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(...) That'll get you around stuff like "Keyboard not detected" (or the IBM version, which was "No keyboard present, press <F1> to continue"), or "I have no idea what floppy drive you're talking about", but that BIOS setting won't get you past the (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Every Linux firewall I've seen is done differently. I have mine all installed on a write-protected floppy (no HD), I re-compiled syslog to use a different config file, hidden away as inconspicuously as possible, and it logs to my main server. (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) not that bad - most bioses I saw give an option saying "ignore errors at boot" - it'll still beep, but will move on... then again, I think there actually is some sort of video card installed in the box, though I've no idea, really... :) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It's something of a cheat; the world doesn't tend to consider the kernel to be a process in and of itself, and with stuff like ipchains you can effectively put all the firewall rules and functionality in the kernel. So you still have a kernel (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) In the PC world, motherboards that'll boot without a video card installed are way rare. (this one was an AMI Bios, so it gave the eight-beep "I can't find video!" post code...) -JDF (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Conversely? How can it be filtering and forwarding if there are no processes running? And why wouldn't it shutdown all the way at some point? (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) close... a firewall, that you told to shut down - so it's not running any processes at all, no programs are running on it... but it still filters and forwards packets. How can you hack a firewall if you can't launch any process on it? :) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) What's a halted firewall? Just one that's not working? or something neater? Thanks to all who answered my questions about making old iron into firewalls some time back... I went as far as downloading the "firewall on a floppy" image that (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) could be - but I think we ended up putting some not-so-good memory in it... I think it reports 8016K or something like that... (...) heh, nope - it doesn't even log to itself, nor does it run _any_ services (other than mgetty on the serial :). (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Most likely, that 486 actually has 8 1MB SIMMs under the hood, and it claims it has 7168k or so due to caching ("shadowing") the video BIOS ROM, the system BIOS ROM... ...Being a firewall, you can probably at least get away with turning off (...) (22 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Baseline. (...) They may be oldbut they work! As to 6100, while given enough RAM it should run MacOS 8.6 and higher, I'm afraid your are of of luck with OpenGL programs, as GLUT only operates with ATI graphics cards and to my knowledge ATI have (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Cool! If you can clearly show where you make the changes, I might be able to port this back into the other versions. I've never been all that happy with the rendering speed myself. You can see in the code where I tinkered a bit with display (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) hey, it's not a 386, but our home firewall is a 486 with 7M or RAM :) and our mailserver/fileserver/wireless firewall is a P90... I was thinking of putting a streaming mp3 server on it too... *grin* (22 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You call that a baseline? Can't you do something for the old PowerMac 6100 that I got out of my sister in-law's closet? All I can coax out of it is some sort of boing sound, but I'm sure you could work around that. ;) I'd tell you about my on (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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At present, I am writing my own OpenGL renderer for LdGLite (Mac). In order to spped things up I am defining the parts within OpenGL and then calling then by their definitions. Theoretically this places the entire model within the Graphics Card (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Upgrading my stock Apple G3/233 with a Radeon 7000 gave BrickDraw3D an 85% speed improvement. In pure OpenGL mode the improvement is 60% over the existing OpenGL advantage. The 2002 ATI Retail Card Update worked on G3/233 with 9.1 but BrickDraw3D (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) And Niles Crane is riding one around Frasier's apartment on tonight's episode! I don't believe it, I hardly watch any television and I see one twice in three days! Has it become commonplace or something? BTW I'm impressed by your spelling, (...) (22 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks for bringing it back to life :) Steve (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Um, shouldn't that last rejoinder have been posted in off-topic.tongue-in-cheek rather than off-topic.geek? We now, er, rejoin the thread currently in progress. (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Nice segue. Dave! (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Andy Rooney allowed himself to be filmed on one for 60 Minutes tonight-- his mode of transportation at some auto show. It was excruciating to watch because it appeared as though he might keel over at any moment and break a hip or something. (...) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(URL) (22 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Help: in den Materialien 1.2767?
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(...) The answers turned up. P20S, P576, Aluminum 7075. These are Werkstoff numbers used in Germany. I still lack an overview of this system... 1.2312 is P20S steel 40CrMnNiMo8-6-4 1.2767 is KE355 KE896 BS1407 P576 ISO4957 X45NiCrMo16 3.4365 is (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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A diagram from a German engineering company indicates plates "aus vergetetem Stahl 1.2312" -- tempered steel 1.2312. Other parts are available "in den Materialien 1.2767 und 3.4365 erhaltlich". What is the system of these numbers? I am familiar with (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Couldn't resist bringing this to your attention(s)
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(...) <sarcasm> For shame! That's TOTAL LANGUAGE LEARNING, don't you know? That's where it's about phonics and not about spelling or grammar. Grammar, pah, it's so passé--only people with NO LIVES care about others' grammar and spelling! </sarcasm> (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Headers indicate that this came from OpenBSD - and they would never lie. -- Forwarded message from Minister of Propaganda <do_not_reply@openbsd.org> -- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 20:38:53 -0700 (MST) To: announce@openbsd.org From: Minister of Propaganda (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I got to thinking, maybe this isn't so impossible after all. Imagine if you used 2x2 blocks with 2x2 tiles on top. Now you have something the RCX can lift. Run two pieces of train track parallel to each other, with four spots' width separating (...) (23 years ago, 29-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) You mean like one second before I send a request, instead of one second after I send a request? :-) Play well, Jacob -- (URL) (23 years ago, 29-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi JDF, Thanks for the feedback. I know it's not a Turing machine in the true sense, but let me tell you what I'm trying to do. At the moment I realize that I have built a sort of binary adder. But what I am currently implementing is a change in (...) (23 years ago, 29-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) An interesting idea, but the pedant and geek in me has to note that this isn't a Turing machine. Even ignoring Turing's original idea that the tape is infinite, the problem is that the Turing machine placed its output back on the tape. It (...) (23 years ago, 29-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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murphy's law at its best: due to bandwith problems, my server has cut off my page. it now 1:30 am., and i've finally got a mirror up on an old yahoo account. it should do fine. looks like 0catch.com had a very big catch. www.geocities.com/aatishb/ (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I umm.. forgot to post the site along with the message. sorry. (smiling sheepishly) (URL) Bhatia" <aatish@mac.com> wrote in message news:Gtp1qJ.801@lugnet.com... (...) pics (...) technically (...) and (...) code (...) minimalistic, (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I umm.. forgot to post the site along with the message. sorry. (smiling sheepishly) (URL) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I have developed and tested extensively a lego turing machine. Info and pics are up on my site if you're interested. Please note that this is technically not a turing machine as I have used a read only mechanism. I've spent the last hour or so (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Kinda long eBook thing...
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"richard marchetti" <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote in message news:GtLswC.Lx1@lugnet.com... (...) encryption (...) it (...) Cool, a subject I know something about :) I went on a training course at Microsoft in Seattle last year specifically on eBook (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hey Y'all: I had no idea where else to discuss this issue -- and this group seems gadget and technology interested enough to suit my purposes. Anyway, here it is... Of late I have become interested in eBooks or eTexts and have been looking at the (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <snip> (...) Um, colored me confused, but I don't remember Earth importing any electronics?!? (...) -Jason +---...---+ Jason Spears MichLUG - (URL) Page - (URL) Store - (URL) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Access a LEGO set DB with your phone!
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(...) Chris, Save the attached Perl5 program to a file (parse.pl) and try this: cat bynumber.txt | perl parse.pl | more --Todd -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=...=-=-=-=-=- #!/usr/local/bin/perl5 -w use strict; while (<STDIN>) { last if m/^_/; } # Skip document (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Anyone know of a free NNTP proxy that will run on NT/2K?
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"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrna9hens.8v9.....bu.edu... (...) Maybe (...) Cool, I'll take a look. I only need one connection - being the admin I'll be the only person who knows it's running ;) Dan (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Gallery cookies fixed?
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Netscape still won't let me remain logged in. Hasn't for over a month. And my software hasn't changed. Internet Explore will let me log in and stay, but Javascript Errors out every time I try to up load a picture. What happened to the browse and (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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