The documentation was only in PDF format, which would have taken two reams of paper to print out
#1 Get job in office #2 Connect to copier via TCP/IP #3 File-Print #4 Wait about 5 minutes #5 Bind it and take it home.
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Why doesn't...DISCO still make money today?
I still prefer battling it out with another live human in a game of Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter 2, in an arcade, but nobody seems to want to go in there any more. They're full of freaks. Arcades used to be 'cool'
These times are estimations, but I really don't think I spent more than a half an hour on the toilet surfing porn when it went to sleep on me yesterday.
Are we still talking about your iBook here, or what? This might be an entirely different problem.
In 1996 i was in AWE playing Quake (later 1996)and Duke Nukem 3D (Jan 29, 1996)was even better than most any game (graphics-wise) on the PSX
1996 also saw the release of the 3DFX Voodoo chipset. That made 3D PC gaming what it is today.
Gran Turismo on the PSX is horrible looking. Un-accelerated NASCAR racing on my old PackardBell Pentium 75 (back in 1996) looks better, plus, it ran at 640x480.
You obviously haven't played many racing games on the PC. Some of them look flat out amazing.
Look at it - Sure, EVERYONE owns one. Just like it was in the early 80's
The market is flooded with CRAP games. Sure, there's a few good ones, but 90% of them SUCK.
The economy sucks
Sound familiar?
You're going down, Sony. At the risk of turning this topic in to (-1, Flamebait), I'd like to say I never was impressed by the Playstation. The original PSX had some of the worst 3D graphics I'd seen, incredibly slow CDROM....
I see the way of finishing Sony off:
Microsoft BUYS Nintendo.
The XBoxCube2 comes out, VERY small formfactor (look at how small the cube was, and look at how BIG the Xbox is. Maybe Apple can help them design it, or at least the controllers.
The media will be a slot-loading DVD drive. EASILY copied, piracy helps sell consoles. Games will be broadband ready THE DAY the system comes out, no more of this "available late 2004" crap.
ANYONE who works in the offices (especially student workers) can get this information. Admissions? Financial aid? All of these people could find enough info out about you to get a credit card in your name or go down to Circuit City and buy a big screen.
Just like the people who worry about their credit card being stolen from shopping online - You've got a better chance of the guy working at the mall going through reciepts, or the waitress at Hooters when she takes your card up to pay the bill.
Macs hold their value to ridiculous levels, some because the hardware is quite decent to start with, and part because there are less 2nd hand macs to go around than say, 2nd hand Dells.
The other reason they hold their value is because a new chip that's 50mhz faster or a video card that is 2 frames a second faster doesn't come out every other week, like it does in the PC world. Apple seems to make upgrades 2 or 3 times a year.
The PC market is flooded with second rate, faulty, poorly designed and nonfunctional hardware
Consumers want $1,000, $500, $300 PC's. What do you expect?
Let's go back in time a few years. The Pentium 133MHz had just come out, making the 120MHz look like a sweet deal. 16MB of RAM was pretty good, and 56K modems were all the rage. You'd get this kind of a deal for $1,999.
A monitor back then, 14" and 15" were standard, would cost you nearly $200. A 17" was a $350-$400 luxury. 19"? $500-700. And 21" monitors would cost you $1,000-$2,000!
Think about how cheap monitors are now. You can't GIVE away a 15". 17" are available for $69 after rebate from any retail store. 19" monitors are $200-$300. Once considered extravagant, 21" monitors are just a little more than the 17" monitors of yesterday. Hell, you can get a 15" LCD for $199.
The problem has always been quality. Sure, the bargain basement monitors work, but the colors are bad, they lack focus, and aren't the brightest, or are too bright.
The de facto standard has usually been the Sony Trinitron displays. I'd rather use a 3 year old Trinitron than a 1 year old bargain brand.
Now, the PC market is flooded with crappy monitors. (Not to mention OTHER components) Take a look at the Apple side of things, or the SGI/Sun workstations. They've had their share of bad products, but much of the OEM equipment is re-branded Sony models etc.
First of all, disabling telnet access from the outside is always good. If you're really paranoid, lock your server room, cabinet, and make sure you can only access your router from a serial console.
Many lazy admins never change the passwords on these things. All you need is a list of default passwords and you can start port scanning. Telnet in, on some devices you can tell what model they are by the login prompt, and if they haven't changed the default password, you can do whatever you want.
Here's a list of things you can do:
ISDN modems: Change the #'s the unit dials to some random long distance number, (such as a country that charges $1/minute to call), the modem will try to reconnect a hundred times before anyone figures out whats up. Or, you can change to to a local pizza place, residence, or simply '911'
'Regular' routers: Change the routing tables, disable local users, if you're really bored, you can set up a tftp server, and upload new firmware to the router, but just use a file of all 0's. Reset the router, it'll never come back up...
Another thing to remember is you can usually telnet FROM that router to other hosts on the network.
Now, my boss has Verizon DSL in his Vacation home, and every subscriber got a letter in the mail showing them how to change the password, they were having security breaches on ALL their DSL modems.
Change your default passwords, or some kiddies will do whatever they can.
If this really works, and is installed on enough of the net, it could work. 144 spam so far today. Anything would be an improvement.
sounds like wishful thinking. I get nearly 300 messages a day to my Hotmail and other free accounts. You can only use them for a few months before they fill with spam every day.
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The documentation was only in PDF format, which would have taken two reams of paper to print out
#1 Get job in office
#2 Connect to copier via TCP/IP
#3 File-Print
#4 Wait about 5 minutes
#5 Bind it and take it home.
Why doesn't...DISCO still make money today?
I still prefer battling it out with another live human in a game of Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter 2, in an arcade, but nobody seems to want to go in there any more. They're full of freaks. Arcades used to be 'cool'
Anyone NOT cut their teeth on a Tandy or IBM XT/AT, Turbo Pascal?
What was so great about TurboPascal?
The IDE. Pretty much the first hobbyist compiler package with an IDE. No more "exit editor, compile, get error, edit, compile, run" etc etc
Remember using it for demos? Compiled way faster and smaller than the C compilers did at the time.
Remember Turtle Graphics?
BGI?
Turbo Vision?
Remember using it for BBS doors? FOSSIL drivers?
Back in the early/mid-80's, when TurboPascal first came out, for $49, it rocked the world and made Borland in to a HUGE success.
Did you see the 5GB cap?
We suck 10GB a month down our cable modem, I'd hate to see what we do between offices.
Can this new service carry voice+data?
These times are estimations, but I really don't think I spent more than a half an hour on the toilet surfing porn when it went to sleep on me yesterday.
Are we still talking about your iBook here, or what? This might be an entirely different problem.
In 1996 i was in AWE playing Quake (later 1996)and Duke Nukem 3D (Jan 29, 1996)was even better than most any game (graphics-wise) on the PSX
1996 also saw the release of the 3DFX Voodoo chipset. That made 3D PC gaming what it is today.
Gran Turismo on the PSX is horrible looking. Un-accelerated NASCAR racing on my old PackardBell Pentium 75 (back in 1996) looks better, plus, it ran at 640x480.
You obviously haven't played many racing games on the PC. Some of them look flat out amazing.
Atari's demise in the 80's will be Sony's fate.
Look at it - Sure, EVERYONE owns one. Just like it was in the early 80's
The market is flooded with CRAP games. Sure, there's a few good ones, but 90% of them SUCK.
The economy sucks
Sound familiar?
You're going down, Sony. At the risk of turning this topic in to (-1, Flamebait), I'd like to say I never was impressed by the Playstation. The original PSX had some of the worst 3D graphics I'd seen, incredibly slow CDROM....
I see the way of finishing Sony off:
Microsoft BUYS Nintendo.
The XBoxCube2 comes out, VERY small formfactor (look at how small the cube was, and look at how BIG the Xbox is. Maybe Apple can help them design it, or at least the controllers.
The media will be a slot-loading DVD drive. EASILY copied, piracy helps sell consoles. Games will be broadband ready THE DAY the system comes out, no more of this "available late 2004" crap.
I find that my eyes usually get sore and I can't stand being down there any longer.
Buy a high quality, bigger monitor if you've got a 15" or bargain 17"
Better yet, buy an LCD, SOO much easier on the eyes.
Take breaks every so often, get a away from the computer for a few minutes, focus on objects far away, move your arms, wrists, and neck around.
Also, get a very comfortable chair.
You've got WAY more to worry about than hackers.
ANYONE who works in the offices (especially student workers) can get this information. Admissions? Financial aid? All of these people could find enough info out about you to get a credit card in your name or go down to Circuit City and buy a big screen.
Just like the people who worry about their credit card being stolen from shopping online - You've got a better chance of the guy working at the mall going through reciepts, or the waitress at Hooters when she takes your card up to pay the bill.
I went to a friend who had an Apple Macintosh PowerBook and asked if I could borrow it
Does Apple have his friend on commission? Or is he just incredibly wealthy and lends out laptops like a cup of sugar?
Why should they give you one?
Apple doesn't.
Granted, you might be a tech using this thing on the road (yeah, right) and you might find a floppy drive to come in handy.
Watch 56K modems become 'add-ons' in the near future.
Well, remember that a 15" LCD is almoat the same display size as a 17" CRT...
you can't compare screen sizes like that. Get a ruler out and measure a 15" inch monitor, some of the cheaper ones are 12" diagonally!
This is why Dell makes other laptops. For instance, the Latitude X200.
Ultra Low Voltage Mobile Intel® Pentium® III processor-M 933MHz
12.1" XGA active matrix (TFT) display
Starting at 2.9 lbs.3 and 0.8" thin
Up to 640MB PC133 SDRAM memory
30GB internal hard drive
MacMall gives you 512MB RAM free.
Of course, you have to pay the $39.99 'install fee', but look at what Dell wants for more RAM, or what it'd cost you to buy the memory from NewEgg/etc
On a side note - $39.99 to pop the keyboard off and stick a DIMM in?!
Increase the font size on the other machine. A higher resolution gives you easier to read text. Period.
Pushing 1600x1200, especially with Cleartype really strains your CPU though.
Why don't arcades let you play against home players or even other arcades across the country??
Imagine the Quake III Arena or UT 2003 deathmatches.
Ask Slashdot: What percentage of internet traffic is pr0n?
If we had stuck with EGA/CGA porn, ASCII porn, or even 256 color pictures...Anyone remember the shareware disks they used to sell?
Kids today and their hour-long MPEG2 videos
Back in my day we jerked it to blinking lites and paper tape!
Maybe all the residents have a good reason to dislike Macintosh computers, now that they've all had hands-on-experience.
Maybe, a lot of people are doing the switch! Buying up iMac's and PowerBooks like duct tape and bottled water.
The state of Main spends $1.4billion each year.
$37 million is a drop in the hat. Besides, if you build a *library* you've gotta put computers in those too.
Other random facts:
227 Public school districts
691 Public schools
217,000 K-12 enrollment
Macs hold their value to ridiculous levels, some because the hardware is quite decent to start with, and part because there are less 2nd hand macs to go around than say, 2nd hand Dells.
The other reason they hold their value is because a new chip that's 50mhz faster or a video card that is 2 frames a second faster doesn't come out every other week, like it does in the PC world. Apple seems to make upgrades 2 or 3 times a year.
State of Maine purchased $37 million worth of iBooks from Apple
Just 4 days later, Apple offered the same laptop with double the memory, 100MHz faster CPU, AND a SuperDrive for $100 less
The PC market is flooded with second rate, faulty, poorly designed and nonfunctional hardware
Consumers want $1,000, $500, $300 PC's. What do you expect?
Let's go back in time a few years. The Pentium 133MHz had just come out, making the 120MHz look like a sweet deal. 16MB of RAM was pretty good, and 56K modems were all the rage. You'd get this kind of a deal for $1,999.
A monitor back then, 14" and 15" were standard, would cost you nearly $200. A 17" was a $350-$400 luxury. 19"? $500-700. And 21" monitors would cost you $1,000-$2,000!
Think about how cheap monitors are now. You can't GIVE away a 15". 17" are available for $69 after rebate from any retail store. 19" monitors are $200-$300. Once considered extravagant, 21" monitors are just a little more than the 17" monitors of yesterday. Hell, you can get a 15" LCD for $199.
The problem has always been quality. Sure, the bargain basement monitors work, but the colors are bad, they lack focus, and aren't the brightest, or are too bright.
The de facto standard has usually been the Sony Trinitron displays. I'd rather use a 3 year old Trinitron than a 1 year old bargain brand.
Now, the PC market is flooded with crappy monitors. (Not to mention OTHER components) Take a look at the Apple side of things, or the SGI/Sun workstations. They've had their share of bad products, but much of the OEM equipment is re-branded Sony models etc.
First of all, disabling telnet access from the outside is always good. If you're really paranoid, lock your server room, cabinet, and make sure you can only access your router from a serial console.
Many lazy admins never change the passwords on these things. All you need is a list of default passwords and you can start port scanning. Telnet in, on some devices you can tell what model they are by the login prompt, and if they haven't changed the default password, you can do whatever you want.
Here's a list of things you can do:
ISDN modems: Change the #'s the unit dials to some random long distance number, (such as a country that charges $1/minute to call), the modem will try to reconnect a hundred times before anyone figures out whats up. Or, you can change to to a local pizza place, residence, or simply '911'
'Regular' routers: Change the routing tables, disable local users, if you're really bored, you can set up a tftp server, and upload new firmware to the router, but just use a file of all 0's. Reset the router, it'll never come back up...
Another thing to remember is you can usually telnet FROM that router to other hosts on the network.
Now, my boss has Verizon DSL in his Vacation home, and every subscriber got a letter in the mail showing them how to change the password, they were having security breaches on ALL their DSL modems.
Change your default passwords, or some kiddies will do whatever they can.
If this really works, and is installed on enough of the net, it could work. 144 spam so far today. Anything would be an improvement.
sounds like wishful thinking. I get nearly 300 messages a day to my Hotmail and other free accounts. You can only use them for a few months before they fill with spam every day.