I actually read an article that nuns had a low rate of the disease. They said that constantly thinking and praying helps against it. Kind of on the theory that if you don't use a muscle it will go weak. If you retire and don't use your brain, it'll stop working.
I am not sure if I am getting the idea on banner placement. From the sounds of it, you want poor people to look at banner ads for stuff that they can not buy? They didn't even pay for the PC that they are viewing it on!
From doing tech support for a few years, I came up with this plan.
When a user first turns on his computer he's presented with a test. Kind of like an IQ test, but a tad PC oriented. The smarter that the user is, the more features that he is allowed to access. Lower scores mean, of course, less features. The lowest of the low will get one button on the screen that makes a 'ding' sound when you click on it.
One day, I would really like to see this in action.
If you are only charging the customer one time, I don't see anything wrong with just using the card once and then getting rid of it. Just a one shot deal. As far as repedative billing, I agree with the other comments about keeping the key on a seperate server. Just in case. Now, i'm no expert in encryption but one method that I always thought was cool was the random keys that are generated from a device that's about the size of a calculator, or a key chain. A new number is generated every few minutes and is pretty much a one shot deal. This is synced with the server before being handed out. Could you use this with your employees, or possably impliment a similar system between the machines that will be dealing with/storing this info? Just my $0.02
I thought it was cracked. Or at least had a good work around. There are two pieces of software that will help you do this. When you load up q3, it checks with their servers to see if the key is/was in use. If not, you can play. The first piece of software changes the location of that server to 127.0.0.1 (your computer.) The second software is a small server that acts as q3's server for checking the key. It will let any key that you throw at and allow you to play on whatever server that you would like. I havn't read the docs on how it works but that's what I can gather. Not sure of the official name of the sofware, but the name of the zip file is Q2VKSR2. try searching for it. I am pretty impressed with Diablo 2's method. I am sure that it was in Diablo 1 as well. It was the same concept as q3 from what I can tell, but that I have not seen a hack where you can use 2 keys at the same time. Single player of course doesn't matter. But I do agree with the bad, you need the book, way of copy protection. There were quite a few games that did this. One's name that escapes me was on a Mac that had a decoder ring kind of setup. There were 3 paper wheels with dates I think. Maybe month, day and year. You lined them up correctly and had to type in a word to play. The SW gave you the date when you first opened it up. Anyone know what I am talking about? It might have been for a flight sim.
Outside I rollerblade. Not a large investment and easy to get the hang of. It's very simple and calming. Inside I play a lot of pool. I'm not talking about shooting the shit and drinking with your buddies. I am talking about being serious, thinking about shots too much, and playing to win. Lots of thinking involved for those that always need something on their mind.
I don't think it would work too well. The information would still exist (ie. multiple OS's fingerprints, a whole lot of connections and bandwidth used at the same time.) It would be like using an extension chord on an AC outlet. If you use an extention chord, you could lick the end and still know it's getting the same power as if you were to make out with the outlet!
I thought that there was a company that claimed a year ago that even after wiping the hard drive of a notebook, it could still contact either that company or the owner about it's wearabouts. I thought I remember seeing it 8 months ago. Anyone else know what I am referring to?
On the consumer side, this is great. You have a large video card manufacturer that realizes their customers play a lot of Quake and they want to make sure that their card is optimized for that game. As far as testing video cards I do aggree that it seems a little biased. At that point it may be better to use something other than Quake, or any game for that matter. It would be a better idea to use an actual benchmark utility for testing video cards.
I would say that you could talk to the head of the department there. If he is not behind this, then find out who is and express your concerns (or gripes) about the amount of searches, and find out if it really nessicary. I am sure that you could find other people that are not keen to the searches to join you in filing a complaint.
I was talking with a customer today and he stated that there are two packages, the $100 package has 2 phone lines. The $140 package gives you 4 telephone lines and a 800 number. seems like an ok deal. It also comes with a certain amount of long distance minutes.
I remember back in the day when my friend had a 33Mhz machine with windows 3.1 he had a 2M virtual drive to hold files so he could get some more speed out of them. I asked him what happened when he shutdown his computer and restarted it. He had a series of scripts that would run that would copy all of the files from the RAM drive to the hard drive in a temp folder so that he would never loose his data. On bootup and shutdown was the only times that it would write the data. The only flaw in this was that you had to shut down properly. I have been thinking that using this concept to run an operating system completly from RAM would be great but I havn't even begun to think what the scripts would look like. Any ideas out there? Doesn't matter what platform.
I used to have a 233Mhz machine running Windows 2000 with 2 NIC cards set up as my server. The time that it would take to install, then find out how to configure took about a day. It was done through Windows 2000's built in NAT. It did get the job done, but it did take a while to figure it out. If you are familiar with NAT and Windows 2000 it should be quick. I did see that there is more to go wrong if you have this setup, like a bad NIC card, slow computer, a non-booting computer, etc. In a whole it's kind of a pain to setup and maintain. I descided to go with a LinkSys 1 port router and connect it to my 10/100 Hub. Much better speed, quicker configuration, and if something goes wrong, just reset the Router and Cable Modem. For DSL users and other cable modems that require a login, it will support PPPoE. If you are running a server on the inside of the network then you can set up that computer's IP address to be the DMZ. Basically any incoming traffic will be forwarded to that address. If you have multiple servers that all perform a different function (HTTP, FTP, etc.) you can forward different ports to different PC's on the internal network. Hope this helps.
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I actually read an article that nuns had a low rate of the disease. They said that constantly thinking and praying helps against it. Kind of on the theory that if you don't use a muscle it will go weak. If you retire and don't use your brain, it'll stop working.
maybe the ie update that they did. either that or a security update
I am not sure if I am getting the idea on banner placement. From the sounds of it, you want poor people to look at banner ads for stuff that they can not buy? They didn't even pay for the PC that they are viewing it on!
It just wasn't too clear to me.
They going to sell the stapler on Think Geek at all?
From doing tech support for a few years, I came up with this plan.
When a user first turns on his computer he's presented with a test. Kind of like an IQ test, but a tad PC oriented. The smarter that the user is, the more features that he is allowed to access. Lower scores mean, of course, less features. The lowest of the low will get one button on the screen that makes a 'ding' sound when you click on it.
One day, I would really like to see this in action.
At a place that I used to work in, I just changed the port to 21 for AIM, and it worked. They were using a proxy as well.
If you are only charging the customer one time, I don't see anything wrong with just using the card once and then getting rid of it. Just a one shot deal. As far as repedative billing, I agree with the other comments about keeping the key on a seperate server. Just in case. Now, i'm no expert in encryption but one method that I always thought was cool was the random keys that are generated from a device that's about the size of a calculator, or a key chain. A new number is generated every few minutes and is pretty much a one shot deal. This is synced with the server before being handed out. Could you use this with your employees, or possably impliment a similar system between the machines that will be dealing with/storing this info? Just my $0.02
So where am I going to get all my Celine Dion MP3's? I've been waiting for Napster to come back so I can get the new CD!
Kidding of course.
I thought it was cracked. Or at least had a good work around. There are two pieces of software that will help you do this. When you load up q3, it checks with their servers to see if the key is/was in use. If not, you can play. The first piece of software changes the location of that server to 127.0.0.1 (your computer.) The second software is a small server that acts as q3's server for checking the key. It will let any key that you throw at and allow you to play on whatever server that you would like. I havn't read the docs on how it works but that's what I can gather. Not sure of the official name of the sofware, but the name of the zip file is Q2VKSR2. try searching for it. I am pretty impressed with Diablo 2's method. I am sure that it was in Diablo 1 as well. It was the same concept as q3 from what I can tell, but that I have not seen a hack where you can use 2 keys at the same time. Single player of course doesn't matter. But I do agree with the bad, you need the book, way of copy protection. There were quite a few games that did this. One's name that escapes me was on a Mac that had a decoder ring kind of setup. There were 3 paper wheels with dates I think. Maybe month, day and year. You lined them up correctly and had to type in a word to play. The SW gave you the date when you first opened it up. Anyone know what I am talking about? It might have been for a flight sim.
Outside I rollerblade. Not a large investment and easy to get the hang of. It's very simple and calming. Inside I play a lot of pool. I'm not talking about shooting the shit and drinking with your buddies. I am talking about being serious, thinking about shots too much, and playing to win. Lots of thinking involved for those that always need something on their mind.
It's a tablet that runs Citrix. Not impressed.
Should I be smoking a cigarette while I am doing all of this?
I don't think it would work too well. The information would still exist (ie. multiple OS's fingerprints, a whole lot of connections and bandwidth used at the same time.) It would be like using an extension chord on an AC outlet. If you use an extention chord, you could lick the end and still know it's getting the same power as if you were to make out with the outlet!
I thought that there was a company that claimed a year ago that even after wiping the hard drive of a notebook, it could still contact either that company or the owner about it's wearabouts. I thought I remember seeing it 8 months ago. Anyone else know what I am referring to?
On the consumer side, this is great. You have a large video card manufacturer that realizes their customers play a lot of Quake and they want to make sure that their card is optimized for that game. As far as testing video cards I do aggree that it seems a little biased. At that point it may be better to use something other than Quake, or any game for that matter. It would be a better idea to use an actual benchmark utility for testing video cards.
Yea, I can't wait to see all the pissed off kids faces when their XBox crashed in the middle of a game. My Nintendo never had that problem!
I would say that you could talk to the head of the department there. If he is not behind this, then find out who is and express your concerns (or gripes) about the amount of searches, and find out if it really nessicary. I am sure that you could find other people that are not keen to the searches to join you in filing a complaint.
I was talking with a customer today and he stated that there are two packages, the $100 package has 2 phone lines. The $140 package gives you 4 telephone lines and a 800 number. seems like an ok deal. It also comes with a certain amount of long distance minutes.
I went to http://elvis.alicebot.com/~acraig/ and it didn't take him long to fail the Turing test. Here's the conversation:
> so how did you die..
I didn't die, I am on ace's computer in dallas!, ain't it cool!
I remember back in the day when my friend had a 33Mhz machine with windows 3.1 he had a 2M virtual drive to hold files so he could get some more speed out of them. I asked him what happened when he shutdown his computer and restarted it. He had a series of scripts that would run that would copy all of the files from the RAM drive to the hard drive in a temp folder so that he would never loose his data. On bootup and shutdown was the only times that it would write the data. The only flaw in this was that you had to shut down properly. I have been thinking that using this concept to run an operating system completly from RAM would be great but I havn't even begun to think what the scripts would look like. Any ideas out there? Doesn't matter what platform.
I used to have a 233Mhz machine running Windows 2000 with 2 NIC cards set up as my server. The time that it would take to install, then find out how to configure took about a day. It was done through Windows 2000's built in NAT. It did get the job done, but it did take a while to figure it out. If you are familiar with NAT and Windows 2000 it should be quick. I did see that there is more to go wrong if you have this setup, like a bad NIC card, slow computer, a non-booting computer, etc. In a whole it's kind of a pain to setup and maintain. I descided to go with a LinkSys 1 port router and connect it to my 10/100 Hub. Much better speed, quicker configuration, and if something goes wrong, just reset the Router and Cable Modem. For DSL users and other cable modems that require a login, it will support PPPoE. If you are running a server on the inside of the network then you can set up that computer's IP address to be the DMZ. Basically any incoming traffic will be forwarded to that address. If you have multiple servers that all perform a different function (HTTP, FTP, etc.) you can forward different ports to different PC's on the internal network. Hope this helps.
I am sure a whole lot! I'll asking customers when they call for tech support.
This is the best invention for peeping toms since binoculars!
I know that this is offtopic but I love the SIG.
How did I know that someone was going to post that? Guess you beat me to it.