Cable hasn't arrived in my area yet, but when it does, it will be under Adelphia.
Right now, I keep my box connected all day via dial-up to my ISP, and run some mailing lists that me and my friends communicate by, as well as Apache. I have my own domain and use a dyanmic DNS service to keep it updated.
I'm not really concerned about port 80 being blocked, since I could just set Apache to run on another one; but I am worried about Adelphia blocking port 25. Is anyone with Adelphia running a mail server successfully?
On another note, there are some cool dynamic DNS services that do port forwarding, so if your ISP blocks port 25, you could keep SMTP running on any other port, while your domain still is able to receive mail on port 25. They generally cost a little more than average though.
When I first decided to leave my box on 24-7, and connected to the Internet, I was naive enough to think since I had nothing important to offer, no one would bother hacking it.
I got hacked though through the Wu-ftp bug, which I was aware of -- but like I said, I didn't think anyone would consider my stupid box worth attacking. Fortunately, they didn't do much damage. They deleted the/usr/bin directory then appeared to have left. I deleted all accounts and changed passwords just in case it was more than just flexing muscles. I think they just wanted to take it offline, since it was running an Eggdrop on IRC. I'm glad they did it though, and that they kept trying to break in for weeks after that (I could tell from looking at the logs.) It helped show a newbie what to do and what not to do. I would have been a lot more upset though if they deleted some of my important data.
I just bought zip drive the other day along with some zip disks made by Fuji. I don't know if it's the same for all brands of disks, but there was a small text file on each blank disk, talking about some of the things one could do with a zip disk.
Unless people fill up entire disks with 100MB's of garbage, I don't think 1K on a disk will cut it as "non-blank" media.
Remember that what goes around comes back around again, and that no great empire has lasted forever. Keeping that in mind, the American people should be more conscious of what their tax dollars are doing, specifically in the arena of military. Take a look at what is being done to the children of Iraq by the so-called land of the free:
http://www.wakefieldcam.freeserve.co.uk/extremed ef ormities.htm
http://www.azzam.com/html/iraqhome.htm
Take a moment to remember all of the nations colonized, raped, and abused in the name of "democracy." If you're serious about injustice, then you would take your degrees and use them to improve the world around you.
The fact of the matter is Americans are not ready for a real war, or a real time of struggle. The minute Americans find out for example that they can't have a simple shower every day, let the looting begin. Years of individualism, selfishness, and capitalism has destroyed any hope Americans have to work together for improvement. When challenge comes to Americans, Americans will turn on each other.
When the slaves become your masters how will you answer? And don't fool yourselves into believing that voting is of any use. How can you contribute to a backward system, when a true and wise man's vision would be to destroy it?
Where will you be when it all falls down? I'll be as far away as possible.
Actually, computers are what got me into Hip-Hop. I'm 21 now, but I was first exposed to Hip-Hop around 1984; I'm from the suburbs but I had a neighbor from Baltimore, another who started Dj'ing. They gave me some tapes of the radio in Baltimore; I still remember the two songs I liked the most off of it -- "Roxxane's Revenge" by Roxxane Shante, and "The Old School" by Kool Kyle and Billy Bill. Anyway, at that time things were definitely more electronic sounding than nowadays; vocoders, TR-808's, and even cutting in its infancy -- I was hooked, since at the same time I was toying around with my c64. When I heard music that was completely made by electronics it blew me away, especially when I went into Jr. High and saw my friend making music with nothing but turntables. You could probably throw a lot of the breakdancing music of that era into the equation too ("Tour De France" or "Trans Europe Express" anyone?) Really the influence of Kraftwerk on modern music is probably second to James Brown.
Sadly to say, it's probably getting into Hip-Hop that pulled me away from computers. When it came down to my dad giving me money the two habits couldn't both be attended to. I started spending so much money on equipment (started Dj'ing, and producing for a while) that keeping an up to date computer was out of the question. I kept a BBS running from about 92-95 on a 386 called, appropriately considering the SysOp "Planet Rock." My Sound Blaster Pro was fun for a little while; before I could afford a sampler I could make little loops with sound editors.
Although I really haven't payed attention to any music since 1997 (lost interest in everything), I can safely say the following LP's influenced me the most:
1) De La Soul - "3 Feet High and Rising"
2) De La Soul - "De La Soul is Dead"
3) A Tribe Called Quest - "Peoples' Instinctive Travels in the Paths of Rhythm"
4) Gangstarr - "No More Mister Nice Guy"
5) Gangstarr - "Step in the Arena"
6) KMD "Mr Hood"
7) 3rd Bass - "The Cactus Alblum"
8) Jungle Brothers - "Straight Out the Jungle"
9) X Clan - "To the East Blackwards"
10) EPMD - "Strictly Business"
11) Black Moon - "Enta tha Stage"
12) Nas - "Illmatic"
13) Ultramagnetic MC's - "Critical Beatdown"
14) Group Home - "Livin' Proof"
I used to do a radio show on a local station. It just got to the point one night where I asked myself "Okay, what do you really want to do?" I felt like I wanted to do something else, and this was kind of holding me back. I sold all my equipment and records and went overseas (yeah, that much.)
Until November of 1998 I was still accessing the Internet with a VMS account I had at the local university, and a 14.4 modem with a 386. After having some money to spare (and time too), I finally got some up to date equipment. Really, I feel bad about being so old and not even knowing a programming language (aside from BASIC, and HTML and all that.) Since then I started toying around with Linux, learning how to do networking, stuff like that -- it's been real enjoyable. I'm essentially playing catch up now to be where most of you guys were in High School:)
I'm not bitter about the time I spent with music, it really shaped a lot of the political ideas and thoughts I have nowadays -- probably even my love of Linux if you can believe that. One of the things that bothers me though is how screwed over its been by the media. That "nigger shit" as a lot of white people used to refer to it is now in GAP commercials -- how nice. I'm afraid the fate of Hip-Hop will be much like Disco -- a pretty decent idea and music, worn out by the media and people who didn't understand it, but wanted to be it (Vanilia Ice ten years ago, Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit nowadays.) Now that the music has been repackaged into something friendly and white, it's on MTV 24-7. I guess the commercialism of Hip-Hop is one of the reasons I became tired of it. I used to not understand why older guys in their 30's weren't into the new records we played to them, now I understand -- you just grow old and nothing impresses you anymore.
Enough of my ranting. Just letting you know there are Hip-Hop nerds out there:)
I was working A Clockwork Orange the other day and saw something interesting. When Alex is at the record shop, if you look bellow the counter the soundtrack for 2001 is on the shelf.
I've been on the net since about 1993, and never really receieved spam more than a few times a year -- even nowadays. That is, until a couple weeks ago; I registered a domain for the first time, and the minute my name and E-Mail were in the whois databse I was getting about three spams a day. Do spammers look through the whois database or something?
I sent comlpaints to the person's ISP, they've gone away and I haven't received anymore for a while.
For a while though I considered just settings up a mail rule that forwarded then delete any mail from msn.com to abuse@msn.com -- since that's where most of it was originating from.
When I was in Jr. High I was playing my cousin in Street Fighter II at about three in the morning in the summer. I was crushing him for like two hours straight in vs. mode, coudln't touch me. Then all of a sudden he just started killing me. I got so mad that I grabbed the SNES off the table and threw it at the wall. It still worked and everything but I broke the RF plug when I ripped it off the table, and I chipped some plastic off the side of the SNES.
Also after that, I took all of my cousin's things and threw them out my bedroom door down the stairs, and made him sleep on the couch.
On a side note, I actually *liked* the SMS controllers.
I wonder if today in 2000 someone could actually program a decent version of Pac Man for 2600, something that at least resembles the original. I remember when I got Pac Man home, out of the little orange box and into my Atari, I immediately thought "this sucks." I mean, the sounds weren't even close to the original -- it was like an entirely different game.
At least I had a c64 . .
I finally bought an XE1541 cable for my c64 a couple weeks ago. It was kind of weird to be playing Pitfall for c64 on a disk, since when I was a kid I had it on cartridge. I think the best port of Pitfall was on the c64, were there any better versions in peoples' opinions? The c64 really killed a lot of consoles at the time.
I remember around 1984 my father was looking to buy me a computer (I was probably about five then) and we went to look at a used Atari. The seller plugged it in, played a few games on it, and showed us how it worked. My father decided he liked it and was going to buy it. Right when the guy picked the Atari up to package it (I believe it was an 800) something fell out of the case, I think it was a screw. My dad asked him to plug it back in again to make sure it was okay, only to find out it wouldn't power on anymore.
Right afterwards my dad went and bought me a c64 with tape drive and everyone lived happily ever after.
Just thought I'd share that moment with everyone:)
I took a psychology course last year where we discussed the right way to do studies. When we were talking about studies gone wrong, the DARE program was cited. Things like having police officers come into class showed to have little no effect on whether or not children would do drugs. In fact, if any of you remember those school problems you were probably more tempted to do drugs just by how uncool the presenters were about the subject.
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Cable hasn't arrived in my area yet, but when it does, it will be under Adelphia.
Right now, I keep my box connected all day via dial-up to my ISP, and run some mailing lists that me and my friends communicate by, as well as Apache. I have my own domain and use a dyanmic DNS service to keep it updated.
I'm not really concerned about port 80 being blocked, since I could just set Apache to run on another one; but I am worried about Adelphia blocking port 25. Is anyone with Adelphia running a mail server successfully?
On another note, there are some cool dynamic DNS services that do port forwarding, so if your ISP blocks port 25, you could keep SMTP running on any other port, while your domain still is able to receive mail on port 25. They generally cost a little more than average though.
When I first decided to leave my box on 24-7, and connected to the Internet, I was naive enough to think since I had nothing important to offer, no one would bother hacking it.
/usr/bin directory then appeared to have left. I deleted all accounts and changed passwords just in case it was more than just flexing muscles. I think they just wanted to take it offline, since it was running an Eggdrop on IRC. I'm glad they did it though, and that they kept trying to break in for weeks after that (I could tell from looking at the logs.) It helped show a newbie what to do and what not to do. I would have been a lot more upset though if they deleted some of my important data.
I got hacked though through the Wu-ftp bug, which I was aware of -- but like I said, I didn't think anyone would consider my stupid box worth attacking. Fortunately, they didn't do much damage. They deleted the
I just bought zip drive the other day along with some zip disks made by Fuji. I don't know if it's the same for all brands of disks, but there was a small text file on each blank disk, talking about some of the things one could do with a zip disk.
Unless people fill up entire disks with 100MB's of garbage, I don't think 1K on a disk will cut it as "non-blank" media.
Remember that what goes around comes back around again, and that no great empire has lasted forever. Keeping that in mind, the American people should be more conscious of what their tax dollars are doing, specifically in the arena of military. Take a look at what is being done to the children of Iraq by the so-called land of the free:
d ef ormities.htm
http://www.wakefieldcam.freeserve.co.uk/extreme
http://www.azzam.com/html/iraqhome.htm
Take a moment to remember all of the nations colonized, raped, and abused in the name of "democracy." If you're serious about injustice, then you would take your degrees and use them to improve the world around you.
The fact of the matter is Americans are not ready for a real war, or a real time of struggle. The minute Americans find out for example that they can't have a simple shower every day, let the looting begin. Years of individualism, selfishness, and capitalism has destroyed any hope Americans have to work together for improvement. When challenge comes to Americans, Americans will turn on each other.
When the slaves become your masters how will you answer? And don't fool yourselves into believing that voting is of any use. How can you contribute to a backward system, when a true and wise man's vision would be to destroy it?
Where will you be when it all falls down? I'll be as far away as possible.
Actually, computers are what got me into Hip-Hop. I'm 21 now, but I was first exposed to Hip-Hop around 1984; I'm from the suburbs but I had a neighbor from Baltimore, another who started Dj'ing. They gave me some tapes of the radio in Baltimore; I still remember the two songs I liked the most off of it -- "Roxxane's Revenge" by Roxxane Shante, and "The Old School" by Kool Kyle and Billy Bill. Anyway, at that time things were definitely more electronic sounding than nowadays; vocoders, TR-808's, and even cutting in its infancy -- I was hooked, since at the same time I was toying around with my c64. When I heard music that was completely made by electronics it blew me away, especially when I went into Jr. High and saw my friend making music with nothing but turntables. You could probably throw a lot of the breakdancing music of that era into the equation too ("Tour De France" or "Trans Europe Express" anyone?) Really the influence of Kraftwerk on modern music is probably second to James Brown. Sadly to say, it's probably getting into Hip-Hop that pulled me away from computers. When it came down to my dad giving me money the two habits couldn't both be attended to. I started spending so much money on equipment (started Dj'ing, and producing for a while) that keeping an up to date computer was out of the question. I kept a BBS running from about 92-95 on a 386 called, appropriately considering the SysOp "Planet Rock." My Sound Blaster Pro was fun for a little while; before I could afford a sampler I could make little loops with sound editors. Although I really haven't payed attention to any music since 1997 (lost interest in everything), I can safely say the following LP's influenced me the most: 1) De La Soul - "3 Feet High and Rising" 2) De La Soul - "De La Soul is Dead" 3) A Tribe Called Quest - "Peoples' Instinctive Travels in the Paths of Rhythm" 4) Gangstarr - "No More Mister Nice Guy" 5) Gangstarr - "Step in the Arena" 6) KMD "Mr Hood" 7) 3rd Bass - "The Cactus Alblum" 8) Jungle Brothers - "Straight Out the Jungle" 9) X Clan - "To the East Blackwards" 10) EPMD - "Strictly Business" 11) Black Moon - "Enta tha Stage" 12) Nas - "Illmatic" 13) Ultramagnetic MC's - "Critical Beatdown" 14) Group Home - "Livin' Proof" I used to do a radio show on a local station. It just got to the point one night where I asked myself "Okay, what do you really want to do?" I felt like I wanted to do something else, and this was kind of holding me back. I sold all my equipment and records and went overseas (yeah, that much.) Until November of 1998 I was still accessing the Internet with a VMS account I had at the local university, and a 14.4 modem with a 386. After having some money to spare (and time too), I finally got some up to date equipment. Really, I feel bad about being so old and not even knowing a programming language (aside from BASIC, and HTML and all that.) Since then I started toying around with Linux, learning how to do networking, stuff like that -- it's been real enjoyable. I'm essentially playing catch up now to be where most of you guys were in High School :)
I'm not bitter about the time I spent with music, it really shaped a lot of the political ideas and thoughts I have nowadays -- probably even my love of Linux if you can believe that. One of the things that bothers me though is how screwed over its been by the media. That "nigger shit" as a lot of white people used to refer to it is now in GAP commercials -- how nice. I'm afraid the fate of Hip-Hop will be much like Disco -- a pretty decent idea and music, worn out by the media and people who didn't understand it, but wanted to be it (Vanilia Ice ten years ago, Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit nowadays.) Now that the music has been repackaged into something friendly and white, it's on MTV 24-7. I guess the commercialism of Hip-Hop is one of the reasons I became tired of it. I used to not understand why older guys in their 30's weren't into the new records we played to them, now I understand -- you just grow old and nothing impresses you anymore.
Enough of my ranting. Just letting you know there are Hip-Hop nerds out there :)
I was working A Clockwork Orange the other day and saw something interesting. When Alex is at the record shop, if you look bellow the counter the soundtrack for 2001 is on the shelf.
I've been on the net since about 1993, and never really receieved spam more than a few times a year -- even nowadays. That is, until a couple weeks ago; I registered a domain for the first time, and the minute my name and E-Mail were in the whois databse I was getting about three spams a day. Do spammers look through the whois database or something?
I sent comlpaints to the person's ISP, they've gone away and I haven't received anymore for a while.
For a while though I considered just settings up a mail rule that forwarded then delete any mail from msn.com to abuse@msn.com -- since that's where most of it was originating from.
When I was in Jr. High I was playing my cousin in Street Fighter II at about three in the morning in the summer. I was crushing him for like two hours straight in vs. mode, coudln't touch me. Then all of a sudden he just started killing me. I got so mad that I grabbed the SNES off the table and threw it at the wall. It still worked and everything but I broke the RF plug when I ripped it off the table, and I chipped some plastic off the side of the SNES.
Also after that, I took all of my cousin's things and threw them out my bedroom door down the stairs, and made him sleep on the couch.
On a side note, I actually *liked* the SMS controllers.
Sore loser and proud of it.
If someone learned how to play that fucking ET game I'd be more impressed.
I wonder if today in 2000 someone could actually program a decent version of Pac Man for 2600, something that at least resembles the original. I remember when I got Pac Man home, out of the little orange box and into my Atari, I immediately thought "this sucks." I mean, the sounds weren't even close to the original -- it was like an entirely different game.
At least I had a c64 . .
I finally bought an XE1541 cable for my c64 a couple weeks ago. It was kind of weird to be playing Pitfall for c64 on a disk, since when I was a kid I had it on cartridge. I think the best port of Pitfall was on the c64, were there any better versions in peoples' opinions? The c64 really killed a lot of consoles at the time.
I don't remember for sure that it was an 800, all I remember is that it was black.
I remember around 1984 my father was looking to buy me a computer (I was probably about five then) and we went to look at a used Atari. The seller plugged it in, played a few games on it, and showed us how it worked. My father decided he liked it and was going to buy it. Right when the guy picked the Atari up to package it (I believe it was an 800) something fell out of the case, I think it was a screw. My dad asked him to plug it back in again to make sure it was okay, only to find out it wouldn't power on anymore.
:)
Right afterwards my dad went and bought me a c64 with tape drive and everyone lived happily ever after.
Just thought I'd share that moment with everyone
I took a psychology course last year where we discussed the right way to do studies. When we were talking about studies gone wrong, the DARE program was cited. Things like having police officers come into class showed to have little no effect on whether or not children would do drugs. In fact, if any of you remember those school problems you were probably more tempted to do drugs just by how uncool the presenters were about the subject.