But they are going to care if I give them a Tektronix Xterm that no modern UNIX supports or a Sun 3/50 that requires a central server to boot off of. Yay. They get to turn on the screen, look at black pixels and bake in the ambient radiation. Sounds like a great computer class to me!
Actually, the Xterm was dead and the Sun was on the verge of death. It had been hit with lightning in 1995 and had faulty RAM. Enough to boot, get up on the network and then crash about half an hour later. Not worth my time to repair it.
Someone else went off on me because of the same thing and said I should have donated it. Every school/church around here won't take donations unless it'll run Windows 98 or Mac OS 9. The local high school gives Mac Quadras and PPC boxen to me because they're getting rid of them. I turn around and use the parts to repair/refurbish/upgrade systems of random people in town.
Indeed. If you're ever in Philadelphia for Halloween weekend, check out PumpCon, an annual hacker con. The organizers put together a shootout at a local range and is pretty much open invitation. There's nothing quite like a bunch of hackers taking over the entire range for the evening firing semiautomatic and automatic weapons./Sean/
Yup...it's worth my time to track down replacement parts for an old machine that no one would want to touch with a ten foot pole. Hell, the schools that I would have donated it to are giving me Mac Quadras and old PowerPCs and stuff because they don't want stuff older than 1998. The father in law is a teacher and offloads stuff on me all the time. Heck, even the local church doesn't want anything that won't run Windows 98.
Give me an address to ship the stuff to, mail me cash to cover shipping and I'll donate it.
Hey...it had bad RAM and crashed randomly after booting and operating for a few hours, so I put holes in it. Had you graciously donated a new VME RAM expansion board, I gladly would have donated it.
It seems that www.xenu.net is back up! No idea why...I started mirroring the remains about an hour ago and just noticed that index.html is up again! Hrm...go figure...
Where's my dollar? I've been running RH Linux 6.0 on my two-piece wannabe-SCSI Aptiva since 6.0 was released. Was rebooted once for a kernel upgrade. It's currently my Netatalk fileserver behind my firewall for my LAN and a damn-cool X-Window System terminal to sit at running Windowmaker. Not the fastest system on the planet, mind you, but Good Enough (tm). =)
And that's Microsoft Assember! I thought it was great. I never had a problem with it. The sad thing is, it's the only quality Microsoft product I've ever seen.
I find it ironic that after bashing Katz and his book, The Obvious links to Running to the Mountain on Amazon.com with their account number so they'll get 15% from anyone who purchases the book off the link. Teehee.
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Definitely. The world is becoming more isolated by choice. People are locking themselves in their rooms and not coming out for days. Opting to communicate on IRC with digital girlfriends and boyfriends instead of going out into the "big room with no walls," these people are waiting for the day when they can just "jack in" to the "matrix" and live forever as a fantasy form.
Only in this day and age can this behavior be seen as glamorous. Hundreds of years ago, people with this mentality of wishing they lived in a dream world were committed. What's the difference between creating a dream world on a screen and creating a dream world in your mind?
Fiber is getting laid into my basement in a week or two. The T1 should be up by mid-April. Yay. High speed for me. Now I just have to pay for it. Anyone have any ideas on what geek services I should provide? Last thing I want is to become a stuck-up web hosting provider.
It really figures. I mean, when was the last time you saw a CEO or President able to write anything other than unpunctuated scrawl. That's what their secretaries are for. Anyway, yeah...
Yeah, no kidding. There will obviously be filters available, but still...the denial of service and cost potential is amazing. At least with fax machines you can't easily broadcast 10,000 documents...it still requires dialing each number and 30 or 40 seconds for each page. This way, just push in a hundred thousand URLs for Internet-connected printers and you just wasted a tree or two in a couple seconds. Ick.
I don't get it. I just parse my logfiles looking for NETBIOS broadcasts on the cablemodem segment, run smbclient to scan for open shares then print interesting printers to people on my segment with open printers. I guess this is finally a solid standard that all systems will support. Yay.
Slashdot Mirror
Because robots.txt can specify not to index specific directories. Some robots.txt tell it not to index a site at all, some say not to index /tmp, etc.
/Sean/
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Bah, you bastards! I was halfway through reading it off the link from HNN when it got /.ed! That was quick...
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But they are going to care if I give them a Tektronix Xterm that no modern UNIX supports or a Sun 3/50 that requires a central server to boot off of. Yay. They get to turn on the screen, look at black pixels and bake in the ambient radiation. Sounds like a great computer class to me!
/Sean/
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Actually, the Xterm was dead and the Sun was on the verge of death. It had been hit with lightning in 1995 and had faulty RAM. Enough to boot, get up on the network and then crash about half an hour later. Not worth my time to repair it.
Someone else went off on me because of the same thing and said I should have donated it. Every school/church around here won't take donations unless it'll run Windows 98 or Mac OS 9. The local high school gives Mac Quadras and PPC boxen to me because they're getting rid of them. I turn around and use the parts to repair/refurbish/upgrade systems of random people in town.
/Sean/
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Indeed. If you're ever in Philadelphia for Halloween weekend, check out PumpCon, an annual hacker con. The organizers put together a shootout at a local range and is pretty much open invitation. There's nothing quite like a bunch of hackers taking over the entire range for the evening firing semiautomatic and automatic weapons. /Sean/
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Yup...it's worth my time to track down replacement parts for an old machine that no one would want to touch with a ten foot pole. Hell, the schools that I would have donated it to are giving me Mac Quadras and old PowerPCs and stuff because they don't want stuff older than 1998. The father in law is a teacher and offloads stuff on me all the time. Heck, even the local church doesn't want anything that won't run Windows 98.
Give me an address to ship the stuff to, mail me cash to cover shipping and I'll donate it.
/Sean/
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When will you Brits pay attention to the details, this guy is from Norway.
Actually, Pennsylvania. Go figure.
/Sean/
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Hey...it had bad RAM and crashed randomly after booting and operating for a few hours, so I put holes in it. Had you graciously donated a new VME RAM expansion board, I gladly would have donated it.
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ISP? ISP!?!? I don't need no stinkin' ISP! I have a T1 in my basement. I /.ed myself.
/Sean/
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It seems that www.xenu.net is back up! No idea why...I started mirroring the remains about an hour ago and just noticed that index.html is up again! Hrm...go figure...
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Where's my dollar? I've been running RH Linux 6.0 on my two-piece wannabe-SCSI Aptiva since 6.0 was released. Was rebooted once for a kernel upgrade. It's currently my Netatalk fileserver behind my firewall for my LAN and a damn-cool X-Window System terminal to sit at running Windowmaker. Not the fastest system on the planet, mind you, but Good Enough (tm). =)
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And that's Microsoft Assember! I thought it was great. I never had a problem with it. The sad thing is, it's the only quality Microsoft product I've ever seen.
I find it ironic that after bashing Katz and his book, The Obvious links to Running to the Mountain on Amazon.com with their account number so they'll get 15% from anyone who purchases the book off the link. Teehee.
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Definitely. The world is becoming more isolated by choice. People are locking themselves in their rooms and not coming out for days. Opting to communicate on IRC with digital girlfriends and boyfriends instead of going out into the "big room with no walls," these people are waiting for the day when they can just "jack in" to the "matrix" and live forever as a fantasy form.
Only in this day and age can this behavior be seen as glamorous. Hundreds of years ago, people with this mentality of wishing they lived in a dream world were committed. What's the difference between creating a dream world on a screen and creating a dream world in your mind?
Nothing.
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Fiber is getting laid into my basement in a week or two. The T1 should be up by mid-April. Yay. High speed for me. Now I just have to pay for it. Anyone have any ideas on what geek services I should provide? Last thing I want is to become a stuck-up web hosting provider.
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It really figures. I mean, when was the last time you saw a CEO or President able to write anything other than unpunctuated scrawl. That's what their secretaries are for. Anyway, yeah...
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Yeah, no kidding. There will obviously be filters available, but still...the denial of service and cost potential is amazing. At least with fax machines you can't easily broadcast 10,000 documents...it still requires dialing each number and 30 or 40 seconds for each page. This way, just push in a hundred thousand URLs for Internet-connected printers and you just wasted a tree or two in a couple seconds. Ick.
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I don't get it. I just parse my logfiles looking for NETBIOS broadcasts on the cablemodem segment, run smbclient to scan for open shares then print interesting printers to people on my segment with open printers. I guess this is finally a solid standard that all systems will support. Yay.
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WTF? The article actually says this. Please excuse me while I destroy something.
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