It is quite simple! Just post the URL or email of the offending party on Slashdot for the sum total of five minutes and the overload of requesets caused by the loyal(nosy)readers will quickly take care of the offenders servers.
And it is a free service. Non profit with an employee base of over 300k.
Captain Neal should set up a service and charge companies for this. IT could work both ways.
1. Pay for your companies URL never to appear on slashdot. 2. Pay for your competitors,enemies, inlaws etc.
Hey you aint lying! Did we got to the same camp this month in Orlando FL? Fess up! I was there for 21 days. MCSA and A. I am now a broke MCP who is going to have to EBAY all my study materials to pay the light BILL.
In every edition of XP and 2000 there is a built in license for 2 concurrent Terminal Server connections. These are intended for remote admin but can be used for whatever you like. So if you have 2000 or XP on your box you can enable the terminal service. You can then connect from any other box to yours and have at it. If you are not connecting from a Windows box then you can use any Citrix Client for any os to hit the windows box. Easy enough stuff.
As a 32 year old(ancient) I was pretty much privy to the whol birth and existence of video games thing.
I agree that kids spend too much time playing video games, but on the flipside at Blockbuster it is always the 20 somethings renting the games for the 2 day geekathons.
As for computers in the old days. We had more fun with them because just getting them to do anything other than boot up was a challenge. WE hade to make our modem cable, hope that acoustic dialer did not get confused as a dog toy, and figure out how to get 40 bucks for that 10 pack of Verbatim floppies in the purple box.
Before the internet we had users groups. I was in one when I was 15. We met in parks and drank beer, caused mischief, and occasionally talked about computers. Course I am from New Orleans and beer is assumed.
Puto
Yep,
There is a Mame rom out there. I just had to check to see if I had it and it works and it does.
I remember the arcade version where there was no controller but keypads for controlling and moving the ship. One of my favorite games at the time. Right before night driver.....
Puro
Five things You can Use them for
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ULTra Robo-Taxi
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It looks strangely enough like the Johny cab in Total Recall.
I can think of five things I would do in one of those Babies.
1. Fool Around - Like the Mile Hi Club- Cheaper than a motel! 2. Vomit in it. No cabbie hassling you after an all night bender. 3. Stick insulting bumperstickers all over it. 4. Hack it to see if it will run Linux 5. A mobile BEO Wolf Cluster
Being from the great State of Louisiana and having attended the same University of congressman Tauzin, and whose father went to the same U with him(Pop has got some funny stories about how the Senator was refused from fraternity parties and wore suits to class, all of this in the 60's).
TO understand why Tauzin came up with this you need to know a little local history.
Billy Tauzin came up with idea in the late 90's just when the dot com boom was at a frenzy. Internet in Louisiana was getting pretty big. I was working for a small ISP called Fastband when it happened. You might remember us, Fastband Global Cast. We were an ISP who also were one of the earlier content providers for online music broadcasting.
Bell in Louisiana had just realized that internet was big money and our loop costs for our points of presence become outrageous, and couple this with our bandwidth costs from UUNET and Qwest it was hard to survive in the dial up game. Bell was a little late to gate into the ISP market....
Louisiana had several large ISP's. The largest being Communique in New Orleans. Bell started offering their services, at a higher cost and lousy customer service. Not enough ISP experience. And people in my neck of the woods stick to what they know, a lotta brand loyalty. In the south we live by the motto if aint broke do not fix it.
So, Bell realizing it could not break into the market that easily got into Tauzin's pockets. He immediately released the proposal and all ISPS in the state signed a petition much like that ISP's. All looked good. Billy was defeated...
But the bad news. Communique the largest ISP in the state, the company with the most to lose, sold out. They were bought out by Verio. Who could care less because they are so large. Communique also provide most of the bandwidth to smaller ISPS in the area and when Verio bought them out they raised the prices on the little guys to get the customers.
But it gets better. I sold out and joined the ranks of the unwashed at Verio. Actually, in those days we had damn good prices and service. Everything worked. Before all support moved to the NOC in Dallas.
BUT I always wondered why Bell never messed with Verio. Sure we used them for many things but they could of taken our business.... Because one day I found out that 80 percent of Bells Webhosting(AT the time) was on Verios servers at Hiway. AND Bell only allowed Verio to resell DSL access in the New Orleans area for a short time when it first become availible.
This is a little long. Moral of the story is that Louisiana lost out to the Telcos due to a Big ISP, a corrupt senator, and just being in the wrong place in the wrong time. The Bells view this as a success and Tauzin who likes his office in Washington and no doubt some official and unofficial perks from the telcos is taking his little proposal on the road.
Ok,
Wal-Mart gas comes from a a company called Murphy Oil. A family owned petroelum refiner. Not exactly Shell or Chevron, but a fairly large business.
Puto
I used to work tech at Verio and when we first implemented DSL we had many Linux users and Free-Bsd users as well.(Verio is a big BSD Shop). We only offered official support for windows 95,98 and Macs. However, since our DSL was NIC based we were only too happy to give you the TCPIP settings. Hell, what ISP doesnt use DHCP for all of the above anymore for the home user?
I gave support for all OS's I could help with. However, as soon as you solve one problem there is always a by the way question. And these questions turn into the strangest off topic support questions. I have heard everything from fixing burgular alarms, can you connect the pc to the garage door opener, etc.
If you look at a practical point, how many OS'es can you know fluently).
Personal example
Win 3.1,95,98,me, NT, 2000.
Linux( dont get me started on flavors)
BSD
How can you expect a company to have techs that support all of these? I am sorry but you would have to come up with a little cash for me to return to the trenches to help the guy who knows nothing about Unix to install his dialup connection on the version of Linux that he installed from the CD that came with PC gamer.
So I think a company that has to look at its bottom line and go with the majority. I use linux and windows. However, case in point I cannot remember every problem, every kernel patch, for every version that is floating around. No can do.
I know this sounds kind of crazy(off topic) but if company spent more money on complete paper documentation(LIKE IBM with the OLD DOS binders that even had space for updates.) And not the the slip of paper that says insert disk and BOOM, OS installed. This is the problem with all support problems. People have nothing but a flyer and an 800 number.
puto
Slashdot Mirror
It is quite simple! Just post the URL or email of the offending party on Slashdot for the sum total of five minutes and the overload of requesets caused by the loyal(nosy)readers will quickly take care of the offenders servers.
And it is a free service. Non profit with an employee base of over 300k.
Captain Neal should set up a service and charge companies for this. IT could work both ways.
1. Pay for your companies URL never to appear on slashdot.
2. Pay for your competitors,enemies, inlaws etc.
Yep, I am a capitalist.
Hey you aint lying! Did we got to the same camp this month in Orlando FL? Fess up! I was there for 21 days. MCSA and A. I am now a broke MCP who is going to have to EBAY all my study materials to pay the light BILL.
Felder Smelder
Ok fellas,
In every edition of XP and 2000 there is a built in license for 2 concurrent Terminal Server connections. These are intended for remote admin but can be used for whatever you like. So if you have 2000 or XP on your box you can enable the terminal service. You can then connect from any other box to yours and have at it. If you are not connecting from a Windows box then you can use any Citrix Client for any os to hit the windows box. Easy enough stuff.
Puto
As a 32 year old(ancient) I was pretty much privy to the whol birth and existence of video games thing. I agree that kids spend too much time playing video games, but on the flipside at Blockbuster it is always the 20 somethings renting the games for the 2 day geekathons. As for computers in the old days. We had more fun with them because just getting them to do anything other than boot up was a challenge. WE hade to make our modem cable, hope that acoustic dialer did not get confused as a dog toy, and figure out how to get 40 bucks for that 10 pack of Verbatim floppies in the purple box. Before the internet we had users groups. I was in one when I was 15. We met in parks and drank beer, caused mischief, and occasionally talked about computers. Course I am from New Orleans and beer is assumed. Puto
Yep, There is a Mame rom out there. I just had to check to see if I had it and it works and it does. I remember the arcade version where there was no controller but keypads for controlling and moving the ship. One of my favorite games at the time. Right before night driver..... Puro
It looks strangely enough like the Johny cab in Total Recall.
I can think of five things I would do in one of those Babies.
1. Fool Around - Like the Mile Hi Club- Cheaper than a motel!
2. Vomit in it. No cabbie hassling you after an all night bender.
3. Stick insulting bumperstickers all over it.
4. Hack it to see if it will run Linux
5. A mobile BEO Wolf Cluster
Well this surfaces again,
Being from the great State of Louisiana and having attended the same University of congressman Tauzin, and whose father went to the same U with him(Pop has got some funny stories about how the Senator was refused from fraternity parties and wore suits to class, all of this in the 60's).
TO understand why Tauzin came up with this you need to know a little local history.
Billy Tauzin came up with idea in the late 90's just when the dot com boom was at a frenzy. Internet in Louisiana was getting pretty big. I was working for a small ISP called Fastband when it happened. You might remember us, Fastband Global Cast. We were an ISP who also were one of the earlier content providers for online music broadcasting.
Bell in Louisiana had just realized that internet was big money and our loop costs for our points of presence become outrageous, and couple this with our bandwidth costs from UUNET and Qwest it was hard to survive in the dial up game. Bell was a little late to gate into the ISP market....
Louisiana had several large ISP's. The largest being Communique in New Orleans. Bell started offering their services, at a higher cost and lousy customer service. Not enough ISP experience. And people in my neck of the woods stick to what they know, a lotta brand loyalty. In the south we live by the motto if aint broke do not fix it.
So, Bell realizing it could not break into the market that easily got into Tauzin's pockets. He immediately released the proposal and all ISPS in the state signed a petition much like that ISP's. All looked good. Billy was defeated...
But the bad news. Communique the largest ISP in the state, the company with the most to lose, sold out. They were bought out by Verio. Who could care less because they are so large. Communique also provide most of the bandwidth to smaller ISPS in the area and when Verio bought them out they raised the prices on the little guys to get the customers.
But it gets better. I sold out and joined the ranks of the unwashed at Verio. Actually, in those days we had damn good prices and service. Everything worked. Before all support moved to the NOC in Dallas.
BUT I always wondered why Bell never messed with Verio. Sure we used them for many things but they could of taken our business.... Because one day I found out that 80 percent of Bells Webhosting(AT the time) was on Verios servers at Hiway. AND Bell only allowed Verio to resell DSL access in the New Orleans area for a short time when it first become availible.
This is a little long. Moral of the story is that Louisiana lost out to the Telcos due to a Big ISP, a corrupt senator, and just being in the wrong place in the wrong time. The Bells view this as a success and Tauzin who likes his office in Washington and no doubt some official and unofficial perks from the telcos is taking his little proposal on the road.
Puto
Ok, Wal-Mart gas comes from a a company called Murphy Oil. A family owned petroelum refiner. Not exactly Shell or Chevron, but a fairly large business. Puto
I used to work tech at Verio and when we first implemented DSL we had many Linux users and Free-Bsd users as well.(Verio is a big BSD Shop). We only offered official support for windows 95,98 and Macs. However, since our DSL was NIC based we were only too happy to give you the TCPIP settings. Hell, what ISP doesnt use DHCP for all of the above anymore for the home user? I gave support for all OS's I could help with. However, as soon as you solve one problem there is always a by the way question. And these questions turn into the strangest off topic support questions. I have heard everything from fixing burgular alarms, can you connect the pc to the garage door opener, etc. If you look at a practical point, how many OS'es can you know fluently). Personal example Win 3.1,95,98,me, NT, 2000. Linux( dont get me started on flavors) BSD How can you expect a company to have techs that support all of these? I am sorry but you would have to come up with a little cash for me to return to the trenches to help the guy who knows nothing about Unix to install his dialup connection on the version of Linux that he installed from the CD that came with PC gamer. So I think a company that has to look at its bottom line and go with the majority. I use linux and windows. However, case in point I cannot remember every problem, every kernel patch, for every version that is floating around. No can do. I know this sounds kind of crazy(off topic) but if company spent more money on complete paper documentation(LIKE IBM with the OLD DOS binders that even had space for updates.) And not the the slip of paper that says insert disk and BOOM, OS installed. This is the problem with all support problems. People have nothing but a flyer and an 800 number. puto