Sparc LX, somewhere pre1990 I think. Everyone should have one. 50mhz of power and you can get one for less than 50 bucks. Mine runs openbsd
The funny thing is, old Sparcs are still good. I've got numerous SS5's and SS20's doing various things. My paging gateway is a 36MHz SS10 with 32 megs of RAM running Solaris 2.6 Works fine and has been up for 4 years straight now since I upgraded it. There are many things that you simply do not need a 3 GHz Intel P4 for... that seems lost on many people these days.
My mother still uses PFS: Professional Plan because that's all she knows how to use. It's a bit dated (1987), but she's still got the original 3.5" 720K disk for it. I've tried a half dozen times to convert her to Excel, but she's too stubborn to learn anything new for the 20-30 hours a year she actually has to use it. The main problem is it's not Y2K compliant so the dates are all screwed up in the file manager part of it. Oh well. Still works fine otherwise aside from being a shitty app in 1987.:-)
I hate to sound like a broken record, but maybe these ISPs need to start seriously thinking about blocking outbound port 25 traffic (except, of course, for their own mail servers).
The problem is that these ISPs you're hoping to come riding to the rescue are the very problem. They're helping spammers stay online by shifting them around to different netblocks to avoid blacklisting. The solution isn't to put training wheels on Internet connectivity and restrict everyone to web browsing, it's to enforce their own AUPs!
If I'm going to fork out for a 300gb hard-disk, ok maybe I might not want 8mb cache as I'll mainly use it for storage, but I want at least 7200rpm. Just because it big doesn't mean it can't be fast aswell.
But they're cheaper than a 7200RPM 300GB drive with 8MB of cache would be. The point he was making is that most people buying these Maxtor drives are probably just going to be archiving stuff (porn, video, music, etc.). It doesn't necessarily matter that the drive is fast because it'll usually be used as a secondary drive in a system that already has a fast 40-80GB 7200RPM drive.
Stroustrup: Well, one day, when I was sitting in my office, I thought of this little scheme, which would redress the balance a little. I thought 'I wonder what would happen, if there were a language so complicated, so difficult to learn, that nobody would ever be able to swamp the market with programmers?
C++ does seem to be horribly convuluted. Maybe I just have a horrible professor teaching it, but the things that are being demonstrated could've been done just as easily (if not better) using standard C. Object-oriented programming seems to be vastly overrated. Give me C or Perl anyday.
...but a real Mac still looks much nicer, as demonstrated here.
Well, it used to anyway. Someone at Apple smoked too much crack though and decided a Brushed-metal Java-esque theme from 1997 was preferable to Aqua. As a MacOS X user I am NOT happy with the way their newer apps like Safari look. I love the Aqua interface, but brush metal is so fucking dated.
What happened to the Internet being an International resource?
It got popular. Popular things get attention from businesses and the government. It was inevitable that the slippery slope of nationalism would invade the Internet like it has in the real world. It's sad really.
On the contrary, I imagine IRC will be disappearing within a few years. I don't remember if I saw it here or somewhere else, but almost all mainstream IRC networks are under a constant massive DDoS attack. Public IRC servers will eventually die off. Who needs them anyway when you can just setup a private one. On the other hand, why use IRC for song swapping when you can just setup an FTP server and have your friends trade there? The RIAA would be completely clueless to what's going on. Just give everyone that you have PERSONALLY met and hung out with for a certain period of time an account and you're fine. If you're even more paranoid, set it all up over IPSEC between trusted nodes.
Put that money to work for you. Build a soundcard using cutting-edge technology and cutting-edge samples. Utilize the low cost of processor power to add high-quality sound rendering.
They'd really be wasting their money. The average $2 audio chipset embedded on any AC97 compatible motherboard sounds just peachy. The one on my Soyo motherboard is even 5.1 surround sound. I doubt many people even buy third-party sound cards anymore unless they get a motherboard that doesn't come with on-board sound (unlikely these days). Computer generated audio is really one of those things that has been tapped out to it's max.
Sturdy steel construction, and not flimsy aluminum.
You say that like aluminum is a bad thing. I gladly pay a premium for an aluminum case because it's lighter and stays cooler. There's a big difference between picking up my minitower steel case and my midtower aluminum case. The aluminum is much lighter and easier to work with. Who cares how thin it is anyway. It's not like it's supposed to stop gunfire.
What Linux needs is some fatal errors. How about a screen of one solid color that comes on to warn you that all your work for the past hour is gone.
I've installed a new kernel patch called vloopback that fixes this issue. Now I can kernel panic on demand. It's really nifty. Just insert vloopback module and then remove it! Voila, kernel panic! Thankfully Windows isn't that buggy so I can use my Quickcam on there without a problem.
* Get a P.O. box.
* Don't rent cars or purchase cell phones.
Don't forget:
Wear a tin-foil hat at all times, this prevents their mind control rays from reaching you.
Avoid leaving your house for prolonged periods of time and always ensure a hidden surveillence camera is running while you're gone. That's when THEY will come and install bugs to easedrop on you.
Never eat the blue M&Ms. Just trust me on this one.. let's just say blue == best mind control wavelength. I can't say anymore.. they're on to me.
The company should have the form stored you might be able to request it as evidence in a suit but you need to talk to lawyer.
Doesn't matter anymore though. Once your spam cherry gets popped there ain't no going back. It's all downhill from here. Once one of my accounts start to get spam I abandon it forever.
My Dad eventually went to court over it and only uses his credit card upfront now. If anyone needs to mail-order something, do it by cheque.
Probably not good enough either. With your bank routing number and account number it seems like they could just do an electronic funds transfer anyway. At least, that's all Sprint PCS or any of my credit card companies needed to setup an online recurring payment.
maybe thought should have been happy with a 20% loss and not brough on more publicity on themselves.
Why do I have a feeling all these people running these suicidal companies all got their MBAs from the same business school? It's almost as if there's some professor out there screwing up future corporate CEOs so that he can sit back and laugh at their idiocy while shorting their company's stock.
No, I can believe it... 'Rediculous' would be a better word.
"Ridiculous" would be an even better word for this situation. Sorry, had to do it.:-)
While we're on the subject, a short list of other companies that should be sued under the DMCA for allowing their products to circumvent a copy protection mechanism:
IBM
Red Hat
Sun
HP
Apple
SCO
Sony
Nintendo ...
The list goes on and on. The copy protection method was stupid enough that a child could've circumvented it. We'd be better off if all civil lawsuits have a 5 year old evaluate them before they're allowed to pass on to a real judge. It'd save our justice system an enormous amount of time on frivilous lawsuits.
For now... What happens when a few years down the road, the guy running Eolas decides he wants a new jet or yacht?
No problem. He just takes a healthy cash infusion from his friends at the Canopy Group who offer him a bit of grant money for helping them with a pesky problem...
Liberal, eh? Prison is for keeping bad people away from me and my stuff.
OK, so he gets 471 years in prison. That's much more than he can ever serve, so why not just kill him instead? The death penalty would certainly seem a cheaper solution than keeping someone incarcerated for 50 or 60 years until they die of natural causes. Anyone serving a life sentence or a length longer than 50 or 60 years should really just be taken to the gas chamber as soon as possible to clear out space and ease up on our prison system.
In Windows 95, under Duke Nukem, pressing the Windows key would task switch you out, and the game would never work if you task switched back. Pressing alt-esc would do exactly the same thing, but you could task switch back to Duke. It took a lot of habit breaking to fix hitting the Windows key accidently.
That's why all our computer club keyboards had their windows keys popped off. Wouldn't want to accidently hit it in the heat of a Duke Nukem 3D LAN battle.
So yes, Isaac Newton could probably have been hired on despite his assholeness.
I would imagine Newton could get a job at somewhere like Cambridge. Hell, they give that wheelchair guy a job and he's hanging out with strippers all the time. I'd say Hawking's pretty eccentric. Now that I think about it.. didn't Newton have a job at Cambridge too?
It's not really feasible for CDs since they're pressed (of course that could change), but they could easily put a unique watermark into every legally downloaded song. If they find your number in a song on Kazaa you're screwed.
Why would you be screwed? So they trace it back to a sale made at a Best Buy three months ago and it was paid with cash. What are they going to do, demand CDs be bought with a credit card?
So every mail server on the planet will need to contain a public key for every other mail server on the planet? Yeah, that's practical.
Hey, it works fine for SSL websites. Have a centrally trusted certificate authority sign the keys for the mail server like they do now for SSL websites. The US Postal Service would be a good start instead of relying on corruptable companies like Verislime. The USPS could charge a reasonable yearly fee (say $100 per cert) and make revenue in an ever-shrinking snail-mail market. Everybody wins (except Verisign and spammers).
If a certain percentage of them recieve the same email in a specified amount of time then they can designate it as spam and delete it from all the mail servers. then ISP's could subscribe to the "lookout server" list and delete any messages that have been designated as spam?
....the more I realize that no amount of technology or legislation is ever going to completely eradicate spam from our lives. More and more it seems to me that the only way we can get rid of spam is through educating the next generation of Internet users to ignore it.
That's like telling your kids to ignore the high-pitched painful squeeling noise that has continually been emitted in your neighborhood at all hours of the day and night for the past 10 years.
"Honest kids, after 3 or 4 months of your ears bleeding you pretty much get used to it and it becomes background noise. Here, put these earplugs on."
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The funny thing is, old Sparcs are still good. I've got numerous SS5's and SS20's doing various things. My paging gateway is a 36MHz SS10 with 32 megs of RAM running Solaris 2.6 Works fine and has been up for 4 years straight now since I upgraded it. There are many things that you simply do not need a 3 GHz Intel P4 for... that seems lost on many people these days.
My mother still uses PFS: Professional Plan because that's all she knows how to use. It's a bit dated (1987), but she's still got the original 3.5" 720K disk for it. I've tried a half dozen times to convert her to Excel, but she's too stubborn to learn anything new for the 20-30 hours a year she actually has to use it. The main problem is it's not Y2K compliant so the dates are all screwed up in the file manager part of it. Oh well. Still works fine otherwise aside from being a shitty app in 1987. :-)
The problem is that these ISPs you're hoping to come riding to the rescue are the very problem. They're helping spammers stay online by shifting them around to different netblocks to avoid blacklisting. The solution isn't to put training wheels on Internet connectivity and restrict everyone to web browsing, it's to enforce their own AUPs!
But they're cheaper than a 7200RPM 300GB drive with 8MB of cache would be. The point he was making is that most people buying these Maxtor drives are probably just going to be archiving stuff (porn, video, music, etc.). It doesn't necessarily matter that the drive is fast because it'll usually be used as a secondary drive in a system that already has a fast 40-80GB 7200RPM drive.
C++ does seem to be horribly convuluted. Maybe I just have a horrible professor teaching it, but the things that are being demonstrated could've been done just as easily (if not better) using standard C. Object-oriented programming seems to be vastly overrated. Give me C or Perl anyday.
Well, it used to anyway. Someone at Apple smoked too much crack though and decided a Brushed-metal Java-esque theme from 1997 was preferable to Aqua. As a MacOS X user I am NOT happy with the way their newer apps like Safari look. I love the Aqua interface, but brush metal is so fucking dated.
It got popular. Popular things get attention from businesses and the government. It was inevitable that the slippery slope of nationalism would invade the Internet like it has in the real world. It's sad really.
On the contrary, I imagine IRC will be disappearing within a few years. I don't remember if I saw it here or somewhere else, but almost all mainstream IRC networks are under a constant massive DDoS attack. Public IRC servers will eventually die off. Who needs them anyway when you can just setup a private one. On the other hand, why use IRC for song swapping when you can just setup an FTP server and have your friends trade there? The RIAA would be completely clueless to what's going on. Just give everyone that you have PERSONALLY met and hung out with for a certain period of time an account and you're fine. If you're even more paranoid, set it all up over IPSEC between trusted nodes.
They'd really be wasting their money. The average $2 audio chipset embedded on any AC97 compatible motherboard sounds just peachy. The one on my Soyo motherboard is even 5.1 surround sound. I doubt many people even buy third-party sound cards anymore unless they get a motherboard that doesn't come with on-board sound (unlikely these days). Computer generated audio is really one of those things that has been tapped out to it's max.
Time to clear your DNS cache:
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.groklaw.net. 52082 IN CNAME groklaw.net.
groklaw.net. 86363 IN A 152.2.210.81
You say that like aluminum is a bad thing. I gladly pay a premium for an aluminum case because it's lighter and stays cooler. There's a big difference between picking up my minitower steel case and my midtower aluminum case. The aluminum is much lighter and easier to work with. Who cares how thin it is anyway. It's not like it's supposed to stop gunfire.
I've installed a new kernel patch called vloopback that fixes this issue. Now I can kernel panic on demand. It's really nifty. Just insert vloopback module and then remove it! Voila, kernel panic! Thankfully Windows isn't that buggy so I can use my Quickcam on there without a problem.
* Don't rent cars or purchase cell phones.
Don't forget:
Wear a tin-foil hat at all times, this prevents their mind control rays from reaching you.
Avoid leaving your house for prolonged periods of time and always ensure a hidden surveillence camera is running while you're gone. That's when THEY will come and install bugs to easedrop on you.
Never eat the blue M&Ms. Just trust me on this one.. let's just say blue == best mind control wavelength. I can't say anymore.. they're on to me.
Doesn't matter anymore though. Once your spam cherry gets popped there ain't no going back. It's all downhill from here. Once one of my accounts start to get spam I abandon it forever.
Probably not good enough either. With your bank routing number and account number it seems like they could just do an electronic funds transfer anyway. At least, that's all Sprint PCS or any of my credit card companies needed to setup an online recurring payment.
Why do I have a feeling all these people running these suicidal companies all got their MBAs from the same business school? It's almost as if there's some professor out there screwing up future corporate CEOs so that he can sit back and laugh at their idiocy while shorting their company's stock.
"Ridiculous" would be an even better word for this situation. Sorry, had to do it. :-)
While we're on the subject, a short list of other companies that should be sued under the DMCA for allowing their products to circumvent a copy protection mechanism:
...
IBM
Red Hat
Sun
HP
Apple
SCO
Sony
Nintendo
The list goes on and on. The copy protection method was stupid enough that a child could've circumvented it. We'd be better off if all civil lawsuits have a 5 year old evaluate them before they're allowed to pass on to a real judge. It'd save our justice system an enormous amount of time on frivilous lawsuits.
No problem. He just takes a healthy cash infusion from his friends at the Canopy Group who offer him a bit of grant money for helping them with a pesky problem...
OK, so he gets 471 years in prison. That's much more than he can ever serve, so why not just kill him instead? The death penalty would certainly seem a cheaper solution than keeping someone incarcerated for 50 or 60 years until they die of natural causes. Anyone serving a life sentence or a length longer than 50 or 60 years should really just be taken to the gas chamber as soon as possible to clear out space and ease up on our prison system.
That's why all our computer club keyboards had their windows keys popped off. Wouldn't want to accidently hit it in the heat of a Duke Nukem 3D LAN battle.
I would imagine Newton could get a job at somewhere like Cambridge. Hell, they give that wheelchair guy a job and he's hanging out with strippers all the time. I'd say Hawking's pretty eccentric. Now that I think about it.. didn't Newton have a job at Cambridge too?
Why would you be screwed? So they trace it back to a sale made at a Best Buy three months ago and it was paid with cash. What are they going to do, demand CDs be bought with a credit card?
Hey, it works fine for SSL websites. Have a centrally trusted certificate authority sign the keys for the mail server like they do now for SSL websites. The US Postal Service would be a good start instead of relying on corruptable companies like Verislime. The USPS could charge a reasonable yearly fee (say $100 per cert) and make revenue in an ever-shrinking snail-mail market. Everybody wins (except Verisign and spammers).
Go lookup RBL on Google.
That's like telling your kids to ignore the high-pitched painful squeeling noise that has continually been emitted in your neighborhood at all hours of the day and night for the past 10 years.
"Honest kids, after 3 or 4 months of your ears bleeding you pretty much get used to it and it becomes background noise. Here, put these earplugs on."