If you only need basic firewalling, Netgear and Linksys both make a nice unit that consumes little power. (Note to trims: the Netgear is actually a little nicer than the Linksys)
If you want a new, full Pentium-classs PC on the cheap and tiny, consider any of the 7x9 MediaGX point of sale boards. $70-$120, depending on what else comes glued to the board. Smaller than any of the MATX or MAT boards, but you still have to put the cards in vertically.
Otherwise, Olivetti, NEC and AT&T (NCR) made a small form PC (I have the NCR 3232 on my desk, playing MP3s) One and only one ISA slot in any of them. (although they did make a VLB model, I've never actually seen one). They came in SX, DX-2, DX-4 Enhanced, and 5x86 configurations, although you can ramp any of them up to 120 or 133 with blind jumper guesses. If you've got a multiport 3COM lying around, or are only planning on pulling over serial modems, this would be the way to go. Usually $20-$40, sans memory. Add another $10 for a decent DX4-120, and $10 for a 300M Seagate.
If you need more power than that, there are a few micro-ATX style Celeron boards, but those will run you $200 with chip. Most I have seen come with an onboard 'Netelligent' type Ethernet adaptor, so you will still need two Ethernet cards.
After lightly stepping on the cat (Poor Felix!) I still think the cat is irrelevant.
Well, irrelevant to the total sound of the music, but not personally irrelevant, unless you're wearing combat boots, which I wasn't. I have three bleeding clawmarks down my left leg now, thank you!
As a rabid Elton John fan and the former owner of three pair of said Radio Shack 'Slimline' walkie talkies, I decided to do a little experiment.
While no Radio Shack walkie-talkies were available for this scientific endeavor, I was able to locate a Tandy wireless intercom that sounds much the same.
For testing of the 'scratch' media, I used each of my three vintage turntables (1922 Victorola, a 1960's Sears Portable, and a 1972 Panasonic Quadraphonic), and tried to replicate the sound.
Testing media consisted of my father's collection of 1960-1980 LPs, including such greats as 'The Bee Gees', 'Emerson, Lake and Palmer', and the 1970's Disco diva Gloria Gaynor. I also selected two of the poorest examples of Elton John I had on hand, a severly scratched copy of 'Madman Across the Water' and a nearly mutilated copy of 'Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy' which is also short the dustjacket.
As a result, I'd say it's is nothing like scratching Elton John whilst playing the Beastie Boys over a Radio Shack walkie talkie.
However, it sounds exactly like a Barbara Streisand 45 scratched on a dull, steel-needled Victorola set to speed 2, coupled with random Steven Tyler screeches. Grab Aerosmith's last album, 'Nine Lives', and listen to 'My Girl' for a good example. The rest is provided by by a copy of 'Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch's premire album played in a skip happy Sony CD changer, broadcast over said wireless intercom with the 'Fine-Tuning' screw set all the way to the right on the base unit and all the way to the left on the remote.
Independant confirmation of my result is encouraged.
Perhaps that's why there aren't many women in the Unix technical arena, especially further up the chain. They can't get the beard...
Myself, I'll be stereotypically stuck near Number 2; Acid burns have left me unable to grow a beard, so I'm stuck with a rather pathetic goatee as my only option.
Perhaps I'll become a MCSE. I've always considered most Microsoftians bald-faced liars..
It's just the ugly head of the 'Hacker/Cracker' debate rearing into view.. We know that the fellow was a cracker, but either AP doesn't know or doesn't care. 'Hackers' are evil, scary guys to be persecuted in the media, doncha know?
He's correcting their grammar, nothing more..
Hemos might also have started a Holy war with his correction, but the trolls and instigators have yet to notice, so we'll see..
'Wargames'.. Broderick broke into the WOPR (War Operations Programmed Response).
Well, it wasn't totally his fault. The box was supposed to play war games, and come up with a winning outcome. It wasn't supposed to launch missiles, etc. Just like in the NASA situation, some shithead forgot the principle of airgapping.
I've always wondered how they would have managed to put the WOPR back to work after it had the realization that 'The only winning move is not to play'.
Yes, the early 6x86 ran hotter than Hades.. But that was 1996, and that was ancient history.. The prognosticators made fun of the p54c chips a year earlier, and they ran far cooler!! Look at the MII.. Cold as ice, stable as a promise of hell from a Catholic priest. Or the MediaGX; Cold, fast enough, and zero power.. You could pack the GX into a space half the sixe of the competition without sacrifice as well!!
Cyrix chips have never been fireballs; and this one is no exception. They are great, cold chips for installed systems and cost sensitive applications.. People looking for secondary market PII will have a reasonable primary solution to fall back on.
I'm hoping they turn it into another GX, EG a low power, 'put me anywhere' chip and board..
The legal department is there for all employees who have on-the-job questions. Call up the corporate counsel and let him/her know that you have been asked to break the law on behalf of the company. See how he/she feels about it. Make certain they get a copy of the EULA, too..
If the company is aboveboard, I suspect you'll get the correct number of licenses in a hurry, and your boss will avoid you for a while. If not, like 'Bruce' said, they'll screw anyone and everyone. Start looking elsewhere...
I'm ashamed to admit it, but I once did exactly this.. VMware on NT booting Linux, Linux running ZSnes in Wine, and playing Super Mario Kart.. All because NT wouldn't run ZSnes right, and I was bored..
C'mon! Any one else do this? Don't tell me you haven't!
There are only two ways to play Slashdot, paranoid and not paranoid.
Playing the latter means you feed the knee-jerk trolls, fall into some of the intentional flame wars, and generally get a finger poked at you in the troll circles. No one is a universal expert, so all of the trusting look naive from time to time.
Playing the former means seldom replying, seldom discussing. Flaming on the least suspect of posts, and constantly bitching to oneself in the forums.
Posts like this only go to feed the paranoia.. Slashdot started out trusting, and I'd like to see it that way!
Some (if not most) of us were aware of the troll forum, and just let it be. It was hard to miss for the devotees of osm, TroLLaXoR (I never cap that right!), etc.. Please, leave it and the rest of them be!
The only political issue would be the purchase of Windows to run the game; The game companies could care what platform they wrote the game for, as long as they could sell it.
Using Wine to keep cash out of the pockets of Gates & Company is not poiltical. It's the right thing to do.. Pirating Win32 games does nothing to improve the situation, it's just wrong.
You would love it!! The pay is substandard, the hours are longish, but when was the last time you got to play video games on a half million dollar machine?? Or take a $90,000 Compaq home for the week to make sure it was 'up to snuff'?? Or do things to a powered S80 that would make hardened IBM engineers blush? Or juggle $150,000 processor plates from an IBM 370 mainframe?
A kick ass multiplayer video game, the sucessor to Diablo.. Basically you run around in a dungeon trying to kill "Diablo"s current incarnation.. The graphics were (are?) a bit cheesy, reminding me of Fallout2. But the orig rocked my ass off, and this one will too! Get yerself a copy and enjoy calling in sick fer the next three days!!
Ah! Let me know when you distill down the events and figure out the starting date. Not only damn funny, but a great waste of karma..
How about 'Best Troll Impersonation', where the objective it to look exactly like one of the established trolls. (Eg, an fake Fat-time & Lubie, a new episode of 'Star Wars') Or perhaps "Most Believable goatse.cx Link".
Don't apologize. I know the feeling. I just spew on IRC instead, cuz a realtime trolling is so much more satisfying. I have been known to make a total ass out myself Slashing drunk tho..
Those fuckers have been selling switches since the early days of DOS. I remember seeing my first one on triplet of Olivetti 7186-20. (a mainframe 'bridge' running a pair of 8088, oddly enough) No box was big enough to handle more than one mainframe, so you bought one for each.
But the single user *nix or purpose built boxes died, replaced by multi user *nix, Novell and Cisco that could be manipulated over the network. They grew up. Windows was the only OS that didn't.
We (as in Slashdot, not you and I) have a regular troll (as in moderatly funny offtopic poster, not the mythical bridge-loving hairy kind) who seems to have made a running joke (as in from the Laugh-it-was funny-the-first-five-times-but-not-now Dept.) out of the act of pouring grits (as in a hot breakfast food enjoyed by ninja and those south of the Mason-Dixon Line, not what you find on sandpaper) down his or her pants. (as in the cloth covering you are hopefully wearing over your legs, not what a dog does in summer.)
He (the troll) is affectionatly known as "The Hot Grits Guy" (for obvious reasons, the most notable is that we don't rightly know his name). If you would like, you can scroll (use that bar on the right border of your browser) down to the end of the page (as in this article) and see some of his (as in, The Hot Grits Guy) work. (as in, his posts.) While you're down there, look for "The Saga of the Troll War", "Star (as in hot young actress) Wars, as well as Mr. Patrick Bateman's soulful "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!".
Yes, but that was the only way they could get away with a lame villan line Lex Luthor.. Neo has to deal with "Agent Smith", a much more menacing nemesis..
If you can use a pre-SP3 NT box, any of the malformed packet attacks will do it for you. (Teardrop, etc) While the machine won't necessarily blue screen, it will become invisible and unresponsive to the network with a variety of attacks..
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Does this means I can finally part with the 200+ OEM copies of Win95 OSR2 and Windows98SE I have sitting in the back room, and do it legally??
Man, does it suck to have to pay for the software and then not be eligible to sell it... Not for resale, my ass..
If you only need basic firewalling, Netgear and Linksys both make a nice unit that consumes little power. (Note to trims: the Netgear is actually a little nicer than the Linksys)
If you want a new, full Pentium-classs PC on the cheap and tiny, consider any of the 7x9 MediaGX point of sale boards. $70-$120, depending on what else comes glued to the board. Smaller than any of the MATX or MAT boards, but you still have to put the cards in vertically.
Otherwise, Olivetti, NEC and AT&T (NCR) made a small form PC (I have the NCR 3232 on my desk, playing MP3s) One and only one ISA slot in any of them. (although they did make a VLB model, I've never actually seen one). They came in SX, DX-2, DX-4 Enhanced, and 5x86 configurations, although you can ramp any of them up to 120 or 133 with blind jumper guesses. If you've got a multiport 3COM lying around, or are only planning on pulling over serial modems, this would be the way to go. Usually $20-$40, sans memory. Add another $10 for a decent DX4-120, and $10 for a 300M Seagate.
If you need more power than that, there are a few micro-ATX style Celeron boards, but those will run you $200 with chip. Most I have seen come with an onboard 'Netelligent' type Ethernet adaptor, so you will still need two Ethernet cards.
After lightly stepping on the cat (Poor Felix!) I still think the cat is irrelevant.
Well, irrelevant to the total sound of the music, but not personally irrelevant, unless you're wearing combat boots, which I wasn't. I have three bleeding clawmarks down my left leg now, thank you!
As a rabid Elton John fan and the former owner of three pair of said Radio Shack 'Slimline' walkie talkies, I decided to do a little experiment.
While no Radio Shack walkie-talkies were available for this scientific endeavor, I was able to locate a Tandy wireless intercom that sounds much the same.
For testing of the 'scratch' media, I used each of my three vintage turntables (1922 Victorola, a 1960's Sears Portable, and a 1972 Panasonic Quadraphonic), and tried to replicate the sound.
Testing media consisted of my father's collection of 1960-1980 LPs, including such greats as 'The Bee Gees', 'Emerson, Lake and Palmer', and the 1970's Disco diva Gloria Gaynor. I also selected two of the poorest examples of Elton John I had on hand, a severly scratched copy of 'Madman Across the Water' and a nearly mutilated copy of 'Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy' which is also short the dustjacket.
As a result, I'd say it's is nothing like scratching Elton John whilst playing the Beastie Boys over a Radio Shack walkie talkie.
However, it sounds exactly like a Barbara Streisand 45 scratched on a dull, steel-needled Victorola set to speed 2, coupled with random Steven Tyler screeches. Grab Aerosmith's last album, 'Nine Lives', and listen to 'My Girl' for a good example. The rest is provided by by a copy of 'Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch's premire album played in a skip happy Sony CD changer, broadcast over said wireless intercom with the 'Fine-Tuning' screw set all the way to the right on the base unit and all the way to the left on the remote.
Independant confirmation of my result is encouraged.
Perhaps that's why there aren't many women in the Unix technical arena, especially further up the chain. They can't get the beard...
Myself, I'll be stereotypically stuck near Number 2; Acid burns have left me unable to grow a beard, so I'm stuck with a rather pathetic goatee as my only option.
Perhaps I'll become a MCSE. I've always considered most Microsoftians bald-faced liars..
Has this 'game' been written? If not, I'm going to toss a clone together tonight, if you don't mind..
It's at least as entertaining as paranoia!!
It's just the ugly head of the 'Hacker/Cracker' debate rearing into view.. We know that the fellow was a cracker, but either AP doesn't know or doesn't care. 'Hackers' are evil, scary guys to be persecuted in the media, doncha know?
He's correcting their grammar, nothing more..
Hemos might also have started a Holy war with his correction, but the trolls and instigators have yet to notice, so we'll see..
'Wargames'.. Broderick broke into the WOPR (War Operations Programmed Response).
Well, it wasn't totally his fault. The box was supposed to play war games, and come up with a winning outcome. It wasn't supposed to launch missiles, etc. Just like in the NASA situation, some shithead forgot the principle of airgapping.
I've always wondered how they would have managed to put the WOPR back to work after it had the realization that 'The only winning move is not to play'.
Yes, the early 6x86 ran hotter than Hades.. But that was 1996, and that was ancient history.. The prognosticators made fun of the p54c chips a year earlier, and they ran far cooler!! Look at the MII.. Cold as ice, stable as a promise of hell from a Catholic priest. Or the MediaGX; Cold, fast enough, and zero power.. You could pack the GX into a space half the sixe of the competition without sacrifice as well!!
Cyrix chips have never been fireballs; and this one is no exception. They are great, cold chips for installed systems and cost sensitive applications.. People looking for secondary market PII will have a reasonable primary solution to fall back on.
I'm hoping they turn it into another GX, EG a low power, 'put me anywhere' chip and board..
The legal department is there for all employees who have on-the-job questions. Call up the corporate counsel and let him/her know that you have been asked to break the law on behalf of the company. See how he/she feels about it. Make certain they get a copy of the EULA, too..
If the company is aboveboard, I suspect you'll get the correct number of licenses in a hurry, and your boss will avoid you for a while. If not, like 'Bruce' said, they'll screw anyone and everyone. Start looking elsewhere...
I'm ashamed to admit it, but I once did exactly this.. VMware on NT booting Linux, Linux running ZSnes in Wine, and playing Super Mario Kart.. All because NT wouldn't run ZSnes right, and I was bored..
C'mon! Any one else do this? Don't tell me you haven't!
There are only two ways to play Slashdot, paranoid and not paranoid.
Playing the latter means you feed the knee-jerk trolls, fall into some of the intentional flame wars, and generally get a finger poked at you in the troll circles. No one is a universal expert, so all of the trusting look naive from time to time.
Playing the former means seldom replying, seldom discussing. Flaming on the least suspect of posts, and constantly bitching to oneself in the forums.
Posts like this only go to feed the paranoia.. Slashdot started out trusting, and I'd like to see it that way!
Some (if not most) of us were aware of the troll forum, and just let it be. It was hard to miss for the devotees of osm, TroLLaXoR (I never cap that right!), etc.. Please, leave it and the rest of them be!
1. Clever illustration. 2. Good style. 3. What the hell's up? Seriously.. WTF is up with that?
The only political issue would be the purchase of Windows to run the game; The game companies could care what platform they wrote the game for, as long as they could sell it.
Using Wine to keep cash out of the pockets of Gates & Company is not poiltical. It's the right thing to do.. Pirating Win32 games does nothing to improve the situation, it's just wrong.
I'm assuming you're a techie.
You would love it!! The pay is substandard, the hours are longish, but when was the last time you got to play video games on a half million dollar machine?? Or take a $90,000 Compaq home for the week to make sure it was 'up to snuff'?? Or do things to a powered S80 that would make hardened IBM engineers blush? Or juggle $150,000 processor plates from an IBM 370 mainframe?
Nuff said.
WINE
Seriously.. I'd betcha WINE runs it..
CmdrTaco?!?
Cowboy Neil?!?!
Someone cycle their dual-Xeon back into Linux and check for us!
A kick ass multiplayer video game, the sucessor to Diablo.. Basically you run around in a dungeon trying to kill "Diablo"s current incarnation.. The graphics were (are?) a bit cheesy, reminding me of Fallout2. But the orig rocked my ass off, and this one will too! Get yerself a copy and enjoy calling in sick fer the next three days!!
Ah! Let me know when you distill down the events
and figure out the starting date. Not only damn
funny, but a great waste of karma..
How about 'Best Troll Impersonation', where the
objective it to look exactly like one of the
established trolls. (Eg, an fake Fat-time & Lubie,
a new episode of 'Star Wars') Or perhaps "Most
Believable goatse.cx Link".
Don't apologize. I know the feeling. I just spew on IRC instead, cuz a realtime trolling is so much more satisfying. I have been known to make a total ass out myself Slashing drunk tho..
/. Olympics?
Now what was that about a
Those fuckers have been selling switches since the early days of DOS. I remember seeing my first one on triplet of Olivetti 7186-20. (a mainframe 'bridge' running a pair of 8088, oddly enough) No box was big enough to handle more than one mainframe, so you bought one for each.
But the single user *nix or purpose built boxes died, replaced by multi user *nix, Novell and Cisco that could be manipulated over the network. They grew up. Windows was the only OS that didn't.
Let me make this as clear as possible:
We (as in Slashdot, not you and I) have a regular troll (as in moderatly funny offtopic poster, not the mythical bridge-loving hairy kind) who seems to have made a running joke (as in from the Laugh-it-was funny-the-first-five-times-but-not-now Dept.) out of the act of pouring grits (as in a hot breakfast food enjoyed by ninja and those south of the Mason-Dixon Line, not what you find on sandpaper) down his or her pants. (as in the cloth covering you are hopefully wearing over your legs, not what a dog does in summer.)
He (the troll) is affectionatly known as "The Hot Grits Guy" (for obvious reasons, the most notable is that we don't rightly know his name). If you would like, you can scroll (use that bar on the right border of your browser) down to the end of the page (as in this article) and see some of his (as in, The Hot Grits Guy) work. (as in, his posts.) While you're down there, look for "The Saga of the Troll War", "Star (as in hot young actress) Wars, as well as Mr. Patrick Bateman's soulful "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!".
Yes, but that was the only way they could get away with a lame villan line Lex Luthor.. Neo has to deal with "Agent Smith", a much more menacing nemesis..
SP5 and 6 BSOD, but not reliably..
SP4, which contained the initial fix for getadmin,
is still vunerable to it!
If you can use a pre-SP3 NT box, any of the malformed packet attacks will do it for you. (Teardrop, etc) While the machine won't necessarily blue screen, it will become invisible and unresponsive to the network with a variety of attacks..