... and I saw a LOT of people wearing iPods in the trains, walking on the streets, and at the Narita airport. I talked with a few people about the iPod, and most were using them for Japanese pop music ripped from CDs: I did not meet anyone who had used the iTunes store.
Further, most of the models I saw were the video iPod or the Nano. Very few older photo iPods, and none of the earlier generations.
I'd say that the iPod was the dominant music player that I saw (although there were a few portable CD players)
"The idea of a personal computer, something small and light enough for someone to pick up and carry around, wasn't even on the radar." (referring to the mid- to early-eighties).
Not so -- Arthur C. Clarke, in his mid-Seventies novel "Imperial Earth" described a device called the "Minisec", which sonds a lot like a modern PDA -- it could even "synch" to a larger console computer via infrared.
802.11 protocols (11b, 11g, 11a) all consume too much power: you would suck the battery dry in no time. Of course, if you had the external power cable connected, then the battery wouldn't drain. But once you've connected the external power, you are probably using a powered USB2 or Firewire cable, in which case you're also connected to your computer.
ergo, wifi ain't practical at this point. The good news is that chip manufacturers such as Intel and Broadcom are making WIFI mac and phy chips smaller, cheaper, and more power-thrifty every calendar quarter. There might be something really cool next year.
I don't know if you noticed, but on the bottom of the screen CNN's "news crawl" was reporting the usual celebri-journalism: I saw one item about Sandra Bullock's lawsuit and another about Martha Stewart.
If you can find an access-point that will do 802.1x properly with rolling keys, you are in great shape, even with RC4 WEP. The WEP attacks that have been published exploit a vulnerability with poorly-chosen IV values, and if enough encrypted packets are captured, the keys can be inferred. But, if you rekey on a frequent basis, and use a "modern" implementation of WEP which avoids the weak IV values, then you will be fine. Unfortunately, I don't know which SOHO access-point devices currently support an optimum 802.1x implementation. On the client side, Windows XP SP1 does it right, and I believe that Meetinghouse has client implementations for Linux and Mac OSX.
If you take a look at the 802.11 spec from 1999, you'll see a lot of stuff there that is spec'd for backwards compatibility. For example, there is the PS-Poll exchange grafted atop the normal powersave-state protocol. A lot of this backwards compatibility is at the cost of performance. A "design-from-scratch" approach could result in a much more efficient data-networking protocol design that incorporates what has been learned in the last ten years or so. However, much of the IEEE process is subject to internecine politics and hidebound practices. I am hopeful but not too optimistic.
It is great to have this available for study. And, this might inspire a whole new generation of PDP-11 emulators so you can sit down and actually run the original bits (emulation of an ASR-33 not considered mandatory).
Computer Science would also be served well if the original Multics sources/binaries were released. Although it would be much harder to write a Honeywell emulator!
Just turn on dhcpd, and watch the IP-address wars begin. Others have mentioned SMB/NMB misconfigurations.
Recently, I was part of a development project that could be configured to send broadcast packets. Well, those packets caused a number of mysterious router & server crashes (due to broadcast traffic overload from ten or so systems).
None of these actions have to be malicious: these all have occured by inattention from well-meaning individuals.
by using a green MagicMarker(tm), and coloring the outside rim of the disc. Also helps to trap stray red LED laser light, so that your CD player uses less energy.
I think I heard this from a friend of a friend, who read it on some urban-legend website...
Ivan Sutherland's wheel of reincarnation ...
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consult the Jargon Dictionary... one link is:
http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/w/wheel_of_ re incarnation.html
The basic premise is that as CPUs become more powerful, that CPU assumes more of the tasks once relegated to special-purpose hardware. Then, somebody else notices that the CPU is doing "low-value" work, so the tasks move into dedicated silicon...
Yep, I've got a Greenlee too. Mine is 5' and very useful. But in one case where I'm trying to track the cable, I'm actually fishing in through the space between a 1st floor ceiling and a the floorboards on the 2nd floor. Damn house is at least 60 yrs old, and belongs to a friend of mine, so I can't get too adventurous with the drill:(
So I'm up in the attic, and have dropped cable down into the walls. The cable has snaked around some obstacles (via fishtape or other flexible prod). And, I *think* the cable end is where I want it to be. Now I want to punch a hole through the wall.
Where do I punch? Is there a little radio emitter or magnet that I can attach to the end of the cable, so that when I'm down in the room, I can find out where the cable end has gone?
In existing homes, a tape measurement can only give me about six inches of certainty. And six inches off might be on the other side of a beam, or in the middle of a joist, or.... ?
... and only the die-hards are still fighting them. Wake up and smell the coffee! In the late eighties, the wars shifted to the applications arena. Companies lived, fought, and died over such things as word processors (AmiPro, WordStar, MacWord, Word, EdWord, etc), spreadsheets (Wingz, 1-2-3, SuperCalc), and office suites.
The application wars are essentially over. Guess what... microsoft mostly won! The browser battles are also fading into the past.
The next war is fought over network services. Microsoft has started the Battle of the Bulge with DotNet/Hailstorm, so man the defenses!
Stop quarreling over OS superiority... it reeks of the stale vi/emacs flamage, or tops-20 vs vms, or dos vs. cp/m
in order to reduce noise & electrical consumption. For example, I have a baby-AT system with a Pentium 200MMX processor. It needs to run in a quiet environment.
So, I underclock the CPU to 100MHz, and have removed the CPU fan. The power-supply fan is disconnected, because the case interior simply does not get hot. There is no disk drive in the machine (it netboots) and the box is totally silent.
Sure... that was the Chinxulub event. The crater and ripples are still visible (mostly via satellite imagery) in the Yucutan peninsula and Gulf of Mexico
I could just imagine a Mahir Cagri dancing GIF, stuttering out these phrases. No doubt attached to the ILOVEYOU virus, propagating through all of the broken MSOutlook mail-readers.
Suppose your workhorse unit is an Intel box, but you've also got to make sure your code also runs on a Sparc or PPC. Buy a couple of these guys and plug 'em in! We bought several similar Sparc "bricks" about five years ago for a similar purpose.
Small, tidy, you don't need another monitor/keyboard.
the first scenes, which show an old 60s-style Corvette dropping out of the Space Shuttle, re-entering the atmosphere, and landing with a bump and rattle on an old country road.
Well, once you have the source, it becomes possible to resurrect characters. I had to do that many years ago, when I was playing Angband on my NeXT computer. My wizened high-level mage was running away from an Undead Trotskyite and fell through a hole to the next level down, and landed in the lap of an Ancient Multi-Hued Greenpeace Activist, and I was smoke in no time.
Having invested most of June building up this character, I didn't want to spend the rest of the summer mentoring a new Elven Ranger: instead, I just fired up Emacs and started editing source code. In no time flat, my character was back in fine form, and ready to play Roshambo with the Balrog.
Who needs a saving throw, when you've got the source?
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... and I saw a LOT of people wearing iPods in the trains, walking on the streets, and at the Narita airport. I talked with a few people about the iPod, and most were using them for Japanese pop music ripped from CDs: I did not meet anyone who had used the iTunes store.
Further, most of the models I saw were the video iPod or the Nano. Very few older photo iPods, and none of the earlier generations.
I'd say that the iPod was the dominant music player that I saw (although there were a few portable CD players)
Quoth TFA:
"The idea of a personal computer, something small and light enough for someone to pick up and carry around, wasn't even on the radar." (referring to the mid- to early-eighties).
Not so -- Arthur C. Clarke, in his mid-Seventies novel "Imperial Earth" described a device called the "Minisec", which sonds a lot like a modern PDA -- it could even "synch" to a larger console computer via infrared.
802.11 protocols (11b, 11g, 11a) all consume too much power: you would suck the battery dry in no time. Of course, if you had the external power cable connected, then the battery wouldn't drain. But once you've connected the external power, you are probably using a powered USB2 or Firewire cable, in which case you're also connected to your computer.
ergo, wifi ain't practical at this point. The good news is that chip manufacturers such as Intel and Broadcom are making WIFI mac and phy chips smaller, cheaper, and more power-thrifty every calendar quarter. There might be something really cool next year.
I don't know if you noticed, but on the bottom of the screen CNN's "news crawl" was reporting the usual celebri-journalism: I saw one item about Sandra Bullock's lawsuit and another about Martha Stewart.
The unintended irony is priceless.
If you can find an access-point that will do 802.1x properly with rolling keys, you are in great shape, even with RC4 WEP. The WEP attacks that have been published exploit a vulnerability with poorly-chosen IV values, and if enough encrypted packets are captured, the keys can be inferred. But, if you rekey on a frequent basis, and use a "modern" implementation of WEP which avoids the weak IV values, then you will be fine. Unfortunately, I don't know which SOHO access-point devices currently support an optimum 802.1x implementation. On the client side, Windows XP SP1 does it right, and I believe that Meetinghouse has client implementations for Linux and Mac OSX.
If you take a look at the 802.11 spec from 1999, you'll see a lot of stuff there that is spec'd for backwards compatibility. For example, there is the PS-Poll exchange grafted atop the normal powersave-state protocol. A lot of this backwards compatibility is at the cost of performance. A "design-from-scratch" approach could result in a much more efficient data-networking protocol design that incorporates what has been learned in the last ten years or so. However, much of the IEEE process is subject to internecine politics and hidebound practices. I am hopeful but not too optimistic.
It is great to have this available for study. And, this might inspire a whole new generation of PDP-11 emulators so you can sit down and actually run the original bits (emulation of an ASR-33 not considered mandatory).
Computer Science would also be served well if the original Multics sources/binaries were released. Although it would be much harder to write a Honeywell emulator!
Just turn on dhcpd, and watch the IP-address wars begin. Others have mentioned SMB/NMB misconfigurations.
Recently, I was part of a development project that could be configured to send broadcast packets. Well, those packets caused a number of mysterious router & server crashes (due to broadcast traffic overload from ten or so systems).
None of these actions have to be malicious: these all have occured by inattention from well-meaning individuals.
... but Martin Landau is looking a little old nowadays. Still, Space1999 was pretty good, as Brit sci-fi goes.
by using a green MagicMarker(tm), and coloring the outside rim of the disc. Also helps to trap stray red LED laser light, so that your CD player uses less energy.
...
I think I heard this from a friend of a friend, who read it on some urban-legend website
consult the Jargon Dictionary ... one link is:
_ re incarnation.html
...
http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/w/wheel_of
The basic premise is that as CPUs become more powerful, that CPU assumes more of the tasks once relegated to special-purpose hardware. Then, somebody else notices that the CPU is doing "low-value" work, so the tasks move into dedicated silicon
Yep, I've got a Greenlee too. Mine is 5' and very useful. But in one case where I'm trying to track the cable, I'm actually fishing in through the space between a 1st floor ceiling and a the floorboards on the 2nd floor. Damn house is at least 60 yrs old, and belongs to a friend of mine, so I can't get too adventurous with the drill :(
So I'm up in the attic, and have dropped cable down into the walls. The cable has snaked around some obstacles (via fishtape or other flexible prod). And, I *think* the cable end is where I want it to be. Now I want to punch a hole through the wall.
.... ?
...
Where do I punch? Is there a little radio emitter or magnet that I can attach to the end of the cable, so that when I'm down in the room, I can find out where the cable end has gone?
In existing homes, a tape measurement can only give me about six inches of certainty. And six inches off might be on the other side of a beam, or in the middle of a joist, or
Thanks for any advice
... after all, twenty years ago was when John Waters' movie "Polyester" came out, in Smellovision ...
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0082926
... and only the die-hards are still fighting them. Wake up and smell the coffee! In the late eighties, the wars shifted to the applications arena. Companies lived, fought, and died over such things as word processors (AmiPro, WordStar, MacWord, Word, EdWord, etc), spreadsheets (Wingz, 1-2-3, SuperCalc), and office suites.
... microsoft mostly won! The browser battles are also fading into the past.
... it reeks of the stale vi/emacs flamage, or tops-20 vs vms, or dos vs. cp/m
The application wars are essentially over. Guess what
The next war is fought over network services. Microsoft has started the Battle of the Bulge with DotNet/Hailstorm, so man the defenses!
Stop quarreling over OS superiority
in order to reduce noise & electrical consumption. For example, I have a baby-AT system with a Pentium 200MMX processor. It needs to run in a quiet environment.
... faster ain't always better.
So, I underclock the CPU to 100MHz, and have removed the CPU fan. The power-supply fan is disconnected, because the case interior simply does not get hot. There is no disk drive in the machine (it netboots) and the box is totally silent.
Just goes to show
Sure ... that was the Chinxulub event. The crater and ripples are still visible (mostly via satellite imagery) in the Yucutan peninsula and Gulf of Mexico
I could just imagine a Mahir Cagri dancing GIF, stuttering out these phrases. No doubt attached to the ILOVEYOU virus, propagating through all of the broken MSOutlook mail-readers.
to honor the zeal and enthusiasm of Linux users.
it's been done before: and will be done again
... remember the old Star Trek episode? "Devil in the Dark" ???
Suppose your workhorse unit is an Intel box, but you've also got to make sure your code also runs on a Sparc or PPC. Buy a couple of these guys and plug 'em in! We bought several similar Sparc "bricks" about five years ago for a similar purpose.
Small, tidy, you don't need another monitor/keyboard.
Plus imagine the Beowulf possibilities (smirk)
the first scenes, which show an old 60s-style Corvette dropping out of the Space Shuttle, re-entering the atmosphere, and landing with a bump and rattle on an old country road.
almost lost my dinner on that one, so I guess you can feel proud.
Well, once you have the source, it becomes possible to resurrect characters. I had to do that many years ago, when I was playing Angband on my NeXT computer. My wizened high-level mage was running away from an Undead Trotskyite and fell through a hole to the next level down, and landed in the lap of an Ancient Multi-Hued Greenpeace Activist, and I was smoke in no time.
Having invested most of June building up this character, I didn't want to spend the rest of the summer mentoring a new Elven Ranger: instead, I just fired up Emacs and started editing source code. In no time flat, my character was back in fine form, and ready to play Roshambo with the Balrog.
Who needs a saving throw, when you've got the source?