My dsl ROUTER doesn't make that noise! Dig? It doesn't even plug into a parallel port, so hell yeah it's external... : )
That's because your ears suck. The whole point of DSL is that the DSL modems use frequencies higher than you can hear. And what's left is supposed to be taken care of by the splitter/filters.
SBC is planning to have most of their major metropolitan areas upgraded for total DSL coverage by the end of 2001. I presume this will be done by putting DSLAMs in the sheds. (You know, the sheds with two doors that each have a five-button lock.)
This link has PDF maps of the planned coverage areas.
The main problem I had was that the modem was shipped from the other side of town via 2-day UPS, the day before the install date.
UPS takes their 2-day shipping very seriously, so of course it arrives 5pm the day after the install. Fortunately, the SBC guy had one old Alcatel 1000 in the truck. I suppose self-install would help with this, because you wouldn't have to waste a day off from work if the modem doesn't show up.
A big problem while wiring things up was that the telco guy forgot to remove the half-ringer (a little gray block hidden under the phone jack thingy in the junction box) and I was getting a shit connection because of it. Another problem was that either the modem or the splitter or both expected the signal on black/yellow. So I just bridged the damn pairs in the dual phone jack I bought for the line.
The final problem was that while SBC was the "dialtone" provider for the DSL, they weren't the ISP. I had jump.net (which I am entirely happy with), and I had a fixed IP block. The telco guy was on a conference call with the ISP and the phone company for half an hour before I realized I had a/24 netmask, not a/29! (My DSL is a bridged Ethernet link.)
And there was a good part... when the telco guy tested my line, he said my maximum download (with the extra cost higher speed option, of course) would be 2.7 or so Mbps download, nearly twice a T1 and about half the maximum.
Pong was one of the games that pre-dated the use of CPUs in video games. (The other popular one was Breakout.) It was made entirely with discrete logic chips, just like the old Lear Siegler ADM-3A terminals. Even the home versions that condensed the circuitry down to a single chip still used discrete logic.
A couple of years ago I found a book about making video games out of discrete logic: counters and flip-flops and big AND gates. Now that's what I call making furniture with a axe!
My first experience in nospam addresses was with texas.net which specifically has a nospam.texas.net to help catch spammers. Note that nospam here is a 3LD, not a 2LD. And you can also put the "NOSPAM" in front of your domain without a dot, assuming the total combination is unlikely.
After I got my own domain, I found out that only works properly if the nospam DNS exists. Otherwise sendmail will reject it, even if it's a subdomain of a valid domain. I didn't feel like adding a nospam address because I had learned a better trick.
But what I use now is the "plus hack". See, the user name part of e-mail addresses (at least if you use Sendmail) can have a plus sign added to it, followed by some unique identifier for further routing (or procmailing) of the mail. So I simply use, say, +usenet1 on usenet posts, and once that starts getting spammed, I'll move on to +usenet2.
Some interesting results of that have appeared in my logs. One spammer's software simply removed the plus sign, and another removed everything before and including the plus sign. Either way, "User unknown".
And speaking of logs, I've noticed something VERY wierd in my logs. At first, I thought it was because someone owned my domain before, but now I'm not sure. I would notice "user unknown" bounces of the form "lusername@domain.net", where the domain was four obscure characters (definitely NOT a word). Just random user names. Now maybe a few people were clueless and put ".net" instead of ".com". But I'm not so sure. I think there may be some spammers out there trying random user names at domains for some reason I can't comprehend, probably because the reasons truly are incomprehensible. Anyhow, a bounce is a bounce.
And now with what little spam I get (about 0.5/day, mostly through my someday to be dropped texas.net address), I make a point of reporting to the abuse address of the spammers IP domain, since even most open relay mailers bother to log the source IP address. Hopefully this will help get a few more chickenboners shut down in this eternal game of whack-a-mole.
Is Otaku no Video with fully removable subtitles! Because of all the charts and stuff, they had to put black-block backgrounded subtitles over the video in a lot of places.
...but DVD sound *can be* as good as LD. It's just that most of the time the stereo audio is compressed with Dolby Digital, to give more room for better video encoding. This is not always true, but ironically it's usually the cheaper mastering places that do PCM audio. (The exception is music DVDs.) The Iria DVD uses PCM, because it was such an early release.
DTS does seem to sound better, but 192k DD stereo is still a lot better than 128k MP3.
However, DVD excels in one way which is very important to anime fans. With LD, you can only add a single mono analog track to a disc with Dolby Digital 5.1. With DVD, not only can the second track be in stereo, but you can have multiple 5.1 audio tracks! So if the original Japanese was in 5.1, the domestic LD would have it in mere mono, and the dub in 5.1. Luckily I managed to get import copies of the Tenchi Muyo in Love movie LD (both CAV and CLV) cheap.
Also, LD required a special decoder to get a usable Dolby Digital signal. This used to be built into amplifiers (which added $100-200 to their cost), but it was never built into an LD player.
But there is one way in which DVD sound can be superior to its LD counterpart. DTS had to encode 14 bits per word (leaving off the two MSBs) to avoid blowing out speakers if you accidently played it as PCM. DTS on DVD can use the full 16 bits per PCM word.
I think the real problem is going to be getting the end-user machines upgraded to IPv6. Five years ago it could have been done, but now that grandma and grandpa and all sorts of redneck lusers are having a hard enough enough time just getting their little Windoze machine to read e-mail and browse cnn.com (or nascar.com), how easy will it be to get THEM to switch? You can try to wait them out until they get a new machine, but then someone will buy their old used machine.
Sure, sites with DNS entries can always be given an IPv4 address for backwards compatibility, but that doesn't solve the problem of all the jillions of potential client machines out there with ancient IPv4 protocol stacks that may never be able to connect to anything with an IPv6 address but no IPv4 address. (Though I suppose a sort of reverse-NAT could be done if you combine a NAT box with a DNS server and have it spit out 10.x.x.x addresses.)
It's also a problem for those with legacy machines, including antique computer collectors.
I personally expect to be ready when it comes, but I'm pretty damn net savvy and I'm still not sure what I'll need to do to get IPv6 compatible.
It could become a fiasco on the level of the metric system, and it could create a new divide between the "haves" and the "have nots".
Classful routing died five years ago because the routing tables were going out of control, and because class C was too small, but class B was *way* too big.
So they came up with CIDR (classless inter-domain routing) which uses variable net masks to group routing blocks geographically. They divided up the rest of class C and used that all up, so now they're cutting into the old class A. So lots of cable modem customers have 12.*.*.* addresses now.
For more info on CIDR, see RFCs 1812, 1817, 1860, etc.
However, with 128 bits, it is likely that end-users will get *at least* 48 bits (enough to use Ethernet addresses and reduce the need for site-local DHCP), probably 64 bits, for their own use. So a block with a 64 bit prefix will be treated like a single 32-bit address today.
Besides the obvious size, weight, and fragility issues, LD did have a few other problems.
First of all, it only stores composite video. So you automatically have half the potential resolution of DVD.
And then there were all the manufacturing problems. Laser rot was probably overrated (it could have been due more to old players than old discs), but there were lots of bad pressings done at the infamous Sony plant. In fact, ADV's first Evangelion disc was the only disc I ever had to take back and exchange because of speckling!
Chroma noise was a problem too. I've seen all too many LDs with speckly oversaturated reds and browns due to chroma noise.
And then there was the crosstalk problem. Most LD mastering had gone to a form of CLV which reduced crosstalk, but not 3M. And guess which pressing plant Animeigo chose? So on an out-of-alignment player, you get to see ghost sync bars dancing across the screen.
A good mastering of a DVD will outshine a good mastering of an LD any day. I just wish they had gone with more than three colors for the subtitling spec.
First, take one dub-only Mononoke DVD and DeCSS it. Be sure to handle the disc with latex gloves, to avoid a Macekbacter infection. (It gives you the worst kind of strep throat, and you sound. like. you're. reading. everything. from. a. book.)
Then get an import copy of the Mononoke LD. Rip its AC-3 SPDIF data stream using an AC-3 RF demodulator and a PCI AC-3 input card (no, I don't know where to get such a beast).
Then, using a DVD authoring suite (available from the usual 0day wAr3z sites), merge in the new AC-3 audio track. Don't forget to strip region coding and clear the Macrovision flag. (You're not licenced to set the Macrovision flag, are you? Of course not!) Mix liberally, then bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. No, wait, that was the cake recipe.
Then simply re-write a DVD-R with the new.VOB files. Upload to your favorite high-bandwidth 0day m0v13z site. Presto, a release with Japanese audio!
When I was in high school in 1981, we had a "computer room" which was a classroom with four DecWriter II terminals and 300 baud acoustic modems. (Knocking on the side of the modem to get line noise was fun all in itself!)
They had this program they would run every now and then (like during lunch hour) which generated endless pages of math problems (like four digit addition, two digit multiplication, etc.) for the remedial math students. At 300 baud, the program made this unmistakable sound between the digits (with one or two spaces in between) and the lines under the problems. skritch, skritch, skritch, skritch, thunkswoosh, skritch, skritch, skritch, skritch, thunkswoosh, bzzzzz, bzzzzz, bzzzzz, bzzzzz, thunkunkunkswoosh...
...but I haven't read it yet, so I can't comment on it. I'm thinking about setting up Yet Another Slash Site, so I went by a half-price bookstore in the same shopping area as a B&N looking for books on SQL.
I got lucky. They had one copy of the O'Reilly MySQL book, and half a dozen copies of Perl DBI, so I got one of each of 'em. (They also had half a dozen copies of the mod_perl book and one of Apache, but I already had those.)
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I don't want to seem like a troll. But Tenchi in Tokyo was a disapointing end to a long running series. It's pure shlock.
You're not a troll. It was utter dreck in comparison with the other two Tenchi series. At least if they had used the same art crew it wouldn't have been so bad. But they were working on something called Photon of which what little I've seen doesn't look like it was worth the trade-off. What the fans (at least in.us) wanted was a third OVA series, not yet another parallel universe. That would have rocked immensely (and still would).
I had already decided not to buy this series on domestic LD, should Pioneer still have been producing LD at that time. But I didn't feel so bad about getting it on DVD because it didn't cost as much as LD would have.
(Confession: I got one of the import LDs because it came in a box with cool cover art of Ryoko, and last weekend I got two others because they were half price closeouts. And the import LDs have a really bizarre omake show that didn't make it onto the US DVDs. Bizarre as in a naked crucified Tenchi with a distressed looking Ryo-Ohki trying to block the view of his private parts kind of bizarre. Okay, so that was only the most bizarre scene.)
"Yeah, we know about that bug -- we plan on fixing it later sometime".
You forgot to mention the part about them putting the fix in a "service pack" along with brand new bugs. You can't pick and choose from MS's service packs, you have to take the whole thing. What's MS's record been with NT service packs? About 50 percent?
First of all, in.us cell phone usage is more of a luxury than not. Many people (like me) don't own a cell phone and could care less about having one. Interesting that it hooks up to the controller port, though.
I'd have been more happy to see Ethernet access instead, what with the ability to network anywhere, *and* the growth in broadband (DSL/CTM) in.us homes. (And even without broadband, one could always hook up to a masqueraded dial-up gateway.)
As for the screen, it's damn cute, but like the old Jaguar CD, it makes the machine look like a toilet. More so since it's white. Although with the screen in the lid like that it also looks a bit like a make-up kit with a mirror.
When you open it, it pours hot grits down your pants and then spreads to pour hot grits down the pants of everyone in your address book. Unless you're Natalie Portman, in which case it removes your clothes and petrifies you.
After all, there's no better way to say ILOVEYOU than to pour hot grits down someone's pants.
This looks like a perfect example of "embrace and extend" turned around on Microsoft. Looks like the IETF has decided to embrace the unused data field, and extend it in a "different" direction.
This is much sweeter than simply trying to get Microsoft for using the Kerberos name when their clients won't work with a server compliant to the published standard.
If MS can't be made to open up the standard, then maybe they can be forced to drop the name "Kerberos", at least from the clients, as they are not compatible with a "standard" Kerberos server.
After all, that's one of the reasons why Linus owns the Linux trademark, right? If MS came out with "Microsoft Linux" (ignoring the GPL for a moment), but it only worked with its own proprietary file system extensions, or some other change, I presume Linus could LART them for that and get them to drop the name.
The New Internet Computer Company is offering a special price for donation to under-served schools.
So expect to pay a more reasonable price (as in higher) for it as a Joe User. But if you can buy it without a keyboard, mouse, or monitor, then you can scavenge those cheap from thrift stores, flea markets, and swap meets, and save a few bucks... then blow the money you've saved on an LCD screen to hang on the bathroom wall in front of the crapper so you can read Slashdot! Yep, now you can have your open source hot grits AND pour 'em down your pants without making a mess in the living room!
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Noel - Lots oh skill it takes to type rm -rf
Translation into k1dd13 sp33k: "C'mon, I dare you to rm -rf me!"
The mistake? Talking to him at all.
My dsl ROUTER doesn't make that noise! Dig? It doesn't even plug into a parallel port, so hell yeah it's external... : )
That's because your ears suck. The whole point of DSL is that the DSL modems use frequencies higher than you can hear. And what's left is supposed to be taken care of by the splitter/filters.
SBC is planning to have most of their major metropolitan areas upgraded for total DSL coverage by the end of 2001. I presume this will be done by putting DSLAMs in the sheds. (You know, the sheds with two doors that each have a five-button lock.)
This link has PDF maps of the planned coverage areas.
I noticed the box my Kingston card came in had the "100baseT" box marked, but it was just a plain old 10baseT card. :(
SWB = South Western Bell
SBC = Southwestern Bell Corporation
The main problem I had was that the modem was shipped from the other side of town via 2-day UPS, the day before the install date.
/24 netmask, not a /29! (My DSL is a bridged Ethernet link.)
UPS takes their 2-day shipping very seriously, so of course it arrives 5pm the day after the install. Fortunately, the SBC guy had one old Alcatel 1000 in the truck. I suppose self-install would help with this, because you wouldn't have to waste a day off from work if the modem doesn't show up.
A big problem while wiring things up was that the telco guy forgot to remove the half-ringer (a little gray block hidden under the phone jack thingy in the junction box) and I was getting a shit connection because of it. Another problem was that either the modem or the splitter or both expected the signal on black/yellow. So I just bridged the damn pairs in the dual phone jack I bought for the line.
The final problem was that while SBC was the "dialtone" provider for the DSL, they weren't the ISP. I had jump.net (which I am entirely happy with), and I had a fixed IP block. The telco guy was on a conference call with the ISP and the phone company for half an hour before I realized I had a
And there was a good part... when the telco guy tested my line, he said my maximum download (with the extra cost higher speed option, of course) would be 2.7 or so Mbps download, nearly twice a T1 and about half the maximum.
Pong was one of the games that pre-dated the use of CPUs in video games. (The other popular one was Breakout.) It was made entirely with discrete logic chips, just like the old Lear Siegler ADM-3A terminals. Even the home versions that condensed the circuitry down to a single chip still used discrete logic.
A couple of years ago I found a book about making video games out of discrete logic: counters and flip-flops and big AND gates. Now that's what I call making furniture with a axe!
My first experience in nospam addresses was with texas.net which specifically has a nospam.texas.net to help catch spammers. Note that nospam here is a 3LD, not a 2LD. And you can also put the "NOSPAM" in front of your domain without a dot, assuming the total combination is unlikely.
After I got my own domain, I found out that only works properly if the nospam DNS exists. Otherwise sendmail will reject it, even if it's a subdomain of a valid domain. I didn't feel like adding a nospam address because I had learned a better trick.
But what I use now is the "plus hack". See, the user name part of e-mail addresses (at least if you use Sendmail) can have a plus sign added to it, followed by some unique identifier for further routing (or procmailing) of the mail. So I simply use, say, +usenet1 on usenet posts, and once that starts getting spammed, I'll move on to +usenet2.
Some interesting results of that have appeared in my logs. One spammer's software simply removed the plus sign, and another removed everything before and including the plus sign. Either way, "User unknown".
And speaking of logs, I've noticed something VERY wierd in my logs. At first, I thought it was because someone owned my domain before, but now I'm not sure. I would notice "user unknown" bounces of the form "lusername@domain.net", where the domain was four obscure characters (definitely NOT a word). Just random user names. Now maybe a few people were clueless and put ".net" instead of ".com". But I'm not so sure. I think there may be some spammers out there trying random user names at domains for some reason I can't comprehend, probably because the reasons truly are incomprehensible. Anyhow, a bounce is a bounce.
And now with what little spam I get (about 0.5/day, mostly through my someday to be dropped texas.net address), I make a point of reporting to the abuse address of the spammers IP domain, since even most open relay mailers bother to log the source IP address. Hopefully this will help get a few more chickenboners shut down in this eternal game of whack-a-mole.
Is Otaku no Video with fully removable subtitles! Because of all the charts and stuff, they had to put black-block backgrounded subtitles over the video in a lot of places.
...but DVD sound *can be* as good as LD. It's just that most of the time the stereo audio is compressed with Dolby Digital, to give more room for better video encoding. This is not always true, but ironically it's usually the cheaper mastering places that do PCM audio. (The exception is music DVDs.) The Iria DVD uses PCM, because it was such an early release.
DTS does seem to sound better, but 192k DD stereo is still a lot better than 128k MP3.
However, DVD excels in one way which is very important to anime fans. With LD, you can only add a single mono analog track to a disc with Dolby Digital 5.1. With DVD, not only can the second track be in stereo, but you can have multiple 5.1 audio tracks! So if the original Japanese was in 5.1, the domestic LD would have it in mere mono, and the dub in 5.1. Luckily I managed to get import copies of the Tenchi Muyo in Love movie LD (both CAV and CLV) cheap.
Also, LD required a special decoder to get a usable Dolby Digital signal. This used to be built into amplifiers (which added $100-200 to their cost), but it was never built into an LD player.
But there is one way in which DVD sound can be superior to its LD counterpart. DTS had to encode 14 bits per word (leaving off the two MSBs) to avoid blowing out speakers if you accidently played it as PCM. DTS on DVD can use the full 16 bits per PCM word.
I think the real problem is going to be getting the end-user machines upgraded to IPv6. Five years ago it could have been done, but now that grandma and grandpa and all sorts of redneck lusers are having a hard enough enough time just getting their little Windoze machine to read e-mail and browse cnn.com (or nascar.com), how easy will it be to get THEM to switch? You can try to wait them out until they get a new machine, but then someone will buy their old used machine.
Sure, sites with DNS entries can always be given an IPv4 address for backwards compatibility, but that doesn't solve the problem of all the jillions of potential client machines out there with ancient IPv4 protocol stacks that may never be able to connect to anything with an IPv6 address but no IPv4 address. (Though I suppose a sort of reverse-NAT could be done if you combine a NAT box with a DNS server and have it spit out 10.x.x.x addresses.)
It's also a problem for those with legacy machines, including antique computer collectors.
I personally expect to be ready when it comes, but I'm pretty damn net savvy and I'm still not sure what I'll need to do to get IPv6 compatible.
It could become a fiasco on the level of the metric system, and it could create a new divide between the "haves" and the "have nots".
Any kid who grew up in the '70s can tell you that 7734 is the word "HELL" upside-down on a calculator. :)
Classful routing died five years ago because the routing tables were going out of control, and because class C was too small, but class B was *way* too big.
So they came up with CIDR (classless inter-domain routing) which uses variable net masks to group routing blocks geographically. They divided up the rest of class C and used that all up, so now they're cutting into the old class A. So lots of cable modem customers have 12.*.*.* addresses now.
For more info on CIDR, see RFCs 1812, 1817, 1860, etc.
However, with 128 bits, it is likely that end-users will get *at least* 48 bits (enough to use Ethernet addresses and reduce the need for site-local DHCP), probably 64 bits, for their own use. So a block with a 64 bit prefix will be treated like a single 32-bit address today.
Besides the obvious size, weight, and fragility issues, LD did have a few other problems.
First of all, it only stores composite video. So you automatically have half the potential resolution of DVD.
And then there were all the manufacturing problems. Laser rot was probably overrated (it could have been due more to old players than old discs), but there were lots of bad pressings done at the infamous Sony plant. In fact, ADV's first Evangelion disc was the only disc I ever had to take back and exchange because of speckling!
Chroma noise was a problem too. I've seen all too many LDs with speckly oversaturated reds and browns due to chroma noise.
And then there was the crosstalk problem. Most LD mastering had gone to a form of CLV which reduced crosstalk, but not 3M. And guess which pressing plant Animeigo chose? So on an out-of-alignment player, you get to see ghost sync bars dancing across the screen.
A good mastering of a DVD will outshine a good mastering of an LD any day. I just wish they had gone with more than three colors for the subtitling spec.
First, take one dub-only Mononoke DVD and DeCSS it. Be sure to handle the disc with latex gloves, to avoid a Macekbacter infection. (It gives you the worst kind of strep throat, and you sound. like. you're. reading. everything. from. a. book.)
.VOB files. Upload to your favorite high-bandwidth 0day m0v13z site. Presto, a release with Japanese audio!
Then get an import copy of the Mononoke LD. Rip its AC-3 SPDIF data stream using an AC-3 RF demodulator and a PCI AC-3 input card (no, I don't know where to get such a beast).
Then, using a DVD authoring suite (available from the usual 0day wAr3z sites), merge in the new AC-3 audio track. Don't forget to strip region coding and clear the Macrovision flag. (You're not licenced to set the Macrovision flag, are you? Of course not!) Mix liberally, then bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. No, wait, that was the cake recipe.
Then simply re-write a DVD-R with the new
When I was in high school in 1981, we had a "computer room" which was a classroom with four DecWriter II terminals and 300 baud acoustic modems. (Knocking on the side of the modem to get line noise was fun all in itself!)
They had this program they would run every now and then (like during lunch hour) which generated endless pages of math problems (like four digit addition, two digit multiplication, etc.) for the remedial math students. At 300 baud, the program made this unmistakable sound between the digits (with one or two spaces in between) and the lines under the problems. skritch, skritch, skritch, skritch, thunkswoosh, skritch, skritch, skritch, skritch, thunkswoosh, bzzzzz, bzzzzz, bzzzzz, bzzzzz, thunkunkunkswoosh...
...but I haven't read it yet, so I can't comment on it. I'm thinking about setting up Yet Another Slash Site, so I went by a half-price bookstore in the same shopping area as a B&N looking for books on SQL.
I got lucky. They had one copy of the O'Reilly MySQL book, and half a dozen copies of Perl DBI, so I got one of each of 'em. (They also had half a dozen copies of the mod_perl book and one of Apache, but I already had those.)
I didn't even have to go to B&N.
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couldn't spawn child process:
Even on their main page. Damn. Just as I was getting to part 5.
This begs for a follow-up series on rootprompt.org: How To Secure A Slashdotted Box
I don't want to seem like a troll. But Tenchi in Tokyo was a disapointing end to a long running series. It's pure shlock.
.us) wanted was a third OVA series, not yet another parallel universe. That would have rocked immensely (and still would).
You're not a troll. It was utter dreck in comparison with the other two Tenchi series. At least if they had used the same art crew it wouldn't have been so bad. But they were working on something called Photon of which what little I've seen doesn't look like it was worth the trade-off. What the fans (at least in
I had already decided not to buy this series on domestic LD, should Pioneer still have been producing LD at that time. But I didn't feel so bad about getting it on DVD because it didn't cost as much as LD would have.
(Confession: I got one of the import LDs because it came in a box with cool cover art of Ryoko, and last weekend I got two others because they were half price closeouts. And the import LDs have a really bizarre omake show that didn't make it onto the US DVDs. Bizarre as in a naked crucified Tenchi with a distressed looking Ryo-Ohki trying to block the view of his private parts kind of bizarre. Okay, so that was only the most bizarre scene.)
"Yeah, we know about that bug -- we plan on fixing it later sometime".
You forgot to mention the part about them putting the fix in a "service pack" along with brand new bugs. You can't pick and choose from MS's service packs, you have to take the whole thing. What's MS's record been with NT service packs? About 50 percent?
First of all, in .us cell phone usage is more of a luxury than not. Many people (like me) don't own a cell phone and could care less about having one. Interesting that it hooks up to the controller port, though.
.us homes. (And even without broadband, one could always hook up to a masqueraded dial-up gateway.)
I'd have been more happy to see Ethernet access instead, what with the ability to network anywhere, *and* the growth in broadband (DSL/CTM) in
As for the screen, it's damn cute, but like the old Jaguar CD, it makes the machine look like a toilet. More so since it's white. Although with the screen in the lid like that it also looks a bit like a make-up kit with a mirror.
So when are we going to see...
...the HOTGRITS virus!
When you open it, it pours hot grits down your pants and then spreads to pour hot grits down the pants of everyone in your address book. Unless you're Natalie Portman, in which case it removes your clothes and petrifies you.
After all, there's no better way to say ILOVEYOU than to pour hot grits down someone's pants.
This looks like a perfect example of "embrace and extend" turned around on Microsoft. Looks like the IETF has decided to embrace the unused data field, and extend it in a "different" direction.
This is much sweeter than simply trying to get Microsoft for using the Kerberos name when their clients won't work with a server compliant to the published standard.
(MIT, right?)
If MS can't be made to open up the standard, then maybe they can be forced to drop the name "Kerberos", at least from the clients, as they are not compatible with a "standard" Kerberos server.
After all, that's one of the reasons why Linus owns the Linux trademark, right? If MS came out with "Microsoft Linux" (ignoring the GPL for a moment), but it only worked with its own proprietary file system extensions, or some other change, I presume Linus could LART them for that and get them to drop the name.
From that page:
The New Internet Computer Company is offering a special price for donation to under-served schools.
So expect to pay a more reasonable price (as in higher) for it as a Joe User. But if you can buy it without a keyboard, mouse, or monitor, then you can scavenge those cheap from thrift stores, flea markets, and swap meets, and save a few bucks... then blow the money you've saved on an LCD screen to hang on the bathroom wall in front of the crapper so you can read Slashdot! Yep, now you can have your open source hot grits AND pour 'em down your pants without making a mess in the living room!