I'll need to dual boot since the latest Disney game (Lilo & Stitch) won't run on W2K. Crashes before it even changes the video mode. Instead of fixing the bug in their program, it was easier for them to document it and say that W2K is only for business use and not games and they recommend upgrading (read downgrading) to XP.
It was my own fault though, since the box didn't have W2K listed on it. Of course I figured since any other game I've installed on my machine has worked just fine that there wasn't much the Disney programmers could do to completely fuck it up. Well they proved me wrong;)
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It would be very easy to interpret such simple encoding with a bot. I would think that such bots already exist that filter not only that but removing NOSPAM from e-mail addresses which seems to be another popular attempt at keeping a public e-mail address semi-private.
It's like Intel coming out and saying they're going to release a 3.0GHz next year some time. It's the next logical step.
Now of course this is better than what we have now, but look at the experiment they did. They sent gigabytes of data across the wire so it can be processed and rendered on another machine. Wouldn't it be just as easy to process the data on the originating machine and just send the bitmap over. You can see the image in the background of the photos in the article. It's mostly blue with a spot of green in the middle.
I know somebodies going to chime in about how the data they sent isn't as important as how fast they sent it. But just think about these guys being some of the smartest in the world and they can't come up with a decent test other than what amounts to be a poorly designed client/server setup. It would be like having a server send the whole accounting database down to the client just so the CFO can pull up the details of a single transaction. That's not a practical application for that bandwidth.
I can't think of a practical situation, but if somebody could explain why you would need to send a gigabyte of data in one second vs. 8 second I'd be more impressed.
Must have spent a couple days in the story submission queue. The 4 day weekend is half over now. Guess I can't build one till Christmas time. Thanks a lot Taco.
I know enough people that are literate but shouldn't be using a computer. Just today I had to walk an older lady through an IE Connection Wizard.
ME: Choose the option "I want to setup my connection manually".
HER: It's not there.
ME: Check again, I'm sure it's there.
HER: No, it's not here.
ME: Ok, read me the options you have.
HER: [option 1], [option 2], "Setup my connection manually". Ok, I found it.
I'm sorry but it's a waste of resources when you allow people to be as ignorant as they want.
Taco's done some 3D stuff like Duckpins and Hamster Havoc. Who's to say he's not qualified to comment and you are. I tried to go to your website and see if maybe you put something out there for us to see, but alas, your server doesn't even work. So what have YOU done that make you any more of an expert?
I just watched the original last week. Single letters were definitely on the lockers they showed. Besides, Kay is a girls name. Are they just catering to really stupid people then?
Personally, I'd rather see a detachable hard drive with Firewire connector so I can just take it inside and hook it up to my PC and load it with songs. I really don't want to have to burn or dig up a hundred+ CDs just to get them into my car.
Besides, it's only 8x, that's still about 9 minutes per CD!
Personally I'd stop going to a site that did that. Especially a news site that changes it's content every day. If I was a day late I'd have to dig around and find what section it should be in and then what date it was on. It would be like trying to find an article from last week on ZDNet.
On the other hand, I probably would never find out about that site because nobody would link to them.
Also, in order to enforce the ruling they're probably going to have to implement that referrer check on the server anyways, which somebody could easily fake the referrer if they really wanted to get around it.
How come nobody has made a case with an air filter on it so you only have to brush off the filter every month instead of taking a can of air to the box?
I don't know about you but the face plate on my box is plastic and I usually have other things sitting on the box like jewel cases and maybe some papers.
Like his encryption technology, his studies have been inspired by Disneyland; he wants to use his degree to design roller coasters and other amusement-park rides.
A few points here:
It looks like he's already working on taking people for rides.
At my next development meeting should I recommend we watch the Little Mermaid for inspiration on database design?
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The networking layer of the OS needs to know this information so it can actually send the packets off to where they need to go. And each router the packet passes through needs this information to send it on to the next router and so on until it reaches it's destination. The routers won't understand the random numbers scheme and therefore won't know where to send the data.
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Metallica was stupid because Lars personally got into the mix instead of letting his bosses at the RIAA handle it. Somehow Lars thought that he had become a role model and a genius after 20 years of banging on a dozen cylidrical objects.
On a more technical note, I'd really like to know how you could encrypt the IP addresses. The NIC and routers still need to know where to send the packets. On W2K just run Netstat and it'll tell you who you're connected to.
It doesn't sound like they're open relays. It sounds like it was from a legitimate spammer (or as legitimate as a spammer can be). Most of the servers were in the popmail.com domain. I'll post the full message when I get home tonight if anybody really wants it.
I just got an e-mail last night from a spammer that's getting blocked by our little BSD postfix box. The very politely asked us to check on our server to make sure they weren't inadvertantly being marked as spammers.
They went on to explain how they were only an opt-in service and proceeded to list all the mail servers from which they send spam from.
I'll admit it was a nice gesture. It was especially nice of them to give us a complete list since we only had a couple of their boxes in the black list.
You are right. None of the above is still a valid option for me. I don't know why everybody either makes a stink about this stuff or tries to rally a community to create their own oppressive system.
Actually I would think that there are some motherboard manufacturers out there that would give us a nice little BIOS switch to turn it on and off. Hell, my last Gigabyte board came with a Windows utility to overclock it (never worked but it was a nice try).
Other hardware vendors aren't going to incorporated that code into non-updatable hardware chips. It'll either be software or the chips will be flashable. In either case somebody will hack it.
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I'll need to dual boot since the latest Disney game (Lilo & Stitch) won't run on W2K. Crashes before it even changes the video mode. Instead of fixing the bug in their program, it was easier for them to document it and say that W2K is only for business use and not games and they recommend upgrading (read downgrading) to XP.
;)
It was my own fault though, since the box didn't have W2K listed on it. Of course I figured since any other game I've installed on my machine has worked just fine that there wasn't much the Disney programmers could do to completely fuck it up. Well they proved me wrong
Moderators: this is on topic but is definitely a flame, so when you mod me down choose the right moderation. Thanks.
It would be very easy to interpret such simple encoding with a bot. I would think that such bots already exist that filter not only that but removing NOSPAM from e-mail addresses which seems to be another popular attempt at keeping a public e-mail address semi-private.
That's a little ambiguous. Got anything specific in mind?
It's like Intel coming out and saying they're going to release a 3.0GHz next year some time. It's the next logical step.
Now of course this is better than what we have now, but look at the experiment they did. They sent gigabytes of data across the wire so it can be processed and rendered on another machine. Wouldn't it be just as easy to process the data on the originating machine and just send the bitmap over. You can see the image in the background of the photos in the article. It's mostly blue with a spot of green in the middle.
I know somebodies going to chime in about how the data they sent isn't as important as how fast they sent it. But just think about these guys being some of the smartest in the world and they can't come up with a decent test other than what amounts to be a poorly designed client/server setup. It would be like having a server send the whole accounting database down to the client just so the CFO can pull up the details of a single transaction. That's not a practical application for that bandwidth.
I can't think of a practical situation, but if somebody could explain why you would need to send a gigabyte of data in one second vs. 8 second I'd be more impressed.
Must have spent a couple days in the story submission queue. The 4 day weekend is half over now. Guess I can't build one till Christmas time. Thanks a lot Taco.
The site links to another site where they got some inspiration from. The first product listed is a desktop trebuchet for $49.00.
My example was flawed, the exact text of the option is "I want to setup my connection manually".
I know enough people that are literate but shouldn't be using a computer. Just today I had to walk an older lady through an IE Connection Wizard.
ME: Choose the option "I want to setup my connection manually".
HER: It's not there.
ME: Check again, I'm sure it's there.
HER: No, it's not here.
ME: Ok, read me the options you have.
HER: [option 1], [option 2], "Setup my connection manually". Ok, I found it.
I'm sorry but it's a waste of resources when you allow people to be as ignorant as they want.
I just check the MIB2 website and they listed him as Kay there too.
Taco's done some 3D stuff like Duckpins and Hamster Havoc. Who's to say he's not qualified to comment and you are. I tried to go to your website and see if maybe you put something out there for us to see, but alas, your server doesn't even work. So what have YOU done that make you any more of an expert?
I just watched the original last week. Single letters were definitely on the lockers they showed. Besides, Kay is a girls name. Are they just catering to really stupid people then?
Will Smith is "J", not "Jay"
Personally, I'd rather see a detachable hard drive with Firewire connector so I can just take it inside and hook it up to my PC and load it with songs. I really don't want to have to burn or dig up a hundred+ CDs just to get them into my car.
Besides, it's only 8x, that's still about 9 minutes per CD!
Personally I'd stop going to a site that did that. Especially a news site that changes it's content every day. If I was a day late I'd have to dig around and find what section it should be in and then what date it was on. It would be like trying to find an article from last week on ZDNet.
On the other hand, I probably would never find out about that site because nobody would link to them.
Also, in order to enforce the ruling they're probably going to have to implement that referrer check on the server anyways, which somebody could easily fake the referrer if they really wanted to get around it.
How come nobody has made a case with an air filter on it so you only have to brush off the filter every month instead of taking a can of air to the box?
I don't know about you but the face plate on my box is plastic and I usually have other things sitting on the box like jewel cases and maybe some papers.
A few points here:
It looks like he's already working on taking people for rides.
At my next development meeting should I recommend we watch the Little Mermaid for inspiration on database design?
The networking layer of the OS needs to know this information so it can actually send the packets off to where they need to go. And each router the packet passes through needs this information to send it on to the next router and so on until it reaches it's destination. The routers won't understand the random numbers scheme and therefore won't know where to send the data.
Metallica was stupid because Lars personally got into the mix instead of letting his bosses at the RIAA handle it. Somehow Lars thought that he had become a role model and a genius after 20 years of banging on a dozen cylidrical objects.
On a more technical note, I'd really like to know how you could encrypt the IP addresses. The NIC and routers still need to know where to send the packets. On W2K just run Netstat and it'll tell you who you're connected to.
It doesn't sound like they're open relays. It sounds like it was from a legitimate spammer (or as legitimate as a spammer can be). Most of the servers were in the popmail.com domain. I'll post the full message when I get home tonight if anybody really wants it.
I just got an e-mail last night from a spammer that's getting blocked by our little BSD postfix box. The very politely asked us to check on our server to make sure they weren't inadvertantly being marked as spammers.
They went on to explain how they were only an opt-in service and proceeded to list all the mail servers from which they send spam from.
I'll admit it was a nice gesture. It was especially nice of them to give us a complete list since we only had a couple of their boxes in the black list.
You are right. None of the above is still a valid option for me. I don't know why everybody either makes a stink about this stuff or tries to rally a community to create their own oppressive system.
Where does it say that? It says "a chip on the motherboard". There's lots of chips on the motherboard besides the CPU.
Actually I would think that there are some motherboard manufacturers out there that would give us a nice little BIOS switch to turn it on and off. Hell, my last Gigabyte board came with a Windows utility to overclock it (never worked but it was a nice try).
Other hardware vendors aren't going to incorporated that code into non-updatable hardware chips. It'll either be software or the chips will be flashable. In either case somebody will hack it.
That's actually pretty funny, I didn't notice the shirt.