Same here.. I got a C64 and a tape drive for xmas. At age 11, I think it was the next step in my life, I moved from playing with thousands of pieces of Legos for 8 hours a day to playing with that computer for 8 hours a day. The next year I got the floppy drive, and the year after I got a printer. I used and learned on that thing every day. Other than a few warez titles from friends, everything I had, I did and learned myself. How did any of this help me? I don't know but I'm sure I got whatever habits or traits you develop from Legos and hacking on a C64.
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I believe it is illegal (or at least against the CC merchant agreements) to charge more when using a credit card, but it is perfectly legal and acceptable to give a cash discount on the same purchase.
People need to stop raising such gullible children, The world contains bad things, and everyone has to learn how to deal with them. If a child is brought up, and hasn't ever seen "bad" in his/her life, then (s)he will be ill-prepared to function in our world.
Children may remember being told what not to do but either do not fully believe it or do not understand what can happen. Each child is different and has to be taken into consideration. Your level of parental "protection" has to be dynamic and based on your experience. Do you request that he/she wear a helmet when riding a scooter? What about a bike? What about in the grass? At what point do you let them make thier own judgement or try to let them fail so they feel the risks? It depends.
I do not have any www controls at home, my kids each have their own computers in their bedrooms. I still monitor it on occasion via their cache directories and the squid logs.. I noticed my 10 year old son a few months ago looking for porn, well maybe not porn but he was at playboy, girls-gone-wild and some others. I did not approve of this and talked to him about it. I still check the logs but havent found anything since.
The world contains bad things, and everyone has to learn how to deal with them. If a child is brought up, and hasn't ever seen "bad" in his/her life, then (s)he will be ill-prepared to function in our world.
I fully agree. But you still need to monitor and throttle that experience to one your child can handle and LEARN from (and you learn quicker when you fail).
The bait and switch might work for a site that is visited by people that can actually spend money online. How many kids have the ability to do that? The owner might get some click through cash but would that be worth the risk? I don't know. I would imagine targeting porn to a kids.us domain would bring serious penalties that would not be overlooked.
But will it work? There seems to be quite a few restrictions to qualify for this domain.
Web sites in the domain would be prohibited from linking to sites outside it, and they could not set up chat rooms, instant messaging or other interactive services unless they could certify that they did not expose children to pedophiles or pose other risks.
That "certify" part is the nail in the coffin. What about the liability associated if something slips through the cracks? I can not see companies lining up to provide this.
I'm curious to hear someone say why they feel that Microsoft is obligated to maintain interoperability with Samba.
You are giving the impression that Samba works because of something Microsoft is doing or not doing. That is definately not the case. Samba works because the Samba team adapts and makes it work with Microsoft, it would be much easier for the Samba team (and anyone else) if MS would release some specs that were useful so they would not have to reverse engineer everything. Any older compatibility left in Windows is too allow MS's own older versions to still work, its not hanging around for Samba compatibility.
I have been testing this on our network just this week. We use AD with a W2K PDC and BDC so I chose to add the Samba machine to the domain and add authorization via security=domain and use of the 'add user script' in smb.conf (new users get/bin/false for shell). I was going to try winbind but I really did not need the extra functionality it appears to provide. Our goal is to provide network printers that can provide document conversion to tiff, pdf and jpeg (via Ghostscript) by printing from the W2K workstations with PS drivers to the Samba machine. Everything currently works and I am now trying different methods of getting the resulting files back to the users, like via email, a web page or moving them to thier home directories on the various servers. I can't script my way out of a wet paper bag so this is the hard part for me. I have been having issues with the 'delete user script' in Samba as it appears to be deleting actual valid Linux accounts under certain conditions, like when someone tries to connect from a W2K machine that is not registered in the domain. The credentials get bounced off the PDC which sends back a fail and then Samba deletes the existing user account. I'll keep reading. To keep in context with the orignal story here, this has saved us money and reduced TCO on a small scale as we now have one less W2K server and did not have to buy a commercial closed source document conversion package that would need installed on everyones local workstation. I assume once this project is rolled out, the periodic maintenance will be negligable.
I just got a snail mail from Comcast advertising a new service (at least in northern VA)... It is based on "allowing the whole family to be online at the same time" plan. Yes folks, these are the same high speed providers that cry wolf and complain about bandwidth hogs because bandwidth is expensive although they have not said anything to me and I have not noticed anything blocked yet.
A 802.11b wireless CM router all in one unit and 2/256 service for $64.99 with up to 5 machines. I currently pay $49 +$5 CM rental and only get 1.5/128 for one machine, of course my floppy Linux NAT/router handles that. So for basically $10 more a month I could get 25/100% faster speed and a free use of a wireless access point. Actually for me that 256 up would allow me to stream my own mp3's or my security webcam over ssh to work or anywhere I may be, my current 128 is barely to slow. The package does not seem like a bad idea. I could find NOTHING about this on their web site. My only concern is exactly what control will they have over that all in one device?
For those asking about special connecting software.. In my area its plain old DHCP. I brought my CM home, plugged it into my Freesco floppy based Linux distro on eth0 and it was working within seconds.
I probably still do but I don't see it anymore. This has worked so far.. I don't expect to actually ever get legitimate from there.:0: * ^(From|Cc):.*com\.ar/dev/null
Certainly the widespread distribution of it is something made possible by P2P, isn't it ?
There are quite a few things between a rogue security gaurd sneaking a copy of a movie and me at my desk half way around the world. Any and all paths that movie took is equally to blame. The security companies background checks, the lack of DRM in his camcorder, the camcorder tape maker, his computer, the software he usd to convert it to Divx, the firewire card maker, his phone company and or ISP, software used to connect to the internet, modem maker, P2P application, web browser, TCP/IP protocol, routers, switches, and then same exact thing on my end including the divx player and my speakers. What makes the P2P app the bad guy? Getting rid of P2P is one very small part of this process. This is why the RIAA/MPAA will NEVER be able to stop or prevent this from happening. There are too many things with legitimate uses that would have to be taken away from the citizens to prevent an end round run past it.
There's nothing like the feeling of fixing somebody else's screw up (usually a contractor) and 30 minutes later be taking out the trash or doing some other degrading duty.
That is the way the military works. One minute you are troubleshooting a nuclear reactor protection system, after that you work for 8 hours doing pre-critical checkoffs and tests, then you are starting up the reactor and bringing temp and pressure up to the normal operating range (one of the most detail oriented things I have ever done in my life). One hour later you are in the machinery spaces with a broom and dustpan cleaning up. There are only so many people that can fit in a submarine, ship or airplane. You can not hire a cleaning crew to support that.
5 cls 10 for x=1to15 20 poke 53280,x 30 poke 53281,x 40 next 50 goto 10
You could add a poke 808,239 in the front to make it really annoying.
If it wasnt for those old computer mags, I would never even have wanted a computer.
With the C64 basic you could be a little sloppy.. You did not have to put spaces between many of the commands and you did not have to specify what next to jump back to in loops, it went back to the last 'for' statement automatically. I thought that made the C64 so much better then my older TRS-80.
I had problems with this a few years ago when setting up Linux NAT machines for people on local networks. I was trying to tune PPP by adjusting MTU for various dialups for what I thought would be a more efficient setting. Problem though is the machines behind the NAT box are ethernet and tuned for different values. Shortly after I started noticing I could not reach various sites from the masq'd machines but worked fine directly from the NAT box. Knowing I had recently been messing with the PPP options I searched Google and found the different MTU to be the cause. Maybe the dialup users you speak of were directly connected?
I respect the way the are going about this and the fact that it is in the EULA. The bottom line though is people are using the bandwidth they thought they were paying for. What if everyone started sending files via email, irc, through an instant messenger or usenet? These things have been around for years but mostly behind the scenes, when they become the easiest way to get files from A to B they will be used in one form or another. Do you start cutting back on those? Eventually the ISP will have to tackle the real problem. Advertising something they can not afford to deliver. Browsing the WWW at 49kbps over a modem compared to a CM/DSL is not really much different, why pay 3 to 4x a month for that.
First off, I am for any type of broad and vague software patent like this but..
Okay, I screwed up the first line in my post, It was supposed to say I am NOT for... That was a rather important word to forget I guess.
You're another hypocritical/. reader.
How the FUCK did you somehow twist my post into an assumption that I have some "other" face I wear on different days? I am and have always been against broad, general, and obvious software patents regardless of who has them. There is nothing hypocritical there dude. I simply stated that if MS DID have this patent they would be doing everything in thier power to prevent others from using it. I do not like MS. I did not jump on a/. bandwagon, my opinions are based on what I have seen and practices I have delt with in the past.
First off, I am for any type of broad and vague software patent like this but..
They are publicly claiming to be trying to cripple Microsoft, knowing fully how well they rely on ActiveX for buisness.
Chicken and the egg. The patent was already there. If MS truely relies on that technology for business then they really do owe it to the patent holder. They took someones patent idea and used it for themselves.
claiming that they arn't even seeking a reasonable resolution?
Again. If MS was able to further corner a market and make a few billion dollars off of someones patented technology I believe that the patent holder would be well justified to expect a few or more billion dollars in return.
If MS was the holder of this patent would you expect them to act any differently?
Based on the various articles in this story, there are a few different versions of this thing bouncing around. I would imagine that they are all using the same internal circuitry with the exception of the roms. The question is... How long before someone figures out how to upload and change the roms it comes with and how long before its running Linux..
Actually this will probably never get popular enough to really gain any momentum.
I have made some mods to my computer.. I changed my case led's to show 133 when I actually only have a 100, a racing stripe on my burner, swiped an "Intel inside" sticker from a disply at Walmart and I hooked the 2940UW external led connector to the green power AND the yellow turbo light on the case front. Eventually I'll fire up Winbench but I figure I'm good for at least 60 more FPS in Doom..
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If you have KaZaa, do a search for videos with "motorcycle street race". You will find many street bikes easily hitting the upper 180's and getting there very fast. I don't know if they are gear or electronically limited but it appears based on the rate of acceleration they could easily go much faster. You might find some videos with Google but you have to wade through the junk. Of course, none of the videos I've seen had three people on the bike at those speeds, they may have started with three but did not end with them;)
I'm getting way off topic here but you can find a lot of Darwin Award candidates in those motorcycle videos also.
Where does the TCO stop? When you buy another version or upgraded product? Basically does you W95 TCO stop when you upgraded to W2K which has its own TCO? Why would you not add the TCO's of both into a Total TCO of keeping your computers running over the years? This is something to consider when using open source. Two or three years done the road you can modify or add to your existing software to keep the software going and support your existing needs, you will not have to throw away package A and start over with package B. If you upgrade often your support costs may be less because more people are currently using it but your software costs go up (supply and demand). If you hold on to an application longer your costs will go up for support as less people are using it in the end but you will pay much less overall in software costs. Open source would allow you to keep an application going with third party support that does not have to be from any one vendor or from in house, seems to me this would make open source cheaper the longer it is used. Maybe not so cheap if you have a full time programmer on your pay roll to make a few changes to a package once a year but how does that?
What is Omnipage Pro up to now? version 12 or something. To maintain those "cheaper" support costs you have to keep buying the newest version.
I have only broken one watch LCD screen before and it took a 20 feet drop onto solid steel. Watch guts are normally not mounted to anything and they can 'float' around in the chassis. I had a really nice Casio graphing calc and a cell phone that busted from very short distances to office carpet.. I assume the LCD's themselves are very rugged, the method of placement in a device makes the difference, like if its hard attached or surrounded by plastic with no room for vibration or absorbtion etc, its probably going to break easily
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Same here..
I got a C64 and a tape drive for xmas. At age 11, I think it was the next step in my life, I moved from playing with thousands of pieces of Legos for 8 hours a day to playing with that computer for 8 hours a day. The next year I got the floppy drive, and the year after I got a printer. I used and learned on that thing every day. Other than a few warez titles from friends, everything I had, I did and learned myself. How did any of this help me? I don't know but I'm sure I got whatever habits or traits you develop from Legos and hacking on a C64.
vi or emacs?
I believe it is illegal (or at least against the CC merchant agreements) to charge more when using a credit card, but it is perfectly legal and acceptable to give a cash discount on the same purchase.
People need to stop raising such gullible children, The world contains bad things, and everyone has to learn how to deal with them. If a child is brought up, and hasn't ever seen "bad" in his/her life, then (s)he will be ill-prepared to function in our world.
Children may remember being told what not to do but either do not fully believe it or do not understand what can happen. Each child is different and has to be taken into consideration. Your level of parental "protection" has to be dynamic and based on your experience. Do you request that he/she wear a helmet when riding a scooter? What about a bike? What about in the grass? At what point do you let them make thier own judgement or try to let them fail so they feel the risks? It depends.
I do not have any www controls at home, my kids each have their own computers in their bedrooms. I still monitor it on occasion via their cache directories and the squid logs.. I noticed my 10 year old son a few months ago looking for porn, well maybe not porn but he was at playboy, girls-gone-wild and some others. I did not approve of this and talked to him about it. I still check the logs but havent found anything since.
The world contains bad things, and everyone has to learn how to deal with them. If a child is brought up, and hasn't ever seen "bad" in his/her life, then (s)he will be ill-prepared to function in our world.
I fully agree. But you still need to monitor and throttle that experience to one your child can handle and LEARN from (and you learn quicker when you fail).
The bait and switch might work for a site that is visited by people that can actually spend money online. How many kids have the ability to do that? The owner might get some click through cash but would that be worth the risk? I don't know. I would imagine targeting porn to a kids.us domain would bring serious penalties that would not be overlooked.
But will it work? There seems to be quite a few restrictions to qualify for this domain.
Web sites in the domain would be prohibited from linking to sites outside it, and they could not set up chat rooms, instant messaging or other interactive services unless they could certify that they did not expose children to pedophiles or pose other risks.
That "certify" part is the nail in the coffin. What about the liability associated if something slips through the cracks? I can not see companies lining up to provide this.
I'm curious to hear someone say why they feel that Microsoft is obligated to maintain interoperability with Samba.
You are giving the impression that Samba works because of something Microsoft is doing or not doing. That is definately not the case. Samba works because the Samba team adapts and makes it work with Microsoft, it would be much easier for the Samba team (and anyone else) if MS would release some specs that were useful so they would not have to reverse engineer everything. Any older compatibility left in Windows is too allow MS's own older versions to still work, its not hanging around for Samba compatibility.
I have been testing this on our network just this week. We use AD with a W2K PDC and BDC so I chose to add the Samba machine to the domain and add authorization via security=domain and use of the 'add user script' in smb.conf (new users get /bin/false for shell). I was going to try winbind but I really did not need the extra functionality it appears to provide. Our goal is to provide network printers that can provide document conversion to tiff, pdf and jpeg (via Ghostscript) by printing from the W2K workstations with PS drivers to the Samba machine. Everything currently works and I am now trying different methods of getting the resulting files back to the users, like via email, a web page or moving them to thier home directories on the various servers. I can't script my way out of a wet paper bag so this is the hard part for me. I have been having issues with the 'delete user script' in Samba as it appears to be deleting actual valid Linux accounts under certain conditions, like when someone tries to connect from a W2K machine that is not registered in the domain. The credentials get bounced off the PDC which sends back a fail and then Samba deletes the existing user account. I'll keep reading.
To keep in context with the orignal story here, this has saved us money and reduced TCO on a small scale as we now have one less W2K server and did not have to buy a commercial closed source document conversion package that would need installed on everyones local workstation. I assume once this project is rolled out, the periodic maintenance will be negligable.
I had that same dream before too. /. id is less then hers.
The real test is if your
I just got a snail mail from Comcast advertising a new service (at least in northern VA)... It is based on "allowing the whole family to be online at the same time" plan. Yes folks, these are the same high speed providers that cry wolf and complain about bandwidth hogs because bandwidth is expensive although they have not said anything to me and I have not noticed anything blocked yet.
A 802.11b wireless CM router all in one unit and 2/256 service for $64.99 with up to 5 machines. I currently pay $49 +$5 CM rental and only get 1.5/128 for one machine, of course my floppy Linux NAT/router handles that. So for basically $10 more a month I could get 25/100% faster speed and a free use of a wireless access point. Actually for me that 256 up would allow me to stream my own mp3's or my security webcam over ssh to work or anywhere I may be, my current 128 is barely to slow. The package does not seem like a bad idea. I could find NOTHING about this on their web site. My only concern is exactly what control will they have over that all in one device?
For those asking about special connecting software.. In my area its plain old DHCP. I brought my CM home, plugged it into my Freesco floppy based Linux distro on eth0 and it was working within seconds.
I probably still do but I don't see it anymore. :0: /dev/null
This has worked so far.. I don't expect to actually ever get legitimate from there.
* ^(From|Cc):.*com\.ar
Certainly the widespread distribution of it is something made possible by P2P, isn't it ?
There are quite a few things between a rogue security gaurd sneaking a copy of a movie and me at my desk half way around the world. Any and all paths that movie took is equally to blame. The security companies background checks, the lack of DRM in his camcorder, the camcorder tape maker, his computer, the software he usd to convert it to Divx, the firewire card maker, his phone company and or ISP, software used to connect to the internet, modem maker, P2P application, web browser, TCP/IP protocol, routers, switches, and then same exact thing on my end including the divx player and my speakers. What makes the P2P app the bad guy? Getting rid of P2P is one very small part of this process. This is why the RIAA/MPAA will NEVER be able to stop or prevent this from happening. There are too many things with legitimate uses that would have to be taken away from the citizens to prevent an end round run past it.
There's nothing like the feeling of fixing somebody else's screw up (usually a contractor) and 30 minutes later be taking out the trash or doing some other degrading duty.
That is the way the military works. One minute you are troubleshooting a nuclear reactor protection system, after that you work for 8 hours doing pre-critical checkoffs and tests, then you are starting up the reactor and bringing temp and pressure up to the normal operating range (one of the most detail oriented things I have ever done in my life). One hour later you are in the machinery spaces with a broom and dustpan cleaning up. There are only so many people that can fit in a submarine, ship or airplane. You can not hire a cleaning crew to support that.
How about a C=64 EMU? I found Super Bowl Sunday and a few of my other favorites for it and I still play them once in a while.
5 cls
10 for x=1to15
20 poke 53280,x
30 poke 53281,x
40 next
50 goto 10
You could add a poke 808,239 in the front to make it really annoying.
If it wasnt for those old computer mags, I would never even have wanted a computer.
With the C64 basic you could be a little sloppy..
You did not have to put spaces between many of the commands and you did not have to specify what next to jump back to in loops, it went back to the last 'for' statement automatically. I thought that made the C64 so much better then my older TRS-80.
I had problems with this a few years ago when setting up Linux NAT machines for people on local networks. I was trying to tune PPP by adjusting MTU for various dialups for what I thought would be a more efficient setting. Problem though is the machines behind the NAT box are ethernet and tuned for different values. Shortly after I started noticing I could not reach various sites from the masq'd machines but worked fine directly from the NAT box. Knowing I had recently been messing with the PPP options I searched Google and found the different MTU to be the cause. Maybe the dialup users you speak of were directly connected?
I respect the way the are going about this and the fact that it is in the EULA. The bottom line though is people are using the bandwidth they thought they were paying for. What if everyone started sending files via email, irc, through an instant messenger or usenet? These things have been around for years but mostly behind the scenes, when they become the easiest way to get files from A to B they will be used in one form or another. Do you start cutting back on those? Eventually the ISP will have to tackle the real problem. Advertising something they can not afford to deliver. Browsing the WWW at 49kbps over a modem compared to a CM/DSL is not really much different, why pay 3 to 4x a month for that.
First off, I am for any type of broad and vague software patent like this but..
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/. bandwagon, my opinions are based on what I have seen and practices I have delt with in the past.
Okay, I screwed up the first line in my post, It was supposed to say I am NOT for
That was a rather important word to forget I guess.
You're another hypocritical
How the FUCK did you somehow twist my post into an assumption that I have some "other" face I wear on different days? I am and have always been against broad, general, and obvious software patents regardless of who has them. There is nothing hypocritical there dude. I simply stated that if MS DID have this patent they would be doing everything in thier power to prevent others from using it.
I do not like MS. I did not jump on a
First off, I am for any type of broad and vague software patent like this but..
They are publicly claiming to be trying to cripple Microsoft, knowing fully how well they rely on ActiveX for buisness.
Chicken and the egg. The patent was already there. If MS truely relies on that technology for business then they really do owe it to the patent holder. They took someones patent idea and used it for themselves.
claiming that they arn't even seeking a reasonable resolution?
Again. If MS was able to further corner a market and make a few billion dollars off of someones patented technology I believe that the patent holder would be well justified to expect a few or more billion dollars in return.
If MS was the holder of this patent would you expect them to act any differently?
Based on the various articles in this story, there are a few different versions of this thing bouncing around. I would imagine that they are all using the same internal circuitry with the exception of the roms. The question is...
How long before someone figures out how to upload and change the roms it comes with and how long before its running Linux..
Actually this will probably never get popular enough to really gain any momentum.
I have made some mods to my computer..
I changed my case led's to show 133 when I actually only have a 100, a racing stripe on my burner, swiped an "Intel inside" sticker from a disply at Walmart and I hooked the 2940UW external led connector to the green power AND the yellow turbo light on the case front. Eventually I'll fire up Winbench but I figure I'm good for at least 60 more FPS in Doom..
If you have KaZaa, do a search for videos with "motorcycle street race". You will find many street bikes easily hitting the upper 180's and getting there very fast. I don't know if they are gear or electronically limited but it appears based on the rate of acceleration they could easily go much faster. You might find some videos with Google but you have to wade through the junk. Of course, none of the videos I've seen had three people on the bike at those speeds, they may have started with three but did not end with them ;)
I'm getting way off topic here but you can find a lot of Darwin Award candidates in those motorcycle videos also.
Where does the TCO stop? When you buy another version or upgraded product? Basically does you W95 TCO stop when you upgraded to W2K which has its own TCO? Why would you not add the TCO's of both into a Total TCO of keeping your computers running over the years? This is something to consider when using open source. Two or three years done the road you can modify or add to your existing software to keep the software going and support your existing needs, you will not have to throw away package A and start over with package B. If you upgrade often your support costs may be less because more people are currently using it but your software costs go up (supply and demand). If you hold on to an application longer your costs will go up for support as less people are using it in the end but you will pay much less overall in software costs. Open source would allow you to keep an application going with third party support that does not have to be from any one vendor or from in house, seems to me this would make open source cheaper the longer it is used. Maybe not so cheap if you have a full time programmer on your pay roll to make a few changes to a package once a year but how does that?
What is Omnipage Pro up to now? version 12 or something. To maintain those "cheaper" support costs you have to keep buying the newest version.
I have only broken one watch LCD screen before and it took a 20 feet drop onto solid steel. Watch guts are normally not mounted to anything and they can 'float' around in the chassis. I had a really nice Casio graphing calc and a cell phone that busted from very short distances to office carpet.. I assume the LCD's themselves are very rugged, the method of placement in a device makes the difference, like if its hard attached or surrounded by plastic with no room for vibration or absorbtion etc, its probably going to break easily