Hooking it up to my Linux box's Adaptec controller let me get the drive info (cat/proc/scsi/scsi), but any attempt to actually access sectors on the drive locked the SCSI bus up solid.
I think your problem was an insufficient goat's blood level in the SCSI terminator. Or haven't you heard about what it takes to make SCSI work properly?
The drive itself works just fine on the Linux box's IDE, as well on my Firewire bay, so that exonerates the drive.
So you already have Firewire, which is a damn decent way to talk to an external drive, but you wanted to hook an IDE drive up through a SCSI interface anyhow. (If you didn't want external, one drive per IDE bus works no worse than an IDE drive through a SCSI translator.)
I set up mine again just last night. With the ultimate expansion box. A Z-80 in-circuit emulator with overlay RAM. Who needs multi-carts?
Damn, Tomarc The Barbarian is one hell of a sucky game! Those stupid controllers just make it so much worse. Give me a Wico with leaf switches any day.
Ha, three strikes and you're out! I have flash disabled by default (just move the damn plug-in until you need it), I run Mozilla with popup blocking, and I use headphones.
Mine cost 50 cents, so I'm not complaining. (Actually it was in the bag with some other random cart for a dollar). I have two items on that list (I still have my original Bounty Bob with gold label, plus I found one a couple of years back). Other holy grails I have are 5200 Asteroids ($1, same thrift store as Chuckwagon, plus a complete one I traded for before that) and 2600 Crazy Climber (I hounded a load of carts for two weeks until they were up for sale).
Bounty Bob was a good game; it was just the 5200 controllers that sucked. Another good rare game is 5200 Gremlins, which is sort of like Robotron 2084 on downers.
So is nobody else as freaked out as I am to see that thing? I mean sure it looks like a modern CD player, slot loading even, but if it reached the point where Consumer Reports was reviewing it, that means it was actually being sold, and that means that someone actually thought there was a market for something that would play three to five minutes of music (maybe twice that if it had dual needles and reverse spin) and then you had to change it out again!
It would be twenty years before someone came up with a format to make that idea work. 72 minutes, on one side, and no frickin' needle either.
The problem is that most people think computers are a dated item
Most are. Most PC software can still run under the DOS window of 2K/XP, except for those games that don't have any speed control and were responsible for the "TURBO" buttons on a lot of XT and AT class machines. And they have better hardware. Most XT through 486 systems have zero collectible value, and aren't usually worth the trouble to set up, unless they're already running and doing duty as a word processor or something. But they've got no soul.
I know someone who long ago set up a forms generation system for his practice, using Wordstar and its Mailmerge. I'm just as amazed now as I was then that he could make that work. He's gone through about four or five PCs since that original Sanyo 550, and even more printers, and that vintage software still kicks ass for him. But he doesn't go out of his way to run it on a 286.
Most of those old PC clones have no style whatsoever. All of the old 8-bitters they killed off had some kind of interesting design and didn't look like a nondescript beige box. The original TRS-80 design with the computer built into the keyboard unit was brilliant... at least until they needed to add floppy disks. The Commodore PET had that '70s retro-futuristic look, and the VIC-20 and C-64 went with the original TRS-80 look because they figured out how to make an expansion cable bus, even if it was dog slow.
Only Apple has kept the faith by constantly trying to come up with interesting designs. Sure, they've have their share of beige boxes along the way, but even some of those have made a point of looking different, like the Mac II series, and the current "flip-out" cases. And they've had their beige-box stinkers too, like the 8100, where you have to pull out the motherboard (which means all the cards too) to add RAM.
The story I heard was that they had already approved the new network and it was still a few months away from being implemented when the old chewing-gum-and-bailing-wire network prematurely fell apart.
From looking at the diffs, the trojans seem to be in the build scripts, not the binaries. The modification to the source code was simply to provide an obfuscated way to pass the port number back to the trojaned build scripts.
I guess that's the clever part... you only activate the trojan if you recompile from source!
If you suspect your binaries to be trjanized, you'd want to sniff your own machine but if (and it is the case) the sniffer is trojanized, then it could possible hide such "activities"...
I actually read the article and it however seems that it was not the case here...
If you read the article more carefully, you will notice that the binaries aren't trojaned. This is a trojan in the build scripts only. So ironically, only the paranoids who build from source (but aren't paranoid enough to demand an MD5) got hit by this.
I just looked at the page, and noticed that the OS is only included in the price for orders before Dec 31 or when OS 4 is released, whichever comes first. So add that (however much it will be; they don't say) into your costs as well! Or else it will just be one helluva expensive Linux box.
Mod this up! I'm tired of people comparing the price of random stripped down equipment with the price of a fully loaded Apple box. Usually it's people comparing the price of a headless white-box PC vs an Apple system that includes an LCD display, sometimes even the Cinema display. This time it's someone comparing a bare CPU board (not even a case and power supply!) with a fully loaded high-end Mac.
Don't forget to count what your time is worth to tinker with all this crap and get it working... call it at least $10/hr. And that's time to go shopping for all this crap and to open the boxes too. So what if you happen to like putting computer parts together... that's less time you could be spending playing Counterstrike. Er, except Counterstrike won't run on this thing when you're done. All you've got is a pretty toy with all the (in)compatibility of Mas OS X and none of the apps.
Someone else has already posted that once you go through your shopping list (case, power supply, video card, RAM, hard drive, keyboard, mouse, display), you've already spent enough to go ahead and get a 15" iMac. Not only does the iMac look better, but it's got a properly supported OS that's had two years to get stable, not some beta that'll be released Real Soon Now.
If you're going to compare prices, why not compare the price of an Amiga board ($600-$800) with your typical ATX mobo and AMD/Intel CPU, which runs more like $200-$300, or even less if you don't mind something "old" like a 1GHz Celeron or Duron.
Huh? All of Power Computing's machines were based on Apple's various motherboard designs and chipsets. All they did different, other than having one model with both NuBus and PCI slots, was whatever else they put in the box and plugged into the motherboard. I've even got 10.2 running on mine, minus the internal SCSI bus and a couple of PCI cards that I can hand down to a cheap PowerWave that I found a few months back.
And of course by being a clone maker with lower volume requirements, they could sell faster CPUs than Apple could. As their final advertisement for clearing out their old stock said, "Apple pulled our license for speeding".
In the decree, the Panamanian government requires "that within 5 days of publication, all ISPs will block the 46 UDP ports used for VoIP and any other that could be used in the future (which could end up being all UDP ports)," according to a reporter and computer consultant there, and that "the ISPs will block in their firewall or main router and in all their Border routers that connect with other autonomous systems."
After this kind of crap, I don't think I'd have any problem with them blocking UDP 53.
Then what if seti@home randomly sent, say, 1 in 100 WUs that were false positives, with known results (not just computed by another client), to verify that ae clients wasn't simply hacked into returning all false-negative results?
As for the problem of someone getting a dozen clients to return the same work unit, this should be a simple case of "We never sent work unit x to this client, so why is it returning results for it?"
Looks like the pre-compiled dclient in that.zip file works fine. Since I have one of those new dual 1GHz "speed holes" models, I'm running two copies of it, keeping my CPU utilization nicely pegged at 100% for both processors. And it's all otherwise wasted cycles, so I don't (yet) notice any loss of performance.
OK, this is almost certainly a really dumb question - but why can't we just put our own hash into the system?
Because you would have to take the hard drive out and connect it to a PC, which means you have to open the case, which voids the warranty.
But if you don't mind voiding the warranty on a brand new $600+ unit (apparently only the 80 hour units right now have 3.2), and have the technical savvy to do editing of data on a strange filesystem, it's easy to install the old 3.0 hash.
Note that if you download the Mac OS X version that's on page 12, and uncompress it with Stuffit Expander, when it finishes uncompressing, you won't see it anywhere. That's because the root folder in the archive is ".", which gets changed to "..1", which is helpfully recognized as an invisible file under Unix, and you don't see it under the Finder. Or even with a normal 'ls' comand.
This took me 15 minutes of head scratching before I figured it out.
And just for the record, the command to run it (as shown on page 12) is:
Well, it looks like DataPlay is now officially dead.
As for five 2-hour movies in 4 gigs, that sounds like it uses MPEG 4. Besides, most "2-hour movies" these days are really 90 minutes long. The rest of that two hours is for changing the audience.
If you don't want mail/irc/composer installed then use the net installer and uncheck the boxes.
1) There is no box to uncheck for Composer. I hate it when I trigger Composer by accident and it takes ten whole seconds to get it out of my face.
2) I don't think there is such an option for the OS X version of Mozilla. It's all or nothing. As it so happens, Phoenix also lacks an OS X version, so I don't even have that as an option.
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Apple used a DB-19 for their floppy drive port. I wonder if this was a form of revenge by Steve Jobs? :-)
I think your problem was an insufficient goat's blood level in the SCSI terminator. Or haven't you heard about what it takes to make SCSI work properly?
The drive itself works just fine on the Linux box's IDE, as well on my Firewire bay, so that exonerates the drive.
So you already have Firewire, which is a damn decent way to talk to an external drive, but you wanted to hook an IDE drive up through a SCSI interface anyhow. (If you didn't want external, one drive per IDE bus works no worse than an IDE drive through a SCSI translator.)
Masochist.
Damn, Tomarc The Barbarian is one hell of a sucky game! Those stupid controllers just make it so much worse. Give me a Wico with leaf switches any day.
Ha, three strikes and you're out! I have flash disabled by default (just move the damn plug-in until you need it), I run Mozilla with popup blocking, and I use headphones.
Bounty Bob was a good game; it was just the 5200 controllers that sucked. Another good rare game is 5200 Gremlins, which is sort of like Robotron 2084 on downers.
(Sum Guy is an old joke among the rec.games.video.classic crowd.)
...is a Woz signature, of course.
It would be twenty years before someone came up with a format to make that idea work. 72 minutes, on one side, and no frickin' needle either.
Most are. Most PC software can still run under the DOS window of 2K/XP, except for those games that don't have any speed control and were responsible for the "TURBO" buttons on a lot of XT and AT class machines. And they have better hardware. Most XT through 486 systems have zero collectible value, and aren't usually worth the trouble to set up, unless they're already running and doing duty as a word processor or something. But they've got no soul.
I know someone who long ago set up a forms generation system for his practice, using Wordstar and its Mailmerge. I'm just as amazed now as I was then that he could make that work. He's gone through about four or five PCs since that original Sanyo 550, and even more printers, and that vintage software still kicks ass for him. But he doesn't go out of his way to run it on a 286.
Most of those old PC clones have no style whatsoever. All of the old 8-bitters they killed off had some kind of interesting design and didn't look like a nondescript beige box. The original TRS-80 design with the computer built into the keyboard unit was brilliant... at least until they needed to add floppy disks. The Commodore PET had that '70s retro-futuristic look, and the VIC-20 and C-64 went with the original TRS-80 look because they figured out how to make an expansion cable bus, even if it was dog slow.
Only Apple has kept the faith by constantly trying to come up with interesting designs. Sure, they've have their share of beige boxes along the way, but even some of those have made a point of looking different, like the Mac II series, and the current "flip-out" cases. And they've had their beige-box stinkers too, like the 8100, where you have to pull out the motherboard (which means all the cards too) to add RAM.
The story I heard was that they had already approved the new network and it was still a few months away from being implemented when the old chewing-gum-and-bailing-wire network prematurely fell apart.
I guess that's the clever part... you only activate the trojan if you recompile from source!
If you read the article more carefully, you will notice that the binaries aren't trojaned. This is a trojan in the build scripts only. So ironically, only the paranoids who build from source (but aren't paranoid enough to demand an MD5) got hit by this.
Well, that and the small matter of needing drivers to support the Mac hardware!
I just looked at the page, and noticed that the OS is only included in the price for orders before Dec 31 or when OS 4 is released, whichever comes first. So add that (however much it will be; they don't say) into your costs as well! Or else it will just be one helluva expensive Linux box.
Mod this up! I'm tired of people comparing the price of random stripped down equipment with the price of a fully loaded Apple box. Usually it's people comparing the price of a headless white-box PC vs an Apple system that includes an LCD display, sometimes even the Cinema display. This time it's someone comparing a bare CPU board (not even a case and power supply!) with a fully loaded high-end Mac.
Don't forget to count what your time is worth to tinker with all this crap and get it working... call it at least $10/hr. And that's time to go shopping for all this crap and to open the boxes too. So what if you happen to like putting computer parts together... that's less time you could be spending playing Counterstrike. Er, except Counterstrike won't run on this thing when you're done. All you've got is a pretty toy with all the (in)compatibility of Mas OS X and none of the apps.
Someone else has already posted that once you go through your shopping list (case, power supply, video card, RAM, hard drive, keyboard, mouse, display), you've already spent enough to go ahead and get a 15" iMac. Not only does the iMac look better, but it's got a properly supported OS that's had two years to get stable, not some beta that'll be released Real Soon Now.
If you're going to compare prices, why not compare the price of an Amiga board ($600-$800) with your typical ATX mobo and AMD/Intel CPU, which runs more like $200-$300, or even less if you don't mind something "old" like a 1GHz Celeron or Duron.
Huh? All of Power Computing's machines were based on Apple's various motherboard designs and chipsets. All they did different, other than having one model with both NuBus and PCI slots, was whatever else they put in the box and plugged into the motherboard. I've even got 10.2 running on mine, minus the internal SCSI bus and a couple of PCI cards that I can hand down to a cheap PowerWave that I found a few months back.
And of course by being a clone maker with lower volume requirements, they could sell faster CPUs than Apple could. As their final advertisement for clearing out their old stock said, "Apple pulled our license for speeding".
I think you misspelled "Clueless & Witless". Hope this helps!
After this kind of crap, I don't think I'd have any problem with them blocking UDP 53.
As for the problem of someone getting a dozen clients to return the same work unit, this should be a simple case of "We never sent work unit x to this client, so why is it returning results for it?"
Looks like the pre-compiled dclient in that .zip file works fine. Since I have one of those new dual 1GHz "speed holes" models, I'm running two copies of it, keeping my CPU utilization nicely pegged at 100% for both processors. And it's all otherwise wasted cycles, so I don't (yet) notice any loss of performance.
Because you would have to take the hard drive out and connect it to a PC, which means you have to open the case, which voids the warranty.
But if you don't mind voiding the warranty on a brand new $600+ unit (apparently only the 80 hour units right now have 3.2), and have the technical savvy to do editing of data on a strange filesystem, it's easy to install the old 3.0 hash.
This took me 15 minutes of head scratching before I figured it out.
And just for the record, the command to run it (as shown on page 12) is:
As for five 2-hour movies in 4 gigs, that sounds like it uses MPEG 4. Besides, most "2-hour movies" these days are really 90 minutes long. The rest of that two hours is for changing the audience.
1) There is no box to uncheck for Composer. I hate it when I trigger Composer by accident and it takes ten whole seconds to get it out of my face.
2) I don't think there is such an option for the OS X version of Mozilla. It's all or nothing. As it so happens, Phoenix also lacks an OS X version, so I don't even have that as an option.
It sure would bring a whole new meaning to the words "dead battery".