Very cool of the RIAA to set the precedent on this topic! Recently, they backed out of the right to hack amendment of the anti-terrorism bill... so now, could it be interpreted to mean that a DoS isn't a "hack"? Nice work RIAA.
A great source of cheap LCDs for building a projector is from those little handheld TVs. I've got one from Radio Shack that is a few years old and is the perfect size to fit into a slide projector. Some of those LCDs could probably be wired directly into your cable, satelite, etc. Even better if you have a tuner or cable box for changing the channel with a remote. The result will be an awesome projection system for wicked cheap!
AMD Motherboards will not pass AMD validation or be posted on the AMD recommended motherboard website if the frequency is displayed by the BIOS during bootup for AMD Athlon(tm) Model 6 desktop and multiprocessing processors.
It'll be interesting to see how many companies release "un-approved" motherboards for the processors, and how many computer geeks buy them. I know I would.
I don't agree with the arguement that the MhZ rating is arbitrary. Its not... there is a direct correlation between mHz and clock cycles. Clock cycles mean something to some talented computer users. By masking the mHz rating, it only obfuscates the technical aspect of the chip. Their silly rating does NOT take that away, because the chip still runs on a clock.
Ok... so, now I apparently have to stop using AMD processors after my athlon 1.4, because I won't be able to determine the true mHz that my processor is running. I don't necessarily see the reasons why this rating is masked on the XP processors... its probably ok for the average home user, but I'm not average. MhZ ratings mean something to me, because I enjoy tweaking the most from my system.
I stopped using Intel processors a while ago, after learning that AMD's chip architecture was superior to Intel's, the choice was obvious. If you haven't read this document, please do. It'll give you a good technical understanding of performance issues with Pentium processors compared to AMD processors.
So, now what? I guess I'm forced into some hard choices over the specs of my next machine. It may be time to consider Intel again... I just don't know. AMD's new CPU scheme sounds really sketchy to me.
Before Bell Atlantic and GTE merged to form Verizon, there were long standing problems with BA. Back in '98, I was assisting 2 local ISPs with contracted systems engineering... BA was a large problem because they would sit on a phone loop installation order for 6 months before doing anything. Meanwhile, we'd have customers complaining about busy signals because BA would only install new lines on their special schedule.
Most of the ISPs in maine got together and formed a consortium and persued legal action against BA. I'm not 100% sure of the outcome from that, but I'm sure its still a battle being fought with Verizon.
Fewer excuses for the "memos and shopping lists" crowd. Sean Lamb writes: "Now that everyone's done slashdotting Sun's servers, I've posted an of StarOffice 6.0 beta over at Linux Orbit."
hahaha... allow me to translate...
Now that everyone's done slashdotting [verb] Sun's servers, now go slashdot these other servers.
While its a great concept, I don't believe its feasable. In order to properly, and accurately route messages, every cell phone on the SMS network would have to know where every other phone is on the topology. On the gnutellaNET, not all hosts are communicating... with gnutella, depending on your client, you're probably only communicating within your "cloud", which is more a local subset of the topology rather than the ENTIRE network. (likely only 7-10 node hops) Unfortunately, in an SMS implimentation, messages are likely to get lost or bounce around for days until they by chance find the recipient? I don't think that'll work. Cell phones don't have the storage or bandwidth requirements needed to manage a large amount of dynamic routing information.
Wireless solutions are great for local area networks and other small implimentations... I love the idea of a large wireless freenet, something huge! Lets theorize for a moment:
What if something as cool as this really did take off and become a world wide phenomena, much like the wired internet itself? I'm sure that bandwidth limitations would become a serious issue, especially since a large wireless net would have to make many more hops for packet transmittal. Theres only so much junk that can be crammed into thte airwaves! Either the FCC will have to open more bands, or we'll have to get really creative with our wireless technology. One way to help congestion would be to have strict restrictions on useless data transmission, like spam... which would be analogous with a "freenet" in my opinion.
Love the idea though... anybody want to get help get something started in the Portland, Maine area?
What, mod me down? I'm serious! Since when did silly rumors become news? Seems to me that this could probably wait until something with more substance is released by paypal.
In my opinion, you all ought to take a quick look at what constitutes news, then >/dev/null on that.
My uncle's mailman's dentist's wife's cousin's co-worker heard from his friend's wife's stock broker's gay lover, that PayPal is thinking about maybe spreading a rumor about potentially having an IPO!
wow. Go fsck slashdot... you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Each palm device has different capabilities. On my visor platinum, battery usage isn't a factor. The IR load isn't enough to eat the batteries. IR transfers between other palms and printers is what usually eats my batteries.
If you have a palm device with IR, you're ready to start playing. I recently played around with a nicely written PalmOS app called (OmniRemote) from www.pacificneotek.com. I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but I was really impressed with the product. Basically, it'll turn your palm device into a sophisticated remote that can do some really neat things. It allows you to customize the interface, program codes, and even sniff codes from other remotes. Very slick.
For instance, the names of the tracks do not appear on a computer's screen, and as a result, the music cannot be ripped and transferred to a desktop.
<p>I really love these simplistic answers, dumbed down so low that a moron could understand it. Right now, I can't recall a time that I've "transferred music to my desktop", especially when the names of the tracks appear on my screen.</p>
<p>Somebody please get rid of this idiot.</p>
"According to this article Microsoft is responding to the Gartner Report which recommends that enterprises drop IIS by claiming unfair targeting due to their popularity."
Would that be popularity among virus authors?
Considering Apache runs the vast majority of the web, exactly how popular is IIS? Lets figure this mathematically. If you take (default.ida?X) to the 10th power... oh, nevermind.
Could somebody please help these people out of the fog...
Oh yeah! I completely forgot about these, until this little reminder! When I was younger, I had lots of 'em... lots. Probably only had a few in reality, but my memory says 'lots'. I just checked on ebay, and theres tons for sale... hmm... I need to build something now.
I'm a proud owner of a visor platinum. Of course, my model uses regular AAA batteries. I don't really mind that because a set of batteries usually lasts about one month. However, since the batteries are one of the more common complaints among handspring users, it was wise of them to incorporate rechargeables in the new models.
Being of a technical mind, my biggest complaint about my visor is its lack of a flash-ROM! The onboard OS can't be upgraded to a newer PalmOS version nor another OS (linux). Supposedly, its possible to "upgrade" via the springboard slot, but not practical. That slot is reserved for a visorphone, or something else on my wishlist. I can however, understand why they've designed their PDAs without flash... planned obsolesence, etc.
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Very cool of the RIAA to set the precedent on this topic! Recently, they backed out of the right to hack amendment of the anti-terrorism bill... so now, could it be interpreted to mean that a DoS isn't a "hack"? Nice work RIAA.
Excellent information! Thank you...
A great source of cheap LCDs for building a projector is from those little handheld TVs. I've got one from Radio Shack that is a few years old and is the perfect size to fit into a slide projector. Some of those LCDs could probably be wired directly into your cable, satelite, etc. Even better if you have a tuner or cable box for changing the channel with a remote. The result will be an awesome projection system for wicked cheap!
Excerpt from the article:
AMD Motherboards will not pass AMD validation or be posted on the AMD recommended motherboard website if the frequency is displayed by the BIOS during bootup for AMD Athlon(tm) Model 6 desktop and multiprocessing processors.
It'll be interesting to see how many companies release "un-approved" motherboards for the processors, and how many computer geeks buy them. I know I would.
I don't agree with the arguement that the MhZ rating is arbitrary. Its not... there is a direct correlation between mHz and clock cycles. Clock cycles mean something to some talented computer users. By masking the mHz rating, it only obfuscates the technical aspect of the chip. Their silly rating does NOT take that away, because the chip still runs on a clock.
Ok... so, now I apparently have to stop using AMD processors after my athlon 1.4, because I won't be able to determine the true mHz that my processor is running. I don't necessarily see the reasons why this rating is masked on the XP processors... its probably ok for the average home user, but I'm not average. MhZ ratings mean something to me, because I enjoy tweaking the most from my system.
I stopped using Intel processors a while ago, after learning that AMD's chip architecture was superior to Intel's, the choice was obvious. If you haven't read this document, please do. It'll give you a good technical understanding of performance issues with Pentium processors compared to AMD processors.
So, now what? I guess I'm forced into some hard choices over the specs of my next machine. It may be time to consider Intel again... I just don't know. AMD's new CPU scheme sounds really sketchy to me.
FYI: here's some lighter reading from an old ZDNET article.
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http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,356
Hi Anonymous Coward --
Here's a link to some detailed information about the filings against Bell Atlantic in 1998, made to the Maine Public Utilities Commission.
http://www.hazbro.com/ba
Thanks for your input.
Before Bell Atlantic and GTE merged to form Verizon, there were long standing problems with BA. Back in '98, I was assisting 2 local ISPs with contracted systems engineering... BA was a large problem because they would sit on a phone loop installation order for 6 months before doing anything. Meanwhile, we'd have customers complaining about busy signals because BA would only install new lines on their special schedule.
Most of the ISPs in maine got together and formed a consortium and persued legal action against BA. I'm not 100% sure of the outcome from that, but I'm sure its still a battle being fought with Verizon.
Fewer excuses for the "memos and shopping lists" crowd. Sean Lamb writes: "Now that everyone's done slashdotting Sun's servers, I've posted an of StarOffice 6.0 beta over at Linux Orbit."
hahaha... allow me to translate...
Now that everyone's done slashdotting [verb] Sun's servers, now go slashdot these other servers.
What was this guy thinking of?!?!?
That post deserves an award for the longest single post contributed by a user, ever.
While its a great concept, I don't believe its feasable. In order to properly, and accurately route messages, every cell phone on the SMS network would have to know where every other phone is on the topology. On the gnutellaNET, not all hosts are communicating... with gnutella, depending on your client, you're probably only communicating within your "cloud", which is more a local subset of the topology rather than the ENTIRE network. (likely only 7-10 node hops) Unfortunately, in an SMS implimentation, messages are likely to get lost or bounce around for days until they by chance find the recipient? I don't think that'll work. Cell phones don't have the storage or bandwidth requirements needed to manage a large amount of dynamic routing information.
Wireless solutions are great for local area networks and other small implimentations... I love the idea of a large wireless freenet, something huge! Lets theorize for a moment:
What if something as cool as this really did take off and become a world wide phenomena, much like the wired internet itself? I'm sure that bandwidth limitations would become a serious issue, especially since a large wireless net would have to make many more hops for packet transmittal. Theres only so much junk that can be crammed into thte airwaves! Either the FCC will have to open more bands, or we'll have to get really creative with our wireless technology. One way to help congestion would be to have strict restrictions on useless data transmission, like spam... which would be analogous with a "freenet" in my opinion.
Love the idea though... anybody want to get help get something started in the Portland, Maine area?
Cool... I'm off to bluemountain to send myself a card.
I'd like to see a .www TLD because it would be funny. Could you imagine the confusion of http://org.slashdot.www? That would kick ass!
What, mod me down? I'm serious! Since when did silly rumors become news? Seems to me that this could probably wait until something with more substance is released by paypal.
/dev/null on that.
In my opinion, you all ought to take a quick look at what constitutes news, then >
My uncle's mailman's dentist's wife's cousin's co-worker heard from his friend's wife's stock broker's gay lover, that PayPal is thinking about maybe spreading a rumor about potentially having an IPO!
wow. Go fsck slashdot... you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Each palm device has different capabilities. On my visor platinum, battery usage isn't a factor. The IR load isn't enough to eat the batteries. IR transfers between other palms and printers is what usually eats my batteries.
If you have a palm device with IR, you're ready to start playing. I recently played around with a nicely written PalmOS app called (OmniRemote) from www.pacificneotek.com. I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but I was really impressed with the product. Basically, it'll turn your palm device into a sophisticated remote that can do some really neat things. It allows you to customize the interface, program codes, and even sniff codes from other remotes. Very slick.
fscking extrans!! My stupid mouse wheel slipped right before hitting the 'submit' button... sorry.
For instance, the names of the tracks do not appear on a computer's screen, and as a result, the music cannot be ripped and transferred to a desktop.
<p>I really love these simplistic answers, dumbed down so low that a moron could understand it. Right now, I can't recall a time that I've "transferred music to my desktop", especially when the names of the tracks appear on my screen.</p>
<p>Somebody please get rid of this idiot.</p>
"According to this article Microsoft is responding to the Gartner Report which recommends that enterprises drop IIS by claiming unfair targeting due to their popularity."
Would that be popularity among virus authors?
Considering Apache runs the vast majority of the web, exactly how popular is IIS? Lets figure this mathematically. If you take (default.ida?X) to the 10th power... oh, nevermind.
Could somebody please help these people out of the fog...
Larry Ellison can suck my free white ass!
Oh yeah! I completely forgot about these, until this little reminder! When I was younger, I had lots of 'em... lots. Probably only had a few in reality, but my memory says 'lots'. I just checked on ebay, and theres tons for sale... hmm... I need to build something now.
NICE!!! Thanks for that link ;)
I'm a proud owner of a visor platinum. Of course, my model uses regular AAA batteries. I don't really mind that because a set of batteries usually lasts about one month. However, since the batteries are one of the more common complaints among handspring users, it was wise of them to incorporate rechargeables in the new models.
Being of a technical mind, my biggest complaint about my visor is its lack of a flash-ROM! The onboard OS can't be upgraded to a newer PalmOS version nor another OS (linux). Supposedly, its possible to "upgrade" via the springboard slot, but not practical. That slot is reserved for a visorphone, or something else on my wishlist. I can however, understand why they've designed their PDAs without flash... planned obsolesence, etc.
I realize that, and it still doesn't amount to a large database. Thanks Gerv.