that they will start testing a wireless LAN based on IEEE 802.11b...
Hey! That's IEEE DSSS 802.11b, and don't you forget it!
This sounds like a good idea if a company buys out all the tickets on a transatlantic/transpacific flight, but what good is it without a fast Internet connection? The only viable option for an airplane is satellite, and jumbo jets don't quite get the reception/transmission capacity of an AWACS jet.
in my/etc/hosts file, I bound ad.doubleclick.net and m.doubleclick.net to 127.0.0.1; therefore, I will never see their stupid banner ads. However, I might have to send DoubleClick a cease-and-desist letter of my own.
Any sheet metal modifications to mount extra ones? I've been thinking of doing that to get the 3.7" fans on there. I should probably check out Hard|OCP for some inspiration.
no, no, I hate Home Depot because they're the Wal-Mart of hardware stores. I'd rather support the locally operated place where my father gets all his lumber (in his opinion, the lumber at Home Depot sucks, Linux cash registers be damned).
Yeah right. What did he crack down on, the "naughty chat rooms" on AOL? The Gopher abuses? Back in the timeframe of 1988 to 1992, there wasn't much of an Internet to hack; back then, they were still calling it the "Information Superhighway". That was back when DOS and the 486 were king, and the Mac's popularity was in the usage of multimedia encyclopedias. Those were the bad old days, back when PCs only had one IDE channel, and it could only handle hard drives. I don't miss those days at all.
My 3-fan bay vent has a filter on it. I could probably go to the local hardware store (screw Home Depot!) and get some filtering to squeeze in front of the 80mm fan in the front. However, my room is kinda dusty (I live in it, right?), and I had to clean out the filter of the 3-fan vent about two weeks ago. As for the other fans, I attack them with an air duster.
Still, the computer itself has a commanding stance: it's a full tower standing on my desk, and you always know when it's on (whirrrrrrrr!!!!). As you can probably tell by now, I hated the G4 cube; it was too damn quiet (of course, I'm leaving out its other downfalls).
the 80mm fan on the front, the 3-fan 5.25" bay vent, and
two Antec Cyclone slotfans (one below my sound card, one below my video card). I also have two 3.7" fans that are just waiting to be put in (one from an old 386, one from an ancient Bernoulli drive). If I did happen to find places for those two, then my fan total would go up to 14.
No, I'm not overclocking this system; I hate overclocking. I just hate heat and dust buildup inside the case.
So in other words, you're against the idea of a free country altogether, believing that people SHOULDN'T have the right to own and profit from their creations (content)?
Not exactly, however, the music and movie industries are two notable exceptions. The gathering of revenues from royalties on recorded music and movies borderline on legalized extortion. Take Metallica... PLEASE! I asked one of my friends if he was a Metallica fan. His response was this: "Yeah, before they sold out to profits and screwed over their loyal fans." That response alone is an example of how the music industry has gone too far. The big 5 have almost totally ignored the fact that their content can be compressed tenfold and distributed over the Internet in much less time than it takes to drive to the local record store and buy the album. Sony is attempting to reap profits from MP3, but they're doing it all wrong (OpenMG stinks!). As for the movie industry, their number's coming up; already, DivX files are starting to pop up on high-capacity WareZ sites.
As for copyrights and patents other than for music and movies, I support them fully; just look at how far John Carmack got with the original BSP from DOOM (and how far Tim Sweeney got without licensing BSP from John Carmack while hiding it in a proprietary format). I'm just saying that the copyrighted music/movie industry is at a crossroads right now; profitability is in jeopardy because of the high-compression formats allowing free downloading of copyrighted material, and attempting to enforce, restrict, or outlaw such formats would cast a draconian shadow upon said industries. If they don't play nice with the consumers, then there will be hell to pay.
If so, then that's why you're being disconnected every hour. Verizon did the same when I had them. I've set up a petition against PPPoE. Perhaps the baby bells will listen to many disgruntled customers complaining in unison, instead of a few here, a few there.
I think I will get cable. I'm moving into a college dorm for Fall 2001, and RCN does the cable there. I was going to cancel my DSL in July anyway so that I could start with that. I just hope that the cable rates don't skyrocket; back in August, when I got Verizon, that sucky package was the same price as MediaOne's offering. Now that AT&T has gobbled them up, there might be a hike war ensuing. I can only pray.
Still, my Covad installation took 69 days from order to live, and that's Verizon's fault. I wouldn't be surprised if Verizon was at least partially responsible for the speed issue.
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Hell no, that's not all of them. Each time I see a banner ad, I find out the URL of the .gif file, and I add the server's name to hosts as 127.0.0.1
Hey! That's IEEE DSSS 802.11b, and don't you forget it!
This sounds like a good idea if a company buys out all the tickets on a transatlantic/transpacific flight, but what good is it without a fast Internet connection? The only viable option for an airplane is satellite, and jumbo jets don't quite get the reception/transmission capacity of an AWACS jet.
in my /etc/hosts file, I bound ad.doubleclick.net and m.doubleclick.net to 127.0.0.1; therefore, I will never see their stupid banner ads. However, I might have to send DoubleClick a cease-and-desist letter of my own.
The unofficial cost for doing so is this:
the right arm of the user in question, severed at the shoulder (heretofore referred to as "an arm"),
the left leg of the user in question, severed below the hip (heretofore referred to as "a leg"),
both visual information collection organs (VICOs, heretofore referred to as "both eyes"), extracted by means of suction,
and one membership to MSDN.
Any sheet metal modifications to mount extra ones? I've been thinking of doing that to get the 3.7" fans on there. I should probably check out Hard|OCP for some inspiration.
no, no, I hate Home Depot because they're the Wal-Mart of hardware stores. I'd rather support the locally operated place where my father gets all his lumber (in his opinion, the lumber at Home Depot sucks, Linux cash registers be damned).
Yeah right. What did he crack down on, the "naughty chat rooms" on AOL? The Gopher abuses? Back in the timeframe of 1988 to 1992, there wasn't much of an Internet to hack; back then, they were still calling it the "Information Superhighway". That was back when DOS and the 486 were king, and the Mac's popularity was in the usage of multimedia encyclopedias. Those were the bad old days, back when PCs only had one IDE channel, and it could only handle hard drives. I don't miss those days at all.
After seeing what Larry Wall said about himself (hint, it rhymes with Cupid), I don't think I'll be buying any O'Reilly's books.
Nothing's wrong. I'm just a fan of fans.
nah, actually right in between Boston and Worcester.
No way. Ever put your hands on the GeForce while it's running? OUCH, that's hot! There's a reason why they put heatsinks on the DDR ram.
I thought he looked more like Gallagher, but I guess he's the perfect mix of Gallagher and Flanders.
Most likely not, I live in Massachusetts, 20 miles west of Boston (as the train rolls, not as the crow flies).
Still, the computer itself has a commanding stance: it's a full tower standing on my desk, and you always know when it's on (whirrrrrrrr!!!!). As you can probably tell by now, I hated the G4 cube; it was too damn quiet (of course, I'm leaving out its other downfalls).
two on the power supply,
two 80mm fans venting the hard drives,
the CPU fan, the fan on the GeForce 2 GTS,
the 80mm fan on the front, the 3-fan 5.25" bay vent, and
two Antec Cyclone slotfans (one below my sound card, one below my video card).
I also have two 3.7" fans that are just waiting to be put in (one from an old 386, one from an ancient Bernoulli drive). If I did happen to find places for those two, then my fan total would go up to 14.
No, I'm not overclocking this system; I hate overclocking. I just hate heat and dust buildup inside the case.
By the time the year 2100 rolls by, we'll all be dead. Like Nikita Khruschev once said, "Life is short, live it up."
"SuSE. The Microsoft of Linux distros."
So you'll abandon your job of coding open-source software and resort to selling used chewing gum? I couldn't care less.
Invented by Digital, shunned by Microsoft, salvaged by Linux.
Not exactly, however, the music and movie industries are two notable exceptions. The gathering of revenues from royalties on recorded music and movies borderline on legalized extortion. Take Metallica... PLEASE! I asked one of my friends if he was a Metallica fan. His response was this: "Yeah, before they sold out to profits and screwed over their loyal fans." That response alone is an example of how the music industry has gone too far. The big 5 have almost totally ignored the fact that their content can be compressed tenfold and distributed over the Internet in much less time than it takes to drive to the local record store and buy the album. Sony is attempting to reap profits from MP3, but they're doing it all wrong (OpenMG stinks!). As for the movie industry, their number's coming up; already, DivX files are starting to pop up on high-capacity WareZ sites.
As for copyrights and patents other than for music and movies, I support them fully; just look at how far John Carmack got with the original BSP from DOOM (and how far Tim Sweeney got without licensing BSP from John Carmack while hiding it in a proprietary format). I'm just saying that the copyrighted music/movie industry is at a crossroads right now; profitability is in jeopardy because of the high-compression formats allowing free downloading of copyrighted material, and attempting to enforce, restrict, or outlaw such formats would cast a draconian shadow upon said industries. If they don't play nice with the consumers, then there will be hell to pay.
If so, then that's why you're being disconnected every hour. Verizon did the same when I had them. I've set up a petition against PPPoE. Perhaps the baby bells will listen to many disgruntled customers complaining in unison, instead of a few here, a few there.
I think I will get cable. I'm moving into a college dorm for Fall 2001, and RCN does the cable there. I was going to cancel my DSL in July anyway so that I could start with that. I just hope that the cable rates don't skyrocket; back in August, when I got Verizon, that sucky package was the same price as MediaOne's offering. Now that AT&T has gobbled them up, there might be a hike war ensuing. I can only pray.
...but just wait 'til Compaq becomes an ASP for Beowulf Clusters. Wow!
Still, my Covad installation took 69 days from order to live, and that's Verizon's fault. I wouldn't be surprised if Verizon was at least partially responsible for the speed issue.