This looks like its possible one of the 1st internet appliandce/computer that doesnt need to be hacked right out of the box. It includes 100megs of server side storage, though it remains a mystery to me if it is local or remote storage. TV tuner cdrom and it plays linux games... it has a hefty pricetag for just being a IA.
Hacking it would most likley void the warranty blah blah blah. but you could get a nice system out of for what im guessing would be a small cost.
This one just may be sucsessful because it doesnt seem they are trying to force crap service on you and basically give you the device. Which many of the others did not do.
hey moron... are you goning to be playing return to castel wolfenstein on your embeded device? i know i wouldnt. id use it for web browsing or to play music i dont give a rats ass abotu vertex or pixel shading... as long as it can decode my mp3 or render my page its all good....
My friend and i run a server with 20ish gigs of mp3s, and many pictures as well.
We bought 2 spindels of 50cdRs and went threw and labeled each cd according to how we had stored the mp3s. A cd labeled "full ablums #-Au" would have covered anything that started with a number and Au in the full ablums dir. and anything that wasnot in the system before backing up we just make a cd that says update then the date of the update.
Works well and makes it easy to get to anything specific if just part of the drive goes bad. or great for that mobile mp3 playing cdplayer too... so it could serve multiple uses... backups and to listen to from the backups.
i have purchased quite a few refurb products most of wich worked fine... execpt a laptop that i got. the bat would not make its contacts in eather of the ports for it. just beware. the lap top is now a thin server.
ah yes the days of dialing up to a single computer with a couple cdroms and a hardrive full full of shareware and sometimes sounds and pictures free for the taking. As long as you had the time to wait for the 1meg file to download on your 2400 baud modem. i personaly used zmodem. but those were the days of cga 8088s and a lil bit of soul and a form of comunity networking. Granted the internet has turned the world in to a community but with the bbs in most cases they lived in your town or the next one over.
Ive been talking to compleat strangers who climed to have once worked for ups and how buddys of his on the line could do the most beautiful jump-catch-slam the package to the belt moves. if one was fragile tough stuff. what about steel shiping boxes that fit just within the standard carboad one... make it hurt if they try. it may cost more but insurance may not be nessary.
About 7 or 8 years ago when i was a wee lad still in grade school, a young geek at the time all of 11-12 years old. The talk in the news was about the clipper chip so that goverment could poke around at your computer at will and be able to read the files that my beencrypted. Talk of that eventually died off, why im not sure. But it doesnt seem as if it will die off this time or at least it will make more progress than the clipper chip did.
what good would outlawing cryptography do. it would make many comunications illeal. No more pgp or gpg. My high school computer teacher was on a large commity that made college computer tests all the e-mails to the other people on that board were pgp'd to protect test questions and info from college students from getting hold of them by hacking a server someplace. This seems like a good use of crytolgogy, nothing illeagl here but would be come illeagl. What about people who are just paranoid x-files style and think everyone is after them? what about the students who just want to try it out to see how it works and to feel important or keep there roommate from readind ther e-mails?
I know there are plenty of bad people who use encryption but there are also plenty of criminals with guns out there but citizens still have guns and are not breaking anylaws by doing so. they sayh its for piece of mind and protection. why make it so everyone who owns a gun is a criminal when they are infact not. what if we do make encryption illegal and a police department or crimial/intelignce agency is about to bring a terrosist/child porn/drung ring down? and they fire off an e-mail saying its gonna be done and the ring has an inside guy who somehow gets it and gives them a heads up or the ring hacks the departments e-mail server and finds in sitting there in plane text???....
i think we must just do a better job of fining and indenifying terrosit and concentrate on them not simply makeing a tool illeagl.
I have had a Dlink 713p router. The Dlink 713p suports NAT/DHCP and static routing all at the same time. as well as sporting a printserver and a 3 port on borad not to mention ability to hook up a modem to incase you dont have broadband in to the house. if you would rather not have the printserver with the router dlink also has a standard 713 i belive. but it has everything you need to ip filtering to port maping and accesscontrol... oh i forgot to mention that it is also a wireless access point. i got mine for just over $200 from cdw.com (i think thats where i got it). Dlink has been great about getting patches out for there device and providing documentiation.
Ok wasnt MS recently tied to the NSA invloling some NSAKEY string or something like along those lines? think the NSA got tired of MS doing its bidding and decided to go and get where MS couldnt or wouldnt?
doesnt seem quite right. im sure im way off base but oh well...
As a young lad I played my share of games such as the mario brothers and mortal combat. I guess it could have and affect one children bur of what ages? and how smart are they to begin with?
Dont most games involove some kind of problem solving. like how to beat this big baddy? or to learn more hand eye cordination. Not to mention a previous slashdot article that mentioned gaming being good for us.
My friends and I all seemingly have turned out alright whats the big deal. just dont let your kid live on the nintendo or playstaion just like you dont let them sit too close to the TV and eat only sugar....
I had this same idea a couple years back.
A friend and i even built one. He used it to switch between NT4 and Windows 95 or 98 i forget.
I knew i should have gone for the patent on it...
i will just have to make my millions on one of my other insanely great ideas.
whats your problem?
linux?
why?
or you just like to pick on the little guy?
so they have problems what company hasnt or doesnt right now?
the fate of your beloved microsoft is still haning in the balance with the US justice system...
did i say i was going to put linux on this?
and so what if i was. like it matters to you and its better than many of the alternatives such as windows. what if i was planing on makeing it a standalone music player using the disk on chip for the os putting a larger harddrive for the tunes? or maybe a router, a digital picture frame, termial unit etc.... linux is a much better solutions to all those than and thing from Micro$oft. Linux isnt gonna die you moron it can't because its open source.
I'm no druggy, in fact i have yet to drink a beer or even have a drag of a cigaret. But it wasnt dare that has kept me clean. I was more that i just flat out have no desire to do these things. Ive seen friends get their lives messed up from doin that crap. Ive hear excuses about how people were drunk of high when in fact it is no excuse. I personaly think it is much more fun to be lucid and choose what you want to do, rather than exucuses.
When they call askin just say 'i dont think it would do a lot of good cause i am gonna kill my slef when i get off the phone anyways, unless you can change my mind' test there chrises skills...
and if you tell them to never call again they are required by law to not call you and you can get 500 for everytime they do after you tell them no more..
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if you need support. your not gonna hack it.
This looks like its possible one of the 1st internet appliandce/computer that doesnt need to be hacked right out of the box. It includes 100megs of server side storage, though it remains a mystery to me if it is local or remote storage. TV tuner cdrom and it plays linux games... it has a hefty pricetag for just being a IA.
Hacking it would most likley void the warranty blah blah blah. but you could get a nice system out of for what im guessing would be a small cost.
This one just may be sucsessful because it doesnt seem they are trying to force crap service on you and basically give you the device. Which many of the others did not do.
hey moron... are you goning to be playing return to castel wolfenstein on your embeded device? i know i wouldnt. id use it for web browsing or to play music i dont give a rats ass abotu vertex or pixel shading... as long as it can decode my mp3 or render my page its all good....
i think im gonna go setup a vpn with vtun right now
My friend and i run a server with 20ish gigs of mp3s, and many pictures as well.
We bought 2 spindels of 50cdRs and went threw and labeled each cd according to how we had stored the mp3s. A cd labeled "full ablums #-Au" would have covered anything that started with a number and Au in the full ablums dir. and anything that wasnot in the system before backing up we just make a cd that says update then the date of the update.
Works well and makes it easy to get to anything specific if just part of the drive goes bad. or great for that mobile mp3 playing cdplayer too... so it could serve multiple uses... backups and to listen to from the backups.
i have purchased quite a few refurb products most of wich worked fine... execpt a laptop that i got. the bat would not make its contacts in eather of the ports for it. just beware. the lap top is now a thin server.
what about nentendo are they not a valid competitor in the consol market?
ah yes the days of dialing up to a single computer with a couple cdroms and a hardrive full full of shareware and sometimes sounds and pictures free for the taking. As long as you had the time to wait for the 1meg file to download on your 2400 baud modem. i personaly used zmodem. but those were the days of cga 8088s and a lil bit of soul and a form of comunity networking. Granted the internet has turned the world in to a community but with the bbs in most cases they lived in your town or the next one over.
Ive been talking to compleat strangers who climed to have once worked for ups and how buddys of his on the line could do the most beautiful jump-catch-slam the package to the belt moves. if one was fragile tough stuff. what about steel shiping boxes that fit just within the standard carboad one... make it hurt if they try. it may cost more but insurance may not be nessary.
About 7 or 8 years ago when i was a wee lad still in grade school, a young geek at the time all of 11-12 years old. The talk in the news was about the clipper chip so that goverment could poke around at your computer at will and be able to read the files that my beencrypted. Talk of that eventually died off, why im not sure. But it doesnt seem as if it will die off this time or at least it will make more progress than the clipper chip did.
what good would outlawing cryptography do. it would make many comunications illeal. No more pgp or gpg. My high school computer teacher was on a large commity that made college computer tests all the e-mails to the other people on that board were pgp'd to protect test questions and info from college students from getting hold of them by hacking a server someplace. This seems like a good use of crytolgogy, nothing illeagl here but would be come illeagl. What about people who are just paranoid x-files style and think everyone is after them? what about the students who just want to try it out to see how it works and to feel important or keep there roommate from readind ther e-mails?
I know there are plenty of bad people who use encryption but there are also plenty of criminals with guns out there but citizens still have guns and are not breaking anylaws by doing so. they sayh its for piece of mind and protection. why make it so everyone who owns a gun is a criminal when they are infact not. what if we do make encryption illegal and a police department or crimial/intelignce agency is about to bring a terrosist/child porn/drung ring down? and they fire off an e-mail saying its gonna be done and the ring has an inside guy who somehow gets it and gives them a heads up or the ring hacks the departments e-mail server and finds in sitting there in plane text???....
i think we must just do a better job of fining and indenifying terrosit and concentrate on them not simply makeing a tool illeagl.
I have had a Dlink 713p router. The Dlink 713p suports NAT/DHCP and static routing all at the same time. as well as sporting a printserver and a 3 port on borad not to mention ability to hook up a modem to incase you dont have broadband in to the house. if you would rather not have the printserver with the router dlink also has a standard 713 i belive. but it has everything you need to ip filtering to port maping and accesscontrol... oh i forgot to mention that it is also a wireless access point. i got mine for just over $200 from cdw.com (i think thats where i got it). Dlink has been great about getting patches out for there device and providing documentiation.
no there wasnt but was there anyproof that there was no connection?
Ok wasnt MS recently tied to the NSA invloling some NSAKEY string or something like along those lines? think the NSA got tired of MS doing its bidding and decided to go and get where MS couldnt or wouldnt?
doesnt seem quite right. im sure im way off base but oh well...
in the words or nelson
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As a young lad I played my share of games such as the mario brothers and mortal combat. I guess it could have and affect one children bur of what ages? and how smart are they to begin with?
Dont most games involove some kind of problem solving. like how to beat this big baddy? or to learn more hand eye cordination. Not to mention a previous slashdot article that mentioned gaming being good for us.
My friends and I all seemingly have turned out alright whats the big deal. just dont let your kid live on the nintendo or playstaion just like you dont let them sit too close to the TV and eat only sugar....
i know it was in ask slashdot awhile back but what can you do with your equpipment once/if your ISP goes under.
a highspeed negiborhood area network?
I had this same idea a couple years back. A friend and i even built one. He used it to switch between NT4 and Windows 95 or 98 i forget. I knew i should have gone for the patent on it... i will just have to make my millions on one of my other insanely great ideas.
whats your problem? linux? why? or you just like to pick on the little guy? so they have problems what company hasnt or doesnt right now? the fate of your beloved microsoft is still haning in the balance with the US justice system...
did i say i was going to put linux on this? and so what if i was. like it matters to you and its better than many of the alternatives such as windows. what if i was planing on makeing it a standalone music player using the disk on chip for the os putting a larger harddrive for the tunes? or maybe a router, a digital picture frame, termial unit etc.... linux is a much better solutions to all those than and thing from Micro$oft. Linux isnt gonna die you moron it can't because its open source.
I'm no druggy, in fact i have yet to drink a beer or even have a drag of a cigaret. But it wasnt dare that has kept me clean. I was more that i just flat out have no desire to do these things. Ive seen friends get their lives messed up from doin that crap. Ive hear excuses about how people were drunk of high when in fact it is no excuse. I personaly think it is much more fun to be lucid and choose what you want to do, rather than exucuses.
When they call askin just say 'i dont think it would do a lot of good cause i am gonna kill my slef when i get off the phone anyways, unless you can change my mind' test there chrises skills... and if you tell them to never call again they are required by law to not call you and you can get 500 for everytime they do after you tell them no more..
i had a friend whos password was '*****'