You just really need to find a 'third party web-fetcher'/proxy to do this.
Popular services: Ask Jesus (Jesusifies the page though), Anonymizer (fee-payable).
I'm sure that there are many many many more (those are just two off the top off my head that I've used in the last 48hrs), but if you use different ones it'll make it even harder for censorship software to block - they can't know every single proxy system available to the public. Richy C.
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Yeah, I've got a Freeserve account (also 15x ConnectFree, Telinco, Free Online, ic24, Compuserve (never paid, never revoked account) and many more). It's just that I've used my Demon account for so many years now (7 IIRC) that it'll still take me ages to 'port' my email addresses across. I've got around 150 address on beebware.demon, but only 50 on beebware.com so far... POP3 fetching isn't fun (I use SMTP).
I'll wait, mainly because I've only just moved and my computer is in 4 rooms... Richy C.
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Yeah - I haven't even seen evidence that would suggest that if they had the phone lines, AV had the equipment to cope.
I'll be trying NTLWorld shortly for unmetered internet access, but I'll also keep my Demon account active - they're due to have 'SurfTime' offerings soon.
More details can be found at the following Register articles:
To me, modern games just don't have the 'playability' of the old games like Pac-Man, Space Invaders even Colossal Cave.
Those games, to me, had the 'have another go' factor - you've just passed level 9 on Pac-Man, therefore you know you can do level 10 but you've got to make sure you can do it perfectly...
Colossal Cave and the ever popular Lemmings had a different playability factor - they needed the player to actually think and anticipate the results of their actions - in Doom you just blast anything that comes across and hang the consequences (okay, I'm over simplifying here, but that's the 'basics').
I've just got old of a copy of the IF (Interactive Fiction) archive and an old copy of Chuckie Egg - all free, and I've been playing them a hell of a lot more than any others games in the last 5 years. Richy C.
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Wasn't the personal domain thing the point of the proposed.pers TLD?
As for trademarks - well, we'll be working on uneven ground there. I could hold the trademark for 'Slashdot' here in the UK, Andover would own it in the US - who is entitled to it? I also believe there is 'Dominoes Pizza' and another 'Dominoes' company - both owning the 'Dominoes' trademark, but in different 'fields'.
The UK had a resonable idea with it's.ltd.uk and.plc.uk where only company who have registered with the UK's Government House are entitled to one of these domains.
Sounds good in theory - but can anyone work around, simply, the unsolved questions?
Richy C.
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True, but by 'beginner' I meant people beginning to use computers - the sort who would start their new Posix system then phone technical support complaining that they can't find the Start button.
Richy C.
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Isn't UNIX still (tm) AT&T? I thought the generic term was Posix...
Posix system's aren't really aimed at beginners - that's what people keep forgeting. It was designed for use by people who know what they are doing and how _they_ want to do it - not the way a Redmond base drone wants them to...
Personally, I prefer Opera for the PC, and Fresco and Oregano for the RISC PC. Okay, neither of them are Mozilla cores, but they do what I need a web browser to do (browse the web). I use a mail client for mail...
Well, I remember Mozilla saying that there would be a total of 20 milestones before the proper release. Let's just hope it improves quite a bit between now and then...
Richy C.
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Casio currently do MP3 watches - I've seen them advertised for around $300 (219UKP IIRC) - dunno the full spec - but it shows it's easily possible to put Linux on it.
I wonder which Linux build they are using though - Intel, ARM... or if they've had to write their own main kernel... Richy C.
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If it's for AC tracking, they could just use the logs of the _page_ request which would be a lot more honest than image requests (ie 'no graphics' people will also be tracked).
It's probably for statistical purposes, but how it copes with cache's I'm not sure (and I don't care enough to look at the HTTP header for a Pragma: no-cache statment).
But what about 'single pixel spacers' - usually used just to enable tables to render correctly. Sometimes height=1 width=600 (or whatever) is used for 'drawing lines', but single's do have their own good purposes...
Richy C.
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How can the simulate the different gravity? Considering that actual humans haven't even landed on Mars yet, I think it's a little early to think about how we'll actually live there. Remember what happened to 'By the year 2000, people will be living on the moon' - when was the last time humans went there? (BTW Read Ben Elton's 'Stark', that gives a very probable explanation why we haven't...)
To work effieicently, the virus would have to be fast spreading. To do this, it's no good delivering it's payload straight away - sit on the users sytem and send out 1 or 2 messages _per day_, with a timed payload in a month's time. Make the virus metamorpheric to help reduce the anti-virus systems and nobody will know they've been infected until umpteen numbers have been distributed and the payload is delivered.
Oh - it would be better if the virus could cope with as many different platforms as possible.
An ideal method for 'mass distribution' would be a crack to put it in a MS Website upgrade patch, then release a mini-virus targetting against MS system to 'encourage' people to download the infected patch file. Obviously, you'll probably need someone inside Microsoft, but...
The Register is also carrying the story (actually it started carrying it yesterday) and it gives some information about how the software patches the hardware. Richy C. --
More information on this article can be found at The Register in this article (entitled 'BT claims ownership of hyperlinks').
Basically BT claims it filed a patent in 1976 (eventually granted in 1989) due to its work on the old Viewdata and Prestel systems it ran as part of the GPO.
You can actually view the patent on line (it is a US patent) as number 4,873,662 entitled 'Information handling system and terminal apparatus therefor' (phew!)
I know that here in the UK we have the 'Computer Misuse Act' which makes hacking/cracking illegal - I suspect the same sort of thing is worldwide (practically).
So, therefore, while somebody may be attempting to get into your systems, you can't legally break into theirs. There's nothing physically stopping you, but if you were to attack the wrong machine, or their attempt on you was an accident and you (in retaliation) bring down mission-critical systems - you'll get into a nice big legal mess (UK users can face an unlimited fine and 5 years imprisionment - bringing down a system would come under part 3 of the aforementioned Act - IANAL)
Just try and imagine the first posters! If we get things fast enough and therefore go back in time, at least OOG THE CAVEMAN would feel at home:) Richy C. --
From a brief look at the details - it seems Flashcom is just a reseller of Covad, so while you are a customer of Flashcom, they are customers of Covad. Unfortently, while this gives Covad a good 'sales team' (Flashcom et al will be trying to sell as many as possible) - it does make support difficult as problems need to be referred to the actual provider - ie Covad.
The phone line, however, is a slightly different beast at it is provided by Bell Atlantic as they are the 'telco' and Covad is the ISP. Bell Atlantic won't have any provision for connecting you to the internet (except if they have their own ISP division) and are just concerned with selling a high speed line to connect X to Y.
It seems as if Flashcom purchased your DSL system off their provider (Covad) who then purchased the physical line connecting you to them from Bell Atlantic. If it was just a problem with your ISP connection, then it could have been dealt with Flashcom - who would have referred major problems to Covad to see if it was their end.
Yep, it can be problematic, but that's the way companies work - all around the world (for example, Beebware Internet is a reseller of ConnectFree which is a VISP of Telinco. I deal with front-line support to Bebeware, but major problems get referred to ConnectFree who refer them to Telinco. I'm prevented to going direct to Telinco because of the contract I signed. It gets annoying for the companies as well sometimes):(
Yep, I totally agree that the cases of hardware (and not just computers - TVs, VCRs etc) are getting less 'sturdy' - but it isn't just the cases.
In the 'good old days', you could buy a TV and it'll still be working 15 years later - now you are lucky if it lasts 7 before something major goes wrong. My old BBC (circa 1983) micro still works - it was in daily constant use for over 10 years with 5 1/4" floppy drive. I have trouble firing up a 1995 PC with harddrive - sometimes it just won't even get past the BIOS boot.
All in the name of economy... *sigh*
On the same vein, the egyptians had the hierographic writings which have lasted over 3,000 years - any 'modern days' records going to last that long? Nope..
> The WINE team wants to be "pure" and wants to do this as clean-room as possible
Which may result in a less-bloatful more reliable version of Windows that Microsoft managed to. Imagine a Linux machine running Microsoft Exploder under WINE better and more reliabily than Microsoft Windows can - it's not that hard to see that this is possible.
As the WINE team is comparitvely small compared to the collection Microserfs, plus they have less pressure on deadlines - this should result in a lot less bugs and mistakes than the 'original' version of Windows.
Also, since WINE appears to be open-source (I haven't examined it closely to confirm this BTW) it should be possible for it to be ported to other platforms easily.
Just imagine... DOS running WINE better than it runs Windows - packages being on shop shelves saying: 'Needs either WINE ME 2001 with 16Mb RAM or Microsoft Windows ME 2001 with 64Mb'. Bliss!
I personally think that under the circumstances it would be a good idea to open source the software behind it.
Yes, it'll just be a simple page fetcher followed by a case/if statement and then a whole load of 'global search and replace' calls, but it'll be nice to be able to base the code on something. After all, half the fun of the Dialectizer was being able to translate other peoples sites (and your own) into 'other tongues'.
If people were able to download the code and use it on their own website, it'll keep a hell of a lot of people happy.
I'm now worried about things like this affect BabelFish and AskJesus...
Slashdot Mirror
And things like Delorie Lynx Viewer, Delorie Web Page Purifier, HTML PrettyPrinter, Delories Search Engine Simulator for starters - oh, don't forget last weeks Slashdotted site DejaVu for viewing sites in 'old browsers'.
Richy C.
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You just really need to find a 'third party web-fetcher'/proxy to do this.
Popular services: Ask Jesus (Jesusifies the page though), Anonymizer (fee-payable).
I'm sure that there are many many many more (those are just two off the top off my head that I've used in the last 48hrs), but if you use different ones it'll make it even harder for censorship software to block - they can't know every single proxy system available to the public.
Richy C.
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Yeah, I've got a Freeserve account (also 15x ConnectFree, Telinco, Free Online, ic24, Compuserve (never paid, never revoked account) and many more). It's just that I've used my Demon account for so many years now (7 IIRC) that it'll still take me ages to 'port' my email addresses across. I've got around 150 address on beebware.demon, but only 50 on beebware.com so far... POP3 fetching isn't fun (I use SMTP).
I'll wait, mainly because I've only just moved and my computer is in 4 rooms...
Richy C.
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Here's a list of UK freephone access providers.
Richy C.
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I'll be trying NTLWorld shortly for unmetered internet access, but I'll also keep my Demon account active - they're due to have 'SurfTime' offerings soon.
More details can be found at the following Register articles:
- AltaVista admits service a sham
- Alta Vista's world crumbles
- AltaVista mystery ends today
- AltaVista: the silence continues and the farce continues
- CMGI to buy ISP for Altavista
And the list goes on... And that's just from 1 source - talk about publicity...Richy C.
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To me, modern games just don't have the 'playability' of the old games like Pac-Man, Space Invaders even Colossal Cave.
Those games, to me, had the 'have another go' factor - you've just passed level 9 on Pac-Man, therefore you know you can do level 10 but you've got to make sure you can do it perfectly...
Colossal Cave and the ever popular Lemmings had a different playability factor - they needed the player to actually think and anticipate the results of their actions - in Doom you just blast anything that comes across and hang the consequences (okay, I'm over simplifying here, but that's the 'basics').
I've just got old of a copy of the IF (Interactive Fiction) archive and an old copy of Chuckie Egg - all free, and I've been playing them a hell of a lot more than any others games in the last 5 years.
Richy C.
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Wasn't the personal domain thing the point of the proposed .pers TLD? .ltd.uk and .plc.uk where only company who have registered with the UK's Government House are entitled to one of these domains.
As for trademarks - well, we'll be working on uneven ground there. I could hold the trademark for 'Slashdot' here in the UK, Andover would own it in the US - who is entitled to it? I also believe there is 'Dominoes Pizza' and another 'Dominoes' company - both owning the 'Dominoes' trademark, but in different 'fields'.
The UK had a resonable idea with it's
Sounds good in theory - but can anyone work around, simply, the unsolved questions?
Richy C.
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True, but by 'beginner' I meant people beginning to use computers - the sort who would start their new Posix system then phone technical support complaining that they can't find the Start button.
Richy C.
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Isn't UNIX still (tm) AT&T? I thought the generic term was Posix...
Posix system's aren't really aimed at beginners - that's what people keep forgeting. It was designed for use by people who know what they are doing and how _they_ want to do it - not the way a Redmond base drone wants them to...
Richy C.
--
Personally, I prefer Opera for the PC, and Fresco and Oregano for the RISC PC. Okay, neither of them are Mozilla cores, but they do what I need a web browser to do (browse the web). I use a mail client for mail...
Richy C.
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Well, I remember Mozilla saying that there would be a total of 20 milestones before the proper release. Let's just hope it improves quite a bit between now and then...
Richy C.
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Casio currently do MP3 watches - I've seen them advertised for around $300 (219UKP IIRC) - dunno the full spec - but it shows it's easily possible to put Linux on it.
I wonder which Linux build they are using though - Intel, ARM... or if they've had to write their own main kernel...
Richy C.
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If it's for AC tracking, they could just use the logs of the _page_ request which would be a lot more honest than image requests (ie 'no graphics' people will also be tracked).
It's probably for statistical purposes, but how it copes with cache's I'm not sure (and I don't care enough to look at the HTTP header for a Pragma: no-cache statment).
Richy C.
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But what about 'single pixel spacers' - usually used just to enable tables to render correctly. Sometimes height=1 width=600 (or whatever) is used for 'drawing lines', but single's do have their own good purposes...
Richy C.
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How can the simulate the different gravity?
Considering that actual humans haven't even landed on Mars yet, I think it's a little early to think about how we'll actually live there. Remember what happened to 'By the year 2000, people will be living on the moon' - when was the last time humans went there? (BTW Read Ben Elton's 'Stark', that gives a very probable explanation why we haven't...)
Richy C.
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Oh - it would be better if the virus could cope with as many different platforms as possible.
An ideal method for 'mass distribution' would be a crack to put it in a MS Website upgrade patch, then release a mini-virus targetting against MS system to 'encourage' people to download the infected patch file. Obviously, you'll probably need someone inside Microsoft, but...
Richy C.
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The Register is also carrying the story (actually it started carrying it yesterday) and it gives some information about how the software patches the hardware.
Richy C.
--
Basically BT claims it filed a patent in 1976 (eventually granted in 1989) due to its work on the old Viewdata and Prestel systems it ran as part of the GPO.
You can actually view the patent on line (it is a US patent) as number 4,873,662 entitled 'Information handling system and terminal apparatus therefor' (phew!)
Richy C.
--
So, therefore, while somebody may be attempting to get into your systems, you can't legally break into theirs. There's nothing physically stopping you, but if you were to attack the wrong machine, or their attempt on you was an accident and you (in retaliation) bring down mission-critical systems - you'll get into a nice big legal mess (UK users can face an unlimited fine and 5 years imprisionment - bringing down a system would come under part 3 of the aforementioned Act - IANAL)
Remember - two wrongs do not make a right...
Richy C.
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Just try and imagine the first posters! :)
If we get things fast enough and therefore go back in time, at least OOG THE CAVEMAN would feel at home
Richy C.
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The phone line, however, is a slightly different beast at it is provided by Bell Atlantic as they are the 'telco' and Covad is the ISP. Bell Atlantic won't have any provision for connecting you to the internet (except if they have their own ISP division) and are just concerned with selling a high speed line to connect X to Y.
It seems as if Flashcom purchased your DSL system off their provider (Covad) who then purchased the physical line connecting you to them from Bell Atlantic. If it was just a problem with your ISP connection, then it could have been dealt with Flashcom - who would have referred major problems to Covad to see if it was their end.
Yep, it can be problematic, but that's the way companies work - all around the world (for example, Beebware Internet is a reseller of ConnectFree which is a VISP of Telinco. I deal with front-line support to Bebeware, but major problems get referred to ConnectFree who refer them to Telinco. I'm prevented to going direct to Telinco because of the contract I signed. It gets annoying for the companies as well sometimes) :(
Richy C.
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In the 'good old days', you could buy a TV and it'll still be working 15 years later - now you are lucky if it lasts 7 before something major goes wrong. My old BBC (circa 1983) micro still works - it was in daily constant use for over 10 years with 5 1/4" floppy drive. I have trouble firing up a 1995 PC with harddrive - sometimes it just won't even get past the BIOS boot.
All in the name of economy... *sigh*
On the same vein, the egyptians had the hierographic writings which have lasted over 3,000 years - any 'modern days' records going to last that long? Nope..
Discuss: Have we really progressed?
Richy C.
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Which may result in a less-bloatful more reliable version of Windows that Microsoft managed to. Imagine a Linux machine running Microsoft Exploder under WINE better and more reliabily than Microsoft Windows can - it's not that hard to see that this is possible.
As the WINE team is comparitvely small compared to the collection Microserfs, plus they have less pressure on deadlines - this should result in a lot less bugs and mistakes than the 'original' version of Windows.
Also, since WINE appears to be open-source (I haven't examined it closely to confirm this BTW) it should be possible for it to be ported to other platforms easily.
Just imagine... DOS running WINE better than it runs Windows - packages being on shop shelves saying: 'Needs either WINE ME 2001 with 16Mb RAM or Microsoft Windows ME 2001 with 64Mb'. Bliss!
Richy C.
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I personally think that under the circumstances it would be a good idea to open source the software behind it.
Yes, it'll just be a simple page fetcher followed by a case/if statement and then a whole load of 'global search and replace' calls, but it'll be nice to be able to base the code on something. After all, half the fun of the Dialectizer was being able to translate other peoples sites (and your own) into 'other tongues'.
If people were able to download the code and use it on their own website, it'll keep a hell of a lot of people happy.
I'm now worried about things like this affect BabelFish and AskJesus...
Richy C.
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Liar! How dare you say I look like an Arrowpoint rep!
$1million/year - is that just for Slashdot or all the Andover.net systems?
1,000,000 USD = 671,015 UKP = 1,121,428 EUR BTW
Richy C.
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