I get really bored in my NT4 Server class one day and wrote a small stupid batch file that utilized the net send command.
:one net send %1 "crapflood of info" goto one
It was kind of amusing to watch. People would click the OK button on the message and as soon as it went away another popped up. The best thing is the beep that accompanies the message. Oh the assinine joy....
I work for a largish school district, and we have about 2-3 new WD hard drives crap out every day. Since they have a one year warranty we can get them replaced through a local distibutor very quickly and without hassle.
This is also tells you how crappy western digital hard drives are becoming....
I am in total agreement with most of what you said, however, the prices we pay for broadband far exceed the cost of the service.
The whole reason that this won't work is because of the money that corporate America would lose. I like the concept, but it can't work because of money, and I am fine with that.
Because further down the street, beyond the reach of my system, another neighbor has put in Wi-Fi. And another, and another. Think of a pond with one water lily, then two, then four, then many overlapping, with their stems reaching into the Internet. (Credit for the water lily analogy goes to Alessandro Ovi, technology adviser to European Commission president Romano Prodi.)
Which is a fine concept until all the water dries up and the lily pads die. Broadband companies are not going to allow people to share their badnwidth over a large urban area like this. While it's a great concept (I would love this) it's not really feasible in a greedy corporate America.
They could have just burned the grease from the guys hair that was peddling the bike to create enough steam power to power the whole camp... That or they could have made candles out of it and turned all the lights off.
I like your idea of going nuclear, though I like to use a different meaning of the word.
nu*cle*ar adj.
1. Biology. Of, relating to, or forming a nucleus: a nuclear membrane. 2. Physics. Of or relating to atomic nuclei: a nuclear chain reaction. 3. Using or derived from the energy of atomic nuclei: nuclear power. 4. Of, using, or possessing atomic or hydrogen bombs: nuclear war; nuclear nations.
Yes, we all know that spam is a huge problem and that it seems to be getting worse and not better. Your use of the world nuclear seems to suggest the use of a large scale attack, like that of a large bomb. But, if you look at the second definition listed you see that it pertains to the atomic nuclei, a very small thing indeed. If we combine the two aspects of the word Nuclear, (large and small) we have a strong weapon against the evil of spam. Just how do we do it though?
Our main sysAdmin was on vacation at the time nimd@ struck. Our netware servers were getting flooded with files from the virus but they weren't spreading it. We updated our NT boxes as soon as we could, but those initial hours were full of confusion. We weren't really sure what was goin on at first, but we were able to remove infected files from the servers at a pretty good rate. Pulling the cables would have been very bad for us since we have many people in the district working on things for the state and for them to lose information would have been bad. Even if we would have pulled the cables out on the servers we would have had at least 12hrs of downtime. Sure, we could patch our NT boxes in an hour, but removing the virus from over 1000 windows in a 10 mile radius takes alot more time. Granted, not all 1000+ machines were infected, we weren't sure which ones were and which ones weren't.
I work in a rather large school district and we run 6+ Netware servers and only 2 NT servers, not because we want to run NT, just because some software requires it. Anyways, we run Nortans Corporate Virus Scanner on a couple of the Netware boxes and they scan every file that comes through the network and beep if the file is infected. So I'm sitting in a lab and I'm looking through some folders on the network and I'm seeing tons of these.elm file and such. I ask another tech what was up. He didn't know. I walk into the server room and all I hear is BEEEEEEEP BEEP BEEEEP BEEP BEEP etc etc. At this point I concluded that we were screwed. I do some quick reasearch and discover nimd@. Oh, joy, it infects mapped drives. Good thing we have mapped drives in EVERY login script. Crap... Quickly login and start doing recursive deletions of.elm and etc files that nimd@ creates. Then we spend the weekend running a nimd@ cleaner on every machine in the district (1000+). All the while that was going on our NT boxes were attacking 5-6 other districts NT boxes and their boxes were attacking ours. It was a joyous occasion...
Most Linux users are there for stability, because they believe in it, etc. Thus the Linux gaming market will be mainly for people who are not hardcore gamers - just programmers, geeks, etc who are looking for the occasional game.
Most of the hardcore PC gamers that I know are fed up with Windows and are seeking other alternatives, or an escape if you will. They also tend to be somewhat anarchist towards large overdominant corporations like Microsoft. With the money that they spend (cough cough, some of them anyways) on games exceeding hundreds of dollars in itself, the last thing that they want to spend money on is an OS. Thus linux is the perfect platform for them.
Give the poeple a door and they will walk through it.
There wouldn't be a need for cool cases like this. I guess there's still the point of overclocking, but in reality, why wouldn't you overclock? Pay less, get more. It's the perfect solution for all us cheapskates.
Oh, and they have banner ads too Sounds like something you would see on the top of your page right now. Banner ads on slashdot? Oh my! I guess slashdot could be considered a SLUG. Slashdot Linux Users Group...
I think people are getting sick of paying monthly fees and many poeple won't play a game just because the fact of a monthly fee. It seems to be a mindset.
I do see you point though. As much as we would like companies not to charge a monthly fee they will keep doing it just because of the money involved. I guess I will just have to keep dreaming of a day when MMORPG's will be a one time buy sorta thing....
Someone buys Everquest, and at first they love it to death. They play and play until they get sick and tired of it. They spent $40 on the game and bought maybe 3 months of play time. That's a total of close to $80. Now, $150-$200 is, I admit a high number, so lets take the bar down to $100 for a game. You pay $20 more than you would for a "regular" MMORPG but if you decide you really like it and play it for a long time, it's really worth the money. Plus if it is a great game the company is going to make a profit off retail sales.
CBNobi writes, Blizzard is on the other side of the spectrum in terms of how they make profit. They initially charged $60 for Warcraft III.
It reportedly sold one million copies, which means roughly $60 million - about as much as Verant makes in a year with Everquest.
Even without having monthly fees Worlds of Warcraft could be hugely successful if Blizzard only charged $80-$100 for the game.
Would you rather pay $150-$200 for a game and not have monthly charges, or pay $40 for a game and $12.95 a month to play it? I think MMORPG's would be more successful, in the terms of user numbers, if they would stop charging by the month. Maybe that's why some people are still playing MUD's and MUCKing around....
It only cost $15.88. A large pizza and an order of crazy bread from Little Ceasars costs $6.87, and with a girlfriend that likes the books, along with the movie, I had nothing to complain about except that this was one cheap date.
The only time I remember $20 being alot of money was when I was 16 and unemployed...
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net send %1 "crapflood of info"
goto one
It was kind of amusing to watch. People would click the OK button on the message and as soon as it went away another popped up. The best thing is the beep that accompanies the message. Oh the assinine joy....
I work for a largish school district, and we have about 2-3 new WD hard drives crap out every day. Since they have a one year warranty we can get them replaced through a local distibutor very quickly and without hassle.
This is also tells you how crappy western digital hard drives are becoming....
A 24-year-old South Korean man died after playing computer games nonstop for 86 hours
Well, so much for that week long LAN party idea...
from the guy whose name is $0 31337
are you reading slashdot? Slashdot uses MySQL.
I am in total agreement with most of what you said, however, the prices we pay for broadband far exceed the cost of the service.
The whole reason that this won't work is because of the money that corporate America would lose. I like the concept, but it can't work because of money, and I am fine with that.
Because further down the street, beyond the reach of my system, another neighbor has put in Wi-Fi. And another, and another. Think of a pond with one water lily, then two, then four, then many overlapping, with their stems reaching into the Internet. (Credit for the water lily analogy goes to Alessandro Ovi, technology adviser to European Commission president Romano Prodi.)
Which is a fine concept until all the water dries up and the lily pads die.
Broadband companies are not going to allow people to share their badnwidth over a large urban area like this. While it's a great concept (I would love this) it's not really feasible in a greedy corporate America.
They could have just burned the grease from the guys hair that was peddling the bike to create enough steam power to power the whole camp... That or they could have made candles out of it and turned all the lights off.
Sorry, but those dreads look pretty nasty....
That is an outstanding read. Thanks for the link.
I like your idea of going nuclear, though I like to use a different meaning of the word.
nu*cle*ar adj.
1. Biology. Of, relating to, or forming a nucleus: a nuclear membrane.
2. Physics. Of or relating to atomic nuclei: a nuclear chain reaction.
3. Using or derived from the energy of atomic nuclei: nuclear power.
4. Of, using, or possessing atomic or hydrogen bombs: nuclear war; nuclear nations.
Yes, we all know that spam is a huge problem and that it seems to be getting worse and not better. Your use of the world nuclear seems to suggest the use of a large scale attack, like that of a large bomb. But, if you look at the second definition listed you see that it pertains to the atomic nuclei, a very small thing indeed. If we combine the two aspects of the word Nuclear, (large and small) we have a strong weapon against the evil of spam. Just how do we do it though?
"he also has much to say about why current federal legislation being considered could make the problem of spam worse rather than curbing it."
I doubt it...
Ha! Good joke. The only time we get recognized is when we get blamed for something not working....
Overworked, underpaid in Michigan....
Our main sysAdmin was on vacation at the time nimd@ struck. Our netware servers were getting flooded with files from the virus but they weren't spreading it. We updated our NT boxes as soon as we could, but those initial hours were full of confusion. We weren't really sure what was goin on at first, but we were able to remove infected files from the servers at a pretty good rate. Pulling the cables would have been very bad for us since we have many people in the district working on things for the state and for them to lose information would have been bad. Even if we would have pulled the cables out on the servers we would have had at least 12hrs of downtime. Sure, we could patch our NT boxes in an hour, but removing the virus from over 1000 windows in a 10 mile radius takes alot more time. Granted, not all 1000+ machines were infected, we weren't sure which ones were and which ones weren't.
ahh, yes, you're right. i have had a year to forget.
I work in a rather large school district and we run 6+ Netware servers and only 2 NT servers, not because we want to run NT, just because some software requires it. Anyways, we run Nortans Corporate Virus Scanner on a couple of the Netware boxes and they scan every file that comes through the network and beep if the file is infected. So I'm sitting in a lab and I'm looking through some folders on the network and I'm seeing tons of these .elm file and such. I ask another tech what was up. He didn't know. I walk into the server room and all I hear is BEEEEEEEP BEEP BEEEEP BEEP BEEP etc etc. At this point I concluded that we were screwed. I do some quick reasearch and discover nimd@. Oh, joy, it infects mapped drives. Good thing we have mapped drives in EVERY login script. Crap... Quickly login and start doing recursive deletions of .elm and etc files that nimd@ creates. Then we spend the weekend running a nimd@ cleaner on every machine in the district (1000+). All the while that was going on our NT boxes were attacking 5-6 other districts NT boxes and their boxes were attacking ours. It was a joyous occasion...
Sure I would. I still read slashdot....
Who the hell would WANT to run VBscript ASP ANYWHERE. Damn, some people like stupid crap
Yes, usually the employers....
Most Linux users are there for stability, because they believe in it, etc. Thus the Linux gaming market will be mainly for people who are not hardcore gamers - just programmers, geeks, etc who are looking for the occasional game.
Most of the hardcore PC gamers that I know are fed up with Windows and are seeking other alternatives, or an escape if you will. They also tend to be somewhat anarchist towards large overdominant corporations like Microsoft. With the money that they spend (cough cough, some of them anyways) on games exceeding hundreds of dollars in itself, the last thing that they want to spend money on is an OS. Thus linux is the perfect platform for them.
Give the poeple a door and they will walk through it.
Funding? Linux is free!
There wouldn't be a need for cool cases like this. I guess there's still the point of overclocking, but in reality, why wouldn't you overclock? Pay less, get more. It's the perfect solution for all us cheapskates.
Oh, and they have banner ads too
Sounds like something you would see on the top of your page right now. Banner ads on slashdot? Oh my! I guess slashdot could be considered a SLUG. Slashdot Linux Users Group...
I think people are getting sick of paying monthly fees and many poeple won't play a game just because the fact of a monthly fee. It seems to be a mindset.
I do see you point though. As much as we would like companies not to charge a monthly fee they will keep doing it just because of the money involved. I guess I will just have to keep dreaming of a day when MMORPG's will be a one time buy sorta thing....
Someone buys Everquest, and at first they love it to death. They play and play until they get sick and tired of it. They spent $40 on the game and bought maybe 3 months of play time. That's a total of close to $80. Now, $150-$200 is, I admit a high number, so lets take the bar down to $100 for a game. You pay $20 more than you would for a "regular" MMORPG but if you decide you really like it and play it for a long time, it's really worth the money. Plus if it is a great game the company is going to make a profit off retail sales.
CBNobi writes,
Blizzard is on the other side of the spectrum in terms of how they make profit. They initially charged $60 for Warcraft III.
It reportedly sold one million copies, which means roughly $60 million - about as much as Verant makes in a year with Everquest.
Even without having monthly fees Worlds of Warcraft could be hugely successful if Blizzard only charged $80-$100 for the game.
Would you rather pay $150-$200 for a game and not have monthly charges, or pay $40 for a game and $12.95 a month to play it? I think MMORPG's would be more successful, in the terms of user numbers, if they would stop charging by the month. Maybe that's why some people are still playing MUD's and MUCKing around....
It only cost $15.88. A large pizza and an order of crazy bread from Little Ceasars costs $6.87, and with a girlfriend that likes the books, along with the movie, I had nothing to complain about except that this was one cheap date.
The only time I remember $20 being alot of money was when I was 16 and unemployed...