Zmodem was supposed to fix this with some kind of resume function, but it never worked right for me and Zmodem in general always seemed a little flaky...
Resume worked just fine in ZModem, which turned into the defacto-standard file transfer protocol for the last 5-10 years of the BBS Age(tm). Sounds to me like a buggy implimentation.
I'm not sure that it's any better than lilo, but the menu.lst does look a bit cleaner than lilo.conf.
Oh, it is. LILO stores the physical address of the first sector of the kernel image and boots off that, if you screw with the partitions even a little bit it'll cause the dreaded "LO" syndrome.
GRUB, on the other hand, reads the filesystems directly, no running it after every kernel compile, hell, you can even launch the uberleet GRUB command prompt and boot stuff you haven't defined ahead of time, it's extremely flexable and saved my ass a few times.
One of MS's msn.com servers was like that too, the one which shows the MSN Explorers "about version", so if you clicked on More Choices -> about MSN Explorer you would get "Welcome to http://www.worm.com! Hacked by Chinese!" on your screen.
I realize that's not the perfect analogy since no one will get killed if a clueless idiot uses a computer.
I see somebody has never watched, and therefore learned the lesson of, the movie Wargames.
Computers hooked up to critical systems (such as, oh, for instance nuclear ICBM launch controllers) could be potentially hazardous to ones health if operated by a Clueless Idiot(tm). Not to mention, a Clueless Idiot(tm) opening the back of his monitor and/or power supply to try and "fix" it could, and probably has, resulted in death.
IMHO, the DDoSers of today are the clonebotters of 6 years ago.
And, even though I'm going to get flamed for this, the argument exists that if the opers in their very-finite wisdom didn't do everything in their power to protect the sheep from themselves the kiddies would still be perfectly content to do simple text floods, nick collides and split riding instead of DDoSing full servers.
Infact, the many ircd "enhancements" currently make irc almost unusable for those who DON'T break the rules. No ops on split, no join on split, hell, there is even atleast one server which won't even allow you to chanop no matter what the server state. I mean wtf is this? No (ops|join) on split with a perfectly working TS is redundant, it just makes it harder to recover opless channels. Not allowing anyone to chanop is just fucking stupid, period.
EFNet, even for those who do follow the rules, is becoming unusable, not to mention that there are assholish and apathetic opers who just don't give a shit. Unless you're their friend you're fucked about getting help from one. I can see the frustration the kiddies are exhibiting.
Yes, actually it is so, since the entire law hinges on the "lawful distributor", which DirecTV isn't. It is not lawful for them to distribute the signal in Canada, therefore no law is broken, period.
Umm, what makes you think that someone making illegal software for stealing is going to obey the GPL?
1. It's not stealing in Canada as DirecTV cannot be sold in Canada by law, and therefore has no "Fair Market Value". Something which has no value cannot be stolen and is therefore legal to circumvent.
The point was connecting to a public network for *purely* private purposes is inherently retarded, as in: connecting top secret millitary computers to the internet, connecting your corporate intranet with all of your trade secrets to the internet, connecting your electric power grid controllers to the internet.
Usernames and Passwords are used when a specific subset of the *public* need to connect to publicly accessable computers. Connecting to a public network and expecting *not* to get portscanned or *not* to get connected to is just stupid.
Let's say I'm connecting my computer to the internet for private purposes.
Connecting to a public network for private purposes is inherently retarded and should never be done. Because of this, the rest of your comment is irrelevant.
If only Apple used standards like AGP, PCI, IDE, SCSI, USB, IEEE 1394
Too bad they didn't stick to CHRP. These, yes, are standards, however, and here's the kicker, every peice of hardware used, in some way, needs to have a nonstandard component to run, examples:
Hard drives need to have an apple hard disk driver installed as the first partition in order to work.
Video cards (AGP or PCI) need to have different video BIOS' to work on Macs.
The booting process of the apple ROM is undocumented and nonstandard, which is why Linux cannot boot without MacOS.
So, what's the point of using "standards" when you're just going to go out of your way to make sure anything that follows the standard doesn't work?
Maybe ISPs shouldn't advertise 56k service if they know full well that the technology precludes it.
Sure, and the Modem companies shouldn't advertise that the modems are 56k because nobody ever gets that speed, so maybe they'll say 52k, and when no one gets that because line quality varies they'll still complain, not only that, it's only downstream, you only ever get 33.6k top speed upstream, no matter what you connect at, the horror!
And when you're the only ISP advertising your ISP at a blazing 33.6k you'll have fun explaining to the shareholders why all your customers changed to AOL or MSN who advertise 56k.
Theoretically you can get 56k connections, if you live right beside the ISPs PoP.
I am paying for 56K and I usually connect at 48 or 33.6!
DISCLAIMER: I work for a national dialup ISP doing technical support.
Yet another uninformed modem user, I deal with you people all day long.
You will never get a true 56k connection on analog dialup. I do believe the actual upper limit is around 52k, in which 48k is quite good and definately nothing to complain about, 33.6k can happen during storms, telco outtages, bad phone lines, distance between you and the dialup server on the telephone network, the phase of the moon and the price of tea (or AOL now apparantly) in China.
If you're getting 33.6k connections consistantly then get your lines checked by your telco and throw away your lucent winmodem and get a real one.
Sorry, but I can't stand people who buy the very, very latest game on the market right when it hits the shelves and then complain that it won't run on their four year old computer and/or that it requires numerous bugfixes.
This has happened with numerous great games -- two recent examples are Ultima 9 and Black and White.
I have a 700mhz CPU, ATI Radeon 32DDR AGP card and 416 megs of ram and Black and White STILL crashes.
BW Requirements:
Windows 95/98/2000/ME
Intel Pentium II 350MHz Intel Pentium
64MB RAM
600MB free hard disk space
4x CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive
8MB PCI or AGP 3D accelerator
DirectX 7.0a compliant sound card
DirectX 7.0a (supplied on CD)
Keyboard, Mouse
As a teacher, I may have noticed kids being teased, kids being ostracized, etc, but man, that has ALWAYS happened. I was tormented as a kid, and there has ALWAYS been a school bully. It's just that now, it has become fashionable to retaliate with violence of a more permanent nature.
Oh really. You don't think the torment kids go through during their school years leaves permanent emotional damage?
Did you turn your back on these tormentors and let them go, or did you do something about it? If you did nothing then you're part of the problem.
I have no problem with an Insurance company saying "Look, moron, until you quit smoking you're paying an extra $ amount for us to insure your life, cuz you're killing yourself." Smoking and other self-destructive behaviour I can change - my genetic make-up I CANNOT. This is tantamount to the US Government saying "Seeing as this particular group (OK, I'm being P.C. here..) statistically has a tendancy to commit crimes, we'll get the cops to pay special attention to them." Oops, bad example.;)
Except that it's not the government, it's a company, which doesn't have to treat you equally and fair. Insurance companies already discriminate against males by jacking up car insurance premiums.
I wouldn't find this to normally be a problem, however car insurance is REQUIRED to drive, so essentially when it comes right down to it the government is discriminating by association.
But this is life insurance, you don't really need life insurance, so you really are screwed.
This is a simple rule of Intellectual property: if you don't enforce your patents, they become invalid.
One word: Bullshit.
Patents can be selectively enforced, as can copyrights. TRADEMARKS and TRADE SECRETS have to be actively enforced or else the "owner" may lose protection.
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Over my entire computing life:
Money spent on Windows: $0 (The only prefab computer I ever bought came with MS-DOS, I have never paid the MS Tax)
Money spent on Linux, including CD-Rs: $19
So in my case, yes, it is true, I spend more money on linux.
-- iCEBaLM
Zmodem was supposed to fix this with some kind of resume function, but it never worked right for me and Zmodem in general always seemed a little flaky...
Resume worked just fine in ZModem, which turned into the defacto-standard file transfer protocol for the last 5-10 years of the BBS Age(tm). Sounds to me like a buggy implimentation.
-- iCEBaLM
Yes:
# First Entry: Windows 2000
title Windows 2000 Professional
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
-- iCEBaLM
I'm not sure that it's any better than lilo, but the menu.lst does look a bit cleaner than lilo.conf.
Oh, it is. LILO stores the physical address of the first sector of the kernel image and boots off that, if you screw with the partitions even a little bit it'll cause the dreaded "LO" syndrome.
GRUB, on the other hand, reads the filesystems directly, no running it after every kernel compile, hell, you can even launch the uberleet GRUB command prompt and boot stuff you haven't defined ahead of time, it's extremely flexable and saved my ass a few times.
In conclusion kids: GRUB > LILO.
-- iCEBaLM
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One of MS's msn.com servers was like that too, the one which shows the MSN Explorers "about version", so if you clicked on More Choices -> about MSN Explorer you would get "Welcome to http://www.worm.com! Hacked by Chinese!" on your screen.
Imagine the befuddled MSN users...
-- iCEBaLM
I realize that's not the perfect analogy since no one will get killed if a clueless idiot uses a computer.
I see somebody has never watched, and therefore learned the lesson of, the movie Wargames.
Computers hooked up to critical systems (such as, oh, for instance nuclear ICBM launch controllers) could be potentially hazardous to ones health if operated by a Clueless Idiot(tm). Not to mention, a Clueless Idiot(tm) opening the back of his monitor and/or power supply to try and "fix" it could, and probably has, resulted in death.
-- iCEBaLM
IMHO, the DDoSers of today are the clonebotters of 6 years ago.
And, even though I'm going to get flamed for this, the argument exists that if the opers in their very-finite wisdom didn't do everything in their power to protect the sheep from themselves the kiddies would still be perfectly content to do simple text floods, nick collides and split riding instead of DDoSing full servers.
Infact, the many ircd "enhancements" currently make irc almost unusable for those who DON'T break the rules. No ops on split, no join on split, hell, there is even atleast one server which won't even allow you to chanop no matter what the server state. I mean wtf is this? No (ops|join) on split with a perfectly working TS is redundant, it just makes it harder to recover opless channels. Not allowing anyone to chanop is just fucking stupid, period.
EFNet, even for those who do follow the rules, is becoming unusable, not to mention that there are assholish and apathetic opers who just don't give a shit. Unless you're their friend you're fucked about getting help from one. I can see the frustration the kiddies are exhibiting.
-- iCEBaLM: 5+ years of EFNet usage.
One gerbil was quoted as saying, "Bring on Saddam Hussein but damn man, the guy I'm really scared of is Joe Cartoon!"
-- iCEBaLM
Yes, actually it is so, since the entire law hinges on the "lawful distributor", which DirecTV isn't. It is not lawful for them to distribute the signal in Canada, therefore no law is broken, period.
-- iCEBaLM
Umm, what makes you think that someone making illegal software for stealing is going to obey the GPL?
1. It's not stealing in Canada as DirecTV cannot be sold in Canada by law, and therefore has no "Fair Market Value". Something which has no value cannot be stolen and is therefore legal to circumvent.
2. The author is Canadian.
-- iCEBaLM
Considering RMS would never sell - very.
-- iCEBaLM
Like connecting a private driveway to a public road and never expecting anyone to look at it or the occasional stranger using it to turn around.
-- iCEBaLM
The point was connecting to a public network for *purely* private purposes is inherently retarded, as in: connecting top secret millitary computers to the internet, connecting your corporate intranet with all of your trade secrets to the internet, connecting your electric power grid controllers to the internet.
Usernames and Passwords are used when a specific subset of the *public* need to connect to publicly accessable computers. Connecting to a public network and expecting *not* to get portscanned or *not* to get connected to is just stupid.
-- iCEBaLM
Let's say I'm connecting my computer to the internet for private purposes.
Connecting to a public network for private purposes is inherently retarded and should never be done. Because of this, the rest of your comment is irrelevant.
-- iCEBaLM
If only Apple used standards like AGP, PCI, IDE, SCSI, USB, IEEE 1394
Too bad they didn't stick to CHRP. These, yes, are standards, however, and here's the kicker, every peice of hardware used, in some way, needs to have a nonstandard component to run, examples:
Hard drives need to have an apple hard disk driver installed as the first partition in order to work.
Video cards (AGP or PCI) need to have different video BIOS' to work on Macs.
The booting process of the apple ROM is undocumented and nonstandard, which is why Linux cannot boot without MacOS.
So, what's the point of using "standards" when you're just going to go out of your way to make sure anything that follows the standard doesn't work?
-- iCEBaLM
Maybe ISPs shouldn't advertise 56k service if they know full well that the technology precludes it.
Sure, and the Modem companies shouldn't advertise that the modems are 56k because nobody ever gets that speed, so maybe they'll say 52k, and when no one gets that because line quality varies they'll still complain, not only that, it's only downstream, you only ever get 33.6k top speed upstream, no matter what you connect at, the horror!
And when you're the only ISP advertising your ISP at a blazing 33.6k you'll have fun explaining to the shareholders why all your customers changed to AOL or MSN who advertise 56k.
Theoretically you can get 56k connections, if you live right beside the ISPs PoP.
-- iCEBaLM
I am paying for 56K and I usually connect at 48 or 33.6!
DISCLAIMER: I work for a national dialup ISP doing technical support.
Yet another uninformed modem user, I deal with you people all day long.
You will never get a true 56k connection on analog dialup. I do believe the actual upper limit is around 52k, in which 48k is quite good and definately nothing to complain about, 33.6k can happen during storms, telco outtages, bad phone lines, distance between you and the dialup server on the telephone network, the phase of the moon and the price of tea (or AOL now apparantly) in China.
If you're getting 33.6k connections consistantly then get your lines checked by your telco and throw away your lucent winmodem and get a real one.
-- iCEBaLM
Sorry, but I can't stand people who buy the very, very latest game on the market right when it hits the shelves and then complain that it won't run on their four year old computer and/or that it requires numerous bugfixes.
This has happened with numerous great games -- two recent examples are Ultima 9 and Black and White.
I have a 700mhz CPU, ATI Radeon 32DDR AGP card and 416 megs of ram and Black and White STILL crashes.
BW Requirements:
Windows 95/98/2000/ME
Intel Pentium II 350MHz Intel Pentium
64MB RAM
600MB free hard disk space
4x CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive
8MB PCI or AGP 3D accelerator
DirectX 7.0a compliant sound card
DirectX 7.0a (supplied on CD)
Keyboard, Mouse
You were saying?
-- iCEBaLM
The nietzschean species is extremely intreguing, reminds me a lot of the Clans from Battletech. Human but genetically engineered honorbound warriors.
-- iCEBaLM
Not to mention IE, Office, et al on MacOS.
-- iCEBaLM
As a teacher, I may have noticed kids being teased, kids being ostracized, etc, but man, that has ALWAYS happened. I was tormented as a kid, and there has ALWAYS been a school bully. It's just that now, it has become fashionable to retaliate with violence of a more permanent nature.
Oh really. You don't think the torment kids go through during their school years leaves permanent emotional damage?
Did you turn your back on these tormentors and let them go, or did you do something about it? If you did nothing then you're part of the problem.
-- iCEBaLM
I have no problem with an Insurance company saying "Look, moron, until you quit smoking you're paying an extra $ amount for us to insure your life, cuz you're killing yourself." Smoking and other self-destructive behaviour I can change - my genetic make-up I CANNOT. This is tantamount to the US Government saying "Seeing as this particular group (OK, I'm being P.C. here..) statistically has a tendancy to commit crimes, we'll get the cops to pay special attention to them." Oops, bad example. ;)
Except that it's not the government, it's a company, which doesn't have to treat you equally and fair. Insurance companies already discriminate against males by jacking up car insurance premiums.
I wouldn't find this to normally be a problem, however car insurance is REQUIRED to drive, so essentially when it comes right down to it the government is discriminating by association.
But this is life insurance, you don't really need life insurance, so you really are screwed.
-- iCEBaLM
Unless you have an iMac.
-- iCEBaLM
This is a simple rule of Intellectual property: if you don't enforce your patents, they become invalid.
One word: Bullshit.
Patents can be selectively enforced, as can copyrights. TRADEMARKS and TRADE SECRETS have to be actively enforced or else the "owner" may lose protection.
-- iCEBaLM
It's going to be interesting to see if the court will uphold patenting "-what the Internet is-", when it was developed with public tax dollars.
Actually, Wetherell is saying the internet is a distributed set of databases, which I personally don't agree with myself.
-- iCEBaLM