I'm also a big fan of the full size vans. Not only are they better people-haulers than SUVs, they're just plain cool. If i didn't enjoy driving sporty cars so much, i'd buy one.
At my school (Michigan Tech), i remember receiving several emails stating that student's internet access would be disabled if they were infected with $latest_worm. The IT department typically caught the worms as the first few machines were infected, and killed their network connection. The network performance never suffered as far as i could tell.
At the other end of the spectrum, some friends of mine at other schools were unable to use any network related stuff because their IT departments completely ignored the worm problem. I'm not sure if this was because of incompetence, indifference, or a little of both.
Funny anecdote, I'm sitting here at Million Man LAN. Someone brought in a machine infected with sasser, and within minutes there were hundreds of people infected. You'd think that the gamer crowd would be up to date with their patches.
Exactly. The Daily Show is the only TV news program i watch. I trust Jon Stewart and his crew over any of the Fox/CNN/MSNBC types, and that's pretty sad considering The Daily Show is fake.
Stewart is a very smart person. This is evident in his TV show, but i was really impressed by the thoughts he shared in an interview in Rolling Stone (probably published a year ago or more). I wish i could find that issue.
The big problem i have is that EAs games all require their game CD to be in the drive. This means swapping discs frequently, and a greater chance that they'll get scratched. I've emailed EA on this subject and they have told me to just buy the game again.
Thankfully, with Alcohol 120%, Clone CD, and a good CD-RW drive you can back up these games and fool their copy protection.
I absolutely loved Pokemon Red/Blue. Gold/Silver were nothing great, IMO, but Ruby/Sapphire are also very fun.
Just about everything else having to deal with Pokemon is lame, though.
Speaking as an avid wardriver, everyone i know who wants to do anything more than just find wireless networks completely writes off a network using WEP. Most access points have been tweaked by the manufacturer to not send weak packets, and the ones that still do need to send a TON of them to be cracked - as in, weeks upon weeks of traffic is required. Not worth it when there's 5 other completely open networks with default router login/pass setups on the same block.
I let my Powerbook with Kismac sniff my wireless at school 24/7. It took about 3 weeks to gather enough weak packets to crack, and this was with me trying to cause a lot of traffic - transferring 10 gigs of MP3s over night between my laptop and PC for example. This was on a Belkin 802.11b router.
I then tried the same thing at home on my mom's Airport Extreme. I haven't gotten one weak packet yet. Not even "partially weak" packets - ones that are partway to being considered weak and can be bruteforced into revealing data like a regular weak packet would.
I enjoy Invent This quite a bit. I really like the style in which it's presented, and seeing creative things people have done is interesting. They just need more episodes.
What i really wish they had done away with was Robot Wars. That shitty british knock-off of Battle Bots is the most worthless show ever. Except for most of the shows from G4. Their entire lineup is pretty lame; none of the gaming shows come close to the entertainment of XPlay.
It was almost impossible to get signal in the dorm i was in my first semester in college - all of the walls were stucco. I had to move buildings at the semester, and had perfect reception in the new (to me) building made of cinder blocks.
I really don't see what being gay has to do with his accomplishments. If i want to learn about what he did, i don't care about who he was doing. I'll read his biography if i want more information about his personal life.
You hit the nail on the head concerning TSS. They aren't for the mom's who are afraid of their computer; they're bridging the gap between the crowd that can use their PC/Mac easily and the typical/. person who's into programming and *nix etc.
I'd like to see something even more hardcore, but i don't know what they'd really do.
I was very relieved to see that Invent This and Nerd Nation weren't cut. They're some of my favorite shows. I really like the style of Invent This, where the only input from the network is little text blurbs at the bottom explaining a few background facts, and the rest is totally from the person the episode is about. I miss Deep Thinkers which was much the same.
First off, many highschools are offering computer science classes. Some have taken more time to come around, but they ARE offering them.
Secondly, any student can take the AP test. Your school needs to do a little work, but most are more than happy to do what little is required for you to take the exam.
Intel sells more in the high-end, self-built sector because the P4 is faster. The bang-for-buck factor isnt there, but P4 systems are consistently faster than AMD. That's just how it is.
In the home sector, Dell rules, and they're all Intel. AMD's not doing so hot in the mobile market.
And in the end, when you ask your average joe computer user if they've heard of AMD you'll get puzzled looks, but they'll recognize Intel.
<ruffkin2> HAHAHAH dat dude you sent me 127.0.0.1 iz enfected wit sub7 im fuckin with him now <andrw> oh good, format his computer <Testicular_One> format his computer <TheGreaterZero> format him
As far as security features and bug fixes, that's what apple usually does. But such things as software enhancements are only for the most recent version - i had to install 10.3 on my mom's iBook so that she could use WPA on our wireless network, there is no WPA support in 10.2.
My father passed away due to a sudden heart attack in 2002. He hadn't prepared for something like this at all - he was in his mid 50s and in great shape. Outside of his main Mac desktop, i have no idea where his stuff is. His work machine was wiped when he was laid off about 6 months earlier (he worked in IT). I have tried to access any accounts of his that i knew of - ebay and paypal were the only important ones, the BBS accounts didn't matter so much - to see if there was anything that needed to be taken care of. But i didn't have his password, and the hint was "same as password." I still haven't been able to access either of those accounts, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some money in the PayPal - he was really into ebay.
he might have had some information stored on his Palm, but the battery died and everything was lost before i even thought to check it. That still irks me.
It is weird whenever i stumble upon an archived forum post made by him. It's like he's still alive, but nowhere near me physically. That's a little piece of his mind, words said and recorded. The same goes for his email. When I was making sure to tie up loose ends, i was reading mails he had sent and recieved just a few days earlier, when he was in seemingly perfect health.
Data, especially communication, is much like a photograph. Only instead of archiving some physical thing or event, it's a snapshot of someone's brain or personality.
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I'm also a big fan of the full size vans. Not only are they better people-haulers than SUVs, they're just plain cool. If i didn't enjoy driving sporty cars so much, i'd buy one.
At my school (Michigan Tech), i remember receiving several emails stating that student's internet access would be disabled if they were infected with $latest_worm. The IT department typically caught the worms as the first few machines were infected, and killed their network connection. The network performance never suffered as far as i could tell.
At the other end of the spectrum, some friends of mine at other schools were unable to use any network related stuff because their IT departments completely ignored the worm problem. I'm not sure if this was because of incompetence, indifference, or a little of both.
Funny anecdote, I'm sitting here at Million Man LAN. Someone brought in a machine infected with sasser, and within minutes there were hundreds of people infected. You'd think that the gamer crowd would be up to date with their patches.
Why buy a 13 MPG SUV for driving 10 minutes to work?
Exactly. The Daily Show is the only TV news program i watch. I trust Jon Stewart and his crew over any of the Fox/CNN/MSNBC types, and that's pretty sad considering The Daily Show is fake.
Stewart is a very smart person. This is evident in his TV show, but i was really impressed by the thoughts he shared in an interview in Rolling Stone (probably published a year ago or more). I wish i could find that issue.
I'd vote for him for president.
Also, one of the songs on the CD (i don't know which one) is one giant sample of "Rappers Delight" with the Beastie's own lyrics.
You raise a very valid point.
The big problem i have is that EAs games all require their game CD to be in the drive. This means swapping discs frequently, and a greater chance that they'll get scratched. I've emailed EA on this subject and they have told me to just buy the game again.
Thankfully, with Alcohol 120%, Clone CD, and a good CD-RW drive you can back up these games and fool their copy protection.
Wasn't it Enzo Ferrari who said "Build one less than you can sell" ?
I absolutely loved Pokemon Red/Blue. Gold/Silver were nothing great, IMO, but Ruby/Sapphire are also very fun. Just about everything else having to deal with Pokemon is lame, though.
It could, but it's much easier on a wireless one since you can "plug in" from anywhere.
Well, someone COULD hop on your wireless network and perform a man in the middle attack.
Speaking as an avid wardriver, everyone i know who wants to do anything more than just find wireless networks completely writes off a network using WEP. Most access points have been tweaked by the manufacturer to not send weak packets, and the ones that still do need to send a TON of them to be cracked - as in, weeks upon weeks of traffic is required. Not worth it when there's 5 other completely open networks with default router login/pass setups on the same block.
I let my Powerbook with Kismac sniff my wireless at school 24/7. It took about 3 weeks to gather enough weak packets to crack, and this was with me trying to cause a lot of traffic - transferring 10 gigs of MP3s over night between my laptop and PC for example. This was on a Belkin 802.11b router.
I then tried the same thing at home on my mom's Airport Extreme. I haven't gotten one weak packet yet. Not even "partially weak" packets - ones that are partway to being considered weak and can be bruteforced into revealing data like a regular weak packet would.
As has already been mentioned, you should look at this paper: http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
A great read.
I enjoy Invent This quite a bit. I really like the style in which it's presented, and seeing creative things people have done is interesting. They just need more episodes.
What i really wish they had done away with was Robot Wars. That shitty british knock-off of Battle Bots is the most worthless show ever. Except for most of the shows from G4. Their entire lineup is pretty lame; none of the gaming shows come close to the entertainment of XPlay.
It was almost impossible to get signal in the dorm i was in my first semester in college - all of the walls were stucco. I had to move buildings at the semester, and had perfect reception in the new (to me) building made of cinder blocks.
Funny, I only know one geek who smokes. Then again he's the only geek i know who REALLY knows his stuff.
I think the pre-orders have paid to finish the development.
No, iD is filty, stinking rich. The company, and all of its owners and employees, are rolling in cash. Funding is NOT a problem for them.
I think it will be a very good game. iD knows how to make games. Maybe nothing revolutionary, but something good, for sue.
I really don't see what being gay has to do with his accomplishments. If i want to learn about what he did, i don't care about who he was doing. I'll read his biography if i want more information about his personal life.
You hit the nail on the head concerning TSS. They aren't for the mom's who are afraid of their computer; they're bridging the gap between the crowd that can use their PC/Mac easily and the typical /. person who's into programming and *nix etc.
I'd like to see something even more hardcore, but i don't know what they'd really do.
I was very relieved to see that Invent This and Nerd Nation weren't cut. They're some of my favorite shows. I really like the style of Invent This, where the only input from the network is little text blurbs at the bottom explaining a few background facts, and the rest is totally from the person the episode is about. I miss Deep Thinkers which was much the same.
First off, many highschools are offering computer science classes. Some have taken more time to come around, but they ARE offering them. Secondly, any student can take the AP test. Your school needs to do a little work, but most are more than happy to do what little is required for you to take the exam.
Intel sells more in the high-end, self-built sector because the P4 is faster. The bang-for-buck factor isnt there, but P4 systems are consistently faster than AMD. That's just how it is.
In the home sector, Dell rules, and they're all Intel. AMD's not doing so hot in the mobile market.
And in the end, when you ask your average joe computer user if they've heard of AMD you'll get puzzled looks, but they'll recognize Intel.
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<ruffkin2> HAHAHAH dat dude you sent me 127.0.0.1 iz enfected wit sub7 im fuckin with him now
<andrw> oh good, format his computer
<Testicular_One> format his computer
<TheGreaterZero> format him
As far as security features and bug fixes, that's what apple usually does. But such things as software enhancements are only for the most recent version - i had to install 10.3 on my mom's iBook so that she could use WPA on our wireless network, there is no WPA support in 10.2.
My father passed away due to a sudden heart attack in 2002. He hadn't prepared for something like this at all - he was in his mid 50s and in great shape. Outside of his main Mac desktop, i have no idea where his stuff is. His work machine was wiped when he was laid off about 6 months earlier (he worked in IT). I have tried to access any accounts of his that i knew of - ebay and paypal were the only important ones, the BBS accounts didn't matter so much - to see if there was anything that needed to be taken care of. But i didn't have his password, and the hint was "same as password." I still haven't been able to access either of those accounts, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some money in the PayPal - he was really into ebay.
he might have had some information stored on his Palm, but the battery died and everything was lost before i even thought to check it. That still irks me.
It is weird whenever i stumble upon an archived forum post made by him. It's like he's still alive, but nowhere near me physically. That's a little piece of his mind, words said and recorded. The same goes for his email. When I was making sure to tie up loose ends, i was reading mails he had sent and recieved just a few days earlier, when he was in seemingly perfect health.
Data, especially communication, is much like a photograph. Only instead of archiving some physical thing or event, it's a snapshot of someone's brain or personality.