2-4 gigs? I think not. A gig of flash memory costs more, and this comes with an MP3 player. It's probably still hard drive based. Fewer platters, maybe smaller diameter.
Kudos to apple if they can actually pull this off. Maybe I will consider buying one of their products now. I don't need to carry around 20 gigs of music anyway, that's excessive. Maybe if I was backpacking across Europe. In normal use, I would never be more than a few days away from my home machine, so I could replenish the music supply when needed.
And it better have user-accessible batteries. It's funny how people think of Mac as some superior technology, and here is Apple, gouging customers with $99 replacement batteries. Whatever.
I didn't check on this, but the Beagle probe doesn't weigh as much as a car, and it has a parachute to slow it down. You probably wouldn't have enough time to deploy a parachute and have it open and slow you down enough to make a difference.
I wonder if they could do something like in the movie demolition man, with the foam. That would be sweet. And it should taste like chocolate or something.
yup. I've been there. It's not legal in America though, except somewhere out in Nevada (I think). My point is that a business above-all attitude doesn't work because there are other considerations, namely a conservative agenda that denies recreational and medicinal use of basically harmless drugs (marijuana, LSD, MDMA). Prostitution i really don't care for, but properly regulated (for safety reasons) i am ok with it.
Let business flourish! As Adam Sith would say: "laissez faire!"
You're right. and your sister is kind of hot, so why not legalize prostitution while we're at it. And why not legalize crack and heroin too? It's all in the name of business. How about contract killings next?/sarcasm
I'm not implying that Kazaa has a responsibility to police it's users, I'm just commenting on parent's "laissez faire!" attitude.
But you have to HAVE the money note, a credit card is good up to your credit limit. You may have thousands in credit limit, but do you ever carry that much around in a wallet? No.
It is ONE LESS form of identification for someone to have. Instead of having a credit card with your signature and possibly picture on it, now you have a little piece of plastic with some embedded silicon that the sales person doesn't even have to LOOK at to verify you.
How is having some bits in a RFID chip any stronger security-wise than having bits on a magnetic stripe?
There is no consumer benefit to this. The only one who benefits is the company making the sale because it makes things easier to buy. That's just what we need. As if things werent' easy enough to buy already.
The only POSSIBLE benefit I can see to this for a consumer is it sounds more durable; no stripe to get worn down.
While I understand where you are coming from, and I do belive that humans are nothing but a blight on an otherwise pretty decent world, my family has done a lot to minimize my suffering. If the best thing I know how to do is fix computers, then I want to make THEIR suffering with computers less. If your parents were at all decent, they did sacrifice a lot to have you. It wasn't a gift. But everything after that was.
While I did refer to troubleshooting for my mother, it was just a catch phrase. The birth wasn't as important as the stuff afterwards.
I don't believe anyone is really "sane", you're either ignorant, in denial, or have some major problems, or somewhere in between. Seek professional help anyway, it can't hurt.
This isn't limited to computer tech support. My girlfriend holds a masters in counseling. Half the time she tells someone that she is a psychologist/counselor, they start dumping their problems on her or asking for advice. I count myself lucky that I only hear about their computer stuff.
And I'm not accusing you of this, Channard, but holy shit! There are a lot of whiny people on here! "I refuse to do tech support for family". I don't know what kind of relationship you have with YOUR family, but most of mine is pretty cool, and they do a lot for me. The least I can do to repay them for helping me get through college and allowing me to live while growing up is give them a little help with their computers. I do helpdesk troubleshooting for DSL, and I get yelled at half the time, but I can still manage to go home and answer a few questions about why windows 98 is a piece of garbage for my family. It's almost refreshing in fact. No corporate rules about what not to say in front of the family.
I wonder if the people who said they would assist family would even help their own mothers. I'm not saying you have to be the end-all of tech support. You can refer them to the OEM.
Reading this thread, you'd think these slashdotters hated computers or something.
The old cliche of the kiddy hacker in their basement, bragging about their accomplishments on BBSes is a little old, and somewhat funny. No serious hacker talks about what they do. There would be no one to hand you in, because no one but the hacker knows it was them. This wouldn't stop hacking, it MAY stop some kids from running DDoS's on IRC channels because they got 0wn3d on Efnet. (Did they ever get to Efnet 2? haven't been in a while)
"I was born after 1967, and I've ridden MTWR many times, so perhaps they're talking about an older version."
Sorry to burst your bubble. Mr. Toad'd Wild Ride is indeed gone. It has been replaced by some other animated-disney ride. I can't remember which one. I live in orlando, but I haven't been to disney in several years.
They also got rid of the figment ride at Epcot. The imagination ride. They replaced it with John Cleese as narrator, and at the VERY end of the ride, there is a wall with Figment on it in little lights. Then you walk out of the ride and there is a store with nothing but figment dolls. It's disgusting.
That's like saying "don't release any programs for windows because they make viruses and crappy solitare games". Windows has plenty USEFUL applications, as does Linux.
Not too bad, once you identify the chipsets. (It's not always obvious which
chip to read the numbers off of...) But letting HardDrake do this stuff for you is easier, and I've yet to see it fail to detect a video card. (Some other kinds of hardware are another matter, granted.)
Well, for a video card, it's usually the one with the heat sink/fan on it:) At least nowadays it is. Older ones you could tell by the manufacturer, and if you're still stumped, a simple serch on the chip number usually reveals it. Eg, Trident, Cirrus Logic, Oak, Hercules, NVidia, ATI, etc etc etc.
Actually, my *worst* problems have been with big-name systems, where I had to
reinstall Windows for one reason or another, and the specific model name is nowhere on the system (it just says, e.g., "Deskpro", which is roughly as specific as identifying a nursing home resident as "the one with glasses"), so you don't know which softpaq to get.
There was your second mistake, dealing with Compaq.:) I hate their softpaq system. And they can't even name the files something descriptive. What is that all about. Seriously, they are below Gateway on my list. Their only redeeming quality was some of their higher end stuff, which has now been folded into HP. No loss. Their desktop machines were shit. The FIRST time they pissed me off was right around when win2k came out, and I was trying to upgrade my then-girlfriend's PC. Compaq decided not to release any win2k drivers for their home machines because it would bite into their office market. Bastards. Maybe they shouldn't be screwing the office segment of the population and it wouldn't be a problem.
As for NIC's, yeah, they are harder to pinpoint, but not as hard as modems. Modems are the worst to identify. NIC's I usually just pull up lspci and the Linux Ethernet Howto from tldp.org, which has a lot of info on network cards.
Besides, in the previous post, I WAS limiting it to video cards. For me, video cards pretty much do just work.
I've been searchign for drivers for years. A few minutes inspecting the chipset and FCC id numbers usually yields a manufacturer. I wasn't exactly using obscure hardware though. A voodoo 3 3000, a ATI All in Wonder Pro 128, and a NVidia Geforce 2 MX 400.
If you're using junk hardware, expect to have to do some work to get it running. I'm not dissing junk hardware. Half of everything I own is junk that I salvaged and put the time to make it work. It's a badge of honor for me.
First of all, windows98 sucks shit, and you usually end of reformatting it after a while anyway. I don't know why you are having issues with winXP.
I have had issues with ONE video card in particular, I just recently bought 2 identical budget boxes for my family, and couldn't get the video card to detect in win2k, but that's what I get for trusting a budget $30 motherboard in windows. Actually, I can't remember if it was the onboard video or the modem. The win98 drivers worked fine. The sound drivers that came with the system (on a CD-R no less.... it was a barebones system) didn't work either. I had to boot it up under knoppix and get more chipset info using lspci, go online and then I realized it just needed Intel AC97 drivers.
While all this seems extremely simple to me and most anyone on slashdot, remember that they DO give certifications for this kind of knowledge, so not just anyone off teh street understands this. I appreciate the sarcasm. But really, how hard is it to get drivers for 2 very well supported chipsets and throw them into an OS?
Nvidia is a little difficult because they are a chip source, as opposed to 3dfx and ATI, who (AFAIK) were the only source of cards bearing their chips. No worrying about different vid card functions not working or hosing your setup. I have an old Elsa sporting a riva 128 chip with Vid in/out. It will work with NVidia drivers, but then the video in/out won't work. Of course the Elsa drivers were always several steps behind the NVidia driver releases. It was a lose-lose situation.
Spend the extra $10 on whatever it is you're buying, and buy brand name; or at least somewhere that has a decent website. IE, not some freaky looking acid-trip OEM box from taiwan that you can't find the manufacturer name on. If it doesn't have a website address on the box, you are probably going to spend too much time getting it working. This is fine for home use, but sucks when people are breathing down your neck to have something working for them.
What's so strange about it? Yeah, windows sucks in that any little change requires a reboot, but it still takes less time than setting up X correctly for dual setup. Or it did since the last time I installed X (which admittedly has probably been more than a year).
Tracking down the drivers for 3dfx cards is a no-brainer. 20 seconds on google leads you to.... who'd have guessed? www.3dfx.com, which links to www.voodoofiles.com for old 3dfx drivers and nvidia for newer stuff. Defunct, but still pointing their customers in the right direction.
As for installing 2 driver sets, you still had to download X, or install it from teh CD, and if you installed it from a CD, it probably isn't current, or won't be for long. What's the difference if I install it from a CD or go grab it from the web?
No, that's called "boring". A wardriver is someone who participates in wardriving, which is travelling around looking for networks, which this man has done. He's an idiot becuase of the child porn. He was still wardriving.
As long as the long arm of the law doesn't overreach and try to pass laws on private networks, whatever. This isn't that interesting except as another example of why people need to be more careful with their networks.
If you were looking for something to make people worry, and possibly act, this is a good story.
Voodoo 3 3000 as the secondary and Geforce 2 MX 400 as the primary. The V3 is a PCI card and the Geforce is AGP. As for the drivers, I think I used the Final revision from 3dFX, and one of the more recent Detonator drivers for the Nvidia. I also used to have a dual setup with the Voodoo3 and an ATI All in Wonder Pro 128, but someone lent me the geforce, which is faster.
He is talking about the symptoms of a greater problem. I can throw 2 video cards into windows 2000 and they just.... work. No crazy editting of the config files.
Granted, I have a dual monitor setup working in win2k and Debian, but I haven't had to set it up for a while, so I don't know if the configuration has gotten any easier. I have 2 machines on the desktop, and the dual monitor setup usually runs windows, with a single monitor-setup on a KVM for linux.
And this is useful for anyone because... why? To start, I was against this war from the start, but to analyze it a little further, Iraq didn't seem to put up much of a fight, and what fight there was was usually low-tech, just regular guns firing from the sides of the roads. Now that the actual war part is over, what is left? Roadside bombs, most of them detonated by timer (could be mechanical) or remote control (could possibly be affected by a weapon such as this). But the problem is no one knows where the roadside bombs ARE, so you can't just indiscriminately drop e-bombs on the country without fucking up the rest of the mission, which was to steal all the oil for the president's buddies, errrrr, rebuild Iraq for the Iraqis.
So what have they done to fight terrorism lately? Take away some rights, break the Geneva convention why locking people up offshore.
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2-4 gigs? I think not. A gig of flash memory costs more, and this comes with an MP3 player. It's probably still hard drive based. Fewer platters, maybe smaller diameter.
Kudos to apple if they can actually pull this off. Maybe I will consider buying one of their products now. I don't need to carry around 20 gigs of music anyway, that's excessive. Maybe if I was backpacking across Europe. In normal use, I would never be more than a few days away from my home machine, so I could replenish the music supply when needed.
And it better have user-accessible batteries. It's funny how people think of Mac as some superior technology, and here is Apple, gouging customers with $99 replacement batteries. Whatever.
I didn't check on this, but the Beagle probe doesn't weigh as much as a car, and it has a parachute to slow it down. You probably wouldn't have enough time to deploy a parachute and have it open and slow you down enough to make a difference.
I wonder if they could do something like in the movie demolition man, with the foam. That would be sweet. And it should taste like chocolate or something.
yup. I've been there. It's not legal in America though, except somewhere out in Nevada (I think). My point is that a business above-all attitude doesn't work because there are other considerations, namely a conservative agenda that denies recreational and medicinal use of basically harmless drugs (marijuana, LSD, MDMA). Prostitution i really don't care for, but properly regulated (for safety reasons) i am ok with it.
You're right. and your sister is kind of hot, so why not legalize prostitution while we're at it. And why not legalize crack and heroin too? It's all in the name of business. How about contract killings next?
I'm not implying that Kazaa has a responsibility to police it's users, I'm just commenting on parent's "laissez faire!" attitude.
it's not vaporware if it gets shelved. Vaporware is implied by continuing promises of a release date that continually gets moved or missed.
But you have to HAVE the money note, a credit card is good up to your credit limit. You may have thousands in credit limit, but do you ever carry that much around in a wallet? No.
It is ONE LESS form of identification for someone to have. Instead of having a credit card with your signature and possibly picture on it, now you have a little piece of plastic with some embedded silicon that the sales person doesn't even have to LOOK at to verify you.
How is having some bits in a RFID chip any stronger security-wise than having bits on a magnetic stripe?
There is no consumer benefit to this. The only one who benefits is the company making the sale because it makes things easier to buy. That's just what we need. As if things werent' easy enough to buy already.
The only POSSIBLE benefit I can see to this for a consumer is it sounds more durable; no stripe to get worn down.
Who said, "NOW what did they do to that Decss guy? Shipping him to the arctic?"
While I understand where you are coming from, and I do belive that humans are nothing but a blight on an otherwise pretty decent world, my family has done a lot to minimize my suffering. If the best thing I know how to do is fix computers, then I want to make THEIR suffering with computers less. If your parents were at all decent, they did sacrifice a lot to have you. It wasn't a gift. But everything after that was.
While I did refer to troubleshooting for my mother, it was just a catch phrase. The birth wasn't as important as the stuff afterwards.
I don't believe anyone is really "sane", you're either ignorant, in denial, or have some major problems, or somewhere in between. Seek professional help anyway, it can't hurt.
Monorail!
This isn't limited to computer tech support. My girlfriend holds a masters in counseling. Half the time she tells someone that she is a psychologist/counselor, they start dumping their problems on her or asking for advice. I count myself lucky that I only hear about their computer stuff.
And I'm not accusing you of this, Channard, but holy shit! There are a lot of whiny people on here! "I refuse to do tech support for family". I don't know what kind of relationship you have with YOUR family, but most of mine is pretty cool, and they do a lot for me. The least I can do to repay them for helping me get through college and allowing me to live while growing up is give them a little help with their computers. I do helpdesk troubleshooting for DSL, and I get yelled at half the time, but I can still manage to go home and answer a few questions about why windows 98 is a piece of garbage for my family. It's almost refreshing in fact. No corporate rules about what not to say in front of the family.
I wonder if the people who said they would assist family would even help their own mothers. I'm not saying you have to be the end-all of tech support. You can refer them to the OEM.
Reading this thread, you'd think these slashdotters hated computers or something.
You're both wrong. There are thieves and there are non-thieves. The only difference now is that the thefted-item doesn't physically exist.
The old cliche of the kiddy hacker in their basement, bragging about their accomplishments on BBSes is a little old, and somewhat funny. No serious hacker talks about what they do. There would be no one to hand you in, because no one but the hacker knows it was them. This wouldn't stop hacking, it MAY stop some kids from running DDoS's on IRC channels because they got 0wn3d on Efnet. (Did they ever get to Efnet 2? haven't been in a while)
"I was born after 1967, and I've ridden MTWR many times, so perhaps they're talking about an older version."
Sorry to burst your bubble. Mr. Toad'd Wild Ride is indeed gone. It has been replaced by some other animated-disney ride. I can't remember which one. I live in orlando, but I haven't been to disney in several years.
They also got rid of the figment ride at Epcot. The imagination ride. They replaced it with John Cleese as narrator, and at the VERY end of the ride, there is a wall with Figment on it in little lights. Then you walk out of the ride and there is a store with nothing but figment dolls. It's disgusting.
That's like saying "don't release any programs for windows because they make viruses and crappy solitare games". Windows has plenty USEFUL applications, as does Linux.
There was your second mistake, dealing with Compaq.
As for NIC's, yeah, they are harder to pinpoint, but not as hard as modems. Modems are the worst to identify. NIC's I usually just pull up lspci and the Linux Ethernet Howto from tldp.org, which has a lot of info on network cards.
Besides, in the previous post, I WAS limiting it to video cards. For me, video cards pretty much do just work.
I've been searchign for drivers for years. A few minutes inspecting the chipset and FCC id numbers usually yields a manufacturer. I wasn't exactly using obscure hardware though. A voodoo 3 3000, a ATI All in Wonder Pro 128, and a NVidia Geforce 2 MX 400.
If you're using junk hardware, expect to have to do some work to get it running. I'm not dissing junk hardware. Half of everything I own is junk that I salvaged and put the time to make it work. It's a badge of honor for me.
First of all, windows98 sucks shit, and you usually end of reformatting it after a while anyway. I don't know why you are having issues with winXP.
I have had issues with ONE video card in particular, I just recently bought 2 identical budget boxes for my family, and couldn't get the video card to detect in win2k, but that's what I get for trusting a budget $30 motherboard in windows. Actually, I can't remember if it was the onboard video or the modem. The win98 drivers worked fine. The sound drivers that came with the system (on a CD-R no less.... it was a barebones system) didn't work either. I had to boot it up under knoppix and get more chipset info using lspci, go online and then I realized it just needed Intel AC97 drivers.
While all this seems extremely simple to me and most anyone on slashdot, remember that they DO give certifications for this kind of knowledge, so not just anyone off teh street understands this. I appreciate the sarcasm. But really, how hard is it to get drivers for 2 very well supported chipsets and throw them into an OS?
Nvidia is a little difficult because they are a chip source, as opposed to 3dfx and ATI, who (AFAIK) were the only source of cards bearing their chips. No worrying about different vid card functions not working or hosing your setup. I have an old Elsa sporting a riva 128 chip with Vid in/out. It will work with NVidia drivers, but then the video in/out won't work. Of course the Elsa drivers were always several steps behind the NVidia driver releases. It was a lose-lose situation.
Spend the extra $10 on whatever it is you're buying, and buy brand name; or at least somewhere that has a decent website. IE, not some freaky looking acid-trip OEM box from taiwan that you can't find the manufacturer name on. If it doesn't have a website address on the box, you are probably going to spend too much time getting it working. This is fine for home use, but sucks when people are breathing down your neck to have something working for them.
What's so strange about it? Yeah, windows sucks in that any little change requires a reboot, but it still takes less time than setting up X correctly for dual setup. Or it did since the last time I installed X (which admittedly has probably been more than a year).
Tracking down the drivers for 3dfx cards is a no-brainer. 20 seconds on google leads you to.... who'd have guessed? www.3dfx.com, which links to www.voodoofiles.com for old 3dfx drivers and nvidia for newer stuff. Defunct, but still pointing their customers in the right direction.
As for installing 2 driver sets, you still had to download X, or install it from teh CD, and if you installed it from a CD, it probably isn't current, or won't be for long. What's the difference if I install it from a CD or go grab it from the web?
No, that's called "boring". A wardriver is someone who participates in wardriving, which is travelling around looking for networks, which this man has done. He's an idiot becuase of the child porn. He was still wardriving.
As long as the long arm of the law doesn't overreach and try to pass laws on private networks, whatever. This isn't that interesting except as another example of why people need to be more careful with their networks.
If you were looking for something to make people worry, and possibly act, this is a good story.
Voodoo 3 3000 as the secondary and Geforce 2 MX 400 as the primary. The V3 is a PCI card and the Geforce is AGP. As for the drivers, I think I used the Final revision from 3dFX, and one of the more recent Detonator drivers for the Nvidia. I also used to have a dual setup with the Voodoo3 and an ATI All in Wonder Pro 128, but someone lent me the geforce, which is faster.
He is talking about the symptoms of a greater problem. I can throw 2 video cards into windows 2000 and they just.... work. No crazy editting of the config files.
Granted, I have a dual monitor setup working in win2k and Debian, but I haven't had to set it up for a while, so I don't know if the configuration has gotten any easier. I have 2 machines on the desktop, and the dual monitor setup usually runs windows, with a single monitor-setup on a KVM for linux.
And this is useful for anyone because... why? To start, I was against this war from the start, but to analyze it a little further, Iraq didn't seem to put up much of a fight, and what fight there was was usually low-tech, just regular guns firing from the sides of the roads. Now that the actual war part is over, what is left? Roadside bombs, most of them detonated by timer (could be mechanical) or remote control (could possibly be affected by a weapon such as this). But the problem is no one knows where the roadside bombs ARE, so you can't just indiscriminately drop e-bombs on the country without fucking up the rest of the mission, which was to steal all the oil for the president's buddies, errrrr, rebuild Iraq for the Iraqis.
So what have they done to fight terrorism lately? Take away some rights, break the Geneva convention why locking people up offshore.
you must be new here....
Cable Ties and an extra hard drive does not a case-mod make.
Modifying the power cable is a succesful mod, but interesting at all.
Slow day, slashdot eds?
of Grandpa Simpson, "It'll be a cold day in hell before I recognize Miss-ur-uh as a state!"
For this instance, replace missouri with "anything but CDs as an audio medium"