dump the catch alls. There are several outfits out there trying hundreds or thousands of common names @ every domain name they find registered. Why accept those when you don't have to?
Not really. Solaris 9/SPARC is free with a registration, Solaris 8 still costs $20 to download. I'm pretty sure it cost money to download 9 until recently. If you want a real giggle, look at the prices they charge for a multi-CPU license.
C-Band is analog and uncompressed. no artifacts. If you get the dish alignment a bit off, or have a warped dish / old LNB / bad or long cable run, quality degrades. There are a bunch of satellites up there, but much of their capacity is unused. Few normal channels are unscrambled (broadcast networks are scrambled. IIRC, so is PBS.).
These are drawbacks, but then again, you get fun things like 12hr simpsons marathons (syndication feeds for TV stations), and raw footage of news events as they happen (site to studio feeds, where they point a camera at the news and leave it. no talking heads telling you what they think they're seeing). Considering the cost of big dishes nowadays, its well worth it.
Helical arrays can be used in place of a large dish; but there's some issues that make them less than optimal, i gather. It'd probably be cheaper and easier to disguise your Big Ugly Dish somehow.
Not quite the same thing; the unicomps click; but they're still membrane switched, so they don't last.
I just bought 10 real honest to $legal_notional_higher_power IBM model "M"s off ebay for $5/ea, shipped. Of 5 Unicomps i bought in 98, new, only the one on the "idle" terminal is still functional.... all hail ibm "M"
i did. emails back and forth for 2 weeks. directions, etc. The problem was the guy who ran the auctions, the guy who talked to customers, and they guy who ran the warehouse, never spoke to one another or anything.
I landed (via ebay) a sparc center 2000e, the 1996 take on "big mother Sun". I drove my pickup truck 750 miles to pick it up. When I arrived, they told me it had been listed due to a clerical error, and that they had actually sold the system months ago.
They were at least nice enough to give me a Sun 4/490 (1991 take on 5 foot tall 5kw Sun) for free, so i drove home with a truckload of big Sun rack and fussy little sun parts anyway.
I finally did get a sparc center, and only had to drive 400 miles to pick it up. She's named lucy, and she's chewing bytes for a good cause as I write.
the sportser grounds the phone line internally, the courier does not. when you can count on lightning strike generated surges through the phone lines regularly (as i can), this translates into "couriers don't have to be replaced every two weeks"
Where are we going to find people without political or economic interests? How long will they keep their neutrality in the face of verisign driving up to their house with dump trucks full of money?
We need a single person like Postel again. An arrogant intelligent stiff necked bastard with nearly arbitrary power. I'd volunteer but for the "intelligent" requirement.
However, it should offer a taste of what he actually does to those who haven't a clue and yet feel free to explain at great length to the world how he could do it better.
"When was that solved?" with the latter model st251's i think, sometime well before 1990. The problem as i recall was the wax-based lubricant they used on the spindle, which after some age would congeal when the drive cooled. If your drive wouldn't spin up when you powered up the computer, the solution was to smack it a good one, which would break the wax up allow the motor to begin turning.
Of more importance to the modern customer i think is the phenomenon of bad pallets; where a whole pallet of drives falls of a forklift, but are still sold individually.
11min, on a Sunday afternoon, is hardly enough time to compose or even reformat a proper screed on how Evil Intel has or is trashing the One True 64bit architecture, the Alpha.
Avoid OSTel's hardware; mine has been running for a month and locks up regularly. Cheap 1u system; i suspect it may be the phone card hardware driver.
Avoid OSTel's application development; they took something like $5,000 to develop an IVR app on that box for their customer, and delivered a non-functional, almost demo after 2 extra months. It was a constant struggle to talk to them, too; they're either far too busy to be taking new customers or they were out to screw us from the start. I really think they're just busy, but i dunno...
That said, bayonne is pretty cool. With it and a bit of perl, I managed to make the application the customer wanted in 92.5 hours of development time, without much prior experiance applicable to the job. The scripting language is simple, if minimal; it has an embedded Perl (and supposed to be an embedded python too in newer versions) to do anything not possible in the script lang (like math).
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Collected a packet disasembly and some urls here.
Everyone seems to be assuming this is a new use of an old (July) hole; I'm not certain of that. Any facts welcomed, see above url.
this is a new exploit; beginning with a buffer overflow related to the referenced CERT, and then proceeding to another buffer overflow ....
Disassembly of the current probe packets available here for what its worth. This is a nasty little sucker.
The borg icon was very nearly the last worthwhile creative effort to come from the lamented "Boardwatch" magazine...
good point, good goal. start writing.
dump the catch alls. There are several outfits out there trying hundreds or thousands of common names @ every domain name they find registered. Why accept those when you don't have to?
Not really. Solaris 9/SPARC is free with a registration, Solaris 8 still costs $20 to download. I'm pretty sure it cost money to download 9 until recently. If you want a real giggle, look at the prices they charge for a multi-CPU license.
dog hair, too
Now, can you explain why anyone would spend time doing this? :)
These are drawbacks, but then again, you get fun things like 12hr simpsons marathons (syndication feeds for TV stations), and raw footage of news events as they happen (site to studio feeds, where they point a camera at the news and leave it. no talking heads telling you what they think they're seeing). Considering the cost of big dishes nowadays, its well worth it.
Helical arrays can be used in place of a large dish; but there's some issues that make them less than optimal, i gather. It'd probably be cheaper and easier to disguise your Big Ugly Dish somehow.
Didn't you post this same rant on the last nvidia article? What, are you a bitter ex-3dfx employee?
I just bought 10 real honest to $legal_notional_higher_power IBM model "M"s off ebay for $5/ea, shipped. Of 5 Unicomps i bought in 98, new, only the one on the "idle" terminal is still functional. ... all hail ibm "M"
coax can also propagate ground surges from lightning strikes and fry connected equipment in the entire neighborhood...
might want to get the milk _before_ you go after the dragon...
i did. emails back and forth for 2 weeks. directions, etc. The problem was the guy who ran the auctions, the guy who talked to customers, and they guy who ran the warehouse, never spoke to one another or anything.
They were at least nice enough to give me a Sun 4/490 (1991 take on 5 foot tall 5kw Sun) for free, so i drove home with a truckload of big Sun rack and fussy little sun parts anyway.
I finally did get a sparc center, and only had to drive 400 miles to pick it up. She's named lucy, and she's chewing bytes for a good cause as I write.
PICTURES!
the sportser grounds the phone line internally, the courier does not. when you can count on lightning strike generated surges through the phone lines regularly (as i can), this translates into "couriers don't have to be replaced every two weeks"
We need a single person like Postel again. An arrogant intelligent stiff necked bastard with nearly arbitrary power. I'd volunteer but for the "intelligent" requirement.
Or possibly the code in question will never have another public release. Fork 'em all.
I'm working on it... Google surely isn't buying it from me for a chance at $10k though.
Britney pr0n i cant help with. text only. sorry.
However, it should offer a taste of what he actually does to those who haven't a clue and yet feel free to explain at great length to the world how he could do it better.
Of more importance to the modern customer i think is the phenomenon of bad pallets; where a whole pallet of drives falls of a forklift, but are still sold individually.
You sir are TWISTED. I salute you.
11min, on a Sunday afternoon, is hardly enough time to compose or even reformat a proper screed on how Evil Intel has or is trashing the One True 64bit architecture, the Alpha.
Avoid OSTel's application development; they took something like $5,000 to develop an IVR app on that box for their customer, and delivered a non-functional, almost demo after 2 extra months. It was a constant struggle to talk to them, too; they're either far too busy to be taking new customers or they were out to screw us from the start. I really think they're just busy, but i dunno...
That said, bayonne is pretty cool. With it and a bit of perl, I managed to make the application the customer wanted in 92.5 hours of development time, without much prior experiance applicable to the job. The scripting language is simple, if minimal; it has an embedded Perl (and supposed to be an embedded python too in newer versions) to do anything not possible in the script lang (like math).