I don't understand how this works - for one thing last I saw you cannot forward a mac address. There's not a router in the world that can do this. Of course those linksys "routers" are pretty open gateways to peoples networks - its still a lot of guess work - for instance you might be able to probe far enough and find machines beyond the cable network, but how do you prove they are accessing the internet?
How else do they detect nat routers? I'm running my little SS10 under kernel 2.4.14 - it was easier to detect 2.2.x doing masq stuff, but how you detect 2.4.x is beyond me.
Also - and this is the big point I think was missed - I had a friend that broken down and bought an extra IP - the extra IP was on a different subnet - as far as I could tell to route back to the machine sitting next to it - it had to go out over the cable router - out to the gateway and back to the machine - just to play network games against each other. As I recall it had about a 50 ms ping... So in some ways your wasting even more bandwidth the way these people allocate ip's.
I switched from DSL to cable and never looked back. I get rock solid service for extremely low prices - my connection sync's at 4 megabits and I frequently get it. The fastest DSL line I can get is 768k and I live downtown:(. (thank you verizon?)
They screwed up my credit billing system - so I had like 68$ of back payments. I resolved it today with a friendly person on the phone. It didn't seem like they were going down the toilet - it only took seconds to talk to an operator
I use two sun's at home - one is a SS10 (my firewall running 2.4.14) and the other is a SS20 (my file/web/webcam server) - it does samba, nfs and ftp for files - and it has a videopix digitizer for webcam stuff.
Why did I chose sparc? Well its a tad quieter then a X86 box, smaller, and (and this is the point) it uses up a lot less power. The SS10 ships with a 65 watt ps (at least mine did). Considering you can get these things for less then 25~65 dollars they are a bargain (I paid 25$ for the SS10 and 65$ for the SS20). Anyhoo I kept my SS10 running for 30 minutes on a 300 va ups when the power went out last week - I doubt its drawing more then 25 watts peak. The software is still free since it runs debian linux well (and you can get sloaris for it too for free)
Plus - I have the added advantage that for some reason sun equipment is like a geek's dream - they look kinda cool sitting on the table next to the cable connection. Everyone who has ever come by has to comment on them somehow - either "whats that" - or "wow - you have one of those?". Don't get me wrong - there slow, (the SS10 has a cacheless microsparc in it), but the SS10 seems to keep up with the 4 megabit cable connection okay.
I'm starting to feel afraid of our governments. I have little doubt that the US will sign the treaty, and congress will pass it where george will sign it.
Sure it could, but you need to consider to play a divx movie on an Amiga you'd have to have something in excess of a 68060 - the fastest native processor one can have. Considering how few PowerPC turbo boards there are running around for it I doubt he has a 604 or a G4.
First - this was a rumor - I have a dreamcast that was just purchased in the store the other day - in the black and red box (with the sports scene on it) - boots CDR's just fine. I don't know where it came from, but I have YET TO SEE a DC that can't boot cdr's and I've picked up like 4 of these for friends and family.
Second you can boot a DC off a CD and then bootstrap it off a NFS server (or whatever) - I've got this kind of setup at home - so in essence the cdr is just a bootstrap medium. Of course it helps to have a cross compiler for SH4 - but that seems to be more effort then the average slashdotter is in to.
Because if you read it...really read it... it kind of says (to me) Yeah the Xerox parc -> Apple -> Microsoft interface argument may be convoluted and pointless, but *multimedia/video for the computing masses started with Apple*.
But it didn't - I was there - I was doing video effects (real time non linear and otherwise) while mac people were still fooling around with desktop publishing- I was using a Commodore Amiga. It happened - and yes history should recognize that (even if its a foot-note). Besides I think CDXL pre-dates quicktime - CDXL being the digital video format for the CDTV optimized for cd-rom access.
Historians like cringely can't resist doing this though - and I suppose it keeps the industry interesting. I think there is a point to be made - if it weren't for the popularity of windows/dos there wouldn't be clones. I'm sure linus (and others) would say it was a lot easier to develope Linux on a open well known platform like the PC/AT then say a Mac or an SGI.
But what about the sega vs. accolade case? This is the one where Accolade reverse engineered the sega genisis so they could make games without paying license fee's. Accolade won eventually - the judge as I recall basically said a company couldn't legally bar another company from figuring this out.
About halo - once I got into it I couldn't put it down - spent all weekend playing around with it. I haven't been able to find a copy of mgs 2 yet - but I liked the original one.
Also - I can't even hear the HDD for the most part. I had to put my ear right up against the xbox just to hear it whine a bit.
Ah well I stand corrected (about the GC). I dunno - have you played DOA 3 on the Xbox? I liked DOA 2 on the ps2, but xbox definately takes the PS2 to town on this game.
I think the difference is (and yes I have both ps2 and a xbox) subtle - DOA 3 is definately better, more responsive, naughtier, and a little more colourful.
Halo is an interesting game - I found the cinematics got better as you progressed - the opening sucked. But in the game you'll notice something I've never seen in a game console before - bump mapping - and no as far as I know the PS2 nor the GC can do bump mapping at least for free (with little overhead).
But then came last month's federal directive to U.S. libraries: "Destroy the report."
So a Syracuse University library clerk broke the disc into pieces, saving a single shard to prove that the deed was done.
I'm curious - it what way was this not destroyed?
Anyhoo - Personally I think this is a case of someone being appointed realizing he has do SOMETHING - and ANYTHING is better then nothing right? I've read many books on terrorism from a historical perspective. One of my old professors actually had some statistics that showed the more we do to stop terrorism the more terrorism we end up with - and for the most part its true. So they don't allow metal knives on board air planes? Oh well - they still give out metal forks.
I thought it was more quiet then my PS2 - its amazingly quiet. I thought for instance it didn't have a HD at first - but if you put your ear right up against it you can hear it somewhat.
Do what I did - I bought one at Target on my way to work (only had to wait around for like 30 min - this was in Beaverton OR) - I signed up for the target card got 10% off so the thing so far only cost me 270$ and they will let you buy one without any software.
Workers would regularly open packages that shipped to retailers and lift articles of clothing, drop kick 'fragile' packages across the loading docks, etc. etc. etc.
My little brother lives in the Domican Republic - he says that sort of thing happens in the mail there. The difference? He claims the DR is a 3rd world country. Well were very close... I have lost all faith in commercial carriers.
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Well there are fraud protection laws in America. Some of them deal with deceptive advertising - like saying one thing in bright bold letters and fine type (saying what it really is) and then giving them something different is most definately against the law.
I agree that you should read over an auction carefully before purchasing something on there but there are rules to protect people from unsavory merchants.
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I don't get that article - doesn't normally take 2~3 years to develope a game console?
Sony and co are kinda funny - you know the PS2 has been out for two years now (if you include the japanese release date) - yet they just sat around. Personally with that kind of a lead on your competition you'd think they would have owned the market by now.
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They've gotten Linux on a Playstation
Only because sony made it - with their super secret proprietary programming information...
It would be really cool if MS made a Linux distro for it though:).
Well - it does say right on the front "powered by Microsoft Windows CE" - thats all I'm going off:).
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I don't get this - I have an xbox sitting right here - and on the back left of the unit (as your looking it it) is a 10/100 ethernet jack...
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They make it sound like the xbox was just pulled out of their ass - as I recall MS has been working on this project seriously for the last 2~3 years. How long did it take to develope the PS2?
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I don't understand how this works - for one thing last I saw you cannot forward a mac address. There's not a router in the world that can do this. Of course those linksys "routers" are pretty open gateways to peoples networks - its still a lot of guess work - for instance you might be able to probe far enough and find machines beyond the cable network, but how do you prove they are accessing the internet?
How else do they detect nat routers? I'm running my little SS10 under kernel 2.4.14 - it was easier to detect 2.2.x doing masq stuff, but how you detect 2.4.x is beyond me.
Also - and this is the big point I think was missed - I had a friend that broken down and bought an extra IP - the extra IP was on a different subnet - as far as I could tell to route back to the machine sitting next to it - it had to go out over the cable router - out to the gateway and back to the machine - just to play network games against each other. As I recall it had about a 50 ms ping... So in some ways your wasting even more bandwidth the way these people allocate ip's.
I switched from DSL to cable and never looked back. I get rock solid service for extremely low prices - my connection sync's at 4 megabits and I frequently get it. The fastest DSL line I can get is 768k and I live downtown :(. (thank you verizon?)
They screwed up my credit billing system - so I had like 68$ of back payments. I resolved it today with a friendly person on the phone. It didn't seem like they were going down the toilet - it only took seconds to talk to an operator
I use two sun's at home - one is a SS10 (my firewall running 2.4.14) and the other is a SS20 (my file/web/webcam server) - it does samba, nfs and ftp for files - and it has a videopix digitizer for webcam stuff.
Why did I chose sparc? Well its a tad quieter then a X86 box, smaller, and (and this is the point) it uses up a lot less power. The SS10 ships with a 65 watt ps (at least mine did). Considering you can get these things for less then 25~65 dollars they are a bargain (I paid 25$ for the SS10 and 65$ for the SS20). Anyhoo I kept my SS10 running for 30 minutes on a 300 va ups when the power went out last week - I doubt its drawing more then 25 watts peak. The software is still free since it runs debian linux well (and you can get sloaris for it too for free)
Plus - I have the added advantage that for some reason sun equipment is like a geek's dream - they look kinda cool sitting on the table next to the cable connection. Everyone who has ever come by has to comment on them somehow - either "whats that" - or "wow - you have one of those?". Don't get me wrong - there slow, (the SS10 has a cacheless microsparc in it), but the SS10 seems to keep up with the 4 megabit cable connection okay.
I'm starting to feel afraid of our governments. I have little doubt that the US will sign the treaty, and congress will pass it where george will sign it.
Sure it could, but you need to consider to play a divx movie on an Amiga you'd have to have something in excess of a 68060 - the fastest native processor one can have. Considering how few PowerPC turbo boards there are running around for it I doubt he has a 604 or a G4.
You can't - the poster is full of shit.
First - this was a rumor - I have a dreamcast that was just purchased in the store the other day - in the black and red box (with the sports scene on it) - boots CDR's just fine. I don't know where it came from, but I have YET TO SEE a DC that can't boot cdr's and I've picked up like 4 of these for friends and family.
Second you can boot a DC off a CD and then bootstrap it off a NFS server (or whatever) - I've got this kind of setup at home - so in essence the cdr is just a bootstrap medium. Of course it helps to have a cross compiler for SH4 - but that seems to be more effort then the average slashdotter is in to.
Because if you read it...really read it... it kind of says (to me) Yeah the Xerox parc -> Apple -> Microsoft interface argument may be convoluted and pointless, but *multimedia/video for the computing masses started with Apple*.
But it didn't - I was there - I was doing video effects (real time non linear and otherwise) while mac people were still fooling around with desktop publishing- I was using a Commodore Amiga. It happened - and yes history should recognize that (even if its a foot-note). Besides I think CDXL pre-dates quicktime - CDXL being the digital video format for the CDTV optimized for cd-rom access.
Historians like cringely can't resist doing this though - and I suppose it keeps the industry interesting. I think there is a point to be made - if it weren't for the popularity of windows/dos there wouldn't be clones. I'm sure linus (and others) would say it was a lot easier to develope Linux on a open well known platform like the PC/AT then say a Mac or an SGI.
Well sony vs. connectix was post dmca - so what is your point?
But what about the sega vs. accolade case? This is the one where Accolade reverse engineered the sega genisis so they could make games without paying license fee's. Accolade won eventually - the judge as I recall basically said a company couldn't legally bar another company from figuring this out.
About halo - once I got into it I couldn't put it down - spent all weekend playing around with it. I haven't been able to find a copy of mgs 2 yet - but I liked the original one.
Also - I can't even hear the HDD for the most part. I had to put my ear right up against the xbox just to hear it whine a bit.
Ah well I stand corrected (about the GC). I dunno - have you played DOA 3 on the Xbox? I liked DOA 2 on the ps2, but xbox definately takes the PS2 to town on this game.
Hard OCP's disection of the unit has a seagate hdd - but the other site's xbox had a wd hdd. Does anyone know why?
I think the difference is (and yes I have both ps2 and a xbox) subtle - DOA 3 is definately better, more responsive, naughtier, and a little more colourful.
Halo is an interesting game - I found the cinematics got better as you progressed - the opening sucked. But in the game you'll notice something I've never seen in a game console before - bump mapping - and no as far as I know the PS2 nor the GC can do bump mapping at least for free (with little overhead).
But then came last month's federal directive to U.S. libraries: "Destroy the report."
So a Syracuse University library clerk broke the disc into pieces, saving a single shard to prove that the deed was done.
I'm curious - it what way was this not destroyed?
Anyhoo - Personally I think this is a case of someone being appointed realizing he has do SOMETHING - and ANYTHING is better then nothing right? I've read many books on terrorism from a historical perspective. One of my old professors actually had some statistics that showed the more we do to stop terrorism the more terrorism we end up with - and for the most part its true. So they don't allow metal knives on board air planes? Oh well - they still give out metal forks.
I thought it was more quiet then my PS2 - its amazingly quiet. I thought for instance it didn't have a HD at first - but if you put your ear right up against it you can hear it somewhat.
Do what I did - I bought one at Target on my way to work (only had to wait around for like 30 min - this was in Beaverton OR) - I signed up for the target card got 10% off so the thing so far only cost me 270$ and they will let you buy one without any software.
Workers would regularly open packages that shipped to retailers and lift articles of clothing, drop kick 'fragile' packages across the loading docks, etc. etc. etc.
My little brother lives in the Domican Republic - he says that sort of thing happens in the mail there. The difference? He claims the DR is a 3rd world country. Well were very close... I have lost all faith in commercial carriers.
Well there are fraud protection laws in America. Some of them deal with deceptive advertising - like saying one thing in bright bold letters and fine type (saying what it really is) and then giving them something different is most definately against the law.
I agree that you should read over an auction carefully before purchasing something on there but there are rules to protect people from unsavory merchants.
I don't get that article - doesn't normally take 2~3 years to develope a game console?
Sony and co are kinda funny - you know the PS2 has been out for two years now (if you include the japanese release date) - yet they just sat around. Personally with that kind of a lead on your competition you'd think they would have owned the market by now.
They've gotten Linux on a Playstation
:).
Only because sony made it - with their super secret proprietary programming information...
It would be really cool if MS made a Linux distro for it though
Well - it does say right on the front "powered by Microsoft Windows CE" - thats all I'm going off :).
I don't get this - I have an xbox sitting right here - and on the back left of the unit (as your looking it it) is a 10/100 ethernet jack...
They make it sound like the xbox was just pulled out of their ass - as I recall MS has been working on this project seriously for the last 2~3 years. How long did it take to develope the PS2?