A while ago I read an article about how Qwest partnered with a particular railroad company. The name of the company slipped my mind. The article talked about how the railroad company allowed Qwest to laid the fibers next along with the railroad tracks and that they also helped them in doing this. As an result of this joint effort, Qwest would share the profits that they obtained from the usage of these fiber lines. The results and if any profits from this venture I am not sure about. Though it is quite interesting to know such partnerships do exist.
I just tried out what the supposed exploit is suppose to do, and though it did bring up a chm file, it did not execute the rest of the script. Instead, IE choked, and crashed and everything was fine. No files were written to my hard disk, and Mine Sweeper did not start up. According to the original post on securityfocus, it looks like it applies to a bug that went unfixed for IE6. I am trying my testing on my system which is a W2k SP2 with IE5.5 SP2. Perhaps this really only does apply to IE6? Maybe it was a bug that originated in a previous version, went through CM and somehow, someone forgot to make the appropriate code changes for the IE6 release?
Anyone who is reading slashdot and posting to slashdot from Monday to Friday during the hours of 8AM to 5PM doesn't have a lot piling up on their to-do list.
I still have a Toshiba Laptop 386 dual booting between Slackware Linux and Windows 3.1. Though I can't do much with it since it has no ethernet and the floppy drive is just about busted.
I really don't care if Microsoft makes money or looses money when selling the XBox. I don't really care if they are going to take over a market or not. At the end of the day, all I care about is whether or there will be good games for it. As of now, there are a lot of games for the XBox. Unfortunately, most of them are not very good. A handfull of games are decent and very fun to play. And that's all I really care about: will there be fun games to play? Yea, I can get a mod chip and spend the time to install linux, yada, yada. But my time isn't worth trying to hack up something. Just because you can do it doesn't mean it's worth your time. I just want to turn the power on, load up the ammo, and start blowing away some Covenant Troops.
Imagine what the Wright Brothers, Ford, and the makers of Pringles got together back in the early days of flight and found out that all they needed to make man fly was some pringles and an assembly line.
If musicians start getting smarter about how to promote and sell their music, they would figure that they could easily buy a CDFactory the burns CDs and they can cut out their record label and I bet they could easily sell their records for much less and probablly still make more money because there wouldn't be anyone in the middle to take away from their profits.
Personally when I install debian on my various platforms, I never install X. My reasons are simply that why do I need it when I do everything in through command line interface? Not to mention the boxes where I install Debian on all make too much sound and noise and put out a lot of heat. If the boxes don't need X then I won't consider installing it. I wish it could be said the same about Oracle. I hate the fact that they have moved their installer to a GUI format and taken away the ability to install through the commandline. Now I am forced to install X. *sigh*
Personally I find Debian to be very stable and though it is hard to learn, but in the end you will appreciate the knowledge that you have gathered. It's not so much the destination is the key, but the path that you take to get there. That is what Debian is and that is what I think of Debian everytime I use it.
Turn over your keyboard and see where it is made the next time you type. Flip over your mouse and see where it is made the next time you click the link to go to the next page.
I flipped my Logitech mouse over and it was made in China. I flipped my Gateway Enhanced Keyboard and it too was made in China as well.
What we all should do is think about just what we are saying before we type and click another click. Because most of us, are probablly on "China-made" products even as we read slashdot.
Off topic but I believe it may spark some interests for those that might be in the market to buy a new drive (or maybe two, or four).
Things you should consider when buying your new drive:
The capacity of your hard drive: the price of drives are so cheap now, that you can get a 80 or 100 GB drive for around $100.
The importance of your data: how important is the data that you are going to be keeping on that drive? If you are buying a drive, as secondary storage to add to your existing storage, how safe do you need that data to be while storing on this new drive?
Incoming Data Rate: how fast do you think it will take for you to fill up that drive? Are you a download king where you just download every waking moment?
Backup: Do you plan to backup the data that you will be storing on this newly purchased drive? Remember, you just bought a 80GB drive and also remember how fast you will be filling up. And don't forget, how are you going to backup 80GB of data? CDR? Variation of writeable DVD? Tape? Or are you going to have to get a second drive and setup some form of RAID?
Warranty: If the drive was to fail, how important is all those 80GB worth to you? If it failed the day after the warranty expired, do you think you have a good enough backup solution?
With all those things considered, by the time you have answered all those questions you might as well just run around in circles. As the drives get bigger, it would seem that the risks that go with having bigger drives seem to increase dramatically. Even if you an average user, who backup on a regular basis, let's do the math:
700MB with a 24x CDR would probablly take about 3min.
- 1024MB/700MB =.684GB
-.684GB/3min =.228GB/min
- account for user configuration of what goes on each CD (sloppy), putting in the CDR, labeling, storing, and misc things consider, we will just use 1 min. Thus putting the final CD at around.684GB/4min =.171GB/min
- 80GB * (1Minutes/.171GB) = ~468 Min = ~7.8 Hours
Well, considering that it will take you approximately 8 hours of straight solid work of backing up 80GB of data and most likely it will take longer since only 1 minute was taken into account of figuring out what will go onto each disc, and the assumption that each disc is fit to the max, the actual time to actually completely fill up an 80GB is really crazy just to imagine the tedious task it will go into it.
What does one do? Following the previous posts of several slashdotter's advice, the safest bet maybe is just to get another drive and set up some form of RAID. Or if you really have the cash, you can always strap yourself a nice Tape backup solution that backups 5GB/min.
Off Topic: Maybe it's more flexible is because there are more software that you can pirate that will run on XP than on Mac OSX. At least the last time I looked, I didn't see many people making a big deal about how they got the 0day version of PhotoShop for MacOS. Just a thought though.
This is from the Company's website about its management team:
"Members of the management team previously formed the senior development and operating team for the Divx(TM) encrypted DVD system. Divx(TM), a consumer set-top appliance featuring world-class security and audit technologies, was sold into over 200,000 households. The team worked extensively with five of the major film studios, encrypting over 700 movies. In seven years of development, deployment and operation, the Divx(TM) system was never once compromised."
I guess these guys are looking to make a come back once again.
Interestingly enough, I just checked netcraft.com and it reported that www.nytimes.com is sporting a Solaris OS and using Netscape Enterprise. It would have been really funny if they were running Microsoft.
Interestingly enough, if you google for the phrase "dod.nfo", you'll still come up with quite a few hits. I don't have a particular question for you, but I just thought I'd post the DoD logo as a well reminder of where things were, where things are now, and what things will be to come. Good luck and maybe there will be another interview? Let us know how you are doing and maybe some of us 'old school' slashdotters will write you some snail mail to keep you company.
just wait a few months when nvidia rolls out it's line of new cards and i'm sure the prices will go even lower and consumers like me who were once part of a fallen group of dotcomers that played quake after hours on the company lan will rise from the ashes and hail forth a new video card upgrade:-)
Horray for Adam Smith and let the pricing war begin.
I hear that. I have a ThinkPad 600 that is equiped with a P2-266 with 256MB of RAM running XP. It works fine and it works great. Aside from the speed issue, this little slow laptop performs much much better than my 1.6GHz at work that is running W2k. I don't know what all the garbage that is installed on my W2k after getting it from the IT guys, but for some reason they loaded alllll this unnecessary crap and it was just one lame computer after it came through their hand. I would reinstall the system myself but I just don't have the time to do all that at work. Unless I take a weekend off and come in and reinstall everything myself. Not bad for a guy who has 3 VALinux Servers running at home all three sporting dual processors and multi GB RAM capacity configurations. Yeah, I know it's an overkill but I was laid off so following the spirit of oddtodd, I got some cool sh*t.:-)
Napster for p0rn should be interesting. Regulated p0rn distribution. Wait, that sounds like an oxymoron.:-) None the less though, I wonder what will the new Napster look like...
Reading this article just make me think back about the good old days of iMake. At my last job, we were already in test deployment of a digital VOD system that had targeted advertising. Incorporating the Connect Ad-delivery system, this was to be in two multiple-dwelling-units here in the Washington D.C. metro area. Unfortunately, like everyone else, we saw our lovely contract belly up as September 11 came. Mother Verizon decided to pull the plug.
However, we had already showcased this VOD technology in several trade shows.
Maybe I'll submit my resume to them just for kicks and giggles since I never signed an NDD when I left my last job.:-)
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A while ago I read an article about how Qwest partnered with a particular railroad company. The name of the company slipped my mind. The article talked about how the railroad company allowed Qwest to laid the fibers next along with the railroad tracks and that they also helped them in doing this. As an result of this joint effort, Qwest would share the profits that they obtained from the usage of these fiber lines. The results and if any profits from this venture I am not sure about. Though it is quite interesting to know such partnerships do exist.
I just tried out what the supposed exploit is suppose to do, and though it did bring up a chm file, it did not execute the rest of the script. Instead, IE choked, and crashed and everything was fine. No files were written to my hard disk, and Mine Sweeper did not start up. According to the original post on securityfocus, it looks like it applies to a bug that went unfixed for IE6. I am trying my testing on my system which is a W2k SP2 with IE5.5 SP2. Perhaps this really only does apply to IE6? Maybe it was a bug that originated in a previous version, went through CM and somehow, someone forgot to make the appropriate code changes for the IE6 release?
Anyone who is reading slashdot and posting to slashdot from Monday to Friday during the hours of 8AM to 5PM doesn't have a lot piling up on their to-do list.
I still have a Toshiba Laptop 386 dual booting between Slackware Linux and Windows 3.1. Though I can't do much with it since it has no ethernet and the floppy drive is just about busted.
I really don't care if Microsoft makes money or looses money when selling the XBox. I don't really care if they are going to take over a market or not. At the end of the day, all I care about is whether or there will be good games for it. As of now, there are a lot of games for the XBox. Unfortunately, most of them are not very good. A handfull of games are decent and very fun to play. And that's all I really care about: will there be fun games to play? Yea, I can get a mod chip and spend the time to install linux, yada, yada. But my time isn't worth trying to hack up something. Just because you can do it doesn't mean it's worth your time. I just want to turn the power on, load up the ammo, and start blowing away some Covenant Troops.
I am also on a 233. Us po-folks have to squeeze until we cannot squeeze anymore. Talk about getting the most bang for the buck.
Imagine what the Wright Brothers, Ford, and the makers of Pringles got together back in the early days of flight and found out that all they needed to make man fly was some pringles and an assembly line.
It is not a mirror but google has a cache for it. Click here to read it.
My car isn't a Porsche, but my computer is. Does this mean I will have hot chicks now?
If musicians start getting smarter about how to promote and sell their music, they would figure that they could easily buy a CDFactory the burns CDs and they can cut out their record label and I bet they could easily sell their records for much less and probablly still make more money because there wouldn't be anyone in the middle to take away from their profits.
Personally when I install debian on my various platforms, I never install X. My reasons are simply that why do I need it when I do everything in through command line interface? Not to mention the boxes where I install Debian on all make too much sound and noise and put out a lot of heat. If the boxes don't need X then I won't consider installing it. I wish it could be said the same about Oracle. I hate the fact that they have moved their installer to a GUI format and taken away the ability to install through the commandline. Now I am forced to install X. *sigh*
Personally I find Debian to be very stable and though it is hard to learn, but in the end you will appreciate the knowledge that you have gathered. It's not so much the destination is the key, but the path that you take to get there. That is what Debian is and that is what I think of Debian everytime I use it.
Turn over your keyboard and see where it is made the next time you type. Flip over your mouse and see where it is made the next time you click the link to go to the next page.
I flipped my Logitech mouse over and it was made in China. I flipped my Gateway Enhanced Keyboard and it too was made in China as well.
What we all should do is think about just what we are saying before we type and click another click. Because most of us, are probablly on "China-made" products even as we read slashdot.
Off topic but I believe it may spark some interests for those that might be in the market to buy a new drive (or maybe two, or four).
.684GB
.684GB/3min = .228GB/min
.684GB/4min = .171GB/min
Things you should consider when buying your new drive:
The capacity of your hard drive: the price of drives are so cheap now, that you can get a 80 or 100 GB drive for around $100.
The importance of your data: how important is the data that you are going to be keeping on that drive? If you are buying a drive, as secondary storage to add to your existing storage, how safe do you need that data to be while storing on this new drive?
Incoming Data Rate: how fast do you think it will take for you to fill up that drive? Are you a download king where you just download every waking moment?
Backup: Do you plan to backup the data that you will be storing on this newly purchased drive? Remember, you just bought a 80GB drive and also remember how fast you will be filling up. And don't forget, how are you going to backup 80GB of data? CDR? Variation of writeable DVD? Tape? Or are you going to have to get a second drive and setup some form of RAID?
Warranty: If the drive was to fail, how important is all those 80GB worth to you? If it failed the day after the warranty expired, do you think you have a good enough backup solution?
With all those things considered, by the time you have answered all those questions you might as well just run around in circles. As the drives get bigger, it would seem that the risks that go with having bigger drives seem to increase dramatically. Even if you an average user, who backup on a regular basis, let's do the math:
700MB with a 24x CDR would probablly take about 3min.
- 1024MB/700MB =
-
- account for user configuration of what goes on each CD (sloppy), putting in the CDR, labeling, storing, and misc things consider, we will just use 1 min. Thus putting the final CD at around
- 80GB * (1Minutes/.171GB) = ~468 Min = ~7.8 Hours
Well, considering that it will take you approximately 8 hours of straight solid work of backing up 80GB of data and most likely it will take longer since only 1 minute was taken into account of figuring out what will go onto each disc, and the assumption that each disc is fit to the max, the actual time to actually completely fill up an 80GB is really crazy just to imagine the tedious task it will go into it.
What does one do? Following the previous posts of several slashdotter's advice, the safest bet maybe is just to get another drive and set up some form of RAID. Or if you really have the cash, you can always strap yourself a nice Tape backup solution that backups 5GB/min.
Just something to consider...
Off Topic: Maybe it's more flexible is because there are more software that you can pirate that will run on XP than on Mac OSX. At least the last time I looked, I didn't see many people making a big deal about how they got the 0day version of PhotoShop for MacOS. Just a thought though.
This is from the Company's website about its management team:
"Members of the management team previously formed the senior development and operating team for the Divx(TM) encrypted DVD system. Divx(TM), a consumer set-top appliance featuring world-class security and audit technologies, was sold into over 200,000 households. The team worked extensively with five of the major film studios, encrypting over 700 movies. In seven years of development, deployment and operation, the Divx(TM) system was never once compromised."
I guess these guys are looking to make a come back once again.
Interestingly enough, I just checked netcraft.com and it reported that www.nytimes.com is sporting a Solaris OS and using Netscape Enterprise. It would have been really funny if they were running Microsoft.
This is a link to kentron's FAQ about Quad Band Memory.
Good question! I would like to see this one answered.
dod.nfo
just wait a few months when nvidia rolls out it's line of new cards and i'm sure the prices will go even lower and consumers like me who were once part of a fallen group of dotcomers that played quake after hours on the company lan will rise from the ashes and hail forth a new video card upgrade :-)
Horray for Adam Smith and let the pricing war begin.
I hear that. I have a ThinkPad 600 that is equiped with a P2-266 with 256MB of RAM running XP. It works fine and it works great. Aside from the speed issue, this little slow laptop performs much much better than my 1.6GHz at work that is running W2k. I don't know what all the garbage that is installed on my W2k after getting it from the IT guys, but for some reason they loaded alllll this unnecessary crap and it was just one lame computer after it came through their hand. I would reinstall the system myself but I just don't have the time to do all that at work. Unless I take a weekend off and come in and reinstall everything myself. Not bad for a guy who has 3 VALinux Servers running at home all three sporting dual processors and multi GB RAM capacity configurations. Yeah, I know it's an overkill but I was laid off so following the spirit of oddtodd, I got some cool sh*t. :-)
Napster for p0rn should be interesting. Regulated p0rn distribution. Wait, that sounds like an oxymoron. :-) None the less though, I wonder what will the new Napster look like...
After reading this article, does anyone get old memory flashbacks to the days of Int-13 and Int-20? :-)
Reading this article just make me think back about the good old days of iMake. At my last job, we were already in test deployment of a digital VOD system that had targeted advertising. Incorporating the Connect Ad-delivery system, this was to be in two multiple-dwelling-units here in the Washington D.C. metro area. Unfortunately, like everyone else, we saw our lovely contract belly up as September 11 came. Mother Verizon decided to pull the plug.
:-)
However, we had already showcased this VOD technology in several trade shows.
Maybe I'll submit my resume to them just for kicks and giggles since I never signed an NDD when I left my last job.
With all the posts of people talking about a name change, why dont the Ogg team ask Naughty by Nature if they can change OGG to OPP? :-)
Stupid, but at least quite a few people will know what OPP is... hehe