more than a few people (like me) would be out of a job. The sad truth is,
that most of the developers that are still here keeping OS/2 alive have as much disdain for the GPL as ole Billy G does.
Out of a job? You know what.. A big part of my parents business in the early-mid seventies was mounting TV antennas on roofs. Had they been bull-headed and decided to ignore or fight the "evil" rapidly expanding cable companies, they would have been out of business about 20 years ago. Many things in life are beyond our control, but you can blame yourself if you are not at least looking down the road.
You can overclock more then just CPU's..
I had a Yamaha 200t (2x6 CDR), with a few modifications and a reflash of the bios, its now a Yamaha 400t (4x6 CDR).
It has been working fine at 4x for at least 500 CD burns. About a 100 on my Intel P133 overclocked to a P150 (75x2, CPU multiplier is clocklocked at 2) and the rest on my K6-2/400 overclocked to a K6-2/450 (110x4)
You can "overclock" many other CDR's also.
My theory is if its free, go for it..
I consider it fine tuning, just as you fine tune your proxy settings, your DB's, network settings, upgrade your kernel for better support, etc.. How is this any different then moving a CPU multiplier setting up an extra.5x, raising the bus freq up 5Mhz, or adjusting any other parameters in your system bios? If it takes you 10 minutes and you get a performance increase why not do it?
Overclocking is very well documented.
You will find far more web pages that describe CPU overclocking then you'll find on "fine tuning" something like Samba.
I work in an IT department that is unionized (and my contract is currently under heated negotiation;). IMHO the union is not a good thing for a fast moving always changing field like the IT field. I see it every day at work. Things have changed from the old dumb terminal days and the workers have not. There is no reason to change. I think you would have to shoot at least three people to get fired. Even then it would still probably be questionable. You could screw things up every day and nothing will happen. When it comes time to let someone go its not the most qualified or hardest working that stay, It is 100% based on seniority and NOTHING ELSE. You could be a complete screwup and not even know what an IP address is for, but you will still have your job when the layoffs come.
I see it every day and it is very frustrating..
This helps NO ONE.
IT/Internet/networking etc is not my company's primary focus (only about 500 IT people for 100k total work force). If it was we would not have a single customer and would have folded when the last dumb terminal was gone years ago.
Any IT/technology company that turns union will loose the ability to adapt to swift changes like a non-union company. When times are not so good and you are forced to downsizing you CAN NOT just keep the hot runners and drop of the not so hot, it does not work that way. If and when the times require you to hire again, more then likely you will be obligated to offering the previous lay-offs back again, even if they transformed from Java programer to brick layer for the 12 months they were laid off.
Verizon sucks. Three days after I started using their dialup I already had 14 spammed messages. And I NEVER gave, wrote down, spoke out loud, my account name a single time. I get at least 50 junk mails a week and i still have never given, used this email account to anyone since day one. I,mainly use my old shell account from my previous ISP or Yahoo. I emailed Verizon asking how this was possible. I was given a canned response with a link to the Verizon SPAM FAQ.
Basically the solution is to never give out your email address (which I never have) and filter the crap that gets through on your own end! Verizon is ALMOST as bad as Hotmail..
If you don't get the children very young, and fit them once they are able to crawl, they are not going to get much use later in life.
I could not agree more..
My daughter was born with no left hand (slight wrist action). We have tried at least two devices that "looked" like a hand, one had the ability to grasp through the action of bending the elbow. The main purpose of these was cosmetic. Well, neither worked and were very cumbersome. She has made the decision to not try another one until she is older (she's 10 now). Any person will adapt to what they are given. If I suddenly lost a hand I I would be helpless. Try tieing your shoe or buttoning up a shirt with one hand. She was doing these daily since she was three. She has NEVER been in a situation where having only one hand has hindered her in ANY way. We do not even think about it. Her lack of two hands is a 100% complete "non issue". She is getting to the age where she is starting to get concerned about looks though. Any prostectic available now might "look" appealing but would limit her ability to use what she has. Maybe this device and future products will offer a better compromise (and not cost as much as a house).
With that said...
Based on my first hand experience (no pun intended) I would not suggest one of these devices until later in life. Let the child/teenager decide. Learn to use what you have. If you don't you will be forced to the likes of MS Windows and constantly refitting and upgrading this thing for the rest of your life because you never developed the skills to go without it. They do not last long, constantly need refitting and are very cumbersome (at least the two we tried years ago). I did not have any experience with this before it happened to our family. If these types of devices were readily availible when she was younger I would not have hesitated to get one, thinking it would be a greatest help to her. I am glad we did not.
Save your money and send the kid to karate classes instead, then they can beat the hell out of the other kids that make fun of them because they are different.
Years ago to play DOS games over the internet you needed Kali.. Nice program but it didnt work if your modem or CM was in your Linux box.
I got Duke Nukem to work with cable modem by using Kali to initiate a ppp session from a dos box to the linux machine through the serial port. Some haphazard port redirecting (used an app called redir I believe) and everything worked fine. It wasnt fool proof but neither is Duke Nukem on a local network. I'm sure other network games relesed in that time frame would have worked also but I quit after the inital amazement that it actually worked.
Off topic but I also had an old NES emulator for Win9x that that allowed you to play any two player NES game over IP. Just using redir and forwarding the port would get that to work with the CM. I havent done anything with PPP since then, I don't even remeber how to start the deamon. Maybe its still in my startup scripts
Does a judge really have enough knowledge to make a decision on what constitutes cracking? I doubt it. Will this ever change? No.
People who know nothing more about computers then IE will look on things differently then a computer hacker (or cracker for that matter) will. It is two completely different perspectives of the world.
You can not explain what you did to a judge or general group of people like a jury that your portscans, digs, probes, etc were not malicious.
This quest for further knowledge due to general interest by yourself will always be looked at with a keen eye
A couple of years ago I sent an email to a guy in our Linux user group that was crafted to look like it came from "root@localhost" that stated, "You are owned, I finally got your root password" or something similar. I manually sent the mail by telneting to a mail server that would forward and not attach my ip information (I found this server from some spam that I had recieved, haha, there actually is a good use for spam). Well that mail server had now started forwarding at least the originating ip address info. So my IP was attached in the mail, big deal I thought. Well two days later my internet account was terminated for a violation of the user agreement. I had absolutely no recourse, I was cancelled for hacking, which I think they ment cracking, either way neither had happened. I tried to explain what I did but the cust serv people and their manager wanted nothing to do me. I thought that if I could just get to talk to someone that knew something about networks, computers or at least a mail server, I would be good to go. It never happened. The point being... If your dealing with non computer people you will NEVER get your point across and anything other then browsing the web is considered above and beyond normal use. It is fear of the unknown. This fear leads to knee jerk reactions. Try explaining to your mom that if some windows user shares out his c drive world writable with no password and you happen to find it that you are not doing anything wrong or breaking any laws if you download or delete stuff from it. No password, writable, available on the internet? This combination of events was no accident, not a bad judgement default condition, or the result of any bugs or cracking attempts. Hello!!!
We use a decent system for tracking planes for "planning purposes". The data stream is not sent back to pilots but its used for calculating arrival times for support planning on the ground and for noise abatement. Its a passive system that works with the FAA's radar located at airports. A dimensional array antenna reads the planes IFF responses triggered from the airports radar. The plane responds back with its actual altitude and tail number, the array knows the relative angle of the airports radar to calculate the angle and uses the return pulse time to calculate distance. This is all processed with a RedHat box with some realtime kernel patches. The output is sent to a central unit (probably a mainframe but could be anything I guess) and merged with data from other airports and operational schedules. In our case the overall output is sent to nice looking display on HPU boxs.
I actually got to see the systems replay of flight 808 going down of the coast of Long Island. A system at ISP (Islip?) airport was tracking that area at the time.
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They could reduce the cost by another 10% ($89x225=$20025) if they would return their *unused* OEM Windows licenses to MS..
more than a few people (like me) would be out of a job. The sad truth is, that most of the developers that are still here keeping OS/2 alive have as much disdain for the GPL as ole Billy G does.
Out of a job? You know what.. A big part of my parents business in the early-mid seventies was mounting TV antennas on roofs. Had they been bull-headed and decided to ignore or fight the "evil" rapidly expanding cable companies, they would have been out of business about 20 years ago. Many things in life are beyond our control, but you can blame yourself if you are not at least looking down the road.
Better yet..
Tell them by the time you got home, your kids already downloaded it for free.
You can overclock more then just CPU's.. .5x, raising the bus freq up 5Mhz, or adjusting any other parameters in your system bios? If it takes you 10 minutes and you get a performance increase why not do it?
I had a Yamaha 200t (2x6 CDR), with a few modifications and a reflash of the bios, its now a Yamaha 400t (4x6 CDR).
It has been working fine at 4x for at least 500 CD burns. About a 100 on my Intel P133 overclocked to a P150 (75x2, CPU multiplier is clocklocked at 2) and the rest on my K6-2/400 overclocked to a K6-2/450 (110x4)
You can "overclock" many other CDR's also.
My theory is if its free, go for it..
I consider it fine tuning, just as you fine tune your proxy settings, your DB's, network settings, upgrade your kernel for better support, etc.. How is this any different then moving a CPU multiplier setting up an extra
Overclocking is very well documented. You will find far more web pages that describe CPU overclocking then you'll find on "fine tuning" something like Samba.
I work in an IT department that is unionized (and my contract is currently under heated negotiation ;). IMHO the union is not a good thing for a fast moving always changing field like the IT field. I see it every day at work. Things have changed from the old dumb terminal days and the workers have not. There is no reason to change. I think you would have to shoot at least three people to get fired. Even then it would still probably be questionable. You could screw things up every day and nothing will happen. When it comes time to let someone go its not the most qualified or hardest working that stay, It is 100% based on seniority and NOTHING ELSE. You could be a complete screwup and not even know what an IP address is for, but you will still have your job when the layoffs come.
I see it every day and it is very frustrating..
This helps NO ONE.
IT/Internet/networking etc is not my company's primary focus (only about 500 IT people for 100k total work force). If it was we would not have a single customer and would have folded when the last dumb terminal was gone years ago.
Any IT/technology company that turns union will loose the ability to adapt to swift changes like a non-union company. When times are not so good and you are forced to downsizing you CAN NOT just keep the hot runners and drop of the not so hot, it does not work that way. If and when the times require you to hire again, more then likely you will be obligated to offering the previous lay-offs back again, even if they transformed from Java programer to brick layer for the 12 months they were laid off.
Damit, I put this reply under the wrong story.. It was supposed to go to the Verizon thread. Too many SPAM stories on /. today.
Verizon sucks. Three days after I started using their dialup I already had 14 spammed messages. And I NEVER gave, wrote down, spoke out loud, my account name a single time. I get at least 50 junk mails a week and i still have never given, used this email account to anyone since day one. I ,mainly use my old shell account from my previous ISP or Yahoo. I emailed Verizon asking how this was possible. I was given a canned response with a link to the Verizon SPAM FAQ.
Basically the solution is to never give out your email address (which I never have) and filter the crap that gets through on your own end! Verizon is ALMOST as bad as Hotmail..
If you don't get the children very young, and fit them once they are able to crawl, they are not going to get much use later in life.
I could not agree more..
My daughter was born with no left hand (slight wrist action). We have tried at least two devices that "looked" like a hand, one had the ability to grasp through the action of bending the elbow. The main purpose of these was cosmetic. Well, neither worked and were very cumbersome. She has made the decision to not try another one until she is older (she's 10 now). Any person will adapt to what they are given. If I suddenly lost a hand I I would be helpless. Try tieing your shoe or buttoning up a shirt with one hand. She was doing these daily since she was three. She has NEVER been in a situation where having only one hand has hindered her in ANY way. We do not even think about it. Her lack of two hands is a 100% complete "non issue". She is getting to the age where she is starting to get concerned about looks though. Any prostectic available now might "look" appealing but would limit her ability to use what she has. Maybe this device and future products will offer a better compromise (and not cost as much as a house).
With that said... Based on my first hand experience (no pun intended) I would not suggest one of these devices until later in life. Let the child/teenager decide. Learn to use what you have. If you don't you will be forced to the likes of MS Windows and constantly refitting and upgrading this thing for the rest of your life because you never developed the skills to go without it. They do not last long, constantly need refitting and are very cumbersome (at least the two we tried years ago). I did not have any experience with this before it happened to our family. If these types of devices were readily availible when she was younger I would not have hesitated to get one, thinking it would be a greatest help to her. I am glad we did not.
Save your money and send the kid to karate classes instead, then they can beat the hell out of the other kids that make fun of them because they are different.
Sorry, spel cheker broke.
Years ago to play DOS games over the internet you needed Kali.. Nice program but it didnt work if your modem or CM was in your Linux box. I got Duke Nukem to work with cable modem by using Kali to initiate a ppp session from a dos box to the linux machine through the serial port. Some haphazard port redirecting (used an app called redir I believe) and everything worked fine. It wasnt fool proof but neither is Duke Nukem on a local network. I'm sure other network games relesed in that time frame would have worked also but I quit after the inital amazement that it actually worked. Off topic but I also had an old NES emulator for Win9x that that allowed you to play any two player NES game over IP. Just using redir and forwarding the port would get that to work with the CM. I havent done anything with PPP since then, I don't even remeber how to start the deamon. Maybe its still in my startup scripts
Does a judge really have enough knowledge to make a decision on what constitutes cracking? I doubt it. Will this ever change? No.
People who know nothing more about computers then IE will look on things differently then a computer hacker (or cracker for that matter) will. It is two completely different perspectives of the world.
You can not explain what you did to a judge or general group of people like a jury that your portscans, digs, probes, etc were not malicious.
This quest for further knowledge due to general interest by yourself will always be looked at with a keen eye
A couple of years ago I sent an email to a guy in our Linux user group that was crafted to look like it came from "root@localhost" that stated, "You are owned, I finally got your root password" or something similar. I manually sent the mail by telneting to a mail server that would forward and not attach my ip information (I found this server from some spam that I had recieved, haha, there actually is a good use for spam). Well that mail server had now started forwarding at least the originating ip address info. So my IP was attached in the mail, big deal I thought. Well two days later my internet account was terminated for a violation of the user agreement. I had absolutely no recourse, I was cancelled for hacking, which I think they ment cracking, either way neither had happened. I tried to explain what I did but the cust serv people and their manager wanted nothing to do me. I thought that if I could just get to talk to someone that knew something about networks, computers or at least a mail server, I would be good to go. It never happened. The point being... If your dealing with non computer people you will NEVER get your point across and anything other then browsing the web is considered above and beyond normal use. It is fear of the unknown. This fear leads to knee jerk reactions. Try explaining to your mom that if some windows user shares out his c drive world writable with no password and you happen to find it that you are not doing anything wrong or breaking any laws if you download or delete stuff from it. No password, writable, available on the internet? This combination of events was no accident, not a bad judgement default condition, or the result of any bugs or cracking attempts. Hello!!!
I got my crashes mixed up, it was Egypt Air flight 990...
We use a decent system for tracking planes for "planning purposes". The data stream is not sent back to pilots but its used for calculating arrival times for support planning on the ground and for noise abatement. Its a passive system that works with the FAA's radar located at airports. A dimensional array antenna reads the planes IFF responses triggered from the airports radar. The plane responds back with its actual altitude and tail number, the array knows the relative angle of the airports radar to calculate the angle and uses the return pulse time to calculate distance. This is all processed with a RedHat box with some realtime kernel patches. The output is sent to a central unit (probably a mainframe but could be anything I guess) and merged with data from other airports and operational schedules. In our case the overall output is sent to nice looking display on HPU boxs. I actually got to see the systems replay of flight 808 going down of the coast of Long Island. A system at ISP (Islip?) airport was tracking that area at the time.