If I was a cop investigating such a situation, the very first thing I would do would be to backup the entire contents of the drive onto an identical drive (if obtainable).
Byte by byte copy with dd should sort that out soon enough.
Then little accidents like this couldn't happen.
There would be other advantages to a duplicate as well, for example if a brute force password crack was to be attempted. Unlikely given the likely runtime required.
Now if I know how to do that (been using Linux daily for about 4 months), I'm pretty certain an encryption specialist would think of it too.
Funny should be given a positive score, I personally consider a funny comment at least as valid in the conversation as an insightful or informative, and the current scoring system just leads to mislabeled posts.
PC games get more QA than console games, but as you say more bugs creep through.
The reason for that is simple. A console is a fixed target to code for and PC's are a mishmash of various technology implementations.
Will it be the nVidia or the ATI video card today? The 128Meg budget model or the 1024M behemoth?
Sure Microsoft's DirectX API's are supposed to abstract those difficulties away from the developers, but at the end of the day, it's the game manufacturers that get the blame when everything goes pear shaped.
I had an enormous amount of difficulty with Day of Defeat Source on my last laptop which sported an nVidia 7800go with 256Meg of ram. Random crashes and lockups all over the place. I went through 4 different driver versions before I found one that was reasonably stable, and all but one of them were hacked versions I got from laptops2go due to Dell/nVidia's lackluster support in this regard.
I'm a developer and believe me, we don't find this sort of thing any more acceptable than end users.
Me too, I've been carrying PDA's and now PDA phones explicitly for this purpose since Weasel Reader (used to be GutenPalm) on the PalmVX, whenever that was:). uBook on an imate pocketpc mini is the weapon of choice at the moment.:)
I suspect that reading as a form of entertainment will be completely killed by more modern pursuits such as web browsing. Much like musicians never give live performances now that recordings of their work are available in various formats. And the cinemas were all forced to shut down when TV became popular in the homes of the general public. [/sarcasm]
And you sir, completely miss the implication of the parents post. Anything that can be played can be recorded. If it comes in over the air to the TV, it can be recorded, if it can be played on my PC in it's DRM enabled player, I can capture those images and audio with the correct software. And it doesn't matter than 99% of the population lack the skill, knowledge and care to do so, because it only takes one person of the remaining 1% to do the work and everyone with access to the Internet benefits.
As I understand it, Mozilla DO do something like this with firefox.
When you perform a search with the default firefox screen (with it's Firefox customised Google) Google is notified of this fact and kick back some money to Mozilla.
How is nonsense like this:
And the fact that if you want to use any programs on linux you usually have to compile the source yourself Insightful/Informative?
My wife browses the web (complete with flash for her all time favourite site YouTube) with Firefox, sends and receives email with Thunderbird, reads and writes documents with OpenOffice, NONE of which I had to compile from source or even drop to a command line to aquire. Making claims like this is on par with Linux fanbois still decrying Windows for BSOD's. I suggest that for the
average
user who's interested in media, document and web a distribution such as Ubuntu is fine.
In Ubuntu 6.06 and now 7.04, you have options within Nautilus (file manager) to share a folder of files. It asks you if you want to use NFS, SMB or both. It goes off and grabs samba, installs it and configures it for you.
From that point I actually went in and manually hacked the config file, but only because I'm an anal bastard.:)
The media buttons on the front worked fine. When I tried to open an xvid file totem appeared before prompting me that it would need to get some codecs. When it tried to do that it prompted me that it would need to add some repositories. I agreed to both dialogs, several megs of files were downloaded and then totem played the file fine. I didn't try a dvd, but I wouldn't be surprised if it worked flawlessly: it certainly works on my desktop pc (which has feisty installed, 6.10 - 7.04 upgrade). I didn't try hibernate, sleep or a battery drain test sorry. I was playing for my own amusement, not as a detailed tech review.:)
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I've got a Dell Inspiron 9400 which I believe is the E1705 (depending on market) and tried the Ubuntu 7.04 live cd. Everything worked perfectly with no extra effort. It prompted me when it reached the desktop that it needed to use a binary driver to make the wireless work, and work it did. It prompted me that it needed to use a closed source driver to make the nVidia 7900 GS work, and work it did. I stuck a SD Card into the side card reader and it promptly mounted and allowed me to move files on and off. The sound works flawlessly. The DVD burner works. The touchpad works. An external hdd and mouse worked. I'm not sure what else anyone can want.
VLC played this mp4 and many others flawlessly. http://www.videolan.org/ Open Source, includes all the codecs internally, and (if you're an American) probably breaks dozen of patent laws.:)
Because despite what everyone in this thread is claiming, the game is not freeware. It's a form of shareware.
The distinction is small as someone who hasn't paid for the game gets all of the gameplay related features for free.
But if you pay you get a few ancillary features, such as the ability to set up multiple user profiles with unique key bindings etc.
I paid for my copy because I felt the self satisfied feeling I got from supporting the author more than offset the tiny monetary price tag.
We're arguing over semantics!:)
We agree that humans are still evolving.
We disagree on the definition of "Natural Selection".
I define it as anything that determines the likelyhood for traits to be passed on through breeding:
If you are a tribesman living in the African savanah right up to the point where you get eaten by a lion because you run too slow, you are dead, so you don't breed.
If you are a dog and your owner forces you to breed with a specific other dog, you breed.
If you are a rich, selfish, intelligent, profesional American you probably find your like and have 1 spoilt brat. If you have any kids at all.
If you are a stupid, ugly and poor you screw a dozen ho's and beget a dozen illegitimate future criminals you grow up in the hood on welfare. (OMG, biggest generalisation ever!)
If you are dolly the sheep, cloned from mummy's bone marrow (or whatever) you don't evolve at all.;)
You on the otherhand seem to define "Natural Selection" as:
Would a thing with this trait survive in the wild?
And I think your definition is too narrow. Narrower than the commonly used definitions anyway.
Natural Selection occurs in an environment, no specific definition of environment required other than "What's around the person/animal in question".
My yelling tantrum was supposed to be funny and it obviously failed, my appologies.
I AM equating natural selection to evolution 100%.
Natural Selection (positive traits getting you laid more, resulting in more kids) is the process by which Evolution (traits being passed down to your kids) occurs.
My entire point, which you appear to be grasping by entirely the wrong end, is that just because our environment is unnatural, does not mean that natural selection is not occuring.
Yes, the stupid are breeding more (I feel a bit "master race" saying this, as with my pissing in the gene pool comment earlier) and will be over represented in future generations.
I think the biggest thing to remember about Natural Selection is that it isn't conscious. It doesn't actively choose what is best for a species to improve it.
And it could easily result in the majority of humanity devolving into an unthinking mob, unable to comprehend the construction and maintenance of the very marvels it once created.
Congratulations on your post getting a +4 insightful, despite DrSkwid, mdarksbane and Bastard of Subhumani all agreeing with me and no one posting agreement with you. I guess the Natural Selection of Slashdots Moderators favours the stupid as well:P (It's a joke, work with me here!)
Soldat 1.3.1 (the last version) worked perfectly under win 0.9.35 http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=964
According to the Authors message, with a bit of tweaking 1.4 will work as well.
What you don't seem to get is what I mean by fittest.
Physical fitness seems to be all you are considering.
my point is that technology has made it so that anyone can survive, however unfit they are. And I don't disagree with this point at all. Just because the stupid, obese, blind, deaf, cripples survive DOES NOT MEAN EVOLUTION ISN'T OPERATING.
It just means that we are pissing in our own gene pool.
Now you'll excuse me, as after all that yelling, I need to suck on my athsma inhaler and my reading glasses have fallen off.
Look at dog breeds.
Humans have force evolved everything from bald midget rat dogs for sitting in Paris Hiltons purse to massive great danes that could crush a human skull with their jaws.
Some of these breeds are completely divorced from reality, bulldogs are so flat face that they often have breathing problems, bloodhounds get eye infections because their eyelids are so droopy, the Chinese Shar-Pei gets skin infections because of their excessively wrinkled skin.
So like the Stephen Hawking's of the human world, there are apparently anti-evolvution examples in other species.
Evolution amongst humans; the survival of the fittest, hasn't ceased simply because the rules of "what is fittest" have changed.
Sure it does, just different things are being brought to the fore.
Being "beautiful" is now more important than say being able to run really fast or jump really high (not that those things are a loss if you have them).
Being "rich" is more important than damn near anything else.
Guys like Stephen Hawking are not only being kept alive but breeding! (Good luck to him, mans a genius!)
Darwinian evolution is alive and well amongst "civilized" humans.
The DRM is going to work because it's implemented in a closed system?
Wow, you better run out and tell Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony!
All of them have put closed hardware in peoples living rooms and NONE of them have been hacked!
I like the fact that you've offered the choice of EITHER taking the pill or getting out of the dungeon.
For me with my pasty white skin that burns so easily, I think the pill is the way to go.
Sorry if you were trying to infer some bias one way or the other.:)
Slashdot needs a few automated moderation procedures.
ie, if anyone tries to post a message with the word "switcheurs" in it, they can't do so whilst anonymous.
Of course that'll only kill this pathetic meme.
But right now, it seems to be the most annoying.
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Doesn't that only effect how they are displayed to me, not how the points are allocated?
:P
And as if I get +5 funny for a serious post!
If I was a cop investigating such a situation, the very first thing I would do would be to backup the entire contents of the drive onto an identical drive (if obtainable).
Byte by byte copy with dd should sort that out soon enough.
Then little accidents like this couldn't happen.
There would be other advantages to a duplicate as well, for example if a brute force password crack was to be attempted. Unlikely given the likely runtime required.
Now if I know how to do that (been using Linux daily for about 4 months), I'm pretty certain an encryption specialist would think of it too.
:) My caveat was that it had to be actually funny.
Funny should be given a positive score, I personally consider a funny comment at least as valid in the conversation as an insightful or informative, and the current scoring system just leads to mislabeled posts.
PC games get more QA than console games, but as you say more bugs creep through.
The reason for that is simple. A console is a fixed target to code for and PC's are a mishmash of various technology implementations.
Will it be the nVidia or the ATI video card today? The 128Meg budget model or the 1024M behemoth?
Sure Microsoft's DirectX API's are supposed to abstract those difficulties away from the developers, but at the end of the day, it's the game manufacturers that get the blame when everything goes pear shaped.
I had an enormous amount of difficulty with Day of Defeat Source on my last laptop which sported an nVidia 7800go with 256Meg of ram. Random crashes and lockups all over the place. I went through 4 different driver versions before I found one that was reasonably stable, and all but one of them were hacked versions I got from laptops2go due to Dell/nVidia's lackluster support in this regard.
I'm a developer and believe me, we don't find this sort of thing any more acceptable than end users.
Exactly the same as if his scheduler had been accepted right now.
Nothing real, plenty of props and some minor community grumbling.
Me too, I've been carrying PDA's and now PDA phones explicitly for this purpose since Weasel Reader (used to be GutenPalm) on the PalmVX, whenever that was :). :)
uBook on an imate pocketpc mini is the weapon of choice at the moment.
I suspect that reading as a form of entertainment will be completely killed by more modern pursuits such as web browsing.
Much like musicians never give live performances now that recordings of their work are available in various formats.
And the cinemas were all forced to shut down when TV became popular in the homes of the general public.
[/sarcasm]
And you sir, completely miss the implication of the parents post.
Anything that can be played can be recorded. If it comes in over the air to the TV, it can be recorded, if it can be played on my PC in it's DRM enabled player, I can capture those images and audio with the correct software.
And it doesn't matter than 99% of the population lack the skill, knowledge and care to do so, because it only takes one person of the remaining 1% to do the work and everyone with access to the Internet benefits.
As I understand it, Mozilla DO do something like this with firefox.
c eid=mozilla-search&start=0
When you perform a search with the default firefox screen (with it's Firefox customised Google) Google is notified of this fact and kick back some money to Mozilla.
When you perform a search from Firefox's search box you'll also notice that it's identifying you as a Firefox user, here take a look:
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=test&le=en&sour
Note the sourceid in the querystring.
Nefarious? That's for you to decide.
My wife browses the web (complete with flash for her all time favourite site YouTube) with Firefox, sends and receives email with Thunderbird, reads and writes documents with OpenOffice, NONE of which I had to compile from source or even drop to a command line to aquire.
Making claims like this is on par with Linux fanbois still decrying Windows for BSOD's.
I suggest that for the
- average
user who's interested in media, document and web a distribution such as Ubuntu is fine.In Ubuntu 6.06 and now 7.04, you have options within Nautilus (file manager) to share a folder of files.
:)
It asks you if you want to use NFS, SMB or both.
It goes off and grabs samba, installs it and configures it for you.
From that point I actually went in and manually hacked the config file, but only because I'm an anal bastard.
The media buttons on the front worked fine. :)
When I tried to open an xvid file totem appeared before prompting me that it would need to get some codecs.
When it tried to do that it prompted me that it would need to add some repositories.
I agreed to both dialogs, several megs of files were downloaded and then totem played the file fine.
I didn't try a dvd, but I wouldn't be surprised if it worked flawlessly: it certainly works on my desktop pc (which has feisty installed, 6.10 - 7.04 upgrade).
I didn't try hibernate, sleep or a battery drain test sorry.
I was playing for my own amusement, not as a detailed tech review.
I've got a Dell Inspiron 9400 which I believe is the E1705 (depending on market) and tried the Ubuntu 7.04 live cd.
Everything worked perfectly with no extra effort.
It prompted me when it reached the desktop that it needed to use a binary driver to make the wireless work, and work it did.
It prompted me that it needed to use a closed source driver to make the nVidia 7900 GS work, and work it did.
I stuck a SD Card into the side card reader and it promptly mounted and allowed me to move files on and off.
The sound works flawlessly.
The DVD burner works.
The touchpad works.
An external hdd and mouse worked.
I'm not sure what else anyone can want.
VLC played this mp4 and many others flawlessly. :)
http://www.videolan.org/
Open Source, includes all the codecs internally, and (if you're an American) probably breaks dozen of patent laws.
Because despite what everyone in this thread is claiming, the game is not freeware. It's a form of shareware. The distinction is small as someone who hasn't paid for the game gets all of the gameplay related features for free. But if you pay you get a few ancillary features, such as the ability to set up multiple user profiles with unique key bindings etc. I paid for my copy because I felt the self satisfied feeling I got from supporting the author more than offset the tiny monetary price tag.
We agree that humans are still evolving.
We disagree on the definition of "Natural Selection".
I define it as anything that determines the likelyhood for traits to be passed on through breeding:
You on the otherhand seem to define "Natural Selection" as:
And I think your definition is too narrow. Narrower than the commonly used definitions anyway.
Natural Selection occurs in an environment, no specific definition of environment required other than "What's around the person/animal in question".
My yelling tantrum was supposed to be funny and it obviously failed, my appologies.
:P (It's a joke, work with me here!)
I AM equating natural selection to evolution 100%.
Natural Selection (positive traits getting you laid more, resulting in more kids) is the process by which Evolution (traits being passed down to your kids) occurs.
My entire point, which you appear to be grasping by entirely the wrong end, is that just because our environment is unnatural, does not mean that natural selection is not occuring.
Yes, the stupid are breeding more (I feel a bit "master race" saying this, as with my pissing in the gene pool comment earlier) and will be over represented in future generations.
I think the biggest thing to remember about Natural Selection is that it isn't conscious. It doesn't actively choose what is best for a species to improve it.
And it could easily result in the majority of humanity devolving into an unthinking mob, unable to comprehend the construction and maintenance of the very marvels it once created.
Congratulations on your post getting a +4 insightful, despite DrSkwid, mdarksbane and Bastard of Subhumani all agreeing with me and no one posting agreement with you. I guess the Natural Selection of Slashdots Moderators favours the stupid as well
Soldat 1.3.1 (the last version) worked perfectly under win 0.9.35 http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=964
According to the Authors message, with a bit of tweaking 1.4 will work as well.
Physical fitness seems to be all you are considering.
my point is that technology has made it so that anyone can survive, however unfit they are. And I don't disagree with this point at all. Just because the stupid, obese, blind, deaf, cripples survive DOES NOT MEAN EVOLUTION ISN'T OPERATING.
It just means that we are pissing in our own gene pool.
Now you'll excuse me, as after all that yelling, I need to suck on my athsma inhaler and my reading glasses have fallen off.
Look at dog breeds.
Humans have force evolved everything from bald midget rat dogs for sitting in Paris Hiltons purse to massive great danes that could crush a human skull with their jaws.
Some of these breeds are completely divorced from reality, bulldogs are so flat face that they often have breathing problems, bloodhounds get eye infections because their eyelids are so droopy, the Chinese Shar-Pei gets skin infections because of their excessively wrinkled skin.
So like the Stephen Hawking's of the human world, there are apparently anti-evolvution examples in other species.
Evolution amongst humans; the survival of the fittest, hasn't ceased simply because the rules of "what is fittest" have changed.
Sure it does, just different things are being brought to the fore.
Being "beautiful" is now more important than say being able to run really fast or jump really high (not that those things are a loss if you have them).
Being "rich" is more important than damn near anything else.
Guys like Stephen Hawking are not only being kept alive but breeding! (Good luck to him, mans a genius!)
Darwinian evolution is alive and well amongst "civilized" humans.
Wow, you better run out and tell Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony!
All of them have put closed hardware in peoples living rooms and NONE of them have been hacked!
I like the fact that you've offered the choice of EITHER taking the pill or getting out of the dungeon. :)
For me with my pasty white skin that burns so easily, I think the pill is the way to go.
Sorry if you were trying to infer some bias one way or the other.
Slashdot needs a few automated moderation procedures.
ie, if anyone tries to post a message with the word "switcheurs" in it, they can't do so whilst anonymous.
Of course that'll only kill this pathetic meme.
But right now, it seems to be the most annoying.