Arg, hit Enter for a new line and Submit was somehow selected... anyway:
The solution for the problem above: The goods Storage tower. Basically it operates like a giant tape robot (or those parking systems) only it stores the goods you ordered. The process is this:
- Order from an online store, indicate 'the tower' as the delivery address (requires cooperation from the online store of course) - Store packs your stuff, drives up to the tower, puts it into the standard boxes there and taps in your code. - The tower takes a picture of the contents of your box and notifies you that your goods have arrived (via the web, SMS,...). - You drive up to the tower at any time that is convenient to you (it's up and running 24/7), punch in your code, the bot fetches your box and lets you take out your goods.
They even remembered to put it specially cooled slots so it is also suitable for grocery deliveries etc... and if ever one of those packages isn't retrieved within a certain timeframe (was it 4 days? Can't remember) the tower notifes somebody from the company to come and clean out that compartiment to avoid the food rotting in there.
I want one of those towers right accross the street NOW!;)
I recently saw a bit on TV where they used a similar storage system for Internet deliveries. You know the problem: Order something from an online store, go to work, arrive back home at 18:00 some day and find a nice piece of paper in your mailbox informing you that the mailman couldn't see you in person and thus dropped off your package at the post office where you can 'conveniently' fetch it during the time you're supposed to be at work.
You wouldn't get mangled while being inside your car (they can't really compress it for parking and blow it up again when you retrieve it, can they?) but I wonder what havoc some moron could cause by staying inside and actually starting/trying to drive the car once it is in.
You obviously don't have "the director who can't be bothered" types calling you. They don't know a thing about computers, they don't care what's wrong and they give squat on how to fix it. All that counts to them is that their software is up and running ASAP without them having to do as much as blink and in such hopeless cases VNC (or any other remote connect tool) is a life saver. (unless of course they f#&%ed up their networking config)
As far as I can recall you couldn't buy 98SE in retail. It was an OEM only version (only to be sold with new PCs, blabla). You could however download the fixes for 98. Did SE actually have any new features? I think there was one small thing but I can't remember.
They 'forgot to mention it' because they weren't sure whether the Linux client would be ready when the game would go gold (initially they had planned to release the client later as a download). In the end the client was there so they put it onto the discs as well but of course that far into the production of the game it's hard to make last minute changes to the box design etc.
This would actually be a bad 'solution' if you consider how SMTP mail sending operates. Currently, mails sent to an inexistent domain will bounce immediately at the bogus SMTP server they set up. If you were to route the traffic in a way that prevents access, your mail would get stuck in the queue and your server would keep retrying several times before giving up and notifying you of the failure.
Better solution is to patch your DNS server to return NXDOMAIN instead of sitefinder's IP(s) (the way it should be(TM) ).
Stability: OK, it's not really what you can call stable, it can chicken out with a nice 'exception fault 0E' at any time, especially if you're running memory hungry apps (or badly written ones like Kazaa, ICQ,...). Yet, I have also seen it run flawlessly for several hours with me happily gaming on it at LAN parties. (nothing for server usage though, that's certain)
Network Security: Well, it's received its batch of patches like every other OS. What I'd count to 98s advantage is the fact that it has less services running on the network that you can attach (no Blaster attacking the RPC daemon, no UPnP running at port 5000,...) and is even starting to become unattactive to the black hats out there. So compared to XP, how insecure is Win98 really when it comes to getting r00ted via the Network? Does anybody know?
Local security: I have yet to see the OS that can uphold an attack once the attacker has physical access to the box. Granted, 98 is easier than most of them but that doesn't change the end result too much.
On my Pentium IV, I run Win98SE. Why? Because I won't install Win-activate_me_and_make_sure_you_get_the_latest_D RM_and_TPCA_patches-XP and I will most certainly not pay for it! I simply don't like the policies attached to that OS, no matter how good it may be technically.
Don't thank me, thank all those seeders out there that leave their BT open and sharing the file. (On my measly DSL link you'd still be counting the bytes dripping in.) I just found it frustrating to see how the official FTPs performed (it took me 2 minutes just to get from connected to a state where I could change directory!) and as everybody and their brothers was asking for BT I quickly cobbled that one together. I have to admit, it also makes a nice experiment to see whether my old box running that tracker can support a nice slashdotting.;)
Oh and for those who like stats: According to mine, the tracker has helped distribute about 6.5GB of yummy Firebird archives (something over 1000 downloads).
I only hope the guys from Mozilla.org will have the foresight to set up torrents for their next releases themselves (avoids the whole 'there might be a trojan in what this person distributes' issue). If any of them read this: feel free to contact me if you need any help in setting this up, I'd gladly assist you.
Note: It's still the same link, I replaced all the files to have everybody download the right one automatically. Sorry for those who downloaded the corrupted one.:(
Well, of course you can't trust them (Mozilla.org would have to put up checksums for that)... all I can do is give you my word that I didn't modify the file (I have absolutely no interest in doing so).
That and the fact that plenty of people have already downloaded the file and nobody complained yet is all that I can offer for 'security'.
Yeah, as I said my link is damn slow and I'm the only seed right now... expect the situation to grow much better as soon as some people finish the first chunks.
I only have the win32 version right now, I'll try to put the linux one online once it completes downloading (and post the link as a child to this posting).
Note: My link is very slow (thus the first seeding clients low speed) so it would be nice if you could help seeding if you can.
I'd say the Win key is both a modifier AND a function key.
Modifier: You hold it and hit another key which gets its original function 'modified' (ie instead of getting an 'e' an explorer window opens)
Function key: You tap the button and after releasing it the start menu pops up. (Just like hitting CTRL+ESC) That doesn't usually happen with the 'normal' modifier keys. You can keep hitting Shift all day and nothing will happen, except if your OS is from Microsoft and starts taking false assumptions on your abilities to type... Stickykeys anyone?;)
Fasttrack (KaZaa) the first decentralized p2p app?
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.. that's what it says on their website! (On the page so aptly labeled 'p2p telephony explained - for geeks only') Quote: "FastTrack (the P2P technology behind KaZaA) was the first truly decentralized P2P application"
Sorry to disappoint you but last time I checked the first truly decentralized P2P application was *drumroll* Gnutella! (Or maybe I'm just not enough of a geek?) Now could somebody please point out what else on the page is only pure marketing gibberish or should I just hit CTRL+A?
If I recall correctly, ATI optimized Quake as a whole, ie not just the benchmark. Thus Quake players would benefit from higher frame rates within the game, something that is IMHO OK.
What nVidia did here is completely different: They 'optimize' one and one application only: a benchmark! Now what good is that except for boasting about higher 3DMark scores? There's absolutely no benefit at all from these optimisations within games.
If you ask me, nVidia's cheat is far worse than what ATI did with Q3.
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Just remembered the name of the company, here's their website (in German though):
http://www.tower24.de
Arg, hit Enter for a new line and Submit was somehow selected... anyway:
...).
;)
The solution for the problem above: The goods Storage tower. Basically it operates like a giant tape robot (or those parking systems) only it stores the goods you ordered. The process is this:
- Order from an online store, indicate 'the tower' as the delivery address (requires cooperation from the online store of course)
- Store packs your stuff, drives up to the tower, puts it into the standard boxes there and taps in your code.
- The tower takes a picture of the contents of your box and notifies you that your goods have arrived (via the web, SMS,
- You drive up to the tower at any time that is convenient to you (it's up and running 24/7), punch in your code, the bot fetches your box and lets you take out your goods.
They even remembered to put it specially cooled slots so it is also suitable for grocery deliveries etc... and if ever one of those packages isn't retrieved within a certain timeframe (was it 4 days? Can't remember) the tower notifes somebody from the company to come and clean out that compartiment to avoid the food rotting in there.
I want one of those towers right accross the street NOW!
I recently saw a bit on TV where they used a similar storage system for Internet deliveries. You know the problem: Order something from an online store, go to work, arrive back home at 18:00 some day and find a nice piece of paper in your mailbox informing you that the mailman couldn't see you in person and thus dropped off your package at the post office where you can 'conveniently' fetch it during the time you're supposed to be at work.
You wouldn't get mangled while being inside your car (they can't really compress it for parking and blow it up again when you retrieve it, can they?) but I wonder what havoc some moron could cause by staying inside and actually starting/trying to drive the car once it is in.
You obviously don't have "the director who can't be bothered" types calling you. They don't know a thing about computers, they don't care what's wrong and they give squat on how to fix it. All that counts to them is that their software is up and running ASAP without them having to do as much as blink and in such hopeless cases VNC (or any other remote connect tool) is a life saver. (unless of course they f#&%ed up their networking config)
> You do not open any Email attatchments unless they are from me.
What about forged e-mail headers/From addresses?
As far as I can recall you couldn't buy 98SE in retail. It was an OEM only version (only to be sold with new PCs, blabla). You could however download the fixes for 98. Did SE actually have any new features? I think there was one small thing but I can't remember.
As far as I know SFU was also used in 'the 6th day', 'Agent Cody Banks' and the 'Stargate SG-1' (the campus is known as 'Tolana' in the series).
Can't find the reference links right now though (try Google).
They 'forgot to mention it' because they weren't sure whether the Linux client would be ready when the game would go gold (initially they had planned to release the client later as a download). In the end the client was there so they put it onto the discs as well but of course that far into the production of the game it's hard to make last minute changes to the box design etc.
This would actually be a bad 'solution' if you consider how SMTP mail sending operates. Currently, mails sent to an inexistent domain will bounce immediately at the bogus SMTP server they set up. If you were to route the traffic in a way that prevents access, your mail would get stuck in the queue and your server would keep retrying several times before giving up and notifying you of the failure.
Better solution is to patch your DNS server to return NXDOMAIN instead of sitefinder's IP(s) (the way it should be(TM) ).
http://opennic.org
So, where is it actually broken?
...). Yet, I have also seen it run flawlessly for several hours with me happily gaming on it at LAN parties. (nothing for server usage though, that's certain)
...) and is even starting to become unattactive to the black hats out there. So compared to XP, how insecure is Win98 really when it comes to getting r00ted via the Network? Does anybody know?
D RM_and_TPCA_patches-XP and I will most certainly not pay for it! I simply don't like the policies attached to that OS, no matter how good it may be technically.
Stability: OK, it's not really what you can call stable, it can chicken out with a nice 'exception fault 0E' at any time, especially if you're running memory hungry apps (or badly written ones like Kazaa, ICQ,
Network Security: Well, it's received its batch of patches like every other OS. What I'd count to 98s advantage is the fact that it has less services running on the network that you can attach (no Blaster attacking the RPC daemon, no UPnP running at port 5000,
Local security: I have yet to see the OS that can uphold an attack once the attacker has physical access to the box. Granted, 98 is easier than most of them but that doesn't change the end result too much.
On my Pentium IV, I run Win98SE. Why? Because I won't install Win-activate_me_and_make_sure_you_get_the_latest_
It may cream EMM386 easily but I'm not too sure about QEMM386 because that one already uses 'shadow RAM' as UMB provided your hardware supports it.
Don't thank me, thank all those seeders out there that leave their BT open and sharing the file. (On my measly DSL link you'd still be counting the bytes dripping in.) I just found it frustrating to see how the official FTPs performed (it took me 2 minutes just to get from connected to a state where I could change directory!) and as everybody and their brothers was asking for BT I quickly cobbled that one together. I have to admit, it also makes a nice experiment to see whether my old box running that tracker can support a nice slashdotting. ;)
Oh and for those who like stats: According to mine, the tracker has helped distribute about 6.5GB of yummy Firebird archives (something over 1000 downloads).
I only hope the guys from Mozilla.org will have the foresight to set up torrents for their next releases themselves (avoids the whole 'there might be a trojan in what this person distributes' issue). If any of them read this: feel free to contact me if you need any help in setting this up, I'd gladly assist you.
There already is one here but it's not mine so I won't vouch for what file you'll get from there.
All right, I managed to grab a new copy and this time I actually got to check that it really extracts. Here's the fixed link:
e nt
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MozillaFirebird-0.7-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz.torr
Note: It's still the same link, I replaced all the files to have everybody download the right one automatically. Sorry for those who downloaded the corrupted one.
Well, of course you can't trust them (Mozilla.org would have to put up checksums for that)... all I can do is give you my word that I didn't modify the file (I have absolutely no interest in doing so).
That and the fact that plenty of people have already downloaded the file and nobody complained yet is all that I can offer for 'security'.
Arg... well I better pull the plug on that one then.
MozillaFirebird-0.7-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz.torre nt
Same notes than for the win32 post apply. Good luck downloading.
I'm unable to get Mozilla 1.5 or even Thunderbird right now. Sorry, I know I should have put it into the subject right away. :/
Yeah, as I said my link is damn slow and I'm the only seed right now... expect the situation to grow much better as soon as some people finish the first chunks.
I'm probably going to regret this but I've put a BT tracker, seed and .torrent file online anyway:
e bird-0.7-win32.zip.torrent
http://tcnnet.dyndns.org/do
wnloads/MozillaFir
MozillaFirebird-0.7-win32.zip.torrent
I only have the win32 version right now, I'll try to put the linux one online once it completes downloading (and post the link as a child to this posting).
Note: My link is very slow (thus the first seeding clients low speed) so it would be nice if you could help seeding if you can.
I'd say the Win key is both a modifier AND a function key.
... Stickykeys anyone? ;)
Modifier: You hold it and hit another key which gets its original function 'modified' (ie instead of getting an 'e' an explorer window opens)
Function key: You tap the button and after releasing it the start menu pops up. (Just like hitting CTRL+ESC) That doesn't usually happen with the 'normal' modifier keys. You can keep hitting Shift all day and nothing will happen, except if your OS is from Microsoft and starts taking false assumptions on your abilities to type
.. that's what it says on their website! (On the page so aptly labeled 'p2p telephony explained - for geeks only') Quote: "FastTrack (the P2P technology behind KaZaA) was the first truly decentralized P2P application"
Sorry to disappoint you but last time I checked the first truly decentralized P2P application was *drumroll* Gnutella! (Or maybe I'm just not enough of a geek?) Now could somebody please point out what else on the page is only pure marketing gibberish or should I just hit CTRL+A?
If I recall correctly, ATI optimized Quake as a whole, ie not just the benchmark. Thus Quake players would benefit from higher frame rates within the game, something that is IMHO OK.
What nVidia did here is completely different: They 'optimize' one and one application only: a benchmark! Now what good is that except for boasting about higher 3DMark scores? There's absolutely no benefit at all from these optimisations within games.
If you ask me, nVidia's cheat is far worse than what ATI did with Q3.