I picked this book up for Christmas (along with Cryptonomicon and Carlin's Brain Droppings). I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone interested in crypto. I agree with some previous posters that the Linear B the Navajo Code Talker chapters were probably the most interesting out of the whole book. Damn codes at the back, they're still stumping me! Well some of them, I finished the first three pretty well. My next challenge - read The Elegant Universe and Six Easy Pieces. I WILL understand relativity!
Nope, no trojans in sendmail. However, sendmail HAS had enough rootable exploits to make your head spin. Bind doesn't have the best track record either. Course, Windows has had a goodly amount of exploits in and of itself.
The high school I went to (wow, two years ago I graduated, time flies) started a 4 semester (two year) elective program that would end up with you getting your CCNA. I know a couple people taking it (I still live in the area), and they love it to death apparently. Though, the bastards implemented it AFTER I left..I swear I'm cursed
You can make your own armor and weapons, the problem being is that they, well, suck. The usefulness of banded armor and forged weapons stop being effective after level 15 or so, and well, I made level 15 in two weeks of playing. Now, there IS a rather large market for magical jewelery. The richest people I know are enchanters (only they have the power to efficiently make the good jewelery). You can also bake and brew stuff, though those skills are pretty much for atmosphere (people seem to get a kick out of getting 10 shots of vodka for giving me SOW or other good buffs:) Now as for selling them outside the game, I really don't approve, though I wouldn't mind some magical armor being sold on ebay, as much as I mind some lame farming asshole selling the swords I want so much on there.
The problem is, 100% randomness makes the game lose a lot of continuity. Now, EverQuest DEFINITELY should have had a good amount of random loot distribution before it ever went live, but most people expect the Crown of the Froglok Kings to be dropped off of the (you guessed it) Froglok King. There's something to be said about making leeto storylines:)
I think that's what he was getting at:). Seriously though, think of the data communications possibilities. You'd still have limited bandwidth, though the limit is astronomical (You can only poke so many holes in a sheet until it's nothing but shreds - BAD THING to do to the universe). However, it completely solves latency issues. Now everyone can be a LPB CAMPER FAGET (and JeffK would probably have a conniption the likes of which we've never seen!). Wormhole routers....gives a new meaning to the idea of IP tunneling eh?!
Actually a recent patch made the rolling server side, from what I recall. And rolling for loot is completely evil, but that's a more philisophical argument:)
I was at PSU at the time that happened, it was quite chaotic. They were ripping LIGHT POLES out of the ground. I was all the way across campus when it started, asleep. The best thing was, it happened on my birthday. I felt honored:)
There's no way 3dfx could buy S3 at the current time. They just spent a LARGE chunk of money acquiring STB, and S3 was a bigger outfit before the STB/3dfx deal. Also, one of my friends works for S3, and he says that any rumors of 3dfx buying them are bullshit.
.mod was my life for at LEAST a year. I couldn't make them worth a damn, but god I loved collecting them:). I still listen to.mod's (and their ilk.xm and.s3m) to this day, mostly from the Unreal soundtrack (the ONLY good part of the game if you ask me).
And as for BBS's go, Renegade was the best software and you all know it!
Exactly. Why didn't anyone bitch and moan when MS decided to inegrate TCP/IP into their OS's? They handily killed off Trumpet Winsock and the like with that maneuver. And yet, no one seems to mind THAT........
This makes me very HAPPY. I just wish the EFNet admins would G-line *aol.com. Kicking their server off the network was good, but AOL still causes me too many headaches on IRC
We almost tapped one of Russia's undersea cables back in the 1980's. There was a wire run from where it was placed all the way to one of our military bases in Iceland/Greenland (forget which). The only reason we didn't pull it off is because an Akula appeared in the US sub's vicinity about 2 hours before they were supposed to place the tap, so they aborted the mission. I can't remember exactly where I heard about this, but I believe it was a book. If I do remember, I'll post the name
Grab a Voodoo2 card if you need 3d under linux. I've seen some 12 meg versions under $100, and they work perfectly. There's a ton of companies that make them too, so it won't be hard to find them.
No kidding. MS Research has the BIGGEST Natural Language Processing development team in the world from what I understand, and NLP is some damn cool technology. It's true what they say about zealots, they're their own worst enemy.
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Haha, excellent page. They don't seem to have a LotusScript implentation of the song though. I'll fix THAT when I go to work on Monday!
I picked this book up for Christmas (along with Cryptonomicon and Carlin's Brain Droppings). I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone interested in crypto. I agree with some previous posters that the Linear B the Navajo Code Talker chapters were probably the most interesting out of the whole book. Damn codes at the back, they're still stumping me! Well some of them, I finished the first three pretty well. My next challenge - read The Elegant Universe and Six Easy Pieces. I WILL understand relativity!
Nope, no trojans in sendmail. However, sendmail HAS had enough rootable exploits to make your head spin. Bind doesn't have the best track record either. Course, Windows has had a goodly amount of exploits in and of itself.
The high school I went to (wow, two years ago I graduated, time flies) started a 4 semester (two year) elective program that would end up with you getting your CCNA. I know a couple people taking it (I still live in the area), and they love it to death apparently. Though, the bastards implemented it AFTER I left..I swear I'm cursed
Oh I forgot to add, a lot of trade skills are getting revamped after the upcoming expansion. Here's hoping to magical forged weapony and armor :)
You can make your own armor and weapons, the problem being is that they, well, suck. The usefulness of banded armor and forged weapons stop being effective after level 15 or so, and well, I made level 15 in two weeks of playing. Now, there IS a rather large market for magical jewelery. The richest people I know are enchanters (only they have the power to efficiently make the good jewelery). You can also bake and brew stuff, though those skills are pretty much for atmosphere (people seem to get a kick out of getting 10 shots of vodka for giving me SOW or other good buffs :) Now as for selling them outside the game, I really don't approve, though I wouldn't mind some magical armor being sold on ebay, as much as I mind some lame farming asshole selling the swords I want so much on there.
The problem is, 100% randomness makes the game lose a lot of continuity. Now, EverQuest DEFINITELY should have had a good amount of random loot distribution before it ever went live, but most people expect the Crown of the Froglok Kings to be dropped off of the (you guessed it) Froglok King. There's something to be said about making leeto storylines :)
I think that's what he was getting at :). Seriously though, think of the data communications possibilities. You'd still have limited bandwidth, though the limit is astronomical (You can only poke so many holes in a sheet until it's nothing but shreds - BAD THING to do to the universe). However, it completely solves latency issues. Now everyone can be a LPB CAMPER FAGET (and JeffK would probably have a conniption the likes of which we've never seen!). Wormhole routers....gives a new meaning to the idea of IP tunneling eh?!
Actually a recent patch made the rolling server side, from what I recall. And rolling for loot is completely evil, but that's a more philisophical argument :)
Boy, it never ceases to amaze me how many people fall for a troll. Makes my work day a pleasure when I read the threads :)
I was at PSU at the time that happened, it was quite chaotic. They were ripping LIGHT POLES out of the ground. I was all the way across campus when it started, asleep. The best thing was, it happened on my birthday. I felt honored :)
There's no way 3dfx could buy S3 at the current time. They just spent a LARGE chunk of money acquiring STB, and S3 was a bigger outfit before the STB/3dfx deal. Also, one of my friends works for S3, and he says that any rumors of 3dfx buying them are bullshit.
.mod was my life for at LEAST a year. I couldn't make them worth a damn, but god I loved collecting them :). I still listen to .mod's (and their ilk .xm and .s3m) to this day, mostly from the Unreal soundtrack (the ONLY good part of the game if you ask me).
And as for BBS's go, Renegade was the best software and you all know it!
Exactly. Why didn't anyone bitch and moan when MS decided to inegrate TCP/IP into their OS's? They handily killed off Trumpet Winsock and the like with that maneuver. And yet, no one seems to mind THAT........
This makes me very HAPPY. I just wish the EFNet admins would G-line *aol.com. Kicking their server off the network was good, but AOL still causes me too many headaches on IRC
We almost tapped one of Russia's undersea cables back in the 1980's. There was a wire run from where it was placed all the way to one of our military bases in Iceland/Greenland (forget which). The only reason we didn't pull it off is because an Akula appeared in the US sub's vicinity about 2 hours before they were supposed to place the tap, so they aborted the mission. I can't remember exactly where I heard about this, but I believe it was a book. If I do remember, I'll post the name
Grab a Voodoo2 card if you need 3d under linux. I've seen some 12 meg versions under $100, and they work perfectly. There's a ton of companies that make them too, so it won't be hard to find them.
No kidding. MS Research has the BIGGEST Natural Language Processing development team in the world from what I understand, and NLP is some damn cool technology. It's true what they say about zealots, they're their own worst enemy.