Your scarabs are nicer than the ones I have to deal with. The ones that get thrown at me do 120 damage and kill a hord of Hydralisks faster than you can say SH! (*Pop Dead*).
I'd like to see it also monitor and transmit the pulse rate of my teen-aged daughter. It's already on the wrist so it's an easy modification. And if she is baby sitting and her pulse rate goes through the roof (presumably because the make-out session has started), I can quickly arrive with my low-tech boy-friend removal device (read: shotgun). Much like the chastity belt from Scary Movie!
You are only missing one little point in your logic. Broadband was designed to allow people to surf the web faster. Mod chips were specifically designed to override copyright protection of the Play Station. When you go to ModChip sites and the first thing you see is a flashing red banner that says, "Play any copied PlayStation game for the cost of a $19 USD chip and.50 cent CD" it is obvious what the intended use of the device is. If you don't believe me, try opening a gun store called A$$hole Removal Systems, LLC. and see how long it remains open.
Should someone create a chip that checked the copyright bit of the CD and the checksum and if these were true THEN still did not allow the CD to play but allowed home-grown CD's to play, I bet that chip would at least have a chance in standing up in court.
The documentation I was able to find on how to make home grown PlayStation games was very rare and horribly sketchy (sketchy = ModChip sites didn't have it in their FAQ or HOWTO). I was able to get the Psnes emulator with some NES ROMS burned onto a CD and playable in my Playstation, so it *is* possible to make homegrown games.
As for the backup issue, most companies that produce playstation games claim that if you send them your scratched, shattered, melted or otherwise expired CD, they will send you a replacement copy. I think we can all agree this is BS, and as games age, and as companies that produce them fold, merge, and otherwise, it is impossible to be assured that you will get a replacement. Only way to fight this is to file a class action suit that claims infringement of personal rights because they do take away your backup rights, claim to provide replacements and do not do so in a timely or reasonable manner.
In all, create a ModChip that allows home grown Playstation games to work but not copyrighted ones, then have your friend (or wait two weeks), create an application that changes the copyright bit and checksum on the CD to *fool* your ModChip into thinking it is not copyrighted. Then you can sell them in every drug store around the country risk free.
Whether it is up to date or not, it works relatively well in it's current form. In my configuration (IOpener, JAILBAIT 6, Linksys 100 USB, Sits behind a Linux firewall) i don't have to worry about hacks do to lower kernel versions, and everything else does its job (if it ain't broke don't fix it). PPP doesn't work well, you will need to configure that manually if you must use it. Otherwise, never had a problem. I use it for VNC, SSH, mpg123 http://streamcast server running on linux router, and minimal web-surfing (800x600 is painful).
This is pointless. It's a $399 four-port hub. And where is the flexibility? Hmm? At my office we ran 4-Cat5 ports to ever cubicle. That means that at the patch panel, if someone needs three network ports, cool. If someone needs two network ports, and two analog modem lines, cool. If I want to put a dumb terminal on my desk and patch it to my serial port in the server room, cool. No problem. Sooooo much flexibility.
This gives you nothing, and unless you want to buy some expensive power over ethernet equipment you still have a power cable going from the wall to this socket. Anyone who claims this is useful is full of themselves! Concerned about a mess of cables under the desk? Excuse me but if you have a need for four Cat-5 connections at one desk, I'm assuming four computers. That means that you have a mess to start with. What is a four port hub thrown into the mix?
This device is the logical equivalent to saying, "Instead of using surge protectors at every desk, we shall install 8 power slots in a straight row in such a configuration that a power block (for say a printer) doesn't take up three slots."
Then you have troubleshooting. It is a lot easier to use cable testing equipment and knowing that if one of the four cat-5 cables between the patch pannel and the office magically goes out, at least we have three. If this little thing goes out, we are talking DOWN TIME until you can replace the part (might be minutes instead of just seconds like now). Any arguments?
Nobody users your proxy because because it's a penny a page without a sluggish proxy on the other side of the country. It would need a subscription charge.
You will never ever get people to pay for something that was once given to them for free. It just doesn't work! What if network televisions announced you had to pay one cent for each half hour of television you watched during prime time? Even if you watched every M-F 6-10 we are only talking about 8 cents a day, 40 cents a week, and $1.60/month. Not like they are begging for money but nobody would adopt it. Even I would rather watch a commercial (read: take a leak) every 10 minutes then pay $1.60/month.
Don't believe me, then let's get technical, shall we? This model works all fine and dandy right up until I set up a proxy server with a $10/year subscription charge, all pages free. If I rack up 1000 subscribers that is 10k. As you find your cachability rate of your users surfing habits, plus bandwidth costs, later subscribers could be charged a higher subscription fee to insure break-even. Best case scenario you make crap loads of money since this model is based entirely on the fact that the marginal cost decreases exponentially with each additional user. Plus all of the tricks of the trade (give them a local proxy client that fetches all non.htm,.html files and redirects the.htm,.html gets to your proxy server. Then this could be taken to the next step and since you know exactly which HTML pages a person reads, and you know their identity (assuming your service gives out usernames and passwords to your proxy server), you could make highly targeted ads that appear in the corner of a webpage then go away after a few seconds (like geocities). This business model would work just fine right up until the ISP's go, "Flat rate dial-up unlimited internet, no per-page charges for $30/month." So the end result is the ISP's make more money and webmasters get 1/100000 of a cent/page.
It seems what you want is a highly portable, highly light weight, super efficient dumb terminal or VNC terminal. Well my friend, let's be slightly realistic here, if you are going to have a CAT-5 plugged into the sucker, get an internation power adapter kit. Now I hear, "What about on the plane, on the train, in a boat, in a house, with a mouse." If you are going for extreme portability (as you've implied) and for all of these features I MUST recommend that you try to convert an Internet Appliance into a portable. Personally I run an IOpener with Jailbait linux. I can always VNC into a more powerful machine, or just --display=zTTTz:0.0 to any application on any linux server anywhere on earth (since we have the ethernet installed). It takes DC power so you could easily build a custom rechargable battery out of it or sucker one of those EE majors into doing it for you. If you need a week worth of power, my friend, you need to accept the fact that you will be lugging a lead-acid car battery with you wherever you go UNLESS you get serious about this and buy about 50 of those Air-powered batteries (expensive and un-rechargable, but some last upto a month). I would also recommend converting a WebSurfer Pro. The manufacturer of those can give them to you with integrated Ethernet. Couple that with the fact that it has an integrated power supply that does NOT have a bulky cooling fan, it has an insanly small board, and you can get yourself down to just an inch or two tall and about the size of a piece of paper. Go out and purchase an LCD online. There are many websites that have LCD's that accept RCA video inputs. Pricy, but that's what you are asking for. Finally these things have wireless keyboard/mouse combos so you could hook it up to a TV and use it from a comfy hotel couch if you are in Tokyo, or get really creative and attached a folding keyboard like the ones Palm Pilots use to it directly. Of course you would need some sort of custom case since you wouldn't want to use the mammoth sized one that it comes with and would thus need a buddy that is good with cutting/sanding plastic (just need a circular saw). This also has an integrated M-Systems flash disk so you can cut your power consumption enough that you could maybe get this to all run off a battery (depending on the LCD's power consumption). And you would want to get rid of the lame DC-AC-DC conversion with the power supply (that EE friend again). This second path will give you exactly what you want, but it will take a lot of work and favors from friends. I'd just get an i-opener, come up with a smaller keyboard, usb nic, make a compact mount (instead of it's big mount, and poof! done.
Maybe we should all fly naked too, so our clothes won't contribute to the fire. I think this should become an immediate FAA enforced regulation. Like all regulations it must be highly restrictive and have details such as:
Only woman over the age of 18 will fly naked. This will reduce the amount of combustable clothing by roughly 50%.
Those woman of excessive age or weight will be distributed a brown paper bag approximately 6' tall made of recycled materials upon baggage check in.
Any woman uncomfortable with being nude will be given a selection of clothing as part of the cost of their plane ticket that includes thongs, g-strings, teddys, etc.
Extremly bitchy, feminist woman will be gagged and put on patrol in the cargo area to check for bombs.
Men who insist the above rules are too sexist will have to join their female partners by wearing raw fire-proof fiberglass insulation outfits with floppy ears and a tail.
These regulations will serve an added bonus of distracting terrorists and relieving tension on flights. Furthermore, it will contribute to the overall wellness of our economy as middle-aged men by the thousands will begin purchasing round trip tickets to random locations as well as drinks on those flights and the occasional hotel room during layovers.
Number of attacks in 000 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 100 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 200 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 300 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 400 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 500 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 600 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 700 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 800 hours: 416
Number of attacks in 900 hours: 1096
Number of attacks in 1000 hours: 1121
Number of attacks in 1100 hours: 1373
Number of attacks in 1200 hours: 1821
Number of attacks in 1300 hours: 1450
Number of attacks in 1400 hours: 1125
Number of attacks in 1500 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 1600 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 1700 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 1800 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 1900 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 2000 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 2100 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 2200 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 2300 hours: 0
Total Number of Attacks = 8402
How to get there:
Step 1: Grab your Access log off your still functional Apache Web Server:
cd/var/log;cat access_log|grep cmd.exe|grep 18/Sep|sort -n +1 >/tmp/attack.txt
Step 2: Ftp/tmp/attack.txt in ASCII mode to your c:\
Step 3: Execute this VB code (re-write it in perl if it bugs ya).
Option Explicit
Sub Main()
Dim ScanLine, CurrentIP, LastIP As String
Dim AttackHour(0 To 23) As Integer
Dim AttackTime As Integer
Dim TotalAttacks As Integer
Dim X As Integer
Open "C:\attack.txt" For Input As #1
Open "C:\results.txt" For Output As #2
Print #2, "Attacking IP's as of: " & Time & " on " & Date
CurrentIP = ""
LastIP = ""
TotalAttacks = 0
While Not EOF(1)
Line Input #1, ScanLine
CurrentIP = Trim(Left(ScanLine, InStr(ScanLine, "-") - 1))
AttackTime = Val(Trim(Mid(ScanLine, InStr(ScanLine, ":") + 1, 2)))
AttackHour(AttackTime) = AttackHour(AttackTime) + 1
If CurrentIP LastIP Then
Print #2, LastIP
LastIP = CurrentIP
End If
Wend
Close #1
Print #2, vbNewLine
For X = 0 To 23
Print #2, "Number of attacks in " & Trim(Str(X)) & "00 hours: " & AttackHour(X)
TotalAttacks = TotalAttacks + AttackHour(X)
Next X
Print #2, "Total Number of Attacks = " & Str(TotalAttacks)
Close #2
End Sub
Step 4: You can do what you wish with the Information, I e-mailed mine to CERT for tracking as requested on their site.
Will people pay for radio that still has ads? Yes, for example Net Zero uses ads to provide free internet service. The average local provider is between $19.95-$15.00/month with no banners but also comes with a shell account. In contrast, AOL costs $21.95/month, drowns you with ads from the time you logon to the the time you logoff, yet it is the most widely used ISP in America. So, yes, people will pay.
If you've got a box with the power to rip DVD's and store them on it's massive hard-disk, we must remember the emulators! My almost complete collection of ROMS for the NES, SNES, Gameboy, and Genisis fits on two CDR's. With a 200 GB drive, no problem! PC-based we can throw Bleem! and store the ISO's of the game as well. You just put down the Keyboard and pick up your wireless SNES joystick and let it rip!!! The only thing I have EVER soldiered in my life was my SNES controller I use for my Web Surfer Pro. You gotta add this to the box Taco!!!
>How would you feel if something you'd spent 6-months of your life creating was being given away free?
I don't know, ask Linus or the rest of the open source community. Movies are monopolized and over-priced. I paid $8.00 to go watch it in a theatre, over $20 if you count the popcorn. I made my contribution. Why should I go out and pay another $20 for something I already paid for? If it was to pay for the cost of the media and shipping and handling with a slight markup for effort by the producer and all middle men, sure, I'll pay another $8. That's $16 to see a movie on a date and then unlimited times afterwards; where do I sign? If demand is low and supply is high, go back to BUS X100 or ECON E202 and try to make the curves intersect at the sale price.
I have DirecPC at my home. I'm not a friend of a friend of a friend who says it sucks (the same friend who claims that Bill Gates wife can't cook). Assumption #1: You wouldn't be reading this if you could get Cable or DSL anyways. Assumption #2: 28.8 pisses you off. The service does not suck. I'll even throw in the fact that I get it through AOL. Let me dispel some of what is being said out here. Cry, bitch, moan, my ping time sucks. When was the last time you noticed 200ms difference???? Thought so, sit down. Yeah, ping latency kinda blows, and granted I wouldn't take my clvl 45 sorc onto battle.net, but I DO take my clvl 25 necro out there with no probs. It's only 400 kbits. Well, it's more than 28 kbits. I've broken 600 kbits time and again. Even from sites 18 hops away. I'll have two live video feeds at the same time. Downloads are very fast. The uplink stinks. Yes it does. I no longer upload DivX from home. I have to go through the tedious effort of undocking my 8 lb Inspiron and hauling it to work. About encryption, AFAIK, the data is encrypted at the router before shooting into space with my decoder card ID. If you really, REALLY want to be able to get the raw PGP encrypted e-mail, knock yourself out. This is more secure then a script kiddie hacking bind at your ISP and throwing the NIC into promiscous mode. It's $42/month. Cable is $40 + $7 modem rental + $10 if you don't already have basic cable + fed tax + state tax + installation. All my equipment cost $120, but I got 3 months free service (call AOL ask for continuation on free trial, all there is to it). Yes, I bow to all of you with 3l1t3 bandwidth, but for those of us who like to have a lot bigger than 60x100 around our home, many of us are forced to use a dish. I enjoyed this article because instead of having a Windows 95 box with an 120 MB drive and VNC installed on it to distribute my internet connection, I might be able to go back to my one-floppy install of linux with auto-connect. Smile, be happy for your fellow/.'ers who will benifit from the improvements in technology, and stop ripping it so hard. You and I could spend all day ripping on 28.8 modems because it is slower than DSL. Why/.'ers insist on ripping this technology because it is slower than Cable is beyond me. Encourage innovation, especially in its infant stages. Wouldn't it be nice if you could get 400 kbit down to your Palm Vx someday?
Up at Purdue we had a split level ranch with the bar/den in the lower level. We could move the couches out from infront of the TV giving us a 50x30 room, that opened up to the back yard with a lake, waterfall, and privacy fence (can we say party). At any rate, black lights were the only source of lighting at the bar, aside from a 486/66 PC driving X11 Amp over VNC to a slackware box in the back room. We cabled the out to the surround system which provided plenty of music for the parties. What else does a true geek need? Highlighters! Yes, you don't have to be too techy to be a geek. Chicks let you draw on their faces and then they come back every couple minutes to show their friends their preety glow-in-the-dark faces. Don't forget the webcam, digital camera, palm pilot to hand girls to enter their phone numbers, and Mic's strown all about the bar to record girls comments about the tall dark dj, beer server. Three sound cards and a lot of disk space can make this fun. Festival running on your linux box can make the computer talk to people at the part, but only do this after 2:00 (when everyone is warm and fuzzy). Next, you might want to setup an IOpener at one edge of the bar (for sex apeal), to take requests. For some reason the flat screen jutebox request machine impresses chicks. Lie and tell them you can put it in your car and use it to play every song. If you have unlocked rooms in your home, consider putting hidden webcams in each room, routing them to your VNC server for entertainment (or security) purposes. Moderate me.
All you really need to pull this off is a really long piece of Cat-5 (and given that this is going to be in Iowa, you may need to bribe the Cat-5 so it doesn't crimp itself to death out of sheer boredome).
That is the total cost for our networking department's salaries since our first infection (installation) to maintain, troubleshoot, and install Microsoft Windows.
This really boils down to patience on your part. It hurts when you look at your peers and your superiors and it is blantly obviously that you are far more intelligent and skilled than they. But as far as they see it, you will work for them and do what they want because they know the alternative is that you could give up your glorious $12/hr out of frustration and work at Taco Hell for $6.25/hr. Patiently overcome that. Build job secuirty. If your coherts are all MCSEs, push and push and push to install a linux web server or to do the things they cannot do. If the company relies on you and truly can not get by without you (this doesn't mean taking an twice as long as you to install another copy of NT), i.e. their infrastructure could collapse without your creative lack of documentation, then you are powerless. For if you are easily replaceable by another local teen found in the same way as you, shut your trap and deal with it. If you are in a big company or intend to work in big companies for the rest of your life, I suggest you get used to it now. My story goes, "I was two days past 18, my CS teacher in HS asked a friend who owned a small computer company if they needed any interns and thus began my quest. Second semester my sophmore year of college I took a full internship and my pay when from $12 to $21/hr. Now I'm excepted as more permanent and full time and demand such a salary. I get out of school and come work full time (turned 22 yesterday) and I'm making just under 60k." Use patience, don't get too arogant, and build job security, then what you say and do WILL matter.
You're exactly right. Here's a crazy idea, let's create a new operating system that is fully customizable by the user, include the source code so they can make fine-tuning modifications as needed, allow for the installation of custom software packages also with source code so the end user can add or delete software pursuant to their needs and allow a simple, graphical interface so a user can install common packages by choice by clicking "Custom" or just a default set of packages by clicking "Automatic." ... or we could just use Linux since it does all of that now anyways.
Almost every single IRC server in existance has "Terms of use" that explicitly ban bots. This is very much a bot. It won't scale well either because if a user on IRC is transfering too much data at once, the server kicks them off for flooding. In other words if three modem users request a search on "slashcode.zip" and it replies to all of them with 5 found locations, they go down. You also have to solve the problems where the servers are bogged down and users can't connect, k-lining the main bot, the RIAA using some l33t mIRC script to take out the bot, and more. Why someone just doesn't copy the napster service, generalize it, and run it in a third world country not regulated by US copy right laws is beyond me. Why not use Cuba, they're preety pissed at us now?
Kraus has an impressive little MarioKart 64 setup there. Back at Purdue we wired a projector from a treehouse that pointed at our roof. Looked great (at night) and we used headphones for sound. Worked great except whenever we knocked Jon into the Lava in big donut and right before he hits the lava a balloon floats off of Wario's little head signaling a double, he jumps up and screams. The tree would shake, hence us, hence the picture, and our neighbor would come out and give us dirty looks. Wonder if Kraus wants to have a sleep over?
P.S. I don't really have 3,100 roms (that would be naughty). But I do have Zelda 1 & 2 and Dragon Warrior 1 and a few other RPG's that my batteries have died on.
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...and it's called an Archos Jukebox.
Your scarabs are nicer than the ones I have to deal with. The ones that get thrown at me do 120 damage and kill a hord of Hydralisks faster than you can say SH! (*Pop Dead*).
I'd like to see it also monitor and transmit the pulse rate of my teen-aged daughter. It's already on the wrist so it's an easy modification. And if she is baby sitting and her pulse rate goes through the roof (presumably because the make-out session has started), I can quickly arrive with my low-tech boy-friend removal device (read: shotgun). Much like the chastity belt from Scary Movie!
You are only missing one little point in your logic. Broadband was designed to allow people to surf the web faster. Mod chips were specifically designed to override copyright protection of the Play Station. When you go to ModChip sites and the first thing you see is a flashing red banner that says, "Play any copied PlayStation game for the cost of a $19 USD chip and .50 cent CD" it is obvious what the intended use of the device is. If you don't believe me, try opening a gun store called A$$hole Removal Systems, LLC. and see how long it remains open.
Should someone create a chip that checked the copyright bit of the CD and the checksum and if these were true THEN still did not allow the CD to play but allowed home-grown CD's to play, I bet that chip would at least have a chance in standing up in court.
The documentation I was able to find on how to make home grown PlayStation games was very rare and horribly sketchy (sketchy = ModChip sites didn't have it in their FAQ or HOWTO). I was able to get the Psnes emulator with some NES ROMS burned onto a CD and playable in my Playstation, so it *is* possible to make homegrown games.
As for the backup issue, most companies that produce playstation games claim that if you send them your scratched, shattered, melted or otherwise expired CD, they will send you a replacement copy. I think we can all agree this is BS, and as games age, and as companies that produce them fold, merge, and otherwise, it is impossible to be assured that you will get a replacement. Only way to fight this is to file a class action suit that claims infringement of personal rights because they do take away your backup rights, claim to provide replacements and do not do so in a timely or reasonable manner.
In all, create a ModChip that allows home grown Playstation games to work but not copyrighted ones, then have your friend (or wait two weeks), create an application that changes the copyright bit and checksum on the CD to *fool* your ModChip into thinking it is not copyrighted. Then you can sell them in every drug store around the country risk free.
Whether it is up to date or not, it works relatively well in it's current form. In my configuration (IOpener, JAILBAIT 6, Linksys 100 USB, Sits behind a Linux firewall) i don't have to worry about hacks do to lower kernel versions, and everything else does its job (if it ain't broke don't fix it). PPP doesn't work well, you will need to configure that manually if you must use it. Otherwise, never had a problem. I use it for VNC, SSH, mpg123 http://streamcast server running on linux router, and minimal web-surfing (800x600 is painful).
This is pointless. It's a $399 four-port hub. And where is the flexibility? Hmm? At my office we ran 4-Cat5 ports to ever cubicle. That means that at the patch panel, if someone needs three network ports, cool. If someone needs two network ports, and two analog modem lines, cool. If I want to put a dumb terminal on my desk and patch it to my serial port in the server room, cool. No problem. Sooooo much flexibility.
This gives you nothing, and unless you want to buy some expensive power over ethernet equipment you still have a power cable going from the wall to this socket. Anyone who claims this is useful is full of themselves! Concerned about a mess of cables under the desk? Excuse me but if you have a need for four Cat-5 connections at one desk, I'm assuming four computers. That means that you have a mess to start with. What is a four port hub thrown into the mix?
This device is the logical equivalent to saying, "Instead of using surge protectors at every desk, we shall install 8 power slots in a straight row in such a configuration that a power block (for say a printer) doesn't take up three slots."
Then you have troubleshooting. It is a lot easier to use cable testing equipment and knowing that if one of the four cat-5 cables between the patch pannel and the office magically goes out, at least we have three. If this little thing goes out, we are talking DOWN TIME until you can replace the part (might be minutes instead of just seconds like now). Any arguments?
Nobody users your proxy because because it's a penny a page without a sluggish proxy on the other side of the country. It would need a subscription charge.
You will never ever get people to pay for something that was once given to them for free. It just doesn't work! What if network televisions announced you had to pay one cent for each half hour of television you watched during prime time? Even if you watched every M-F 6-10 we are only talking about 8 cents a day, 40 cents a week, and $1.60/month. Not like they are begging for money but nobody would adopt it. Even I would rather watch a commercial (read: take a leak) every 10 minutes then pay $1.60/month.
.htm, .html files and redirects the .htm,.html gets to your proxy server. Then this could be taken to the next step and since you know exactly which HTML pages a person reads, and you know their identity (assuming your service gives out usernames and passwords to your proxy server), you could make highly targeted ads that appear in the corner of a webpage then go away after a few seconds (like geocities). This business model would work just fine right up until the ISP's go, "Flat rate dial-up unlimited internet, no per-page charges for $30/month." So the end result is the ISP's make more money and webmasters get 1/100000 of a cent/page.
Don't believe me, then let's get technical, shall we? This model works all fine and dandy right up until I set up a proxy server with a $10/year subscription charge, all pages free. If I rack up 1000 subscribers that is 10k. As you find your cachability rate of your users surfing habits, plus bandwidth costs, later subscribers could be charged a higher subscription fee to insure break-even. Best case scenario you make crap loads of money since this model is based entirely on the fact that the marginal cost decreases exponentially with each additional user. Plus all of the tricks of the trade (give them a local proxy client that fetches all non
It seems what you want is a highly portable, highly light weight, super efficient dumb terminal or VNC terminal. Well my friend, let's be slightly realistic here, if you are going to have a CAT-5 plugged into the sucker, get an internation power adapter kit. Now I hear, "What about on the plane, on the train, in a boat, in a house, with a mouse." If you are going for extreme portability (as you've implied) and for all of these features I MUST recommend that you try to convert an Internet Appliance into a portable. Personally I run an IOpener with Jailbait linux. I can always VNC into a more powerful machine, or just --display=zTTTz:0.0 to any application on any linux server anywhere on earth (since we have the ethernet installed). It takes DC power so you could easily build a custom rechargable battery out of it or sucker one of those EE majors into doing it for you. If you need a week worth of power, my friend, you need to accept the fact that you will be lugging a lead-acid car battery with you wherever you go UNLESS you get serious about this and buy about 50 of those Air-powered batteries (expensive and un-rechargable, but some last upto a month). I would also recommend converting a WebSurfer Pro. The manufacturer of those can give them to you with integrated Ethernet. Couple that with the fact that it has an integrated power supply that does NOT have a bulky cooling fan, it has an insanly small board, and you can get yourself down to just an inch or two tall and about the size of a piece of paper. Go out and purchase an LCD online. There are many websites that have LCD's that accept RCA video inputs. Pricy, but that's what you are asking for. Finally these things have wireless keyboard/mouse combos so you could hook it up to a TV and use it from a comfy hotel couch if you are in Tokyo, or get really creative and attached a folding keyboard like the ones Palm Pilots use to it directly. Of course you would need some sort of custom case since you wouldn't want to use the mammoth sized one that it comes with and would thus need a buddy that is good with cutting/sanding plastic (just need a circular saw). This also has an integrated M-Systems flash disk so you can cut your power consumption enough that you could maybe get this to all run off a battery (depending on the LCD's power consumption). And you would want to get rid of the lame DC-AC-DC conversion with the power supply (that EE friend again). This second path will give you exactly what you want, but it will take a lot of work and favors from friends. I'd just get an i-opener, come up with a smaller keyboard, usb nic, make a compact mount (instead of it's big mount, and poof! done.
Maybe we should all fly naked too, so our clothes won't contribute to the fire.
I think this should become an immediate FAA enforced regulation. Like all regulations it must be highly restrictive and have details such as:
Only woman over the age of 18 will fly naked. This will reduce the amount of combustable clothing by roughly 50%.
Those woman of excessive age or weight will be distributed a brown paper bag approximately 6' tall made of recycled materials upon baggage check in.
Any woman uncomfortable with being nude will be given a selection of clothing as part of the cost of their plane ticket that includes thongs, g-strings, teddys, etc.
Extremly bitchy, feminist woman will be gagged and put on patrol in the cargo area to check for bombs.
Men who insist the above rules are too sexist will have to join their female partners by wearing raw fire-proof fiberglass insulation outfits with floppy ears and a tail.
These regulations will serve an added bonus of distracting terrorists and relieving tension on flights. Furthermore, it will contribute to the overall wellness of our economy as middle-aged men by the thousands will begin purchasing round trip tickets to random locations as well as drinks on those flights and the occasional hotel room during layovers.
All but forgot about that magic level in SMB. Just making sure, but there is no real use for level -1 in SMB, was there?
Attack as of: 2:48:36 PM on 9/18/2001 (Indiana):
/var/log;cat access_log|grep cmd.exe|grep 18/Sep|sort -n +1 > /tmp/attack.txt
/tmp/attack.txt in ASCII mode to your c:\
Number of attacks in 000 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 100 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 200 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 300 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 400 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 500 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 600 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 700 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 800 hours: 416
Number of attacks in 900 hours: 1096
Number of attacks in 1000 hours: 1121
Number of attacks in 1100 hours: 1373
Number of attacks in 1200 hours: 1821
Number of attacks in 1300 hours: 1450
Number of attacks in 1400 hours: 1125
Number of attacks in 1500 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 1600 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 1700 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 1800 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 1900 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 2000 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 2100 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 2200 hours: 0
Number of attacks in 2300 hours: 0
Total Number of Attacks = 8402
How to get there:
Step 1: Grab your Access log off your still functional Apache Web Server:
cd
Step 2: Ftp
Step 3: Execute this VB code (re-write it in perl if it bugs ya).
Option Explicit
Sub Main()
Dim ScanLine, CurrentIP, LastIP As String
Dim AttackHour(0 To 23) As Integer
Dim AttackTime As Integer
Dim TotalAttacks As Integer
Dim X As Integer
Open "C:\attack.txt" For Input As #1
Open "C:\results.txt" For Output As #2
Print #2, "Attacking IP's as of: " & Time & " on " & Date
CurrentIP = ""
LastIP = ""
TotalAttacks = 0
While Not EOF(1)
Line Input #1, ScanLine
CurrentIP = Trim(Left(ScanLine, InStr(ScanLine, "-") - 1))
AttackTime = Val(Trim(Mid(ScanLine, InStr(ScanLine, ":") + 1, 2)))
AttackHour(AttackTime) = AttackHour(AttackTime) + 1
If CurrentIP LastIP Then
Print #2, LastIP
LastIP = CurrentIP
End If
Wend
Close #1
Print #2, vbNewLine
For X = 0 To 23
Print #2, "Number of attacks in " & Trim(Str(X)) & "00 hours: " & AttackHour(X)
TotalAttacks = TotalAttacks + AttackHour(X)
Next X
Print #2, "Total Number of Attacks = " & Str(TotalAttacks)
Close #2
End Sub
Step 4: You can do what you wish with the Information, I e-mailed mine to CERT for tracking as requested on their site.
Will people pay for radio that still has ads?
Yes, for example Net Zero uses ads to provide free internet service. The average local provider is between $19.95-$15.00/month with no banners but also comes with a shell account. In contrast, AOL costs $21.95/month, drowns you with ads from the time you logon to the the time you logoff, yet it is the most widely used ISP in America. So, yes, people will pay.
If you've got a box with the power to rip DVD's and store them on it's massive hard-disk, we must remember the emulators! My almost complete collection of ROMS for the NES, SNES, Gameboy, and Genisis fits on two CDR's. With a 200 GB drive, no problem! PC-based we can throw Bleem! and store the ISO's of the game as well. You just put down the Keyboard and pick up your wireless SNES joystick and let it rip!!! The only thing I have EVER soldiered in my life was my SNES controller I use for my Web Surfer Pro. You gotta add this to the box Taco!!!
>How would you feel if something you'd spent 6-months of your life creating was being given away free?
I don't know, ask Linus or the rest of the open source community. Movies are monopolized and over-priced. I paid $8.00 to go watch it in a theatre, over $20 if you count the popcorn. I made my contribution. Why should I go out and pay another $20 for something I already paid for? If it was to pay for the cost of the media and shipping and handling with a slight markup for effort by the producer and all middle men, sure, I'll pay another $8. That's $16 to see a movie on a date and then unlimited times afterwards; where do I sign? If demand is low and supply is high, go back to BUS X100 or ECON E202 and try to make the curves intersect at the sale price.
I have DirecPC at my home. I'm not a friend of a friend of a friend who says it sucks (the same friend who claims that Bill Gates wife can't cook). /.'ers who will benifit from the improvements in technology, and stop ripping it so hard. You and I could spend all day ripping on 28.8 modems because it is slower than DSL. Why /.'ers insist on ripping this technology because it is slower than Cable is beyond me. Encourage innovation, especially in its infant stages. Wouldn't it be nice if you could get 400 kbit down to your Palm Vx someday?
Assumption #1: You wouldn't be reading this if you could get Cable or DSL anyways.
Assumption #2: 28.8 pisses you off.
The service does not suck. I'll even throw in the fact that I get it through AOL. Let me dispel some of what is being said out here. Cry, bitch, moan, my ping time sucks. When was the last time you noticed 200ms difference???? Thought so, sit down. Yeah, ping latency kinda blows, and granted I wouldn't take my clvl 45 sorc onto battle.net, but I DO take my clvl 25 necro out there with no probs. It's only 400 kbits. Well, it's more than 28 kbits. I've broken 600 kbits time and again. Even from sites 18 hops away. I'll have two live video feeds at the same time. Downloads are very fast. The uplink stinks. Yes it does. I no longer upload DivX from home. I have to go through the tedious effort of undocking my 8 lb Inspiron and hauling it to work. About encryption, AFAIK, the data is encrypted at the router before shooting into space with my decoder card ID. If you really, REALLY want to be able to get the raw PGP encrypted e-mail, knock yourself out. This is more secure then a script kiddie hacking bind at your ISP and throwing the NIC into promiscous mode. It's $42/month. Cable is $40 + $7 modem rental + $10 if you don't already have basic cable + fed tax + state tax + installation. All my equipment cost $120, but I got 3 months free service (call AOL ask for continuation on free trial, all there is to it). Yes, I bow to all of you with 3l1t3 bandwidth, but for those of us who like to have a lot bigger than 60x100 around our home, many of us are forced to use a dish. I enjoyed this article because instead of having a Windows 95 box with an 120 MB drive and VNC installed on it to distribute my internet connection, I might be able to go back to my one-floppy install of linux with auto-connect. Smile, be happy for your fellow
Up at Purdue we had a split level ranch with the bar/den in the lower level. We could move the couches out from infront of the TV giving us a 50x30 room, that opened up to the back yard with a lake, waterfall, and privacy fence (can we say party). At any rate, black lights were the only source of lighting at the bar, aside from a 486/66 PC driving X11 Amp over VNC to a slackware box in the back room. We cabled the out to the surround system which provided plenty of music for the parties. What else does a true geek need? Highlighters! Yes, you don't have to be too techy to be a geek. Chicks let you draw on their faces and then they come back every couple minutes to show their friends their preety glow-in-the-dark faces. Don't forget the webcam, digital camera, palm pilot to hand girls to enter their phone numbers, and Mic's strown all about the bar to record girls comments about the tall dark dj, beer server. Three sound cards and a lot of disk space can make this fun. Festival running on your linux box can make the computer talk to people at the part, but only do this after 2:00 (when everyone is warm and fuzzy). Next, you might want to setup an IOpener at one edge of the bar (for sex apeal), to take requests. For some reason the flat screen jutebox request machine impresses chicks. Lie and tell them you can put it in your car and use it to play every song. If you have unlocked rooms in your home, consider putting hidden webcams in each room, routing them to your VNC server for entertainment (or security) purposes.
Moderate me.
All you really need to pull this off is a really long piece of Cat-5 (and given that this is going to be in Iowa, you may need to bribe the Cat-5 so it doesn't crimp itself to death out of sheer boredome).
That is the total cost for our networking department's salaries since our first infection (installation) to maintain, troubleshoot, and install Microsoft Windows.
This really boils down to patience on your part. It hurts when you look at your peers and your superiors and it is blantly obviously that you are far more intelligent and skilled than they. But as far as they see it, you will work for them and do what they want because they know the alternative is that you could give up your glorious $12/hr out of frustration and work at Taco Hell for $6.25/hr. Patiently overcome that. Build job secuirty. If your coherts are all MCSEs, push and push and push to install a linux web server or to do the things they cannot do. If the company relies on you and truly can not get by without you (this doesn't mean taking an twice as long as you to install another copy of NT), i.e. their infrastructure could collapse without your creative lack of documentation, then you are powerless. For if you are easily replaceable by another local teen found in the same way as you, shut your trap and deal with it.
If you are in a big company or intend to work in big companies for the rest of your life, I suggest you get used to it now.
My story goes, "I was two days past 18, my CS teacher in HS asked a friend who owned a small computer company if they needed any interns and thus began my quest. Second semester my sophmore year of college I took a full internship and my pay when from $12 to $21/hr. Now I'm excepted as more permanent and full time and demand such a salary. I get out of school and come work full time (turned 22 yesterday) and I'm making just under 60k."
Use patience, don't get too arogant, and build job security, then what you say and do WILL matter.
You're exactly right. Here's a crazy idea, let's create a new operating system that is fully customizable by the user, include the source code so they can make fine-tuning modifications as needed, allow for the installation of custom software packages also with source code so the end user can add or delete software pursuant to their needs and allow a simple, graphical interface so a user can install common packages by choice by clicking "Custom" or just a default set of packages by clicking "Automatic."
... or we could just use Linux since it does all of that now anyways.
Don't shut down Chernobyl, we should keep it around so we can create Mogs like in spaceballs and girls like the one in Total Recall!
Almost every single IRC server in existance has "Terms of use" that explicitly ban bots. This is very much a bot. It won't scale well either because if a user on IRC is transfering too much data at once, the server kicks them off for flooding. In other words if three modem users request a search on "slashcode.zip" and it replies to all of them with 5 found locations, they go down. You also have to solve the problems where the servers are bogged down and users can't connect, k-lining the main bot, the RIAA using some l33t mIRC script to take out the bot, and more. Why someone just doesn't copy the napster service, generalize it, and run it in a third world country not regulated by US copy right laws is beyond me. Why not use Cuba, they're preety pissed at us now?
Kraus has an impressive little MarioKart 64 setup there. Back at Purdue we wired a projector from a treehouse that pointed at our roof. Looked great (at night) and we used headphones for sound. Worked great except whenever we knocked Jon into the Lava in big donut and right before he hits the lava a balloon floats off of Wario's little head signaling a double, he jumps up and screams. The tree would shake, hence us, hence the picture, and our neighbor would come out and give us dirty looks. Wonder if Kraus wants to have a sleep over?
P.S. I don't really have 3,100 roms (that would be naughty). But I do have Zelda 1 & 2 and Dragon Warrior 1 and a few other RPG's that my batteries have died on.