If the bandwidth for good VoIP is available at my house, I'd be dammed pissed if I had to use dial up 'net service.
As far as dialup to bbs, etc. it should be possible. We recently put 2 buildings on a VoIP system at work, and they still have the old fax machines, etc. Whether the Big Carrier would keep those lines maintained, etc. is a different story.
I actually got more bounce messages than sobigs... 10 messages saying sobig spoofed my addy as the sender, and no sobigs (we got good email admins here).
Actually, thats exactly how we got it on our network at work. All desktops, etc. are behind a couple of firewalls. Someone used a unpatched laptop at home, got infected, came to work and plugged in.
Lets see... some how some sort of locking technology would be enabled, perhaps thru a daemon. Each file on your shared area can be played via a 'net stream, but only one stream at a time. Very much like physically loaning a cd/album/8-track to a friend. Then joe user wants to listen to "Pink Floyd - Several Species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict.mp3" - of the 3 or 4 or however many hosts have that song, the client simply finds one that has an available stream slot, plays the song.
Of course, there is still that issue of the client somehow capturing/recording the stream for later listening pleasure, but that issue also exists with the physical loan of a $media to someone else.
Modern distros on old hardware still work - I've got a 486sx33 laptop with 4mb ram (Toshiba Satellite 1910) that had Slack 7.0 and 7.1 on it. I upped the ram to 12mb and it now is a fairly useful machine with Slack 8.1 on it.
One of the reasons I was told that a webcam may not go over well at the college I work at is the question of "If it can be monitored, is there an obligation to monitor it?"
Hard? Just for grins, I decided to try Wine(X) last night for the first time in a looong time to see if a Windows game my 3 year old likes would work. Took 2 commands and some wait time for download.
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cv sroot/winex login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cv sroot/winex co wine
Straight from the webpage you get afer the license agreement.
One of the online course delivery systems I work with has a "CDROM Tool" that allows the instructor to specify a directory, mirror the filenames/paths of the CD in it with empty files, and distribute a CD. The student then sets a preference that says "my cd-rom is located at d:\" or/mnt/cdrom or whatever a mac uses. Any references to files in the CD directory are then re-written to point to the end users CD drive, saving bandwidth, etc.
Apparently to make a man, complete with 6 pack abs and a nice gold lame speedo, you just need a big ass empty aquarium and some funky colored fluids... but you do need to be wearing some really trashy lingerie...
(rocky horror picture show for those who are too young to remember, or maybe humor impaired)
For example, Quake III Arena might be remembered for it's graphics but it also brought multi player internet gaming to a whole new level.
But, that's sorta cheating. Quake and QuakeWorld, and all the other mods (Remember the original CTF? How about Team Fortress?) did what you are attributing to Quake3 in '96.It has just been new graphics engines and different weapons/physics since - some of which are nice changes and some of which could maybe have been best left alone... or open for the mod makers to play with.
Of course, that also means that now we can all play QuakeWorld in GL mode at 1600x1200 at 60+ fps... not to mention the big boom in home user bandwidth...:)
Glock pistols "had" that problem according to the flying FUD when they were announced. Now when the composite is still liquid they put in a bunch of metal filings, etc. or something like that to make them appear solid on xray.
So add something like the "evil bit" to a mail header, server side. Then if the end user wants, they can filter it out or not, based on that extra header info.
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If the bandwidth for good VoIP is available at my house, I'd be dammed pissed if I had to use dial up 'net service.
As far as dialup to bbs, etc. it should be possible. We recently put 2 buildings on a VoIP system at work, and they still have the old fax machines, etc. Whether the Big Carrier would keep those lines maintained, etc. is a different story.
Same boat... do I get happy because no one is sending the virus to me, or do I get depressed because I'm not in anyones contact list?
I actually got more bounce messages than sobigs... 10 messages saying sobig spoofed my addy as the sender, and no sobigs (we got good email admins here).
... until Smith & Wesson, Colt, Taurus, Glock, et. al file their applications?
Actually, thats exactly how we got it on our network at work. All desktops, etc. are behind a couple of firewalls. Someone used a unpatched laptop at home, got infected, came to work and plugged in.
Lets see... some how some sort of locking technology would be enabled, perhaps thru a daemon. Each file on your shared area can be played via a 'net stream, but only one stream at a time. Very much like physically loaning a cd/album/8-track to a friend. Then joe user wants to listen to "Pink Floyd - Several Species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict.mp3" - of the 3 or 4 or however many hosts have that song, the client simply finds one that has an available stream slot, plays the song.
Of course, there is still that issue of the client somehow capturing/recording the stream for later listening pleasure, but that issue also exists with the physical loan of a $media to someone else.
Modern distros on old hardware still work - I've got a 486sx33 laptop with 4mb ram (Toshiba Satellite 1910) that had Slack 7.0 and 7.1 on it. I upped the ram to 12mb and it now is a fairly useful machine with Slack 8.1 on it.
That's because "Talk like a pirate day" isn't until 9/19. http://www.talklikeapirate.com/
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One of the reasons I was told that a webcam may not go over well at the college I work at is the question of "If it can be monitored, is there an obligation to monitor it?"
At least it isn't two simple words:
Mostly harmless.
Hard? Just for grins, I decided to try Wine(X) last night for the first time in a looong time to see if a Windows game my 3 year old likes would work. Took 2 commands and some wait time for download.
v sroot/winex loginv sroot/winex co wine
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/c
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/c
Straight from the webpage you get afer the license agreement.
One of the online course delivery systems I work with has a "CDROM Tool" that allows the instructor to specify a directory, mirror the filenames/paths of the CD in it with empty files, and distribute a CD. The student then sets a preference that says "my cd-rom is located at d:\" or /mnt/cdrom or whatever a mac uses. Any references to files in the CD directory are then re-written to point to the end users CD drive, saving bandwidth, etc.
The difference between in-laws and outlaws is that outlaws are wanted....
Apparently to make a man, complete with 6 pack abs and a nice gold lame speedo, you just need a big ass empty aquarium and some funky colored fluids... but you do need to be wearing some really trashy lingerie...
(rocky horror picture show for those who are too young to remember, or maybe humor impaired)
You are right! I want CTF too... and maybe some Team DM, and....
Yah, I finally replaced my Voodoo3 with a high end (but way old, so it was cheap) GF2 card when I realized just how much DRI was sucking...
"QuakeWorld/Quake2 under Linux with Glide - Quake the way God meant it to be..." - some anonymous person
But, that's sorta cheating. Quake and QuakeWorld, and all the other mods (Remember the original CTF? How about Team Fortress?) did what you are attributing to Quake3 in '96.It has just been new graphics engines and different weapons/physics since - some of which are nice changes and some of which could maybe have been best left alone... or open for the mod makers to play with. Of course, that also means that now we can all play QuakeWorld in GL mode at 1600x1200 at 60+ fps... not to mention the big boom in home user bandwidth... :)
If we find the "end of the universe", will there be a resturant, perhaps with a evening show?
Undocumented dependencies suck...
+1 informative
Glock pistols "had" that problem according to the flying FUD when they were announced. Now when the composite is still liquid they put in a bunch of metal filings, etc. or something like that to make them appear solid on xray.
... much business cheapbytes does?
Yup. This post makes me want to dl the Linux QuakeWorld binaries one more time and dust off the old CD...
So add something like the "evil bit" to a mail header, server side. Then if the end user wants, they can filter it out or not, based on that extra header info.
You will. But the first official pre-test release will be for Linux and Mac first....