I have a 486 laptop (Dual Group DC-4000-- now there's a weird box), and it seems to only understand 4Mb SIMMs. That includes attempts to use 8Mb EDO SIMMs, 16Mb FPM ones, and a 32M SIMM from a HP PA-RISC pizza
There are a couple distros with *0.99* kernels available on an archive somewhere. I tried an early Debian (from floppies!) on my 486/40... while it was equipped with the full compliment of 20Mb memory, XF86 still sucked, so I went back to GEM and FreeDOS.
and while I do still use PATA100 drives, I'll soon be upgrading them.
Where do they sell SATA CD burners? (I'm serious)
Serial and parallel are wonderfully hackable. There are plenty of fun exciting assemble-it-yourself projects that hang off of the parallel port.
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What I'd love to see is a package about the size of a 35mm film container. It would have a 'strap' you thread into the film area of your normal camera, and with a sensor to cover the frame. The 'can' would have a MMC slot, or at worst, a few hundred Mb of flash and a USB jack. The sensor would be activated by light or easily rigged to sense the button push (perhaps wired to the flash-trigger circuit)
Socket A is (theoretically) compatible with Socket 7 from a heatsink perspective. Large coolers with quiet 80mm fans are available; possibly strong enough to work without fan on a P200.
>the point is to protect YOU, the little guy from companies who lie.
Excessive trademark power would seem a good road for price-fixing.
"Hullo? Bob's Ford? We're not going to let you say 'F150' in the advertisement if you price below 16 850. See how many people will stop by for a 'Major Name Brand Truck'"
>. EyeSpy is, IMHO the best childproofing for >porn. It basically checks all images for how >much skin here is
What about false negatives? I can see a lot of problem with closeup photos of faces, for example, or "this is what a skin problem looks like"
The best I could imagine would be to show questionable content, but to log it by emailing a message to a parent. In a lab, you could delay loading, IM a staff member, and let him sign off on it.
Say 5% (or even 100%) of the work goes to two or more machines.
If your box keeps saying that Admiral Wigglebottom is in the Star Fortress, floor 16, but two different users insist he's in Paraguay, that might force a client reset or a penalty
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Taken to its logical conclusion, this could benefit non-TiVo users.
If I come in at 20.10 or 20.15, there's nothing on that I haven't missed important plot developments on.
If NBC starts each programme at:05, CBS at:10, and ABC at:15, this not only increases the likelihood of lock-in to YOUR programmes, but it gives you a show starting whenever you're in the room.
Compaq's Windows 3.1 like BIOS was used at least as far back as some models of 486/40 laptop (LTE Elite 4/40C)
AMI also did a GUI BIOS. It appeared, at least, on the PCChimps M560TG (pre-super Socket 7 board, ALi IV+ chipset) It was much cruder than the Compaq production.
Did anything become of PhoenixNet? I've only seen one vestige of it: a GUI startup screen featuring antialiased fonts and looking entirely too pretty.
Let's say everyone who doesn't want authorization says "100% accurate copy of SpargleBlaster 9.64 on Baikal DOS 611.82" The person you're working with can either say:
"I won't deal with Spargleblaster users at all" (his loss) or "I will take them, but will require different terms" (you may need different account-establishment approach, or they can sell 'anonymous content' at a higher price" or "2/3 of our customers are calling themselves Spargleblasters now... perhaps we'd better lay off on the trusted bilge."
I have somewhere an old Super-Socket-7 mainboard. To put it into a VCR would require a large expenditure in making an ISA or PCI card to run all the motors in the VCR, and probably special design on the VCR itself (them K6-2/400s aren't that cool running)
When you're spending that much, why not throw a 6502 or Z80 on for 75 cents more, and save some design hassles?
In addition, you have to deal with an inconsistent product stream (if you're making stuff out of a specific model old part, and the supply dries up, there's a problem), or if you want to reuse small parts, the cost of labour for removal tends to rival the part cost (it costs.3 cent for a resistor if I buy 1000 locally. Will you "recover" 1000 for less than $3?)
However, if you read enough viewpoints, they cancel out the spin.
I doubt the same people who sponsor pravda.ru are sponsoring the website of Action News 16.
Since you can easily suck up different perspectives from across the world (the only close competitor is shortwave radio, and that's much less user-friendly), you don't have to trust Action News 16.
The trick is that you rig up the messages so that you can't blindly filter.
Normal message format (as opposed to a special ad format) prevents filter by format or source
Randomized send time prevents ignoring the ad message that comes every 30 minutes.
Forged sender address precludes ignoring messages-- they may really be from a friend.
The client isn't the draw-- it's the service, so stop trying to make profit off the part people aren't interested in.
Alternatively, make users buy 'credit' by opening spam and going to mentioned click-through URLs. Then you can buy unlimited credit for $5 a month or face some sort of punishment (range from delay messages 20 seconds at server end to precluding contact by other users) if credits are exhausted.
The obvious excuse for locking out third-party clients is to prevent getting by without seeing downloaded ads.
Why not merely develop a system that sends ads as messages-- like spammers do, but officially. Send one every x +/- y minutes of connect time, make up source accounts (or even force the account name to a friends-list member) to make filtering difficult.
>. Offering a light WM would allow people to >extend their computers life cycle and slow the >upgrade cycle
Wait a minute.
If I buy a new Gateway 2000, they're probably recieving a licence fee of perhaps USD 50 due to super-discount OEM licences.
If I buy "XP-Lite upgrade kit", they're probably getting USD 70 or more of the 90-100 I pay. Alternatively, you can sell it for 20 bucks or so on top of the standard XP upgrade kit.
>It is the property of the State, just like the >license plates. You're not allowed to tamper or >disconnect it anymore than you are allowed to do >the same with your license plates.
Odd. How come I've seen so many thousands of old number plates out there then for collectors or hillbillies to decorate their walls with? Why has the state not demanded them all back?
AFAICT, you can't tamper with it with the intent to defraud, but if you can't tamper period, how are you supposed to attach the tax-payment sticker each year?
What troubles me about traffic laws is that they aren't focused on safety but revenue. If the city/county/whatever required you to take traffic lessons at THEIR expense, would they write tickets even if the little box said you were going 150 in a 100 zone?
>it'll still take not significantly more time and >be more reliable to configure and image instead >of using preloaded installers.
Unless there's a lot of product diversity.
Say you offer five different mainboards (K7/SiS, K7/nVidia, K7/VIA, P4/SiS, P4/Intel), three video cards (S3/Trident/SiS/whatever is $9.99 today, Radeon series, Geforce series)and 5 boolean options (CD burner, TV tuner, DVD burner, upgraded sound, RAID card).
5*3*2*2*2*2*2=480 different systems are possible, not counting insignificant-to-configuration differences such as RAM and CPU levels or software packages.
If you want imaging....
Hope you make images for the configurations that become popular if you don't want to make all 480.
or
Hope you can make a single image that supports more than 1 system (I believe this to be possible... I recall a noname P200 that had several sets of mainboard chimpset drivers under Win95, though it sure threw a hissy when I replaced an i430TX board with a VIA)
and always
Pray that the next set of parts you use won't break your images.
>In this case I can't buy the "substantial non->infringing use" argument, as having dabbled in >satellite technology for a while, I know how >huge the market is for pirate cards.
FWIW, it might be worth exploring the permissible uses before calling everyone thieves.
I recall seeing a mainboard with a pack-in feature that was a 'smart-card reader'. It didn't look like any type of flash-card slot I recognised-- perhaps those cards can be used for system-locking or login, or to store small amounts of valuable data (encryption keys?) in a conveinent formfactor.
I love how the answer is litigation though. Didn't Directv used to have a pretty respectable record for attacking this problem with TECHNICAL measures?
Technical approaches are the only sensible way to approach this sort of problem. You may be able to sue Craig and Amy Signal-Stealer, but will you find the 500,000 others doing the same?
Final Thought: If you want to ensure the distribution is controlled, stick to distribution that can be managed all the way to the set. (I'm thinking something like cable, but where they will actively pull up the wires from nonsubscribers)
The business presently works on a credit model. Make the product now, sell tickets/licences to cover costs tomorrow.
Just flip the model. Have J. K. Rowling say "If I get 5 million preorders of Harry Potter XCLVIII, I'll write it, otherwise, the preorder money is returned.
>That's not progress.
It's clear-cutting for new development style progress.
Plus, there are some definite market niches that don't benefit from copyright significantly:
time-sensitive content. People will watch TV, even the jingles, so there's something to chat about tomorrow.
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Probably analogous to 'clean room' reimplementation. No chance of dropping bits of B's design into your product
There may be addressable size problems.
I have a 486 laptop (Dual Group DC-4000-- now there's a weird box), and it seems to only understand 4Mb SIMMs. That includes attempts to use 8Mb EDO SIMMs, 16Mb FPM ones, and a 32M SIMM from a HP PA-RISC pizza
Why not go old?
There are a couple distros with *0.99* kernels available on an archive somewhere. I tried an early Debian (from floppies!) on my 486/40... while it was equipped with the full compliment of 20Mb memory, XF86 still sucked, so I went back to GEM and FreeDOS.
and while I do still use PATA100 drives, I'll soon be upgrading them.
Where do they sell SATA CD burners? (I'm serious)
Serial and parallel are wonderfully hackable. There are plenty of fun exciting assemble-it-yourself projects that hang off of the parallel port.
What I'd love to see is a package about the size of a 35mm film container. It would have a 'strap' you thread into the film area of your normal camera, and with a sensor to cover the frame. The 'can' would have a MMC slot, or at worst, a few hundred Mb of flash and a USB jack. The sensor would be activated by light or easily rigged to sense the button push (perhaps wired to the flash-trigger circuit)
If you weren't allowed an exact copy, I bet excerpts in book reviews would seem really funny.
Have you tried a decent Socket A cooler?
Socket A is (theoretically) compatible with Socket 7 from a heatsink perspective. Large coolers with quiet 80mm fans are available; possibly strong enough to work without fan on a P200.
>the point is to protect YOU, the little guy from companies who lie.
Excessive trademark power would seem a good road for price-fixing.
"Hullo? Bob's Ford? We're not going to let you say 'F150' in the advertisement if you price below 16 850. See how many people will stop by for a 'Major Name Brand Truck'"
>. EyeSpy is, IMHO the best childproofing for >porn. It basically checks all images for how >much skin here is
What about false negatives? I can see a lot of problem with closeup photos of faces, for example, or "this is what a skin problem looks like"
The best I could imagine would be to show questionable content, but to log it by emailing a message to a parent. In a lab, you could delay loading, IM a staff member, and let him sign off on it.
Nope.
Tape was device 1, first disc typically 8.
Disc drives could be rigged (jumpers on 1541, switches on 1571/1541-II) to device 8,9,10,11.
The printer was 4 or 5 IIRC.
What's wrong with redundant?
Say 5% (or even 100%) of the work goes to two or more machines.
If your box keeps saying that Admiral Wigglebottom is in the Star Fortress, floor 16, but two different users insist he's in Paraguay, that might force a client reset or a penalty
Taken to its logical conclusion, this could benefit non-TiVo users.
:05, CBS at :10, and ABC at :15, this not only increases the likelihood of lock-in to YOUR programmes, but it gives you a show starting whenever you're in the room.
If I come in at 20.10 or 20.15, there's nothing on that I haven't missed important plot developments on.
If NBC starts each programme at
There are several GUI bioses.
Compaq's Windows 3.1 like BIOS was used at least as far back as some models of 486/40 laptop (LTE Elite 4/40C)
AMI also did a GUI BIOS. It appeared, at least, on the PCChimps M560TG (pre-super Socket 7 board, ALi IV+ chipset) It was much cruder than the Compaq production.
Did anything become of PhoenixNet? I've only seen one vestige of it: a GUI startup screen featuring antialiased fonts and looking entirely too pretty.
There are ways to lie and still play the game.
Let's say everyone who doesn't want authorization says "100% accurate copy of SpargleBlaster 9.64 on Baikal DOS 611.82" The person you're working with can either say:
"I won't deal with Spargleblaster users at all" (his loss)
or
"I will take them, but will require different terms" (you may need different account-establishment approach, or they can sell 'anonymous content' at a higher price"
or
"2/3 of our customers are calling themselves Spargleblasters now... perhaps we'd better lay off on the trusted bilge."
The problem is that it's too specialised.
.3 cent for a resistor if I buy 1000 locally. Will you "recover" 1000 for less than $3?)
I have somewhere an old Super-Socket-7 mainboard. To put it into a VCR would require a large expenditure in making an ISA or PCI card to run all the motors in the VCR, and probably special design on the VCR itself (them K6-2/400s aren't that cool running)
When you're spending that much, why not throw a 6502 or Z80 on for 75 cents more, and save some design hassles?
In addition, you have to deal with an inconsistent product stream (if you're making stuff out of a specific model old part, and the supply dries up, there's a problem), or if you want to reuse small parts, the cost of labour for removal tends to rival the part cost (it costs
Go used.
My 56k modems cost $6 and 50 cents respectively. External. I got a 'free after rebate' internal crapmodem too, but it sucks.
However, if you read enough viewpoints, they cancel out the spin.
I doubt the same people who sponsor pravda.ru are sponsoring the website of Action News 16.
Since you can easily suck up different perspectives from across the world (the only close competitor is shortwave radio, and that's much less user-friendly), you don't have to trust Action News 16.
The trick is that you rig up the messages so that you can't blindly filter.
Normal message format (as opposed to a special ad format) prevents filter by format or source
Randomized send time prevents ignoring the ad message that comes every 30 minutes.
Forged sender address precludes ignoring messages-- they may really be from a friend.
The client isn't the draw-- it's the service, so stop trying to make profit off the part people aren't interested in.
Alternatively, make users buy 'credit' by opening spam and going to mentioned click-through URLs. Then you can buy unlimited credit for $5 a month or face some sort of punishment (range from delay messages 20 seconds at server end to precluding contact by other users) if credits are exhausted.
The obvious excuse for locking out third-party clients is to prevent getting by without seeing downloaded ads.
Why not merely develop a system that sends ads as messages-- like spammers do, but officially. Send one every x +/- y minutes of connect time, make up source accounts (or even force the account name to a friends-list member) to make filtering difficult.
>. Offering a light WM would allow people to >extend their computers life cycle and slow the >upgrade cycle
Wait a minute.
If I buy a new Gateway 2000, they're probably recieving a licence fee of perhaps USD 50 due to super-discount OEM licences.
If I buy "XP-Lite upgrade kit", they're probably getting USD 70 or more of the 90-100 I pay. Alternatively, you can sell it for 20 bucks or so on top of the standard XP upgrade kit.
>It is the property of the State, just like the >license plates. You're not allowed to tamper or >disconnect it anymore than you are allowed to do >the same with your license plates.
Odd. How come I've seen so many thousands of old number plates out there then for collectors or hillbillies to decorate their walls with? Why has the state not demanded them all back?
AFAICT, you can't tamper with it with the intent to defraud, but if you can't tamper period, how are you supposed to attach the tax-payment sticker each year?
What troubles me about traffic laws is that they aren't focused on safety but revenue. If the city/county/whatever required you to take traffic lessons at THEIR expense, would they write tickets even if the little box said you were going 150 in a 100 zone?
>it'll still take not significantly more time and >be more reliable to configure and image instead >of using preloaded installers.
Unless there's a lot of product diversity.
Say you offer five different mainboards (K7/SiS, K7/nVidia, K7/VIA, P4/SiS, P4/Intel), three video cards (S3/Trident/SiS/whatever is $9.99 today, Radeon series, Geforce series)and 5 boolean options (CD burner, TV tuner, DVD burner, upgraded sound, RAID card).
5*3*2*2*2*2*2=480 different systems are possible, not counting insignificant-to-configuration differences such as RAM and CPU levels or software packages.
If you want imaging....
Hope you make images for the configurations that become popular if you don't want to make all 480.
or
Hope you can make a single image that supports more than 1 system (I believe this to be possible... I recall a noname P200 that had several sets of mainboard chimpset drivers under Win95, though it sure threw a hissy when I replaced an i430TX board with a VIA)
and always
Pray that the next set of parts you use won't break your images.
The Angband games do it fairly well, in that the item is part-identified by default like so:
A Sharpened PCI Video Card (1d76)
A Scroll Entitled "zfjsrg we09ti"
A Zesty Aquamarine Potion
but until you use or identify the item, it's meaningless.
The Sharpened PCI Video Card of Threatening Other Users (1d76) (+25, +188%) (+13 attacks)
A Scroll Entitled "zfjsrg we09ti" of Teleport one level up, three squares to the right, and straight into a wall
A Zesty Aquamarine Potion of Rot Out Pancreas
This allows some great exploring fun... until you lose a 28th level Vampire Chaos-Warrior by having him read a spell of Make Dead Now.
>In this case I can't buy the "substantial non->infringing use" argument, as having dabbled in >satellite technology for a while, I know how >huge the market is for pirate cards.
FWIW, it might be worth exploring the permissible uses before calling everyone thieves.
I recall seeing a mainboard with a pack-in feature that was a 'smart-card reader'. It didn't look like any type of flash-card slot I recognised-- perhaps those cards can be used for system-locking or login, or to store small amounts of valuable data (encryption keys?) in a conveinent formfactor.
I love how the answer is litigation though. Didn't Directv used to have a pretty respectable record for attacking this problem with TECHNICAL measures?
Technical approaches are the only sensible way to approach this sort of problem. You may be able to sue Craig and Amy Signal-Stealer, but will you find the 500,000 others doing the same?
Final Thought: If you want to ensure the distribution is controlled, stick to distribution that can be managed all the way to the set. (I'm thinking something like cable, but where they will actively pull up the wires from nonsubscribers)
>Here's a hint: they won't
Find different business models.
The business presently works on a credit model. Make the product now, sell tickets/licences to cover costs tomorrow.
Just flip the model. Have J. K. Rowling say "If I get 5 million preorders of Harry Potter XCLVIII, I'll write it, otherwise, the preorder money is returned.
>That's not progress.
It's clear-cutting for new development style progress.
Plus, there are some definite market niches that don't benefit from copyright significantly:
time-sensitive content. People will watch TV, even the jingles, so there's something to chat about tomorrow.
advertising, of course
custom development
information 'services'. Google would still work.