Please read the readme.txt and readme.AOL.txt files for updates and instructions for download.
The latest trailer is much better than the first one, both in content and in video/audio quality. The trailer is in QuickTime version 3 format, widescreen. YOU MUST HAVE QUICK-TIME 3.0 to play it. I put a copy of the QuickTime installation program in case you want to download it from here as well. We also recommend that you use FTP instead of a browser because we're only allowing 128 simultaneous HTTP connections due to the demand we experienced already. Go to http://www.countingdown.com for other HTTP download sites. Besides, FTP is more reliable. We strongly suggest using the WS_FTP client. If you manage to get an HTTP connection, download WS_FTP from the same directory where the trailer is, then download the trailer with WS_FTP.
Please read the readme.txt and readme.AOL.txt files for updates and instructions for download.
The latest trailer is much better than the first one, both in content and in video/audio quality. The trailer is in QuickTime version 3 format, widescreen. YOU MUST HAVE QUICK-TIME 3.0 to play it. I put a copy of the QuickTime installation program in case you want to download it from here as well. We also recommend that you use FTP instead of a browser because we're only allowing 128 simultaneous HTTP connections due to the demand we experienced already. Go to http://www.countingdown.com for other HTTP download sites. Besides, FTP is more reliable. We strongly suggest using the WS_FTP client. If you manage to get an HTTP connection, download WS_FTP from the same directory where the trailer is, then download the trailer with WS_FTP.
My best wishes in this battle against low-lives who want to rape your investment in R&D. I'm amazed at how some people think that stealing the product of others' work is a Good Thing.
Intel is under no moral obligation to give anyone its specs.
I find this article very disturbing. While he deals with the most obvious invasions to privacy, he forgets to address more subtle privacy rights such as financial privacy.
There are many stoopid laws in the United States that make financial privacy non-existent. Banks have to disclose all kinds of information about their customers. TRW and other credit agencies compound the problem. Any jerk who wants to sue, snoop, or whatever has almost immediate access to a person's financial information. Changes in the law metamorphosed the US banking industry from one that encouraged investing and safe keeping to one where banks must sell loans to make money. The Banking Secrecy Act of 1970 gives access to your financial records to almost anyone. US banks can't offer privacy to their customers by law, so they make their money selling loans--and we know what that means to the average Joe with several maxed-out credit cards. Do you enjoy getting all that junk mail? How do you feel when your assets are exposed because of a messy divorce?
I applauded the European's decision to curtail e-commerce unless privacy was protected at the same level as in Europe. I've had the fortune to work in Switzerland and Leichtenstein periodically, and I just love the high respect their societies have for privacy rights.
From cameras to computers, I'd sleep better if I knew my privacy is guarded, not invaded, by my government and financial institutions.
IMHO, I think this bug is overblown. I have been running Netscape Navigator since it became publicly available, submitting forms left and right, and have never experienced this bug.
I believe, based on empirical tests (though I haven't confirmed this with Netscape), that the bug occurs ONLY if the TMP and TEMP environment variables aren't set when Navigator loads. I have a habit of configuring my Windows directories as similarly as possible to a UNIX system (i.e. I have c:/home; c:/usr/lib; c:/tmp, etc.). My AUTOEXEC.BAT file says:
set TMP=c:\tmp set TEMP=c:\tmp path=c:\usr\bin;%path% . .
Check out the Microsoft Windows programming references for the semantics of TMP and TEMP.
I've been scanning for the residual forms files periodically, and they've never been installed in my system. Based on empirical tests, I'd guess that the module that creates them has a hard-coded #ifdef statement or something that affects the Windows version when the TMP and TEMP variables aren't initialized. My C:/WINDOWS/TEMP directory only had one residual file, created last November by Internet Explorer (which I only use for testing the display of our own web pages).
I thought you'd like to know about this. Also, advise your Windows friends NEVER to share their whole C: drive root directory::grin::
Anyway, this was a very refreshing article. I actually worked on the OSI/Communications System for MVS and VM/CMS during a brief (6 endless months) stint at IBM. I had to deal with FTAM, ASN-1, and loads of other useless garbage.
Had I had the Taco Bell Reference Model back then, I might have lasted 7 months working for IBM.
In general, Macintosh programmers have a better sense of what user interfaces should be like or not.
Windows programmers don't have the same strict development guidelines.
Mac guys--where are you?
So what's wrong with this thesis?
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If anything, I found this article inspiring. Two years ago I decided to start a company rather than to bitch and complain about my previous employeer. I went from senior executive at a software firm to unemployment. And it feels great!
Since 1997 I managed to sign up some very big companies as my customers, I'm working with the coolest technology, my company is expanding, and the company income increased more than 5 times from 1997 to 1998.
The company is growing faster than I can control it now, and yes, I may employ people. I'd much rather hire contractors because their work ethics tend to be better than permanent employees' (out of self-defense; no performance = no $$). Other people who work with me come in as partners if we identify that our goals are similar. Then we all have a vested interest in making the company succeed.
If you have a chance, check out Ricardo Semler's book Maverick. He explains how to structure your company as an employee-less place in which everyone involved maximizes the benefits of self-interest and self-ownership.
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I just wanted to let you know that you can now download the Star Wars: Episode I "The Phantom Menace" trailer from our FTP site.
Get the files from:
ftp://lavender.cime.net/pub/star_wars
Please read the readme.txt and readme.AOL.txt files for updates and instructions for download.
The latest trailer is much better than the first one, both in content and in video/audio quality. The trailer is in QuickTime version 3 format, widescreen. YOU MUST HAVE QUICK-TIME 3.0 to play it. I put a copy of the QuickTime installation program in case you want to download it from here as well. We also recommend that you use FTP instead of a browser because we're only allowing 128 simultaneous HTTP connections due to the demand we experienced already. Go to http://www.countingdown.com for other HTTP download sites. Besides, FTP is more reliable. We strongly suggest using the WS_FTP client. If you manage to get an HTTP connection, download WS_FTP from the same directory where the trailer is, then download the trailer with WS_FTP.
Take care, and talk to you later!
Eugene
CIME Software Labs, LLC
http://cime.net
"Let's build something useful" -- Dennis Ritchie
I just wanted to let you know that you can now download the Star Wars: Episode I "The Phantom Menace" trailer from our FTP site.
Get the files from:
ftp://lavender.cime.net/pub/star_wars
Please read the readme.txt and readme.AOL.txt files for updates and instructions for download.
The latest trailer is much better than the first one, both in content and in video/audio quality. The trailer is in QuickTime version 3 format, widescreen. YOU MUST HAVE QUICK-TIME 3.0 to play it. I put a copy of the QuickTime installation program in case you want to download it from here as well. We also recommend that you use FTP instead of a browser because we're only allowing 128 simultaneous HTTP connections due to the demand we experienced already. Go to http://www.countingdown.com for other HTTP download sites. Besides, FTP is more reliable. We strongly suggest using the WS_FTP client. If you manage to get an HTTP connection, download WS_FTP from the same directory where the trailer is, then download the trailer with WS_FTP.
Take care, and talk to you later!
Eugene
CIME Software Labs, LLC
http://cime.net
"Let's build something useful" -- Dennis Ritchie
My best wishes in this battle against low-lives who want to rape your investment in R&D. I'm amazed at how some people think that stealing the product of others' work is a Good Thing.
Intel is under no moral obligation to give anyone its specs.
Eugene
Well, commercially available bug sweepers are about $350. I can also see a market in TEMPEST computers once people realize how vulnerable they are.
There are many stoopid laws in the United States that make financial privacy non-existent. Banks have to disclose all kinds of information about their customers. TRW and other credit agencies compound the problem. Any jerk who wants to sue, snoop, or whatever has almost immediate access to a person's financial information. Changes in the law metamorphosed the US banking industry from one that encouraged investing and safe keeping to one where banks must sell loans to make money. The Banking Secrecy Act of 1970 gives access to your financial records to almost anyone. US banks can't offer privacy to their customers by law, so they make their money selling loans--and we know what that means to the average Joe with several maxed-out credit cards. Do you enjoy getting all that junk mail? How do you feel when your assets are exposed because of a messy divorce?
I applauded the European's decision to curtail e-commerce unless privacy was protected at the same level as in Europe. I've had the fortune to work in Switzerland and Leichtenstein periodically, and I just love the high respect their societies have for privacy rights.
From cameras to computers, I'd sleep better if I knew my privacy is guarded, not invaded, by my government and financial institutions.
E
I believe, based on empirical tests (though I haven't confirmed this with Netscape), that the bug occurs ONLY if the TMP and TEMP environment variables aren't set when Navigator loads. I have a habit of configuring my Windows directories as similarly as possible to a UNIX system (i.e. I have c:/home; c:/usr/lib; c:/tmp, etc.). My AUTOEXEC.BAT file says:
set TMP=c:\tmp
set TEMP=c:\tmp
path=c:\usr\bin;%path%
.
.
Check out the Microsoft Windows programming references for the semantics of TMP and TEMP.
I've been scanning for the residual forms files periodically, and they've never been installed in my system. Based on empirical tests, I'd guess that the module that creates them has a hard-coded #ifdef statement or something that affects the Windows version when the TMP and TEMP variables aren't initialized. My C:/WINDOWS/TEMP directory only had one residual file, created last November by Internet Explorer (which I only use for testing the display of our own web pages).
I thought you'd like to know about this. Also, advise your Windows friends NEVER to share their whole C: drive root directory ::grin::
Eugene
I also have a (never completed) ASN-1 parser. It's interesting seeing that SGML/XML do the same thing, without all the blabber.
Cheers!
Anyway, this was a very refreshing article. I actually worked on the OSI/Communications System for MVS and VM/CMS during a brief (6 endless months) stint at IBM. I had to deal with FTAM, ASN-1, and loads of other useless garbage.
Had I had the Taco Bell Reference Model back then, I might have lasted 7 months working for IBM.
In general, Macintosh programmers have a better sense of what user interfaces should be like or not.
Windows programmers don't have the same strict development guidelines.
Mac guys--where are you?
If anything, I found this article inspiring. Two years ago I decided to start a company rather than to bitch and complain about my previous employeer. I went from senior executive at a software firm to unemployment. And it feels great!
Since 1997 I managed to sign up some very big companies as my customers, I'm working with the coolest technology, my company is expanding, and the company income increased more than 5 times from 1997 to 1998.
The company is growing faster than I can control it now, and yes, I may employ people. I'd much rather hire contractors because their work ethics tend to be better than permanent employees' (out of self-defense; no performance = no $$). Other people who work with me come in as partners if we identify that our goals are similar. Then we all have a vested interest in making the company succeed.
If you have a chance, check out Ricardo Semler's book Maverick. He explains how to structure your company as an employee-less place in which everyone involved maximizes the benefits of self-interest and self-ownership.
E
As it's becoming habit, I'm mirroring the Star Wars postings from one of my servers in San Francisco. Enjoy!
http://lavender.cime.net/star_wars/v anity_fair
or
ftp://lavender.cime.net/star_wars/van ity_fair
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