This is good because the money that they save in Microsoft licenses will go to their charitable work. Of course, one hopes that they have a Linux expert (or at least somoene who knows what they are doing) on staff or they might spend too much on support calls.
I found my old tapes from when I used to run a BBS... and I think I still have a QIC-80 drive hidden somewhere in the closet. I'm gonna put my old BBS online again, I just gotta get a second phone line (or RingMate off my first line) and come up with a way to run it multi-node telnet. hmmmm... and I hafta remember how to run Renegade BBS...
I would buy these, and sell them to people as webservers that can take even the worst slashdotting... we know that these machines were able to take the loads placed on them when they worked for Napster!!!
Yes, I know it's offtopic, but I'm trying to be funny on a Sunday morning... cut me some slack
If you're the {MP|RI}AA, it's a feature
(although, it's a feature that doesn't always work right...)
If you're the average SlashDot reader, it's a bug
If you're the average customer buying one of these things, you don't care!
Just my $0.02, and you get what you pay for!
RickTheWizKid
...You would not believe the number of people that I have to tell them "No {sir|ma'am} I will not sell you parts to {build|fix} your illegal {satellite receiver|cable descrambler}..."
Like people think I don't know what they want when they ask for a 75-100pf variable cap...
(of course, I do help people find parts to make a pNES. That seems to be a fairly popular project.)
Oh well, it's just a job, not a career...
Just my 2 cents' worth. Spelling mistakes are free this week RickTheWizKid
It seems to me that anything made by Sony would have some sort of DRM (you know, digital restrictions management) built in so that it would not be able to burn movie DVDs...
If it has no such restrictions (or they are easily circumvented by using non-sony provided software), this is something I would definitely think about purchasing, but if it has some sort of restrictions on what I can do with my 0's and 1's, I ain't gonna buy it...
Just my $0.02 worth... (and you get your money's worth...)
Of course, by the time that this probe *gets* to our nearest neighbor in the galaxy, man will probably have discovered warp-drive, transporters, replicators, shuttlecraft, and expendable guys in red shirts...
Will we have to pull into the nearest Texaco or Irving and fill 'er up with good 'ole H2O? I can't imagine that this will go over too well with the oil companies if all we need to "gas up" is a garden hose..... I'm all for it of course...
Would a program such as cDc's Peek-A-Booty be able to work around the use of such port filters?
What if we were to move the kazaa style P2P programs to a port that is often used for other things, say 21 (ftp) or 80 (www) - I don't think that RoadRunner would want to block _those_ ports...
Then again, my DSL provider (Verizon) blocks my port 80 inbound to "protect me against viruses" - I believe that RR does this as well... am I right?
-RickTheWizKid
Musta been hard talking to the Warez Kiddies...
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But then again, considering that the average piece of software takes 5 minutes to load on one of those Commodores... well... maybe I can leave my house now and get there before the show is over...
(As a side thought)
Time required to load GEOS on a C64 - 5 minutes Time required to load DOS + Windows 3.1 on a 486 - 5 minutes Time requiree to load WinXP on a P3 - 3 minutes Time required to load Red Hat on a P3 workstation - 5 minutes...
The problem I see is that you are not TOLD about the advertising software upon installation of certain software. I'm sure there are a few people who are willing to put up with some ads, or donate a few CPU cycles, in exchange for something free, but, I am not. However, I was not told about that fact and allowed to make my decesion based on the fact that program XXX would also covertly install advertising and distributed computing apps as well.
In sort, it's MY computer, _I_ should be the one who decides what is on it. Not only for my own desires, but also to be polite to other people on the 'net. What if one of these spyware programs were to catch (or come with) a virus? My computer would (without my knowledge) spread this virus to other people....
Of course, I run Linux anyway so this does not *really* apply to me. That is, until some large corporation buys the rights to Linux and starts releasing an adware-enabled version...
Bringing up eth0 [OK] Downloading new artwork and features [OK] Installing new ads [OK]
Oh the horror...:)
Excuse the brain wanderings, I've been up all night coding...:)
When I was a kid, I had a commodore 64... and even at 6 years old, I learned to be patient with the long load times (sometimes up to and including 4 minutes!) and the occasional game that would not even boot! And of course, I think that having to learn enough BASIC commands to get the machine up and running made me a better hacker today because of it...
Kids today have it so easy... point here, click there... When I was your age, I had to type in BASIC commands, and muck around with programs stored on AUDIO CASSETTES!!!:)
I wonder how long it will be until someone creates a client for AIM or ICQ etc, that encrypts the traffic going over the network using something like PGP so that even if your boss DOES have your or the other person's public key it will be impossible to read.
It's kinda hard to monitor when all you see is GHYP FPTHG FTHGF EGGEEG going by.
Or, I could create one using ROT13 encryption and then sue the pants off of the first company to "hack" my advanced confidential encryption system <sarcasm>thanks to the DMCA of course...</sacrasm>
Just my $0.02
-RickTheWizKid
Sounds interesting, there is a similar project out
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Check out tapr.org and the DSP-10 project. It's a 2 meter ham radio that is defined in software, using the DSP board to handle modulation. I am saving my nickels and dimes to buy a kit, and it seems interesting. Also, since it's all defined in software, it can be connected to a transverter and the output can be SSB, FM, etc and the software for the PC can be programmed to take into account that the transverter is making the 2 meter rig into say a 10 meter or microwave rig.
Slashdot Mirror
... a maze of twisty little passages, all alike?
Anyway, I'm glad it's robots doing that, there's no way on earth I would go down there!
RickTheWizKid
This is good because the money that they save in Microsoft licenses will go to their charitable work. Of course, one hopes that they have a Linux expert (or at least somoene who knows what they are doing) on staff or they might spend too much on support calls.
-Rick
I found my old tapes from when I used to run a BBS... and I think I still have a QIC-80 drive hidden somewhere in the closet. I'm gonna put my old BBS online again, I just gotta get a second phone line (or RingMate off my first line) and come up with a way to run it multi-node telnet. hmmmm... and I hafta remember how to run Renegade BBS...
RickTheWizKid
Score: 5, Nostalgic
I would buy these, and sell them to people as webservers that can take even the worst slashdotting... we know that these machines were able to take the loads placed on them when they worked for Napster!!!
Yes, I know it's offtopic, but I'm trying to be funny on a Sunday morning... cut me some slack
RickTheWizKid
Hmmm.... Did not the FCC block the merger of DirecTV and Dish Network? Or was that some other government organization?
:)
Of course, I don't watch TV so that's a moot point for me anyway...
RickTheWizKid
A man needs TV like a fish needs a bicycle
If you're the {MP|RI}AA, it's a feature
(although, it's a feature that doesn't always work right...)
If you're the average SlashDot reader, it's a bug
If you're the average customer buying one of these things, you don't care!
Just my $0.02, and you get what you pay for!
RickTheWizKid
... do I get a "Darwin Award?"
:)
Heaven knows I'll be spending enough time hacking on this that I won't have *time* for kids...
Seriously, kudos to Apple for releasing this... it was a good treat for the day my DSL came back to life!
RickTheWizKid
...You would not believe the number of people that I have to tell them "No {sir|ma'am} I will not sell you parts to {build|fix} your illegal {satellite receiver|cable descrambler}..."
Like people think I don't know what they want when they ask for a 75-100pf variable cap...
(of course, I do help people find parts to make a pNES. That seems to be a fairly popular project.)
Oh well, it's just a job, not a career...
Just my 2 cents' worth. Spelling mistakes are free this week
RickTheWizKid
It seems to me that anything made by Sony would have some sort of DRM (you know, digital restrictions management) built in so that it would not be able to burn movie DVDs...
If it has no such restrictions (or they are easily circumvented by using non-sony provided software), this is something I would definitely think about purchasing, but if it has some sort of restrictions on what I can do with my 0's and 1's, I ain't gonna buy it...
Just my $0.02 worth... (and you get your money's worth...)
-RickTheWizKid
Of course, by the time that this probe *gets* to our nearest neighbor in the galaxy, man will probably have discovered warp-drive, transporters, replicators, shuttlecraft, and expendable guys in red shirts...
-Rick
... after they see their name in SlashDot? I would imagine that someone somewhere in most ISPs there is someone on staff that reast SlashDot...
Then again, that could be an advertisable feature... "Join XXX Online, your Wireless Friendly ISP!"*
-Just my thoughts.
RickTheWizKid
*"XXX Online" may be a trademark of America Online, an AOL/Time Warner company. Then again, it may not be. I really can't be bother to look it up.
Will we have to pull into the nearest Texaco or Irving and fill 'er up with good 'ole H2O? I can't imagine that this will go over too well with the oil companies if all we need to "gas up" is a garden hose..... I'm all for it of course...
-RickTheWizKid
Would a program such as cDc's Peek-A-Booty be able to work around the use of such port filters?
What if we were to move the kazaa style P2P programs to a port that is often used for other things, say 21 (ftp) or 80 (www) - I don't think that RoadRunner would want to block _those_ ports...
Then again, my DSL provider (Verizon) blocks my port 80 inbound to "protect me against viruses" - I believe that RR does this as well... am I right?
-RickTheWizKid
...When 7h3y @r3 t@lking l1k3 7h!z...
-RickTheWizKid
is to have the fortune program in your login script...
-RickTheWiseGuy
...Well, Somebody had to say it...
-RickTheWizKid
Hmm...
:)
Run this under GameBoy Advance - then run the Gameboy Advance Emulator under Windows - then run Windows under VMWare - hmmm......
It's a hall of mirrors!!
-Rick
I put Windows on my computer and it "impaired my performance" ... in more ways than one... :)
Seriously, would this law apply only to activities over the Internet, or would it also apply to software vendors as well?
-Rick
I wish I had known about this earlier....
But then again, considering that the average piece of software takes 5 minutes to load on one of those Commodores... well... maybe I can leave my house now and get there before the show is over...
(As a side thought)
Time required to load GEOS on a C64 - 5 minutes
Time required to load DOS + Windows 3.1 on a 486 - 5 minutes
Time requiree to load WinXP on a P3 - 3 minutes
Time required to load Red Hat on a P3 workstation - 5 minutes...
-Rick
The problem I see is that you are not TOLD about the advertising software upon installation of certain software. I'm sure there are a few people who are willing to put up with some ads, or donate a few CPU cycles, in exchange for something free, but, I am not. However, I was not told about that fact and allowed to make my decesion based on the fact that program XXX would also covertly install advertising and distributed computing apps as well.
:)
:)
In sort, it's MY computer, _I_ should be the one who decides what is on it. Not only for my own desires, but also to be polite to other people on the 'net. What if one of these spyware programs were to catch (or come with) a virus? My computer would (without my knowledge) spread this virus to other people....
Of course, I run Linux anyway so this does not *really* apply to me. That is, until some large corporation buys the rights to Linux and starts releasing an adware-enabled version...
Bringing up eth0 [OK]
Downloading new artwork and features [OK]
Installing new ads [OK]
Oh the horror...
Excuse the brain wanderings, I've been up all night coding...
-RickTheSleepyWizKid
When I was a kid, I had a commodore 64... and even at 6 years old, I learned to be patient with the long load times (sometimes up to and including 4 minutes!) and the occasional game that would not even boot! And of course, I think that having to learn enough BASIC commands to get the machine up and running made me a better hacker today because of it...
:)
Kids today have it so easy... point here, click there... When I was your age, I had to type in BASIC commands, and muck around with programs stored on AUDIO CASSETTES!!!
-Rick
I wonder how long it will be until someone creates a client for AIM or ICQ etc, that encrypts the traffic going over the network using something like PGP so that even if your boss DOES have your or the other person's public key it will be impossible to read.
It's kinda hard to monitor when all you see is GHYP FPTHG FTHGF EGGEEG going by.
Or, I could create one using ROT13 encryption and then sue the pants off of the first company to "hack" my advanced confidential encryption system <sarcasm>thanks to the DMCA of course...</sacrasm>
Just my $0.02
-RickTheWizKid
Check out tapr.org and the DSP-10 project. It's a 2 meter ham radio that is defined in software, using the DSP board to handle modulation. I am saving my nickels and dimes to buy a kit, and it seems interesting. Also, since it's all defined in software, it can be connected to a transverter and the output can be SSB, FM, etc and the software for the PC can be programmed to take into account that the transverter is making the 2 meter rig into say a 10 meter or microwave rig.
-RickTheWizKid
They would have kept going, and going, and going...
They must'a used these instead...
-RickTheWizKid
Gives a new meaning to the word "shitbox"
-Rick