Man... after reading the responses to my posts, it sounds pretty sad that if people can't identify loops or identify the country upon which side of the hemisphere they live in... man... quoting from a line from one of my favorite movies (sleepless in seattle) which actually is sort of appropriate:
"I am not even going to think what they are not teaching you in school."
I like assembly. It has every control over everything. For VB programmers, it will never fly. For the anal-retentive programmer that likes to micromanage everything down to the last bit, assembly is the way to go.
I would like to see more assembly being taught at all levels: high schools and collegiate.
I find this article to be about four years too late. Four years ago, a community (Pheasant Run Crossing) in the town of Blacksburg, VA (home of Virginia Tech) already was running fiber to the home. Before they even started the foundation, they had already carved up the roads to lay in the two pairs (4 separate for redundancy) of fiber from the little communication building they had built next to the central mail kiosk. They had ran these pairs of fiber to all the proposed lots that they were building and allowed outside ISP to bid for the contract to provide the internet access. When I was there before graduation, the company that was providing the service was Floyd Communications. A small ISP that much to my surprise was running a serious network and provided some bad ass uptimes. I don't ever recall our network ever being out. With the exception of our own power outage which was only 2 times during 2.5 years that I lived there. Though at the time my friends and I ran a colocation center and also at the time, home of darksideresearch.com.
The price was great! $30/month for one single static IP. Not DHCP! If you wanted more than one, they provided awesome deals. $27/month for two and even less if u wanted more.
Each town home had its own Fiber to 10base hub. Yeah I know it's only 10base, but hey, I was still getting 100KBps (not bits)on many IRC dcc bots:-) Each room had its own RJ45 jack so it was straight plug and play. We ran the old Linux kernel hack that provided the original IP Masquerading! LOL:-)
When I graduated from VT in 2000, and moved up to Northern Virginia (some dubbed the silicon valley of the East Coast) much to my surprise cable modem was not a common thing, and when I asked around about ppl putting in fiber into the home, all the builders gave me the strangest look.
I went from having a residential T-1 coming directly into our community wired with redundant fiber pairs into our townhouse to netzero dial up. Do I miss it? Yeah, I miss the leeching speed but not like I do much interneting at home to require that much bandwidth now.:-)
Interesting note: the results from Netcraft about the specific DB721 box that is running on 204.45.37.181 is that it is running micro_httpd. Though it doesn't have a specific Linux distribution... hmm... maybe I should nmap it and try to get a finger print off of it.:-)
If all else fails, you can always just get you and your friends together, spend some money on some musical instruments, and play the music yourself. Oh wait, there is a phrase for that: Garage bands!
Where is the next new garage band playing the cover of Nirvana and Metallica? I'll just go and tape record them... LOL!
At my last job, we used Tomcat to serve out servlet pages that were requested from Set Top Boxes that were used as a form of Electronic Programming Guide. It was fast though the previous versions of Tomcat that we were using (granted it was still fairly new) was hard to configure and a lot of tweaking by hand. This was all later on automated when we wrapped the Tomcat inside a MSI installer and ran it on a Win32 platform. By then, it has gotten somewhat more stable than the previous version. That was the last that I had heard before I was canned.
Though my subject is consumer vs. business, it is in regards to the type of support line you get thrown into. I have a Gateway at home, and I bought this machine back in december of 98, right when the dual 450's mother boards started shipping. I had purchased this box but, it was considered a business line workstation. Plus, it came with 3 years warranty. I have had to call them up twice regarding my SCSI CDROM dying on me. (I don't think the plextor scsi cdrom i have likes the 80min cdrs...i'm digressing) Both times, that I have called, the support has always been excellent, and the staff was highly technical (and they were females, too...kudos!) None, the less, I always explained to them what was going on, and they have never given me much trouble. They have sent me two replacement drives, and this last one is still working. (Whew!)
I think perhaps that the article is decent, but it does not paint a clear picture. Perhaps, the various vendors of computers have separate groups of customer support, and i would not be surprised if the ones for the business side of things were much more technical than the consumer side. For example, Compaq has always made great business class machines and servers. But I wouldn't put my money in their consumer side products... that's just me though.
Eh, is it just me or am I really confused now? First of all the TV show is suppose to be a show about reality, hence, the whole genere of 'reality TV.' Then here we have the Sims, which is a virtual simulation of reality in a semi-controlled environment... Combine the two together, where in one aspect is a show about reality, and the game that is suppose to simulate reality. Is it just me or am I just confused, disturbed, entertained, and disgusted all at the same time?:-)
Welcome to the new fronteir of Simulation Reality TV.
the RIAA rep wrote: Perhaps it at least took 10 minutes away from stealing music.
I guess the RIAA rep must be pretty lame. If hackers are spending time attacking their website, and not steal music, then they should encourage hacking so as to take time away from individuals to steal music. Then again, like the other slashdotter say, u can jus queue for 1 minute and spend the rest of the 9 minutes to hack your brain away at their site.
No kidding... I walk the streets of D.C. all the time and I don't see any 'cyberpunks' carrying laptops... mostly just weird tourists not knowing where the metro stations are.
If everything is going to be DRMed, and assume that the DRM actually worked, what would be the purpose of having broadband connections at home? Why would I need a broadband connection to just read email? There won't be any content worth getting. If anything, DRM might just kill the cashcow that the cable modem and dsl providers have been sitting on for past years...
Return to the age of the 2400...:-) ZModem all the way.
Off topic: Man, did anyone see the video feed? She wasn't even that cute... lol! At least if she was kind of cute it would have been worth the effor to check out the video feed...:-) hehehehe
Anime USA (anime convention in Northern Virginia) premiered the original fansub of the bebop movie last year all weekend (Oct 12-14). It was a surprise showing because we didn't even know it was going to be on the schedule and ended up changing it last minute.
If you ever wanted to see some die hard fans, that was the weekend. Never could you cram 120+ people in a tiny little room with no AC and yet still ask them to sit through two hour of awesome bebop action.
We also gave away 3 free copies of the fan sub version for 3 lucky attendees to take home.
I agree. It would be hard to maintain and support a GUI installer for 12+ platforms. Stick with what works across the board, and that would be a text based installer. You learn it once, and it works on all 12 platforms u may ever want to install debian on.
It only make sense that most attacks are Linux type systems. Linux is more becoming the staple of the home router/firewall. When you have a community of users (linux and windows), most people would honestly say that would have a Linux or *nix type system up in the front line than a Windows box. With the number of homenetworking becoming more complex, it would only see the number of Linux attacks in crease because a good number of computer users are hiding their Windows boxes behind Linux firewalls.:-)
If anything, it just goes to show you that Microsoft is just hiding behind a clout of Linux warriors doing all the dirty work:-) Way to go GNU/Linux.
Hmmm I was just thinking, what if all the files under/winnt and/windows were all renamed to file names like any other media names, i.e notepad.exe would be britney_spears_baby_hit_me_one_more_time.mp3 and yet it would still be executable. I guess it would make your entire OS all garbabled up and hard as heck to find where files where. But at least then if you share out your/winnt and/windows directory, you would be injecting so much fake files into the network that it would probablly bring the p2p network to its knees.
From the reading of the minutes from the OpenGL review board, it looks like that MS is only seeking licenses for OpenGL 1.4, 1.3 and previous versions. I am not really sure what the details are on the license since the members of the board have not seen the details of the license itself either.
If MS is only seeking IP rights for portions of the OpenGL in version 1.4 and older, then there shouldn't be any problems with future development of OpenGL 2.0. From the looks of things, 3DLabs is heading up that effort almost entirely on its own (Way to go 3DLabs!) but working with the rest of the vendors and hardware as well as software companies in roughing out the details. (Let us not froget who owns 3DLabs: Creative Technologies).
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Man... after reading the responses to my posts, it sounds pretty sad that if people can't identify loops or identify the country upon which side of the hemisphere they live in... man... quoting from a line from one of my favorite movies (sleepless in seattle) which actually is sort of appropriate:
"I am not even going to think what they are not teaching you in school."
*sigh x 2*
I like assembly. It has every control over everything. For VB programmers, it will never fly. For the anal-retentive programmer that likes to micromanage everything down to the last bit, assembly is the way to go.
I would like to see more assembly being taught at all levels: high schools and collegiate.
I find this article to be about four years too late. Four years ago, a community (Pheasant Run Crossing) in the town of Blacksburg, VA (home of Virginia Tech) already was running fiber to the home. Before they even started the foundation, they had already carved up the roads to lay in the two pairs (4 separate for redundancy) of fiber from the little communication building they had built next to the central mail kiosk. They had ran these pairs of fiber to all the proposed lots that they were building and allowed outside ISP to bid for the contract to provide the internet access. When I was there before graduation, the company that was providing the service was Floyd Communications. A small ISP that much to my surprise was running a serious network and provided some bad ass uptimes. I don't ever recall our network ever being out. With the exception of our own power outage which was only 2 times during 2.5 years that I lived there. Though at the time my friends and I ran a colocation center and also at the time, home of darksideresearch.com.
:-) Each room had its own RJ45 jack so it was straight plug and play. We ran the old Linux kernel hack that provided the original IP Masquerading! LOL :-)
The price was great! $30/month for one single static IP. Not DHCP! If you wanted more than one, they provided awesome deals. $27/month for two and even less if u wanted more.
Each town home had its own Fiber to 10base hub. Yeah I know it's only 10base, but hey, I was still getting 100KBps (not bits)on many IRC dcc bots
When I graduated from VT in 2000, and moved up to Northern Virginia (some dubbed the silicon valley of the East Coast) much to my surprise cable modem was not a common thing, and when I asked around about ppl putting in fiber into the home, all the builders gave me the strangest look.
Go hokies!
I went from having a residential T-1 coming directly into our community wired with redundant fiber pairs into our townhouse to netzero dial up. Do I miss it? Yeah, I miss the leeching speed but not like I do much interneting at home to require that much bandwidth now. :-)
i still have winamp 0.99 :-)
yay!
Interesting note: the results from Netcraft about the specific DB721 box that is running on 204.45.37.181 is that it is running micro_httpd. Though it doesn't have a specific Linux distribution... hmm... maybe I should nmap it and try to get a finger print off of it. :-)
Damn...that's messed up. My mom was born from that province... so sad to think that her home town is now the e-wasteland of china... so depressing.
If all else fails, you can always just get you and your friends together, spend some money on some musical instruments, and play the music yourself. Oh wait, there is a phrase for that: Garage bands!
Where is the next new garage band playing the cover of Nirvana and Metallica? I'll just go and tape record them... LOL!
At my last job, we used Tomcat to serve out servlet pages that were requested from Set Top Boxes that were used as a form of Electronic Programming Guide. It was fast though the previous versions of Tomcat that we were using (granted it was still fairly new) was hard to configure and a lot of tweaking by hand. This was all later on automated when we wrapped the Tomcat inside a MSI installer and ran it on a Win32 platform. By then, it has gotten somewhat more stable than the previous version. That was the last that I had heard before I was canned.
Just out of curiosity, has anyone emailed the author of the article Kyle Bennett? His email is kyle@hardocp.com in case anyone is wondering...
Though my subject is consumer vs. business, it is in regards to the type of support line you get thrown into. I have a Gateway at home, and I bought this machine back in december of 98, right when the dual 450's mother boards started shipping. I had purchased this box but, it was considered a business line workstation. Plus, it came with 3 years warranty. I have had to call them up twice regarding my SCSI CDROM dying on me. (I don't think the plextor scsi cdrom i have likes the 80min cdrs...i'm digressing) Both times, that I have called, the support has always been excellent, and the staff was highly technical (and they were females, too...kudos!) None, the less, I always explained to them what was going on, and they have never given me much trouble. They have sent me two replacement drives, and this last one is still working. (Whew!)
I think perhaps that the article is decent, but it does not paint a clear picture. Perhaps, the various vendors of computers have separate groups of customer support, and i would not be surprised if the ones for the business side of things were much more technical than the consumer side. For example, Compaq has always made great business class machines and servers. But I wouldn't put my money in their consumer side products... that's just me though.
Eh, is it just me or am I really confused now? First of all the TV show is suppose to be a show about reality, hence, the whole genere of 'reality TV.' Then here we have the Sims, which is a virtual simulation of reality in a semi-controlled environment... Combine the two together, where in one aspect is a show about reality, and the game that is suppose to simulate reality. Is it just me or am I just confused, disturbed, entertained, and disgusted all at the same time? :-)
Welcome to the new fronteir of Simulation Reality TV.
the RIAA rep wrote: Perhaps it at least took 10 minutes away from stealing music.
I guess the RIAA rep must be pretty lame. If hackers are spending time attacking their website, and not steal music, then they should encourage hacking so as to take time away from individuals to steal music. Then again, like the other slashdotter say, u can jus queue for 1 minute and spend the rest of the 9 minutes to hack your brain away at their site.
No kidding... I walk the streets of D.C. all the time and I don't see any 'cyberpunks' carrying laptops... mostly just weird tourists not knowing where the metro stations are.
If everything is going to be DRMed, and assume that the DRM actually worked, what would be the purpose of having broadband connections at home? Why would I need a broadband connection to just read email? There won't be any content worth getting. If anything, DRM might just kill the cashcow that the cable modem and dsl providers have been sitting on for past years...
:-) ZModem all the way.
Return to the age of the 2400...
Oh man...
If I only had this to play cowboys and indians with.
Off topic: Man, did anyone see the video feed? She wasn't even that cute... lol! At least if she was kind of cute it would have been worth the effor to check out the video feed... :-) hehehehe
Anime USA (anime convention in Northern Virginia) premiered the original fansub of the bebop movie last year all weekend (Oct 12-14). It was a surprise showing because we didn't even know it was going to be on the schedule and ended up changing it last minute.
If you ever wanted to see some die hard fans, that was the weekend. Never could you cram 120+ people in a tiny little room with no AC and yet still ask them to sit through two hour of awesome bebop action.
We also gave away 3 free copies of the fan sub version for 3 lucky attendees to take home.
I agree. It would be hard to maintain and support a GUI installer for 12+ platforms. Stick with what works across the board, and that would be a text based installer. You learn it once, and it works on all 12 platforms u may ever want to install debian on.
Oh man! Talk about bringing back the memories!!! I remeber those days very well. I used to dream in blocks, too.
It only make sense that most attacks are Linux type systems. Linux is more becoming the staple of the home router/firewall. When you have a community of users (linux and windows), most people would honestly say that would have a Linux or *nix type system up in the front line than a Windows box. With the number of homenetworking becoming more complex, it would only see the number of Linux attacks in crease because a good number of computer users are hiding their Windows boxes behind Linux firewalls. :-)
:-) Way to go GNU/Linux.
If anything, it just goes to show you that Microsoft is just hiding behind a clout of Linux warriors doing all the dirty work
Hmmm I was just thinking, what if all the files under /winnt and /windows were all renamed to file names like any other media names, i.e notepad.exe would be britney_spears_baby_hit_me_one_more_time.mp3 and yet it would still be executable. I guess it would make your entire OS all garbabled up and hard as heck to find where files where. But at least then if you share out your /winnt and /windows directory, you would be injecting so much fake files into the network that it would probablly bring the p2p network to its knees.
Just a thought...
Don't forget about the class A and class B of address of 10.0.0.0 and 172.16.0.0 :-)
From the reading of the minutes from the OpenGL review board, it looks like that MS is only seeking licenses for OpenGL 1.4, 1.3 and previous versions. I am not really sure what the details are on the license since the members of the board have not seen the details of the license itself either.
If MS is only seeking IP rights for portions of the OpenGL in version 1.4 and older, then there shouldn't be any problems with future development of OpenGL 2.0. From the looks of things, 3DLabs is heading up that effort almost entirely on its own (Way to go 3DLabs!) but working with the rest of the vendors and hardware as well as software companies in roughing out the details. (Let us not froget who owns 3DLabs: Creative Technologies).
Let's hope that MS doesn't buy Creative.
hmm... having an increased amount of bandwidth would certainly take us one step closer to having the necessary infrastructure for Video-on-Demand.