I bought a tin-boxed Q3A for Linux, and I have yet to play it under linux. Or windows for that matter. I ran it under IRIX on a 24 cpu Onyx2 (of course, only one CPU was used... sigh). And after that I played with it on a friend's mac.
Maybe I should have played online so my CD key would be registered... oh well, maybe the next generation of FPSes will offer a better chance for linux.
It's almost fun having a conversation on slashdot, with the mystique that it's right in the open but the fact that almost no one will click all the way down to read 0 and 1 scored posts. I wonder how many eyes out there have been following this silently... or better yet, will follow it months from now when the posts are archived and set in stone?
The quote is beaten from "Cecil B. DeMented," which is John Waters most recent flick. It's about an underground filmmaker who wants to destroy mainstream moviemaking... his "call to action" is "Power to the people who punish bad cinema!" Having gotten quite fed up with moderation (it was one of the reasons I left/. about six months ago), I decided to come back and, through the use of brute chaos, try to undermine the system -- which seems like what you're doing, too. (Project Mayhem of the Internet, if you will.)
Summary: Yay!
Just for reference, a future home for anti-karma warriors will be located at http://www.karmawhore.com. I just.. need.. time.. to... set.. up... webpage...:):)
-Chris (62 points and falling quickly) ...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Now, who's gonna want to write and debug X drivers for the PVR2?:)
And after that, who's gonna want to write/debug DRI/GLX/whatever 3D drivers you need for it?
This certainly is a cool hack, but all you've made yourself an expensive TV-based vt100 terminal that can probably get a shitload of distributed.net keys.:)
Come to think of it, maybe d.net on here WOULD make them worth buying...
hey, to people submitting, commenting or posting the articles (yes, that includes you, Hemos):
Actually READ the article before opening your trap. This has nothing to do with replacing trinitron CRTs, replacing rear-projection TVs or replacing flat-screen monitors... it's for MOVIE PROJECTION, like how your silly Star Wars movies are going to be shown in a year and a half.
Remember when we heard about digital projection in New York and LA? This is the same thing, only better. Now, let's all go click on that link, read it a bit, then come back and say something witty or stupid or about goatsex or about natalie or whatever the fuck you want, but let's not figure out how great it'll be to not have black lines on our monitors or to not have a screen that takes 150W of power.
> Participants brought up (but thankfully,
> quickly moved past) the true-but-useless point
> that if all operating systems were secured
> properly, there would be no need for firewalls.
...that firewalls are also used to overcome a network design problem regarding address space. I've installed more firewalls for the purpose of NAT than for the "security" they provide.
Damn, those Origin/Onyx 3000 boxes are sexy. I want some for my bedroom. If only they didn't need 220V 30A and a separate cooling system... oh, and there's the cost, too.
And if you want to see some REAL neat simulation stuff, forget the Voodoo 5 6000... check out the new 3D modeling table that SGI has developed.
Several people put on gloves and headsets and sit around a video table that's connected to a Big(tm) Onyx 3000 system. They're all able to manipulate the projection by moving it and they can see it in full 3D from any angle, hovering right above the table.
Now where's that URL... uh... try this http://www.sgi.com/virtual_reality/
Forget it! Yesterday, I received two UCE's from either a company selling these DVD players or the company that makes them. Either way, I can't support these things.
You can get as political as you want about MPAA, RIAA, DeCSS cases or whatever, but when it comes down to spammers, that's the group at which we need to pay the most attention (or lack thereof) with our dollar votes.
Forget Ted Kaczynski, you can become a much more effective terrorist.
1. Build a EMP "bomb" that consists of several farads worth of capacitors and a big solenoid. Have it activated by a timer, remote control, or (if you're particlarly fancy, put an embedded controller like a uLinux simm in there and wire it to ethernet).
2. Mount the bomb in a rack-mount server case.
3. Mount the rack-mount server case in a full-size rack full of "real" networking equipment; servers, dialup servers, and a router.
4. Colocate this rack at MAE-East.
5. Repeat 1-4 for MAE-West, Atlanta, Chicago, etc.
6. Have them all generate massive EMPs at the same time, preferably during a usage spike (Monday at 9AM EST, weekday evenings around 10PM EST, etc).
Extra Credit:
If you're charging the EMP bomb using 220V (which isn't entirely uncommon in colo sites), you might even be able to get a couple blasts off before it melts itself.
Instead of talking about this, let's get our act together and move.
The collective of geeks and what-have-you that are here on slashdot probably have, at their control (or at their influence), a large enough portion of the DNS system to make this kind of thing either a significant issue or a moot point.
Personally, I say those of us who can push for adding the alternative rootservers to our root caches. You don't lose any functionality from the current TLDs, and you gain lookups in the "alternative" ones. Enough people following "alternative" makes it mainstream.
I was pissed when InterNIC started charging for domains -- as were the folks who (unlike me and most of us) got off their asses and started the other registries. Now is when their work is going to pay off or go the way of Beta videotapes.:)
Just from Internet "precedent," ICANN shouldn't be able to push around the existing.biz registrants/registrars. So what if they're "the" governing body? The thing that goes on the internet is what works and what is used. Look at DNS itself! One of the biggest hack-jobs in the history of the net. Now it's one of the most necessary protocols/services.
ICANN obviously has pissed us off -- look at how many headlines there have been in the past week on/..
Tomorrow morning I'm going to ask my supervisor (the owner of a regional ISP) if we can adopt the other root servers. Get out there and ask your boss or ISP or company's net admin or your father or whoever to make the change for you, too.
Besides the fdiv bug, I contend that the Pentium 60/66Mhz models were mistakes to begin with. The original goal was to introduce chips at 90/100 Mhz, but the first run weren't testing that high, so they released them at 60/66. Who wanted to pay extra for the same amount of Mhz when you could get a loaded 486DX2 instead? Yeah, some geeks wanted latest and greatest, but the public was already moving toward a by-the-numbers approach to computer buying.
I remember getting my pci bus 486 (god bless the innovations for the Pentium, even if the first chips sucked..:P ) right after the first 60/66s came out (probably this time of year in 1993). Double speed CD-ROM, Mach32 video card, 420MB drive and 16 megs of ram. A pentium at the same time cost 1000-1500 more. No contest.:)
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As if feet, degrees fahrenheit or grains were stable measurements to begin with... :)
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
MS makes perfect operating systems, so why should we care about the bugs?
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
> photos of mutilated dead bodies, bizarre
:)
> hard-core pornography and child pornography
What were the URLs for those, again?
Thanks.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
I bought a tin-boxed Q3A for Linux, and I have yet to play it under linux. Or windows for that matter. I ran it under IRIX on a 24 cpu Onyx2 (of course, only one CPU was used... sigh). And after that I played with it on a friend's mac.
Maybe I should have played online so my CD key would be registered... oh well, maybe the next generation of FPSes will offer a better chance for linux.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
It's almost fun having a conversation on slashdot, with the mystique that it's right in the open but the fact that almost no one will click all the way down to read 0 and 1 scored posts. I wonder how many eyes out there have been following this silently... or better yet, will follow it months from now when the posts are archived and set in stone?
(insert twilight zone music here)
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Aliases, sure. Mailbox space, no. :)
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
I didn't realize there WAS a lameness filter.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
OIC.
/. about six months ago), I decided to come back and, through the use of brute chaos, try to undermine the system -- which seems like what you're doing, too. (Project Mayhem of the Internet, if you will.)
.. need.. time.. to ... set .. up ... webpage... :) :)
The quote is beaten from "Cecil B. DeMented," which is John Waters most recent flick. It's about an underground filmmaker who wants to destroy mainstream moviemaking... his "call to action" is "Power to the people who punish bad cinema!" Having gotten quite fed up with moderation (it was one of the reasons I left
Summary: Yay!
Just for reference, a future home for anti-karma warriors will be located at http://www.karmawhore.com. I just
-Chris (62 points and falling quickly)
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Huh? Please explain.
:)
I hate moderation and would love to help your fight in any way possible.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Now, who's gonna want to write and debug X drivers for the PVR2? :)
:)
And after that, who's gonna want to write/debug DRI/GLX/whatever 3D drivers you need for it?
This certainly is a cool hack, but all you've made yourself an expensive TV-based vt100 terminal that can probably get a shitload of distributed.net keys.
Come to think of it, maybe d.net on here WOULD make them worth buying...
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
...also has the electro-whatever glass. It's normally translucent bordering on opaque, but when he wants to see who's there, it can turn clear.
:)
Cute place. My cousin, a disgruntled former Oracle employee, took me by there when I was visiting SF.
Of course, none of us east coasters could get used to those tiny shacks they call "homes" out west.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Text mode is there for running ASCIIQuake, silly.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
hey, to people submitting, commenting or posting the articles (yes, that includes you, Hemos):
Actually READ the article before opening your trap. This has nothing to do with replacing trinitron CRTs, replacing rear-projection TVs or replacing flat-screen monitors... it's for MOVIE PROJECTION, like how your silly Star Wars movies are going to be shown in a year and a half.
Remember when we heard about digital projection in New York and LA? This is the same thing, only better. Now, let's all go click on that link, read it a bit, then come back and say something witty or stupid or about goatsex or about natalie or whatever the fuck you want, but let's not figure out how great it'll be to not have black lines on our monitors or to not have a screen that takes 150W of power.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
> Participants brought up (but thankfully,
> quickly moved past) the true-but-useless point
> that if all operating systems were secured
> properly, there would be no need for firewalls.
...that firewalls are also used to overcome a network design problem regarding address space. I've installed more firewalls for the purpose of NAT than for the "security" they provide.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
This is news? I've lived in Atlanta and Baltimore, both on 10-digit dialing for quite some time now.
What the FCC needs to adopt is an IPv6 addressing scheme. That way every toaster in our home can have a phone numb... oh, wait, that's something else.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Damn, those Origin/Onyx 3000 boxes are sexy. I want some for my bedroom. If only they didn't need 220V 30A and a separate cooling system... oh, and there's the cost, too.
And if you want to see some REAL neat simulation stuff, forget the Voodoo 5 6000... check out the new 3D modeling table that SGI has developed.
Several people put on gloves and headsets and sit around a video table that's connected to a Big(tm) Onyx 3000 system. They're all able to manipulate the projection by moving it and they can see it in full 3D from any angle, hovering right above the table.
Now where's that URL... uh... try this http://www.sgi.com/virtual_reality/
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
"Hi, I've got a problem."
"What's your username?"
The poor sap tells me. I write it down on my big clipboard -- you know the one.
"No worries." *clickety click*
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
A stable version of windows will come before anything Katz has predicted.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
> This is just the kind of news I could do
> without, having recently been persuaded to
> register with AIM and give GAIM a try.
We've already had to deal with Taco this week and his anti-Java stance. Do you think the Slashdot guys could get any more elitist about things?
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
I'd go to that goat whatever website that people keep trolling with.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
"PalmPalm" is actually vietnamese for "we build crappy products, sell them to idiots over the big ocean and retire to small tropic island."
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Forget it! Yesterday, I received two UCE's from either a company selling these DVD players or the company that makes them. Either way, I can't support these things.
You can get as political as you want about MPAA, RIAA, DeCSS cases or whatever, but when it comes down to spammers, that's the group at which we need to pay the most attention (or lack thereof) with our dollar votes.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Forget Ted Kaczynski, you can become a much more effective terrorist.
1. Build a EMP "bomb" that consists of several farads worth of capacitors and a big solenoid. Have it activated by a timer, remote control, or (if you're particlarly fancy, put an embedded controller like a uLinux simm in there and wire it to ethernet).
2. Mount the bomb in a rack-mount server case.
3. Mount the rack-mount server case in a full-size rack full of "real" networking equipment; servers, dialup servers, and a router.
4. Colocate this rack at MAE-East.
5. Repeat 1-4 for MAE-West, Atlanta, Chicago, etc.
6. Have them all generate massive EMPs at the same time, preferably during a usage spike (Monday at 9AM EST, weekday evenings around 10PM EST, etc).
Extra Credit:
If you're charging the EMP bomb using 220V (which isn't entirely uncommon in colo sites), you might even be able to get a couple blasts off before it melts itself.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Instead of talking about this, let's get our act together and move.
:)
.biz registrants/registrars. So what if they're "the" governing body? The thing that goes on the internet is what works and what is used. Look at DNS itself! One of the biggest hack-jobs in the history of the net. Now it's one of the most necessary protocols/services.
/..
The collective of geeks and what-have-you that are here on slashdot probably have, at their control (or at their influence), a large enough portion of the DNS system to make this kind of thing either a significant issue or a moot point.
Personally, I say those of us who can push for adding the alternative rootservers to our root caches. You don't lose any functionality from the current TLDs, and you gain lookups in the "alternative" ones. Enough people following "alternative" makes it mainstream.
I was pissed when InterNIC started charging for domains -- as were the folks who (unlike me and most of us) got off their asses and started the other registries. Now is when their work is going to pay off or go the way of Beta videotapes.
Just from Internet "precedent," ICANN shouldn't be able to push around the existing
ICANN obviously has pissed us off -- look at how many headlines there have been in the past week on
Tomorrow morning I'm going to ask my supervisor (the owner of a regional ISP) if we can adopt the other root servers. Get out there and ask your boss or ISP or company's net admin or your father or whoever to make the change for you, too.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Besides the fdiv bug, I contend that the Pentium 60/66Mhz models were mistakes to begin with. The original goal was to introduce chips at 90/100 Mhz, but the first run weren't testing that high, so they released them at 60/66. Who wanted to pay extra for the same amount of Mhz when you could get a loaded 486DX2 instead? Yeah, some geeks wanted latest and greatest, but the public was already moving toward a by-the-numbers approach to computer buying.
:P ) right after the first 60/66s came out (probably this time of year in 1993). Double speed CD-ROM, Mach32 video card, 420MB drive and 16 megs of ram. A pentium at the same time cost 1000-1500 more. No contest. :)
I remember getting my pci bus 486 (god bless the innovations for the Pentium, even if the first chips sucked..
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...