I'm a fairly saavy (hate that term) computer user, 20 years experience, professional web developer.. I know what to avoid, I know what to click no on, I have stop-the-pop on my win box.. I still have on average 40 different spyware apps installed on my box every week (between spybot and adaware).. When ever I go over to someones house and run a scan for the first time, there are generally over 400... its getting outrageous.
Alpine is coming out with a HU this summer that will allow you to plug your iPod in, and store it in any location (glove box, center console, trunk, etc..) and the HU will display the song info and allow you to control the iPod.
Google for more information, here is a quick link to their press release.
Is it just me, or is anyone else kinda happy that this thread now has more replies than the article below it: Your Future Car's Hood Will Be Welded Shut
Not trolling, I just think this topic should have generated more responses than that article.
Having been a supporter of mp3 players for a while, I previously had the first Rio available, then went to mp3cd, had the first mp3cd available, then went with another mp3cd player.. and recently just got the iPod. I by far like the iPod the best out of any of them. Firewire interface is great, was able to fill 15 gb within a couple of minutes.. I've found myself now listening to it on the way to my car, while folding laundry, in my car with iTrip FM broadcaster.. The size of the actual device, the ease of use of the interface and buttons, the large storage capacity, are all amazing.. battery life is enough to get me through a full day of work to.
It's suprising to note that there are still a handful of groups still releasing ansi art packs.. I guess just as any other form of art, the medium just adds to the excitement and challenge in expressing your views.
I would say go with http.. my reason is simple.. my college blocks ftp! There are two sides of the story, first off, the complete blocking of ftp started a week ago when they switched firewalls.. they couldn't get the ftp to work, and they decided it wasn't a high priority so they didn't do anything to fix it... After yelling at the IT department for half the day I got the priority up. But besides that.. Even before, when they allowed ftp, it was only active ftp.. I was unable to go to a website, click on a file that is served from ftp:// and download it! I'd have to use flashfxp or another client to d/l files.. I was able to figure that out quickly, but what about the other 99% of the school that wants to download say shareware from download.com or a driver from somewhere.. they are denied! FTP is a superior protocol for file transfer in my opinion, but administrators don't seem to care about it as much as they do http.
Prestige is definitly one of the aspects of why people pirate. You say "People in these grups need to keep hidden".. yeah from the eye of the public, but the underground scene is a whole different story all together.. If you are in a group such as DOD you get respect from 1000s of people.. and for some odd reason.. even though its just online, that sort of respect means something..
Speaking as someone who hasn't bought a cd in almost 10 years, I was really suprised when I learned of EMusic. I am a fan of punk, ska & hardcore, and glady pay EMusic $15.00/mo in order to download their vast selection of music in that category. Granted, their other sections lack content, so my girlfriend gets upset when she can't find her newest pop album, but I am rather happy with the selection that they offer me.
* We registered the UNIX.COM domain in 1993 in good faith.
* We only registered UNIX.COM (UNIX.NET and UNIX.ORG were registered by others)
* We have spent well over $25,000.00 on UNIX related legal fees.
* We have spent many more thousands of dollars to maintain this site so that all people can freely discuss UNIX related issues without commericals.
* We have spent a lot of $$$ to promote free speech regarding UNIX and UNIX like operating systems.
* UNIX is a generic term regardless of X/Open's claim.
* X/Open's false claim hurts the world UNIX community because it creates a negative environment and fragments the community with harsh actions that are, in reality, anti-open.
* We do this because we love the UNIX philosophy and the true UNIX community.
On our Moravian College Campus, my fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon has decided to sell yellow ribbons for a $1.00 donation which will be given to the Red Cross. For a school of about 1300, we made $500.00 in three hours already. We'll be doing it for the rest of the week. Take the initiative and you can help the cause.. everyone is willing to help as long as you present the opportunity to them..
This isnt the first time someone has done this, I've seen CompUSA in the past put clear sides on their boxes for a display model. That was about two years ago.
Ureach provided an excellent service. They would give you a toll-free number (877/888) and you would be able to get voicemail, read emails, listen to voicemail over the email, forward it. I had it for about two years with 60 minutes free per-month, and they decided to stop all free services. It's a shame that all these nice services that you get really used to end up closing down and try to charge you. I guess its just a big marketing scheme.
My question is, where did all these script kiddies come from? I remember in the early 90s we did have our "irc warriors".. but the most we'd do is throw up a link looker, find a split server, and take advantage of a bug to collide someone off.. or use a packet program like pepsi or smurf to kill off a person or two.. is there any real point to what these kids are doing? They arent doing this to gain control of a channel or get back at someone, they are just doing it because they feel like it? It was pretty sad a couple weeks ago when I saw some kid who was probably still in junior high, boasting the fact that he has over 400 rooted shells.. is there no security anymore that these kids can go around trading shells to run floodnets and packetnets off of? Down with script kiddies, we need to take EFNet (and other servers) back.
nd [DeSynK/Havok]
At around 12:30EST last night, irc.east.gblx.net sent out a server message saying that the major hub servers (glbx) were going to be squitted within 1/2 hour, and to refer to http://www.efnet.org for more information.. no information was avail on that site.. within 15 minutes of that server-message almost every server issued another server-wide message saying that EFNet was not going down, and that it was just some kids playing a trick who "we should tell to f*** off".. I'm just curious as to who sent that original server-message, and how they got access to send it...
nd@efnet
Bell Atlantic aDSL in New Jersey emailed me a couple days ago to tell me that they changed their prices.. now it is $39.99 for a 640/90 line.. and an hour to setup? It took me 5 minutes to setup (You must use netscape on Win9x/2k to set it up)... but after that I just set up the rp-pppoe package on my linux box and it worked fine.
I filled out the form a couple years ago, just screwing around.. honestly told them that I had 6 computers, and filled out everything else.. never dreaming I would get it.. then a couple monthes ago they sent me an email and I got a free pc/monitor.. it was pretty slow while running all those ads, but after I formatted and reinstalled, its not a bad system.. for free.
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I'm a fairly saavy (hate that term) computer user, 20 years experience, professional web developer.. I know what to avoid, I know what to click no on, I have stop-the-pop on my win box.. I still have on average 40 different spyware apps installed on my box every week (between spybot and adaware) .. When ever I go over to someones house and run a scan for the first time, there are generally over 400... its getting outrageous.
Alpine is coming out with a HU this summer that will allow you to plug your iPod in, and store it in any location (glove box, center console, trunk, etc..) and the HU will display the song info and allow you to control the iPod. Google for more information, here is a quick link to their press release.
I'm still waiting on the disposable cell-phone .....
Is it just me, or is anyone else kinda happy that this thread now has more replies than the article below it:
Your Future Car's Hood Will Be Welded Shut
Not trolling, I just think this topic should have generated more responses than that article.
Now if they could only build a solution for the powerbook.. I have new 15" 1ghz, and if I am lucky I get 3 hours of battery life.
I'd pay more money if there was an after market battery that provided me with ~8 hours of life.
It's annoying to only be able to watch one or 1.5 movies on a flight...
Having been a supporter of mp3 players for a while, I previously had the first Rio available, then went to mp3cd, had the first mp3cd available, then went with another mp3cd player.. and recently just got the iPod.
I by far like the iPod the best out of any of them. Firewire interface is great, was able to fill 15 gb within a couple of minutes.. I've found myself now listening to it on the way to my car, while folding laundry, in my car with iTrip FM broadcaster.. The size of the actual device, the ease of use of the interface and buttons, the large storage capacity, are all amazing.. battery life is enough to get me through a full day of work to.
Farewell ACiD, its been a long crazy trip..
It's suprising to note that there are still a handful of groups still releasing ansi art packs.. I guess just as any other form of art, the medium just adds to the excitement and challenge in expressing your views.
Napalm Death [Former ACiD Productions] - nd@efnet
I would say go with http.. my reason is simple.. my college blocks ftp! There are two sides of the story, first off, the complete blocking of ftp started a week ago when they switched firewalls.. they couldn't get the ftp to work, and they decided it wasn't a high priority so they didn't do anything to fix it... After yelling at the IT department for half the day I got the priority up. But besides that.. Even before, when they allowed ftp, it was only active ftp.. I was unable to go to a website, click on a file that is served from ftp:// and download it! I'd have to use flashfxp or another client to d/l files.. I was able to figure that out quickly, but what about the other 99% of the school that wants to download say shareware from download.com or a driver from somewhere.. they are denied! FTP is a superior protocol for file transfer in my opinion, but administrators don't seem to care about it as much as they do http.
eph pee
Prestige is definitly one of the aspects of why people pirate. You say "People in these grups need to keep hidden" .. yeah from the eye of the public, but the underground scene is a whole different story all together.. If you are in a group such as DOD you get respect from 1000s of people.. and for some odd reason.. even though its just online, that sort of respect means something..
Speaking as someone who hasn't bought a cd in almost 10 years, I was really suprised when I learned of EMusic. I am a fan of punk, ska & hardcore, and glady pay EMusic $15.00/mo in order to download their vast selection of music in that category. Granted, their other sections lack content, so my girlfriend gets upset when she can't find her newest pop album, but I am rather happy with the selection that they offer me.
From Neo (Admin of Unix.com) on their forums:
A few facts:
* We registered the UNIX.COM domain in 1993 in good faith.
* We only registered UNIX.COM (UNIX.NET and UNIX.ORG were registered by others)
* We have spent well over $25,000.00 on UNIX related legal fees.
* We have spent many more thousands of dollars to maintain this site so that all people can freely discuss UNIX related issues without commericals.
* We have spent a lot of $$$ to promote free speech regarding UNIX and UNIX like operating systems.
* UNIX is a generic term regardless of X/Open's claim.
* X/Open's false claim hurts the world UNIX community because it creates a negative environment and fragments the community with harsh actions that are, in reality, anti-open.
* We do this because we love the UNIX philosophy and the true UNIX community.
This is my gift to you, each and everyone of you.
From the bottom of my heart. - Neo
Everyone thinks the stupidity claim will work.. never does
On our Moravian College Campus, my fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon has decided to sell yellow ribbons for a $1.00 donation which will be given to the Red Cross. For a school of about 1300, we made $500.00 in three hours already. We'll be doing it for the rest of the week. Take the initiative and you can help the cause.. everyone is willing to help as long as you present the opportunity to them..
This isnt the first time someone has done this, I've seen CompUSA in the past put clear sides on their boxes for a display model. That was about two years ago.
Ureach provided an excellent service. They would give you a toll-free number (877/888) and you would be able to get voicemail, read emails, listen to voicemail over the email, forward it. I had it for about two years with 60 minutes free per-month, and they decided to stop all free services. It's a shame that all these nice services that you get really used to end up closing down and try to charge you. I guess its just a big marketing scheme.
My question is, where did all these script kiddies come from? I remember in the early 90s we did have our "irc warriors" .. but the most we'd do is throw up a link looker, find a split server, and take advantage of a bug to collide someone off.. or use a packet program like pepsi or smurf to kill off a person or two.. is there any real point to what these kids are doing? They arent doing this to gain control of a channel or get back at someone, they are just doing it because they feel like it? It was pretty sad a couple weeks ago when I saw some kid who was probably still in junior high, boasting the fact that he has over 400 rooted shells.. is there no security anymore that these kids can go around trading shells to run floodnets and packetnets off of? Down with script kiddies, we need to take EFNet (and other servers) back.
nd [DeSynK/Havok]
At around 12:30EST last night, irc.east.gblx.net sent out a server message saying that the major hub servers (glbx) were going to be squitted within 1/2 hour, and to refer to http://www.efnet.org for more information.. no information was avail on that site.. within 15 minutes of that server-message almost every server issued another server-wide message saying that EFNet was not going down, and that it was just some kids playing a trick who "we should tell to f*** off" .. I'm just curious as to who sent that original server-message, and how they got access to send it...
nd@efnet
Bell Atlantic aDSL in New Jersey emailed me a couple days ago to tell me that they changed their prices.. now it is $39.99 for a 640/90 line.. and an hour to setup? It took me 5 minutes to setup (You must use netscape on Win9x/2k to set it up)... but after that I just set up the rp-pppoe package on my linux box and it worked fine.
I filled out the form a couple years ago, just screwing around.. honestly told them that I had 6 computers, and filled out everything else.. never dreaming I would get it.. then a couple monthes ago they sent me an email and I got a free pc/monitor.. it was pretty slow while running all those ads, but after I formatted and reinstalled, its not a bad system.. for free.