I bet the black helicopters are behind this. The big Wolly Mamouth, Mr. Shufulufagas, comes to visit cute little school kids and out pops drunken waco ATF agents, smoking Ruby Ridge cigars, and HRF gun the local school LAN.
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I bet Bill Gates is behind all this. Wolly 1.0b is just vaporware to mask that fact the Micros~1 doesn't have coherant software service portal stratagy.
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I hear Linus is going to incoporate OpenWolly in 2.3;)
RedHat, Caldera, and Debian ..an entire store filled with Linux products/paraphernalia and services . . it's perfect! Just WHO IS this forward thinking company that's poised for the 12st century?? Are they a publicly traded company ??
You bring up an interesting point about FreeBSD. As a matter of fact, this particular Comp USA (in the Milwaukee, WI burbs) had a distro of FreeBDS well placed on the shelves along with the others. I was happy to see the selection so well laid out.
Of course, if you're reading this, you're aware that the internet is the distribution channel of choice. However, don't underestimate the importance of well placed shrink wrapped boxes in retail space, and it's effect on a companies bottom line. For example: micros~1 gave away IE, but in the store people paid top dollar for it. What suprised me most was a bundle from Adobe which included Golive,Photoshop, and Illustrator for over 1,200.00 dollars US!
All of the functions can be achieved with open source distros, but the "wow, that paper clip is kewl" crowd will happily doll out a few green back because "that box is just kewl". What does this mean for Linux? With Linux now being well placed in retail space, It means more retail dollars to the Linux community.
Has anyone else seen Linux on the shelf in the local 'puter store ? Do that have more than one Distro? Are they making more room for Linux, and pushing the micros~1 products over in the corner ?
Even the DOD has opened up to the wonders of open source. Earlier this week, while making my weekly pilgrimage to Comp USA I took a walk around the store. I walked past the "Operating Systems" section of the store and I couldn't believe my eyes! . .
There before me where 6 rows of software..head to toe...and 6 columns wide! . . Suse,Red Hat, Debian, you name it. A veritable cornucopia of linux selections. This is prime retail space that is normally very difficult to come by.
The best part about it all was, tucked away in the corner (bottom row, far left) was this pissy little box with clouds on the cover, some 1/2 baked propritatary/old news/yesterday-tech box that sayed "Windows".
In a day when PC rags are nothing more than Microsoft marketing, Byte magazine and it's team of insitefull, knowledgable tech writers have insipred, and instructed countless programers around the world. Long live the amazing Jon Udell and Byte Magazine.
Just look around . . you have all that today. Hilton Chicago is offering a PC in their exucutive suites -today-. the best thing is they're tied into a high speed hotel network attached to the net. I have an 'puter by the phone for addresses and scheduling . . as well as my main dual monitor in the den. Flat screen information applicances are here today . . and it's called a PC. Want a sleeker looking unit? get a laptop and hang it on the wall.
What I find most interesting about the story is that they are afraid of the suposed drug dealing that goes on at that location. This is another example of people accociating the open liberal ways of the internet and dismissing it as an evil influence in society. Is this something new? Something only the Inet is the victim of? Not at all! This happens in every society when a new technology is introduced. (Rent 'the gods must be crazy' for an illustration of this). I'm reminded of the old play "The music Man" set back in the arly part of the centtury. In the play, a small town (river city) is worried obout the influence of pool on it's young people. Pool? you say? yea, Billiards . . So when people start talking about the bad influence the Inet is having...just give them time, and society will adjust.
I mean, all I need is to be on the final lap of a net race in SegaRacingGameX when the sore loser on the other side runs over to his computer and pings my connection to death
I don't see where ping is problem. All netwroked versions of quake (at least since since quakeworld/1996) have responded to ping. Have you been ping flooded playing quake? no? I thought not. It's an very efficient way to judge network latency, and generally pretty harmless.
has anyone been able to verify that the dreamcast does accept telnets, during any specific game, web browser, or otherwise?Can't be done!
how complicated would it be to write simple programs for the dreamcast? could this be done in c or c++ for a win ce or *bsd api?Can't be done!
if one were to write a program for the dreamcast, could it be put on any normal cd-rw and used immediately, or would any special modifications be needed. The disk is propitary so,.....wait for it . . . . . . . . . Can't be done! It turns out that the original poster did a wonderfull deep scan of a router. I think your odds of hacking said router would be more interesting/fun.
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"Slashdot. News for nerds. Hoaxes that don't matter." This is the second time this week that everyone's gotten all worked up about a hack that was just to good to be true (myself included) . We can all do better. I don't want "Hoaxes that don't matter" to be the motto.
An earier post to this topic mentioned that this his DC was using Port 113 for IRC . . regardless of what port is being used . . my question still remaines... can a DC-IRC client DCC
I was considering picking up one of these kewl little boxes, but I really wouldn't have much use for one. If a user can DCC information back and forth over the DCIRC client, then a person could download MP3s onto a zip drive while playing "kill em all!"(c)anygame inc. That might make buying one a little more tempting.
I would concure that the DC drive prolly isn't using any special light/laser source. One of the things that makes todays CDrom/DVDdrives so afordable is the cheap/safe laser. Getting more data on a optical platter involves layers, and focusing. The disk would have 2 layers (the top layer would be semi opaque/seethrough. and the bottom layer would not) When the reader head focuses the laser on the top of the disk, that layer of data would be read. When the laser focuses further down into the disk, *that* lower layer of data would be read. This gives you double the data density without a lot of cost. Then there is a double sided/dual focal point drives that can read twice as much again. The bottom line? You will be seeing cheap plastic optical platters storing 4.7Gbytes(todays DVD) / 10Gbytes / 20Gbytes without having to alter the laser source or sector structure. (I think Byte magazine had an article on this when DVD first came out) comments welcome.
I would concure that they are prolly not using a differnt light (laser) source. Getting more bits onto a CD style platter involves layers, and varying the focal point of the reader head. The very top layer of the disk would have data on it, but is semi opaque. The layer under that has data on it, and it accessed by focusing the reader head laser to a deeper depth, thus attaining double the density of a traditional disk. Then there are 2 sided disks requiring a dual focus/dual reader head drive to read them. Bottom line: the CD style storage disk (CDrom/DVD/DreamCast) could hold a LOT MORE data than the dreamcast or the current DVD format is exploiting today. (Byte had an interesting article on this topic when DVDs first came out.
Nice call. Jerky:) I thought you were going to ask him if he had prince albert in a can . . ar if his refrigerator was running. (hey man...your cats on my fence) . . but seriously . . I think it's kinda funny that the Sega rep doesn't seem to know what Telnet is?!?!
I recently visited the Wk@ test site and had to laugh at this post: "Drestin Black 8/28/1999 12:57:54 PM Gee - 12 days since the last time the beta TCP/IP stack crashed (and that was fixed overnight). Stable as a rock. Serving up non-stop no matter what people try. Cant get in and can do a denial of service. Windows 2000 is more stable and robust than Linux - this is proof. " MTBF=12 days ? LOL that's 11% downtime a year! over 30 crashes a year.
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I bet the black helicopters are behind this. The big Wolly Mamouth, Mr. Shufulufagas, comes to visit cute little school kids and out pops drunken waco ATF agents, smoking Ruby Ridge cigars, and HRF gun the local school LAN.
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I bet Bill Gates is behind all this. Wolly 1.0b is just vaporware to mask that fact the Micros~1 doesn't have coherant software service portal stratagy.
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I hear Linus is going to incoporate OpenWolly in 2.3 ;)
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RedHat, Caldera, and Debian . .an entire store filled with Linux products/paraphernalia and services . . it's perfect! Just WHO IS this forward thinking company that's poised for the 12st century?? Are they a publicly traded company ??
Of course, if you're reading this, you're aware that the internet is the distribution channel of choice. However, don't underestimate the importance of well placed shrink wrapped boxes in retail space, and it's effect on a companies bottom line. For example: micros~1 gave away IE, but in the store people paid top dollar for it. What suprised me most was a bundle from Adobe which included Golive,Photoshop, and Illustrator for over 1,200.00 dollars US!
All of the functions can be achieved with open source distros, but the "wow, that paper clip is kewl" crowd will happily doll out a few green back because "that box is just kewl". What does this mean for Linux? With Linux now being well placed in retail space, It means more retail dollars to the Linux community.
Has anyone else seen Linux on the shelf in the local 'puter store ? Do that have more than one Distro? Are they making more room for Linux, and pushing the micros~1 products over in the corner ?
There before me where 6 rows of software..head to toe...and 6 columns wide! . . Suse,Red Hat, Debian, you name it. A veritable cornucopia of linux selections. This is prime retail space that is normally very difficult to come by.
The best part about it all was, tucked away in the corner (bottom row, far left) was this pissy little box with clouds on the cover, some 1/2 baked propritatary/old news/yesterday-tech box that sayed "Windows".
Command line interface.
The glow of a green phosphorus screen
Byte Magazine in my mailbox
In a day when PC rags are nothing more than Microsoft marketing, Byte magazine and it's team of insitefull, knowledgable tech writers have insipred, and instructed countless programers around the world. Long live the amazing Jon Udell and Byte Magazine.
Just look around . . you have all that today. Hilton Chicago is offering a PC in their exucutive suites -today-. the best thing is they're tied into a high speed hotel network attached to the net. I have an 'puter by the phone for addresses and scheduling . . as well as my main dual monitor in the den. Flat screen information applicances are here today . . and it's called a PC. Want a sleeker looking unit? get a laptop and hang it on the wall.
This sounds like a Dilbert cube on steroids
What I find most interesting about the story is that they are afraid of the suposed drug dealing that goes on at that location. This is another example of people accociating the open liberal ways of the internet and dismissing it as an evil influence in society. Is this something new? Something only the Inet is the victim of? Not at all! This happens in every society when a new technology is introduced. (Rent 'the gods must be crazy' for an illustration of this). I'm reminded of the old play "The music Man" set back in the arly part of the centtury. In the play, a small town (river city) is worried obout the influence of pool on it's young people. Pool? you say? yea, Billiards . . So when people start talking about the bad influence the Inet is having...just give them time, and society will adjust.
I don't see where ping is problem. All netwroked versions of quake (at least since since quakeworld/1996) have responded to ping. Have you been ping flooded playing quake? no? I thought not. It's an very efficient way to judge network latency, and generally pretty harmless.
how complicated would it be to write simple programs for the dreamcast? could this be done in c or c++ for a win ce or *bsd api? Can't be done!
if one were to write a program for the dreamcast, could it be put on any normal cd-rw and used immediately, or would any special modifications be needed. The disk is propitary so,.....wait for it . . . . . . . . . Can't be done! It turns out that the original poster did a wonderfull deep scan of a router. I think your odds of hacking said router would be more interesting/fun.
These poll resuls show that about fully one third of slashdot users are from outside the US. :)
"Slashdot. News for nerds. Hoaxes that don't matter." This is the second time this week that everyone's gotten all worked up about a hack that was just to good to be true (myself included) . We can all do better. I don't want "Hoaxes that don't matter" to be the motto.
Sheeeees LL thanks! . . . da hell is that . . yer thesis?!
An earier post to this topic mentioned that this his DC was using Port 113 for IRC . . regardless of what port is being used . . my question still remaines... can a DC-IRC client DCC
I was considering picking up one of these kewl little boxes, but I really wouldn't have much use for one. If a user can DCC information back and forth over the DCIRC client, then a person could download MP3s onto a zip drive while playing "kill em all!"(c)anygame inc. That might make buying one a little more tempting.
I realise that there isn't any storage on a DC, but I'm curious if the DC-IRC client suports it.
Well...if the Dreamcast unit has an IRC client - is it capable of recieving DCC file transfers?
I found the Byte Magazine article mentioned in my previus post. I think this article will answer your questions regarding today optical storage.
I would agree that this apears to be a very good scan of his ISP :)
I would concure that the DC drive prolly isn't using any special light/laser source. One of the things that makes todays CDrom/DVDdrives so afordable is the cheap/safe laser. Getting more data on a optical platter involves layers, and focusing. The disk would have 2 layers (the top layer would be semi opaque/seethrough. and the bottom layer would not) When the reader head focuses the laser on the top of the disk, that layer of data would be read. When the laser focuses further down into the disk, *that* lower layer of data would be read. This gives you double the data density without a lot of cost. Then there is a double sided/dual focal point drives that can read twice as much again. The bottom line? You will be seeing cheap plastic optical platters storing 4.7Gbytes(todays DVD) / 10Gbytes / 20Gbytes without having to alter the laser source or sector structure. (I think Byte magazine had an article on this when DVD first came out) comments welcome.
I would concure that they are prolly not using a differnt light (laser) source. Getting more bits onto a CD style platter involves layers, and varying the focal point of the reader head. The very top layer of the disk would have data on it, but is semi opaque. The layer under that has data on it, and it accessed by focusing the reader head laser to a deeper depth, thus attaining double the density of a traditional disk. Then there are 2 sided disks requiring a dual focus/dual reader head drive to read them. Bottom line: the CD style storage disk (CDrom/DVD/DreamCast) could hold a LOT MORE data than the dreamcast or the current DVD format is exploiting today. (Byte had an interesting article on this topic when DVDs first came out.
Nice call. Jerky :) I thought you were going to ask him if he had prince albert in a can . . ar if his refrigerator was running. (hey man...your cats on my fence) . . but seriously . . I think it's kinda funny that the Sega rep doesn't seem to know what Telnet is?!?!
It's news because it means that the open source movement is moving forward. We're closer to another kernel update, and closer to more computing power.
I recently visited the Wk@ test site and had to laugh at this post:
"Drestin Black 8/28/1999 12:57:54 PM
Gee - 12 days since the last time the beta TCP/IP stack crashed (and that was fixed overnight). Stable as a rock. Serving up non-stop no matter
what people try. Cant get in and can do a denial of service. Windows 2000 is more stable and robust than Linux - this is proof. "
MTBF=12 days ?
LOL that's 11% downtime a year!
over 30 crashes a year.