Liquid Nitrogen is actually fun to play with. A friend any myself went to many industrial gas suppliers while in high school, and finally found one willing to fill a stainless steel thermos with it. Had fun shattering random objects, pouring it on top of normal bodies of water, etc.
the airspace around chicago is largely owned by the chicago TRACON (terminal radar approach control), and not any tower.
Also, though you have to fly low if you dont want to get (or cant get) a clearance into the class B airspace, you still have to maintain at least 1000 ft in any direction from buildings people (being a densly populated area), so the legality of your friends flying may be questionable.
And i wouldnt be surprised if your airspace is a bit more restriced now, your mayor likes to beg the FAA to setup TFR's around all his city's buildings.
since we have 2 boxes, if one gets a new ip, it takes a minute to update the the record, and we have good data returned by one of our servers. It does take 24 hours to get fully back up with both listed servers working. Last time i got a new lease though was last june, so its not something we have to deal with often.
never liked dyndns myself. Between myself and a friend we have 2 boxes hooked up to the local cable, both DHCP and we just run our own nameservers. works great.
> ATTBI blocked my account for having a set up my BSD box with a static IP (it took them over a year to notice, and COX never cared)
you dont need to specify you were using BSD, that had nothing to do with it. Just the fact that you were using a static address is all you were doing to violate the rules. Just get a dhcp address, i have and my box hasnt gotten a new ip in over a year. static enough for me.
>Also, the driver page for nVidia sez they support the 4400's and the 4600's - how much newer can ya get? I have a Geforce2 now, been looking at a Geforce4 and they're all apparently supported.
the linux nvidia drivers come from the same codebase as the windows versions, so any card supported by windows will be supported in linux.
its called a contract. If you want to be able buy copies of windows to sell with your hardware (at a greatly discounted rate) you enter into a contract with MS. A stipulation of the contract (that dell and MS would have signed) is that Dell could only sell machines with windows. If Dell didnt like that, they didnt have to sign, but that would be bad for business to lose the windows contract.
MS isnt the only one to play like that, how often do you see a resturant that servers both Coke *and* Pepsi.
Nvidia on the other hand just doesnt have the weight to push contract terms like that, mfg's would be just as happy to go to ATI.
i've had the opposite experience. When i lived in san antonio, TX, and had sprint i would get dropouts on sprint when driving around town. Had some rather inconveient holes in thier coverage in the city.
I switched to AT&T not long after having sprint and have been much happier. Recently drove from austin, TX to calgary, AB and had usable singal the entire way except a couple spots in montana (note that this is at&t's tdma service).
time warner austin's TOS only says you cannot run 1) commercial servers and 2) high bandwidth servers.
pertinent part of AUP ------ Unless you have specifically subscribed for commercial grade service, the ISP Service is provided to you for personal, non-commercial use only. The service cannot be used for any enterprise purpose whatsoever whether or not the enterprise is directed toward making a profit. If it is your intention to use this service for these purposes, please contact Time Warner Cable Austin to inquire whether commercial grade service programs are available.
The ISP Service may not be used to engage in any conduct that interferes with Time Warner Cable Austin's ability to provide service to others, including the use of excessive bandwidth. -----------
nowhere does it say you cannot run servers for non-commercial purposes (as long as they are not using excessive bandwith).
whether or not the user put 0xb or 11, the compilation process is going to write 00001011 into the 8 bits that represent that variable. Now when you run strace or a dissasembler, it looks at this binary number 00001011, and it can print 0xb to make it pretty for you, but it cannot tell you if the original source code put 0xb, 11, 013, (2011-2000), (5*2+1), etc.
so, as i can see, strace interprets data in hexidecimal by default (%X!!), which i dont find surprising at all.
>Hell, as far as I understand it, Only IBM latest PowerPC processor outperforms the fastest Pentium 4's and Athlon processors.
that would be IBM's POWER4. PowerPC chips only went into very low ned RS/6000's (and i dont think its even used in the RS/6k line anymore) and into mac's (before they went G*).
whats stupid about it? i'm not understanding you. But in any case, go to the store and run "command.com" and "cmd.exe". put them side by side and use both and tell me there isnt a difference.
call your cable company ask for one of the cable decoder boxes. Ive got a Scentific-Atlanta Explorer 2000 cable box. It has cable in and out (cable out just sends the current tuned channel out on channel 3). Its got composite and S-video out, stereo and coax digital audio out. The box itself supports the features you want (fav channels, last channel) and has an on screen guide (tv listings) if you have digital cable. I dont think i'm paying for the one i have now, but if i wanted another Time Warner quoted me ~ $3/month to rent one.
the "boot-cd" and "install from current linux" options are really the same process. The only difference is that with the boot-cd, your "current linux" is a very minimal environment on the cd. The process is the same. The boot-cd just gives you (in my case) a stage1 tarball and a README, the same things i would have downloaded if i wanted to install from a current linux partition.
but in case you missed it, the point of my last post was that it is *not* core in NT/2k/XP. "command.com" is just still there in an emulated form for those that cant type "cmd.exe" and get the real command shell.
try it next time your at the store. command.com, is old emulated DOS. XP doesnt use DOS. cmd.exe is the console shell for XP. open them both up at the same time and observe differences. the first thing you'll notice is that cmd understands long filenames.
that "dos" you are using isnt really dos. DOS does not exist in NT/2k/XP. What you get if you run "command.com" is a dos emulator that emulates dos 5, and wasnt written by MS.
thats like evaluating your linux box by the performance of dosemu.
the topic of this article is cheating, not who is most powerful.
I'll take EQ as an example too, but tell you it does work to some extent. I've got some basis to go on here since i am a dev on showeq and host the irc server that #showeq and #eqemu live on.
Currently one can cheat in EQ via playing with memory. The effects you can cause are limited to things like turning off fall damage, no lava damage, unlimited underwater breathing, etc. nothing of too much consequence. With a little extra work, one can teleport to an arbitrary location in zone, and move around quite a bit faster than normal (not the generic speedhack, that will get you banned.)
Previous cheats that were out and semi-widespread among a certain crowd allowed you to do things like using arbitrary skills (even accessing those not available to your class), zoning from anywhere in zone to any zone adjecent to it, permanant sow, removing spells like root, making any number you want show up for/random, etc.
There were more, to varying degrees of impact, but as each was made public, VI was pretty quick to fix it (one member of thier dev team alluding to the site promoting the exploits as a fix-it list).
So i would say in this respect, developers can restrict cheating in mmorpgs.
As for showeq, they change up packets and opcodes quite often, but you always run into the basic problem with trying to hide your data: you have to get it to the client somehow. But even here they have made attempts to curb its usefulness. Over time they've reduced what they send, Hit points are now a % rather than absolute numbers, experience likewise is expresses in 1/330th units, rather than absolute numbers. Faction values are now just an index value so the client knows what to print rather than you actual faction. They are a bit more limited in movement update packets.
They can stop it, but they do a decent job at limiting it.
So while the most powerful guild in a server, does run things, that has absolutly nothing to do with cheating in game.
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Liquid Nitrogen is actually fun to play with. A friend any myself went to many industrial gas suppliers while in high school, and finally found one willing to fill a stainless steel thermos with it. Had fun shattering random objects, pouring it on top of normal bodies of water, etc.
the airspace around chicago is largely owned by the chicago TRACON (terminal radar approach control), and not any tower.
Also, though you have to fly low if you dont want to get (or cant get) a clearance into the class B airspace, you still have to maintain at least 1000 ft in any direction from buildings people (being a densly populated area), so the legality of your friends flying may be questionable.
And i wouldnt be surprised if your airspace is a bit more restriced now, your mayor likes to beg the FAA to setup TFR's around all his city's buildings.
since we have 2 boxes, if one gets a new ip, it takes a minute to update the the record, and we have good data returned by one of our servers. It does take 24 hours to get fully back up with both listed servers working. Last time i got a new lease though was last june, so its not something we have to deal with often.
never liked dyndns myself. Between myself and a friend we have 2 boxes hooked up to the local cable, both DHCP and we just run our own nameservers. works great.
> ATTBI blocked my account for having a set up my BSD box with a static IP (it took them over a year to notice, and COX never cared)
you dont need to specify you were using BSD, that had nothing to do with it. Just the fact that you were using a static address is all you were doing to violate the rules. Just get a dhcp address, i have and my box hasnt gotten a new ip in over a year. static enough for me.
you'd do better to pick a month that didnt have the releases of the next star trek and lotr movies, at least with this crowd.
>Also, the driver page for nVidia sez they support the 4400's and the 4600's - how much newer can ya get? I have a Geforce2 now, been looking at a Geforce4 and they're all apparently supported.
the linux nvidia drivers come from the same codebase as the windows versions, so any card supported by windows will be supported in linux.
the doom3 demo theater at quakecon was run by a box with a radeon 9700, so that should answer your question.
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its called a contract. If you want to be able buy copies of windows to sell with your hardware (at a greatly discounted rate) you enter into a contract with MS. A stipulation of the contract (that dell and MS would have signed) is that Dell could only sell machines with windows. If Dell didnt like that, they didnt have to sign, but that would be bad for business to lose the windows contract.
MS isnt the only one to play like that, how often do you see a resturant that servers both Coke *and* Pepsi.
Nvidia on the other hand just doesnt have the weight to push contract terms like that, mfg's would be just as happy to go to ATI.
yes, but a cd/disk is all you need to get a full debian system. Network installation.
i've had the opposite experience. When i lived in san antonio, TX, and had sprint i would get dropouts on sprint when driving around town. Had some rather inconveient holes in thier coverage in the city.
I switched to AT&T not long after having sprint and have been much happier. Recently drove from austin, TX to calgary, AB and had usable singal the entire way except a couple spots in montana (note that this is at&t's tdma service).
time warner austin's TOS only says you cannot run 1) commercial servers and 2) high bandwidth servers.
pertinent part of AUP
------
Unless you have specifically subscribed for commercial grade service, the ISP Service is provided to you for personal, non-commercial use only. The service cannot be used for any enterprise purpose whatsoever whether or not the enterprise is directed toward making a profit. If it is your intention to use this service for these purposes, please contact Time Warner Cable Austin to inquire whether commercial grade service programs are available.
The ISP Service may not be used to engage in any conduct that interferes with Time Warner Cable Austin's ability to provide service to others, including the use of excessive bandwidth.
-----------
nowhere does it say you cannot run servers for non-commercial purposes (as long as they are not using excessive bandwith).
he never commented on the site not working (as your reply seems to think). he commented that the use of flash was crap, and poorly designed.
so IMHO, your post is Off Topic, or troll, or both.
whether or not the user put 0xb or 11, the compilation process is going to write 00001011 into the 8 bits that represent that variable. Now when you run strace or a dissasembler, it looks at this binary number 00001011, and it can print 0xb to make it pretty for you, but it cannot tell you if the original source code put 0xb, 11, 013, (2011-2000), (5*2+1), etc.
so, as i can see, strace interprets data in hexidecimal by default (%X!!), which i dont find surprising at all.
5) UDP's protocol number is 17, or 0x11. Who wants to bet he forgot a 0x in his code and use of proto 11 is a bug :)
>Hell, as far as I understand it, Only IBM latest PowerPC processor outperforms the fastest Pentium 4's and Athlon processors.
that would be IBM's POWER4. PowerPC chips only went into very low ned RS/6000's (and i dont think its even used in the RS/6k line anymore) and into mac's (before they went G*).
whats stupid about it? i'm not understanding you. But in any case, go to the store and run "command.com" and "cmd.exe". put them side by side and use both and tell me there isnt a difference.
call your cable company ask for one of the cable decoder boxes. Ive got a Scentific-Atlanta Explorer 2000 cable box. It has cable in and out (cable out just sends the current tuned channel out on channel 3). Its got composite and S-video out, stereo and coax digital audio out. The box itself supports the features you want (fav channels, last channel) and has an on screen guide (tv listings) if you have digital cable. I dont think i'm paying for the one i have now, but if i wanted another Time Warner quoted me ~ $3/month to rent one.
did you even bother trying to install gentoo?
the "boot-cd" and "install from current linux" options are really the same process. The only difference is that with the boot-cd, your "current linux" is a very minimal environment on the cd. The process is the same. The boot-cd just gives you (in my case) a stage1 tarball and a README, the same things i would have downloaded if i wanted to install from a current linux partition.
it was core in dos, win95, 98, ME.
but in case you missed it, the point of my last post was that it is *not* core in NT/2k/XP. "command.com" is just still there in an emulated form for those that cant type "cmd.exe" and get the real command shell.
try it next time your at the store. command.com, is old emulated DOS. XP doesnt use DOS. cmd.exe is the console shell for XP. open them both up at the same time and observe differences. the first thing you'll notice is that cmd understands long filenames.
that "dos" you are using isnt really dos. DOS does not exist in NT/2k/XP. What you get if you run "command.com" is a dos emulator that emulates dos 5, and wasnt written by MS.
thats like evaluating your linux box by the performance of dosemu.
the topic of this article is cheating, not who is most powerful.
/random, etc.
I'll take EQ as an example too, but tell you it does work to some extent. I've got some basis to go on here since i am a dev on showeq and host the irc server that #showeq and #eqemu live on.
Currently one can cheat in EQ via playing with memory. The effects you can cause are limited to things like turning off fall damage, no lava damage, unlimited underwater breathing, etc. nothing of too much consequence. With a little extra work, one can teleport to an arbitrary location in zone, and move around quite a bit faster than normal (not the generic speedhack, that will get you banned.)
Previous cheats that were out and semi-widespread among a certain crowd allowed you to do things like using arbitrary skills (even accessing those not available to your class), zoning from anywhere in zone to any zone adjecent to it, permanant sow, removing spells like root, making any number you want show up for
There were more, to varying degrees of impact, but as each was made public, VI was pretty quick to fix it (one member of thier dev team alluding to the site promoting the exploits as a fix-it list).
So i would say in this respect, developers can restrict cheating in mmorpgs.
As for showeq, they change up packets and opcodes quite often, but you always run into the basic problem with trying to hide your data: you have to get it to the client somehow. But even here they have made attempts to curb its usefulness. Over time they've reduced what they send, Hit points are now a % rather than absolute numbers, experience likewise is expresses in 1/330th units, rather than absolute numbers. Faction values are now just an index value so the client knows what to print rather than you actual faction. They are a bit more limited in movement update packets.
They can stop it, but they do a decent job at limiting it.
So while the most powerful guild in a server, does run things, that has absolutly nothing to do with cheating in game.
>Actually, how low-level is the API?
well if you realyl want to consider assembler an API, that is your answer. ARM flavored assmebler.
my provider is time warner (cable), and the the best of my knowledge they do own the wires.