I believe that Franklin wrote their own compatable ROMs, which Apples sued them over. I remember that it definately booted up with a Franklin specific greeting.
You may be thinking of the AMax Macintosh emulator for the Amiga. To use that, you needed to obtain original Mac ROMs (they went into a dongle that plugged into the disk drive port I believe).
But how many rootkits are there for LinuxPPC? I don't imagine that the standard Intel kits would work.
Re:Ender's Game - The Movie
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You're gonna be disapointed, but the rumor is that Card re-wrote the screenplay specifically for Jake Lloyd after meeting him and being impressed with his ability to express himself and his feelings - the original script had most of the emotional burden on the adult character (Mazor Rackham, etc) rather than Ender.
To give Jake Lloyd credit, I think a lot of the problems in Star Wars were caused by poor direction rather than his own failure as an actor. Most of the things that bugged me about the character were obviously deliberately there - the off-camera "Yipee!" when he finds out that he's leaving home, for example. One does need to remember that Star Wars IS a kid's movie, first and foremost.
However, not all movies about kids are really FOR kids... some examples that come to mind immediately are The Client, The Good Son, The Cure, Radio Flyer, or even Searching for Bobby Fischer and Stand By Me. If this is done well, and part of that means having a low enough budget that it doesn't have to be targeted directly at the PG crowd to make money, it could work.
I'm willing to give the movie a chance before writing it off completely.
Re:The new ENDER'S GAME OF LIFE from Parker Bros.!
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The name "Buggers" has been replaced with "Formics" to avoid confusion with the aliens in _Starship Troopers_ for the upcoming Ender's Game movie. Apparently Card is getting fans used to the switch in this book.
For better or for worse, there is a rumor that Jake Lloyd (Anakin Skywalker) will be playing Ender in the movie, and that Card has even re-written the script with him in mind. Should be interesting...
Follow the directions in The Letter. It instructs you to go to a certain page and enter a userame and password. On that page is an "Indicate Interest" button. Click on it. Follow the directions.
Nightfall is a terrific book by Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg. In the story, the inhabitants of a world with six suns are faced with the darkness of night for the first time in 2000 years. It is an interesting discussion of human behavior in the face of crisis and unknown. There are many similarities to progress of the current Year 2000 paranoia, and the points it makes are rather frightening. Definately a terrific read if you're into speculative science fiction at all.
Zen and the Art of the Internet (This may not be the canonical version) was one of the first help files (I think it was published as a book later) that really tried to cover all common aspects of the internet at the time. I found an online version in 1991 when I first got on the net (the interactive one, as oposed to UseNet), and it helped a lot to get an understanding of how things worked, both technically AND socially. It has a good section on netiquete. It doesn't cover spam (at least it didn't when I read it) because believe it or not, there was a time Before Spam.
The version that I pointed to may be the latest version, which raises an interesting problem for historians. Because of the speed and ease of which documents can change on the internet, it is nearly impossible to find the "first edition" of a given document.
Of course it's not my real number. And who wants to remain anonymous? That's my real email address on the message.
The post was a PARODY to make a point (and a pretty damn good one, IMNSHO. Flaimbait though it may be, I think it deserved a score increase:P). It was really intended to spark some intelligent discussion on the issues it raised, but it's probably too late for this post.
I can certainly understand parents wanting to spy on their kids in day care. The point is, where do we draw the line, and how will it affect their personality in the long term? Do we put cameras in elementary school? Middle school? High school? Their bedroom? Should privacy be granted at a certain age, like driving or alchohol? By getting kids used to having a camera around every corner at a young age, they will learn to accept as normal what most of US consider an invasion of privacy - and I'm not sure that they will "grow out of it".
To: Number One From: Advisor 482-46-9233 Subject: Project Overseer
Sir, I wish to suggest a new approach to our mission to eradicate the expectation and desire for "rights to privacy" in society. Our current approach has been to slowly introduce controls into the existing adult population. These projects - including key escrow, centralized databases, and expanding the use of "Social Security Numbers" as individual serial numbers - have been only moderately successful. Every time we try to introduce something new, there is a tremendous backlash from so-called "privacy rights" organizations such as the EFF, ACLU, and of course, the notorious "Slashdot" web site.
I propose that we introduce acceptance of - even dependance on - electronic monitoring and oversight into society by starting with young children. We will place monitoring cameras in day care centers, schools, youth centers - any place that children are present. We will even make hidden cameras available to parents (in the form of smoke detectors, for example). Parents will accept this with no hesitation - most of them are desperate to extend their "control" over their offspring as much as possible. Our program of seeding the media with scare stories about molestors, daycare abuse scandels, and sadistic babysitters will ensure that parents will universally accept having their offspring monitored at all times.
In a few years, the individuals that spend their childhood under the constant "protection" of our monitoring cameras will become adults - and that insideous concept of "privacy" will be completely foreign to them. They will have no problem accepting our other control programs, because they know of nothing else.
I have taken the liberty of "testing" this concept on one of strongholds of privacy on the Internet - the "Slashdot" web site. I requested information on using multiple cameras in a day care setting, and as of yet not a single respondant has suspected anything. They are even willingly providing excelent technical advice on how we might implement such a project.
If they only knew...
Yours Truly,
Citizen #482-46-9233.
P.S. I realize that we are already 15 years behind schedule, and that this will take even more time, but I firmly believe that this is our best hope at this time.
These are just flames, not even atypical flames in the net-world.
Maybe they are typical flames for this age, with the net infiltrated by illiterate AOL users and the like. I don't know, I haven't used usenet except through Dejanews in years now, and the lists I'm on are pretty tame. But I remember when a good flame was one that ripped apart the claims and opinions that someone made on a technical basis, rather than attacking the person themselves. They didn't include excessive profanity, either.
This is embarassing. And Mindcraft is well within their rights to do what they did - it's a good PR move, since it does make it look like we're all a bunch of raving loonies. They don't have to fight on technical merits, when the linux community brings the discussion to this level.
It probably isn't too significant, but a modern processor uses less power in a "true" idle state than when it is running. Also, SETI may keep the HD from spinning down as it writes results, causing it from using power as well.
More significantly, a lot of people are leaving their computers on so they can run SETI, rather than turning them off when they aren't being used.
Both, I believe. To access more than 2GB, you need to use 64 bit file access functions. fseek(), for example, uses an offset value that is a 32-bit signed int, so it can only address 2GB of a file. I think that SGI and others use special functions for 64 bit file access (fseek64() for example), and leave the traditional system calls alone. It's going to mean recompiling everything, at the least.
I highly recommend the Sony AIT drives (I think Seagate or Quantum also sells a variation of the same format). They do 25 GB native per 8mm tape, at 5MB/s. The drives are under $2000, and tapes are around $60. It may be a bit overkill for what you need, but the speed is VERY nice. It does compression as well, but people that quote compressed capacities should be shot.
They also have a cool feature that allows storing directory info on NVRAM on the tape cartridge - 16 KB or so. And because it's Sony, it's definately likely to stay around. I think they still sell Betamax decks, and I kinda think they know what they are doing when it comes to helical scan recording equipment:)
Tar and others should work fine as long as you are writing directly to tape, instead of to a temp file. Linux has a 2GB (2^31-1) maximum file size, so if your backup software is trying to spool to disk before streaming to tape, it may fail.
Amanda handles this by splitting the disk files into 2 GB chunks and reassembling them when it writes to tape. It also deals well with network backups. The filesystem side backend is dump or GNU TAR, so it's fairly standard in that regard. I've had no problems with 8+ GB filesystems using Amanda.
I would not recomend using e2fsdump - AFAIK, it's still beta, and I had problems with the interactive restore and some other issues. Because it accesses the filesystem at a lower level than standard file access (I believe), I'd be careful with trusting important backups to it. TAR definately a safer choice.
BTW, I have a question myself... does anyone know how to get TAR (or something else) to restore permissions on symlinks? Typically it doesn't matter, but Apache uses symlink permissions for the SymlinksIfOwnersMatch directive, and every time I restore or copy a web partition, I have to go through and fix all the links that are now root owned.
We can all go use pricewatch or something else to find good prices. I see nothing inovative about this, which is what Slashdot is supposed to be for. This thing is slow, and probably incompatable with everything else. If you're that cheap, get a used 8mm (Exabyte) drive for a few hundred, and you can use $5 video tape in it. Of course, the capacity and speed are only a significan fraction of this thing, but it is a lot cheaper to run, and at least there is more than one manufacturer making drives for it.
On the other hand, I know places that give away 880K floppies for free... that's INFINATE speed and capacity for you dollar... sounds more like your speed.
Sony AIT (8mm) drives start at 25GB native, and the next generation will be 50GB native - and they do 5MB/sec - more than twice as fast. The only thing special about this thing is the price... Sony drives start around $2000 and $50 for the tapes. DLT has similar capacities and speed (there is a 35GB version too), and costs even more.
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I believe that Franklin wrote their own compatable ROMs, which Apples sued them over. I remember that it definately booted up with a Franklin specific greeting.
You may be thinking of the AMax Macintosh emulator for the Amiga. To use that, you needed to obtain original Mac ROMs (they went into a dongle that plugged into the disk drive port I believe).
But how many rootkits are there for LinuxPPC? I don't imagine that the standard Intel kits would work.
You're gonna be disapointed, but the rumor is that Card re-wrote the screenplay specifically for Jake Lloyd after meeting him and being impressed with his ability to express himself and his feelings - the original script had most of the emotional burden on the adult character (Mazor Rackham, etc) rather than Ender.
To give Jake Lloyd credit, I think a lot of the problems in Star Wars were caused by poor direction rather than his own failure as an actor. Most of the things that bugged me about the character were obviously deliberately there - the off-camera "Yipee!" when he finds out that he's leaving home, for example. One does need to remember that Star Wars IS a kid's movie, first and foremost.
However, not all movies about kids are really FOR kids... some examples that come to mind immediately are The Client, The Good Son, The Cure, Radio Flyer, or even Searching for Bobby Fischer and Stand By Me. If this is done well, and part of that means having a low enough budget that it doesn't have to be targeted directly at the PG crowd to make money, it could work.
I'm willing to give the movie a chance before writing it off completely.
The name "Buggers" has been replaced with "Formics" to avoid confusion with the aliens in _Starship Troopers_ for the upcoming Ender's Game movie. Apparently Card is getting fans used to the switch in this book.
For better or for worse, there is a rumor that Jake Lloyd (Anakin Skywalker) will be playing Ender in the movie, and that Card has even re-written the script with him in mind. Should be interesting...
Follow the directions in The Letter. It instructs you to go to a certain page and enter a userame and password. On that page is an "Indicate Interest" button. Click on it. Follow the directions.
Nightfall is a terrific book by Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg. In the story, the inhabitants of a world with six suns are faced with the darkness of night for the first time in 2000 years. It is an interesting discussion of human behavior in the face of crisis and unknown. There are many similarities to progress of the current Year 2000 paranoia, and the points it makes are rather frightening. Definately a terrific read if you're into speculative science fiction at all.
The version that I pointed to may be the latest version, which raises an interesting problem for historians. Because of the speed and ease of which documents can change on the internet, it is nearly impossible to find the "first edition" of a given document.
Of course it's not my real number. And who wants to remain anonymous? That's my real email address on the message.
:P). It was really intended to spark some intelligent discussion on the issues it raised, but it's probably too late for this post.
The post was a PARODY to make a point (and a pretty damn good one, IMNSHO. Flaimbait though it may be, I think it deserved a score increase
I can certainly understand parents wanting to spy on their kids in day care. The point is, where do we draw the line, and how will it affect their personality in the long term? Do we put cameras in elementary school? Middle school? High school? Their bedroom? Should privacy be granted at a certain age, like driving or alchohol? By getting kids used to having a camera around every corner at a young age, they will learn to accept as normal what most of US consider an invasion of privacy - and I'm not sure that they will "grow out of it".
To: Number One
From: Advisor 482-46-9233
Subject: Project Overseer
Sir, I wish to suggest a new approach to our mission to eradicate the expectation and desire for "rights to privacy" in society. Our current approach has been to slowly introduce controls into the existing adult population. These projects - including key escrow, centralized databases, and expanding the use of "Social Security Numbers" as individual serial numbers - have been only moderately successful. Every time we try to introduce something new, there is a tremendous backlash from so-called "privacy rights" organizations such as the EFF, ACLU, and of course, the notorious "Slashdot" web site.
I propose that we introduce acceptance of - even dependance on - electronic monitoring and oversight into society by starting with young children. We will place monitoring cameras in day care centers, schools, youth centers - any place that children are present. We will even make hidden cameras available to parents (in the form of smoke detectors, for example). Parents will accept this with no hesitation - most of them are desperate to extend their "control" over their offspring as much as possible. Our program of seeding the media with scare stories about molestors, daycare abuse scandels, and sadistic babysitters will ensure that parents will universally accept having their offspring monitored at all times.
In a few years, the individuals that spend their childhood under the constant "protection" of our monitoring cameras will become adults - and that insideous concept of "privacy" will be completely foreign to them. They will have no problem accepting our other control programs, because they know of nothing else.
I have taken the liberty of "testing" this concept on one of strongholds of privacy on the Internet - the "Slashdot" web site. I requested information on using multiple cameras in a day care setting, and as of yet not a single respondant has suspected anything. They are even willingly providing excelent technical advice on how we might implement such a project.
If they only knew...
Yours Truly,
Citizen #482-46-9233.
P.S. I realize that we are already 15 years behind schedule, and that this will take even more time, but I firmly believe that this is our best hope at this time.
These are just flames, not even atypical flames in the net-world.
Maybe they are typical flames for this age, with the net infiltrated by illiterate AOL users and the like. I don't know, I haven't used usenet except through Dejanews in years now, and the lists I'm on are pretty tame. But I remember when a good flame was one that ripped apart the claims and opinions that someone made on a technical basis, rather than attacking the person themselves. They didn't include excessive profanity, either.
This is embarassing. And Mindcraft is well within their rights to do what they did - it's a good PR move, since it does make it look like we're all a bunch of raving loonies. They don't have to fight on technical merits, when the linux community brings the discussion to this level.
It probably isn't too significant, but a modern processor uses less power in a "true" idle state than when it is running. Also, SETI may keep the HD from spinning down as it writes results, causing it from using power as well.
More significantly, a lot of people are leaving their computers on so they can run SETI, rather than turning them off when they aren't being used.
Both, I believe. To access more than 2GB, you need to use 64 bit file access functions. fseek(), for example, uses an offset value that is a 32-bit signed int, so it can only address 2GB of a file. I think that SGI and others use special functions for 64 bit file access (fseek64() for example), and leave the traditional system calls alone. It's going to mean recompiling everything, at the least.
I highly recommend the Sony AIT drives (I think Seagate or Quantum also sells a variation of the same format). They do 25 GB native per 8mm tape, at 5MB/s. The drives are under $2000, and tapes are around $60. It may be a bit overkill for what you need, but the speed is VERY nice. It does compression as well, but people that quote compressed capacities should be shot.
:)
They also have a cool feature that allows storing directory info on NVRAM on the tape cartridge - 16 KB or so.
And because it's Sony, it's definately likely to stay around. I think they still sell Betamax decks, and I kinda think they know what they are doing when it comes to helical scan recording equipment
Tar and others should work fine as long as you are writing directly to tape, instead of to a temp file. Linux has a 2GB (2^31-1) maximum file size, so if your backup software is trying to spool to disk before streaming to tape, it may fail.
Amanda handles this by splitting the disk files into 2 GB chunks and reassembling them when it writes to tape. It also deals well with network backups. The filesystem side backend is dump or GNU TAR, so it's fairly standard in that regard. I've had no problems with 8+ GB filesystems using Amanda.
I would not recomend using e2fsdump - AFAIK, it's still beta, and I had problems with the interactive restore and some other issues. Because it accesses the filesystem at a lower level than standard file access (I believe), I'd be careful with trusting important backups to it.
TAR definately a safer choice.
BTW, I have a question myself... does anyone know how to get TAR (or something else) to restore permissions on symlinks? Typically it doesn't matter, but Apache uses symlink permissions for the SymlinksIfOwnersMatch directive, and every time I restore or copy a web partition, I have to go through and fix all the links that are now root owned.
We can all go use pricewatch or something else to find good prices. I see nothing inovative about this, which is what Slashdot is supposed to be for. This thing is slow, and probably incompatable with everything else. If you're that cheap, get a used 8mm (Exabyte) drive for a few hundred, and you can use $5 video tape in it. Of course, the capacity and speed are only a significan fraction of this thing, but it is a lot cheaper to run, and at least there is more than one manufacturer making drives for it.
On the other hand, I know places that give away 880K floppies for free... that's INFINATE speed and capacity for you dollar... sounds more like your speed.
Sony AIT (8mm) drives start at 25GB native, and the next generation will be 50GB native - and they do 5MB/sec - more than twice as fast. The only thing special about this thing is the price... Sony drives start around $2000 and $50 for the tapes. DLT has similar capacities and speed (there is a 35GB version too), and costs even more.