Don't get me wrong, the boot CD with linux for games was actually the first thing to pop into my head too, though where to put the save games excapes me... for some game types.
Why not a MMORPG? Yeah, okay you need a badass server that nobody wants to fork out for. But, there are ways around that. How about an MMORPG setup where each player donates some clock cycles to the processing in the world not on their own data mind you (can't have a person finding their random attack damage to be 8 trillion). The central server would mostly just store the saved information. There would be a lot of issues, like how do you parallelize the data well enough to make it effective, because its open source the world construction would need to be done in the world so the secrets don't leak out. Perhaps some engine to create the MMORPG and the rest of the data gets stored after construction/playing begins.
Yadda Yadda. A boot CD so that other folks could play who don't have linux installed, and you'd be set. Besides linux geeks already love MMORPG's and making a free one with an open source engine would be just too sweet to pass up.
Lotta technical issues I haven't thought through or care to, but the jist is "You want peep? Make game, run, fight, sleep."
I've been too strapped for cash to get my sat turned back on. But, there are huge communites setup online for downloading episodes of shows. At about 350MB for an XViD rip of beautiful quality for any show, and about 2-3 hours download average it actually works out pretty well.
Bittorrent is rather big for this purpose.
http://suprnova.org http://torrentz.com both have TV shows sections.
IRC has a channel for about every show, most are on irc.irchighway.net:9999
"The Daily Show" hits suprnova.org here and there, although I still have no source for screen savers.
Also, archiving the videos is a bit much. I have half a terabyte of harddrive space... about 2 gigs free.
Is it just me or is Microsoft just asking the folks who send them security hole information to bypass that silly part where they send the information to them and wait 6 months for a patch and jump straight to giving the information to malware folks just to show MS up?
Somehow this gives me the impression of snubbing their noses at some security folks. I'm sure there are some hackers who have been exploiting certain holes in MS for years and kept it secret. Maybe if MS keeps saying this stuff they will turn it into a virus just to show up. We don't need unpatchable worms. Thank you.
"the greatest threat to American liberty comes from al-Qaida and their sympathizers" - What the heck? When did al-Qaida get the right to toss me in prison without a trial and never tell anybody where I am or why?
I mean sure, perhaps they'd like to kill me... but deny me liberty? I think not.
http://us.share.geocities.com/tatarize/files.txt Not hyperlinked to keep it there longer.
Up for 2 minutes tops. If anybody has a legit hosting for this, save a copy, and post a reply... although its already down, and your site would be 20 seconds later. The file names are good to know.
http://www.dishnetwork.com/content/products/receiv ers/dvr/index.shtml
PVR Dish 522, is what I was referring to. The two tuners are built into the same box. So one tuner records one thing to the harddrive while the other records the other. As far as I know it has about none of the stuff you mentioned. The real advantage it has over traditional tivo is it already gets all the channel listings and all the features are so well built in that its second nature. Not that you need to be a geek to use TiVo but it's nice to have everything second nature and a one time payment for the box.
TiVo brand TiVo has far too much TiVo.
Dish has a new box with two tuners, and built in PVR. The built in PVR is actually better than TiVo brand PVR IMHO. The two tuners don't work well together yet, but they update their firm ware all the time so its just a matter of time before the system starts to work perfectly.
Did a quick check on some of the ip addresses, just guessing from a ARIN WHOIS db check, a good number of these aren't from the US.
1) US, Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
2) German.
3) Latin America.
4) West Africa
5) France.
6) Latin America
7) US. Unknown static/dynamic.
Also, doesn't having their set of ip addresses sorta open them up to hacking attempts? Or at least attempts to use the built in messenger service in windows to notify them they are named and should cover their tracks.
I wonder how it would look if after they file suit against IP addresses those IP addresses having been released get DDoS'd? Don't get me wrong I try to avoid flaunting my ip address for this and other reasons. Publishing the ip addresses in open court could go badly. Although, I can hardly guess what effect this could have. It just doesn't quite seem right.
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Don't get me wrong, the boot CD with linux for games was actually the first thing to pop into my head too, though where to put the save games excapes me... for some game types. Why not a MMORPG? Yeah, okay you need a badass server that nobody wants to fork out for. But, there are ways around that. How about an MMORPG setup where each player donates some clock cycles to the processing in the world not on their own data mind you (can't have a person finding their random attack damage to be 8 trillion). The central server would mostly just store the saved information. There would be a lot of issues, like how do you parallelize the data well enough to make it effective, because its open source the world construction would need to be done in the world so the secrets don't leak out. Perhaps some engine to create the MMORPG and the rest of the data gets stored after construction/playing begins. Yadda Yadda. A boot CD so that other folks could play who don't have linux installed, and you'd be set. Besides linux geeks already love MMORPG's and making a free one with an open source engine would be just too sweet to pass up. Lotta technical issues I haven't thought through or care to, but the jist is "You want peep? Make game, run, fight, sleep."
I've been too strapped for cash to get my sat turned back on. But, there are huge communites setup online for downloading episodes of shows. At about 350MB for an XViD rip of beautiful quality for any show, and about 2-3 hours download average it actually works out pretty well. Bittorrent is rather big for this purpose. http://suprnova.org http://torrentz.com both have TV shows sections. IRC has a channel for about every show, most are on irc.irchighway.net:9999 "The Daily Show" hits suprnova.org here and there, although I still have no source for screen savers. Also, archiving the videos is a bit much. I have half a terabyte of harddrive space... about 2 gigs free.
SCO should give them out like candy to their enemies. Send Linus one free of charge, refuse to take it back.
SCO hereby licenses you to use Linux...
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Is it just me or is Microsoft just asking the folks who send them security hole information to bypass that silly part where they send the information to them and wait 6 months for a patch and jump straight to giving the information to malware folks just to show MS up? Somehow this gives me the impression of snubbing their noses at some security folks. I'm sure there are some hackers who have been exploiting certain holes in MS for years and kept it secret. Maybe if MS keeps saying this stuff they will turn it into a virus just to show up. We don't need unpatchable worms. Thank you.
"the greatest threat to American liberty comes from al-Qaida and their sympathizers" - What the heck? When did al-Qaida get the right to toss me in prison without a trial and never tell anybody where I am or why? I mean sure, perhaps they'd like to kill me... but deny me liberty? I think not.
Here, better link.
http://us.share.geocities.com/tatarize/files.txt
Not hyperlinked to keep it there longer.
Up for 2 minutes tops. If anybody has a legit hosting for this, save a copy, and post a reply... although its already down, and your site would be 20 seconds later. The file names are good to know.
It'll be rough for a few months, but after some bugs start churning out left and right Windows will be a more secure OS.
It's the best of both worlds, you get geekloads of bug checkers, and still can sue the butt off of anybody who makes a derived work.
Microsoft should have done this years ago!
http://www.dishnetwork.com/content/products/receiv ers/dvr/index.shtml
PVR Dish 522, is what I was referring to. The two tuners are built into the same box. So one tuner records one thing to the harddrive while the other records the other. As far as I know it has about none of the stuff you mentioned. The real advantage it has over traditional tivo is it already gets all the channel listings and all the features are so well built in that its second nature. Not that you need to be a geek to use TiVo but it's nice to have everything second nature and a one time payment for the box.
TiVo brand TiVo has far too much TiVo.
Dish has a new box with two tuners, and built in PVR. The built in PVR is actually better than TiVo brand PVR IMHO. The two tuners don't work well together yet, but they update their firm ware all the time so its just a matter of time before the system starts to work perfectly.
Did a quick check on some of the ip addresses, just guessing from a ARIN WHOIS db check, a good number of these aren't from the US.
1) US, Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
2) German.
3) Latin America.
4) West Africa
5) France.
6) Latin America
7) US. Unknown static/dynamic.
Also, doesn't having their set of ip addresses sorta open them up to hacking attempts? Or at least attempts to use the built in messenger service in windows to notify them they are named and should cover their tracks.
I wonder how it would look if after they file suit against IP addresses those IP addresses having been released get DDoS'd? Don't get me wrong I try to avoid flaunting my ip address for this and other reasons. Publishing the ip addresses in open court could go badly. Although, I can hardly guess what effect this could have. It just doesn't quite seem right.