You dont need that - the Wii Opera browser can hit normal web pages just fine, so flash-based homebrews can just be served off regular ol' pages, like this:
I had this same problem with my registrar (DomainDirect) and after messing with it I realized that they dont redirect to the IP address that i specified in my domain forwarding instructions, they actuallly serve a blank frame from their OWN domain and then fill it in with the HTML from the site that I redirected to. This is apparently so they can offer forwarding statistics and sub-domain forwarding.
The solution was to ignore the "domain forwarding" settings and go right to the zone file definition. The zone file had the domain pointing to the provider, and then from THERE they did their bogus "frame filling". Once the zone file was edited to point at my server, everything cleared up for all browsers.
GoDaddy is obviously using a frame that has some useless IE-specific tags. The users of GD should just cut the GD zone out of the loop.
There has been a sh*tstorm of complaining on the Nintendo forums about the lack of WPA security for the DS. Nintnedo's response to everyone is "buy the USB WiFi adaptor, it will only allow a DS to connect".
Question: Does anyone have any idea how they would actually do that? What mysterious restrictions would be in place to allow only DS units to attach?
I am lucky enough to have a spare wireless access point hanging around, and plan to go the DMZ route. That is the ONLY way that any basic security can be maintained and still use the DS online.
With WPA now the de facto standard, I can't fathom how Nintendo botched this so completely.
You should edit that - "most people" should become "stupid people" since only a complete and utter feeb would trust their network security to something as easily cracked as WEP.
The PROBLEM here is that you have to downgrade your wireless security to virtually "none" to connect from home.
Score one for actual common sense (and, by extension, free speech): The ban has been lifted in the face of extensive blogging and otherwise above-the-law publication breaches.
This SECOND post was omitted from the original copy that was posted here on Slashdot:
From: jmsatb5 at aol.com Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:03:38 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 36
Actually...belay everything I just said.
In the 24 hours between the time I composed the prior note, and sent it, and it made its way through the moderation software, two things happened:
1) I heard from a trusted source that Paramount is giving the Trek TV world a rest for maybe one to two years, depending on circumstances, no matter who would come along to run it. So it's not right to have folks putting in time doing something that ultimately would be pointless, I don't think that's a proper use of anybody's time.
2) At the same time as the above, an offer came in to run a new TV series for fall of '06, and since there's no way anything Trek can happen in the interim, I've said yes (now we have to negotiate the deal, but that should be fairly straightforward).
So on two counts, the whole thing is kind of moot.
We can reconvene a year or two down the road to see where this takes us, but in the interim...my apologies for waking everybody up in the middle of the night.
Actually, i would be more inclined to have a positive pre-conception about someone using a gmail address. Gmail still has a cachet of cool. Hotmail has a cachet of "lamerz" (forgive me).
Interesting. As much as your argument makes perfect sense, I immediately reject any resume that comes to me that has a hotmail (or any web-based email) address. As a manager, it strikes me with the same sort of lack of professionalism as putting down the phone number of the pub up the street with instructions to leave a message.
Regardless, it is irrelevant now, since my company now blocks (as of Jan 1) all mail from any hotmail address for safety and securty.
Not a huge surprise about the timing, in light of the accounts that were permanently banned this week due to bot use. Makes my fishing macro sort of useless, tho. Dang!
It should be poitned out that some clear-thinking individuals at NOA caught wind of what their legal zealots were up to, and issued an apology to the folks at SG. After the Rare fiasco, NOA knows better than anyone the ins and outs of what REALLY counts as IP.
I concur. The problem with your solution? If we all do that, "Downhill Battle" can't control what we listen to, and they channel the profits to their hand-picked recipients.
DB doesn't want you to expore indie music on your own, they want you to empower DB to support certain artists. There is a crucial difference there. One that makes a lot of indie artists (present company included) sick..
"Downhill Battle" is, unfortunately, offering NO accountability whatsoever. No statements, no disclosure, no nothing (yeah, I know, bad grammar, so sue me) beyond a web page and some troll-bait. Missives asking for details of any of this (or how they expect to get around the redemption limits) are conveniently ignored.
"Downhill Battle" could be Sony, or Janet Jackson's manager, or the Thing Formerly Known As An Interesting Artist From Minneapolis.
Take two VERY large grains of salt and call me in the morning.
I would feel a lot better about this if there was some public accountability from Tunerecycler. Do we get statements? A redemption receipt? Summaries at the end? Anything?
As an independent musician, I find it odd that they have never responded to an email asking for more info from an artist's POV - especially when asking for clarification on their stance on iTunes downloads. Silence can often speak volumes.
If this was simply a list of all the bands and labels at the iTunes store (with proper documentation) that you SHOULD support by redeeming the caps yourself, I would be all for it. But there are enough holes here (and enough errors in the so-called label "tree") that I wouldnt touch this thing with a 3 metre pole.
Have fun. Listen to music. But dont get sucked in.
(DISCLAIMER: The band I am in offers ALL of our CDs for free on our web site, all the time. iTunes wouldn't touch us if we were the last band on earth. Whether or not you use the caps, recycle them, or paste them on a squirrel, makes no matter to us.)
They keep 'em in the cases for cooling purposes. This way the macs cool themselves and you only have to cool the room, as opposed to cooling every board that you pull out of the case.
The lights on your modem or switch do NOT pulse everytime that a 1 or a 0 gets sent down the pipe. In the case of a modem, they pulse whenever the controller sends a request to the UART. In between those requests, a WHOLE HONKING PACKET OF DATA IS SENT. Same with a switch - light comes on when a PACKET IS SENT.
Sheesh - think about it for a second. If the light blinked every time the device passed a 1 or a 0 down the pipe, then either your device would be talking about about 10 bits per second (yawn) or the light would be on full time.
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Hey kiddies, how about a bedtime story?
Once upon a time there was a website called Slashdot. In fact, it was MORE than a website... Slashdot was a pioneer in the digital "community" game. Information was shared, knowledge was spread, questions were answered, friendships were made, and everything was bright and sunny.
Now, everyone knew that bandwidth wasn't free. So Slashdot, like many sites, had banner ads at the top of the screen. Now most users didn't mind the ads at all. They were informative, often interesting, and promoted products that the geeks and wireheads couldn't find anywhere else. Even if they didn't actually click through on an ad, most of the readers saw the banners more as content than advertising.
But, children, there was a fundamental flaw. Unlike virtually every other form of media, web advertising at the time only paid if your readers acted on the ad! So - when Slashdot's corporate masters decided that there weren't enough people acting on the ads, Slashdot moved to a subscription service.
Now, your subscription didn't get you more value, or new content, or even a chance to sit on an editorial board and maybe get rid of that untalented and unreadable hack Katz... it just got rid of the ads. And, to drive the point home, the ads started to switch from unobtrusive banners to pop-ups and embedded graphics. "Pay us," cried the Slashdot gnomes, "or we will bother you with intrusive dreck!"
Can you guess what happened, kiddies? That's right! All the users, who USED to see the old ads, started blocking the new ads because they annoyed them. And nobody paid for the subscriptions, because you didn't really get anything for your money, and the more you contributed to the community, the faster your subscrition got used up!
Eventually, with the all the new ads blocked, and subscriptions going wanting, Slashdot dried up and blew away.
The moral of the story? If there is a problem with the way the web revenue game works, then FIX the game, don't try and make your users play it. The idea of getting paid ONLY if an ad is acted upon is inane. TV doesn't work that way, radio doesn't work that way, print media doesn't work that way. Be the ones that break the barrier and bring web advertising in line with the rest of the media world. Or go down in flames trying. At least then you would be remembered with respect... instead of pity and derision.
Yeah, it is easy to shit on the iPod because it only has 5 meg, but I was at the press release in Cupertino, and I was ready to dismiss the thing as well. BUT (big letters but)... I have to admit I am grudgingly changing my "tune" (ha ha ha)
Reasons? 1: Firewire. Firewire is all that and a bag of chips. We carry portable firewire drives at work and after you go fire, you ain't NEVER going back.
2: The interface. I have a Nomad. I hate the interface, which ranges from "a chore" to "arrrrrhg" when you have a big load o' songs.
3: The rechargable battery, standard. 'Nuff said.
4: APPLE BEING THE ONLY COMPANY TO REALISTICALLY TALK ABOUT MP3. Companies always tell you that their players can hold this much music, or that their player downloads a song in XX seconds, but then in the small print they say all numbers are for songs encoded at 64kHz.... like ANYONE is desperate enough for storage to listen to crap like that. Apple really impressed me by saying that all the numbers (and the baseline encoding rate) is 160kHz. Likewise, I was impressed when they were so forthright about the fact that iTunes can't more files BACK to the base computer, and they did that specifically to keep the RIAA at bay, but you can use the portable hard drive function to trade files all you want. Honesty in hawking a product... I don't know if the world is ready for that!:)
Postscript: (no, not THAT kind of postscript) 5 meg really is all the average consumer needs. 1000 songs at 160kHz? Most mopes will be MORE than happy with that. Sure, us freaks want more... but a COMPANY who wants to MAKE MONEY needs to aim a consumer product at the biggest segment of the market. And, depressingly, we aren't it.
This is EXACTLY the problem. *Not* that Polaroid is a "one-trick pony", but that the average mope on the street thinks that they are. They have a range of excellent and highly-regarded digital and specialty imaging products, but never bothered to market ANYTHING but their "core" product.
I will definitely miss thier 35mm negative scanners if Polaroid bites the farm. So will a LOT of people in my company - we specify those scanners exclusively for our photo departments becuase they are unmatched in the price.vs. image quality department, and they are dead easy to do custom drivers for to boot.
Stupid Polaroid. I hate when a good product dies at the hands of a stupid company.
Does anyone have (or has anyone seen) a list of the files that @home got on users' cases for? If so, email the names (and the file sizes too, if you have them!) to me. Or reply here. Or just totally ignore me.
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You dont need that - the Wii Opera browser can hit normal web pages just fine, so flash-based homebrews can just be served off regular ol' pages, like this:
http://wiicade.com/Home.aspx
Have fun!
Point taken. But I guess you get what you pay for. I assume that this GoDaddy is cheap?
I had this same problem with my registrar (DomainDirect) and after messing with it I realized that they dont redirect to the IP address that i specified in my domain forwarding instructions, they actuallly serve a blank frame from their OWN domain and then fill it in with the HTML from the site that I redirected to. This is apparently so they can offer forwarding statistics and sub-domain forwarding.
The solution was to ignore the "domain forwarding" settings and go right to the zone file definition. The zone file had the domain pointing to the provider, and then from THERE they did their bogus "frame filling". Once the zone file was edited to point at my server, everything cleared up for all browsers.
GoDaddy is obviously using a frame that has some useless IE-specific tags. The users of GD should just cut the GD zone out of the loop.
There has been a sh*tstorm of complaining on the Nintendo forums about the lack of WPA security for the DS. Nintnedo's response to everyone is "buy the USB WiFi adaptor, it will only allow a DS to connect".
Question: Does anyone have any idea how they would actually do that? What mysterious restrictions would be in place to allow only DS units to attach?
Amen, brother.
I am lucky enough to have a spare wireless access point hanging around, and plan to go the DMZ route. That is the ONLY way that any basic security can be maintained and still use the DS online.
With WPA now the de facto standard, I can't fathom how Nintendo botched this so completely.
You should edit that - "most people" should become "stupid people" since only a complete and utter feeb would trust their network security to something as easily cracked as WEP.
The PROBLEM here is that you have to downgrade your wireless security to virtually "none" to connect from home.
Score one for actual common sense (and, by extension, free speech): The ban has been lifted in the face of extensive blogging and otherwise above-the-law publication breaches.
This SECOND post was omitted from the original copy that was posted here on Slashdot:
From: jmsatb5 at aol.com
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:03:38 +0000 (UTC)
Lines: 36
Actually...belay everything I just said.
In the 24 hours between the time I composed the prior note, and sent it, and it made its way through the moderation software, two things happened:
1) I heard from a trusted source that Paramount is giving the Trek TV world a rest for maybe one to two years, depending on circumstances, no matter who would come along to run it. So it's not right to have folks putting in time doing something that ultimately would be pointless, I don't think that's a proper use of anybody's time.
2) At the same time as the above, an offer came in to run a new TV series for fall of '06, and since there's no way anything Trek can happen in the interim, I've said yes (now we have to negotiate the deal, but that should be fairly straightforward).
So on two counts, the whole thing is kind of moot.
We can reconvene a year or two down the road to see where this takes us, but in the interim...my apologies for waking everybody up in the middle of the night.
As you were.
Thanks and with great chagrinedness --
jms
Actually, i would be more inclined to have a positive pre-conception about someone using a gmail address. Gmail still has a cachet of cool. Hotmail has a cachet of "lamerz" (forgive me).
Interesting. As much as your argument makes perfect sense, I immediately reject any resume that comes to me that has a hotmail (or any web-based email) address. As a manager, it strikes me with the same sort of lack of professionalism as putting down the phone number of the pub up the street with instructions to leave a message.
Regardless, it is irrelevant now, since my company now blocks (as of Jan 1) all mail from any hotmail address for safety and securty.
Not a huge surprise about the timing, in light of the accounts that were permanently banned this week due to bot use. Makes my fishing macro sort of useless, tho. Dang!
It should be poitned out that some clear-thinking individuals at NOA caught wind of what their legal zealots were up to, and issued an apology to the folks at SG. After the Rare fiasco, NOA knows better than anyone the ins and outs of what REALLY counts as IP.
Someone should update the original story.
I concur. The problem with your solution? If we all do that, "Downhill Battle" can't control what we listen to, and they channel the profits to their hand-picked recipients.
DB doesn't want you to expore indie music on your own, they want you to empower DB to support certain artists. There is a crucial difference there. One that makes a lot of indie artists (present company included) sick..
"Downhill Battle" is, unfortunately, offering NO accountability whatsoever. No statements, no disclosure, no nothing (yeah, I know, bad grammar, so sue me) beyond a web page and some troll-bait. Missives asking for details of any of this (or how they expect to get around the redemption limits) are conveniently ignored.
"Downhill Battle" could be Sony, or Janet Jackson's manager, or the Thing Formerly Known As An Interesting Artist From Minneapolis.
Take two VERY large grains of salt and call me in the morning.
I would feel a lot better about this if there was some public accountability from Tunerecycler. Do we get statements? A redemption receipt? Summaries at the end? Anything?
As an independent musician, I find it odd that they have never responded to an email asking for more info from an artist's POV - especially when asking for clarification on their stance on iTunes downloads. Silence can often speak volumes.
If this was simply a list of all the bands and labels at the iTunes store (with proper documentation) that you SHOULD support by redeeming the caps yourself, I would be all for it. But there are enough holes here (and enough errors in the so-called label "tree") that I wouldnt touch this thing with a 3 metre pole.
Have fun. Listen to music. But dont get sucked in.
(DISCLAIMER: The band I am in offers ALL of our CDs for free on our web site, all the time. iTunes wouldn't touch us if we were the last band on earth. Whether or not you use the caps, recycle them, or paste them on a squirrel, makes no matter to us.)
They keep 'em in the cases for cooling purposes. This way the macs cool themselves and you only have to cool the room, as opposed to cooling every board that you pull out of the case.
The lights on your modem or switch do NOT pulse everytime that a 1 or a 0 gets sent down the pipe. In the case of a modem, they pulse whenever the controller sends a request to the UART. In between those requests, a WHOLE HONKING PACKET OF DATA IS SENT. Same with a switch - light comes on when a PACKET IS SENT.
Sheesh - think about it for a second. If the light blinked every time the device passed a 1 or a 0 down the pipe, then either your device would be talking about about 10 bits per second (yawn) or the light would be on full time.
Hey kiddies, how about a bedtime story?
... Slashdot was a pioneer in the digital "community" game. Information was shared, knowledge was spread, questions were answered, friendships were made, and everything was bright and sunny.
... it just got rid of the ads. And, to drive the point home, the ads started to switch from unobtrusive banners to pop-ups and embedded graphics. "Pay us," cried the Slashdot gnomes, "or we will bother you with intrusive dreck!"
... instead of pity and derision.
Once upon a time there was a website called Slashdot. In fact, it was MORE than a website
Now, everyone knew that bandwidth wasn't free. So Slashdot, like many sites, had banner ads at the top of the screen. Now most users didn't mind the ads at all. They were informative, often interesting, and promoted products that the geeks and wireheads couldn't find anywhere else. Even if they didn't actually click through on an ad, most of the readers saw the banners more as content than advertising.
But, children, there was a fundamental flaw. Unlike virtually every other form of media, web advertising at the time only paid if your readers acted on the ad! So - when Slashdot's corporate masters decided that there weren't enough people acting on the ads, Slashdot moved to a subscription service.
Now, your subscription didn't get you more value, or new content, or even a chance to sit on an editorial board and maybe get rid of that untalented and unreadable hack Katz
Can you guess what happened, kiddies? That's right! All the users, who USED to see the old ads, started blocking the new ads because they annoyed them. And nobody paid for the subscriptions, because you didn't really get anything for your money, and the more you contributed to the community, the faster your subscrition got used up!
Eventually, with the all the new ads blocked, and subscriptions going wanting, Slashdot dried up and blew away.
The moral of the story? If there is a problem with the way the web revenue game works, then FIX the game, don't try and make your users play it. The idea of getting paid ONLY if an ad is acted upon is inane. TV doesn't work that way, radio doesn't work that way, print media doesn't work that way. Be the ones that break the barrier and bring web advertising in line with the rest of the media world. Or go down in flames trying. At least then you would be remembered with respect
Yeah, it is easy to shit on the iPod because it only has 5 meg, but I was at the press release in Cupertino, and I was ready to dismiss the thing as well. BUT (big letters but) ... I have to admit I am grudgingly changing my "tune" (ha ha ha)
.... like ANYONE is desperate enough for storage to listen to crap like that. Apple really impressed me by saying that all the numbers (and the baseline encoding rate) is 160kHz. Likewise, I was impressed when they were so forthright about the fact that iTunes can't more files BACK to the base computer, and they did that specifically to keep the RIAA at bay, but you can use the portable hard drive function to trade files all you want. Honesty in hawking a product ... I don't know if the world is ready for that! :)
... but a COMPANY who wants to MAKE MONEY needs to aim a consumer product at the biggest segment of the market. And, depressingly, we aren't it.
Reasons? 1: Firewire. Firewire is all that and a bag of chips. We carry portable firewire drives at work and after you go fire, you ain't NEVER going back.
2: The interface. I have a Nomad. I hate the interface, which ranges from "a chore" to "arrrrrhg" when you have a big load o' songs.
3: The rechargable battery, standard. 'Nuff said.
4: APPLE BEING THE ONLY COMPANY TO REALISTICALLY TALK ABOUT MP3. Companies always tell you that their players can hold this much music, or that their player downloads a song in XX seconds, but then in the small print they say all numbers are for songs encoded at 64kHz
Postscript: (no, not THAT kind of postscript) 5 meg really is all the average consumer needs. 1000 songs at 160kHz? Most mopes will be MORE than happy with that. Sure, us freaks want more
This is EXACTLY the problem. *Not* that Polaroid is a "one-trick pony", but that the average mope on the street thinks that they are. They have a range of excellent and highly-regarded digital and specialty imaging products, but never bothered to market ANYTHING but their "core" product.
.vs. image quality department, and they are dead easy to do custom drivers for to boot.
I will definitely miss thier 35mm negative scanners if Polaroid bites the farm. So will a LOT of people in my company - we specify those scanners exclusively for our photo departments becuase they are unmatched in the price
Stupid Polaroid. I hate when a good product dies at the hands of a stupid company.
Does anyone have (or has anyone seen) a list of the files that @home got on users' cases for? If so, email the names (and the file sizes too, if you have them!) to me. Or reply here. Or just totally ignore me.