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Those eepro100 NICs are not only reliable like an old hound dog, they're also supported out-of-the-box by every important operating system (including OS X), and are dirt cheap these days. It's easy to find them for $5, and I've sometimes found them at computer flea markets for $1 each.
3Com only made good modems because they bought up US Robotics, which made the best standalone modem ever, the Courier, and a pretty good service provider rack modem, the Total Control.
USR esentially stopped innovating as soon as they were bought out by 3Com. The whole DSL era passed them by. Now that they're spun off, they do have some DSL and wireless products, but there's no longer the coolnes the company had when every BBS sysop had to have one (or more) of their modems.
Now I find Courier modems every few months at thrift stores, priced at a few bucks (my last one was $2 with power supply!).
I think Letterman summed it all up last night when he asked a "scientist" what he thought of that movie. The answer? "It's hor*****t." (that includes the broadcast bleep)
DidTheyReadIt works with every single internet provider and e-mail account, including EarthLink, AOL, NetZero, Juno, Netscape, Hotmail, Yahoo, and much more.
Guess what folks. There's no law that says you have to let a megacorp run your e-mail. With a fixed IP and a 24/7 server, you can run your own server. (Though, admittedly, it's not something a novice can make work.)
All this is is simple "web bug" HTML IMG link spying. Anyone with any kind of sense has configured their e-mail client to not automatically download remote images. Or even to not display HTML crap at all. And please don't tell me that they use Javashi^H^Hcript, because that means there's a brain-damaged popular e-mail program out there that allows it (or a webmail site that doesn't filter it). All we need is another way for e-mail to run wild code.
Is anyone else getting a flashback to the all the stupid ideas that would burn through millions of dollars in VC cash back in the dot-com bubble days?
Not bad for a ship design that wasn't meant to operate in an atmosphere. The only reason it's aerodynamic is because that looked good on the TV screen.
I'm not sure what he used for control surfaces (in fact, I'm not sure it has any control at all, and maybe just flies forward), but I think it says in the description that it took him four days, and he used a motor from a CD-ROM.
Yeah, it was weird going down Parmer Road last week and noticing the Circle-M wasn't there any more. It took me a moment before I realized what those "Freescale" signs meant.
Maybe you should RTFA first before you ask questions that are answered by reading it?
What Apple has come up with is a pretty interesting idea... a window that slowly gets more transparent as you ignore it, and after a certain point it ignores user inputs, which are then passed to the next window behind it. I'm not sure it's a good idea, but it is an interesting one, and definitely is a novel one.
I can gloat because I have the animated series on laserdisc. Of course this is a typical Paramount laserdisc release, and Paramount considered little things like a CD-Audio TOC and chapter stops to be unnecessary extra features. So to see the second episode on a side, I have to seek to 22:30 and fast forward from there.
I'm glad they finally came out with the all SE TOS movies box. I can't imagine what people who bought the halfway boxes (with only 1-5 SE verisons) were thinking. I'm also glad I never went out of my way to finish the TOS DVD set. Already having half of the laserdiscs for TOS helped me wait.
Then you're blind. The price alone should be enough to tip you off. Also, don't be fooled by a cheap holofoil sticker. The Chinese bootleggers love to put those on to make their stuff look more official.
Uh, yeah, but these are SGI machines. IRIX was infamous for being insecure. If I wanted root on an IRIX box, I could think of better ways than a boot floppy.
You forgot about the part where they keep whining for more tax money "for education", when they've been throwing more and more money at it for years and things aren't getting any better. Of course we can't cut spending on something else, that just can't be done.
Two words: plain text. My browser isn't configured to display inline PDF, and I really don't want it to. But that's not the only reason. If you have a resume in plain text (or even better, nice clean HTML), people can not only read it with just about anything, but if you have to be hired through a consultant, they want to be able to copy and paste your resume. This satisfies them without pissing off techies by putting it in MS Word format.
And nice-looking HTML (nice-looking with you View Source too) shows that you can make something look polished while keeping to standards that were set by someone else.
One last warning, though. There are lots of rogue web spiders trawling for e-mail addresses, especially in resumes. Learn how to obfuscate your e-mail address with JavaScript if you don't want endless resume spam.
When you do get the discount, it basically pays for the $500 developer subscription IF you actually use it. It's also nice to have Apple mail the latest version of OS X to you, and have access to download pre-release versions too.
Do you trust everything you see in a README? In fact, the talkback component is NOT included, as can be verified by looking in the appropriate subdirectory and comparing with 1.5.
I think the vast majority of people who own 'modded' consoles have had them modded so they can hire a game from Blockbuster and pirate it.
Even if that's true, the vast majority of people who own consoles have 'unmodded' consoles. Even if every modded console owner completely stopped buying games that he might otherwise have bought, the effort required to mod a console still limits the damages. So the goodness of Bray's point is limited.
And then there are those who mod consoles solely to play imports. In that respect, Sega got it right with the Saturn (easy to mod for region switching, hard to mod for piracy), and Sony got it wrong (region protection depended on and was stronger than copy protection in the original Playstation). And then Sega blew it in the Dreamcast, with the CD-boot loophole (which they fixed only after a large number of units were already sold).
Until the entire console is a single chip, the traces to the storage devices are all encrypted, and the thing is hermetically sealed with cyanide gas within, people will find a way around the restrictions.
Don't forget the left-handed screws! (Deathworld reference)
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Those eepro100 NICs are not only reliable like an old hound dog, they're also supported out-of-the-box by every important operating system (including OS X), and are dirt cheap these days. It's easy to find them for $5, and I've sometimes found them at computer flea markets for $1 each.
USR esentially stopped innovating as soon as they were bought out by 3Com. The whole DSL era passed them by. Now that they're spun off, they do have some DSL and wireless products, but there's no longer the coolnes the company had when every BBS sysop had to have one (or more) of their modems.
Now I find Courier modems every few months at thrift stores, priced at a few bucks (my last one was $2 with power supply!).
I think Letterman summed it all up last night when he asked a "scientist" what he thought of that movie. The answer? "It's hor*****t." (that includes the broadcast bleep)
Guess what folks. There's no law that says you have to let a megacorp run your e-mail. With a fixed IP and a 24/7 server, you can run your own server. (Though, admittedly, it's not something a novice can make work.)
All this is is simple "web bug" HTML IMG link spying. Anyone with any kind of sense has configured their e-mail client to not automatically download remote images. Or even to not display HTML crap at all. And please don't tell me that they use Javashi^H^Hcript, because that means there's a brain-damaged popular e-mail program out there that allows it (or a webmail site that doesn't filter it). All we need is another way for e-mail to run wild code.
Is anyone else getting a flashback to the all the stupid ideas that would burn through millions of dollars in VC cash back in the dot-com bubble days?
Only if you used Wonkavision.
I'm not sure what he used for control surfaces (in fact, I'm not sure it has any control at all, and maybe just flies forward), but I think it says in the description that it took him four days, and he used a motor from a CD-ROM.
Yeah, it was weird going down Parmer Road last week and noticing the Circle-M wasn't there any more. It took me a moment before I realized what those "Freescale" signs meant.
What Apple has come up with is a pretty interesting idea... a window that slowly gets more transparent as you ignore it, and after a certain point it ignores user inputs, which are then passed to the next window behind it. I'm not sure it's a good idea, but it is an interesting one, and definitely is a novel one.
4) They will try to convert us to their religion. Possibly forcibly.
After all, look how well the Incas converted their "extraterrestials" (the Spanish) to their own religion.
And then there is option #5, that they gave up on superstitions like religion a long time ago.
I'm glad they finally came out with the all SE TOS movies box. I can't imagine what people who bought the halfway boxes (with only 1-5 SE verisons) were thinking. I'm also glad I never went out of my way to finish the TOS DVD set. Already having half of the laserdiscs for TOS helped me wait.
Then you're blind. The price alone should be enough to tip you off. Also, don't be fooled by a cheap holofoil sticker. The Chinese bootleggers love to put those on to make their stuff look more official.
and I still use the C64 as a TCP/IP firewall for my office computer! GPL! GPL!
No, but he's probably enjoying his nice new OC-3 pr0n feed right now.
If I understand correctly, the catch phrase for NYC table vendors is "Check it out!"
Uh, yeah, but these are SGI machines. IRIX was infamous for being insecure. If I wanted root on an IRIX box, I could think of better ways than a boot floppy.
You forgot about the part where they keep whining for more tax money "for education", when they've been throwing more and more money at it for years and things aren't getting any better. Of course we can't cut spending on something else, that just can't be done.
Funny how the tech economy crashed before W could get into office, though, isn't it?
And nice-looking HTML (nice-looking with you View Source too) shows that you can make something look polished while keeping to standards that were set by someone else.
One last warning, though. There are lots of rogue web spiders trawling for e-mail addresses, especially in resumes. Learn how to obfuscate your e-mail address with JavaScript if you don't want endless resume spam.
Please, for the love of humanity, WEAR A CUP!
When you do get the discount, it basically pays for the $500 developer subscription IF you actually use it. It's also nice to have Apple mail the latest version of OS X to you, and have access to download pre-release versions too.
And with my limited experience with Google Ads being put on webboard pages, sometimes the results are less than perfect. They can even be amusing.
There's NO economic case for mining Helium 3 until there's a working fusion reactor of any kind, much less one designed for H3.
Do you trust everything you see in a README? In fact, the talkback component is NOT included, as can be verified by looking in the appropriate subdirectory and comparing with 1.5.
Even if that's true, the vast majority of people who own consoles have 'unmodded' consoles. Even if every modded console owner completely stopped buying games that he might otherwise have bought, the effort required to mod a console still limits the damages. So the goodness of Bray's point is limited.
And then there are those who mod consoles solely to play imports. In that respect, Sega got it right with the Saturn (easy to mod for region switching, hard to mod for piracy), and Sony got it wrong (region protection depended on and was stronger than copy protection in the original Playstation). And then Sega blew it in the Dreamcast, with the CD-boot loophole (which they fixed only after a large number of units were already sold).
Until the entire console is a single chip, the traces to the storage devices are all encrypted, and the thing is hermetically sealed with cyanide gas within, people will find a way around the restrictions.
Don't forget the left-handed screws! (Deathworld reference)
Well, that's a rather good reason. (FWIW, I did check Contents/MacOS/Components/ and the talkback component is still not in the MacOS 1.7 beta build.)