Well... I know quite a few people that have a mod-chip installed to their PSX. Of course, most of them didn't solder it themselves to the board. Some stores around here (Zürich/Switzerland) will install it for a fee of around CHF 80.-- (about 60 $)
After all, the program "gnutella" itself isn't that interesting (though it is handy). "gnutella" is just a new protocol. I don't know under what license the protocol is (if any) but judging on the history of it I'd call it abandonware.
1) Get modem and NIC manufacturers to modify the ports on their products so that they can eject a connecting wire under program control.
Oh yeah. With a feature like this, DoS never has been easier to do.
BTW: This exists already for some modems and is called "ath0ping". Some modems do not wait the obligatory second before and after the escape-code (+++) but return instantly to command-mode. So when you send the host a ICMP-Packet containing the string +++ATH0, it of course pongs this string. Due to this design-bug, the modem treats the string as a command and... (TADAA!) hangs up. This bug is mostly found in el-cheapo modems. My USR Sportster is invulnerable however.
If you have a door that is insecure, this IS your fault. But what if someone goes in your appartment and turns on the gas at the stove to bomb the house? Is it your neighbours fault too?
Same thing is it with insecure OS. If you have security holes in your OS and someone installs a trojan to destroy your data or so, this IS your fault. But let's say someone uses the security flaws of your OS to install a trojan that launches a DDoS-Attack against MY host, is it my fault too?
In this case, this even prevents you from selling the hardware and peripherals you bought, because you always need it, in case you have to reinstall/upgrade. Now THAT really is insane.
Why do they always rant about copyright-infringement anyway? In selling an original CD that you bought earlier, you are NOT copying it. The big companies may think that but if one deletes any installed software before he sells the CD it came on, this is totally legal. (Or is it?)
As another user pointed out: Spread the word AND the disk. Free Software is the solution.
You americans often forget all too fast that there is a large region out there called "the world". While the US are a part of it, they still are NOT the "world". (This may be considered flamebait, but this really buggers me)
All this UCITA-stuff is in the USA. So when I set up some website over here in switzerland (you know - chocolate, cheese and watches) on which I'm saying that I don't like Commander Keen because its GFX are ugly as hell, sound is poor and the gameplay makes you sleep faster than rohypnol, then what can they do? There is a thing called "press freedom". All they can do is force me to put some counter-statement (dang... what's "Gegendarstellung" in english?) from apogee to it.
2.Cached results. When I was looking for paintings by an artist, Google found several hits on past eBay auctions. The auctions were no longer on eBay, so I tried Google's cached page, and found pictures of stunning paintings.
Though even this is rather about the tech specs of google, I wonder how they can cache websites and still have not been sued yet. I remember that in the Slashdot-FAQ there is a remark about caching websites to circumvent the slashdot-effect. Among other (more technical) reasons there was also a point about possible copyright-infringement.
Netscape is/was also selling a Web- and a Mailserver for Windows NT
How Napster is making money is a good question. They have no Ads on their website and there is no advertising in Napster itself. Either they sell some other software too or they make much money selling Metallica-Bootlegs.
But back on topic: I think the same Baby-MS that "sells" IE will also be selling IIS. This is just an educated guess. OTOH, IE is only free for non-commercial use. AOL and other redistributors of IE still have to pay licensing fees.
I think I actually played around with minix when it was free-ified.
I installed it on my old 80286 Laptop which is now serving as a (rather small but heavy) portable harddisk with anonymous FTP-Server and as a telnet-terminal.
Children should not be left to us the internet without adult guidance anyway. The parents are responsible for what their children see and they're also responsible to talk about those things with their children and answer their questions.
How many parents don't really care about their children and just sit them in front of TV or the computer to have 'em stop their annoying questions?
I recently downloaded CCS64 to be able to play Paradroid once again. I don't know, but this will remain my ultimate favourite game ever. Can you believe, that a videogame is still the same big fun to play after almost 15 years? I haven't seen anything like this ever since.
Of course, newer games are fun too and looking at the graphics and sounds of Paradroid, there have been many improvements since then. On the other hand, there was a version for the Amiga (Paradroi '90) which had better graphics. Though, it just didn't have "it". I think, the main reason that the C64-Version is more fun is in the fact, that all robots were symbolized the same as balls with a three-digit number. It was left to your own fantasy how those robots really looked. At least, this is why I like it more. Maybe someone will come up with a totally refurbished 3D-Version of that game. I claim it still won't be that much fun.
Like the original 2D-Lemmings were far more fun to play than the latter 3D-Versions.
Yeah. You give 'em the right to modify AND to redistribute. Microsoft just wants do modify it but obviously not wants do distribute those modifications. The GPL (though accused of being a virus) clearly says that any modifications must be made available to anyone who wants it. Distribute protocols under the GPL and Microsoft can "embrace and extend" them as much as they want. They have to make it available. And certainly they can't file any lawsuits when they want to keep it all secret at all costs. (Like Kerberos)
But then you lose the point. If you output from one player and strip out the macrovision junk then into the recorder it has gone from digital -> analog -> digital. Its probably better then a VHS recording, but not a "perfect" copy anymore.
But if you can't spot any difference in the quality when watching the movie, why care anyway? I've been copying many VHS-Cassettes, but hey, why bother? When the movie you're watching has a good storyline, you'll have no time to spot that difference.
OTOH, why does anyone automatically thinks, you could only use a DVD-Recorder to copy commercial movies? Sure, it's a bit expensive (by now) for home-videos. But do you remember the times, when CD-RW were almost unaffordable? Price-drops are for sure to come as technology gets more mainstream.
I guess, you'd really make a miserable day for some moderators/reviewers. Sure, they could review every post before it goes online. I don't know how many moderators there are, but it sure would be a rather big thing to review every post before it goes online. Considering that people want to discuss articles, a certain lag until a post goes online would make/. rather unattractive then.
If posts would be put online immediately (as is now) and some AC keeps posting the offending(?) posts over and over,/. maybe cannot keep up in deleting them fast enough (think DoS here). What would be the consequences?/. would either face more of those *%!? lawsuits or it has to shutdown discussion-boards. And that's something I really don't want to see happen.
Well. While emulation is a great thing to have (The Genesis had a complete Master System built in to play the old games), I don't think that one standard is the best to have. I can remember a console or rather a standard for a console named 3DO. It never really caught on.
I think, this is mainly because a console cannot be upgraded easily. A console is delivered and used "as is". Standardizing this would mean that you cannot use newer technologies. In the PC-World, you can just upgrade. If your GFX-Card is too slow, replace it with a faster one. The processor is at it's limit, then get a new one.
That's why emulation is good. You buy a new console and with an emulator you still can play the old games. As is with bleem! you maybe benefit too from improved graphics. At least, the pc-version supports 3D-Accellerators. Tekken 3 just looks great on it.
The warnings about this virus will still be spread on the internet, even when the last M$-Machine has been shutdown and no platform is left where the virus actually can be executed.
So effectively we now have two viruses to deal with:
1. The actual virus itself 2. The meta-virus (aka warning)
Possible Solution (Metallica Method): Forbid e-mail
VQF is not an option. At least not until there is a "real" player for Linux and other alternative OSes. That messy thing with wine and xmms just won't work for me.
So now I can setup LILO to boot more than 1023 different OSes. With earlier versions, this would not have been possible, because you cannot split cylinders. Wow, this is great. =:-)
Right. That's why larger harddisks might have 63 heads. I never opened one of those yet, but judging on the physical geometries I kind of doubt, that there are so many in it. It's converted in the controller to match the actual position of the data stored on the harddisk.
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Well... I know quite a few people that have a mod-chip installed to their PSX.
Of course, most of them didn't solder it themselves to the board. Some stores around here (Zürich/Switzerland) will install it for a fee of around CHF 80.-- (about 60 $)
After all, the program "gnutella" itself isn't that interesting (though it is handy). "gnutella" is just a new protocol. I don't know under what license the protocol is (if any) but judging on the history of it I'd call it abandonware.
1) Get modem and NIC manufacturers to modify the ports on their products so that they can eject a connecting wire under program control.
Oh yeah. With a feature like this, DoS never has been easier to do.
BTW: This exists already for some modems and is called "ath0ping". Some modems do not wait the obligatory second before and after the escape-code (+++) but return instantly to command-mode. So when you send the host a ICMP-Packet containing the string +++ATH0, it of course pongs this string. Due to this design-bug, the modem treats the string as a command and... (TADAA!) hangs up.
This bug is mostly found in el-cheapo modems. My USR Sportster is invulnerable however.
If you have a door that is insecure, this IS your fault. But what if someone goes in your appartment and turns on the gas at the stove to bomb the house? Is it your neighbours fault too?
Same thing is it with insecure OS. If you have security holes in your OS and someone installs a trojan to destroy your data or so, this IS your fault.
But let's say someone uses the security flaws of your OS to install a trojan that launches a DDoS-Attack against MY host, is it my fault too?
I doubt that.
I can smell it now.
In this case, this even prevents you from selling the hardware and peripherals you bought, because you always need it, in case you have to reinstall/upgrade. Now THAT really is insane.
Why do they always rant about copyright-infringement anyway? In selling an original CD that you bought earlier, you are NOT copying it.
The big companies may think that but if one deletes any installed software before he sells the CD it came on, this is totally legal. (Or is it?)
As another user pointed out: Spread the word AND the disk. Free Software is the solution.
With more and more restrictive EULAs popping up it's rather:
"You're not going anywhere today!"
You americans often forget all too fast that there is a large region out there called "the world". While the US are a part of it, they still are NOT the "world". (This may be considered flamebait, but this really buggers me)
All this UCITA-stuff is in the USA. So when I set up some website over here in switzerland (you know - chocolate, cheese and watches) on which I'm saying that I don't like Commander Keen because its GFX are ugly as hell, sound is poor and the gameplay makes you sleep faster than rohypnol, then what can they do?
There is a thing called "press freedom". All they can do is force me to put some counter-statement (dang... what's "Gegendarstellung" in english?) from apogee to it.
2.Cached results. When I was looking for paintings by an artist, Google found several hits on past eBay auctions. The auctions were no longer on eBay, so I tried Google's cached page, and found pictures of stunning paintings.
Though even this is rather about the tech specs of google, I wonder how they can cache websites and still have not been sued yet.
I remember that in the Slashdot-FAQ there is a remark about caching websites to circumvent the slashdot-effect. Among other (more technical) reasons there was also a point about possible copyright-infringement.
What if there are broadcast that REALLY are total bogus, just to confuse people that want to decypher it?
Maybe the bogus-broadcasts can be destinguished from the rest through the different speakers...
Who knows?
Netscape is/was also selling a Web- and a Mailserver for Windows NT
How Napster is making money is a good question. They have no Ads on their website and there is no advertising in Napster itself.
Either they sell some other software too or they make much money selling Metallica-Bootlegs.
But back on topic: I think the same Baby-MS that "sells" IE will also be selling IIS. This is just an educated guess.
OTOH, IE is only free for non-commercial use. AOL and other redistributors of IE still have to pay licensing fees.
I think I actually played around with minix when it was free-ified.
I installed it on my old 80286 Laptop which is now serving as a (rather small but heavy) portable harddisk with anonymous FTP-Server and as a telnet-terminal.
Linux IS cool, but any monopoly is bad monopoly, even when it's a linux-monopoly.
Personally I appreciate any new OS. It's a good thing to see new ideas come up.
Children should not be left to us the internet without adult guidance anyway. The parents are responsible for what their children see and they're also responsible to talk about those things with their children and answer their questions.
How many parents don't really care about their children and just sit them in front of TV or the computer to have 'em stop their annoying questions?
I recently downloaded CCS64 to be able to play Paradroid once again.
I don't know, but this will remain my ultimate favourite game ever. Can you believe, that a videogame is still the same big fun to play after almost 15 years? I haven't seen anything like this ever since.
Of course, newer games are fun too and looking at the graphics and sounds of Paradroid, there have been many improvements since then.
On the other hand, there was a version for the Amiga (Paradroi '90) which had better graphics. Though, it just didn't have "it".
I think, the main reason that the C64-Version is more fun is in the fact, that all robots were symbolized the same as balls with a three-digit number. It was left to your own fantasy how those robots really looked. At least, this is why I like it more.
Maybe someone will come up with a totally refurbished 3D-Version of that game. I claim it still won't be that much fun.
Like the original 2D-Lemmings were far more fun to play than the latter 3D-Versions.
Yeah. You give 'em the right to modify AND to redistribute.
Microsoft just wants do modify it but obviously not wants do distribute those modifications.
The GPL (though accused of being a virus) clearly says that any modifications must be made available to anyone who wants it.
Distribute protocols under the GPL and Microsoft can "embrace and extend" them as much as they want. They have to make it available.
And certainly they can't file any lawsuits when they want to keep it all secret at all costs. (Like Kerberos)
But then you lose the point. If you output from one player and strip out the macrovision junk then into the recorder it has gone from digital -> analog -> digital. Its probably better then a VHS recording, but not a "perfect" copy anymore.
But if you can't spot any difference in the quality when watching the movie, why care anyway? I've been copying many VHS-Cassettes, but hey, why bother? When the movie you're watching has a good storyline, you'll have no time to spot that difference.
OTOH, why does anyone automatically thinks, you could only use a DVD-Recorder to copy commercial movies? Sure, it's a bit expensive (by now) for home-videos. But do you remember the times, when CD-RW were almost unaffordable? Price-drops are for sure to come as technology gets more mainstream.
I guess, you'd really make a miserable day for some moderators/reviewers. /. rather unattractive then.
/. maybe cannot keep up in deleting them fast enough (think DoS here). What would be the consequences? /. would either face more of those *%!? lawsuits or it has to shutdown discussion-boards.
Sure, they could review every post before it goes online. I don't know how many moderators there are, but it sure would be a rather big thing to review every post before it goes online. Considering that people want to discuss articles, a certain lag until a post goes online would make
If posts would be put online immediately (as is now) and some AC keeps posting the offending(?) posts over and over,
And that's something I really don't want to see happen.
Well. While emulation is a great thing to have (The Genesis had a complete Master System built in to play the old games), I don't think that one standard is the best to have.
I can remember a console or rather a standard for a console named 3DO. It never really caught on.
I think, this is mainly because a console cannot be upgraded easily. A console is delivered and used "as is". Standardizing this would mean that you cannot use newer technologies.
In the PC-World, you can just upgrade. If your GFX-Card is too slow, replace it with a faster one. The processor is at it's limit, then get a new one.
That's why emulation is good. You buy a new console and with an emulator you still can play the old games.
As is with bleem! you maybe benefit too from improved graphics. At least, the pc-version supports 3D-Accellerators. Tekken 3 just looks great on it.
I can foresee it:
The warnings about this virus will still be spread on the internet, even when the last M$-Machine has been shutdown and no platform is left where the virus actually can be executed.
So effectively we now have two viruses to deal with:
1. The actual virus itself
2. The meta-virus (aka warning)
Possible Solution (Metallica Method):
Forbid e-mail
Hey! My mum uses Outlook! (doesn't yours?)
Nope. I told her that Netscape Messenger is way easier to use. She bought it and keeps mailing the world with it.
You just need to find the right arguments. =:-)
Yeah. Grab a Slackware either. They don't release that often. They're just "slacking". =:-)
VQF is not an option. At least not until there is a "real" player for Linux and other alternative OSes. That messy thing with wine and xmms just won't work for me.
How much of the 20 $ you pay for a CD is actually paid to the artist? 10 $? 5 $? Yeah well...
So now I can setup LILO to boot more than 1023 different OSes. With earlier versions, this would not have been possible, because you cannot split cylinders.
Wow, this is great. =:-)
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
Right.
That's why larger harddisks might have 63 heads.
I never opened one of those yet, but judging on the physical geometries I kind of doubt, that there are so many in it.
It's converted in the controller to match the actual position of the data stored on the harddisk.