You bet your ass they have an alternate way. It's called a CIRCUIT NUMBER. They've used this at least since T1s came into being. My 2nd pair is a loop owned by Covad, with a Covad circuit number on it. This has carried my DSL from Speakeasy for the past 3 years.
Of course, this doesn't stop SBC from stealing the pair, as happened once. Even when the loop is tagged at the NID (but maybe wasn't in the can or downstairs).
But yes, it's definitely possible to do DSL without voice right now.
Whatever happens, tracking Joe is not going to make him shape up. It's not going to make him respect his parents. It will probably make things worse.
I speak from experience. This is true. Monitoring me made me lose respect for the parents. It made me not trust them at all. It made me estranged from them even before I left home. For parents who have no interest in their children aside from punishing them for every little thing done wrong, this is surefire technology.:o)
Of course, I'd've just turned my phone off and told my mother I had a shitty signal the whole way, and there's not a damned thing she could do about it. Also, when I was a kid, cell phones were huge, expensive and generally not available outside major metro areas.
Here's how a 6th grader would gain rooot access to a laptop.
For Windows NT:
Tools/devices needed: 3.5" USB floppy drive and a 3.5" disk
Software: NT Password Boot Disk
1. Download floppy image of NT Password Boot disk, write to a floppy
2. Boot from floppy
3. Change the local administrator's password
4. Log in as Administrator and add you to the local Administrators group
For MacOS X:
1. Power on
2. Hold Apple+S during the startup chord
3. Release keys after text screen appears; wait for the shell prompt
4. WARNING: YOU ARE SUPERUSER !!
Armed with a google search and some free time, all sorts of things can be done. The most important criterion is that they have physical control of the box.
In conclusion, who the hell cares about form factor?
I'm certain laptop manufacturers care. They want to pander to the "thin, light, but powerful" market, and having to cram a dual-slot cardbus rig inside is going to make the laptop thicker.
Face it; the attention span of the majority is about 3 seconds, so it is funny to them. Also, "funny" is very subjective, so you stand a great chance of getting metamoterated as unfair had you done so (assuming metamoderation applies to all moderation types).
Not that I disagree with your assessment of how funny it was... it certianly wasn't "laugh out loud" funny.:o)
But what PS2 Linux calls "mcfs" is NOT full access to the memory card. It's just access to the big file on the card set aside for Linux, so you can't just plug in any old card and mount it.
But how many towns do you create while playing AC?
What I find much more annoying is when I try being the biggest shithead to my shithead neighbours, but they won't leave (and all the kick-ass animals DO move town).
I have been off The Crack for a couple months, tho...
If they (RIAA, lawmakers, whoever can do it) reinstate reasonable terms on copyrights, perhaps more of us would take said copyrights seriously.
I'd like to see someone defeat the ultimate peer-peer network: sneakernet. Cold day in Hell before RIAA/MPAA/whoever's got their panties in a knot will succeed, and if they do, they'll -really- have a revenue decline.:o)
ROM00: "Woz" edition and originals; 256k RAM ROM01: 256k mainboard plus memory card with 256k on it ROM03: 1MB+256k
I still use my ROM01 IIgs on occasion, though I wish I could get KEGS working for some Unix variant other than HP-UX (honestly, I haven't tried lately).
How about scheduling all the classes at a sane time (like... after 10:00am)? That way, only the laziest would miss the classes.
But alas, school seems to be about pressing everyone into the 8-5 mantra. I know if I had my way, I wouldn't show to work before noon, but I also wouldn't leave before 09:00pm or so.
Sorry, but I have to disagree with the slant against video games, or at least against video games combined with education.
When I have that evil performance review or testing document to write, and I've got writer's block, and I'm about to kick my screen in because Word wants to "think" for me for the 302nd time, a good session with Sonic is just the thing. Platformers aren't cutting it that day? No problem. Break out SOE, or play some GTA3 and run over people.
Most any decent emulator (MAME, dgen, gens, ePSXe) can work on older hardware. Besides, if folks took your advice to its logical conclusion, they'd write their own emulator so they can play Scorched Earth or Jill of the Jungle anyway.:o)
I think the trick to staying sane, having fun AND passing all your classes is moderation.
So bring the ghetto laptop that doesn't cost a lot, yet runs anything. Don't make the mistake of leaving the PS2 or GC at home, tho. You will regret it.
I don't buy graphics cards for these reasons, so the sex appeal means jack to me. The burning question when I selected the NV17 and the NV11 before it was, "Will it work in XFree86 so these very important programs will run with a decent amount of speed?"
nvidia won the battle at that point in time. I still have bad blood with ATI thanks mainly to XFree86 driver problems in Mach64 (again, way back then, so it's probably changed by now).
The shitkicker chipsets may not be profitable or sexy enough for corporati, but they DO have a market. They always will.
Wouldn't it be great if managers were actually held accountable for things like this? If they stood the chance of being fired, they may just think about the feasability of their idea before ordering it right into production...
Until I can get a DSL or a cable modem on a farm in The Sticks, KS, I'm going to have to disagree with you on the "ubiquitous broadband" thing. It's been 4yr or so since I've had broadband (cable), and I still have to be very careful about where I choose to live.
BTW, my whole music collection is 128kbps CBR mp3. All of it. It sounds just like the CDs it came from, so that works for me.
You certainly got this argument off on the right foot...
I couldn't care less about the differences between ogg and mp3. I also couldn't name any features that mp3 or ogg doesn't offer now that I'd want in some other format. ogg is better from an ideological perpective because it has none of that patent bullshit to deal with. Yes, I think software patents suck massive cock. All I care about is if the damned thing plays on my equipment without my having to do some elabourate dance.
As for me, I've bought exactly... zero... CDs in the past year. Do you know why? It's because nothing worth buying has come out in the past year. It's also because I've been too lazy to get to a used CD store and get CDs of music that I really DO want.
In other words, I've been listening to all my old stuff that I bought 8yr ago or more. There's nothing wrong with that, and the record companies can't charge me a dime for the right of first sale I'm exercising by using my CDs in mp3 format. The iPod is great for hauling my 120-something CD collection around in... makes for great car listening.
Perhaps it is "my own damn fault" for buying the crappy USB media reader that has buggy drivers and blue-screens XP at random. Or my fault that I keep up with the updates, yet the random disappearance of devices on USB still fails to amaze me. Or that I have to reboot my win2k box 10 times to get all the updates installed...
For the amount of hate I hold towards win32, I can say that stability is not at the top of the gripe list (it certainly was when I was dealing with win3x and win9x/ME). The 2 win32 boxes I have at home don't crash often; they're annoying in other ways. Most of my vitriol stems from having to navigate the registry to do some config tasks and (worse!) not being able to get useful diagnostics out of an errant program when I need them. Windows Update is a unique frustration, especially pre-XP.
Sure, hide the details, but at least give the user an option to show them! AAPL is just as guilty of this, tho with MacOS X, I have the possibility of tracing the damned program...
and forgetting about the ugly mess that my laptop doesn't have.
So you have another mess -- a USB dongle with 6" of cord and a serial port on the end hanging from your Vaio as you're fumbling down the aisle to the console port of the Cisco that's broken.
Just be careful to not accidentally pull the dongle out when Tera Term is trying to use it. You'll pay with a BSOD.:o)
I guess it's the lesser of 2 evils.
My main problem with lack of legacy ports (especially serial!) is that freebie or linux may not support my particular device.
the "popup" ads are a dirty trick. They make use of the WINPOPUP service. To disable this:
- firewall ports 135-139 (or better, firewall the entire reserved port range and open those you need) - if the system is win9x, you need to turn off file/print sharing, or at least unbind it from your interface going to the internet - if the system is NT-based, you need to stop and disable the "Windows Messenger" service. Note that this is not "Messenger the instant messaging client."
The rule of thumb is that if you're not playing anything time-sensitive, just leave the IIgs's speed at "Fast" (2.8MHz). This works fine since the hardware will automagically put the CPU into 1MHz mode when clock-sensitive stuff was going on (IWM access especially. All those disk][ drivers were made for 1MHz machines and if you didn't get your code into 32usec/36usec, you'd write invalid bytes)
Forget playing most older games at "Fast," however, as they'll be waaay too fast for you to control. Montezuma's Revenge is... interesting... in "Fast.":o)
Applying the AR film and keeping dust out of there was a bitch. I had to reopen it to flatten the film out a few times, and to blow dust out of it. It seems good enough now, altho I'll have to get new AR film someday.
I didn't dare fit the pot inside, as I didn't want to drill holes in the GBA's housing.
I have no sympathy for any backlash that MS is (or will be) getting, and here's why:
MS could still have kept mod chips off their network without resorting to the path of least resistance (put the offending GUID in a database and let them go to hell). They downloaded "updates" to the box to begin with, so why not have that code execute every time "Live" was started, looking for the mod and refusing to go if it's detected?
It'd keep the network free of mod chips without the risk of banning hardware that can be un-modded forever.
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How would you solve the differences, then? Talk to them? Tell the teacher? Tell your mother? Tell the fuckchop's mother? Ignore it? Slit your wrists?
I've been through all this when I was a kid, and none of it EVER works.
So tell me... what IS the right way to solve the problem?
I'm not trying to be snarky, but if you think you have a solution, please share it.
You bet your ass they have an alternate way. It's called a CIRCUIT NUMBER. They've used this at least since T1s came into being. My 2nd pair is a loop owned by Covad, with a Covad circuit number on it. This has carried my DSL from Speakeasy for the past 3 years.
Of course, this doesn't stop SBC from stealing the pair, as happened once. Even when the loop is tagged at the NID (but maybe wasn't in the can or downstairs).
But yes, it's definitely possible to do DSL without voice right now.
I speak from experience. This is true. Monitoring me made me lose respect for the parents. It made me not trust them at all. It made me estranged from them even before I left home. For parents who have no interest in their children aside from punishing them for every little thing done wrong, this is surefire technology. :o)
Of course, I'd've just turned my phone off and told my mother I had a shitty signal the whole way, and there's not a damned thing she could do about it. Also, when I was a kid, cell phones were huge, expensive and generally not available outside major metro areas.
For Windows NT:
Tools/devices needed: 3.5" USB floppy drive and a 3.5" disk
Software: NT Password Boot Disk
1. Download floppy image of NT Password Boot disk, write to a floppy
2. Boot from floppy
3. Change the local administrator's password
4. Log in as Administrator and add you to the local Administrators group
For MacOS X:
1. Power on
2. Hold Apple+S during the startup chord
3. Release keys after text screen appears; wait for the shell prompt
4. WARNING: YOU ARE SUPERUSER !!
Armed with a google search and some free time, all sorts of things can be done. The most important criterion is that they have physical control of the box.
Someone would like to know how one gets a liquor license and all their other permits so fast and trouble-free.
And then I'm sure he'd like to scream if you show him the way. :o)
I'm certain laptop manufacturers care. They want to pander to the "thin, light, but powerful" market, and having to cram a dual-slot cardbus rig inside is going to make the laptop thicker.
Or maybe he's using mutt (y'know... the pit bull version!) as his snail-MUA. It certainly would make the cost of sending mail go up!
Face it; the attention span of the majority is about 3 seconds, so it is funny to them. Also, "funny" is very subjective, so you stand a great chance of getting metamoterated as unfair had you done so (assuming metamoderation applies to all moderation types).
:o)
Not that I disagree with your assessment of how funny it was... it certianly wasn't "laugh out loud" funny.
But what PS2 Linux calls "mcfs" is NOT full access to the memory card. It's just access to the big file on the card set aside for Linux, so you can't just plug in any old card and mount it.
But how many towns do you create while playing AC?
What I find much more annoying is when I try being the biggest shithead to my shithead neighbours, but they won't leave (and all the kick-ass animals DO move town).
I have been off The Crack for a couple months, tho...
If they (RIAA, lawmakers, whoever can do it) reinstate reasonable terms on copyrights, perhaps more of us would take said copyrights seriously.
:o)
I'd like to see someone defeat the ultimate peer-peer network: sneakernet. Cold day in Hell before RIAA/MPAA/whoever's got their panties in a knot will succeed, and if they do, they'll -really- have a revenue decline.
I believe it was more like this:
ROM00: "Woz" edition and originals; 256k RAM
ROM01: 256k mainboard plus memory card with 256k on it
ROM03: 1MB+256k
I still use my ROM01 IIgs on occasion, though I wish I could get KEGS working for some Unix variant other than HP-UX (honestly, I haven't tried lately).
This is a pipe dream, but...
How about scheduling all the classes at a sane time (like... after 10:00am)? That way, only the laziest would miss the classes.
But alas, school seems to be about pressing everyone into the 8-5 mantra. I know if I had my way, I wouldn't show to work before noon, but I also wouldn't leave before 09:00pm or so.
Sorry, but I have to disagree with the slant against video games, or at least against video games combined with education.
:o)
When I have that evil performance review or testing document to write, and I've got writer's block, and I'm about to kick my screen in because Word wants to "think" for me for the 302nd time, a good session with Sonic is just the thing. Platformers aren't cutting it that day? No problem. Break out SOE, or play some GTA3 and run over people.
Most any decent emulator (MAME, dgen, gens, ePSXe) can work on older hardware. Besides, if folks took your advice to its logical conclusion, they'd write their own emulator so they can play Scorched Earth or Jill of the Jungle anyway.
I think the trick to staying sane, having fun AND passing all your classes is moderation.
So bring the ghetto laptop that doesn't cost a lot, yet runs anything. Don't make the mistake of leaving the PS2 or GC at home, tho. You will regret it.
I don't buy graphics cards for these reasons, so the sex appeal means jack to me. The burning question when I selected the NV17 and the NV11 before it was, "Will it work in XFree86 so these very important programs will run with a decent amount of speed?"
nvidia won the battle at that point in time. I still have bad blood with ATI thanks mainly to XFree86 driver problems in Mach64 (again, way back then, so it's probably changed by now).
The shitkicker chipsets may not be profitable or sexy enough for corporati, but they DO have a market. They always will.
Wouldn't it be great if managers were actually held accountable for things like this? If they stood the chance of being fired, they may just think about the feasability of their idea before ordering it right into production...
I wonder what it'll make of the fact that I have somewhat "unique" tracks, labelled uniquely by me, if not entirely accurate...
Stuff like old MODs, game music, etc...
Until I can get a DSL or a cable modem on a farm in The Sticks, KS, I'm going to have to disagree with you on the "ubiquitous broadband" thing. It's been 4yr or so since I've had broadband (cable), and I still have to be very careful about where I choose to live.
BTW, my whole music collection is 128kbps CBR mp3. All of it. It sounds just like the CDs it came from, so that works for me.
You certainly got this argument off on the right foot...
I couldn't care less about the differences between ogg and mp3. I also couldn't name any features that mp3 or ogg doesn't offer now that I'd want in some other format. ogg is better from an ideological perpective because it has none of that patent bullshit to deal with. Yes, I think software patents suck massive cock. All I care about is if the damned thing plays on my equipment without my having to do some elabourate dance.
As for me, I've bought exactly... zero... CDs in the past year. Do you know why? It's because nothing worth buying has come out in the past year. It's also because I've been too lazy to get to a used CD store and get CDs of music that I really DO want.
In other words, I've been listening to all my old stuff that I bought 8yr ago or more. There's nothing wrong with that, and the record companies can't charge me a dime for the right of first sale I'm exercising by using my CDs in mp3 format. The iPod is great for hauling my 120-something CD collection around in... makes for great car listening.
For the amount of hate I hold towards win32, I can say that stability is not at the top of the gripe list (it certainly was when I was dealing with win3x and win9x/ME). The 2 win32 boxes I have at home don't crash often; they're annoying in other ways. Most of my vitriol stems from having to navigate the registry to do some config tasks and (worse!) not being able to get useful diagnostics out of an errant program when I need them. Windows Update is a unique frustration, especially pre-XP.
Sure, hide the details, but at least give the user an option to show them! AAPL is just as guilty of this, tho with MacOS X, I have the possibility of tracing the damned program...
So you have another mess -- a USB dongle with 6" of cord and a serial port on the end hanging from your Vaio as you're fumbling down the aisle to the console port of the Cisco that's broken.
Just be careful to not accidentally pull the dongle out when Tera Term is trying to use it. You'll pay with a BSOD. :o)
I guess it's the lesser of 2 evils.
My main problem with lack of legacy ports (especially serial!) is that freebie or linux may not support my particular device.
the "popup" ads are a dirty trick. They make use of the WINPOPUP service. To disable this:
- firewall ports 135-139 (or better, firewall the entire reserved port range and open those you need)
- if the system is win9x, you need to turn off file/print sharing, or at least unbind it from your interface going to the internet
- if the system is NT-based, you need to stop and disable the "Windows Messenger" service. Note that this is not "Messenger the instant messaging client."
The rule of thumb is that if you're not playing anything time-sensitive, just leave the IIgs's speed at "Fast" (2.8MHz). This works fine since the hardware will automagically put the CPU into 1MHz mode when clock-sensitive stuff was going on (IWM access especially. All those disk][ drivers were made for 1MHz machines and if you didn't get your code into 32usec/36usec, you'd write invalid bytes)
:o)
Forget playing most older games at "Fast," however, as they'll be waaay too fast for you to control. Montezuma's Revenge is... interesting... in "Fast."
The soldering was the easy part.
Applying the AR film and keeping dust out of there was a bitch. I had to reopen it to flatten the film out a few times, and to blow dust out of it. It seems good enough now, altho I'll have to get new AR film someday.
I didn't dare fit the pot inside, as I didn't want to drill holes in the GBA's housing.
I have no sympathy for any backlash that MS is (or will be) getting, and here's why:
MS could still have kept mod chips off their network without resorting to the path of least resistance (put the offending GUID in a database and let them go to hell). They downloaded "updates" to the box to begin with, so why not have that code execute every time "Live" was started, looking for the mod and refusing to go if it's detected?
It'd keep the network free of mod chips without the risk of banning hardware that can be un-modded forever.