I've always heard that they spun backwards. One of my friends was working on rewiring his dvd drive in his computer to spin backwards but gave up after he felt that the drive wouldn't see the small disk.
shouldn't it be possible to write the tracks onto a disk in such a way that it could be read by a GC? I mean, if you managed to take apart the enclosure, you could fit a regular-sized disk onto the drive so it could spin freely...
and with that said, shouldn't it be possible to read those disks? I mean, at least be able to dump an iso from them or do a raw read of some sort? I fucked around with various iso-creation tools in OSX, Windows, and Linux and came up with nothing... but then again, I'm no engineer and don't realy know the ins and outs of most of this stuff. The most I've done is be able to run (not play, bah!) bootleg games.
The problem is that most people don't know what to search for. I've seen my mom search google for "R Crumb" when she's looking for tee shirts with his characters, and I always have to point out that she should add "tee shirts" to the query.
Another thing was with this girl I was trying to get into the pants of... She was always asking me for help with internet-based research for her various papers for school because she would google and yahoo for hours and find nothing, I'd do one search and IM her the first 5 results and she'd be like "THANK YOU!" every time.
I just can't wait for google to make their advanced searches even more advanced. I want regex. I want it to behave as some sort of web-service so I can use a perl module to manage my results. google should have a programming API to extend their service in some way. If only there was a way of doing that and still being able to put their ads through, because without that, they'd get no revenue, and still have all the traffic.
I mean, at least this way, I don't have too see all the Pokemon's and Marios when I'm looking for a good violent game to play. They'll be nice and grouped and ripe for the picking.
now if they'd only put the sucky games on a different shelf than the games that are actually good, this would be nearly a perfect world.
Hmmm, I wasn't aware that there were any mini-ITX motherboards that could handle anything over 1ghz (at least I didn't see anything on the mini-itx.com site last I checked).
How'd you do it for 300$? When I priced out my components (PSU, DVD-R (it was 10$ more than the DVD-ROM), mobo, RAM), it came out to around 500$ with 90$ for shipping.
I've had lots of ideas dancing in my head for this project. Currently I'm helping my friend with 2 projects of his: Coctail MAME cabinet and a full-standup. Because of that, I have this crazy idea to build myself a MAME cabinet, but use the little nesPC as the core, and make it removable so I can take it to a friend's or use it in another room.
While surfing the other day, I came across a russian site that had schematics (in english and some in russian) for wiring your parallel port for nearly every console's controllers, and I was toying with the idea of having a massive adapter mounted either on the side of the NES or inside the cartrage hole for all that.
Btw, you didn't answer my OS question... What OS you running on your NESbox?;)
Geez, you bastard! I was gonna do that (as soon as I got the $)
I got the idea shortly after discovering my pile of broken NESs in my dad's basement (3 in all), then seeing the nesPC on mini-itx.com...
What motherboard did you get for it? How much memory? Is it running Linux or some form of windows?
My plan for my gamebox is to have it do everything: MAME/Console (NES, Genesis, SNES, etc)/Handheld(Gameboy, Gamegear, etc)/ Video (DVD, DivX)/MP3 server
New viruses that only delete the most important files on WinFS formatted drives are proliferating at blinding speed.
Bill Gates was quoted as saying, "We are aware of this issue and have added it to the list of features we are including on the backs of the Longhorn(tm) boxes."
What I'd like to see is a comparison of ReiserFS vs. WinFS vs BeFS.
Everything I read about WinFS sounds like a blatant rip-off of BeFS (The BeOS's filesystem)'s featureset.
BeFS was database-driven and had all kinds of great querying features, could support files of over a petabyte (I forget exactly how big that is), had fixed-size blocks rather than a fixed-count, and I believe it was journaled, too. That was back, when? 1995? 1996?
I bet M$ is glad Be went down, now they don't have to worry about infringing on patents (if BeFS WAS, in fact, patented). Or does Palm own that, now? Or whoever bought all their IP.
OSX doesn't have the root password SET by default. You can say that it's not enabled, but it exists, although you can't log in to it.
With this exploit, the compromised system gets and uses a root password which would then allow logging in, I believe.
Luckily OSX doesn't have any network services (sshd, ftpd, afpd, smbd, etc) turned on by default, so the only way to gain access would be to have physical access to it for the general home-user, unless they have file sharing turned on, which would allow for a user to gain access to any file on any one of the computer's drives.
The way I see it, the most significant target would be schools and offices where the users want root access.
The solution to that would be to have a standardized "gate" protocol or other way of communicating transactions and other data in a generally readable format (a la XML or other open standard), but the area where you need the most security is not necessarily bank2bank but bank2ATM.
And that brings up another issue: if you withdraw from Citibank and your bank is Fleet, how would you communicate without worrying about falsified "XML" data? I supposed some kind of authentication system of sorts, special encryption and whatnot. That's for the professionals to figure out. I just come up with ideas.;)
I dunno about you, but for thing that require more security, I'm all for separate proprietary protocols and/or networks. Sure, embedded Linux would beat any M$ stuff anyday, but I'd rather use a company that creates their own method of communicating the transactions.
If these machines used XP and a non-standard internet protocol (read: not TCP/IP, UDP, IPX, whatever) that the worm didn't have access to, this may not have even affected them. Am I right? Or is windows too standardized as to allow anything to use any system-level network protocol?
Although a combination proprietary OS and network protocol, would be best, IMHO.
Going to the IMAX on saturday to see this, although Reloaded sucked ass. Just the novelty of seeing it for the first time on a 30' screen. ohhhhh yeahhhhh.
I installed the update on my powerbook G4 1ghz, G3/450, and G4/450 at the same time (stupid me). Since the two desktop machines are just servers in the corner with no keyboard/mouse/monitor, I can't check those, but my powerbook isn't seeing all computers on the LAN anymore.
out of the 4 PCs and 3 macs, I only see one machine in my servers window... I can't connect to them using the ZeroConf (rendevouz) address (blah.local), or the IP, but the machines that are set up to respond to external ports are working fine when I use the external domain name, although, I'm getting a bottleneck with the 10base/t router. Grrrrrr....
Are those actually released in the US, yet? I heard they were going to be released in August, but I haven't heard anything since.
I picked up a Japanese GBASP off half.com that's black, and I was still under the impression that I was special, especially since I haven't seen anyone else with one that's not silver. I also get the occasional comment from these 9 year-olds as they walk by "Wow! that guy has a black gameboy!"
It's always nice to have children be fascinated by you gaming device.;)
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well, I've always had the most fun with theme decks.
such as my deck that turns all land into forests and taps them to gain life (with lifetaps).
or my elf/ big green deck which basically just builds up mana faster than you can say "Elder Dragon."
Or my reanimator deck that can get the large monsters (7/7 and above) out on the third turn.
then there's the plague rat deck (20 swamps, 35 plague rats, 10 dark rituals)
everyone at the party pointed at me and said "dumb spike."
when the girls were like "ummm, what's linux?" the idiots (aka windows lusers) said "an operating system that no one uses, even less than mac."
What idiots. heh. If they only knew. ;)
I've always heard that they spun backwards. One of my friends was working on rewiring his dvd drive in his computer to spin backwards but gave up after he felt that the drive wouldn't see the small disk.
shouldn't it be possible to write the tracks onto a disk in such a way that it could be read by a GC? I mean, if you managed to take apart the enclosure, you could fit a regular-sized disk onto the drive so it could spin freely...
and with that said, shouldn't it be possible to read those disks? I mean, at least be able to dump an iso from them or do a raw read of some sort? I fucked around with various iso-creation tools in OSX, Windows, and Linux and came up with nothing... but then again, I'm no engineer and don't realy know the ins and outs of most of this stuff. The most I've done is be able to run (not play, bah!) bootleg games.
could be quite the nice feature!
Welcome our new Go overlord.
She was a bitch anyway. No, for serious, she was, I'm not just saying that.
The problem is that most people don't know what to search for. I've seen my mom search google for "R Crumb" when she's looking for tee shirts with his characters, and I always have to point out that she should add "tee shirts" to the query.
Another thing was with this girl I was trying to get into the pants of... She was always asking me for help with internet-based research for her various papers for school because she would google and yahoo for hours and find nothing, I'd do one search and IM her the first 5 results and she'd be like "THANK YOU!" every time.
I just can't wait for google to make their advanced searches even more advanced. I want regex. I want it to behave as some sort of web-service so I can use a perl module to manage my results. google should have a programming API to extend their service in some way. If only there was a way of doing that and still being able to put their ads through, because without that, they'd get no revenue, and still have all the traffic.
now if they'd only put the sucky games on a different shelf than the games that are actually good, this would be nearly a perfect world.
How'd you do it for 300$? When I priced out my components (PSU, DVD-R (it was 10$ more than the DVD-ROM), mobo, RAM), it came out to around 500$ with 90$ for shipping.
I've had lots of ideas dancing in my head for this project. Currently I'm helping my friend with 2 projects of his: Coctail MAME cabinet and a full-standup. Because of that, I have this crazy idea to build myself a MAME cabinet, but use the little nesPC as the core, and make it removable so I can take it to a friend's or use it in another room.
While surfing the other day, I came across a russian site that had schematics (in english and some in russian) for wiring your parallel port for nearly every console's controllers, and I was toying with the idea of having a massive adapter mounted either on the side of the NES or inside the cartrage hole for all that.
Btw, you didn't answer my OS question... What OS you running on your NESbox? ;)
I got the idea shortly after discovering my pile of broken NESs in my dad's basement (3 in all), then seeing the nesPC on mini-itx.com...
What motherboard did you get for it? How much memory? Is it running Linux or some form of windows?
My plan for my gamebox is to have it do everything: MAME/Console (NES, Genesis, SNES, etc)/Handheld(Gameboy, Gamegear, etc)/ Video (DVD, DivX)/MP3 server
Bill Gates was quoted as saying, "We are aware of this issue and have added it to the list of features we are including on the backs of the Longhorn(tm) boxes."
Everything I read about WinFS sounds like a blatant rip-off of BeFS (The BeOS's filesystem)'s featureset.
BeFS was database-driven and had all kinds of great querying features, could support files of over a petabyte (I forget exactly how big that is), had fixed-size blocks rather than a fixed-count, and I believe it was journaled, too. That was back, when? 1995? 1996?
I bet M$ is glad Be went down, now they don't have to worry about infringing on patents (if BeFS WAS, in fact, patented). Or does Palm own that, now? Or whoever bought all their IP.
Well, BeOS doesn't run on any G3/G4/G5. Only original PowerMacs (601/603/603e/604/604e).
OSX only runs on NewWorld G3s and newer, so pretty much BeOS wouldn't be a threat, there. ;)
Linux on the other hand........
With this exploit, the compromised system gets and uses a root password which would then allow logging in, I believe.
Luckily OSX doesn't have any network services (sshd, ftpd, afpd, smbd, etc) turned on by default, so the only way to gain access would be to have physical access to it for the general home-user, unless they have file sharing turned on, which would allow for a user to gain access to any file on any one of the computer's drives.
The way I see it, the most significant target would be schools and offices where the users want root access.
And that brings up another issue: if you withdraw from Citibank and your bank is Fleet, how would you communicate without worrying about falsified "XML" data? I supposed some kind of authentication system of sorts, special encryption and whatnot. That's for the professionals to figure out. I just come up with ideas. ;)
If these machines used XP and a non-standard internet protocol (read: not TCP/IP, UDP, IPX, whatever) that the worm didn't have access to, this may not have even affected them. Am I right? Or is windows too standardized as to allow anything to use any system-level network protocol?
Although a combination proprietary OS and network protocol, would be best, IMHO.
Must we help the borg?!
It seems that the speculation of Nintendo releasing a console next year could be true?
Going to the IMAX on saturday to see this, although Reloaded sucked ass. Just the novelty of seeing it for the first time on a 30' screen. ohhhhh yeahhhhh.
I mean, just look at Skittlebrau!!
Just hold option (alt) and click the 'New Playlist' button. You'll notice the icon change to a gear and all is well and good.
(hey! it was just a joke! I swear!)
out of the 4 PCs and 3 macs, I only see one machine in my servers window... I can't connect to them using the ZeroConf (rendevouz) address (blah.local), or the IP, but the machines that are set up to respond to external ports are working fine when I use the external domain name, although, I'm getting a bottleneck with the 10base/t router. Grrrrrr....
I assume they meant "coffee roll." Although, I can't be totally sure... It's Australia, after all.
I picked up a Japanese GBASP off half.com that's black, and I was still under the impression that I was special, especially since I haven't seen anyone else with one that's not silver. I also get the occasional comment from these 9 year-olds as they walk by "Wow! that guy has a black gameboy!"
It's always nice to have children be fascinated by you gaming device. ;)