While I am not a big fan of IRC, especially the late EFNet, I am no bigger fan of ICQ. ICQ uses a lot of client-side security, which means that a simple patch of the program (or an alternate version of it) allows you to do things which you should not be able to do, such as adding people to your list without their permission and seeing people on your list even though they set themselves to be "Invisible".
And now, a few comments on this "revolutionary" file sharing idea. Napster (the program) was originally written because Napster (the person) was annoyed with having to manually go into IRC channels with offer bots running in them and then manually picking files to download and keeping track of it. Napster was, in fact, designed to be a more convenient version of an offer bot network. Does anyone see the irony of going back to IRC?
As for the comments that Napster is in danger of being extinct, take a look at Napigator's server listing page. There are at least 10 different networks, all of which are pretty large. Though they cannot yet be compared in size to the Napster network, they will explode the second that Napster is taken down.
You don't know much about the Chernobyl disaster, do you.
What actually happened was that the engineers were given orders to turn off all cooling on the reactor for a small period of time to check how quickly the reactor heated up. It turned out that the reactor heated up so quickly that they didn't have time to react and turn the cooling back on. For more info, see this site; Click on Causes Of The Chernobyl Accident.
Methinks you've seen Red October one too many times.
-- DigDug, who was within a 100km radius when it happened.
I think you meant root@[127.0.0.1] -- IP addresses have to be enclosed in brackets. But better yet, put MAILER-DAEMON@localhost or MAILER-DAEMON@[127.0.0.1]
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Actually, I don't remember AOL ever removing the write protect tab. However, they did always set the disks so that they were write protected, and most people never figured it out.
As for autorequesting, I actually wrote a little program in Visual Basic (ah, the good ole' days... ) to simulate clicks on AOL buttons with WinAPI and then made it request disks to my house with random names and apartment numbers. Since I live in a house, they were all delivered to me anyway.
I still get a nice 30-disk bundle with two rubber bands every now and then...
That's more of an exception than the rule though. Can you come up with another one besides drinks in disposable cups at fast food restaurants?
A Chinese buffet in my area actually does allow doggie bags (actually, they're styrofoam containers), but they charge a per-weight-unit fee for them. I see no other way to prevent abuse.
This is the case now, but for the longest time, AOL displayed this information to anyone who got the password for the master screen name. Furthermore, AOL still has services which allow you to charge stuff to the account's credit card.
My first language, Russian, is also being "polluted" by computer terminology. For some words, it's easier to say the English term we use so often already. For others, a word simply does not exist.
One may look at this as language pollution. On the other hand, is it really so bad for languages to blend together? Wouldn't this eventually solve the age-old Babylon problem? If the politicians don't divide the Internet up along country borders, this just may happen.
Russian being my first language, I can tell you that I cannot blame these people. Good grammar and speling, in English, are based mostly on memorization of every word. This reminds me of what English-speaking people think and say of Chinese and Japanese.
Besides being fluent in Russian, I am also familiar with Ukrainian and French. In none of these other languages can something be spelled three different ways, have three different meanings, and yet be pronounced the same. In Russian, for example, everything is spelled the way it is pronounced. There are, of course, some words that are a bit confusing to spell, but they are pretty rare.
English is such an illogical and exception-infested language, it is really ironic that most of the computers in the world use it to interface with people.
It's interesting to note that while the crackers have gone to distributed "processing" (DDoS) for attacks and scans, the admins have followed the same tactics to fight them. If a large of computing is required at any point, perhaps Distributed.net could lend a hand? (Especially with its new resources...)
In no way did I mean to imply my agreement or disagreement with Karl Marx's ideas and views. I just pointed out that what the original poster was saying was very very familiar to me, having been raised in the USSR.
IMHO, 99% of all Web/Internet users post their plain email address one time or another. That provides sufficient volume for the spammers. I highly doubt that they care about the obfuscated addresses, especially because the a person who obfuscates her email address is much more likely (in terms of probability) to be a person who reports spammers to their ISPs repeatedly.
Actually, AOL never used Netscape. Here is what happened:
AOL 1.0-1.5: No web browser at all.
AOL 2.0, 2.5, 3.0: AOL's own (crappy) browser. I don't remember what it was called anymore, and I'm too lazy to find my AOL 2.5 disk.
AOL 3.0: MSIE is introduced into AOL. AOL originally wanted to do Netscape, but they couldn't agree on the details. Netscape wanted to do the same thing they were doing all along, and AOL wanted the web browser within the AOL MDI frame. In the end, AOL went with MSIE, because Microsoft already supported that kind of stuff with OLE/OCX/ActiveX/whatever-it-was-called-back-then. AOL 3.0 had its own browser, and you could then click a button and "upgrade" to MSIE. AOL still provided a special version of Netscape for "special" people that you could get at Keyword: Netscape or something. Remember, AOL probably didn't even dream of owning Netscape at this point.
AOL 4.0, 5.0, 6.0: AOL continues to use MSIE, while Microsoft, in return, bundles AOL with Windows, and glues the AOL icon in the middle of the default desktop. Remember, AOL didn't buy Netscape until AOL 5.0 was already out (and AOL 6.0 was already being developed).
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And now, a few comments on this "revolutionary" file sharing idea. Napster (the program) was originally written because Napster (the person) was annoyed with having to manually go into IRC channels with offer bots running in them and then manually picking files to download and keeping track of it. Napster was, in fact, designed to be a more convenient version of an offer bot network. Does anyone see the irony of going back to IRC?
As for the comments that Napster is in danger of being extinct, take a look at Napigator's server listing page. There are at least 10 different networks, all of which are pretty large. Though they cannot yet be compared in size to the Napster network, they will explode the second that Napster is taken down.
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What actually happened was that the engineers were given orders to turn off all cooling on the reactor for a small period of time to check how quickly the reactor heated up. It turned out that the reactor heated up so quickly that they didn't have time to react and turn the cooling back on. For more info, see this site; Click on Causes Of The Chernobyl Accident.
Methinks you've seen Red October one too many times.
-- DigDug, who was within a 100km radius when it happened.
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As for autorequesting, I actually wrote a little program in Visual Basic (ah, the good ole' days... ) to simulate clicks on AOL buttons with WinAPI and then made it request disks to my house with random names and apartment numbers. Since I live in a house, they were all delivered to me anyway.
I still get a nice 30-disk bundle with two rubber bands every now and then...
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A Chinese buffet in my area actually does allow doggie bags (actually, they're styrofoam containers), but they charge a per-weight-unit fee for them. I see no other way to prevent abuse.
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One may look at this as language pollution. On the other hand, is it really so bad for languages to blend together? Wouldn't this eventually solve the age-old Babylon problem? If the politicians don't divide the Internet up along country borders, this just may happen.
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Besides being fluent in Russian, I am also familiar with Ukrainian and French. In none of these other languages can something be spelled three different ways, have three different meanings, and yet be pronounced the same. In Russian, for example, everything is spelled the way it is pronounced. There are, of course, some words that are a bit confusing to spell, but they are pretty rare.
English is such an illogical and exception-infested language, it is really ironic that most of the computers in the world use it to interface with people.
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Instead of mysql_connect(), they should've used mysql_pconnect().
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Just a heads-up for those of you about to reply to this...
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Ohhhh boy, does that ring a bell! Anyone know what I mean?
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- AOL 1.0-1.5: No web browser at all.
- AOL 2.0, 2.5, 3.0: AOL's own (crappy) browser. I don't remember what it was called anymore, and I'm too lazy to find my AOL 2.5 disk.
- AOL 3.0: MSIE is introduced into AOL. AOL originally wanted to do Netscape, but they couldn't agree on the details. Netscape wanted to do the same thing they were doing all along, and AOL wanted the web browser within the AOL MDI frame. In the end, AOL went with MSIE, because Microsoft already supported that kind of stuff with OLE/OCX/ActiveX/whatever-it-was-called-back-then. AOL 3.0 had its own browser, and you could then click a button and "upgrade" to MSIE. AOL still provided a special version of Netscape for "special" people that you could get at Keyword: Netscape or something. Remember, AOL probably didn't even dream of owning Netscape at this point.
- AOL 4.0, 5.0, 6.0: AOL continues to use MSIE, while Microsoft, in return, bundles AOL with Windows, and glues the AOL icon in the middle of the default desktop. Remember, AOL didn't buy Netscape until AOL 5.0 was already out (and AOL 6.0 was already being developed).
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