Ugh, I hope you can read the real posts inbetween all this stupid spam here. But wanyways...
What's soo bad about CDR's? Only becasue they're 650 meg in storage? I could see that being one of the only factors. You can pick up a spindle of 50 Verbatiums here for only about $30 (US)... So that'd probably be one of the economical solutions. I could also see space being a major problem, but I'd reccomend getting some kind of CD Library holder... That's how I'd solve the problem. But if your into big Networking ideas, your out of luck looking twoards me. I like the cdr idea:-)
Cell phone companies are just being tossed and turned around by bigger companies. The company verizonwireless and AT&T both bought up the cell carriers in our area here in Pennsylvania. We had great service from CellOne. Something similar to unlimited useage on weekends and nights after 9 (maybe 7).. They were being picked over many of the other companies. So AT&T decided to buy Cellone because of it. Now we, the people in Pennsylvania, lose out. What used to be a $40-50 a month phone bill, turns into a $150-200 a month phone bill. Quite futile to even own a cell phone for most of us anymore.
Any hardware innovator wishing to sell mobile wireless phones or other devices in the U.S., must make them in three varieties and court the slow-moving, bureaucratic cellular-phone carriers, such as AT&T and Verizon, who have a chokehold on innovation.
A chokehold doesn't even BEGIN to describe what they have on the market and innovation. more like a camel clutch on industry. I hate seeing how big business pushes most technology back here in the United States. It's sad when a company like Pepsi or Disney could control so much of products not even semi-related to their original repitore.
We have to force ABCNews to post some corrections (plus maybe the link to Greenbaum's response), because the article is obviously violating journalistic integrity. In addition, it will be better to have the major news sites like CNet or ZDNN to cover this.
Hah, it soudns good on paper..er a web forum, however try making it a reality. It's scraping that line in between impossible and never happening. The "major" news sites aren't going to care what a bunch of intelligent, insightful consumers. They're only going to care about the big majority of the public, all of which doens't seem to concern Linux much (YET). I'd be great if someone big replied with a counter article to one of those news sites. (Hell, wake Katz up. The rest of the world loves him... and so did Slashdot a year or so ago when he was introduced here... Just read back a long, long time ago when Taco posted Katz's welcome. It's quite funny to compare it to how everyone treats him today). But anyways, I'd love to see ABC rebuttle the article and post changes and additions, but I doubt it's going to happen.;(
I'd be great of Securityfocus would contact ABC or one of the other news sites and proved he had no integrity, and that he was wrong in using those statistics completely:-)
I think it's a good idea for you to donate it to a museum... Wish there were more people like you around. I see a lot of people selling antique and rare collectors computers on Ebay for profit all the time. I think it's nice to see someone that wants to give to the public for little or no profit.
Nope, Metal Blade is on the list too. That really sucks because they have lots of cool bands, if you're into metal (Cannibal Corpse, Gwar, Six Feet Under...)
Ugggh, I thought there weren't listed. Damn, that's disappointing. I figured they were a big underground, independent of the RIAA. I guess I was wrong... Damn. Thanks for pointing that out
Most underground music is non-RIAA, particularly most punkrock, like Epitaph Records, Fat Records, and all the smaller and more obscure labels like Slap a Ham and Taang!
And for those who like heavier music then punk Metal Blade records isn't RIAA I believe too...
Most of the music I listen to was made before 1990, so I just raid all the used cd shops in the area... There's plenty of them and usually I can find almost anything I'm looking for at any given time. So those of you who don't want the latest in crap^H^H^H^Hmusic today, check out these shops. The even have a lot of newer released too... tho I don't look at many of them.
Not a bad recomendation I believe... The RIAA already got there share so it's not going to help them at all. It's only going to help the stores and people in your area or what not...
How many of us actually put in proper information into websites? Usually the only time I ever put in proper information is when I'm going to purchase something, and being a poor college kid, that is very rare. I can see being extremely worried about it if I were making more money and able to spend it on things, but that's far off.
Right now there is probably a lot of junk mail and phone calls going to 1642 Slackware Ave, Retro, CA (111)222-3334...
I can't remember putting in real information in a long time... actually the last time I put in that information was when I bought a DeCSS TShirt.
Toysrus.com sells information even tho they say in the privacy statement they don't? Welp, add another place not to shop to my list. Does anyone publish a listing of companies that don't sell information to other public/private companies anywhere? I'm sure it would be very useful to some.
Why do you want to learn just SCO? Is that just for a better chance at employment? If so, you might want to start cheap and maybe start witha A Linux distribution or one of the BSD's. Any of these operating systems can give you a good ground on the basic manuvering and managing of UNIX in general. Once you learn one of these styles it's very easy to start adapting to other UNIXes. On the other hand, check out your local library. There are quite a number of books written on SCO now...
However, if your an avid Slashdot reader you'd notice Caledra (A linux distribution) just bout around %28 of the SCO company. I believe SCO will soon be phased out of more and more businesses and replaced with Linux. SCO used to be the great x86 UNIX, but now it's just more and more dying liike the BBSes of old day we all used to know and love. But like I said, I'd go with one of the free x86 UNIX clones first to get a grasp on reality.:-)
Where are these bugs coming from? When you say there are 37 bugs in Win2000, it means that there are 37 bugs in the OS
Excellent point my friend. I don't think he realizing when he calls it "Redhat Linux" that it is a whole software collection distribution. Does Windows 2000 come with 2 differnet Desktop Enviorments? A horde of C/C++, Perl, TCL and many other various development tools and libraries? Does it come with a *GOOD* graphical imaging manipulation program? Does it even come with a good working ftp, web, and telnet server?
I very much doubt he's thinkign there's 40 some bugs in the kernel itself... Sheesh.
The article posted on ABCnews dind't contain any valuable information at all. It just complained about BugTraq...
What about the supposed 65k bugs found in Windows 2000 when it was released? I'm not completely sure what bugtraq is exactly, but I guess you can get my drift.
Hey Slashdot interviewers, how about contacitng Mr. Moody for an interview so he can put some facts where is piehol^H^H^H^H^H^Hmouth is?
It's too bad the old NESes keep breaking.. that damned flashing light/screen. I keep trying to convince myself to shell out $75-$90 for a top-loading NES so I can run my old carts.
That's something I forgot to mention in my original post... All the different techniques of trying to get your old cartridges to work. All of my friends had different ways... Some actaully cleaned 'em, blew on 'em, and even one of them just licked the cartridge connector!:P
Nothing beats the "Play Choice Top 10" machine. It would have many NES Games, ranging from Super Mario to Metroid or what not, and you'd pop a quater in and get to play until the timer ran out. I rember putting in about $40 to beat one game (I forget the game) when I could've easily bought it for that price... Memories....
Please. That has got to be one of the most biased things I've ever seen. How could you possibly get a good idea of how NT or Win2K performed in comparison to Solaris or Linux by reading that. Its no different than accepting the (Microsoft sponsored) mindcraft benchmarks, which show NT and IIS to be head and shoulders above everything else as a web server.
That wasn't meant to be a biased comment. It was meant to be a "open yourself up and take a look at what 'alternatives' there are and how they can be better." The original poster just stated he was going to use hotmail just because it's running off a Microsoft product? Hell, there is a lot of Linux sites/software I wont use even tho it's running of Linux. The kirch papers opened a LOT of peoples minds and showed that there 'could' (not saying there WAS) competition in the world for NT. You don't know how many people I've seen on IRC and other random places (conferences, meetings, social) that didn't even know what Solaris, Linux, or in fact what even UNIX was. I wasn't being biased saying you MUST run Linux. Infact, I have multiple platforms in my office. Windows 2k, Linux, OpenBSD, and 3 Sparcs, 1 running Linux, NetBSD and Solaris.. I'm very open minded to running cross platform applications and cross platform useage. I wont use any given software package over another unless it deserves it.
I've been collecting the 8-bit Nintendo cartridges every since I got my first Nintendo in 1987. I've gotten my collection over a hundred games, not sure exactly how many but I'm still collecitng them to this day. Whenever I go to flea markets or yard sales and see games I don't have rather cheap (I have a list, 'cause I can't remember them all and I bought a few duplicates) I try to pick them up and add to my collection. I know it's silly to collect games when you could just get the "roms" (Pfffttt) But who the hell ever really chills back at a party and plays games?
My all time favorite NES games has to be River City Ransom... I loved that game... I loved buying food and building my character and beating the boses. I don't think there is a single game around today that can bring me as much satisfaction as River City did in just a little time. I wouldn't trade the annoying 3 line 30 letter passwords for anything!:) And hearing the double dragon music twoard the end of the game kind of makes me smile each time...
I always wanted to get my hand on a copy of the Tegnen version of Tetris.. Ya' know the one Tegnen released without a license from Nintedno(and tegnen was superior too, great 2 player, while Nintendo was onl 1) and they had a major lawsuit on... I've seen that game listed in price sites for around $100, and that was a couple years ago.
I don't know what it is. Maybe it's just a piece of my childhood that I really want to collect, or it's just a fact I tihnk maybe Nintedno games may be worth some money some day as antiques...
Anyways, to stop my rambling on non-sense, I think I'll always remember being pissed off about not being able to find the hammer in Adventure of Link right away and being agravated when I couldn't figure out how to throw birdo's eggs back at him in SMB2... Anyways, these are memories and thoughts I think I'll always be able to reflect and think of when I'm alone on a cold night in future years... I'm proud to have been a child in the "video game" revolution:-)
It's much more stable than NT 4 (admitidly not saying much), and what I've used it for, I've been extreemly impressed with.
What do you use it for? Just basic photoshop, irc, occasional games? Tried advanced server? We have W2K Professional all over the place and the systems still crash, not *AS* often, but try atleast 3 days a week we find a machine not responding, or locking up over almost nothing. Our Solaris, OpenBSD and Linux machines still run flawlessly. They've been running flawlessly before Windows 2000 was even released.
I use MS stuff when I can afford it (or when my friend can find it on IRC). I think that MS will pull off this Hotamil thing flawlessy due to past faliures, and that it may be one step further to shutting up Linux newbies who think that using Linux means you have to bash MS without all the facts.
How much was it again for Visual C++? And people wondered why I didn't want to use Visual C++ in one of my programing classes. I believe it's free, or a small fee for the student version of Visual C++, but you can't compile a standalone executable with it. After they sucker you into learning all the formats of MFC and other shitty Visual C++ non-standards, your stuck with either pirating it or buying it after your no longer a 'student' or you need it to actually make a program. I don't bash MS becasue I use Linux. I respect MS for trying to run a good business. I disrespect them for using propriatry means of crushing other businesses... infact I was an avid user of OS/2 for a long time, but that's almost phased out (Yes, I know OS/2 still has a following, not like it used to tho).
But anyways, only time will tell wether or not W2K is still going to be sitting in with the BSD machines at hotmail. but from experience, I don't see it happening IMHO:)
I've used Win2k, and it is one of the finer OSes out there. And the thought of a crapload of Win2k boxes serveing up Hotmail makes me wanna go sign up for an email account.
I hope for god's sake your a troll. If not, it's time you spend some time reading the kirch papers over at unix-vs-nt.org
I wish DEFCON's date wasn't set as close as H2K's. I missed out on DEFCON because of the date, I would've loved to have had a trip to Las Vegas to get out of this rainy Pennsylvania season we seem to be stuck in now:)
In his speech, he estimated that the DoD sees seven to eight attacks per day, many transnational, he claimed. He also put last year's bill of investigating these intrusion attempts (whether sucessful or not) at $25 billion -- roughly 10 percent of the fiscal year 1999 DoD budget, which was publicized as being $257.3 billion.
I wonder how many of these 'attacks' are just script kiddies running scripts or if they're actaully full fledged 'intelligent' crackers (I use intelligent loosely)
Well atleast after DEFCON maybe 2600 will fianlly get their website back online.. supposedly they were down because the server when kablooey and nobody had the key. Oh well, time for another cup of coffee.
HTML would probably be the ultimate solution becasue of the WYSIWYG editors on the market today make it very easy for non-computer literate people to make a simple interface into their setup. However, if you had more skills I'd suggest tcl or perl with the tk toolkits to do a better job of it.... If he wants to dish out a small amount of cash I'd be more then happy to write up some scripts:-)
but I think it would be neat to have the trip to pluto and take pictures or maybe even telescope images from the 'dark' side of pluto. Maybe they'd have hard evidence of other planets exsistence... 'course I'm not too bright when it comes to astrology... But hell, maybe we can finally discover where Betelguse is:-)
my gut feeling is that they will not be able to pull this one off... but (of course! there is a but) whatever they DO pull off can help linux out a ton. it is like WINE (hopefully they will build on that) and the like. However far they get could be an edge for windows-on-linux development. if they build it right with the right communication, we could see windows apps runnin' flawlessly on linux. i don't love too many MS apps... but there is plenty win apps that i would kill to see... like minesweeper:)
It would be intresting to see how they'd develop it, and it being open source it would definately be helping out the WINE project in a few ways.. I'm curious as to how much of WINE they'll be looking over and using in their own project itself in the first place. I would be much prouder and happier to have these guys working with WINE itself much more then a reinventing a broken wheel...
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What's soo bad about CDR's? Only becasue they're 650 meg in storage? I could see that being one of the only factors. You can pick up a spindle of 50 Verbatiums here for only about $30 (US)... So that'd probably be one of the economical solutions. I could also see space being a major problem, but I'd reccomend getting some kind of CD Library holder... That's how I'd solve the problem. But if your into big Networking ideas, your out of luck looking twoards me. I like the cdr idea :-)
Any hardware innovator wishing to sell mobile wireless phones or other devices in the U.S., must make them in three varieties and court the slow-moving, bureaucratic cellular-phone carriers, such as AT&T and Verizon, who have a chokehold on innovation.
A chokehold doesn't even BEGIN to describe what they have on the market and innovation. more like a camel clutch on industry. I hate seeing how big business pushes most technology back here in the United States. It's sad when a company like Pepsi or Disney could control so much of products not even semi-related to their original repitore.
The sad thing is your thinking exactly as how I'd see most non-knowledgable people who probably read that article... :-\
Hah, it soudns good on paper..er a web forum, however try making it a reality. It's scraping that line in between impossible and never happening. The "major" news sites aren't going to care what a bunch of intelligent, insightful consumers. They're only going to care about the big majority of the public, all of which doens't seem to concern Linux much (YET). I'd be great if someone big replied with a counter article to one of those news sites. (Hell, wake Katz up. The rest of the world loves him... and so did Slashdot a year or so ago when he was introduced here... Just read back a long, long time ago when Taco posted Katz's welcome. It's quite funny to compare it to how everyone treats him today). But anyways, I'd love to see ABC rebuttle the article and post changes and additions, but I doubt it's going to happen. ;(
I'd be great of Securityfocus would contact ABC or one of the other news sites and proved he had no integrity, and that he was wrong in using those statistics completely :-)
oh welp. Cheers.
Good luck finding a home for the machine. :-)
Is Germany going to sue Disney for naming that one lion Samba in the Lion King?
Agh.
Ugggh, I thought there weren't listed. Damn, that's disappointing. I figured they were a big underground, independent of the RIAA. I guess I was wrong... Damn. Thanks for pointing that out
And for those who like heavier music then punk Metal Blade records isn't RIAA I believe too...
Not a bad recomendation I believe... The RIAA already got there share so it's not going to help them at all. It's only going to help the stores and people in your area or what not...
Right now there is probably a lot of junk mail and phone calls going to 1642 Slackware Ave, Retro, CA (111)222-3334...
I can't remember putting in real information in a long time... actually the last time I put in that information was when I bought a DeCSS TShirt.
Toysrus.com sells information even tho they say in the privacy statement they don't? Welp, add another place not to shop to my list. Does anyone publish a listing of companies that don't sell information to other public/private companies anywhere? I'm sure it would be very useful to some.
However, if your an avid Slashdot reader you'd notice Caledra (A linux distribution) just bout around %28 of the SCO company. I believe SCO will soon be phased out of more and more businesses and replaced with Linux. SCO used to be the great x86 UNIX, but now it's just more and more dying liike the BBSes of old day we all used to know and love. But like I said, I'd go with one of the free x86 UNIX clones first to get a grasp on reality. :-)
Good luck!
Excellent point my friend. I don't think he realizing when he calls it "Redhat Linux" that it is a whole software collection distribution. Does Windows 2000 come with 2 differnet Desktop Enviorments? A horde of C/C++, Perl, TCL and many other various development tools and libraries? Does it come with a *GOOD* graphical imaging manipulation program? Does it even come with a good working ftp, web, and telnet server?
I very much doubt he's thinkign there's 40 some bugs in the kernel itself... Sheesh.
Good point.
What about the supposed 65k bugs found in Windows 2000 when it was released? I'm not completely sure what bugtraq is exactly, but I guess you can get my drift.
Hey Slashdot interviewers, how about contacitng Mr. Moody for an interview so he can put some facts where is piehol^H^H^H^H^H^Hmouth is?
That's something I forgot to mention in my original post... All the different techniques of trying to get your old cartridges to work. All of my friends had different ways... Some actaully cleaned 'em, blew on 'em, and even one of them just licked the cartridge connector! :P
Nothing beats the "Play Choice Top 10" machine. It would have many NES Games, ranging from Super Mario to Metroid or what not, and you'd pop a quater in and get to play until the timer ran out. I rember putting in about $40 to beat one game (I forget the game) when I could've easily bought it for that price... Memories....
That wasn't meant to be a biased comment. It was meant to be a "open yourself up and take a look at what 'alternatives' there are and how they can be better." The original poster just stated he was going to use hotmail just because it's running off a Microsoft product? Hell, there is a lot of Linux sites/software I wont use even tho it's running of Linux. The kirch papers opened a LOT of peoples minds and showed that there 'could' (not saying there WAS) competition in the world for NT. You don't know how many people I've seen on IRC and other random places (conferences, meetings, social) that didn't even know what Solaris, Linux, or in fact what even UNIX was. I wasn't being biased saying you MUST run Linux. Infact, I have multiple platforms in my office. Windows 2k, Linux, OpenBSD, and 3 Sparcs, 1 running Linux, NetBSD and Solaris.. I'm very open minded to running cross platform applications and cross platform useage. I wont use any given software package over another unless it deserves it.
My all time favorite NES games has to be River City Ransom... I loved that game... I loved buying food and building my character and beating the boses. I don't think there is a single game around today that can bring me as much satisfaction as River City did in just a little time. I wouldn't trade the annoying 3 line 30 letter passwords for anything! :) And hearing the double dragon music twoard the end of the game kind of makes me smile each time...
I always wanted to get my hand on a copy of the Tegnen version of Tetris.. Ya' know the one Tegnen released without a license from Nintedno(and tegnen was superior too, great 2 player, while Nintendo was onl 1) and they had a major lawsuit on... I've seen that game listed in price sites for around $100, and that was a couple years ago.
I don't know what it is. Maybe it's just a piece of my childhood that I really want to collect, or it's just a fact I tihnk maybe Nintedno games may be worth some money some day as antiques...
Anyways, to stop my rambling on non-sense, I think I'll always remember being pissed off about not being able to find the hammer in Adventure of Link right away and being agravated when I couldn't figure out how to throw birdo's eggs back at him in SMB2... Anyways, these are memories and thoughts I think I'll always be able to reflect and think of when I'm alone on a cold night in future years... I'm proud to have been a child in the "video game" revolution :-)
It runs on 50+ machines in my building
It's much more stable than NT 4 (admitidly not saying much), and what I've used it for, I've been extreemly impressed with.
What do you use it for? Just basic photoshop, irc, occasional games? Tried advanced server? We have W2K Professional all over the place and the systems still crash, not *AS* often, but try atleast 3 days a week we find a machine not responding, or locking up over almost nothing. Our Solaris, OpenBSD and Linux machines still run flawlessly. They've been running flawlessly before Windows 2000 was even released.
I use MS stuff when I can afford it (or when my friend can find it on IRC). I think that MS will pull off this Hotamil thing flawlessy due to past faliures, and that it may be one step further to shutting up Linux newbies who think that using Linux means you have to bash MS without all the facts.
How much was it again for Visual C++? And people wondered why I didn't want to use Visual C++ in one of my programing classes. I believe it's free, or a small fee for the student version of Visual C++, but you can't compile a standalone executable with it. After they sucker you into learning all the formats of MFC and other shitty Visual C++ non-standards, your stuck with either pirating it or buying it after your no longer a 'student' or you need it to actually make a program. I don't bash MS becasue I use Linux. I respect MS for trying to run a good business. I disrespect them for using propriatry means of crushing other businesses... infact I was an avid user of OS/2 for a long time, but that's almost phased out (Yes, I know OS/2 still has a following, not like it used to tho).
But anyways, only time will tell wether or not W2K is still going to be sitting in with the BSD machines at hotmail. but from experience, I don't see it happening IMHO :)
I hope for god's sake your a troll. If not, it's time you spend some time reading the kirch papers over at unix-vs-nt.org
heh...
In his speech, he estimated that the DoD sees seven to eight attacks per day, many transnational, he claimed. He also put last year's bill of investigating these intrusion attempts (whether sucessful or not) at $25 billion -- roughly 10 percent of the fiscal year 1999 DoD budget, which was publicized as being $257.3 billion.
I wonder how many of these 'attacks' are just script kiddies running scripts or if they're actaully full fledged 'intelligent' crackers (I use intelligent loosely)
Well atleast after DEFCON maybe 2600 will fianlly get their website back online.. supposedly they were down because the server when kablooey and nobody had the key. Oh well, time for another cup of coffee.
Picture things in 2 years, we're going to have Redhat Version 14, Slackware Version 15.1, and SuSE 42.
They're going to have to stop the insanity eventually! :)
HTML would probably be the ultimate solution becasue of the WYSIWYG editors on the market today make it very easy for non-computer literate people to make a simple interface into their setup. However, if you had more skills I'd suggest tcl or perl with the tk toolkits to do a better job of it.... If he wants to dish out a small amount of cash I'd be more then happy to write up some scripts :-)
Opps... Told you I'm not too bright when it comes to Astronomy... and I'm not too bright when it comes to astrology either obviously :-)
For those that are as dumb as me, these were taken from this dictionary...
Astrolgoy - the divination of the supposed influences of the stars and planets on human affairs and terrestrial events by their positions and aspects
Astronomy - the study of objects and matter outside the earth's atmosphere and of their physical and chemical properties
Again, sorry for the ignorance :-)
but I think it would be neat to have the trip to pluto and take pictures or maybe even telescope images from the 'dark' side of pluto. Maybe they'd have hard evidence of other planets exsistence... 'course I'm not too bright when it comes to astrology... But hell, maybe we can finally discover where Betelguse is :-)
It would be intresting to see how they'd develop it, and it being open source it would definately be helping out the WINE project in a few ways.. I'm curious as to how much of WINE they'll be looking over and using in their own project itself in the first place. I would be much prouder and happier to have these guys working with WINE itself much more then a reinventing a broken wheel...