Man, MajorBBS blew goats...
Synchronet was where it's at,
in fact, synchronet is still written and supported under the GNU public liscense, and there is a linux version available (Very alpha though)
you know, come to think of it, this happened to the PIII when it first came out.... and the PII.. and the original Pentium... and the Pentium MMX... umm.. I beleive it happened to intel's 486 processor as well.. but I don't recall if it was the DX or SX model....
I've been following an interesting thread on BUGTRAQ about something similar to this, it seems that Microsoft is tracking alot of your web browsing habits, you are able to turn cookies off in IE 5+ but MS can still track your movements... a message that really caught my eye follows:
"Guille Bisho" wrote in message
news:39B84795.8A32DC4F@redestb.es...
(snip possible good catch)
Good possiblity something fishy going on there. The XMLHTTP object is
installed and registered with IE5 and functions without prompt under default
settings. The example code below will send an HTTP request to MS, fetch and
parse as html the response:
<script>
function SubmitTrackingInfo(){
var objHTTP = new ActiveXObject ("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
objHTTP.open("GET", "http://www.microsoft.com", false)
objHTTP.send()
xmlDoc=objHTTP.responseText
document.write("" + xmlDoc + "")
}
SubmitTrackingInfo()
</script>
In the case of the search.msn.com example. There is additional data being
sent back to the server: objHTTP.send("BSTR")}function fnInit(store).
Clearly the name of the function firing all this: "SubmitTrackingInfo" can
suggest some things. More so the recent "ballyhoo'd" anouncement by MS to
allow greater control over privacy for their customers, with the addition of
a "cookie" privacy control add-on for Internet Explorer 5:
So, while _everyone_ else's "cookies" are curtailed by this privacy add-on
for Internet Explorer, Microsoft's operations utilise this method of
'non-cookie" tracking?
Conspiracy theory of course;-) but perhaps worth investigating thoroughly
by someone with experience as to what exactly is going on?
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What would be interesting would be a complex system wherein it would be possible to have every aspect of a journey from character to enemy reactions/thoughts to various random weather patterns. That would be truely amazing
What fun would that be? it'd be like playing a computer game only with pen and paper... do you know how thick the books would have to be to have all that information?.. you darn right everything has to be left up to the GM, (me being a GM myself) what fun would the GM have then?
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... Nothing is more dangerous than a GM with a low blood sugar
... I don't Care what the rules say! I'm the GM!
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ok, how the paralells between FASA's Shadowrun and White-Wolf's Mage began are unbeknownst to me, Mage has been a favorite of mine since White Wolf first released it, and still is a favorite of mine. Cyberwear is not common, you don't have "Spells" either. You control "Spheres" like say I wanted to turn you into a chair, I would need a good concept of Life, Matter, and I'd need some Quintisential energy (Prime) to do such a thing, and then I would suffer a HECK of a backlash, as reality told me "Stupid shit, you can't do that!".. (Paradox) Alot of the facts in this "Review" (if you can call it that, it's about 5 years+ too late) are mixed up. If you want more information on Mage: The Ascention visit White Wolf's Website or e-mail me, I'll be more than happy to explain the real truth about this wonderful pen and paper game.
now, is this the windows 2000 version of dos? that runs any game that uses a DOS box at 1/2 the speed or not at all?
There's something wrong with that, now all game deisgners are going to be forced to A: write patches so the games work in windows ME B: design games to the MS WinME specifications, (and of course, have to pay M$ more money to get those specifications) C: force the price of games up even more, due to A and B.
I'm not a huge gamer, but I have noticed many games don't run on Win2k because of the 'dos' prompt issues.
I'm sure someone already posted the napster webcast that happened a short time ago.. I beleive it is still viewable from that link... also, FYI Wired Magazine has a good 2 page article about the trial today, some interesting reading....
It's only 50 gigabytes (ONLY!).. which roughly translates to: 9.3MB per second.. I wonder if perhaps they are going to.tgz the movie to transfer it? DaiTengu -------- Damage Inc. BBS
no, I think a Breakup wouldn't work, the smaller companies would just endup working together and Bill would just get ritcher..... it's funny, I don't see them talking about open-sourcing Windows..... wouldn't that be the way to go?... not neccisarily for FREE... you know... charge about $1000 for it... I think that would be fair, and then allow companies to write an operating system that would use Windows as a base, so that ALL software would run on it... wouldn't it be nice if someone came out with a version of Linux that ran Windows applications BETTER than WINE? DaiTengu -------- Damage Inc. BBS
Again, the problem is Ping times.. you have a Killer Bandwith with a HORRID ping time... it's 10 times worse than running a Retzal line.
Don't ever plan on using it as a Quake server... Sattelite is cool and all... but they are going to have the exact same problems DirecTV has with their Web Access.... over 1 second ping time... it's not so bad if you are running a BBS, FTP Server or even a Web Server... where 1 second doesn't mean TOO much... but again gaming would be horrible.... you'd be dead before you start! DaiTengu -------- Damage Inc. BBS
Great, Now the Palm V and the Palm III are going to run up another $150-$200... The Wireless Palm is the next best thing to useless... Unless you have a HECK of alot of money to blow it's DEFINATELY not worth it... for instance, this is the rate plan for the Palm VII wireless:
for 300KB of data transfer per month you end up having to pay $40/month.... you can get away with paying $45/month and get unlimited use....
If I was to purchase a Palm Pilot, it would indeed be the Palm Vx, it's not wireless, it's got a nice aluminum case, it's much lighter weight than the VII and it has 4 times the memory... Where do you want to go today?
I beleive Netpliance's cost is somewhere in the 170-180 dollar range.... considering the first i-openers came out at $199... and Netpliance was supposedly making money off of them.... (this according to Circuit City Management) DaiTengu -------- Damage Inc. BBS
what would you need an ethernet port for? it's got a USB port.. just hook up the Netgear USB -> ethernet accessory.. it's only like $50... when I'm sure an ethernet port would cost somewhere in the lines of another $75-$100 to install
I, being a current employee of Circuit City recieved an E-mail from my company last week.. we currently have 28 Iopeners on Special order, from back in the day when they were hackable. The e-mail stated to me that it will be ANOTHER 6-8 weeks before we will see any more I-openers.
I know that at least 25 of these 28 machines were to have hard drives hooked up to them, I don't know if Netpliance already has the money from circuit city, or if cc is just holding on to it... all I know is Netpliance is going to see all their income DROP like a brick through glass when these I-openers do come back into stock.
In my opinion Netpliance should have done the following:
1: sell the I-opener at $99 to those who sign up for at least 2 years of service.
2: sell the i-opener for $149 to those who sign up for 1 year of service
3: sell the i-opener at $199 to those who don't sign up for service
that way they will make some money off their products, instead of knowing that they will have to dig themselves out of a BIG BLACK HOLE in the coming 6 months... put everything back to the way it should be... heck.. I'd pay $199 for one, it's still better than the old Packard Bell we have sitting on our shelves for $450...! DaiTengu -------- Damage Inc. BBS
I live in an area where Time Warner is our current monopoly for Cable access... In 2 months they have announced that they will have Cable Modem access available in our area... I asked a representitive of the company about this and how it could be used on other platforms.... they replied to me "You will be able to have cable access on many platforms, Linux, Windows, even OS/2, you will not be required to use AOL's interface either" this is good news In my opinion, I beleive it is a step in the right direction for Time Warner/AOL whereas AOL can offer Cable Access through Time Warner for those that are not as 'enlightened' as we are, and Time Warner can offer Cable access directly without having to run it through AOL's interface, or even having to come from an AOL address. DaiTengu -------- Damage Inc. BBS
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I've had the same mouse for 5 years, with no problems (regular mouse cleanings come in handy sometimes) ... so my question is .. who would want this?
Anybody seen Pimp Wars? :)
Sure, telnet to damageinc.darktech.org
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"Guille Bisho" wrote in message
news:39B84795.8A32DC4F@redestb.es...
(snip possible good catch)
Good possiblity something fishy going on there. The XMLHTTP object is installed and registered with IE5 and functions without prompt under default settings. The example code below will send an HTTP request to MS, fetch and parse as html the response:
<script>
function SubmitTrackingInfo(){
var objHTTP = new ActiveXObject
("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
objHTTP.open("GET", "http://www.microsoft.com", false)
objHTTP.send()
xmlDoc=objHTTP.responseText
document.write("" + xmlDoc + "")
}
SubmitTrackingInfo()
</script>
In the case of the search.msn.com example. There is additional data being sent back to the server: objHTTP.send("BSTR")}function fnInit(store). Clearly the name of the function firing all this: "SubmitTrackingInfo" can suggest some things. More so the recent "ballyhoo'd" anouncement by MS to allow greater control over privacy for their customers, with the addition of a "cookie" privacy control add-on for Internet Explorer 5:
http://www. microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/jul00/07-20c ookies.asp
So, while _everyone_ else's "cookies" are curtailed by this privacy add-on for Internet Explorer, Microsoft's operations utilise this method of 'non-cookie" tracking?
Conspiracy theory of course ;-) but perhaps worth investigating thoroughly
by someone with experience as to what exactly is going on?
What fun would that be? it'd be like playing a computer game only with pen and paper ... do you know how thick the books would have to be to have all that information? .. you darn right everything has to be left up to the GM, (me being a GM myself) what fun would the GM have then?
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ok, how the paralells between FASA's Shadowrun and White-Wolf's Mage began are unbeknownst to me, Mage has been a favorite of mine since White Wolf first released it, and still is a favorite of mine. Cyberwear is not common, you don't have "Spells" either. You control "Spheres" like say I wanted to turn you into a chair, I would need a good concept of Life, Matter, and I'd need some Quintisential energy (Prime) to do such a thing, and then I would suffer a HECK of a backlash, as reality told me "Stupid shit, you can't do that!" .. (Paradox) Alot of the facts in this "Review" (if you can call it that, it's about 5 years+ too late) are mixed up. If you want more information on Mage: The Ascention visit White Wolf's Website or e-mail me, I'll be more than happy to explain the real truth about this wonderful pen and paper game.
There's something wrong with that, now all game deisgners are going to be forced to
A: write patches so the games work in windows ME
B: design games to the MS WinME specifications, (and of course, have to pay M$ more money to get those specifications)
C: force the price of games up even more, due to A and B.
I'm not a huge gamer, but I have noticed many games don't run on Win2k because of the 'dos' prompt issues.
I'm sure someone already posted the napster webcast that happened a short time ago .. I beleive it is still viewable from that link ... also, FYI Wired Magazine has a good 2 page article about the trial today, some interesting reading....
I think that drops your essence below 0 ... your ass is mine!
DaiTengu
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Damage Inc. BBS
It's only 50 gigabytes (ONLY!) .. which roughly translates to: 9.3MB per second .. I wonder if perhaps they are going to .tgz the movie to transfer it?
DaiTengu
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Damage Inc. BBS
3 Days after I get it working ... THEY RELEASE A VERSION OF LILO THAT DOESN'T HAVE THE 1024 CYLINDER LIMIT!!!!!!!!
ARRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!
DaiTengu
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Damage Inc. BBS
cost is right from Palm's web site, and of course, you can only use Palm's services ....
DaiTengu
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Damage Inc. BBS
no, I think a Breakup wouldn't work, the smaller companies would just endup working together and Bill would just get ritcher ..... it's funny, I don't see them talking about open-sourcing Windows ..... wouldn't that be the way to go? ... not neccisarily for FREE ... you know ... charge about $1000 for it ... I think that would be fair, and then allow companies to write an operating system that would use Windows as a base, so that ALL software would run on it ... wouldn't it be nice if someone came out with a version of Linux that ran Windows applications BETTER than WINE?
DaiTengu
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Damage Inc. BBS
Don't ever plan on using it as a Quake server ... Sattelite is cool and all ... but they are going to have the exact same problems DirecTV has with their Web Access .... over 1 second ping time ... it's not so bad if you are running a BBS, FTP Server or even a Web Server ... where 1 second doesn't mean TOO much ... but again gaming would be horrible.... you'd be dead before you start!
DaiTengu
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Damage Inc. BBS
for 300KB of data transfer per month you end up having to pay $40/month .... you can get away with paying $45/month and get unlimited use ....
If I was to purchase a Palm Pilot, it would indeed be the Palm Vx, it's not wireless, it's got a nice aluminum case, it's much lighter weight than the VII and it has 4 times the memory ... Where do you want to go today?
DaiTengu
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Damage Inc. BBS
I beleive Netpliance's cost is somewhere in the 170-180 dollar range.... considering the first i-openers came out at $199 ... and Netpliance was supposedly making money off of them.... (this according to Circuit City Management)
DaiTengu
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Damage Inc. BBS
DaiTengu
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Damage Inc. BBS
I know that at least 25 of these 28 machines were to have hard drives hooked up to them, I don't know if Netpliance already has the money from circuit city, or if cc is just holding on to it ... all I know is Netpliance is going to see all their income DROP like a brick through glass when these I-openers do come back into stock.
In my opinion Netpliance should have done the following:
1: sell the I-opener at $99 to those who sign up for at least 2 years of service.
2: sell the i-opener for $149 to those who sign up for 1 year of service
3: sell the i-opener at $199 to those who don't sign up for service
that way they will make some money off their products, instead of knowing that they will have to dig themselves out of a BIG BLACK HOLE in the coming 6 months ... put everything back to the way it should be ... heck .. I'd pay $199 for one, it's still better than the old Packard Bell we have sitting on our shelves for $450 ...!
DaiTengu
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Damage Inc. BBS
I live in an area where Time Warner is our current monopoly for Cable access ... In 2 months they have announced that they will have Cable Modem access available in our area... I asked a representitive of the company about this and how it could be used on other platforms .... they replied to me "You will be able to have cable access on many platforms, Linux, Windows, even OS/2, you will not be required to use AOL's interface either" this is good news In my opinion, I beleive it is a step in the right direction for Time Warner/AOL whereas AOL can offer Cable Access through Time Warner for those that are not as 'enlightened' as we are, and Time Warner can offer Cable access directly without having to run it through AOL's interface, or even having to come from an AOL address.
DaiTengu
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Damage Inc. BBS