Road maps are all fine and dandy, but the local Auto Association gives them for free if you're a member, to pretty much anywhere in North America.
What I'd kill for are some nice online topographic maps, preferably 1:50 000 or better, of Canada. Hiking's a real bitch when you have to shell out $10 for a Gemtrek every time you venture out somewhere new.
Actually, I think some of the older chips like the z80 or 8088 might still be the most sold CPU.
My Comp Architecture prof came up with some numbers, and 8 bit CPUs have almost 90% of the market (or something insanely high, anyway). IIRC, 32 bit processors are well under 1%.
Of course, when you consider that for every (pentium/athlon/whatever) CPU sold, a typical PC comes with sometimes dozens of other CPUs these days, and that's just the PC market... add in a few billion embedded devices and it all adds up.
Yay, we officially have another zealot war on our hands, thanks to iTMS.
Why oh why can't people just accept that not every single piece of software they use is 100% perfect, and move on? It doesn't make you any less of a man if someone can find a slight flaw in your favourite piece of software, if it still works just fine for you.
Maybe they're going after people who violate copyright law. *shocker*
You must be referring to the senior citizen who didn't even own a computer, and the 12 year old who only owned a Macintosh. I probably got those 2 mixed up, but you're right, taking legal action without proof did in fact shock me.
Ah, Discovery Channel. Where I fled after TLC turned into complete, utter garbage.
TLC started by showing what seemed to be several hours a day of Connections, one of my favorite shows ever. Anyone know if you can get it on DVD?
Within a few years, shit like Trading Spaces somehow got labelled as "learning", and now TLC is basically soap opera fluff on a low budget. A Dating Story, A Baby Story, A Makeover Story, While You Were Out... on and on with the sentimental Martha Stewart drivel.
Perhaps the closest thing to educational on TLC is Junkyard Wars, which many Slashdotters swear by, but really: it's rocks for jocks, or rather, big hunks of metal being welded together for jocks.
Discovery (I understand it's a bit different up here in Canada) lasted for a while longer, but sure enough, Crocodile Hunter started the downhill slope. Steve, after a few shows you're just not funny anymore, and I wish that damnable dog would get chunked by a croc someday.
Now Discovery is about half "MONSTER GARAGE" (hey, it's how they pronounce it to make it sound cool to Joe SixPack) and its 80 other derivatives (monster HOUSE?!?! what kind of crack...).
Another poster mentioned the National Geographic channel, and it's not bad, actually. A bit dry compared to Connections, but c'est la vie I suppose. Also nice is the History channel, but up here they play about 50% movies, and not very good ones at that.
*sigh* Thank your lucky stars for the Internet, kids. Television really truly does suck these days, unless you find the 315th episode of Friends to be enlightening.
Nor was I talking about McDonalds. I was referring to the billions of dollars in aid money and food that gets swallowed up annually by corrupt dictators.
$50 million just buys another tank.
These kids are most certainly not starving because of a lack of funds, and it's not a very valid point if you take 5 minutes to Google it.
Unless, of course, you're in favour of spending $50 million to overthrow some third world governments, but that would just get the US in trouble again:)
And quite frankly, I'd be surprised if anyone really does anymore.
Once spammers learned how easy it was to use the Messaging service to send almost anonymous spam a couple of years back, me and damn near anyone I know not behind a firewall turned it off.
Or did spammers stop sending dozens of nice popups a day to random IP addresses sometime between now and then?
And before multi user computing there was this thing called no passwords on your computer. You could just fire it up, and boom! Instant access to your files. (Yes, facaetious example, and Unix pre-dates things such as DOS, but...).
When we suddenly started letting more than one person come within physical proximity of a computer, Microsoft didn't see the need to do silly things like set up user accounts and passwords. It's the computer owner who should ensure that no one else ever gets close to their machine without watching what they do over their shoulder.
Sounds pretty damn stupid, right? So is their Internet strategy. Oh wait, they never really had one. Anyone else remember the single character password vulnerability on Win9x file sharing that went unpatched for (as I recall) 3 YEARS? The same file sharing protocol bound by default to your Internet-connected TCP/IP stack?
As for the 'moron' comment, you're absolutely correct, it is the person doing the breaking and entering who's at fault. However, if 90% of all houses sold come with doors made out of transparent tissue paper and cannot be replaced, the builder shares at least some culpability.
For the record, I'm a 90% Windows user. It's because I use it so much that I wish they'd do it right the first time, instead of making me have to build a virtual Fort Knox just to be able to check my email.
The article advocates restricting port 135, not port 80.
Why the hell is this port even open in the first place? And unclosable at that?
I'm about as geeky as they get, and I've never used any RPC-based apps outside of an academic environment. I'm pretty sure the 3 home users in the planet who actually use it can figure out a way around it.
Ah, good old Microsoft. "It's not our fault people write exploits for needlessly internet-facing services."
Um, perhaps we shouldn't be modding people up who throw up links that remove software from other people's machines maliciously.
I know, I know "only losers use IE", but last time I checked, there's no crime for using IE, and something like half of Slashdot uses it.
Perhaps we can have people post something like "hey, this is a cool link, it will delete media player from your system if you click here (don't say I didn't warn you)". Instead, we get something modded up that is far worse than that insipid goatse.cx picture.
Real way to make us look like a bunch of idiots.
And no, I'm not sitting here fuming at my own stupidity; Opera has no problem with that link at all:)
Plus, what if everyone magically rolled to Redhat 7.3 when it came out, ditching Windows all together? Since then, we've had two SSH vulnerabilities. Sure, those using Linux applied the necessary patches / updates and we're all safe again... probably within minutes. But "Regular User Guy" won't apply that patch.
Every install of RedHat I've ever done sure as hell doesn't install and run an SSH daemon by default. And if you turn it on, you can turn it off.
Hundreds of posts, and not one Slashdotter has pointed this out: the most recent RPC vulnerabilities are all the proof you need to show why Windows, in its current incarnations, is far less secure than any Linux distro I've ever seen. An unpatched Windows system on the internet can be compromised within minutes, and it's not because there are "oh so many Windows viruses". It's because the RPC service is enabled by default, "run as root" insofar as Windows does that, and YOU CAN'T TURN THE DAMN THING OFF. So even if I'm clueful, don't open email attachments, only use plain text email, never run foreign binaries, I can still get "rooted" trivially.
Show me a Linux distro that does that. Hell, RedHat goes one further and runs IPtables by default for you these days. I'd love to see you try to root my box without being able to connect to it first. With a Windows machine, you as user leave a half-dozen almost unclosable ports open by default.
(Note: I realize that Apache, OpenSSH, and every other server daemon under the sun has known vulnerabilities. But I'm comparing apples to apples here, and Joe Sixpack doesn't often run a webserver off his WindowsXP box).
Just curious, I've been thinking about giving emusic a whirl, but your post raises a question:
On the site, they advertise "Unlimited CD burning, unlimited transfers". Nowhere in their TOS could I find anything related to transfer limits. Not that I plan on downloading 2000 tracks a month, but I'm assuming you're using hyperbole. Any idea what the real limit is? (God, I hate companies that lie in their advertising)
Even so, it's nearly double what it was less than 20 years ago.
Devil's advocate here, but you do realize that with the exception of consumer electronics, pretty much EVERYTHING costs double, triple, or even more than it did 20 years ago.
Remember being able to buy a $5,000 car? A $50,000 house that wasn't falling apart? 25 cent hamburgers? $5 cassette tapes?
Several posters have commented that music is best defined similarly to obscenity ("I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced . . . [b]ut I know it when I see it . . . "), and thus the output of Ka-Blamo doesn't count as music.
In tandem with the above quote would be "I don't want others deciding what is obscene, only I should make that judgement". No one (well, almost no one) wants some external person or persons telling them what they can and cannot look at. Much like art. You know what it is when you see it, but have fun trying to pin it down exclusively.
Same goes for music. How many of us have parents who told us that "Rap isn't music", "Disco isn't music", or, for the old-timers in the crowd, "Rock and Roll isn't music".
You may not agree with me, but damned if I'm going to let YOU decide what I find obscene. Same goes for what I consider music.
Incidentally, there's a lot of trance/ambient that sounds eerily similar to putting an old Commodore data cassette in your stereo. No, contrary to popular myth at the time, it isn't dangerous to your equipment, but it's really weird to listen to if you haven't before. So I synch it up to a rhythm line, and who are you to tell me it isn't music?
Oh, but wait, it's just a bunch of binary data emitted in a different form, and combined with an audio representation of a much slowed-down RTC signal.
Well, actually, Micro$oft wouldn't exactly cure cancer, they'd put it into remission for two or three years. You'd have to purchase new and "improved" treatments each time it came out of remission, in order to live for a few more years.
You do of course realize, there's an entire tinfoil brigade that thinks the medical community does precisely this.
Creepy. Wonder if they have a blog-like website where they post news of Dow-Corning extorting money from the entire medicare system for stealing it's IP...
Unfortunately, Marble Man never quite got out of testing before the crashing arcade scene made Atari withdraw it from market. I'm not sure if anyone knows where the few original ROM's are anymore.
(I'm sure slashdotters will correct me if I'm wrong about any of this)
Marble Man never made it past prototype stage. Essentially, at least 3 Marble Man games still exist, in various stages of repair. AFAIK, they're all owned by one person, who shall remain nameless (Google is your friend).
He has full use and access to the ROMs, because he owns the original cabinet. Now, this particular game, probably in demand more than any other classic game to be dumped, has yet to be dumped. Why?
The cynical among us say that it's because he's a hoarding asshole who doesn't like to share, and is just holding on so he can make some serious cash on eBay from a collector. This sort of thing happens all the time with prototype/one-of-a-kind games.
Apparently the real story is, he got the games by basically signing an agreement stating he would not, under any circumstances, allow the ROMs to leak out to the public. Binding contract, lawsuits, and all that.
Now, as to why anyone would care about the release of a game that not only isn't making any money, but NEVER DID... as always, I suspect the truth is somewhere in the middle.
That being said you can run GNU/Linux and get rooted just as easily as you could with Windows if you don't patch your system.
Except that by default, Windows leaves a lot more ways open, and makes it just the slightest bit harder to close them (read: damn near impossible).
Once again, repeat after me: people can't root a box they can't send traffic to. With Linux, that's possible. With Windows, it's a lot more work, if not impossible (depends on how far you trust XP's firewall).
First of all, neither NASA, nor anyone else at the moment, has the capability to track "everyhing bigger than a tennis ball in outer space". That would number in the trillions, if not many, many, many orders of magnitude more. Current tracking systems handle all the junk in Earth orbit, and anything HUGE that we've picked up *so far*.
As for why we get news of something with a remote chance of hitting Earth - that's because these objects are typically hundreds, if not thousands of metres across. If one of these hit, it would kill millions of people, and possibly wipe out most macroscopic life as we know it. That's why you hear about them.
What landed in India was a few inches across at best, or you wouldn't see "20 people injured, no deaths". And detecting even a tiny fraction of the things in space at that size is well nigh impossible. Meteors of this size hit the planet all the time, but almost always land in remote areas.
The original Pentium II was code-named "Klamath". It ran at a paltry 66 MHz bus speed and ranged from 233MHz to 300MHz. In 1998, Intel did some slight re-working of the processor and released "Deschutes". They used a 0.25 micron design technology for this one, and allowed a 100MHz system bus. The L2 cache was still separate from the actual processor core and still ran at only half speed. They would not rectify this issue until the release of the Celeron A and Pentium III. Deschutes ran from 333MHz to up to 450 MHz.
From A CPU History. Can't find anything decent on Intel's page.
You sure you're not using a K-6(-2)? Because unless Intel decided to arbitrarily cut their clockspeeds by half, they never released a 200Mhz Pentium 2. I thought this was common knowledge, just as the highest end Pentium 1 was 233Mhz. *shrug* Who knows, maybe it's a regional thing, like hot grits.
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Road maps are all fine and dandy, but the local Auto Association gives them for free if you're a member, to pretty much anywhere in North America.
What I'd kill for are some nice online topographic maps, preferably 1:50 000 or better, of Canada. Hiking's a real bitch when you have to shell out $10 for a Gemtrek every time you venture out somewhere new.
Anyone know of anything like this?
Actually, I think some of the older chips like the z80 or 8088 might still be the most sold CPU.
My Comp Architecture prof came up with some numbers, and 8 bit CPUs have almost 90% of the market (or something insanely high, anyway). IIRC, 32 bit processors are well under 1%.
Of course, when you consider that for every (pentium/athlon/whatever) CPU sold, a typical PC comes with sometimes dozens of other CPUs these days, and that's just the PC market... add in a few billion embedded devices and it all adds up.
VI is the shit, you idiots.
Emacs is bloated.
Yay, we officially have another zealot war on our hands, thanks to iTMS.
Why oh why can't people just accept that not every single piece of software they use is 100% perfect, and move on? It doesn't make you any less of a man if someone can find a slight flaw in your favourite piece of software, if it still works just fine for you.
*sigh*
It's ridiculous, not rediculous.
:)
And "speach" isn't a word folks, even when it's free, unless perhaps it's a British thing.
There, I think we just cleaned up 3/4 of Slashdot's english problems
Heh. That's one of the most brilliant posts I've ever seen on Slashdot.
Too bad there's no (+1, wicked sarcasm) moderation.
Maybe they're going after people who violate copyright law. *shocker*
You must be referring to the senior citizen who didn't even own a computer, and the 12 year old who only owned a Macintosh. I probably got those 2 mixed up, but you're right, taking legal action without proof did in fact shock me.
Ah, Discovery Channel. Where I fled after TLC turned into complete, utter garbage.
TLC started by showing what seemed to be several hours a day of Connections, one of my favorite shows ever. Anyone know if you can get it on DVD?
Within a few years, shit like Trading Spaces somehow got labelled as "learning", and now TLC is basically soap opera fluff on a low budget. A Dating Story, A Baby Story, A Makeover Story, While You Were Out... on and on with the sentimental Martha Stewart drivel.
Perhaps the closest thing to educational on TLC is Junkyard Wars, which many Slashdotters swear by, but really: it's rocks for jocks, or rather, big hunks of metal being welded together for jocks.
Discovery (I understand it's a bit different up here in Canada) lasted for a while longer, but sure enough, Crocodile Hunter started the downhill slope. Steve, after a few shows you're just not funny anymore, and I wish that damnable dog would get chunked by a croc someday.
Now Discovery is about half "MONSTER GARAGE" (hey, it's how they pronounce it to make it sound cool to Joe SixPack) and its 80 other derivatives (monster HOUSE?!?! what kind of crack...).
Another poster mentioned the National Geographic channel, and it's not bad, actually. A bit dry compared to Connections, but c'est la vie I suppose. Also nice is the History channel, but up here they play about 50% movies, and not very good ones at that.
*sigh* Thank your lucky stars for the Internet, kids. Television really truly does suck these days, unless you find the 315th episode of Friends to be enlightening.
Nor was I talking about McDonalds. I was referring to the billions of dollars in aid money and food that gets swallowed up annually by corrupt dictators.
:)
$50 million just buys another tank.
These kids are most certainly not starving because of a lack of funds, and it's not a very valid point if you take 5 minutes to Google it.
Unless, of course, you're in favour of spending $50 million to overthrow some third world governments, but that would just get the US in trouble again
Children rarely, if ever, starve due to lack of money.
In fact, children do not starve due to lack of food.
They starve because their country's government either withholds it, or is so inefficient it cannot properly feed its citizens.
There's more than enough food to feed everyone on the planet, but a lot of it ends up going to waste.
And quite frankly, I'd be surprised if anyone really does anymore.
Once spammers learned how easy it was to use the Messaging service to send almost anonymous spam a couple of years back, me and damn near anyone I know not behind a firewall turned it off.
Or did spammers stop sending dozens of nice popups a day to random IP addresses sometime between now and then?
And before multi user computing there was this thing called no passwords on your computer. You could just fire it up, and boom! Instant access to your files. (Yes, facaetious example, and Unix pre-dates things such as DOS, but...).
When we suddenly started letting more than one person come within physical proximity of a computer, Microsoft didn't see the need to do silly things like set up user accounts and passwords. It's the computer owner who should ensure that no one else ever gets close to their machine without watching what they do over their shoulder.
Sounds pretty damn stupid, right? So is their Internet strategy. Oh wait, they never really had one. Anyone else remember the single character password vulnerability on Win9x file sharing that went unpatched for (as I recall) 3 YEARS? The same file sharing protocol bound by default to your Internet-connected TCP/IP stack?
As for the 'moron' comment, you're absolutely correct, it is the person doing the breaking and entering who's at fault. However, if 90% of all houses sold come with doors made out of transparent tissue paper and cannot be replaced, the builder shares at least some culpability.
For the record, I'm a 90% Windows user. It's because I use it so much that I wish they'd do it right the first time, instead of making me have to build a virtual Fort Knox just to be able to check my email.
The article advocates restricting port 135, not port 80.
Why the hell is this port even open in the first place? And unclosable at that?
I'm about as geeky as they get, and I've never used any RPC-based apps outside of an academic environment. I'm pretty sure the 3 home users in the planet who actually use it can figure out a way around it.
Ah, good old Microsoft. "It's not our fault people write exploits for needlessly internet-facing services."
So I guess a 'megalopolis' means a million cities all packed into one?
When you're not using the metric system, mega, kilo, et al don't mean base 10 at all - and computers aren't measured using the metric system.
Um, perhaps we shouldn't be modding people up who throw up links that remove software from other people's machines maliciously.
:)
I know, I know "only losers use IE", but last time I checked, there's no crime for using IE, and something like half of Slashdot uses it.
Perhaps we can have people post something like "hey, this is a cool link, it will delete media player from your system if you click here (don't say I didn't warn you)". Instead, we get something modded up that is far worse than that insipid goatse.cx picture.
Real way to make us look like a bunch of idiots.
And no, I'm not sitting here fuming at my own stupidity; Opera has no problem with that link at all
Plus, what if everyone magically rolled to Redhat 7.3 when it came out, ditching Windows all together? Since then, we've had two SSH vulnerabilities. Sure, those using Linux applied the necessary patches / updates and we're all safe again... probably within minutes. But "Regular User Guy" won't apply that patch.
Every install of RedHat I've ever done sure as hell doesn't install and run an SSH daemon by default. And if you turn it on, you can turn it off.
Hundreds of posts, and not one Slashdotter has pointed this out: the most recent RPC vulnerabilities are all the proof you need to show why Windows, in its current incarnations, is far less secure than any Linux distro I've ever seen. An unpatched Windows system on the internet can be compromised within minutes, and it's not because there are "oh so many Windows viruses". It's because the RPC service is enabled by default, "run as root" insofar as Windows does that, and YOU CAN'T TURN THE DAMN THING OFF. So even if I'm clueful, don't open email attachments, only use plain text email, never run foreign binaries, I can still get "rooted" trivially.
Show me a Linux distro that does that. Hell, RedHat goes one further and runs IPtables by default for you these days. I'd love to see you try to root my box without being able to connect to it first. With a Windows machine, you as user leave a half-dozen almost unclosable ports open by default.
(Note: I realize that Apache, OpenSSH, and every other server daemon under the sun has known vulnerabilities. But I'm comparing apples to apples here, and Joe Sixpack doesn't often run a webserver off his WindowsXP box).
Just curious, I've been thinking about giving emusic a whirl, but your post raises a question:
On the site, they advertise "Unlimited CD burning, unlimited transfers". Nowhere in their TOS could I find anything related to transfer limits. Not that I plan on downloading 2000 tracks a month, but I'm assuming you're using hyperbole. Any idea what the real limit is? (God, I hate companies that lie in their advertising)
Even so, it's nearly double what it was less than 20 years ago.
Devil's advocate here, but you do realize that with the exception of consumer electronics, pretty much EVERYTHING costs double, triple, or even more than it did 20 years ago.
Remember being able to buy a $5,000 car? A $50,000 house that wasn't falling apart? 25 cent hamburgers? $5 cassette tapes?
Ah, back in the days of $3 minimum wages...
Several posters have commented that music is best defined similarly to obscenity ("I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced . . . [b]ut I know it when I see it . . . "), and thus the output of Ka-Blamo doesn't count as music.
In tandem with the above quote would be "I don't want others deciding what is obscene, only I should make that judgement". No one (well, almost no one) wants some external person or persons telling them what they can and cannot look at. Much like art. You know what it is when you see it, but have fun trying to pin it down exclusively.
Same goes for music. How many of us have parents who told us that "Rap isn't music", "Disco isn't music", or, for the old-timers in the crowd, "Rock and Roll isn't music".
You may not agree with me, but damned if I'm going to let YOU decide what I find obscene. Same goes for what I consider music.
Incidentally, there's a lot of trance/ambient that sounds eerily similar to putting an old Commodore data cassette in your stereo. No, contrary to popular myth at the time, it isn't dangerous to your equipment, but it's really weird to listen to if you haven't before. So I synch it up to a rhythm line, and who are you to tell me it isn't music?
Oh, but wait, it's just a bunch of binary data emitted in a different form, and combined with an audio representation of a much slowed-down RTC signal.
Food for thought.
Well, actually, Micro$oft wouldn't exactly cure cancer, they'd put it into remission for two or three years. You'd have to purchase new and "improved" treatments each time it came out of remission, in order to live for a few more years.
You do of course realize, there's an entire tinfoil brigade that thinks the medical community does precisely this.
Creepy. Wonder if they have a blog-like website where they post news of Dow-Corning extorting money from the entire medicare system for stealing it's IP...
Unfortunately, Marble Man never quite got out of testing before the crashing arcade scene made Atari withdraw it from market. I'm not sure if anyone knows where the few original ROM's are anymore.
(I'm sure slashdotters will correct me if I'm wrong about any of this)
Marble Man never made it past prototype stage. Essentially, at least 3 Marble Man games still exist, in various stages of repair. AFAIK, they're all owned by one person, who shall remain nameless (Google is your friend).
He has full use and access to the ROMs, because he owns the original cabinet. Now, this particular game, probably in demand more than any other classic game to be dumped, has yet to be dumped. Why?
The cynical among us say that it's because he's a hoarding asshole who doesn't like to share, and is just holding on so he can make some serious cash on eBay from a collector. This sort of thing happens all the time with prototype/one-of-a-kind games.
Apparently the real story is, he got the games by basically signing an agreement stating he would not, under any circumstances, allow the ROMs to leak out to the public. Binding contract, lawsuits, and all that.
Now, as to why anyone would care about the release of a game that not only isn't making any money, but NEVER DID... as always, I suspect the truth is somewhere in the middle.
That being said you can run GNU/Linux and get rooted just as easily as you could with Windows if you don't patch your system.
Except that by default, Windows leaves a lot more ways open, and makes it just the slightest bit harder to close them (read: damn near impossible).
Once again, repeat after me: people can't root a box they can't send traffic to. With Linux, that's possible. With Windows, it's a lot more work, if not impossible (depends on how far you trust XP's firewall).
First of all, neither NASA, nor anyone else at the moment, has the capability to track "everyhing bigger than a tennis ball in outer space". That would number in the trillions, if not many, many, many orders of magnitude more. Current tracking systems handle all the junk in Earth orbit, and anything HUGE that we've picked up *so far*.
As for why we get news of something with a remote chance of hitting Earth - that's because these objects are typically hundreds, if not thousands of metres across. If one of these hit, it would kill millions of people, and possibly wipe out most macroscopic life as we know it. That's why you hear about them.
What landed in India was a few inches across at best, or you wouldn't see "20 people injured, no deaths". And detecting even a tiny fraction of the things in space at that size is well nigh impossible. Meteors of this size hit the planet all the time, but almost always land in remote areas.
Was she cunning?
:)
Those are my favorite kinds of linguists, especially when they're female
The original Pentium II was code-named "Klamath". It ran at a paltry 66 MHz bus speed and ranged from 233MHz to 300MHz. In 1998, Intel did some slight re-working of the processor and released "Deschutes". They used a 0.25 micron design technology for this one, and allowed a 100MHz system bus. The L2 cache was still separate from the actual processor core and still ran at only half speed. They would not rectify this issue until the release of the Celeron A and Pentium III. Deschutes ran from 333MHz to up to 450 MHz.
From A CPU History. Can't find anything decent on Intel's page.
You sure you're not using a K-6(-2)? Because unless Intel decided to arbitrarily cut their clockspeeds by half, they never released a 200Mhz Pentium 2. I thought this was common knowledge, just as the highest end Pentium 1 was 233Mhz. *shrug* Who knows, maybe it's a regional thing, like hot grits.
The box is a lowly PII-200 with 256MB RAM
:)
You know they never made P2's at that slow a speed, eh?
And most boards of the 200Mhz era couldn't handle anywhere close to 256MB of RAM?