I had an order in for one of those "hackable" little WEB TV type deals from Circuit City when that all hit. As soon as I received a letter directly from the company stating that THEY would charge my CC if I didn't register their service I not only canceled my backorder but have not shopped at Circuit City since they divulged my info to that company!
Message to TIVO: Don't screw this up, don't pull the rug out from everyone, work WITH the hackers and create more demand for your product! I have money, I WILL spend it on YOUR product IF you don't get stupid like companies that have come before you. Start rewriting BIOS, potting chips, and threatening the hardware hackers and I and others like me will NOT buy YOUR product. Is this message clear enough?!
Will it interface with my DISH, including program guide, and with the new 2.0 garbage on the boxes will I be able to buy one today and hack it to use this software?
The biggest problem I've got with my DISH, other than the jackassas not allowing me to buy upgraded equipment at decent prices, is that I can't very easily record from it. I've looked at the TIVO features and they really look VERY nice but except for DirecTV I'm not sure how well they work with digital services. If I thought that puppy could be hooked up to work well not only would I buy one, but I'd dump the biggest HD I could find in it, buy a NIC, and buy their lifetime service setup.
In the future I'd want a nice GUI way to interface with a CD-R (I primarily use Windows but do have a Linux box on my network that I seldom use) to easily burn VCDs for my DVD player. I'd LOVE to be able to tell my DISH\Tivo to capture say all of the StarGate episodes I miss and all of the Voyager, and on and on! Hell, I don't even care much about the commercials being on there! Just let me grab all of the shows I want without doing backflips with my stupid crap VCR - I hate that dirt stupid piece of hardware.
This TIVO hack appears to allow all of that except that with the thread having been blasted from the forum I'm now not sure where to get the software for pulling the MPEGs or what sort of hassle burning the VCD will be. That last shouldn't be that big a deal I know since the DiVX folks do it with MPEG from DVDs. Nowhere here have I seen help with that or mirrors of the software. Come on guys, cough it up!:-)
IMO this is GOOD for TIVO - it gets people like myself who have been on the fence to BUY the TIVO box AND their service. So long as TIVO doesn't get stupid and destroy the work people have done to hack them and let's folks who don't want to know the guts completely hack on them they will do well.
Now, where can this software be gotten? Is there a particular model of Tivo that can be most easily packed with HDs? It's been awhile since I researched the Tivo "blessing" but it looks liek it's gotten easier for what little I read today. And someone please tell me that some bright bulb is working on making this whole process somewhat painless so I can buy one and not become a Tivo hardware\software "expert" in order to take advantage of it!
I used ot love arcades. I'd drop $20 at a time playing all sorts of stuff. Now you go in there and it's all shooting games, racing games, or wrestling\fighting games. What happened to all of the really neat games like MoonBuggy?:-) Strange games that were just fun. You don't need to see blood and guts fly. Reminds me of that damned Quake level where you shot a POW and got AMMO and powerups as a REWARD! Talk about really crappy game desin - ick! I barely set foot in arcades nowadays but play games at home like mad. Tribes2 being a current fave along with UT. Yeah, those are FPS with UT giving extra points for "head shots" but I think that some of the arcade games are even worse. Not sure you'll ever see someone ri an arm off and beat someone with it in UT or Tribes (lol). Ah the good old days of Zaxxon, Donkey Kong, Pong, and Space Invaders. Thank God for MAME!
That was his point - they could care less. SOME ISPs follow up on complaints, many do NOT. Report some SPAM sometime and see what I mean. Better yet, report the punks that scan your systems constantly (you see them in your logs right?) and see how little they care. It's a joke and they simply cannot keep up with the flood of crap.
Hell, the little punk could've blocked the caller ID too and while the phone company sure as heck would've known who it was that would've required yet another layer of drones to cut through. The more drones you have to convince the less chance you've got of catching them. Eventuall you grow tired of pursuing and give up - the punk gets away scott free. Been there, done that! People need ot get alarmed, ISP's NEED to be "outed". Deal with a few of them on stuff liek this and you'll understand his frustration. Hell, his torubles getting hold of a network guy are more the norm than anything else - no surprises there at all...
I still have a copy of it and it works great for bringing back data on "dead" spots.
Gibson may have a way of waving his arms and getting excited but the guy's got a point - this kind of attack sux. The punk that went after his site did so because of a supposed slight via word of mouth. Imagine if you're home connection had come under that sort of attack? our ISP would've been as likely to simply cancel your acocunt and blame you as they would be to actually do something about it!
The reason he's torqued about spoofing is because IF the attacks had been spoofed he wouldn't have been able to track them back AND the attacks would've been much nastier than the glorified PING! storm he was weathering. Imagine if it had all been fragmented packets aimed at Port 80 instead. How do you defend against that - shut off Port 80? Oh wait....
If you can't track them back (easily) then how will you stop them? Getting ISPs to NOT forward packets that aren't sourced from their domain's IP range would be a start but not perfect IMO as you could simply make it look like Jimmy Joe Bob next door:-)
I'm out West in Manassas and the GTE group here is a bunch of morons. They actually SIGNED me up for DSL 4 times before telling me each time that they couldn't give it to me! One installer actually tried to bitch at me for continuing to sign up - not my fault their WEB site listed it as AVAILABLE! At one point I was told that DSL pamphlets were being handed out at the local telco store but when I went there they were gone. I asked them where they were - seems they got such conflicting infomation from the installers and from their own company about availability that they threw them away rather than being caught in the middle with the customers!
I finally got IDSL from COVAD and am hearing that SOME people are getting DSL from GTE now (at last - it's been three years). My distance from the CO pretty much sticks me to IDSL though which sux but is better than a modem.
I'd take cable but those morons are worse than GTE (name change is a joke, it's the same clowns). After they hosed my bill for the fourth time in two years (had to mail them copies of the checks THEY cashed!) I dumped them. Did I mention they promised me cable modem (and a dialtone for my phone) for over 2.5 YEARS before I gave up? For over a year they told me they were "rewiring their cable plant" - how long does THAT take?! Now that they've finally rolled out their system they STILL don't service my heavily populated area! I just love calling the cable company about a cable modem and having them ask me if I've got "digital cable" since that apparently means a higher chance of getting the modem. Why do I like it? Because I can tell them I've had a sat DISH for about 2 years and dumped their sorry asses and haven't a clue what sort of cable I'd have. When and IF they can pull their heads out to provide a quality service (*cough*) I'll consider giving them my money again.
Who do you have to blow around here to get decent access?! Talk about a need to be filled. Vanna, can we buy them a clue? I actually told one rep that I had money - cash in hand and that whoever could provide me service would get it and lot's of it. I told them it was a race (they didn't care) - turns out that BOTH GTE and the cable company lost. Not that this prevented the phone company from jerking my chain getting my IDSL since it's "their" wires. They actually told someone I know that they didn't provide it and since it was their wires they couldn't get it from anyone else. A shame the FCC didn't hear that:-) Thank you DSLReports.com for fixing that little problem for them....
In the meantime I squeal for IDSL from COVAD and enjoy a nice static IP address range with a company that doesn't care one bit what I do with my bandwidth. I'll be tempted to keep that if I can ever get cable access since those dweebs won't want me to run a server - we'll see. Another temptaions, since T1 costs have apparently dropped, would be to buy into a T1 and provide wireless access to my neighbors for a fee. Wouldn't THAT just piss them off:-) Want to bet there's a regulation preventing me from doing it?
P.S. Using a SAT dish for access is NOT an option. Ever play a game with 500ms lag?! Yick!
Damn, what a day to NOT have moderator points! What you've said is right-on in my opinion. This was a kid, a bright one, and he was probably a bit introverted. They might not have overtly threatened him but you'd better believe that they implied the threat even if they deny it.
When I was about that age something was stolen from a classroom that I was in. They called everyone in and asked them to write down who they thought did "it". Guess who was supposedly fingered? Yup, I got a trip to the office and they all but used a rubber hose on me. They claimed to have recognized handwriting on some of the notes as being from responsible students, promised me all sorts of things if I would simply confess - the works. I didn't do it and stuck to my guns, I left there a complete wreck and my teacher th enext period was very concerned. When I explained what had happened he stuck up for me and when my parents found out they went BALLISTIC and also stuck up for me. Come to find out later they had given the SAME treatment to several other students.
Never found out who it was that took the silly thing and it was never brought up to me ever again. I understand exactly how this kid must have felt and now some 20 years later I remember EXACTLY how it feels to have an adult threaten\intimidate a kid.
He might have actually done something wrong, heaven forbid, but if so why won't they tell the parents EXACTLY what it was? Is it because it's so flimsy and silly that they know what the result will be? 10days is pretty serious and would certainly have put a black mark on the kids school records - and they can't tell them why? why didn't the parents get a call BEFORE the kid was called in and suspended? Why weren't the parents a part of this process and only called in after the decision to discipline had been made? Why weren't they there when the kid was interviewed about something so serious they took him out of school for more than a week?! The parents apparently suspect that other incidents had occured that they've not been told about - why is that? Shouldn't they know as much as the school where their kid is concerned?
Something stinks here, the whole story has yet to come out IMO. Someone should really be digging into this and I hope it's the parents armed with lawyers because in this case it may very well be warranted. I wouldn't simply shrug and let it go - someone else's kid could be next and I wouldn't stand for that if I were in their shoes.
As someone said above - what's in stores is 97% WATER. Go back and visit John Carmack's site concerning his efforts. One of the more interesting tests are those that they did on clothes in order to determine that which was mos safe. John himself said that some of those tests were "interesting" to say the least. This is the sort of chemical that EATS aluminum, stainless steel, and will eat YOU if you're not careful. Not cheap either.
Honestly, I'm wondering how this guy figures he'll go straight up and straight back down. How the heck is he going to steer his descent let alone his ascent? Same with the fuel pod that he plans to jettison - what prevents that from landing on a home? Is this the dry lakes he's launching from? They're big but THAT big?
I wish him luck though. I too am VERY frustrated with NASA and Congressional funding of same. If we had a gun to our heads today to goto the Moon we'd be pulling crap out of mothballs to do it. That's pathetic! Why have we moved so slowly forward and why are we relying on such an expensive maintenance intensive craft to do it? there has got to be a better way but I'm starting to doubt I'll see any of it in my lifetime if folks like this guy and John Carmack among others don't get things kickstarted. NASA is mired down, we need some help fomr the more creative people out there...
You speak as if you're voice is one with the rest of Europe, is it possible there are citizens there who disagree?! You speak for "the people of Europe"? You know as well as everyone else that your single voice is but your opinion and that there are others who would wish for something different!
Yes, free speech means that you must actually listen to people that you do NOT agree with. How would you feel if the opinion you've just expressed above wasn't one that the rest of your neighbors agreed with and they prevented you from speaking? Who decides what's "racial"? What's "moral"? What's "Socially Acceptable"?! Has it ever occured to you that at the time Hitler spoke the people of Germany ACCEPTED IT?!
Who decides what gets published and what doesn't? You make it sound as if these are easy and simple decisions, and in some extreme cases they might be. But what happens when it's a more gray area? What happens when you think it's wrong and someone else disagrees? This even happens in the United States where "Politically Correct" twits strive for ever more restrictive and silly laws and rules. We're being slowly stripped of our rights while it's apparent that you've already lost much of what we've got and are prepared to give up still more. I pity you and your mindset - it's the sort of mindset that allows others to take over. While it may not be the Jewish people who are your scapegoat this time I'm sure someone like your Father Leman will step in with a target sooner or later. Oh wait - it sounds like perhaps this may be occuring already?
You'd have us believe that you learned from Hitler, judging from what you've written I'd say that's not so at all. You're more than happy to go with the flow and not question the stripping of freedom from others - does this not ring alarm bells anywhere? It should...
I'd add that oil changes are more frequent due to combustion contamination. However it's possible to mix 2cycle oil into the fuel and remove the need to burn oil.
Exhaust temps aren't just hot but damned hot! Remove the cats from a late model Mazda rotary and blowing flames out the back on a shift is VERY easy - even through a turbo. Exhaust noise is an issue too, these puppies are noisy if not muffled well and it's a completely different sort of noice than an engine with a valvetrain makes.
Torque isn't a rotary strong suit unless it's forced induction - I cannot imagine how that will be done in a very small application. Rotaries run well at high RPMs and make great HP but they need that RPM. The new Renesis will make as much power naturally aspirated as my turbo does now but it will have to turn 10,000RPM in order to do it - in a passenger car?!
A shame that page didn't have any test results....
Informative?! Oh boy... The certificate stuff is only if the ADMINISTRATOR chooses to use it. You going to do that on your on box smart boy? Yeah right. I suppose you think MSFT won't "sign" an application just because it does something they might not "like"? I have this bridge, you interested in buying it? MSFT might not be the brightest bulb onthe porch where this stuff is concerned but they aren't quite 100% stupid...
Kripes, you read the first few paras in a couple of those articles and it's damned obvious that nohting has changed. BooHoo I can't use Media Player to RECORD san MP3 - hell I didn't even know it would NOW!! Between MusicMatch, the RealPlayer crap Jukebox thing, and a zillion other apps who the heck would think to use the MSFT applet anyway? Don't use it now, won't use it then, they AREN'T crippling other applicaitons. Where's the story here? Oh, they want to push their format? Fine, figure out what makes it "better" if that's the case and put it into Vorbis. What's the big deal?
Yeah, no chance that MSFT will allow you to know what their APIs are right? Who's stupid?! MSFT may have som hidden APIs (okay, yes they do have hidden function calls) but they do NOT hide all of their APIs or do things to prevent someone from writing code for their platforms or require them to buy a license from them. You're talking out of your ass! "Optimized for XXX" is no big deal - it will still most run older code and it will NOT "require" signed applications. Get a clue.
Funny, I had mine up over two months with little problms. I only recycled because I kicked the damned plug out! It's not what I use at home (the woman does though) but for business kinds of things it's pretty solid. I seldom log off, seldom shut down, and can go for months without recycle. I open as many as 60 apps at once too but that's with a gig of RAM and 2 CPUs:-)
WIN2K IS a decent OS and I'd take it over NT4 anyday of the week - just don't turn on that damned Active Directory crap! I slapped it on the woman's machine on top of WIN98 and she's quite happy. I'll do the same to my system when I'm satisfied it'll run my games well. It's on some of my servers now and while I'd love to run Linux on more than just a test system I won't until it's as easy to secure and setup as WIN2K is. Yes, that means GUI and not needing to wade through zillions of MAN files and text files. urse the Registry if you must but for the most part it's not so bad IMO. (shrug) WIN2K is much better than some of their previous OS, but ME is crap from what I can tell.
As others have said - multicasting itself doesn't require that high end hardware. So, use it for something CPU intensive that you can then stream perhaps? Maybe realtime video compression? I'm not even sure THAT would require as much CPU as you've got. Perhaps a giant realtime 'net "radio station"? I dunno'...
Why exactly did you associate high end computing with multicasting?
Oh Kripes, bring on the MAC whiners....
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Here we go - no monitor, no powersupply, you'll cut your fingers. Sheesh!
Hey, I'm an X86 guy too and OSX sounds interesting to me. Interesting enough to buy a whole new piece of hardware to try it out? I don't think so! Kripes, I've got 8 computers already not counting the laptops - if Apple wants a piece of my business they're going to have to give up this idea that I've got to buy their damned hardware to do it!
Can I piece together a decent machine for less than what Apple charges for it's stuff - yup! And that's part of the point - I can PIECE it together if I wish and EVEN upgrade it. Neat concept huh? All this whining about warranties and whatnot - none of my machines are "name brand" and yet they ALL run just fine - wow! I maintain them, I upgrade them, I put in them what I want - not what Apple decides. I've got a HUGE selection of good (and bad) parts out there to choose from if I want to. Apple on the other hand seems happy to shove what they want down their user's throats. Gee Steve how about a nice MO "floppy" at a pile of bucks a shot ala NEXT?! No thanks - I like having CHOICES in hardware. Hell, didn't Apple even go after the folks putting out books on how to repair their hardware without going to an Apple service center? Oh no, can't have the unwashed masses inside their computer cases can we?
The one and only good reason I've heard so far for not having an X86 port of OSX has been that the PC hardware base is too disparate for Apple to reasonably support. Even Linux has some trouble there and that's with everyone having access to the code. Getting OSX to that same level would be a bear. Instead they'll just keep it on "their" hardware base and let it wither - a shame. Apple nearly had me when the clones were being produced, I was pricing one out the week they killed them all off. Too bad Steve, you missed out on my money and that of many other PC folks who might have crossed over....
Where the company pretty much claimed that the software provided was LICENSED and that it would be SUPPORTED by the companies that made it. So NO, I don't think it's likely he got cards OR money but I'll bet he got a few support calls! Sounds like a net loss to me, no?!
I waited for 2 years for someone in my area to pull their head out so I could get "broadband". I had to bug the living daylights out of the phone company to get my setup done by a 3rd party since the phone company STILL has their head stuck someplace. So, no biggie I don't goto jail but I lose the connection I fought for?! Yeah, sure glad it's not jail time.
Heck, I'd love to participate in a network like this especially if there was some way to aggregate multiple lower speed connections like mine (144K IDSL). But not at the risk of some loser screwing it for me. Bad enough I have to suffer attacks on my own machines, I don't need the grief of explaining to my ISP and the (FBI?) that it was some random jerk not me that whacked a.GOV site....
Any of these networks based in the Northern VA area? and where can we get wireless cards that don't cost a mint? $500+ for a base station and card is pricey! (sigh) I can get something from Linksys just under that but not by much - it just so happens I've got a provantage catalog on my desk today:-)
and it wasn't intentional either I'll bet. The tint in many windows blocks this as does some of the coatings used to prevent infrared from getting in - I've got this on my windows and it helps prevent the sun from heating up my home. (shrug)
If you really want to stop RF then it's possible to stretch thin copper mesh between panes and ground it - can you say Tempest? Yes, I've seen this done in a real building and it wasn't cheap.
Heck, the bronze colored stuff they put on the windshields of some luxury cars to be used as a defogger (no lines) blocks out radar detectors so I'd assume it would stop or "slow" a low powered transmitter too.
I mean really, how is this different than finding an anonymous FTP server and downloading files? This is simply a tool to find those "anonymous FTP" servers right? The only difference is that instead of having to load up software to do the hosting all WINx machines come with this capability (shrug). Guess folks better begin thinking about locking their doors huh?
Haven't there also been legal cases where people have come through unlocked doors and not been found culpable because the owner didn't take prudent steps to secure their property? I have knowledge of a case where a man was sued for not locking his door - the would be assailant was mauled by the Pitt Bull and nearly killed. Unfortunatly the owner came home and dialed 911, thus saving his life (baaaad bleeding). The assailant then successfully sued - amazing huh?
My grandfather was chief test engineer on some of the previous missle systems that this country built and lives in Cocoa. I believe it was Polaris and Poseidan that he worked on. Anyway he got out just before we began putting men on top of those rockets because he didn't wish to be responsible for their lives - it was retirement time for him.
Nonetheless he kept in touch with some of the engineers at the Cape and had a great deal of knowledge regarding rockets - in particular solid fuel designs. The day of that launch he steped out on to his porch and noted the crisp weather. He then turned on the tube and was shocked to hear the launch proceeding "as planned". You see, as he explained it to me, when solid boosters get cooled too quickly they can have fractures created in the fuel. When the burn hits those fractures the flame front races upwards into the crack and burns the fuel unevenly creating tremendous pressures above the main burn. The result is usually a breach or explosion in the wall of the booster. Sounding familiar?
The day of that launch he felt it was too cold and that the launch should be halted. He said he nearly drove up or attempted to call but he'd been out of the business for years and figured they'd write him off as an old nutcase.
After the accident I called him to make sure there was no damage to his home and to get his reaction to the launch - he was in tears and crushed. He said he knew they shouldn't have launched and regretted not having "done" anything.
As the investigation progressed he kept tabs on it through internal contacts that he knew. In the end when they decided it was a "seal" that blew he laughed - how could any seal have resisted the pressures he was sure would've built up as the flame raced upwards through those fizzures? He concluded that NASA simply didn't want to admit that they'd rushed things when they should've known better. He claims that things run in cycles up there, that when "old hands" leave the incoming younger ones in charge have to make a few mistakes to learn their lessons. He says he's afraid that this time it cost lives.
I hope that they've learned well enough not to repeat that loss again. Rushing one launch to save face and winding up killing people costs them much more PR than simply pushing the damn thing back....
LEarningspace IS a good option. However Lotus has once again changed some of the underlying technology - moving from an NSF based version to one that's HTML based. It's STILL a giant PITA to customize the underlying code and Lotus says it's not going to get better until at least the next version. In some of the seminars in Orlando a couple of weeks ago it was apparent that the feature sets in the HTML and NSF based versions aren't even the same and that you'd need pieces of both in some situations - ick!
Their strategy is coming together but it's far from perfect I'm afraid. It IS a pretty neat solution when it's putted together but it can be painful getting used to how it works - especially if you're not Notes experienced.
I'd certainly suggest looking into this product though. It uses browser applets for the students so there shouldn't be a load on each workstation. Unfortunatly I think their silly licensing model is per seat - what a joke! Supposedly this will be changing I was told - we'll see.
At least the backend code can be run on Linux but you'll have to do any NSF development on the WIN32 platform. The Linux backend Domino server can't handle as many concurrent users as the WIN32 code can either. I'm also not sure that the SameTime stuff from Databeam can be hosted on Linux so I'd check into that. It's also a pricey package wen all of it is added up (sigh).
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I had an order in for one of those "hackable" little WEB TV type deals from Circuit City when that all hit. As soon as I received a letter directly from the company stating that THEY would charge my CC if I didn't register their service I not only canceled my backorder but have not shopped at Circuit City since they divulged my info to that company!
Message to TIVO: Don't screw this up, don't pull the rug out from everyone, work WITH the hackers and create more demand for your product! I have money, I WILL spend it on YOUR product IF you don't get stupid like companies that have come before you. Start rewriting BIOS, potting chips, and threatening the hardware hackers and I and others like me will NOT buy YOUR product. Is this message clear enough?!
Will it interface with my DISH, including program guide, and with the new 2.0 garbage on the boxes will I be able to buy one today and hack it to use this software?
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The biggest problem I've got with my DISH, other than the jackassas not allowing me to buy upgraded equipment at decent prices, is that I can't very easily record from it. I've looked at the TIVO features and they really look VERY nice but except for DirecTV I'm not sure how well they work with digital services. If I thought that puppy could be hooked up to work well not only would I buy one, but I'd dump the biggest HD I could find in it, buy a NIC, and buy their lifetime service setup.
In the future I'd want a nice GUI way to interface with a CD-R (I primarily use Windows but do have a Linux box on my network that I seldom use) to easily burn VCDs for my DVD player. I'd LOVE to be able to tell my DISH\Tivo to capture say all of the StarGate episodes I miss and all of the Voyager, and on and on! Hell, I don't even care much about the commercials being on there! Just let me grab all of the shows I want without doing backflips with my stupid crap VCR - I hate that dirt stupid piece of hardware.
This TIVO hack appears to allow all of that except that with the thread having been blasted from the forum I'm now not sure where to get the software for pulling the MPEGs or what sort of hassle burning the VCD will be. That last shouldn't be that big a deal I know since the DiVX folks do it with MPEG from DVDs. Nowhere here have I seen help with that or mirrors of the software. Come on guys, cough it up!
IMO this is GOOD for TIVO - it gets people like myself who have been on the fence to BUY the TIVO box AND their service. So long as TIVO doesn't get stupid and destroy the work people have done to hack them and let's folks who don't want to know the guts completely hack on them they will do well.
Now, where can this software be gotten? Is there a particular model of Tivo that can be most easily packed with HDs? It's been awhile since I researched the Tivo "blessing" but it looks liek it's gotten easier for what little I read today. And someone please tell me that some bright bulb is working on making this whole process somewhat painless so I can buy one and not become a Tivo hardware\software "expert" in order to take advantage of it!
Kids have this habit of trashing CDs - big time. It might be nice to have backups of your good games and let them trash junk CD-Rs would it not?
Wake up - not everyone is in your special situation or playing by your rules. Sheesh.
I used ot love arcades. I'd drop $20 at a time playing all sorts of stuff. Now you go in there and it's all shooting games, racing games, or wrestling\fighting games. What happened to all of the really neat games like MoonBuggy? :-) Strange games that were just fun. You don't need to see blood and guts fly. Reminds me of that damned Quake level where you shot a POW and got AMMO and powerups as a REWARD! Talk about really crappy game desin - ick! I barely set foot in arcades nowadays but play games at home like mad. Tribes2 being a current fave along with UT. Yeah, those are FPS with UT giving extra points for "head shots" but I think that some of the arcade games are even worse. Not sure you'll ever see someone ri an arm off and beat someone with it in UT or Tribes (lol). Ah the good old days of Zaxxon, Donkey Kong, Pong, and Space Invaders. Thank God for MAME!
That was his point - they could care less. SOME ISPs follow up on complaints, many do NOT. Report some SPAM sometime and see what I mean. Better yet, report the punks that scan your systems constantly (you see them in your logs right?) and see how little they care. It's a joke and they simply cannot keep up with the flood of crap.
Hell, the little punk could've blocked the caller ID too and while the phone company sure as heck would've known who it was that would've required yet another layer of drones to cut through. The more drones you have to convince the less chance you've got of catching them. Eventuall you grow tired of pursuing and give up - the punk gets away scott free. Been there, done that! People need ot get alarmed, ISP's NEED to be "outed". Deal with a few of them on stuff liek this and you'll understand his frustration. Hell, his torubles getting hold of a network guy are more the norm than anything else - no surprises there at all...
I still have a copy of it and it works great for bringing back data on "dead" spots.
Gibson may have a way of waving his arms and getting excited but the guy's got a point - this kind of attack sux. The punk that went after his site did so because of a supposed slight via word of mouth. Imagine if you're home connection had come under that sort of attack? our ISP would've been as likely to simply cancel your acocunt and blame you as they would be to actually do something about it!
The reason he's torqued about spoofing is because IF the attacks had been spoofed he wouldn't have been able to track them back AND the attacks would've been much nastier than the glorified PING! storm he was weathering. Imagine if it had all been fragmented packets aimed at Port 80 instead. How do you defend against that - shut off Port 80? Oh wait....
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If you can't track them back (easily) then how will you stop them? Getting ISPs to NOT forward packets that aren't sourced from their domain's IP range would be a start but not perfect IMO as you could simply make it look like Jimmy Joe Bob next door
I'm out West in Manassas and the GTE group here is a bunch of morons. They actually SIGNED me up for DSL 4 times before telling me each time that they couldn't give it to me! One installer actually tried to bitch at me for continuing to sign up - not my fault their WEB site listed it as AVAILABLE! At one point I was told that DSL pamphlets were being handed out at the local telco store but when I went there they were gone. I asked them where they were - seems they got such conflicting infomation from the installers and from their own company about availability that they threw them away rather than being caught in the middle with the customers!
:-) Thank you DSLReports.com for fixing that little problem for them....
:-) Want to bet there's a regulation preventing me from doing it?
I finally got IDSL from COVAD and am hearing that SOME people are getting DSL from GTE now (at last - it's been three years). My distance from the CO pretty much sticks me to IDSL though which sux but is better than a modem.
I'd take cable but those morons are worse than GTE (name change is a joke, it's the same clowns). After they hosed my bill for the fourth time in two years (had to mail them copies of the checks THEY cashed!) I dumped them. Did I mention they promised me cable modem (and a dialtone for my phone) for over 2.5 YEARS before I gave up? For over a year they told me they were "rewiring their cable plant" - how long does THAT take?! Now that they've finally rolled out their system they STILL don't service my heavily populated area! I just love calling the cable company about a cable modem and having them ask me if I've got "digital cable" since that apparently means a higher chance of getting the modem. Why do I like it? Because I can tell them I've had a sat DISH for about 2 years and dumped their sorry asses and haven't a clue what sort of cable I'd have. When and IF they can pull their heads out to provide a quality service (*cough*) I'll consider giving them my money again.
Who do you have to blow around here to get decent access?! Talk about a need to be filled. Vanna, can we buy them a clue? I actually told one rep that I had money - cash in hand and that whoever could provide me service would get it and lot's of it. I told them it was a race (they didn't care) - turns out that BOTH GTE and the cable company lost. Not that this prevented the phone company from jerking my chain getting my IDSL since it's "their" wires. They actually told someone I know that they didn't provide it and since it was their wires they couldn't get it from anyone else. A shame the FCC didn't hear that
In the meantime I squeal for IDSL from COVAD and enjoy a nice static IP address range with a company that doesn't care one bit what I do with my bandwidth. I'll be tempted to keep that if I can ever get cable access since those dweebs won't want me to run a server - we'll see. Another temptaions, since T1 costs have apparently dropped, would be to buy into a T1 and provide wireless access to my neighbors for a fee. Wouldn't THAT just piss them off
P.S. Using a SAT dish for access is NOT an option. Ever play a game with 500ms lag?! Yick!
Damn, what a day to NOT have moderator points! What you've said is right-on in my opinion. This was a kid, a bright one, and he was probably a bit introverted. They might not have overtly threatened him but you'd better believe that they implied the threat even if they deny it.
When I was about that age something was stolen from a classroom that I was in. They called everyone in and asked them to write down who they thought did "it". Guess who was supposedly fingered? Yup, I got a trip to the office and they all but used a rubber hose on me. They claimed to have recognized handwriting on some of the notes as being from responsible students, promised me all sorts of things if I would simply confess - the works. I didn't do it and stuck to my guns, I left there a complete wreck and my teacher th enext period was very concerned. When I explained what had happened he stuck up for me and when my parents found out they went BALLISTIC and also stuck up for me. Come to find out later they had given the SAME treatment to several other students.
Never found out who it was that took the silly thing and it was never brought up to me ever again. I understand exactly how this kid must have felt and now some 20 years later I remember EXACTLY how it feels to have an adult threaten\intimidate a kid.
He might have actually done something wrong, heaven forbid, but if so why won't they tell the parents EXACTLY what it was? Is it because it's so flimsy and silly that they know what the result will be? 10days is pretty serious and would certainly have put a black mark on the kids school records - and they can't tell them why? why didn't the parents get a call BEFORE the kid was called in and suspended? Why weren't the parents a part of this process and only called in after the decision to discipline had been made? Why weren't they there when the kid was interviewed about something so serious they took him out of school for more than a week?! The parents apparently suspect that other incidents had occured that they've not been told about - why is that? Shouldn't they know as much as the school where their kid is concerned?
Something stinks here, the whole story has yet to come out IMO. Someone should really be digging into this and I hope it's the parents armed with lawyers because in this case it may very well be warranted. I wouldn't simply shrug and let it go - someone else's kid could be next and I wouldn't stand for that if I were in their shoes.
As someone said above - what's in stores is 97% WATER. Go back and visit John Carmack's site concerning his efforts. One of the more interesting tests are those that they did on clothes in order to determine that which was mos safe. John himself said that some of those tests were "interesting" to say the least. This is the sort of chemical that EATS aluminum, stainless steel, and will eat YOU if you're not careful. Not cheap either.
Honestly, I'm wondering how this guy figures he'll go straight up and straight back down. How the heck is he going to steer his descent let alone his ascent? Same with the fuel pod that he plans to jettison - what prevents that from landing on a home? Is this the dry lakes he's launching from? They're big but THAT big?
I wish him luck though. I too am VERY frustrated with NASA and Congressional funding of same. If we had a gun to our heads today to goto the Moon we'd be pulling crap out of mothballs to do it. That's pathetic! Why have we moved so slowly forward and why are we relying on such an expensive maintenance intensive craft to do it? there has got to be a better way but I'm starting to doubt I'll see any of it in my lifetime if folks like this guy and John Carmack among others don't get things kickstarted. NASA is mired down, we need some help fomr the more creative people out there...
You speak as if you're voice is one with the rest of Europe, is it possible there are citizens there who disagree?! You speak for "the people of Europe"? You know as well as everyone else that your single voice is but your opinion and that there are others who would wish for something different!
Yes, free speech means that you must actually listen to people that you do NOT agree with. How would you feel if the opinion you've just expressed above wasn't one that the rest of your neighbors agreed with and they prevented you from speaking? Who decides what's "racial"? What's "moral"? What's "Socially Acceptable"?! Has it ever occured to you that at the time Hitler spoke the people of Germany ACCEPTED IT?!
Who decides what gets published and what doesn't? You make it sound as if these are easy and simple decisions, and in some extreme cases they might be. But what happens when it's a more gray area? What happens when you think it's wrong and someone else disagrees? This even happens in the United States where "Politically Correct" twits strive for ever more restrictive and silly laws and rules. We're being slowly stripped of our rights while it's apparent that you've already lost much of what we've got and are prepared to give up still more. I pity you and your mindset - it's the sort of mindset that allows others to take over. While it may not be the Jewish people who are your scapegoat this time I'm sure someone like your Father Leman will step in with a target sooner or later. Oh wait - it sounds like perhaps this may be occuring already?
You'd have us believe that you learned from Hitler, judging from what you've written I'd say that's not so at all. You're more than happy to go with the flow and not question the stripping of freedom from others - does this not ring alarm bells anywhere? It should...
And most of the points you made ring very true.
I'd add that oil changes are more frequent due to combustion contamination. However it's possible to mix 2cycle oil into the fuel and remove the need to burn oil.
Exhaust temps aren't just hot but damned hot! Remove the cats from a late model Mazda rotary and blowing flames out the back on a shift is VERY easy - even through a turbo. Exhaust noise is an issue too, these puppies are noisy if not muffled well and it's a completely different sort of noice than an engine with a valvetrain makes.
Torque isn't a rotary strong suit unless it's forced induction - I cannot imagine how that will be done in a very small application. Rotaries run well at high RPMs and make great HP but they need that RPM. The new Renesis will make as much power naturally aspirated as my turbo does now but it will have to turn 10,000RPM in order to do it - in a passenger car?!
A shame that page didn't have any test results....
Informative?! Oh boy... The certificate stuff is only if the ADMINISTRATOR chooses to use it. You going to do that on your on box smart boy? Yeah right. I suppose you think MSFT won't "sign" an application just because it does something they might not "like"? I have this bridge, you interested in buying it? MSFT might not be the brightest bulb onthe porch where this stuff is concerned but they aren't quite 100% stupid...
Kripes, you read the first few paras in a couple of those articles and it's damned obvious that nohting has changed. BooHoo I can't use Media Player to RECORD san MP3 - hell I didn't even know it would NOW!! Between MusicMatch, the RealPlayer crap Jukebox thing, and a zillion other apps who the heck would think to use the MSFT applet anyway? Don't use it now, won't use it then, they AREN'T crippling other applicaitons. Where's the story here? Oh, they want to push their format? Fine, figure out what makes it "better" if that's the case and put it into Vorbis. What's the big deal?
Yeah, no chance that MSFT will allow you to know what their APIs are right? Who's stupid?! MSFT may have som hidden APIs (okay, yes they do have hidden function calls) but they do NOT hide all of their APIs or do things to prevent someone from writing code for their platforms or require them to buy a license from them. You're talking out of your ass! "Optimized for XXX" is no big deal - it will still most run older code and it will NOT "require" signed applications. Get a clue.
Funny, I had mine up over two months with little problms. I only recycled because I kicked the damned plug out! It's not what I use at home (the woman does though) but for business kinds of things it's pretty solid. I seldom log off, seldom shut down, and can go for months without recycle. I open as many as 60 apps at once too but that's with a gig of RAM and 2 CPUs :-)
WIN2K IS a decent OS and I'd take it over NT4 anyday of the week - just don't turn on that damned Active Directory crap! I slapped it on the woman's machine on top of WIN98 and she's quite happy. I'll do the same to my system when I'm satisfied it'll run my games well. It's on some of my servers now and while I'd love to run Linux on more than just a test system I won't until it's as easy to secure and setup as WIN2K is. Yes, that means GUI and not needing to wade through zillions of MAN files and text files. urse the Registry if you must but for the most part it's not so bad IMO. (shrug) WIN2K is much better than some of their previous OS, but ME is crap from what I can tell.
As others have said - multicasting itself doesn't require that high end hardware. So, use it for something CPU intensive that you can then stream perhaps? Maybe realtime video compression? I'm not even sure THAT would require as much CPU as you've got. Perhaps a giant realtime 'net "radio station"? I dunno'...
Why exactly did you associate high end computing with multicasting?
Here we go - no monitor, no powersupply, you'll cut your fingers. Sheesh!
Hey, I'm an X86 guy too and OSX sounds interesting to me. Interesting enough to buy a whole new piece of hardware to try it out? I don't think so! Kripes, I've got 8 computers already not counting the laptops - if Apple wants a piece of my business they're going to have to give up this idea that I've got to buy their damned hardware to do it!
Can I piece together a decent machine for less than what Apple charges for it's stuff - yup! And that's part of the point - I can PIECE it together if I wish and EVEN upgrade it. Neat concept huh? All this whining about warranties and whatnot - none of my machines are "name brand" and yet they ALL run just fine - wow! I maintain them, I upgrade them, I put in them what I want - not what Apple decides. I've got a HUGE selection of good (and bad) parts out there to choose from if I want to. Apple on the other hand seems happy to shove what they want down their user's throats. Gee Steve how about a nice MO "floppy" at a pile of bucks a shot ala NEXT?! No thanks - I like having CHOICES in hardware. Hell, didn't Apple even go after the folks putting out books on how to repair their hardware without going to an Apple service center? Oh no, can't have the unwashed masses inside their computer cases can we?
The one and only good reason I've heard so far for not having an X86 port of OSX has been that the PC hardware base is too disparate for Apple to reasonably support. Even Linux has some trouble there and that's with everyone having access to the code. Getting OSX to that same level would be a bear. Instead they'll just keep it on "their" hardware base and let it wither - a shame. Apple nearly had me when the clones were being produced, I was pricing one out the week they killed them all off. Too bad Steve, you missed out on my money and that of many other PC folks who might have crossed over....
Where the company pretty much claimed that the software provided was LICENSED and that it would be SUPPORTED by the companies that made it. So NO, I don't think it's likely he got cards OR money but I'll bet he got a few support calls! Sounds like a net loss to me, no?!
I waited for 2 years for someone in my area to pull their head out so I could get "broadband". I had to bug the living daylights out of the phone company to get my setup done by a 3rd party since the phone company STILL has their head stuck someplace. So, no biggie I don't goto jail but I lose the connection I fought for?! Yeah, sure glad it's not jail time.
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Heck, I'd love to participate in a network like this especially if there was some way to aggregate multiple lower speed connections like mine (144K IDSL). But not at the risk of some loser screwing it for me. Bad enough I have to suffer attacks on my own machines, I don't need the grief of explaining to my ISP and the (FBI?) that it was some random jerk not me that whacked a
Any of these networks based in the Northern VA area? and where can we get wireless cards that don't cost a mint? $500+ for a base station and card is pricey! (sigh) I can get something from Linksys just under that but not by much - it just so happens I've got a provantage catalog on my desk today
and it wasn't intentional either I'll bet. The tint in many windows blocks this as does some of the coatings used to prevent infrared from getting in - I've got this on my windows and it helps prevent the sun from heating up my home. (shrug)
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If you really want to stop RF then it's possible to stretch thin copper mesh between panes and ground it - can you say Tempest? Yes, I've seen this done in a real building and it wasn't cheap.
Heck, the bronze colored stuff they put on the windshields of some luxury cars to be used as a defogger (no lines) blocks out radar detectors so I'd assume it would stop or "slow" a low powered transmitter too.
Heh, enough examples?
I mean really, how is this different than finding an anonymous FTP server and downloading files? This is simply a tool to find those "anonymous FTP" servers right? The only difference is that instead of having to load up software to do the hosting all WINx machines come with this capability (shrug). Guess folks better begin thinking about locking their doors huh?
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Haven't there also been legal cases where people have come through unlocked doors and not been found culpable because the owner didn't take prudent steps to secure their property? I have knowledge of a case where a man was sued for not locking his door - the would be assailant was mauled by the Pitt Bull and nearly killed. Unfortunatly the owner came home and dialed 911, thus saving his life (baaaad bleeding). The assailant then successfully sued - amazing huh?
Oh, IANAL
My grandfather was chief test engineer on some of the previous missle systems that this country built and lives in Cocoa. I believe it was Polaris and Poseidan that he worked on. Anyway he got out just before we began putting men on top of those rockets because he didn't wish to be responsible for their lives - it was retirement time for him.
Nonetheless he kept in touch with some of the engineers at the Cape and had a great deal of knowledge regarding rockets - in particular solid fuel designs. The day of that launch he steped out on to his porch and noted the crisp weather. He then turned on the tube and was shocked to hear the launch proceeding "as planned". You see, as he explained it to me, when solid boosters get cooled too quickly they can have fractures created in the fuel. When the burn hits those fractures the flame front races upwards into the crack and burns the fuel unevenly creating tremendous pressures above the main burn. The result is usually a breach or explosion in the wall of the booster. Sounding familiar?
The day of that launch he felt it was too cold and that the launch should be halted. He said he nearly drove up or attempted to call but he'd been out of the business for years and figured they'd write him off as an old nutcase.
After the accident I called him to make sure there was no damage to his home and to get his reaction to the launch - he was in tears and crushed. He said he knew they shouldn't have launched and regretted not having "done" anything.
As the investigation progressed he kept tabs on it through internal contacts that he knew. In the end when they decided it was a "seal" that blew he laughed - how could any seal have resisted the pressures he was sure would've built up as the flame raced upwards through those fizzures? He concluded that NASA simply didn't want to admit that they'd rushed things when they should've known better. He claims that things run in cycles up there, that when "old hands" leave the incoming younger ones in charge have to make a few mistakes to learn their lessons. He says he's afraid that this time it cost lives.
I hope that they've learned well enough not to repeat that loss again. Rushing one launch to save face and winding up killing people costs them much more PR than simply pushing the damn thing back....
LEarningspace IS a good option. However Lotus has once again changed some of the underlying technology - moving from an NSF based version to one that's HTML based. It's STILL a giant PITA to customize the underlying code and Lotus says it's not going to get better until at least the next version. In some of the seminars in Orlando a couple of weeks ago it was apparent that the feature sets in the HTML and NSF based versions aren't even the same and that you'd need pieces of both in some situations - ick!
Their strategy is coming together but it's far from perfect I'm afraid. It IS a pretty neat solution when it's putted together but it can be painful getting used to how it works - especially if you're not Notes experienced.
I'd certainly suggest looking into this product though. It uses browser applets for the students so there shouldn't be a load on each workstation. Unfortunatly I think their silly licensing model is per seat - what a joke! Supposedly this will be changing I was told - we'll see.
At least the backend code can be run on Linux but you'll have to do any NSF development on the WIN32 platform. The Linux backend Domino server can't handle as many concurrent users as the WIN32 code can either. I'm also not sure that the SameTime stuff from Databeam can be hosted on Linux so I'd check into that. It's also a pricey package wen all of it is added up (sigh).
Try a kite! I woldn't be moving as fast and you'd get some awesome pics of the ground below...