[OT Fodder - Mod Away] Aha, so you're a Rover now? I was wondering why you weren't around the forums much. Yeah, I know what you mean about the Scoobies...the rally car is my only Scooby now. I daily drive the service truck (Explorer).
According to a corporate press release dated June 16, 2000, America Online has surpassed the 23 million member mark. Founded in 1985, AOL has been a household name to novice computer users worldwide. Unfortunately, many of these novices don't know that they're only seeing a small portion of the Internet and are being limited by AOL's proprietary and archaic interface.
Now, it's fairly safe to make the assumption that at least a quarter of AOL's 23 million customers are simply short-term users along for the free trial or jumping from service to service looking for the best deal. And, using that same line of thinking, roughly half of those 17.25 million remaining customers are probably smart enough to see AOL for what it really is and cancel their service in a desperate fit of fight or flight.
That leaves approximately 8.63 million customers that use AOL as their primary Internet Service Provider, give or take a random three quarter million people at any given time signing up or canceling. With this in mind, and approximately 7.88 million minutes in AOL's 15 year history, this proves that a sucker really is born every minute.
Although WoW doesn't seem to have a cool addictive alternate name like Evercrack, I laugh every time I see WoW because there are still hundreds, if not thousands, of cars tooling around the Boston area with WoW scrawled in dirt on various body panels trying to entice women to perform for "Whip'em Out Wednesday", a now-defunct radio station theme.;)
"Your information is mine for free. But everything I can grab is secret unless you have something I want which can't be free-loaded, stolen or found somewhere else." - George C. Smith, The Virus Creation Labs
A book on technical writing is all well and good, but quote a few geeks still need assistance grasping basic writing. I still say that Elements of Style should be in everyone's backpack or briefcase.
Simple. Hand out copies of Elements of Style to every single student. Had that book been given to me in High School I probably wouldn't have hated the class so much.
You don't need to buy MontaVista; you can compile everything using Kegel's crosstool. Also, all flash locations are unlockable at the OS-level by the hacker so, if you're confident, you can write your own u-boot (or whatever) to flash. Of course if you flash something bad you'll have a paperweight and will need to go in through JTAG.
Root access is available by hitting ctrl-shift-1 from within our GUI. Once you're there you can enable remote root login by setting a passwd and firing up sshd.
We also have three serial ports, one of which is pre-configured for console.
Quite simply, we've been too busy getting the device prepared for the consumer market to worry about advertising its hackability. At some point in the near future we'll be fully documenting the SDK and possibly an HDK but for now we're focusing on the consumer aspect.
Regarding crosstool support, we include libraries to run both apps compiled natively on the Pad, compiled using MontaVista's cross-compiler, and compiled using Kegel's crosstool. There's a set of dev environment RPMs sitting on the Pad just waiting to be installed.
For our initial release it's up to the hacker to find the stuff and figure out how to use it (simple once you find it) but, in the future, it will be fully documented once we have some spare cycles to burn.
OK, I guess you won't be interested to hear about the full dev environment we include on the Pepper Pad and standard crosstool cross-compiling support.
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So what you're saying is that I want to pepper my comments with random links in hopes that people can find my pet hedgehog?
Yup. Elements of Style. Read it.
[OT Fodder - Mod Away] Aha, so you're a Rover now? I was wondering why you weren't around the forums much. Yeah, I know what you mean about the Scoobies...the rally car is my only Scooby now. I daily drive the service truck (Explorer).
My Trunkmonkey can beat up your Trunkmonkey. ;)
Duh.
First reference to Wipeout XL.
If it's not allowed on a network then how is it supposed to download updates? Zing!
Wow. I thought I was the only one that did that! :)
12345? That's the kind of combination an idiot would have on their luggage.
America Online: A sucker born every minute...
According to a corporate press release dated June 16, 2000, America Online has surpassed the 23 million member mark. Founded in 1985, AOL has been a household name to novice computer users worldwide. Unfortunately, many of these novices don't know that they're only seeing a small portion of the Internet and are being limited by AOL's proprietary and archaic interface.
Now, it's fairly safe to make the assumption that at least a quarter of AOL's 23 million customers are simply short-term users along for the free trial or jumping from service to service looking for the best deal. And, using that same line of thinking, roughly half of those 17.25 million remaining customers are probably smart enough to see AOL for what it really is and cancel their service in a desperate fit of fight or flight.
That leaves approximately 8.63 million customers that use AOL as their primary Internet Service Provider, give or take a random three quarter million people at any given time signing up or canceling. With this in mind, and approximately 7.88 million minutes in AOL's 15 year history, this proves that a sucker really is born every minute.
OMG! A googol! Ha! You so funny! ;)
Although WoW doesn't seem to have a cool addictive alternate name like Evercrack, I laugh every time I see WoW because there are still hundreds, if not thousands, of cars tooling around the Boston area with WoW scrawled in dirt on various body panels trying to entice women to perform for "Whip'em Out Wednesday", a now-defunct radio station theme. ;)
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Touché. :)
Wow. I suck. I figured I'd smack myself down for the typo before someone else does. :)
A book on technical writing is all well and good, but quote a few geeks still need assistance grasping basic writing. I still say that Elements of Style should be in everyone's backpack or briefcase.
The jokes write themselves.
Simple. Hand out copies of Elements of Style to every single student. Had that book been given to me in High School I probably wouldn't have hated the class so much.
I wonder how many unsolicited invitations to interview he'll get now that his resume has been Slashdotted. ;)
You don't need to buy MontaVista; you can compile everything using Kegel's crosstool. Also, all flash locations are unlockable at the OS-level by the hacker so, if you're confident, you can write your own u-boot (or whatever) to flash. Of course if you flash something bad you'll have a paperweight and will need to go in through JTAG.
Root access is available by hitting ctrl-shift-1 from within our GUI. Once you're there you can enable remote root login by setting a passwd and firing up sshd.
We also have three serial ports, one of which is pre-configured for console.
Or perhaps it was because I was too busy out partying on the 4th of July to worry about getting into /. flamewars.
Quite simply, we've been too busy getting the device prepared for the consumer market to worry about advertising its hackability. At some point in the near future we'll be fully documenting the SDK and possibly an HDK but for now we're focusing on the consumer aspect.
Regarding crosstool support, we include libraries to run both apps compiled natively on the Pad, compiled using MontaVista's cross-compiler, and compiled using Kegel's crosstool. There's a set of dev environment RPMs sitting on the Pad just waiting to be installed.
For our initial release it's up to the hacker to find the stuff and figure out how to use it (simple once you find it) but, in the future, it will be fully documented once we have some spare cycles to burn.
OK, I guess you won't be interested to hear about the full dev environment we include on the Pepper Pad and standard crosstool cross-compiling support.
It's also useful for replying to /. comments (I'm on a Pepper Pad right now). ;)