Still, newer processors mean lower prices for everything else. What's there to lose? I love it!
Any slight hope of resale of your old kit?
Not that that is a new thing, I still have more or less every PC I've owned, just because they are more use to me that the £50-300 I'd get by selling them.
Right, because SCSI was invented for the Amiga, and is not available for PCs, nor has SCSI developed at all in the last 10 years.
Hell, long before the Amiga, you had a seperate computer that did nothing but handle the display (e.g Pluto, Pixar Image Computer, Ikonas), and people thought it was pretty cool when you could integrate graphics into your main computer (not the the CPU, but the same box).
I guess it's not such a good thing only criminals are allowed to carry guns in GB. Oops.
That's actually not quite true, but in general shootings are very unusual in the UK, which is why the case made the news - even criminals don't often carry guns. Certainly not petty thieves.
Besides, I thought you were only supposed to be shooting at the government with those guns?:)
How many people had CD burners in their own machines in 1992?
But at that time, DAT recorders were about $800-1000 IIRC, and tipped to be the next big thing in digital audio (along with Phillips' DCC). Neither of those techs made it in the consumer market (minidisc was the eventual format of choice, if any), but based on typical pricing drops you could reasonably expect that an audio DAT drive would now be $100-200 had they taken off the way it was expected. DAT ended up being a studio-only format, and to some extent replaced with ADAT.
My memory of 'CD Recorders' from the same time is that they were $3000-10000, and considered very luxurious.
I think DAT and DCC were the main 'enemy' at the time of the AHRA.
he wasn't shot:-) He was stabbed by a "screwdriver-like" weapon
Two different incidents, both in Yorkshire in the last few days, both involving disturbing theives at work. One man was shot dead, another was attacked with a screwdriver.
Re: "bigger"....but with only 4-5 times the population. It's a lot less dense over there - all those wide open spaces. Since news usually involves people rather than acres of land (what a species-centric bunch we are), that would be the factor to apply, if any.
most likely can't legally go down to their local 7/11 and buy a Saturday Night Special and a six pack of beer at the same time!
But that is not a universal thing in the US - I know that when I was in Maryland you couldn't buy liquor at the supermarket (and presumably 7-11). I didn't check for a firearms aisle, so I'm not sure about that (the guns and huge fuckoff knives counter in Walmart in Reno freaked me out a little too though).
Gun-related-aside: One of the main stories of the last few days on national tv and radio news in the UK has been about a man who was shot in the head by car thieves as he tried to stop them stealing his car - would that sort of story even make the national news in the US? I have my doubts... and if not, that's a pretty sad state of affairs.
Good point - I'd forgotten about that part. I got my Toshiba DVDROMs just as the RPC-2 drives were coming out.
However, the DVDROM in my new Toshiba laptop (August 2001), also works fine with DVDGenie, and I think the Creative one I got a little while ago works OK too (it's in a PC I don't use to watch DVDs much).
There are several sites around that collect data about which drives are RPC-1/RPC-2, this is one.
Evil nasty bad MS Outlook has had this ability for at least the last few versions (97 onwards I think).
Depending on how much grief other people reading your mail is going to cause (legal, or merely embarrassing), it's worth noting that several countries already have laws requiring you to give up the keys to your encrypted mail in certain situations, and others are considering similar laws.
I'd make some useless personal homepage (god knows there are enough of those already, and nobody visits them),
The problem with this is that assuming someone does find the hidden message in one of the images, then it is easy to install Carnivore, or similar and watch all traffic requesting the page. USENET gets distributed all over the place - that's why it gets used for things where people don't want a centralised log of the fact they downloaded it (pr0n, warez, contentious views).
Download some alt.binaries.images.erotica.* files, paste on a fake BBS ad, and embed your message. Repost. No-one will try and call the BBS, or be surprised if the details "don't work".
I agree that not finding messages doesn't mean they aren't there, however.
Relax. I didn't mention my ISP doing anything. I run my own mail server.
Besides, as I said (and I think you agreed), the benefit of running procmail and/or SA is that you make the rules. It just happens that SA has quite a nice scoring system and a lively community of people developing new rules for it, and a nifty genetic algorithm-based tool for optimising the scores for each test based on a large body of sample messages.
What I actually do is filter the tagged 'spam' into a separate on-server folder which I scan through from time to time to tweak my filter rules.
...than email can be filtered server-side to cull it out.
I can do that already far more effectively using tools like procmail and SpamAssassin. SpamAssassin in turn can use various RBLs and Vipul's Razor (recently mentioned here), if you choose to.
That combination has saved me from recieving and processing about 20 messages in my personal mail today alone, not to mention the other benefits of auto-filing/trashing/redirecting that using procmail gives me.
Actually, since they've been doing it for as long as I have been flying, I think it's probably aimed more at the previous ultimate evil in the world - drugs. "If you packed the case, and no-one else has opened it, how did *they* get there?"
There's a difference between increasing engine output, and having a balanced vehicle that can deal with it and produce (say) faster circuit times. Most modding guides seem to look to suspension and brake changes before engine mods to improve your track-day times - brake later, turn harder.
Not that it's something I can afford to indulge in.
or, I could use a less shitty program that does all that by default, looks nicer, doesn't crash randomly, and works how I expect, without advertising or other garbage.
[I'm pretty sure I've done all that on the PC in question, although I ran ICQ on three different ones, so I could have dreamt it]
I never really thought of it that way:) I meant that it is situated in the UK, part of Region 2.
The drive is a Toshiba drive, which might also be manufactured in Region 2 (Japan), although probably as you say, in 3 and 6.
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Dude, you missed off the apostrophe and the t. Err, and you mispelled possession.
[Ahhh, post #500 for me, and it's a dictionary flame. At least it's jwz (I enjoy your site of rants, and your webcollage - thanks for the entertainment).]
Best example I have seen of this is a sign by the roadside advertising "Xma's Tree's".
Only the rarist exceptions become millionaire superstarts living in fat ass mansions and gold-plating every surface in their house (Madonna, Michael Jackson, Sting, Aerosmith, etc).
IIRC, Madonna owns her own record company (London Records?), which would probably help. Maybe one of the pigs eating at the table rather than the sheep...
Be wary of getting a 'region-free' DVD player, as opposed to a region-switchable one. I seem to recall that some recent discs have a slightly different region-check that doesn't like region-free players, but is fine if you have a player that can be set to the correct region.
Wish I could remember what it was called, but I think Gladiator and some versions of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon were the two movies mentioned at the time.
That said, I have a region-free DVD player (Wharfdale DVD-750) and I've yet to come across a problem disc (apart from some VideoCDs, but that's another story).
For Windows, DVD Genie is the answer for most software solutions, including the popular WinDVD, and PowerDVD, and Remote Selector does the same for the Sigma Designs Hollywood Plus (aka VideoLogic DVD Player), and Creative's DXR2/3 amongst other hardware decoders.
I've used both with great results playing Region 1 disks on my (theoretically) Region 2 PCs.
It's also an ICQ client that doesn't try to get me order flowers, send SMS, play games, use video-conferencing, or pop up banners. It has a consistent UI compared to ICQ, and for some reason, I seem to get no spam ICQ via Trillian, whereas I get tons with ICQ2000b and the same UIN.
Trillian is v.nice nowadays. If only it supported Jabber too - the windows Jabber client was kind of crappy last time I tried it.
It could be anything! It's not so long ago that things that big were common. Only last year we finally sent our DEC VAX 6300 system to the junkyard: 7 boxes the size of LARGE deepfreezes, 2 CPU cabinets (not chips, cabinets), 2 disk controller cabinets, 2 cabinets full of dual-ported RAID disks, some are 8-inch platters (I kept a couple as souvenirs). That was a large, but not huge system built around 1991.
Lovely engineering, and our comms room will never be short of three-phase power as a result.
[the last cabinet was a wiring loom and multiload tapedrive (like a DLT library with TK50 tapes)]
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Still, newer processors mean lower prices for everything else. What's there to lose? I love it!
Any slight hope of resale of your old kit?
Not that that is a new thing, I still have more or less every PC I've owned, just because they are more use to me that the £50-300 I'd get by selling them.
Right, because SCSI was invented for the Amiga, and is not available for PCs, nor has SCSI developed at all in the last 10 years.
Hell, long before the Amiga, you had a seperate computer that did nothing but handle the display (e.g Pluto, Pixar Image Computer, Ikonas), and people thought it was pretty cool when you could integrate graphics into your main computer (not the the CPU, but the same box).
I guess it's not such a good thing only criminals are allowed to carry guns in GB. Oops.
:)
That's actually not quite true, but in general shootings are very unusual in the UK, which is why the case made the news - even criminals don't often carry guns. Certainly not petty thieves.
Besides, I thought you were only supposed to be shooting at the government with those guns?
How many people had CD burners in their own machines in 1992?
But at that time, DAT recorders were about $800-1000 IIRC, and tipped to be the next big thing in digital audio (along with Phillips' DCC). Neither of those techs made it in the consumer market (minidisc was the eventual format of choice, if any), but based on typical pricing drops you could reasonably expect that an audio DAT drive would now be $100-200 had they taken off the way it was expected. DAT ended up being a studio-only format, and to some extent replaced with ADAT.
My memory of 'CD Recorders' from the same time is that they were $3000-10000, and considered very luxurious.
I think DAT and DCC were the main 'enemy' at the time of the AHRA.
he wasn't shot :-) He was stabbed by a "screwdriver-like" weapon
...but with only 4-5 times the population. It's a lot less dense over there - all those wide open spaces. Since news usually involves people rather than acres of land (what a species-centric bunch we are), that would be the factor to apply, if any.
Two different incidents, both in Yorkshire in the last few days, both involving disturbing theives at work. One man was shot dead, another was attacked with a screwdriver.
Re: "bigger".
most likely can't legally go down to their local 7/11 and buy a Saturday Night Special and a six pack of beer at the same time!
But that is not a universal thing in the US - I know that when I was in Maryland you couldn't buy liquor at the supermarket (and presumably 7-11). I didn't check for a firearms aisle, so I'm not sure about that (the guns and huge fuckoff knives counter in Walmart in Reno freaked me out a little too though).
Gun-related-aside: One of the main stories of the last few days on national tv and radio news in the UK has been about a man who was shot in the head by car thieves as he tried to stop them stealing his car - would that sort of story even make the national news in the US? I have my doubts... and if not, that's a pretty sad state of affairs.
Good point - I'd forgotten about that part. I got my Toshiba DVDROMs just as the RPC-2 drives were coming out.
However, the DVDROM in my new Toshiba laptop (August 2001), also works fine with DVDGenie, and I think the Creative one I got a little while ago works OK too (it's in a PC I don't use to watch DVDs much).
There are several sites around that collect data about which drives are RPC-1/RPC-2, this is one.
Evil nasty bad MS Outlook has had this ability for at least the last few versions (97 onwards I think).
Depending on how much grief other people reading your mail is going to cause (legal, or merely embarrassing), it's worth noting that several countries already have laws requiring you to give up the keys to your encrypted mail in certain situations, and others are considering similar laws.
I'd make some useless personal homepage (god knows there are enough of those already, and nobody visits them),
The problem with this is that assuming someone does find the hidden message in one of the images, then it is easy to install Carnivore, or similar and watch all traffic requesting the page. USENET gets distributed all over the place - that's why it gets used for things where people don't want a centralised log of the fact they downloaded it (pr0n, warez, contentious views).
Download some alt.binaries.images.erotica.* files, paste on a fake BBS ad, and embed your message. Repost. No-one will try and call the BBS, or be surprised if the details "don't work".
I agree that not finding messages doesn't mean they aren't there, however.
Relax. I didn't mention my ISP doing anything. I run my own mail server.
Besides, as I said (and I think you agreed), the benefit of running procmail and/or SA is that you make the rules. It just happens that SA has quite a nice scoring system and a lively community of people developing new rules for it, and a nifty genetic algorithm-based tool for optimising the scores for each test based on a large body of sample messages.
What I actually do is filter the tagged 'spam' into a separate on-server folder which I scan through from time to time to tweak my filter rules.
...than email can be filtered server-side to cull it out.
I can do that already far more effectively using tools like procmail and SpamAssassin. SpamAssassin in turn can use various RBLs and Vipul's Razor (recently mentioned here), if you choose to.
That combination has saved me from recieving and processing about 20 messages in my personal mail today alone, not to mention the other benefits of auto-filing/trashing/redirecting that using procmail gives me.
Actually, since they've been doing it for as long as I have been flying, I think it's probably aimed more at the previous ultimate evil in the world - drugs. "If you packed the case, and no-one else has opened it, how did *they* get there?"
There's a difference between increasing engine output, and having a balanced vehicle that can deal with it and produce (say) faster circuit times. Most modding guides seem to look to suspension and brake changes before engine mods to improve your track-day times - brake later, turn harder.
Not that it's something I can afford to indulge in.
or, I could use a less shitty program that does all that by default, looks nicer, doesn't crash randomly, and works how I expect, without advertising or other garbage.
[I'm pretty sure I've done all that on the PC in question, although I ran ICQ on three different ones, so I could have dreamt it]
Q: "Are you a member of a terrorist organisation?" (as it says on the green US INS Visa Waiver form [*])
A: "No" (thinking: "I'm a freedom fighter", and therefore telling the truth).
Even if it were 100% accurate, it may not help.
[*] also containing 'Moral Torpitude' - my all-time favourite phrase on a government form.
"Tee-hee, you misunderstand me for comic effect."
:) I meant that it is situated in the UK, part of Region 2.
I never really thought of it that way
The drive is a Toshiba drive, which might also be manufactured in Region 2 (Japan), although probably as you say, in 3 and 6.
Dude, you missed off the apostrophe and the t. Err, and you mispelled possession.
[Ahhh, post #500 for me, and it's a dictionary flame. At least it's jwz (I enjoy your site of rants, and your webcollage - thanks for the entertainment).]
Best example I have seen of this is a sign by the roadside advertising "Xma's Tree's".
Don't forget the risk of paper cuts in handling all those checks. That sure would suck too. I hate it when I get lots of money.
[seriously, I think that it's truer to say it's currently the artist who gets a cut, rather than the label]
Only the rarist exceptions become millionaire superstarts living in fat ass mansions and gold-plating every surface in their house (Madonna, Michael Jackson, Sting, Aerosmith, etc).
IIRC, Madonna owns her own record company (London Records?), which would probably help. Maybe one of the pigs eating at the table rather than the sheep...
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That, or it'll be the far more serious charge of conspiracy to deprive Walt Disney's frozen head of his rightful cash cow.
Be wary of getting a 'region-free' DVD player, as opposed to a region-switchable one. I seem to recall that some recent discs have a slightly different region-check that doesn't like region-free players, but is fine if you have a player that can be set to the correct region.
Wish I could remember what it was called, but I think Gladiator and some versions of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon were the two movies mentioned at the time.
That said, I have a region-free DVD player (Wharfdale DVD-750) and I've yet to come across a problem disc (apart from some VideoCDs, but that's another story).
For Windows, DVD Genie is the answer for most software solutions, including the popular WinDVD, and PowerDVD, and Remote Selector does the same for the Sigma Designs Hollywood Plus (aka VideoLogic DVD Player), and Creative's DXR2/3 amongst other hardware decoders.
I've used both with great results playing Region 1 disks on my (theoretically) Region 2 PCs.
It's also an ICQ client that doesn't try to get me order flowers, send SMS, play games, use video-conferencing, or pop up banners. It has a consistent UI compared to ICQ, and for some reason, I seem to get no spam ICQ via Trillian, whereas I get tons with ICQ2000b and the same UIN.
Trillian is v.nice nowadays. If only it supported Jabber too - the windows Jabber client was kind of crappy last time I tried it.
It could be anything! It's not so long ago that things that big were common. Only last year we finally sent our DEC VAX 6300 system to the junkyard: 7 boxes the size of LARGE deepfreezes, 2 CPU cabinets (not chips, cabinets), 2 disk controller cabinets, 2 cabinets full of dual-ported RAID disks, some are 8-inch platters (I kept a couple as souvenirs). That was a large, but not huge system built around 1991.
Lovely engineering, and our comms room will never be short of three-phase power as a result.
[the last cabinet was a wiring loom and multiload tapedrive (like a DLT library with TK50 tapes)]
MacOS is already more or less single tasking - who needs IIS?