I didn't say it WOULD cause anything disasterous, and yes I know it would probably take many years before it had any significant effect, I'm just saying I'm more comfortable with them testing it on a comet that is much less likely to have any effect on us whatsoever than on Luna.
It's one of those "it's possible but so highly improbable that it's probably not worth worrying about but we might as well play it somewhat safe anyway"
A: that's not true
B: even if it was, it still would have absilutely nothing to do with MY statement
I'm simply saying that it's a bit strange/interesting that gcc, which could be considered one of the most important peices of Free code, was never ported to the platform that in a way, is somewhat responsible for its existance.
Isn't it strange to think that the computer that played a major part in starting the Free software movement never had what is probably one of the most important peices of code from that movement ported to it?
I understand the reason for this experiment, though I still think it's pointless, but that's just me and what I belive.
But I have to say I'd rather they do it on a comet somewhere out there than on, say, the moon, which the
orbit shifting that it could potentialy cause would have unknown effects on Earth, and possibly other planets in
our solar system (somehow I'd rather not think about a slight bump that might push the moon on an intersecting
course with Mars thus causing more rock fragments than are already in our system that could suddenly wind
up destroying my home town, and possibly a wider area.)
no one was being disrespectful, if they'd said this while he was alive you'd just laugh along with everyone else, but apparently because he's dead, you can't see that something is funny
when a close friend you had many good times with dies, what do you do? if you act all solem and depressed and shit you'll never get on with life,
but if you talk about the fun times and make jokes about funny things they may have done, it eases the pain and you can get on with life
the DVD drive that came with my Micron Millennia in april of '99 reads CD-R's perfectly as well... strangely my father has a stereo/cdplayer in his truck that WON'T play CD-R's while my aiwa stereo, which is 3+ years older, does!
I think this is really a matter of bad manufacturing processes that lead the companies to design around their own defects... but that's just my thought
yes but this did it a bit more than simply launching a rocket would
it was certainly not perceptable but they did manage to measure it, we can measure things VERY accurately with lazers and such
again, I was simply using it as an example of things we can do that could POTENTIALY have a huge effect, but really don't usualy
it was from the very people who sent the probe into space
and I'm not trying to scare anybody, I'm using it as an example that we can do much more to our world and still have it continue to operate fully and comfortably
a while back a space probe of some sort was skipped off the earths atmosphere to give it a speed boost out into space
it slowed down the earths rotation, albeit just barely, and it was a fairly small vehicle
everything we do in life, even burning some wood in a fireplace could have some massive unforseen consequences
should we be cautious? yes... should we be so cautious that nothing gets done? um no...
we presently use nuclear reactors to power some space vehicles, are you going to tell me that we shouldn't use another, more efficient method and just use the less efficient nuclear methods?
like it or not, solar cells simply cannot provide enough power for some applications
I'd be interested to know where you bought these drives
I found a 30GB 7200RPM ATA/100 drive from IBM for $149 (also need a controller which will bump it to $200) that I was considering getting when I get the cash, so that my 20GB can go in my bits and peices linux box
as far as I'm concerned, that's about all stuff like this is, glorified RAID
while the ideas behind it are great, prevent censorship and general control by authorities of free speach, it does beg the question, where does it end? and how many people are really going to be willing to dedicate equipment and bandwidth to this sort of thing?
personaly I don't know what people are thinking when they say that storage is so friggin cheap... it's certainly not for the average joe, I'm still stuck on a 20GB 5400RPM ATA/66 drive when I could make good use of a 60GB 7200RPM drive, I'm certainly not going to dedicate any significant portion of my precious drive space to store bits and peices of files belonging to other people, 90% of which probably don't need to be on a network of this sort anyway.
If you like to play with OS's a lot (like I do) then you might consider springing for VMWare Workstation (www.vmware.org) it's not exactly cheap, nor is it open source, but it gets the job done reasonably quick considering it can run an additional operating system on the x86 architecture
you need a working linux, windows NT, or Win2k installation for VMWare to operate (I don't *think* it'll run on *BSD's but I won't swear that it won't, I've never tried)
for cryin out loud! go to www.neverwinternights.com and tell me where it says it's a sequal
the ability to import characters does NOT make it a sequel
Diablo II is a sequel to Diablo, you can't import your characters
character importation does not a sequel make
sorry, I was thinking of Icewind Dale or something similar using the BG engine
but I do know for fact it is definitly NOT a BG2 sequal
NWN has been in development since before BG was ever released
I suggest you take a look at www.neverwinternights.com
this is *REALLY* a horrible article
basicaly they appare to have simply tallied the votes of people who have no idea what "vaporware" is
it's something that DOES NOT EXIST or you can reasonably assume will *NEVER* be released
I've used 2.3 and 2.4 unstable kernels
I've seen previews from people from various gaming websites whos staff has actually sat down and PLAYED warcraft3
Black And White is a MASSIVE project and you can't POSSIBLY expect them to meat their estimated release dates
Duke Nukem Forever? well, it would appear that it's one of those projects that probably got some beurocratic shuffle done to it and delayed it
Mac OS X? people are using and have been using the OPEN SOURCE darwin core for a while now...
Tribes 2? combination of a large project with overly optimistic release dates
Wireless web pads? I've SEEN them avalible for sale with my OWN EYES for christs sake
bluetooth will come, it's coming, quit bitching
as for "silicon films electronic film system" I've never even HEARD of it before so it obviously didn't get that much hype
I'm not sure how great an idea that is
it's not a BAD idea per se, but as a 14 year old who's spent most of his life around computers, I can tell you that being handed a peice of old technology (esspecialy if he might KNOW it's older technology) to "screw around with" would be both insulting and could lead to problems adjusting to new technology
the kid needs at least the following:
300-400mhz processor, p2 or K6-2
64MB RAM, 128 preferable
~15, preferably 20GB HDD, ATA/33 5400RPM
fast CD-ROM (CD-R or CD-RW and/or a DVD drive would be a plus)
decent video card, a solid TNT would be fine
17" monitor
printer would be nice but not really neccisary
ZIP drive might be a good idea, esspecialy if he's gonna be learning hardware programming, it's another device for him to write a driver for
internet connection would *definitly* be a good idea, but that's something that his parents might be a bit iffy on.. just depends on the people, though they might already have one, who knows,
if they do have one, if it's dialup, and they're not willing or are unable to move to DSL or cable, then a good thing would be to set up the existing computer (if they have one) for NAT/ipmasq so the kid can have an ethernet connection which can be a good learning tool too
if his parents are paying for a tutor, they probably shouldn't have much trouble paying for a system along thoes lines
and don't buy a pre-built one, buy the parts and make the kid put it together himself... I'm shocked at the people I talk to who can sit down infront of a computer and use it, sometimes in a rather advanced manner, yet have no clue how to add or remove components from a computer, or in some cases, what the inside of a computer even looks like!
Here we have something very interesting
two companies, both with some good and some bad technology, essentialy becoming one company
will nvidia use 3dfx technology in future cards? hell yes
will nvidia cards be BETTER because of it? here's where it gets complicated
you've got good technologies merging into one, but you have a severe lack of competition
prior to nvidia, there was 3dfx
it was all 3dfx
if you wanted a decent 3d accelerator, you went with 3dfx Voodoo 2
then came nvidia with their Riva 128, to be followed shortly thereafter by the TNT and TNT2, and all hell broke loose
3dfx has been the primary nvidia competition and has been what has driven nvidia to release faster, better, higher quality cards
ATI has become a decent alternative to both nvidia and 3dfx, but the competition level is similar to linux vs Windows (I'm not talking about quality, just the level of competition and market share) though ATI does have a bit more foothold in the video card market than linux does in the OS market
now we have 3dfx and nvidia in one company
where's the competition? where's the drive to release new and better cards?
Microsoft version 2.0: The Video Chronicles ?
let's hope and pray that that's not what happens, that nvidia doesn't release one good card combining technologies and then stagnate and release crappy cards because they know they can get away with it
what will the final outcome be? who knows
let's just hope ATI can become a major force and give nvidia a run for its money
For starters, Martech no longer owns the rights to Tradewars in any form whatsoever, it's now owned by John Pritchette of EIS (www.eisonline.com) who did most of the work on Tradewars v3.x
John also created the Trade Wars Game Server (TWGS) which is now operated by many sysops to continue to run Tradewars games easily
and second of all, there's no way Martech or any other individual person could reasonably claim copyright to anything except their specific code, as "Tradewars" was around in many forms prior to martech
I have no idea what you people are up to
I screwed up my Win2k installation and had to use linux NTFS read support to back up the data I had before I reformatted
everything got transferred just fine
compile NTFS read support into your kernel and have fun with your MP3s
(or better yet, back up what you need, format the NTFS partition to FAT32, and reinstall... FAT32 is faster than NTFS in raw large data transfers anyway)
you don't seem to have a clue what I've been saying
I'm saying that their DHCP system DOES NOT WORK
if it was truely useful, the IP address would indeed change, and the hostname would indeed change, infact I'd prefer that since if I want a static IP I'll ask for one, or better yet take my business elsewhere (which I will be doing IMMIEDIATLY after DSL is avalible in my area REGARDLESS of cost) and request a static IP there
their system also fails to work with linux without requiering Samba to be setup first
all in all I'd much prefer a DHCP system that did what DHCP is supposed to do
you obviously don't have a clue how your own network works
do you not realize that all someone has to do after you switch the IP address is do a DNS lookup on the hostname?
i.e. c79347-a.whateverregion#.whateverstate.home.com will point directly to the IP address
all the attacker has to do is make sure to retain the hostname in addition to the IP address
either you don't work for @home or this is further proof that @Home simply doesn't know how to run an internet service PERIOD
Read it again, I said DHCP refuses to work correctly with linux, not @Home
I use @Home, and am a linux user, but I can't use DHCP, but there's no reason to anyway at the moment
on the work order for my cable modem installation, it LISTS the IP address and hostname I am to use
and the fact that it still assigns the same hostname due to how the network is organized remains, thus not really reducing any security risk
and realisticly they still need an IP address for every user, as many people simply leave their systems on, esspecialy the customer who isn't simply an "average user"
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I didn't say it WOULD cause anything disasterous, and yes I know it would probably take many years before it had any significant effect, I'm just saying I'm more comfortable with them testing it on a comet that is much less likely to have any effect on us whatsoever than on Luna. It's one of those "it's possible but so highly improbable that it's probably not worth worrying about but we might as well play it somewhat safe anyway"
A: that's not true
B: even if it was, it still would have absilutely nothing to do with MY statement
I'm simply saying that it's a bit strange/interesting that gcc, which could be considered one of the most important peices of Free code, was never ported to the platform that in a way, is somewhat responsible for its existance.
Isn't it strange to think that the computer that played a major part in starting the Free software movement never had what is probably one of the most important peices of code from that movement ported to it?
Just thought it was kinda interesting/strange...
I understand the reason for this experiment, though I still think it's pointless, but that's just me and what I belive.
But I have to say I'd rather they do it on a comet somewhere out there than on, say, the moon, which the
orbit shifting that it could potentialy cause would have unknown effects on Earth, and possibly other planets in
our solar system (somehow I'd rather not think about a slight bump that might push the moon on an intersecting
course with Mars thus causing more rock fragments than are already in our system that could suddenly wind
up destroying my home town, and possibly a wider area.)
umm, you really need to get a sense of humor
no one was being disrespectful, if they'd said this while he was alive you'd just laugh along with everyone else, but apparently because he's dead, you can't see that something is funny
when a close friend you had many good times with dies, what do you do? if you act all solem and depressed and shit you'll never get on with life,
but if you talk about the fun times and make jokes about funny things they may have done, it eases the pain and you can get on with life
the DVD drive that came with my Micron Millennia in april of '99 reads CD-R's perfectly as well... strangely my father has a stereo/cdplayer in his truck that WON'T play CD-R's while my aiwa stereo, which is 3+ years older, does!
I think this is really a matter of bad manufacturing processes that lead the companies to design around their own defects... but that's just my thought
yes but this did it a bit more than simply launching a rocket would
it was certainly not perceptable but they did manage to measure it, we can measure things VERY accurately with lazers and such
again, I was simply using it as an example of things we can do that could POTENTIALY have a huge effect, but really don't usualy
it was from the very people who sent the probe into space
and I'm not trying to scare anybody, I'm using it as an example that we can do much more to our world and still have it continue to operate fully and comfortably
a while back a space probe of some sort was skipped off the earths atmosphere to give it a speed boost out into space
it slowed down the earths rotation, albeit just barely, and it was a fairly small vehicle
everything we do in life, even burning some wood in a fireplace could have some massive unforseen consequences
should we be cautious? yes... should we be so cautious that nothing gets done? um no...
we presently use nuclear reactors to power some space vehicles, are you going to tell me that we shouldn't use another, more efficient method and just use the less efficient nuclear methods?
like it or not, solar cells simply cannot provide enough power for some applications
I'd be interested to know where you bought these drives I found a 30GB 7200RPM ATA/100 drive from IBM for $149 (also need a controller which will bump it to $200) that I was considering getting when I get the cash, so that my 20GB can go in my bits and peices linux box
as far as I'm concerned, that's about all stuff like this is, glorified RAID
while the ideas behind it are great, prevent censorship and general control by authorities of free speach, it does beg the question, where does it end? and how many people are really going to be willing to dedicate equipment and bandwidth to this sort of thing?
personaly I don't know what people are thinking when they say that storage is so friggin cheap... it's certainly not for the average joe, I'm still stuck on a 20GB 5400RPM ATA/66 drive when I could make good use of a 60GB 7200RPM drive, I'm certainly not going to dedicate any significant portion of my precious drive space to store bits and peices of files belonging to other people, 90% of which probably don't need to be on a network of this sort anyway.
If you like to play with OS's a lot (like I do) then you might consider springing for VMWare Workstation (www.vmware.org) it's not exactly cheap, nor is it open source, but it gets the job done reasonably quick considering it can run an additional operating system on the x86 architecture you need a working linux, windows NT, or Win2k installation for VMWare to operate (I don't *think* it'll run on *BSD's but I won't swear that it won't, I've never tried)
for cryin out loud! go to www.neverwinternights.com and tell me where it says it's a sequal the ability to import characters does NOT make it a sequel Diablo II is a sequel to Diablo, you can't import your characters character importation does not a sequel make
sorry, I was thinking of Icewind Dale or something similar using the BG engine
but I do know for fact it is definitly NOT a BG2 sequal
NWN has been in development since before BG was ever released
I suggest you take a look at www.neverwinternights.com
Neverwinter Nights has been in development since BG was, the only real connection it has is that it uses a modified Baldurs Gate engine
this is *REALLY* a horrible article
basicaly they appare to have simply tallied the votes of people who have no idea what "vaporware" is
it's something that DOES NOT EXIST or you can reasonably assume will *NEVER* be released
I've used 2.3 and 2.4 unstable kernels
I've seen previews from people from various gaming websites whos staff has actually sat down and PLAYED warcraft3
Black And White is a MASSIVE project and you can't POSSIBLY expect them to meat their estimated release dates
Duke Nukem Forever? well, it would appear that it's one of those projects that probably got some beurocratic shuffle done to it and delayed it
Mac OS X? people are using and have been using the OPEN SOURCE darwin core for a while now...
Tribes 2? combination of a large project with overly optimistic release dates
Wireless web pads? I've SEEN them avalible for sale with my OWN EYES for christs sake
bluetooth will come, it's coming, quit bitching
as for "silicon films electronic film system" I've never even HEARD of it before so it obviously didn't get that much hype
I'm not sure how great an idea that is
it's not a BAD idea per se, but as a 14 year old who's spent most of his life around computers, I can tell you that being handed a peice of old technology (esspecialy if he might KNOW it's older technology) to "screw around with" would be both insulting and could lead to problems adjusting to new technology
the kid needs at least the following:
300-400mhz processor, p2 or K6-2
64MB RAM, 128 preferable
~15, preferably 20GB HDD, ATA/33 5400RPM
fast CD-ROM (CD-R or CD-RW and/or a DVD drive would be a plus)
decent video card, a solid TNT would be fine
17" monitor
printer would be nice but not really neccisary
ZIP drive might be a good idea, esspecialy if he's gonna be learning hardware programming, it's another device for him to write a driver for
internet connection would *definitly* be a good idea, but that's something that his parents might be a bit iffy on.. just depends on the people, though they might already have one, who knows,
if they do have one, if it's dialup, and they're not willing or are unable to move to DSL or cable, then a good thing would be to set up the existing computer (if they have one) for NAT/ipmasq so the kid can have an ethernet connection which can be a good learning tool too
if his parents are paying for a tutor, they probably shouldn't have much trouble paying for a system along thoes lines
and don't buy a pre-built one, buy the parts and make the kid put it together himself... I'm shocked at the people I talk to who can sit down infront of a computer and use it, sometimes in a rather advanced manner, yet have no clue how to add or remove components from a computer, or in some cases, what the inside of a computer even looks like!
Here we have something very interesting
two companies, both with some good and some bad technology, essentialy becoming one company
will nvidia use 3dfx technology in future cards? hell yes
will nvidia cards be BETTER because of it? here's where it gets complicated
you've got good technologies merging into one, but you have a severe lack of competition
prior to nvidia, there was 3dfx
it was all 3dfx
if you wanted a decent 3d accelerator, you went with 3dfx Voodoo 2
then came nvidia with their Riva 128, to be followed shortly thereafter by the TNT and TNT2, and all hell broke loose
3dfx has been the primary nvidia competition and has been what has driven nvidia to release faster, better, higher quality cards
ATI has become a decent alternative to both nvidia and 3dfx, but the competition level is similar to linux vs Windows (I'm not talking about quality, just the level of competition and market share) though ATI does have a bit more foothold in the video card market than linux does in the OS market
now we have 3dfx and nvidia in one company
where's the competition? where's the drive to release new and better cards?
Microsoft version 2.0: The Video Chronicles ?
let's hope and pray that that's not what happens, that nvidia doesn't release one good card combining technologies and then stagnate and release crappy cards because they know they can get away with it
what will the final outcome be? who knows
let's just hope ATI can become a major force and give nvidia a run for its money
For starters, Martech no longer owns the rights to Tradewars in any form whatsoever, it's now owned by John Pritchette of EIS (www.eisonline.com) who did most of the work on Tradewars v3.x
John also created the Trade Wars Game Server (TWGS) which is now operated by many sysops to continue to run Tradewars games easily
and second of all, there's no way Martech or any other individual person could reasonably claim copyright to anything except their specific code, as "Tradewars" was around in many forms prior to martech
I have no idea what you people are up to
I screwed up my Win2k installation and had to use linux NTFS read support to back up the data I had before I reformatted
everything got transferred just fine
compile NTFS read support into your kernel and have fun with your MP3s
(or better yet, back up what you need, format the NTFS partition to FAT32, and reinstall... FAT32 is faster than NTFS in raw large data transfers anyway)
you don't seem to have a clue what I've been saying
I'm saying that their DHCP system DOES NOT WORK
if it was truely useful, the IP address would indeed change, and the hostname would indeed change, infact I'd prefer that since if I want a static IP I'll ask for one, or better yet take my business elsewhere (which I will be doing IMMIEDIATLY after DSL is avalible in my area REGARDLESS of cost) and request a static IP there
their system also fails to work with linux without requiering Samba to be setup first
all in all I'd much prefer a DHCP system that did what DHCP is supposed to do
you obviously don't have a clue how your own network works
do you not realize that all someone has to do after you switch the IP address is do a DNS lookup on the hostname?
i.e. c79347-a.whateverregion#.whateverstate.home.com will point directly to the IP address
all the attacker has to do is make sure to retain the hostname in addition to the IP address
either you don't work for @home or this is further proof that @Home simply doesn't know how to run an internet service PERIOD
workgroup... of course... I should have realized that's why DHCP wasn't working it still begs the question, wtf is AT&T thinking?
Read it again, I said DHCP refuses to work correctly with linux, not @Home I use @Home, and am a linux user, but I can't use DHCP, but there's no reason to anyway at the moment
on the work order for my cable modem installation, it LISTS the IP address and hostname I am to use
and the fact that it still assigns the same hostname due to how the network is organized remains, thus not really reducing any security risk
and realisticly they still need an IP address for every user, as many people simply leave their systems on, esspecialy the customer who isn't simply an "average user"