I'd heard of screens, but never used it. I like the idea of being able to detach and reattach a session, but I want to do this in console mode for some of my boxes that don't "do windows".
Does anyone know of a console-land type of setup, a "getty"-ish app, perhaps, that would let me log in, start a task (say a big compile), detach, and then reattach later to 'check up on it'?
Odd thing is, the SNES backup devices are still there, yet Gameboy ones are gone. PSX 'mod-free' boot discs are still there, yet Sega Saturn modchips are gone. Weird stuff indeed.
There are plenty of other places to find such things, or you can even learn how to build your own if you google for the schematics. It's easier than you'd think.
They're a great site for console game freaks like myself, I've ordered a ton of hard-to-come-by and import stuff from them over the years.
I can understand why certain mods are illegal, but not all of them.
Ie; The xtender mod for xbox should be illegal. It's a bios replacement that contains a hacked copy of MS's copyrighted BIOS.
The openxbox/pc-bioxx 'mod' is a blank flashrom with a parallel header. It could not only be used on an xbox, but on any motherboard that uses 8mbit bioses and has an LPC bus. It has tons of uses aside from piracy or running linux on xbox. Ever want to try that crazy bios hack for your mobo that unlocks freakishly high FSB and vCore settings? Here you go.
Why can't they use the "primary function" clause to their benefit in this case?
Why not just say the primary function of the device is to replace/play with the bios on the mobo in your PC, and not mention xbox?
This isn't some shady trick to keep selling them, but frankly the truth. It really is a poor mans flashrom writer.
Anyhow, anyone who really wants his xbox modded (provided he has the early revision that can be) can do so himself quite simply, if he has a mobo around with a socketed bios that he can use to flash the xbox' chip with.
I worry the next step will be MS, Sony and Nintendo getting an injunction to stop them from exporting Japanese software to American/European markets. That'll really suck eggs.
This isnt about your personal website, this isnt about your blog, or your Sailor Moon fan fiction.
The key here is if you run a venture that is designed as a place of *public accomadation*, then it must be accessable to all the *public*. That's the key word.
If you sell products or offer services, everyone needs to be able to access those products or services.
Ie; there's no law saying you need a wheelchair ramp on your home. If you run a restaurant, hotel, or other place of public accomodation, then there is.
The same rules about accessability coincide with good web design for the most part. Don't scan your paper catalog and serve a bunch of jpg files. Dont force people to chase down one of those stupid javascript adverts that blocks the page until you answer its poll, etc.
So what? It's a stupid campaign no matter who runs it.
Though the first point in the article is hard to debate:
"More Hardware Options, for Less Dough... My laptop came with 512 MB of RAM, a 15" screen, a DVD player, and Windows XP Home Edition preinstalled, for $450 less than a comparable iBook."
It's just fighting fire with fire. Good for them. Too many people are confused into thinking Mac's are better because, as the commercial says, they 'just work'.
American colleges are a hotbed of socialism and left thinking. Everything is a slippery slope to them, and they'll fight back.
I'm just tired of the 1:1 correlation Valenti et al put between P2P and piracy. There's plenty of public domain stuff out there. Last time I used a P2P app it was to collect some Christmas music for a party my wife threw. None of it was copyrighted to my knowledge.
A guy got an honorary Darwin award for doing that. (Honorary because he didn't die)
If you just hold the liquid N2 on your tongue, you can blow smoke rings, and it's pretty cool.
If you swallow it, you're in big trouble when it turns into gas in your stomach and expands to many many times its original volume, inflating you like a party balloon.
Though, watching the local Bill Nye wannabe's stomach swell as he collapses to the ground gasping for breath and writhing in agony would have went over BIG in my high school.
Naw, the visual studio gang is having a big all night party on top of a pile of money at a compound that makes the Playboy mansion look like an outhouse.
It'll be gone from the workstations and commoner machines - but my point is so long as there are people willing to pay a premium for legacy devices, they'll exist. Supply and demand.
My examples, in hindsight, were trivial. I could have mentioned the 10,000$ thermal-transfer labeller and 40,000$ diamond-tipped engraving rigup I coded a custom frontend for at a previous job. Both of these *required* legacy ports, no doubt for the same reasons my GBA flashlinker does.
I seriously doubt that if that PC that drives those things breaks down, the company is going to piss away 50,000$ in peripherals because a 400$ PC did away with parallel/serial ports on mobo.
Legacy ports will exist so long as the hardware to connect to them does. Even if its in the form of a PCI add-on card.
PS/2 ports are superflouous, they're gone, noone ever need them in the first place (they were just smaller and prettier than AT style connectors).
But there's a wide variety of hardware/software out there that relies on your box's LPT and COM ports. They wont disappear completely for some time, no more than fiber is going to replace all of this "obsolete" Cat5e cable we're using.
Much for the same reasons that theres billions of lines of 30 year old COBOL and FORTRAN in the real world. Much to the PC geek's dismay, everyone doesn't buy new hardware just because it exists. Alot of the world still runs on the "if it ain't broke, dont fix it" axiom.
Parellel to USB converters dont work for every parallel printer, and rarely ever work for other things that interface over the parallel port.
Same with USB emulated serial(COM) ports..
I'm talking about stuff like PSX-N64 DexDrives/Dreamcast VMU/GB/GBA/NeoGeo Pocket/OpenXBox readers/flashers, all of which I have, and all of which have had 0 success trying to interface over anything but a true parallel or serial port.
AFAIK, you cant get register level control over a USB/parallel port, or some such technical blibber-blabber. I just know it doesnt work. Nor can it drive the old bubblejet in my closet.
So while I'm all for the idea of moving ahead, I want all my gizmos to work. There should be (and are) boards without the legacy stuff, and those with.
BTW I need my FDC too, to move data to my SuperUFO32 SNES backup unit. And I still need maxell 650 discs burned at 1x, as they're the only media my TurboDuo reads correctly. So dont talk to me about 72x burners and bootable cds.
I'm sure there are many other similar, if unrelated, situations where legacy stuff is necessary.
.. a couple years back, lik-sang had a similar run-in with nintendo over the N64 backup devices. They eventually got N to back off after they decided not to ship any units to North and Central America.
Perhaps the same type of thing could happen with MSFT.
Though I wonder if the mod in question, the PC-BIOXX/OpenXbox, counts as illegal. It is, in essence, a blank flashROM.
You attach it to the xbox, and completely replace the xbox' bios with whatever you flash to the chip. So it could be used to run a hacked xbox bios that plays pirated code, it could be used to run the linux bios, or it could be used to run the retail bios (if the one on the mobo got fried).
You could even use it on a PC mobo just as easily, if you wanted to play BIOS hacker. It's just a plain-vanilla 2mbit flashrom for the LPC header.
I mean, is the device itself illegal just because it has some illegal use?
So the printer maybe need be plugged in, the camera/device need not be. Depends if the portable need more than 100mA or not. (Maybe a camera would to take photos, but not to dump its contents out).
OSX? this is about device to device connections, without the host master (your computer).
I don't see any wireless printers that automatically know when a wireless camera is close, and start printing. It'd be easier and cheaper to just plug 'em in.
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Absolutely.
There are lots of advantages over bluetooth, etc.
No batteries, you can power stuff off the USB inteface.
Wireless (in)security.
Interference.
Cheaper.
Sometimes wireless stuff is just a pain in the ass.
It'd be nice to be able to just buy a digital camera and a photo printer, and be able to bypass a computer altogether. Not every electronic device in your home need be linked together somehow.
The 'interface' aspect of just plugging something in to 'connect' it is easier for the layman to grasp than having devices announcing themselves to each other over the air, etc.
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I'd heard of screens, but never used it. I like the idea of being able to detach and reattach a session, but I want to do this in console mode for some of my boxes that don't "do windows".
Does anyone know of a console-land type of setup, a "getty"-ish app, perhaps, that would let me log in, start a task (say a big compile), detach, and then reattach later to 'check up on it'?
does it matter?
I mean LCDs and plasmas aren't exactly flying off the shelves. (Sure they arent quite struggling either)
What I want to know, is this technology potentially cheaper? From what I've read it's gonna be even pricier.
Sure, but if it's over it's over. folding@home, et al are it's legacy.
Me, I *waste* my spare CPU cycles.
And to add insult to injury, I use VB to do it:
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Muahahahahahha
I meant from the get go. Why market it as an xbox mod chip in the first place?
Let it begin life as a PC BIOS tool, and if the modding scene finds another use, good for them.
I mean it's legal to buy a blank 29F020 flashrom chip, but it's illegal if you sell the exact same blank chip labelled as a "blank xbox mod".
Odd stuff.
Even odder is that a dreamcast mod doesn't enable pirated software.. That's already possible in it's unmodded state.
All a dreamcast mod does is allow imported originals (read legitimate) to play.
Odd thing is, the SNES backup devices are still there, yet Gameboy ones are gone. PSX 'mod-free' boot discs are still there, yet Sega Saturn modchips are gone. Weird stuff indeed.
There are plenty of other places to find such things, or you can even learn how to build your own if you google for the schematics. It's easier than you'd think.
They're a great site for console game freaks like myself, I've ordered a ton of hard-to-come-by and import stuff from them over the years.
I can understand why certain mods are illegal, but not all of them.
Ie;
The xtender mod for xbox should be illegal. It's a bios replacement that contains a hacked copy of MS's copyrighted BIOS.
The openxbox/pc-bioxx 'mod' is a blank flashrom with a parallel header. It could not only be used on an xbox, but on any motherboard that uses 8mbit bioses and has an LPC bus. It has tons of uses aside from piracy or running linux on xbox. Ever want to try that crazy bios hack for your mobo that unlocks freakishly high FSB and vCore settings? Here you go.
Why can't they use the "primary function" clause to their benefit in this case?
Why not just say the primary function of the device is to replace/play with the bios on the mobo in your PC, and not mention xbox?
This isn't some shady trick to keep selling them, but frankly the truth. It really is a poor mans flashrom writer.
Anyhow, anyone who really wants his xbox modded (provided he has the early revision that can be) can do so himself quite simply, if he has a mobo around with a socketed bios that he can use to flash the xbox' chip with.
I worry the next step will be MS, Sony and Nintendo getting an injunction to stop them from exporting Japanese software to American/European markets. That'll really suck eggs.
Can lawyers abuse laws that are meant to do good? Absolutely.
Does that mean the intent of the law was wrong? Not at all.
Sure, there's always going to be some litigious jerk looking for a payday. That's a separate issue, you shouldn't be confusing the two.
Nope, you miss the point.
This isnt about your personal website, this isnt about your blog, or your Sailor Moon fan fiction.
The key here is if you run a venture that is designed as a place of *public accomadation*, then it must be accessable to all the *public*. That's the key word.
If you sell products or offer services, everyone needs to be able to access those products or services.
Ie; there's no law saying you need a wheelchair ramp on your home. If you run a restaurant, hotel, or other place of public accomodation, then there is.
The same rules about accessability coincide with good web design for the most part. Don't scan your paper catalog and serve a bunch of jpg files. Dont force people to chase down one of those stupid javascript adverts that blocks the page until you answer its poll, etc.
> ... holds more music because it supports WMA (though why someone would want to use WMA is beyond me).
Uhm, because it holds more music?
geesh.
HEY! Thats the same chick I met on IRC last night!
So what? It's a stupid campaign no matter who runs it.
...
Though the first point in the article is hard to debate:
"More Hardware Options, for Less Dough
My laptop came with 512 MB of RAM, a 15" screen, a DVD player, and Windows XP Home Edition preinstalled, for $450 less than a comparable iBook."
It's just fighting fire with fire. Good for them. Too many people are confused into thinking Mac's are better because, as the commercial says, they 'just work'.
In the context, the word "just" = "barely".
They can just make up speeds like AMD to account for the slower clock.
Mac 3600+, etc.
And we've had surveillance satellites that can see the headlines of the newspaper you're reading in the park since the '80s.
So why panic now?
It's not the information that's collected that's scary - it's how it's used.
If they used it to track the movements of organized crime, and it helped build cases, go for it.
If they used it to track every Brit's trip to the "loo", and sold the information to Cottonelle to increase their TP market-share, that's not so good.
American colleges are a hotbed of socialism and left thinking. Everything is a slippery slope to them, and they'll fight back.
I'm just tired of the 1:1 correlation Valenti et al put between P2P and piracy. There's plenty of public domain stuff out there. Last time I used a P2P app it was to collect some Christmas music for a party my wife threw. None of it was copyrighted to my knowledge.
A guy got an honorary Darwin award for doing that. (Honorary because he didn't die)
If you just hold the liquid N2 on your tongue, you can blow smoke rings, and it's pretty cool.
If you swallow it, you're in big trouble when it turns into gas in your stomach and expands to many many times its original volume, inflating you like a party balloon.
Though, watching the local Bill Nye wannabe's stomach swell as he collapses to the ground gasping for breath and writhing in agony would have went over BIG in my high school.
Naw, the visual studio gang is having a big all night party on top of a pile of money at a compound that makes the Playboy mansion look like an outhouse.
It'll be gone from the workstations and commoner machines - but my point is so long as there are people willing to pay a premium for legacy devices, they'll exist. Supply and demand.
My examples, in hindsight, were trivial. I could have mentioned the 10,000$ thermal-transfer labeller and 40,000$ diamond-tipped engraving rigup I coded a custom frontend for at a previous job. Both of these *required* legacy ports, no doubt for the same reasons my GBA flashlinker does.
I seriously doubt that if that PC that drives those things breaks down, the company is going to piss away 50,000$ in peripherals because a 400$ PC did away with parallel/serial ports on mobo.
Legacy ports will exist so long as the hardware to connect to them does. Even if its in the form of a PCI add-on card.
PS/2 ports are superflouous, they're gone, noone ever need them in the first place (they were just smaller and prettier than AT style connectors).
But there's a wide variety of hardware/software out there that relies on your box's LPT and COM ports. They wont disappear completely for some time, no more than fiber is going to replace all of this "obsolete" Cat5e cable we're using.
Much for the same reasons that theres billions of lines of 30 year old COBOL and FORTRAN in the real world. Much to the PC geek's dismay, everyone doesn't buy new hardware just because it exists. Alot of the world still runs on the "if it ain't broke, dont fix it" axiom.
Parellel to USB converters dont work for every parallel printer, and rarely ever work for other things that interface over the parallel port.
Same with USB emulated serial(COM) ports..
I'm talking about stuff like PSX-N64 DexDrives/Dreamcast VMU/GB/GBA/NeoGeo Pocket/OpenXBox readers/flashers, all of which I have, and all of which have had 0 success trying to interface over anything but a true parallel or serial port.
AFAIK, you cant get register level control over a USB/parallel port, or some such technical blibber-blabber. I just know it doesnt work. Nor can it drive the old bubblejet in my closet.
So while I'm all for the idea of moving ahead, I want all my gizmos to work. There should be (and are) boards without the legacy stuff, and those with.
BTW I need my FDC too, to move data to my SuperUFO32 SNES backup unit. And I still need maxell 650 discs burned at 1x, as they're the only media my TurboDuo reads correctly. So dont talk to me about 72x burners and bootable cds.
I'm sure there are many other similar, if unrelated, situations where legacy stuff is necessary.
No, I'm thinking about lik-sang.
The Bung GB-Xchanger was one product they refused to ship to North America, the Dr. 64 N64 backup devices were another.
Bung didn't die btw, they just changed their name.
.. a couple years back, lik-sang had a similar run-in with nintendo over the N64 backup devices. They eventually got N to back off after they decided not to ship any units to North and Central America.
Perhaps the same type of thing could happen with MSFT.
Though I wonder if the mod in question, the PC-BIOXX/OpenXbox, counts as illegal. It is, in essence, a blank flashROM.
You attach it to the xbox, and completely replace the xbox' bios with whatever you flash to the chip. So it could be used to run a hacked xbox bios that plays pirated code, it could be used to run the linux bios, or it could be used to run the retail bios (if the one on the mobo got fried).
You could even use it on a PC mobo just as easily, if you wanted to play BIOS hacker. It's just a plain-vanilla 2mbit flashrom for the LPC header.
I mean, is the device itself illegal just because it has some illegal use?
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> When it's a direct connection, does the electricity magically materialize in the wire
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http://www.allegromicro.com/techpub2/usb/power.
So the printer maybe need be plugged in, the camera/device need not be. Depends if the portable need more than 100mA or not. (Maybe a camera would to take photos, but not to dump its contents out).
OSX? this is about device to device connections, without the host master (your computer).
I don't see any wireless printers that automatically know when a wireless camera is close, and start printing. It'd be easier and cheaper to just plug 'em in.
Absolutely.
There are lots of advantages over bluetooth, etc.
No batteries, you can power stuff off the USB inteface.
Wireless (in)security.
Interference.
Cheaper.
Sometimes wireless stuff is just a pain in the ass.
It'd be nice to be able to just buy a digital camera and a photo printer, and be able to bypass a computer altogether. Not every electronic device in your home need be linked together somehow.
The 'interface' aspect of just plugging something in to 'connect' it is easier for the layman to grasp than having devices announcing themselves to each other over the air, etc.