Well, being a former overclocker myself, the hey-day(-5 points for spelling) seems to be over to me. No longer is overclocking simply a dip switch or jumper change. With these new cartridge-afied CPUs, you hafta break into the things, and maybe even de-solder and then re-solder those miniscule eyeball straining resistors. With chips running as fast as they are nowdays, I opine that a modern-day overclocker is significantly more bleeding-edge than those of yesteryear, like me. I do admit that I miss it...
a comparison of the different consoles? I saw one a long time ago, and it seems like, feature-wise, the jaguar was cool (working from seriously old memory here). I also remember that comparison saying the Playstation sucked rocks, but loa and behold - the Jaguar has gone the way of the kiwi, and the Playstation is kicking butt. Am I remembering wrong or is this another example of the better *marketing* winning? (Seems like that is becoming way too common nowadays)
It's neat, of course, but it just makes me wonder (OK, so I'm weird) - what is going to be the REVOLUTIOARY development? Think about it, we've gotten to where CPU power is small and cheap, and storage is small and cheap (relatively). What's the next Big Step? I can't imagine that 10 years from now, I'm gonna be browsing on my new 4GB RAM 1TB HDD 2Ghz laptop. We are rapidly approaching (maybe we're already there?) the point where you stand up, look around, and ask yourself "What's the point?". My personal machine is as follows (to make a point) laptop with a 14.3" TFT, 18GB HDD, 384MB RAM, P3 500Mhz. I read email on this and browse the web. See what I mean? What's the point? Am I just waiting for the next "Killer App"? Or something altogether different????
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/win2000/news/ 0,9493,2449668,00.html?chkpt=entne ws-win 2000 -(how do I make this a link? Sorry that it's not) No surprise of course, these guys do this to EVERYTHING they possibly can.
Wow - I totally disagree with this. If you take an "average" corporate email, let's take MY work email as an example, when I highlight an email and hit "delete", it is simply moved to a folder titled "deleted mail", when I exit, it purges that folder. Here's where it gets sticky - are the email admins logging? Did I leave my email client on overnight? If I did, there's a very readable version of that mail on a DLT somewhere. Let's say I DID manage to purge the thing completely, did the originator/recipient do the same. Getting rid of a letter, unless it was copied, is as simple as burning it. Emails have this nasty tendency to get copied to places you don't relaize....
If this is, in fact, true; and I am not missing something, then I have a question. Why do governments pass these kind of idiotic rules/laws/whatever? This is right up the alley of the US government banning the export of strong encryption. The supposed premise is we don't want bad guys to get their hands on it, right? (after reading the article, it seems encryption may be what this about as well) All this prevents is LEGITIMATE business from exporting, because the "bad-guys" you don't want to get it couldn't give a shit that you outlawed it! WTF am I missing?
I'm telling ya, this whole friggin company is in denial. I don't think they believe their own propaganda, just that if they repeat it enough, everyone else WILL. Can someone point me to something worthwhile (there has to be SOMETHING) that these guys DID invent? (Excel, maybe? I don't think they bought/stole that off someone else...)
Really? I would sincerely like to run this thing out (non-rudely). I think we may be saying the same thing in different ways. While I certainly think the method you commit a crime is relevant, I think the fact that you committed a crime with an object cannot render an otherwise legal object's possession illegal. In other words, the fact that they used l0phtcrack in an illegal way is relevant, it's posession shouldn't be. (am I making sense?) Back to the lockpick - for instance, I own one for whatever legal reason, that ownership is legal, but if I use them for an illegal reason, I don't see how that renders the *ownership* of the lockpick illegal. Sure, slap my pee-pee for being bad with them, but *not* for owning them. (I hope you respond and that we can keep this civil)
They were busted for USING l0phtcrack (rightly so) but they were also busted for HAVING it. It's that second part that seems a bit rotten to me. If the law really allows this (i.e. they aren't aquitted of the possession part), there's something rotten in Michigan. It would essentially be saying (to use the lockpick metaphor) Lockpicks are fine to possess, unless you use them. i.e. the committing of a crime with an otherwise legal device thereby renders the possession of that device illegal. SO - owning the lockpicks is fine until you use them to break into something, then you're guilty of the breakin AND owning the lockpicks.
the current status of this guy's game company? As for a comment on the story - can't we at least say the system worked, albeit after quite some time and in an admittedly sad way? I, of course, am a bit perturbed by SJ getting 50K and his lawyers getting 250K (why does this country reward victim's lawyers more than the victim?) BUT - "the judge gave them a good tongue lashing" part at least *partly* proves the system works, sort of....right?
it seems to make sense to me, I mean, even for non-NFL type shows, they have to pay a chunk of change for them, right? It seems if they had to pay to be able to broadcast it, they should be able to control that? I think, or maybe I'm just hung-over....(Frankly, I need another drink)
Maybe I'm missing something, BUT - this seems to be an obvious money-maker to me. Sure, they'd PREFER you to sign up for AOL and pay to access it over their broadband services (they get you coming and going - 1 bill for AOL service, and 1 for the connection through cable). If they DIDN'T open it up, the only buckazoids they'd see would be from direct customers - i.e. people who signed up specifically for AOL. But by opening up, you still keep all those (well, most anyways) customers, but suddenly you are skimming buckazoids from every customer that signs up to competing ISP's over this. This little gem has dramatically increased the potential number of people from whom they can get monthly fees (probably unseen by the customer, it'll be rolled up in the ISP's monthly fee) Maybe there's something deeper to this, or maybe they are being altruistic, but I think it's just an obvious money maker (which is not a Bad Thing to me, hell, they own the cable, they should be able to charge to use it)
seems to have been shared by a lot of folks - specifically "Yea, so?" BUT - the more I allow both of my active brain cells to massage this little nugget, the more I come to the conclusion that more Open Source stuff (maybe "broader" is a better word than "more", total volume isn't my point), the better. I mean, it's not like they're forcing this stuff on you. And doesn't this hint at future additional Linux interoperability? I don't see how *that* can be a Bad Thing (OK, the words "future" and "NETbeui" may not belong in the same sentence) One minor nit-pick: Doesn't NETbeui stand for "NETBIOS Enhanced User Interface"?????????? Even though that makes no sense to me, that's what I always thought it was....
A PC vs Big Iron Holy War was definitely not what I was expecting with this article. Having worked with computers in various industries, I can tell you one thing, all of this stuff has its place. I was at a large loan servicing shop (like over a million loans) and I can tell you - you cannot configure any PC hardware to do what their MID-range box did. Over a 2 year period, not ONE server bounce, all the while hundreds of users logged in constantly, running massive batch jobs every night, printing out over ONE MILLION statements at a time etc. etc. etc. I am certainly not knocking the PC, I love 'em. But I do like the positive tone of this article, IMHO Big-Iron stuff is way way misunderstood by folks who haven't any experience with them. Heck, even I scoffed at the things until I got a chance to work with them. (PS I know my website's down - gimme a break, I have a full time job, ya know?)
ok - maybe errrr, i definitely wasn't clear, (apologies for the spare apostophe) BUT - what I meant was we never get a raw connection of 11mbs, apples to apples would be the bs "10mbs" of standard ethernet. You might not get 10mbs of throughput, but you do get a 10mbs connection. We get like 4mbs raw, which might equate to less than 2mbs real throughput. To get 11mbs (raw, for lack of a better term) we practically have to duct tape the wavelan NIC to the access point's antenna (I believe a proper use of an apostophe). Again, trying to be informative, not snooty.
AFAIK the base station is nothing but (this is based on the ones we use at work) a PCMCIA slot attached to an ethernet interface, you actually plug one of the PC cards into the slot - so these would NOT be neccesary for 2 machines to talk to each other if they both had wavelan nics
What's with all the hullaballoo here? We have these at work (for a few months now), not the inexpensive one's listed here, but 11 mbs nonetheless, and we RARELY, no, more like NEVER get an 11mbs connection. On a good day we get 4, but more often than not, 2. Not trying to start a flame war, just my $.02
http://www.communitech.net/ their virtual hosting pricing, and what it comes with, are hard to beat. they'll host on either solaris or (ahem) NT. They also have a dedicated server package, but that would seem overkill at first. Of course, they're not geared to doing only the registration part, but if you're looking for a home for it as well, these guys are great....hth
"QED the OS sucks. You know, I'm sorta having trouble following that logic" I don't know if you'll even read this, as it's way old - BUT - read my post. I never even *hinted* at that. I was begrudgingly acknowledging it's superiority over wintel boxes. I was also poking fun at MYSELF for not being able to figure out a machine that is widely considered (and I think correctly so) EASIER to use than the wintel's I consider myself a power-user on. (not flaming here, just clarifying)
I have a close friend who's (whose? my grammar sucks) hubby works at an ad agency, and they SWEAR by 'em. He's got one at home too (obviously). I've always respected the things, just never liked 'em. AFAIK they don't lock up (hell, my snazzy new p3-500 laptop win2k box hangs almost on a daily basis), and you just plug stuff into them and it works. Granted, my above statements could be the result of Apple propaganda, because I've only *tried* to use a Mac ONCE. Get this - a friend needed help doing a mail-merge on his Mac. I thump my chest and say "Of course I can help" Holy-shit did I get my butt kicked by supposedly the easiest OS to use in the world. I jacked with this thing for like an hour (on my PC it would have been like 3 minutes) I could NOT adapt to it trying to help so much. I think the final solution was to drop one icon on the other (I kept opening the apps) sheesh.....
OK, so IMHO X-Net is the Eurasia of the internet continents. I mean, even my mother, who's most adventurous web jaunts take her to the likes of bluemountain greetings (ooooooooh) stumbled on the stuff. And now I'm on a ton of porn-email lists due to the following - ringring:this is el guapo. wife:what's that search engine you use? elguapo:hotbot. 5 minutes later - rinring - elguapo:this is el guapo. wife(angrily):why'd you tell me to go to that website?? yup - she went to hotbod.com. (and of course she had turned cookies back on) Now I get a daily dose of "If you're under 18 do NOT read this message". This, of course, guarantees that a tennager WOULD read it. Oh well...
is totally jumping on this quote: "a program that can unscramble encrypted digital video disks (DVD) and let people copy them." WTF!?!?!? I can copy DVD's all friggin day long, right now, without DeCSS. (if someone has made this point, I didn't see it - sorry) Now, it admittedly does give a pirate the ability to make a perfect digital copy of the original MPEG, as opposed to having to copy the analog steam coming out of the codec. But I would opine that pirates give exactly 1 rat's ass about their pirated copy being sligjtly less than perfect due to copying the analog stream. I guess one day I'll quit being dumbfounded by how ignorant the average reporter is
I have a hard time accepting this one quote, it seems a bit arrogant to me "human consciousness, believed to be unique among the world's species. " Now, if the obvious statement, that HUMAN conciousness is unique, well DUH. But I think it MEANS "human-like conciousness". I don't necessarily buy it, I've seen too complex a behaviour from numerous animals, the sign language capable gorilla, dolphins, whales just to name a few. go to http://www.gorilla.org/ for more info about koko the signing gorilla. Advanced behaviour like making up words for objects she didn't know (little green ball for a lime or something like that)
I Can tell you that lots of Hotels use PBX's with digital phone lines. For instance - Courtyard Marriott, catering to business travellers, has a digital jack for the phone, and a second analog for the obligatory laptop. SO - this raises an odd issue - if you stay in the inexpensive ma/pop places, they may only have analog access (being an old building, non-techy owner/etc.) so you'd be fine (ask!!), but if you stay in a mid-level chain, they may only have digital lines to the rooms (again, ask!!), but if you can afford to stay in a Courtyard or other business traveller oriented chain, you will be TOTALLY connected. I've been in some hotels that had a whole mini-office you could use complete with PC/printer/internet access/the works. hth
AH HAH!! I think I figured out the real value to this mission. Allow me to quote from the article "a cosmic potato twice the size of Manhattan Island" I've got it!!! Maybe they're trying to figure out how to DROP it on Manhattan Island!?!?
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Well, being a former overclocker myself, the hey-day(-5 points for spelling) seems to be over to me. No longer is overclocking simply a dip switch or jumper change. With these new cartridge-afied CPUs, you hafta break into the things, and maybe even de-solder and then re-solder those miniscule eyeball straining resistors. With chips running as fast as they are nowdays, I opine that a modern-day overclocker is significantly more bleeding-edge than those of yesteryear, like me. I do admit that I miss it...
a comparison of the different consoles? I saw one a long time ago, and it seems like, feature-wise, the jaguar was cool (working from seriously old memory here). I also remember that comparison saying the Playstation sucked rocks, but loa and behold - the Jaguar has gone the way of the kiwi, and the Playstation is kicking butt. Am I remembering wrong or is this another example of the better *marketing* winning? (Seems like that is becoming way too common nowadays)
It's neat, of course, but it just makes me wonder (OK, so I'm weird) - what is going to be the REVOLUTIOARY development? Think about it, we've gotten to where CPU power is small and cheap, and storage is small and cheap (relatively). What's the next Big Step? I can't imagine that 10 years from now, I'm gonna be browsing on my new 4GB RAM 1TB HDD 2Ghz laptop. We are rapidly approaching (maybe we're already there?) the point where you stand up, look around, and ask yourself "What's the point?". My personal machine is as follows (to make a point) laptop with a 14.3" TFT, 18GB HDD, 384MB RAM, P3 500Mhz. I read email on this and browse the web. See what I mean? What's the point? Am I just waiting for the next "Killer App"? Or something altogether different????
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/win2000/news/ 0,9493,2449668,00.html?chkpt=entne ws-win 2000 -(how do I make this a link? Sorry that it's not) No surprise of course, these guys do this to EVERYTHING they possibly can.
Wow - I totally disagree with this. If you take an "average" corporate email, let's take MY work email as an example, when I highlight an email and hit "delete", it is simply moved to a folder titled "deleted mail", when I exit, it purges that folder. Here's where it gets sticky - are the email admins logging? Did I leave my email client on overnight? If I did, there's a very readable version of that mail on a DLT somewhere. Let's say I DID manage to purge the thing completely, did the originator/recipient do the same. Getting rid of a letter, unless it was copied, is as simple as burning it. Emails have this nasty tendency to get copied to places you don't relaize....
If this is, in fact, true; and I am not missing something, then I have a question. Why do governments pass these kind of idiotic rules/laws/whatever? This is right up the alley of the US government banning the export of strong encryption. The supposed premise is we don't want bad guys to get their hands on it, right? (after reading the article, it seems encryption may be what this about as well) All this prevents is LEGITIMATE business from exporting, because the "bad-guys" you don't want to get it couldn't give a shit that you outlawed it! WTF am I missing?
I'm telling ya, this whole friggin company is in denial. I don't think they believe their own propaganda, just that if they repeat it enough, everyone else WILL. Can someone point me to something worthwhile (there has to be SOMETHING) that these guys DID invent? (Excel, maybe? I don't think they bought/stole that off someone else...)
Really? I would sincerely like to run this thing out (non-rudely). I think we may be saying the same thing in different ways. While I certainly think the method you commit a crime is relevant, I think the fact that you committed a crime with an object cannot render an otherwise legal object's possession illegal. In other words, the fact that they used l0phtcrack in an illegal way is relevant, it's posession shouldn't be. (am I making sense?) Back to the lockpick - for instance, I own one for whatever legal reason, that ownership is legal, but if I use them for an illegal reason, I don't see how that renders the *ownership* of the lockpick illegal. Sure, slap my pee-pee for being bad with them, but *not* for owning them. (I hope you respond and that we can keep this civil)
They were busted for USING l0phtcrack (rightly so) but they were also busted for HAVING it. It's that second part that seems a bit rotten to me. If the law really allows this (i.e. they aren't aquitted of the possession part), there's something rotten in Michigan. It would essentially be saying (to use the lockpick metaphor) Lockpicks are fine to possess, unless you use them. i.e. the committing of a crime with an otherwise legal device thereby renders the possession of that device illegal. SO - owning the lockpicks is fine until you use them to break into something, then you're guilty of the breakin AND owning the lockpicks.
the current status of this guy's game company? As for a comment on the story - can't we at least say the system worked, albeit after quite some time and in an admittedly sad way? I, of course, am a bit perturbed by SJ getting 50K and his lawyers getting 250K (why does this country reward victim's lawyers more than the victim?) BUT - "the judge gave them a good tongue lashing" part at least *partly* proves the system works, sort of....right?
it seems to make sense to me, I mean, even for non-NFL type shows, they have to pay a chunk of change for them, right? It seems if they had to pay to be able to broadcast it, they should be able to control that? I think, or maybe I'm just hung-over....(Frankly, I need another drink)
Maybe I'm missing something, BUT - this seems to be an obvious money-maker to me. Sure, they'd PREFER you to sign up for AOL and pay to access it over their broadband services (they get you coming and going - 1 bill for AOL service, and 1 for the connection through cable). If they DIDN'T open it up, the only buckazoids they'd see would be from direct customers - i.e. people who signed up specifically for AOL. But by opening up, you still keep all those (well, most anyways) customers, but suddenly you are skimming buckazoids from every customer that signs up to competing ISP's over this. This little gem has dramatically increased the potential number of people from whom they can get monthly fees (probably unseen by the customer, it'll be rolled up in the ISP's monthly fee) Maybe there's something deeper to this, or maybe they are being altruistic, but I think it's just an obvious money maker (which is not a Bad Thing to me, hell, they own the cable, they should be able to charge to use it)
seems to have been shared by a lot of folks - specifically "Yea, so?" BUT - the more I allow both of my active brain cells to massage this little nugget, the more I come to the conclusion that more Open Source stuff (maybe "broader" is a better word than "more", total volume isn't my point), the better. I mean, it's not like they're forcing this stuff on you. And doesn't this hint at future additional Linux interoperability? I don't see how *that* can be a Bad Thing (OK, the words "future" and "NETbeui" may not belong in the same sentence) One minor nit-pick: Doesn't NETbeui stand for "NETBIOS Enhanced User Interface"?????????? Even though that makes no sense to me, that's what I always thought it was....
A PC vs Big Iron Holy War was definitely not what I was expecting with this article. Having worked with computers in various industries, I can tell you one thing, all of this stuff has its place. I was at a large loan servicing shop (like over a million loans) and I can tell you - you cannot configure any PC hardware to do what their MID-range box did. Over a 2 year period, not ONE server bounce, all the while hundreds of users logged in constantly, running massive batch jobs every night, printing out over ONE MILLION statements at a time etc. etc. etc. I am certainly not knocking the PC, I love 'em. But I do like the positive tone of this article, IMHO Big-Iron stuff is way way misunderstood by folks who haven't any experience with them. Heck, even I scoffed at the things until I got a chance to work with them. (PS I know my website's down - gimme a break, I have a full time job, ya know?)
ok - maybe errrr, i definitely wasn't clear, (apologies for the spare apostophe) BUT - what I meant was we never get a raw connection of 11mbs, apples to apples would be the bs "10mbs" of standard ethernet. You might not get 10mbs of throughput, but you do get a 10mbs connection. We get like 4mbs raw, which might equate to less than 2mbs real throughput. To get 11mbs (raw, for lack of a better term) we practically have to duct tape the wavelan NIC to the access point's antenna (I believe a proper use of an apostophe). Again, trying to be informative, not snooty.
AFAIK the base station is nothing but (this is based on the ones we use at work) a PCMCIA slot attached to an ethernet interface, you actually plug one of the PC cards into the slot - so these would NOT be neccesary for 2 machines to talk to each other if they both had wavelan nics
What's with all the hullaballoo here? We have these at work (for a few months now), not the inexpensive one's listed here, but 11 mbs nonetheless, and we RARELY, no, more like NEVER get an 11mbs connection. On a good day we get 4, but more often than not, 2. Not trying to start a flame war, just my $.02
http://www.communitech.net/ their virtual hosting pricing, and what it comes with, are hard to beat. they'll host on either solaris or (ahem) NT. They also have a dedicated server package, but that would seem overkill at first. Of course, they're not geared to doing only the registration part, but if you're looking for a home for it as well, these guys are great....hth
"QED the OS sucks. You know, I'm sorta having trouble following that logic" I don't know if you'll even read this, as it's way old - BUT - read my post. I never even *hinted* at that. I was begrudgingly acknowledging it's superiority over wintel boxes. I was also poking fun at MYSELF for not being able to figure out a machine that is widely considered (and I think correctly so) EASIER to use than the wintel's I consider myself a power-user on. (not flaming here, just clarifying)
I have a close friend who's (whose? my grammar sucks) hubby works at an ad agency, and they SWEAR by 'em. He's got one at home too (obviously). I've always respected the things, just never liked 'em. AFAIK they don't lock up (hell, my snazzy new p3-500 laptop win2k box hangs almost on a daily basis), and you just plug stuff into them and it works. Granted, my above statements could be the result of Apple propaganda, because I've only *tried* to use a Mac ONCE. Get this - a friend needed help doing a mail-merge on his Mac. I thump my chest and say "Of course I can help" Holy-shit did I get my butt kicked by supposedly the easiest OS to use in the world. I jacked with this thing for like an hour (on my PC it would have been like 3 minutes) I could NOT adapt to it trying to help so much. I think the final solution was to drop one icon on the other (I kept opening the apps) sheesh.....
OK, so IMHO X-Net is the Eurasia of the internet continents. I mean, even my mother, who's most adventurous web jaunts take her to the likes of bluemountain greetings (ooooooooh) stumbled on the stuff. And now I'm on a ton of porn-email lists due to the following - ringring:this is el guapo. wife:what's that search engine you use? elguapo:hotbot. 5 minutes later - rinring - elguapo:this is el guapo. wife(angrily):why'd you tell me to go to that website?? yup - she went to hotbod.com. (and of course she had turned cookies back on) Now I get a daily dose of "If you're under 18 do NOT read this message". This, of course, guarantees that a tennager WOULD read it. Oh well...
is totally jumping on this quote: "a program that can unscramble encrypted digital video disks (DVD) and let people copy them." WTF!?!?!? I can copy DVD's all friggin day long, right now, without DeCSS. (if someone has made this point, I didn't see it - sorry) Now, it admittedly does give a pirate the ability to make a perfect digital copy of the original MPEG, as opposed to having to copy the analog steam coming out of the codec. But I would opine that pirates give exactly 1 rat's ass about their pirated copy being sligjtly less than perfect due to copying the analog stream. I guess one day I'll quit being dumbfounded by how ignorant the average reporter is
I have a hard time accepting this one quote, it seems a bit arrogant to me "human consciousness, believed to be unique among the world's species. " Now, if the obvious statement, that HUMAN conciousness is unique, well DUH. But I think it MEANS "human-like conciousness". I don't necessarily buy it, I've seen too complex a behaviour from numerous animals, the sign language capable gorilla, dolphins, whales just to name a few. go to http://www.gorilla.org/ for more info about koko the signing gorilla. Advanced behaviour like making up words for objects she didn't know (little green ball for a lime or something like that)
I Can tell you that lots of Hotels use PBX's with digital phone lines. For instance - Courtyard Marriott, catering to business travellers, has a digital jack for the phone, and a second analog for the obligatory laptop. SO - this raises an odd issue - if you stay in the inexpensive ma/pop places, they may only have analog access (being an old building, non-techy owner/etc.) so you'd be fine (ask!!), but if you stay in a mid-level chain, they may only have digital lines to the rooms (again, ask!!), but if you can afford to stay in a Courtyard or other business traveller oriented chain, you will be TOTALLY connected. I've been in some hotels that had a whole mini-office you could use complete with PC/printer/internet access/the works. hth
AH HAH!! I think I figured out the real value to this mission. Allow me to quote from the article "a cosmic potato twice the size of Manhattan Island" I've got it!!! Maybe they're trying to figure out how to DROP it on Manhattan Island!?!?