At my uni the Wireless Communications Club (previously the Radio Hams - obviously not fashionable enough any more ; ) are working to extend the ComSci departments wireless LAN using repeaters in student houses. If you live along the right roads, you can get T3 access straight onto JANET. And without all of that ISP crap.
And we all know the sysadmins, so we can get away with all kinds of shit : D
This may be me just being hideously misinformed, but I have no idea what to expect for a project of this size? I mean it does sound like a helluva lot . ..
Mind you, I suppose it's better they all get reported and fixed than ignored until someone independant BugTraqs your ass.
They can be great fun if you have craploads of time on your hands (like us students >: ) Most RPG games do start out lame. Final Fantasy VII is still for my money the best RPG ever made (controversial choice, I know) but for the first coupla days of play all you do in fights is select Attack from a tantalisingly big empty list of options.
RPGs are always shit when you first start out. That's a side effect of the essence of role-playing - growth. If you start out fully grown, what's the point?
I'm still using Office 2k, and it does everything I want it to. I see no point in upgrading because I don't use all of the features of 2k, let alone the bloat that comes with Office XP.
Of course, this argument only works as long as they support the older file formats in newer versions. I don't dare speculate how long that will last bearing in mind the above nastiness . . .
Most languages have a very rigid. Not to with DHTML.
In DHTML there are seven different ways of doing everything. Five will work in IE. One will crash IE. Three will work in Nutscrape. Three will crash Nutscrape. There is an overlap of one.
Finding that one is harder than a very hard thing that's been starched to make it harder.
Corporate and military communications, banking transactions, medical information tracking, etc, etc
Actually in the UK each regional Trust communicates using direct lines between centres. If you send medical details between Trusts, it's still done via paperwork.
. . . . How exactly do you send someone an e-mail trying to sell them a weapon of mass distruction?
Sadam, You have been approved. You can receive a thermo-nuclear warhead! Did You Know? -There are No special requirements to obtain these weapons. -These are weapons that you NEVER have to repay!
When you say "everyone" you mean the online community. My grandparents wouldn't have a clue what the hell peer-to-peer was, but they still buy and listen to music and that makes their opinion as valid as anyone elses, as far as I'm concerned.
And I can get away with handing books back as late as I want as well, because my girlfriend works at the library and can doctor the system that sends spots late returns and demands money when you finally bring them back ; )
On a vaguely related point, five or so years ago (before the whole ripping thing took off) my mate used to get all his music from the library. They'd only charge you £8 if you 'lost' CDs that you'd normally have to pay £12 to buy. You can see where I'm going with this, can't you . ..
Still, they changed that after he almost completely cleared out the punk section.
Wallace and Gromit should have been stale when it first came out (regional English accents and dogs that are smarter than their owners?), but the sheer quality of the animation and clever direction made all three some of the most loved short films ever.
Brotherhood of the Wolf was a great film (although the fact that it was low budget and French probably scared some people off) with a serious anime-style twist to it.
On the other hand, Crying Freeman (which was a manga first) sucked giant donkey balls (and incidently stared a guy from BofW).
It's almost like with books. If you've been watching it in your head for however long, seeing it on the screen seems a little lame. Mind you that might just be me. I treat anime as manga that I don't have to read . . .
I wouldn't have minded about the MP3 thing quite so much if they had included Ogg support. Especially now my PC has overtaken my stereo as my main source of music . . .
Our Network Development guys spent £16k on a 1U flip-top screen, keyboard and KVM. Us engineers dream of funding like that and told them so.
Mind you, when you go to do the backups there's something immensely cool about pushing the front of the thing and having it slide out of the rack and unfold. Yum.
In a similar vein, a friend of mine covered his door at university with the things.
When we ran out about three quarters of the way down, we went and asked a AOL person in the street for twenty CDs. The shock must have been immense. The poor bastard nearly had a heart attack . . .
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there'd be no adverts
And you're funding this how?
At my uni the Wireless Communications Club (previously the Radio Hams - obviously not fashionable enough any more ; ) are working to extend the ComSci departments wireless LAN using repeaters in student houses. If you live along the right roads, you can get T3 access straight onto JANET. And without all of that ISP crap.
And we all know the sysadmins, so we can get away with all kinds of shit : D
This may be me just being hideously misinformed, but I have no idea what to expect for a project of this size? I mean it does sound like a helluva lot . . .
Mind you, I suppose it's better they all get reported and fixed than ignored until someone independant BugTraqs your ass.
They can be great fun if you have craploads of time on your hands (like us students >: ) Most RPG games do start out lame. Final Fantasy VII is still for my money the best RPG ever made (controversial choice, I know) but for the first coupla days of play all you do in fights is select Attack from a tantalisingly big empty list of options.
RPGs are always shit when you first start out. That's a side effect of the essence of role-playing - growth. If you start out fully grown, what's the point?
"When can get my own light saber?"
I don't care.
I'm still using Office 2k, and it does everything I want it to. I see no point in upgrading because I don't use all of the features of 2k, let alone the bloat that comes with Office XP.
Of course, this argument only works as long as they support the older file formats in newer versions. I don't dare speculate how long that will last bearing in mind the above nastiness . . .
Most languages have a very rigid. Not to with DHTML.
In DHTML there are seven different ways of doing everything. Five will work in IE. One will crash IE. Three will work in Nutscrape. Three will crash Nutscrape. There is an overlap of one.
Finding that one is harder than a very hard thing that's been starched to make it harder.
Corporate and military communications, banking transactions, medical information tracking, etc, etc
Actually in the UK each regional Trust communicates using direct lines between centres. If you send medical details between Trusts, it's still done via paperwork.
They trust the Internet about as much as I do ; )
Oh OK.
. . . . How exactly do you send someone an e-mail trying to sell them a weapon of mass distruction?
Sadam,
You have been approved.
You can receive a thermo-nuclear warhead!
Did You Know?
-There are No special requirements to obtain these weapons.
-These are weapons that you NEVER have to repay!
Sadam,You Qualify!
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When you say "everyone" you mean the online community. My grandparents wouldn't have a clue what the hell peer-to-peer was, but they still buy and listen to music and that makes their opinion as valid as anyone elses, as far as I'm concerned.
it's more like an "Anti-*" page against anyone and everyone
Uh oh. Time to sell my shares in that French anti-freeze company . . .
Awesome! Let's send him some poo!
[Note to self - In the future don't post drunk]
All of the advantages, none of the . . . oops.
I mean, the government gets whatever it wants, because it has all the power
I'm not so sure. There was talk a few months ago of the RIP Act being voided because of a new European law that had been passed.
Has anyone heard anything about this recently?
(-1 Hearsay, Suspicion and not a lot else)
Totally.
.
And I can get away with handing books back as late as I want as well, because my girlfriend works at the library and can doctor the system that sends spots late returns and demands money when you finally bring them back ; )
On a vaguely related point, five or so years ago (before the whole ripping thing took off) my mate used to get all his music from the library. They'd only charge you £8 if you 'lost' CDs that you'd normally have to pay £12 to buy. You can see where I'm going with this, can't you . .
Still, they changed that after he almost completely cleared out the punk section.
And how hard is to spot the guy on the other side of the street looking shifty with that empty Pringles can?
The fastest 486 in terms of Mhz was the Amd 5x86 - 133Mhz
And I thought that AMDs "it's the equivalent of, so why don't we just call it that anyway" policy was a new thing.
Guess you learn something new every day ; )
That's the thing, isn't it?
Wallace and Gromit should have been stale when it first came out (regional English accents and dogs that are smarter than their owners?), but the sheer quality of the animation and clever direction made all three some of the most loved short films ever.
On the other hand - what's it costing them?
1:"Shall we pay for advertising?"
2:"Fsck no! Just click this big button here marked 'Spam'."
1:" . . . . "
2:"It's free."
1:"Hot damn!"
Still, it does have some pretty impressive specs when it comes to memory bandwidth. See?
Brotherhood of the Wolf was a great film (although the fact that it was low budget and French probably scared some people off) with a serious anime-style twist to it.
On the other hand, Crying Freeman (which was a manga first) sucked giant donkey balls (and incidently stared a guy from BofW).
It's almost like with books. If you've been watching it in your head for however long, seeing it on the screen seems a little lame. Mind you that might just be me. I treat anime as manga that I don't have to read . . .
I wouldn't have minded about the MP3 thing quite so much if they had included Ogg support. Especially now my PC has overtaken my stereo as my main source of music . . .
Our Network Development guys spent £16k on a 1U flip-top screen, keyboard and KVM. Us engineers dream of funding like that and told them so.
Mind you, when you go to do the backups there's something immensely cool about pushing the front of the thing and having it slide out of the rack and unfold. Yum.
In a similar vein, a friend of mine covered his door at university with the things.
When we ran out about three quarters of the way down, we went and asked a AOL person in the street for twenty CDs. The shock must have been immense. The poor bastard nearly had a heart attack . . .
That actaully really freaked me out.
I just built a machine with almost exactly the same spec (with only five drives RAID0, admittedly) to use as a NAT box for our DSL line at home.
Because it was originally an old IBM PC Server it's the size of a small car and weighs twenty-five kilos, and I named it The Beast.
Scary.
Although mine is painted black. It just had to be done . . .