How could these manufacturers possibly detect whether or not my browser is Java enabled? I really couldn't care less about banners, but cascading popups should be either made illegal or limited to one popup per page. There is also nothing more annoying than having to press ctrl+alt+del to close a browser window that pushes my navigation bars completely offscreen. Such anti-blocking software could be used at an unfair advantage unless this annoying behavior is stymied.
Last night's "Lone Gunmen" episode seemed to go a surprising step in mainstream depiction of hackers; "What is that gibberish", says one character of a laptop's OS, "It's not gibberish, it's Linux" is the joking reply.
Although the depiction of impossible software in Chris Carter's shows (X-Files etc) is somewhat annoying to the literate community, CC's "Lone Gunmen" depicts hackers for truth and justice, hacking not to do damage but to make information available to the right people. Whether or not this is accurate in reality is secondary to storyline, of course, but at least the storyline is no longer negative. This is the main shift in Hollywood's depiction of hackers. The luddite fear that created the market for "Wargames" and "Lawnmower Man" is no longer marketable because everyone's hometown grandma is ordering crocus bulbs over the net. And only the Weekly World News still insists to unknown demographics that viruses explode computers.
In Hollywood, net-fear no longer makes money.
Yaay money. And yay to the money of all the hackers who have good taste, creating the market to demand intelligent Hollywood productions.
I've had much success with the Protec BYTELAN KVM switches I've used over the past few years. You can usually pick them up for approx. 200 usd. at CDW or elsewhere.
One nice feature (aside from the WIDE range of monitor resolutions and the all-digital switching) is the ability to daisy-chain the KVM switches.
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How could these manufacturers possibly detect whether or not my browser is Java enabled? I really couldn't care less about banners, but cascading popups should be either made illegal or limited to one popup per page. There is also nothing more annoying than having to press ctrl+alt+del to close a browser window that pushes my navigation bars completely offscreen. Such anti-blocking software could be used at an unfair advantage unless this annoying behavior is stymied.
Last night's "Lone Gunmen" episode seemed to go a surprising step in mainstream depiction of hackers; "What is that gibberish", says one character of a laptop's OS, "It's not gibberish, it's Linux" is the joking reply. Although the depiction of impossible software in Chris Carter's shows (X-Files etc) is somewhat annoying to the literate community, CC's "Lone Gunmen" depicts hackers for truth and justice, hacking not to do damage but to make information available to the right people. Whether or not this is accurate in reality is secondary to storyline, of course, but at least the storyline is no longer negative. This is the main shift in Hollywood's depiction of hackers. The luddite fear that created the market for "Wargames" and "Lawnmower Man" is no longer marketable because everyone's hometown grandma is ordering crocus bulbs over the net. And only the Weekly World News still insists to unknown demographics that viruses explode computers. In Hollywood, net-fear no longer makes money. Yaay money. And yay to the money of all the hackers who have good taste, creating the market to demand intelligent Hollywood productions.
I've had much success with the Protec BYTELAN KVM switches I've used over the past few years. You can usually pick them up for approx. 200 usd. at CDW or elsewhere.
One nice feature (aside from the WIDE range of monitor resolutions and the all-digital switching) is the ability to daisy-chain the KVM switches.
Later.