I live in an area with multiple area codes overlapping eachother. I have friends in quite a few exchanges, so I have to remember all 10 digits.
Compare this to my 9 digit ICQ number, and your point is toast.
I do agree with the other posters that AOL destroyed the mainline ICQ client with feature bloat. They seemed to be using ICQ as a beta for the stuff they would eventually put in AIM.
I use Trillian Pro 2.013 now, and still regularly chat on ICQ. I have one friend who only uses ICQ, and two more who have both ICQ and AIM. We use AIM normally, but ICQ is a great answering machine. Offline IM = great idea
If only I still had my first ICQ account. It was in the 6 digit range IIRC
"You'll have a better chance if the firewall is a separate piece of hardware such as those home routers that perform NAT."
Unfortunately some broadband ISPs only provide USB devices. While there are a few NAT "routers" that support USB broadband connections, most only do when attached to a device from the same manufacturer.
if you try to spin a hard disk then the whole craft starts rotating the other way.
I think it would be easier and cheaper to just get two identical drives and mount them back to back, thus canceling out the rotation forces.
Of course I think this whole idea is a bit of BS, since the people in the craft pushing off walls must produce far more force than a small HD spinning up.
but cars also get broken into, you wouldnt see Ford selling cars without a doorlock
The difference is a car owner WANTS the lock to be there. I am glad to take an extra 2 seconds to get my keys out of my pocket if it helps prevent the stuff in my car from being jacked.
I don't benefit in any way from software activation or CD keys. It is nothing but a hassle when you buy the software. It's easier in many cases to install the cracked version.
Raw sockets have always only been available to users with admin priveledges. Apps running as regular users can not use raw sockets. The problem is Windows has a broken security model due to a need for backwards compatibility with pre-NT applications. Everyone not in a domain is by default an administrator.
This is what Mr. Gibson was complaining about. Raw sockets are not necessarily a bad thing. Every decent OS has support for them. The problem was that in the Windows implementation, every single home user, and thus the trojans and spyware that they inevitably infect themselves with, had access to them. Only system admins and power users should have access, not Joe Idiot who clicks on the attachment or says yes to the purple monkey.
ever wonder why a Mac doesnt have speakers with it ?
Every Mac has at least one speaker (a real speaker, nothng like the piezo in PC motherboards). Most, if not all PowerPC all-in-one, including laptops, have stereo speakers.
US laws can apply wherever they please. Ask Saddam.
Umm...Saddam violated many UN resolutions. Those are international law. The UN was just a bunch of pussies and wouldn't enforce their own laws (partly because of those fucktard French holding up the UNSC), so we did it for them.
"Since when has it been news that VNC is shitty and insecure?"
Umm....RTFA.
It's a exploit for Windows (from the screenshot it seems to use the LSASS vulnerability that Sasser uses) that includes a VNC server in the payload, allowing remote GUI access under SYSTEM priveledges (SYSTEM is like root in *nix, higher than even the Administrators group).
Better hope all your boxes are patched against this vulnerability, or prepare to watch the kiddies go to work.
Any yes I do mean watch, that's the only "problem" with this system, whatever you do directly shows up on the real screen, so the user is likely to notice suspicious things happening.
Since no one has jumped on this yet, the person who figured out Blackboard (the system BuzzCard uses) is the same person who submitted this article and developed the linked software.
If you do install OS X, make sure you update the firmware first. If you don't, you're likely to end up with no video, and no easy/cheap way to fix it. The 350 and 400 mhz iMacs were er.. problematic in this regard.
Basically all of the pre-DVD iMacs were like this. My 233 took a firmware update to handle Panther (had 8.6 when I got it).
That said, it ran surprisingly good. Much better than XP on equally old/priced hardware. I think it had 256MB RAM, but I can't verify since I loaned this machine to a friend of my little brother who needed a starter computer.
Full fledged desktop P-4, Radeon 9600 Mobile, and a huge hi-res widescreen = 2 hours at best with 802.11g and Bluetooth on, less if I burn a CD or two, and maybe 40 minutes if I'm lucky when playing games.
For a PC, go for a Pentium M, preferably the Ultra Low Voltage model if you can put up with "only" 1.1GHz. Smaller screens help, and a 4200RPM HD. You might be able to get away with decent plugged-in gaming with certain mobile graphics chips. Tablet PCs, while expensive, are usually some of the smallest portable PCs you can find, and thus use the least power. For a Mac, it's simple. iBook G4 12"
One nice thing about Macs is that you can put them to sleep and swap the battery while turned on. A PC will usually need you to hibernate or shut down first.
Get as much RAM as you can afford. Swapping causes heavy hard drive access, and moving parts eat battery life. Set the HD sleep time to as low as possible, without causing it to rapidly cycle between sleep and running, as spinning up the drive takes far more juice than just keeping it spinning.
If you need a CD for certain software, use virtual CD drivers and.iso files on the HD if possible. Optical drives take more power than HDs.
If the machine has expansion bays, fill all that you can with batteries.
Minimize wireless usage, and keep the screen as dim as you can comfortably use it.
Half of the battery life equation is on the user's end. My old Tablet PC ranged between 2 and 6 hours, and my new desknote ranges between 1/2 hour and 2.5 if I'm lucky. It all depends on how you use it.
Compare this to a 16:10 15.4" LCD 1680x1050 - roughly 0.00777" square (128.64 dpi)
Now I can see the seperate pixels clearly on my laptop from a distance of around a foot, so you would need to be seated farther than 117, 175, or 263 feet away, depending on the resolution in use, before the picture wouldn't be noticeably pixelated. (Of course this assumes you have eyesight like mine)
BTW, the 4:3 TV mentioned by parent, assuming the best quality inputs at 640x480, would have 2.5" square pixels (0.4 dpi) and a pixel-free range of about 322 feet. It also has a size of 1600" x 1200", which makes me think about a 2000" PC monitor (notice the obvious resolution).
Dammit, now this has my mind going. Posting before I get more carried away.
Agreed. Switched from Pepsi + thinkgeek caffeine candy selection to mainly Sprite/7UP/Sierra Mist a few years ago. When I need caffeine I can drink a single cup of coffee and be buzzing all day.
I do have an odd sleep schedule (3-6AM going to sleep, noon-2pm wake), but that is self-imposed. I just enjoy the night more than morning. I still get a regular 8-9 hours sleep.
-Pulled a ISA modem while running, modem and mobo still work. -Smashed a Mac LC3 with a sledge while operating, mobo is still bootable, keyboard/monitor/mouse = dead -A friend picked up an iMac 233/B Bondi Blue off the side of the road, left it in the back of his truck for 4 hours in heavy rain. Brought it inside, dried it out, plugged it in, and it worked. Replaced hard drive (bad sectors and too small) and installed Panther, still works today. -PSU failed (cap blew) in a desktop PC, mobo and video are unknown, CPU, HD, and Zip100 are dead, CD-RW and floppy drive survived. -Hot swapped HD from running Xbox in to running PC and back multiple times, still works fine. -Hot swapped floppy in a server (no downtime!) -Picked up laptop by screen repeatedly -Rolled truck with laptop on passenger seat, missing some plastic, but it still works. -Threw Palm m100 across room to friend. He didn't catch it. Still works fine.
I have a pile of old computer junk in front of me. A probably functioning 486/SX 25, Adaptec ISA SCSI card, HD from LC3 Mac, bad HD from iMac, laptop HD, screen, and mobo from i-Opener after failed attempt to load Win98.
All of this stuff will be dragged around my field behind a quad, lit on fire with assorted fuels, probably loaded with fireworks, and maybe shot before being trashed.
What he's saying here is that people are conditioned to expect news headlines at the top of the hour.
Personally I expect my computer to do things better than my radio or TV. Rather than only getting my headlines on the hour, I want it to give them to me when they happen.
Also, I think the traffic comment was intended to be a joke, just also happened to be supportable with facts.
the difference between a GF2 GTS and the GF3 was very superficial.
Umm....wrong...
GF2GTS is a NV1x card, with no programmable shaders. DX7 class gear. Hardware T&L was the extent of the "high end graphics" capability of this chip. Later nVidia confusingly renamed these Geforce4MX, as compared to the real GF4Ti, which was a tweaked GF3.
GF3 was an entirely new generation of chip, the NV2x (using x as a variable, not to be confused with NV2X which is the GF3/nForce hybrid used in the Xbox) NV2x was the first generation of DX8 hardware with programmable shaders.
I've seen one. Need For Speed: Underground had PS2-PC LAN play. Xbox-PC would have made more sense (easier to code), but at the time EA was refusing to do anything involving network or online play on Xbox.
It is my understanding that the digital datastream carries data about the resolution and refresh rate, so the TV doesn't have to be always monitoring the video stream for content that will need to be processed.
Analog streams are always 60Hz/30fps, so these should always be deinterlaced the same way.
These assumptions are backed up by my experience with my TV (61" RCA CRT Rear Projection w/ integrated NTSC, ATSC, and DirecTV tuners) while viewing regular and high-definition content from the antenna, DirecTV, Xbox (Component 480i/480p/720p), laptop (480i S-Video), and a friend's desktop (720p Component from a Radeon 9800XT).
I have never noticed any lag or artifacts of any kind that can not be blamed on the source device (crappy cheap DVD player over Svideo and DivX movies with bad audio encoding). Both of these problems were apparent on both this HDTV and a regular TV, and the DivX movies were out of sync on the PC.
3 frames is the absolute minimum you will get on a set that can do 480p or better.
You were really close with the telecine information, but you're missing one major part.
The only time telecine/3:2 pulldown is ever involved with TV, HD or not, is when watching content originally produced in 24fps (a.k.a. movies).
The conversion to 30/60Hz is independent of whether the TV is digital, as regular NTSC analog signals are 60Hz 30fps interlaced.
Made for TV content and games are transmitted to the TV at either 30Hz or 60Hz, depending on what format the broadcaster chooses or what the console supports.
If all you do with your HDTV is watch movies, then you will notice this effect. Blame the film companies and the NTSC for choosing different refresh rates. Blame the 3:2 converter in your DVD player. Just don't blame the TV. It is just displaying what it is given.
I just spent nearly the whole day tracking down a very nasty XUL/RDF incompatibility in Tab Browser Extensions that totally paralyzed the new Mozilla 1.7
You just admitted here that it's not a Mozilla problem, but one involving an unsupported 3rd party extension.
I love the tab browsing extension, but it does not need to be installed in an environment where the goal is to simply replace IE. Most of these users don't even know what tabbed browsing is, so power user tools for tabs will be all but useless to them.
The only extension I would install is the User Agent Switch extension, for the few sites that refuse to let you in unless they think you are running IE. Most work fine, just are coded by morons. (Even stranger are those that say Netscape 6+ is supported while Mozilla isn't)
yeah, I have a first-gen (233MHz Rev. B) iMac, and I've been inside it repeatedly.
I was making the comparison based on the pricing/target market and design.
The G3 AiO was fully upgradable, and very easy to disassemble IIRC. The iMac is anything but upgradable, unless you count the "mezzanine" slot. That thing was a bitch to replace the HD...
Never been inside a powerbook, but from the mobo size and cd drive design of the iMac, I'll take your word for it.
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I live in an area with multiple area codes overlapping eachother. I have friends in quite a few exchanges, so I have to remember all 10 digits.
Compare this to my 9 digit ICQ number, and your point is toast.
I do agree with the other posters that AOL destroyed the mainline ICQ client with feature bloat. They seemed to be using ICQ as a beta for the stuff they would eventually put in AIM.
I use Trillian Pro 2.013 now, and still regularly chat on ICQ. I have one friend who only uses ICQ, and two more who have both ICQ and AIM. We use AIM normally, but ICQ is a great answering machine. Offline IM = great idea
If only I still had my first ICQ account. It was in the 6 digit range IIRC
Since when would we trust the MPAA anyways?
"You'll have a better chance if the firewall is a separate piece of hardware such as those home routers that perform NAT."
Unfortunately some broadband ISPs only provide USB devices. While there are a few NAT "routers" that support USB broadband connections, most only do when attached to a device from the same manufacturer.
if you try to spin a hard disk then the whole craft starts rotating the other way.
I think it would be easier and cheaper to just get two identical drives and mount them back to back, thus canceling out the rotation forces.
Of course I think this whole idea is a bit of BS, since the people in the craft pushing off walls must produce far more force than a small HD spinning up.
but cars also get broken into, you wouldnt see Ford selling cars without a doorlock
The difference is a car owner WANTS the lock to be there. I am glad to take an extra 2 seconds to get my keys out of my pocket if it helps prevent the stuff in my car from being jacked.
I don't benefit in any way from software activation or CD keys. It is nothing but a hassle when you buy the software. It's easier in many cases to install the cracked version.
holy shit i loved reboot...
gotta remember to find the DVDs some time
The problem is they fixed it the wrong way.
Raw sockets have always only been available to users with admin priveledges. Apps running as regular users can not use raw sockets. The problem is Windows has a broken security model due to a need for backwards compatibility with pre-NT applications. Everyone not in a domain is by default an administrator.
This is what Mr. Gibson was complaining about. Raw sockets are not necessarily a bad thing. Every decent OS has support for them. The problem was that in the Windows implementation, every single home user, and thus the trojans and spyware that they inevitably infect themselves with, had access to them. Only system admins and power users should have access, not Joe Idiot who clicks on the attachment or says yes to the purple monkey.
ever wonder why a Mac doesnt have speakers with it ?
Every Mac has at least one speaker (a real speaker, nothng like the piezo in PC motherboards). Most, if not all PowerPC all-in-one, including laptops, have stereo speakers.
Have you ever seen a Mac?
US laws can apply wherever they please. Ask Saddam.
Umm...Saddam violated many UN resolutions. Those are international law. The UN was just a bunch of pussies and wouldn't enforce their own laws (partly because of those fucktard French holding up the UNSC), so we did it for them.
aah....feel that karma burn...
"Since when has it been news that VNC is shitty and insecure?"
Umm....RTFA.
It's a exploit for Windows (from the screenshot it seems to use the LSASS vulnerability that Sasser uses) that includes a VNC server in the payload, allowing remote GUI access under SYSTEM priveledges (SYSTEM is like root in *nix, higher than even the Administrators group).
Better hope all your boxes are patched against this vulnerability, or prepare to watch the kiddies go to work.
Any yes I do mean watch, that's the only "problem" with this system, whatever you do directly shows up on the real screen, so the user is likely to notice suspicious things happening.
Since no one has jumped on this yet, the person who figured out Blackboard (the system BuzzCard uses) is the same person who submitted this article and developed the linked software.
Why would the hospital leave spare network ports open so that any John Q. Doctor can come along and plug his laptop in??
Because some of these networkable devices are portable and moved from room to room as needed. There have to be a few ports to plug in in each room.
Don't tell me you want them to use WiFi?
If you do install OS X, make sure you update the firmware first. If you don't, you're likely to end up with no video, and no easy /cheap way to fix it. The 350 and 400 mhz iMacs were er.. problematic in this regard.
Basically all of the pre-DVD iMacs were like this. My 233 took a firmware update to handle Panther (had 8.6 when I got it).
That said, it ran surprisingly good. Much better than XP on equally old/priced hardware. I think it had 256MB RAM, but I can't verify since I loaned this machine to a friend of my little brother who needed a starter computer.
Full fledged desktop P-4, Radeon 9600 Mobile, and a huge hi-res widescreen = 2 hours at best with 802.11g and Bluetooth on, less if I burn a CD or two, and maybe 40 minutes if I'm lucky when playing games.
.iso files on the HD if possible. Optical drives take more power than HDs.
For a PC, go for a Pentium M, preferably the Ultra Low Voltage model if you can put up with "only" 1.1GHz. Smaller screens help, and a 4200RPM HD.
You might be able to get away with decent plugged-in gaming with certain mobile graphics chips.
Tablet PCs, while expensive, are usually some of the smallest portable PCs you can find, and thus use the least power.
For a Mac, it's simple. iBook G4 12"
One nice thing about Macs is that you can put them to sleep and swap the battery while turned on. A PC will usually need you to hibernate or shut down first.
Get as much RAM as you can afford. Swapping causes heavy hard drive access, and moving parts eat battery life.
Set the HD sleep time to as low as possible, without causing it to rapidly cycle between sleep and running, as spinning up the drive takes far more juice than just keeping it spinning.
If you need a CD for certain software, use virtual CD drivers and
If the machine has expansion bays, fill all that you can with batteries.
Minimize wireless usage, and keep the screen as dim as you can comfortably use it.
Half of the battery life equation is on the user's end. My old Tablet PC ranged between 2 and 6 hours, and my new desknote ranges between 1/2 hour and 2.5 if I'm lucky. It all depends on how you use it.
I'm bored, so I did the calculations for 16:9.
Width: 1743.15" (145' 3.15")
Height: 980.52" (81' 8.52")
Pixel Sizes:
480p (852x480) - roughly 2.04" square (0.49 dpi)
720p (1280x720) - roughly 1.36" square (0.73 dpi)
1080i (1920x1080) - roughly 0.91" square (1.10 dpi)
Compare this to a 16:10 15.4" LCD
1680x1050 - roughly 0.00777" square (128.64 dpi)
Now I can see the seperate pixels clearly on my laptop from a distance of around a foot, so you would need to be seated farther than 117, 175, or 263 feet away, depending on the resolution in use, before the picture wouldn't be noticeably pixelated. (Of course this assumes you have eyesight like mine)
BTW, the 4:3 TV mentioned by parent, assuming the best quality inputs at 640x480, would have 2.5" square pixels (0.4 dpi) and a pixel-free range of about 322 feet. It also has a size of 1600" x 1200", which makes me think about a 2000" PC monitor (notice the obvious resolution).
Dammit, now this has my mind going. Posting before I get more carried away.
Agreed. Switched from Pepsi + thinkgeek caffeine candy selection to mainly Sprite/7UP/Sierra Mist a few years ago. When I need caffeine I can drink a single cup of coffee and be buzzing all day.
I do have an odd sleep schedule (3-6AM going to sleep, noon-2pm wake), but that is self-imposed. I just enjoy the night more than morning. I still get a regular 8-9 hours sleep.
Umm...that's the COMPUTER sales. The iPod is by far the dominant portable audio player.
-Pulled a ISA modem while running, modem and mobo still work.
:)
-Smashed a Mac LC3 with a sledge while operating, mobo is still bootable, keyboard/monitor/mouse = dead
-A friend picked up an iMac 233/B Bondi Blue off the side of the road, left it in the back of his truck for 4 hours in heavy rain. Brought it inside, dried it out, plugged it in, and it worked. Replaced hard drive (bad sectors and too small) and installed Panther, still works today.
-PSU failed (cap blew) in a desktop PC, mobo and video are unknown, CPU, HD, and Zip100 are dead, CD-RW and floppy drive survived.
-Hot swapped HD from running Xbox in to running PC and back multiple times, still works fine.
-Hot swapped floppy in a server (no downtime!)
-Picked up laptop by screen repeatedly
-Rolled truck with laptop on passenger seat, missing some plastic, but it still works.
-Threw Palm m100 across room to friend. He didn't catch it. Still works fine.
I have a pile of old computer junk in front of me. A probably functioning 486/SX 25, Adaptec ISA SCSI card, HD from LC3 Mac, bad HD from iMac, laptop HD, screen, and mobo from i-Opener after failed attempt to load Win98.
All of this stuff will be dragged around my field behind a quad, lit on fire with assorted fuels, probably loaded with fireworks, and maybe shot before being trashed.
Gotta love cleaning day
What he's saying here is that people are conditioned to expect news headlines at the top of the hour.
Personally I expect my computer to do things better than my radio or TV. Rather than only getting my headlines on the hour, I want it to give them to me when they happen.
Also, I think the traffic comment was intended to be a joke, just also happened to be supportable with facts.
the difference between a GF2 GTS and the GF3 was very superficial.
Umm....wrong...
GF2GTS is a NV1x card, with no programmable shaders. DX7 class gear. Hardware T&L was the extent of the "high end graphics" capability of this chip. Later nVidia confusingly renamed these Geforce4MX, as compared to the real GF4Ti, which was a tweaked GF3.
GF3 was an entirely new generation of chip, the NV2x (using x as a variable, not to be confused with NV2X which is the GF3/nForce hybrid used in the Xbox)
NV2x was the first generation of DX8 hardware with programmable shaders.
I've seen one. Need For Speed: Underground had PS2-PC LAN play. Xbox-PC would have made more sense (easier to code), but at the time EA was refusing to do anything involving network or online play on Xbox.
It is my understanding that the digital datastream carries data about the resolution and refresh rate, so the TV doesn't have to be always monitoring the video stream for content that will need to be processed.
Analog streams are always 60Hz/30fps, so these should always be deinterlaced the same way.
These assumptions are backed up by my experience with my TV (61" RCA CRT Rear Projection w/ integrated NTSC, ATSC, and DirecTV tuners) while viewing regular and high-definition content from the antenna, DirecTV, Xbox (Component 480i/480p/720p), laptop (480i S-Video), and a friend's desktop (720p Component from a Radeon 9800XT).
I have never noticed any lag or artifacts of any kind that can not be blamed on the source device (crappy cheap DVD player over Svideo and DivX movies with bad audio encoding). Both of these problems were apparent on both this HDTV and a regular TV, and the DivX movies were out of sync on the PC.
3 frames is the absolute minimum you will get on a set that can do 480p or better.
You were really close with the telecine information, but you're missing one major part.
The only time telecine/3:2 pulldown is ever involved with TV, HD or not, is when watching content originally produced in 24fps (a.k.a. movies).
The conversion to 30/60Hz is independent of whether the TV is digital, as regular NTSC analog signals are 60Hz 30fps interlaced.
Made for TV content and games are transmitted to the TV at either 30Hz or 60Hz, depending on what format the broadcaster chooses or what the console supports.
If all you do with your HDTV is watch movies, then you will notice this effect. Blame the film companies and the NTSC for choosing different refresh rates. Blame the 3:2 converter in your DVD player. Just don't blame the TV. It is just displaying what it is given.
I just spent nearly the whole day tracking down a very nasty XUL/RDF incompatibility in Tab Browser Extensions that totally paralyzed the new Mozilla 1.7
You just admitted here that it's not a Mozilla problem, but one involving an unsupported 3rd party extension.
I love the tab browsing extension, but it does not need to be installed in an environment where the goal is to simply replace IE. Most of these users don't even know what tabbed browsing is, so power user tools for tabs will be all but useless to them.
The only extension I would install is the User Agent Switch extension, for the few sites that refuse to let you in unless they think you are running IE. Most work fine, just are coded by morons. (Even stranger are those that say Netscape 6+ is supported while Mozilla isn't)
yeah, I have a first-gen (233MHz Rev. B) iMac, and I've been inside it repeatedly.
I was making the comparison based on the pricing/target market and design.
The G3 AiO was fully upgradable, and very easy to disassemble IIRC. The iMac is anything but upgradable, unless you count the "mezzanine" slot. That thing was a bitch to replace the HD...
Never been inside a powerbook, but from the mobo size and cd drive design of the iMac, I'll take your word for it.