note:
all that hype about "boot <XYZ OS> from usb" is non-trivial
eg. for linux you have to use a special filesystem that prevents repeated writes into the same cell by distributing data over the whole memory.
you also have to disable logging facilities like syslogd etc, to prevent (in most cases) useless writes
now if you want to do the same with windows, be my guest and watch your stick age waaay faster

but that's just a little note that basically says: usb drives aren't the solution for everything ;)

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Living Room / Re: digg rigging?
« on: May 05, 2006, 07:52 AM »
well, i've heard a lot of hate stories about digg
and here's what i think

1) it's a free-of-charge service, if you dont like it, leave it

2) creating a system like digg where buddy-buddy exploitation wont be possible is impossible!
the whole thing is based on social networks, and the importance and therefor audience a node inside the net has is mainly determined by his degree (directly connected nodes, aka "friends")
the "buddy problem" can't be solved it's a "flaw" in the social aspect to begin with.
that's how society works.

3) i think the main source of digg-hate is envy
when digg started most people where "omg, this is awesome"
now, once people notice that the people who run digg, from what i see that's mainly kevin rose and some other peeps around him, make actual money from advertising and other stuff (which is fine, after all they created it, and they're paying for it), people start getting envious, they want their bit of the cake
that's another thing that comes with society, can't help it, people are selfish, it's in the firmware.. no patch available ;)


to sum it up, all i can recommend is:
people should STFU and leave if they dont like it,
or create a better (parental advisory: use brain, make own decisions) system and make their own money...
and attract some envious people of their own.

that's FAME 2.0 for you

kthx

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Developer's Corner / the übergenerator for htaccess
« on: April 21, 2006, 04:34 PM »

tired of reading the documentation @ apache.org?
the tiny, minimalistic, bare-bone generators out there are just not what you need?

check out this one

http://cooletips.de/htaccess/

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Living Room / Re: The brain's judgmental biases
« on: April 17, 2006, 12:28 PM »
great article

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i got told that installing linux on your ipod enables you to record 44.1kHz audio rather than the crippled crap you get using the default thingy with the.. uhhh.. griffin mic or whatever it's called

i have yet to get an ipod to test this tho ;)

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Living Room / Re: Is it safe to try new freeware?
« on: April 15, 2006, 07:44 AM »
my whole OS is kinda freeware
so, yes, for me it is save to try new stuff :)
even without all that protection shizzle

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