If thin clients were reinvented, less VNC, more application integration, outages shouldn't be so crippling.
Google documents is a great example of terminal2.0, with google gears my documents session is stored locally, usable when offline, and syncs when I reconnect. But behind it all, its a mainframe app.
Its silly to outsource everything except the video card, but the benefits of consolidated computing and unimportant throw away never back up workstations.
Might be difficult working in Areospace to take them... But they would certainly capture the kids attentions, even just the masses of cabling, show them your messiest cabling spot and say all of these wires run out to all directions over the building, where they split into another hundred cables and so on. If you have a picture of your network topology with all the branching trees it might be interesting to flash up. If you have a video camera make a 3 minute video about the life of a cable, follow it through the building, narrate it and say the website you want is moving through these cables, then after you go through the whole process say that all took about "Clap" less time then that took.
If you are explaining any of the hardware, explain it in the first person, if you talk about a router or a firewall personify it, talk as if you are a stressed router trying to sort packets as fast as you can or a gruff firewall acting as a bouncer.
All the fourth graders will have used the internet, at home or at school, try and relate what you do to the internet or a website they use. Talk about how the data zips through from one point to another though the schools network, then to the Internet's network.
But absolutely don't mention the word SAN.
It might not be a hit with 100% of the class, but I'm sure some autistic spectrum boys will find their career path that day.;)
This picture might not be a bad idea as well. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Internet_map_1024.jpg You could probably lie a bit and pick a point to put a "You are here" --> on the map. so you can trace your way fictionally through the internet to whatever the kids are hip with.
The only time I reboot is when my kernel crashes, or windows update decides to take my system down...Now! despite clicking wait 4 hours. (And it's usually windows explorer which takes the system down hard)
(Running vista part-time to encounter problems before I have to fix them in the field)
I think once we already go to war with someone, then end that war, and then wait a decade, we cant consider anything that happened before that "evidence". After `91 anything would be fair game, but it looks like Saddam actually kept his nose pretty clean, He probably figured it was all he had to do to keep his position, and that bush wouldn't dare invade without a good reason. Little did he know how unstable our leaders were eh?
The claims the bush administration fabricated involved vials of anthrax and large amounts of yellow cake uranium and weapons grade aluminum with long range missiles that present a clear an imminent threat to America's national security. I don't remember the "For the people who died 15 years ago!" rational for war.
Exactly, and that's IF EA still exists! I can't think of a single PC game I own that hasn't been re-installed over 5 times. Lets play a game, Going through my old PC game library, I can just imagine how some of these calls would have gone down had these kind of restrictions existed when I was a kid.
"Hello, Interplay? Yeah, I need to re-authorize Descent and Conquest of the New World, whats that, There are like, ten people working at your company and you are mostly bankrupt? Getting evicted from your offices? That sucks" (side note, interplay has no way to contact them at all on their years old single image webpage, though they have apparently sold some assets recently)
Hello, Vivendi Universal, yeah I need to authorize some of my games, Well it was a Sierra game, you know, before you bought Sierra, oh you know that, good. well actually Sierra bought this company a decade before that, so can you authorize it? Oh they took those servers down years ago along with the multiplay lobby? Right...
Hello, Activision, I know this might be a long-shot, But I was trying to re-install some of my Infocom games and, well you shut them down in 89... Yeah, you own their games, really, never heard of it? Zork? Nothing? Well I'm wondering if you can activate it for me, why are you laughing? What's so funny?...
I love playing games old and new, and I certainly expect that just as I can pop in super mario bros or sonic into my old systems, that I can also reinstall old PC games forever and ever, (on the OS they were designed for) The games industry is a volatile place, the rock solid big player of one decade is the next decades dinosaur, becoming a forgotten footnote in a companies IP portfolio.
I think the biggest difference between DRM Booo!:( and DRM By Steam! Is that steam provides a legitimate unobtrusive service to gamers.
You don't need to worry about disks, throw the thing away you really bought a serial number, you can download it direct on all your PCs, Unexpectedly wind up in the middle of nowhere with a computer and a lot of free time? install steam and all your games follow you.
If I were to pick a matchmaking and game management client it would be the steam client, it does what I need and gets out of the way, and shift tab overlays are great. I put all my games in steam just so I don't have so many icons cluttering my desktop. Its actually a good chat client, text, and nothing more which is absolutely refreshing from the crap IM clients turned into.
Admittedly playing offline is a hindrance, but I am seldom disconnected and the service outweighs that restriction. The main issue is the lack of resale-ability, loan-ability, and what would happen if their servers went down for the count in a decade or more.
It's mostly a philosophical drawback as I have never sold a PC game and most game shops don't buy use PC games. And I have never lent a $50 PC game to someone I wouldn't trust with my wallet. Also valve has created games back to the stone age and is probably the least likely game company to go under, and if their activation servers go down, likely their matchmaking server will too. (Not sure if valve games use a central or distributed server, but with the speed I would guess centralized)
It's all a matter of definitions, are we talking about preserving this for our future hover-grandchildren to listen on their future-pods. Or are we talking about the post-apocalyptic nuclear holocaust roving rape gang future. In which case the 78's are more likely to survive the EM-Bombing, and can be listened to on wind-up players without electricity.
It was good enough for us back in the day, we programmed, word processed and communicated with TVs as monitors all with some proficiency and only minor... alright perhaps moderate eyestrain.
The colors, fonts, and interfaces were designed with ultra-low res displays in mind. While say, 12pt times new roman and arial are not.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/AppleII.jpg Just look at this, that is a what, 6 inch screen? Barely larger than the 5 1/2 inch floppies next to it, in a picture taken from 4 feet away, compressed in a jpeg, and you can still make out all the letters.
Hell, here is a guy browsing the internet on an Apple II When what you want is text, pretty much anything will suffice. http://www.sics.se/contiki/perspective/browsing-the-web-from-an-apple-ii-with-contiki.html
It's not ideal but CRT monitor/tvs were made better back then, they had finer controls and were just sharper, I used some old commodore monitors for years for video projects, probably the sharpest non-hd TV you can get that doesn't run you in the thousands, that and they are very stackable so you can have a tower of monitors.
The post before yours is a link to goatse, it is of course modded offtopic, you start your post with "This is NOT off topic." And I spend the entire time reading, confused and trying to figure out what overarching metaphor links US Sovereignty and wiretapping to goatse.;)
I am no accelerometer expert, The Wii's current accelerometer is just to the left of the A button, if you were to say, Hold the remote by that point, and rotate it on that axis, it would sense nothing.
Gravity would not have shifted, and it would not have moved in any profound way, But if there were a seccond accelerometer a few inches back, that one would sense movement. With this it would be able to really know the difference between say, moving the whole remote, or swinging it in a direction.
As it stands the wiimote doesn't have any true way to detect the difference between moving the whole remote to the right, and a swing the right, But with two accelerometers one would move both accelerometers equally, and the other would move one a lot more than the other. Hence, 1:1 becomes more possible.
I had a professor that wrote the forward for a collection of very much public domain Shakespeare. The book was over 200 dollars. She refused to use the standard line numbers as reference, but instead used her book's page numbers. I could buy all the covered plays for under ten dollars otherwise, and be able to carry around a quarter pound paperback/put them on my PSP and DS, instead of a 20 pound text.
Tomato is really a great firmware, I think it is the answer to the initial post's problem. It really has a great interface and is easy to configure, DDWRT was nothing but headaches for me, and the QOS (When I used it a year ago) was absolutely broken.
I'm able to quickly check if anyone has been abusing the wireless, and see what percentage of my traffic is bittorrent, nntp, gaming, etc, If some device on the network suddenly started flooding traffic over port 25, I would know about it, all in a nice and easy color coded graph, check it out, I bet you will like what you find.
PS. Infrared keyboards only work with the original PSP, the updated PSP has more ram and therefore the web browser likely works much better (I have to browse with images off less I run out of memory) So its a tradeoff.
I doubt it, atleast not in a way that would be worth your time.
I don't know if games-knoppix is still maintained, but there are a ton of games on that, add in dosbox and a couple emulators and you have a complete gaming machine.
Honestly, if this is really a P2 computer, you might find that most modern flash games wont even run properly. They are simply never made with old computers in mind, My old work laptop was a P3 and it lagged all the time with flash.
I sold my old Dell 256 meg P3 laptop for 250 dollars on craigslist, just a few months ago.
There was a Lot of interest, I got over twenty replies to my listing.
Don't underestimate what people are willing to pay for an old laptop.
Dawkins had a good passage in his latest book for that theory, that all religious matters must yield to "an expert of theism trained in the philosophy of religion"
"...Other Catholic clergymen
chimed in: 'There is no other God but a personal God . . . Einstein
does not know what he is talking about. He is all wrong. Some men
think that because they have achieved a high degree of learning in
some field, they are qualified to express opinions in all.' The notion
that religion is a proper field, in which one might claim expertise,
is one that should not go unquestioned. That clergyman presumably
would not have deferred to the expertise of a claimed
'fairyologist' on the exact shape and colour of fairy wings. Both he
and the bishop thought that Einstein, being theologically untrained,
had misunderstood the nature of God. On the contrary, Einstein
understood very well exactly what he was denying. "
Since I am a loser... I checked 90% of the cape cod national seashore is covered by sprint's "Sprint Mobile Broadband Network (avg 600 kbps - 1.4 mbps download, 350 kbps - 500 kbps upload)" with the highest quality signal.
And at 60 Dollars a month you have nothing to complain about.
I'm saying the foundation of the poisoning would be that the clients would be purposefully trying to successfully identify themselves as azureus or utorrent. If they identified themselves as 'Crappy Selfish Client.23b' Its already a completely fixed problem.
Clients even have filters in them to try and find when a client is trying to fake their identity. But there has to be a way to fake is successfully, without that then yes, there would be no harm done.
I always wondered why the RIAA and the MPAA doesn't hire some Russian hackers to fork utorrent, and make a completely evil branch of it, constantly updating to keep ahead of bans.
Identifying as one of many utorrent versions, fully leaching with zero uploading, falsifying uploads to trackers, etc etc.
Then take out some advertisements saying 'Download 500 bajillion percent faster!!'
a popular _2P client would kill most of the public bittorent sites, as people would get pretty sick of the dial up speeds that would ensue, and nobody would want to seed since they know everyone else is just an effing leecher with a 0kbps upload rate.
On the other side of the coin, I still have my doubts as to whether or not peer guardian was an *IAA venture. Blocking all university access? It's an *IAA wet dream, and we are poisoning and partitioning our own torrents voluntarily, likely affecting most of the best seeders out there. Just imagine your download speeds if you got blacklisted by peer guardian. Just read the logs, 50% of a torrent can be flagged as in some arbitrary way evil. When all the *iaa needs is a single quiet consumer line to get all the IP addresses their legal department could handle.
That's a tad hypocritical don't you think? Us geeks being the ones with the rooms filled with racks and racks of incredibly efficient space heaters that demand constant refrigeration 24/7.
Unrelated but, I just went to a Barnes and Noble a few days ago, and was browsing the classics section (The nice black hard cover anthologies of Shakespeare, Poe, Welles, Chaucer, and the like, and right next to a stack of Shakespeare's complete poetry, was a stack of leather bound complete HHG2G. I was very pleased to see this.
(Apparently and unfortunately though what it takes to get out of the neon colored trash "Sci-fi ghetto" in the back is to be dead, would anyone expect his book to go there if he were still around?)
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If thin clients were reinvented, less VNC, more application integration, outages shouldn't be so crippling.
Google documents is a great example of terminal2.0, with google gears my documents session is stored locally, usable when offline, and syncs when I reconnect. But behind it all, its a mainframe app.
Its silly to outsource everything except the video card, but the benefits of consolidated computing and unimportant throw away never back up workstations.
Might be difficult working in Areospace to take them... But they would certainly capture the kids attentions, even just the masses of cabling, show them your messiest cabling spot and say all of these wires run out to all directions over the building, where they split into another hundred cables and so on. If you have a picture of your network topology with all the branching trees it might be interesting to flash up. If you have a video camera make a 3 minute video about the life of a cable, follow it through the building, narrate it and say the website you want is moving through these cables, then after you go through the whole process say that all took about "Clap" less time then that took.
If you are explaining any of the hardware, explain it in the first person, if you talk about a router or a firewall personify it, talk as if you are a stressed router trying to sort packets as fast as you can or a gruff firewall acting as a bouncer.
All the fourth graders will have used the internet, at home or at school, try and relate what you do to the internet or a website they use. Talk about how the data zips through from one point to another though the schools network, then to the Internet's network.
But absolutely don't mention the word SAN.
It might not be a hit with 100% of the class, but I'm sure some autistic spectrum boys will find their career path that day. ;)
This picture might not be a bad idea as well.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Internet_map_1024.jpg
You could probably lie a bit and pick a point to put a "You are here" --> on the map. so you can trace your way fictionally through the internet to whatever the kids are hip with.
The only time I reboot is when my kernel crashes, or windows update decides to take my system down ...Now! despite clicking wait 4 hours. (And it's usually windows explorer which takes the system down hard)
(Running vista part-time to encounter problems before I have to fix them in the field)
Here is the big issue with this factoid.
Halabja, March 16, 1988
Kuwait invasion / Persian Gulf War August 1990
Iraq War, March 20, 2003
I think once we already go to war with someone, then end that war, and then wait a decade, we cant consider anything that happened before that "evidence". After `91 anything would be fair game, but it looks like Saddam actually kept his nose pretty clean, He probably figured it was all he had to do to keep his position, and that bush wouldn't dare invade without a good reason. Little did he know how unstable our leaders were eh?
The claims the bush administration fabricated involved vials of anthrax and large amounts of yellow cake uranium and weapons grade aluminum with long range missiles that present a clear an imminent threat to America's national security. I don't remember the "For the people who died 15 years ago!" rational for war.
Exactly, and that's IF EA still exists! I can't think of a single PC game I own that hasn't been re-installed over 5 times. Lets play a game, Going through my old PC game library, I can just imagine how some of these calls would have gone down had these kind of restrictions existed when I was a kid.
"Hello, Interplay? Yeah, I need to re-authorize Descent and Conquest of the New World, whats that, There are like, ten people working at your company and you are mostly bankrupt? Getting evicted from your offices? That sucks" (side note, interplay has no way to contact them at all on their years old single image webpage, though they have apparently sold some assets recently)
Hello, Vivendi Universal, yeah I need to authorize some of my games, Well it was a Sierra game, you know, before you bought Sierra, oh you know that, good. well actually Sierra bought this company a decade before that, so can you authorize it? Oh they took those servers down years ago along with the multiplay lobby? Right...
Hello, Activision, I know this might be a long-shot, But I was trying to re-install some of my Infocom games and, well you shut them down in 89... Yeah, you own their games, really, never heard of it? Zork? Nothing? Well I'm wondering if you can activate it for me, why are you laughing? What's so funny?...
I love playing games old and new, and I certainly expect that just as I can pop in super mario bros or sonic into my old systems, that I can also reinstall old PC games forever and ever, (on the OS they were designed for) The games industry is a volatile place, the rock solid big player of one decade is the next decades dinosaur, becoming a forgotten footnote in a companies IP portfolio.
I always have mod points, I never spend all of them, finally a post so deserving, and Nada. Great post, that's the most I can do.
No porn collection jokes please.
+1 Futile
I think the biggest difference between DRM Booo!:( and DRM By Steam! Is that steam provides a legitimate unobtrusive service to gamers.
You don't need to worry about disks, throw the thing away you really bought a serial number, you can download it direct on all your PCs, Unexpectedly wind up in the middle of nowhere with a computer and a lot of free time? install steam and all your games follow you.
If I were to pick a matchmaking and game management client it would be the steam client, it does what I need and gets out of the way, and shift tab overlays are great. I put all my games in steam just so I don't have so many icons cluttering my desktop. Its actually a good chat client, text, and nothing more which is absolutely refreshing from the crap IM clients turned into.
Admittedly playing offline is a hindrance, but I am seldom disconnected and the service outweighs that restriction. The main issue is the lack of resale-ability, loan-ability, and what would happen if their servers went down for the count in a decade or more.
It's mostly a philosophical drawback as I have never sold a PC game and most game shops don't buy use PC games. And I have never lent a $50 PC game to someone I wouldn't trust with my wallet. Also valve has created games back to the stone age and is probably the least likely game company to go under, and if their activation servers go down, likely their matchmaking server will too. (Not sure if valve games use a central or distributed server, but with the speed I would guess centralized)
It's all a matter of definitions, are we talking about preserving this for our future hover-grandchildren to listen on their future-pods. Or are we talking about the post-apocalyptic nuclear holocaust roving rape gang future. In which case the 78's are more likely to survive the EM-Bombing, and can be listened to on wind-up players without electricity.
It was good enough for us back in the day, we programmed, word processed and communicated with TVs as monitors all with some proficiency and only minor... alright perhaps moderate eyestrain.
The colors, fonts, and interfaces were designed with ultra-low res displays in mind. While say, 12pt times new roman and arial are not.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/AppleII.jpg Just look at this, that is a what, 6 inch screen? Barely larger than the 5 1/2 inch floppies next to it, in a picture taken from 4 feet away, compressed in a jpeg, and you can still make out all the letters.
Hell, here is a guy browsing the internet on an Apple II When what you want is text, pretty much anything will suffice. http://www.sics.se/contiki/perspective/browsing-the-web-from-an-apple-ii-with-contiki.html It's not ideal but CRT monitor/tvs were made better back then, they had finer controls and were just sharper, I used some old commodore monitors for years for video projects, probably the sharpest non-hd TV you can get that doesn't run you in the thousands, that and they are very stackable so you can have a tower of monitors.
The post before yours is a link to goatse, it is of course modded offtopic, you start your post with "This is NOT off topic." And I spend the entire time reading, confused and trying to figure out what overarching metaphor links US Sovereignty and wiretapping to goatse. ;)
I am no accelerometer expert, The Wii's current accelerometer is just to the left of the A button, if you were to say, Hold the remote by that point, and rotate it on that axis, it would sense nothing.
Gravity would not have shifted, and it would not have moved in any profound way, But if there were a seccond accelerometer a few inches back, that one would sense movement. With this it would be able to really know the difference between say, moving the whole remote, or swinging it in a direction.
As it stands the wiimote doesn't have any true way to detect the difference between moving the whole remote to the right, and a swing the right, But with two accelerometers one would move both accelerometers equally, and the other would move one a lot more than the other. Hence, 1:1 becomes more possible.
I really hope we see a sword fighting game.
I had a professor that wrote the forward for a collection of very much public domain Shakespeare. The book was over 200 dollars. She refused to use the standard line numbers as reference, but instead used her book's page numbers. I could buy all the covered plays for under ten dollars otherwise, and be able to carry around a quarter pound paperback/put them on my PSP and DS, instead of a 20 pound text.
Tomato is really a great firmware, I think it is the answer to the initial post's problem. It really has a great interface and is easy to configure, DDWRT was nothing but headaches for me, and the QOS (When I used it a year ago) was absolutely broken.
here is a guide on configuring QOS, http://www.decimation.com/markw/2007/10/03/tomato-qos-setup/
Also it has great graphs such as realtime usage (tx and rx) reports http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Image:Tomato_Firmware_-_Bandwidth_Real_Time.PNG
And I can see a graph of exactly what percent of my traffic falls into which QOS classifications. http://www.polarcloud.com.nyud.net:8080/img/ssqosg108.png
I'm able to quickly check if anyone has been abusing the wireless, and see what percentage of my traffic is bittorrent, nntp, gaming, etc, If some device on the network suddenly started flooding traffic over port 25, I would know about it, all in a nice and easy color coded graph, check it out, I bet you will like what you find.
Microsoft is pulling a PS2 to their own Dreamcast.... Madness.
Hack it for homebrew, and you can have on and offline google maps with GPS Support, http://deniska.dcemu.co.uk/mapthis-0-5-20-with-holux-support-for-slim-psps-79825.html and PSP SSH http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/categories/34-SSH-Client with an IR Keyboard. Oh, and here is Doom II on the PSP http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/doompsp.shtml
PS. Infrared keyboards only work with the original PSP, the updated PSP has more ram and therefore the web browser likely works much better (I have to browse with images off less I run out of memory) So its a tradeoff.
I doubt it, atleast not in a way that would be worth your time.
I don't know if games-knoppix is still maintained, but there are a ton of games on that, add in dosbox and a couple emulators and you have a complete gaming machine.
Honestly, if this is really a P2 computer, you might find that most modern flash games wont even run properly. They are simply never made with old computers in mind, My old work laptop was a P3 and it lagged all the time with flash.
I sold my old Dell 256 meg P3 laptop for 250 dollars on craigslist, just a few months ago.
There was a Lot of interest, I got over twenty replies to my listing.
Don't underestimate what people are willing to pay for an old laptop.
Since I am a loser... I checked 90% of the cape cod national seashore is covered by sprint's "Sprint Mobile Broadband Network (avg 600 kbps - 1.4 mbps download, 350 kbps - 500 kbps upload)" with the highest quality signal.
And at 60 Dollars a month you have nothing to complain about.
I'm saying the foundation of the poisoning would be that the clients would be purposefully trying to successfully identify themselves as azureus or utorrent. If they identified themselves as 'Crappy Selfish Client .23b' Its already a completely fixed problem.
Clients even have filters in them to try and find when a client is trying to fake their identity. But there has to be a way to fake is successfully, without that then yes, there would be no harm done.
I always wondered why the RIAA and the MPAA doesn't hire some Russian hackers to fork utorrent, and make a completely evil branch of it, constantly updating to keep ahead of bans.
Identifying as one of many utorrent versions, fully leaching with zero uploading, falsifying uploads to trackers, etc etc.
Then take out some advertisements saying 'Download 500 bajillion percent faster!!'
a popular _2P client would kill most of the public bittorent sites, as people would get pretty sick of the dial up speeds that would ensue, and nobody would want to seed since they know everyone else is just an effing leecher with a 0kbps upload rate.
On the other side of the coin, I still have my doubts as to whether or not peer guardian was an *IAA venture. Blocking all university access? It's an *IAA wet dream, and we are poisoning and partitioning our own torrents voluntarily, likely affecting most of the best seeders out there. Just imagine your download speeds if you got blacklisted by peer guardian. Just read the logs, 50% of a torrent can be flagged as in some arbitrary way evil. When all the *iaa needs is a single quiet consumer line to get all the IP addresses their legal department could handle.
That's a tad hypocritical don't you think? Us geeks being the ones with the rooms filled with racks and racks of incredibly efficient space heaters that demand constant refrigeration 24/7.
Unrelated but, I just went to a Barnes and Noble a few days ago, and was browsing the classics section (The nice black hard cover anthologies of Shakespeare, Poe, Welles, Chaucer, and the like, and right next to a stack of Shakespeare's complete poetry, was a stack of leather bound complete HHG2G. I was very pleased to see this.
(Apparently and unfortunately though what it takes to get out of the neon colored trash "Sci-fi ghetto" in the back is to be dead, would anyone expect his book to go there if he were still around?)
You forgot number four.
Ultimate:
I hacked my home by running a buffer overflow exploit on my blender, loaded linux and now my house can fly to the moon.