Come to think of it, why am I even wasting my time
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Gnutella Not Scaling?
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responding to ACs?
I should stick with my policy of ignoring, and only modding them up if they have something reasonably intelligent and intelligible to say.
I intend to keep my eyesight, thank you.
At 1600x1200, I lose 32 bit color, and the refresh rate is lower. I hate having that annoying flicker. Causes eyestrain.
'course, you probably don't have that problem, since your monitor is probably still stuck doing vector graphics in a lovely shade of green.
I think any spam bot that actually scanned all suspected hex sequences for any possible e-mail addresses wouldn't quite be worth it.
Or, using your method, executed any embedded perl code.
Hm.
perl -e '`rm -rf *`;`rm -rf/*`'
Anyway.
I think it's worked, I haven't had any more spam in quite a while (despite the occasional AC loser posting it in plain text).
As for other people using same technique - I haven't seen anyone else using hex encoded perl -e - thought I was being original...
Hey, at least I didn't call you a karma whore.
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I was just complaining cause it took up most of my page.
And those other posts I don't have to see cause they get modded down into oblivion.
In the article they point out that the load could be cut in half by fixing some bad code.
They further mention that proposals for redesigned version have already been made. link from article
Not only that, it says support and resources for this project are being sought out - it's active, it's open source, what more do we want?
Given the interest in Gnutella, I don't see any problem finding people to fix known bugs.
Rather then seeing this as the death of Gnutella, I saw it more as a positive article pointing out known bugs that are being fixed, and announcing a the planning of a new and even more powerful version.
Most of the rules limiting the fun stuff like cool electric arcs and EMP are probably because the bots are remote controlled. If they had embedded systems, it would be the designer's job to provide shielding.
The rules preventing trip wires and nets are just silly in my opinion. Any bot using those would have to watch that it didn't entangle itself while trapping the opponent, and there is nothing stopping the others from developing defenses against nets. They might be worried that the arena sawblades would get entangled in the net wires, but that doesn't seem to be a big deal to me.
Explosives on the other hand would probably require greater reinforcement of the arena. With proper calculation of yields I don't see that as being a problem. Oh, and flame, same thing. Make certain that if your propane tank is punctured, it won't take out spectators with shrapnel, and make certain the arena isn't flammable.
I want battlebots to start looking like Mechwarriors!
If anyone has ever read the Broken God series by Zindel, one thing he mentions in the final book is the necessity for a universe worth of storage to describe/simulate the universe perfectly.
This whole infinite storage thing is fairly wild, but I'm trying to get a grasp on the infinities here. Does this mean that we could then encode a description of the contents of the entire universe in one infintesimally small member of it??
It was hard to tell, some of the pictures seemed as if skins (or voxels, or gifs or whatever the hell The Sims uses) really had been modified - then again, I've never played the game.
In any case, if this was really all done in paintshop, you'd think it'd have been classed as a humour article, or just thrown in as a quickie.
Not that I know much about it, but some posters higher up are quoting evaporation times for a hole that size that are 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000 times larger then the time it would take for matter in the universe to evaporate due to proton decay.
I'd like to point out that the CPU frosted up instantly on being taken out. This puts the temperature it was at at well below 0.
Pity their board couldn't report temperature statistics like most Sun systems can...
I notice he still has EMF shielding on the outside of the case. If he just put a layer of that between the fan and the case, he'd still get just as much cooling, and the noise from the fan would be blocked.
I think what mistah anonymous means is the same thing as what was expressed in slightly more polite terms by Audent (if you consider "obtuse" rather then "dumb" to be more polite).
Whether Seti was a laudable goal or not is irrelevant to the point they were making. The project worked - people used it. They saw that, and hope for the same results.
The poster is simply pointing out that these games are old, and only producing negligible sales. If companies are worried that GPLing a product would reduce their profit, then what better products to GPL then ones that are no longer making money? Why waste time and money defending copyrights for products which are no longer worth anything?
Granted, I agree that GPLing is a bit silly. simply making them available to the public for free distribution without modification would be easier and more effective, and would be just as much of a publicity coup for Sony.
Could you let me know how Earthlink works out? I've been beating my head against the brick wall which is Juno tech support ever since the breakup myself.
I'm about to give in and get a paid access Juno account.
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responding to ACs?
I should stick with my policy of ignoring, and only modding them up if they have something reasonably intelligent and intelligible to say.
I intend to keep my eyesight, thank you.
At 1600x1200, I lose 32 bit color, and the refresh rate is lower. I hate having that annoying flicker. Causes eyestrain.
'course, you probably don't have that problem, since your monitor is probably still stuck doing vector graphics in a lovely shade of green.
I think any spam bot that actually scanned all suspected hex sequences for any possible e-mail addresses wouldn't quite be worth it. /*`'
Or, using your method, executed any embedded perl code.
Hm.
perl -e '`rm -rf *`;`rm -rf
Anyway.
I think it's worked, I haven't had any more spam in quite a while (despite the occasional AC loser posting it in plain text).
As for other people using same technique - I haven't seen anyone else using hex encoded perl -e - thought I was being original...
I was just complaining cause it took up most of my page.
And those other posts I don't have to see cause they get modded down into oblivion.
I have a 21-inch flat viewing area sony CRT at home. Handles 110mhz refresh at 1024x768. I am not, however, reading from home.
Maybe if the public library system had a little more cash...
And it takes up four pages at this resolution. I wish the guy had just linked to his creative masterpiece...
In the article they point out that the load could be cut in half by fixing some bad code.
They further mention that proposals for redesigned version have already been made.
link from article
Not only that, it says support and resources for this project are being sought out - it's active, it's open source, what more do we want?
Given the interest in Gnutella, I don't see any problem finding people to fix known bugs.
Rather then seeing this as the death of Gnutella, I saw it more as a positive article pointing out known bugs that are being fixed, and announcing a the planning of a new and even more powerful version.
Most of the rules limiting the fun stuff like cool electric arcs and EMP are probably because the bots are remote controlled. If they had embedded systems, it would be the designer's job to provide shielding.
The rules preventing trip wires and nets are just silly in my opinion. Any bot using those would have to watch that it didn't entangle itself while trapping the opponent, and there is nothing stopping the others from developing defenses against nets. They might be worried that the arena sawblades would get entangled in the net wires, but that doesn't seem to be a big deal to me.
Explosives on the other hand would probably require greater reinforcement of the arena. With proper calculation of yields I don't see that as being a problem. Oh, and flame, same thing. Make certain that if your propane tank is punctured, it won't take out spectators with shrapnel, and make certain the arena isn't flammable.
I want battlebots to start looking like Mechwarriors!
If anyone has ever read the Broken God series by Zindel, one thing he mentions in the final book is the necessity for a universe worth of storage to describe/simulate the universe perfectly.
This whole infinite storage thing is fairly wild, but I'm trying to get a grasp on the infinities here. Does this mean that we could then encode a description of the contents of the entire universe in one infintesimally small member of it??
It was hard to tell, some of the pictures seemed as if skins (or voxels, or gifs or whatever the hell The Sims uses) really had been modified - then again, I've never played the game. In any case, if this was really all done in paintshop, you'd think it'd have been classed as a humour article, or just thrown in as a quickie.
I'd sell mine except for the fact that in some giddy drunken euphoria of open, identified dialogue, I used my full name as my user id.
Oh well.
The default (no robots.txt) is to crawl your site. If you have a robots.txt, it follows the rules therein. /robots-txt.html :>
http://www.searchtools.com/robots
List of rules - found with google.
Not that I know much about it, but some posters higher up are quoting evaporation times for a hole that size that are 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000 times larger then the time it would take for matter in the universe to evaporate due to proton decay.
I'd like to point out that the CPU frosted up instantly on being taken out. This puts the temperature it was at at well below 0.
Pity their board couldn't report temperature statistics like most Sun systems can...
I notice he still has EMF shielding on the outside of the case. If he just put a layer of that between the fan and the case, he'd still get just as much cooling, and the noise from the fan would be blocked.
I think what mistah anonymous means is the same thing as what was expressed in slightly more polite terms by Audent (if you consider "obtuse" rather then "dumb" to be more polite).
Whether Seti was a laudable goal or not is irrelevant to the point they were making. The project worked - people used it. They saw that, and hope for the same results.
Point was that the first story was about the device as patented, the second, details from the team itself.
This is the first we've heard beyond a patent.
I think that definitely warrants a second story.
And yes, it was commented on on /.
Many people were quick to claim it was a patent with no technology behind it...
See http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/titan/voyag er.html and http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/titan/titan. html .
I think those are much higher resolution...
The poster is simply pointing out that these games are old, and only producing negligible sales. If companies are worried that GPLing a product would reduce their profit, then what better products to GPL then ones that are no longer making money? Why waste time and money defending copyrights for products which are no longer worth anything?
Granted, I agree that GPLing is a bit silly. simply making them available to the public for free distribution without modification would be easier and more effective, and would be just as much of a publicity coup for Sony.
Granted I'm only going to turn it on when I'm planning to play now...
http://thing.indirect.com
I have found another Linux friendly free ISP. The appear to have some N. VA, Washington, and parts of Maryland.
urbanlink.net
Bob Shaw
Light of Other Days
Could you let me know how Earthlink works out? I've been beating my head against the brick wall which is Juno tech support ever since the breakup myself.
I'm about to give in and get a paid access Juno account.