Or just change the name/address that your Fax machine sends (I figured out this one when my parents changed address, and their fax machine still sent out the old address). Of course, sending out false details using a fax machine is illegal, so the same rules should apply to CallerID.
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Nearly all uses up to this time were for warfare or fireworks, but there is an interesting old Chinese legend that reported the use of rockets as a means of transportation. With the help of many assistants, a lesser-known Chinese official named Wan-Hu assembled a rocket- powered flying chair. Attached to the chair were two large kites, and fixed to the kites were forty- seven fire-arrow rockets.
On the day of the flight, Wan-Hu sat himself on the chair and gave the command to light the rockets. Forty-seven rocket assistants, each armed with torches, rushed forward to light the fuses. In a moment, there was a tremendous roar accompanied by billowing clouds of smoke. When the smoke cleared, Wan-Hu and his flying chair were gone. No one knows for sure what happened to Wan-Hu, but it is probable that if the event really did take place, Wan-Hu and his chair were blown to pieces. Fire-arrows were as apt to explode as to fly.
What exactly would you use the OS for on a console? Drivers are unnecessary since low level access can be compiled into the game binary and anything the game might need can be on the disk.
Current generation console systems already have a small kernel. Enough to load files off CD-ROM, download data from the network using TCP/IP, and run multiple lightweight threads. Many games (even early generation home computers like the Atari 800) made use of parallel processing to implement AI (the spare CPU time during vertical blank interrupts could be used to run depth searches of possible moves). Have a read of Chapter 8 of De Re Atari to see why having an OS/kernel is useful.
THE OPERATING SYSTEM
INTRODUCTION
With every ATARI Home Computer System comes an ATARI 10K Operating System Cartridge. The importance of this cartridge is often overlooked. Without it, you have a lot of potential, but absolutely nothing else! This situation is not unique to the ATARI Home Computer System; It is encountered with all computers. A computer is, after all, merely a collection of hardware devices. A user must manage these resources to accomplish any task. If all programmers had to start from scratch on each program, we would have an even larger software shortage than we have today. The solution that has evolved over the years is to build in a program that manages the resources available to the system, and eases the programming burden required to control them. This program is known by various names: Operating System, Master Control Program, System Executive, System Monitor, etc. In the ATARI Home Computer System it is known as the Operating System or OS.
The original, classic broken computer mod is probably still the best place to keep your purple octopus.
Unfortunately not. As the octopus is a very intelligent and curious creature, when placed in a small confined space, it will always try to find a way out. If placed in a fish tank, it will try and find a way out. It will climb over the edges of an open tank. Even when there is a lid on the fish tank, it will attempt to squeeze through the gaps of the lid. Failing that it will try and prise the lid open by attaching its arm suckers to the lid and walls, then contracting its muscles. And if that doesn't work, it will attempt to prise open the walls of the fish tank. Even a a 1lb octopus can lift a 40lb aquarium lid. As an example of the flexibility of an octopus, Discovery Channel Canada have a cool video of an octopus squeezing into a beer bottle.
Better still, someone comes up with a composition for a song/ringtone that is used to fund such a mission. Various wildlife charities are already doing this and it allows mobile phone users to choose where their money goes. I certainly don't like the idea of maintaining artificially high prices for the sake of any government funded project, no matter how good the intentions.
It does mean everyone gets an equal footing, and the bad teachers don't slack off and just not teach anything but it does get increadably boring after reading the 40th poem of the NEAB Anthology
Consider yourself lucky. In my later primary school years (1977-1980), the teachers never bothered to teach us science, electronics (like some schools in England did) or even the structure of English language (as in conjunction junction) like every other Asian country is doing (Singapore/Malaysia). Instead schools concentrated on teaching macrame, tennis, paperwork (making 3d models out of paper), Old Scots language (which is more or less the Scottish equivalent of ebonics; everyone had to remember a poem and recite it in front of the entire class; My Sair Finger still gives me nightmares) and five-a-side soccer (three nights of practise a week), not forgetting an an hour of religion each week (we had to read a section of the Bible, draw a cartoon based on that and color it in).
Then when we started secondary school (high school), everyone from my primary school was put in a remedial class for science, since we hadn't covered any at primary school, although a few of us had done science badges in cub scouts. Then we had to repeat two years of mathematics in order to allow the kids from other schools to catch up, since they hadn't covered that subject at their schools. Not forgetting "streaming", where teachers would only bother to teach anything from 50% to 75% of the course material depending upon which class you were in. Get one hopeless teacher and you go down in a death spiral (unless you get a private tutor or a copy of the exam syllabus). And if you were in one of the lower classes, the teachers wouldn't even bother giving you any feedback on your work, since they were busy marking other classes work in your class time.
That was the bad thing with many MS-DOS games and early PC's, there was no audio control, as all sound was created by sending frequency as an 8-bit value to port 61h. If you were lucky, some games allowed you to switch the sound off. In order for me to play games at night or to play games with terrible audio, I had to lobotomize each game by doing an automatic disassembly and replacing E6 61 with 90 90.
The main reason IP addresses are "leased" was in order to make maximum use out of the available address block. Each lease would run for three days. If the machine was turned off, the IP address could be recycled to another user. If it remained on, it would be renewed. A small utility application is provided to allow users to release the lease in case of bad configurations. Most cable TV broadband networks use hardware from Scientific Atlanta, so you could blame them.
The DHCP specification (which implements this concept of 'leases') allows a machine to renew its existing IP address. With many systems, the device drivers are smart enough to constantly renew the same IP address. Although I really would like to name my machine, as having a system name of @1-5-08-00-D0-Be-D0 doesn't exactly make me feel at home. And having to remember todays IP address so I can 'ssh' home doesn't help either.
Touch tone systems are gradually being replaced by voice recognition systems, so the maze of twisty little menus will disappear. Several of the companies that I use (banks, cable company) are already doing this.
At the beginning of the last century, as the telephone was becoming commonplace in every home, the telco's would have eventually faced a shortage of workers (unmarried women) to work as telephone operators. If telephone switching networks hadn't been automated, the demand for operators to switch connections would have exceeded the total world birthrate for the female of the species.
Anyway, is it possible or practical to use the logs of the http flood to go back to the zombified PC owners and "fix" them? HTTP requires a real connection, which is traceable. Or should that list just be delivered to their ISPs and have the ISPs shut them down until they're virus free?
You can look at the routing tables of the servers to get the IP addresses. But you also have to log the exact time and date that this address was in use, as many broadband networks allow the user the release the lease on their IP address, and get a new one almost immediately.
Blade Runner is awsome. Everytime I see the cityscapes and the hear the music that was used in those scenes I get chills down my spine. I'd love to live in a dark, gritty Blade Runner style world.
The music was by Vangelis who composed the soundtracks for many other movies including "Chariots of Fire" and "Antartica". One of my favourite tracks was "I'll find my way home" which was really a haunting melody.
That bring's back memories from the 1970's, even though I only had the chance to see a couple of episodes. There was the episode when there was one women who was being taken care of by a robot caretaker which had dusty lenses. There is an episode guide out in WWW-land. And don't forget the Simpsons and Family Guy versions of the movie.
Maybe you should consider a laptop. You can easily get laptops that can run Linux and have 3D graphics acceleration built in. Have a look at the Sony PCG-GRT916 range; 512/1024 Mb,80 Gbyte Disk,Nvidia Go5600, dual core Pentium 4, bright 16" LCD display, DVD RW. All working under RH/FC2.
We've got a similar system, but it uses the lava-lamp screen saver.
If the keyboard or other input device isn't used within five minutes, a lava-lamp appears on screen. That way, we can tell if someone hasn't been working within the past five minutes.
Personally, I prefer the futuristic virtual Lava Lamp office, where you're cubicle rises and falls according to how productive you have been.
You may be dyslexic when reading English. Learning a different language that reads from right to left may eliminate this problem. Alternatively you should have your optical system replaced with that of the Mantis Shrimp, which has eight different retinal pigments ranging from ultra-violet to ruby red, and a couple of layer of polarisation filters added for good measure. This should sort out your reading problem.
* Price of a PC (e.g. Dell): ~ 600 EUR
* Monthly minimum wage: 1 154,18 EUR
But that doesn't take into account the cost of living. Paying rent/property tax, owning a car, paying for gas, electricity, food. etc... The nearest computer shop can be over 20 miles away, and the nearest supermarket can be anything over 10 miles away.
France is served by a good number of ISP's from AOL to Freeserve, and the European satellite service providers. Broadband in France is fairly easy to get since all the telephone lines are shielded to international standards (even in a holiday cottage, it's possible to get 115200 baud).
Although, the biggest obstacle is probably the cost of a computer compared to the average salaries of the French (the majority of the population are in rural locations). Do a keyword search for the domain.fr, and you will see how much of France is online.
I'm sure it would be fairly simple to ban connections based on the IP address. There are commercial services which allow you to query the host country of an IP address.
The aluminum can be recycled, but it's those little heat-sinks that are going to be the problem. Where are they going to put all the heat that has been sucked out and stored in the insulated heat-sinks?
Slashdot Mirror
Or just change the name/address that your Fax machine sends (I figured out this one when my parents changed address, and their fax machine still sent out the old address). Of course, sending out false details using a fax machine is illegal, so the same rules should apply to CallerID.
Or he's Wah-Hu reincarnated
Nearly all uses up to this time were for warfare or fireworks, but there is an interesting old Chinese legend that reported the use of rockets as a means of transportation. With the help of many assistants, a lesser-known Chinese official named Wan-Hu assembled a rocket- powered flying chair. Attached to the chair were two large kites, and fixed to the kites were forty- seven fire-arrow rockets.
On the day of the flight, Wan-Hu sat himself on the chair and gave the command to light the rockets. Forty-seven rocket assistants, each armed with torches, rushed forward to light the fuses. In a moment, there was a tremendous roar accompanied by billowing clouds of smoke. When the smoke cleared, Wan-Hu and his flying chair were gone. No one knows for sure what happened to Wan-Hu, but it is probable that if the event really did take place, Wan-Hu and his chair were blown to pieces. Fire-arrows were as apt to explode as to fly.
What exactly would you use the OS for on a console? Drivers are unnecessary since low level access can be compiled into the game binary and anything the game might need can be on the disk.
Current generation console systems already have a small kernel. Enough to load files off CD-ROM, download data from the network using TCP/IP, and run multiple lightweight threads. Many games (even early generation home computers like the Atari 800) made use of parallel processing to implement AI (the spare CPU time during vertical blank interrupts could be used to run depth searches of possible moves).
Have a read of Chapter 8 of De Re Atari to see why having an OS/kernel is useful.
THE OPERATING SYSTEM
INTRODUCTION
With every ATARI Home Computer System comes an ATARI 10K Operating System Cartridge. The importance of this cartridge is often overlooked. Without it, you have a lot of potential, but absolutely nothing else! This situation is not unique to the ATARI Home Computer System; It is encountered with all computers. A computer is, after all, merely a collection of hardware devices. A user must manage these resources to accomplish any task. If all programmers had to start from scratch on each program, we would have an even larger software shortage than we have today. The solution that has evolved over the years is to build in a program that manages the resources available to the system, and eases the programming burden required to control them. This program is known by various names: Operating System, Master Control Program, System Executive, System Monitor, etc. In the ATARI Home Computer System it is known as the Operating System or OS.
The original, classic broken computer mod is probably still the best place to keep your purple octopus.
Unfortunately not. As the octopus is a very intelligent and curious creature, when placed in a small confined space, it will always try to find a way out. If placed in a fish tank, it will try and find a way out. It will climb over the edges of an open tank. Even when there is a lid on the fish tank, it will attempt to squeeze through the gaps of the lid. Failing that it will try and prise the lid open by attaching its arm suckers to the lid and walls, then contracting its muscles. And if that doesn't work, it will attempt to prise open the walls of the fish tank.
Even a a 1lb octopus can lift a 40lb aquarium lid.
As an example of the flexibility of an octopus, Discovery Channel Canada have a cool video of an octopus squeezing into a beer bottle.
Lubricants and "Faster, Longer Lasting hard drives."
And always remember to use protection. You wouldn't want to catch a nasty virus.
Better still, someone comes up with a composition for a song/ringtone that is used to fund such a mission. Various wildlife charities are already doing this and it allows mobile phone users to choose where their money goes. I certainly don't like the idea of maintaining artificially high prices for the sake of any government funded project, no matter how good the intentions.
It does mean everyone gets an equal footing, and the bad teachers don't slack off and just not teach anything but it does get increadably boring after reading the 40th poem of the NEAB Anthology
Consider yourself lucky. In my later primary school years (1977-1980), the teachers never bothered to teach us science, electronics (like some schools in England did) or even the structure of English language (as in conjunction junction) like every other Asian country is doing (Singapore/Malaysia). Instead schools concentrated on teaching macrame, tennis, paperwork (making 3d models out of paper), Old Scots language (which is more or less the Scottish equivalent of ebonics; everyone had to remember a poem and recite it in front of the entire class; My Sair Finger still gives me nightmares) and five-a-side soccer (three nights of practise a week), not forgetting an an hour of religion each week (we had to read a section of the Bible, draw a cartoon based on that and color it in).
Then when we started secondary school (high school), everyone from my primary school was put in a remedial class for science, since we hadn't covered any at primary school, although a few of us had done science badges in cub scouts. Then we had to repeat two years of mathematics in order to allow the kids from other schools to catch up, since they hadn't covered that subject at their schools. Not forgetting "streaming", where teachers would only bother to teach anything from 50% to 75% of the course material depending upon which class you were in. Get one hopeless teacher and you go down in a death spiral (unless you get a private tutor or a copy of the exam syllabus).
And if you were in one of the lower classes, the teachers wouldn't even bother giving you any feedback on your work, since they were busy marking other classes work in your class time.
That was the bad thing with many MS-DOS games and early PC's, there was no audio control, as all sound was created by sending frequency as an 8-bit value to port 61h. If you were lucky, some games allowed you to switch the sound off. In order for me to play games at night or to play games with terrible audio, I had to lobotomize each game by doing an automatic disassembly and replacing E6 61 with 90 90.
:)
This replaced the instruction:
out 61h,al
with the instructions:
nop
nop
Peace and quiet
Or it.slashdot.org
Does the web page have to look like a document laser printed with an empty toner cartridge?
Microsoft's competitors include Sony (in consoles/PC's) and Sun (workstations/servers).
An alliance with HP, allows them to compete against both at the same time.
The main reason IP addresses are "leased" was in order to make maximum use out of the available address block. Each lease would run for three days. If the machine was turned off, the IP address could be recycled to another user. If it remained on, it would be renewed. A small utility application is provided to allow users to release the lease in case of bad configurations. Most cable TV broadband networks use hardware from Scientific Atlanta, so you could blame them.
The DHCP specification (which implements this concept of 'leases') allows a machine to renew its existing IP address. With many systems, the device drivers are smart enough to constantly renew the same IP address. Although I really would like to name my machine, as having a system name of @1-5-08-00-D0-Be-D0 doesn't exactly make me feel at home. And having to remember todays IP address so I can 'ssh' home doesn't help either.
Aft
It wasn't a Blade Runner track. It was a separate track done with Jon Anderson, You can find it in the album Odyssey
Touch tone systems are gradually being replaced by voice recognition systems, so the maze of twisty little menus will disappear. Several of the companies that I use (banks, cable company) are already doing this.
At the beginning of the last century, as the telephone was becoming commonplace in every home, the telco's would have eventually faced a shortage of workers (unmarried women) to work as telephone operators. If telephone switching networks hadn't been automated, the demand for operators to switch connections would have exceeded the total world birthrate for the female of the species.
Anyway, is it possible or practical to use the logs of the http flood to go back to the zombified PC owners and "fix" them? HTTP requires a real connection, which is traceable. Or should that list just be delivered to their ISPs and have the ISPs shut them down until they're virus free?
You can look at the routing tables of the servers to get the IP addresses. But you also have to log the exact time and date that this address was in use, as many broadband networks allow the user the release the lease on their IP address, and get a new one almost immediately.
Instead of thieving child porn traders Comstock was convinced obscenity and birth control would destoroy the nation.
And today, most doctors are convinced obesity and the lack of girth control will destoroy the nation.
Blade Runner is awsome. Everytime I see the cityscapes and the hear the music that was used in those scenes I get chills down my spine. I'd love to live in a dark, gritty Blade Runner style world.
The music was by Vangelis who composed the soundtracks for many other movies including "Chariots of Fire" and "Antartica".
One of my favourite tracks was "I'll find my way home" which was really a haunting melody.
That bring's back memories from the 1970's, even though I only had the chance to see a couple of episodes. There was the episode when there was one women who was being taken care of by a robot caretaker which had dusty lenses. There is an episode guide out in WWW-land. And don't forget the Simpsons and Family Guy versions of the movie.
Maybe you should consider a laptop. You can easily get laptops that can run Linux and have 3D graphics acceleration built in. Have a look at the Sony PCG-GRT916 range; 512/1024 Mb,80 Gbyte Disk,Nvidia Go5600, dual core Pentium 4, bright 16" LCD display, DVD RW. All working under RH/FC2.
We've got a similar system, but it uses the lava-lamp screen saver.
If the keyboard or other input device isn't used within five minutes, a lava-lamp appears on screen.
That way, we can tell if someone hasn't been working within the past five minutes.
Personally, I prefer the futuristic virtual Lava Lamp office, where you're cubicle rises and falls according to how productive you have been.
Basically IBM has nailed SCO in a box that they can't get out of.
Perhaps if SCO had studied under Pai Mei they wouldn't be in this situation.
Or read Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" - 'Don't start a war you can't win'.
The good news, your graphics card can be overclocked to 2 Terahertz, and still remain operational at over 650C.
The bad news, is that the aluminum casing of your PC will melt at this temperature, so your PC will need te be built from titanium.
You may be dyslexic when reading English. Learning a different language that reads from right to left may eliminate this problem.
Alternatively you should have your optical system replaced with that of the Mantis Shrimp, which has eight different retinal pigments
ranging from ultra-violet to ruby red, and a couple of layer of polarisation filters added for good measure. This should sort out your reading problem.
Huh?
* Price of a PC (e.g. Dell): ~ 600 EUR
* Monthly minimum wage: 1 154,18 EUR
But that doesn't take into account the cost of living. Paying rent/property tax, owning a car, paying for gas, electricity, food. etc...
The nearest computer shop can be over 20 miles away, and the nearest supermarket can be anything over 10 miles away.
France is served by a good number of ISP's from AOL to Freeserve, and the European satellite service providers. Broadband in France is fairly easy to get since all the telephone lines are shielded to international standards (even in a holiday cottage, it's possible to get 115200 baud).
.fr, and you will see how much of France is online.
Although, the biggest obstacle is probably the cost of a computer compared to the average salaries of the French (the majority of the population are in rural locations).
Do a keyword search for the domain
I'm sure it would be fairly simple to ban connections based on the IP address. There are commercial services which allow you to query the host country of an IP address.
The aluminum can be recycled, but it's those little heat-sinks that are going to be the problem. Where are they going to put all the heat that has been sucked out and stored in the insulated heat-sinks?