Most of the games from back then were just as bad about configuration.
The worst were the games (can't remember the names, but were usually from the early '90s) that hardcoded the Sound Blaster's I/O port or IRQ or DMA channel. It could be made to work, but if something else in your system had grabbed one of these (most often a parallel port needed the IRQ) you were out of luck. Even better if you had more than one such game and one of them expected a different value (say, one wanted 0x220 for the I/O port, but another expected 0x240).
Even if you had one of the later games that let you specify your configuration, you might still have to dig the card back out because you'd set a jumper or DIP switch wrong and there was a conflict. Then you'd have to set the AUTOEXEC.BAT incantation correctly, which would be extra work if you'd been forced to switch a jumper around.
And the video! A game might work just fine with a bog-standard VGA card, but another would need VBE 2.0 and if you didn't have the newest card that meant editing AUTOEXEC again to load a TSR on boot. Oh, wait! Now with that TSR you don't have enough RAM to run your game, so you've got to either fiddle with CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT manually (reading the manual entries for EMM386 and HIMEM) or shell out for an upgrade to MS-DOS 6 or buy QEMM386 and hope that either of the latter two could successfully optimize your memory layout. If you're poor and not up to editing your config files, you could always make a boot floppy instead (sometimes the game even did that automatically! Oh the luxury.) and boot the computer from that when you wanted to play your game... except that sometimes the automagic boot floppy utilities didn't set up your Sound Blaster properly, so you're still looking at work.
Kids just don't know how good they have it these days, with working PnP and standardized multimedia APIs and a flat memory space.
...and you're not sharp enough to understand that the purpose of this propaganda is to turn the South Korean people against its government (thereby weakening it, and by extension weakening the SK military) & lull these same citizens into a false sense of security.
The North would like nothing better than to conquer the South, and would not hesitate to kill mass numbers on both sides to do it. The North's elites don't even care about their own peoples' lives or the quality thereof; they will have even fewer compunctions about people who think "wrongly".
Now you're just being obtuse and begging the question. If you're a student, running your game server (or Net-accessible model railroad controller, or whatever) doesn't have anything to do with what you're paying MIT for and there's nothing stopping you from getting it hosted at a colo somewhere.
It's a hobby, which may be interesting and even valuable, but ultimately MIT has to make sure their network is serving classes, faculty, research, &c (that being what people are paying for). It's a matter of priorities (classrooms and research being a higher priority than a random student's hobby), and it ties into my point in a different thread that a few assholes are going to ruin things for everyone.
It sounds to me like students were allowed to run arbitrary servers before, and that group is not included in the passage you quoted, therefore students will no longer have this option at all unless it's for an assignment.
The 1541's port was deliberately crippled by inserting wait states, so that it would be compatible with older-model Commodores like IIRC the PET and VIC-20.
There was a ROM cartridge you could get that'd speed the things up where they ought to be on a C=64.
How many more years to we have to wait for a Win32 port of GTK+3? There are several projects which only have old versions ported to Windows because their newer builds target GTK+3 and that's not available yet.
Contrariwise, I had a bumper sticker on my old car that read "Doing my part to PISS OFF the Religious Right". It got mildly vandalized once[1] in all the years I had it, and this was in heavily fundie Baptist southwest Missouri. Once when I went to get my hair cut the woman doing it said (with tones of mixed admiration and surprise) that I had a lot of guts doing that around here.
[1] I expect if it'd been easily removable (like a Darwin fish) it'd have been stolen by this individual, though.
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Most of the games from back then were just as bad about configuration.
The worst were the games (can't remember the names, but were usually from the early '90s) that hardcoded the Sound Blaster's I/O port or IRQ or DMA channel. It could be made to work, but if something else in your system had grabbed one of these (most often a parallel port needed the IRQ) you were out of luck. Even better if you had more than one such game and one of them expected a different value (say, one wanted 0x220 for the I/O port, but another expected 0x240).
Even if you had one of the later games that let you specify your configuration, you might still have to dig the card back out because you'd set a jumper or DIP switch wrong and there was a conflict. Then you'd have to set the AUTOEXEC.BAT incantation correctly, which would be extra work if you'd been forced to switch a jumper around.
And the video! A game might work just fine with a bog-standard VGA card, but another would need VBE 2.0 and if you didn't have the newest card that meant editing AUTOEXEC again to load a TSR on boot. Oh, wait! Now with that TSR you don't have enough RAM to run your game, so you've got to either fiddle with CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT manually (reading the manual entries for EMM386 and HIMEM) or shell out for an upgrade to MS-DOS 6 or buy QEMM386 and hope that either of the latter two could successfully optimize your memory layout. If you're poor and not up to editing your config files, you could always make a boot floppy instead (sometimes the game even did that automatically! Oh the luxury.) and boot the computer from that when you wanted to play your game... except that sometimes the automagic boot floppy utilities didn't set up your Sound Blaster properly, so you're still looking at work.
Kids just don't know how good they have it these days, with working PnP and standardized multimedia APIs and a flat memory space.
...and you're not sharp enough to understand that the purpose of this propaganda is to turn the South Korean people against its government (thereby weakening it, and by extension weakening the SK military) & lull these same citizens into a false sense of security.
The North would like nothing better than to conquer the South, and would not hesitate to kill mass numbers on both sides to do it. The North's elites don't even care about their own peoples' lives or the quality thereof; they will have even fewer compunctions about people who think "wrongly".
Whoosh!
And since I need to have something in the message body, I think we could all learn from the NRA's mastery of agitprop:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/04/nra_magazine_covers.php
Now you're just being obtuse and begging the question. If you're a student, running your game server (or Net-accessible model railroad controller, or whatever) doesn't have anything to do with what you're paying MIT for and there's nothing stopping you from getting it hosted at a colo somewhere.
It's a hobby, which may be interesting and even valuable, but ultimately MIT has to make sure their network is serving classes, faculty, research, &c (that being what people are paying for). It's a matter of priorities (classrooms and research being a higher priority than a random student's hobby), and it ties into my point in a different thread that a few assholes are going to ruin things for everyone.
Riiiiight. The asshole is, say, the government for telling Company X they have to stop polluting waterways with dioxin and not Company X.
Libertarians can be so simple-minded about their religion.
All of what you said is utterly irrelevant.
BINGO!
Hah, got my card filled out that time.
My guess is that they're consulting rainbow tables, then. Got to be plenty of those out there for various hashes.
Exactly. Running your public Minecraft server doesn't have anything to do with "learning" except in the broadest possible sense.
You know, it's possible to check a password's complexity /before/ hashing it. Various Linux distros and Windows do it that way.
Racist.
It sounds to me like students were allowed to run arbitrary servers before, and that group is not included in the passage you quoted, therefore students will no longer have this option at all unless it's for an assignment.
A few assholes can and will ruin a good thing for everyone.
The 1541's port was deliberately crippled by inserting wait states, so that it would be compatible with older-model Commodores like IIRC the PET and VIC-20.
There was a ROM cartridge you could get that'd speed the things up where they ought to be on a C=64.
Kill yourself.
How many more years to we have to wait for a Win32 port of GTK+3? There are several projects which only have old versions ported to Windows because their newer builds target GTK+3 and that's not available yet.
You sound like you're excusing the fundies' behavior and blaming the victim. If that's not your intent, reconsider how you communicate.
Contrariwise, I had a bumper sticker on my old car that read "Doing my part to PISS OFF the Religious Right". It got mildly vandalized once[1] in all the years I had it, and this was in heavily fundie Baptist southwest Missouri. Once when I went to get my hair cut the woman doing it said (with tones of mixed admiration and surprise) that I had a lot of guts doing that around here.
[1] I expect if it'd been easily removable (like a Darwin fish) it'd have been stolen by this individual, though.
Statistically, sure. But we need someone else to try this from entirely within the USA so that we can rule out Customs as the problem.
Your real audiophile keeps a can of Monster Air with precisely-tuned isotope and pollutant counts, and opens it whenever he goes to a concert.
Pretty much. Ubuntu and Debian aren't even mutually compatible anymore, for largely political reasons.
Had to be from the late '90s. Caldera and Corel haven't made Linux distros in about that long.
IMO right now the MATE version, but Cinnamon's certainly workable.
No it's not. Mainline Mint is Ubuntu-based; it's LMDE that's Debian-based.