... is if there is something like an IDE adapter for 10/100 ethernet. I've been looking for a space-saving solution to play the videos stored on my fileserver w/o the need of a dedicated PC.
Has anyone hacked something like this yet?
You seemed to almost feel guilty, but really, it's not a problem! You'll be back in 2005, when the privilege of running Windows will cost you $30 a month per CPU
Really, what better way to keep DRM mechanisms out of the mainstream market than the strangeholds of patents combined with the intense (and well-justified, one might add) mistrust against Microsoft?
They'd have to give those things away in order to get widespread adoption.
DRM is doomed. The main-selling point of PCs are their versatility. Take this away and you got nothing but a glorified calculator.
Establish laws protecting DRM and you give competing countries a huge advantage. The USA, a country which often refuses to regulate its industries citing international competitive reasons certainly can't cripple itself in such a stupid manner.
This is great stuff! Someone should enter this into the ongoing BT hyperlink-patent trial if it hasn't already been done. Check it out yourself:
http://vodreal.stanford.edu/engel/07engel200.ram
Looks very much like hyperlinking to me! And that was 1968!
Maybe the bad guys will now lose for a change.
Not necessarily... any forum / board which let's you use customized HTML-signatures can be used if you can embed code which then points to a prepared setup. And as far as I know, PHP should support sending hand-crafted HTTP-headers... PHP is the most popular Hypertext-preprocessor. Hrmmm....
SMAC absolutely rocks, but Civ III? It just doesn't feel as "special" as the first two or Alpha... I'm heavily miffed b/c of lack of multiplayer and that the graphics don't reflect modern times. AI feels clunky, in SMAC they really feel as if they have character when you interact with the computer players, but it's just not there in Civ III... sad, really.
I just relocated from the US to the UK and have yet to encounter a store where they'd take PC software back. Both "Games" and EB in Meadowhall, Sheffield don't. So there. I don't claim to know it all, but so far that's what I've seen.
Really? If you're based in the UK I sell you mine really cheap. Civ III has been the greatest disappointment since Black&White. You might want to play-test it before you purchase or buy from a place with a return policy. Here in the UK you can't return software at all.
-Armin
Now that's actually more scary than anything else. If a civil institution is capable of laser-linking satellites, I'd say it's pretty much a given that the military is perfectly capable and probably has been for years to deploy lasers for destructive purposes in earth orbit. Who knows what's meanwhile up there? And I thought Star Wars (SDI) has just been US-propaganda to speed up the USSR's economic meltdown...
Now here's something where the average joe without coding skills can help promote free software. How about offering to burn distros & RPMs/DEBs and mail them to africa or other places where the infrastructure isn't so great? The costs shouldn't be too horrible... maybe we can set up a network of volunteers for something like that? I myself don't have a CD-burner at the moment (relocated from US->EU recently), but I can punch out a simple database-driven website quickly... if anyone's interested, mail arminh(AT)usa.net... maybe we can get something going?
Now all that is quite an achievement, that they figured out all what's involved, but let's face it: Overclocking an Athlon XP 1900 to 2000 won't do anyone any good. That's like 2% more performance and at what kind of expense and risk? What would be informative and what wasn't provided would be if an Athlon XP 1500 (1.33GHz) can be rigged to reach 2000+ (1.66GHz) that way. It's all about how much headroom the CPU-core has and the price/performance overclocking provides. Tom's article shows that the Athlon XP clearly doesn't have a lot of it. We can expect the Palomino core to stick around the 2000-rating (1.66GHz) for a while... at least until they go 0.13micron.
Now that is indeed hard to believe! The US is currently engaged in a military confrontation with terrorists and one of their host-countries. Terrorists, who say they have chemical and nuclear weapons they will unleash if provoked. There just has been recent speculation about shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles and their possible threat they might pose to airliners. Guess what? That's probably exactly what happened and it won't be the last one. They're basically telling us "We know where and how to hurt you and the pain has only just begun!". Now all that shouldn't given reason to be afraid, but to be determined. We need to be very determined to follow through.
Google has an excellent assortment of links to news sites in its directory. So even if the major ones like CNN.com etc are down.. you're bound to find some coverage.
I don't know how the rest of you feel, but I feel like I just need to keep up. How can I retain my rep as the neighbourhood computer-geek if I don't know about what the common mass thinks is the latest and greatest?
I try very hard to get more and more Linux-boxes assembled around me, but it'll be a while until being the local Linux-geek is a respected commodity. At least I never used AOL. That must be worth something, too.
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... is if there is something like an IDE adapter for 10/100 ethernet. I've been looking for a space-saving solution to play the videos stored on my fileserver w/o the need of a dedicated PC. Has anyone hacked something like this yet?
You seemed to almost feel guilty, but really, it's not a problem!
You'll be back in 2005, when the privilege of running Windows will cost you $30 a month per CPU
Really, what better way to keep DRM mechanisms out of the mainstream market than the strangeholds of patents combined with the intense (and well-justified, one might add) mistrust against Microsoft?
They'd have to give those things away in order to get widespread adoption.
DRM is doomed. The main-selling point of PCs are their versatility. Take this away and you got nothing but a glorified calculator. Establish laws protecting DRM and you give competing countries a huge advantage. The USA, a country which often refuses to regulate its industries citing international competitive reasons certainly can't cripple itself in such a stupid manner.
Doh! Ok, I should definitely try to store some of /.'s stories in the longterm memory banks.
Anyway, cool film archive still :)
This is great stuff! Someone should enter this into the ongoing BT hyperlink-patent trial if it hasn't already been done. Check it out yourself: http://vodreal.stanford.edu/engel/07engel200.ram Looks very much like hyperlinking to me! And that was 1968!
Maybe the bad guys will now lose for a change.
Not necessarily ... any forum / board which let's you use customized HTML-signatures can be used if you can embed code which then points to a prepared setup. And as far as I know, PHP should support sending hand-crafted HTTP-headers... PHP is the most popular Hypertext-preprocessor. Hrmmm....
SMAC absolutely rocks, but Civ III? It just doesn't feel as "special" as the first two or Alpha... I'm heavily miffed b/c of lack of multiplayer and that the graphics don't reflect modern times. AI feels clunky, in SMAC they really feel as if they have character when you interact with the computer players, but it's just not there in Civ III... sad, really.
I just relocated from the US to the UK and have yet to encounter a store where they'd take PC software back. Both "Games" and EB in Meadowhall, Sheffield don't. So there. I don't claim to know it all, but so far that's what I've seen.
Really? If you're based in the UK I sell you mine really cheap. Civ III has been the greatest disappointment since Black&White. You might want to play-test it before you purchase or buy from a place with a return policy. Here in the UK you can't return software at all. -Armin
Now that's actually more scary than anything else. If a civil institution is capable of laser-linking satellites, I'd say it's pretty much a given that the military is perfectly capable and probably has been for years to deploy lasers for destructive purposes in earth orbit. Who knows what's meanwhile up there? And I thought Star Wars (SDI) has just been US-propaganda to speed up the USSR's economic meltdown...
Now here's something where the average joe without coding skills can help promote free software. How about offering to burn distros & RPMs/DEBs and mail them to africa or other places where the infrastructure isn't so great? The costs shouldn't be too horrible ... maybe we can set up a network of volunteers for something like that? I myself don't have a CD-burner at the moment (relocated from US->EU recently), but I can punch out a simple database-driven website quickly ... if anyone's interested, mail arminh(AT)usa.net ... maybe we can get something going?
Now all that is quite an achievement, that they figured out all what's involved, but let's face it: Overclocking an Athlon XP 1900 to 2000 won't do anyone any good. That's like 2% more performance and at what kind of expense and risk? What would be informative and what wasn't provided would be if an Athlon XP 1500 (1.33GHz) can be rigged to reach 2000+ (1.66GHz) that way. It's all about how much headroom the CPU-core has and the price/performance overclocking provides. ... at least until they go 0.13micron.
Tom's article shows that the Athlon XP clearly doesn't have a lot of it. We can expect the Palomino core to stick around the 2000-rating (1.66GHz) for a while
Terrorism ruled out as cause of Queens crash
Now that is indeed hard to believe! The US is currently engaged in a military confrontation with terrorists and one of their host-countries. Terrorists, who say they have chemical and nuclear weapons they will unleash if provoked. There just has been recent speculation about shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles and their possible threat they might pose to airliners. Guess what? That's probably exactly what happened and it won't be the last one. They're basically telling us "We know where and how to hurt you and the pain has only just begun!". Now all that shouldn't given reason to be afraid, but to be determined. We need to be very determined to follow through.
Google has an excellent assortment of links to news sites in its directory. So even if the major ones like CNN.com etc are down.. you're bound to find some coverage.
I don't know how the rest of you feel, but I feel like I just need to keep up. How can I retain my rep as the neighbourhood computer-geek if I don't know about what the common mass thinks is the latest and greatest? I try very hard to get more and more Linux-boxes assembled around me, but it'll be a while until being the local Linux-geek is a respected commodity. At least I never used AOL. That must be worth something, too.