I finally got cable, so I tossed my Linksys Router onto the LAN last night. I was looking at the logs and they look sparse using that "LogViewer" util Linksys gives out.
Any advice on a better log viewing utility for a Win9x environment?
The best part is that they actually put a RESERVE PRICE on it. As if it's got enough shelf life for them to really wait for the best price...for a CHARITY AUCTION no less. Bwhahaha...
who is in turn interupted by Robotic Flight Attendant #3, who kindly requests that
"All disconnected body parts, included severed heads, arms, etc, caused by the massive acceleration and deceleration process must be carried off with each passenger. Thank you for flying LotsaCashSpentDevelopingThis Airways"
So, now the question is how this ruling can be applied to EZ-Pass. I have already heard from friends in New York that have been sent tickets for speeding based on EZ-Pass toll booth calculations.
This is exactly what happened to the Quake 1 Mega Team Fortress crowd. Believe it or not, but the gameplay was SO solid and addictive that thousands of people still play a game based on the Quake 1 engine. Except that number shrunk drastically about a year ago when everyone discovered bunny-hopping. Now even the slowest class moves faster than a scout. Everyone "can" do it, but it utterly ruined fair play.
Of all the famous people that we get an Ask _____ about, why not this guy? Seriously, someone from/. should contact this guy and set him up with an interview. By the sound of his intent, I bet he'd be happy to do it. And we could get some great info from him about his attempt (since we realistically might not be able to talk with him AFTER the attempt, God forbid)
"However, I
don't want to get to the stage where I'll have to buy the Intel version of a chipset in order to play my favourite game."
I guess you missed out on the 2-3 year span in which AMD went from sharing the loser-CPU playing field with Cyrix to the point where it matched (and slightly overtook) Intel at every turn. Those of us that owned AMD CPU's back then took nothing but years of crap from friends who were somehow brainwashed into believing that AMD was a shoddy piece of junk and not the quality COST-EFFECTIVE CPU that is really is...
Wrong wrong WRONG. And this guy gets a 5....shessh. Here's facts for everyone else:
1) Taking away one "backdoor" is not a big deal. TiVo runs on Linux and hackers are working on new toys every day. Just because you lock your front door doesn't mean you didn't leave any windows open (or make your house drill-proof)
2) Capacities weren't "reduced on hacked TiVos." The new OS just requires a little more space. Also, they just tweaked the Basic quality a little to make it appear like you "gain" a little space back. Regardless, it's not a big deal. TiVo is playing VERY nice with consumers by encouraging communication between its engineers and end-users. And its Beta Test led to all the neat features in 2.01
3) If you know about the change, how can you not know about the fix? We have been talking about it for MONTHS now, and Otto made a very simple instruction sheet on how to tweak the autocorrect to anything you want. It includes the setting values for near-1.3 autocorrection times too. Check that out...all it will cost you is a null modem cable at Radio Shack.
And lastly, you have no IDEA how much nicer 2.01 makes things. Trust me, you'll love it.
Damn right. I am a happy TiVo user and I could care less if they take my viewing habits, toss them into a bucket with 150,000 others, and make some cash off of it.
Seriously, how do we LOSE here? They still don't know who -I- am, they just know that some guy likes certain shows.
And since I like (and watch) certain shows and they know it, then the odds are now 0.001% better that future programming will echo my taste.
They recently did a small survey in a TiVo msgboard about Season Pass rankings. I believe that Futurama came out in 4th place. If that helps Futurama live just one more season, then it's all worth it to me. That 7pm Sunday slot had me worried from the start...
More fighting robots, more hip cartoons, more Eco-Challenge and reality shows, more tech shows, more TLC/Discovery specials, more hidden camera exposes. More more more.
(And remember kids: if the networks use our data to decide to show even ONE less hour of figure skating, we all win)
I know some fan will probably -1 flamebait me on this, but am I the only one out there who thinks Spaceghost sucks? Seriously, I have had the misfortune of sitting through a handful of episodes with rabid fan friends, and I just don't see the humor in it. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE cartoons and always have, but when Spaceghost comes on I can't seem to find the remote fast enough...
Granted it is a bit off-topic at this point, but I -do- believe that pirating very high-market items actually can help a company in the long run.
Adobe Photoshop is a prime example to make such a case. I am not sure of it's current cost, but 5+ years ago it was very far out of my price range as a high school student making minimum wage. So "maybe" I pirated it (back then). Was I using it to make money selling graphics? No. But I was using it. And because I was using it, I gained skills with it and became VERY brand-loyal. Now that I CAN afford to pay several hundred dollars for a copy of PS, I buy it. But using it for free in the past is the reason they have me as a customer in the present. Otherwise I would never have spent hundreds of dollars on a graphic editor...if anything I would probably be using some $40 knockoff P.O.S. and be in idiot bliss as I remove red-eye with a magic button.
No, this arguement does NOT apply to games, or to things that cost a lot less. But I honestly feel that Adobe has gained a decent sized part of their non-professional client base through teenagers using pirated copies of PS. Sure you could count that as "lost sales," but realistically, at least in the case of PhotoShop, I can't imagine more than 3-5% of the pirates could really "afford" to buy the software when they first started using it.
Take a webcam, some duct tape, a heavy chain, and some black electrical tape.
Step 1) Duct tape the webcam to the handlebars.
Step 2) Attach the chain to the front of the bike Step 3) Attach the other end to a truck Step 4) Wrap the chain with the electrical tape Step 5) Tell everyone that the chain is actually a network cable Step 6) Beat the guy in 2nd place by 3.4 hours. Step 7) Celebrate, blaming MicroSoft for the webcam not working.
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Since you're probably the only one with real access to all the user records, you're the one to ask:
Who among us is the current Karma Whore King, and what is their score? Is there a maximum amount of karma one can earn?brAnd finally, is there a cutoff level where you auto-post at 3 or above?
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I finally got cable, so I tossed my Linksys Router onto the LAN last night. I was looking at the logs and they look sparse using that "LogViewer" util Linksys gives out.
Any advice on a better log viewing utility for a Win9x environment?
Great articles on Slate right now:
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Why the Towers collapsed:
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How good were the Pilots?
http://slate.msn.com/code/explainer/explainer.a
The best part is that they actually put a RESERVE PRICE on it. As if it's got enough shelf life for them to really wait for the best price...for a CHARITY AUCTION no less. Bwhahaha...
who is in turn interupted by Robotic Flight Attendant #3, who kindly requests that
"All disconnected body parts, included severed heads, arms, etc, caused by the massive acceleration and deceleration process must be carried off with each passenger. Thank you for flying LotsaCashSpentDevelopingThis Airways"
Yeah, but waiting for Pong 2.0 to come out is really getting boring...are you still coming over to my house to play backgammon later?
So, now the question is how this ruling can be applied to EZ-Pass. I have already heard from friends in New York that have been sent tickets for speeding based on EZ-Pass toll booth calculations.
This is exactly what happened to the Quake 1 Mega Team Fortress crowd. Believe it or not, but the gameplay was SO solid and addictive that thousands of people still play a game based on the Quake 1 engine. Except that number shrunk drastically about a year ago when everyone discovered bunny-hopping. Now even the slowest class moves faster than a scout. Everyone "can" do it, but it utterly ruined fair play.
I can see it now...you beat the game and get this:
Produced by: Three Guys Graphics by: This one tall guy, and maybe a girl.
Of all the famous people that we get an Ask _____ about, why not this guy? Seriously, someone from /. should contact this guy and set him up with an interview. By the sound of his intent, I bet he'd be happy to do it. And we could get some great info from him about his attempt (since we realistically might not be able to talk with him AFTER the attempt, God forbid)
"However, I don't want to get to the stage where I'll have to buy the Intel version of a chipset in order to play my favourite game." I guess you missed out on the 2-3 year span in which AMD went from sharing the loser-CPU playing field with Cyrix to the point where it matched (and slightly overtook) Intel at every turn. Those of us that owned AMD CPU's back then took nothing but years of crap from friends who were somehow brainwashed into believing that AMD was a shoddy piece of junk and not the quality COST-EFFECTIVE CPU that is really is...
Man, I used to hate those debates...
Wrong wrong WRONG. And this guy gets a 5....shessh. Here's facts for everyone else:
1) Taking away one "backdoor" is not a big deal. TiVo runs on Linux and hackers are working on new toys every day. Just because you lock your front door doesn't mean you didn't leave any windows open (or make your house drill-proof)
2) Capacities weren't "reduced on hacked TiVos." The new OS just requires a little more space. Also, they just tweaked the Basic quality a little to make it appear like you "gain" a little space back. Regardless, it's not a big deal. TiVo is playing VERY nice with consumers by encouraging communication between its engineers and end-users. And its Beta Test led to all the neat features in 2.01
3) If you know about the change, how can you not know about the fix? We have been talking about it for MONTHS now, and Otto made a very simple instruction sheet on how to tweak the autocorrect to anything you want. It includes the setting values for near-1.3 autocorrection times too. Check that out...all it will cost you is a null modem cable at Radio Shack.
And lastly, you have no IDEA how much nicer 2.01 makes things. Trust me, you'll love it.
And there is just something very unwholesome about Bart flying a kite at night...
Damn right. I am a happy TiVo user and I could care less if they take my viewing habits, toss them into a bucket with 150,000 others, and make some cash off of it. Seriously, how do we LOSE here? They still don't know who -I- am, they just know that some guy likes certain shows. And since I like (and watch) certain shows and they know it, then the odds are now 0.001% better that future programming will echo my taste. They recently did a small survey in a TiVo msgboard about Season Pass rankings. I believe that Futurama came out in 4th place. If that helps Futurama live just one more season, then it's all worth it to me. That 7pm Sunday slot had me worried from the start... More fighting robots, more hip cartoons, more Eco-Challenge and reality shows, more tech shows, more TLC/Discovery specials, more hidden camera exposes. More more more. (And remember kids: if the networks use our data to decide to show even ONE less hour of figure skating, we all win)
I know some fan will probably -1 flamebait me on this, but am I the only one out there who thinks Spaceghost sucks? Seriously, I have had the misfortune of sitting through a handful of episodes with rabid fan friends, and I just don't see the humor in it. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE cartoons and always have, but when Spaceghost comes on I can't seem to find the remote fast enough...
Yeah I'm having some re-direct problems... udel.edu/~jgephart/ works
Sorry if I lose a karma point to this, but this mini-thread has some of the best one-liners I've read in a long time. Thanks for the (rare) LOL's.
Granted it is a bit off-topic at this point, but I -do- believe that pirating very high-market items actually can help a company in the long run.
Adobe Photoshop is a prime example to make such a case. I am not sure of it's current cost, but 5+ years ago it was very far out of my price range as a high school student making minimum wage. So "maybe" I pirated it (back then). Was I using it to make money selling graphics? No. But I was using it. And because I was using it, I gained skills with it and became VERY brand-loyal. Now that I CAN afford to pay several hundred dollars for a copy of PS, I buy it. But using it for free in the past is the reason they have me as a customer in the present. Otherwise I would never have spent hundreds of dollars on a graphic editor...if anything I would probably be using some $40 knockoff P.O.S. and be in idiot bliss as I remove red-eye with a magic button.
No, this arguement does NOT apply to games, or to things that cost a lot less. But I honestly feel that Adobe has gained a decent sized part of their non-professional client base through teenagers using pirated copies of PS. Sure you could count that as "lost sales," but realistically, at least in the case of PhotoShop, I can't imagine more than 3-5% of the pirates could really "afford" to buy the software when they first started using it.
Take a webcam, some duct tape, a heavy chain, and some black electrical tape. Step 1) Duct tape the webcam to the handlebars.
Step 2) Attach the chain to the front of the bike
Step 3) Attach the other end to a truck
Step 4) Wrap the chain with the electrical tape
Step 5) Tell everyone that the chain is actually a network cable
Step 6) Beat the guy in 2nd place by 3.4 hours.
Step 7) Celebrate, blaming MicroSoft for the webcam not working.
But that's a long phrase title. Along the same lines, how about a game called The Abyss?
And at what point can you just make the point that "Hey, we're making a movie about the devil and we're calling it Diablo?"
(Disclaimer: I don't really know anything about the plot, we're just talking what-if's here)
my bet
That would be great, but if all the gigantic muscle-bound highly paid killers became lawyers, who would play professional sports and entertain us?
Unless of course we just televised the deathmatches...yeah, that's entertaining enough. And we'd always have the XFL to fall back on (heh)
Here's "abc" encoded:
Dear Professional , Your email address has been submitted to us indicating your interest in our briefing ! If you no longer wish to receive our publications simply reply with a Subject: of "REMOVE" and you will immediately be removed from our database ! This mail is being sent in compliance with Senate bill 1621 ; Title 2 ; Section 307 . This is a ligitimate business proposal ! Why work for somebody else when you can become rich as few as 98 DAYS . Have you ever noticed most everyone has a cellphone and more people than ever are surfing the web . Well, now is your chance to capitalize on this ! WE will help YOU decrease perceived waiting time by 200% and turn your business into an E-BUSINESS ! The best thing about our system is that it is absolutely risk free for you ! But don't believe us . Mr Ames of Massachusetts tried us and says "My only problem now is where to park all my cars" ! We are licensed to operate in all states ! We beseech you - act now . Sign up a friend and your friend will be rich too ! Thank-you for your serious consideration of our offer !
Just a tad excessive...
Well that's irony for ya, I guess. With the mod-ups of my recent above post, I just hit 50.
I guess I'll then ask Cowboy this:
Would you do us all a favor and up the cutoff limit of 50 a little?
Since you're probably the only one with real access to all the user records, you're the one to ask:
Who among us is the current Karma Whore King, and what is their score?
Is there a maximum amount of karma one can earn?brAnd finally, is there a cutoff level where you auto-post at 3 or above?
From the sound of it, this might be the first big consumer-friendly aquisition of all time...
Then again, if Google.com shows no banner ads, how are they going to keep Deja profitable (or at least break-even)?