I think the casinos use analog tape to capture video.
I have dim memories from those lame Discovery channel 'Inside Las Vegas' of shelves of neatly arranged VCR like devices, with a couple of spare tapes next to each one.
They probably use custom long record hardware and rotate the tapes, keeping them only as long as necessary.
Depending on how good physical security is and if you don't mind the chance of getting caught.
This disk image creates a floppy that boots a customized Linux kernel that allows the administrator password to be reset. And thats the chance of getting caught, that next time they come around to administer the machine they can't get in. But who's to say that they didn't screw up the password?
You can also look at tools such as L0phtcrack that try to brute force the password, done correctly that wouldn't raise eyebrows, at least until they decide to re-image the box.
But really, what kind of job is it that you have to go to these lengths to circumvent policy?
nope, you're right. People be confused cause Half-Life took so long to come out, Quake 2 and some other much hyped 3D shooters came to market before it did.
Half Life uses a greatly modified Quake 1 engine. Take a look at id's licensing page, they list Valve as one of the licensee's. Valve did quite a bit of work to the engine, as development of Half Life was delayed beyond the release of Quake2, SIN and I believe Unreal.
The 'normal' ATI images look better than the NVidia images, the 'cheat' images look horrible. I can't read German so I have no idea what the context is. Now if the differences were an option that was clearly labeled, that would be fine, just like Quake's quality levels that can be set. But if it is just dumped in with the next rev of drivers, that would suck. With today's crop of computers, I'd probably be quite happy with the higher image quality still at 90 fps (or whatever).
Yeah this was my first response to timothy's posting, that the relatively ancient Half-Life engine is much more popular than Quake 3. Of course, how many benchmarks do you see for Counterstrike?
Probably because the engine is old and doesn't strain today's crop of computers it isn't worth bothering with. My old P200 with VooDoo2 card ran the HalfLife mods passably, if not exactly smoothly (15-40fps @ 640x480).
The Enigma Machine wasn't developed until the '30s.
Interesting OT side note concerning the Zimmerman Telegram, some feel that it is tied into the historical British support for a Jewish homeland, leading to the formation of Israel at the expense of the Palestinians. Valid or not, I don't know, but this is definately stuff I wasn't taught in school.
There are probably two or three stories a day that don't get posted but are worth reading. The rest, well, there's a reason they don't get to the sections or the front page.
Just take a look at the -1 stuff, I'm sure the submission queue gets a bit of that also.
3) Agnostics that find the debate amusing and feed the trolls on both sides, happy to spout off whatever keeps the thread growing.
4) Proponents of the 'Intelligent Design' theory, who roughly propose that God (or someone) was the initial force or energy behind the 'Big-Bang' some 15 or so billion years ago and guided the outcome including the details of life on this planet.
Have you tried Access? From what I hear it is made by the same company that makes Windows, so it might run on that platform(I don't know of any others it runs on). There are also rumors of something called ODBC that let it use other database engines. It supposedly has some nice reporting capabilities too. Unfortunately it isn't open source and costs a few $$$.
I assume Slot Load and Tray Load refers to CD-ROM?
I wanna thank everyone for the advice. Looks like I might have been a little optimistic (as maggard suggests elsewhere in this story, I'm thinking of PCs that quickly become dirt cheap, I'm typing this on my nearly 5 year old P200 that I probably couldn't get $100 for). So my Mac dreams might be just a littler farther off. We'll see...
to pick up an older Mac, put more memory on and play with OSX (and that Mac on Linux PPC thing that was up on/. a few weeks ago).
For me, it would be useful to check web pages on the mac browsers. With Dreamweaver available on Mac OS, I've got quick and dirty page design program. With Linux or OSX I've got a *nix that will handle the LAMP platform rather well, I can host all the vanity pages and toys and development stuff I want.
So how much would I pay for a used Mac that would run OS X respectably? Or what model numbers should I look for if I were to surf Ebay for used gear? How much memory would I need to upgrade to so that OSX would run respectably? Are there many Macs that have expensive memory upgrades?
While many points you make might be true, they may be due to programmer incompetence as much as the Microsoft platform.
I deal daily with a nontrivial program coded directly to the windows API (no MFC or anything of the sort). It runs across several flavors of Windows (98, ME, 2000) though being developed on 98 and never targetted to 2000. Additionally, it was developed without MS tools using an open source (though not Free) compiler.
I know a guy that wanted to install RedHat cause thats what the lab at school had. But his ISP is AOL. So he's not going to be a quick linux convert cause he's gonna have to boot into windows to get online. He was ready to ditch the whole windows partition too...
Funny thing that the Anti Microsoft advocacy got to him before the Anti AOL advocacy did. To the rest of us it is a simple solution, switch ISPs. But for some reason that was out of the question for him.
Sybase also offers the developer version of EAServer on two platforms.
I notice both these companies are focusing heavily on J2EE, is this a move away from IIS as an 'API'? This would seem to be a motivator for the.NET platform, are they going to have versions of their application servers available for.NET as it rolls out of beta? Or is Microsoft trying to stake a claim in some of that territory itself?
I'll throw out a few thoughts for the sake of arguement.
What about mergers, business parterships, extranets and other results of a dynamic business environment? What if you find yourself happing to open the application to others? Sure, the first few are easy, change the firewall rules. But what if their servers get infected with the next worm du juor?
And please tell me what is IIS's intrinsic advantage in delivering dynamic application content to desktops?
Quit spreading FUD or clarify your comments
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There was an article titled Securing an Unpatchable Webserver that detailed an IIS 3.0 server that had a custom application that wouldn't run on newer IIS. Microsoft's solution to one of the IIS 3 vulnerabilities was upgrading to IIS 4 or greater but becuause of the custom app this wasn't a short term option. These guys set up a box with Hogwash and Snort to filter the requests to the IIS server.
Unfortunately the article seems to have disappeared but you might have better luck finding it than I did.
I don't think it is so much the directional antenna as it is the fact that the reciever is orbit and therefore moving very fast in relation to the GPS satellites. Your Garmin handheld just isn't designed to recieve (much less calculate) a position when the reciever is moving thousands of miles an hour. GPS literature refers to this as 'high dynamic' situations, a typical limit I've seen is around 950 MPH.
Another consideration is the doppler effects from the movement, the GPS reciever might need a specially designed front end to account for the fun variations in timing signals.
GPS technology has some serious math and crypto 'hacks' going on. They've taken a technology designed in the 70's for military use and several meters accuracy and have gotten cheap consumer handheld recievers near that and they have enabled land surveyors to achieve sub centimeter accuracy with two recievers (enabling some unheard of accuracies in measuring the earth and making large scale engineering projects much easier to finish). I doubt that satellite tracking was in the original design documents either.
Nothing like going camping and some fool at the next campsite has to catch her Friends reruns (or read/.) at 9PM so he's got the generator running full tilt.
I want to drink beer, slap mosquitos and keep moving away from the campfire smoke in peace and quiet, thank you very much.
Guess I should be backpacking, but it's hard to bring enough beer and still have room for the tent.
An old EGA shareware game by William Soleau with various files dated between '90 and '92. A simplified version of Risk with a pretty dumb AI, it has entertained me for ages. I've played probably 2500 games, achieving nearly 40% wins at 7 difficulty, 3 armies setting (if that means anything to anyone else I'd be amazed).
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I have dim memories from those lame Discovery channel 'Inside Las Vegas' of shelves of neatly arranged VCR like devices, with a couple of spare tapes next to each one.
They probably use custom long record hardware and rotate the tapes, keeping them only as long as necessary.
This disk image creates a floppy that boots a customized Linux kernel that allows the administrator password to be reset. And thats the chance of getting caught, that next time they come around to administer the machine they can't get in. But who's to say that they didn't screw up the password?
You can also look at tools such as L0phtcrack that try to brute force the password, done correctly that wouldn't raise eyebrows, at least until they decide to re-image the box.
But really, what kind of job is it that you have to go to these lengths to circumvent policy?
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nope, you're right. People be confused cause Half-Life took so long to come out, Quake 2 and some other much hyped 3D shooters came to market before it did.
Half Life uses a greatly modified Quake 1 engine. Take a look at id's licensing page, they list Valve as one of the licensee's. Valve did quite a bit of work to the engine, as development of Half Life was delayed beyond the release of Quake2, SIN and I believe Unreal.
The 'normal' ATI images look better than the NVidia images, the 'cheat' images look horrible. I can't read German so I have no idea what the context is. Now if the differences were an option that was clearly labeled, that would be fine, just like Quake's quality levels that can be set. But if it is just dumped in with the next rev of drivers, that would suck. With today's crop of computers, I'd probably be quite happy with the higher image quality still at 90 fps (or whatever).
Probably because the engine is old and doesn't strain today's crop of computers it isn't worth bothering with. My old P200 with VooDoo2 card ran the HalfLife mods passably, if not exactly smoothly (15-40fps @ 640x480).
In the meantime, use analog or webalizer to get the full skinny on your traffic.
The Enigma Machine wasn't developed until the '30s.
Interesting OT side note concerning the Zimmerman Telegram, some feel that it is tied into the historical British support for a Jewish homeland, leading to the formation of Israel at the expense of the Palestinians. Valid or not, I don't know, but this is definately stuff I wasn't taught in school.
There are probably two or three stories a day that don't get posted but are worth reading. The rest, well, there's a reason they don't get to the sections or the front page.
Just take a look at the -1 stuff, I'm sure the submission queue gets a bit of that also.
I'll subscribe and still watch the ads, moderate the good ones and click through the relevant ones.
3) Agnostics that find the debate amusing and feed the trolls on both sides, happy to spout off whatever keeps the thread growing.
4) Proponents of the 'Intelligent Design' theory, who roughly propose that God (or someone) was the initial force or energy behind the 'Big-Bang' some 15 or so billion years ago and guided the outcome including the details of life on this planet.
Have you tried Access? From what I hear it is made by the same company that makes Windows, so it might run on that platform(I don't know of any others it runs on). There are also rumors of something called ODBC that let it use other database engines. It supposedly has some nice reporting capabilities too. Unfortunately it isn't open source and costs a few $$$.
I wanna thank everyone for the advice. Looks like I might have been a little optimistic (as maggard suggests elsewhere in this story, I'm thinking of PCs that quickly become dirt cheap, I'm typing this on my nearly 5 year old P200 that I probably couldn't get $100 for). So my Mac dreams might be just a littler farther off. We'll see...
For me, it would be useful to check web pages on the mac browsers. With Dreamweaver available on Mac OS, I've got quick and dirty page design program. With Linux or OSX I've got a *nix that will handle the LAMP platform rather well, I can host all the vanity pages and toys and development stuff I want.
So how much would I pay for a used Mac that would run OS X respectably? Or what model numbers should I look for if I were to surf Ebay for used gear? How much memory would I need to upgrade to so that OSX would run respectably? Are there many Macs that have expensive memory upgrades?
I deal daily with a nontrivial program coded directly to the windows API (no MFC or anything of the sort). It runs across several flavors of Windows (98, ME, 2000) though being developed on 98 and never targetted to 2000. Additionally, it was developed without MS tools using an open source (though not Free) compiler.
I know a guy that wanted to install RedHat cause thats what the lab at school had. But his ISP is AOL. So he's not going to be a quick linux convert cause he's gonna have to boot into windows to get online. He was ready to ditch the whole windows partition too...
Funny thing that the Anti Microsoft advocacy got to him before the Anti AOL advocacy did. To the rest of us it is a simple solution, switch ISPs. But for some reason that was out of the question for him.
Peoplesoft seems pretty platform agnostic.
Sybase also offers the developer version of EAServer on two platforms.
I notice both these companies are focusing heavily on J2EE, is this a move away from IIS as an 'API'? This would seem to be a motivator for the .NET platform, are they going to have versions of their application servers available for .NET as it rolls out of beta? Or is Microsoft trying to stake a claim in some of that territory itself?
What about mergers, business parterships, extranets and other results of a dynamic business environment? What if you find yourself happing to open the application to others? Sure, the first few are easy, change the firewall rules. But what if their servers get infected with the next worm du juor?
And please tell me what is IIS's intrinsic advantage in delivering dynamic application content to desktops?
IIS is NOT installed by default in W2K Pro.
Unfortunately the article seems to have disappeared but you might have better luck finding it than I did.
Another consideration is the doppler effects from the movement, the GPS reciever might need a specially designed front end to account for the fun variations in timing signals.
GPS technology has some serious math and crypto 'hacks' going on. They've taken a technology designed in the 70's for military use and several meters accuracy and have gotten cheap consumer handheld recievers near that and they have enabled land surveyors to achieve sub centimeter accuracy with two recievers (enabling some unheard of accuracies in measuring the earth and making large scale engineering projects much easier to finish). I doubt that satellite tracking was in the original design documents either.
Nothing like going camping and some fool at the next campsite has to catch her Friends reruns (or read /.) at 9PM so he's got the generator running full tilt.
I want to drink beer, slap mosquitos and keep moving away from the campfire smoke in peace and quiet, thank you very much.
Guess I should be backpacking, but it's hard to bring enough beer and still have room for the tent.
An old EGA shareware game by William Soleau with various files dated between '90 and '92. A simplified version of Risk with a pretty dumb AI, it has entertained me for ages. I've played probably 2500 games, achieving nearly 40% wins at 7 difficulty, 3 armies setting (if that means anything to anyone else I'd be amazed).