- Killing Windows Media Player for Mac, and making it look like going with the Flip4Mac QuickTime Windows Media codec is doing Mac users a favor, when Flip4Mac will never support Windows Media DRM, which Microsoft views as key to their future Windows Media strategy, leaving Macs unsupported (whether DRM is a good or bad thing is irrelevant to this point).
Leaving the DRM and long term future of the Mac platform out of it; THANK GOD. When I'm turning to **VideoLan** as my first choice for Windows Media playback over an official player to ensure reliable audio sync, you know there's something very wrong with WMP.
I wonder if running it slows down your own connection though, since you're constantly injecting packets into the other guy's connection.
Might he have to get another computer in order to run tcpnice, and then do his normal internet activities from another machine?
I think that most of the overhead would come from runing your network card in promisc. mode and having to have tcpnice "consider" each packet on the interface. The bandwidth overhead from actually injecting the packets is tiny. Running it on another computer wouldn't help overcome this tiny connection speed decrease because the bandwidth of the WLAN is shared among all members of the network. Of course, this would eliminate the (once again, very tiny) processing overhead of tcpnice.
You haven't convinced me that this is some horrendous technogeek task. In fact, it seems that regular users ALWAYS seem to have Google/Yahoo toolbars installed without any assistance from their local nerd.
Bundled with lots of things! Adobe Acrobat for example.
mod parent up; grandparent is a troll or idiot -- no [major] computing architectures today are Harvard architecture. GAH, why do moderators mod up people simply on the basis of speaking authoritatively?
The whole article is very silly; who cares about Dell's market clout -- it seems to be like Apple made a much bigger impact on the tech sector during its dark days -- releasing USB on the legacy-free iMac, a popular 802.11 implementation with non fixed length passwords (LEAP I believe?).. oh... and uh... the iPod!
That reminds me -- I have actually noticed a bunch of ads touting "the world of software that runs on Windows". I wonder if these are targeted at stemming the iPod halo effect?
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iirc, they are based on message id; if so, yes.
- Killing Windows Media Player for Mac, and making it look like going with the Flip4Mac QuickTime Windows Media codec is doing Mac users a favor, when Flip4Mac will never support Windows Media DRM, which Microsoft views as key to their future Windows Media strategy, leaving Macs unsupported (whether DRM is a good or bad thing is irrelevant to this point).
Leaving the DRM and long term future of the Mac platform out of it; THANK GOD. When I'm turning to **VideoLan** as my first choice for Windows Media playback over an official player to ensure reliable audio sync, you know there's something very wrong with WMP.
The excellent network attack package dsniff has a really cool utility tcpnice that may help.
831.675359 / 60 = 13.861256
Of course, ping is ICMP not TCP and thus is not subject to this problem. Oops! But the Voyager web configuration panel won't work!
I think that exceeds the maximum RTT for TCP.
They've always been able to do this by connecting to a running torrent and seeing the peer names.
grr, i wish i had mod points... this is not offtopic!
I'm sorry angry interenet man; I am arguing that!
I don't know a single regular user of Yahoo IM (I live in the US) nor anyone with it installed.
Bundled with lots of things! Adobe Acrobat for example.
mod parent up; grandparent is a troll or idiot -- no [major] computing architectures today are Harvard architecture. GAH, why do moderators mod up people simply on the basis of speaking authoritatively?
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~sudhakar/papers/memer r-slashdot-commentary.html
/.'d back in '03. *Kind of* similar.....
Yea, it was
Do you have aspergers? I admit my joke was pretty weak, but it was really obviously a joke!
Wow, they should really think about using a newer version of RedHat / Fedora. I mean even 5.2 is light years less awful!
The whole article is very silly; who cares about Dell's market clout -- it seems to be like Apple made a much bigger impact on the tech sector during its dark days -- releasing USB on the legacy-free iMac, a popular 802.11 implementation with non fixed length passwords (LEAP I believe?) .. oh... and uh... the iPod!
I seem to remember it being in the TigerDirect catalog! :) some things never change
and *my* posting history is littered with typos. Eesh.
When was the last time some consumer/end-user level standard you pushed was adopted en masse?
Java... NO (not on set top boxes that is)
JXTA... NO
SunRay... NO (only a few universities / corps)
Liberty Alliance... NO
OpenLook... NO
JINI... NO
I'll throw in a few non-consumer things, just to be a dick:
SBus, JavaOS/JavaStation, etc.
Sun's history is littered with failured "standards".
Yes, but no one makes you register during freshman orientation. It can be easily replaced, even with such a big mindshare.
Windows 3 was MUCH more stable in terms of this; you could even use Win32s (remember netscape GOLD?).
The 16-bit Windows API we love was out 20 years ago? I think not. Try to get anything that ran on Windows 2 to run now (Word for Windows/286?)
That reminds me -- I have actually noticed a bunch of ads touting "the world of software that runs on Windows". I wonder if these are targeted at stemming the iPod halo effect?