I use a 486-50 with 8 megs of ram, and 2 Linksys NE2000 clone cards as a firewall (running OpenBSD). I had a little trouble with the GENERIC kernal running out of memory, but after I stripped unneeded drivers (SCSI, NFS, PCI, etc..) out of the kernal it worked great!
It used to be a Linux (Slackware) system, which also worked well until someone got in through a buffer overflow in sshd a couple of months ago, and trashed the system. --
If anyone actually has a Visor with a module of some kind, let me know.
Well, I have a EyeModule for my visor, and I love it. I've been having way too much fun with it since I got it.
Plug and play works great - stick it in, and the software gets installed.
The resolution is 320x240 - pretty good for web pages. Picture quality is good while moving in bright (outdoor) light; if you are indoors, you have to hold still. If it gets too dark, you get the "Christmas Light" effect that old color quick cams used to get. --
For the Info, you can customize the header Apache returns when you send him a request. Go on Netcraft and check www.real.com. They are running Apache on Linux but as you can see that's not what they show on their Apache headers.
Actually, real.com is running on Roxen, not Apache. Your point remains valid however, as they are having it return a custom identifier as you described. --
It doesn't even start for me - I don't think the copy protection likes the add on ATA-66 controller my dvd drive is hooked up to. -- Email address is real.
Unfortunately their PGP support has been fucked up for over a year and their "support" people don't seem to be able to come up with an explanation or advice besides "switch to another authentication method."
Really? I never had any trouble with it. I'd always fire off 2 copies of everything - one signed cleartext, the other ascii armored. One of them would always go through in a couple of days.
I may have had many reasons for fleeing NSI, but the PGP authentication option wasn't one of them:-) -- Email address is real.
Just tell the caller that you don't have the time to to learn more about their product, but would be more than happy to call them at their home for more details. They're usually taken aback by this, at which point you can ask "What, you mean you don't like people you don't even know calling you at home? Why not?".
Actually, a couple of times when I've tried this, they did give me their home phone number so I could call them back later. What was really fun, was one person also had their home number on their web page, so a quick web search gave me all sorts of info on them. I think I freaked them out a bit when I knew the name of the dog I could hear barking in the background:-)
There's a quick mention on the Dr. Dobb's Journal webpage here. That's where I first heard about it.
I remember well the first time I encountered pkzip. I was so amazed at how much smaller it could make things than arc. I remember feeling vaguly disappointed when, being over optimistic in the power of that mighty software I tried re-zipping a file over and over trying to get it down to fit on a 360 k disk:-) I was still impressed even after I failed.
Well, from this link, it looks like PKware was competing against winzip.
Reading the documentation for WinZip, I come across this line: WinZip incorporates compression code by the Info-ZIP group, which is used with their permission.
This seems to indicate to me that WinZip didn't licence anything from PKware.
I never played the SNES version - so I can only tell you about the PC version.
The Bit Planes (I'm pretty sure it wasn't plains) was one of the worlds on the promised lands expansion pack - it had Lego World, Bizarre World, French Revolution world, Bit planes, and I think a couple more.
With the Bit Planes map, the world was sheets of tractor feed paper (green/white striped). Where crops were growing, there was printing on the paper. Where there were swamps, holes appeared in the paper. The landscape was dotted with coffee mugs, pencils, etc... Buildings ranged from abaci and calculators, up to clusters of supercomputers. Plus, instead of good vs evil, you had Atari Vs Commodore - great for working out that everpresent argument:-)
I figure, it might be a good way to motivate myself to keep in practice with some skills I don't use very often.
When I'm coding for myself, I tend to gravitate to a small number of tools I really like, and tend to not use other tools that I know. As an example, last year I was using SmallTalk all the time, as I was involved in projects that used it. I haven't touched it since. (Java, c++, and rxml/pike are what I've used the most recently.)
I intend to list myself in their database under skills I have experience in, but need motivation to keep in practice with. If I get picked, I'll be forced to stay in practice!
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I use a 486-50 with 8 megs of ram, and 2 Linksys NE2000 clone cards as a firewall (running OpenBSD).
I had a little trouble with the GENERIC kernal running out of memory, but after I stripped unneeded drivers (SCSI, NFS, PCI, etc..) out of the kernal it worked great!
It used to be a Linux (Slackware) system, which also worked well until someone got in through a buffer overflow in sshd a couple of months ago, and trashed the system.
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If anyone actually has a Visor with a module of some kind, let me know.
Well, I have a EyeModule for my visor, and I love it. I've been having way too much fun with it since I got it.
Plug and play works great - stick it in, and the software gets installed.
The resolution is 320x240 - pretty good for web pages.
Picture quality is good while moving in bright (outdoor) light; if you are indoors, you have to hold still.
If it gets too dark, you get the "Christmas Light" effect that old color quick cams used to get.
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For the Info, you can customize the header Apache returns when you send him a request. Go on Netcraft and check www.real.com. They are running Apache on Linux but as you can see that's not what they show on their Apache headers.
Actually, real.com is running on Roxen, not Apache.
Your point remains valid however, as they are having it return a custom identifier as you described.
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Ha - I had a 450!
Actually, it handled 150, 300, and 450 - quite impressive for the time, as Compuserve charged the same rate for 300 and 450.
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Email address is real.
Well, to answer question 1, SGI wants $20K for a used system with fewer, slower processors ( Link here ).
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Email address is real.
No - that's just nice - this is godly!
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Email address is real.
It doesn't even start for me - I don't think the copy protection likes the add on ATA-66 controller my dvd drive is hooked up to.
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Email address is real.
30 minutes to run the test on a palm?
The visor version of the test took a fraction of a second.
I kind of figured my visor would pass the test - with all of the fun I've been having with my Eye Module I've been filling up my ram every day.
(If you want to see what pictures I've been taking, I have some up here. Noting spectacular - just playing around.
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Email address is real.
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Email address is real.
Unfortunately their PGP support has been fucked up for over a year and their "support" people don't seem to be able to come up with an explanation or advice besides "switch to another authentication method."
:-)
Really? I never had any trouble with it.
I'd always fire off 2 copies of everything - one signed cleartext, the other ascii armored.
One of them would always go through in a couple of days.
I may have had many reasons for fleeing NSI, but the PGP authentication option wasn't one of them
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Email address is real.
BTW, any one know what happened to the C64 great programmers? Jeff Minter, Andrew Braybrook, Shaun Southern, Archer Maclean?
Well, I know Jeff Minter's webpage is at http://myweb.magicnet.net/~yak/
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Email address is real.
Ok - I converted it.
You can grab MPEG versions from http://house.ofdoom.com/~hungerf3/video/dune/
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As part of my quest to try every possible source of caffine I've found three types available in my area (Michigan, USA):
weak from Austria
Strong from Thiland
Really Strong also from Thiland
I drank way too much of the third one a couple of months ago, and pushed my caffine tolerence way too high, so it's back to faygo for me.
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WHY:From the eshilon style monitoring system on your cell phone (logged to give advertisers better feedback on their adds effectivness)
:-)
Wow - you mean someone will actualy know why I do what I do?
Do you think they would tell me if I asked?
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Good Job!
/. off of that shared Alpha onto it's own system!
This feels like as much of a speed increase as when you moved
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You mean something like http://www.magellangps.com/wirele ss/a_vision2.htm?
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Just tell the caller that you don't have the time to to learn more about their product, but would be more than happy to call them at their home for more details. They're usually taken aback by this, at which point you can ask "What, you mean you don't like people you don't even know calling you at home? Why not?".
:-)
Actually, a couple of times when I've tried this, they did give me their home phone number so I could call them back later.
What was really fun, was one person also had their home number on their web page, so a quick web search gave me all sorts of info on them.
I think I freaked them out a bit when I knew the name of the dog I could hear barking in the background
Yep, there was an episode by that name.
It wasn't what I first thought of when I read "Terminus" - my first thought was of the last story in Stanislaw Lem's book Tales of Pirx the Pilot.
There's a quick mention on the Dr. Dobb's Journal webpage here.
:-)
That's where I first heard about it.
I remember well the first time I encountered pkzip.
I was so amazed at how much smaller it could make things than arc.
I remember feeling vaguly disappointed when, being over optimistic in the power of that mighty software I tried re-zipping a file over and over trying to get it down to fit on a 360 k disk
I was still impressed even after I failed.
It was rather shocking to hear of his death.
Well, from this link, it looks like PKware was competing against winzip.
Reading the documentation for WinZip, I come across this line:
WinZip incorporates compression code by the Info-ZIP group, which is used with their permission.
This seems to indicate to me that WinZip didn't licence anything from PKware.
Well, the software I used isn't open source.
I'm using MegaPEG LE which came with my copy of Premiere.
The web server is all open source (Roxen on FreeBSD) if that makes you feel better...
If you want MPEG, I'm running the quicktime files through my converter now, and I'll have them up at http://house.ofdoom.com/~hungerf3/video/tetris/ in a few minutes.
I never played the SNES version - so I can only tell you about the PC version.
:-)
The Bit Planes (I'm pretty sure it wasn't plains) was one of the worlds on the promised lands expansion pack - it had Lego World, Bizarre World, French Revolution world, Bit planes, and I think a couple more.
With the Bit Planes map, the world was sheets of tractor feed paper (green/white striped). Where crops were growing, there was printing on the paper.
Where there were swamps, holes appeared in the paper.
The landscape was dotted with coffee mugs, pencils, etc...
Buildings ranged from abaci and calculators, up to clusters of supercomputers.
Plus, instead of good vs evil, you had Atari Vs Commodore - great for working out that everpresent argument
I loved the "bit planes" landscape in the promised lands expansion pack - Atari Vs Commodore :-)
:-)
I used to play those levels via 2400 baud modem with my friends all the time
I figure, it might be a good way to motivate myself to keep in practice with some skills I don't use very often.
When I'm coding for myself, I tend to gravitate to a small number of tools I really like, and tend to not use other tools that I know.
As an example, last year I was using SmallTalk all the time, as I was involved in projects that used it. I haven't touched it since.
(Java, c++, and rxml/pike are what I've used the most recently.)
I intend to list myself in their database under skills I have experience in, but need motivation to keep in practice with.
If I get picked, I'll be forced to stay in practice!