If so, why the hell new generations don't play Bomber Man, Lost Vikings, Prince of Persia, Larry 1, The Incredible Machine, Lotus, etc?
Maybe because they aren't readily available ?
I have a collection of early 80's arcade games in
my basement (Asteroids, Tempest, Battlezone, Centipede, etc). Any time kids are over, we can't get them out of the basement. They go nuts over the old games.
My cousin now has a Ms. Pac Man and Rally X for his kids, in addition to all the "classics" collections for their PS2. These same kids also love my Atari Lynx -- and they have their own Gameboy systems.
you know how many cases of bse have been identified in humans? 155. worldwide. you know how many of those were in the united states? one. and you know how that woman got vcjd (human bse)? by eating organ meat... in britain.
Since a very good friend of my family died of BSE here in the US, and he wasn't a woman, I an tell you right off the bat that your numbers are wrong.
It is a slow, horrible way to die. The supermarkets saying their customer's privacy is their primary concern have their head up their ass. Your primary concern should be your customers being alive to have privacy.
If your first computer was a PC, you're not old.
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I was calling boards in '85 from my TRS-80 III on a 300 baud acoustic modem. In fact, my favorite board was running on a TRS-80 I with 4 floppy drives and a real honest to goodness Bell 103A modem, with a relay hacked in to answer the phone. Custom BBS software the op wrote in BASIC. I was known as The Trashman (not many people actually LIKED TRaSh-80s), other callers I remember were Dr. Death and Knight Lockinvar.
C-Net has been mentioned here, and doors. Anyone ever use The Proving Grounds ? It was also popular, and ran on Apple ]['s -- a BBS that was also a multi-user D&D type game.
TBBS was a great BBS system that started out on TRS-80's, but was eventually ported to PCs. TBBS let you create your customize the entire board. Essentially, it made as many layers of menus as you wanted, could put discussion areas and file area anywhere. People would make mini-worlds or locations in the BBS. One here in NY called itself the Grand Central BBS and modeled itself after Grand Central Terminal. All in text, of course.
Eventually, as people switched to PCs, we had PC Board, and Fido Net. Fido was clunky though, and eventually Opus became more popular. For many of us, Echo Mail was our introductions to discussions with people across the country.
We vaguely heard it was something like "Usenet", but had no idea what the hell that was. The Internet was something you broke in to by dialing University computers. I may even have my war-dialer around someplace. Operation Sundevil scared most of us out of doing things like that though.
If you have any interest in BBSes at all, the SYSOP of one of the local boards I used to call has put up many of the text files we used to trade on a web site called, appropriately enough, www.textfiles.com
Same here. I got my HP-41 as a high school graduation present in 1986, before going off to Stevens. Love it.
Of course, it was the next year that the big fold out graphing models starting showing up in people's hands. I've never wanted a graphing calc, but I did borrow a buddies for the matrix functions a few times.
I still use the 41 as my desktop calc. At this point I do more programming, and would love to track down a hex option for it.
I still love that games pack. I still occasionaly play pinball on it. (Yes, you can play pinball on a 1 line calculator !)
Recently bought by a number of well known collectors, including the maker of many arcade multigame kits Clay Cowgill. Checking their web site, they now have free wireless net access.
If you go let me know what you think, as I'm all the way in NY.
Just found pictures of the arcade - http://www.multigame.com/arcade/
I have an RCA VCR that is about 5 years old and has commercial skip. After it records a program, it rewinds, scans the show, and 'marks' the commercials. On play-back it can automatically fast-scan through them.
As far as I know RCA still sells VCR's with this feature. While you don't have all the features of a digital machine, at least you don't have to worry about them automatically 'upgradeing' your machine and removing features !
Microsoft now uses Akamai to host Windows updates. You say you are a small ISP -- contact Akamai (http://www.akamai.com/) and see about getting their servers on your network.
If you aren't familiar with it, Akamai is a hosting company for high-bandwidth sites. Instead of hosting from a main location, they give cacheing servers to ISPs for free. These servers will cache only Akamai content -- but the machine is free and they manage it.
Traffic is directed to Akamai servers via DNS, so you don't have to do any tricks to direct traffic to them. For example, if you do a DNS lookup (ie, Unix host command) on download.microsoft.com, it goes through several CNAMES, eventualy to something like a767.ms.akamai.net , which resolves to your local Akamai server, or the nearest one of your ISP doesn't use Akamai.
Off the top of my head, Yahoo and www.whitehouse.gov are other sites useing Akamai.
I had custom T-Shirts made up. A friend who is an artist did a Hershfeld-style characature of my wife and I. We only had enough printed for the rehearsal dinner (which was still 50 people).
However, they were a big hit and in retrospect would have been great to give out to everyone. And as an added bonus, if I need to remember my anniversary I just look in the closet -- the date is on the shirt!
Winbond makes a TTS (WTS701EM/T) chip that is relatively cheap (about $15 itself I think).
Devantech (a small company in england that makes boards for robot builders) has built a little board around it, that can have 30 canned phrases and do text to speach over rs-232 or i2c. Info on their board can be found at http://www.robot-electronics.co.uk/shop/Speech_Syn thesizer_SP032006.htm
The board goes goes about $83 from US distributors http://www.acroname.com/robotics/parts/R184-SP03 .h tml
While this might be a bit expensive, this guy is makeing small quantities, and this is designed to be run from a small robot driven by a micro controller, not a full computer.
This post is leaving out some details that were brought up on the NANOG mailing list.
This is not a change that needs to be done immediately. For one thing, there are 13 (A - M) root servers. As long as your name server can contact one of them, it will download the latest list at start-up, so your root file can be fairly out of date, and still be fine when running.
Also, the announcement says that the server will respond on both IP addresses "for the forseeable future".
This isn't a question of flipping a switch and everyone having to update their servers at once. A big public announcement would probably just have confused most users for no good reason.
> The classic SciFi book Starship Trooper used this idea decades ago.
More than just the power armor. The book has a character of "Dizzy Flores". Flores is a male in the book, but became female in the movie a few years ago.
Change one letter and we have the "Fiores" of the comic.
Reuseing ideas is nothing new in SF. However since it seems quite obvious they borrowed ideas from Heilein's work, perhaps they shouldn't be crowing quite so loudly.
You hack a relay in to the phone line to make and break the connection. If your computer has some sort of cassette tape interface, you even have a relay controller already there.
There was a BBS local to me running on a TRS-80 that did exactly that with an original Bell 212a modem. (I don't think that was an acoustic modem, but the principle should apply).
It's a three way trade off. DSL gives you the speed with risk. ISDN trades some of that speed for stability. T1 gives you speed and reliability for a wad of money.
I'm guesing the people who think ISDN is only as fast as a modem haven't actually used it. The speed increased ISDN gives you isn't just the numeric 56k vs 64k difference. It's full duplex, so if you're sending out a file you can download at the same time. It's also sychronous instead of asynchronous, which makes it more efficient.
I have no idea what the cost of ISDN is in Mass. Here in NY, back when Verizon was BA they removed the data surcharge from residential ISDN, so I pay the x cents per call and that's it. Verizon also has a $90/month flat data rate plan for businesses.
If you are at the distance where all you can get is IDSL, or have your CO doesn't have DSL at all, take a look at ISDN. Costs do vary widely in different markets, but it's worth looking in to.
The biggest problem with DSL is it came out of the gate at bargain basement prices. The CLEC's left themselves little margin, and cut huge deals for some companies that promised to sell a million lines -- ie Flashcomm. They couldn't do it, not even selling below cost.
Many small ISPs tried to compete on price, and can't. Covad was selling lines to me for more than Flashcom was selling to end users.
Now Flashcomm's Chapter 11, and I'm making a nice living. Not that Covad couldn't go under and screw me and my customers too.
You want RELIABLE faster net access ? Get ISDN. Faster than a modem, not likely to disappear without any warning, and higher in the priority queue to get fixed.
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RFC 822 has been obsolete since April 2001. The current document is RFC 2822.
I have a collection of early 80's arcade games in my basement (Asteroids, Tempest, Battlezone, Centipede, etc). Any time kids are over, we can't get them out of the basement. They go nuts over the old games.
My cousin now has a Ms. Pac Man and Rally X for his kids, in addition to all the "classics" collections for their PS2. These same kids also love my Atari Lynx -- and they have their own Gameboy systems.
Since a very good friend of my family died of BSE here in the US, and he wasn't a woman, I an tell you right off the bat that your numbers are wrong.
It is a slow, horrible way to die. The supermarkets saying their customer's privacy is their primary concern have their head up their ass. Your primary concern should be your customers being alive to have privacy.
I was calling boards in '85 from my TRS-80 III on a 300 baud acoustic modem. In fact, my favorite board was running on a TRS-80 I with 4 floppy drives and a real honest to goodness Bell 103A modem, with a relay hacked in to answer the phone. Custom BBS software the op wrote in BASIC. I was known as The Trashman (not many people actually LIKED TRaSh-80s), other callers I remember were Dr. Death and Knight Lockinvar.
C-Net has been mentioned here, and doors. Anyone ever use The Proving Grounds ? It was also popular, and ran on Apple ]['s -- a BBS that was also a multi-user D&D type game.
TBBS was a great BBS system that started out on TRS-80's, but was eventually ported to PCs. TBBS let you create your customize the entire board. Essentially, it made as many layers of menus as you wanted, could put discussion areas and file area anywhere. People would make mini-worlds or locations in the BBS. One here in NY called itself the Grand Central BBS and modeled itself after Grand Central Terminal. All in text, of course.
Eventually, as people switched to PCs, we had PC Board, and Fido Net. Fido was clunky though, and eventually Opus became more popular. For many of us, Echo Mail was our introductions to discussions with people across the country.
We vaguely heard it was something like "Usenet", but had no idea what the hell that was. The Internet was something you broke in to by dialing University computers. I may even have my war-dialer around someplace. Operation Sundevil scared most of us out of doing things like that though.
If you have any interest in BBSes at all, the SYSOP of one of the local boards I used to call has put up many of the text files we used to trade on a web site called, appropriately enough, www.textfiles.com
But then again, my mom's an ex-COBOL programmer.
She has her OpenOffice, her Mozilla, and ssh to read mail via pine. She's happy.
She'll be hapier when there is a Linux QuickBooks replacement and we can ditch the one remaining Win partition.
Verisign's press release --0 3100 7b.html?sl=070804
http://verisign.com/corporate/news/2003/pr_20
Thoughtfully provides e-mail addresses and phone numbers of who to contact at Verisign for more information:
For more information, contact:
VeriSign Media Relations: Tom Galvin, tgalvin@verisign.com, 202.973.6600
VeriSign Investor Relations: Kathleen Bare, kbare@verisign.com, 650.426.3241
Every description of why someone should buy a TiVo sounds like it's aimed at people who have never seen a VCR.
Record shows to watch later -- wow, I've only been doing that since 1980. My 1997-era RCA VCR skips commercials.
I can't think of anything on TV so important I would want to be able to connect over the net and have it recorded.
Same here. I got my HP-41 as a high school graduation present in 1986, before going off to Stevens. Love it.
Of course, it was the next year that the big fold out graphing models starting showing up in people's hands. I've never wanted a graphing calc, but I did borrow a buddies for the matrix functions a few times.
I still use the 41 as my desktop calc. At this point I do more programming, and would love to track down a hex option for it.
I still love that games pack. I still occasionaly play pinball on it. (Yes, you can play pinball on a 1 line calculator !)
If you are a geek who likes 80's arcade games, may I suggest the Ground Kontrol Retrocade
Recently bought by a number of well known collectors, including the maker of many arcade multigame kits Clay Cowgill. Checking their web site, they now have free wireless net access.
If you go let me know what you think, as I'm all the way in NY.
Just found pictures of the arcade - http://www.multigame.com/arcade/
I have an RCA VCR that is about 5 years old and has commercial skip. After it records a program, it rewinds, scans the show, and 'marks' the commercials. On play-back it can automatically fast-scan through them.
As far as I know RCA still sells VCR's with this feature. While you don't have all the features of a digital machine, at least you don't have to worry about them automatically 'upgradeing' your machine and removing features !
Microsoft now uses Akamai to host Windows updates. You say you are a small ISP -- contact Akamai (http://www.akamai.com/) and see about getting their servers on your network.
If you aren't familiar with it, Akamai is a hosting company for high-bandwidth sites. Instead of hosting from a main location, they give cacheing servers to ISPs for free. These servers will cache only Akamai content -- but the machine is free and they manage it.
Traffic is directed to Akamai servers via DNS, so you don't have to do any tricks to direct traffic to them. For example, if you do a DNS lookup (ie, Unix host command) on download.microsoft.com, it goes through several CNAMES, eventualy to something like a767.ms.akamai.net , which resolves to your local Akamai server, or the nearest one of your ISP doesn't use Akamai.
Off the top of my head, Yahoo and www.whitehouse.gov are other sites useing Akamai.
What could be more geeky than T-Shirts ?
I had custom T-Shirts made up. A friend who is an artist did a Hershfeld-style characature of my wife and I. We only had enough printed for the rehearsal dinner (which was still 50 people).
However, they were a big hit and in retrospect would have been great to give out to everyone. And as an added bonus, if I need to remember my anniversary I just look in the closet -- the date is on the shirt!
Winbond makes a TTS (WTS701EM/T) chip that is relatively cheap (about $15 itself I think).
n thesizer_SP032006.htm
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Devantech (a small company in england that makes boards for robot builders) has built a little board around it, that can have 30 canned phrases and do text to speach over rs-232 or i2c. Info on their board can be found at http://www.robot-electronics.co.uk/shop/Speech_Sy
The board goes goes about $83 from US distributors
http://www.acroname.com/robotics/parts/R184-SP0
While this might be a bit expensive, this guy is makeing small quantities, and this is designed to be run from a small robot driven by a micro controller, not a full computer.
This post is leaving out some details that were brought up on the NANOG mailing list.
This is not a change that needs to be done immediately. For one thing, there are 13 (A - M) root servers. As long as your name server can contact one of them, it will download the latest list at start-up, so your root file can be fairly out of date, and still be fine when running.
Also, the announcement says that the server will respond on both IP addresses "for the forseeable future".
This isn't a question of flipping a switch and everyone having to update their servers at once. A big public announcement would probably just have confused most users for no good reason.
This article demonstrates the problem we are up against getting people to secure their networks.
His mail server is an open relay, and he still doesn't realize it. Worse, he's a lawyer. These are the people that will be setting policy.
I wonder if it is even worth e-mailing to explain the situation to him.
> The classic SciFi book Starship Trooper used this idea decades ago.
More than just the power armor. The book has a character of "Dizzy Flores". Flores is a male in the book, but became female in the movie a few years ago.
Change one letter and we have the "Fiores" of the comic.
Reuseing ideas is nothing new in SF. However since it seems quite obvious they borrowed ideas from Heilein's work, perhaps they shouldn't be crowing quite so loudly.
You hack a relay in to the phone line to make and break the connection. If your computer has some sort of cassette tape interface, you even have a relay controller already there.
There was a BBS local to me running on a TRS-80 that did exactly that with an original Bell 212a modem. (I don't think that was an acoustic modem, but the principle should apply).
Try http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/
They have small mixers and others audio components in kit form. Most is for low-power broadcasters, but there might be something there you can use.
Connected to 140.174.2.1.
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Escape character is '^]'.
220 toad.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.7.5/8.7.3; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:40:04 -0800 (PST)
Sendmail 8.7.5 ? Forget open relay -- unless he's been patching this by hand,he's going to be rooted any minute !
http://www.netcraft.com/presentations/interop/s
Yup -- I was wondering if anyone else remembered that. This was soon after they took over the site from Adam Curry.
Notice I did say pick two ?
It's a three way trade off. DSL gives you the speed with risk. ISDN trades some of that speed for stability. T1 gives you speed and reliability for a wad of money.
I'm guesing the people who think ISDN is only as fast as a modem haven't actually used it. The speed increased ISDN gives you isn't just the numeric 56k vs 64k difference. It's full duplex, so if you're sending out a file you can download at the same time. It's also sychronous instead of asynchronous, which makes it more efficient.
I have no idea what the cost of ISDN is in Mass. Here in NY, back when Verizon was BA they removed the data surcharge from residential ISDN, so I pay the x cents per call and that's it. Verizon also has a $90/month flat data rate plan for businesses.
If you are at the distance where all you can get is IDSL, or have your CO doesn't have DSL at all, take a look at ISDN. Costs do vary widely in different markets, but it's worth looking in to.
OK -- I'm an ISP. But . .
The biggest problem with DSL is it came out of the gate at bargain basement prices. The CLEC's left themselves little margin, and cut huge deals for some companies that promised to sell a million lines -- ie Flashcomm. They couldn't do it, not even selling below cost.
Many small ISPs tried to compete on price, and can't. Covad was selling lines to me for more than Flashcom was selling to end users.
Now Flashcomm's Chapter 11, and I'm making a nice living. Not that Covad couldn't go under and screw me and my customers too.
You want RELIABLE faster net access ? Get ISDN. Faster than a modem, not likely to disappear without any warning, and higher in the priority queue to get fixed.