M$ has a nice program that sets up your DUN nicley. Its called the IEAK (internet Explorer Admin Kit). Once properly set up, it can completely take care of any combination of dialup that comes along, and integration with a CD? Seamless... I've yet to see a bad setup..
That clicking sound you are hearing are the heads going from stop to stop, in a process we call "scrubbing". It's levelling the media so it would not crash so often or lose data. From my read on this, either IBM is selecting crappy heads, or their batches of platters are not meeting spec and they are letting them slide. In any case it's gettin ugly for them. Ugly for me as well.. I got a WD400BB that blew it. She was almost a year and a half old, TARE and Boot errors.. I didnt lose much, just my desktop and settings. Upgraded to a WD1000 7200 RPM... Boyoboy, I dont think i'll fill this puppy up! Of course, thats what i thought when I bought my WD400 and WD450 drives, both 7200 RPM, both close in birthdays.:p If anyone wants to grouch about SMARTDrive, they will have to deal with me! That little killer app saved my bacon.
I drive VNC to tend 2 other machines, cross-platforming between two win98 chassis and a win2k Pro... Now you tell me that M$ is going to shut down VNC just for XPlective. VNC is still neeeded in the real wold folks.. What M$% dosent realize is that there are alot of older machines out there that cannot and will not handle XPlective, and VNC is quite happy with it. Just for kicks i took VNC and lit off Unreal on a win2k host from a win98 client, and by god, it worked! It looked crappy but it ran fine by all means.. It ate up my 100 base switch tho but the key word was OPERATIONAL. No way am i going to late m$ stuff VNC down the tubes.. if they order it shut down ill post VNC on my website for downloading, and i do suggest to everyone else to do so when this happens..
small Nixie display modded to show RPMS, temp, or the time of the day, mounted on the front of a puter. Now with the higher voltages required to drive the unit, some wiring modifications will be needed to make it happen. It would be quite retro and modern at the same time.
Now i know that there are TRUE small nixies out there for i've seen them in a old medical diagonstic display (a hemocrit counter to be exact) not just a modded vacuum flourescent display.
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Ive yet to hear what the ISP's have to say about all this wrangling, finagling, draggin their feet and hedging on why they have not been able to install, operate, or maintain their systems to a high level of standard.
As i recall in the early days of the 'net, AT&T reps came to visit one of the early DARPA nodes and to watch a demostration of the equipment and the network.. But unfortunately the router decided to take a holiday and crashed. The kicker of this story is when the router broke the reps seemed to be relieved that this was not going to be competion to their system.
This mentality seems to have carried over to today with the general attitude of the bells and the cable monopolies.
I want to hear it from the suits, the managers, the men in the back rooms, the straight story why this is and how we can work together to rectify or resolve the situation.
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30 days is wayy too long to be waiting in the eyes of some states and their PUCs. If I had ordered service and they went one hour over the 30 day limit, I would have been calling the PUC and the telco and filing complaints with both of them, and for each day after that, another two sets of calls, one to the PUC and to the telco until they got their act together.. As I recall QWest got nailed for 20 mill a day up in Colordao for piss poor customer support and violations of state utility regs.
It's been over a year and a half with swbell here and i'm still waiting for them to increase their DSL range in the city to include my area but to no avail.. I just posted another application to them and got a nastygram stating that i will not be receiving DSL due to being outside of their range and they have no plans to expand... A year ago they unconditionally promised DSL thru the entire city, and here we are 2002, their promised date when the service would be here.. What a joke.
I keep posting via their web application and make them waste their $$$ mailing me these letters..
Put a note onto Spamcop.net newsgroup with full headers and lets see what the wizards can come up with...
Im certain that we can get you fixed up in a jiffy..
I keep a tight rein on my usenet as well as my surfing, and currently i only get about 5 spams a month. Not bad for a 6 year vet of the 'net, and 4 of those with the same ISP AND the same email account. Whenever i get a spam, i go hunting, and oftentimes that bags the spammer a killed account or a RBL listing. One Maillist here recently got put on my ISP's blacklist for their lack of enforcement of their own rules (mindhshare.com and pm0.net was the spammer). Their backbone, Verio, has been informed of their actions several hundered times and spewed too, with little or no effect. If Verio did not have multihoming capability, I would have asked Sprintnet to pull their plug and let them stew in the dark until they shut the jokers off.
Acording to what i've been reading on this I think that the SEC (securities exchange comission)needs to be in on this. What PAYPAL appears to be doing is borderline money fraud, not to mention unsavory business tactics bordering on the edge of being a outright theif.
If someone does get a wild hair, contact the SEC as well as their lawyer and see if they can make heads or tails out of what PAYPAL is doing with their $$$ and is it considered to be a violation of US law.
As usual, IANAL, but knowledgable in in public law. It keeps me from being bothered by telemarketers.
Hmm.. I did think up a gadget that uses a fully charged capacitor that orginated from a microwave. (those bad boys pack about 2,000 volts, thankyouverymuch) Take it to the source of the offending telemarketer, disconnect the outside telco access (you dont want to fry any MUXes or lose any of the potency of the charge), and hook the cap into the primary ring pairs.. *zap* No more autodialer!
I knight thee.. Chrome box.
I also think a vietnam era "hellbox" can do the same trick also, but it does it at lower voltages so you have to be choosy about what equipment you want to light up.. It also does good jobs on the local hacker that you want to knock offline...
Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works, headed by Jack Kelly directed one of his thermodynamics engineers to work on a feasibility study of a hydrogen-powered aircraft that could make the 100K feet altitude and mach 3+. Ben Rich (the father of the f-117 Stealth Fighter) along with another engineer worked on the idea of using hydrogen.. They worked on designing saftey systems as well as aircraft tankerage that could handle high (500 degrees+) temperatures. They dealt with hydrogen leaks as well as testing on how hydrogen would explode if it's tanks would rupture. One such test let pure LH (liquid hydrogen) out and they then set off a spark.. The LH burned off in a flare and there was no explosion. But they mixed Hydrogen gas with Oxygen gas and tried agian. The resulting bang and shockwave ricoched off nearby buildings and about knocked two men off a scaffolding two blocks down the street! The bottom line on the project was this: Was it feasable for the military to handle out in the field? No. Is there going to be problems with logistics in getting the hydrogen out to third world countries to fuel the aricraft? Yes. How big would the aircraft be if it had a 2,000 mile range and be able to handle all the mission paramters? about as long as a football field, with 80% of the aircraft being tankerage! BTW, the project was called 'Suntan' and the info is public info for those that want to peer at the first hydrogen powered aircraft engine built by Pratt and Whitney.
Its the equavalent of the Honeypot Project and it shows promise. But the main problem is with these kind of projects, one has to wonder where the funding comes from to provide for the bandwidth..
Honey usually doesn't come without a few stings you know...
You've got it all wrong bub. There is a good BSD deamon and a good BSD deamon. If that's got ya messed up , goto www.userfriendly.org and read their archives. The deamon was not meant to do anyone any harm whatsoever, so take a 6 pack of AOL cds and go play frisbee on the freeway.
Hmm sounds like a windows purist to me.. I pity the time when Linux becomes a required study and these windows users are not up to the challenge of cross-training for it.
If you got a problem with a trademark, LIVE WITH IT! The Deamon has been around for ages and NOW you open your so-called purist mouth to whine about it? tisk tisk tisk.
Somebody else whined about another mascot and actually tried to get it struck thru legal action.. He got laughed out of the courtroom and the mascot remained to this day.
This problem extended from hackers posting multiple inquiries for user info into SETI@'s database to extract email addresses. There is no major threat here to TVA's security whatsoever...
I WISH that people would READ before they open up their mouths... TVA's suit simply didnt, or does not understand how SETI operates..
In some cases, it is more closer to reality than some may want to aknowledge.. Take Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain, this was one such example of a unknown pathogen encountering terrestial lifeforms. The results were not pretty.. If such a plague should arise and isolation should not stop the spread, a plan known in the book as Cautery might be implemented. Of course Cautery is the plan in which they would be using a thermonuclear device to halt the spread.
Go read the book, it might just come true, in one way or another, IF the proper precautions are not taken...
Amateur Radio used to have something else out there before the 'Net came out: Packet Radio.
Hams with 2 meter VHF gear and PCs, using AMTOR, RTTY, and pacTOR to communicate thru Packetpeaters and did this quite well. It almost became national but save for the introduction of the 'net. Nowadays its for hobbyists that want to play with receiving satellite imagery, listening to the ISS, and communicating with other amateurs via OSCAR (Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio). You have to remember that Hams preceded the 'net and all these prefab gadgets that we got today, most of them had to build the majority of their gear from scratch, or modify what they could get ahold of.
These are the TRUE pioneers of where we are at today with our phones and wireless commo.
Go read up on amateur radio at www.arrl.org and god willing, help you understand what these ppl went thru to make it all happen.
Both Lynch's attempt and Harrison's venture, does show one thing: The filmmaker's own interperation of the book and a attempt to appease all sides.. The book did have some pages that would have, if shown on film, have wound up on the cutting room floor. For instance, the Homosexual tendencies of the Harkonnens, and their brutal gladitorial-style combat, and just for Fey's birthday, he killed a captured Atreides solder, to boot!
As for Paul's love life, the book delved into it, as any good book would, but if portrayed on the big screen, would have put the audience to sleep, guranteed. Look at the theaterical conversions of The Hunt of The Red October, Flight of The Intruder, as well as Patriot Games. O they do come close to the book, but IF they try to follow word for word, then they would be in deep dip with either the company for budget overruns of with the Moviegoers for putting out a borring show. Pack a pillow folks, if someone tries to.
I'm sorry but this guy is obviously a mushroom when it comes to the world of file sharing in general. He was very specific in his aim when he cam to this article and started to beat on Gnutella and our beloved Napster. He missed the other P2P programs, like IRC, and the potential of the blossoming broadband industry that would unleash gnutella and it's beta GnuMirror that is coming out. There is one other item that he didnt consider, a simple program that would throttle a connection IF the user decided to unlock his selected files thru their OS's Sharing option. You know, there is a READ ONLY option in win9X and Win2K'S sharing option... This author just simply decided to stir the pot some and used a toothpick instead of a spoon... tisk
Ok, we're getting a bit off-base here..
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E*Trade has repeatedly claimed in the media, and at the hearing (initially), that this "financial questionaire" was "objective" and that it was mandated by some vague and unspecified NASD and SEC regulations. Don't buy that. At the hearing, that argument was torn into shreds. Under direct examination a demand was put to E*Trade to cite the exact NASD/SEC rule that they were blabbing about. The blank stare in response was priceless.
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Their questionaire was used ONLY for this IPO and their selectiveity was EXTEREMLY selective, not to mention being illegal to Boot!
So the Brokers make the dough, tis great, as long as they play by the rules. That don't mean that they can bend them, but outright violations of NASD/SEC regs will mean disaster to any broker or company.
Let me clear the slate by saying no...
NASD is there to keep the goons like e*trade in line, also to prevent us from busting the bubble like we did during the '29 crash over and over agian.
The SEC and NASD were the ones that collared Melliken during his raid on the bond market. I would consider them to be my ally, even if they are a rattlesnake den, but that would keep the dogs away...:)
The guidelines are to keep the playing field level, and how to play the game. They dont tell you what you can bring onto that field to play with tho.. need it be penny stocks, or blue chip monsters.
Broker's Rule #1: The Brokers cannot invest into the market itself. PERIOD
This is a cardinal SEC reg to maintain market stability.
RE: being selfish, IF they did do that they would be in even worse trouble and might have lost their license to even operate as part of the market.
And as for being a tech stock that is a OS, i'd say that it is worthy of a long term buy and then play with it.
Yer about right on class action, it just didnt go that far if the SEC didnt take action, in which is VERY rare in matters like this...
Tech talk is nice, dont get me wrong on that, But tis the squeezin' green that makes the world (and the 'Net) go 'round.
If you read into it a bit further, other clients were being rejected and money-trading rules were being broke.
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M$ has a nice program that sets up your DUN nicley. Its called the IEAK (internet Explorer Admin Kit). Once properly set up, it can completely take care of any combination of dialup that comes along, and integration with a CD? Seamless... I've yet to see a bad setup..
That clicking sound you are hearing are the heads going from stop to stop, in a process we call "scrubbing". It's levelling the media so it would not crash so often or lose data. From my read on this, either IBM is selecting crappy heads, or their batches of platters are not meeting spec and they are letting them slide. In any case it's gettin ugly for them. :p
Ugly for me as well.. I got a WD400BB that blew it. She was almost a year and a half old, TARE and Boot errors.. I didnt lose much, just my desktop and settings. Upgraded to a WD1000 7200 RPM... Boyoboy, I dont think i'll fill this puppy up! Of course, thats what i thought when I bought my WD400 and WD450 drives, both 7200 RPM, both close in birthdays.
If anyone wants to grouch about SMARTDrive, they will have to deal with me! That little killer app saved my bacon.
I drive VNC to tend 2 other machines, cross-platforming between two win98 chassis and a win2k Pro... Now you tell me that M$ is going to shut down VNC just for XPlective. VNC is still neeeded in the real wold folks.. What M$% dosent realize is that there are alot of older machines out there that cannot and will not handle XPlective, and VNC is quite happy with it.
Just for kicks i took VNC and lit off Unreal on a win2k host from a win98 client, and by god, it worked! It looked crappy but it ran fine by all means.. It ate up my 100 base switch tho but the key word was OPERATIONAL. No way am i going to late m$ stuff VNC down the tubes.. if they order it shut down ill post VNC on my website for downloading, and i do suggest to everyone else to do so when this happens..
I hope that your little slashdotters will be the mirror image of you and your bride!
small Nixie display modded to show RPMS, temp, or the time of the day, mounted on the front of a puter. Now with the higher voltages required to drive the unit, some wiring modifications will be needed to make it happen. It would be quite retro and modern at the same time.
Now i know that there are TRUE small nixies out there for i've seen them in a old medical diagonstic display (a hemocrit counter to be exact) not just a modded vacuum flourescent display.
Ive yet to hear what the ISP's have to say about all this wrangling, finagling, draggin their feet and hedging on why they have not been able to install, operate, or maintain their systems to a high level of standard.
As i recall in the early days of the 'net, AT&T reps came to visit one of the early DARPA nodes and to watch a demostration of the equipment and the network.. But unfortunately the router decided to take a holiday and crashed. The kicker of this story is when the router broke the reps seemed to be relieved that this was not going to be competion to their system.
This mentality seems to have carried over to today with the general attitude of the bells and the cable monopolies.
I want to hear it from the suits, the managers, the men in the back rooms, the straight story why this is and how we can work together to rectify or resolve the situation.
30 days is wayy too long to be waiting in the eyes of some states and their PUCs. If I had ordered service and they went one hour over the 30 day limit, I would have been calling the PUC and the telco and filing complaints with both of them, and for each day after that, another two sets of calls, one to the PUC and to the telco until they got their act together.. As I recall QWest got nailed for 20 mill a day up in Colordao for piss poor customer support and violations of state utility regs.
It's been over a year and a half with swbell here and i'm still waiting for them to increase their DSL range in the city to include my area but to no avail.. I just posted another application to them and got a nastygram stating that i will not be receiving DSL due to being outside of their range and they have no plans to expand... A year ago they unconditionally promised DSL thru the entire city, and here we are 2002, their promised date when the service would be here.. What a joke.
I keep posting via their web application and make them waste their $$$ mailing me these letters..
Put a note onto Spamcop.net newsgroup with full headers and lets see what the wizards can come up with...
Im certain that we can get you fixed up in a jiffy..
I keep a tight rein on my usenet as well as my surfing, and currently i only get about 5 spams a month. Not bad for a 6 year vet of the 'net, and 4 of those with the same ISP AND the same email account. Whenever i get a spam, i go hunting, and oftentimes that bags the spammer a killed account or a RBL listing. One Maillist here recently got put on my ISP's blacklist for their lack of enforcement of their own rules (mindhshare.com and pm0.net was the spammer). Their backbone, Verio, has been informed of their actions several hundered times and spewed too, with little or no effect. If Verio did not have multihoming capability, I would have asked Sprintnet to pull their plug and let them stew in the dark until they shut the jokers off.
Acording to what i've been reading on this I think that the SEC (securities exchange comission)needs to be in on this. What PAYPAL appears to be doing is borderline money fraud, not to mention unsavory business tactics bordering on the edge of being a outright theif.
If someone does get a wild hair, contact the SEC as well as their lawyer and see if they can make heads or tails out of what PAYPAL is doing with their $$$ and is it considered to be a violation of US law.
As usual, IANAL, but knowledgable in in public law. It keeps me from being bothered by telemarketers.
Hmm.. I did think up a gadget that uses a fully charged capacitor that orginated from a microwave. (those bad boys pack about 2,000 volts, thankyouverymuch) Take it to the source of the offending telemarketer, disconnect the outside telco access (you dont want to fry any MUXes or lose any of the potency of the charge), and hook the cap into the primary ring pairs.. *zap* No more autodialer!
I knight thee.. Chrome box.
I also think a vietnam era "hellbox" can do the same trick also, but it does it at lower voltages so you have to be choosy about what equipment you want to light up.. It also does good jobs on the local hacker that you want to knock offline...
The Strikes have been aimed agianst CnC (ccommunication and command) sites, primarily agianst radar and several communication sites.
Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works, headed by Jack Kelly directed one of his thermodynamics engineers to work on a feasibility study of a hydrogen-powered aircraft that could make the 100K feet altitude and mach 3+. Ben Rich (the father of the f-117 Stealth Fighter) along with another engineer worked on the idea of using hydrogen.. They worked on designing saftey systems as well as aircraft tankerage that could handle high (500 degrees+) temperatures. They dealt with hydrogen leaks as well as testing on how hydrogen would explode if it's tanks would rupture. One such test let pure LH (liquid hydrogen) out and they then set off a spark.. The LH burned off in a flare and there was no explosion. But they mixed Hydrogen gas with Oxygen gas and tried agian. The resulting bang and shockwave ricoched off nearby buildings and about knocked two men off a scaffolding two blocks down the street! The bottom line on the project was this: Was it feasable for the military to handle out in the field? No. Is there going to be problems with logistics in getting the hydrogen out to third world countries to fuel the aricraft? Yes. How big would the aircraft be if it had a 2,000 mile range and be able to handle all the mission paramters? about as long as a football field, with 80% of the aircraft being tankerage! BTW, the project was called 'Suntan' and the info is public info for those that want to peer at the first hydrogen powered aircraft engine built by Pratt and Whitney.
Its the equavalent of the Honeypot Project and it shows promise. But the main problem is with these kind of projects, one has to wonder where the funding comes from to provide for the bandwidth..
Honey usually doesn't come without a few stings you know...
You've got it all wrong bub. There is a good BSD deamon and a good BSD deamon. If that's got ya messed up , goto www.userfriendly.org and read their archives. The deamon was not meant to do anyone any harm whatsoever, so take a 6 pack of AOL cds and go play frisbee on the freeway.
Hmm sounds like a windows purist to me.. I pity the time when Linux becomes a required study and these windows users are not up to the challenge of cross-training for it.
If you got a problem with a trademark, LIVE WITH IT! The Deamon has been around for ages and NOW you open your so-called purist mouth to whine about it? tisk tisk tisk.
Somebody else whined about another mascot and actually tried to get it struck thru legal action.. He got laughed out of the courtroom and the mascot remained to this day.
This problem extended from hackers posting multiple inquiries for user info into SETI@'s database to extract email addresses. There is no major threat here to TVA's security whatsoever...
I WISH that people would READ before they open up their mouths... TVA's suit simply didnt, or does not understand how SETI operates..
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/tech_news.html
In some cases, it is more closer to reality than some may want to aknowledge.. Take Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain, this was one such example of a unknown pathogen encountering terrestial lifeforms. The results were not pretty.. If such a plague should arise and isolation should not stop the spread, a plan known in the book as Cautery might be implemented. Of course Cautery is the plan in which they would be using a thermonuclear device to halt the spread.
Go read the book, it might just come true, in one way or another, IF the proper precautions are not taken...
Amateur Radio used to have something else out there before the 'Net came out: Packet Radio.
Hams with 2 meter VHF gear and PCs, using AMTOR, RTTY, and pacTOR to communicate thru Packetpeaters and did this quite well. It almost became national but save for the introduction of the 'net. Nowadays its for hobbyists that want to play with receiving satellite imagery, listening to the ISS, and communicating with other amateurs via OSCAR (Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio). You have to remember that Hams preceded the 'net and all these prefab gadgets that we got today, most of them had to build the majority of their gear from scratch, or modify what they could get ahold of.
These are the TRUE pioneers of where we are at today with our phones and wireless commo.
Go read up on amateur radio at www.arrl.org and god willing, help you understand what these ppl went thru to make it all happen.
Both Lynch's attempt and Harrison's venture, does show one thing: The filmmaker's own interperation of the book and a attempt to appease all sides.. The book did have some pages that would have, if shown on film, have wound up on the cutting room floor. For instance, the Homosexual tendencies of the Harkonnens, and their brutal gladitorial-style combat, and just for Fey's birthday, he killed a captured Atreides solder, to boot!
As for Paul's love life, the book delved into it, as any good book would, but if portrayed on the big screen, would have put the audience to sleep, guranteed. Look at the theaterical conversions of The Hunt of The Red October, Flight of The Intruder, as well as Patriot Games. O they do come close to the book, but IF they try to follow word for word, then they would be in deep dip with either the company for budget overruns of with the Moviegoers for putting out a borring show. Pack a pillow folks, if someone tries to.
I'm sorry but this guy is obviously a mushroom when it comes to the world of file sharing in general. He was very specific in his aim when he cam to this article and started to beat on Gnutella and our beloved Napster. He missed the other P2P programs, like IRC, and the potential of the blossoming broadband industry that would unleash gnutella and it's beta GnuMirror that is coming out. There is one other item that he didnt consider, a simple program that would throttle a connection IF the user decided to unlock his selected files thru their OS's Sharing option. You know, there is a READ ONLY option in win9X and Win2K'S sharing option... This author just simply decided to stir the pot some and used a toothpick instead of a spoon... tisk
Ok, we're getting a bit off-base here..
{snip}
E*Trade has repeatedly claimed in the media, and at the hearing (initially), that this "financial questionaire" was "objective" and that it was mandated by some vague and unspecified NASD and SEC regulations. Don't buy that. At the hearing, that argument was torn into shreds. Under direct examination a demand was put to E*Trade to cite the exact NASD/SEC rule that they were blabbing about. The blank stare in response was priceless.
{snip}
Their questionaire was used ONLY for this IPO and their selectiveity was EXTEREMLY selective, not to mention being illegal to Boot!
So the Brokers make the dough, tis great, as long as they play by the rules. That don't mean that they can bend them, but outright violations of NASD/SEC regs will mean disaster to any broker or company.
Let me clear the slate by saying no... NASD is there to keep the goons like e*trade in line, also to prevent us from busting the bubble like we did during the '29 crash over and over agian. The SEC and NASD were the ones that collared Melliken during his raid on the bond market. I would consider them to be my ally, even if they are a rattlesnake den, but that would keep the dogs away... :)
The guidelines are to keep the playing field level, and how to play the game. They dont tell you what you can bring onto that field to play with tho.. need it be penny stocks, or blue chip monsters.
Broker's Rule #1: The Brokers cannot invest into the market itself. PERIOD
This is a cardinal SEC reg to maintain market stability.
RE: being selfish, IF they did do that they would be in even worse trouble and might have lost their license to even operate as part of the market.
And as for being a tech stock that is a OS, i'd say that it is worthy of a long term buy and then play with it.
Yer about right on class action, it just didnt go that far if the SEC didnt take action, in which is VERY rare in matters like this...
Tech talk is nice, dont get me wrong on that, But tis the squeezin' green that makes the world (and the 'Net) go 'round.
If you read into it a bit further, other clients were being rejected and money-trading rules were being broke.
Cheers