My own personal speed record is downloading from the Apache server on the internal drive of my G3 Powerbook (Pismo), via a Cisco 2924M switch, into my DivX-playing Athlon box. It's only half that fast with a 7200RPM Firewire drive, so there is obviously some limit in the FW link. It takes aIEeeee! longer to copy the downloaded file out of the temp directory than it did to download it.
Before I tried using Apache, I was only getting a third of that (13 Mb/sec). Anyhow, 50 Mbits/sec vs 420 Gbits/sec... you figure it out. Me, I'll just drool for the drive arrays that ran fast enough to keep up with the link.
That's because the Wico used real leaf switches, just like arcade machines used. I snag one every now and then for a buck or two at a thrift store, and eventually I'll get around to converting a few of them for the Atari 7800 or ColecoVision right buttons. (I lucked into a pair of 3rd-party keypads for ColecoVision which have a joystick port, but they still need a joystick with a right button.)
In order to do this, you would need VHDL of a 6502 core, the RIOT I/O chip, and most importantly, the Stella graphics chip, perhaps the only 1-D graphics chip ever made.
It would be tough to emulate the quirks of Stella without knowledge of the exact circuitry it used (the details of which are probably lost to history), but for a limited subset of games such as this, you could do testing to make sure all the games work. Emulating Stella is the most complex part of any software Atari 2600 emulator.
I still have (and see) quite a bit of old stuff from thrift store runs. Even when getting some old XT/AT boards recycled, I made a point of popping all the socketed chips. Plus, I also made a point of stocking up on a lot of assorted EPROMs. I don't quite have the free time right now, but when I start selling stuff on ebay in a few months, I'll make a point of checking what all those various chips are going for.
When I get to my old age, digital antiques should be quite an interesting hobby. I just didn't expect it to be worthwhile quite so soon.
Probably because you're only seeing the stuff they're putting in theatres? Tired of angst? Watch some Slayers sometime. Crazy powerful Lina Inverse doing crazy things, but silly and BOFHish instead of angst.
In my opinion, it (and Ed/Ein) kicks as much ass as the Escaflowne movie sucks ass. I tried to watch the Escaflowne movie, but it was too painful. Whereas the CB movie is a solid two hours (almost unheard of for anime movies these days, I think) and keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time.
I downloaded it early last year. About halfway through watching it, I was really starting to wonder when the good part would happen. So I did a seek to the last five minutes and found out that I had saved myself from wasting half an hour more of my precious lifeforce on watching this steaming pile of crap.
So for those of you out there who loved the Escaflowne TV series, but hated how every damn Tenchi series had to be in a different continuity, think of this as the Shin Tenchi/Tenchi in Tokyo of Escaflowne. The first four episodes of TiT, that is, before they rewrote the plot from scratch.
I give it two guymelefs down. Save your ten bucks and watch something by Rumiko Takahashi instead. (Urusei Yatsura, Ranma, Maison Ikkoku, Inu Yasha, whatever you like best.)
I have yet to find the great reason of why everyone uses BIND. I've been working on my own DNS server just for kicks. The protocol itself is trivial. It can be handled so easily, but yet, if you look at BIND's source code, you can't tell what is going on at all.
Well, if you've been working on your own, maybe you could release it as open source?
So, why does everyone continue to use it? Or better question, why hasn't someone written a better alternative?
Sounds like you're considering writing one. What's stopping you?:-)
Q: Which of the new features are available to existing AirPort customers through a software upgrade, and which are available only with the new AirPort Base Station?
A: Upgrading your system to AirPort 2.0 software will provide additional functionality to both your card and your base station. Your AirPort Card will be upgraded to support 128-bit encryption and will be compatible with Cisco access points using LEAP.
LEAP is apparently a good enough add-on to 128-bit WEP that Cisco uses it on their internal network. As I understand it, LEAP constantly changes the WEP key, which prevents it from staying constant long enough to be decoded through a sniffer attack.
Unfortunately, this is only Cisco LEAP client support, so only the AirPort cards inside Macs and Powerbooks will be able to benefit from this, and not the base stations.
Their low-end model without a modem can only be configured over the USB port, requiring at least W98 or W2K. I got one last month and just used my desktop box at work to set it up. FWIW, their cheap AP is an OEM solution from Atmel, but they have a lot better support than Netgear's version. Linksys has the 1.4 version of the firmware on their web site (security fixes AND the ability to do wireless bridging), and removable antennas. Netgear's doesn't even say on the box that it requires a Windows machine with USB.
FWIW, Addtron and SMC also make APs with this particular chipset. I don't know anything about SMC's, but Addtron's looks like a toy.
First of all, PW had about half the nasal tone as the animated Tick's voice did. But it was nasal on top of a justice-flavored Adam-West-y voice. I thought the voice was much more on the mark of what the "real" Tick would really sound like, should we be unlucky enough to live in a world filled with inept superheroes.
Watch The Tick's antennae. Very expressive. Good job, FOX!
Yes, they wouldn't stop wiggling, and it was truely annoying! Which was great, because The Tick is supposed to be annoying like that.
I do want to know how the mechanism for Arthur's wings worked. They clearly had a real mechanism for folding and unfolding, rather than cheating with CGI. And Batmanuel was great, too. Good stuff. It was worth arriving at Anime Night an hour late.
My first Powerbook was a 145. I had this handle strap that I got at a MacWorld Expo, that attched with the top screw holes. Well, one day I got confused as to which hand held it, and dropped it. Scratch one 80 meg hard drive. But I got a 500 to replace it. It also broke lots of internal screw posts. But a few months ago I found a junker 145 (which had a dead CPU) and just swapped everything in.
The biggest problem with that model was the floppy drives kept dying. Even the junker I found had dead floppy drives.
And I'm typing this now on my second PowerBook, a G3 Pismo. Fortunately I didn't have money to waste on those awful intermediate models with their hinges that would break.
My first Powerbook was a 145. I had this handle strap that I got at a MacWorld Expo
So how about some mythical creatures?
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We're getting plenty of cats and dogs, and that's great, but how about adding some small dragons and unicorns and chocobos into the mix?
I will say this about Necoro: even though it looks like Toonces or like the cat from Sabrina, at least it looks more or less like a real cat, and not some pathetic imitation of a metallic robot trying to look like a pathetic imitation of a cat.
Nuku is a partial Japanese word for warmth. Nukumori roughly means the cozy warmth of another live being. And nukunuku means cozy. Neko is the word for cat, with an odd romanization of neco for trendiness' sake.
From a bumper sticker tacked to the wall in an electronics store about 15 years or so ago:
God uses a Z-80 when He can't get a 6809
The 6809 was a dream to program for, even if you constantly wished for just one more register, but it was Motorola's last great random-logic decode processor. And it even had a Unix-like OS in the form of Microware's OS/9. In the end, the microcoded 6811 won out because it had a big customer: the automotive industry. The 6811 was designed for anti-lock braking applications.
But then Motorola came out with the 68000, which was like a 32-bit PDP-11, and IMHO that was the greatest instruction set of all time. I bet lots of you reading this even have one in your pocket or on your desk (PalmOS runs on a 68K).
And Sega even came out with a machine that had both a Z-80 and a 68000: the Sega Genesis. Forget Linux for the TRS-80, how about Linux for the SegaCD?
What we really need is mod_labrea so that all of us who are annoyed at seeing endless IIS exploits in our access and error logs can actually do something about it.
So is anyone up to the challenge of writing a mod_labrea?:-)
No reason we can't launch a new Nimda-a-like that propogates amoung windows machines and attackes Apache (on whaterver OS its sitting on) hosts.
No reason, except for the minor problem of the lack of an actual attack that works on Apache. "Of course we can make a tapioca-powered rocket! We already have the tapioca!"
Apparently the fuel problem isn't the ion engines. As long as the craft gets solar power, they can run indefinitely. The problem is that they used conventional hydrazine fuel engines for attitude control, and that's the fuel they were low on. So DS-1 can still do a great job of going in a straight line; it just can't turn around to aim itself in the right direction.
Funny thing is, I haven't seen any devices on the shelves that could speak 2.0.
Maybe they've been shipping them all to their new (just opened this past weekend) store in Austin? I saw 'em there, but I'm already sold on Firewire as the better technology. Hell, even Intel is hedging their bets and getting 1394 into their chipsets.
I think I should also add for those not in.us that all interstate highways are at minimum 4-lane (two in each direction) dual-carriageway motorways with no "grade crossings" (access is via entrance and exit ramps only). Significant stretches of I-35 from south of San Antonio to north of Waco also have four lanes of frontage roads (2+2), and a stretch of well over 100 miles from the south side of San Antonio to far north of Austin has been almost completely upgraded to six lanes minimum. Even with six lanes it is rather busy, in major part because of the extra traffic generated by NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement), and there are plans for a toll road which will completely bypass most of that part of I-35.
That line is Interstate Highway 35, at least the south half of it is. I can make out a line from San Antonio all the way up to a city in Kansas (Wichita?) and assorted cities around it. It ends at the Mexico border at the bright spot south and a little west of San Antonio. Going north, the bright spots are San Antonio, Austin, Waco, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Oklahoma City (with Tulsa slightly northeast along the diagonal line of I-44).
ulster.net? I guess that means you're in.uk? Try taking a street address of some place in Texas (Dell or Compaq would be a good start), plugging it into mapquest.com, and zooming out. Then click around in various directions and see how they correspond to the light pollution map. And by the way folks, this map is supposed to be a light pollution map, not a light source map, so that's why there are all these great blobs, including ocean areas.
I really hope the new series picks up from the OVA, which ended with "Here comes Jurai".
Well, if you read carefully, it seems that there are two series that will happen next year, and one of them is indeed OVA 3. I have no idea what this "Galaxy Police" TV series is going to be, or more importantly, which contiuum it will belong to.
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Before I tried using Apache, I was only getting a third of that (13 Mb/sec). Anyhow, 50 Mbits/sec vs 420 Gbits/sec... you figure it out. Me, I'll just drool for the drive arrays that ran fast enough to keep up with the link.
That's because the Wico used real leaf switches, just like arcade machines used. I snag one every now and then for a buck or two at a thrift store, and eventually I'll get around to converting a few of them for the Atari 7800 or ColecoVision right buttons. (I lucked into a pair of 3rd-party keypads for ColecoVision which have a joystick port, but they still need a joystick with a right button.)
It would be tough to emulate the quirks of Stella without knowledge of the exact circuitry it used (the details of which are probably lost to history), but for a limited subset of games such as this, you could do testing to make sure all the games work. Emulating Stella is the most complex part of any software Atari 2600 emulator.
Anyone got the VHDL to a Stella-compatible video chip core? Add a 6502 core, and you've got 2/3 of an Atari 2600!
When I get to my old age, digital antiques should be quite an interesting hobby. I just didn't expect it to be worthwhile quite so soon.
Probably because you're only seeing the stuff they're putting in theatres? Tired of angst? Watch some Slayers sometime. Crazy powerful Lina Inverse doing crazy things, but silly and BOFHish instead of angst.
In my opinion, it (and Ed/Ein) kicks as much ass as the Escaflowne movie sucks ass. I tried to watch the Escaflowne movie, but it was too painful. Whereas the CB movie is a solid two hours (almost unheard of for anime movies these days, I think) and keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time.
So for those of you out there who loved the Escaflowne TV series, but hated how every damn Tenchi series had to be in a different continuity, think of this as the Shin Tenchi/Tenchi in Tokyo of Escaflowne. The first four episodes of TiT, that is, before they rewrote the plot from scratch.
I give it two guymelefs down. Save your ten bucks and watch something by Rumiko Takahashi instead. (Urusei Yatsura, Ranma, Maison Ikkoku, Inu Yasha, whatever you like best.)
Well, if you've been working on your own, maybe you could release it as open source?
So, why does everyone continue to use it? Or better question, why hasn't someone written a better alternative?
Sounds like you're considering writing one. What's stopping you? :-)
LEAP is apparently a good enough add-on to 128-bit WEP that Cisco uses it on their internal network. As I understand it, LEAP constantly changes the WEP key, which prevents it from staying constant long enough to be decoded through a sniffer attack.
Unfortunately, this is only Cisco LEAP client support, so only the AirPort cards inside Macs and Powerbooks will be able to benefit from this, and not the base stations.
FWIW, Addtron and SMC also make APs with this particular chipset. I don't know anything about SMC's, but Addtron's looks like a toy.
Watch The Tick's antennae. Very expressive. Good job, FOX!
Yes, they wouldn't stop wiggling, and it was truely annoying! Which was great, because The Tick is supposed to be annoying like that.
I do want to know how the mechanism for Arthur's wings worked. They clearly had a real mechanism for folding and unfolding, rather than cheating with CGI. And Batmanuel was great, too. Good stuff. It was worth arriving at Anime Night an hour late.
The biggest problem with that model was the floppy drives kept dying. Even the junker I found had dead floppy drives.
And I'm typing this now on my second PowerBook, a G3 Pismo. Fortunately I didn't have money to waste on those awful intermediate models with their hinges that would break.
My first Powerbook was a 145. I had this handle strap that I got at a MacWorld Expo
I will say this about Necoro: even though it looks like Toonces or like the cat from Sabrina, at least it looks more or less like a real cat, and not some pathetic imitation of a metallic robot trying to look like a pathetic imitation of a cat.
Neco = Neko plus Ro from robot => Necoro.
The 6809 was a dream to program for, even if you constantly wished for just one more register, but it was Motorola's last great random-logic decode processor. And it even had a Unix-like OS in the form of Microware's OS/9. In the end, the microcoded 6811 won out because it had a big customer: the automotive industry. The 6811 was designed for anti-lock braking applications.
But then Motorola came out with the 68000, which was like a 32-bit PDP-11, and IMHO that was the greatest instruction set of all time. I bet lots of you reading this even have one in your pocket or on your desk (PalmOS runs on a 68K).
And Sega even came out with a machine that had both a Z-80 and a 68000: the Sega Genesis. Forget Linux for the TRS-80, how about Linux for the SegaCD?
So is anyone up to the challenge of writing a mod_labrea? :-)
No reason, except for the minor problem of the lack of an actual attack that works on Apache. "Of course we can make a tapioca-powered rocket! We already have the tapioca!"
Apparently the fuel problem isn't the ion engines. As long as the craft gets solar power, they can run indefinitely. The problem is that they used conventional hydrazine fuel engines for attitude control, and that's the fuel they were low on. So DS-1 can still do a great job of going in a straight line; it just can't turn around to aim itself in the right direction.
Maybe they've been shipping them all to their new (just opened this past weekend) store in Austin? I saw 'em there, but I'm already sold on Firewire as the better technology. Hell, even Intel is hedging their bets and getting 1394 into their chipsets.
Here's a good site about Texas highways.
ulster.net? I guess that means you're in .uk? Try taking a street address of some place in Texas (Dell or Compaq would be a good start), plugging it into mapquest.com, and zooming out. Then click around in various directions and see how they correspond to the light pollution map. And by the way folks, this map is supposed to be a light pollution map, not a light source map, so that's why there are all these great blobs, including ocean areas.
Indeed. It would show that the 3rd world countries getting a free ride in the Kyoto treaty are the real polluters in the world these days.
Well, if you read carefully, it seems that there are two series that will happen next year, and one of them is indeed OVA 3. I have no idea what this "Galaxy Police" TV series is going to be, or more importantly, which contiuum it will belong to.