Like many posters here, I'm using old laptops with FreeBSD for a ton of various little tasks. I have one that serves as a squid-cache, router/firewall, nat, dhcp, dns, etc server for my home network; one that sits at my employer's network and provides shoutcast servers (6mbps is expensive for me, but cheap for them); I have two I use for "broadcasters" - hooked up to my music collection at home and sending music to the aforementioned server. I could probably replace my main webserver with one, but don't want to quite yet - maybe when I get a throwaway that's a little more powerful. And I just got one I'm considering hanging in the kitchen upside-down with a keyboard-arm.
Reminds me of the days I used to collect VAXen... and would respond to the nay-sayers by saying "It doesn't matter how fast your shiny new laptop is, because my VAX could squash your laptop flat if it fell over on it."
Rock, Paper, Scissors - all fall before the power of my mighty 100-pound "micro" VAX
... little to filter incoming mail. To protect your outgoing mail, all you have to do is publish a special DNS record - that's it, done, no need to change it as long as your MX servers don't change. It's That Simple.
On the incoming side, a lot of ISPs are using it - and a great number of corporations are using it, even if they don't realize it. Spam Filter boxes like those from Barracuda (Can't recommend these guys enough), or software like SpamAssassin, can easily check SPF records. I think Barracuda's do by default, but I could be wrong - it's been a few years since we installed our Barracuda.
Granted, it's only one part of a good anti-spam system. I use SPF, DomainKeys/DKIM, SpamAssassin, and a nifty little feature of Sendmail called "greet_pause" (check it out if you use Sendmail for inbound email). It's cut down on my junk mail by an ungodly amount.
That's always worked for me. Somebody calls trying to recruit me, I tell them "Can you find me a job paying this much that doesn't require me to wear a necktie?" Wonder of wonders, they never call back.
That's pretty sad, now that I think about it... tells you just how much recruiters think (or companies believe) a tie is worth compared to competency.
Years ago, when I was single and could afford toys, I bought a Blaupunkt Tuscon head unit - at the time (1987), it was the absolute best car stereo AM/FM/Cassette head unit you could buy. Could even receive AM Stereo from the one station in town that broadcast it. Set me back $750, and I still had to get an amp for it, since it only had line-level outputs.
But...
It came with a COMPLETE set of schematics, including not just block diagrams, but actual component values and chip numbers. Given that schematic, I could have build a complete new unit. I was floored. I almost wanted to try it, just to see if I could - but couldn't imagine trying to build the whole thing on breadboard with my trusty Radio-Shack soldering iron. Would have been the size of an old console record player - the kind that doubles as furniture.
Actually, the client itself doesn't know jack about positions - the server handles the physics. That's why you bump around. The client says "I'm moving in this direction", and the server says "ok...... STOP!" (more or less). The client doesn't know there's a wall there yet. Usually, prims will get drawn as soon as the client knows enough about them to make a grey block/sphere/whatever - and the texture comes when it can.
In short, it's the server doing the collision detection, not the client.
Calling it a 'worm' is kind of a stretch. It does not affect your local computer, it affects the view of the world in your local client. It doesn't run code on your computer, it just adds extra "in-game" items that automatically duplicate themselves and clog the Tubes.
First off, there were only about 14,000 people on the system at the time, not 600,000 as indicated in the summary. Second, while they did lock out new logins, it should be pointed out that any user who was currently online was not kicked off - and the period of "martial law" lasted about 20 minutes.
Of course, if there were 600,000 users on at the same time, the "game" would be unplayable - it's tough enough when it gets over about 10,000 right now.
Build one from scratch, get it set up the way you like it, then make a Ghost image of it. Then, every night, re-image the machines - poof, back to stage one. I'm about 2 days away from doing that to a lab at my work frequented by children, childish adults, and too few supervisors.
I keep coming close to selling off all of my old vinyl. Then I keep holding on to it, hoping that Laser Turntables will come down in price, so I can rip them all before they fall apart. Many of them are just too badly aged to get decent quality audio out of them.
But they're already raising tons of consumer discontent and if they push it much farther they risk a huge backlash.
I'ld like to agree with you on this, but how long as this been going on? How long as the discontent been building? My fear is that it has reached its peak, and started to wane - at least in the non-technical public's eye.
Honestly, what we need is a watershed moment - ??AA doing something that will piss off everybody, not just us geeks, and enough people to keep it in focus. I don't trust ??AA to do this themselves - I think they know they've got the tiger by the tail - and nothing will force Iraq and Politics off the news screens until after the 2008 election, at the earliest. (Pardon me showing my US slant on things)
the average age of a child's first cell phone was just eight years old and is expected to drop closer to 5 years of age this year.
Man - I know they're kids, but who wants an 8-year-old cell phone? I try to get a new one every two years or so. Of course, I keep my Motorola Lugable radiophone just for kicks...
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Keep 'em dry and in a bug-free area, and they'll be readable a thousand years from now. Or, alternatively, paper tape.
Or microfiche/film of a Hex dump.
Hypothetical example: Charlie and Denise (fictitious names of the "Alice and Bob" variety) both have computers.
OK... so... why not just use "Alice and Bob"? Geez. More names I have to remember.Like many posters here, I'm using old laptops with FreeBSD for a ton of various little tasks. I have one that serves as a squid-cache, router/firewall, nat, dhcp, dns, etc server for my home network; one that sits at my employer's network and provides shoutcast servers (6mbps is expensive for me, but cheap for them); I have two I use for "broadcasters" - hooked up to my music collection at home and sending music to the aforementioned server. I could probably replace my main webserver with one, but don't want to quite yet - maybe when I get a throwaway that's a little more powerful. And I just got one I'm considering hanging in the kitchen upside-down with a keyboard-arm.
Oh my god. I thought I had wasted 5 minutes reading through the posts on this thread. This made it worth it. Thank you.
No it isn't.
Damn - beaten to the punch by seconds. I suppose I did run out of time.
Zathras: "Cannot run out of time. Time is infinite. You, are finite. Zathras if finite. This.... is wrong tool."
Reminds me of the days I used to collect VAXen... and would respond to the nay-sayers by saying "It doesn't matter how fast your shiny new laptop is, because my VAX could squash your laptop flat if it fell over on it."
Rock, Paper, Scissors - all fall before the power of my mighty 100-pound "micro" VAX
PENCIL? Hell, when I was in basic, they made us hold out a rubber duck (solid plastic M16 simulator). Pencil. Sheesh. Wimp.
Try quoting yourself. The post you're responding to said (and I quote) "RMS tells me I'm antisocial" - then he goes on to call RMS an asshole.
Pay attention.
Jesus Christ - no wonder people hate Americans. Thanks for that, people - I'm embarrassed to say where I'm from these days. Bunch of jingoist jerks.
... little to filter incoming mail. To protect your outgoing mail, all you have to do is publish a special DNS record - that's it, done, no need to change it as long as your MX servers don't change. It's That Simple.
On the incoming side, a lot of ISPs are using it - and a great number of corporations are using it, even if they don't realize it. Spam Filter boxes like those from Barracuda (Can't recommend these guys enough), or software like SpamAssassin, can easily check SPF records. I think Barracuda's do by default, but I could be wrong - it's been a few years since we installed our Barracuda.
Granted, it's only one part of a good anti-spam system. I use SPF, DomainKeys/DKIM, SpamAssassin, and a nifty little feature of Sendmail called "greet_pause" (check it out if you use Sendmail for inbound email). It's cut down on my junk mail by an ungodly amount.
That's always worked for me. Somebody calls trying to recruit me, I tell them "Can you find me a job paying this much that doesn't require me to wear a necktie?" Wonder of wonders, they never call back.
That's pretty sad, now that I think about it... tells you just how much recruiters think (or companies believe) a tie is worth compared to competency.
Years ago, when I was single and could afford toys, I bought a Blaupunkt Tuscon head unit - at the time (1987), it was the absolute best car stereo AM/FM/Cassette head unit you could buy. Could even receive AM Stereo from the one station in town that broadcast it. Set me back $750, and I still had to get an amp for it, since it only had line-level outputs.
But...
It came with a COMPLETE set of schematics, including not just block diagrams, but actual component values and chip numbers. Given that schematic, I could have build a complete new unit. I was floored. I almost wanted to try it, just to see if I could - but couldn't imagine trying to build the whole thing on breadboard with my trusty Radio-Shack soldering iron. Would have been the size of an old console record player - the kind that doubles as furniture.
Actually, the client itself doesn't know jack about positions - the server handles the physics. That's why you bump around. The client says "I'm moving in this direction", and the server says "ok...... STOP!" (more or less). The client doesn't know there's a wall there yet. Usually, prims will get drawn as soon as the client knows enough about them to make a grey block/sphere/whatever - and the texture comes when it can.
In short, it's the server doing the collision detection, not the client.
Calling it a 'worm' is kind of a stretch. It does not affect your local computer, it affects the view of the world in your local client. It doesn't run code on your computer, it just adds extra "in-game" items that automatically duplicate themselves and clog the Tubes.
First off, there were only about 14,000 people on the system at the time, not 600,000 as indicated in the summary. Second, while they did lock out new logins, it should be pointed out that any user who was currently online was not kicked off - and the period of "martial law" lasted about 20 minutes.
Of course, if there were 600,000 users on at the same time, the "game" would be unplayable - it's tough enough when it gets over about 10,000 right now.
Just don't take any CDs when you go. There's a bacteria down there that eats the foil and turns your CDs into windowpanes.
President and Founder, right here. Vasectomy - the gift that keeps on giving.
Build one from scratch, get it set up the way you like it, then make a Ghost image of it. Then, every night, re-image the machines - poof, back to stage one. I'm about 2 days away from doing that to a lab at my work frequented by children, childish adults, and too few supervisors.
Now just tack on one of these matchbox-sized projectors and a fast PDA, and you're set.
I keep coming close to selling off all of my old vinyl. Then I keep holding on to it, hoping that Laser Turntables will come down in price, so I can rip them all before they fall apart. Many of them are just too badly aged to get decent quality audio out of them.
I'ld like to agree with you on this, but how long as this been going on? How long as the discontent been building? My fear is that it has reached its peak, and started to wane - at least in the non-technical public's eye.
Honestly, what we need is a watershed moment - ??AA doing something that will piss off everybody, not just us geeks, and enough people to keep it in focus. I don't trust ??AA to do this themselves - I think they know they've got the tiger by the tail - and nothing will force Iraq and Politics off the news screens until after the 2008 election, at the earliest. (Pardon me showing my US slant on things)