[People under the age of 21 in the U.S. can] Vote Join the army Drive a car Have sex (and children) Work Pay taxes Own a gun
Yeah good thing we don't let those kids drink
I think that the key is that they can't do those things AND drink until they're 21. As an aside, don't you think that the Bureau of Alchohol, Tobacco, and Firearms must have the best office parties?
A defect normally implies that the system has gone array, however, in some cases defects or simply modifications from the normal genetic code, are helpful. In this case the defective CCR-5 genes contain a 32-base pair (bp) deletion. This deletion causes a shift in the reading frame which results in a severely truncated protein which is unable to reach the cell surface. With this defect AIDS progression is slowed, allowing someone to survive longer. Thus, in this case the defect is actually protective.
Regardless, let's see you run ANY of those games under Linux, even on XBox, and I'll be interested.
If you're that excited about playing proprietary games (e.g. "Halo, Project Gotham, Jet Grind Radio, Sega GT 2002, NBA2k3, NFL2k3") on proprietary hardware, then for bog's sake, please buy an XBox (or a PS2, or a GameCube, or whatever).
Yes, an XBox can be made to emulate an off-the-shelf PC, and can be made to run Linux if you:
Download and burn ISOs for the Xbox Linux boot CD-RW/DVD-RW and the Mandrake install
Hardware specific Mandrake install instructions can be found here.
Meaning, of course, that your $199 XBox is now at least (I'm just thinking of the mod chip - I'm assuming that your labor is worthless) a $260+ Linux PC without a warranty. You can do that, and it's legitimately a pretty cool hack (tm) and a nice way to thumb your nose at Redmond, but if what you want is an inexpensive Linux PC, then why not simply buy the inexpensive Linux PC?
You forgot to tell me that it also doesn't have a DVD player.
I'm not trying to say that a $199 Walmart Linux PC is an XBox, that's not my point. I was responding to the earlier author who maintained that
"A *real* PC for $200? It'd be close just getting
[64M, a 733MHz PIII, some slightly outdated nVidia chip, and an 8G hard disk] for $200.....much less whatever you consider a real pc."
and, except for the (admittedly) crappy Trident shared-memory video card, I'll stand by that assessment. More memory, more hard drive space, higher CPU core frequency (and for that matter, higher FSB speed - 133 MHz) and Linux (Lindows OS) is already installed. Same price. Expandable.
For the people who suggest that an XBox would make a kewl inexpensive "server", I simply maintain that you could buy and support Microsoft's product, pay extra to hack it with a mod chip and install a free OS over the one you paid for when you bought the XBox, or you could simply buy and support a Linux PC.
"All this said," hacking an XBox is a pretty neat technical hack, but a lot of effort if all you're trying to do is to save a few bucks on hardware.
Although Red Hat didn't label them as such, disks 1-3 are the install disks, and 4-5 are the SRPMS. (I just downloaded all 5 CDs last night - GRR! AAARGH!)
but wasn't one of the fundamental differences between linux 1.x & 2 that v.1 only ran on x86 architechure and v.2 had been made portable? Specifically, to the Digital/Compaq/HP Alpha processor? (Thank you, Jon "Maddog" Hall!)
I just taught a week-long Linux+ class to a bunch of Windows 2000 admins. After two days of telling them how to operate at the command line, including discussions of BASH, editing tools, and the contents of/etc, I very nearly faced a revolt.
"Where's the GUI?"
Now, I'm not saying this to insult Windows admins or to blindly troll, but it took a good half of a day to convey to these people that there wasn't a "THE" GUI to admin a Linux server. I showed them Webmin and linuxconf-web, then I showed them SWAT and what it did to the smb.conf file. I told them that while I prefer to edit the config files manually, as that usually gave me more options, "There's More Than One Way To Do It."
(This, by the way, was percieved as a shortcoming of Linux by the Windows admins.)
I'm not sure what the hard part is about having - not an end-user, but a professional admin - edit a text file to modify configuration files. Is there something unclear about settings like "ENABLE = yes"? I can (almost) understand if you've been traumatized by a zealot who's soured you on vi or emacs, but you know there ARE alternatives (KATE, pico, joe, et al) that are relatively easy to use.
Tools like MMC are required in Windows, because Windows settings are held in a database (the registry/metabase) which is unwieldy to edit in other ways (regedt32, for example). Similar settings are held in Linux as (for the most part, very well commented) text files in the/etc directory. All you really need is a trusty text editor and about half a clue. The text editor is usually packaged in the distribution.
Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars? Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man. Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time? Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, 'cause chicks dig a dude with money. Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks. Lawrence: Well the kind of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do. Peter Gibbons: Good point.
Homer: Now, here's my "Everything's O.K."alarm! [Homer flips a switch on the device, and it begins to emit a high pitched, incredibly loud beep. The rest of the Simpsons cover their ears as Homer speaks up] Homer: This will sound every three seconds, unless something isn't okay! Marge: Turn it off, Homer! Homer: It can't be turned off! [alarm fizzles out] But it, uh, does break easily. -- "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace"
MGBs, TANKS, AND BATMOBILES ... Imagine a crossroads where four competing auto dealerships are situated. One of them (Microsoft) is much, much bigger than the others. It started out years ago selling three-speed bicycles (MS-DOS); these were not perfect, but they worked, and when they broke you could easily fix them.
There was a competing bicycle dealership next door (Apple) that one day began selling motorized vehicles--expensive but attractively styled cars with their innards hermetically sealed, so that how they worked was something of a mystery.
The big dealership responded by rushing a moped upgrade kit (the original Windows) onto the market. This was a Rube Goldberg contraption that, when bolted onto a three-speed bicycle, enabled it to keep up, just barely, with Apple-cars. The users had to wear goggles and were always picking bugs out of their teeth while Apple owners sped along in hermetically sealed comfort, sneering out the windows. But the Micro-mopeds were cheap, and easy to fix compared with the Apple-cars, and their market share waxed.
Eventually the big dealership came out with a full-fledged car: a colossal station wagon (Windows 95). It had all the aesthetic appeal of a Soviet worker housing block, it leaked oil and blew gaskets, and it was an enormous success. A little later, they also came out with a hulking off-road vehicle intended for industrial users (Windows NT) which was no more beautiful than the station wagon, and only a little more reliable.
Since then there has been a lot of noise and shouting, but little has changed. The smaller dealership continues to sell sleek Euro-styled sedans and to spend a lot of money on advertising campaigns. They have had GOING OUT OF BUSINESS! signs taped up in their windows for so long that they have gotten all yellow and curly. The big one keeps making bigger and bigger station wagons and ORVs.
On the other side of the road are two competitors that have come along more recently.
One of them (Be, Inc.) is selling fully operational Batmobiles (the BeOS). They are more beautiful and stylish even than the Euro-sedans, better designed, more technologically advanced, and at least as reliable as anything else on the market--and yet cheaper than the others.
With one exception, that is: Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It's a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks. These are not old-fashioned, cast-iron Soviet tanks; these are more like the M1 tanks of the U.S. Army, made of space-age materials and jammed with sophisticated technology from one end to the other. But they are better than Army tanks. They've been modified in such a way that they never, ever break down, are light and maneuverable enough to use on ordinary streets, and use no more fuel than a subcompact car. These tanks are being cranked out, on the spot, at a terrific pace, and a vast number of them are lined up along the edge of the road with keys in the ignition. Anyone who wants can simply climb into one and drive it away for free.
Customers come to this crossroads in throngs, day and night. Ninety percent of them go straight to the biggest dealership and buy station wagons or off-road vehicles. They do not even look at the other dealerships.
Of the remaining ten percent, most go and buy a sleek Euro-sedan, pausing only to turn up their noses at the philistines going to buy the station wagons and ORVs. If they even notice the people on the opposite side of the road, selling the cheaper, technically superior vehicles, these customers deride them cranks and half-wits.
The Batmobile outlet sells a few vehicles to the occasional car nut who wants a second vehicle to go with his station wagon, but seems to accept, at least for now, that it's a fringe player.
The group giving away the free tanks only stays alive because it is staffed by volunteers, who are lined up at the edge of the street with bullhorns, trying to draw customers' attention to this incredible situation. A typical conversation goes something like this:
Hacker with bullhorn: "Save your money! Accept one of our free tanks! It is invulnerable, and can drive across rocks and swamps at ninety miles an hour while getting a hundred miles to the gallon!"
Prospective station wagon buyer: "I know what you say is true...but...er...I don't know how to maintain a tank!"
Bullhorn: "You don't know how to maintain a station wagon either!"
Buyer: "But this dealership has mechanics on staff. If something goes wrong with my station wagon, I can take a day off work, bring it here, and pay them to work on it while I sit in the waiting room for hours, listening to elevator music."
Bullhorn: "But if you accept one of our free tanks we will send volunteers to your house to fix it for free while you sleep!"
Buyer: "Stay away from my house, you freak!"
Bullhorn: "But..."
Buyer: "Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?"
Isn't "CIFS" just an implementation of SMB? And wasn't SMB/NetBIOS originally (Sep, 1984!) an IBM PC (Network Technical Reference No. 6322916, from http://samba.org/cifs/docs/smb-history.html) specification? So, WTF does Microsoft have stuff-all to say about it? They used the existing standard as the backbone of their own brain-dead networking protocol (LAN Manager), in a misguided attempt to compete with Netware (okay, bad example), and now they're concerned about protecting *THEIR* IP? I guess that I just don't get it.
March 14, 2002 At Airport Gate, a Cyborg Unplugged By LISA GUERNSEY
SEEKING COMPENSATION - Prof. Steve Mann, a walking experiment in wearable computers, went through a three-day ordeal trying to board an Air Canada plane bound for Toronto.
STEVE MANN, an engineering professor at the University of Toronto, has lived as a cyborg for more than 20 years, wearing a web of wires, computers and electronic sensors that are designed to augment his memory, enhance his vision and keep tabs on his vital signs. Although his wearable computer system sometimes elicited stares, he never encountered any problems going through the security gates at airports.
Last month that changed. Before boarding a Toronto-bound plane at St. John's International Airport in Newfoundland, Dr. Mann says, he went through a three-day ordeal in which he was ultimately strip- searched and injured by security personnel. During the incident, he said, $56,800 worth of his $500,000 equipment was lost or damaged beyond repair, including the eyeglasses that serve as his display screen.
His lawyer in Toronto, Gary Neinstein, sent letters two weeks ago to Air Canada (news/quote), the airport and the Canadian transportation authority arguing that they acted negligently and seeking reimbursement for the damaged equipment so that Dr. Mann could put his wearable computer back together again.
The difficulties that Dr. Mann faced seem related to the tightening of security in airports since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. But he had flown from Toronto to St. John's two days earlier without a hitch.
On that day, Feb. 16, he said, he followed the routine he has used on previous flights. He told the security guards in Toronto that he had already notified the airline about his equipment. He showed them documentation, some of it signed by his doctor, that described the wires and glasses, which he wears every waking minute as part of his internationally renowned research on wearable computers.
He also asked for permission not to put his computer through the X-ray machine because the device is more sensitive than a laptop. He said that the guards examined his equipment and allowed him to board the flight.
But when he tried to board his return flight on Feb. 18, his experience was entirely different. This time, he said, he was told to turn his computer on and off and put it on the X-ray machine. He took his case to Neil Campbell, Air Canada's customer service manager at the St. John's airport, and spent the next two days arranging conversations between his university colleagues and the airline.
The security guards continued to require that he turn his machine on and off and put it through the X-ray machine while also tugging on his wires and electrodes, he said. Still not satisfied, the guards took him to a private room for a strip-search in which, he said, the electrodes were torn from his skin, causing bleeding, and several pieces of equipment were strewn about the room.
Once his system was turned off, turned on again, X-rayed and dismantled, Dr. Mann passed the security check. When he was finally allowed to go home, some pieces of equipment were not returned to him, he said, and his glasses were put in the plane's baggage compartment although he warned that cold temperatures there could ruin them.
Without a fully functional system, he said, he found it difficult to navigate normally. He said he fell at least twice in the airport, once passing out after hitting his head on what he described as a pile of fire extinguishers in his way. He boarded the plane in a wheelchair.
"I felt dizzy and disoriented and went downhill from there," he said.
Air Canada said that there was no record that any of Dr. Mann's baggage had been lost and that the Canadian transportation agency, Transport Canada, had required that his belongings be X-rayed. "We don't tell the security firms that there is going to be an exception made," said Nicole Couture-Simard, a spokeswoman for Air Canada. "We don't have that authority."
Transport Canada declined to comment on the case except to say that it was reviewing it.
Considering that even tweezers may be confiscated when a passenger boards a flight these days, the stricter scrutiny that Dr. Mann faced may not seem surprising. But for him, the experience raises the question of how a traveler will fare once wearable computing devices are such fixtures on the body that a person will not be able to part with them.
"We have to make sure we don't go into a police state where travel becomes impossible for certain individuals," Dr. Mann said.
Since losing the use of his vision system and computer memory several weeks ago, he said, he cannot concentrate and is behaving differently. He is now undergoing tests to determine whether his brain has been affected by the sudden detachment from the technology.
Alejandro R. Jahad, director of the University of Toronto's Program in E-Health Innovation, who has worked closely with Dr. Mann, said that scientists now had an opportunity to see what happens when a cyborg is unplugged. "I find this a very fascinating case," he said.
Joe Sixpack, most likely ignorant of what MPAA is, sees the check-mark on the Flybynite, sees that Freedom brand doesn't have it, and with little separating the two in regards to price, figures he's getting more for his dollar.
You mean the same way that DVD players with the DIVX checkbox swept the market?
p.s. - Don't make fun of "Joe Six-Pack" - he spends and he votes. "Ich bin ein Johann Sechs-Satzer!"
Compaq Insight Manager XE uses this (MSDE) too. Account 'SA' (SQL Admin) with no password. It's included on the Management CD, packed with all of their servers.
I see, and who is to PROVIDE you "food, water, and shelter" (much less, internet access!)? Me? Rights are basic and inalienable, as the passage once ran, and include life, liberty, and the pursuit (note, only the pursuit, not the achievement) of happiness. Anything which has to be provided for by yourself or someone else (food, internet access, et al.) is properly the province of economics and trade, not a natural "right."
In an effort to please each and every technophobe's desire to have their all-important feature be only one click away, Microsoft releases "Windows Flat". No menus. No directory trees. No dialogs.
Isn't that what an operating system is supposed to do? Look, I just want mine to drive the screen and interpret IO. I thought that everyting else was an application, or or is IE really "built right into the OS"?
"Windows must be a monopoly; I don't see anyone else here... " - with apologies to Travis Bickle
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I think that the key is that they can't do those things AND drink until they're 21. As an aside, don't you think that the Bureau of Alchohol, Tobacco, and Firearms must have the best office parties?
So, it's a buffer overflow exploit, then?
If the numbers show people who wear blue shirts are more likely to get sick than those wearing red shirts...
I always thought that it was the ones in the red shirts who died first.
(See my response to the guy above.)
Regardless, let's see you run ANY of those games under Linux, even on XBox, and I'll be interested.
If you're that excited about playing proprietary games (e.g. "Halo, Project Gotham, Jet Grind Radio, Sega GT 2002, NBA2k3, NFL2k3") on proprietary hardware, then for bog's sake, please buy an XBox (or a PS2, or a GameCube, or whatever).
Yes, an XBox can be made to emulate an off-the-shelf PC, and can be made to run Linux if you:
Meaning, of course, that your $199 XBox is now at least (I'm just thinking of the mod chip - I'm assuming that your labor is worthless) a $260+ Linux PC without a warranty. You can do that, and it's legitimately a pretty cool hack (tm) and a nice way to thumb your nose at Redmond, but if what you want is an inexpensive Linux PC, then why not simply buy the inexpensive Linux PC?
*sigh*
I'm not trying to say that a $199 Walmart Linux PC is an XBox, that's not my point. I was responding to the earlier author who maintained that
and, except for the (admittedly) crappy Trident shared-memory video card, I'll stand by that assessment. More memory, more hard drive space, higher CPU core frequency (and for that matter, higher FSB speed - 133 MHz) and Linux (Lindows OS) is already installed. Same price. Expandable.
For the people who suggest that an XBox would make a kewl inexpensive "server", I simply maintain that you could buy and support Microsoft's product, pay extra to hack it with a mod chip and install a free OS over the one you paid for when you bought the XBox, or you could simply buy and support a Linux PC.
"All this said," hacking an XBox is a pretty neat technical hack, but a lot of effort if all you're trying to do is to save a few bucks on hardware.
VIA C3 800 MHz processor
133 MHz frontside bus
128 MB SDRAM, expandable to 1 GB
133 MHz memory speed
10 GB Ultra-ATA 100 hard drive, 5400 rpm
52x CD-ROM drive
Integrated Trident Blade 3D/Pro Media AGP 4x graphics Up to 8 MB shared video memory
Integrated AC '97 Audio with 3D enhanced sound
Integrated 10/100 Ethernet connection
Micro ATX tower case (14"D x 7"W x 14"H)
Available drive bays: one 5.25-inch external, one 3.5-inch external, one 3.5-inch internal
2 PCI slots
1 ISA slot
High-speed serial port
Parallel port
2 front and 2 rear USB ports
Game port
104-key keyboard
2-button mouse with wheel
Audio port (line-in, line-out, mic-in)
Stereo speakers
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Although Red Hat didn't label them as such, disks 1-3 are the install disks, and 4-5 are the SRPMS. (I just downloaded all 5 CDs last night - GRR! AAARGH!)
but wasn't one of the fundamental differences between linux 1.x & 2 that v.1 only ran on x86 architechure and v.2 had been made portable? Specifically, to the Digital/Compaq/HP Alpha processor? (Thank you, Jon "Maddog" Hall!)
Is this going to be as fundamental a shift?
I just taught a week-long Linux+ class to a bunch of Windows 2000 admins. After two days of telling them how to operate at the command line, including discussions of BASH, editing tools, and the contents of /etc, I very nearly faced a revolt.
/etc directory. All you really need is a trusty text editor and about half a clue. The text editor is usually packaged in the distribution.
"Where's the GUI?"
Now, I'm not saying this to insult Windows admins or to blindly troll, but it took a good half of a day to convey to these people that there wasn't a "THE" GUI to admin a Linux server. I showed them Webmin and linuxconf-web, then I showed them SWAT and what it did to the smb.conf file. I told them that while I prefer to edit the config files manually, as that usually gave me more options, "There's More Than One Way To Do It."
(This, by the way, was percieved as a shortcoming of Linux by the Windows admins.)
I'm not sure what the hard part is about having - not an end-user, but a professional admin - edit a text file to modify configuration files. Is there something unclear about settings like "ENABLE = yes"? I can (almost) understand if you've been traumatized by a zealot who's soured you on vi or emacs, but you know there ARE alternatives (KATE, pico, joe, et al) that are relatively easy to use.
Tools like MMC are required in Windows, because Windows settings are held in a database (the registry/metabase) which is unwieldy to edit in other ways (regedt32, for example). Similar settings are held in Linux as (for the most part, very well commented) text files in the
Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man.
Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, 'cause chicks dig a dude with money.
Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.
Lawrence: Well the kind of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.
Peter Gibbons: Good point.
Homer: Now, here's my "Everything's O.K."alarm!
[Homer flips a switch on the device, and it begins to emit a high pitched, incredibly loud beep. The rest of the Simpsons cover their ears as Homer speaks up]
Homer: This will sound every three seconds, unless something isn't okay!
Marge: Turn it off, Homer!
Homer: It can't be turned off! [alarm fizzles out] But it, uh, does break easily.
-- "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace"
This sounds about as useful.
"Anya: Clearly our number is a retro-pastiche. It's never going to be a break-away pop hit."
with apologies to Neal Stephenson:
MGBs, TANKS, AND BATMOBILES
...
Imagine a crossroads where four competing auto dealerships are situated. One of them (Microsoft) is much, much bigger than the others. It started out years ago selling three-speed bicycles (MS-DOS); these were not perfect, but they worked, and when they broke you could easily fix them.
There was a competing bicycle dealership next door (Apple) that one day began selling motorized vehicles--expensive but attractively styled cars with their innards hermetically sealed, so that how they worked was something of a mystery.
The big dealership responded by rushing a moped upgrade kit (the original Windows) onto the market. This was a Rube Goldberg contraption that, when bolted onto a three-speed bicycle, enabled it to keep up, just barely, with Apple-cars. The users had to wear goggles and were always picking bugs out of their teeth while Apple owners sped along in hermetically sealed comfort, sneering out the windows. But the Micro-mopeds were cheap, and easy to fix compared with the Apple-cars, and their market share waxed.
Eventually the big dealership came out with a full-fledged car: a colossal station wagon (Windows 95). It had all the aesthetic appeal of a Soviet worker housing block, it leaked oil and blew gaskets, and it was an enormous success. A little later, they also came out with a hulking off-road vehicle intended for industrial users (Windows NT) which was no more beautiful than the station wagon, and only a little more reliable.
Since then there has been a lot of noise and shouting, but little has changed. The smaller dealership continues to sell sleek Euro-styled sedans and to spend a lot of money on advertising campaigns. They have had GOING OUT OF BUSINESS! signs taped up in their windows for so long that they have gotten all yellow and curly. The big one keeps making bigger and bigger station wagons and ORVs.
On the other side of the road are two competitors that have come along more recently.
One of them (Be, Inc.) is selling fully operational Batmobiles (the BeOS). They are more beautiful and stylish even than the Euro-sedans, better designed, more technologically advanced, and at least as reliable as anything else on the market--and yet cheaper than the others.
With one exception, that is: Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It's a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks. These are not old-fashioned, cast-iron Soviet tanks; these are more like the M1 tanks of the U.S. Army, made of space-age materials and jammed with sophisticated technology from one end to the other. But they are better than Army tanks. They've been modified in such a way that they never, ever break down, are light and maneuverable enough to use on ordinary streets, and use no more fuel than a subcompact car. These tanks are being cranked out, on the spot, at a terrific pace, and a vast number of them are lined up along the edge of the road with keys in the ignition. Anyone who wants can simply climb into one and drive it away for free.
Customers come to this crossroads in throngs, day and night. Ninety percent of them go straight to the biggest dealership and buy station wagons or off-road vehicles. They do not even look at the other dealerships.
Of the remaining ten percent, most go and buy a sleek Euro-sedan, pausing only to turn up their noses at the philistines going to buy the station wagons and ORVs. If they even notice the people on the opposite side of the road, selling the cheaper, technically superior vehicles, these customers deride them cranks and half-wits.
The Batmobile outlet sells a few vehicles to the occasional car nut who wants a second vehicle to go with his station wagon, but seems to accept, at least for now, that it's a fringe player.
The group giving away the free tanks only stays alive because it is staffed by volunteers, who are lined up at the edge of the street with bullhorns, trying to draw customers' attention to this incredible situation. A typical conversation goes something like this:
Hacker with bullhorn: "Save your money! Accept one of our free tanks! It is invulnerable, and can drive across rocks and swamps at ninety miles an hour while getting a hundred miles to the gallon!"
Prospective station wagon buyer: "I know what you say is true...but...er...I don't know how to maintain a tank!"
Bullhorn: "You don't know how to maintain a station wagon either!"
Buyer: "But this dealership has mechanics on staff. If something goes wrong with my station wagon, I can take a day off work, bring it here, and pay them to work on it while I sit in the waiting room for hours, listening to elevator music."
Bullhorn: "But if you accept one of our free tanks we will send volunteers to your house to fix it for free while you sleep!"
Buyer: "Stay away from my house, you freak!"
Bullhorn: "But..."
Buyer: "Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?"
Linus, if you need help installing XP on all your machines, give me a call.
No need, Micro$oft already has a web page to handle this.
How to Remove Linux and Install Windows XP (Q314458)
Isn't "CIFS" just an implementation of SMB? And wasn't SMB/NetBIOS originally (Sep, 1984!) an IBM PC (Network Technical Reference No. 6322916, from http://samba.org/cifs/docs/smb-history.html) specification? So, WTF does Microsoft have stuff-all to say about it? They used the existing standard as the backbone of their own brain-dead networking protocol (LAN Manager), in a misguided attempt to compete with Netware (okay, bad example), and now they're concerned about protecting *THEIR* IP? I guess that I just don't get it.
billg: "Buy him out, Boys!"
[thugs trash Homer's house]
billg: "I didn't get to be the richest guy in the world by writing a bunch of checks!"
40 Billion dollars, or Larry Ellison?
March 14, 2002
At Airport Gate, a Cyborg Unplugged
By LISA GUERNSEY
SEEKING COMPENSATION - Prof. Steve Mann, a walking experiment in wearable computers, went through a three-day ordeal trying to board an Air Canada plane bound for Toronto.
STEVE MANN, an engineering professor at the University of Toronto, has lived as a cyborg for more than 20 years, wearing a web of wires, computers and electronic sensors that are designed to augment his memory, enhance his vision and keep tabs on his vital signs. Although his wearable computer system sometimes elicited stares, he never encountered any problems going through the security gates at airports.
Last month that changed. Before boarding a Toronto-bound plane at St. John's International Airport in Newfoundland, Dr. Mann says, he went through a three-day ordeal in which he was ultimately strip- searched and injured by security personnel. During the incident, he said, $56,800 worth of his $500,000 equipment was lost or damaged beyond repair, including the eyeglasses that serve as his display screen.
His lawyer in Toronto, Gary Neinstein, sent letters two weeks ago to Air Canada (news/quote), the airport and the Canadian transportation authority arguing that they acted negligently and seeking reimbursement for the damaged equipment so that Dr. Mann could put his wearable computer back together again.
The difficulties that Dr. Mann faced seem related to the tightening of security in airports since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. But he had flown from Toronto to St. John's two days earlier without a hitch.
On that day, Feb. 16, he said, he followed the routine he has used on previous flights. He told the security guards in Toronto that he had already notified the airline about his equipment. He showed them documentation, some of it signed by his doctor, that described the wires and glasses, which he wears every waking minute as part of his internationally renowned research on wearable computers.
He also asked for permission not to put his computer through the X-ray machine because the device is more sensitive than a laptop. He said that the guards examined his equipment and allowed him to board the flight.
But when he tried to board his return flight on Feb. 18, his experience was entirely different. This time, he said, he was told to turn his computer on and off and put it on the X-ray machine. He took his case to Neil Campbell, Air Canada's customer service manager at the St. John's airport, and spent the next two days arranging conversations between his university colleagues and the airline.
The security guards continued to require that he turn his machine on and off and put it through the X-ray machine while also tugging on his wires and electrodes, he said. Still not satisfied, the guards took him to a private room for a strip-search in which, he said, the electrodes were torn from his skin, causing bleeding, and several pieces of equipment were strewn about the room.
Once his system was turned off, turned on again, X-rayed and dismantled, Dr. Mann passed the security check. When he was finally allowed to go home, some pieces of equipment were not returned to him, he said, and his glasses were put in the plane's baggage compartment although he warned that cold temperatures there could ruin them.
Without a fully functional system, he said, he found it difficult to navigate normally. He said he fell at least twice in the airport, once passing out after hitting his head on what he described as a pile of fire extinguishers in his way. He boarded the plane in a wheelchair.
"I felt dizzy and disoriented and went downhill from there," he said.
Air Canada said that there was no record that any of Dr. Mann's baggage had been lost and that the Canadian transportation agency, Transport Canada, had required that his belongings be X-rayed. "We don't tell the security firms that there is going to be an exception made," said Nicole Couture-Simard, a spokeswoman for Air Canada. "We don't have that authority."
Transport Canada declined to comment on the case except to say that it was reviewing it.
Considering that even tweezers may be confiscated when a passenger boards a flight these days, the stricter scrutiny that Dr. Mann faced may not seem surprising. But for him, the experience raises the question of how a traveler will fare once wearable computing devices are such fixtures on the body that a person will not be able to part with them.
"We have to make sure we don't go into a police state where travel becomes impossible for certain individuals," Dr. Mann said.
Since losing the use of his vision system and computer memory several weeks ago, he said, he cannot concentrate and is behaving differently. He is now undergoing tests to determine whether his brain has been affected by the sudden detachment from the technology.
Alejandro R. Jahad, director of the University of Toronto's Program in E-Health Innovation, who has worked closely with Dr. Mann, said that scientists now had an opportunity to see what happens when a cyborg is unplugged. "I find this a very fascinating case," he said.
Joe Sixpack, most likely ignorant of what MPAA is, sees the check-mark on the Flybynite, sees that Freedom brand doesn't have it, and with little separating the two in regards to price, figures he's getting more for his dollar.
You mean the same way that DVD players with the DIVX checkbox swept the market?
p.s. - Don't make fun of "Joe Six-Pack" - he spends and he votes. "Ich bin ein Johann Sechs-Satzer!"
Will Indy's fedora be red?
*ouch*
Compaq Insight Manager XE uses this (MSDE) too. Account 'SA' (SQL Admin) with no password. It's included on the Management CD, packed with all of their servers.
Um hmm...
I see, and who is to PROVIDE you "food, water, and shelter" (much less, internet access!)? Me? Rights are basic and inalienable, as the passage once ran, and include life, liberty, and the pursuit (note, only the pursuit, not the achievement) of happiness. Anything which has to be provided for by yourself or someone else (food, internet access, et al.) is properly the province of economics and trade, not a natural "right."
eXtra Profits.
Carthago Delinda Est
Isn't that what an operating system is supposed to do? Look, I just want mine to drive the screen and interpret IO. I thought that everyting else was an application, or or is IE really "built right into the OS"?
"Windows must be a monopoly; I don't see anyone else here... " - with apologies to Travis Bickle
And, the best part is that they'll send me 12 DVDs for my $300 pledge.
Beats a tote bag any time.