Jeez - I'm ssh'd into my home linux box. Thought I'd check out a few of the infected machines... by pasting the ip's into IE5.5 on my laptop.
Duh! Flipping back and forth between the sites, Slashdot, ssh, answering the phone and guzzling coffee, I didn't notice that IE was crashing, Norton antivirus was triggering... shit.
I'm an idiot. Okay - have I infected my machine? I'm afraid I've been automatically triggering 'readme.eml'. I'm running NT4.0 sp6.
Wow - I opened one of the IP's that's hit my box and saw the same thing - Fuck USA Government, Fuck PoisonBox' I'm in the 24.156 range (Rogers@Home in Ontario...)
Interesting... how about linux - does it issue HLT instructions?
I'm running kernel 2.4.x and I never shut my machine down... would be nice to know I'm not burning through any more power than I have to.
Heck, I wish my power supply fan would slow down when the machine is drawing little power (but ISTR that didn't work well on the DEC Multia). And I'd love to have my hard drive spin down, but I'd have to cut down logging, right?
Small comfort to the victims, I'm sure, but the world shares in their grief.
Every time I think I'm getting numb to this tragedy, I run across something that drives it home in a new way. Thank god... I don't want to be numb right now.
Right - which reduces the power consumption and noise.
What I'd *really* like to see is a fanless power supply for such an application. It'd probably have to be limited to, say, 100W but that could cover such a box easily, especially if permitted to overload slightly at boot-up.
Anybody know of such a thing? I have the perfect little 486 that I'm not using as a router because I don't want to consume any more power than I have to. But if all I had to run was the solid-state components and the floppy at power-up, I'd be much more willing...
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Oh, come on... and I suppose that 200-year-old document (your vaunted constitution) is irrelevant to modern discussions too?
Christ, by paying a little more attention to its own constitution, America could have avoided such things as the DMCA (this *is* Slashdot, after all)... and more on topic - could have avoided contributing to the creation of bin Laden, Pinochet and the like.
Sorry, this turned into a flame. But I think Franklin's statement is right on the money right now as the US and the rest of the world seeks a new balance between safety and liberty.
<sarcasm> Or perhaps you'd rather just turn the whole thing over to the Director of the CIA. He can tell us what freedoms will be allowed to persist in the post-WTC era. </sarcasm>
Well, there's bound to be plenty of casualties in the north tower (the first one hit), but there was then 20 minutes in which both towers were ordered to evacuate, so that should hopefully keep the body count down.
hmm... DivX claims its recent software was a clean implementation... a new start, completely from scratch. Which should get Micrsoft off their back, at least over this issue.
No, no, no, there's no money in banning everything. What we need to do is license everything.
I think our beloved Content Providers should be trusted with this responsibility. Sort of an auxilliary government, charged with providing all services, information and communications we use on a daily basis. And we can trust them - I mean, the company that created Mickey Mouse, for example, couldn't do anything NOT in the public's best interest, right?
We'd have giant media conglomerates acting as sort of Philosopher Kings to a public desperate for what they have to sell. And nobody would do anything illegal, 'cause it'd be impossible.
I don't know if that ever made sense. But I burned off some steam;)
Along the same lines, please never allow your elected representative to refer to you as a 'taxpayer'. God, there's no term more demeaning, more belittling... I mean, what happens if I should fall on hard times? I'm no longer a taxpayer, so I no longer count?
The word 'citizen' needs to come back into everyday parlance.
I'll buy that. I mean, honestly, the following quote from an MS source: "I can't say a thing. Listen, the thing is, Microsoft is sidestepping this so as not to distract from the Xbox. It's really hush hush hush - I don't know where you heard this!"
Nobody - not the janitor - at MS would be so unsophisticated as to give a response like this to a product that was really intended to be secret. Other references were made as well, to MS spokespeople expressing 'shock'.
C'mon... this is one of the world's most media-savvy organizations. Whether this is a hoax or not, I think Microsoft wants people to know about it. They're trying to generate a buzz.
(Oh, and I loved the line 'MS is trying to free its corporate anchor from the PC.' Funny, I freed my PC from Microsoft's anchor years ago when I installed my first copy of Linux;)
``These changes move the Pocket PC into what will likely be the sustaining generation of devices: they're always on, always connected and function as a stand-alone platform.''
Yep. Always on. For the entire 30 minutes of battery life. Honestly, at Comdex here in Toronto this year, not a single WinCE device was on display without a power cord.
I'm sure there are plenty of enterprise applications for this OS that I haven't thought of, but Palm does plenty (off-the-shelf and custom), its battery life is amazing and it just plain works.
Palm must not get sucked into playing this game by Microsoft's rules. They've got a simple, robust, ubiquitious platform. Microsoft has none of those attributes, but will try to goad Palm into giving them up in favour of competing feature-for-bullshit-feature.
Actually, I once read an article (long lost in the shuffle, I'm afraid) in which a MS researcher claimed to have developed some really leading-edge AI stuff that was intended to power Clippy. He claimed that, if his stuff had gone into production, Clippy would have been uncannily perceptive in offering help.
MS chose to neuter his algorithms, though, and instead we got that perpetual annoyance/spawn of satan.
Yep, I like Ximian/Gnome's desktop too. And v1.4 performs just fine on my p200mmx with 96M of ram. That is, it performs fine *without* Nautilus installed. GMC is okay for file management, and Sawfish can easily be replaced by Blackbox for that extra bit of speed.
Nautilus is a gorgeous piece of work, but if Ximian ever makes it a required component of their desktop, they're going to blow us hardware-challenged folks out of the water.
I should have been more specific. The 'server' I built was added to a network of 3-4 workstations spread around the office. All machines, including the server are shut down every night.
You make a solid point (and I've avoided adding other machines for that reason), but none of the existing desktops could have provided these services due to locations of printers, power, phones lines, etc.
Y'know... just for the record... and I certainly couldn't have spent less money then free;)
Absolutely - my wife's clinic has a 486 currently running as a file/print server and dialup proxy. I built it as a proof-of-concept and have a P-75 machine standing by to take its place as the permanent server.
No more carrying around floppies to print or share files. No more unplugging the printer to print from the laptop. No more unplugging the phone line to pick up email or surf. No more moving from one machine for producing invoices, another to do email and another to do the books. And a backup strategy is in the works.
Computing power is laying around us in piles. If you really, honestly examine what you need, it's hard to justify a big hardware budget.
Oh, BTW - my budget for building the LAN at my wife's clinic: $50 for a hub. The rest of the parts were just cluttering up my study;)
Shame - if I taught highschool, I'd love to run a skunkworks computer lab. Have students pursue donations of parts from around town and see what they can do with them. Have them research the various parts, choose the best configurations and, of course, build Linux/BSD boxen from them. Wouldn't take long to build a lab - imagine, a *nix lab in a highschool maintained by student volunteers who learn something new every time they crack open a case.
This reflects my experience with accumulated cast-off parts and could be the most useful computer training they receive (short of actual programming classes).
Hear hear! I'm running RedHat 7.x on a 6-year-old machine that's been tricked out to a P200mmx with 96M of EDO Ram and a 10-gig HDD with an 8-meg ATI video card. Oh, and a 15" (albeit Trinitron) monitor. Further upgrades to this box aren't going to be worth the expense.
Much as I'd *love* to build a new box, I just can't spare the cash right now. It's gotten worse too - I just figured that I could spend just $300 on a new mobo, processor (1 GHz Athlon), PC-133 RAM and a cheapo case and scavenge parts from my old box to make my new system complete.
Anyway - my advice is the EBay option. Make those parts available to people like me, who can only afford the occasional incremental upgrade. And swing a little cash for your trouble.
While I think you have some strong points, I've used BeOS and it was as good or better than anything I've seen from Microsoft.
I'm afraid merit never came into play here. Their money allowed MS to develop their way into the server market with a decent product, for example, but the real advantage of their money was in strategy, not product innovation.
uh... not to pick nits, but DOS is an OS. Windows 3.x (and, arguably, 9.x) is a GUI.
And the issue isn't bootloaders. It's dual-boot capability. Half the./ crowd could probably write a competent bootloader. Be's problem was that they couldn't get space on OEM machines' hard drives.
This was adressed in the article. BeOS was free, at least for a while, to be dual-booted with Windows. It would be technically trivial to enable dual-boot.
So you'd think vendors, who are straining for differentiation, would jump on the opportunity. This falls into the "can't hurt, could help" category.
*That* is why this looks suspiciously like the result of Microsoft tactics.
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Jeez - I'm ssh'd into my home linux box. Thought I'd check out a few of the infected machines... by pasting the ip's into IE5.5 on my laptop.
Duh! Flipping back and forth between the sites, Slashdot, ssh, answering the phone and guzzling coffee, I didn't notice that IE was crashing, Norton antivirus was triggering... shit.
I'm an idiot. Okay - have I infected my machine? I'm afraid I've been automatically triggering 'readme.eml'. I'm running NT4.0 sp6.
Wow - I opened one of the IP's that's hit my box and saw the same thing - Fuck USA Government, Fuck PoisonBox' I'm in the 24.156 range (Rogers@Home in Ontario...)
1300 hits so far. Each infected machine seems to be making a LOT of attempts.
Here we go again...
heh... and those of us with pacemakers are particularly leery of poking around power supplies, old tv's etc.
;)
It's just not worth it
Interesting... how about linux - does it issue HLT instructions?
I'm running kernel 2.4.x and I never shut my machine down... would be nice to know I'm not burning through any more power than I have to.
Heck, I wish my power supply fan would slow down when the machine is drawing little power (but ISTR that didn't work well on the DEC Multia). And I'd love to have my hard drive spin down, but I'd have to cut down logging, right?
...(last link) were amazing.
Small comfort to the victims, I'm sure, but the world shares in their grief.
Every time I think I'm getting numb to this tragedy, I run across something that drives it home in a new way. Thank god... I don't want to be numb right now.
Right - which reduces the power consumption and noise.
What I'd *really* like to see is a fanless power supply for such an application. It'd probably have to be limited to, say, 100W but that could cover such a box easily, especially if permitted to overload slightly at boot-up.
Anybody know of such a thing? I have the perfect little 486 that I'm not using as a router because I don't want to consume any more power than I have to. But if all I had to run was the solid-state components and the floppy at power-up, I'd be much more willing...
Oh, come on... and I suppose that 200-year-old document (your vaunted constitution) is irrelevant to modern discussions too?
Christ, by paying a little more attention to its own constitution, America could have avoided such things as the DMCA (this *is* Slashdot, after all)... and more on topic - could have avoided contributing to the creation of bin Laden, Pinochet and the like.
Sorry, this turned into a flame. But I think Franklin's statement is right on the money right now as the US and the rest of the world seeks a new balance between safety and liberty.
<sarcasm> Or perhaps you'd rather just turn the whole thing over to the Director of the CIA. He can tell us what freedoms will be allowed to persist in the post-WTC era. </sarcasm>
Well, there's bound to be plenty of casualties in the north tower (the first one hit), but there was then 20 minutes in which both towers were ordered to evacuate, so that should hopefully keep the body count down.
*sigh*
hmm... DivX claims its recent software was a clean implementation... a new start, completely from scratch. Which should get Micrsoft off their back, at least over this issue.
I think our beloved Content Providers should be trusted with this responsibility. Sort of an auxilliary government, charged with providing all services, information and communications we use on a daily basis. And we can trust them - I mean, the company that created Mickey Mouse, for example, couldn't do anything NOT in the public's best interest, right?
We'd have giant media conglomerates acting as sort of Philosopher Kings to a public desperate for what they have to sell. And nobody would do anything illegal, 'cause it'd be impossible.
I don't know if that ever made sense. But I burned off some steam ;)
Or perhaps a moisture detector to tell when the visitor is done...
;)
...gosh, that was crude. Gonna cost me some karma
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Along the same lines, please never allow your elected representative to refer to you as a 'taxpayer'. God, there's no term more demeaning, more belittling... I mean, what happens if I should fall on hard times? I'm no longer a taxpayer, so I no longer count?
The word 'citizen' needs to come back into everyday parlance.
Nobody - not the janitor - at MS would be so unsophisticated as to give a response like this to a product that was really intended to be secret. Other references were made as well, to MS spokespeople expressing 'shock'.
C'mon... this is one of the world's most media-savvy organizations. Whether this is a hoax or not, I think Microsoft wants people to know about it. They're trying to generate a buzz.
(Oh, and I loved the line 'MS is trying to free its corporate anchor from the PC.' Funny, I freed my PC from Microsoft's anchor years ago when I installed my first copy of Linux ;)
See, lots of people are saying this, and I think that's MS's strategy. Frame the debate according to *their* preferences:
1) Color screen!
2) Actual handheld versions of desktop software!
3) Multimedia!
4) Wireless networking!
5) Etc, ad nauseaum.
They don't mention:
6) Battery life
7) Size of form factor (waaay bigger than Palm)
8) Price
9) Useability
10) Appropriateness for *main* user needs.
I'll say it again - Palm has to participate in the framing of this debate, or arguments like those above will actually (unjustly) damage them.
``These changes move the Pocket PC into what will likely be the sustaining generation of devices: they're always on, always connected and function as a stand-alone platform.''
Yep. Always on. For the entire 30 minutes of battery life. Honestly, at Comdex here in Toronto this year, not a single WinCE device was on display without a power cord.
I'm sure there are plenty of enterprise applications for this OS that I haven't thought of, but Palm does plenty (off-the-shelf and custom), its battery life is amazing and it just plain works.
Palm must not get sucked into playing this game by Microsoft's rules. They've got a simple, robust, ubiquitious platform. Microsoft has none of those attributes, but will try to goad Palm into giving them up in favour of competing feature-for-bullshit-feature.
Actually, I once read an article (long lost in the shuffle, I'm afraid) in which a MS researcher claimed to have developed some really leading-edge AI stuff that was intended to power Clippy. He claimed that, if his stuff had gone into production, Clippy would have been uncannily perceptive in offering help.
MS chose to neuter his algorithms, though, and instead we got that perpetual annoyance/spawn of satan.
Oh - and don't write him off just yet.
Yep, I like Ximian/Gnome's desktop too. And v1.4 performs just fine on my p200mmx with 96M of ram. That is, it performs fine *without* Nautilus installed. GMC is okay for file management, and Sawfish can easily be replaced by Blackbox for that extra bit of speed.
Nautilus is a gorgeous piece of work, but if Ximian ever makes it a required component of their desktop, they're going to blow us hardware-challenged folks out of the water.
I should have been more specific. The 'server' I built was added to a network of 3-4 workstations spread around the office. All machines, including the server are shut down every night.
You make a solid point (and I've avoided adding other machines for that reason), but none of the existing desktops could have provided these services due to locations of printers, power, phones lines, etc.
Y'know... just for the record... and I certainly couldn't have spent less money then free;)
Absolutely - my wife's clinic has a 486 currently running as a file/print server and dialup proxy. I built it as a proof-of-concept and have a P-75 machine standing by to take its place as the permanent server.
;)
No more carrying around floppies to print or share files. No more unplugging the printer to print from the laptop. No more unplugging the phone line to pick up email or surf. No more moving from one machine for producing invoices, another to do email and another to do the books. And a backup strategy is in the works.
Computing power is laying around us in piles. If you really, honestly examine what you need, it's hard to justify a big hardware budget.
Oh, BTW - my budget for building the LAN at my wife's clinic: $50 for a hub. The rest of the parts were just cluttering up my study
Shame - if I taught highschool, I'd love to run a skunkworks computer lab. Have students pursue donations of parts from around town and see what they can do with them. Have them research the various parts, choose the best configurations and, of course, build Linux/BSD boxen from them. Wouldn't take long to build a lab - imagine, a *nix lab in a highschool maintained by student volunteers who learn something new every time they crack open a case.
This reflects my experience with accumulated cast-off parts and could be the most useful computer training they receive (short of actual programming classes).
Hear hear! I'm running RedHat 7.x on a 6-year-old machine that's been tricked out to a P200mmx with 96M of EDO Ram and a 10-gig HDD with an 8-meg ATI video card. Oh, and a 15" (albeit Trinitron) monitor. Further upgrades to this box aren't going to be worth the expense.
Much as I'd *love* to build a new box, I just can't spare the cash right now. It's gotten worse too - I just figured that I could spend just $300 on a new mobo, processor (1 GHz Athlon), PC-133 RAM and a cheapo case and scavenge parts from my old box to make my new system complete.
Anyway - my advice is the EBay option. Make those parts available to people like me, who can only afford the occasional incremental upgrade. And swing a little cash for your trouble.
While I think you have some strong points, I've used BeOS and it was as good or better than anything I've seen from Microsoft.
I'm afraid merit never came into play here. Their money allowed MS to develop their way into the server market with a decent product, for example, but the real advantage of their money was in strategy, not product innovation.
uh... not to pick nits, but DOS is an OS. Windows 3.x (and, arguably, 9.x) is a GUI.
./ crowd could probably write a competent bootloader. Be's problem was that they couldn't get space on OEM machines' hard drives.
And the issue isn't bootloaders. It's dual-boot capability. Half the
This was adressed in the article. BeOS was free, at least for a while, to be dual-booted with Windows. It would be technically trivial to enable dual-boot.
So you'd think vendors, who are straining for differentiation, would jump on the opportunity. This falls into the "can't hurt, could help" category.
*That* is why this looks suspiciously like the result of Microsoft tactics.