Sega might be able to hit it big pushing Dreamcast as a set top box. The DC already has two web browsers out for it (PlanetWeb and DreamKey, I'm posting this from the PlanetWeb browser) and is an extremely attractive offer for someone looking to do things on the net for cheap.
The PlanetWeb browser also has internet-standard mail and IRC clients built in. I have a few screenshots of the PlanetWeb browser up (those are from version 1.0, they're up to 2.0 now.)
As an aside, I'm posting this from my Dreamcast because my Windows 2000 box decided to lock me out with a BSOD-on-boot. Thanks Bill. Really.
Anyway, one thing that's a must if you're using your Dreamcast on the Internet is the sega keyboard. It's a standard keyboard with the three M$ keys replaced with S1 through 3, but it has a cable capable of hooking to one of the Dreamcast's maple bus connectors.
This egg was activated in the Amiga's Preferences dialog. If I remember correctly you had to click the buttons on the mice that were on-screen in a certain sequence, hold down a key combo, and insert or eject a floppy, at which point the message would show up in the title bar.
..Compute magazine said that by the year 2000 we'd all have cassette players embedded in the walls of our houses "to store recipies and other personal files".
Hopefully you'll understand if I take the Times' predictions with a grain of salt.:-)
Check out the Nights into Dreams table in Sonic Adventure, it's fun for the entire family.. or something.
My favorite game of pinball had to be the game, well, Pinball for the Atari 2600. I could spend hours playing it and roll-over the score several times.
Unless you're really into having a physical table to bump a little silver ball around, computer pinball pretty much looks like the way of the future. You don't have to keep feeding it quarters, and you can beat the crap out of your game controller without it tilting.
Cliff, what you fail to notice is that the ISP is the real DoS victim. The bottom line is that denials of service cost ISPs money, in both financial resources (bandwidth) and manpower (support).
It's not fair to a customer that's a victim for an ISP to have to deny them service, but it's also not fair to the hundreds or thousands of other customers on that ISP's network that aren't victims to have to be denied service because of one person.
GameShark CDX for the Dreamcast was released on June 1st. The Dreamcast is able to boot from the CDROM included, meaning you don't need a Sega GDROM to boot the console. This opens up more opportunities for getting your own code to boot on the console, if you were inclined to write code for it. It should also give a shot in the arm to those OpenBSD-sh4 guys, wherever they are.
They've been sending me nastygrams even though I took my mirror down in January. (Read the link, funny stuff.) At this stage they're just looking to harass people.
Note, though, the site is only semi-functional. "The registry will allow you to look up dot.god names for availability but it will not allow you to register at this time"
So you can check for availability in this new TLD, but you can't register anything under it yet?
I'd imagine that was an extremely simple CGI to write.
This is a problem with any peer-to-peer file sharing app, including the centralized Napster system. Unless there's a third-party available to proxy the transfer through, your IP will be available. And it's likely we won't see download proxies springing up, simply because of concerns over bandwidth saturation and liability.
Note that the a good number of the DVD case defendant sites are outside the US. Still, the DVD lawyers saw fit to file suit against people running mirror sites all over the world. Unfortunately, they got their way with a number of the non-US sites.
Tom Vogt, from Denmark, has been the defendants' most active and vocal supporter. His mirror is still up and running.
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I don't know about the PS2, but with an add-on SVGA adaptor you can hook the Dreamcast up to your favorite monitor and get stunning visuals.
The PlanetWeb browser also has internet-standard mail and IRC clients built in. I have a few screenshots of the PlanetWeb browser up (those are from version 1.0, they're up to 2.0 now.)
As an aside, I'm posting this from my Dreamcast because my Windows 2000 box decided to lock me out with a BSOD-on-boot. Thanks Bill. Really.
Anyway, one thing that's a must if you're using your Dreamcast on the Internet is the sega keyboard. It's a standard keyboard with the three M$ keys replaced with S1 through 3, but it has a cable capable of hooking to one of the Dreamcast's maple bus connectors.
This egg was activated in the Amiga's Preferences dialog. If I remember correctly you had to click the buttons on the mice that were on-screen in a certain sequence, hold down a key combo, and insert or eject a floppy, at which point the message would show up in the title bar.
Hopefully you'll understand if I take the Times' predictions with a grain of salt. :-)
My favorite game of pinball had to be the game, well, Pinball for the Atari 2600. I could spend hours playing it and roll-over the score several times.
Unless you're really into having a physical table to bump a little silver ball around, computer pinball pretty much looks like the way of the future. You don't have to keep feeding it quarters, and you can beat the crap out of your game controller without it tilting.
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Right when I was about to buy all this stylish merchandise, too. :-)
When you have to pay a $2500+ per month in bandwidth charges for traffic to a $50 per month customer, the numbers pretty much speak for themselves.
It's not fair to a customer that's a victim for an ISP to have to deny them service, but it's also not fair to the hundreds or thousands of other customers on that ISP's network that aren't victims to have to be denied service because of one person.
GameShark CDX for the Dreamcast was released on June 1st. The Dreamcast is able to boot from the CDROM included, meaning you don't need a Sega GDROM to boot the console. This opens up more opportunities for getting your own code to boot on the console, if you were inclined to write code for it. It should also give a shot in the arm to those OpenBSD-sh4 guys, wherever they are.
Rob: Steal cowboyneal's La Blue Girl DVDs. I know he's hiding them somewhere.
Hot damn! Look at the detailed accuracy in those screenshots! It looks almost like real life!
Congratulations. You just made me snort my Pepsi.
They've been sending me nastygrams even though I took my mirror down in January. (Read the link, funny stuff.) At this stage they're just looking to harass people.
So you can check for availability in this new TLD, but you can't register anything under it yet?
I'd imagine that was an extremely simple CGI to write.
I wonder who could be behind the DDoS..
I can do that with Netscape too.
You guessed it...
That's why DIVX is so popular.
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Oh, wait..
http://slashdot.com/
Certainly not the people who posted the IPs. Would you get in trouble for posting a Caller ID log? Or your web server statistics?
This is a problem with any peer-to-peer file sharing app, including the centralized Napster system. Unless there's a third-party available to proxy the transfer through, your IP will be available. And it's likely we won't see download proxies springing up, simply because of concerns over bandwidth saturation and liability.
Tom Vogt, from Denmark, has been the defendants' most active and vocal supporter. His mirror is still up and running.
I use slashdot's file not found page (which tells you the filename that was not found) to return a script tag back to your client.