well... they did quadrupile the bitlength of addresses from ipv4 to ipv6, so i think theres a good chance of ipv6 not running out for a long amount of time, also i think ipv6 is more forward looking and will make it easier to transition to ipvx whenever it is necessary to do so... but *shrug*
XP works just fine on a box w/ linux, but the install does overwrite the master boot record if you aren't careful. So you may need a linux boot disk, or to be more careful than i was (you can start lilo from a file on the c:\ drive just like in winnt, but i was relying on using debian-mbr to boot linux, with 2k being the default boot... oops)
i live in coastal southern california, the last lightning storm (at home) that i can remember was probably 2 years ago, and far enough away that i could barely see the flashing. Although, with my new CB radio I could hear it great, it was nifty:)
I go to school in milwaukee, Wisconsin though, where they have plenty of thunder, but the dorms apparently have power under control... there was one outage the whole time i was there, and it was unrelated to nature as far as i could tell... all the nature had no effect on my computer:)
"I do not wish to watch DVD's on my computer monitor."
Why not? In my experience, VGA is much better looking than TV (of course that may be because i don't watch tv enough to spend much on a tv, but then again, most of the monitors i get are second hand and cheap cheap cheap)
the special button would have to be extremely well engineered, as it would be pressed somewhere between 50 and 66 percent of the time.... sounds like trouble...
although, if the special button was away from the rest of the keyboard (if the keyboard is one handed... maybe put the special key on the other hand, or maybe a foot thing) it might end up being very neat.
one thing about it that is nice is that when using normal floppy disks it isn't the loudest contraption known to man.... is there something in the floppy drive spec that says 1.44 mb drives have to make the same floppy access noises as apple 2's?
i didn't get the lsd-120 drive willingly though.... it was forced upon me by my school's technology program.... and actually i've loaned mine out all year to another student who is too lazy to get hers... she has lsd-120 disks
using various internet phone things here in the US theres often lag issues, i imagine routing the data through the ocean couldn't help that, but i'm sure you don't really care too much about that:)
Apple is bad because they are using the code the way it is designed to be used?
The creators of the code obviously wanted the code to be used by other people, otherwise it would not have been released under an open source license.
The creators of the code obviously were not terribly concerned with people releasing the code back to the community, or they would have released the code under a more restrictive license.
a program to turn off navigation systems or smoke detectors would be essentially useful to someone without appropriate acccess to a plane, or a building. neither is decss useful without access to a dvd, or a page w/ style sheets...
But, if its you are in control of a commercial plane, and turn off the navigation system, its probably grossly malfunctioning (and turning it off would lead to better consequences than leaving it on), you're performing maintainance, or you're doing a training exercise.
turning it off for other reasons would probably make you subject to civil, criminal, and/or work related punishments.
using decss should be similar....
if you're using it to help you watch movies, or test your system or something, sounds good. if you're using it to pirate movies over the internet, then you are violating copyright law, and subject to civil, criminal, and/or work related punishments(if you're using your work access to pirate movies, your work probably doesn't like it very much)
On my laptop, windows 2000 (and xp) can 'hibernate' to a file and on boot resume where it left off, in theory it can do it in win98 as well, but the suspend/hibernate/resume doesn't seem to work properly in win98
this combined with what happens on the display would lead me to believe that win2k/xp does the hibernation in software, and win98 either uses the firmware, or really crappy software.
you would probably need to have an interface to re-initialize the network cards, because there is a high probability of being on a different network when you resume. this might be a compelling reason to integrate dhcp into the kernel (bootp and arpd are in there allready) or it might not be. you would probably also want to flush everything in the write cache to disk, and drop your read caches into the bit bucket to reduce the size of the memory you actually have to save.
as for exactly how it would work, i'm not exactly sure, but i strongly believe it is possible. somebody suggested using swap space for that, but that wouldn't work if you didn't have enough free space for everything in ram. a dedicated partition at least the size of your physical ram would probably be the best solution considering ease of programming, and typical ratio of memory to diskspace.
if this hasn't been done well by the time i get to senior year in college, this would be a great senior design project for me i think.
first off, patent protection is a country by country thing, maybe not anymore w/ the WIPO or whatever, but during the cold war era it definately was.
second off, if you want to keep something a secret the full disclosure necessary for patenting it is not the way to do it, you want to utilize the 'trade secret' method, ie how CSS code was. the problem with that is once it gets out you can't do anything about it. with a patent you publish it, but nobody in your country (or other contries you patent it in) can legally use it w/out licensing it.
thirdly, why the heck would a military organization in an opposing company respect your intelectual property
assuming the spammers are using dialup this would force them to use a relay server (that is not listed as a dial up ip) to get mail to you, which most legitimate users mailing you would allready be doing.
of course if they use an open relay you're back to square one, but this is a decent first step.
actually there are security tools for mac os, some of which seem really good if they use the right settings (I've not owned a mac, so i don't know all the tricks you can do at startup, but running w/ extensions disabled doesn't disable one security program i've run accross)
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well... they did quadrupile the bitlength of addresses from ipv4 to ipv6, so i think theres a good chance of ipv6 not running out for a long amount of time, also i think ipv6 is more forward looking and will make it easier to transition to ipvx whenever it is necessary to do so... but *shrug*
hand/eye != foot/eye
:)
you may be able to move your hands well, but that doesn't mean you can kick
i know i have good hand/eye coordination, but my arm/eye coordination sucks
slashdot is free to infer whatever they want, i think you more likely have problems with them implying the game is over.
toast (filling in as word choice nazi)
as stated in the article, there are solutions to the problem which may be implemented in his own shower... (heaver curtains or a door)
Perhaps he was visiting he and his wife were visiting the mother in law and he needed a shower and was intrigued by the phenomenon?
XP works just fine on a box w/ linux, but the install does overwrite the master boot record if you aren't careful. So you may need a linux boot disk, or to be more careful than i was (you can start lilo from a file on the c:\ drive just like in winnt, but i was relying on using debian-mbr to boot linux, with 2k being the default boot... oops)
i live in coastal southern california, the last lightning storm (at home) that i can remember was probably 2 years ago, and far enough away that i could barely see the flashing. Although, with my new CB radio I could hear it great, it was nifty :)
:)
I go to school in milwaukee, Wisconsin though, where they have plenty of thunder, but the dorms apparently have power under control... there was one outage the whole time i was there, and it was unrelated to nature as far as i could tell... all the nature had no effect on my computer
I think it was bigger than the (original)gameboy.... if i recall correctly
i think the screen was a bit bigger, and there was about twice as much non screen area
"I do not wish to watch DVD's on my computer monitor."
Why not? In my experience, VGA is much better looking than TV (of course that may be because i don't watch tv enough to spend much on a tv, but then again, most of the monitors i get are second hand and cheap cheap cheap)
the special button would have to be extremely well engineered, as it would be pressed somewhere between 50 and 66 percent of the time.... sounds like trouble...
although, if the special button was away from the rest of the keyboard (if the keyboard is one handed... maybe put the special key on the other hand, or maybe a foot thing) it might end up being very neat.
well if they used enhanced CGA (aka tandy graphics) it could get a little sharper? :)
ooops no i was confusing what i read about A/UX :)
sorry my fault
will your fairly old powermac run os x?
:)
i thought you needed a g3... well at least to install
apple's A/UX will run on some power macs though... as long as you don't mind system 7.0
vnc is a bit of overkill...
(open)ssh will do the same task just as welll
and if needed... you can do X11 forwarding over ssh
i've got an lsd-120 drive
one thing about it that is nice is that when using normal floppy disks it isn't the loudest contraption known to man.... is there something in the floppy drive spec that says 1.44 mb drives have to make the same floppy access noises as apple 2's?
i didn't get the lsd-120 drive willingly though.... it was forced upon me by my school's technology program.... and actually i've loaned mine out all year to another student who is too lazy to get hers... she has lsd-120 disks
so thats what cleartype does...
I've tried it on my laptop a few times, and while it does make the text a lot nicer looking... it also makes black not exactly black.
it seems kinda like i'm on a messed up crt where the different colors don't line up well.
using various internet phone things here in the US theres often lag issues, i imagine routing the data through the ocean couldn't help that, but i'm sure you don't really care too much about that :)
Apple is bad because they are using the code the way it is designed to be used?
The creators of the code obviously wanted the code to be used by other people, otherwise it would not have been released under an open source license.
The creators of the code obviously were not terribly concerned with people releasing the code back to the community, or they would have released the code under a more restrictive license.
Get a grip.
a program to turn off navigation systems or smoke detectors would be essentially useful to someone without appropriate acccess to a plane, or a building. neither is decss useful without access to a dvd, or a page w/ style sheets...
But, if its you are in control of a commercial plane, and turn off the navigation system, its probably grossly malfunctioning (and turning it off would lead to better consequences than leaving it on), you're performing maintainance, or you're doing a training exercise.
turning it off for other reasons would probably make you subject to civil, criminal, and/or work related punishments.
using decss should be similar....
if you're using it to help you watch movies, or test your system or something, sounds good. if you're using it to pirate movies over the internet, then you are violating copyright law, and subject to civil, criminal, and/or work related punishments(if you're using your work access to pirate movies, your work probably doesn't like it very much)
while aol pummels you by default with popup ads, its really not that hard to turn them off
keyword ad prefrences or something
well if i hadn't double posted it might have helped too :)
:)
its allright, i wouldn't want too much karma, cause then i'd have to be a whore
On my laptop, windows 2000 (and xp) can 'hibernate' to a file and on boot resume where it left off, in theory it can do it in win98 as well, but the suspend/hibernate/resume doesn't seem to work properly in win98
this combined with what happens on the display would lead me to believe that win2k/xp does the hibernation in software, and win98 either uses the firmware, or really crappy software.
you would probably need to have an interface to re-initialize the network cards, because there is a high probability of being on a different network when you resume. this might be a compelling reason to integrate dhcp into the kernel (bootp and arpd are in there allready) or it might not be. you would probably also want to flush everything in the write cache to disk, and drop your read caches into the bit bucket to reduce the size of the memory you actually have to save.
as for exactly how it would work, i'm not exactly sure, but i strongly believe it is possible. somebody suggested using swap space for that, but that wouldn't work if you didn't have enough free space for everything in ram. a dedicated partition at least the size of your physical ram would probably be the best solution considering ease of programming, and typical ratio of memory to diskspace.
if this hasn't been done well by the time i get to senior year in college, this would be a great senior design project for me i think.
first off, patent protection is a country by country thing, maybe not anymore w/ the WIPO or whatever, but during the cold war era it definately was.
second off, if you want to keep something a secret the full disclosure necessary for patenting it is not the way to do it, you want to utilize the 'trade secret' method, ie how CSS code was. the problem with that is once it gets out you can't do anything about it. with a patent you publish it, but nobody in your country (or other contries you patent it in) can legally use it w/out licensing it.
thirdly, why the heck would a military organization in an opposing company respect your intelectual property
by using the MAPS Dial-up User List
assuming the spammers are using dialup this would force them to use a relay server (that is not listed as a dial up ip) to get mail to you, which most legitimate users mailing you would allready be doing.
of course if they use an open relay you're back to square one, but this is a decent first step.
or a museum?
actually there are security tools for mac os, some of which seem really good if they use the right settings (I've not owned a mac, so i don't know all the tricks you can do at startup, but running w/ extensions disabled doesn't disable one security program i've run accross)