Slashback: Taplight, Handheld, Samba 147
Click on through for some impressive graphs ... . bramcohen writes "Since RedHat 9 got /.'ed last week there have been over ten thousand complete downloads using BitTorrent. Initial traffic got very high, transferring over a gibibit a second. All throughout the BitTorrent servers, run by volunteers using stock tools, held up just fine. Meanwhile downloads from RedHat Network, only available to subscribers, transferred at a crawl. The third Animatrix also got quite a few downloads. Thanks to everyone who left their downloaders running, and David Stutz and Eike Frost for setting things up."
If you exaggerate enough the first time, subsequent revisions sound like concessions. Russell McOrmond writes "An article in ITBusiness.ca includes references to the methodology of the BSA studies, and how it confuses Free/Libre and Open Source Software with piracy. There are some related articles talking about CAAST/BSA on my work weblog from the past."
Tap, Tap, Tap. feagle814 writes "Recently, I saw a question on Ask Slashdot that intrigued me. The person was asking for ideas relating to building your own glowing and color-changing ball. Being the kind of person to take such a general request for comments and turn it into a personal reason for living, I quickly skimmed the description on ThinkGeek and came up with these requirements for my project:
- It must meet the generic description of the Ambient Orb,
- It must cost less than $50 to make,
- It must be wireless, with at least a 30-foot range, and
- It must be controllable by home computer.
After much deliberation, I came up with the following solution. I've included pictures and instructions, as well as a recounting of my experiences."
Not just a simulation. Olmy's Jart writes "This is a followup to yesterday's article on "Samba Exploit Discovered, Fixed". Digital Defense has posted an apology to the Samba Team for posting a complete live working exploit (not even a mere "proof of concept", but a zero day rooter) on their site for this vulnerability. The exploit has been taken down, for what that's worth now. This is being reported in an article on ZDNet AU. Digital Defense now claims that this was done without the approval of their management."
Funny, CompUSA is finally selling duplicators, too. Unominous Coward writes "According to this article, the man who planned to install CD copying machines around Australia has withdrawn from the idea. Not surprisingly, this was after a lawsuit by the music industry."
Anyone who would like to buy me one is free to do so. prostoalex writes "Sharp Zaurus deal is back at Home Shopping Network. Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 is $199, but a coupon code HSN4897 knocks the price down by 15%. With standard shipping the order comes to around $173."
We need both more Korean food and more Korean electronics. Jo "directhex" Shields writes "HEXUS.net has completed its extensive messing around with GamePark's GP32 Handheld, which recieved a mention a couple of days ago on Slashdot (and recieved the usual thrashing from members too busy to read the article but not too busy to post trashy ill-informed comments about it).
It should help to clear up a few myths about what the unit is, what it tries to do, and what it succeeds at doing. Read the review, and pass mighty Slashdot Judgement."
Zaurus Sold out at HSN (Score:3, Informative)
Those Zari went fast! (Score:5, Informative)
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damn, and I was going to get one this time...
Here's a Mirror or the ORB Project (Score:4, Informative)
To be fair... (Score:5, Informative)
It also received its fair share of unfair support by people who had never tried it, but 'Oooh'ed and 'Aaah'ed over it because of the theoretical possibilities of the thing. Hell...there's not been a public release of a GBA emulator for the thing yet, and in the last article, edrugtrader got modded through the roof because he claimed to have one that *did* play GBA games, though there's absolutely no proof of this.
SmartMedia has been out of the public spotlight for quite some time now, and if memory serves, limitations in the standard prevent it from ever going beyond 128 MB in size. Furthermore, its very thin and flimsy, thus easily broken or lost.
The size and layout does lend itself to the idea of running GameBoy/GBC/GBA emulation, but from what I've read (on the pages of the emulator authors themselves), the emulation isn't even up to par yet...most games run at about 50% framerate. Forget SNES emulation...even if the unit gets fast enough, you're lacking in the buttons department.
No Afterburner or backlighting kit is available for it yet. Furthermore, it's not compatible with GB/GBC/GBA 3rd party accessories, so no lighting options exist unless someone creates a side-lighting kit. In the last article, someone did mention it, but provided no links, and I can't turn up anything.
Finally, I just really have to point out that it's designed to run *downloaded* ROM images, DivX movies, and MP3s. Yes, you can run homebrewed ROMs, DivX rips of your own DVDs, and MP3 rips of your own CDs, but do you *really* think that's the point? Ignore the movies and the music for the time being - It's a *game console*. It's designed for games. More specifically, it's designed for *emulated* games. There's only a tiny handful of actual 1st/2nd/3rd-party Korean software support for the unit excepting the emulation community...and though there have been some good releases in the homebrew ROM community, you're kidding yourself if everyone's talking about how this thing can run GBA games, even though there's not even a GBA emulator out yet.
I think the reviews from sites like Hexus and GamersHell are a total farce. Rating this thing so highly because it *could* stomp the hell out of the GBA is like giving the SiS Xabre a 10/10 because, with enough driver improvements, it *could* beat the GeForceFX, two years down the road...
Re:Gibabit? (Score:3, Informative)
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html [nist.gov]
links die sometimes :( (Score:3, Informative)
So
timothy
Never mind... (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.ambientdevices.com/developer/
-Tommy
Codecon archive with bittorrent (Score:4, Informative)
Bram Cohen the author of bittorrent is also the main codecon organisner. The audio recording of the talks and panels [12.241.210.70] at codecon can be downloaded with bittorrent. It maxed my downstream at 50KB/sec, someone else reported 200KB/s down.
Re:Gibabit? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Alternative etailer (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Alternative etailer (Score:3, Informative)
Re:sad (Score:4, Informative)
No, it wouldn't hold up in a US court, since in the US there is actual written law about the right to backup.
However, in Australia, which is where all this took place, you do not have the right to make personal backups, unless you receive permission from the copyright holder.
Re:To be fair... (Score:3, Informative)
You are full of shit. No two ways about it.
It's relatively cheaply built? Seriously, I handled one at the local import shop and, well, you get what you pay for.
You either have never touched a GP32 or are just a liar.
The D-pad and buttons are at once stiff and cheap-feeling, you constantly feel like they're going to fall off in your hand. They're also inaccurate and unresponsive.
The controls are MILES better than the GBA. The joystick is the most sensitive of any handheld console I have ever seen. It is better made than a GBA.
not a few mhz faster
16Mhz vs 133Mhz is a "few mhz"?
GB/NES goes about 50%
Bullshit! They both smoke! The NES emu is damn near perfect.
SNES/Genesis/TG16/PS2/Xbox
With the exception of SNES, which works and gets better with each release, nobody who actually knows what they are talking about ever claimed any of those were possible.
Re:RH9 from BitTorrent and the colored ball (Score:3, Informative)
Yup. Start the BT client again, and when it asks you where to save to, point to the stuff you already got elsewhere. Bang, you're part of the solution...
Re:sad (Score:3, Informative)
So, you are permitted to make backup(and other types - security/bugfix) copies of software CDs, but the Copyright Act of Australia (1968 & 1988) prohibits copying of audio, video, picture disk, etc media.
See my post [slashdot.org] from a couple of days ago for the references to the Act itself.
COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 [austlii.edu.au] See Section 47C