Form a company that develops software for obsolete consoles. There are heaps of them out there and it takes less money to develop for the limited systems -- more skill, but less money. Just think how well a new game for the SNES would sell.
I'd love a little Windows app that listens on port 80 and responds to any attempt to connect with code designed to use CR2's backdoors to disable the IIS service on the infected machine. Disable as in stop it and turn off the service completely. Thoughts?
I have to mention Saturn Bomberman, and this seems to be the right thread to do it in. What other non-mainstream sports game gives you ten human-controlled players on one screen at one time? In that mode there's very little having to get used to controls -- up, down, left, right, BOMB. The ultimate party game.
I have a mobile phone, Palm (TRGpro) and the odd other tool to carry around, here's how I do it.
My mobile is a T28 and I have the Bluetooth headset kit. The buttplug is goot at popping off, so you have to put it in something. I use a glasses case with a belt clip -- I just had to modify the lid a little so the antenna can stick out (The T28 is quite long when you count the antenna). The Headset holster also has a clip. In summer, with no jacket, the phone is clipped on my belt to the right, the headset is clipped on the front of my left pants pocket. In winter, both items go in my inside jacket pockets. If I want to travel light I drop the Bluetooth and just stuff the phone in my pocket.
My TRGpro spends most of its life with a PalmPix plugged on the bottom of it. In winter, like the T28, it goes in an inside jacket pocket. In summer it goes into a Lowepro Lumina Pounch 20. I can also fit my folding keyboard and Palm Gamepad in that pouch. I've put a large clip on that pouch that I can use to mount it on a belt loop. If I'm travelling light, I drop the PalmPix and I have a Slipper cover with a quick-release belt clip.
My wallet and keys are all in one thing. In there I also have a creditcard-sized Victorinox SwissCard. If I have room I also add in a big Victorinox swiss army knife with pliers, etc, but if I don't I just go with the card.
Basically if I want to carry something it gets wrapped in leather and placed in a pocket or bag. No two metal or plastic things should touch directly. Hope This Helps.
You forget ICE -- the rather romantic "Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics" -- an automated response to terminate unauthorised hack attempts. I'm currently running the IIS shutdown line as specified by other/. posters for every IP address that probes me (I'm on a dymanic 56k dialup, I should not be getting HTTP requests -- I never did before CodeRed). It would probably be trivial to automate the process, and POOF! your first ICE program.
I just rescued an injured Goldstar 3DO from a swap-meet today. (The problem is the cable that connects to the CD drive/tray -- it isn't there at all, I'm looking for a replacement.) I bought a Sega Saturn a couple of weeks back. There are a bunch of decent little decks of the same vintage that suffered more from bad marketing and a depressed market than from any technical problems. These devices that quickly sank without a trace in a saturated market are the vintage computers of 2020. And they're fun to collect and repair now.
How did a system that was supposed to encourage innovation turn into a moneymaking machine for bottom-feeders? I can not imagine any way that repealing patent law and disbanding patents would be any worse than the situation we have now. It appears unsalvagable -- can't we just hit the reset button and start from scratch?
The new consoles are expensive and pointless. I just bought a Saturn, and my original Playstation and SNES still work fine. If I'm going to spending any money on games it'll be classic (cheap, secondhand) games for old consoles. Heck, I just picked up two great SNES games for US$2.50 each. Maybe I'll pickup a Gamecube secondhand in a couple of years -- after someone's done some cute Linux trick on it or something. Or maybe I'll buy that NeoGeo arcade machine I've got my eye on.
Wow, this is bigger than the hard drive inside my laptop. If I didn't only have one PCMCIA slot and an external USB hard drive with 20Gig, and I had a job I'd almost be interested in buying this.
What this says to me is that there is something smaller than the B meson and that the "positive" version is (now) much more prevalent than the "anti" version, such that anti-B mesons get annihilated in the sub-sub-atomic version of a matter-antimatter reaction faster than the B meson.
That is to say that this is a symptom, not a cause.
I have a Sharp Actius 150 ultralight portable. It has no fan. The only noise you get from it is a tiny little sound when the hard drive's spinning (about equal to the sound of my VCR recording, maybe quieter). When that powers down it goes silent.
It does have a bit of a heat problem. In warm weather, if the air isn't moving, a few hours of 100% CPU usage will overheat it, but when the days get warm I shut down D.Net and turn on CPUidle.
It was silly too, because they could have used some thermal gel to reduce the vibration of the drive against the plates and some rubber washers between the plates and the bays to reduce the vibration being passed through to the case.
I also can't believe they bought a case you could see through only to insulate it at the end.
I have found Spamcop to be spot-on every time. I've been using it on and off for years and I never get the "this person isn't using out servers" message back from the admins it complains to. In fact, I just got the following this morning;
RE:[SpamCop (http://best99.hypermart.net/gb/guest.cgi?user=pers)
Thanks for writing. I have removed the account and have banned the users email address from our network. I appreciate you notifying us of this violation and please let me know if you have any questions.
As an aside, the only time I ever received spam to my work address was when the reception forwarded it, so maybe SpamCop's got it right;)
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Form a company that develops software for obsolete consoles. There are heaps of them out there and it takes less money to develop for the limited systems -- more skill, but less money. Just think how well a new game for the SNES would sell.
(A happy Proxomitron and AdAware user)
I'd love a little Windows app that listens on port 80 and responds to any attempt to connect with code designed to use CR2's backdoors to disable the IIS service on the infected machine. Disable as in stop it and turn off the service completely. Thoughts?
I have to mention Saturn Bomberman, and this seems to be the right thread to do it in. What other non-mainstream sports game gives you ten human-controlled players on one screen at one time? In that mode there's very little having to get used to controls -- up, down, left, right, BOMB. The ultimate party game.
- My mobile is a T28 and I have the Bluetooth headset kit. The buttplug is goot at popping off, so you have to put it in something. I use a glasses case with a belt clip -- I just had to modify the lid a little so the antenna can stick out (The T28 is quite long when you count the antenna). The Headset holster also has a clip. In summer, with no jacket, the phone is clipped on my belt to the right, the headset is clipped on the front of my left pants pocket. In winter, both items go in my inside jacket pockets. If I want to travel light I drop the Bluetooth and just stuff the phone in my pocket.
- My TRGpro spends most of its life with a PalmPix plugged on the bottom of it. In winter, like the T28, it goes in an inside jacket pocket. In summer it goes into a Lowepro Lumina Pounch 20. I can also fit my folding keyboard and Palm Gamepad in that pouch. I've put a large clip on that pouch that I can use to mount it on a belt loop. If I'm travelling light, I drop the PalmPix and I have a Slipper cover with a quick-release belt clip.
- My wallet and keys are all in one thing. In there I also have a creditcard-sized Victorinox SwissCard. If I have room I also add in a big Victorinox swiss army knife with pliers, etc, but if I don't I just go with the card.
Basically if I want to carry something it gets wrapped in leather and placed in a pocket or bag. No two metal or plastic things should touch directly. Hope This Helps.You forget ICE -- the rather romantic "Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics" -- an automated response to terminate unauthorised hack attempts. I'm currently running the IIS shutdown line as specified by other /. posters for every IP address that probes me (I'm on a dymanic 56k dialup, I should not be getting HTTP requests -- I never did before CodeRed). It would probably be trivial to automate the process, and POOF! your first ICE program.
I just rescued an injured Goldstar 3DO from a swap-meet today. (The problem is the cable that connects to the CD drive/tray -- it isn't there at all, I'm looking for a replacement.) I bought a Sega Saturn a couple of weeks back. There are a bunch of decent little decks of the same vintage that suffered more from bad marketing and a depressed market than from any technical problems. These devices that quickly sank without a trace in a saturated market are the vintage computers of 2020. And they're fun to collect and repair now.
So long as the events are covered by media and the message can be understood from that coverage protests will not be meaningless rituals.
How did a system that was supposed to encourage innovation turn into a moneymaking machine for bottom-feeders? I can not imagine any way that repealing patent law and disbanding patents would be any worse than the situation we have now. It appears unsalvagable -- can't we just hit the reset button and start from scratch?
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(And I thought my Nokia singing "Oops, I did it again" every time I get a call was bad enough...)
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That is to say that this is a symptom, not a cause.
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It does have a bit of a heat problem. In warm weather, if the air isn't moving, a few hours of 100% CPU usage will overheat it, but when the days get warm I shut down D.Net and turn on CPUidle.
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I also can't believe they bought a case you could see through only to insulate it at the end.
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Or there's FrontX for more generic ports.
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I have found Spamcop to be spot-on every time. I've been using it on and off for years and I never get the "this person isn't using out servers" message back from the admins it complains to. In fact, I just got the following this morning;
As an aside, the only time I ever received spam to my work address was when the reception forwarded it, so maybe SpamCop's got it right--
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