Why not just write down your MAC address. It's unique to your NIC, and trackable to at least your network segment.
The Crazy Finn
Re:Woah. Wuz Woz really a success?
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Woz Created the PC(Apple I), in 1975, Commodore in 1977, IBM got there in 1981 and Compaq circa 1983. Apple was there first, and was the killer box until the PC AT and Amiga came out.
Personally, I'm hoping the other Steve will give Woz access to the Newton stuff, so he can use it as the basis for his new wunder handheld. The Newton OS is still the best handheld OS out there (Not even PalmOS 4 comes close) and the hardware just needs to be shrunk. A smaller 2100 with GPS and wireless internally would rock. Don't forget the newton had a decent battery life (1 week of regular use on my MP130).
Hmmmm. Newton+iPod+GPS+Ricochet=Killer App.
A 2100 with 5Gb HDD, and GPS and Ricochet cards would be a good place for Woz to start.
Mac OS, yeah....last time I checked, the latest version was 10.1, known to the World as Mac OS X, and most definitely Unix. 9.x is deprecated as of MW SF '02, and the latest version of that doesn't even run on non OS X compatible boxes. So yeah, Mac OS X is Mac OS, and is the most stable and usable desktop OS on the market right now (Sure Linux and BeOS are as stable, but they don't run Office or Diablo II, Mac OS X does)
Trade Paperbacks, Same size as a hardcover, split's the difference in price between the two, popular in Europe. I get all my new Gemmell that way, as the HC's never make it to North America.
The Crazy Finn
Re:Good Military Sci-Fi Books
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Weber's stuff is good.
John Ringo, Best new author of 2001. AHymn Before Battle and Gust Front, as well as March Upcountry and March to the Sea with David Weber
David Drake's Hammer's Slammers
Pournelle's Falkenberg Legion and War World Anthologies, as well as the 'There Will be War' and 'Imperial Stars' anthologies
Starfist series (25th Century Marines)
Keith Laumer's Bolo's
Eric Flint & David Drake's Belisarius
David Drake & S.M. Stirling's 'The General' series and associated novels (The Tyrant is upcoming)
Armor is good
David Gemmell's stuff (Not SF, but good Heroic Fantasy, very similar themes, especially as to the ordinariness of Heroes)
The Crazy Finn
Re:One of My Favorites...Well, OK, BUT.....
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Heinlein's book was only superficially about war. Starship troopers was about political and personal responsibility at the core, the war was simply the best settng to show the evolution of Juan Rico from spoiled rich kid rebelling against his parents to a man. One of the telling points is which of the two books is more popular in the military, it's ST by far, as Heinlein captured the military mind almost as well as Kipling did, while Haldeman appeals more to the left. Haldeman is deal with not the inherent problems with the military, but the reaction of someone taken out of the world and put back in later, when the world had changed, fighting the Vietnam war was time travel of a sort, simply for being out of the country as society changed massively.
For a more modern version of this, see John Ringo's A Hymn Before Battle and Gust Front. John Ringo was a Sargeant in the 82nd Airborne, so he knows his stuff, and it's a damned good read.
Bzzt: Wrong. thy YB-49 lost out to the YB-52 in tests, at the time, the conventional design fit the parameters better (Longer range with bigger bombload vs a semi-stealth design), the YB-49 concept went back in the think tank for a few decades and re-emerged as the B-2 (Which is a direct descendant of the YB-49)
The Crazy Finn
So if I get Mononoke Hima but think FF:SW was lame with poor characterization and a really badly developed 'Sierra Club' plot it's too mature for me? FF:SW was the Wing Commander of the consoles, except there was far better acting in Wing Commander.
The Crazy Finn
Logitech FF USB Wheel works on PS2 and PC, but the best wheel on the market is the Momo Wheel, it's made out of steel, by logitech and Momo(Maker of tuner parts, cool wheels and steering wheels for sport compacts)
Physics is pretty good when you turn the difficulty up. as good as SegaGT, don't even think of powersliding unless you're driving a high-powered 4wd or in a Rally race.
Idependence War 2: The Edge of Chaos. Sequelt o the best space sim (and I do mean SIM) that nobody played. Think cool storyling, big ships with big guns and real physics, even a helper mode for those who only grok Wing Commander physics.
The Crazy Finn
If you are interested in racing get a PS/2 and GT3 A-Spec, nothing else compares. Project Gotham has prettier cars, but the tracks suck, and it has only 25 cars and 4 base tracks (Albeit 240 variations of those 4), vs 140+ and 29 tracks in GT3.
The Crazy Finn
It's been there for a while at $500 and 20lbs, they're called motorised scooters, look like Razor scooters with a little 1 horse motor on the back, go about 20km/h max, and are supremely easy on gas. OK, so they don't balance themselve, big deal.
The Crazy Finn
Motorized Razor Scooter: $300CDN($200US)
IT: $3000USD
What does it offer, oh, it balances for you, and it weighs more, hmmmm, unless your sense of balance is shot, you'll take the Razor, which has the advantage of working when you run out of gas as a standard scooter.
This reminds me of those 'revolutionary' electric bikes, you know, the ones nobody bought, because they had no range, were too heavy, and looked silly.
And those kids all have razor scooters and skateboards, and the population of those crowded asian cities will prefer bikes, as they can carry cargo too.
The price won't come down until v3.0, if they last tat long, as a lot of people won't buy them.
Don't forget, both the car and the computer offered visible advantages, ie: sustained range(car), and speed of processing(computer), this offers something off little use to most people who have an intact sense of balance.
Taco's got a point. It's a frikkin' scooter. Big whoop-de-do. Anyways it weighs 60+ pounds, thats too damn heavy to carry up stairs, a 30lb bike is marginal for carrying. I'll keep my bike, or buy a motorized Razor Scooter instead.
The Crazy Finn
Big games for the holidays for me will be Final Fantasy X, with GTA3, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, and Ghost Recon. The new Wolfenstein was a major letdown, with single player action that in no way even compares to Half-Life or Red Faction. For good new FPS action, get an X-Box and Halo.
Nope, most AVI is not mpg, some is mpeg4 (AKA DivX), but that is rare for streaming.
And DVD's are old tech, thus the encoding is MPEG-2. Not really applicable for the computer market, fast as it moves these days.
The Crazy Finn
7 years and counting, on an OMP and a MP130. I'm finally seeing some PDA's now with the capabilities that my Newton had in 94. PalmOS just doesn't compare, except for 4.0.
The Crazy Finn
mpg is dead, AVI and Quicktime killed it in the streaming format, try finding streaming mpg's anywhere. DivX MPEG4 is getting kinda popular in non-streaming though.
The Crazy Finn
But it's not stock SDRAM in it, usually it's some odd variant of Parity ECC RAM. And the things only take 256Mb or 512Mb at most (My little 1605-R doesn't even get near that)
The Crazy Finn
Most databases are exremely slow by router standards. show me a database that routinely handles 1000 queries a second on a 100Mb database with a sub 1ms response time.
Don't forget, that DS1 (Which is simply the term for the line, T1 being the service) has an SLA (which cable doesn't) guaranteed response time from the telco(Which cable doesn't), a dedicated port on a big Cisco router on their end(which cable doesn't), guaranteed bandwidth (Which cable doesn't), and an engineered circuit (which usually requires laying cable). Simply put, if you need guaranteed uptime, bandwidth and the ability to have a tech onsite at 3am Sunday morning get a T1, if you just need reasonably fast access for an office or home, get cable or xDSL.
In other words: You get what you pay for.
Both have integrated GeForce2MX's, which were disabled, integrated sound and NIC's. With the NIC's disabled, in order to balance the field (all boards had integrated sound of some sort IIRC)
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Why not just write down your MAC address. It's unique to your NIC, and trackable to at least your network segment.
The Crazy Finn
Woz Created the PC(Apple I), in 1975, Commodore in 1977, IBM got there in 1981 and Compaq circa 1983. Apple was there first, and was the killer box until the PC AT and Amiga came out.
Personally, I'm hoping the other Steve will give Woz access to the Newton stuff, so he can use it as the basis for his new wunder handheld. The Newton OS is still the best handheld OS out there (Not even PalmOS 4 comes close) and the hardware just needs to be shrunk. A smaller 2100 with GPS and wireless internally would rock. Don't forget the newton had a decent battery life (1 week of regular use on my MP130).
Hmmmm. Newton+iPod+GPS+Ricochet=Killer App.
A 2100 with 5Gb HDD, and GPS and Ricochet cards would be a good place for Woz to start.
The Crazy Finn
Mac OS, yeah....last time I checked, the latest version was 10.1, known to the World as Mac OS X, and most definitely Unix. 9.x is deprecated as of MW SF '02, and the latest version of that doesn't even run on non OS X compatible boxes. So yeah, Mac OS X is Mac OS, and is the most stable and usable desktop OS on the market right now (Sure Linux and BeOS are as stable, but they don't run Office or Diablo II, Mac OS X does)
The Crazy Finn
Trade Paperbacks, Same size as a hardcover, split's the difference in price between the two, popular in Europe. I get all my new Gemmell that way, as the HC's never make it to North America. The Crazy Finn
Weber's stuff is good.
John Ringo, Best new author of 2001. AHymn Before Battle and Gust Front, as well as March Upcountry and March to the Sea with David Weber
David Drake's Hammer's Slammers
Pournelle's Falkenberg Legion and War World Anthologies, as well as the 'There Will be War' and 'Imperial Stars' anthologies
Starfist series (25th Century Marines)
Keith Laumer's Bolo's
Eric Flint & David Drake's Belisarius
David Drake & S.M. Stirling's 'The General' series and associated novels (The Tyrant is upcoming)
Armor is good
David Gemmell's stuff (Not SF, but good Heroic Fantasy, very similar themes, especially as to the ordinariness of Heroes)
The Crazy Finn
Heinlein's book was only superficially about war. Starship troopers was about political and personal responsibility at the core, the war was simply the best settng to show the evolution of Juan Rico from spoiled rich kid rebelling against his parents to a man. One of the telling points is which of the two books is more popular in the military, it's ST by far, as Heinlein captured the military mind almost as well as Kipling did, while Haldeman appeals more to the left. Haldeman is deal with not the inherent problems with the military, but the reaction of someone taken out of the world and put back in later, when the world had changed, fighting the Vietnam war was time travel of a sort, simply for being out of the country as society changed massively.
For a more modern version of this, see John Ringo's A Hymn Before Battle and Gust Front. John Ringo was a Sargeant in the 82nd Airborne, so he knows his stuff, and it's a damned good read.
The Crazy Finn
Bzzt: Wrong. thy YB-49 lost out to the YB-52 in tests, at the time, the conventional design fit the parameters better (Longer range with bigger bombload vs a semi-stealth design), the YB-49 concept went back in the think tank for a few decades and re-emerged as the B-2 (Which is a direct descendant of the YB-49) The Crazy Finn
So if I get Mononoke Hima but think FF:SW was lame with poor characterization and a really badly developed 'Sierra Club' plot it's too mature for me? FF:SW was the Wing Commander of the consoles, except there was far better acting in Wing Commander. The Crazy Finn
A good Mex Strat or a great Ibanez costs less than an adequate Gibson SG. Epiphones are poo.
For an Ibanez, all you need is a RG550 or 570, the high end ones are the same, with somebody's name on it.
The high end Mex strats are OK, provided you test drive them, the quality control sucks.
The Crazy Finn
Logitech FF USB Wheel works on PS2 and PC, but the best wheel on the market is the Momo Wheel, it's made out of steel, by logitech and Momo(Maker of tuner parts, cool wheels and steering wheels for sport compacts)
Physics is pretty good when you turn the difficulty up. as good as SegaGT, don't even think of powersliding unless you're driving a high-powered 4wd or in a Rally race.
The Crazy Finn
Idependence War 2: The Edge of Chaos. Sequelt o the best space sim (and I do mean SIM) that nobody played. Think cool storyling, big ships with big guns and real physics, even a helper mode for those who only grok Wing Commander physics. The Crazy Finn
If you are interested in racing get a PS/2 and GT3 A-Spec, nothing else compares. Project Gotham has prettier cars, but the tracks suck, and it has only 25 cars and 4 base tracks (Albeit 240 variations of those 4), vs 140+ and 29 tracks in GT3. The Crazy Finn
It's been there for a while at $500 and 20lbs, they're called motorised scooters, look like Razor scooters with a little 1 horse motor on the back, go about 20km/h max, and are supremely easy on gas. OK, so they don't balance themselve, big deal. The Crazy Finn
Motorized Razor Scooter: $300CDN($200US)
IT: $3000USD
What does it offer, oh, it balances for you, and it weighs more, hmmmm, unless your sense of balance is shot, you'll take the Razor, which has the advantage of working when you run out of gas as a standard scooter.
This reminds me of those 'revolutionary' electric bikes, you know, the ones nobody bought, because they had no range, were too heavy, and looked silly.
And those kids all have razor scooters and skateboards, and the population of those crowded asian cities will prefer bikes, as they can carry cargo too.
The price won't come down until v3.0, if they last tat long, as a lot of people won't buy them.
Don't forget, both the car and the computer offered visible advantages, ie: sustained range(car), and speed of processing(computer), this offers something off little use to most people who have an intact sense of balance.
The Crazy Finn
Taco's got a point. It's a frikkin' scooter. Big whoop-de-do. Anyways it weighs 60+ pounds, thats too damn heavy to carry up stairs, a 30lb bike is marginal for carrying. I'll keep my bike, or buy a motorized Razor Scooter instead. The Crazy Finn
Big games for the holidays for me will be Final Fantasy X, with GTA3, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, and Ghost Recon. The new Wolfenstein was a major letdown, with single player action that in no way even compares to Half-Life or Red Faction. For good new FPS action, get an X-Box and Halo.
The Crazy Finn
Nope, most AVI is not mpg, some is mpeg4 (AKA DivX), but that is rare for streaming. And DVD's are old tech, thus the encoding is MPEG-2. Not really applicable for the computer market, fast as it moves these days. The Crazy Finn
7 years and counting, on an OMP and a MP130. I'm finally seeing some PDA's now with the capabilities that my Newton had in 94. PalmOS just doesn't compare, except for 4.0. The Crazy Finn
mpg is dead, AVI and Quicktime killed it in the streaming format, try finding streaming mpg's anywhere. DivX MPEG4 is getting kinda popular in non-streaming though. The Crazy Finn
But it's not stock SDRAM in it, usually it's some odd variant of Parity ECC RAM. And the things only take 256Mb or 512Mb at most (My little 1605-R doesn't even get near that) The Crazy Finn
Most databases are exremely slow by router standards. show me a database that routinely handles 1000 queries a second on a 100Mb database with a sub 1ms response time.
Nope, max is 35,565 all the rest are internal.
Don't forget, that DS1 (Which is simply the term for the line, T1 being the service) has an SLA (which cable doesn't) guaranteed response time from the telco(Which cable doesn't), a dedicated port on a big Cisco router on their end(which cable doesn't), guaranteed bandwidth (Which cable doesn't), and an engineered circuit (which usually requires laying cable). Simply put, if you need guaranteed uptime, bandwidth and the ability to have a tech onsite at 3am Sunday morning get a T1, if you just need reasonably fast access for an office or home, get cable or xDSL. In other words: You get what you pay for.
Both have integrated GeForce2MX's, which were disabled, integrated sound and NIC's. With the NIC's disabled, in order to balance the field (all boards had integrated sound of some sort IIRC)