Legend of the Green Dragon - Free clone of Legend of the Red Dragon. It's almost at the 1.0 release. I played a slightly older release of it a few months back, and I can attest that it's quite addictive. It's also quite customizable with regards to setting (characters, enemies, places, etc.) and skins.
You need to be careful if you're not providing outside access. First, you will still need to protect users against infections (just for liability, even though you didn't infect them and they should've protected themselves). It's as likely an infected Windows node will come inside your LAN as one would have found your network had it been on the Internet. And a malicious user could easily enter your network and begin attacking hosts.
Preferably (if possible, this is theory), assign 10.n.x.2 addresses, with your router responding to 10.n.anything.1. Let n be constant for your network, but x be the number assigned to each user. Give a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. Thus you cannot reach another node without asking the router, who will of course deny; if you're blocking outside access, it should refuse to serve anything to 10.n.x.2 but 10.n.x.1. (If the request is on port 80, of course, explain the lack of outside access.)
Second, when outside Internet access through wireless covers your area, you either need to (possibly negotiate with the provider to) provide access yourself, talk to the provider about making yourself just a node on his nettwork, or provide clear instructions on how to switch from your BBS to the other provider. (It should be just a matter of changing the channel.)
BT connects one modem from a modem pool at each side's local office.
Modem demodulates incoming data and sends it over IP (this is VoIP, after all). Modem on other end modulates IP data and sends it over a short, more reliable connection.
Data can be compressed over the IP network, and the modem gets a high-quality line to the local office instead of the longer loop to the other modem. BT has decreased bandwith use, since it's sending raw data, not encoded modemsong.
Everyone's happy (as long as BT uses IPSec or somesuch and doesn't log the data). And your modem knows the difference...through the higher connection speed.
You think that life, existence, etc. is pointless, because you can mentally grasp all of those things, at least at the abstract level necessary, and you see that it's self-contained, and there's nothing else for it to affect (or at least, what it affects is inside the same closed system).
Can you name anything with a point to it? Whatever you might try, it can be rationalized to the point that it's only worth itself, and doesn't impact anything outside of it.
Then, everything is pointless. However, somethings are more pointless than others (e.g., watching the grass grow vs. finishing a level of education). So why not redefine your scale of worth so that only the truly pointless things are pointless, and the not that useless things are called useful?
Surely it is useless (sorry) to have a scale of usefulness with nothing on one side of it.
Suppose SCO won in court and Linux were effectively destroyed. What would it really impact, in the end? Then why do we fight so much against SCO?
1) The type of first moderation of a comment will most likely be the type of all moderations. Maybe moderation could do with a metamoderation interface: don't see the existing scores or author, just rate +1, 0, or -1 (no reason?), and rate relatively recent comments. Finalize the score if it would have reached -2 or 6.
2) An offtopic reply to an offtopic part of a comment will be accepted, but a reply to that comment will be Offtopicked.
Speaking of which, is there access to the IP network on which the VoIP will run? It'd make a nice WAN with reasonable latency for BT customers only, and text messaging over landline may be a worthwhile idea for them....besides, it'd be fun to explore.
No, it hasn't. I added the extra [example.com] text after the link manually, just to be nice; it's static text that reflects the current status of the search. It would be a grand resource hog for Slashdot look up the top result on Google for each Lucky-felt comment after each Google update cycle.
(Score: -1) Did I just give an intelligent answer to an intelligent question by a troll!?
Any more wild unnrelated speculation? If you even read the summary, you'd notice the mention of roots of the zeta function and the absence of anything saying "prime number".
Besides, for it to affect anything, you'd have to disprove a hypothesis that has been hard to prove or disprove; then we'd have to change assumptions. A valid proof would only reinforce assumptions.
Hey. Our church's choir (of which I am a part) can make use of the preaching as well as anyone else can....don't assume that being at the front of the church means you know everything about the religion.
"Standing a garage no more makes you a car than sitting in a church makes you a Christian." -Anonymous
Besides, MAC means Media Access Control, i.e., NIC unique ID number. I think I remember something about a Tech Support Horror Story where "you don't use Mac addresses on Windows" or some such.
In china, for instance, certain kinds of political material are illegal, so by your argument there is nothing wrong with the Chinese government blocking it.
No, I see nothing wrong with the government blocking material the government has declared illegal. I only see something wrong in the material being illegal in the first place. What kind of useless government would not want to block illegal material and let it pass happily along?
As long as the material itself was originally illegal, if the government blocks it, there is no more harm done. (At least this way people won't get wrongly arrested, arrested and tortured, etc., so there is some benefit.) And if you are not going to respect the law against the material, you're going to find some way around the overt censorship.
I've always wondered if we can replace the Windows NT kernel and loader with Free ones based off Linux or HURD or something...much in the style of ReactOS, but with an MS proprietary operating system, non-kernel DLLs, etc. running over the kernel. Or if the NT kernel can run a fully POSIX operating system. GNU/NT or Windows/Linux, anyone?
Hmn. If you set your machine to be able to use a Dvorak or French layout or some other keyboard layout where the letter caps are switched, your password could be an easy phrase in QWERTY typed while in Dvorak (or whatever) mode. If you didn't know the keyboard layout, you couldn't reveal the password without having a physical Dvorak keyboard in front of you.
If you're asked for the password, you can say "It's 'blurp', but typed while in Dvorak mode," to which the response is "How do you get your computer to Dvorak mode?" "I'm not required to tell you. It's not part of my password."
A h^Hcracker of course would have trouble breaking your password with a dictionary attack.
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Because Microsoft copyrights stuff, and Apple uses OSS.
Legend of the Green Dragon - Free clone of Legend of the Red Dragon. It's almost at the 1.0 release. I played a slightly older release of it a few months back, and I can attest that it's quite addictive. It's also quite customizable with regards to setting (characters, enemies, places, etc.) and skins.
LotGD SourceForge project page
A compiler for the VB2000 processor. Everything must be written in VB for the processer to interpret it. C must be compiled into VB.
You need to be careful if you're not providing outside access. First, you will still need to protect users against infections (just for liability, even though you didn't infect them and they should've protected themselves). It's as likely an infected Windows node will come inside your LAN as one would have found your network had it been on the Internet. And a malicious user could easily enter your network and begin attacking hosts.
Preferably (if possible, this is theory), assign 10.n.x.2 addresses, with your router responding to 10.n.anything.1. Let n be constant for your network, but x be the number assigned to each user. Give a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. Thus you cannot reach another node without asking the router, who will of course deny; if you're blocking outside access, it should refuse to serve anything to 10.n.x.2 but 10.n.x.1. (If the request is on port 80, of course, explain the lack of outside access.)
Second, when outside Internet access through wireless covers your area, you either need to (possibly negotiate with the provider to) provide access yourself, talk to the provider about making yourself just a node on his nettwork, or provide clear instructions on how to switch from your BBS to the other provider. (It should be just a matter of changing the channel.)
Why not...
BT detects modem/fax carrier after dial.
BT connects one modem from a modem pool at each side's local office.
Modem demodulates incoming data and sends it over IP (this is VoIP, after all). Modem on other end modulates IP data and sends it over a short, more reliable connection.
Data can be compressed over the IP network, and the modem gets a high-quality line to the local office instead of the longer loop to the other modem. BT has decreased bandwith use, since it's sending raw data, not encoded modemsong.
Everyone's happy (as long as BT uses IPSec or somesuch and doesn't log the data). And your modem knows the difference...through the higher connection speed.
You think that life, existence, etc. is pointless, because you can mentally grasp all of those things, at least at the abstract level necessary, and you see that it's self-contained, and there's nothing else for it to affect (or at least, what it affects is inside the same closed system).
Can you name anything with a point to it? Whatever you might try, it can be rationalized to the point that it's only worth itself, and doesn't impact anything outside of it.
Then, everything is pointless. However, somethings are more pointless than others (e.g., watching the grass grow vs. finishing a level of education). So why not redefine your scale of worth so that only the truly pointless things are pointless, and the not that useless things are called useful?
Surely it is useless (sorry) to have a scale of usefulness with nothing on one side of it.
Suppose SCO won in court and Linux were effectively destroyed. What would it really impact, in the end? Then why do we fight so much against SCO?
Here's two more rules:
1) The type of first moderation of a comment will most likely be the type of all moderations. Maybe moderation could do with a metamoderation interface: don't see the existing scores or author, just rate +1, 0, or -1 (no reason?), and rate relatively recent comments. Finalize the score if it would have reached -2 or 6.
2) An offtopic reply to an offtopic part of a comment will be accepted, but a reply to that comment will be Offtopicked.
Or our hero Andrew Tanenbaum. It was his "doing" that caused the entire AdTI controversy.
Speaking of which, is there access to the IP network on which the VoIP will run? It'd make a nice WAN with reasonable latency for BT customers only, and text messaging over landline may be a worthwhile idea for them....besides, it'd be fun to explore.
I would agree if the company hadn't modeled its name on Apple's products.
No, it hasn't. I added the extra [example.com] text after the link manually, just to be nice; it's static text that reflects the current status of the search. It would be a grand resource hog for Slashdot look up the top result on Google for each Lucky-felt comment after each Google update cycle.
(Score: -1)
Did I just give an intelligent answer to an intelligent question by a troll!?
I didn't say I agreed with it. Matter of fact, I wouldn't call a man who managed to be the most powerful guy in the world too much of a failure....
How many others have a sig like mine? Of course, it doesn't help, since it's a link to Slashdot itself.
While we're at it, try Google's I'm Feeling Lucky on miserable failure [whitehouse.gov], weapons of mass destruction [blueyonder.co.uk], french military victories [albinoblacksheep.com], or anti-war peace protestors [albinoblacksheep.com].
So what you're saying is, politics killed the radio star?
No, and it doesn't.
Any more wild unnrelated speculation? If you even read the summary, you'd notice the mention of roots of the zeta function and the absence of anything saying "prime number".
Besides, for it to affect anything, you'd have to disprove a hypothesis that has been hard to prove or disprove; then we'd have to change assumptions. A valid proof would only reinforce assumptions.
Hey. Our church's choir (of which I am a part) can make use of the preaching as well as anyone else can....don't assume that being at the front of the church means you know everything about the religion.
"Standing a garage no more makes you a car than sitting in a church makes you a Christian." -Anonymous
Besides, MAC means Media Access Control, i.e., NIC unique ID number. I think I remember something about a Tech Support Horror Story where "you don't use Mac addresses on Windows" or some such.
In china, for instance, certain kinds of political material are illegal, so by your argument there is nothing wrong with the Chinese government blocking it.
No, I see nothing wrong with the government blocking material the government has declared illegal. I only see something wrong in the material being illegal in the first place. What kind of useless government would not want to block illegal material and let it pass happily along?
As long as the material itself was originally illegal, if the government blocks it, there is no more harm done. (At least this way people won't get wrongly arrested, arrested and tortured, etc., so there is some benefit.) And if you are not going to respect the law against the material, you're going to find some way around the overt censorship.
Can't they just URL-block the Freenet website? Port 80, known IP, known Host: string, single computer, standard HTTP....
Um...they're white. Some logic there....
Mmm...apple tacos.
By your logic, Apple does not need to support itself because Windows users, in general, have no need for it.
Why don't you try running a successful large company and get a feel for not being a producer, not a consumer?
I've always wondered if we can replace the Windows NT kernel and loader with Free ones based off Linux or HURD or something...much in the style of ReactOS, but with an MS proprietary operating system, non-kernel DLLs, etc. running over the kernel. Or if the NT kernel can run a fully POSIX operating system. GNU/NT or Windows/Linux, anyone?
Just because they both end with the same letters doesn't mean the GNAA has anything to do with the RIAA.
At least I hope not. I sincerely hope not. Although it would explain a lot....
Hmn. If you set your machine to be able to use a Dvorak or French layout or some other keyboard layout where the letter caps are switched, your password could be an easy phrase in QWERTY typed while in Dvorak (or whatever) mode. If you didn't know the keyboard layout, you couldn't reveal the password without having a physical Dvorak keyboard in front of you.
If you're asked for the password, you can say "It's 'blurp', but typed while in Dvorak mode," to which the response is "How do you get your computer to Dvorak mode?" "I'm not required to tell you. It's not part of my password."
A h^Hcracker of course would have trouble breaking your password with a dictionary attack.