Your solution for the crypto stuff is the equivalent of uploading a patch. This is, from my understanding, legal, as there are patches to SSH to let it run under Win32, which can be exported, though the binaries themselves that result from applying the patch cannot be exported. Instead they must be compiled and distributed completely outside the US.
I'm not a lawyer, and I don't claim to be (so you might want to double-check with an expert!), but that's my take, fwiw.
I've never used any of these, so I don't know how well they work. There is a $150 server at www.pragmasys.com; you can have two simultaneous connections. Unlimited connections costs $300, though. 123 Terminal Server is $40 and is available at www.midasoft.com. GoodTech Telnet Server is only $20 and you can get it from www.goodtechsys.com. It hasn't been updated in a almost a year, though. STerm is free and is available from http://eot.student.utwente.nl/~flipper/sterm.html. Fictional Telnet Daemon is available at www.fictional.net and is $30.
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What happens if I don't realize that the site I'm linking to has information pertaining to how to obtain drugs and related paraphenalia?
What happens if I link to a site that has no such information until AFTER I link to it? That could be used maliciously against someone, in that such information could be posted (anonymously, of course) just to hurt someone. I suppose one could always look at the time stamps on the files, but those are easily manipulated, and does not consider that the page doing the linking could be updated after the linking took place (so the timestamp wouldn't reflect when the link was made). Backup archives could also be checked, but those are usually done on a nightly bases, so changes throughout the day don't show up.
Also, what about search engines? Would they be required to filter out anything that has the word "pot" or "joint" or "crack" in it? I can see it now, we'll start by censoring the pages that talk about cracks in the sidewalks and pot holes in the streets and the joint efforts we are making to fix the problem.
Did anyone find it amusing that the MSNBC article about the windows2000test server is listed under "Technology goofs and glitches"? First time in quite a while I've seen reporting so accurate.
This is Microsoft's feeble attempt at using the public to fix their bugs, in a manner similar to open source, but without actually having to give away their code. If we give in, we are only helping Microsoft, not hurting them. So don't do it!
I don't know much, but having two swap partitions on the same drive sounds bad. Linux may be smart enough not to do this, but it is conceivable that it could try to write to both partitions simultaneously, thus reducing performance.
For maximum performance out of your swap space, you probably want it closer to the beginning of the disk. Of course, if you don't do much swapping to disk then filesystem performance may be more important to you, so in that case the swap partition should go closer to the end of the disk.
You probably won't really notice a difference either way, though.
"mutt" has two t's, which means a short delay there.
In addition, is is difficult to type "mu" without using just one finger.
"pine" on the other hand, can be typed with four fingers (one for each letter), and so can be typed much faster and more easily. That alone makes pine my mailer of choice.
And no, editing my.cshrc file to alias pine to mutt is a ridiculous option. And besides, who wants to use a mailer not named after a tree?
About ten years ago I saw an article in Compute! magazine about a computer (a 286, I believe) that could play Nintendo games. This computer actually had a slot for cartridges and even the same processors as a normal Nintendo (so it wasn't an emulator). It did, unfortunately, require a reboot to play the games, but on a non-multitasking platform this wasn't really a big deal anyway.
Now I'm sure some bright individual could have figured a way to use such a machine to copy ROMs and distribute them. But no one did. The machine was no threat to Nintendo's well-being. And this type of machine is the key to my proposal.
Today, with the N64, we have all sorts of piracy. It's not the emulators that are hurting Nintendo; it's the Internet itself. Even if Nintendo got rid of the emulators, we would still have piracy, but in a different form. Some minor modifications to the N64 hardware to take it's ROMs from a different location (a SCSI port on a computer perhaps?) and you've got an easy way to download games and play them illegally.
But the same cannot be said of Sony. They made the right move when they decided to put their games on CDs. Sure, there are people out there who pirate Playstation CDs, but I see very few Playstation CDs on the search engines. It's much easier to download a 16Meg ROM than it is to download a 650Meg CD.
You don't actually think that Microsoft's products have bloated just because they are bad programmers, do you? C'mon, given how much they are paid, these guys are some of the best coders in the industry. But small, neat code is easy to pirate, and large, though optimized code is much more difficult to copy.
It's for this reason that Nintendo should have gone CD. So the only people who can really effectively pirate games are those who are wealthy enough to afford a CD writer and/or a cablemodem. In a year perhaps this may not be quite so true, as bandwidth increases. So make the next generation of systesms DVD-based and you've bought yourself some time against the pirates out there.
But remember that one of Nintendo's competitors is not Sony or Sega, but the PC itself! Games like Quake, Halflife, Sin, and Unreal run beautifully on the PC with not much extra hardware. And a PC can do wordprocessing too. Try to do that on your N64!
In fact, many people are buying PC's just to play games. Wouldn't it stand to reason, if these people who play games on their PC's, if they could buy a cheap $50 device that connects to their computer would be likely to buy such a device to play ROM-based games? And if it has a mechanism that makes piracy difficult (yes, I know the technical difficulties with this), then all the better. So Nintendo would stand to make money both off the device and off the games they would sell to people who wouldn't normally buy N64 games anyway (like me), because they don't have an N64.
Consider for a moment an operating system that could run applications from any other operating system. Wouldn't such an operating system be extraordinarily useful? And if it worked well (i.e. fast and stable), it would be even better. That's what emulation is about. Why do we need ten systems to do the job of what one can do just fine? I say that's all the more reason to develop emulators. And see if you can get my PC to make coffee/hot chocolate as well (where's that heat from the CPU going, anyway?)
Pegasus just ain't what it used to be
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It looked impressive at first, but I'm afraid there are too many problems. The IMAP configuration was awkward at best, Pegasus had trouble communicating with my server (kept closing the connection), and it crashed within the first five minutes. Sigh, I will keep looking/trying, though.
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Oh cool! They finally have IMAP support! This could definitely be a good thing.
Messenger replacement
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I've been using messenger for quite some time now, and I'm very pleased with the interface. But recently it has developed a quirk that won't let me access my IMAP folders. Kind of defeats the purpose of using IMAP!
Anyway, I've been looking for a new mail client. It should handle attachments properly (that means Eudora is out!), should have IMAP4 functionality, and be compatible with PGP. Some clients I've looked at:
XFMail Postilion Pine Mahogany Vienna Embla Simeon Mulberry
Of these, Mahogany looks really cool, but I can't find the Win32 version! Any comments?
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WordPerfect's not such a bad thing. MSWord conversions on large files could use a bit of work, but the same could be said of MSWord conversions of large WordPerfect files.
I wonder, why is GEM being released from this guy first and not from Caldera themselves? I know Caldera planned on releaseing GEM quite some time ago, but GPL was certainly not something I'd expected.
On another note, does anyone know about GEM-32 (or whatever the proper name for it is)? I remember reading about it on the OpenDOS mailling lists, but that was a while back. Are there still plans to develop such a product?
And please tell me there is a lightweight web browser available. I mean, an operating system just isn't complete without one!
In its day, Lawnmower man was a great movie. It was one of the first movies to have such high level CGI and all sorts of cool geek-type stuff. Not a great plot though.
Now, years down the line, we know what we are capable of. Did anyone look at the list of fx specialists in the credits? This movie was phenomenal, and will be talked about for years until its successor comes, which makes me wonder, what geek movie will we be watching in ten years?
Also, does anyone not see a direct relation between the gun scenes and Quake/Halflife/3d first-person shooter-type games? If someone develops a 3D version of the movie, it's going to be the next big thing -- first it was 3d (wolfenstein), then you could walk up stairs (quake), then aim up and down (duke3d), then you had true 3d characters (quake), and now true 3d sound (sin/unreal/the like). With a game based on the Matrix -- we now would have movement in 12 directions instead of merely 8 (think rotation). Not my cup o' tea, really, but it's a neat idea.
When they are on opposite sides of the sun it could even be 22 minutes, since transmitting through the sun could be a bit of a problem. So we'd need a relay station on Mercury or Venus.
Well, the old site did look cooler, imho. This one's really, different. I like the logo, but the colors are so springtime! And it's still winter here. Just my two cents.
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Your solution for the crypto stuff is the equivalent of uploading a patch. This is, from my understanding, legal, as there are patches to SSH to let it run under Win32, which can be exported, though the binaries themselves that result from applying the patch cannot be exported. Instead they must be compiled and distributed completely outside the US.
I'm not a lawyer, and I don't claim to be (so you might want to double-check with an expert!), but that's my take, fwiw.
I've never used any of these, so I don't know how well they work. There is a $150 server at www.pragmasys.com; you can have two simultaneous connections. Unlimited connections costs $300, though. 123 Terminal Server is $40 and is available at www.midasoft.com. GoodTech Telnet Server is only $20 and you can get it from www.goodtechsys.com. It hasn't been updated in a almost a year, though. STerm is free and is available from http://eot.student.utwente.nl/~flipper/sterm.html. Fictional Telnet Daemon is available at www.fictional.net and is $30.
What happens if I don't realize that the site I'm linking to has information pertaining to how to obtain drugs and related paraphenalia?
What happens if I link to a site that has no such information until AFTER I link to it? That could be used maliciously against someone, in that such information could be posted (anonymously, of course) just to hurt someone. I suppose one could always look at the time stamps on the files, but those are easily manipulated, and does not consider that the page doing the linking could be updated after the linking took place (so the timestamp wouldn't reflect when the link was made). Backup archives could also be checked, but those are usually done on a nightly bases, so changes throughout the day don't show up.
Also, what about search engines? Would they be required to filter out anything that has the word "pot" or "joint" or "crack" in it? I can see it now, we'll start by censoring the pages that talk about cracks in the sidewalks and pot holes in the streets and the joint efforts we are making to fix the problem.
Did anyone find it amusing that the MSNBC article about the windows2000test server is listed under "Technology goofs and glitches"? First time in quite a while I've seen reporting so accurate.
This is Microsoft's feeble attempt at using the public to fix their bugs, in a manner similar to open source, but without actually having to give away their code. If we give in, we are only helping Microsoft, not hurting them. So don't do it!
I don't know much, but having two swap partitions on the same drive sounds bad. Linux may be smart enough not to do this, but it is conceivable that it could try to write to both partitions simultaneously, thus reducing performance.
For maximum performance out of your swap space, you probably want it closer to the beginning of the disk. Of course, if you don't do much swapping to disk then filesystem performance may be more important to you, so in that case the swap partition should go closer to the end of the disk.
You probably won't really notice a difference either way, though.
Unfortunately, The Bat's IMAP support is clunky at best.
Does anyone know of a good mail client that supports both IMAP and PGP? Most clients support one or the other.
And Outlook is not an option.
"mutt" has two t's, which means a short delay there.
.cshrc file to alias pine to mutt is a ridiculous option. And besides, who wants to use a mailer not named after a tree?
In addition, is is difficult to type "mu" without using just one finger.
"pine" on the other hand, can be typed with four fingers (one for each letter), and so can be typed much faster and more easily. That alone makes pine my mailer of choice.
And no, editing my
About ten years ago I saw an article in Compute! magazine about a computer (a 286, I believe) that could play Nintendo games. This computer actually had a slot for cartridges and even the same processors as a normal Nintendo (so it wasn't an emulator). It did, unfortunately, require a reboot to play the games, but on a non-multitasking platform this wasn't really a big deal anyway.
Now I'm sure some bright individual could have figured a way to use such a machine to copy ROMs and distribute them. But no one did. The machine was no threat to Nintendo's well-being. And this type of machine is the key to my proposal.
Today, with the N64, we have all sorts of piracy. It's not the emulators that are hurting Nintendo; it's the Internet itself. Even if Nintendo got rid of the emulators, we would still have piracy, but in a different form. Some minor modifications to the N64 hardware to take it's ROMs from a different location (a SCSI port on a computer perhaps?) and you've got an easy way to download games and play them illegally.
But the same cannot be said of Sony. They made the right move when they decided to put their games on CDs. Sure, there are people out there who pirate Playstation CDs, but I see very few Playstation CDs on the search engines. It's much easier to download a 16Meg ROM than it is to download a 650Meg CD.
You don't actually think that Microsoft's products have bloated just because they are bad programmers, do you? C'mon, given how much they are paid, these guys are some of the best coders in the industry. But small, neat code is easy to pirate, and large, though optimized code is much more difficult to copy.
It's for this reason that Nintendo should have gone CD. So the only people who can really effectively pirate games are those who are wealthy enough to afford a CD writer and/or a cablemodem. In a year perhaps this may not be quite so true, as bandwidth increases. So make the next generation of systesms DVD-based and you've bought yourself some time against the pirates out there.
But remember that one of Nintendo's competitors is not Sony or Sega, but the PC itself! Games like Quake, Halflife, Sin, and Unreal run beautifully on the PC with not much extra hardware. And a PC can do wordprocessing too. Try to do that on your N64!
In fact, many people are buying PC's just to play games. Wouldn't it stand to reason, if these people who play games on their PC's, if they could buy a cheap $50 device that connects to their computer would be likely to buy such a device to play ROM-based games? And if it has a mechanism that makes piracy difficult (yes, I know the technical difficulties with this), then all the better. So Nintendo would stand to make money both off the device and off the games they would sell to people who wouldn't normally buy N64 games anyway (like me), because they don't have an N64.
Consider for a moment an operating system that could run applications from any other operating system. Wouldn't such an operating system be extraordinarily useful? And if it worked well (i.e. fast and stable), it would be even better. That's what emulation is about. Why do we need ten systems to do the job of what one can do just fine? I say that's all the more reason to develop emulators. And see if you can get my PC to make coffee/hot chocolate as well (where's that heat from the CPU going, anyway?)
It looked impressive at first, but I'm afraid there are too many problems. The IMAP configuration was awkward at best, Pegasus had trouble communicating with my server (kept closing the connection), and it crashed within the first five minutes. Sigh, I will keep looking/trying, though.
Oh cool! They finally have IMAP support! This could definitely be a good thing.
I've been using messenger for quite some time now, and I'm very pleased with the interface. But recently it has developed a quirk that won't let me access my IMAP folders. Kind of defeats the purpose of using IMAP!
Anyway, I've been looking for a new mail client. It should handle attachments properly (that means Eudora is out!), should have IMAP4 functionality, and be compatible with PGP. Some clients I've looked at:
XFMail
Postilion
Pine
Mahogany
Vienna
Embla
Simeon
Mulberry
Of these, Mahogany looks really cool, but I can't find the Win32 version! Any comments?
WordPerfect's not such a bad thing. MSWord conversions on large files could use a bit of work, but the same could be said of MSWord conversions of large WordPerfect files.
Opera isn't too bad. I haven't tried Trollio yet, but it looks decent.
I wonder, why is GEM being released from this guy first and not from Caldera themselves? I know Caldera planned on releaseing GEM quite some time ago, but GPL was certainly not something I'd expected.
On another note, does anyone know about GEM-32 (or whatever the proper name for it is)? I remember reading about it on the OpenDOS mailling lists, but that was a while back. Are there still plans to develop such a product?
And please tell me there is a lightweight web browser available. I mean, an operating system just isn't complete without one!
In its day, Lawnmower man was a great movie. It was one of the first movies to have such high level CGI and all sorts of cool geek-type stuff. Not a great plot though.
Now, years down the line, we know what we are capable of. Did anyone look at the list of fx specialists in the credits? This movie was phenomenal, and will be talked about for years until its successor comes, which makes me wonder, what geek movie will we be watching in ten years?
Also, does anyone not see a direct relation between the gun scenes and Quake/Halflife/3d first-person shooter-type games? If someone develops a 3D version of the movie, it's going to be the next big thing -- first it was 3d (wolfenstein), then you could walk up stairs (quake), then aim up and down (duke3d), then you had true 3d characters (quake), and now true 3d sound (sin/unreal/the like). With a game based on the Matrix -- we now would have movement in 12 directions instead of merely 8 (think rotation). Not my cup o' tea, really, but it's a neat idea.
When they are on opposite sides of the sun it could even be 22 minutes, since transmitting through the sun could be a bit of a problem. So we'd need a relay station on Mercury or Venus.
Starbucks is great coffee for those of us who
don't like the regular stuff. I can just taste the iced vanilla frapuccino right now...
I clicked to move 32bitsonline.com up a level and I got this grey version of one of the articles (as opposed to the good old Slashdot-green). Weird.
On another note, it's way too easy to click on that 'X' and make something go away.
It's too, not to. This isn't the first time, either.
It isn't 2:30 yet, even in the eastern time zone. Where are you posting from?
Well, the old site did look cooler, imho. This one's really, different. I like the logo, but the colors are so springtime! And it's still winter here. Just my two cents.