Re:Did just this thing for 3 years
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Alert: this is not a troll, and I am only 30 years old. (Old enough to remember when dorm room connections were almost always dial-in, and that Mosaic browser in the computer lab was the cool new thing.)
Why bother to support broadband connections in the dorms?
I may be way off the mark, but I can't imagine the technophobic, behind-the-times profs I had in school putting enough course material online to warrant a wired dorm room. And that goes DOUBLE for the CS profs... man, we used to joke about how that weird Fortran prof probably used a punch-card word processor.
But suddenly now it's an educational Utopia where all the course material and TA office hours and crap are online? I have a hard time believing it.
Personally I consdier connectivity to be as important as running water, but I don't know if I can justify it in an educational setting. There are still computer labs, and there's always Earthlink if you really need it.
It seems to me that this is being done all over just because it seems like a good idea, when in fact it may not be. If connectivity is so damn important, why don't they provide computers too?
(I almost canceled this post, it's a bit cynical even for me.)
A lot of people on this board go on at length about how they won't use this app or that app because it isn't Free-as-in-whatever. There are people here who won't even *use* something released under the BSD license because of ideological reasons. It's not free enough, I guess.
I wonder what kind of percentage of the Linux market these people (zealots?) are? Maybe there just aren't enough Linux users willing to buy games, period, to support a company like this.
I looked at a couple hundred jukebox projects and this was the one that met my needs best. It even lets you play the files ON the file server, if it has a sound card... so my jukebox is a P200 hidden behind the stereo. Webplay can do simultaneous streams to other computers on your LAN too, if you want. Cool stuff.
It would be nice to alter the last one to point to a page that says, "Hey Chester, you've been compromised, and your computer has been attacking mine lately. Install this patch or turn off the web server, you chucklehead."
Re:Microsoft should be sued
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Code Red III
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Yes, I agree the current anti-gun-make suits are ridiculous. May as well sue Ford when an Escort is used as a getaway car.
Re:Microsoft should be sued
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you have it backwards. The tide is the industry. The consumers are in the castle.
Re:Microsoft should be sued
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I'm a gun nut, but even I will say that a maker of a defective gun should be liable. If it explodes in your hand, that's an issue. IIS is exploding in a way, and MS should be liable.
My view is very simple: Things you buy shouldn't suck.
I am an @Home subscriber in Seattle. Here is the truly hilarious service they provide.
- As an @Home user you are not supposed to do anything business related, including someting as simple as sending email to your office.
- If you want to do business, you can easily upgrade your cable @Home connection to an "Excite@Work" DSL connection. Except that @Work simply isn't available over most of the @Home coverage area.
So they tell you to upgrade to a product they can't sell you. Hilarious.
I would happily pay more for @Home CABLE service if they would give me a fixed IP and not block servers. Not that they are at the moment, but I smell trouble on the horizon. That Qwest DSL with the month-to-month pricing is looking better all the time.
Anyone who has to be *schooled* in ethics has already lost the battle.
Arguably true, but the bigger issue is "what are correct ethics?" Some things nearly all people can all agree on: it isn't ethical to copy someone else's work and pass it off as your own. But there are a lot of other ethics issues that will be very decisive. For example:
"It is permissable to take a person's life if it is the only way to protect your life or the life of another."
I have had many arguments with people who think that there is never, ever a reason to take a life, whereas I believe that self-defense is a fundamental human right. In the case of a divisive topic such as this, an "ethics class" is useless at best -- and brainwashing at worst.
I think some kind of critical thinking training is a better idea. If you can think critically, you will develop your own ethical code.
Dish Network sent down an ECM that destroyed the satellite receiver -- it didn't mess with the card, which is Dish's property -- it rewrote the receiver's flash with a new program that locked out all the channels except for a "stop stealing TV" message. Many people who were using an emulator board without locking the flash RAM in the unit got their boxen cooked but good.
I think that DTV's card-melting is kosher, they do state that the card is their property. (as does Dish.) But Dish frying your personal hardware -- whoa. That seems to cross a line, even if you are using it to pirate TV. Ethically, it seems to be a much more questionable activity than releasing an anti-virus virus.
How did you automate that? My shell kung fu is weak.
Or do you just have a lot of time for copy/paste?;)
FWIW I manually did about 40 IPs the other day. Similar ratio.
Re:mediaone EUA ALLOWS FTP AND HTTP SERVERS
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I wonder how far it can be pushed? My server on @Home dishes out almost 3,000 pageviews per day. (!) I'm starting to get worried. I need a backup plan in case they pull the plug on me.
Obviously there are some games for the Mac. But as a multi-platform game-lovin' guy myself it is crystal clear that Windoze is the superior game platform. You can play Civ II until the cows come home; you'll also be missing out on MOST of the new releases.
I use my Mac for webdev and desktop publishing, for which purpose it puts Windoze to shame. But you aren't going to win any game arguments by trotting out Civ II and Quake. Please, from one Mac user to another, concede this one. PCs have more games to choose from. Period. (And the MacOS doesn't have native mousewheel support, which makes FPS games blow!)
At least you can play X-COM in Virtual PC.
Re:Black Comedians other than Bill Cosby.
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Tim Meadows -- good one. I forgot about him. I don't know the others but I will take your word for it.
I might add, that you only requested A black comedian...
yeah, beacause this all started when I posted how disappointing it was that all black comedians seems to have the same shtick. I wasn't posting about Lituanian comedians or Asian comedians. Read the thread.
I will now amend my original statement: It is lamentable that all the POPULAR black comedians are shrill-voiced clownish caricatures, and I am surprised that more black people aren't offended by how they are portrayed in the media.
I would NOT put Joss Whedon on that list. I think he does a great job at being The Man and putting together a good show... but his dialogue is weak. Well, it's GOOD, actually... but I was noticing the other day that all the characters in his shows sound the same. The actors/acresses give some life and variation, of course, but imagine reading all the lines in a typical episode... everyone sounds the same. The same wisecracks, the same modes of speech...
YMMV, but man, I just can't put JW in the same league as KS and QT. The latter 2 have a serious gift for dialogue.
The Berners-Lee connection will only serve to sucker venture capitalists.
If Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley came out with an exciting new expansion card bus specification, would we automatically listen to them? Why not, I mean, c'mon, they invented the transistor, right? Who better to design modern computer hardware? Right?
Sheesh.
I don't WANT pages more complex than what you can get out of PHP anyway...
Re:I hope I like it, I hated the first one
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He's not current though. Got a better one?
Re:If this can't break Microsoft's back nothing wi
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A product that is given away and not sold can, I think, have a reliability disclaimer. But as soon as money is exchanged for goods or services you enter into a social contract. Things you buy shouldn't suck.
You aren't even supposed to send email to your job from an @home account. (no joke, tech support is adamant about that.) They have an @work package if you need to do business stuff.
In typical @home fashion, the upgrade to @work isn't available to all @home subscribers, because it is a DSL service, not cable modem... the coverage doesn't overlap 100%.
I'll keep violating the @home TOS quite happily, so long as they are dense enough to let me.
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Alert: this is not a troll, and I am only 30 years old. (Old enough to remember when dorm room connections were almost always dial-in, and that Mosaic browser in the computer lab was the cool new thing.)
Why bother to support broadband connections in the dorms?
I may be way off the mark, but I can't imagine the technophobic, behind-the-times profs I had in school putting enough course material online to warrant a wired dorm room. And that goes DOUBLE for the CS profs... man, we used to joke about how that weird Fortran prof probably used a punch-card word processor.
But suddenly now it's an educational Utopia where all the course material and TA office hours and crap are online? I have a hard time believing it.
Personally I consdier connectivity to be as important as running water, but I don't know if I can justify it in an educational setting. There are still computer labs, and there's always Earthlink if you really need it.
It seems to me that this is being done all over just because it seems like a good idea, when in fact it may not be. If connectivity is so damn important, why don't they provide computers too?
(I almost canceled this post, it's a bit cynical even for me.)
A lot of people on this board go on at length about how they won't use this app or that app because it isn't Free-as-in-whatever. There are people here who won't even *use* something released under the BSD license because of ideological reasons. It's not free enough, I guess.
I wonder what kind of percentage of the Linux market these people (zealots?) are? Maybe there just aren't enough Linux users willing to buy games, period, to support a company like this.
FYI, I have been using this for my MP3 jukebox:
webplay.sourceforge.net
I looked at a couple hundred jukebox projects and this was the one that met my needs best. It even lets you play the files ON the file server, if it has a sound card... so my jukebox is a P200 hidden behind the stereo. Webplay can do simultaneous streams to other computers on your LAN too, if you want. Cool stuff.
It would be nice to alter the last one to point to a page that says, "Hey Chester, you've been compromised, and your computer has been attacking mine lately. Install this patch or turn off the web server, you chucklehead."
Yes, I agree the current anti-gun-make suits are ridiculous. May as well sue Ford when an Escort is used as a getaway car.
you have it backwards. The tide is the industry. The consumers are in the castle.
I'm a gun nut, but even I will say that a maker of a defective gun should be liable. If it explodes in your hand, that's an issue. IIS is exploding in a way, and MS should be liable.
My view is very simple: Things you buy shouldn't suck.
Yeah, let's have more "lateral thinking" like using tape, a cat and maple syrup to make a fake mustache.
No thanks.
Ultimately I think adventure games died because they mostly sucked. Then again maybe I am just a cynical jerk.
You forgot "Vegemite."
I am an @Home subscriber in Seattle. Here is the truly hilarious service they provide.
- As an @Home user you are not supposed to do anything business related, including someting as simple as sending email to your office.
- If you want to do business, you can easily upgrade your cable @Home connection to an "Excite@Work" DSL connection. Except that @Work simply isn't available over most of the @Home coverage area.
So they tell you to upgrade to a product they can't sell you. Hilarious.
I would happily pay more for @Home CABLE service if they would give me a fixed IP and not block servers. Not that they are at the moment, but I smell trouble on the horizon. That Qwest DSL with the month-to-month pricing is looking better all the time.
Anyone who has to be *schooled* in ethics has already lost the battle.
Arguably true, but the bigger issue is "what are correct ethics?" Some things nearly all people can all agree on: it isn't ethical to copy someone else's work and pass it off as your own. But there are a lot of other ethics issues that will be very decisive. For example:
"It is permissable to take a person's life if it is the only way to protect your life or the life of another."
I have had many arguments with people who think that there is never, ever a reason to take a life, whereas I believe that self-defense is a fundamental human right. In the case of a divisive topic such as this, an "ethics class" is useless at best -- and brainwashing at worst.
I think some kind of critical thinking training is a better idea. If you can think critically, you will develop your own ethical code.
Dish Network sent down an ECM that destroyed the satellite receiver -- it didn't mess with the card, which is Dish's property -- it rewrote the receiver's flash with a new program that locked out all the channels except for a "stop stealing TV" message. Many people who were using an emulator board without locking the flash RAM in the unit got their boxen cooked but good.
I think that DTV's card-melting is kosher, they do state that the card is their property. (as does Dish.) But Dish frying your personal hardware -- whoa. That seems to cross a line, even if you are using it to pirate TV. Ethically, it seems to be a much more questionable activity than releasing an anti-virus virus.
What we need is a body that examines, approves, and introduces counter measures.
Microsoft for example, could include in the license agreements for the next outlook an agreement to allow MS to apply counter measures.
That is actually a great idea. If only MS could catch a clue these days. (then again, maybe it is all part of their master plan!)
How did you automate that? My shell kung fu is weak.
Or do you just have a lot of time for copy/paste?
FWIW I manually did about 40 IPs the other day. Similar ratio.
I wonder how far it can be pushed? My server on @Home dishes out almost 3,000 pageviews per day. (!) I'm starting to get worried. I need a backup plan in case they pull the plug on me.
Doesn't seem to work in UT. Hadn't tried Quake.
Obviously there are some games for the Mac. But as a multi-platform game-lovin' guy myself it is crystal clear that Windoze is the superior game platform. You can play Civ II until the cows come home; you'll also be missing out on MOST of the new releases.
I use my Mac for webdev and desktop publishing, for which purpose it puts Windoze to shame. But you aren't going to win any game arguments by trotting out Civ II and Quake. Please, from one Mac user to another, concede this one. PCs have more games to choose from. Period. (And the MacOS doesn't have native mousewheel support, which makes FPS games blow!)
At least you can play X-COM in Virtual PC.
Tim Meadows -- good one. I forgot about him. I don't know the others but I will take your word for it.
I might add, that you only requested A black comedian...
yeah, beacause this all started when I posted how disappointing it was that all black comedians seems to have the same shtick. I wasn't posting about Lituanian comedians or Asian comedians. Read the thread.
I will now amend my original statement: It is lamentable that all the POPULAR black comedians are shrill-voiced clownish caricatures, and I am surprised that more black people aren't offended by how they are portrayed in the media.
Crack one IIS box, and you're a felon. Crack a million, and you're... some anonymous virus-writing guy that will never be brought to justice.
I would NOT put Joss Whedon on that list. I think he does a great job at being The Man and putting together a good show... but his dialogue is weak. Well, it's GOOD, actually... but I was noticing the other day that all the characters in his shows sound the same. The actors/acresses give some life and variation, of course, but imagine reading all the lines in a typical episode... everyone sounds the same. The same wisecracks, the same modes of speech...
YMMV, but man, I just can't put JW in the same league as KS and QT. The latter 2 have a serious gift for dialogue.
The Berners-Lee connection will only serve to sucker venture capitalists.
If Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley came out with an exciting new expansion card bus specification, would we automatically listen to them? Why not, I mean, c'mon, they invented the transistor, right? Who better to design modern computer hardware? Right?
Sheesh.
I don't WANT pages more complex than what you can get out of PHP anyway...
He's not current though. Got a better one?
A product that is given away and not sold can, I think, have a reliability disclaimer. But as soon as money is exchanged for goods or services you enter into a social contract. Things you buy shouldn't suck.
Here are some of the sites that have tried to infect me. These servers all had live content when I last checked. Very humorous.
http://65.3.197.16/
http://65.3.145.164/ ('welcome to the all porshe page!' Hilarious, GeoCities quality web site.)
Most of the rest of the machines that hit me had IIS "under construction" signs up.
You aren't even supposed to send email to your job from an @home account. (no joke, tech support is adamant about that.) They have an @work package if you need to do business stuff.
In typical @home fashion, the upgrade to @work isn't available to all @home subscribers, because it is a DSL service, not cable modem... the coverage doesn't overlap 100%.
I'll keep violating the @home TOS quite happily, so long as they are dense enough to let me.