He says he was in IRC and someone was able to kick someone else out of a chatroom and he was so impressed and wanted to know how to do it.
No shit. Friends of mine terrorized the Lambda MOO back in '92-94 or so (Mr. Bungle, Dr. Jest) and had more programming 5ky77z writing satanic dolls and scheissheims than this h@x3r..
Hi,
That would be the coolest feature: implementing the share privileges/groups. IIRC, neither does this transparently. Also, IIRC, some of the non-free Unix SMB implementations do this (Syntax TAS).
There already exist the concept of role-palying, or story telling if you will, which is more than enough for us.
Seriously.. Rules are meant to be 'reinterpreted'.. Though I still consider Magic cards tantamount to crack, I don't have quite the spite I used to have about them and their role in 'destroying' traditional roleplaying...
Diablo and its ilk (I don't include MUDs because they feel like a different category to me, more of a 'realtime' Zork thing which is separate in my mind) have done good things and bad things to traditional gaming. I can keep in touch with gamer friends from around the country/world, but there's just something to getting together in a musty room with oddly-shaped dice and a stage for hamming up the death scene of a 9th level dwarven barbarian that I miss.
The big reason for me to go with this as opposed to a 'normal' subnote would be the widescreen formfactor which is perfect for inflight DVD viewing.
However, to date, I have yet to find a firewire DVDROM that I could use for this. I assume also that the system's CPU is fast enough for anamorphic DVD playback in software.
We delegated the task of building our modern internet infrastructure to the private sector. Their goal is to maximize profits. They're doing exactly what they're supposed to do. In fact, if they weren't doing this, they'd probably be legally liable for not doing it.
They're dancing in the zone between the unlawfully monopolistic and the unlawfully unprofitable. Not a fun place.
I don't sympathize much, particularly with people or institutions that have more money than me and my descendants will ever earn for the next 200 years, but at least I try to understand. Perhaps we can learn lessons of control and accountability from this and apply them to internet v2.0? We know what happens when you take a small, clubby academic internet and release it to the commercial world. We've learned that lesson. Let's take the good parts and try to mitigate the bad parts for the next revision.
Any large institution, public or private, attempts to control mass perception for its own ends. History has proven this for thousands of years. Don't be surprised. Be vigilant and alert. We are the most media/propaganda-savvy generation yet. Still, researchers are working harder than ever to pull one over on you. On all sides of any issue.
Don't mean to break your bubble, but most towns and small cities in the US are in thrall to a single cable company thanks to sweetheart deals with the local community councils.
DSS you say, but if I got that I'd have to get in bed with Verizon and I really don't need a dopey landline for fone service so I won't be getting one so my set top box can dial the mothership..
Still, a company's rights to pursue profits are fine, but when that pursuit turns into abuse of privilege and monopolism, it must be curtailed.
In theory, the government is there to make my life better, to provide for the benefits of group investments, and to take care of the things (war, sanitation, policing, welfare) that I don't want to, have the time to, or have the skills to deal with.
The main reason I believe people call for the reduction in size and influence of the government is because they've in many ways failed to implement the theory correctly. Group investment has turned to graft and corruption, the skills in the public sector are often lacking (lower salaries draw lower talent, and it cycles viciously) to deal with the issues delegated to them, and institutional hubris blinds our representatives to the truth that they are _our_ employees, _our_ servants. Our pronounced lack of interest in their doings (as shown by low voter turnout and apathy) both feeds and is fed by that.
I'm more and more of the mind that we need to consider competition for the public sector as well as the private sector. Part of the appeal of the public sector is the theoretical efficiency of a single large institution being able to provide services at a mass-production scale without the 'waste' of competition (in theory, competition is somewhat wasteful but in practice it's a catalyst for efficiency). Unfortunately, history is proving this to be a false theory, that inefficiency increases to support the scale. I wonder if we need some kind of 'duelling agency' kind of deal, where a particular set of benchmarks are set and different agencies (or branches of the same agency) are set against each other, with bonuses and promotions to the winner. 50 quatloos on the newcomer, perhaps, but alls I knows is what we have now is _not_ working and solutions are _not_ forthcoming from our pupp^H^H^H^Hleaders..
Quake will take a little while longer. If anybody knows of any work being done on Linux Quake running on an ARM platform, I would appreciate you letting me know.
That would kind of depend on whether Mesa software rendering is supported in StrongARM... And whether it'd fit of course;)
The US CENSUS had some machine that they used in the 1920's I think or 1930's... can't remember what it was called but it was used to tabulate the census
I don't know if it really fits the criteria, in that it was essentially a complex counter that did very little outside of simple addition to accumulators. The operator still performed the read operation and there was no real 'recall' outside of reading the dials..
Still, Hollerith's firm went on to provide the nucleus to Big Blue.. So the question begs...
... Where's the Linux port for the Hollerith Tabulator? If Perl can be ported to a manual typewriter...;)
Courtesy of the rock-solid and easy-to-setup Apple AirPort.. I have an Orinoco (nee WaveLAN) board in my W2k laptop (ProntoEdit and the TrueSync on my fone only work with Win32:() and my signal is outstanding..
At work we demo'd a point2point wireless installation between 2 buildings using 14dB Yagi directional antennae. Solid connection even without direct line of sight (a couple of buildings in the way).. Very impressed..
Now I just have to get a nice amplified omnidirecitonal antenna for my apt (and hack into the airport to solder the antenna connection;) so I can compute out on the shared patio..
Watch the global economy take a manic nosedive as noone can update or upgrade their existing NT systems.
Or, they could get smart and move to OSS, so they don't have to worry about a single programmer/vendor/nation having a chokehold on a key infrastructure component.
.... which GUI mail client has IMAP-SSL support? It has to be integrated, stunnel is not acceptable. And tkbiff doesn't have a mail read/write interface;)
Because _that_ is what is currently tying me to Netscape... And 4.75 is quite buggy on my 2.4 kernel:(
... the Mac IMHO.. The last nightly I put on it ran much sweeter than NT or (gack! when will we not have to export anything to run the damned thing??) Linux..
Hell, the themes were working properly in the Mac version, I'm quite impressed...
Slashdot Mirror
Besides, only lamers need holidays as an excuse for a party.
Amen!
"Wow, the earth hasn't been incinerated by gamma ray bursts today! Party!!!"
Your Working Boy,
... I'm sure one of the enlightened option$ millionaires in the *x/OSS community would buy out the archives and opensource them..
Any takers?
Your Working Boy,
but older DVD-V (and computer DVD-ROM drives) won't be able to read DVD-A discs.
;) for free I won't bother with the new format..
Well, unless Sony ships me a new 200-DVD changer w/DVDA (not the band
btw, if Sony was smart, they'd charge current CD prices for the SACDs and let people have the lower quality MP3 versions for free as come-ons..
Or, they can just keep milking suckas. I guess _that's_ the smarter move. For now.
Your Working Boy,
He says he was in IRC and someone was able to kick someone else out of a chatroom and he was so impressed and wanted to know how to do it.
No shit. Friends of mine terrorized the Lambda MOO back in '92-94 or so (Mr. Bungle, Dr. Jest) and had more programming 5ky77z writing satanic dolls and scheissheims than this h@x3r..
Your Working Boy,
There's also a complete hold on Windows 2000 deployment across the DoD right now until the impact of migration can be understood.
So CVN- 77 is on hold? Or is the Win2k testing time requirement already factored into the shipbuilding timetable?
Your Working Boy,
Hi,
That would be the coolest feature: implementing the share privileges/groups. IIRC, neither does this transparently. Also, IIRC, some of the non-free Unix SMB implementations do this (Syntax TAS).
Oh well...
Your Working Boy,
A friend and I decided that if a word got a least 1000 hits in Google, it would qualify as a "real word" (no matter what Webster says).
I'll have to remember that for my next game of Scrabble.. I wonder how many points you could generate with 'xyzzy'...
Your Working Boy,
There already exist the concept of role-palying, or story telling if you will, which is more than enough for us.
Seriously.. Rules are meant to be 'reinterpreted'.. Though I still consider Magic cards tantamount to crack, I don't have quite the spite I used to have about them and their role in 'destroying' traditional roleplaying...
Diablo and its ilk (I don't include MUDs because they feel like a different category to me, more of a 'realtime' Zork thing which is separate in my mind) have done good things and bad things to traditional gaming. I can keep in touch with gamer friends from around the country/world, but there's just something to getting together in a musty room with oddly-shaped dice and a stage for hamming up the death scene of a 9th level dwarven barbarian that I miss.
Oh well.
Your Working Boy,
To kill someone, you have to look away from your computer.
;)
Not if you work for the NSA.. Did anyone else think of 'Command & Conquer' when watching 'Patriot Games'?
0.25 *
Your Working Boy,
cars which run on the road, in extremely punishing weather condition, are not necessarily suitable for these easily burning polymer batteries.
Uh, hate to break it to ya, but gasoline is flammable too..
How do we get around exploding gas tanks? Good engineering. I don't see it being much different for other volatile energy sources..
Your Working Boy,
... http://commerce.motorola.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/Pr oductDisplay?prrfnbr=217948&prmenbr= 126& phone_cgrfnbr=1&zipcode=
(slashcode mangles this URL, remove spaces)
Bluetooth + Organic Electroluminescent screen..
Now if I could get one in a 3G V-series.. *envy*
Your Working Boy,
The big reason for me to go with this as opposed to a 'normal' subnote would be the widescreen formfactor which is perfect for inflight DVD viewing.
However, to date, I have yet to find a firewire DVDROM that I could use for this. I assume also that the system's CPU is fast enough for anamorphic DVD playback in software.
Any clues?
Your Working Boy,
(K2) would be a hell of a lot harder to ski down for sure!
Just remember...
Go down very very fast. If something gets in your way, turn!
Still wantin' my two dollars,
Your Working Boy,
We delegated the task of building our modern internet infrastructure to the private sector. Their goal is to maximize profits. They're doing exactly what they're supposed to do. In fact, if they weren't doing this, they'd probably be legally liable for not doing it.
They're dancing in the zone between the unlawfully monopolistic and the unlawfully unprofitable. Not a fun place.
I don't sympathize much, particularly with people or institutions that have more money than me and my descendants will ever earn for the next 200 years, but at least I try to understand. Perhaps we can learn lessons of control and accountability from this and apply them to internet v2.0? We know what happens when you take a small, clubby academic internet and release it to the commercial world. We've learned that lesson. Let's take the good parts and try to mitigate the bad parts for the next revision.
Any large institution, public or private, attempts to control mass perception for its own ends. History has proven this for thousands of years. Don't be surprised. Be vigilant and alert. We are the most media/propaganda-savvy generation yet. Still, researchers are working harder than ever to pull one over on you. On all sides of any issue.
Your Working Boy,
There is no monopoly in cable services in the US.
Don't mean to break your bubble, but most towns and small cities in the US are in thrall to a single cable company thanks to sweetheart deals with the local community councils.
DSS you say, but if I got that I'd have to get in bed with Verizon and I really don't need a dopey landline for fone service so I won't be getting one so my set top box can dial the mothership..
Still, a company's rights to pursue profits are fine, but when that pursuit turns into abuse of privilege and monopolism, it must be curtailed.
In theory, the government is there to make my life better, to provide for the benefits of group investments, and to take care of the things (war, sanitation, policing, welfare) that I don't want to, have the time to, or have the skills to deal with.
The main reason I believe people call for the reduction in size and influence of the government is because they've in many ways failed to implement the theory correctly. Group investment has turned to graft and corruption, the skills in the public sector are often lacking (lower salaries draw lower talent, and it cycles viciously) to deal with the issues delegated to them, and institutional hubris blinds our representatives to the truth that they are _our_ employees, _our_ servants. Our pronounced lack of interest in their doings (as shown by low voter turnout and apathy) both feeds and is fed by that.
I'm more and more of the mind that we need to consider competition for the public sector as well as the private sector. Part of the appeal of the public sector is the theoretical efficiency of a single large institution being able to provide services at a mass-production scale without the 'waste' of competition (in theory, competition is somewhat wasteful but in practice it's a catalyst for efficiency). Unfortunately, history is proving this to be a false theory, that inefficiency increases to support the scale. I wonder if we need some kind of 'duelling agency' kind of deal, where a particular set of benchmarks are set and different agencies (or branches of the same agency) are set against each other, with bonuses and promotions to the winner. 50 quatloos on the newcomer, perhaps, but alls I knows is what we have now is _not_ working and solutions are _not_ forthcoming from our pupp^H^H^H^Hleaders..
Happy Columbus Day!
Your Working Boy,
Quake will take a little while longer. If anybody knows of any work being done on Linux Quake running on an ARM platform, I would appreciate you letting me know.
;)
That would kind of depend on whether Mesa software rendering is supported in StrongARM... And whether it'd fit of course
Your Working Boy,
The US CENSUS had some machine that they used in the 1920's I think or 1930's... can't remember what it was called but it was used to tabulate the census
;)
It was the Hollerith Tabulator..
I don't know if it really fits the criteria, in that it was essentially a complex counter that did very little outside of simple addition to accumulators. The operator still performed the read operation and there was no real 'recall' outside of reading the dials..
Still, Hollerith's firm went on to provide the nucleus to Big Blue.. So the question begs...
... Where's the Linux port for the Hollerith Tabulator? If Perl can be ported to a manual typewriter...
Your Working Boy,
Courtesy of the rock-solid and easy-to-setup Apple AirPort.. I have an Orinoco (nee WaveLAN) board in my W2k laptop (ProntoEdit and the TrueSync on my fone only work with Win32 :() and my signal is outstanding..
;) so I can compute out on the shared patio..
At work we demo'd a point2point wireless installation between 2 buildings using 14dB Yagi directional antennae. Solid connection even without direct line of sight (a couple of buildings in the way).. Very impressed..
Now I just have to get a nice amplified omnidirecitonal antenna for my apt (and hack into the airport to solder the antenna connection
Your Working Boy,
Watch the global economy take a manic nosedive as noone can update or upgrade their existing NT systems.
Or, they could get smart and move to OSS, so they don't have to worry about a single programmer/vendor/nation having a chokehold on a key infrastructure component.
Your Working Boy,
.... which GUI mail client has IMAP-SSL support? It has to be integrated, stunnel is not acceptable. And tkbiff doesn't have a mail read/write interface ;)
:(
Because _that_ is what is currently tying me to Netscape... And 4.75 is quite buggy on my 2.4 kernel
Jes' checkin..
Your Working Boy,
... the Mac IMHO.. The last nightly I put on it ran much sweeter than NT or (gack! when will we not have to export anything to run the damned thing??) Linux..
Hell, the themes were working properly in the Mac version, I'm quite impressed...
Maybe it's time to try another Linux download?
Your Working Boy,
With the current descriptions on /., it sounds more like a Motel 6.
"This is Tom Bodett for Motel 6. We'll leave the docking control beacons on for you."
Your Working Boy,
But only with the appropriate theme music..
Da da Daaaaa Daaaaa Daaaaa Daaaaa Daaaaa Daaa Da Da Daa Da!
I put fifty quatloos on the newcomer!!
Your Working Boy,
Dude, I'm gonna have to go with Belgian fries for supper tonite to celebrate!
;)
(aww, woulda done it anyways
Your Working Boy,
... Anything else is posing..
OK, maybe a little Mary Jane..
Still, didn't we as a culture have our fill of snotass coke snorters thumbing their noses and acting all stupid in the 80s?
Don't we have really expensive technogear to blow all that overpaid $$$ on?
Whatever..
Your Working Boy,