One of the first product offerings Steve Wozniak came up with after leaving Apple was a fantastically powerful IR remote control. It could "learn" from other IR devices, and people would use them to capture the IR signal flashed by emergency vehicles....
Please forgive my ignorance. If I route my mail through the cable modem ISP's mail server, will it still carry the 'from' header of my unique domain name?
Haven't really found much info about handling mail this way. I'm using Postfix.
Unfortunately, I think we have 10-20 more years before we start to see really efficient policing of the Internet.
Do you actually think the internet will be what it is today 10 or even 20 years from now?
I would expect that the aspects that allow SPAM to proliferate (loose SMTP rules, etc.) will be replaced by then probably because of SPAM and the other things you're hinting at that need policing (kracking systems, etc).
Well, if you believe the FBI, the coders responsible for the Anna Kornikova and Melissa viruses were caught. And it didn't take a conspirator's plea bargain or a mole to catch them.
With any luck we'll see Echelon leveraged to identify the originators of this evil. You gotta think that SPAM is some kind of headache for the Echelon admins. With all this talk of Nigerian money laundering, Echelon has to work all that much harder to spot the real money movers.
You are so right. This is idiotic to block whole dialup ranges. My parents have an SBC DSL account and now I can't send them email from my server (admittedly hosted on a roadrunner cable modem) because they're blocking everything from 'dialups'. The bounces say you can get unlisted if you send an email to 'abuse@prodigy.net'. Unfortunately, sending email to that from my 'dialup' results in bouncebacks also.
It irks me just that much more that the response code sent with the bouncebacks from 'prodigy.net' include a typographical error. It says to 'send and email to abuse@prodigy.net...' How infuriating. I think I'm going to call them and waste their phone reps time struggling with this matter today.
These kneejerk paranoid kooks need to chill out. Because of their distorted & overly-suspicious perspectives, they interpreted that the 800mb was about each person. It's not, as the parent has pointed out. The article is about how much data is being generated about everything under the sun. This includes BLOGS, books, notes, or what have you. It's unique data, not including duplicate copies of mp3s or DVDs, or whatever else.
I don't think they're really trying to get people to follow those links. I think they're trying to improve search engine placement by the number of sites that point to their site.
SCO should look to one of the cheap asian companies like Fudin or PowMax for their cases. IBM is gonna charge an arm and a leg and the resulting boxes won't be very portable. Plus, I don't think IBM does any of the cool mod stuff with windows or cathode lights.
Sed, awk, and grep are the tools I was thinking of. I didn't mean that Microsoft hasn't incorporated other concepts from the computer industry.
In terms of things that would attract people to the CLI of Linux, it's stuff like diff and the afformentioned tools that bare installs of windows is missing. You can install them yourself. Microsoft is very unlikely to start including these tools in DOS, I could see them rewrting the tools from scratch, though, and calling them something different.
Sorry to rail on the original poster in my previous comment. He's probably a good guy and I was in a poor mood earlier today.
That dude is talking out his ass when he says he boots into linux when he needs 'CL goodness that DOS can't provide". He was just trying to temper his pro-windows rant by claiming to use Linux. As anyone who uses Linux and windows to any great extent knows, the cool command line tools that originated in Linux have all been ported to windows... you just have to install them seperately. Because their usefulness wasn't conceived in Redmond, they don't come bundled with Windows.
This guy is a 100% point-and-clicker. He percieves that others prefer a CL environment and wants people to think he's hip to the CL. But to use Linux just for a CL, well, that's about like sitting in your car in the driveway to listen to the radio. You can listen to the stereo in your house just the same. And it's silly to just sit in your driveway listening to the radio when you could be driving around.
I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that Lucas has completely fumbled this franchise. I could really give a crap that the third movie is finished. He had a few flashes of brilliance when he was young, but lost it.
Fans of classic arcade gamining who live in Texas would probably enjoy visiting the
Videotopia exhibit in San Antonio. It's an interactive museum exhibit of classic arcade games from the 80s through to the mid-90s. They've got all the important games of this era on display for people to play. You have to pay one token per game, but they have a trivia terminal that allows you to earn free tokens if you've studied the text at each display.
It's running until November, so you've got time to check it out. The exhibit is being hosted in the Texas Culture Museum, which is a pretty cool place that was originally built for the 1968 Hemisfair.
Actually, I posted a for-sale message on a newsgroup 7 years ago. That email address continues to be flooded with spam to this day. It's absolutely unusable. Don't check your mail for 5 days while you're on vacation, you have to hit delete 3,000 times. Ugh. I guess your point about me being an idiot may be correct for having posted my email on a newsgroup back then.
I have a friend who graduated from the Univ. of Texas with a BA in computer science. He landed a job with AOL TIME WARNER that pays $70k starting. It's in NYC.
I have no idea why you're eager to make $20k and live in India over the UK. Something funny is going on.
worried about getting mugged and having your 'fabulous gadget' stolen at work? Ugh. You need to spend less time being bossed around by your wife and start working out in the gym. When somebody sketchy starts eyeing your gem from across the train, you need to look him straight in the eyes for no less than 45 seconds, then move over and sit right next to the guy. Do you have a ball peen hammer? No? Well, get one and carry it in the hand not holding your archos.
You'll be fine.
This advice is also effective in the workplace.
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Lots of great observations in this discussion. Almost doesn't seem like SlashDot.
As I read the article, I kept noticing this emphasis on the claim that it will be more costly to develop for the PS3. No real example of how these costs are introduced. Will it take 200 more lines of code to drag a sprite across the screen? I doubt it.
I think they (the developers' association) has put out this press release to try to loosen Sony on some aspect of proposed developer licensing. Notice that the article doesn't refer to Xbox or GameCube anywhere. I bet Sony has said some crap like how they're not going to put out a developer kit or the kit isn't going to have as many tools as the PS2 one had. Perhaps Sony is expecting the developers to make all the tools themselves.
In the end, I think this is a lot of complaining for naught. Because there's competition in the console market, the developers will get what they want in terms of tools, etc. from the console vendors because each console wants to remove all obstacles necessary for titles to be released for their platform.
No crap. The parent is detailing the acrobatics necessary to configure IE in a clueful manner. But the whole time I'm wondering why he has a clue on what a good search engine Google is, yet never recognizes he could avoid these registry edits, popups, etc. by using a clueful browser and dumping IE.
I agree fully with your analysis of who is in charge / responsible / etc.
When you said 'You Do WHat You're Told' I started reminiscing... In those situations where I had a job where I Did What I Was Told, I rarely 'ran around' fixing things. I pretty much walked slowly and quielty explained to people I was doing what I was told. Those firemen who ran into the World Trade Center weren't doing what they were told. They ran in there because they believed in what they were doing and were motivated by the urgent need to rescue people. On the other side of the spectrum, if I'm having to clean up somebody's turds because three other idiots involved in the chain of command don't know how a toilet works (note sarcastic metaphor for Windows OS and feel free to use it GPL-style) I am hardly going to be able to muster up the energy to "run around".
I'm not really disagreeing with anything you're saying here. Just sort of inspired to reminisce in public...
I agree with you to a great extent. After so many of these trojans have been making news headlines for years, you'd think users would figure out that they shouldn't click on weird executables attached to oddly-written emails. But they keep doing it.
I live in Austin, TX, and every damn time one of these outbreaks occurs, the local tv news will cover it with a story that warns people to protect themselves by not opening emails from people they don't know. Wow. If I only have sex with people I know, will I be safe from herpes?
All of those things sound like great uses for old intel-based hardware.
I am completely serious when I say 10.2 runs fine on my 450mhz B/W G3. I'll agree that 10.0 was spinning beach ball hell, but 10.1 got a lot faster and now 10.2.6 is perfectly fine. I use this computer for photoshop, iTunes, Quark (in classic mode), iMovie, and browsing the web in Camino. I'll probably get a G5 so I can do bigger DV projects, but beyond that, my G3 is 'good enough'.
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That dude is talking out his ass when he says he boots into linux when he needs 'CL goodness that DOS can't provide". He was just trying to temper his pro-windows rant by claiming to use Linux. As anyone who uses Linux and windows to any great extent knows, the cool command line tools that originated in Linux have all been ported to windows... you just have to install them seperately. Because their usefulness wasn't conceived in Redmond, they don't come bundled with Windows.
This guy is a 100% point-and-clicker. He percieves that others prefer a CL environment and wants people to think he's hip to the CL. But to use Linux just for a CL, well, that's about like sitting in your car in the driveway to listen to the radio. You can listen to the stereo in your house just the same. And it's silly to just sit in your driveway listening to the radio when you could be driving around.