CAUCE has
an RFC on setting your SMTP banner to report not only your UCE/UBE preference, but your locality for legal situations.
For example, our SMTP banner (provided by SMTPd of the Juniper Firewall Toolkit) says this:
220 Machinename NO UCE C=US L=CO ready.
Looking Glass made some incredible games. There are no two ways about it. My personal favorite is System Shock. Allow me to give a brief history:
So, they make a great game, but they miss Christmas, and then their publisher does no publicity at all. All the reviews are excellent, but no can pick up the game anywhere! I loved System Shock, but I finally had to dig it out of the $10 bin at some backwoods store.
Why was it such a great game? It wasn't really the technology. It was a story so intense, and a world so sucessfully designed that you could sit in front of a glowing screen for hours thinking to yourself, "You know, if SHODAN wasn't such a bitch, Citidel Station would be a cool place to live!"
Now Looking Glass is closing their doors. After critically acclaimed games that have ALWAYS gotten good reviews, they are out of business.
Do we not respect story? Fully realized worlds? I think Half Life disputes that sufficiently. We are still able to put aside drooling on the wallpaper to enjoy the game.
But it remains up to us to discover the great games, and bring them to the forefront, if the publishers and seller do not. Heard about a good game? For the sake of the art, BUY IT.
A few years ago, a flood ravaged the newly-renovated library at Colorado State University, destroying thousands of books, and reducing others to unstable masses of wood pulp and silt. Many books were recovered, and the library today has full use. But in the mean time, its functionality was assured through the use of digital books. Students were able to browse destroyed books online using special terminals. Some books were actually online, while others were, I understand, manually placed on a scanner at the nearby Colorado Univ Bolder campus. Either way, the library remained a storehouse of knowledge despite the destructive power of nature.
So. Here is my reason one for digitizing books. When you do this, you save the book from its death. In the same way that pictures and voices are immortalized in easily-copied images and recordings, books can be immortalized through easily-copied and stored digital representations.
I don't need to speculate on the enormous loss that fire or flood or warfare would cause should it hit the Library of Congress.
Secondly, I grew up in a small town, where I was blessed with a library with an active Inter-Library Loan service. It was slow and painful, and probably quite expensive to both libraries. But they did it out of the kindness of their hearts and the respect for all that a library stands for. Make their job easier. Make it easier for even the poorest library in the country to have full access to the knowledge of the world.
I credit (or blame) Star Trek as being the impetus for many of the inventions we take for granted now days. I'm talking things like cell phones and PDAs.
So, I guess I really shouldn't be surpised to read this. It rather smacks of the Prime Directive, doesn't it? If you find life, be nice to it? Something like that?
There is a wireless coop in its infancy out here in Northern Colorado. Apparently, with a decent gain antenna, you can stretch those devices into a metropolitan area network. They are using the 11Mb/s AeroNet devices, but I fear they may be stretching things a little too much. On another note, two local ISPs here are sharing a NNTP server through a 1Mb/s link. It is running line-of-site between their two buildings, and works great -- it was much cheaper than buying a T1 line from US West, too.
But what do I know... I'm still impressed that I can bounce 1200 baud packets over the Rocky Mountains...
I've had dealings with Qwest recently. They haven't even lit HALF of the fiber they have laid, and already they have more bandwidth than any body - perhaps even God. On the other hand, US West... well, Quest can't hurt, that's for sure!
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Hey, I bet you didn't READ the bill, did you?! A, D, V, COLON, in capitol letters. COLON! Did you see the COLON?! Nah. I didn't think so...
CAUCE has an RFC on setting your SMTP banner to report not only your UCE/UBE preference, but your locality for legal situations.
For example, our SMTP banner (provided by SMTPd of the Juniper Firewall Toolkit) says this:
220 Machinename NO UCE C=US L=CO ready.
Looking Glass made some incredible games. There are no two ways about it. My personal favorite is System Shock. Allow me to give a brief history:
So, they make a great game, but they miss Christmas, and then their publisher does no publicity at all. All the reviews are excellent, but no can pick up the game anywhere! I loved System Shock, but I finally had to dig it out of the $10 bin at some backwoods store.
Why was it such a great game? It wasn't really the technology. It was a story so intense, and a world so sucessfully designed that you could sit in front of a glowing screen for hours thinking to yourself, "You know, if SHODAN wasn't such a bitch, Citidel Station would be a cool place to live!"
Now Looking Glass is closing their doors. After critically acclaimed games that have ALWAYS gotten good reviews, they are out of business.
Do we not respect story? Fully realized worlds? I think Half Life disputes that sufficiently. We are still able to put aside drooling on the wallpaper to enjoy the game.
But it remains up to us to discover the great games, and bring them to the forefront, if the publishers and seller do not. Heard about a good game? For the sake of the art, BUY IT.
A few years ago, a flood ravaged the newly-renovated library at Colorado State University, destroying thousands of books, and reducing others to unstable masses of wood pulp and silt.
Many books were recovered, and the library today has full use. But in the mean time, its functionality was assured through the use of digital books.
Students were able to browse destroyed books online using special terminals. Some books were actually online, while others were, I understand, manually placed on a scanner at the nearby Colorado Univ Bolder campus.
Either way, the library remained a storehouse of knowledge despite the destructive power of nature.
So. Here is my reason one for digitizing books. When you do this, you save the book from its death. In the same way that pictures and voices are immortalized in easily-copied images and recordings, books can be immortalized through easily-copied and stored digital representations.
I don't need to speculate on the enormous loss that fire or flood or warfare would cause should it hit the Library of Congress.
Secondly, I grew up in a small town, where I was blessed with a library with an active Inter-Library Loan service. It was slow and painful, and probably quite expensive to both libraries. But they did it out of the kindness of their hearts and the respect for all that a library stands for.
Make their job easier. Make it easier for even the poorest library in the country to have full access to the knowledge of the world.
I credit (or blame) Star Trek as being the impetus for many of the inventions we take for granted now days. I'm talking things like cell phones and PDAs.
So, I guess I really shouldn't be surpised to read this. It rather smacks of the Prime Directive, doesn't it? If you find life, be nice to it? Something like that?
I think its kind of cool.
PS: Kudos to the ObRef to Arthur C Clarke!Do you find it the slightest bit amusing that the old Bond and Trek technology is so funny now? Already?
Did you notice that Trek communicators suck compared to a Nokia cell phone?
Did you notice that in the original Trek, they had to swap those stupid disk things more than a Classic Mac with no hard drive?
Isn't it amusing that my Palm computer is smaller than the Trek PADD?
. . . Goodbye, Q. You will be missed greatly.
There is a wireless coop in its infancy out here in Northern Colorado. Apparently, with a decent gain antenna, you can stretch those devices into a metropolitan area network.
They are using the 11Mb/s AeroNet devices, but I fear they may be stretching things a little too much.
On another note, two local ISPs here are sharing a NNTP server through a 1Mb/s link. It is running line-of-site between their two buildings, and works great -- it was much cheaper than buying a T1 line from US West, too.
But what do I know... I'm still impressed that I can bounce 1200 baud packets over the Rocky Mountains...
--N0ZAP
Its an ELSA GLoria card. If its Permedia-based, it is probably the Synergy. When hooked up to HP's gigibit networking, these things FLY.
I've had dealings with Qwest recently. They haven't even lit HALF of the fiber they have laid, and already they have more bandwidth than any body - perhaps even God.
On the other hand, US West... well, Quest can't hurt, that's for sure!