One of my guys here at work is an evercrack addict, and he was saying that the dragon that was killed was a set-piece for a quest/storyline that was running.
It'll be interesting to see how they rewrite the quest/story to relfect the realities of the situation....
Everyone I talk to says "Oh SCO has Boies, he's a great lawyer".
Then I think to myself, what has Mr. Boies done that makes him great? Let's look at his high profile cases: 1> Microsoft Anti-Trust ("won" even though MS is still a monopoly and abusing it's power more than ever, and the settlement was a weak blow off at best) 2> Gore 2000 in Florida. (LOST)
One would argue that forced proclimations of patriotism are a symptom of a facist regime.
Not me, of course, since I don't want Rummie's SS Stormtroopers knocking on my door, but someone from a country that still has free speech might argue that....
To me the WinXP interface stand up and yells: "I'm f*cking Fisher Price Windows, you penguin f*cker"
the first thing I did when I had to work on and XP box was figure out how to turn off the obscenely silly new window colours/decorations. Then it was vaguely usable.
Mandrake does not include spyware or adware you doof.
They sold ads for the installation screens (which can, at least pre 9.2, I'm still downloading 9.2 like everyone else in the club) you could toggle the "consumer friendly" installed to a more advanced once that showed packages/progress instead, so no big deal.
They sell ads on the default homepage, so change it if you don't like it.
Other than that, please back up your claims that Mandrake, which is 100% free in the speech department now, has anything else.
If you _really_ don't like it, download the sources, remove any ads you don't like, compile your own build, and have fun fapping away at whatever pictures you put in place of it.
The definition of "Important Industry" is, I'm sure you'll agree, purely subjective in this case.
I for one, do not find the 10-15 marketing calls a day I get on my home # (I screen all calls, and if they don't leave a message, I assume they want to sell me something) to be an important business, rather I find it intrusive, a virtual trespass into my home, a waste of my (billable) time, etc.
As for "Big Brother List" I'm far more afraid of all of Mr. Ashcroft's new lists (library books, reading habits, slashdot postings, etc) than a list that contains only telephone #'s and not names.
It's obvious to me you're either a troll, an industry rep, or simply deluded.
Your corperate croney run Republican administration has cost more jobs in the last three years, in the name of "Captialism" than this move will. Besides, most of these call-center employees could pick up a bigger paycheck at the local McDonalds than what they're being paid now.
If these same call center employees walked into your house, which not only would offend you for having someone who's likely a minority in your house, but not cleaning you laundry, and sat down at your dinner table and started trying to sell you Insurance, or a food dehydrator, you would probably take your constitutionally protected shotgun and either chase them out of your house or shoot them on the spot.
Telesales is, like door to door sales were, a dying method of shoving products down a customer's throat. If the industry fizzles and dies, no one will miss it, no one will even recall it fondly, like they do the Milkman.
The "Industry" (or as someone expertly put it the *AA's) want legal means (DRM, taxes on blank media, etc, etc) to take away computer user's rights when dealing with all media, not just media copied from them.
What the AT&T Study basically said, is that it doesn't matter if you make it illegal to sell hardware to convert a DV recording into a DVD or VCD without a license, since the content being distrubuted is being authored in-house by the studios or their contactors.
It's like allowing a taper at a rock concert to plug straight into the soundboard instead of using mics in the audience. Both are illegal (unless permission is granted, a la The Dead, etc) copies of material, but banning the sale of high-quality microphones to people not in the music industry wouldn't stop the board recording from being made.
The US Governemnt, however, has a sad history of limiting the quality of a product for "our protection", examples include GPS (we get the crummy one, the military gets the good one), crypto (fixed now, but remember when 56-bit was barely legal), and so on.
The SoBig.(X) (all of 'em, been getting them for months, good thing Evolution doesn't care) are all around 100K a piece.
A "your message was filtered" is maybe 2-3K including all headers (more likely under 1k), so responding to messages with Virus' in them adds 1-3% not 100% to the traffic.
That being said, since most of the current generation of SoBig happily fake the "From" email address, a reply to the from address doesn't really help anyone either.
So in the worst case scenario, a 3K reply to a fake email address results in a bounce message, so at the most you've got 5% overhead, and theoretically for that 6K of email, you've saved a user from getting infected, which would generate 100K*1000's of data.
Vivendi is frog-spawn compared to GE, at least in size of company, size of staff, etc.
In the entertainment biz, VUE is bigger than NBC, but not on a company to company comparison.
It'll be interesting to see how NBC tries to leverage this, since they are the last of the TV networks to have studio tie-ins for both movie and TV show production.
ABC = Disney CBS = Viacom = (MTV, Paramount, UPN, Showtime?) WB = AOLTW = HBO/Skinamax Fox = News Corp (20th Century Fox)
Universal is one of the only unaffiliated studios, and NBC is the only unafiliated network.
It'll be interesting to see how lines are drawn.
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expensive is a term no longer allowed to describe home electronics.
It is the Ministry of Advertising's feeling that all products should be described in various degress of inexpensive for their price range: inexpensive almost inexpensive barely inexpensive not inexpensive nowhere near inexpensive
I just turned up a dual Xeon 2.4 rack-mount server for work and it's BIOS mentioned warned us to turn off Hyperthreading for anything other than Windows XP or Linux 2.4 (yeah, mention of Linux in BIOS!:).
Anyways, since I am using linux 2.4, two hyperthreaded Xeons look like four processors to the box, I"m sure it's not the same performance of for seperate processors, but I'm hopeing it's at least slightly better then two non Xeons:)
The writer of the article wrote that for Windows he prefers 2000 over XP. I am curious if XP (or Linux 2.4) and thus Hyperthreading might help his already built computer with a bit more performance...
I know it's been brought up before, but in any environment where you'll have more than 10-20 computers on a "flat" LAN, you need switches.
In the past I'd recomment Cisco 2900 or 3500s, but they're much more expensive than needed. Any decent 100meg switch (or as pointed out earlier, with a Gig uplink) should handle the amount of traffic several simultanious games can generate.
Another thing to do is make sure there's enough food available nearby, and enough ATM's around.
Even without any merchandise for sale, if this is 24x7x3 there will be people hitting the Hotel ATM to refuel wallets, and most Hotel ATMs are pretty anemic when it comes to that (see any Anime convention:)
Food nearby is also a plus. Don't stick your guests with Hotel restaurants only, because they can be expensive and not exactly in sync with the average gamer's diet.
I've never understood the *nix reaction (although it has spread to windows/regular PC users) that escalates any difference in opinion to a religious war...
That being said, I have experience on three of the "big four" MTA's out there (sendmail, qmail, and exim) and currently use exim on my personal site (which also hosts a number of mailman lists for OpenSource project and friends of mine) and it handle's about 20k messages in/out on a linux box.
I also use qmail on my work servers (cluster of quad-procesor ultrasparcs) and although I can't say I would have chosen qmail if I'd been in charge of building the servers (I inherited them from "the architect") it handles millions of emails a day just fine.
I can't say i miss m4 (although I know real sendmail admins don't bother with wimpy scripting languages), sendmail also served it's purpose back in the day.
Could exim handle the load on the ultasparcs? possibly, I haven't checked. Could I put qmail on my personal box? sure, but if Exim works, why not.
To comment further on one thing, Philip has a good explination of monolithic vs modular on the exim website, which explains why he does things the way he does. At least read it before blindly attacking the system.
I knew my comment was going to cause rancor, but I never anticipated outright hate, but to each his own...
First of all, I'm not using anything provided by my employer to post these messages, I'm on a DSL that I pay for, on a compluter I bought, on the weekend that I'm not getting paid to work. Amazing how that works.
That being said, the company I work for does not currently engage in any practice more severe than using well-known and well respected RBLs.
Your assumption that my employeer engages in the practices I talked about in my posting is also incorrect. The fact is that we will happily do reverse delegation, backup MX, etc for our customers who ask.
The fact that we don't do built-in filtering of our customer's connections causes us to waste many hundreds of man hours a week tracking down open proxy, open relays, responding to spamcop messages, etc.
We take our position as members of the Internet Communinty very seriously, and expect our customers to as well. If they do not have the technical skills then we offer to help them out.
Now, as to your personal attack on me, I do not understand why you saw doing a "whois" on my domain a needed, or even useful attack on me, my contact information is a matter of many publicly searchable databases, including TUCOW's OpenSRS Registry Database.
As for me "NOC living, phone-droid answering, disservice providing ass" I must admit, against my better judgement, and 20 years of Internet experience, that did get a raise out of me, mostly because it is so untrue as to be insulting. I am unsure how to respond to the comment without dropping to your level, so I will refrain for the moment.
The main reason I referred to T1 and Colo as "real" internet is they are, in my experience, much more stable, much more reliable, and engender much more clue from their users, therefore more trust from the Internet at large. In my opinion, you are free to run your server on anything from dialup to X.25 over barb-wire, it's not my concern. The stability and accessability of your server is entirely your concern.
In a perfect Internet, all relays would be open, and there would be no commercial email, theft of service, denial of service, and a person's OS of choice would matter, because no one would exploit their security holes for evil, but the sad fact is it's not, and spammers are one of the main (but no the only) reason that the Internet today is looking less and less like the Internet of 1993, when I first came online with a SLIP connection. On avereage almost 70% of incoming email is spam, and it's increaseing. Spam in a DDOS on the whole Internet, and picking on the people who work to stop it is not a productive solution.
I apologize for the length of this response/rant/whatever, and also apologize in principle for responding to a personal flame at all, but since Mr. Molina chose to threaten my livelyhood, I chose to respond rather that sit silently. I earnestly with Mr. Molina luck finding employment, his resume is fairly impressive, and with any luck he will nab an acceptable job soon.
As a network engineer of a DSL and T1 only ISP (we have dialup but only for traveling DSL/T1 customers) I can let you know that this will probably stop oodles of spam.
The latest spammer tactic is not to seek out open relays, but open windows proxies, and from there they can initial outbound SMTP connections to legit SMTP servers and send spam.
Already a large number of dialup providers will only allow you to send through their mail server, and a larger number of ISPs user the DUN RBL to block email directly from dialup pools.
This is just more of the same. Your ISP should provide you with SMTP service, use them as a smart host even if you're running your own SMTP server, so it'll offload the requeing/etc from your box to theirs.
DSL and Cable are the new dialup, and should be treated as such, a place where the majority of the customers are clueless idiots who ruin the party for the smart people.
Several ISPs are starting to scan mail servers sending them mail for open proxy/open relay before accepting the mails, expect to see this practive and AOL's solution spread to most ISPs in the near future.
If you want to run a real mail server, perhaps you should get a real internet conenction, like Colocation or T1.
Interesting how folks cheer when MSN messenger service is banned from AIM, but bitch just a loudly when Jabber is cut off.
If AOL is only cutting off servers that connect to their network, they are being consistant.
Their beef with MSN Messenger (and I'm assuming now with jabber) is that the servers have access to the passwords being sent through them, which is a security risk.
I'm not defending them, nor agreeing with them, but I can see their point.
They've never given me any grief with clients that connect directly to the AIM servers.
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Precision Insight, the same folks behind the 3dfx, Matrox, i810, and Rage128 drivers are doing Radeon drivers.
According to messages on the DRI-DEVEL list, ATI contracted them to write the drivers, like they did for the rage 128 drivers.
The ATI website does not reflect this information.
Says it's accelerated:) Can't display fonts on my Rage128 RF based card. Just displays crap that looks like bar codes unless I disable acceleration. I'll be submitting a bug. Even with the funky fonts, it's much faster than the Suse (or at least it feels that way:)
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One of my guys here at work is an evercrack addict, and he was saying that the dragon that was killed was a set-piece for a quest/storyline that was running.
It'll be interesting to see how they rewrite the quest/story to relfect the realities of the situation....
Only problem with that theory is the the Smurfs is a dubbed french cartoon, and last I checked, there was not a large KKK contingent in France.....
Remember that Hop-On has been caught in the past passing of repackaged Nokia phones as their "disposable" solutions.
I believe it when I see it at my local 7-11.....
Everyone I talk to says "Oh SCO has Boies, he's a great lawyer".
Then I think to myself, what has Mr. Boies done that makes him great? Let's look at his high profile cases:
1> Microsoft Anti-Trust ("won" even though MS is still a monopoly and abusing it's power more than ever, and the settlement was a weak blow off at best)
2> Gore 2000 in Florida. (LOST)
and now
SCO
So why does everyone think this kid is hot shit?
I believe the code was part of detection routine to see if the drives supported writing (packet based writing specifically).
If the drive doesn't it should either say so or return an error state (unsure what the spec is) but it should dump it's firmware.
It sounds like LG was either lazy and reused what they thought were unused ATAPI commands for flash upgrades, or released buggy code.
One would argue that forced proclimations of patriotism are a symptom of a facist regime.
Not me, of course, since I don't want Rummie's SS Stormtroopers knocking on my door, but someone from a country that still has free speech might argue that....
To me the WinXP interface stand up and yells:
"I'm f*cking Fisher Price Windows, you penguin f*cker"
the first thing I did when I had to work on and XP box was figure out how to turn off the obscenely silly new window colours/decorations. Then it was vaguely usable.
Mandrake does not include spyware or adware you doof.
They sold ads for the installation screens (which can, at least pre 9.2, I'm still downloading 9.2 like everyone else in the club) you could toggle the "consumer friendly" installed to a more advanced once that showed packages/progress instead, so no big deal.
They sell ads on the default homepage, so change it if you don't like it.
Other than that, please back up your claims that Mandrake, which is 100% free in the speech department now, has anything else.
If you _really_ don't like it, download the sources, remove any ads you don't like, compile your own build, and have fun fapping away at whatever pictures you put in place of it.
The definition of "Important Industry" is, I'm sure you'll agree, purely subjective in this case.
I for one, do not find the 10-15 marketing calls a day I get on my home # (I screen all calls, and if they don't leave a message, I assume they want to sell me something) to be an important business, rather I find it intrusive, a virtual trespass into my home, a waste of my (billable) time, etc.
As for "Big Brother List" I'm far more afraid of all of Mr. Ashcroft's new lists (library books, reading habits, slashdot postings, etc) than a list that contains only telephone #'s and not names.
It's obvious to me you're either a troll, an industry rep, or simply deluded.
Your corperate croney run Republican administration has cost more jobs in the last three years, in the name of "Captialism" than this move will. Besides, most of these call-center employees could pick up a bigger paycheck at the local McDonalds than what they're being paid now.
If these same call center employees walked into your house, which not only would offend you for having someone who's likely a minority in your house, but not cleaning you laundry, and sat down at your dinner table and started trying to sell you Insurance, or a food dehydrator, you would probably take your constitutionally protected shotgun and either chase them out of your house or shoot them on the spot.
Telesales is, like door to door sales were, a dying method of shoving products down a customer's throat. If the industry fizzles and dies, no one will miss it, no one will even recall it fondly, like they do the Milkman.
You're missing the point of the article.
The "Industry" (or as someone expertly put it the *AA's) want legal means (DRM, taxes on blank media, etc, etc) to take away computer user's rights when dealing with all media, not just media copied from them.
What the AT&T Study basically said, is that it doesn't matter if you make it illegal to sell hardware to convert a DV recording into a DVD or VCD without a license, since the content being distrubuted is being authored in-house by the studios or their contactors.
It's like allowing a taper at a rock concert to plug straight into the soundboard instead of using mics in the audience. Both are illegal (unless permission is granted, a la The Dead, etc) copies of material, but banning the sale of high-quality microphones to people not in the music industry wouldn't stop the board recording from being made.
The US Governemnt, however, has a sad history of limiting the quality of a product for "our protection", examples include GPS (we get the crummy one, the military gets the good one), crypto (fixed now, but remember when 56-bit was barely legal), and so on.
The SoBig.(X) (all of 'em, been getting them for months, good thing Evolution doesn't care) are all around 100K a piece.
A "your message was filtered" is maybe 2-3K including all headers (more likely under 1k), so responding to messages with Virus' in them adds 1-3% not 100% to the traffic.
That being said, since most of the current generation of SoBig happily fake the "From" email address, a reply to the from address doesn't really help anyone either.
So in the worst case scenario, a 3K reply to a fake email address results in a bounce message, so at the most you've got 5% overhead, and theoretically for that 6K of email, you've saved a user from getting infected, which would generate 100K*1000's of data.
I'd say it's not too high a price to pay.
Vivendi is frog-spawn compared to GE, at least in size of company, size of staff, etc.
In the entertainment biz, VUE is bigger than NBC, but not on a company to company comparison.
It'll be interesting to see how NBC tries to leverage this, since they are the last of the TV networks to have studio tie-ins for both movie and TV show production.
ABC = Disney
CBS = Viacom = (MTV, Paramount, UPN, Showtime?)
WB = AOLTW = HBO/Skinamax
Fox = News Corp (20th Century Fox)
Universal is one of the only unaffiliated studios, and NBC is the only unafiliated network.
It'll be interesting to see how lines are drawn.
I saw his Trash Mirror at the American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. Very cool installation, and a wonderful geek-friendly museum, worth the visit if your from or in NYC.
expensive is a term no longer allowed to describe home electronics.
It is the Ministry of Advertising's feeling that all products should be described in various degress of inexpensive for their price range:
inexpensive
almost inexpensive
barely inexpensive
not inexpensive
nowhere near inexpensive
I just turned up a dual Xeon 2.4 rack-mount server for work and it's BIOS mentioned warned us to turn off Hyperthreading for anything other than Windows XP or Linux 2.4 (yeah, mention of Linux in BIOS! :).
:)
Anyways, since I am using linux 2.4, two hyperthreaded Xeons look like four processors to the box, I"m sure it's not the same performance of for seperate processors, but I'm hopeing it's at least slightly better then two non Xeons
The writer of the article wrote that for Windows he prefers 2000 over XP. I am curious if XP (or Linux 2.4) and thus Hyperthreading might help his already built computer with a bit more performance...
I know it's been brought up before, but in any environment where you'll have more than 10-20 computers on a "flat" LAN, you need switches.
:)
In the past I'd recomment Cisco 2900 or 3500s, but they're much more expensive than needed. Any decent 100meg switch (or as pointed out earlier, with a Gig uplink) should handle the amount of traffic several simultanious games can generate.
Another thing to do is make sure there's enough food available nearby, and enough ATM's around.
Even without any merchandise for sale, if this is 24x7x3 there will be people hitting the Hotel ATM to refuel wallets, and most Hotel ATMs are pretty anemic when it comes to that (see any Anime convention
Food nearby is also a plus. Don't stick your guests with Hotel restaurants only, because they can be expensive and not exactly in sync with the average gamer's diet.
Anyway, best of luck, sounds like a fun time.
I've never understood the *nix reaction (although it has spread to windows/regular PC users) that escalates any difference in opinion to a religious war...
That being said, I have experience on three of the "big four" MTA's out there (sendmail, qmail, and exim) and currently use exim on my personal site (which also hosts a number of mailman lists for OpenSource project and friends of mine) and it handle's about 20k messages in/out on a linux box.
I also use qmail on my work servers (cluster of quad-procesor ultrasparcs) and although I can't say I would have chosen qmail if I'd been in charge of building the servers (I inherited them from "the architect") it handles millions of emails a day just fine.
I can't say i miss m4 (although I know real sendmail admins don't bother with wimpy scripting languages), sendmail also served it's purpose back in the day.
Could exim handle the load on the ultasparcs? possibly, I haven't checked. Could I put qmail on my personal box? sure, but if Exim works, why not.
To comment further on one thing, Philip has a good explination of monolithic vs modular on the exim website, which explains why he does things the way he does. At least read it before blindly attacking the system.
I just thought it was funny that at least when I viewed the article, the ad at the bottom was one of the Unisys + Microsoft "We have the way out" ads.
I think the "way out" was clearly indiated by the article itself.
I knew my comment was going to cause rancor, but I never anticipated outright hate, but to each his own...
First of all, I'm not using anything provided by my employer to post these messages, I'm on a DSL that I pay for, on a compluter I bought, on the weekend that I'm not getting paid to work. Amazing how that works.
That being said, the company I work for does not currently engage in any practice more severe than using well-known and well respected RBLs.
Your assumption that my employeer engages in the practices I talked about in my posting is also incorrect. The fact is that we will happily do reverse delegation, backup MX, etc for our customers who ask.
The fact that we don't do built-in filtering of our customer's connections causes us to waste many hundreds of man hours a week tracking down open proxy, open relays, responding to spamcop messages, etc.
We take our position as members of the Internet Communinty very seriously, and expect our customers to as well. If they do not have the technical skills then we offer to help them out.
Now, as to your personal attack on me, I do not understand why you saw doing a "whois" on my domain a needed, or even useful attack on me, my contact information is a matter of many publicly searchable databases, including TUCOW's OpenSRS Registry Database.
As for me "NOC living, phone-droid answering, disservice providing ass" I must admit, against my better judgement, and 20 years of Internet experience, that did get a raise out of me, mostly because it is so untrue as to be insulting. I am unsure how to respond to the comment without dropping to your level, so I will refrain for the moment.
The main reason I referred to T1 and Colo as "real" internet is they are, in my experience, much more stable, much more reliable, and engender much more clue from their users, therefore more trust from the Internet at large. In my opinion, you are free to run your server on anything from dialup to X.25 over barb-wire, it's not my concern. The stability and accessability of your server is entirely your concern.
In a perfect Internet, all relays would be open, and there would be no commercial email, theft of service, denial of service, and a person's OS of choice would matter, because no one would exploit their security holes for evil, but the sad fact is it's not, and spammers are one of the main (but no the only) reason that the Internet today is looking less and less like the Internet of 1993, when I first came online with a SLIP connection. On avereage almost 70% of incoming email is spam, and it's increaseing. Spam in a DDOS on the whole Internet, and picking on the people who work to stop it is not a productive solution.
I apologize for the length of this response/rant/whatever, and also apologize in principle for responding to a personal flame at all, but since Mr. Molina chose to threaten my livelyhood, I chose to respond rather that sit silently. I earnestly with Mr. Molina luck finding employment, his resume is fairly impressive, and with any luck he will nab an acceptable job soon.
As a network engineer of a DSL and T1 only ISP (we have dialup but only for traveling DSL/T1 customers) I can let you know that this will probably stop oodles of spam.
The latest spammer tactic is not to seek out open relays, but open windows proxies, and from there they can initial outbound SMTP connections to legit SMTP servers and send spam.
Already a large number of dialup providers will only allow you to send through their mail server, and a larger number of ISPs user the DUN RBL to block email directly from dialup pools.
This is just more of the same. Your ISP should provide you with SMTP service, use them as a smart host even if you're running your own SMTP server, so it'll offload the requeing/etc from your box to theirs.
DSL and Cable are the new dialup, and should be treated as such, a place where the majority of the customers are clueless idiots who ruin the party for the smart people.
Several ISPs are starting to scan mail servers sending them mail for open proxy/open relay before accepting the mails, expect to see this practive and AOL's solution spread to most ISPs in the near future.
If you want to run a real mail server, perhaps you should get a real internet conenction, like Colocation or T1.
Imagine a cinema screen done with OLED, no need for digital projection, it's be a digital screen.
Interesting how folks cheer when MSN messenger service is banned from AIM, but bitch just a loudly when Jabber is cut off.
If AOL is only cutting off servers that connect to their network, they are being consistant.
Their beef with MSN Messenger (and I'm assuming now with jabber) is that the servers have access to the passwords being sent through them, which is a security risk.
I'm not defending them, nor agreeing with them, but I can see their point.
They've never given me any grief with clients that connect directly to the AIM servers.
Precision Insight, the same folks behind the 3dfx, Matrox, i810, and Rage128 drivers are doing Radeon drivers.
According to messages on the DRI-DEVEL list, ATI contracted them to write the drivers, like they did for the rage 128 drivers.
The ATI website does not reflect this information.
JVC Has had a D-VHS deck out forever, and my local tower even carries the 5-hour tapes for it.
:)
JVC's was integrated into an MPEG2 sat. reciever, which was the only way to get an MPEG2 signal at the time
it's quite a cool unit.
www.dishnetwork.com has info.
-Scott
It's in the XSVGA.tgz package.
:) Can't display fonts on my Rage128 RF based card. Just displays crap that looks like bar codes unless I disable acceleration. :)
Says it's accelerated
I'll be submitting a bug. Even with the funky fonts, it's much faster than the Suse (or at least it feels that way