Back in the day I use to have an account on a BBS that did this exact thing. The sysop then got others to do this too.
On another note, one of the nice things about this is the ability to expand the source of the 12v in. For instance, a small array of solar cells wired together and into the battery taking the load off of the house current/AC->DC thingy during some days. When we did the math for it, it paid for it's self in about 4 month of sunlight every day, or about a year in real life. 12v is a nice little voltage to work with when it comes to this and alternitive energy sources. Hell, wire a nice little 12v DC generator to an exercise bike for when your bored. Get a work out and save on your electric bill. Also, if you want to go real insane/creative, suck off of the telephone lines when not in use, they got something comming through them i'm sure. It's alot easier to get 12volts then it is 110ac.
I do take the bus into town sometimes, but I have to communte to placed like Marconi in the middle of fucking nowhere, and the bus which stops outside has a highly erradic schedual (on top of the hour wait it has at some gas station before it takes off again), and Tollgrade, another place in a little hell hole (Right next door to the Pennsylvania capital of Chop shop and Verizons secret evil hq for where they are plotting to take over the world). I need a car, sadly.
Moving out of edgewood into the City of Pittsburgh - Several thousand dollars and many headaches Dealing with the city of Pittsburgh parking shit and most likely not having a driveway - Many Migraines Increased Tax rates - Alot
Ripping off the RIAA and MPAA, not waiting for the pr0n images to load, not getting packetloss when ever someone uses Pay-Per-View downstairs, and all at 10Mbits for half of what I'm paying for ISDN speed Cable right now - Priceless
Not Offtopic online comic, that happens to be pimped at the very top of slashdot at times, MegaTokyo. the character of Largo WANTS Neverwind nights very much.
topic Pronunciation Key (tpk) n. 1) The subject of a speech, essay, thesis, or discourse. 2) A subject of discussion or conversation. 3) A subdivision of a theme, thesis, or outline.
I Personally use a Logitech Marble Mouse Trackball and when the gods are happy and the chi is with me I am pretty unstopable at TFC. The thing is, it's a matter of preference. Maybe the super responsive razor boomslang will make you over shoot and is just too hard for you. Maybe you will do better with something with a slower rate. Maybe a trackball is the way for you. The best bet is to go out and find some people who you know who maybe have them and try for yourself. I Had a top of the line MS Optical mouse (Not the one you speak of, bit older, but the shit of it's time) and when I moved to the little $20 trackball it just felt more natural for me. Some of my friends though are clumsy as hell with a trackball though but great with a mouse. Then there is also that strange one who plays it all with 2 joysticks pretty successfully, but that's just him. Go and try yourself, it's a matter of you, not the reviews.
I was heart broken when I read that MS was assimilating Bungie. More so when I found they at one point halted all development of the PC/Mac version of it. I've heard about the PC version comming sometime next year, and it's belivable, but what I want to know is if there will be a Mac version or is that going to be a no show.
heh, got myself an updated list of newsgroups for my news server yesterday and happened to notice it. Didn't think that it was worthy of a slashdot story though. Can a newsgroup be Slashdotted?
heh, that's the point:) One is trying to put you to sleep and the other is trying to keep you awake. The Vodka just acts like an intensifier (Probably a better word, but I can't think of it really) for it all.
one glass vodka, $3 one shot nyquil (The icky green liquid stuff, not Gelcaps), $2 two tablets nodoze, $3
not knowing where the fuck you are, what day it is, what time it is, your name, what language your speaking, and then comming too 7 hours later and finding you wrote a web/gopher/ftp/qotd/chargen server that works, priceless
>Half-Life is based on the Quake II enginge, not the Quake engine... if you are going to bitch about something, at least have a clue on the subject =)
Speak for your self:) The Half-Life engine was based upon the Quake 1 engine. Now here is where that lovely argument about "Yea! That's what Quake 2 Is based on Dumbshit!" come in from some random person, and they are right, Q2 is the q1 engine, but HL is NOT based off of Quake2. The Half-life engine is about 15%-25% Quake1 and the rest was the doing of Valve. Now, Valve DID still collaberate with ID while they were developing Half-Life to what I've been told.
On a side note, I Wonder if Yahn has a slashdot account.
BE CAREFUL. I was doing this Before I knew that there was this shit inside, but there are some system files that may containe the BDE or B3D in the name and they arn't part of the system. Go look at their properties and make sure that they are from Brilliant.
Apple is seriously shooting themselves in the foot with this. Not only are they Turning down his work, but they are turning the possibilty off to all minors. There a kids out there that know programming and networking better then me and they have never even taken a college course, and they are willing to help and be productive like Finny here, and to top it off they are sending out a negitive message to minors about themselves that will ultimatly do nothing more then hurt them.
One of the things that discourage teachers from experimenting with alternitive operating systems is that what they do for work must be able to be taken in and work with generally little trouble, and most schools use MS based Products, so it is a waste of time for some of it to come in and have to do such things as fix their powerpoint or redo formatting, and time is something many of them are short on. Also, they don't need to know two different systems, one they use at home and the other at work. Some of them might dabble in it, but most will keep all work related work on the same system as they use in work.
The names of Various Tribes (African, Native America, South American, etc, etc), Greek/Roman/Norse Gods, Gods of the many and Various Eastern Religions, and For servers exclusive to the Sales/Marketing/Public Relations departments (if they are bad for you too) possibly the different levels of hell or the names of the many different Deamons/Demons that lurk there for in.
Keep it Smart and Simple (There are other versions, I know, but I'm gonna use this one) I've been on projects where a web designer was needed and he just had to show his stuff and used every technology under the sun of a thousand systems. It was horrid. The only web browser that could use it was IE for windows (And the main target audience of the product was NOT the windows area) and it took a good minute to load on my Cable line. If you don't need to do it, don't. You don't need to have the links of the website be redirected through something else so download managers can't catch it or some web browser will show you the zip file in the web browser (I.E. the text you'd see if you opened it in a word processor). You don't need to make the page refresh it's self 5 times between every click so you have to do rapid fire on the back button to get to the page you were just at. A simple link to the site it's located on will do just fine, no redirection needed.
I Will find my self saying, while I am writing a report, Lets just play a quick round of SteamCS or TFC or DoD or Firearms or something just to take a break, and then I Realize that it's midnight, i've just been playing for 4 hours, and my report is due in the morning. It's a Constant thing. Then there was Deus Ex. I Almost failed several classes because of Deus Ex. I Would come home, play, Sleep, go to class the next day Empty handed. Deus Ex Singleplayer was the most addictive thing I have played.
On mine, I Do not even have the Option to do Remote access, Maybe it depends on model/firmware. I had the thought of puting a proxy on the computer designated as the DMZ and getting at the configuration through that because it would be comming from the internal network. But then I thought about it and have no real purpose to do this, so why bother.
As for the IP, since AT&TBI started after AT&T tried to screw @Home, I have been stuck with DCHP. I have been told though that the Lease time is 4 days, and it will not change your IP if your are connected during the renewal, so it's just about as good as a static IP. For ease of remembering I have a DHS account so I have an easily rememberalbe name to go to instead of the IP. If that for some reason does not work I am in IRC 24/7 in a channel with an eggdrop that publishes a list of everyone who is in the channel and their IP. The DHS method is by far easier though. For Remote access I run VNC on my main computer, and with Tiny firewall I have it so that only connections comming from the IP Blocks belonging to where I am can get to it, else it will hit the firewall, and that access is only allowed during the time period I would be there during. No form of secure tunneling though.
Note: I have a LinkSys, and I don't know about the other 2 mentioned, and I'm not going to pretend I Do.
>It might have a web page on port 80, or something else open that identifies it as being a router.
My Linksys has a tiny little webserver in it for configuration, but it's only accessable from an Internal Networking address and not from the outside World.
>Another consideration: How does the NAT box know where to send incoming replies? Isn't there something added to the IP header to indicate the internal source IP of the packet? I would think there would have to be. Could they scan packets for these identifying signatures?
If I think I understand you right, it will already know what to do with initiated TCP connections, and you can do a bit of Port Mapping from the little configuration web page if you are running some form of a server. I Personally use the DMZ feature which says Send everything to a certian computer less there is some port mapping thing already, and then I have this computer Firewalled for what I don't want to get to it (Cable Company portscans).
>It's certainly more secure (and less problematic, from what I understand) than ZoneAlarm or BlackIce. How is the ISP going to know the difference?
(Shameless Propping) There are alot of things more Secure then ZoneAlarm and BlackIce:) Tiny Firewall for one, Best free windows Firewall out there, and it's rather small too (Like the name Implies).
And how Exactly are they going to find us? I Don't think there is any NAT search tool type thing, is there? I did read the Article about the Cat and the NAT and such, and to my understanding you have to use their hardware for the CAT idea to work. So how was this person supose to find "Abusers"? Quietly break into their house and check the other end of the cable modem?
Computer show and Sale, travels around, comes into each area about once a month. I got little packs of them there for about a dollar for 10. Depends on the vendor I'd guess. http://www.marketpro.com/
I Had a problem with one drive in which it acctually was starting up slower then the rest. Because of this, BIOS was thinking it wasn't there. A Simple soft reboot will go again, they wouln't have to spinup because they have already, and then they will all be found.
Another thing that worked with the same drive with an older mobo was that it would do all the memtests and check for floopies, and then search for them, and because it had like 30 seconds already to ready it's self, it was found. So if you can find a way of delaying through memory tests and floppy seeks that might work too.
Slashdot Mirror
Back in the day I use to have an account on a BBS that did this exact thing. The sysop then got others to do this too.
On another note, one of the nice things about this is the ability to expand the source of the 12v in. For instance, a small array of solar cells wired together and into the battery taking the load off of the house current/AC->DC thingy during some days. When we did the math for it, it paid for it's self in about 4 month of sunlight every day, or about a year in real life. 12v is a nice little voltage to work with when it comes to this and alternitive energy sources. Hell, wire a nice little 12v DC generator to an exercise bike for when your bored. Get a work out and save on your electric bill. Also, if you want to go real insane/creative, suck off of the telephone lines when not in use, they got something comming through them i'm sure. It's alot easier to get 12volts then it is 110ac.
I do take the bus into town sometimes, but I have to communte to placed like Marconi in the middle of fucking nowhere, and the bus which stops outside has a highly erradic schedual (on top of the hour wait it has at some gas station before it takes off again), and Tollgrade, another place in a little hell hole (Right next door to the Pennsylvania capital of Chop shop and Verizons secret evil hq for where they are plotting to take over the world). I need a car, sadly.
Moving out of edgewood into the City of Pittsburgh - Several thousand dollars and many headaches
Dealing with the city of Pittsburgh parking shit and most likely not having a driveway - Many Migraines
Increased Tax rates - Alot
Ripping off the RIAA and MPAA, not waiting for the pr0n images to load, not getting packetloss when ever someone uses Pay-Per-View downstairs, and all at 10Mbits for half of what I'm paying for ISDN speed Cable right now - Priceless
Not Offtopic
online comic, that happens to be pimped at the very top of slashdot at times, MegaTokyo.
the character of Largo WANTS Neverwind nights very much.
topic Pronunciation Key (tpk)
n.
1) The subject of a speech, essay, thesis, or discourse.
2) A subject of discussion or conversation.
3) A subdivision of a theme, thesis, or outline.
Great Teacher Largo will be pleased with visible Progress
I Personally use a Logitech Marble Mouse Trackball and when the gods are happy and the chi is with me I am pretty unstopable at TFC. The thing is, it's a matter of preference. Maybe the super responsive razor boomslang will make you over shoot and is just too hard for you. Maybe you will do better with something with a slower rate. Maybe a trackball is the way for you. The best bet is to go out and find some people who you know who maybe have them and try for yourself. I Had a top of the line MS Optical mouse (Not the one you speak of, bit older, but the shit of it's time) and when I moved to the little $20 trackball it just felt more natural for me. Some of my friends though are clumsy as hell with a trackball though but great with a mouse. Then there is also that strange one who plays it all with 2 joysticks pretty successfully, but that's just him. Go and try yourself, it's a matter of you, not the reviews.
I was heart broken when I read that MS was assimilating Bungie. More so when I found they at one point halted all development of the PC/Mac version of it. I've heard about the PC version comming sometime next year, and it's belivable, but what I want to know is if there will be a Mac version or is that going to be a no show.
heh, got myself an updated list of newsgroups for my news server yesterday and happened to notice it. Didn't think that it was worthy of a slashdot story though. Can a newsgroup be Slashdotted?
heh, that's the point :) One is trying to put you to sleep and the other is trying to keep you awake. The Vodka just acts like an intensifier (Probably a better word, but I can't think of it really) for it all.
one glass vodka, $3
one shot nyquil (The icky green liquid stuff, not Gelcaps), $2
two tablets nodoze, $3
not knowing where the fuck you are, what day it is, what time it is, your name, what language your speaking, and then comming too 7 hours later and finding you wrote a web/gopher/ftp/qotd/chargen server that works, priceless
>Half-Life is based on the Quake II enginge, not the Quake engine... if you are going to bitch about something, at least have a clue on the subject =)
:) The Half-Life engine was based upon the Quake 1 engine. Now here is where that lovely argument about "Yea! That's what Quake 2 Is based on Dumbshit!" come in from some random person, and they are right, Q2 is the q1 engine, but HL is NOT based off of Quake2. The Half-life engine is about 15%-25% Quake1 and the rest was the doing of Valve. Now, Valve DID still collaberate with ID while they were developing Half-Life to what I've been told.
Speak for your self
On a side note, I Wonder if Yahn has a slashdot account.
When it wakes does it Yell "THE SLEEPER HAS AWAKEN!" ?
:)
Lame? yes, but I couldn't resist
BE CAREFUL. I was doing this Before I knew that there was this shit inside, but there are some system files that may containe the BDE or B3D in the name and they arn't part of the system. Go look at their properties and make sure that they are from Brilliant.
Lottsa 30 pin simms on ebay. Got about 50 4megers for $10 once (Not including Shipping).
Apple is seriously shooting themselves in the foot with this. Not only are they Turning down his work, but they are turning the possibilty off to all minors. There a kids out there that know programming and networking better then me and they have never even taken a college course, and they are willing to help and be productive like Finny here, and to top it off they are sending out a negitive message to minors about themselves that will ultimatly do nothing more then hurt them.
No, Sierra is a Publisher, they just market and distribute the game for valve.
One of the things that discourage teachers from experimenting with alternitive operating systems is that what they do for work must be able to be taken in and work with generally little trouble, and most schools use MS based Products, so it is a waste of time for some of it to come in and have to do such things as fix their powerpoint or redo formatting, and time is something many of them are short on. Also, they don't need to know two different systems, one they use at home and the other at work. Some of them might dabble in it, but most will keep all work related work on the same system as they use in work.
The names of Various Tribes (African, Native America, South American, etc, etc), Greek/Roman/Norse Gods, Gods of the many and Various Eastern Religions, and For servers exclusive to the Sales/Marketing/Public Relations departments (if they are bad for you too) possibly the different levels of hell or the names of the many different Deamons/Demons that lurk there for in.
Keep it Smart and Simple (There are other versions, I know, but I'm gonna use this one) I've been on projects where a web designer was needed and he just had to show his stuff and used every technology under the sun of a thousand systems. It was horrid. The only web browser that could use it was IE for windows (And the main target audience of the product was NOT the windows area) and it took a good minute to load on my Cable line. If you don't need to do it, don't. You don't need to have the links of the website be redirected through something else so download managers can't catch it or some web browser will show you the zip file in the web browser (I.E. the text you'd see if you opened it in a word processor). You don't need to make the page refresh it's self 5 times between every click so you have to do rapid fire on the back button to get to the page you were just at. A simple link to the site it's located on will do just fine, no redirection needed.
I Will find my self saying, while I am writing a report, Lets just play a quick round of SteamCS or TFC or DoD or Firearms or something just to take a break, and then I Realize that it's midnight, i've just been playing for 4 hours, and my report is due in the morning. It's a Constant thing. Then there was Deus Ex. I Almost failed several classes because of Deus Ex. I Would come home, play, Sleep, go to class the next day Empty handed. Deus Ex Singleplayer was the most addictive thing I have played.
On mine, I Do not even have the Option to do Remote access, Maybe it depends on model/firmware. I had the thought of puting a proxy on the computer designated as the DMZ and getting at the configuration through that because it would be comming from the internal network. But then I thought about it and have no real purpose to do this, so why bother.
As for the IP, since AT&TBI started after AT&T tried to screw @Home, I have been stuck with DCHP. I have been told though that the Lease time is 4 days, and it will not change your IP if your are connected during the renewal, so it's just about as good as a static IP. For ease of remembering I have a DHS account so I have an easily rememberalbe name to go to instead of the IP. If that for some reason does not work I am in IRC 24/7 in a channel with an eggdrop that publishes a list of everyone who is in the channel and their IP. The DHS method is by far easier though. For Remote access I run VNC on my main computer, and with Tiny firewall I have it so that only connections comming from the IP Blocks belonging to where I am can get to it, else it will hit the firewall, and that access is only allowed during the time period I would be there during. No form of secure tunneling though.
Note: I have a LinkSys, and I don't know about the other 2 mentioned, and I'm not going to pretend I Do.
:) Tiny Firewall for one, Best free windows Firewall out there, and it's rather small too (Like the name Implies).
>It might have a web page on port 80, or something else open that identifies it as being a router.
My Linksys has a tiny little webserver in it for configuration, but it's only accessable from an Internal Networking address and not from the outside World.
>Another consideration: How does the NAT box know where to send incoming replies? Isn't there something added to the IP header to indicate the internal source IP of the packet? I would think there would have to be. Could they scan packets for these identifying signatures?
If I think I understand you right, it will already know what to do with initiated TCP connections, and you can do a bit of Port Mapping from the little configuration web page if you are running some form of a server. I Personally use the DMZ feature which says Send everything to a certian computer less there is some port mapping thing already, and then I have this computer Firewalled for what I don't want to get to it (Cable Company portscans).
>It's certainly more secure (and less problematic, from what I understand) than ZoneAlarm or BlackIce. How is the ISP going to know the difference?
(Shameless Propping) There are alot of things more Secure then ZoneAlarm and BlackIce
And how Exactly are they going to find us? I Don't think there is any NAT search tool type thing, is there? I did read the Article about the Cat and the NAT and such, and to my understanding you have to use their hardware for the CAT idea to work. So how was this person supose to find "Abusers"? Quietly break into their house and check the other end of the cable modem?
Computer show and Sale, travels around, comes into each area about once a month. I got little packs of them there for about a dollar for 10. Depends on the vendor I'd guess. http://www.marketpro.com/
I Had a problem with one drive in which it acctually was starting up slower then the rest. Because of this, BIOS was thinking it wasn't there. A Simple soft reboot will go again, they wouln't have to spinup because they have already, and then they will all be found.
Another thing that worked with the same drive with an older mobo was that it would do all the memtests and check for floopies, and then search for them, and because it had like 30 seconds already to ready it's self, it was found. So if you can find a way of delaying through memory tests and floppy seeks that might work too.