I used to work with samba, having a linux fileserver and a mac osx powerbook, but recently I started working with nfs. It seems a bit faster and more stable. When I change some file on the server, it's directly visible in finder - without having to refresh it.
I also was annoyed the fact when I turned my powerbook on after it went to sleep it would give me a lot of errors about unmounting a network drive. This also was the case with tiger. With nfs, those problems are gone an nfs mount will stay active after the powerbook comes back from sleep.
I remember in the commercial civ games, the ai's winning strategy was knowing the complete map and a big cash bonus every round, so a little bit lame. I wonder how the freecivs ai compares to that
But in need of more desktop space, I've installed Desktop Manager, which allows me to use multiple virtual desktops (a la x-windows). I setup my extra mouse buttons to switch forward and backward between the virtual screens, which is very fast and very handy. (with the help of gamepad companion, which is not free). If you haven't tried free programs like Desktop Manager (or simular programs like Virtue), then I'd really recommend them to you.
I really hope the soundtrack in the sequel will be as good as the original. Those jazzy and weird electronic tracks compliment the game very well. I downloaded the mp3's a while ago, but still wish to find the cd-version, has anyone seen it online somewhere?
Why would I need some remote control, that speeds down the zapping process?
First I need to find it too, that sucks. Why couldn't they make something prevents me from looking for the remote for half an hour in the first place. It's faster to manually control the tv 9 out 10 times. Why would I need a television anyway? Oh, I do really hate the television crap they put on air, it seems every time I'm zapping I see a 'police academy' rerun or a 'married with children' passing by. As soon as you notice the laugh-tape in those shows, the fun is over.
You can get a free copy for your xbox or ps2 after you have a small talk -with no strings attached- about your options in the army at your local army recruitment office.
I'm flying a real r22 beta helicopter and I checked out the r22 in ms flightsimulator, it's nowhere close to the real thing. It's far too easy to control in flightsimulator and it behaves very unrealistic. I suspect the other flight models in flightsimulator are of the same 'quality'.
If you're thinking about spending a lot of money on a decent simulator setup, spend the money on flight lessons instead, the real thing is much more fun.
If it's not compatible with GPL, couldn't people then just write a non-GPL ms-XML plugin for a GPL package, which is downloaded seperate in order to circumvent incompatibility with the GPL?
yeah they actually work most of the time. especially the high end audio cards you pointed out. Even the pci rme hammerfall pc cards work in the mac, just be change one jumper.
They're not on the list and you see them carrying mysteriously hidden information everywhere: on products in shops, but also on concert tickets, train cards, suitcases and ups packages.
I see these things all of the time on internet, but what strikes me is that these little boxes never make use of raid-5, even the ones from lacie fail to have redundant drives inside. So if one of the internal drives fails you lose - all - of the data.
It's nice to have an external 1.6tb disk, but not when you're forced to make 1.6tb backups (possibly having to buy a second one). What's the point then in having a 1.6tb databomb, chances that one drive fail are multiplied by the number of drives in these units.
Switching people might not be so bad for microsoft after all.
People that switch and many native OSX users, use a package called 'virtual pc' to run apps that are only available under windows. This software is made by microsoft, you can buy it with or without winxp if you already have it.
So if you switch and buy virtual pc because you 'still need windows' for something, microsoft is actually making more money on you than had you decided not to switch at all!
I've seen the latest version of 'virtual pc' running xp sp2 on the latest g4 powerbook and it worked good and about as fast/slow as a PIII 400-450.
I still don't understand, do these banks just give their customers a login/password for their account?
The bank I use gave me a little authentication device which combined with my bank card, my personal code and a random code provided by the bank site can generate digital signatures. In order to login and in order to make all transactions final I must provide the right code. I've been using this system for about 10 years now, if those exploitable banks still use a normal password protection it's their fault they're exoploited this way and there's no way customers should be responsible for it.
With technology like that, any government or interest group with a hidden agenda and a nice fund could fabricate such a tape . Then, I imagine, it's just a matter of bribing someone trusted enough by al jazeera to hand them over that tape. Later that same government can claim the tape is authentic ofcourse.
I can imagine some parties have been waiting for evidence like this a little to eager, enough to have been fabricating other 'evidence' before.
These machines are designed, from the start, to rig elections.
yes and I bet that after the elections this comes to light. only when Bush looses them ofcourse, these 'rigged' machines were the ones that made him lose the elections after all. the votes made by those machines will be found invalid.
if he wins these 'rigged' elections will kept quiet in the censored media.
hmm, my isp doesn't do that.. you brought me to the idea to put up a public samba share with the tubgirl or goatse people pics, cleverly renamed ofcourse. only thing that keeps me from doing that, is that I must look those pictures up myself first.
Thanks to Miracle and ceasar54 for writing in with the news that a member has got both Windows 95 and Windows 98 SE running on his Asus PPC.
This was made possible by a Pocket PC port of Bochs, by Mamaich, who has also ported DosBox, a "program similar to Bochs but it's a lot faster and only emulates DOS". Sadly, the author tried and failed to get WarLords II working on both these versions, but I'm sure time will tell!
If you're keen to try this on your own Pocket PC, you'll need a minimum of a 256MB memory card (or stream the image over a wireless network) and you'll need a program like Nyditot Virtual Display to increase your screen resolution. Oh, yes, and you'll also need the emulator.
According to Miracle, what we really need now is for another developer to "pick this up and optimize it to get more speed, since Mamaich stated that he will not continue to work on this, but instead focus more on DosBox."
Given that this shows that a Pocket PC is easily powerful enough to run Windows 95 and 98 in an emulator, do you think that attention might shift from developing new Pocket PC games to trying to get the original PC games to work in emulators? While I played a few games in Pocket DOS, the lack of decent controls made enjoying them nearly impossible. On the other hand, a predominantly mouse based game might run quite happily, and allow everyone to enjoy it on the move.
Unless he's trying to set up a recording studio with 150 channels of high-def audio, Knoppix works perfectly "out of the box."
Actually, I actually took a Knoppix cd with me in the studio a couple of months ago and booted it on the main system, It booted really nice and quite fast too. I was really very surprised, actually a bit overwhelmed, to suddenly being blasted away by the kde audio sequence on the monitor speakers!
If Natalie Portman hit Saskatchewan and could be located, it would be the first "meteorite fall"
Now I'm a bit puzzled here, let me try to rephrase it:
1. a meteorite fell from the sky, 2. it opens doors for something special, a socalled "meteorite fall", that can only happen now if:
- Natalie Portman comes to Saskatchewan
- AND she has to be located
wtf, did I miss something in school?
What is this "meteorite fall"? - Did they just accidently include somesort of a secret astronomer fertility/mating ritual in the article that was never meant to be known outside the astronomers world? - Are there other " fall" rituals, where Natalie Portman has to be present and located in order for it to succeed? - Can't they just download a picture or whatever from Miss Portman, I'm sure she has a busy schedule with her acting and maybe here sidejobs in making falls happen.
Sure they will be happy. Until "emerge sync; emerge update world; etc-update" hoses everything in their/etc directory, including fstab. Think they could handle interactively updating their system configuration using diff? The answer is NO
My parents don't need updates on that machine: Everything works like a charm now, that's good enough, why would you need updates then?
Perhaps for security, but the only open ports are samba, xserver and ssh. Not something to worry about, especially since the machine is behind a router that blocks all ports. - as if - they'll get a virus or worm by email that exploits a bug in sylpheed-claws-0.9.9 - and - that gets root pivileges in linux2.6.3r1 then creates an open port and reconfigures the router - not very likely
Yes I could've installed debian, it would have been a faster install - perhaps my parents could do some updates themselves, but since I understand gentoo better, it was my choice to use that on that machine.
I know some 'normal' linux users that hardly ever update their machines as well, it's because they're still on a slow dailup connection, the packages just take too long to download.
Maybe when kde 3.3 is out I'll give their system a nice update sweep, usually it's not that hard, there are actually just about a dozen files in/etc/ that were editted by me, the other ones I'll just replace without any editting.
After the latest infection on my parents' computer, though mcaffee was installed and auto-updating and eudora, I decided to choose for the first. I wiped microsoft from the computer and installed gentoo with kde, firefox and sylpheed-claws and I made it autologin into their kde account.
My parents have never been happier with their computer: 'internet is so much faster now' and 'hey that solitaire game is much more fun' and 'that thing allows you to have multiple virtual screens', it even looks better now and I told them they could click on any email virus they wanted.
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I used to work with samba, having a linux fileserver and a mac osx powerbook, but recently I started working with nfs. It seems a bit faster and more stable. When I change some file on the server, it's directly visible in finder - without having to refresh it.
I also was annoyed the fact when I turned my powerbook on after it went to sleep it would give me a lot of errors about unmounting a network drive. This also was the case with tiger. With nfs, those problems are gone an nfs mount will stay active after the powerbook comes back from sleep.
I remember in the commercial civ games, the ai's winning strategy was knowing the complete map and a big cash bonus every round, so a little bit lame.
I wonder how the freecivs ai compares to that
But in need of more desktop space, I've installed Desktop Manager, which allows me to use multiple virtual desktops (a la x-windows).
I setup my extra mouse buttons to switch forward and backward between the virtual screens, which is very fast and very handy. (with the help of gamepad companion, which is not free).
If you haven't tried free programs like Desktop Manager (or simular programs like Virtue), then I'd really recommend them to you.
I really hope the soundtrack in the sequel will be as good as the original. Those jazzy and weird electronic tracks compliment the game very well.
I downloaded the mp3's a while ago, but still wish to find the cd-version, has anyone seen it online somewhere?
Why would I need some remote control, that speeds down the zapping process?
First I need to find it too, that sucks. Why couldn't they make something prevents me from looking for the remote for half an hour in the first place. It's faster to manually control the tv 9 out 10 times.
Why would I need a television anyway?
Oh, I do really hate the television crap they put on air, it seems every time I'm zapping I see a 'police academy' rerun or a 'married with children' passing by. As soon as you notice the laugh-tape in those shows, the fun is over.
You can get a free copy for your xbox or ps2 after you have a small talk -with no strings attached- about your options in the army at your local army recruitment office.
I'm flying a real r22 beta helicopter and I checked out the r22 in ms flightsimulator, it's nowhere close to the real thing. It's far too easy to control in flightsimulator and it behaves very unrealistic. I suspect the other flight models in flightsimulator are of the same 'quality'.
If you're thinking about spending a lot of money on a decent simulator setup, spend the money on flight lessons instead, the real thing is much more fun.
If it's not compatible with GPL, couldn't people then just write a non-GPL ms-XML plugin for a GPL package, which is downloaded seperate in order to circumvent incompatibility with the GPL?
yeah they actually work most of the time. especially the high end audio cards you pointed out. Even the pci rme hammerfall pc cards work in the mac, just be change one jumper.
Seriously, I wish we could go back in time and tell him not to look forward to it too much...
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They're not on the list and you see them carrying mysteriously hidden information everywhere: on products in shops, but also on concert tickets, train cards, suitcases and ups packages.
I see these things all of the time on internet, but what strikes me is that these little boxes never make use of raid-5, even the ones from lacie fail to have redundant drives inside. So if one of the internal drives fails you lose - all - of the data.
It's nice to have an external 1.6tb disk, but not when you're forced to make 1.6tb backups (possibly having to buy a second one). What's the point then in having a 1.6tb databomb, chances that one drive fail are multiplied by the number of drives in these units.
wget http://www.bash.org/?latest
then they cat it and grep for words like terrorist, osama and whatever buzzword/bushword is in the media that week.
Switching people might not be so bad for microsoft after all.
People that switch and many native OSX users, use a package called 'virtual pc' to run apps that are only available under windows.
This software is made by microsoft, you can buy it with or without winxp if you already have it.
So if you switch and buy virtual pc because you 'still need windows' for something, microsoft is actually making more money on you than had you decided not to switch at all!
I've seen the latest version of 'virtual pc' running xp sp2 on the latest g4 powerbook and it worked good and about as fast/slow as a PIII 400-450.
A while ago I installed Gentoo linux with kde, firefox and evolution for email on my parents' computer.
My parents love it and they think the kde patience is better than the one in windows.
I still don't understand, do these banks just give their customers a login/password for their account?
The bank I use gave me a little authentication device which combined with my bank card, my personal code and a random code provided by the bank site can generate digital signatures. In order to login and in order to make all transactions final I must provide the right code.
I've been using this system for about 10 years now, if those exploitable banks still use a normal password protection it's their fault they're exoploited this way and there's no way customers should be responsible for it.
Exactly, I also doubt the authenticity!
e /index.shtml ) on Discovery?
Anyone else remember the virtual history series ( http://discoverychannel.co.uk/virtualhistory/_hom
With technology like that, any government or interest group with a hidden agenda and a nice fund could fabricate such a tape . Then, I imagine, it's just a matter of bribing someone trusted enough by al jazeera to hand them over that tape. Later that same government can claim the tape is authentic ofcourse.
I can imagine some parties have been waiting for evidence like this a little to eager, enough to have been fabricating other 'evidence' before.
These machines are designed, from the start, to rig elections.
yes and I bet that after the elections this comes to light. only when Bush looses them ofcourse, these 'rigged' machines were the ones that made him lose the elections after all.
the votes made by those machines will be found invalid.
if he wins these 'rigged' elections will kept quiet in the censored media.
hmm, my isp doesn't do that.. you brought me to the idea to put up a public samba share with the tubgirl or goatse people pics, cleverly renamed ofcourse. only thing that keeps me from doing that, is that I must look those pictures up myself first.
Thanks to Miracle and ceasar54 for writing in with the news that a member has got both Windows 95 and Windows 98 SE running on his Asus PPC.
This was made possible by a Pocket PC port of Bochs, by Mamaich, who has also ported DosBox, a "program similar to Bochs but it's a lot faster and only emulates DOS". Sadly, the author tried and failed to get WarLords II working on both these versions, but I'm sure time will tell!
If you're keen to try this on your own Pocket PC, you'll need a minimum of a 256MB memory card (or stream the image over a wireless network) and you'll need a program like Nyditot Virtual Display to increase your screen resolution. Oh, yes, and you'll also need the emulator.
According to Miracle, what we really need now is for another developer to "pick this up and optimize it to get more speed, since Mamaich stated that he will not continue to work on this, but instead focus more on DosBox."
Given that this shows that a Pocket PC is easily powerful enough to run Windows 95 and 98 in an emulator, do you think that attention might shift from developing new Pocket PC games to trying to get the original PC games to work in emulators? While I played a few games in Pocket DOS, the lack of decent controls made enjoying them nearly impossible. On the other hand, a predominantly mouse based game might run quite happily, and allow everyone to enjoy it on the move.
Unless he's trying to set up a recording studio with 150 channels of high-def audio, Knoppix works perfectly "out of the box."
Actually, I actually took a Knoppix cd with me in the studio a couple of months ago and booted it on the main system, It booted really nice and quite fast too.
I was really very surprised, actually a bit overwhelmed, to suddenly being blasted away by the kde audio sequence on the monitor speakers!
btw the system had a RME Hammerfall soundcard.
- step 1: make 4000 tablet pc's
- step 2: NEC30CD-ROM LOOKCLUB68,250()
- step 3: profit!
If Natalie Portman hit Saskatchewan and could be located, it would be the first "meteorite fall"
Now I'm a bit puzzled here, let me try to rephrase it:
1. a meteorite fell from the sky,
2. it opens doors for something special, a socalled "meteorite fall", that can only happen now if:
- Natalie Portman comes to Saskatchewan
- AND she has to be located
wtf, did I miss something in school?
What is this "meteorite fall"?
- Did they just accidently include somesort of a secret astronomer fertility/mating ritual in the article that was never meant to be known outside the astronomers world?
- Are there other " fall" rituals, where Natalie Portman has to be present and located in order for it to succeed?
- Can't they just download a picture or whatever from Miss Portman, I'm sure she has a busy schedule with her acting and maybe here sidejobs in making falls happen.
Sure they will be happy. Until "emerge sync; emerge update world; etc-update" hoses everything in their /etc directory, including fstab. Think they could handle interactively updating their system configuration using diff? The answer is NO
/etc/ that were editted by me, the other ones I'll just replace without any editting.
My parents don't need updates on that machine: Everything works like a charm now, that's good enough, why would you need updates then?
Perhaps for security, but the only open ports are samba, xserver and ssh. Not something to worry about, especially since the machine is behind a router that blocks all ports.
- as if - they'll get a virus or worm by email that exploits a bug in sylpheed-claws-0.9.9 - and - that gets root pivileges in linux2.6.3r1 then creates an open port and reconfigures the router - not very likely
Yes I could've installed debian, it would have been a faster install - perhaps my parents could do some updates themselves, but since I understand gentoo better, it was my choice to use that on that machine.
I know some 'normal' linux users that hardly ever update their machines as well, it's because they're still on a slow dailup connection, the packages just take too long to download.
Maybe when kde 3.3 is out I'll give their system a nice update sweep, usually it's not that hard, there are actually just about a dozen files in
not a bad idea.
After the latest infection on my parents' computer, though mcaffee was installed and auto-updating and eudora, I decided to choose for the first.
I wiped microsoft from the computer and installed gentoo with kde, firefox and sylpheed-claws and I made it autologin into their kde account.
My parents have never been happier with their computer: 'internet is so much faster now' and 'hey that solitaire game is much more fun' and 'that thing allows you to have multiple virtual screens', it even looks better now and I told them they could click on any email virus they wanted.