I was so sick of their slow DNS server i set up my own caching DNS server.
As for uplink, it sucks, but compared to ADSL it's fine (50k/sec verses 15k/sec)
And portscanning? @home scans my IP every 4 hours on NNTP. Ever since i got a new IP (forced to get one) it's been scanning from authorized-scan.security.home.net! I have logs of this going back 4 months now!
If there was an 80/mo alternative to cable/dsl, i'd buy it if the benefits were numerous. But considering the next best thing is 5-10 times that per month (commercial DSL, t1 line, etc) it's just out of reach for almost everyone =( I thought competition (dsl VS cable) would bring faster speeds.. *nope* not yet.
Consider this: I started on 10mbit at university in 1996. Switched to cable. =( Damn was i ever spoiled..
Personally, being a @home customer, I cringe to know that 'routing policy' and/or (i would call it) 'traceroute hops to destination' is becoming a commodity.
I was hoping, that sometime in the future I'd be under 10 hops from my @home to my university (in the same city) instead of the current, 20 hops.
Now, since it's a valuable commodity, and being a residental end-user (read: bottom of the line in corporate sense) I don't think i'll ever see that light of day, or will I?
Quality of service is somethign I value, but I don't want to fork out more dough just to get it.
I can see it now.. "add 5 dollars to your monthly bill to recieve faster, more responsive downloads!" -- and all they have to do is move me into a faster switch, or migrate me to a new subnetwork. Even worse, if CNN paid to be 2 hops to excite@home, perhaps the end-user has to pay to get such access? (so much for cache-servers)
Ouch. It would be nice to have somethign more universal.. perhaps when DVD-recorders become commonplace, people all have next-generation DVD readers that can read such disks, and of course we have the hardware to create 5+ gigs worth of quality mpeg video =)
Your project definately has it's uses.. and will likely be valuable for as long as DVD players w/vcd and cd-recordable ability exist.
It's widely used in the pirate scene, and apparently works very VERY well for compressing 2 hours of video/audio into about 650 MB worth (1 cd). The only issue is in order to play these types of files you need a fast CPU, about P2/300.
Although this use is not legal, it shows that Mpeg-4 is here and should quickly replace the current defacto standard.
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/support/mpeg4. html
Above is one site , explaining lots about MPEG-4 including the various formats MPEG-4 can be applied to (avi, divx, etc), as well as platform-related information.
Another Div-x related site at: http://www.mydivx.com/
It seems this page is requesting help to make a Linux div-x port, but there seems to be little and/or no substance.
http://linux.divx.st
Here's a link to an Open-source Div-x contest, albeit for the Mac, but it's here: http://www.flashingyellow.com/contest.html
I'm going to hang onto mine, Frankly they could become VERY valuable in the future, depending on how many copies survived.
But, i'm interested to know how much you'd pay..
IBM DOS V1.1 (c) 1982 Microsoft CPM/86 (c) 1982 (i believe it's same year as DOS 1.1?) DEC
Origional IBM-box, in pink-ish colours.
BTW: the Microsoft manual, is really the V1.0 manual with an extra couple pages. Also, on the spine of the box there is a sticker that says V1.1 on it. Funny thing is, on the extra couple of pages in the manual it states things like (not a quote) "If you are upgrading from V1.0 please note that the command interpreter takes an extra 250 bytes of ram while the program loader uses an extra 183 bytes. You may have to adjust your programs to make sure you have enough memory.. blah blah".
I'll dig it up and take pictures for the curious. And also quote it instead of remember off the top of my head.
I believe an antique is anything older than, 25 years? Something like that.. surely some software is finally becoming antique: wether it be an Apple 2, Commodore, etc.
One would be curious to wether antiques are governed differently? Maybe not legally, but on a service such as E-bay.
The patent is dated 1997. THis was light years after POST/GET was invented and implemented in browsers, and other things.
Is it legal to patent something that was done/published before (but maybe not patented?)
Also, does this Konrad work for a large enough company to persue action on this? (I don't think anything could ever come about this.. but you never know)
If your looking for stuff with Linus on it..
on
Inside Transmeta
·
· Score: 1
Your not going to find it.
I have a print copy of the article, and nowhere did they mention Linus torvolds. But, they did have a brief (very brief) mention of Linux.
Mostly, the print article discusses how the company was formed, how the technology came about with some interesting pieces of information on the actual development of the Crusoe, and talks about the trials and turbulations of the above.
I would have liked to see how Linux->Crusoe was going to play a role in Transmeta's future, but considering they would like to cater to all environments (after all, they should be able to morph many/all instruction sets?) giving Linux all their attention/press would take away from that marketing future.
Nonetheless, it's a good article. I have not read the electronic version, so sorry if the E-version has some differnces from the print.
Slashdot Mirror
Right. I see now. I just hope that improvements to service continue to happen. Even if it's late..
Worst case: "Add $5 per month to your account to get rocking-fast speeds from popular sites like cnn.com, cnet.com, mp3.com, tucows.net, etc etc.."
See post #33, or #35.
I hear you dude.. check out post #33.
I was so sick of their slow DNS server i set up my own caching DNS server.
As for uplink, it sucks, but compared to ADSL it's fine (50k/sec verses 15k/sec)
And portscanning? @home scans my IP every 4 hours on NNTP. Ever since i got a new IP (forced to get one) it's been scanning from authorized-scan.security.home.net! I have logs of this going back 4 months now!
If there was an 80/mo alternative to cable/dsl, i'd buy it if the benefits were numerous. But considering the next best thing is 5-10 times that per month (commercial DSL, t1 line, etc) it's just out of reach for almost everyone =( I thought competition (dsl VS cable) would bring faster speeds.. *nope* not yet.
Consider this: I started on 10mbit at university in 1996. Switched to cable. =( Damn was i ever spoiled..
Personally, being a @home customer, I cringe to know that 'routing policy' and/or (i would call it) 'traceroute hops to destination' is becoming a commodity.
I was hoping, that sometime in the future I'd be under 10 hops from my @home to my university (in the same city) instead of the current, 20 hops.
Now, since it's a valuable commodity, and being a residental end-user (read: bottom of the line in corporate sense) I don't think i'll ever see that light of day, or will I?
Quality of service is somethign I value, but I don't want to fork out more dough just to get it.
I can see it now.. "add 5 dollars to your monthly bill to recieve faster, more responsive downloads!" -- and all they have to do is move me into a faster switch, or migrate me to a new subnetwork. Even worse, if CNN paid to be 2 hops to excite@home, perhaps the end-user has to pay to get such access? (so much for cache-servers)
*shudder*
Ouch. It would be nice to have somethign more universal.. perhaps when DVD-recorders become commonplace, people all have next-generation DVD readers that can read such disks, and of course we have the hardware to create 5+ gigs worth of quality mpeg video =)
Your project definately has it's uses.. and will likely be valuable for as long as DVD players w/vcd and cd-recordable ability exist.
Good luck!
Of course..
Let me state: I never intended to say that div-x or Mpeg4 was not legal, in any way shape or form.
I was referring to my example, of which the use of mpeg-4/divx was for purposes that defied the law.
What you are doing is cool nonetheless, but Mpeg-1 is not the best format.. there's a lot of quality loss =(
I can easily see DVD players that may allow to play Mpeg-4 formats, amongst other things..
Of course, right now, mpeg1 (vcd) is one of the only standards. (not all dvd players support it)
I WAS referring to the fact it's widely used in the pirate scene.
I haven't heard/seen any legitimate uses of div-x yet..
I wasn't referring to Div-X in general (or mpeg4) as being illegal.
Most viruses are derived from previous types, a-la Iloveyou, etc.
Who then is the criminal? Who is the 'genuis' behind the virus?
Definatley not those philipino kids.
Yes, you could put a standard-length DVD onto one CD.
You can get about 1 hour in that space, of decent quality DIV-X format.
http://www.flashingyellow.com/contest.html
Here's one for the Mac. I already posted this somewhere around Comment #47 of the origional article.
There is even source code available at this site.. I don't know how far they are though. Evaluate it at your own risk =)
One of the Mpeg-4 hacks is called Div-X.
. html
It's widely used in the pirate scene, and apparently works very VERY well for compressing 2 hours of video/audio into about 650 MB worth (1 cd). The only issue is in order to play these types of files you need a fast CPU, about P2/300.
Although this use is not legal, it shows that Mpeg-4 is here and should quickly replace the current defacto standard.
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/support/mpeg4
Above is one site , explaining lots about MPEG-4 including the various formats MPEG-4 can be applied to (avi, divx, etc), as well as platform-related information.
Another Div-x related site at:
http://www.mydivx.com/
It seems this page is requesting help to make a Linux div-x port, but there seems to be little and/or no substance.
http://linux.divx.st
Here's a link to an Open-source Div-x contest, albeit for the Mac, but it's here:
http://www.flashingyellow.com/contest.html
Yes, I didn't want to piss anyone off so i didn't post it =))
/. conspiracy..
Maybe it's all a conspiracy.. a
=)
Here's some highlights from the log:
1) It uses a restricted bash shell =)
Log highlights follows:
Linux version 2.2.15-2.5.0 (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.
..
Calibrating delay loop... 33.18 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14248k/16384k available (1148k kernel code, 416k reserved, 488k data, 84
k init, 0k bigmem)
..
CPU: AMD 02/0a stepping 04
..
hda: SunDisk SDTB-128, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: SunDisk SDTB-128, 15MB w/1kB Cache, CHS=490/2/32
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
..
and further:
bailey% uptime
10:19am up 59 days, 10:10, 5 users, load average: 0.15, 0.08, 0.01
bailey%ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4B:00:2D:19
inet addr:209.185.108.212 Bcast:209.185.108.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5726415 errors:0 dropped:379 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:103461 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:1121 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
*drool*
bash$ ssh -l guest www2.tiqit.com /usr/local/bin/ssh1 for ssh1 compatibility.
Executing
No mail.
The available commands are: cd, date, df, dmesg, du, exit, ifconfig,
logout, last, ls, more, ps, pwd, route, top, uptime, users, w, who, whoami
To see this list again just hit return
Inactivity autologout set to 2 minutes
bailey%
http://www.tiqit.com/human/history/
ssh -l guest www2.tiquit.com
Fully authorized by the Tiquit company!
Can I have a copy of your "k-rad Elite" plugin for your web browser?
Please?
http://auctions.msn.com/Scripts/ListingInfo.asp?Lo tNo=12887227&SiteCatNo=
Microsoft's own auction site contains MS products.
And, this auction was posted yesterday..
I'm going to hang onto mine, Frankly they could become VERY valuable in the future, depending on how many copies survived.
But, i'm interested to know how much you'd pay..
IBM DOS V1.1 (c) 1982 Microsoft
CPM/86 (c) 1982 (i believe it's same year as DOS 1.1?) DEC
Origional IBM-box, in pink-ish colours.
BTW: the Microsoft manual, is really the V1.0 manual with an extra couple pages. Also, on the spine of the box there is a sticker that says V1.1 on it. Funny thing is, on the extra couple of pages in the manual it states things like (not a quote) "If you are upgrading from V1.0 please note that the command interpreter takes an extra 250 bytes of ram while the program loader uses an extra 183 bytes. You may have to adjust your programs to make sure you have enough memory.. blah blah".
I'll dig it up and take pictures for the curious. And also quote it instead of remember off the top of my head.
I also have CPM/86, also an IBM package.
Those are the only two good vintage pieces of software i own =)
Yes, how about this:
I believe an antique is anything older than, 25 years? Something like that.. surely some software is finally becoming antique: wether it be an Apple 2, Commodore, etc.
One would be curious to wether antiques are governed differently? Maybe not legally, but on a service such as E-bay.
Any insights?
I have a BOX copy of IBM DOS 1.1 with origional manual/disk
Granted it came with a system, but it was made by Microsoft. Will they stop me?
Yes, and your right =))
I thought that was cool, but I also thought it would mention something about Linus's involvement.
Too bad..
=(
The patent is dated 1997. THis was light years after POST/GET was invented and implemented in browsers, and other things.
Is it legal to patent something that was done/published before (but maybe not patented?)
Also, does this Konrad work for a large enough company to persue action on this? (I don't think anything could ever come about this.. but you never know)
Your not going to find it.
I have a print copy of the article, and nowhere did they mention Linus torvolds. But, they did have a brief (very brief) mention of Linux.
Mostly, the print article discusses how the company was formed, how the technology came about with some interesting pieces of information on the actual development of the Crusoe, and talks about the trials and turbulations of the above.
I would have liked to see how Linux->Crusoe was going to play a role in Transmeta's future, but considering they would like to cater to all environments (after all, they should be able to morph many/all instruction sets?) giving Linux all their attention/press would take away from that marketing future.
Nonetheless, it's a good article. I have not read the electronic version, so sorry if the E-version has some differnces from the print.