I remember when I was into Hotline (www.hotlinesw.com) there use to be lots of free servers, then folks figured out that you could make people go to a web page and click through on a bunch of ads to get the password for the account that would allow downloading. Most of the big sites went to that model quickly. ---
I just upgraded my cpu from a Celeron 300 (my system wouldn't overclock any more to 450, not sure why. It would crash the games, which was the only thing I OC'ed for. Think it was heat). I got a PIII 600, the latest my (rev1) BH6 would handle. I don't notice THAT big a difference. In games, a fair amount of frameage. ---
Our company was throwing out some old hardware. I fished out something that looked like a remote control with an RF reciever. Found info on the web, but the driver software was really old (flaky in 98, didn't work at all in 2k), but it just went in the com port, so I wrote my own little "driver" in VB. Now my All-inwonder card is much coooler. My app controls three different progs: My tv viewer, my mp3 player, or my DVD player. The buttons do different things (volume control, pause, etc) based on which prog is running. All those things have key shortcuts, so a simple little SENDKEYS api call works just fine (after doing another api call to get the running apps, figuring out if one of my three is running, and getting the handle, of course).
Oh I forgot, VB is a toy language, so I guess I can't do that. Never mind:) ---
I don't know. What's your timeout on the web server? What are the chances of someone else getting that IP in that short amount of time? OK I guess. Tell the author, but my web servers have never generated a quivver on my zone alarm..... ---
so,,, just turn it off. I don't care about reporting the scans. Just don't let 'em in... I take it your site is getting there IP or something? I've never had this problem, but I turn off the reporting (I don't have it get the alerts, just block it) ---
I see a few people recommending firewalls or routers with a built-in firewall. Whenever this discussion comes up, I always recommend Zone Alarm. It's free (beer, the only one I care about), works great, and is super easy to use. I also like the privacy feature of prompting me when a program is trying to send OUTBOUND packets as well and allowing me to block it. ---
As a proud geek, I have no desire to take advice from someone who doesn't know what "console" means. I mean, even if you're not into games at all, how could you be into computers and not know the meaning of the this word?
There are two alternatives:
1: You're being a prick and pretending to not know what it means.
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2: Your input about the world of computers/society etc. (what you read, what web sites you view, people you converse with, etc) is so closed that you haven't come across it.
Both alternatives immediately would disqualify him from answering such a question, IMNSHO. Am I missing an alternative above? I don't think so. I guess maybe 3: He has heard it, but cares so little about such earthly concerns that he didn't inquire as to it's meaning. (or he did and forgot it) Again, such a lack of curiousity would DQ him from my list of people who's opinion about such matters I give a rat's ass about....
Whatever, moderate away... ---
People who make fun of Gore on this one should read this Salon article on the subject. Of course, he never actually said he "invented the internet." What he said was "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Which, if you bother to read the article and learn the facts, is a fairly truthful statement.
Gore was instrumental in securing lots of funding for networking in the 80s between Universitites that really poised the 'net to take off. Republicans have ridiculed his statement because he didn't have anything to do with opening the 'net to commercial traffic, as if that is the only thing that matters. Techies have ridiculed him because he didn't invent any protocols, as if the funding he secured in the 80s was irrelevant.
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It's calleed letting your subconcious solve problems. Remember, your subconcious can go right on thinking while your concious brain is sleeping or otherwise engaged. I used to be into meditation when I was in college, and I would use this technique to help me organize the vast amounts of research I did into a coherent structure for a paper. I would go into meditation, instruct my subconcious to work on a problem, and a few days later, sit down and write out a perfect outline, or bang out a great short-paper. or whatever. I got pretty good at it. You may think this is bullshit. But it worked. Great.
I don't recall any of the books I read, but I was SERIOUS about it. I meditated daily for 20 minutes. I should get back into that. It was fun. ---
I get what your're saying. I don't have a good answer for that. I try to raise my child to be independent and question authority, like I do, but it's tough. All I'm saying is, it's easy to be altrustic when it's not your kid. It's easy to say "we should all support public schools", but when the public schools in your area suck and your kid needs a decent education, you're gonna suck it up, ditch your beliefs, and pony up the dough for St. Mary's Academy, or whatever. Are you gonna sacrifice your child's education for philosophical principles? In my mind, that would make you a less-than great parent. Your child hasn't decided on those beliefs, you have, and they will suffer.
The basic thrust of my argument is that being content has nothing to do with what you do for a living or where you live. There are some very happy and at peace PHBs who are great for their community . .. ---
Well, people who aren't parents (or bad ones) tend to not understand what's so &*$(@#~! hard. Think about it: In today's society, if you manage to raise a decent, moral person who is moderately contented and happy, you should get a medal! It's NOT easy. It means spending about 90% of your day not worrying much about what you want or your needs at all. Sure, if I had no kids, maybe I would get into open source, or do (more) charity work. But sorry, I don't have the time.
BTW, My wife has a "meaningful" job working in the child welfare system. For that, she makes no money and, frankly, makes little difference. ---
Look, SOAP is a protocol. I read the other day that IBM has a Lixux beta of SOAP-based web services available. Try reading the w3.org SOAP proposed spec. Microsoft is just one member of this spec. So is IBM and lotus.
to quote: "SOAP does not itself define any application semantics such as a programming model or implementation specific semantics; rather it defines a simple mechanism for expressing application semantics by providing a modular packaging model and encoding mechanisms for encoding data within modules."
It is a standard way of doing functions over the Internet thru HTTP. On port 80 (i.e., through firewalls). Instead of spending time (or money) getting our shipping calculator to talk to fedex instead of UPS, they just publish a web service, and I use it like a function. In VB, in Perl, whatever. I'm sorry, but this is a BIG DEAL, and microsoft is playing nice with lots of other folks to do it right. Deal with it. ---
The real problem is the.net name is so all encompassing. If you're talking about the whole.NET visual studio languaes, yes, the CLR (common language runtime) would have to be ported. Although, as I pointed out in a previous post, I don't think it would be nearly as hard as, say, WINE. But SOAP is just a protocol, so you can run web services on anything..... ---
Amen!
It's called dillution people. Look it up. I can assure you anyone who's worked at a pre-ipo company is familiar with it. You look at a clueless new hire and think for THIS guy my options are worth less? ---
What about if you have a copy of Windows from your last machine and the motherboard fried (along with the video card and everything, so you get a whole new box).
What about me? I don't run Linux, but I work for an MCSP (M$ certified solution provider). We get license of client OS for development. I can use it (legitimately) at home. I don't NEED an OS license. ---
That's one of the sillies things I've ever seen here. I've yet to work with geeks that weren't into sports. Sure, not ALL off them, but most. One of the funnest things I ever did was go on a ski trip with two. . Generally participating more than the average set of fans.
On a somewhat related, note my Sonners kicked Texas' ass 63-14! ---
Right but the object model, data types, etc. is documented. All you would have to do is build your own. If you support the objects, methods, properties, and data types for those, it should work. As long as the program doesn't directly call the windows API (in other words, is completely.NET compliant). ---
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I remember when I was into Hotline (www.hotlinesw.com) there use to be lots of free servers, then folks figured out that you could make people go to a web page and click through on a bunch of ads to get the password for the account that would allow downloading. Most of the big sites went to that model quickly.
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I just upgraded my cpu from a Celeron 300 (my system wouldn't overclock any more to 450, not sure why. It would crash the games, which was the only thing I OC'ed for. Think it was heat). I got a PIII 600, the latest my (rev1) BH6 would handle. I don't notice THAT big a difference. In games, a fair amount of frameage.
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Our company was throwing out some old hardware. I fished out something that looked like a remote control with an RF reciever. Found info on the web, but the driver software was really old (flaky in 98, didn't work at all in 2k), but it just went in the com port, so I wrote my own little "driver" in VB. Now my All-inwonder card is much coooler. My app controls three different progs: My tv viewer, my mp3 player, or my DVD player. The buttons do different things (volume control, pause, etc) based on which prog is running. All those things have key shortcuts, so a simple little SENDKEYS api call works just fine (after doing another api call to get the running apps, figuring out if one of my three is running, and getting the handle, of course).
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Oh I forgot, VB is a toy language, so I guess I can't do that. Never mind
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I don't know. What's your timeout on the web server? What are the chances of someone else getting that IP in that short amount of time? OK I guess. Tell the author, but my web servers have never generated a quivver on my zone alarm.....
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so,,, just turn it off. I don't care about reporting the scans. Just don't let 'em in... I take it your site is getting there IP or something? I've never had this problem, but I turn off the reporting (I don't have it get the alerts, just block it)
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I see a few people recommending firewalls or routers with a built-in firewall. Whenever this discussion comes up, I always recommend Zone Alarm. It's free (beer, the only one I care about), works great, and is super easy to use. I also like the privacy feature of prompting me when a program is trying to send OUTBOUND packets as well and allowing me to block it.
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The Atari 600XL was also my first computer. I remember my dad helping my upgrade it to 64K....
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Yeah, so he could take twice as long to write the same program. That'd make him real marketable :)
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slightly OT, just use all ones for the M$ cd-key. Works on every one I've tried.
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As a proud geek, I have no desire to take advice from someone who doesn't know what "console" means. I mean, even if you're not into games at all, how could you be into computers and not know the meaning of the this word? There are two alternatives: 1: You're being a prick and pretending to not know what it means. or 2: Your input about the world of computers/society etc. (what you read, what web sites you view, people you converse with, etc) is so closed that you haven't come across it. Both alternatives immediately would disqualify him from answering such a question, IMNSHO. Am I missing an alternative above? I don't think so. I guess maybe 3: He has heard it, but cares so little about such earthly concerns that he didn't inquire as to it's meaning. (or he did and forgot it) Again, such a lack of curiousity would DQ him from my list of people who's opinion about such matters I give a rat's ass about.... Whatever, moderate away...
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Gore was instrumental in securing lots of funding for networking in the 80s between Universitites that really poised the 'net to take off. Republicans have ridiculed his statement because he didn't have anything to do with opening the 'net to commercial traffic, as if that is the only thing that matters. Techies have ridiculed him because he didn't invent any protocols, as if the funding he secured in the 80s was irrelevant.
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It's calleed letting your subconcious solve problems. Remember, your subconcious can go right on thinking while your concious brain is sleeping or otherwise engaged. I used to be into meditation when I was in college, and I would use this technique to help me organize the vast amounts of research I did into a coherent structure for a paper. I would go into meditation, instruct my subconcious to work on a problem, and a few days later, sit down and write out a perfect outline, or bang out a great short-paper. or whatever. I got pretty good at it. You may think this is bullshit. But it worked. Great.
I don't recall any of the books I read, but I was SERIOUS about it. I meditated daily for 20 minutes. I should get back into that. It was fun.
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I get what your're saying. I don't have a good answer for that. I try to raise my child to be independent and question authority, like I do, but it's tough. All I'm saying is, it's easy to be altrustic when it's not your kid. It's easy to say "we should all support public schools", but when the public schools in your area suck and your kid needs a decent education, you're gonna suck it up, ditch your beliefs, and pony up the dough for St. Mary's Academy, or whatever. Are you gonna sacrifice your child's education for philosophical principles? In my mind, that would make you a less-than great parent. Your child hasn't decided on those beliefs, you have, and they will suffer.
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The basic thrust of my argument is that being content has nothing to do with what you do for a living or where you live. There are some very happy and at peace PHBs who are great for their community . .
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Well, people who aren't parents (or bad ones) tend to not understand what's so &*$(@#~! hard. Think about it: In today's society, if you manage to raise a decent, moral person who is moderately contented and happy, you should get a medal! It's NOT easy. It means spending about 90% of your day not worrying much about what you want or your needs at all. Sure, if I had no kids, maybe I would get into open source, or do (more) charity work. But sorry, I don't have the time.
BTW, My wife has a "meaningful" job working in the child welfare system. For that, she makes no money and, frankly, makes little difference.
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Look, SOAP is a protocol. I read the other day that IBM has a Lixux beta of SOAP-based web services available. Try reading the w3.org SOAP proposed spec. Microsoft is just one member of this spec. So is IBM and lotus.
to quote: "SOAP does not itself define any application semantics such as a programming model or implementation specific semantics; rather it defines a simple mechanism for expressing application semantics by providing a modular packaging model and encoding mechanisms for encoding data within modules."
It is a standard way of doing functions over the Internet thru HTTP. On port 80 (i.e., through firewalls). Instead of spending time (or money) getting our shipping calculator to talk to fedex instead of UPS, they just publish a web service, and I use it like a function. In VB, in Perl, whatever. I'm sorry, but this is a BIG DEAL, and microsoft is playing nice with lots of other folks to do it right. Deal with it.---
The real problem is the .net name is so all encompassing. If you're talking about the whole .NET visual studio languaes, yes, the CLR (common language runtime) would have to be ported. Although, as I pointed out in a previous post, I don't think it would be nearly as hard as, say, WINE. But SOAP is just a protocol, so you can run web services on anything.....
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Try actually reading the post and doing some research. You can run a SOAP-compliant Web SErvice on any web server, any plaform, any language....
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try progressive.com They saved me a bundle on inurance...
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Amen! It's called dillution people. Look it up. I can assure you anyone who's worked at a pre-ipo company is familiar with it. You look at a clueless new hire and think for THIS guy my options are worth less?
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What about if you have a copy of Windows from your last machine and the motherboard fried (along with the video card and everything, so you get a whole new box).
What about me? I don't run Linux, but I work for an MCSP (M$ certified solution provider). We get license of client OS for development. I can use it (legitimately) at home. I don't NEED an OS license.
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Crap! Shoulda previewed, I meant the Sooners (Oklahoma that is)
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That's one of the sillies things I've ever seen here. I've yet to work with geeks that weren't into sports. Sure, not ALL off them, but most. One of the funnest things I ever did was go on a ski trip with two. . Generally participating more than the average set of fans.
On a somewhat related, note my Sonners kicked Texas' ass 63-14!
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"My God, it's full of planets!"
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Right but the object model, data types, etc. is documented. All you would have to do is build your own. If you support the objects, methods, properties, and data types for those, it should work. As long as the program doesn't directly call the windows API (in other words, is completely .NET compliant).
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