> (*) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
If there would be no stupid ideas, there would be no good ideas. If there's nothing that could be considered bad, how would you tell if something is good? Bad ideas are a part of ecosystem, they must exist in order for the ecosystem to keep the balance. Balance is a Good Thing(tm).
> (*) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Europe, Poland, 30 km away from any city, in a village that is not on Google Maps nor on any other maps and will never be, because it is fuckin' small and nobody cares 'bout it. And I'm not living in a "house". I'd rather call this place a "cave".
Yeah. Soon after Q4/D3 were released, the first questions on many mod/map devs fora were "what changes have been made to the engine?", "how is it different from Q3?", etc. I've been very glad to see that the packaging format hasn't changed since the Q3 engine, and I already made some custom content for D3 before I actually played the main game.
Lugormod, a serverside mod for Jedi Academy allows admins to put any ingame content in "real time", without even a need for reloading the map. And that doesn't mean just adding bots or spawning npcs, but placing all kinds of models, triggers, tricky entities, spawners, vehicles, designing whole new worlds using good old Q3 enigne. Practically it turns server op into game dev.
Lugormod is IMO one of the best mods for any game ever made. And it's 99% serverside (a clientside plugin adds a few weapon models and cvars). Shame on LucasArts they discontinued the JK series.
>Hell, if they make musical instruments illegal perhaps the penalty for owning one could be that they cut off your hands.
I own four guitars, a computer equipped with muzic software and my voice. OK, I get it, they could take the hardware away (although I will guard the guitars with my life), but how are they going to stop me from singing?
The "year of linux on the desktop" might be close.
I was talking to some random guy on the bus stop and I was surprised - not only he knew what linux is, but he even tried out a few distros! And he was one of these "average Joes" who see no difference between GUI/shell and OS.
Dell is shipping Ubuntu. Another surprise.
Almost two years ago I've seen Mandriva pre-installed on some desktop computers in a shop.
Debian or Ubuntu is going to be installed on all computers in my school this month.
I think there will be no revolution: KDE wasn't written in two weekends. But slowly, linux is making its way to the desktop. One day we'll see the stats, and suddenly realise that, let's say, 23% of internet users are browsing the web under linux. MS Windows ain't gonna magically vanish; it will just slowly fade away...
Once I was driving a car while sitting on the passenger's seat. My friend (the driver) took his cell phone and started typing a message. When I told him that it's dangerous, he replied: "drive".
It was the first time in my life I've been driving a real car.
I haven't patched anything from MS since years, but as far as I recall there was always some downtime due to reboots after applying a patch. I think MS had to release patches monthly, else there would be more downtime. Now that the Patch Tuesday goes to/dev/den it is going be much harder to schedule the updates. How this could be fixed, dunno. One thing that comes into my mind is that I never had to reboot my Debian box after applying any updates (except after kernel update). I guess Windows needs to be more modular, so people could swap broken components on the fly. Dunno, apt ftw.
I think the Patch Tuesday is here to stay, at least 'till the end of this year (vista sp1?).
I think the guy who wrote TFA meant something like "why is there a need for specialized security software while we can make our software secure out of the box, like OpenBSD?". Really, if, let's say MSFT would make their flagship OS too secure, they'd kill the reason for an upgrade. I think we already see this happening.
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>Wasn't all the talk during vista's development that it would be the last operating system they'd make?
World's End scheduled for late 2012.
Vista *will be* their last OS.
> (*) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
If there would be no stupid ideas, there would be no good ideas. If there's nothing that could be considered bad, how would you tell if something is good? Bad ideas are a part of ecosystem, they must exist in order for the ecosystem to keep the balance. Balance is a Good Thing(tm).
> (*) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Europe, Poland, 30 km away from any city, in a village that is not on Google Maps nor on any other maps and will never be, because it is fuckin' small and nobody cares 'bout it. And I'm not living in a "house". I'd rather call this place a "cave".
Good luck seeking me.
Yeah. Soon after Q4/D3 were released, the first questions on many mod/map devs fora were "what changes have been made to the engine?", "how is it different from Q3?", etc. I've been very glad to see that the packaging format hasn't changed since the Q3 engine, and I already made some custom content for D3 before I actually played the main game.
http://www.google.com/search?q=lugormod+jk3&ie=UTF -8&oe=UTF-8
Lugormod, a serverside mod for Jedi Academy allows admins to put any ingame content in "real time", without even a need for reloading the map. And that doesn't mean just adding bots or spawning npcs, but placing all kinds of models, triggers, tricky entities, spawners, vehicles, designing whole new worlds using good old Q3 enigne. Practically it turns server op into game dev.
Lugormod is IMO one of the best mods for any game ever made. And it's 99% serverside (a clientside plugin adds a few weapon models and cvars). Shame on LucasArts they discontinued the JK series.
A few days ago there was an article on /. about botnets engaging in "gang wars".
I've got a crazy idea. Let's make "policemen" botnets, that would;
1. Infect a "victim" machine;
2. Remove all known trojans and viruses;
3. Secure the machine;
4. Spread itself;
5. Keep an eye on the neighbours;
6. In case of some botnet "gang war", try to compromise fighting systems and stop the madness.
I think it might work... Strike them with their own weapons...
>Hell, if they make musical instruments illegal perhaps the penalty for owning one could be that they cut off your hands.
I own four guitars, a computer equipped with muzic software and my voice. OK, I get it, they could take the hardware away (although I will guard the guitars with my life), but how are they going to stop me from singing?
> There's television!
No future for television... There's Internet.
We should THINK for a while.
Why are these spammers investing in creating spam bots, fighting each other, keeping their botnets alive and well, etc?
Because IT PAYS OFF.
Someone actually *does read* this fsckin' spam and clicks these damn links, and possibly even *buys the products they're advertising*.
Else, there would be no point in collecting a DB of email addresses, maintaining botnets, and so on.
It's a business, and I guess it brings *much* money.
That reminds me psdoom.
http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
In Soviet Russia emoticons ,'/ you!
The "year of linux on the desktop" might be close.
I was talking to some random guy on the bus stop and I was surprised - not only he knew what linux is, but he even tried out a few distros! And he was one of these "average Joes" who see no difference between GUI/shell and OS.
Dell is shipping Ubuntu. Another surprise.
Almost two years ago I've seen Mandriva pre-installed on some desktop computers in a shop.
Debian or Ubuntu is going to be installed on all computers in my school this month.
I think there will be no revolution: KDE wasn't written in two weekends. But slowly, linux is making its way to the desktop. One day we'll see the stats, and suddenly realise that, let's say, 23% of internet users are browsing the web under linux. MS Windows ain't gonna magically vanish; it will just slowly fade away...
Once I was driving a car while sitting on the passenger's seat. My friend (the driver) took his cell phone and started typing a message. When I told him that it's dangerous, he replied: "drive".
It was the first time in my life I've been driving a real car.
And so far the last.
Of course they do contribute...
:;do read x;echo \?;done
One of these little hackers in training already contributed a rewrite of ed:
#!/bin/sh
while
My sister was learning to use regexps and she must've done a typo...
Rename "shit" to "flowers" and it suddenly stops being shit! Wow, unbelievable.
Patching MS products is broken...
/dev/den it is going be much harder to schedule the updates. How this could be fixed, dunno. One thing that comes into my mind is that I never had to reboot my Debian box after applying any updates (except after kernel update). I guess Windows needs to be more modular, so people could swap broken components on the fly. Dunno, apt ftw.
I haven't patched anything from MS since years, but as far as I recall there was always some downtime due to reboots after applying a patch. I think MS had to release patches monthly, else there would be more downtime. Now that the Patch Tuesday goes to
I think the Patch Tuesday is here to stay, at least 'till the end of this year (vista sp1?).
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9423084269. html
Leading web browsers have already some anti-phishing filters built-in. What a problem, warn the user if the domain name is matching '*\.bank\.*'.
Any game that involves writing code. Let it even be assembly.
Corewars, droidbattles...
Since I discovered C64 at the age of 6, I can't live without coding.
Debian GNU/Linux is already being ported.
I think the guy who wrote TFA meant something like "why is there a need for specialized security software while we can make our software secure out of the box, like OpenBSD?". Really, if, let's say MSFT would make their flagship OS too secure, they'd kill the reason for an upgrade. I think we already see this happening.
not true == false?
...09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0!
harry@satan:~$ apt-cache search powershell
powershell - powerful terminal emulator for GNOME
All phone numbers are unique, aren't they? So we won't need to actually do any sort of sorting then.
Create an array of bits, call it A*;
Label L;
Read next phone number, store it in P;
Mark A[P] as true;
If there are any numbers left, goto L, else, continue;
Iterate over A, sending back every I for which A[I] is true;
Now, can I work at Google?