You can run x inside of a ggi window, and there's a program that allows you to run 6 ggi screens, each on the side of a cube, that on top of ggi in a console or svgalib in a console or something. (I think I'm getting this right) You can rotate the cube, and its really cool looking. I've never played with it personally, but a friend of mine did on his 233 (i think) mhz laptop, so its not too processor intensive. Its not nearly what you envision but its a pretty interesting environment.
Based on what someone said earlier, I expect that any telnet client that allows telnetting to such a domain name is not implementing the standards for domain names correctly. unix telnet returns quickly with an unknown server error, not even having done an nslookup.
Since most people probably won't feel like checking up on this, here are some product descriptions from their catalog:
pb-1 telephone bug transmitter kit
Will transmit both sides of telephone conversation up to 1/4 mile! Very small size fits anywhere in phone or on phone line. Connects in series and draws its power from the phone system - no battery needed. Great for roomful listening (a speakerphone without the wires!) or seeing what the kids are up to! Output tunable from 88 to 108 MHz. Can be received on any standard FM receiver so anyone can listen. Size: 2"w x 7/8"h x 5/8"h.
c-2000 and c-3000, video and video/audio transmitter cubes
Perfect video transmission from a transmitter you can hide under a quarter and only as thick as a stack of four pennies - check out the size compared with a penny! Transmits color or B&W with fantastic quality - almost like a direct wire connection to any TV tuned to cable channel 59. Crystal controlled for no frequency drift with performance that equals law enforcement models that cost hundreds more! Basic 20 mW model transmits up to 300' while the high power 100 mW unit goes up to 1/4 mile. Units run on 9 volts and hook-up easily to most any CCD camera module. Any of our camera modules have been tested to mate perfectly with the Cubes and work great with solid, trouble-free operation! Fully assembled and tested - just hook-up power and you're on-the-air with a killer system!
CLK2000WT - disguised clock video camera/transmitter
Check out our nifty wall clock! Uses our popular "Cube" video transmitter and one of our quality B&W CCD cameras, all expertly and cleverly hidden in the everyday object. The camera and transmitter operates on a standard 9VDC battery, and the clock requires one standard AA cell for the quartz movement. Of course, the clock does operate as a fine time piece! All units transmit on cable channel 59, easily received on any cable-ready TV set. Completely assembled, wired, tested, and ready to hang.
Check out our smoke detector! Uses our popular "Cube" video transmitter and one of our quality B&W CCD cameras, all expertly and cleverly hidden in the everyday object. Units run on a standard 9VDC battery. Please note, the smoke detector does not function as a operable smoke detector! Use this for your video projects, but get a real smoke detector so your house doesn't burn down! All units transmit on cable channel 59, easily received on any cable-ready TV set. Completely assembled, wired, tested, and ready to hang.
those are the most interesting product listings. They have a camera called a "Mini-Peeper CCD Video Cameras," but the description isn't anything special. I'm not saying that these things are or should be illegal to sell. It just seems to me that they aren't quite as innocent as some people have thought. But don't take my word for it..check out the actual catalog here
I have seen a couple posts complaining about this undercounting. I would bet that its done for legacy reasons. Probably, back when they started this, there wasn't any or much variety between the various netscapes, and the various ms servers, so they decided to lump it all into one number. Apache and its derivatives seem to have become popular somewhat later, however, so they may have decided to represent them in a somewhat better fashion. However, to change the method of representing either at this point would skew the rate of change in the datapoint that you made the change at. They probably have to stick with what they have been doing so that the graph stays correct relative to the past.
You make good points regarding vranesevich. In fact, it seems to me that its mostly posts like yours that are being moderated up, and the few questions that I've seen moderated up are fairly hostile. The guys who run/. seem to me to be fairly smart; do you think they didn't expect this to happen? In fact, I'd say they were counting onn it.
My aunt just got my grandfather an imac. It confuses the hell out of him. He just doesnt understand what all the things are, the finder, the changing menus. It even confuses my dad, who is pretty good with computers. I suspect that macs, like windows, dos, linux, is only good if you learned it early on or have been using it for a while.
121 is an easy sounding intro to programming that I took the equivelent of in high school but manages to get rid of an amazing amount of people 187 is more or less data structures, they do some simple recursion too 201 is the evil one, architecture and assembly language..something like 50% failure rate 287 is the last course that anyone thinks of as a weedout one, though it doesnt sound much like it to me...I think its theory of computation or something, is taught in scheme, which I guess would be the challenging element to people who's first real introduction to cs occured in 121
after getting by 201 most people seem to be all set
So far, I think that everyone I know who's gone to college planning on getting a cs degree because thats the way they can make lots of money on it has given up somewhat quickly, because these people also seem to have gotten the notion that they can make lots of money without doing any work or expending any mental effort. I'm sure some do make it through, but at least at my university the weedout courses are pretty decent at weeding out people. Of course at least one of them is pure sadism and weeds out even people who are there because they like computers. But thats life.
Some more information about this "300 person" company...
The domain name is, of course, registered to the mysterious Martin Steinbach. His phone number and assorted info can be found by doing a whois lookup.
transcript of an nslookup session (minus all the stuff where I could remember syntax of course:):
> server ns1.germany.worldcix.net Default Server: ns1.germany.worldcix.net Address: 195.206.86.101
> ls -d iwin-corp.com [ns1.germany.worldcix.net] iwin-corp.com. SOA ns1.germany.worldcix.net dns.ibg.net. (929948882 10800 3600 604810 41000) iwin-corp.com. NS ns1.germany.worldcix.net iwin-corp.com. NS ns2.germany.worldcix.net iwin-corp.com. MX 10 mail.iwin-corp.com iwin-corp.com. A 151.196.202.71 mail A 151.196.202.71 www A 151.196.202.71 iwin-corp.com. SOA ns1.germany.worldcix.net dns.ibg.net. (929948882 10800 3600 604810 41000)
pretty amazing that this big company thats made all these wonderful products only has ONE server...
And about that server. telnet shows it to be Sunos 5.6. FTP is more interesting. It prints out the message:
Connected to iwin-corp.com. 220 usahost.net FTP server (SunOS 5.6) ready. Name (iwin-corp.com:rawlins):
usahost.net? first time I've seen that in my little investigation. Well, upon looking at usahost.net, that seems to be a virtual hosting website! This guy's server count has shrunk from 1 to 0.
The pictures of the amiga boxes (to my untrained eye of course) look like they were done in gimp (or photoshop etc). The different color pics are EXACTLY the same with only color different...same shading, highlights, etc. Not only that, but the computer is advertised as having all these dvd, zip, etc drives, but the pictures show only what appears to be a 3.5 floppy!
well enough of my picking that apart...back to work:)
You must not have looked very closely...in a OTP the randomness comes from the pad, not from anything in the program. Their documentation explains why rand is useless for encryption. The source file GenKeyFile.cpp (which may use it, i dont know) is intended for use by "casual users", ie those too lazy to create some sort of truly random pad, according to their docs.
I think part of the point of his article is that the definition often used of STO is not in fact what the words, or even the concept means; certain aspects of STO are obviously stupid, as you pointed out, but "nobody knows about" my passwords, and I hope to keep it that way.
I once did a fork bomb that was a shell script that called itself twice on a friends box. Either it crashed, or it was slowed down so much that its state was indistinguishable from a hardlock. The owner of the box had to hard reboot it, couldnt log in from anywhere. I guess this sort of fork bomb would essentially be a memory gobbling fork bomb like someone else described since each execution of the script uses 300k (at least on my alpha unix box that I'm sitting at) or so for bash.
I agree very strongly... One of my friends loves to rant constantly about how linux is the best thing in existence and assorted related topics...tired of it i am ( i use linux for everything except starcraft/alpha centauri/etc)
hehe... I think he meant that we'd be the ones revolting, and sending all the jocks and non-geeks and people we dont like to the guillotine (or whatever). Or he didnt realize thats what he meant. Or something. I'd build a priesthole anyways though, just because they're kind of cool.
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If you read the FAQ, it explicitly states that the source will be released.
check out http://www.wizardry8.com/. It doesn't look like its that close to being ready, but some of the screenshots are pretty nice looking.
You can run x inside of a ggi window, and there's a program that allows you to run 6 ggi screens, each on the side of a cube, that on top of ggi in a console or svgalib in a console or something. (I think I'm getting this right) You can rotate the cube, and its really cool looking. I've never played with it personally, but a friend of mine did on his 233 (i think) mhz laptop, so its not too processor intensive. Its not nearly what you envision but its a pretty interesting environment.
Based on what someone said earlier, I expect that any telnet client that allows telnetting to such a domain name is not implementing the standards for domain names correctly. unix telnet returns quickly with an unknown server error, not even having done an nslookup.
Something along these lines has probably been said before, but check out ftp://140.174.127.95/pub/Linux One/LinuxOne_OS/README
pb-1 telephone bug transmitter kit
Will transmit both sides of telephone conversation up to 1/4 mile! Very small size fits anywhere in phone or on phone
line. Connects in series and draws its power from the phone system - no battery needed. Great for roomful listening (a
speakerphone without the wires!) or seeing what the kids are up to! Output tunable from 88 to 108 MHz. Can be received
on any standard FM receiver so anyone can listen. Size: 2"w x 7/8"h x 5/8"h.
c-2000 and c-3000, video and video/audio transmitter cubes
Perfect video transmission from a transmitter you can hide under a quarter and only as thick as a stack of four
pennies - check out the size compared with a penny! Transmits color or B&W with fantastic quality - almost like a
direct wire connection to any TV tuned to cable channel 59. Crystal controlled for no frequency drift with performance
that equals law enforcement models that cost hundreds more! Basic 20 mW model transmits up to 300' while the high
power 100 mW unit goes up to 1/4 mile. Units run on 9 volts and hook-up easily to most any CCD camera module. Any of
our camera modules have been tested to mate perfectly with the Cubes and work great with solid, trouble-free
operation! Fully assembled and tested - just hook-up power and you're on-the-air with a killer system!
CLK2000WT - disguised clock video camera/transmitter
Check out our nifty wall clock! Uses our popular "Cube" video transmitter and one of our quality B&W CCD cameras, all
expertly and cleverly hidden in the everyday object. The camera and transmitter operates on a standard 9VDC battery,
and the clock requires one standard AA cell for the quartz movement. Of course, the clock does operate as a fine time
piece! All units transmit on cable channel 59, easily received on any cable-ready TV set. Completely assembled,
wired, tested, and ready to hang.
SMK2000WT - disguised smoke detector video/audio transmitter
Check out our smoke detector! Uses our popular "Cube" video transmitter and one of our quality B&W CCD cameras, all
expertly and cleverly hidden in the everyday object. Units run on a standard 9VDC battery. Please note, the smoke
detector does not function as a operable smoke detector! Use this for your video projects, but get a real smoke
detector so your house doesn't burn down! All units transmit on cable channel 59, easily received on any cable-ready
TV set. Completely assembled, wired, tested, and ready to hang.
those are the most interesting product listings. They have a camera called a "Mini-Peeper CCD Video Cameras," but the description isn't anything special.
I'm not saying that these things are or should be illegal to sell. It just seems to me that they aren't quite as innocent as some people have thought. But don't take my word for it..check out the actual catalog here
Its a desktop. Screenshots show it running on top of enlightenment.
man, you are taking an unrelated flip comment way too seriously...I wish things like this didnt make it up past my viewing level
That was a great article. Someone should moderate you up.
I have seen a couple posts complaining about this undercounting. I would bet that its done for legacy reasons. Probably, back when they started this, there wasn't any or much variety between the various netscapes, and the various ms servers, so they decided to lump it all into one number. Apache and its derivatives seem to have become popular somewhat later, however, so they may have decided to represent them in a somewhat better fashion. However, to change the method of representing either at this point would skew the rate of change in the datapoint that you made the change at. They probably have to stick with what they have been doing so that the graph stays correct relative to the past.
You make good points regarding vranesevich. In fact, it seems to me that its mostly posts like yours that are being moderated up, and the few questions that I've seen moderated up are fairly hostile. The guys who run /. seem to me to be fairly smart; do you think they didn't expect this to happen? In fact, I'd say they were counting onn it.
My aunt just got my grandfather an imac. It confuses the hell out of him. He just doesnt understand what all the things are, the finder, the changing menus. It even confuses my dad, who is pretty good with computers. I suspect that macs, like windows, dos, linux, is only good if you learned it early on or have been using it for a while.
looks like dsl...
Name: adsl-216-101-248-91.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net
Address: 216.101.248.91
is the web server
121 is an easy sounding intro to programming that I took the equivelent of in high school but manages to get rid of an amazing amount of people
187 is more or less data structures, they do some simple recursion too
201 is the evil one, architecture and assembly language..something like 50% failure rate
287 is the last course that anyone thinks of as a weedout one, though it doesnt sound much like it to me...I think its theory of computation or something, is taught in scheme, which I guess would be the challenging element to people who's first real introduction to cs occured in 121
after getting by 201 most people seem to be all set
So far, I think that everyone I know who's gone to college planning on getting a cs degree because thats the way they can make lots of money on it has given up somewhat quickly, because these people also seem to have gotten the notion that they can make lots of money without doing any work or expending any mental effort. I'm sure some do make it through, but at least at my university the weedout courses are pretty decent at weeding out people. Of course at least one of them is pure sadism and weeds out even people who are there because they like computers. But thats life.
worked for me oddly enough...perhaps someone recreated it?
Some more information about this "300 person" company...
:):
:)
The domain name is, of course, registered to the mysterious Martin Steinbach. His phone number and assorted info can be found by doing a whois lookup.
transcript of an nslookup session (minus all the stuff where I could remember syntax of course
> server ns1.germany.worldcix.net
Default Server: ns1.germany.worldcix.net
Address: 195.206.86.101
> ls -d iwin-corp.com
[ns1.germany.worldcix.net]
iwin-corp.com. SOA ns1.germany.worldcix.net dns.ibg.net. (929948882 10800 3600 604810 41000)
iwin-corp.com. NS ns1.germany.worldcix.net
iwin-corp.com. NS ns2.germany.worldcix.net
iwin-corp.com. MX 10 mail.iwin-corp.com
iwin-corp.com. A 151.196.202.71
mail A 151.196.202.71
www A 151.196.202.71
iwin-corp.com. SOA ns1.germany.worldcix.net dns.ibg.net. (929948882 10800 3600 604810 41000)
pretty amazing that this big company thats made all these wonderful products only has ONE server...
And about that server. telnet shows it to be Sunos 5.6. FTP is more interesting. It prints out the message:
Connected to iwin-corp.com.
220 usahost.net FTP server (SunOS 5.6) ready.
Name (iwin-corp.com:rawlins):
usahost.net? first time I've seen that in my little investigation. Well, upon looking at usahost.net, that seems to be a virtual hosting website! This guy's server count has shrunk from 1 to 0.
The pictures of the amiga boxes (to my untrained eye of course) look like they were done in gimp (or photoshop etc). The different color pics are EXACTLY the same with only color different...same shading, highlights, etc. Not only that, but the computer is advertised as having all these dvd, zip, etc drives, but the pictures show only what appears to be a 3.5 floppy!
well enough of my picking that apart...back to work
You must not have looked very closely...in a OTP the randomness comes from the pad, not from anything in the program. Their documentation explains why rand is useless for encryption. The source file GenKeyFile.cpp (which may use it, i dont know) is intended for use by "casual users", ie those too lazy to create some sort of truly random pad, according to their docs.
I think part of the point of his article is that the definition often used of STO is not in fact what the words, or even the concept means; certain aspects of STO are obviously stupid, as you pointed out, but "nobody knows about" my passwords, and I hope to keep it that way.
Very true...My PII 333 is almost 15 months old right now, and I expect it to last at the very least till december...
I once did a fork bomb that was a shell script that called itself twice on a friends box. Either it crashed, or it was slowed down so much that its state was indistinguishable from a hardlock. The owner of the box had to hard reboot it, couldnt log in from anywhere. I guess this sort of fork bomb would essentially be a memory gobbling fork bomb like someone else described since each execution of the script uses 300k (at least on my alpha unix box that I'm sitting at) or so for bash.
yup, definitely, since we all know that ms owns umass, and that the they only let us use digital unix and linux to fool clueless /. readers...
You can buy a lot better things to talk to aliens directly with 11 bucks....
I agree very strongly... ...tired of it i am ( i use linux for everything except starcraft/alpha centauri/etc)
One of my friends loves to rant constantly about how linux is the best thing in existence and assorted related topics
hehe...
I think he meant that we'd be the ones revolting, and sending all the jocks and non-geeks and people we dont like to the guillotine (or whatever). Or he didnt realize thats what he meant. Or something. I'd build a priesthole anyways though, just because they're kind of cool.