This has been suggested before - a handful of people are doing it right now in at least the US and the UK. There's only a few small groups of nodes dotted around major cities right now but given time, network coverage will only get better.
I heartily agree - I definitely recommend visiting the Wrox forums if you're interested in any of the subject areas their books cover. They do have a slight Microsoft bias in terms of available forums, but there's a fair few Linux-related ones too.
"Things are only fashionable when someone else says they are. Do you really need to be told? You only want things because you are made to want them. There is no such thing as 'fashionable' or 'unfashionable', the fashion industry is a sick lie created to maximise sales. Overcome manufactured desire"
Well wouldn't unplugging it for a few days remove that possibility?
Probably not. The anti-tamper device is usually implemented entirely in hardware - for example, a switch of some kind that is held down by the casing, which irreversibly switches to "tampered" mode as soon as the case is opened.
Could this not be a project for distributed.net or some similar organisation? Calculate "scores" of some kind for each of the possible states of a chess board? There's a stupidly large number of combinations, but Internet-wide distributed computing is better than any Beowulf cluster in existence...
There already is a British pop-punk band called 'A' - not sure what their take on the situation is, or if they're on a major label/subsidiary, though...
And how is Gauntlet anything more than a sophisticated Mosters In The Dungeon? (OK, can't remember the proper name, but that old mainframe thing and one of the first computer games _ever_).
I've noticed much the same thing before. I admin approximately 60 mailing lists at work, with a few thousand yahoo.com subscribers in total. Most of the problems we have relating to mail delivery occur when our mail server gets stuck sending to Yahoo!'s SMTP servers, with the symptoms you describe - they accept connections fine but then hang when it comes to responding to commands.
This isn't the first time this has happened, either. Yahoo!'s SMTP service seems to have failed in some way or another at least once a week for the past couple of months now, with outages sometimes lasting 48 hours or longer. Yahoo! haven't responded to any of the mails I've sent them, or posted anything at all about these problems on their site.
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I think BBC's "Attachments" is the show you're looking for. The Attachments web site is still up...
See FreeNetworks.org, Consume or Wireless Anarchy for more.
Of course, Lycos has been doing this for ages, well before Google did their first Zeitgeist...
Similarly, Digital Spy and NTHellWorld are pretty good for coverage of NTL cable services.
ShareReactor helps me out a lot when it comes to determining the real and fake files on EDonkey - it's worth a try at least...
Wrox Press have an Early Adopter J2SE 1.4 book out now, and it's got some good reviews at Amazon...
I heartily agree - I definitely recommend visiting the Wrox forums if you're interested in any of the subject areas their books cover. They do have a slight Microsoft bias in terms of available forums, but there's a fair few Linux-related ones too.
"Things are only fashionable when someone else says they are. Do you really need to be told? You only want things because you are made to want them. There is no such thing as 'fashionable' or 'unfashionable', the fashion industry is a sick lie created to maximise sales. Overcome manufactured desire"
There's an option to do this in older versions of Windows anyway...
Well wouldn't unplugging it for a few days remove that possibility?
Probably not. The anti-tamper device is usually implemented entirely in hardware - for example, a switch of some kind that is held down by the casing, which irreversibly switches to "tampered" mode as soon as the case is opened.
Could this not be a project for distributed.net or some similar organisation? Calculate "scores" of some kind for each of the possible states of a chess board? There's a stupidly large number of combinations, but Internet-wide distributed computing is better than any Beowulf cluster in existence...
There already is a British pop-punk band called 'A' - not sure what their take on the situation is, or if they're on a major label/subsidiary, though...
And how is Gauntlet anything more than a sophisticated Mosters In The Dungeon? (OK, can't remember the proper name, but that old mainframe thing and one of the first computer games _ever_).
I think you mean 3D Monster Maze, on the ZX81...
I've noticed much the same thing before. I admin approximately 60 mailing lists at work, with a few thousand yahoo.com subscribers in total. Most of the problems we have relating to mail delivery occur when our mail server gets stuck sending to Yahoo!'s SMTP servers, with the symptoms you describe - they accept connections fine but then hang when it comes to responding to commands.
This isn't the first time this has happened, either. Yahoo!'s SMTP service seems to have failed in some way or another at least once a week for the past couple of months now, with outages sometimes lasting 48 hours or longer. Yahoo! haven't responded to any of the mails I've sent them, or posted anything at all about these problems on their site.