Opened??!! How the hell'd they know *that*? That sounds like a bogus claim right there.
You can do it using HTML e-mails containing images sourced on external servers. Whenever the e-mail is viewed it requests the image, making it possible to know when it was viewed, and even which customer that viewed it! (using parameters to a script)
That's the main reason I use a software firewall to block outgoing HTTP from my mail client. I'd prefer them to think I'd not seen it, in the hope they'll give up.
I've bought a few of these for relatives at Xmas as they seemed such good value. Replacement ink cartridges were barely cheaper than the full printer with a colour cartridge, so I treated them as disposable!
(my only gripe was that the USB device didn't come with a USB cable, but that didn't add much to the overall price)
If they didn't add the IP address, it'd be too easy to abuse their server and spam through it. Who says Usenet should be anonymous anyway?
If you do want almost anonymous access, sign up with a pay-for news provider such as EasyNews. They don't add an IP address to messages posted through their system, so it's effectively anonymous. However, they still add a special encoded header line that lets them determine which user account sent the message, but it's only of internal use to them, and someone would probably require a court order to force them to identify the poster.
It's been a long time since anything on the Internet has been truly anonymous...
In any case, an emulator is a godsend when you are writing OS code, because otherwise you have to reboot your machine and wait for it to POST each time you change you code rather than just simply firing off a much quicker and easier run of the emulator.
That's especially true of the latest VMware versions, which have a repeatable resume feature. Once you've suspended in a given state, you can resume back to that state in seconds without having to reboot the OS in the virtual machine. If the OS crashes, just click Power Off and then Resume, and you're back to the saved state almost immediately.
I used it for developing a file-system filter driver on NT. The filter couldn't be easily removed once running, so any changes (or crashed!) normally required a full reboot. Being able to develop in a native OS and copy in a development driver made things so much faster and easier.
I hate having to have line of sight when I'm trying to watch some TV.
If that was a serious reply: It a big improvement to be able to put your noisy PC in a different room from the TV, and just run a cable from the TV-out on the card.
If it wasn't: heheh!:-P~
It's sometimes so hard to tell whether people are being sarcastic!
Is this just a refinement of the previous coverage by/., or have they changed their minds? I guess the idea of a singularity has been knocked enough to be ruled out?
I was disappointed by how little these cans actually held. The (Nescafe) cans are slightly fatter than regular cans, but about half the volume is taken up by the heating mechanism. I'd also describe the final temperature as warm rather than actually hot. Hopefully that's something that can be improved upon.
Still, I do still keep one handy in the car for times when I want something warm to drink. They're still new enough to gain geekiness points too:-)
Recently I was helping diagnose a problem with mail delivery to a friends machine. It soon became apparent that incoming connections to the SMTP port were being blocked. After contacting the ISP it was confirmed that it was a default anti-spam measure, but they'd be willing to test the server to ensure relaying was disabled, and then unblock the port.
If Chinese ISPs were/forced/ to do the same thing it'd make clearing up the mess a lot easier. Legitimate, non-relaying servers would be opened back up, and it would leave the accidental servers inaccesible to spammers around the world. In fact, wouldn't this be a sensible policy for ISPs around the world?
We've already got semi-intelligent filters that can analyse and rate e-mails on the likelihood that it's spam-content, so how about we filter suspect regions instead?
We'd also have to be careful about blocking all Asia too. I hardly get any spam from Japan, whereas China, Korea and Taiwan generate quite a lot.
The server seems to be somewhat/.ed already, so here's a direct link to just the final image of the transparent drive.
If you want to see the other ~35 images, use the original link to the full page.
Titanic, a month later in April 1912
on
The Coldest March
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· Score: 1
So I guess it was this extra cold weather that kept the icebergs from melting further south in the Atlantic, and which ultimately saw the end of Titanic?
I'd always wondered why it was no longer a problem for modern ships on the same route...
I was just about to suggest Driller, but it seems to be just a different name for the one you suggested! According to this article it came out in 1987. IIRC it was released for Spectrum/AmstradCPC/C64, and I've a vague memory there was even an early PC version.
It used solid 3D, was first-person perspective, and you did have a laser to shoot with, so it seems a valid candidate for first ever FPS.
They completed their initial rollout, which covered quite a number of locations, but they are still expanding. They tend to keep the availability fairly up-to-date. Unfortunately ex-Cable&Wireless areas are still waiting for cable access using the modem in their set-top-boxes.
The price is currently still £19.95 a month, which is excellent value compared to a typical £39.95 for BT's ADSL (where available). The service has also improved a lot since I was first connected in early 2000. They do seem to have a genuine interesting in expanding their systems to keep things running smoothly. There's no monthly bandwidth limit at the present, just the usual 512Kbps capping.
What's more, NTL even updated their AUP to allow hosting of private servers, on the request of some users. Good on ya NTL!
Now I don't know about everyone else, but I prefer to writing my own stuff rather than spending hours reading over someone else's work (which has to be reverse engineered to read, so goodbye comments, formatting, etc.)
But it's the challenge that's the fun part. You have the odds stacked against you, and the reward is more the satisfaction of having done it than the final pokes/codes you've found.
I'm sure it's the same for most system/software crackers - it's proving that it can be done, and that you can do it. WWII code-breakers probably had the same fascination for what they were doing too, on top of it being their day job.
Under the Security and Privacy entry on the main ICQ menu, there's an option to only accept messages from people on your contact list. To be sure, also tell it not to accept e-mail express or pager messages, as they're generally abused too.
The newer ICQ 2001b gives finer grained control over this, so you can accept regular messages but ignore URLs, etc.
With the rise in ICQIS bot usage for ICQ spam, setting these is almost a must now:-(
If companies are so confident these new protection schemes are worth using to prevent a certain amount casual copying, perhaps they should reduce the prices. Isn't one of the reasons they're so expensive (particularly here in the UK) due to music piracy?
And if they're not willing to drop the prices, they obviously don't believe it's going to work in the long run anyway.
Perhaps it'd be a little better to change the main story link to:
http://www.carrionsound.com/menu.htm
as that'd mean everyone isn't loading the 40K image on the homepage, and goes straight to the text menu page. It might give the poor server a fighting chance!
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... it's just resting. *prod* Look, there, I saw it move!
Opened??!! How the hell'd they know *that*? That sounds like a bogus claim right there.
You can do it using HTML e-mails containing images sourced on external servers. Whenever the e-mail is viewed it requests the image, making it possible to know when it was viewed, and even which customer that viewed it! (using parameters to a script)
That's the main reason I use a software firewall to block outgoing HTTP from my mail client. I'd prefer them to think I'd not seen it, in the hope they'll give up.
> for me, the graphics just don't cut it anymore
Maybe not, but the physics engine is awesome!
I've bought a few of these for relatives at Xmas as they seemed such good value. Replacement ink cartridges were barely cheaper than the full printer with a colour cartridge, so I treated them as disposable!
(my only gripe was that the USB device didn't come with a USB cable, but that didn't add much to the overall price)
If they didn't add the IP address, it'd be too easy to abuse their server and spam through it. Who says Usenet should be anonymous anyway?
If you do want almost anonymous access, sign up with a pay-for news provider such as EasyNews. They don't add an IP address to messages posted through their system, so it's effectively anonymous. However, they still add a special encoded header line that lets them determine which user account sent the message, but it's only of internal use to them, and someone would probably require a court order to force them to identify the poster.
It's been a long time since anything on the Internet has been truly anonymous...
In any case, an emulator is a godsend when you are writing OS code, because otherwise you have to reboot your machine and wait for it to POST each time you change you code rather than just simply firing off a much quicker and easier run of the emulator.
That's especially true of the latest VMware versions, which have a repeatable resume feature. Once you've suspended in a given state, you can resume back to that state in seconds without having to reboot the OS in the virtual machine. If the OS crashes, just click Power Off and then Resume, and you're back to the saved state almost immediately.
I used it for developing a file-system filter driver on NT. The filter couldn't be easily removed once running, so any changes (or crashed!) normally required a full reboot. Being able to develop in a native OS and copy in a development driver made things so much faster and easier.
I've always thought the 'X' meant 'Close'. Oh wait, wrong window system...
I hate having to have line of sight when I'm trying to watch some TV.
:-P~
If that was a serious reply: It a big improvement to be able to put your noisy PC in a different room from the TV, and just run a cable from the TV-out on the card.
If it wasn't: heheh!
It's sometimes so hard to tell whether people are being sarcastic!
I just have been too busy to reboot.
I guess that's better than too busy rebooting, like the rest of us working under Windows. *sighs*
Is this just a refinement of the previous coverage by /., or have they changed their minds? I guess the idea of a singularity has been knocked enough to be ruled out?
I was disappointed by how little these cans actually held. The (Nescafe) cans are slightly fatter than regular cans, but about half the volume is taken up by the heating mechanism. I'd also describe the final temperature as warm rather than actually hot. Hopefully that's something that can be improved upon.
:-)
Still, I do still keep one handy in the car for times when I want something warm to drink. They're still new enough to gain geekiness points too
That is definitely a situation in which tracking would not have helped.
Perhaps a fear of the unit having a tracking device is what made the thief steal only the components? Now that would be ironic...
Recently I was helping diagnose a problem with mail delivery to a friends machine. It soon became apparent that incoming connections to the SMTP port were being blocked. After contacting the ISP it was confirmed that it was a default anti-spam measure, but they'd be willing to test the server to ensure relaying was disabled, and then unblock the port.
/forced/ to do the same thing it'd make clearing up the mess a lot easier. Legitimate, non-relaying servers would be opened back up, and it would leave the accidental servers inaccesible to spammers around the world. In fact, wouldn't this be a sensible policy for ISPs around the world?
If Chinese ISPs were
We've already got semi-intelligent filters that can analyse and rate e-mails on the likelihood that it's spam-content, so how about we filter suspect regions instead?
We'd also have to be careful about blocking all Asia too. I hardly get any spam from Japan, whereas China, Korea and Taiwan generate quite a lot.
The server seems to be somewhat /.ed already, so here's a direct link to just the final image of the transparent drive.
If you want to see the other ~35 images, use the original link to the full page.
So I guess it was this extra cold weather that kept the icebergs from melting further south in the Atlantic, and which ultimately saw the end of Titanic?
I'd always wondered why it was no longer a problem for modern ships on the same route...
I was just about to suggest Driller, but it seems to be just a different name for the one you suggested! According to this article it came out in 1987. IIRC it was released for Spectrum/AmstradCPC/C64, and I've a vague memory there was even an early PC version.
It used solid 3D, was first-person perspective, and you did have a laser to shoot with, so it seems a valid candidate for first ever FPS.
Can anyone better that?
They have not yet released details on how exactly they did this, nor have they yet provided evidence for their claims
What are the bets they're waiting to make sure the the DMCA won't jump on them for circumventing nature's genetic code?
They completed their initial rollout, which covered quite a number of locations, but they are still expanding. They tend to keep the availability fairly up-to-date. Unfortunately ex-Cable&Wireless areas are still waiting for cable access using the modem in their set-top-boxes.
The price is currently still £19.95 a month, which is excellent value compared to a typical £39.95 for BT's ADSL (where available). The service has also improved a lot since I was first connected in early 2000. They do seem to have a genuine interesting in expanding their systems to keep things running smoothly. There's no monthly bandwidth limit at the present, just the usual 512Kbps capping.
What's more, NTL even updated their AUP to allow hosting of private servers, on the request of some users. Good on ya NTL!
Napster may not be P2P for the initial log-on or searches, but all the song downloads are done using a P2P connection.
If Napster hosted any songs on their system it would have been taken down an awful lot faster!
Now I don't know about everyone else, but I prefer to writing my own stuff rather than spending hours reading over someone else's work (which has to be reverse engineered to read, so goodbye comments, formatting, etc.)
But it's the challenge that's the fun part. You have the odds stacked against you, and the reward is more the satisfaction of having done it than the final pokes/codes you've found.
I'm sure it's the same for most system/software crackers - it's proving that it can be done, and that you can do it. WWII code-breakers probably had the same fascination for what they were doing too, on top of it being their day job.
Fortunately you can block the ICQ spam...
:-(
Under the Security and Privacy entry on the main ICQ menu, there's an option to only accept messages from people on your contact list. To be sure, also tell it not to accept e-mail express or pager messages, as they're generally abused too.
The newer ICQ 2001b gives finer grained control over this, so you can accept regular messages but ignore URLs, etc.
With the rise in ICQIS bot usage for ICQ spam, setting these is almost a must now
If companies are so confident these new protection schemes are worth using to prevent a certain amount casual copying, perhaps they should reduce the prices. Isn't one of the reasons they're so expensive (particularly here in the UK) due to music piracy?
And if they're not willing to drop the prices, they obviously don't believe it's going to work in the long run anyway.
Perhaps it'd be a little better to change the main story link to:
http://www.carrionsound.com/menu.htm
as that'd mean everyone isn't loading the 40K image on the homepage, and goes straight to the text menu page. It might give the poor server a fighting chance!