That first article (if you can it that) "Vaporeware list" by Leander Kahney is nothing but crap. He must of had a dead line and needed to produce some dribble.
Vaporware is a rumor of software or upgrade that never makes it. Beta or spot releases are not Vaporware.
Wired never did the right thing and apologize, they just congratulate themselves for being a good motivator.
What is with this 5 minute stories on wired? They are nothing but re-capped press releases. I should get bunch of college kids and recap everyones press releases.
Opps, Wired beat me too it...
"The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money."
-A. J. Liebling, The Press, 1961
There is a program out for that exact reason. ITs called httptunnel. You then have a tunnel to your home box over the proxy. (Windows binaries are out too)
So whats the Worst thing you did to get back at your former boss?
1. Run up the toll free 800 phone bill?
2. Remotely reboot the servers?
3. Post the radius passwords on usenet?
4. Cut the t1 on the side of the building?
5. Use a pin and poke the t1 cable (let them find the problem)
6. Take his/hers customers?
7. Become their boss?
8. Sleep with their spouse?
9. Spam the hell out of their private email accounts?
10. Subscribe them to every mailing list you can find? (root@ webmaster@ sales@ info@)
11. Sugar in the gas tank?
12. IRS?
13. 1-888-NOPIRACY
14. Post those drunken party pictures on yahoo personals?
"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny." -Kim Hubbard
I was working at WANG when they released groups of people. 25 from HR, then 35 or so from Dispatch.. Lucky I knew I/S was last, so I found a job first.:)
There are ways around it.. The corps know all the tricks.
I have many old friends in the Video game industry, old amiga hackers doing PSX/PSX2/DreamCast/N64 and PC games.
Are any of them driving Ferraris? Hell no. So they get a royalty check for 250K or so. Thats for 2 years work! I know Oracle DBA's that make more than that in a year.. (And do less work, 20 hour coding days, time line crunchs, etc..)
The Video Game industry has gone the way of the Record Industry. They pay millions in advertising, so all that gets payed back before the artists sees a penny..
As a side thought, one of the most popular games out has the shittest gfx ive ever seen. Everquest.
Don't fool yourself, people pay for the gameplay, not the gfx. EyeCandy gets old.
Side note- I read (on/.) that the Gaming Industry will be larger than the Movie Industry by 2002.
I remember reading about that it was 34 hours in a day, if we lived by our bodys clock.
Some interesting sci-fi books based off that information, how maybe we are from a planet with 34 hours in a day. (-;
Well, lets start way way back and work our way up.
64 days.
Bards Tale series, Ultima and Wasteland, and of course Gauntlet and Gauntlet expansion..
And Borderbund Battleship (I think that was it)
Amiga days.
SuperFrog, Zool series, bouncey and Barbarian.
Early PC days
Duke Nukem, Command and Conquer, Warcraft, Q1, Heretic, Blood
Today.
Tribes, Half-life, Solider of Fortune, Q2, Q3A
Vampire Masquerade single player..
(Waiting for Tribes2 and Halo in 2001)
My first ipx lan game was Duke Nukem. The detail on the battles where simply amazing. You could plant laser trip wires, first BFG rockets!
Tribes.. What can I saw about this intense multiplayer, team combat game.
I freaking LOVE it. Been playing 10+ hours a week for 2 years! The gfx are damn good on 3dfx cards. (yes kicks the geforce's ass)
The ability to use sound packs. My current soundpack is over 700 megs now.
Last night, this guy grabs the flag, I'm in a heavy, flip to mortar, wait for the guy to just about go over the mountain, and launch a big green smoke trail mortar over it.
Almost 6 seconds later.
"Your Flag was dropped"
DAMN, 1 in a million shot. Was soo sweet.
The game just can not compare with other FPS games. The freedom of movement, the weapons, the team play. THE pure evilness you can pull on people. Sneak up behind them, and mine-disc em.
Snipe from a mountain top, making sure flag grabbers dont make it too far with your flag.
Ive been to Tribescon 1999 (2nd place, thanks dynanmix for the pocketwatch)
And Tribescon 2000 - First place! (Thanks Colosus for setting it up, and the 101 bux first prize!)
A short time ago, you could buy plain copper lines for 60 bux a month. These copper lines where for security companies to monitor alarms.
Then dsl came out, so people started to buy these copper lines for 60 bux a month, and transmit faster than t1 speeds.
Soon the Telco's learned about this, you cant buy a plain unloaded copper line anymore for 60 bux...
Thou, I dont see VOIP being a risk, MSN/AOL/ATT are giving it away for free.;)
"Maybe US companies are figuring out its time not to compete in infrastructure, but to compete in services."
And where are they going to get this 3G bandwidth? Currently the data (CDPD) side of the network, uses 56K frame relay circuits for their Basestations...
They have been buying more cisco routers and ds3 circuits than all of UUNET.;)
Speaking of hardware, do you realize all the companies bidding for the contract for the 3G telco equipment?
Nortel, Lucent, Ericcson.. At 250K per basestation and 2Mill MDIS units, That 9.8 Billion investment will come to good use...
As for WAP/I-Mode, WAP is already installed, phones are out, people are developing for it now. You can get free developers kits at www.openwave.com
I actually got to see some of the I-Mode brochures when DoCoMo was looking at our NOC, It looks like they use multiple TDMA basestations for broadband, so you get the combined bandwidth. They had Video phones, streaming audio phones, even some cool Mp3 phones on display.. Very cool stuffs.
Also, didn't see one darn thing about PocketNet on that article from Cnet. Currently we are giving the service away free. Also kind of funny, Phone.com (aka now Openwave) sells the gateway software that both Sprint and Verizon uses. Guess who co-developed with phone.com (cough) ATTWS (cough)...
The world is smaller than you think.
*disclaimer, if your my boss reading slashdot, someone stole my slashdot account.
Someone should copy the way Apache uses http1.1 to host multiple virtual domains for use in other applications.
Also reminds me of the way Kali works, wrap ipx packets with tcp/udp packets. You tell the client(or server) what you want. At the application level not the transport.
Currently, the only way to do it now is with Port mapping/routing. But maybe someone will come up with some cool gateway layer type program/protocol. The gateway layer program would route IP based on the content, and route internally on some realtime definition list.
Example.
Lets say 192.168.1.1 is our NAT/Application gateway router.
We load our P2P program, it then sends notification to 192.168.1.1, with the content it wants to accept on a port, and the some identification key. I think you could form tcp/udp packets with this information. Then after the first redirect, its all normally NAT traffic.
There must be dozens of ways to accomplish this.
-Brook
I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
- Steven Wright
I remember reading an article about a family in NY, who sued the NYPD, the NYPD did not protect the family from a local gang.
Since it was/is (?) illegal to have a concealed weapons permit in NY, they had to rely on the NYPD for protection.
The outcome was the NYPD is not responsible for the safety of the public. So the case was dismissed.
3DFX has been dying for some time now. They lost their OEM sales to Nvidia and ATI. No longer selling chips to vendors was the biggest mistake. Everyone knew it.
Nvidia licenses their chips to everyone under the sun. They are taking over the mobile market with the low power geforce mx from ATI. They took the PCI market from 3DFX/ATI with the PCI version of the Geforce. Thier boards have worked flawlessly in dual monitor setups for years. Xbox will use a Nvidia chip. You can buy dozens Geforce Cards from vendors, but you can only buy 1 brand of 3dfx boards...
I'll never understand, when they owned the market, why the hell they stopped selling chips to video card manufactures vendors.
I play alot of FPS games, Tribes mostly.
So mapping the default asdw keys to the directional input was the logical method. The first thing I noticed is you have to move your hands ALOT for simple asdw movement keys. It is too slow for a FPS games. (IMHO)
Thou, this thing rocks for games that you want to move things on the screen around, and still have the mouse free for clicking & dragging objects.
Ages of Empire rocks with this, I'm going to try out Red Alert later this week, should make me extremely fast with the macros.
Also the thing works flawlessly in windows. I was able to map keys in windows, and there is no reason you couldnt use it for CAD, Level Design, or some type of production software. The thing has realtime keyboard macro recording.
Side note, I haven't figure out how to turn off its lights when you have a button programmed. The button lights up after its been programmed. Real eye-sore at night. Now I have 2 things on my desk that glow at night, the intellimouse optical explorer and then system commander.
Why cant he just do guinness-sucks.dyndns.org?
Or even www.geocities.com/guiness-sucks
Then just submit to your Search Engines. You dont need a domain name to share your views.
Slashdot Mirror
Vaporware is a rumor of software or upgrade that never makes it. Beta or spot releases are not Vaporware.
Wired never did the right thing and apologize, they just congratulate themselves for being a good motivator.
What is with this 5 minute stories on wired? They are nothing but re-capped press releases. I should get bunch of college kids and recap everyones press releases.
Opps, Wired beat me too it...
"The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money." -A. J. Liebling, The Press, 1961
TCP/IP is your friend. :)
http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel.html
So whats the Worst thing you did to get back at your former boss?
1. Run up the toll free 800 phone bill?
2. Remotely reboot the servers?
3. Post the radius passwords on usenet?
4. Cut the t1 on the side of the building?
5. Use a pin and poke the t1 cable (let them find the problem)
6. Take his/hers customers?
7. Become their boss?
8. Sleep with their spouse?
9. Spam the hell out of their private email accounts?
10. Subscribe them to every mailing list you can find? (root@ webmaster@ sales@ info@)
11. Sugar in the gas tank?
12. IRS?
13. 1-888-NOPIRACY
14. Post those drunken party pictures on yahoo personals?
"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny." -Kim Hubbard
I was working at WANG when they released groups of people. 25 from HR, then 35 or so from Dispatch.. Lucky I knew I/S was last, so I found a job first. :)
There are ways around it.. The corps know all the tricks.
Response to Carrions post-
/.) that the Gaming Industry will be larger than the Movie Industry by 2002.
I have many old friends in the Video game industry, old amiga hackers doing PSX/PSX2/DreamCast/N64 and PC games.
Are any of them driving Ferraris? Hell no. So they get a royalty check for 250K or so. Thats for 2 years work! I know Oracle DBA's that make more than that in a year.. (And do less work, 20 hour coding days, time line crunchs, etc..)
The Video Game industry has gone the way of the Record Industry. They pay millions in advertising, so all that gets payed back before the artists sees a penny..
As a side thought, one of the most popular games out has the shittest gfx ive ever seen. Everquest.
Don't fool yourself, people pay for the gameplay, not the gfx. EyeCandy gets old.
Side note- I read (on
I'll just add them to my boycott list, right after amazon. (I'd rather spend my money at barnes and noble..)
http://lng.sourceforge.net/
I work at a telco, and we have piles of sparc 5/10/20s and even a few ipxs.
2 years ago we moved to Ultra 10's for our desktops. In our litte office alone we replaced 40 or 50 desktops.
Most people took the 20's home for remote workstations. (And firewalls) (-;
1. IS the limit still 4 devices? 2. Can you raid them? 3. Since its serial, can use it like firewire/usb? 4. What is the actually speed? 200m or 1.5g?
2000-12-21 09:12:57 CopyProtection on next generation HardDrives (articles,news) (rejected)
I remember reading about that it was 34 hours in a day, if we lived by our bodys clock. Some interesting sci-fi books based off that information, how maybe we are from a planet with 34 hours in a day. (-;
Well, lets start way way back and work our way up.
64 days.
Bards Tale series, Ultima and Wasteland, and of course Gauntlet and Gauntlet expansion..
And Borderbund Battleship (I think that was it)
Amiga days.
SuperFrog, Zool series, bouncey and Barbarian.
Early PC days
Duke Nukem, Command and Conquer, Warcraft, Q1, Heretic, Blood
Today.
Tribes, Half-life, Solider of Fortune, Q2, Q3A
Vampire Masquerade single player..
(Waiting for Tribes2 and Halo in 2001)
My first ipx lan game was Duke Nukem. The detail on the battles where simply amazing. You could plant laser trip wires, first BFG rockets!
Tribes.. What can I saw about this intense multiplayer, team combat game.
I freaking LOVE it. Been playing 10+ hours a week for 2 years! The gfx are damn good on 3dfx cards. (yes kicks the geforce's ass)
The ability to use sound packs. My current soundpack is over 700 megs now.
Last night, this guy grabs the flag, I'm in a heavy, flip to mortar, wait for the guy to just about go over the mountain, and launch a big green smoke trail mortar over it.
Almost 6 seconds later.
"Your Flag was dropped"
DAMN, 1 in a million shot. Was soo sweet.
The game just can not compare with other FPS games. The freedom of movement, the weapons, the team play. THE pure evilness you can pull on people. Sneak up behind them, and mine-disc em.
Snipe from a mountain top, making sure flag grabbers dont make it too far with your flag.
Ive been to Tribescon 1999 (2nd place, thanks dynanmix for the pocketwatch)
And Tribescon 2000 - First place! (Thanks Colosus for setting it up, and the 101 bux first prize!)
Check out these sites for some cool screen shots and forums.
www.planetstarsiege.com
www.tribalwar.com
BTW. You can find me as IronWolve on your buddy list in Tribes.
-Brook Harty
aka IronWolve
-
vav
gg
Sigh... Ill be freaking jumping joy, when linux has stablized, and you really can download 1 binary!
:(
Elf/A.out/which glibc, which kernel, SMP or not.. GCC 3 or GCC2.95.2 maybe EGCS..
Lets not even talk about X support. Having troubles getting my Voodoo5 working with 4.0.1 still! NO q3a for you!
-Brook
/me dreams of gcc 3.0 and 2.4 released....
11/17/2000 05:53PM 568,841 Kernel-Win4Lin1-Caldera2.2-01.i386.rpm
11/17/2000 05:53PM 613,332 Kernel-Win4Lin1-Caldera2.3-01.i386.rpm
11/17/2000 05:53PM 5,038,443 Kernel-Win4Lin1-Caldera2.4smp-02.i386.rpm
11/17/2000 05:53PM 4,282,892 Kernel-Win4Lin1-Mandrake6.1-7.i686.rpm
11/17/2000 05:53PM 664,751 Kernel-Win4Lin1-Mandrake7.0-15.i686.rpm
11/17/2000 05:53PM 5,182,061 Kernel-Win4Lin1-Mandrake7.1-9.i586.rpm
11/17/2000 05:53PM 669,703 Kernel-Win4Lin1-RedHat6.0-15.i386.rpm
11/17/2000 05:53PM 676,992 Kernel-Win4Lin1-RedHat6.1-20.i386.rpm
11/17/2000 05:53PM 662,812 Kernel-Win4Lin1-RedHat6.2-1.i386.rpm
11/17/2000 05:53PM 695,738 Kernel-Win4Lin1-RedHat6.2smp-2.i386.rpm
11/17/2000 05:53PM 747,324 Kernel-Win4Lin1-SuSE6.1-01.i386.rpm
11/17/2000 05:53PM 752,428 Kernel-Win4Lin1-SuSE6.2-01.i386.rpm
11/17/2000 05:53PM 784,591 Kernel-Win4Lin1-SuSE6.3-01.i386.rpm
11/17/2000 05:53PM 865,331 Kernel-Win4Lin1-SuSE6.4_2.2.14-02.i386.rpm
11/17/2000 05:53PM 901,433 Kernel-Win4Lin1-SuSE6.4smp_2.2.14-02.i386.rpm
11/17/2000 05:53PM 678,125 Kernel-Win4Lin2-RedHat6.2_2.2.16.3-4.i386.rpm
11/17/2000 05:53PM 710,005 Kernel-Win4Lin2-RedHat6.2smp_2.2.16.3-4.i386.rpm
11/17/2000 05:53PM 717,444 Kernel-Win4Lin2-RedHat7.0_2.2.16.22-1.i386.rpm
11/17/2000 05:53PM 748,662 Kernel-Win4Lin2-RedHat7.0smp_2.2.16.22-1.i386.rpm
Then dsl came out, so people started to buy these copper lines for 60 bux a month, and transmit faster than t1 speeds.
Soon the Telco's learned about this, you cant buy a plain unloaded copper line anymore for 60 bux...
Thou, I dont see VOIP being a risk, MSN/AOL/ATT are giving it away for free. ;)
And where are they going to get this 3G bandwidth? Currently the data (CDPD) side of the network, uses 56K frame relay circuits for their Basestations... ;)
They have been buying more cisco routers and ds3 circuits than all of UUNET.
Speaking of hardware, do you realize all the companies bidding for the contract for the 3G telco equipment?
Nortel, Lucent, Ericcson.. At 250K per basestation and 2Mill MDIS units, That 9.8 Billion investment will come to good use...
As for WAP/I-Mode, WAP is already installed, phones are out, people are developing for it now. You can get free developers kits at www.openwave.com
I actually got to see some of the I-Mode brochures when DoCoMo was looking at our NOC, It looks like they use multiple TDMA basestations for broadband, so you get the combined bandwidth. They had Video phones, streaming audio phones, even some cool Mp3 phones on display.. Very cool stuffs.
Also, didn't see one darn thing about PocketNet on that article from Cnet. Currently we are giving the service away free. Also kind of funny, Phone.com (aka now Openwave) sells the gateway software that both Sprint and Verizon uses. Guess who co-developed with phone.com (cough) ATTWS (cough)...
The world is smaller than you think.
*disclaimer, if your my boss reading slashdot, someone stole my slashdot account.
Ill set a proxy server to do dns looks of names for a set of root dns servers, and then respond with links from each.
Pick your site.
youcan.here
Open Root
http://youcann.here @ Address: 199.166.24.43
ICANN Root
Not found...
Then I can link to everyones root servers. God help me if there is more than 5 root servers with the same name...
-Brook
Also reminds me of the way Kali works, wrap ipx packets with tcp/udp packets. You tell the client(or server) what you want. At the application level not the transport.
Currently, the only way to do it now is with Port mapping/routing. But maybe someone will come up with some cool gateway layer type program/protocol. The gateway layer program would route IP based on the content, and route internally on some realtime definition list.
Example.
Lets say 192.168.1.1 is our NAT/Application gateway router.
We load our P2P program, it then sends notification to 192.168.1.1, with the content it wants to accept on a port, and the some identification key. I think you could form tcp/udp packets with this information. Then after the first redirect, its all normally NAT traffic.
There must be dozens of ways to accomplish this.
-Brook
I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
- Steven Wright
Any idea how many firewire drivers you can daisy chain? PCNation has 80gigs firewire HD's for 358. 40's for 256..
I remember reading an article about a family in NY, who sued the NYPD, the NYPD did not protect the family from a local gang.
Since it was/is (?) illegal to have a concealed weapons permit in NY, they had to rely on the NYPD for protection.
The outcome was the NYPD is not responsible for the safety of the public. So the case was dismissed.
3DFX has been dying for some time now. They lost their OEM sales to Nvidia and ATI. No longer selling chips to vendors was the biggest mistake. Everyone knew it.
Nvidia licenses their chips to everyone under the sun. They are taking over the mobile market with the low power geforce mx from ATI. They took the PCI market from 3DFX/ATI with the PCI version of the Geforce. Thier boards have worked flawlessly in dual monitor setups for years. Xbox will use a Nvidia chip. You can buy dozens Geforce Cards from vendors, but you can only buy 1 brand of 3dfx boards...
I'll never understand, when they owned the market, why the hell they stopped selling chips to video card manufactures vendors.
Thou, this thing rocks for games that you want to move things on the screen around, and still have the mouse free for clicking & dragging objects. Ages of Empire rocks with this, I'm going to try out Red Alert later this week, should make me extremely fast with the macros.
Also the thing works flawlessly in windows. I was able to map keys in windows, and there is no reason you couldnt use it for CAD, Level Design, or some type of production software. The thing has realtime keyboard macro recording.
Side note, I haven't figure out how to turn off its lights when you have a button programmed. The button lights up after its been programmed. Real eye-sore at night. Now I have 2 things on my desk that glow at night, the intellimouse optical explorer and then system commander.
-Brook Harty
-=-Wheres my tribes2 beta!
http://www.planetstarsiege.com
Or even www.geocities.com/guiness-sucks
Then just submit to your Search Engines. You dont need a domain name to share your views.
-Brook
Wheres my tribes2 beta!
I had to buy the game, just cause it was banned.
Same with Solider of Fortune and Caramagedone.
Oh ya, Internet is growing by thousands of hosts a day..
What is this Z Game? Who makes it? any URL?