I changed DNS to the old Mediaone servers and I'm working again. My DHCP-generated IP address changed. Mail and news are not up yet.
Details on how to change are here. I assume other folks can replace the "ga" in the URL with their state or city name. There was an email sent out last week with more details.
As a guide to our international readers, here is a quick reference. Here in the US, meters are what the gasman reads. Gram is a kind of cracker. Kilos are what is hidden in tire wells at the border crossing in Tiajuana. Megatons are what we drop on people who speak in funny languages.
I use my laptop with 802.11 wireless to play MP3s. I hit a web page on a server on my office, which plays MP3s through the server's soundcard. I have RCA jacks running in the crawlspace under my house from the server soundcard to an input on my receiver. The web page can also serve up the MP3s over http if I want to listen through headphones on the laptop itself.
I use MSDE to store the album info and playlists. I am looking at moving the database to MySQL.
I originally started this project using LiRC, but then I realized how much cooler a web interface would be.
I used to open the http port through the firewall, but yahoos were hitting my page and cranking up my stereo while I was at work, and freaking out my dog.
What a stunningly transparent vote-buying scheme. Let me get this straight. They are not adding any new PCs - they are just giving free email and document storage.
What the heck is wrong with Yahoo, Hotmail, etc etc ad nauseam? Secret answer: they don't generate votes for incumbents. PCs in fire stations? Good to know my house burned down because of the queue to get that government pr0n.
I love the headline: "Houston citizens get free-email." No, it's not free. It will be paid for by your fellow citizens - most of whom work for a living.
go ahead, mod me down - my dogma will chew the tires off your karma.
I agree the government paid for the research that created the internet. Using that standard, the government also created ENIAC. Does that mean the government should control Dell, Apple, and Compaq, just because the government funded the first successful electronic computer?
I think it should be provided as infrastructure by local government.
I'd rather go offline and buy pr0n at 7-11 than subscribe to Internet.Gov. I'm amazed at the opinion that the government can do anything better than the private sector.
Oh, and by the way, we at Internet.Gov will be installing Carnivore. Don't worry, we have to get a court order to enable it. Honest.
Telcos and ISPs may be bad, but I'll take them any day over a government yoke.
The availability of quality games on a platform is not a barometer for the platform's sucess. If it were, Apple would have gone under 10 years ago.
PC game development is a marginally profitable endeavor anyway. For every iD, therearelotsoflosers. Aside from Wal-Mart specials like Deer Hunter and Millionaire, PC game development is a risky proposition at best. Retail software in general is an incredibly competitive business; the retail game software business is brutal.
Linux gamers, as a group, are willing to pay for games, but only for mega-elite titles. These are games that are already successful on Windows. In particular, multiplayer games are only successful with a large gamer population, most of which will be running Windows.
Console gaming is the only profitable market for most game companies. The margins are higher, the technology is simpler due to uniform hardware, losses to piracy are low, and there is significant revenue from rental outlets.
To those of you unwilling to dual-boot to Windows, do what I did - buy a cheap second (3rd/4th/etc) machine and a KVM switch. Or get a game console and rent software. Don't let funky OS advocacy blind you to reasonable alternatives. Hey, I love my TiVo, but the fact it runs Linux means diddly to me.
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Ditto. My first computing experience (ignoring the six-digit calculator given to me as a child) was with the original IBM PC in 1982. 64k of memory, monochrome display (no graphics), came with DOS 1.1. I was 14, and had my first part-time job programming (in BASIC) a year later.
Games were the original Adventure (ported by Microsoft), Zork I and other early Infocom games, and "Friendlyware", a set of fairly imaginative games in BASIC that used ASCII characters for graphics. In 1984 I bought a CGA card for $300 that I'd earned mowing lawns and coding simple databases. I didn't have enough money for a monitor, so I connected the CGA card to a television set using an RF modulator. The display was completely illegible at 80 columns, so I ran DOS at 40 columns. ("MODE CO40" anybody?)
1982: parents bought IBM PC for ~$4500
1986: bought used PCjr for $900
1988: bought 10 Mhz XT clone for $1700
1990: bought 386SX/25 for ~ $1900
1992: bought used 486/33 motherboard for $400
1994: bought P/133 for ~$3200
1997: bought P2/333 in pieces for ~$2100
1999: bought P3/700 for ~$1700
2001 (last week): bought P3/1000 for $600
Christ, I sound like one of those old farts talking about punch cards. Somebody stop me.
I write web-based intranet applications. The sooner Nutscrape 4 dies, the better. Its proprietary DOM and weak CSS support cause me to write and test all my stuff twice.
I had high hopes for Netscape 6.0, but its performance on Windows is abysmal. If Netscape 6.1 performance is close to the latest Mozilla, it will be a lot easier to convince people to dump NS4.
None of the IS departments of our customers would ever allow Mozilla or Opera. For the few brave souls willing to venture away from IE, it's Netscape or nothing. A robust mainstream browser on Windows other than IE goes a long way towards keeping browsers standards-compliant. Yes, I realize Gecko is the same on NS and Mozilla, but try telling that to Fortune 100 companies.
I'm looking forward to the day when I can write DHTML for one browser and it works everywhere.
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...at least according to CNet and Time magazine...
I changed DNS to the old Mediaone servers and I'm working again. My DHCP-generated IP address changed. Mail and news are not up yet.
Details on how to change are here. I assume other folks can replace the "ga" in the URL with their state or city name. There was an email sent out last week with more details.
I know who I would want to leap into next.
"I'm sorry, that paper cut looks pretty nasty. Better safe than sorry - time to apply more full-body decontaminating gel."
Of course I'm talking about the Ray Stevens Classic...
On the other hand, H&K might have built really cool Lego Uzis and flamethrowers.
It's you. Mozilla 0.9.3 renders the page just fine in Gnome and Windows.
Of course, if you just want to be hysterical about Microsoft conspiracies, yeah, the man is putting you down, yeah! Fight the power! Nader '04!
As a guide to our international readers, here is a quick reference. Here in the US, meters are what the gasman reads. Gram is a kind of cracker. Kilos are what is hidden in tire wells at the border crossing in Tiajuana. Megatons are what we drop on people who speak in funny languages.
I use my laptop with 802.11 wireless to play MP3s. I hit a web page on a server on my office, which plays MP3s through the server's soundcard. I have RCA jacks running in the crawlspace under my house from the server soundcard to an input on my receiver. The web page can also serve up the MP3s over http if I want to listen through headphones on the laptop itself.
I use MSDE to store the album info and playlists. I am looking at moving the database to MySQL.
I originally started this project using LiRC, but then I realized how much cooler a web interface would be.
I used to open the http port through the firewall, but yahoos were hitting my page and cranking up my stereo while I was at work, and freaking out my dog.
What the heck is wrong with Yahoo, Hotmail, etc etc ad nauseam? Secret answer: they don't generate votes for incumbents. PCs in fire stations? Good to know my house burned down because of the queue to get that government pr0n.
I love the headline: "Houston citizens get free-email." No, it's not free. It will be paid for by your fellow citizens - most of whom work for a living.
go ahead, mod me down - my dogma will chew the tires off your karma.
I agree the government paid for the research that created the internet. Using that standard, the government also created ENIAC. Does that mean the government should control Dell, Apple, and Compaq, just because the government funded the first successful electronic computer?
I'd rather go offline and buy pr0n at 7-11 than subscribe to Internet.Gov. I'm amazed at the opinion that the government can do anything better than the private sector.
Oh, and by the way, we at Internet.Gov will be installing Carnivore. Don't worry, we have to get a court order to enable it. Honest.
Telcos and ISPs may be bad, but I'll take them any day over a government yoke.
PC game development is a marginally profitable endeavor anyway. For every iD, there are lots of losers. Aside from Wal-Mart specials like Deer Hunter and Millionaire, PC game development is a risky proposition at best. Retail software in general is an incredibly competitive business; the retail game software business is brutal.
Linux gamers, as a group, are willing to pay for games, but only for mega-elite titles. These are games that are already successful on Windows. In particular, multiplayer games are only successful with a large gamer population, most of which will be running Windows.
Console gaming is the only profitable market for most game companies. The margins are higher, the technology is simpler due to uniform hardware, losses to piracy are low, and there is significant revenue from rental outlets.
To those of you unwilling to dual-boot to Windows, do what I did - buy a cheap second (3rd/4th/etc) machine and a KVM switch. Or get a game console and rent software. Don't let funky OS advocacy blind you to reasonable alternatives. Hey, I love my TiVo, but the fact it runs Linux means diddly to me.
Games were the original Adventure (ported by Microsoft), Zork I and other early Infocom games, and "Friendlyware", a set of fairly imaginative games in BASIC that used ASCII characters for graphics. In 1984 I bought a CGA card for $300 that I'd earned mowing lawns and coding simple databases. I didn't have enough money for a monitor, so I connected the CGA card to a television set using an RF modulator. The display was completely illegible at 80 columns, so I ran DOS at 40 columns. ("MODE CO40" anybody?)
1982: parents bought IBM PC for ~$4500
1986: bought used PCjr for $900
1988: bought 10 Mhz XT clone for $1700
1990: bought 386SX/25 for ~ $1900
1992: bought used 486/33 motherboard for $400
1994: bought P/133 for ~$3200
1997: bought P2/333 in pieces for ~$2100
1999: bought P3/700 for ~$1700
2001 (last week): bought P3/1000 for $600
Christ, I sound like one of those old farts talking about punch cards. Somebody stop me.
I remember the same joke setup, but the punchline was, "You had 1's? We had to use lowercase L's!"
I write web-based intranet applications. The sooner Nutscrape 4 dies, the better. Its proprietary DOM and weak CSS support cause me to write and test all my stuff twice. I had high hopes for Netscape 6.0, but its performance on Windows is abysmal. If Netscape 6.1 performance is close to the latest Mozilla, it will be a lot easier to convince people to dump NS4. None of the IS departments of our customers would ever allow Mozilla or Opera. For the few brave souls willing to venture away from IE, it's Netscape or nothing. A robust mainstream browser on Windows other than IE goes a long way towards keeping browsers standards-compliant. Yes, I realize Gecko is the same on NS and Mozilla, but try telling that to Fortune 100 companies. I'm looking forward to the day when I can write DHTML for one browser and it works everywhere.