so this publicity is probably a good thing, even though they never tell the truth.
I can still remember the days when these books hit the shelves: "Evil steam-monster", around 1803, told a horrifying tale about a big steel monster that spewed steam, ran over everyone and made everyone cough very heavily. "Lightning horror!", around 1877, very good thriller about artificially created light that made zombies of everyone so they couldn't stop working for the whole 24 hours. "Tube of death", around 1926, which was mostly about a tube that transmitted moving light-beams and brainwashed everyone with stories about fictious people through their everyday lifes.
Something stuck to my mind regarding the frequency on which the ESA and NASA spacecraft operate (Beagle and Spirit), as said in a press conference by ESA on the Beagle situation (07-01). Apparently, they are both using the same frequency to phone home.
Now ofcourse this is for 99.99999% certain not true, but what if Spirit got a bit disturbed when it suddenly found it was receiving CRM-2 mode communication from the Beagle. Beagle's CRM-2 mode should be starting around now if it is still in one piece... It would be like a vague (different) television picture on a perfect TV-channel, but it could just be the case for Spirit to go loopy.
The timing is right, are the environmental conditions... ?
when I switch on my telly and I see a big clown with the words "Burger King" written all over him, and a voice-over that drops in in the sentence "Now at *burger king* two *whoppers* for *two dollars*!", it's recycled ?
If so, maybe we should recycle some M$ commercials and replace the logo's with Tux:=)
As legal inhabitant of the planet Quak-Quak, in the system of Ungu-Chacha, I reject the claim to celestial body Bu-Ne-Shaf ('eros') based on the following:
- we were here long before you puny humans, (spitting sound)
- we can actually build something on Bu-Ne-Shaf, instead of just parking junk on it
- we govern 80% of the known galaxy, so why not this?
and last but not least:
- we have bigger lasers than you !
So before you go on taking Bu-Ne-Shaf or any other celestial body as your property, I urge you to first check on the Alpha-Centauri planning office, where our rights to this and all properties are clearly written down.
Yes that is true, though it has not been a secret. The 802.11G product line of Belkin is based on the same Broadcom model which Linksys used. Talked over many times before, but somehow it takes a while before Belkin's sourcecode is released just as Linksys did...
"In response to a recent Usenet group posting stating that Belkin spams its customers through its routers, Belkin Corporation apologizes for the concern this has caused and is taking action to address the issue"
translates to:
"Those Usenet-bastards, of which you (our ignorant customer who is just reading this) know nothing about, tried to make everybody think we are spamming the lot out of you through our routers. If this were really true (like duh!), we will apologize. Because we are such a nice company, we will take action to prevent it from being true, because it are actually only those usenet-bastards who feel really bad about this."
I know Wallie, I see the posters when I walk across the street. Wallie makes it easy to purchase little things under 50 euro's, depending on which Wallie-card you buy. But you have to buy Wallie in a store. So it will be something like: "what a cool CD, I am going to get me that right now with wallie"
"oops... my wallie only has 20 euro's, the cd costs 21 euro's"
"oops... it's 10 pm... and its sunday... no more stores to buy new wallie"
Wallie was born out of safety concerns, not out of ease-of-use. You would rather like to flip something out right away I think, a credit-card perhaps.... ?
whenever I go to a big shopping mall, I see people making music. They work according to the same model, even though they are not really earning much by it, and even though they use a hat-way instead of a BitPass way to get money. Some people are really interested in the music they make, and throw in some money.
There are people who, however, rather would like that only the stores were there in the mall. These people call in the local mall-security or the law-enforcement people, who make sure they are thrown out.
Now only the big stores are left. Why? Because they pay rent to be there.
You are not paying rent, or can't pay rent of the little money you earn, so you have no right to be there.
I hope that analogy will not have any place in the internet...
Small sites usually do not control their own webservers and are hosted along with other sites. What BitPass is asking is to install a 'gateway' to allow their service to work. They claim the service will thus work in 30 minutes. In the majority of cases, with small sites, there will however be extra hassle because of the way BitPass has to be installed. It could even be impossible to install BitPass on cohosted sites, who knows ?
Ofcourse it's still a beta, but they got to do better than that...
Do you upgrade ? I do. But does John or Jane Everydayuser-who-doesn't-know-anything-about-upgra ding ?
In other words: isn't it already too late and shouldn't they instead call back their products ? Or will only the people who know how to upgrade profit from this decision ?
I check the quality of my CD's randomly using KProbe for Lite-On drives (sorry, no direct link - look for it on the net). This tool can check the the error correction data (aka C1 or C2) stored on the CD, which is an important factor in 'how long a cd will last'. If this data contains errors, chances are high you will be left with a coaster after 2 years. Nero's CD-speed, as mentioned in other replies, can only measure the C2 data. Plextor also released a tool that measures this data.
Other than that I now, by default, protect important data I store on CD's by redundancy. This can be acomplished by using various PAR-tools. Depending on how much you love your data, increase the redundancy. Yes you can store less data on the disk, but with a 'simple' error you can at least hope to retrieve your data for 100%
It still doesn't hurt to burn 2 CD's though, and store them both in a safe place.
I do am unlucky to own (and ignorant to buy, sigh) a Belkin wlan-accesspoint (802.11G). As these accesspoints and wireless routers all carry the same Broadcom-chip and modifications to GPL sourcecode as the Linksys 54G-variants, they should release their sourcecode just as Linksys nicely did.
Now I do believe when that is done that should solve the problem with this re-routing...
and (almost) nobody is using their products: They have nothing to lose !
If I were Belkin, I would reconfigure/update all my router/accesspoint software to do whatever they want to do with it, like redirecting every bit of IP-traffic to 67.98.73.16. It's not that anybody is going to complain: their e-mail won't work! Har har har!
By the way, if you need a new employee, I am learning fast:)
- it costs unnecessary bandwidth
- it can be used for site-to-site tracking purposes and thus forms a privacy issue
- it is often overdone and distracts from the real information
To the pro-side however:
- It creates some income for the web-site (yes redundant, we all know this)
- It can be informative (compare: google's adwords) and thus helpful to the reader
- It creates jobs for all the people who found they didn't want(?) to do anything else than marketing and for all the people who sell bandwidth (not in the same category perse:).
And on the humor side:
- It keeps people busy by making a website load longer
- It, sometimes, fully automatically creates spyware inside ones computer, requiring the user to invest time in knowledge-gathering to remove this spyware again (and giving the spyware-removal -tool developers something to do and to earn)
- It's very colorful on a green/gray/white page with only a few colored icons.
Typical "wag the dog" kinda case. Opportunity creates the virus-writer... Decrease the opportunity, and 90% of the writers will leave the scene of the crime: unsafe MS-products.
I guess the DMCA has done it's work again...
erm... "of free software activism" ?... oh well, must have been a bit prejudiced with all the 'good' news of late.
I saw the week in which this patent was published is week 42. So that's it, that must be the question:
In which week are you stupid enough to award a patent that is so obviously and mind-boggingly similar to everything else, including digital watches, that it makes people laugh ?
Shouldn't that be a separate story? Seems too important to just leave it here...
Great news though:) Now let's see what my Belkin has in store for me...
I noticed that on the picture, each machine still was quite original in that it still had a cdrom-drive and a floppydrive aboard.
I guess you only need one system that has that stuff. The other machines are just ruining precious power and ventilation room with obsolete equipment like that.
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so this publicity is probably a good thing, even though they never tell the truth.
I can still remember the days when these books hit the shelves:
"Evil steam-monster", around 1803, told a horrifying tale about a big steel monster that spewed steam, ran over everyone and made everyone cough very heavily.
"Lightning horror!", around 1877, very good thriller about artificially created light that made zombies of everyone so they couldn't stop working for the whole 24 hours.
"Tube of death", around 1926, which was mostly about a tube that transmitted moving light-beams and brainwashed everyone with stories about fictious people through their everyday lifes.
See, nothing to worry about...
What other language can control a spaceship millions of miles away than LOGO?
...my tapes which I encoded with the C64 version of DeCSS again ?
Something stuck to my mind regarding the frequency on which the ESA and NASA spacecraft operate (Beagle and Spirit), as said in a press conference by ESA on the Beagle situation (07-01). Apparently, they are both using the same frequency to phone home. ... ?
Now ofcourse this is for 99.99999% certain not true, but what if Spirit got a bit disturbed when it suddenly found it was receiving CRM-2 mode communication from the Beagle. Beagle's CRM-2 mode should be starting around now if it is still in one piece... It would be like a vague (different) television picture on a perfect TV-channel, but it could just be the case for Spirit to go loopy.
The timing is right, are the environmental conditions
when I switch on my telly and I see a big clown with the words "Burger King" written all over him, and a voice-over that drops in in the sentence "Now at *burger king* two *whoppers* for *two dollars*!", it's recycled ?
:=)
If so, maybe we should recycle some M$ commercials and replace the logo's with Tux
As legal inhabitant of the planet Quak-Quak, in the system of Ungu-Chacha, I reject the claim to celestial body Bu-Ne-Shaf ('eros') based on the following:
- we were here long before you puny humans, (spitting sound)
- we can actually build something on Bu-Ne-Shaf, instead of just parking junk on it
- we govern 80% of the known galaxy, so why not this?
and last but not least:
- we have bigger lasers than you !
So before you go on taking Bu-Ne-Shaf or any other celestial body as your property, I urge you to first check on the Alpha-Centauri planning office, where our rights to this and all properties are clearly written down.
..seeing the discussion below. So why didn't we progress is the question that is put forward ?
Yes that is true, though it has not been a secret.
The 802.11G product line of Belkin is based on the same Broadcom model which Linksys used. Talked over many times before, but somehow it takes a while before Belkin's sourcecode is released just as Linksys did...
"In response to a recent Usenet group posting stating that Belkin spams its customers through its routers, Belkin Corporation apologizes for the concern this has caused and is taking action to address the issue"
translates to:
"Those Usenet-bastards, of which you (our ignorant customer who is just reading this) know nothing about, tried to make everybody think we are spamming the lot out of you through our routers. If this were really true (like duh!), we will apologize. Because we are such a nice company, we will take action to prevent it from being true, because it are actually only those usenet-bastards who feel really bad about this."
"Using the shift-key in combination with this CD is a federal offense."
I know Wallie, I see the posters when I walk across the street.
.... ?
Wallie makes it easy to purchase little things under 50 euro's, depending on which Wallie-card you buy.
But you have to buy Wallie in a store. So it will be something like:
"what a cool CD, I am going to get me that right now with wallie"
"oops... my wallie only has 20 euro's, the cd costs 21 euro's"
"oops... it's 10 pm... and its sunday... no more stores to buy new wallie"
Wallie was born out of safety concerns, not out of ease-of-use. You would rather like to flip something out right away I think, a credit-card perhaps
whenever I go to a big shopping mall, I see people making music. They work according to the same model, even though they are not really earning much by it, and even though they use a hat-way instead of a BitPass way to get money. Some people are really interested in the music they make, and throw in some money.
There are people who, however, rather would like that only the stores were there in the mall. These people call in the local mall-security or the law-enforcement people, who make sure they are thrown out.
Now only the big stores are left. Why? Because they pay rent to be there.
You are not paying rent, or can't pay rent of the little money you earn, so you have no right to be there.
I hope that analogy will not have any place in the internet...
Small sites usually do not control their own webservers and are hosted along with other sites.
What BitPass is asking is to install a 'gateway' to allow their service to work. They claim the service will thus work in 30 minutes. In the majority of cases, with small sites, there will however be extra hassle because of the way BitPass has to be installed.
It could even be impossible to install BitPass on cohosted sites, who knows ?
Ofcourse it's still a beta, but they got to do better than that...
Do you upgrade ? I do. But does John or Jane Everydayuser-who-doesn't-know-anything-about-upgra ding ?
In other words: isn't it already too late and shouldn't they instead call back their products ? Or will only the people who know how to upgrade profit from this decision ?
I check the quality of my CD's randomly using KProbe for Lite-On drives (sorry, no direct link - look for it on the net).
This tool can check the the error correction data (aka C1 or C2) stored on the CD, which is an important factor in 'how long a cd will last'. If this data contains errors, chances are high you will be left with a coaster after 2 years.
Nero's CD-speed, as mentioned in other replies, can only measure the C2 data. Plextor also released a tool that measures this data.
Other than that I now, by default, protect important data I store on CD's by redundancy. This can be acomplished by using various PAR-tools.
Depending on how much you love your data, increase the redundancy. Yes you can store less data on the disk, but with a 'simple' error you can at least hope to retrieve your data for 100%
It still doesn't hurt to burn 2 CD's though, and store them both in a safe place.
I do am unlucky to own (and ignorant to buy, sigh) a Belkin wlan-accesspoint (802.11G). As these accesspoints and wireless routers all carry the same Broadcom-chip and modifications to GPL sourcecode as the Linksys 54G-variants, they should release their sourcecode just as Linksys nicely did.
Now I do believe when that is done that should solve the problem with this re-routing...
and (almost) nobody is using their products:
:)
They have nothing to lose !
If I were Belkin, I would reconfigure/update all my router/accesspoint software to do whatever they want to do with it, like redirecting every bit of IP-traffic to 67.98.73.16. It's not that anybody is going to complain: their e-mail won't work! Har har har!
By the way, if you need a new employee, I am learning fast
Besides that:
:).
- it costs unnecessary bandwidth
- it can be used for site-to-site tracking purposes and thus forms a privacy issue
- it is often overdone and distracts from the real information
To the pro-side however:
- It creates some income for the web-site (yes redundant, we all know this)
- It can be informative (compare: google's adwords) and thus helpful to the reader
- It creates jobs for all the people who found they didn't want(?) to do anything else than marketing and for all the people who sell bandwidth (not in the same category perse
And on the humor side:
- It keeps people busy by making a website load longer
- It, sometimes, fully automatically creates spyware inside ones computer, requiring the user to invest time in knowledge-gathering to remove this spyware again (and giving the spyware-removal -tool developers something to do and to earn)
- It's very colorful on a green/gray/white page with only a few colored icons.
Typical "wag the dog" kinda case. Opportunity creates the virus-writer...
Decrease the opportunity, and 90% of the writers will leave the scene of the crime: unsafe MS-products.
On point 1: he probably feels that every respecting open-source community should at least have reached CMM level 3 to be taken seriously.
I guess the DMCA has done it's work again... ... oh well, must have been a bit prejudiced with all the 'good' news of late.
erm... "of free software activism" ?
I saw the week in which this patent was published is week 42. So that's it, that must be the question:
In which week are you stupid enough to award a patent that is so obviously and mind-boggingly similar to everything else, including digital watches, that it makes people laugh ?
Shouldn't that be a separate story? Seems too important to just leave it here... :) Now let's see what my Belkin has in store for me...
Great news though
Taking into account the increased heat-buildup due to decreased ventilation space ?
That could decrease lifespan of the systems in question.
I noticed that on the picture, each machine still was quite original in that it still had a cdrom-drive and a floppydrive aboard.
I guess you only need one system that has that stuff. The other machines are just ruining precious power and ventilation room with obsolete equipment like that.