AOL wasn't allowed to purchase CompuServe directly, UUNET (really MCI or MFS, can't remember who owned UUNET at the time) bought it then carved off the consumer level accounts and sold it to AOL. Part of the deal was AOL transferred all the business service accounts and it's dial-up pops to UUNET and they got merged in with the dial-up pops from CS and the existing UUDIAL network. Then both systems leased POPs access back from UUNET. After that point most multi-state dial-up ISPs where either reselling UUNET or SPRINT dial pop access and where just content providers rather then actuall ISPs.
Cisco WAAS units are what you are looking for. They will do network packet optimizations as well as network caching. It keeps a hash database of the largest possible chunks of data, it sends the hashes first - if it gets a hit in the remote devices database it doesn't have to send all the data. Very effective when it works.
Hey, I used to work for what was left of the CD-i wing of Philips - pmpro. It got spun off and we took all the CD-I hardware and titles still in stock. We we're still doing CD-I title development work up until 2000. At that point times got tough and I had to find other work.
The other big thing is water based early evolution favors symmetrical body plans with the mouth at one end and the anus at the other. Intelligence is most frequently found in carnivores, or herbivore descendants of carnivores.
Also environmental conditions favor body styles. The 'wolf' body form and ecological role has evolved over and over in the placental and marsupial lines.
Intelligence also favors omnivores that can rapidly move into new areas and are not specialized to any food and can readily adapt to the environment. As soon as humans developed tool use and could make clothing and specialized weapons we could out 'evolve' any other animal because we no longer needed natural selection to factor in to changes.
So we're likely to find any civilization is going to be derived from symmetrical linier body plan. Number of paired manipulating appendages would be up in the air. As we as sensory, and reproductive organ placements.
Trust me, i've worked for a tier 1 ISPs abuse department, it's been suggested. The problem is sharing a black list is even more of a problem then dealing with an occasional law suit. It gets into 'unfair trade practices' and turns into a federal anti-trust case against all the involved ISPs.
Actualy Oracle's PIs found out ATL at it's "parent" company are completely funded by microsoft. It lets them play dirty games like this and have a legal firebreak between them and the activity should it backfire.
The distinction between a "functional tool" and "art" is irrelivent. A large number of highly saught after antiques were infact created with the defined use to be a "functional tool". Shaker farm tools for example, while completly "functional" when designed and used. However they are now bought and sold for high dollar amounts to art collectors, museums, and the like.
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James Michael Keller
They didn't find anything, this was all based on the spectroscopic data for the light of a Leniod meteor buring up in the atmosphere.
Try the actual website for the Astrobiology Dept. referenced. --
James Michael Keller
Emotions have a very logical basis - it's call chemistry. With a little electricity theory tossed in for good measure. The whole science of psychochemistry is based on shifting emotions via brain electro-chemical interactions. --
James Michael Keller
Technicaly he is the only current POW in us custody. The fact that he was tried for drug crimes once his feet touched US soil is irrelivent. That was just to keep his stay longer, as they would have had to turn around and release him to the international red cross or other international humaniarian bodies per the Geniva convention as soon as they pulled all US troops out of Panama. -- James Michael Keller
Since this thing is running linux, and probably has some form of reconizable equipment like an EIDE hard disc, shouldn't it be possible to crack it open and slap in say a 75gig drive? I bet that would up the video time nicely. Better yet if it is scsi, run a ribbon cable out the back to a big raid box. Now that's what I call viewing pleasure.
More to the point, anyone crack these things open and see what video system it has, I'd love to tinker together something simmilar in a mini-tower box and stick it in my A/V rack ( have a 7' x 19" equipment rack with all my componets ). You can get those IR remote mice / keypad boxes that talk to standard IR ports. All in all a much beefier system I would think. It could also be cracking blocks for Distributed.net and signal proccessing for Seti@home in it's spare time.
Then again I could wire it into the house lan and out on the T1 from work, and have it doing simmilar content filtering on say MP3's off Napster sites.
(Wonders off muttering techno-babble with a glint in his eye..........) -- James Michael Keller
Yes, if I could personaly round up every engineer in the US and force them to work on space exploration - I'm quite sure I could have them reaching even lofter goals then anything the USSR ever did.
AC idiot. OS/2 was a IBM and Microsoft co-developed product to replace both PC/MS-DOS and MS-Windows. When they ended that contract OS/2 went on to be develoepd as OS/2. MS went on to call the code base NT.
Neither were directed at consumer markets. However MS's dominance of the client boxen OS market soon lead to admins figuring it was easier to use the interface they were used to and go with NT. NT was origionaly targeted much as OS/2 was - as a small office server OS. At some point before NT 4 came out Bill and the marking departement got it stuck in their craw that NT could be "big" server OS as well. That's when life went down hill for us admins. Lackluster support was replaced by agressive marketing to management rather then to the company techies to get the product deployed. -- James Michael Keller
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I must be undead here in that case.....
AOL wasn't allowed to purchase CompuServe directly, UUNET (really MCI or MFS, can't remember who owned UUNET at the time) bought it then carved off the consumer level accounts and sold it to AOL. Part of the deal was AOL transferred all the business service accounts and it's dial-up pops to UUNET and they got merged in with the dial-up pops from CS and the existing UUDIAL network. Then both systems leased POPs access back from UUNET. After that point most multi-state dial-up ISPs where either reselling UUNET or SPRINT dial pop access and where just content providers rather then actuall ISPs.
You want university provided high speed internet - abide by their rules. If you don't - go pay for a wireless data plan.
Cisco WAAS units are what you are looking for. They will do network packet optimizations as well as network caching. It keeps a hash database of the largest possible chunks of data, it sends the hashes first - if it gets a hit in the remote devices database it doesn't have to send all the data. Very effective when it works.
They can also serve as local print servers.
No, your phone records are your providors business records. They can do with them what they want. Go read your TOS.
Hey, I used to work for what was left of the CD-i wing of Philips - pmpro. It got spun off and we took all the CD-I hardware and titles still in stock. We we're still doing CD-I title development work up until 2000. At that point times got tough and I had to find other work.
Basicaly DVD functions on normal CD-Rom media.
The other big thing is water based early evolution favors symmetrical body plans with the mouth at one end and the anus at the other. Intelligence is most frequently found in carnivores, or herbivore descendants of carnivores.
Also environmental conditions favor body styles. The 'wolf' body form and ecological role has evolved over and over in the placental and marsupial lines.
Intelligence also favors omnivores that can rapidly move into new areas and are not specialized to any food and can readily adapt to the environment. As soon as humans developed tool use and could make clothing and specialized weapons we could out 'evolve' any other animal because we no longer needed natural selection to factor in to changes.
So we're likely to find any civilization is going to be derived from symmetrical linier body plan. Number of paired manipulating appendages would be up in the air. As we as sensory, and reproductive organ placements.
Damn, like 3 comments.....
Security issues are backported into the stable tree.
What's funny about this, Slashdot isn't even complient.
Trust me, i've worked for a tier 1 ISPs abuse department, it's been suggested. The problem is sharing a black list is even more of a problem then dealing with an occasional law suit. It gets into 'unfair trade practices' and turns into a federal anti-trust case against all the involved ISPs.
Actualy Oracle's PIs found out ATL at it's "parent" company are completely funded by microsoft. It lets them play dirty games like this and have a legal firebreak between them and the activity should it backfire.
I guess someone found his sub-eather thumb signal
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James Michael Keller
The distinction between a "functional tool" and "art" is irrelivent. A large number of highly saught after antiques were infact created with the defined use to be a "functional tool". Shaker farm tools for example, while completly "functional" when designed and used. However they are now bought and sold for high dollar amounts to art collectors, museums, and the like.
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James Michael Keller
Private gun owners out number the military 25 to 1.
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James Michael Keller
Not that I'm nocking Ken in any way©
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James Michael Keller
Back up the URL to his home page there©©©
His office:
666 Mountain Ave©
Room 2C-519
Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974-0636, USA
Could explain a lot eh? :
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James Michael Keller
They didn't find anything, this was all based on the spectroscopic data for the light of a Leniod meteor buring up in the atmosphere. Try the actual website for the Astrobiology Dept. referenced.
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James Michael Keller
Yes, I hate Checkpoint too : CCSA/CCSE
--
James Michael Keller
Emotions have a very logical basis - it's call chemistry. With a little electricity theory tossed in for good measure. The whole science of psychochemistry is based on shifting emotions via brain electro-chemical interactions.
--
James Michael Keller
Here is a link on the subject. http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert .html
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James Michael Keller
Technicaly he is the only current POW in us custody. The fact that he was tried for drug crimes once his feet touched US soil is irrelivent. That was just to keep his stay longer, as they would have had to turn around and release him to the international red cross or other international humaniarian bodies per the Geniva convention as soon as they pulled all US troops out of Panama.
--
James Michael Keller
Since this thing is running linux, and probably has some form of reconizable equipment like an EIDE hard disc, shouldn't it be possible to crack it open and slap in say a 75gig drive? I bet that would up the video time nicely. Better yet if it is scsi, run a ribbon cable out the back to a big raid box. Now that's what I call viewing pleasure.
More to the point, anyone crack these things open and see what video system it has, I'd love to tinker together something simmilar in a mini-tower box and stick it in my A/V rack ( have a 7' x 19" equipment rack with all my componets ). You can get those IR remote mice / keypad boxes that talk to standard IR ports. All in all a much beefier system I would think. It could also be cracking blocks for Distributed.net and signal proccessing for Seti@home in it's spare time.
Then again I could wire it into the house lan and out on the T1 from work, and have it doing simmilar content filtering on say MP3's off Napster sites.
(Wonders off muttering techno-babble with a glint in his eye..........)
--
James Michael Keller
Yes, if I could personaly round up every engineer in the US and force them to work on space exploration - I'm quite sure I could have them reaching even lofter goals then anything the USSR ever did.
--
James Michael Keller
AC idiot. OS/2 was a IBM and Microsoft co-developed product to replace both PC/MS-DOS and MS-Windows. When they ended that contract OS/2 went on to be develoepd as OS/2. MS went on to call the code base NT.
Neither were directed at consumer markets. However MS's dominance of the client boxen OS market soon lead to admins figuring it was easier to use the interface they were used to and go with NT. NT was origionaly targeted much as OS/2 was - as a small office server OS. At some point before NT 4 came out Bill and the marking departement got it stuck in their craw that NT could be "big" server OS as well. That's when life went down hill for us admins. Lackluster support was replaced by agressive marketing to management rather then to the company techies to get the product deployed.
--
James Michael Keller