I think we're all missing out on one important aspect of hacking: it doesn't necessarily have *anything at all* to do with computers. A Hack with a capital H is just a creative way to solve a problem. There's probably a better definition but I'm not going to waste my time looking it up.
MacGyver was a Hacker. And he surely didn't know anything about a silly little computer "game" called Life.
I didn't have this problem with NVidia or linux, but it was similar. When I installed OSX using my old monitor, it would turn itself off for the whole loading screen (the grey apple on white) and only upon switching to the color video would it come back on. I had the same problem with a Mac monitor cannibalized off of an old powermac. Then I found a newer KDS 19" monitor that worked fine for the loading screen.
Of course the only useful advice from this is look in dumpsters for a newer monitor.
Geez... all I need to do to read Slashdot is pick up the latest Wired. I had a profound sense of deja vu: and I just figured out why. It's an interesting story nonetheless... and not everybody reads Wired.
Sometimes it's just fun to do things with your hands. It's not homebrewing beer, but I once built a stereo rack and had a blast. My 'workshop' was a couple square feet on my apartment floor (I bet my neighbors downstairs were wondering what the drill press noises were) and I had some trouble, but in the end the sense of accomplishment is incomparable. Sure, I could've bought a similar rack, but to have made my own is just cooler. Once I have the space, I intend to build a desk to complement it for my computer and numerous game consoles. This time, though, I'll make sure to have a shopvac on hand--that MDF makes a lot of sawdust.
I've got a couple pictures of the finished rack here
Didn't I ride on one of these sort of things at Epcot center a decade ago? It was a recumbent bike with a monitor above my head, showing a "tour" of famous cities + Disney parks, the speed of which varied by the speed I was pedaling.
Of course it wasn't interactive beyond speed, but it was something...
As for what I did, I took her to Carson Pirie Scott during their sale-sale-clearance-sale-sale days and she picked out a great (big) aquamarine with a couple of dinky diamonds around it. Didn't set me back much and it appraised much higher than was paid. I was as much against the diamond machine and she knew it, but she seems happy with the ring and all. Of course, every woman is an individual, despite what you may have heard and know about group potty breaks, and as such find out for yourself what she wants. And for pete's sake, talk about it! If you can't work out a ring for her, what does that portend for your future?
In addition, Mypoints.com's free dialup, provided by 1stup.com, also went belly-up this week. We've been told that our accounts will be terminated RSN.
...I've been a fan of the classic (i.e. pre-Load) Metallica for a long time and still will be. I was sharing a couple mp3s on Napster (well, OpenNap), but none of them were studio tracks. Napster was good to me in that I was able to get a copy of their San Francisco Symphony performance half a year or so before the studio album was released. I've also collected demos and other live tracks.
And I'm not against the band's actions right now. Yes, it may be some crazed-lawyer's prompting making them do this, but by the word of the current law, and the contracts that Metallica, et al. are operating, the wonton wholescale distribution of their copyrighted, studio-produced tracks is wrong. Not to say that I've never downloaded a Metallica studio track that I didn't own on CD at the time, but I'm also not going to be in the ranks boycotting them. That's just plain silly.
There's already one in production, as it would appear you could buy one on eBay. The mp3 site dimension music just recently did a feature on this sort of thing.
Well, I have to say that is different--for everything after the initial login. Which is very good --- that way you can always get in somehow if you can get to anyone else who's already in. Marvelous. Wish I'd downloaded a copy before they took 'em down.
And who says gopher is vital anymore? Not to say I have anything against it, but I can't think of anybody on the campus who uses it, student-wise. I can't speak for the instructors.
Then again, what university is in business for the students?
After downloading Gnutella, launch it. It should automatically connect to the primary host to obtain some other servants to connect to, and will keep you connected long enough to connect some servants to you before disconnecting you
There you go. Block the primary host and you shut the whole thing out: It's what Northwestern University did: they blocked *.napster.com from resolving, meaning that you couldn't connect to get the 'optimal server'. The downloads would've gone through if they were to ever begin, because they're not blocking ports, just name resolution. The same thing, methinks, could be done with this program too.
So in other words, sign up now before they get blocked, eh?
Sounds quite similar to iMesh. I guess if enough of these things start up (Audiogalaxy Satellite, CuteMX, Abes, etc.) organizations will have too much trouble shutting them down and it will all be open again.
(Or, in Napster, IMHO, an easier solution would be to use IP addresses, or a list of different hosts that could issue optimal servers?)
A while back URB magazine did a "best of" sort of feature on mp3.com's techno artists, creating a list of artists, none of whom were on mp3.com's top lists. Mp3's had the audacity to state their suprise that none of their 'most popular' artist such as the rather dull Ghost in the Shell weren't on the list at all. A little bit of hunting around the electronic section should turn up the URB list.
...That I noticed is that it is SDMI-compliant. I know my mp3 player isn't, and I would spculate most others aren't. Ah well. I would hope this player would take the Memory Sticks Sony created... that would make the 64meg ceiling a little less prohibitive.
If you look at the FAQ you'll notice that the man behind ACME is none other than Cliff Stoll! Last I saw him he was on MSNBC's ill-fated internet show as the resident wild-haired net skeptic. Nice to see he's doing something cool like this.
Check out the 'jigsaw puzzles' for a good guffaw, too.
Searching for Google still works, though, and the top couple links are even to the right site. And who needs those other engines when you've got google, anyways?
I used to like metacrawler but then they went too commercial.
Darnit, why can't anybody use the subjunctive right?!
Argh.
I think if Linux were closed source it would have about as much as an impact as Be does now --- a technically superior OS with a dedicated following, but no widespread acceptance (i.e. users rather that people who have merely heard of it).
Development would be probably a little slower on some stuff, too, methinks.
Well, some of them at least. Selling Dalnet on eBay isn't anything big... why, I bought AOL on ebay last month. Ah well.
The fufme was IMO very well put together... it's hard to tell if it's a joke or not... not like realhamster or luddite industries where *something* eventually gives it away
I think they should combine forum2000 and Askjeeves, I think that would serve them well. AJ seems to have picked up more bad habits of other search engines lately, and who knows, with a moral and philosophical basis it could all be back to normal.
I want to ask the powder puff girls complicated questions... see how they answer. It should be an interesting nite. Thanks for the quickies!
(Ignoring of course the small problems with permissions)
It would make a great multiplayer game, methinks. Players would go around killing each other's processes, and each other (which would probably just kill the GUI if we were going for accuracy). This would be good during long marathon programming exercises... you'd have to make sure that other people weren't going to kill emacs or gcc while you were working, and you could justify game-playing as you work!
I know that in some of my programming classes, the sysadmins would've *loved* to have something like this to kill all the runaway processes we were creating. Would've probably made tehm a little more polite to us about them, too.
And creating processes is easy... instead of doing this for your whole environment, maybe just a sub-shell where you couldn't possibly kill anything important (although that could take away some of the fun).
I think I'm definitely going to have to give this hack a try.
Did anybody remember the old Jurassic Park computers? UNIX... and no command prompt in sight. MacOS... the most perverse MacOS I've ever seen.
Not that I wouldn't mind a flying 3d file manager, really. But I think I'll pass on the animated Dennis Nedry "You didn't say the magic word" error message.
Another movie comes to mind -- X (fvwm, specifically, I think) was on most of the computers in Patriot Games... mediocre movie but rather accurate computer-ing.
You know, back in the VGA days of DOS, there was a little graphics demo called acidwarp. It was a bunch of palette cycling, and pretty cool stuff for (at the time) a 286 in 320x200x256. Also, if you were to start it waith a certain flag it'd give you directions for 'the warper', which sounds exactly like what this is. Now this is a good application for it -- already cheesy resolution graphics and a situation where blurriness isn't a problem. I never got around to building one, though, due to a lack of a fresnel lens or a credit card to order one from Edmund Scientific.
But a hoax nonetheless. C'mon, didn't you figure that out right away? First (and most superficial) they didn't have www.jesux.org/com/net. And then.. a hierarchical file system? It's an interesting idea, may be easy to set up (I could set up premissions like that in NT) but still, it makes one wonder.
Speaking of wondering, though, what if it isn't a hoax? Most of the changes wouldn't be too hard (other than changing kill &c) but again, the prominent lack of existing holy E themes should be a clue.
But a hoax nonetheless. C'mon, didn't you figure that out right away? First (and most superficial) they didn't have www.jesux.org/com/net. And then.. a hierarchical file system? It's an interesting idea, may be easy to set up (I could set up premissions like that in NT) but still, it makes one wonder. Speaking of wondering, though, what if it isn't a hoax? Most of the changes wouldn't be too hard (other than changing kill &c) but again, the prominent lack of existing holy E themes should be a clue. Hard to say.
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It is Do The Right Thing, but he asks for 20 D cells, not 12. Coincidently just watched the joint yesterday.
I think we're all missing out on one important aspect of hacking: it doesn't necessarily have *anything at all* to do with computers. A Hack with a capital H is just a creative way to solve a problem. There's probably a better definition but I'm not going to waste my time looking it up.
MacGyver was a Hacker. And he surely didn't know anything about a silly little computer "game" called Life.
I've waited a long time for this ... I'm sure I can wait another day or two for the slashdot effect to wear off.
I didn't have this problem with NVidia or linux, but it was similar. When I installed OSX using my old monitor, it would turn itself off for the whole loading screen (the grey apple on white) and only upon switching to the color video would it come back on. I had the same problem with a Mac monitor cannibalized off of an old powermac. Then I found a newer KDS 19" monitor that worked fine for the loading screen.
Of course the only useful advice from this is look in dumpsters for a newer monitor.
Geez... all I need to do to read Slashdot is pick up the latest Wired. I had a profound sense of deja vu: and I just figured out why. It's an interesting story nonetheless... and not everybody reads Wired.
Here's the story, for those interested: 11.08
Sometimes it's just fun to do things with your hands. It's not homebrewing beer, but I once built a stereo rack and had a blast. My 'workshop' was a couple square feet on my apartment floor (I bet my neighbors downstairs were wondering what the drill press noises were) and I had some trouble, but in the end the sense of accomplishment is incomparable. Sure, I could've bought a similar rack, but to have made my own is just cooler. Once I have the space, I intend to build a desk to complement it for my computer and numerous game consoles. This time, though, I'll make sure to have a shopvac on hand--that MDF makes a lot of sawdust.
I've got a couple pictures of the finished rack here
In fact, they're still there, now called "Wondercycles".
See here (briefly mentioned)
and a hokey review
here.
Didn't I ride on one of these sort of things at Epcot center a decade ago? It was a recumbent bike with a monitor above my head, showing a
"tour" of famous cities + Disney parks, the speed of which varied by the speed I was pedaling.
Of course it wasn't interactive beyond speed, but it was something...
As for what I did, I took her to Carson Pirie Scott during their sale-sale-clearance-sale-sale days and she picked out a great (big) aquamarine with a couple of dinky diamonds around it. Didn't set me back much and it appraised much higher than was paid. I was as much against the diamond machine and she knew it, but she seems happy with the ring and all. Of course, every woman is an individual, despite what you may have heard and know about group potty breaks, and as such find out for yourself what she wants. And for pete's sake, talk about it! If you can't work out a ring for her, what does that portend for your future?
In addition, Mypoints.com's free dialup, provided by 1stup.com, also went belly-up this week. We've been told that our accounts will be terminated RSN.
And I'm not against the band's actions right now. Yes, it may be some crazed-lawyer's prompting making them do this, but by the word of the current law, and the contracts that Metallica, et al. are operating, the wonton wholescale distribution of their copyrighted, studio-produced tracks is wrong. Not to say that I've never downloaded a Metallica studio track that I didn't own on CD at the time, but I'm also not going to be in the ranks boycotting them. That's just plain silly.
There's already one in production, as it would appear you could buy one on eBay. The mp3 site dimension music just recently did a feature on this sort of thing.
And who says gopher is vital anymore? Not to say I have anything against it, but I can't think of anybody on the campus who uses it, student-wise. I can't speak for the instructors.
Then again, what university is in business for the students?
There you go. Block the primary host and you shut the whole thing out: It's what Northwestern University did: they blocked *.napster.com from resolving, meaning that you couldn't connect to get the 'optimal server'. The downloads would've gone through if they were to ever begin, because they're not blocking ports, just name resolution. The same thing, methinks, could be done with this program too.
So in other words, sign up now before they get blocked, eh?
Sounds quite similar to iMesh. I guess if enough of these things start up (Audiogalaxy Satellite, CuteMX, Abes, etc.) organizations will have too much trouble shutting them down and it will all be open again.
(Or, in Napster, IMHO, an easier solution would be to use IP addresses, or a list of different hosts that could issue optimal servers?)
coj
A while back URB magazine did a "best of" sort of feature on mp3.com's techno artists, creating a list of artists, none of whom were on mp3.com's top lists. Mp3's had the audacity to state their suprise that none of their 'most popular' artist such as the rather dull Ghost in the Shell weren't on the list at all. A little bit of hunting around the electronic section should turn up the URB list.
...That I noticed is that it is SDMI-compliant. I know my mp3 player isn't, and I would spculate most others aren't. Ah well. I would hope this player would take the Memory Sticks Sony created ... that would make the 64meg ceiling a little less prohibitive.
Check out the 'jigsaw puzzles' for a good guffaw, too.
I used to like metacrawler but then they went too commercial.
Argh.
I think if Linux were closed source it would have about as much as an impact as Be does now --- a technically superior OS with a dedicated following, but no widespread acceptance (i.e. users rather that people who have merely heard of it).
Development would be probably a little slower on some stuff, too, methinks.
The fufme was IMO very well put together ... it's hard to tell if it's a joke or not ... not like realhamster or luddite industries where *something* eventually gives it away
I think they should combine forum2000 and Askjeeves, I think that would serve them well. AJ seems to have picked up more bad habits of other search engines lately, and who knows, with a moral and philosophical basis it could all be back to normal.
I want to ask the powder puff girls complicated questions ... see how they answer. It should be an interesting nite. Thanks for the quickies!
It would make a great multiplayer game, methinks. Players would go around killing each other's processes, and each other (which would probably just kill the GUI if we were going for accuracy). This would be good during long marathon programming exercises ... you'd have to make sure that other people weren't going to kill emacs or gcc while you were working, and you could justify game-playing as you work!
I know that in some of my programming classes, the sysadmins would've *loved* to have something like this to kill all the runaway processes we were creating. Would've probably made tehm a little more polite to us about them, too.
And creating processes is easy ... instead of doing this for your whole environment, maybe just a sub-shell where you couldn't possibly kill anything important (although that could take away some of the fun).
I think I'm definitely going to have to give this hack a try.
Not that I wouldn't mind a flying 3d file manager, really. But I think I'll pass on the animated Dennis Nedry "You didn't say the magic word" error message.
Another movie comes to mind -- X (fvwm, specifically, I think) was on most of the computers in Patriot Games ... mediocre movie but rather accurate computer-ing.
You know, back in the VGA days of DOS, there was a little graphics demo called acidwarp. It was a bunch of palette cycling, and pretty cool stuff for (at the time) a 286 in 320x200x256. Also, if you were to start it waith a certain flag it'd give you directions for 'the warper', which sounds exactly like what this is. Now this is a good application for it -- already cheesy resolution graphics and a situation where blurriness isn't a problem. I never got around to building one, though, due to a lack of a fresnel lens or a credit card to order one from Edmund Scientific.
But a hoax nonetheless. C'mon, didn't you figure that out right away? First (and most superficial) they didn't have www.jesux.org/com/net. And then.. a hierarchical file system? It's an interesting idea, may be easy to set up (I could set up premissions like that in NT) but still, it makes one wonder.
Speaking of wondering, though, what if it isn't a hoax? Most of the changes wouldn't be too hard (other than changing kill &c) but again, the prominent lack of existing holy E themes should be a clue.
Hard to say.
But a hoax nonetheless. C'mon, didn't you figure that out right away? First (and most superficial) they didn't have www.jesux.org/com/net. And then.. a hierarchical file system? It's an interesting idea, may be easy to set up (I could set up premissions like that in NT) but still, it makes one wonder. Speaking of wondering, though, what if it isn't a hoax? Most of the changes wouldn't be too hard (other than changing kill &c) but again, the prominent lack of existing holy E themes should be a clue. Hard to say.