Posts by Colin Miller
392 posts • joined Thursday 19th April 2007 11:04 GMT
Eadon, Eadon, where are you?
Re: Midi
I don't know about the Speccy, but the Dragon used one tone for a 0 bit, and a second tone of double the frequency for the '1'. Both bits were of the same duration. As long as MIDI allows the representation of pure sine waves at arbitrary frequencies, then you can MIDI it.
Re: Safety is never a joke
Standing astride the well head, surrounded by wet concrete doesn't strike me as terribly sensible either.
Re: This "problem" will only get worse
Most (httpd)server logging assume that the IP address the request came from is enough to track its owner. With NATs the (httpd)server also has to log the TCP Port number.
With the Port number and time, then the NATs logs (in theory) can be checked to see which customer (unless that is also a NAT; say an open wifi) the request came from.
Re: Hack what, exactly
Or, say, unlock all the doors and then have your friends wearing balaclavas turn up in a Luton with blanked-out number plates.
Easy security fix
Take of your GoogleSpecs when you enter sensitive information.
Re: Peas v pancakes?
If you grind the chickpeas in a food processor, then you can make pancakes from them. However, I doubt if I'd do it as part of this experiment, as Lester can't really afford for anything to go wrong. There's no eggs in them, as chickpea flour can be used as egg replacement (as a binder) for vegans.
http://moroccanfood.about.com/od/tipsandtechniques/ht/How-To-Make-Chickpea-Gram-Flour.htm
On a slightly more serious, and worrying note malaria is becoming resistant to artemisinin, the last drug that can control it.
Is a "diligen search" well-defined? Does that include running the work through services like Tineye, Shazam, etc?
Posted in Boffins strap turbocharger to BitTorrent
Will it? In my case I'm paying for 16Mb/s:1Mb/s but my ADSL modem reports that it synced at 13:1. I assume that's the limit of my phone line. If I move from ADSL to SDSL, will it be 7:7? And would most customers be happy with this?
and a second one
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22263706
privacy...
Shouldn't you blank out the faces of the two friends in the photo?
Re: Already exists!
Unless you have a wireless pass-card car, where the doors unlock if the handle is pulled whilst the card is beside the car. And the engine starts when the the 'start button' is pushed and the card is (again) nearby.
Re: Hmm
Asda's SmartPrice bottled water is 17p/2litre
Helpful article from Auntie - how to feed yourself for £12/week. Now, this is about 1.5 times your budget, so you'll need even more careful planning.
Method for automatically revoking a granted patent when the patent holder frivolously applies for a another patent on an idea that is obvious-to-person-ordinarily-skilled-in-the-art.
--- Pat. Pend.
Re: Way over the top
Buried in the letter sent to VM is "Oh, and despite my wife telling you our sad news as well.",
which (to me) means that Mrs Boyden did tell VM that her father had died, but VM forgot to cancel the subscription.
Re: just like the phone numbers
London was changed to 01 xxx yyyyy to 071 xxxx yyyyy so that all other land-lines could be changed later from 0 aaa bbbb to 01 aaa bbbbb. At this time, London could then change from 071 to 0171 or (as it happens) to 0207.
Doing London from 01 to 0207 at the same time as the '1' was being added would be a recipe for confusion, as it would be difficult to tell if '01' was the correct new code for an number, or someone using the old London code.
Now, all numbers starting 01 or 02 are to landlines; the second digit of the phone number will give you an idea of what type of number you are calling (although it is not perfect)
third-party attacks?
How many of these attacks are from organizations working for the Chinese government, and how many are from poorly secured residential machines that are being controlled by parties unknown?
Re: Research Bad News & Laboratory Products
Err. T-flash has a storage of 200 megabytes / mm^3. A 3.5" hardrive full of them has a nominal capacity of 73 TB. That assumes the same amount of actual storage cells per unit volume.
I'm not sure how much of a t-flash card is the cells, the controller, connectors and packages, nor how well this would scale to a 3.5" enclosure.
Posted in Kepler continues exoplanet bonanza
Re: Moons
The detection of exomoons is beyond our current technology. However, the detection of exoplants was beyond the then-current technology of the early '80s. Thus we might be able to detect them in 30 or so years time. IIRC, every credible astronomer says that exomoons almost certainly exist.
32GB of books?
Unless you read graphical novels or other image-heavy books, 4GB is around 3,000 books. Enough to last you 60 years at 1 book/week.
Has someone been buzzing his back garden and releasing the photos?
Re: The English don't know where they are.
The population centre of Great Britain is the village of Appleby Parva, about 22 miles NE of Birmingham town hall. Yes, I'd have put in nearer London than that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_population#Great_Britain
Re: LENR emerging soon
"long wait list of customers starting this April", would that be the 1st of the month?
Re: It Wasn't That Long Ago...
And no doubt there were hidden ANPR cameras in the area...
Swiss-French restored it
IIRC, it was a Swiss wikipedian who undeleted the article in question, as he was beyond the reach of the gallic blue line.
EU law
IIRC. this is an EU directive, but has been implemented ~1year early in the UK, as a result of certain company (who shall remain nameless) taking the piss.
What's so innovative about alpha-blended menus?
Re: Just another blinkenlights
Tower block tetris, from 13 years ago http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/718009.stm, also mentions one from 1995.
Re: Why is it
I assume that its because the PRS works on the (false) basis of 1 radio = 1 listener. Does seem a bit of a rip off tho.
Re: javascript trouble
Hold down the mouse button; the URL changes on the mousedown(); and the URL is followed on mouseclick(). You should be able to see the URL changing before your very eyes! (Or so it does with Google)
Hotlist of dodgy websites
Firefox (and I would assume Chrome) check with a list of dodgy sites and warn the user that they really shouldn't visit this site. Now, this depends on kind-hearted souls who know dodgy-meds/419 etc. spams when they see them deliberately following them to report the final sites.
filter on sane sender address?
Do ISP filter *outbound* traffic to ensure that the sender's address is sane?
The filtering could be done around the NAS level, or at the peer-exchange (LINX).
Pyongyang Photoshop patent prank portrays wet People's Army.
n/a.
Re: To the tune of "Oh Canada" (and with some artistic licence...)
That also works to "O Tannenbaum", aka "The Red Flag", the Labour Party's anthem..
Re: Surely Not Invisible ... to mesh radar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bistatic_radar#Forward_scatter_radars
Fordward scatter radar can detect when an object passes close to the line-of-sight between an Tx and Rx;
it is a proposed method of detecting low-flying stealth aircraft.
Re: Cal me thick, but...
Have you ever looked at a road that's being fully dug up?
Normally there are cables and pipes running everywhere about 3" down.
It would be tricky to fit such a large box underground, even if you set aside the access to it, as others have pointed out.
Asimo...
...was doing this years ago.
I'm sure I've seen one of James May's "boy's toys" programs where he met Asimo.
Asimo has the ability to to identify any object presented to it; James showed him a toy sports car, and Asimo replied "(toy) car". James (rather unsportingly) said "No, Asimo, its a <insert precise marque/model of car>". Asimo duly updated it's DB of objects.
Posted in LOHAN slips into tight rubber outfit
Heat loss from inside the tube?
Did you cap the ends of the tube, or were they left open, thus allowing (air in) the inside of the tube to conduct heat away?
Re: So *not* a buffer overflow error in fact.
If instruction 0x00 and 0xff are both NOP, then you can interspace NOPs. This, of course, assumes that you don't get two stuck bits per byte. If you do, then liberal use of JMP +0x1 will help.
Re: I was going to post a comment
Did you mean "some buzzard buzzy thing..." ?
Telling if a number is a cell?
In the US, how do you tell if a phone number is a cell or landline, given that US cell phones just standard geographic numbers, not a special prefix (078 in the UK).
This is why US cells pay to receive phone calls.
Wireshark
is your friend for this sort of think. Has anyone tried to monitor exactly how much (if not what) SimCity is sending home?
Posted in Soak up CO2 with sponges, says CSIRO
Zeolite
Zeolites (aluminosilicate minerals, some are artificial) are very good at adsorbing specific fluids to their surfaces, whilst letting other fluids pass.
Re: Wouldn't it be simpler ?
My caller display phone will indicate if a withheld number is UK and international withheld.
For some reason, I got it into my head that she was Catholic, but I was completely wrong on that.
Wallis Simpson wasn't just a divorcée, she was twice divorced, American and a Catholic. It was, and still is, illegal for the Monarch to be, or to marry, someone who follows the Papist faith, under the Act of Settlement (1701).
There was an OS that would inform the app that it just caused a page fault. It's password-checking mechanism was strcmp() against the unhashed recorded one.
A program could place the first character of a trail password in the last byte of memory, wait for the next page to be swapped out. Then it called checkpassword(). If a no page fault occurred, then the first character was incorrect, and another one was tried. If a fault was caused, then the first character of the password was correct;, and the second letter was attempted.
Thus, cracking a 8 character password went from 96^8 to 96*8 tries.
Oops.
