um.. I've never seen an AIM client that didn't have the option to only allow IMs from users on your buddy list...no need to worry about spam over IM. ---
As far as i know, AOL hasn't stiffled development of anyother messaging clients that don't use AOL's servers. Yes, they do block those ones, because the only way they're generating any income from those servers is by providing advertisments. And if people can connect using clients that don't display the ads, then AOL loses
money as a result of running their service.
AOL's own Linux client, and their Java Client do not display ads. how are those clients generating income? and if those non-income generating clients are allowed on the network, why not the other (better) clients? I know there are other reasons, but I just wanna point out that that argument is flawed.. ---
Furthermore, you can't see a person's away message by using 'Get Info' or similar means (AIM will make it viewable above a person's profile . ..). [SNIP] What's the difference in freatures between TOC and the closed protocol, anyway? Does anyone know? I've never seen the two compared. . . though I guess I haven't looked too hard, either . . .
viewing the away message is a function of the Oscar protocol, not the TOC protocol. Oscar also had support for buddy icons, and numerous other features found lacking in TOC clients. GAIM has experimental support the Oscar in the last few releases, but it is unusable at the moment due to unauthorized clients being blocked so we are stuck with the TOC protocol--for now. ---
I think the way AOL is detecting unproper use of their servers is by exploiting a bug in their own clients. I use GAIM a lot, and I liked the Oscar protocol support, so when it was shutdown, my roommate and I fired up the old packet sniffer... AOL sends out some very odd looking large packets right before it IMs you and kicks you off the network. We beleive that the Win32 client has a bug where those large packets result in a buffer overflow, and the client ignores the garbage packets, while in the reverse engineered version, the client response is basically, "huh? what in the world was that??" and when AOL sees that, it kicks you off.. probably a few more weeks of packet sniffing...we might have a patch ready:)
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this technology would be very useful if you are trying to juggle 2 or more girlfriends... put their pictures in this frame, wire up a Bluetooth transciever, and give the each girl their own bracelet with carefully hidden bluetooth transmitter, and wa la! when every they are around, their picture is showing in the frame!
Problems with this plan:
Girls won't wear bracelet at all times (maybe you could convince them to have it surgically implanted...)
Bracelet (or implants) battery will run down.
this was humor. please don't flame...ok don't flame much.. ok, roast me if you must...but don't hurt my karma! please, anything but my karma! ---
wiring a house with cat5 is not a big deal. my flatmate and myself wired our entire house in 3 hours. Our hub sits right on top of the TV/Stereo so we can watch the pretty flashing lights..
maybe when I'm feeling energetic I'll photograph it and stick it up on my page with a Home networking how-to...
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Unlike movie stars, stocks usually are affected negatively by bad publicity and react well to good publicity. For Toshiba to damage potential payoffs from a successful IPO...
Toshiba is getting 600k common shares from Transmeta. Maybe they want to lower the value of the shares initially, so that when Transmeta's processor ends up being the Intel Killer, that they've made a larger profit? just a thought.. ---
the article appears to be slashdotted already, but I would guess, since Toshiba is one of the main investors, this is an attempt to get the name Transmeta out there to be seen and heard a bit more before the IPO. No such thing as bad publicity and all that...
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someone earlier asked if search engines would be in trouble if this becomes precendence. what about a link like this that enters in the search criteria right away? is that illegal? and who get carted off to jail? Google, Slashdot, or me?
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does anyone know if there are any linux drivers for the video card mentioned in the story? I'm working on a similar system and this is just the video card I need. Their website says windows only drivers though. links or info, anyone?
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Does this jacket remind anyone else of the jacket Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future 2? he puts it on, it resizes to fit him, he get's wet, it blows him dry... when this thing has THAT functionality, I want one.:)
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being able to modify the source and not document it is what is great about linux! Instant job security. Who would fire you if you're the only one that can run your "specialized" code?:)
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I had a similar problem about 6 years ago, with a hardware company who will remain nameless (sounds-like the last three letters of FAST). I had a brandname computer who's motherboard died on me. No problem I thought, it's still under warranty, I should have it fixed in no time. well, to make a long story short, I ended up fighting with the warranty department for about 2 weeks getting someone to agree that I actually had a warranty. I finally gave that up to no avail, and considering I was 13 at the time, turned the problem over to my dad. he called information and got the corporate offices of the company. when he got the operator at the companies switch board, he asked for the president, and they patched him through!!! the president of the company was shocked to hear of the horrible treatment we were getting, asked for the names of the people that I had talked to, and had my warranty sorted out in a hour. I had my replacement part and technician at my house the next day.
Moral of the Story: call the big guy(or girl) at the top, he just sits in his office all day waiting for something to happen so he can feel proactive.
you may not get as good a response as I did, but boy did that work well for me. ---
Most people wanting to view something naughty(!?) will be uncomfortable if they know their actions are visible to others.
while a good idea in theory... I used to do help desk support at my university, and while it usually wasn't a problem, there were a few guys that insisted on sitting in the computer lab (over lunch, when it gets the most use) and view some of the most sexually depraved sites out there... yes, their accounts were suspended, which stopped the problem..but perhaps the oddest thing I've had to do is go over to a very horny guy and ask what his userID is.. ick.
The suit alleges that the MAP policy increased CD prices in violation of state and federal antitrust law, kept CD prices artificially high, and penalized retailers who did not participate
if what this suit claims is true, this is much more serious that just price fixing. It's extortion to small businesses. Here is the first slashdot article about the FTC case. ---
I may be missing the point here...flame away if I am... can't the distributed work be placed in a binary file? like a tarball? and ta-dah! it's a binary to be distributed. or am I missing something?
urr....um... British Columbia... is neither British, nor Columbian...it's in Canada...but besides that, you're right, cultural differences need to be accounted for. BUT, I don't think video game violence needs to sold only in pron shops... now all those pure little gamers who enjoy blowing up virtual cows will be exposed to seedy adult bookstores. (which for some reason, have very few books...)
That was a big issue when they were developing the game. they fixed it by storing your character information on the battle.net server, so no more duping or hacking of your inventory. hopefully they fixed it. I never ran into anyone during the beta who has cheating, (to my knowledge anyway:)
Cmdr Taco...you were saying that you can't play quicktime movies in linux...I just happened to stumble upon this over at freshmeat... it appears to be a quicktime player for linux...I'm still downloading it, hope it works.
So how about this: Bungie, I'll willingly donate $40-60 to your developer 'beverage fund' if you'll send me an unmarked Halo CD. How 'bout? all well and good...but if they are gonna be part of microsoft, their "beverage fund" would be nonexistant.. MS has free sodas for everyone. maybe you could pay their "Pizza fund" ---
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um.. I've never seen an AIM client that didn't have the option to only allow IMs from users on your buddy list...no need to worry about spam over IM.
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money as a result of running their service.
AOL's own Linux client, and their Java Client do not display ads. how are those clients generating income? and if those non-income generating clients are allowed on the network, why not the other (better) clients? I know there are other reasons, but I just wanna point out that that argument is flawed..
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[SNIP]
What's the difference in freatures between TOC and the closed protocol, anyway? Does anyone know? I've never seen the two compared. . . though I guess I haven't looked too hard, either . . .
viewing the away message is a function of the Oscar protocol, not the TOC protocol. Oscar also had support for buddy icons, and numerous other features found lacking in TOC clients. GAIM has experimental support the Oscar in the last few releases, but it is unusable at the moment due to unauthorized clients being blocked so we are stuck with the TOC protocol--for now.
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I think the way AOL is detecting unproper use of their servers is by exploiting a bug in their own clients. I use GAIM a lot, and I liked the Oscar protocol support, so when it was shutdown, my roommate and I fired up the old packet sniffer... AOL sends out some very odd looking large packets right before it IMs you and kicks you off the network. We beleive that the Win32 client has a bug where those large packets result in a buffer overflow, and the client ignores the garbage packets, while in the reverse engineered version, the client response is basically, "huh? what in the world was that??" and when AOL sees that, it kicks you off.. probably a few more weeks of packet sniffing...we might have a patch ready :)
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Problems with this plan:
this was humor. please don't flame...ok don't flame much.. ok, roast me if you must...but don't hurt my karma! please, anything but my karma!
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wiring a house with cat5 is not a big deal. my flatmate and myself wired our entire house in 3 hours. Our hub sits right on top of the TV/Stereo so we can watch the pretty flashing lights..
maybe when I'm feeling energetic I'll photograph it and stick it up on my page with a Home networking how-to...
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here is a site with some pictures of some of the major players, starting with Babbage and going up to the DEC VAX 11/780
on the home user end of things, this site has some useful information and links about old atair systems and their kind..
hope that helps
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Correct link is Here
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Toshiba is getting 600k common shares from Transmeta. Maybe they want to lower the value of the shares initially, so that when Transmeta's processor ends up being the Intel Killer, that they've made a larger profit? just a thought..
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the article appears to be slashdotted already, but I would guess, since Toshiba is one of the main investors, this is an attempt to get the name Transmeta out there to be seen and heard a bit more before the IPO. No such thing as bad publicity and all that...
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someone earlier asked if search engines would be in trouble if this becomes precendence. what about a link like this that enters in the search criteria right away? is that illegal? and who get carted off to jail? Google, Slashdot, or me?
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does anyone know if there are any linux drivers for the video card mentioned in the story? I'm working on a similar system and this is just the video card I need. Their website says windows only drivers though. links or info, anyone?
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Does this jacket remind anyone else of the jacket Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future 2? he puts it on, it resizes to fit him, he get's wet, it blows him dry... when this thing has THAT functionality, I want one. :)
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being able to modify the source and not document it is what is great about linux! Instant job security. Who would fire you if you're the only one that can run your "specialized" code? :)
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I had a similar problem about 6 years ago, with a hardware company who will remain nameless (sounds-like the last three letters of FAST). I had a brandname computer who's motherboard died on me. No problem I thought, it's still under warranty, I should have it fixed in no time. well, to make a long story short, I ended up fighting with the warranty department for about 2 weeks getting someone to agree that I actually had a warranty. I finally gave that up to no avail, and considering I was 13 at the time, turned the problem over to my dad. he called information and got the corporate offices of the company. when he got the operator at the companies switch board, he asked for the president, and they patched him through!!! the president of the company was shocked to hear of the horrible treatment we were getting, asked for the names of the people that I had talked to, and had my warranty sorted out in a hour. I had my replacement part and technician at my house the next day.
Moral of the Story: call the big guy(or girl) at the top, he just sits in his office all day waiting for something to happen so he can feel proactive.
you may not get as good a response as I did, but boy did that work well for me.
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Most people wanting to view something naughty(!?) will be uncomfortable if they know their actions are visible to others.
while a good idea in theory... I used to do help desk support at my university, and while it usually wasn't a problem, there were a few guys that insisted on sitting in the computer lab (over lunch, when it gets the most use) and view some of the most sexually depraved sites out there... yes, their accounts were suspended, which stopped the problem..but perhaps the oddest thing I've had to do is go over to a very horny guy and ask what his userID is.. ick.
if what this suit claims is true, this is much more serious that just price fixing. It's extortion to small businesses. Here is the first slashdot article about the FTC case.
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maybe you just have an odd shaped head?
that's humor, that what that is..
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eh? what did emmett forget to put here?
ah, I get it now. thank you kindly.
I may be missing the point here...flame away if I am...
can't the distributed work be placed in a binary file? like a tarball? and ta-dah! it's a binary to be distributed. or am I missing something?
urr....um... British Columbia... is neither British, nor Columbian...it's in Canada...but besides that, you're right, cultural differences need to be accounted for. BUT, I don't think video game violence needs to sold only in pron shops... now all those pure little gamers who enjoy blowing up virtual cows will be exposed to seedy adult bookstores. (which for some reason, have very few books...)
That was a big issue when they were developing the game. they fixed it by storing your character information on the battle.net server, so no more duping or hacking of your inventory. hopefully they fixed it. I never ran into anyone during the beta who has cheating, (to my knowledge anyway :)
Cmdr Taco...you were saying that you can't play quicktime movies in linux...I just happened to stumble upon this over at freshmeat... it appears to be a quicktime player for linux...I'm still downloading it, hope it works.
So how about this: Bungie, I'll willingly donate $40-60 to your developer 'beverage fund' if you'll send me an unmarked Halo CD. How 'bout?
all well and good...but if they are gonna be part of microsoft, their "beverage fund" would be nonexistant.. MS has free sodas for everyone. maybe you could pay their "Pizza fund"
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