The federal government was supposed to provide a set of common 'ground rules' for the states to build on. (It's since twisted into the behemoth we know and loathe.)
The most basic ground rule is the Constitution, which a state has to accept before it's entered into the Union.
And since you're located in the US, you are also bound by the basic rules and regs (aka laws) of the city, county, state, and federal governments.
Since the 16th Amendment allows federal income taxes, you gotta pay.
(Some states, though, don't have a state income tax. I know Florida and Nevada don't have state taxes, p'haps a/.r could fill in the blanks...?)
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
According to the EU, the Echelon system has been used to give American corporations the edge on EU competitors.
I mean, have you seen the kinds of money the corps give to political campaigns?
And the grateful winner then thanks his 'constituents' by giving the megacorp a government sanction to screw over the public.
Look at the DMCA!
I'm writing everything with a pulse on the floor of the House and Senate to see how they voted and why they voted that way. (Let's see if at least Colifornia's crew is honest and says that they did it for the money.)
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
If you go to China with an attitude like that, you'd better have diplomatic immunity, cuz otherwise the Communist Party loyalists will lynch you.
Pay close attention: Any language that'll do what you need it to is the best for the job. English is not as good in China as Mandarin because you can do more with it there.
Perl has a place, Python has a place, even COBOL has a place (rotting in the landiflls).
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
From the article:
"Due to changes in the industry regarding volunteers, effective Sept. 30, 2000, OSI will no longer provide free player accounts or other added value to members of all [Ultima Online] Volunteer Programs."
So, if I'm reading this correctly, OSI (in this case) isn't actually terminating the Volunteer Programs, but just eliminating any of the perks/compensation that go along with it. Does that actually shield them from lawsuits? Or does it change the claim from "You aren't paying me minimum wage for my work!" to "You aren't paying me at all for my work!"?
The basis of the AOL lawsuit is that the "Communist Leaders" have some real authority. They have the ability to enforce the TOC, to boot people, and to terminate connections and/or accounts. Those are responsibilities that, generally speaking, most people would think employees of AOL only should have. (Hypothetical: A CL is a warez f13n0. He terminates all those who go into his room and aren't 'k-rad 31337.)
Other online communities that have those sorts of leaders don't give the 'volunteers' the same sort of authority. Perks and responsibilities, sure. Authority? Not really.
Either way, legal necessity or not, these companies are shooting themselves in the foot PR-wise. It's a lose-lose situation.
No kidding.
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
1. America built the foundations of the internet as we know it. The core, as DARPANET, was our government's baby.
2. Most languages can translitterate to Latin characters. (It may be messy, but it works.)
3. Other nations that have sites on the Internet have decided to play by the rules we (Americans) laid out. Only one person per IP at a time, Latin-character domain names.
4. I don't care what you'll tell me; the Net is way too new to be fragmented by this sort of gross nationalization.
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
you bet your ass I'm gonna get this on the air. college radio can be a very serious medium in terms of its ability to broadcast alternate and/or dissenting opinion. playing this on the air also has the advantage that it will reach a new audience: an audience that doesn't while their days away sitting behind a computer screen. the more people that are educated on this subject, the better. college radio is an excellent means to get the message out.
I'm not ripping on college radio.
It's called brainstorming, and one of the most important things w/r/t is that the word be spread far and wide. So wide that enforcement is impossible.
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why dont you just print out a million tiny copies of the code and scatter them about large cities. make sure you get em everywhere... so they'll be finding them for years. print out flyers and put em up on bulletin boards.... write it on the chalk board when the teacher leaves the room.... you get the idea.
Do it! Christ, you take the ideas, and just run with 'em!
In Canada and the EU, you can use chipcards to pay for stuff and to use the ubiquitous payphones (except in Italy, where the phonecards are micro-magstripped).
You know the AmEx Blue card with the chip? In the EU, it's old hat.
The corporations are screwing over the people of the US. Thank God I've a dual citizenship with an EU country. (When the data goes to hell here, I bail, start a EU corp, and make like a thief.)
Just think about a) 3G, the wireless fat-pipe standard which the EU will have in place within 18 months and the US won't get until 2010 because of the "standards wars" betwixt GSM, CDMA, and TDMA; b) payphones, which have been vanishing in most of the US but are EVERYWHERE in the EU; c) Amsterdam... enough said.
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
I am reminded of the interview with the OpenBSD.. or was it NetBSD.. One of the BSD derivatives. Maybe BSDi... Don't recall the flavor, only remember the guy who started the effort to lockdown BSD for hardcore server use. He said that he main problem with the 'many eyes' approach Linux claims is that not everyone looking at Linux source is a security or programming expert.
Hey, I love Linux! My bigrig and laptop both run it. I just don't trust my server to it... as is.
(The suse_hard script in SuSE 6.4 does a pretty good job locking down the system. Tried it at H2K.. No root cracks.)
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
Let's hope Sony got wise and saw the monetary logic on getting more consumers to play their games (in their PCs), and while they would not make mroe money selling PlayStations, they'd probably recover by the increase in PlayStation games.
There is a difference... The boxes cost a lot more to produce (on a cost-sale-profit basis) than a CD. Even with a dark plastic.
Selling the disks is where they get the bulk of the profit involved with PlayStation.
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
Translation: Even in-house homebrew should ALWAYS!!! be checked by several pairs of trusted and trustable eyeballs... and it should be OPEN SOURCE!!
If the drek ain't open to a government agency which DEPENDS on security.. what kind of MORONS run the joint?
Us geeks and hackers.. At least the ones WITHOUT criminal records should talk to various national security orgs and get cushy Unix admin jobs. (And maybe a peek at who killed JFK...?;^}
I don't mean to offend the Great And Mighty COMMANDER TACO and the Really Cool Dude HEMOS, but I've noticed a few slash-lags.
TO GP: Think about it! These guys (and the rest of the Funk-Ass Editorial Crew, the three monkeys and a lab rat:) wade through myriads of email, mostly with the same drek in a different package.
TO./: Umm.. grep has a purpose:)
30 seconds of airtime: too damned much
the truth: d.valued
SCREW THE DMCA. VOTE OUT EVERYONE.
Let's be honest.. This IS the US government we're talking about here.
The only people in the government who aren't morons are the ones ripping it off.
I mean, the USPTO is getting castrated, and the people left know not enough about the current trends in technology.
Oneclick? That's an obvious use of cookies and server-side CGI.
Reverse auctions? Didn't the Dutch resort to that once the tulip market failed? (After all, the sellers dropped their prices to attempt to get rid of the worthless bulbs.) Isn't that done in regular auctions, when the auctioneer drops the price to get a bid?
price of a congressman - $3 million
price of a senator - $10 million
amount spent by PACs and megacorps on politics - $20 billion
control of the government - priceless
"Some things money can't buy. Being able to do whatever the fuck you want with a government that will look the other way and ream the competition isn't one of them."
Support Campaign Finance Reform - Vote Nader
http://www.votenader.com
KILL! KILL!! I hate'em, I hate 'em, I hate 'em!
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Stupid corporatist bastards! Kick 'em in the teeth where it hurts! {/monty>
Realistically, we should try the 'Fight Club' approach to DeCSS.
First off, if you have the cash and connections, cajole a radio station to play this song on air. It may take a few containers of green grease, but spreading the word _is_ worth it. Drek it off to a college station as 'a local group trying to break into the biz.' They'll play ANYTHING.
If you work for an airline as a baggage handler, you already know how insecure the bags are. Insert a copy of the source code in hard copy into the bags, or if you've got some cojones spray paint it onto the suitcases. After all, the airline industry determines what's compensable in damage, and bags ain't covered!
Find someone that works for Viacom-owned Blockbuster, or some other major corporate video store. Make many small copies of DeCSS and paste them into the boxes. Especially of DVD's.
If you work for a major media dealer (AKA music/movies, books/music/movies, or movies solo), make full sheet copies of the DeCSS code and what it's about. Slip it into the bags of people who purchase DVD movies.
If you have the resources, and you work for a retailer which shows movies on in-house TV's to show the bugs, err.. features, rig a DVD to subconsciously flash each line of code, say, every 10 frames or so throughout the entire movie.
Maybe the closet geeks will start to spontaneously code.
"These are suggestions of a deranged mind. Yours. You are not really reading this now, but are thinking these thoughts. Don't blame me, aka you, if you slip up and get in trouble. The MPAA prisons are located somewhere in the Middle East that's very money-friendly, like Saudi Arabia, where they bulldoze your head off for pirating a DVD. Or it's in China, where they'll bill you for the bullet, and considering what our not-as-corrupt government would claim as the price, just think how much those evil commie bastards would ream you for. And don't forget: This is your conscience, and if you vote for Gore I'll tell the world about that stash you hide, you know what it is, unless Echelon and Gore tell the world first. And if you vote Bush, I'll tell your lover what you really think about in the sack. Vote Nader - The Only Candidate Who Isn't Sponsored By Mega Corporations."
the cost of hardware - cheaper and cheaper
the cost of humans - d.valued
the cost of freedom - priceless
"There are some things you can't buy. One of them is sole rights to GNU/Linux."
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Actually.. Some books are already under EULA-like terms.. in part.
Of the three textbooks I had to purchase for this term, all had CD-ROM 'extensions,' if you will. The disks are (of course) Win32 and/or maybe Mac. (Thank GOD my big-rig runs linux exclusively.)
One of my texts last semester (which was REQUIRED for the course, a general education requirement) had a choice of a 3.5 floppy for Dos or a 3.5 floppy and a CDROM for Windows. (Thank GOD for FreeDos which runs a 10M partition on my laptop.) The text basically was eternally referring to the CD or floppy data.
I didn't have the opportunity to try this.. yet.. but I want to see how my profs react when I say, "I can't use the disk; it's Windows!" I then boot up my ever-present and bloody heavy laptop, adorned with unAmerican.com slogans, a few rogue stickers from Internet World and Comdex, my H2K bumper sticker, etc., boot up, and show them the
"Welcome to Linux" prompt....
Maybe steam will eject their ears and they'll say:
"DOES NOT COMPUTE -- DOES NOT COMPUTE"
(this term, definately. hey, maybe i can RevEnge [reverse engineer.. i'm a double-plus-acro-freak] the codes for the Zion.. err.. school mainframe:)
the cost of hardware - cheaper and cheaper
the cost of humans - d.valued
the cost of freedom - priceless
"There are some things you can't buy. One of them is sole rights to GNU/Linux."
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Source: http://www.geekcode.com
Version: 3.12
GAT d+@ s+:++ a-- C+++ UL++ P+ L+++ E+ W++ N+
W----- M PS++++ Y++ GPG+(PGP) t* b+++ e h!
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I have to say this: That guy knows precisely NOTHING about what DeCSS and MP3 are for. He says that only if you pay him for the priviledge of using the DVD should you view it. That's crap. I paid for the god damned disc, didn't I? And as far as MP3's.. I've bought albums of mp3's from emusic, d/l'd legit tracks by the disc-ful at mp3.com, and copied CD's to my MP3 player for the road (when I'm too god damned lazy to copy to MiniDisc).
I think that these brainiacs came up with a bright idea! I'm going to UI-Urbana (same place Mosaic came from) and I'm going to try to pull of the same thing.
Slashdot Mirror
Urban myth.
/.r could fill in the blanks...?)
The federal government was supposed to provide a set of common 'ground rules' for the states to build on. (It's since twisted into the behemoth we know and loathe.)
The most basic ground rule is the Constitution, which a state has to accept before it's entered into the Union.
And since you're located in the US, you are also bound by the basic rules and regs (aka laws) of the city, county, state, and federal governments.
Since the 16th Amendment allows federal income taxes, you gotta pay.
(Some states, though, don't have a state income tax. I know Florida and Nevada don't have state taxes, p'haps a
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
Just like anything that works very damned well, you don't see the back-end.
Unless you work at screwing the pooch.
(PS: Python is also used at ILM, for high-grade rapid development. )
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
Well, the game isn't new.
According to the EU, the Echelon system has been used to give American corporations the edge on EU competitors.
I mean, have you seen the kinds of money the corps give to political campaigns?
And the grateful winner then thanks his 'constituents' by giving the megacorp a government sanction to screw over the public.
Look at the DMCA!
I'm writing everything with a pulse on the floor of the House and Senate to see how they voted and why they voted that way. (Let's see if at least Colifornia's crew is honest and says that they did it for the money.)
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
are evil!
Too bad the governments of the world love them so much.
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
If you go to China with an attitude like that, you'd better have diplomatic immunity, cuz otherwise the Communist Party loyalists will lynch you.
Pay close attention: Any language that'll do what you need it to is the best for the job. English is not as good in China as Mandarin because you can do more with it there.
Perl has a place, Python has a place, even COBOL has a place (rotting in the landiflls).
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
Some people like KDE.
Some people like the Gnome.
I like both, and use GNOME over KDE.
It takes a few hacks and a few megs of ram, but it works just fine either way, and it's what I need right now.
So.. If you like one or the other and can code, support your 'faction'. I myself see them as two regiments in the same army.
The enemy is MacroSux.
Let's keep THAT first and foremost.
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
From the article: "Due to changes in the industry regarding volunteers, effective Sept. 30, 2000, OSI will no longer provide free player accounts or other added value to members of all [Ultima Online] Volunteer Programs." So, if I'm reading this correctly, OSI (in this case) isn't actually terminating the Volunteer Programs, but just eliminating any of the perks/compensation that go along with it. Does that actually shield them from lawsuits? Or does it change the claim from "You aren't paying me minimum wage for my work!" to "You aren't paying me at all for my work!"? The basis of the AOL lawsuit is that the "Communist Leaders" have some real authority. They have the ability to enforce the TOC, to boot people, and to terminate connections and/or accounts. Those are responsibilities that, generally speaking, most people would think employees of AOL only should have. (Hypothetical: A CL is a warez f13n0. He terminates all those who go into his room and aren't 'k-rad 31337.) Other online communities that have those sorts of leaders don't give the 'volunteers' the same sort of authority. Perks and responsibilities, sure. Authority? Not really. Either way, legal necessity or not, these companies are shooting themselves in the foot PR-wise. It's a lose-lose situation. No kidding.
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
Of course, the human body is vulnerable to trojans like the HIV-1 virus.
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
Several points that ICANN should keep in mind:
1. America built the foundations of the internet as we know it. The core, as DARPANET, was our government's baby.
2. Most languages can translitterate to Latin characters. (It may be messy, but it works.)
3. Other nations that have sites on the Internet have decided to play by the rules we (Americans) laid out. Only one person per IP at a time, Latin-character domain names.
4. I don't care what you'll tell me; the Net is way too new to be fragmented by this sort of gross nationalization.
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
you bet your ass I'm gonna get this on the air. college radio can be a very serious medium in terms of its ability to broadcast alternate and/or dissenting opinion. playing this on the air also has the advantage that it will reach a new audience: an audience that doesn't while their days away sitting behind a computer screen. the more people that are educated on this subject, the better. college radio is an excellent means to get the message out. I'm not ripping on college radio. It's called brainstorming, and one of the most important things w/r/t is that the word be spread far and wide. So wide that enforcement is impossible.
why dont you just print out a million tiny copies of the code and scatter them about large cities. make sure you get em everywhere... so they'll be finding them for years. print out flyers and put em up on bulletin boards.... write it on the chalk board when the teacher leaves the room.... you get the idea. Do it! Christ, you take the ideas, and just run with 'em!
Egoism of the first scale.
In Canada and the EU, you can use chipcards to pay for stuff and to use the ubiquitous payphones (except in Italy, where the phonecards are micro-magstripped).
You know the AmEx Blue card with the chip? In the EU, it's old hat.
The corporations are screwing over the people of the US. Thank God I've a dual citizenship with an EU country. (When the data goes to hell here, I bail, start a EU corp, and make like a thief.)
Just think about a) 3G, the wireless fat-pipe standard which the EU will have in place within 18 months and the US won't get until 2010 because of the "standards wars" betwixt GSM, CDMA, and TDMA; b) payphones, which have been vanishing in most of the US but are EVERYWHERE in the EU; c) Amsterdam... enough said.
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
I am reminded of the interview with the OpenBSD.. or was it NetBSD.. One of the BSD derivatives. Maybe BSDi... Don't recall the flavor, only remember the guy who started the effort to lockdown BSD for hardcore server use. He said that he main problem with the 'many eyes' approach Linux claims is that not everyone looking at Linux source is a security or programming expert.
Hey, I love Linux! My bigrig and laptop both run it. I just don't trust my server to it... as is.
(The suse_hard script in SuSE 6.4 does a pretty good job locking down the system. Tried it at H2K.. No root cracks.)
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
Let's hope Sony got wise and saw the monetary logic on getting more consumers to play their games (in their PCs), and while they would not make mroe money selling PlayStations, they'd probably recover by the increase in PlayStation games. There is a difference... The boxes cost a lot more to produce (on a cost-sale-profit basis) than a CD. Even with a dark plastic. Selling the disks is where they get the bulk of the profit involved with PlayStation.
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
Translation: Even in-house homebrew should ALWAYS!!! be checked by several pairs of trusted and trustable eyeballs... and it should be OPEN SOURCE!!
;^}
If the drek ain't open to a government agency which DEPENDS on security.. what kind of MORONS run the joint?
Us geeks and hackers.. At least the ones WITHOUT criminal records should talk to various national security orgs and get cushy Unix admin jobs. (And maybe a peek at who killed JFK...?
Or at least code.
I don't mean to offend the Great And Mighty COMMANDER TACO and the Really Cool Dude HEMOS, but I've noticed a few slash-lags.
:) wade through myriads of email, mostly with the same drek in a different package.
./: Umm.. grep has a purpose :)
TO GP: Think about it! These guys (and the rest of the Funk-Ass Editorial Crew, the three monkeys and a lab rat
TO
30 seconds of airtime: too damned much
the truth: d.valued
SCREW THE DMCA. VOTE OUT EVERYONE.
Let's be honest.. This IS the US government we're talking about here.
The only people in the government who aren't morons are the ones ripping it off.
I mean, the USPTO is getting castrated, and the people left know not enough about the current trends in technology.
Oneclick? That's an obvious use of cookies and server-side CGI.
Reverse auctions? Didn't the Dutch resort to that once the tulip market failed? (After all, the sellers dropped their prices to attempt to get rid of the worthless bulbs.) Isn't that done in regular auctions, when the auctioneer drops the price to get a bid?
price of a congressman - $3 million
price of a senator - $10 million
amount spent by PACs and megacorps on politics - $20 billion
control of the government - priceless
"Some things money can't buy. Being able to do whatever the fuck you want with a government that will look the other way and ream the competition isn't one of them."
Support Campaign Finance Reform - Vote Nader
http://www.votenader.com
Stupid corporatist bastards! Kick 'em in the teeth where it hurts! {/monty>
Realistically, we should try the 'Fight Club' approach to DeCSS.
First off, if you have the cash and connections, cajole a radio station to play this song on air. It may take a few containers of green grease, but spreading the word _is_ worth it. Drek it off to a college station as 'a local group trying to break into the biz.' They'll play ANYTHING.
If you work for an airline as a baggage handler, you already know how insecure the bags are. Insert a copy of the source code in hard copy into the bags, or if you've got some cojones spray paint it onto the suitcases. After all, the airline industry determines what's compensable in damage, and bags ain't covered!
Find someone that works for Viacom-owned Blockbuster, or some other major corporate video store. Make many small copies of DeCSS and paste them into the boxes. Especially of DVD's.
If you work for a major media dealer (AKA music/movies, books/music/movies, or movies solo), make full sheet copies of the DeCSS code and what it's about. Slip it into the bags of people who purchase DVD movies.
If you have the resources, and you work for a retailer which shows movies on in-house TV's to show the bugs, err.. features, rig a DVD to subconsciously flash each line of code, say, every 10 frames or so throughout the entire movie.
Maybe the closet geeks will start to spontaneously code.
"These are suggestions of a deranged mind. Yours. You are not really reading this now, but are thinking these thoughts. Don't blame me, aka you, if you slip up and get in trouble. The MPAA prisons are located somewhere in the Middle East that's very money-friendly, like Saudi Arabia, where they bulldoze your head off for pirating a DVD. Or it's in China, where they'll bill you for the bullet, and considering what our not-as-corrupt government would claim as the price, just think how much those evil commie bastards would ream you for. And don't forget: This is your conscience, and if you vote for Gore I'll tell the world about that stash you hide, you know what it is, unless Echelon and Gore tell the world first. And if you vote Bush, I'll tell your lover what you really think about in the sack. Vote Nader - The Only Candidate Who Isn't Sponsored By Mega Corporations."
the cost of hardware - cheaper and cheaper
the cost of humans - d.valued
the cost of freedom - priceless
"There are some things you can't buy. One of them is sole rights to GNU/Linux."
----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----
Source: http://www.geekcode.com
Version: 3.12
GAT d+@ s+:++ a-- C+++ UL++ P+ L+++ E+ W++ N+
W----- M PS++++ Y++ GPG+(PGP) t* b+++ e h!
----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----
Actually.. Some books are already under EULA-like terms.. in part.
:)
Of the three textbooks I had to purchase for this term, all had CD-ROM 'extensions,' if you will. The disks are (of course) Win32 and/or maybe Mac. (Thank GOD my big-rig runs linux exclusively.)
One of my texts last semester (which was REQUIRED for the course, a general education requirement) had a choice of a 3.5 floppy for Dos or a 3.5 floppy and a CDROM for Windows. (Thank GOD for FreeDos which runs a 10M partition on my laptop.) The text basically was eternally referring to the CD or floppy data.
I didn't have the opportunity to try this.. yet.. but I want to see how my profs react when I say, "I can't use the disk; it's Windows!" I then boot up my ever-present and bloody heavy laptop, adorned with unAmerican.com slogans, a few rogue stickers from Internet World and Comdex, my H2K bumper sticker, etc., boot up, and show them the
"Welcome to Linux" prompt....
Maybe steam will eject their ears and they'll say:
"DOES NOT COMPUTE -- DOES NOT COMPUTE"
(this term, definately. hey, maybe i can RevEnge [reverse engineer.. i'm a double-plus-acro-freak] the codes for the Zion.. err.. school mainframe
the cost of hardware - cheaper and cheaper
the cost of humans - d.valued
the cost of freedom - priceless
"There are some things you can't buy. One of them is sole rights to GNU/Linux."
----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----
Source: http://www.geekcode.com
Version: 3.12
GAT d+@ s+:++ a-- C+++ UL++ P+ L+++ E+ W++ N+
W----- M PS++++ Y++ GPG+(PGP) t* b+++ e h!
----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----
I have to say this: That guy knows precisely NOTHING about what DeCSS and MP3 are for. He says that only if you pay him for the priviledge of using the DVD should you view it. That's crap. I paid for the god damned disc, didn't I? And as far as MP3's.. I've bought albums of mp3's from emusic, d/l'd legit tracks by the disc-ful at mp3.com, and copied CD's to my MP3 player for the road (when I'm too god damned lazy to copy to MiniDisc).
I think that these brainiacs came up with a bright idea! I'm going to UI-Urbana (same place Mosaic came from) and I'm going to try to pull of the same thing.
www.morphyone.org has some specs on open-source, 486-based hardware. I've d/l'd the specs and am startingto build the lovely lil' bastard.