As someone who has spent time at sea on research ships and works with satellite communications on research ships for a living, I can say that it's really expensive once you get away from coastal waters. The US academic research fleet (UNOLS) didn't get full internet access until 2005 because of this, and even now it's very limited in terms of bandwidth compared to what you are used to in your mom's basement/dorm room.
Near coast, you can use your cell phone, but once you get more than 50 miles offshore, your options quickly become limited and really expensive. You are at the mercy of various satellite operators, all of which charge you a pretty penny for the privilege of using their birds. The fact that most satellites are positioned to concentrate on populated areas (read: land) makes satellite connectivity in the middle of the ocean a very pricey commodity. This is why they charge you on a per-byte basis - C-band internet connectivity is typically a couple of thousand dollars US a month for a whopping 256 kilobits per second of bandwidth.
With all of the nerdy stuff out of the way, the MV explorer looks like a really cush cruise ship rather than a research vessel so you probably won't get much of an "at sea" experience other than not being able to leave the ship between ports. Enjoy your active stabilization, swimming pool, and piano bar.
For others considering time at sea, the Sea Education Association is the real deal. I've been aboard the SSV Robert C Seamans, their Pacific-based ship, and was kinda jealous that I never got to do something like that while I was in college. The students get a chance to climb the rigging and really sail the ship, rather than just being chauffeured around on a giant floating school bus. Additionally, you get to do some real science on their ships. Port stops in Tahiti and the Marquesas are tough to beat as well.
Botnets have a whole bunch of IP addresses. Simply deploy your Yahoo CAPTCHA cracker code on a botnet that some other fine internet entrepreneur has assembled, and it doesn't matter how many negatives you generate because they will be from a variety of hosts. Certainly with 33% success rate, you're doing pretty well, especially considering your typical spray-and-pray spam blitz.
User sharing does work in TNG, but the Win98 support was flaky at best the last time I looked. NT4 works very well with TNG.
However, I'm confused as to what you are trying to do: if you are trying to set up a Samba PDC, then your security line should say security=domain, and you should read the TNG howtos (linked off the tng website) to see what the current procedure is for setting up the NT accounts on TNG, since it changed several times.
In addition to the tear off application switcher menu, in MacOS 9, you can just Command-Tab to switch between different applications.
However, I have yet to find a quick way to switch between open windows in an application. That is really the key, cuz I hate using the menu to jump between different open Netscape windows.
I hate MacOS, but I have to use it at work, so I want to learn all of the accelerators. Anyone know of any good Mac tips and tricks sites (short of putting linuxppc on the thing)?
Saw on the linux IR project somewhere that the B&O remotes use some funky bi-directional protocol, and there isn't a way for learning remotes to simulate this.
Don't remember the URL tho, it's kinda lost in the mists of time.
Thanks for your response, and for the pointers on what those funky irqs were. I fixed the problem...
I know I should have probably done this before, but I recompiled the kernel. I didn't even have to reboot into the new one, just a make modules and a depmod -av against the newly compiled modules, and suddenly the SOB came to life. Freakin' RedHat precompiled kernel.
My reccomendation to you would be to try the same thing. It's kinda like the magical 3 reboots of love in NT and 95... three reboots and all of your strange vxd problems go away, and NT suddenly remembers it has a kernel somewhere on disk. If it doesn't work, recompile it.
I have a SB32 (ct 3600) that doesn't work right under RH5.2. I fixed it before on 5.1 with an article in the mailing list archives, but I can't remember how. Seeing as Red Hat site is down still, I'm up shit creek without a paddle in a stone canoe.
I have the SOB configured in/etc/conf.modules with: alias sound sb options opl3 io=0x388 alias midi awe_wave post-install awe_wave/usr/bin/sfxload/etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2 options sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
isapnp.conf is set accordingly. All of the modules exist. Sndconfig tries to play the sample.au file, but all I hear is "Hello, th..." and then silence. I configured it in sndconfig as an AWE32, and then a SB16, then a SBPro. Nothing works.
I've tried it on IRQ 5 and 7, which according to/proc/interrupts are both clear. The kernel gives me messages similar to: Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 4.13 detected OK (220) sb: Interrupt test on IRQ{5,7} failed - Probable IRQ conflict
Here's my current IRQ listing...
IRQ 4: Com1 on MotherBoard IRQ 3: Supra Express 33.6 PnP (working- with the help of ISAPNP) IRQ 5,6,7: Open IRQ 8: rtc (What's this?) IRQ 9: USB (according to/proc/pci) IRQ 10: Open IRQ 11: aha152x IRQ 12: eth0 IRQ 13: Math Error (any kernel gurus know WTF this is?) IRQ 14: IDE0 IRQ 15: IDE1
I fixed it before, anyone have any clue how to do it again? I need my mp3s. I think I'm going through withdrawals....
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As someone who has spent time at sea on research ships and works with satellite communications on research ships for a living, I can say that it's really expensive once you get away from coastal waters. The US academic research fleet (UNOLS) didn't get full internet access until 2005 because of this, and even now it's very limited in terms of bandwidth compared to what you are used to in your mom's basement/dorm room.
Near coast, you can use your cell phone, but once you get more than 50 miles offshore, your options quickly become limited and really expensive. You are at the mercy of various satellite operators, all of which charge you a pretty penny for the privilege of using their birds. The fact that most satellites are positioned to concentrate on populated areas (read: land) makes satellite connectivity in the middle of the ocean a very pricey commodity. This is why they charge you on a per-byte basis - C-band internet connectivity is typically a couple of thousand dollars US a month for a whopping 256 kilobits per second of bandwidth.
With all of the nerdy stuff out of the way, the MV explorer looks like a really cush cruise ship rather than a research vessel so you probably won't get much of an "at sea" experience other than not being able to leave the ship between ports. Enjoy your active stabilization, swimming pool, and piano bar.
For others considering time at sea, the Sea Education Association is the real deal. I've been aboard the SSV Robert C Seamans, their Pacific-based ship, and was kinda jealous that I never got to do something like that while I was in college. The students get a chance to climb the rigging and really sail the ship, rather than just being chauffeured around on a giant floating school bus. Additionally, you get to do some real science on their ships. Port stops in Tahiti and the Marquesas are tough to beat as well.
Botnets have a whole bunch of IP addresses. Simply deploy your Yahoo CAPTCHA cracker code on a botnet that some other fine internet entrepreneur has assembled, and it doesn't matter how many negatives you generate because they will be from a variety of hosts. Certainly with 33% success rate, you're doing pretty well, especially considering your typical spray-and-pray spam blitz.
User sharing does work in TNG, but the Win98 support was flaky at best the last time I looked. NT4 works very well with TNG.
However, I'm confused as to what you are trying to do: if you are trying to set up a Samba PDC, then your security line should say security=domain, and you should read the TNG howtos (linked off the tng website) to see what the current procedure is for setting up the NT accounts on TNG, since it changed several times.
In addition to the tear off application switcher menu, in MacOS 9, you can just Command-Tab to switch between different applications.
However, I have yet to find a quick way to switch between open windows in an application. That is really the key, cuz I hate using the menu to jump between different open Netscape windows.
I hate MacOS, but I have to use it at work, so I want to learn all of the accelerators. Anyone know of any good Mac tips and tricks sites (short of putting linuxppc on the thing)?
Saw on the linux IR project somewhere that the B&O remotes use some funky bi-directional protocol, and there isn't a way for learning remotes to simulate this.
Don't remember the URL tho, it's kinda lost in the mists of time.
Thanks for your response, and for the pointers on what those funky irqs were. I fixed the problem...
I know I should have probably done this before, but I recompiled the kernel. I didn't even have to reboot into the new one, just a make modules and a depmod -av against the newly compiled modules, and suddenly the SOB came to life. Freakin' RedHat precompiled kernel.
My reccomendation to you would be to try the same thing. It's kinda like the magical 3 reboots of love in NT and 95... three reboots and all of your strange vxd problems go away, and NT suddenly remembers it has a kernel somewhere on disk. If it doesn't work, recompile it.
Arrggh.
/Geoff
This is halfway off topic, but not quite...
/etc/conf.modules with: /usr/bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2
/proc/interrupts are both clear. The kernel gives me messages similar to:
/proc/pci)
I have a SB32 (ct 3600) that doesn't work right under RH5.2. I fixed it before on 5.1 with an article in the mailing list archives, but I can't remember how. Seeing as Red Hat site is down still, I'm up shit creek without a paddle in a stone canoe.
I have the SOB configured in
alias sound sb
options opl3 io=0x388
alias midi awe_wave
post-install awe_wave
options sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
isapnp.conf is set accordingly. All of the modules exist. Sndconfig tries to play the sample.au file, but all I hear is "Hello, th..." and then silence. I configured it in sndconfig as an AWE32, and then a SB16, then a SBPro. Nothing works.
I've tried it on IRQ 5 and 7, which according to
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
SB 4.13 detected OK (220)
sb: Interrupt test on IRQ{5,7} failed - Probable IRQ conflict
Here's my current IRQ listing...
IRQ 4: Com1 on MotherBoard
IRQ 3: Supra Express 33.6 PnP (working- with the help of ISAPNP)
IRQ 5,6,7: Open
IRQ 8: rtc (What's this?)
IRQ 9: USB (according to
IRQ 10: Open
IRQ 11: aha152x
IRQ 12: eth0
IRQ 13: Math Error (any kernel gurus know WTF this is?)
IRQ 14: IDE0
IRQ 15: IDE1
I fixed it before, anyone have any clue how to do it again? I need my mp3s. I think I'm going through withdrawals....
Thanks,
Geoff Davis