said by pnh102 :

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We're disconnecting our surfboard for the weekend and playing trade wars 2000 via our 300 baud Hayes Compatible and Apple IIgs on a Wildcat! BBS.

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WWIV or nothing.

said by backness :

I always like the TAG BBS the best

said by gaforces :

I used procomm for home BBS, and I was a member of Angst BBS.
Angst was the first BBS to hook me up to the newly born internet

said by gaforces :

Yep, Kermit, ZModem, YModem, and XModem.
Everything was text directories, when picture's came it was a BIG deal. I think I used Mosaic back then.

said by xyar :

Whoah, I remember trying to look at porn on a Hercules monitor, then finally I got EGA and it was like "whoah" then I saw VGA for the first time - 640x480x256 I think with 256K RAM on an 8-bit ISA card - downloading stuff in the middle of the night with my trust Practical Peripherals 2400 baud modem with scheduled downloads to max out my daily file/Kbyte limit. Then my 20 MB MFM hard drive would fill up and I'd delete a bunch of stuff then do it all over. Ahh, to be a teenager again. oh but when 16-bit color came out, holy shit!!

Don't know if Mom ever knew what those squealing sounds were on the phone when she picked up.... ("Mom, hang up the phone!!!!!")

said by pabster :

Damn what was that bi-directional protocol...

Ymodem and Xmodem sucked bad. Zmodem was OK.

Anyone remember RIP?

said by LiamJunket :

The question is: will these eventually be exported to US at slightly higher prices to meet accident safety regs?

said by pnh102 :

Didn't Yugo attempt this once?

said by LiamJunket :

India's Tata Motors is coming out with a $2,500 car. It looks OK and is way cheaper than the Mercedes Smart For-Two small car at about $12,000. Environmentalists are really upset because it could mean way more cars on India's roads because of the low price.

The question is: will these eventually be exported to US at slightly higher prices to meet accident safety regs?
»www.forbes.com/markets/2008/01/1···s04.html

said by JTRockville :

In India, it's pretty common to see a family of four on a motorcycle: dad driving, a toddler in his lap, mom sitting side-saddle behind dad with an infant in her arms.

Compared to that, the Nano would be ultra-safe!

said by JTRockville :

Heh, what are the chances that anyone in India would be willing to risk their life on an unsafe ride?

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said by grobinette :

a 300 baud modem cost back in the day?

President George W. Bush and his economic advisers are considering a tax rebate targeted at low- and middle-income Americans as part of plan to avoid a recession, according to a government official. While the White House hasn't settled on a final economic- stimulus package, the main pillars will probably be a business-investment incentive and a temporary income-tax rebate of several hundred dollars per household, the official said.

Proposed stimulus measures linked to housing and mortgages are no longer a top priority after being discussed in White House talks that began in late November, the official said. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has supported the business-investment incentive to get companies to spend money, he added.

Democrats in Congress also say they want to work with Bush. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada sent a letter to Bush today asking for a meeting to discuss ``timely, targeted and temporary'' measures that could be ``implemented into law without delay.'' Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton unveiled a $70 billion stimulus plan today with an additional $40 billion tax rebate for middle-income families that would be rolled out if the economy worsens.

The comments increased speculation that the Federal Open Market Committee will cut its benchmark rate by half a percentage point, to 3.75 percent, this month.

said by Madcap :

So my friends and I are going to use one of my sub domains to build our Hive Cluster. Basically it's a massive amount of text and some photos. The Hive will include everything known by each of us put together, info on every topic you can imagine.

What we can't decide:

I think we should use a wiki system, some want it more blog style, others want it as a giant CMS system (like Joomla!,Drupal, e107, or Xoops).

So, thoughts anyone?

said by Madcap :

So, thoughts anyone?

Criminals have been packing an assortment of sites with malware and other junk, and are using the name "Barbara Moratek" to get those sites indexed by Google and others. Spammers have emailed the usual 419 scam to small non-profit groups, and attached the Moratek name to make it look authentic. Alex Eckelberry of Sunbelt described why the spammers did this:

It's likely that malware sites are taking advantage of the fact that people will be googling this name to find out more about it, by stuffing pages with the term "Barbara Moratek" (spamdexing), having purchased or otherwise acquired "zeitgeist" keywords (meaning, loading sites up with current "hot" keywords and then using them to lure people to their site).

Following the link would be, predictably, dangerous. Ferguson showed the "bouncing malware" path of numerous redirects, all aimed at bringing the victim to a place where they would be prompted to download the Zlob binary, disguised as an ActiveX control. "I continue to be amazed at the efforts of cyber criminals to social engineer the web, poison web search engines, pollute news & blogging websites, register bogon domains, and obtain hosting in their ongoing efforts to reach their ultimate goal - to separate more & more unsuspecting users from their money," said Ferguson.

said by LiamJunket :

Malware scum use all the tricks to get people to link to their poisoned web sites.

said by grydlok :

»Tower Fell Comcast to the rescue

O.J. Simpson was taken into custody Friday in Florida and will spend several days in a Las Vegas jail before a judge hears allegations that he violated terms of his bail in an armed robbery case here, court officials said.

Clark County District Attorney David Roger alleges that in a November voice message, Simpson told his bail bondsman to contact co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart and express frustration about testimony given at the hearing where Simpson, Stewart and a third man were ordered to stand trial.

"I just want, want C.J. to know that ... I'm tired of this (expletive)," Simpson is quoted as saying in a transcript that was included in Roger's motion to revoke bail, filed Friday. "Fed up with (expletive) changing what they told me. All right?"

Simpson had been instructed by Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Joe M. Bonaventure in September not to have any contact with anyone involved in the case — not even by "carrier pigeon."

said by dadkins :

EoP... any word on how far down the line that will travel?
Nextdoor? Down the street?

said by cline3621 :

I was reading the other messages in this forum, and the whole BBS, 300 baud modem price talk got me to thinking. I have hard drives for sale. These are top quality and I will let them go at 1/2 off listed price.

said by cline3621 :

I was reading the other messages in this forum, and the whole BBS, 300 baud modem price talk got me to thinking. I have hard drives for sale. These are top quality and I will let them go at 1/2 off listed price.

said by Richard B :

Do not get me started about Dolby 5.1 my old Kenwood sound better for music.

said by BosstonesOwn :

Dude come on that is REALLY THE FUNNIEST POST EVER ! I mean really that is so funny.

Then again. If your serious , you do realize that most songs are not in 5.1 ? And that the quality of the system is what makes it sound good. Guessing you don't watch many movies either.