... You have to busy wait meaning 100% CPU usage. [JS doesn't have a] built in sleep function that relinquishes control for so many milliseconds is something that's been a basic part of scripting languages for decades. HORRIBLE.
An IP address (dynamic) is randomly assigned to a user and then changed with little or no control from the user's end.... Everyone can't be issued a permanent address when they sign up for an ISP.
Hio. "Residential" Comcast Cable customer here. I had the same IPv4 address for three, four years.. then I moved across town, so yanno, new IP. I suppose that I *could* be assigned a new IP address at some point, but I can't see why on earth that would ever happen. If you have an Internet-facing address, and the device connected to the ISP's network is on 24/7, then -unless your ISP's network layout changes- you're going to get handed the same IP, renewal after renewal.
...games like Manhunt are explicitly designed around killing defenseless strangers.
Heh. You never actually *played* this game, did you? Manhunt is explicitly designed around killing armed strangers who are determined to metaphorically eat your eyeballs for breakfast. Perhaps you only saw a moment or two of the stealth portion of the gameplay?
Manhunt 1 is about the filming of a snuff movie. Noone you kill is innocent, they're all out to kill you, and most of them are the scum of the earth. Seriously, you should find a copy of the game and play half an hour of it.
No, the full version of Win95 was Win95. WinNT was an entirely different monster - it just looked kind of the same.
It was the business version that had domain support. Just like the more expensive versions of Vista are.
Hoooooooly shit. You are *so* wrong. Win NT and Win9x are *completely* separate codebases. The difference between the two isn't a "Windows Vista Home Basic vs. Windows Vista Home Mega-Ultra-Chicken" difference, it's a "Windows Vista Home Basic vs. Wine" sort of difference.
The simple fact is in the PC GTA 3 and VC the car is a fun way to spend a day. it takes very little time to get the hang of, and more importantly the longer you drive the better your control gets. In GTA:SA it is the opposite-However bad you are steering when you start is the best you are gonna get.
Are you *sure* that you're not mixing up SA and VC/3? SA has the whole "experience points" system where the more you drive the car, the better your in-game character gets at driving, and the better the car handles. By about the half-way point of the game, I could drive the car at least as well as I could in VC. (I assume that you never played in the Dirt Track? That was a *really* slippery course that required you to have almost maxed out driving skills to keep from sliding off the track and exploding your car.) I can see how this would make the game initially frustrating as fuck for someone who was just looking to play in a driving sandbox, but it was actually a neat mechanic, IMO.
I agree with your "Shitty Console Ports Are Shitty" sentiment (Deus Ex 2, anyone?). Your description of the GTA:SA port doesn't jive with my own experience. I found SA to be a much more enjoyable game than VC (Even if it was hella hard to get a tank to drive around in).
Do try to remember the unexpected pause for research of possible patent issues. One might wonder if MSFT made all of that noise about hitting Linux with their patent portfolio as an attempt to derail efforts like this.:)
I'mma stop you right there, cause I've played the SA *AND* VC ports.
which was inexcusable as GTA3 and GTA:VC had great controls!
Um. By "great controls" do you mean "aimed shots shoot 10 deg up and to the left of the on-screen reticle"? Other than this point, I can't remember a difference between SA's and VC's controls. Would you kindly refresh my memory?
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And under Linux, the administrator is free to modify the interpreters not to execute any scripts outside the approved locations.
As in, like, building a custom rev of a particular interpreter? I *really* see that happening in the wild world of corporate IT.:)
The page I linked sort of implies that the administrator of a Windows machine...
Remind me again about what that has to do with passing the noexec option to mount?
But more importantly, a video codec written in Python probably isn't going to decode very efficiently.
a) We're only interested in the "DEC" part of CODEC. I bet that a Python-based MPEG4 decoder would be *at least* as efficient as a Flash-based one. b) Have you forgotten about LISP, homeboy?
I have a Panasonic CF-30 with 4Gb of RAM installed that runs Gentoo Linux (2.6.29-tuxonice-r3 at the time of this writing). I don't notice any FFox slowdowns until I hit ~300 tabs. At ~500, I get a fair amount delayed input.
I run Gentoo linux, as much for the control-freak aspect as for the optimization aspect. One day a few years ago the maintainers, in their "infinite wisdom", decided to make IPV6 a default USE flag.
See, that's kinda funny. I've been a Gentoo Linux user since... 2001, 2002 or so. I set up my HE.net tunnel in August of 2008. Prior to that period I had no IPv6 connectivity. I have not run into the bug that you're describing.
...they sent out IPV6 DNS requests first, and waited for them to time out, before sending out IPV4 DNS requests.
Are you talking about the strict RFC3484 support that was added into Linux back in the early days of 2.6? That could explain the issues that you're reporting. Rest assured in the knowledge that glibc's handling of this has been much more sane for many years now.
a) IPV6 autoconfig allows you to optionally choose a random address within the subnet that you've been handed. Your address doesn't have to be hard-coded and can change periodically. b) You're looking for security and anonymity in the wrong place. IP wasn't designed to provide anonymity. You need to focus on protecting the contents of your transmissions and/or obfuscating the details of who you are talking to. Look towards using something like IPSec or Tor.
Security theater: A) Consumes resources better used elsewhere, like, say, real security. B) Can further reduce funding for real security by convincing less knowledgeable people that allocating resources to the smoke and mirror show actually *is* keeping them safer. They *feel* safe, so they don't see the need to spend more for something that actually *keeps* them safe.
Please don't go off on a tangent about the TSA or stuff like that. I'm addressing your challenge and nothing more.
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Oh, okay... So Java/ECMAScript *does* have a usleep(). Thanks! :)
... You have to busy wait meaning 100% CPU usage. [JS doesn't have a] built in sleep function that relinquishes control for so many milliseconds is something that's been a basic part of scripting languages for decades. HORRIBLE.
How does this work without eating my CPU?
http://htmlfive.appspot.com/static/gifter.html
Hint 0: Examine the bottom of gifter.js
Hint 1: It uses setInterval ( http://www.evolt.org/node/36035 )
Via: http://htmlfive.appspot.com/
Heck for that matter people did stupid things like setup 7 players vs 1 computer to boost their ratings.
I never understood why folks would setup and play such games until now. Thanks for the insight!
An IP address (dynamic) is randomly assigned to a user and then changed with little or no control from the user's end. ... Everyone can't be issued a permanent address when they sign up for an ISP.
Hio. "Residential" Comcast Cable customer here.
I had the same IPv4 address for three, four years.. then I moved across town, so yanno, new IP.
I suppose that I *could* be assigned a new IP address at some point, but I can't see why on earth that would ever happen. If you have an Internet-facing address, and the device connected to the ISP's network is on 24/7, then -unless your ISP's network layout changes- you're going to get handed the same IP, renewal after renewal.
Meanwhile I know hicks in Louisiana who can't even spell the word "fiber" who have it in their dirt-floored one-room shacks.
Fucking Verizon.
Blame the gubment for paying more money to companies who are willing to run new broadband service to areas that were previously under- or un-served. :/
...games like Manhunt are explicitly designed around killing defenseless strangers.
Heh. You never actually *played* this game, did you?
Manhunt is explicitly designed around killing armed strangers who are determined to metaphorically eat your eyeballs for breakfast. Perhaps you only saw a moment or two of the stealth portion of the gameplay?
Manhunt 1 is about the filming of a snuff movie. Noone you kill is innocent, they're all out to kill you, and most of them are the scum of the earth. Seriously, you should find a copy of the game and play half an hour of it.
IDK about Manhunt 2, I never played it.
Did you read what *I* replied to?
The poster that I replied to (genner) effectively said:
"WinNT is Win95 with Domain support"
The person that he was replying to (beav007) effectively said:
"Win95 and WinNT were entirely separate codebases."
beav007 was replying to a post by genner that literally said:
The full version of Windows 95 was Windows NT and it wasn't cheap.
[Emphasis mine]
Care to tell me how *you* interpreted the posts that *I* was replying to? (Hint: I wasn't addressing DJRumpy's point.) :)
No, the full version of Win95 was Win95. WinNT was an entirely different monster - it just looked kind of the same.
It was the business version that had domain support. Just like the more expensive versions of Vista are.
Hoooooooly shit. You are *so* wrong.
Win NT and Win9x are *completely* separate codebases. The difference between the two isn't a "Windows Vista Home Basic vs. Windows Vista Home Mega-Ultra-Chicken" difference, it's a "Windows Vista Home Basic vs. Wine" sort of difference.
The simple fact is in the PC GTA 3 and VC the car is a fun way to spend a day. it takes very little time to get the hang of, and more importantly the longer you drive the better your control gets. In GTA:SA it is the opposite-However bad you are steering when you start is the best you are gonna get.
Are you *sure* that you're not mixing up SA and VC/3? SA has the whole "experience points" system where the more you drive the car, the better your in-game character gets at driving, and the better the car handles. By about the half-way point of the game, I could drive the car at least as well as I could in VC. (I assume that you never played in the Dirt Track? That was a *really* slippery course that required you to have almost maxed out driving skills to keep from sliding off the track and exploding your car.)
I can see how this would make the game initially frustrating as fuck for someone who was just looking to play in a driving sandbox, but it was actually a neat mechanic, IMO.
I agree with your "Shitty Console Ports Are Shitty" sentiment (Deus Ex 2, anyone?). Your description of the GTA:SA port doesn't jive with my own experience. I found SA to be a much more enjoyable game than VC (Even if it was hella hard to get a tank to drive around in).
Do try to remember the unexpected pause for research of possible patent issues. One might wonder if MSFT made all of that noise about hitting Linux with their patent portfolio as an attempt to derail efforts like this. :)
Remind me again why this effort is not being put into Amarok 2?
hell even GTA:SA...
I'mma stop you right there, cause I've played the SA *AND* VC ports.
which was inexcusable as GTA3 and GTA:VC had great controls!
Um. By "great controls" do you mean "aimed shots shoot 10 deg up and to the left of the on-screen reticle"? Other than this point, I can't remember a difference between SA's and VC's controls. Would you kindly refresh my memory?
And under Linux, the administrator is free to modify the interpreters not to execute any scripts outside the approved locations.
As in, like, building a custom rev of a particular interpreter? I *really* see that happening in the wild world of corporate IT. :)
The page I linked sort of implies that the administrator of a Windows machine...
Remind me again about what that has to do with passing the noexec option to mount?
But more importantly, a video codec written in Python probably isn't going to decode very efficiently.
a) We're only interested in the "DEC" part of CODEC. I bet that a Python-based MPEG4 decoder would be *at least* as efficient as a Flash-based one.
b) Have you forgotten about LISP, homeboy?
noexec doesn't prevent me from writing scripts and executing them. (Unless the interpreter lives on a noexec partition.)
When I get my Windows box back online, I'll be sure to play with that SRP stuff.
Strange. My copy of Ffox sits at ~1.25GB virtual for 400->500 tabs.
I'm running on an x86 machine, FWIW.
Heh.
I have a Panasonic CF-30 with 4Gb of RAM installed that runs Gentoo Linux (2.6.29-tuxonice-r3 at the time of this writing).
I don't notice any FFox slowdowns until I hit ~300 tabs. At ~500, I get a fair amount delayed input.
And a lot of people use a PC where they don't have administrative rights to install an HTML 5 viewer.
Download and unpack this:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/smplayer/smplayer-portable-0.6.7.7z
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Problem solved. :)
I run Gentoo linux, as much for the control-freak aspect as for the optimization aspect. One day a few years ago the maintainers, in their "infinite wisdom", decided to make IPV6 a default USE flag.
See, that's kinda funny. I've been a Gentoo Linux user since... 2001, 2002 or so. I set up my HE.net tunnel in August of 2008. Prior to that period I had no IPv6 connectivity.
I have not run into the bug that you're describing.
...they sent out IPV6 DNS requests first, and waited for them to time out, before sending out IPV4 DNS requests.
Are you talking about the strict RFC3484 support that was added into Linux back in the early days of 2.6? That could explain the issues that you're reporting. Rest assured in the knowledge that glibc's handling of this has been much more sane for many years now.
a) IPV6 autoconfig allows you to optionally choose a random address within the subnet that you've been handed. Your address doesn't have to be hard-coded and can change periodically.
b) You're looking for security and anonymity in the wrong place. IP wasn't designed to provide anonymity. You need to focus on protecting the contents of your transmissions and/or obfuscating the details of who you are talking to. Look towards using something like IPSec or Tor.
What's wrong with just a /64?
(Quick! What's your Ethernet MAC? You don't know, more than likely, and it doesn't matter at all. That's how IP should be as well.)
Today finds me without mod points. It is truely a sad day. :(
Explain to me again the risk inherent in exposing a strictly key-based-auth SSH daemon to the Greater Internet?
I haven't built KDev4 in a month or so. Have they added even rudimentary GDB integration yet?
Security theater:
A) Consumes resources better used elsewhere, like, say, real security.
B) Can further reduce funding for real security by convincing less knowledgeable people that allocating resources to the smoke and mirror show actually *is* keeping them safer. They *feel* safe, so they don't see the need to spend more for something that actually *keeps* them safe.
Please don't go off on a tangent about the TSA or stuff like that. I'm addressing your challenge and nothing more.