Unless he's using web-based email or talking to his SMTP server through a tunnel, a quick scan of the headers any email he sends should pinpoint the provider he's violating pretty quickly since the SMTP hops along the way are all logging the IP's into the header..
Sooooo......
Send Cringley an email.
Wait for him to respond.
Blackmail him.
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Don't forget to include Netscape and Borland in that list!
Isn't it rather pointless for slashdot to post a geocities link?
They have one of the few "slashdot effect defense systems" that actually works. It goes something like this:
The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer.
And puhleeese don't try to tell me a link to the Google cache is an acceptable mirror. It's not. Maybe if it altered all of the links to *also* point to the google cache it would amost be acceptable. I have a feeling the nice google people don't do that for exactly that reason -- they don't wanna be a free mirror whore.
"News for Nerds"? Any "nerd" who still uses geocities....
"Stuff that Matters"? If it's hosted on geocities, it probably doesn't matter. If it mattered, it would be hosted somewhere where everybody could see it on a consistent basis!
As another former Oregonian, I will add a little more here.
The Intel CPU code-names are not based upon placenames in Oregon.
They are all *names of rivers* in western North America, primarily Oregon and Northern California (where Intel has most of their employees). The fact that some of them are *also* the names of cities, counties, forests, etc is quite beside the point.
Klamath River (in OR/CA)
Deschutes River (in OR)
Yamhill River (in OR)
Mendocino River (in CA)
Coppermine River (in Canada)
Merced River (in CA)
Tillamook River (in OR)
Katmai River (in AK)
Well, that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
I know of no laptop manufacturer that calls this process "hibernation". Every laptop manufacturer I know of calls this "suspend to disk" or something similar.
The only product that I know of that calls this process "hibernation" is Windows 2000.
Windows 2000 implements hibernation at the *OS* level. It has nothing to do with your BIOS.
Make your standard slashbot comments about W2K, but this is a feature they got right. Since it sends the same 'ol suspend/unsuspend messages to processes, most of your apps will even reestablish their network connections without any fuss.
I have a fairly loud multi-processor system and the misfortune of a combined bedroom/home office so hibernation is a real lifesaver for me if I want to get any sleep.
First, get a powered 5.25 drive box. So many of these were used for external SCSI CDROM drives, that they can be had for almost nothing. A quick ebay search turned up this beut, which you can "buy now" for $15.00
Remove the CDROM drive and rear SCSI centronics connector from the drive box. Mount the floppy drive in place of the CDROM. Discard CDROM.
Remove slot cover from PC. Run floppy data cable out the gaping hole and through the gaping hole in the back of the drivebox.
Done
Almost all 5.25" drives use a card-edge connector. No floppy cables seem to have these anymore. The easiest way to get the adapter is usually to buy a 3.5" floppy drive "mounting kit" most of which still include the little adapter.
You will probably have cable-length issues if you want to leave your internal floppy connected at the same time. You can solve this by having a custom cable made, finding an extension cable, or buying a 5.25"/3.5" combo drive (once again, ebay has several) and just leaving the internal drive disconnected (or remove it) for now. Most of the combo drives take an IDC header (as opposed to card-edge), so you won't have to find an adapter or old floppy cable, either.
This entire adventure will end up costing you roughly $30 and some time. If you are competent with a screwdriver, I would estimate 60 minutes from start to finish once you have all the pieces.
Saying this device is an iPod killer reminds me of the people driving souped-up Camero's who rattle on and on about how they "toasted that Porsche at the stop light" and feel that is an accomplishment. Dragstrip performance is important, well, at the track. You can't compare that to a well-rounded package and expect me not to laugh.
In this analogy, the iPod is a shiny, brand new 911. A wonderfully and carefully engineered piece of precision machinery. An art form.
The Rio product is heavy, clunky, and ugly. It really only beats the iPod in one area: capacity. So what? Would you rather fill an iPod with six gigs of music in five minutes, or fill the Rio with 20 gigs in five hours? Hmmmm.
The two products being compared cost the same . . . .
And to those who complain about the fact that not every PC has firewire: Anybody with a screwdriver and a spare 10 minutes can add firewire for about $30. Get over it.
Companies that use these sorts ot tactics usually use jurisdiction issues to skirt the law.
This is why so many of your telemarketing calls come from out-of-state, which often makes it possible to skirt state laws, since the state court lacks jurisdiction.
This day in age, a surprising number of your telemarketing calls are originating from Canada as well.
Now we see the downside of dirt-cheap long distance!
If it comes from Dell, it will have 128 RAM and 20GB hard disk. That's the P4 config they have been pushing the hell out of for quite some time. They will do any bastardization to meet their price sweet spots.
"Dude, your gettin a Dell" seems more of a warning than anything.
I'm sure they will insert a couple of value-add's in the process, most likely title/artist/track information at a minimum.
In order to get a license for this new format, the players would have to explicitly reject recordable media.
The real key is going to be getting people to give up their old media and switch. Given the amount of money a group like RIAA would have to throw at this a highly subsidized trade-in program would probably be the fastest way to get serious market share quickly.
For anybody still trying to figure out what the heck they are talking about, these are just textual banner ads. These banners are in a BORDERED BOX with a heading above them that says "Advertising".
Some of these banner ads have links in them. So what? They are not intermingled with news stories, nor does Yahoo make any claim that these are news stories.
Here is the text of some of these links:
* Burn fat at home with an elliptical machine -- the no impact health club sensation!
* Subscribe to USA TODAY and get a FREE 3x5 foot American Flag
* Get 50% Off Delivery of The New York Times!
Are you really telling me that you are going to mistake a clearly-identified BANNER AD with text like that for a news story?
Born yesterday, were we?
Yahoo has to pay the bills somehow. I'd rather an HTML-based banner than a flashing GIF, an annoying flash sequence or those X10 ads that litter my desktop...
Although power and heat are concerns, yes, using the laptop nvidia mx chip is probably the cheapest/easiest way for them to hook up to that LCD without having to resort to analog or something ungodly expensive....
Heck, now that I think about it, the entire machine looks like a laptop that melted in the sun.
A couple of posters have suggested bringing a PAL TV with you. That seems just plain silly.
Fry's (and I'm sure other places, too) sells a NTSCPALSECAM converter that was reasonably priced. Little thing about the size of an analog cable box.
On the other hand, Toshiba, Princeton and I'm sure others make (or made) 27 and 32 inch "TV's" that were really multi-scan monitors. I remember the Gateway "destination" home entertainment PC came with one (Princeton) and Toshiba sells (or sold) a line called TIM that was very similar. I'm sure a 50hz PAL signal would be well within the limits of one of these (plus having a VGA input is always nice... Get an HDTV decoder with VGA out and go to town....)
>> It produces about 150 kilowatts
>> The interesting thing about this device is its incredibly small size.
I should hope it's small. Let's see at.07/kwh, that comes out to producing just over $10 worth of electricity an hour.
I wonder what the salaries of the people running it are.
Neat as it may be, I somehow doubt that this project is either cost effective or practical, nor is it making a measurable dent in the electricity grid...
"Objectionable Material" on aircrafts does not seem to be a problem despite the fact that we can already bring as much as we want.
Let's count the number of ways we can already carry "objectionable material" onto a plane.. On your hard disk, on a CDROM/DVD, Magazine, Book, Poster, blow-up doll....
I think people would BYOP (bring your own porn) before they would pay for it through what will be grossly overpriced (see airphones for an example) net-access, anyway.
You alarmists who want to filter everything sicken me. Why don't you just title your post "oh, won't you pleeeese think of the children"...
Although I agree with your::yawn::, I do see something to like about most PCI sound cards (other than the fact that my current setup has NO ISA's anymore)..
Multiple voices.
To be perfectly honest, I don't really care about listening to multiple voices (keeping track of what's MP3 and what's originating in my head is hard enough), I just like not having stupid software bitch at me about not being able to do anything because I have WinAmp open......
If these work anything like the intercoms I used as a child, they will interoperate between multiple houses as long as they are all served by the same street/pole transformer.
Somebody already posted a concern about their neighbors DOS'ing them. What kind of neighborhood do you live in?
If my neighbors wanted to screw with me, I'm far more concerned about my tires being slashed or my dog being poisoned then I am about a denial of service attack over my power line!
This does bring up another nice possibility though, sharing your connection with your neighbor in the same way you would a roommate.
The cable company may not much care for it (like we've paid attention to the TOS to begin with), but $10/month sounds a lot better than $40.
Plus your doing your potentially doing your neighbor a favor since they probably don't/didn't have a firewall to speak of.
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And who exactly would be enforcing this, the UN?
Spam is an international problem. A high percentage of spam already comes from outside our national borders.
This is almost as silly as the state laws. Simple jurisdictional issues make it useless.
Unless he's using web-based email or talking to his SMTP server through a tunnel, a quick scan of the headers any email he sends should pinpoint the provider he's violating pretty quickly since the SMTP hops along the way are all logging the IP's into the header..
Sooooo......
Send Cringley an email.
Wait for him to respond.
Blackmail him.
Don't forget to include Netscape and Borland in that list!
Problems introduced by trying to support Hebrew and Arabic on the same platform?
Gee, why am I not surprised? Can't think of any geographic regions experiencing strife similar to this, now can we?
None of those "6 new bugs introduced with this" involve suicide bombers, do they?
Isn't it rather pointless for slashdot to post a geocities link?
They have one of the few "slashdot effect defense systems" that actually works. It goes something like this:
The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer.
And puhleeese don't try to tell me a link to the Google cache is an acceptable mirror. It's not. Maybe if it altered all of the links to *also* point to the google cache it would amost be acceptable. I have a feeling the nice google people don't do that for exactly that reason -- they don't wanna be a free mirror whore.
"News for Nerds"? Any "nerd" who still uses geocities....
"Stuff that Matters"? If it's hosted on geocities, it probably doesn't matter. If it mattered, it would be hosted somewhere where everybody could see it on a consistent basis!
If you are any good at it, I am sure you can far better in private industry!
Your going to run 9 HDD's off of a cheap-o mid-tower case and power supply? That will be interesting. Wattage aside, how much duct-tape is involved?
As far as the wattage, can you say, "Snap-Crackle-Pop"?
>> I wonder if Wine or lindows
>> would efficiently run on this now.
Nope.
Wine only runs on x86 CPU's, Wine does not provide a CPU emulator.
Below is quoted from the Wine FAQ:
>> Wine is being developed specifically to run
>> on the Intel x86 class of CPUs under certain
>> UNIXes that run on the x86 platform.
As another former Oregonian, I will add a little more here.
The Intel CPU code-names are not based upon placenames in Oregon.
They are all *names of rivers* in western North America, primarily Oregon and Northern California (where Intel has most of their employees). The fact that some of them are *also* the names of cities, counties, forests, etc is quite beside the point.
Klamath River (in OR/CA)
Deschutes River (in OR)
Yamhill River (in OR)
Mendocino River (in CA)
Coppermine River (in Canada)
Merced River (in CA)
Tillamook River (in OR)
Katmai River (in AK)
Well, that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
Not quite.
I know of no laptop manufacturer that calls this process "hibernation". Every laptop manufacturer I know of calls this "suspend to disk" or something similar.
The only product that I know of that calls this process "hibernation" is Windows 2000.
Windows 2000 implements hibernation at the *OS* level. It has nothing to do with your BIOS.
Make your standard slashbot comments about W2K, but this is a feature they got right. Since it sends the same 'ol suspend/unsuspend messages to processes, most of your apps will even reestablish their network connections without any fuss.
I have a fairly loud multi-processor system and the misfortune of a combined bedroom/home office so hibernation is a real lifesaver for me if I want to get any sleep.
First, get a powered 5.25 drive box. So many of these were used for external SCSI CDROM drives, that they can be had for almost nothing. A quick ebay search turned up this beut, which you can "buy now" for $15.00
Acquire your floppy drive. Once again, ebay makes this easy.
Remove the CDROM drive and rear SCSI centronics connector from the drive box. Mount the floppy drive in place of the CDROM. Discard CDROM.
Remove slot cover from PC. Run floppy data cable out the gaping hole and through the gaping hole in the back of the drivebox.
Done
Almost all 5.25" drives use a card-edge connector. No floppy cables seem to have these anymore. The easiest way to get the adapter is usually to buy a 3.5" floppy drive "mounting kit" most of which still include the little adapter.
You will probably have cable-length issues if you want to leave your internal floppy connected at the same time. You can solve this by having a custom cable made, finding an extension cable, or buying a 5.25"/3.5" combo drive (once again, ebay has several) and just leaving the internal drive disconnected (or remove it) for now. Most of the combo drives take an IDC header (as opposed to card-edge), so you won't have to find an adapter or old floppy cable, either.
This entire adventure will end up costing you roughly $30 and some time. If you are competent with a screwdriver, I would estimate 60 minutes from start to finish once you have all the pieces.
Have fun.
Saying this device is an iPod killer reminds me of the people driving souped-up Camero's who rattle on and on about how they "toasted that Porsche at the stop light" and feel that is an accomplishment. Dragstrip performance is important, well, at the track. You can't compare that to a well-rounded package and expect me not to laugh.
In this analogy, the iPod is a shiny, brand new 911. A wonderfully and carefully engineered piece of precision machinery. An art form.
The Rio product is heavy, clunky, and ugly. It really only beats the iPod in one area: capacity. So what? Would you rather fill an iPod with six gigs of music in five minutes, or fill the Rio with 20 gigs in five hours? Hmmmm.
The two products being compared cost the same . . . .
And to those who complain about the fact that not every PC has firewire: Anybody with a screwdriver and a spare 10 minutes can add firewire for about $30. Get over it.
INALB,
Companies that use these sorts ot tactics usually use jurisdiction issues to skirt the law.
This is why so many of your telemarketing calls come from out-of-state, which often makes it possible to skirt state laws, since the state court lacks jurisdiction.
This day in age, a surprising number of your telemarketing calls are originating from Canada as well.
Now we see the downside of dirt-cheap long distance!
If it comes from Dell, it will have 128 RAM and 20GB hard disk. That's the P4 config they have been pushing the hell out of for quite some time. They will do any bastardization to meet their price sweet spots.
"Dude, your gettin a Dell" seems more of a warning than anything.
I'm sure they will insert a couple of value-add's in the process, most likely title/artist/track information at a minimum.
In order to get a license for this new format, the players would have to explicitly reject recordable media.
The real key is going to be getting people to give up their old media and switch. Given the amount of money a group like RIAA would have to throw at this a highly subsidized trade-in program would probably be the fastest way to get serious market share quickly.
This is a real stretch.
For anybody still trying to figure out what the heck they are talking about, these are just textual banner ads. These banners are in a BORDERED BOX with a heading above them that says "Advertising".
Some of these banner ads have links in them. So what? They are not intermingled with news stories, nor does Yahoo make any claim that these are news stories.
Here is the text of some of these links:
* Burn fat at home with an elliptical machine -- the no impact health club sensation!
* Subscribe to USA TODAY and get a FREE 3x5 foot American Flag
* Get 50% Off Delivery of The New York Times!
Are you really telling me that you are going to mistake a clearly-identified BANNER AD with text like that for a news story?
Born yesterday, were we?
Yahoo has to pay the bills somehow. I'd rather an HTML-based banner than a flashing GIF, an annoying flash sequence or those X10 ads that litter my desktop...
Nothing to see here people, move along.
Although power and heat are concerns, yes, using the laptop nvidia mx chip is probably the cheapest/easiest way for them to hook up to that LCD without having to resort to analog or something ungodly expensive....
Heck, now that I think about it, the entire machine looks like a laptop that melted in the sun.
A couple of posters have suggested bringing a PAL TV with you. That seems just plain silly.
Fry's (and I'm sure other places, too) sells a NTSCPALSECAM converter that was reasonably priced. Little thing about the size of an analog cable box.
On the other hand, Toshiba, Princeton and I'm sure others make (or made) 27 and 32 inch "TV's" that were really multi-scan monitors. I remember the Gateway "destination" home entertainment PC came with one (Princeton) and Toshiba sells (or sold) a line called TIM that was very similar. I'm sure a 50hz PAL signal would be well within the limits of one of these (plus having a VGA input is always nice... Get an HDTV decoder with VGA out and go to town....)
>> It produces about 150 kilowatts
>> The interesting thing about this device is its incredibly small size.
I should hope it's small. Let's see at .07/kwh, that comes out to producing just over $10 worth of electricity an hour.
I wonder what the salaries of the people running it are.
Neat as it may be, I somehow doubt that this project is either cost effective or practical, nor is it making a measurable dent in the electricity grid...
And we all know /. never puts quantity above quality . . . .
Oh wait
How is this a new problem?
"Objectionable Material" on aircrafts does not seem to be a problem despite the fact that we can already bring as much as we want.
Let's count the number of ways we can already carry "objectionable material" onto a plane.. On your hard disk, on a CDROM/DVD, Magazine, Book, Poster, blow-up doll....
I think people would BYOP (bring your own porn) before they would pay for it through what will be grossly overpriced (see airphones for an example) net-access, anyway.
You alarmists who want to filter everything sicken me. Why don't you just title your post "oh, won't you pleeeese think of the children"...
Although I agree with your ::yawn::, I do see something to like about most PCI sound cards (other than the fact that my current setup has NO ISA's anymore)..
Multiple voices.
To be perfectly honest, I don't really care about listening to multiple voices (keeping track of what's MP3 and what's originating in my head is hard enough), I just like not having stupid software bitch at me about not being able to do anything because I have WinAmp open......
If these work anything like the intercoms I used as a child, they will interoperate between multiple houses as long as they are all served by the same street/pole transformer.
Somebody already posted a concern about their neighbors DOS'ing them. What kind of neighborhood do you live in?
If my neighbors wanted to screw with me, I'm far more concerned about my tires being slashed or my dog being poisoned then I am about a denial of service attack over my power line!
This does bring up another nice possibility though, sharing your connection with your neighbor in the same way you would a roommate.
The cable company may not much care for it (like we've paid attention to the TOS to begin with), but $10/month sounds a lot better than $40.
Plus your doing your potentially doing your neighbor a favor since they probably don't/didn't have a firewall to speak of.
If the equipment makers get on this bandwagon, it could get interesting.
Plug the equipment into the AC wall jack and poof your on the network.
Plug the game console into the wall. Poof.
Plug the MP3 component player into the wall. Poof.
Eventually all of our household equipment starts scanning, detecting and "inter-operating" with each other.
Next thing we know, everytime the mp3 player coredumps the washing machine floods the house.
Hmmmmm. On second thought...
"Ignorant" "fools" without a "shred of understanding"
You sure about that? I mean this is Slashdot.
Oh wait. Never mind.