Circuit City has had display models available for weeks. I used one about 3 weeks ago (played Mario Advance), and it was cool as hell - I've already got a pre-order in.
Amazing that they claim to be a competitor to a product that doesn't even exist, and doesn't have any credibility in the market it is entering yet. I guess it just proves that M$ is the master of the hype market. Now only if they could produce a decent product before it hits version 3.0...
Here's your start... check out <a href="http://www.lanner-usa.com/em-586.htm">thi s</a> motherboard. It's about the size of a CD-Rom drive, and it has VGA,10/100, sound, and even LCD onboard. I don't know what kind of quality you're gonna get from the onboard sound, but there is one PCI slot as well, so you can jam a SB Live! card in it if need be. The boards can be found on Ebay for around a hundred bucks. Shave down your Linux kernel, throw it on a RAM disk, and you can probably get a pretty damn quick boot time. I've been planning this in the back of my mind for a long time, but I haven't gotten around to doing it yet.
So, does this mean that Hitachi, Micron, and everyone else that perviously had to pay Rambus royalties will get their money back? It's about time this bully got its ass beat.
21 January 2001 Yahoo.com and Microsoft.com Traffic Redirected
A faulty Domain Name System (DNS) table appears to be to blame for
deflecting Internet traffic aimed at yahoo.com and Microsoft.com to
MyDomains.com. While MyDomain.com's president acknowledges his company
inadvertently released an error-ridden DNS table, he also said that ISPs
should use the "authoritative" name servers to direct traffic instead
of relying on nearby tables. One security consultant suggested that
the vulnerability has the potential to be seriously abused.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/519306.asp
Yeah, the icecast boys have been talking about streaming MPEG video for a while now, and I believe that some hackers have already gotten it to work (Gotta love open source). Sign up for the mailing list at their site, and fire away - they have been very helpful to me in the past.
I saw the trailer for Antitrust the last time I was in the theater, and I immediately noticed the telltale Gnome foot in the bottom left screen. After going to the website and seeing the bio on John Hall, I realized that this had the potential to be a halfway decent geek movie like Sneakers, and not total crap like The Net or Hackers. The trailer can be viewed (Quicktime, high-speed connection needed) here
WARNING... PLOT SPOILER BELOW! IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE DON't READ ON!
(I can't remember any of the character names, so please bear with me...)
Ok, Remember when Arnold meets up with the anti-cloning dude that killed his buddy? The dude wanted Arnold to shoot him in the head, so he couldn't be cloned.
Fast-forward to the scene where the Arnold is shown footage of the villain (who looks way too much like Steve Jobs, IMHO) getting killed on the mountain top. The reason we see the footage is because it's through the villain's eyes. We see him getting killed by the anti-cloning zealot. Now, if the guy knows enough about the cloning process to request that Arnold shoot him in the head, then why the hell didn't he shoot the bad guy in the head when he was on the mountain?
Somewhat off-topic, but this is a good forum to vent...:-)
I downloaded the final release of NS 6 as soon as it (officially) came out. I had been sick of having to load IE just to view pages that won't load in NS 4.x, and I was on the vergoe of moving to IE altogether. The only reason I haven't made the switch is because of my innate hatred for Microsoft, and the fact that, since I've been using Netscape since Mosaic, it has some sentimental value.
I am very disappointed with the new Netscape. The themes are nice, and the interface is an improvement, but it has wayyy too many problems. It takes forever to launch- so much so that, if I launch it by opening a local.htm or.jpg file, Windows times out with "cannot find the file specified" before NSCP launches. The browser is buggy, clunky, and feels like a beta. Unlike its predecessor, it only writes to the history file upon exit, so when (not if) it crashes, I can't get back to the page via the history. I have been a staunch supporter of Netscape for years, but I just can't do it anymore.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.... So I spelled Rambus wrong, AND complicated, AND made a bajillion other grammatical errors....
I was all excited to see my posting on slashdot, until I read it and saw all the mistakes I made. Now I feel like a doofus:-)
And, yes, I even used the preview button. Unfortunately, all I checked was the HTML formatting. Live and learn, I guess.
What about people that are using Napster for legitimate reasons? DMCA notwithstanding, what happens if I want to download the tracks to Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins? I own the CD, but it is too scratched to listen to. Am I pirating/stealing/ripping off an artist if I've already bought the CD? I say no. This is just another attempt by some Tipper Gore wanna-be with nothing else to do than save society from its own evils. As It's been said a thousand times, some people just have wayyy too much time on their hands. -JC
I've never used a Dreamcast for more than five minutes in a local Wal-Mart, so I may be wrong, but... About 3 months ago Wired had a 2 page spread on the dreamcast, exposing all the guts of the system. The part that really caught my eye was the 'modular modem'. According to Wired, this thing was designed to be easily upgradeable to a proprietary cable modem, or something along those lines. Now, this is Sega we're talking about, so I really don't expect them to support it (remember that port in the bottom of old Nintendo's?), but it sounds feasible that a NIC of some kind could be designed for use in that port.
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Circuit City has had display models available for weeks. I used one about 3 weeks ago (played Mario Advance), and it was cool as hell - I've already got a pre-order in.
Maybe <A HREF ="http://slashdot.org/articles/00/06/28/0041238.sh tml">this dude</A> should read the article verrrry carefully...
(Okay, so I just wanted an early post... it was a lot cooler than typing 'fp' or something, right? Why the hell isn't my HTML code working?)
Amazing that they claim to be a competitor to a product that doesn't even exist, and doesn't have any credibility in the market it is entering yet. I guess it just proves that M$ is the master of the hype market. Now only if they could produce a decent product before it hits version 3.0...
"How much does being a union boss pay?" "Nothing." "Doh!" "...Unless you're crooked." "Woo-hoo!"
Here's your start... check out <a href="http://www.lanner-usa.com/em-586.htm">thi s</a> motherboard. It's about the size of a CD-Rom drive, and it has VGA,10/100, sound, and even LCD onboard. I don't know what kind of quality you're gonna get from the onboard sound, but there is one PCI slot as well, so you can jam a SB Live! card in it if need be. The boards can be found on Ebay for around a hundred bucks. Shave down your Linux kernel, throw it on a RAM disk, and you can probably get a pretty damn quick boot time. I've been planning this in the back of my mind for a long time, but I haven't gotten around to doing it yet.
So, does this mean that Hitachi, Micron, and everyone else that perviously had to pay Rambus royalties will get their money back? It's about time this bully got its ass beat.
Clipped directly from a mailing list entry:
21 January 2001 Yahoo.com and Microsoft.com Traffic Redirected
A faulty Domain Name System (DNS) table appears to be to blame for
deflecting Internet traffic aimed at yahoo.com and Microsoft.com to
MyDomains.com. While MyDomain.com's president acknowledges his company
inadvertently released an error-ridden DNS table, he also said that ISPs
should use the "authoritative" name servers to direct traffic instead
of relying on nearby tables. One security consultant suggested that
the vulnerability has the potential to be seriously abused.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/519306.asp
Yeah, the icecast boys have been talking about streaming MPEG video for a while now, and I believe that some hackers have already gotten it to work (Gotta love open source). Sign up for the mailing list at their site, and fire away - they have been very helpful to me in the past.
This is correct. The newer Sony DVDs will not play CD-Rs, but they will play CD-RWs. -JC
I saw the trailer for Antitrust the last time I was in the theater, and I immediately noticed the telltale Gnome foot in the bottom left screen. After going to the website and seeing the bio on John Hall, I realized that this had the potential to be a halfway decent geek movie like Sneakers, and not total crap like The Net or Hackers. The trailer can be viewed (Quicktime, high-speed connection needed) here
(I can't remember any of the character names, so please bear with me...)
Ok, Remember when Arnold meets up with the anti-cloning dude that killed his buddy? The dude wanted Arnold to shoot him in the head, so he couldn't be cloned.
Fast-forward to the scene where the Arnold is shown footage of the villain (who looks way too much like Steve Jobs, IMHO) getting killed on the mountain top. The reason we see the footage is because it's through the villain's eyes. We see him getting killed by the anti-cloning zealot. Now, if the guy knows enough about the cloning process to request that Arnold shoot him in the head, then why the hell didn't he shoot the bad guy in the head when he was on the mountain?Somewhat off-topic, but this is a good forum to vent... :-)
I downloaded the final release of NS 6 as soon as it (officially) came out. I had been sick of having to load IE just to view pages that won't load in NS 4.x, and I was on the vergoe of moving to IE altogether. The only reason I haven't made the switch is because of my innate hatred for Microsoft, and the fact that, since I've been using Netscape since Mosaic, it has some sentimental value.
I am very disappointed with the new Netscape. The themes are nice, and the interface is an improvement, but it has wayyy too many problems. It takes forever to launch- so much so that, if I launch it by opening a local .htm or .jpg file, Windows times out with "cannot find the file specified" before NSCP launches. The browser is buggy, clunky, and feels like a beta. Unlike its predecessor, it only writes to the history file upon exit, so when (not if) it crashes, I can't get back to the page via the history. I have been a staunch supporter of Netscape for years, but I just can't do it anymore.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.... So I spelled Rambus wrong, AND complicated, AND made a bajillion other grammatical errors.... :-)
I was all excited to see my posting on slashdot, until I read it and saw all the mistakes I made. Now I feel like a doofus
And, yes, I even used the preview button. Unfortunately, all I checked was the HTML formatting. Live and learn, I guess.
I'm a member of Ars Technica Team Lambchop. zAmboni, One of our members, has brought up a very good point, which he posted on our . This site is advertising an add in PCI card for computers which contains anywhere from 1-6 CPUs, and is specifically designed to crunch SETI work units.
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There are two different cards, a single CPU card and a 1-6 CPU upgradeable card. The cards contain 2x64 kB level 1 cache and 32MB RAM per CPU. The CPU will run at 6.5 x the PCI clock. At the default PCI clock that woud mean a 214 MHz CPU (the CPUs have been tested up to 40MHz on the PCI Bus). As for crunching the work units, onboard ROM chips would contain the "unmodified" linux client, as well as the required routines of linux itself. The card ROM is flashable so when there is an upgrade in the SETI client it can be flashed into the card.
The site claims it can process 1 work unit in 15 hours, and at the most, 6 work units in 16 hours (one for each CPU installed). The cost? $89 for the single CPU card, $129 for the upgradable card (with one CPU) and $69 for each additional CPU.
I think that this is a pretty innovative solution. First off because it is using CPUs harvested from surplus military hardware. Specifically from target vector portion of the terrain following radar of cruise missiles. With the trend leaning toward using distributed projects as a solution for large scale computing, plus many of them planning to pay for crunching data, this may help people make some cash on the side.
The problem I have with this personally is that this solution may not abide to the <a href="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/license.
agreement</b></a> for the SETI@Home project. Especially this portion: "Distribution of this software is prohibited". The company's FAQ sort of diverts this issue saying that this wasn't a patch and only uses an unmodified version of the client, but unless the company has an agreement with the SETI@Home team, they would be distributing the clients against the restrictions mentioned in the licensing agreement. As of this point I don't know if they do have permission to do this. I do not think that they do though. I cannot see the SETI@Home guys (who have a hard time raising fundage for their project) allowing a company to make a profit out of their work. Only time will tell to see how all of this plays out...legal proceedings may be a problem since the company is based in the Ukraine. I'll keep ya posted what I find out
What about people that are using Napster for legitimate reasons? DMCA notwithstanding, what happens if I want to download the tracks to Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins? I own the CD, but it is too scratched to listen to. Am I pirating/stealing/ripping off an artist if I've already bought the CD? I say no. This is just another attempt by some Tipper Gore wanna-be with nothing else to do than save society from its own evils. As It's been said a thousand times, some people just have wayyy too much time on their hands. -JC
Hey, if we comment on this story, do you think the media will write an article commenting on how we commented on the commentary of our comments? :)
I've never used a Dreamcast for more than five minutes in a local Wal-Mart, so I may be wrong, but...
About 3 months ago Wired had a 2 page spread on the dreamcast, exposing all the guts of the system. The part that really caught my eye was the 'modular modem'. According to Wired, this thing was designed to be easily upgradeable to a proprietary cable modem, or something along those lines. Now, this is Sega we're talking about, so I really don't expect them to support it (remember that port in the bottom of old Nintendo's?), but it sounds feasible that a NIC of some kind could be designed for use in that port.