From nintendo.com: Now, Samus is once again called to investigate Space Pirate activities on the unexplored Tallon IV. Her adventure begins as she enters a mysterious derelict spaceship.
The Metroid games have shown a lot of similarities in story line/plot elements to the Alien movies, as outlined nicely on this site. However the mentioning of a mysterious derelict spacecraft immediately brought to mind the abandoned ship which housed the eggs in the original Alien, which was even referred to as a derelict spacecraft in its sequel, Aliens.
The first thing that occured to me when I saw that the mediaone.net domain would be replaced with attbi.com, is what would happen to my custom ne.mediaone.net hostname?
Mediaone (in the Northeast at least) used to designate hostnames based on their customer's email address, ie. if your email address is slashdot5@mediaone.net, your hostname would be slashdot5.ne.mediaone.net. One of my favorite things about mediaone was that they assigned easy to remember hostnames, unlike pretty much every other ISP. At some point a few years ago they decided to change the system so that instead of email addresses, hostnames would be based on ethernet mac addresses, such as h000a05294027.ne.mediaone.net. Since I liked my email hostname, and they provided the option, I decided to keep mine. This custom hostname has remained active thus far. However, what will happen to it when the domain is changed to attbi.com? From looking at current attbi.com hostnames, they appear to be all based on ip addresses. This means not only will there not likely be custom hostnames, they will now be dynamic hostnames, instead of the static mac address/email ones. I will be disappointed when I lose my 1337 hostname on IRC:(
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Now, Samus is once again called to investigate Space Pirate activities on the unexplored Tallon IV. Her adventure begins as she enters a mysterious derelict spaceship.
The Metroid games have shown a lot of similarities in story line/plot elements to the Alien movies, as outlined nicely on this site. However the mentioning of a mysterious derelict spacecraft immediately brought to mind the abandoned ship which housed the eggs in the original Alien, which was even referred to as a derelict spacecraft in its sequel, Aliens.
The first thing that occured to me when I saw that the mediaone.net domain would be replaced with attbi.com, is what would happen to my custom ne.mediaone.net hostname?
:(
Mediaone (in the Northeast at least) used to designate hostnames based on their customer's email address, ie. if your email address is slashdot5@mediaone.net, your hostname would be slashdot5.ne.mediaone.net. One of my favorite things about mediaone was that they assigned easy to remember hostnames, unlike pretty much every other ISP. At some point a few years ago they decided to change the system so that instead of email addresses, hostnames would be based on ethernet mac addresses, such as h000a05294027.ne.mediaone.net. Since I liked my email hostname, and they provided the option, I decided to keep mine. This custom hostname has remained active thus far. However, what will happen to it when the domain is changed to attbi.com? From looking at current attbi.com hostnames, they appear to be all based on ip addresses. This means not only will there not likely be custom hostnames, they will now be dynamic hostnames, instead of the static mac address/email ones. I will be disappointed when I lose my 1337 hostname on IRC