Stop wishing and load up your favorite IRC client. For many months TV show trading channels have been the fastest growing thing on IRC. And yes, the distributors will very often use FTP.
The only weird part is that it takes longer to turn off my system than it does to turn it on. I think it's because of the nVidia drivers I have installed, but I can't confirm that.
You're absolutely correct. The best fix for this is to go into your services menu, and disable "Nvidia driver help".
I dont know exactly what it does, but i'm a gamer, and it being off has not effected me, and it gets rid of those 2+ minute shut down times. In fact, once that was gone, my computer is now shutting down faster than it boots up, as it should.
BTW i didn't discover this on my own, it was on an XP tweaking page, i dont remember where.
Honestly, nor would I. I dont want my air condioner to miss me, or for my clock radio to resent me. The day my fridge develops a crush on me... well, never mind.
I simply thought that it wasn't Only a weird Japanese idea of people getting into intelligent toys/appliances. I think a lot of us are pretty emotionally empty right now.
Oft times, a question is judgement enough. If you ask "Are these people actually that emotionally deprived" a lot of people will argue that you are calling them that, even if it can be hidden behind the guise of a question.
I'm not sure about them All being horrible failures out of asia, i know tamigatchi (sp) Had a huge following among North American children a coule years back, to a point where they were banned from Many public schools in the USA and Canada.
Since when did slashdot become so full of rednecks and intolerance that a comment like This could be modded up??
As humans, we are always exploring our boundries, be ith physical, or emotional/psychological. Its not that the Japanese are emotionally deficient, they are simply exploring further. For a Long time it has been a quest by some humans to Create Life. Talk to an AI coder, ask him/her about their intentions for trying to create artificial life or artificial intelligence. I assure you they will probably Not be an emotionally deficiant hust of a human being, but i vibrant exciting human being.
Someone please mod the parent down to -1 (score -1, Racist Troll) Where it belongs.
I've been dissapointed by Loki once recently.
I was thinking of moving from windows to linux on my home gaming system, figured i'd be able to play tribes 2 in linux, since i had heard it was done. I didn't realize the windows cd isn't patchable (like q3a is). To make things worse, Loki only sells complete CDs, not patches. And after spending 70$ on the win version, i figured i may as well say in win than move to linux and pay it again. If he had, for example, been selling a 15 dollar patch, i may have migrated.
Ideally, i'd like game companies to follow id softwares q3a style and make everything cross platform.
Its aimed to the great ignorant masses. It hooks in to netscape.com and all of the portal madness that entails. Its fluffier than mozilla, and unlike mozilla, it won't expire in 30 days, asking for you to download the newest nightly. Yes, i know, it IS mozilla, but its mozilla with a AOL facelift.
You or i will use mozilla, and will probably get violent if someone tried to force us to use netscape ( i went from 4.x to mozilla about 3 months ago in linux and windows), but there are a lot of simpletons who like a browser they can understand.
BTW did you see the advertisment? "Less confusing! Less buttons!"
Its comments like that that hinder the growth of the linux community. Joe newbie finally gets on to an IRC linux help channel, asks about something he thinks is redhat related. He gets replies of "lamer, rtfm, redhat is gay." or, more in line with Taco's "Redhat, um, no comment, Redhat *snicker*"
The newbie feels dejected, sees the community as a bunch of arrogant geeks (i guess we mainly are?) and goes back to windows where Everyone is willing to help him.
While it seems most of the linux community is realizing this, and is starting to work together to make linux a more newbie friendly place, less distro fanaticism and more helping hands, its quite suprising to see/. post something so utterly condescending on what is probably the most popular linux distro for newbies, and The Best Known linux outside of the linux community.
When someone does something for free, there is a passion there. They have something to say and they want you to hear it, and understand it. "Hey people should know about this, this is stuff that matters"
Beyond this, Sometimes the things we should know aren't the things that make us exactly comfortable. If a journalist is thinking about what kind of audience, and therefore profit, he will be making off of an article, he may be tempted to paint the article in a certain way, or better yet, white a completely different article, possibly following some trend he's sure is a "big seller' right now.
Right when profit comes in to play, freedom of opinion has the potential to be comprimised. Aside from that, it Just Feels Wrong. We didn't see hippies in the 60s demanding pay for their sit-ins and marches, and i feel that a lot of the journalism i read today to be just as socially important.
If any of my news sources start demanding money, i will simply go elsewhere, to a newer site, a younger one, that still has the idealistic passion of "Hey people should know this!"
Its true that OBSD Doesn't have SMP, but FreeBSD Does. Now i have never had a chance to play around with FreeBSD SMP, but I have heard Good Things. Not much help, but i figured the answer to "do any of the BSD's Especially freeBSD have SMP" being answered with a "no OpenBSD doesn't have SMP" Was Way misleading, and shouldn't have been modded so high, so i threw in my 2 cents.
Yeah, i dont think anyone here is saying that questioning authority is a bad thing, but Think about this one for a second. Some things are there for a Damn good reason.
Lets say you want to go to the store to buy some RAM. You pull the address out of your yellow pages, and the shop you want to go to is at 123 pine street.
Now you're looking at your map, and you dont see 123 pine street on it, in fact, you don'y even see a pine street.
Now the other guys that name streets and draw maps, who live on the other side of town, they name things a bit differently. The street you live on, 15th Ave, to these other guys, is named 'Oak Drv'.(i guess they have something for trees). Now you didn't know the other name for your street, and you have No idea that pine street is Really 125th St. And you can't go buy your ram, and thats a shame, since more ram is always a good thing.
My point is, we Need Order. We're dealing with computers here. If 5 = 5 only half the time and the other times it can equal 3 or 9, things fall apart.
What was tested here isn't what latency people can really feel but what reported time causes them to look for another server.
Yeah i dig that. But watch people in games, the hardcore gamers have their set ping ranges. You see some guy on a 45ms dls feed that aways goes to the same servers, he'll complain, and possibly suck, if he hits a 70ms server. And he'll log off and hunt for a better serv.
Now weirder yet, people find confort zones. I've known people that are used to a steady 8- ping, that don't like competing on servers where they will get a much lower, better ping, simply becasue it will 'throw them off'.
I agree though, people are conditioned to accept certain hard lines between a good ping and bad, or a good and ad anything taking it further, and its often not the case.
I figure a lot of it has to do with a) what we are used to. And b) how fast we are as people.
If you play at a lan party all weekend, and go home to your 80 ping, you swear you're playing in mud. Your rails are off, everything feels Wonky.
And yet you may, if you're like me, remember a time where you were Completely comfortable living inside of a 250 ping. 'Getting inside of your lag' we'd say. And after 6 or 8 hours playing quake at 250 ping, eveything in real life seemed a little off, like it would be ok if you could adjust the latency a little:)
The other thing is, some people are just slower than others. If you're kinda slow, then you might not notice the difference between 150 and 200ms, simply becasue your body doesn't work like that. On the other hand, i know some squirril-people that may be able to detect network latency differences within a few ms no problem.
So i dunno. I guess the article is talking about a law of averages, but i think there is a lot more to consider.
I never did want to touch those things. We make so sure that noone sees when we type in our passwords, sometimes even disguising the way we type, faking hitting certain keys etc, i've seen some Very paranoid people. I'm sure they'll not be happy to know they've been shouting their passwords and credit card numbers across the room for anyone to tune in on.
Sounds like its a whole lot easier than installing a key grabber on a users computer, some quiet geek sitting in the cublicle in the corner could be listneing to it all. fun.
Argh. 'put a bunch IBM Z series boxes straight to the satellites'
That kind of quote really works me up. Ok, so they take a a performance hit checking accurancy, what makes this any different from Anything Else We Do With Computers?? Most things use error checking in some form or another. Yeah i know thats on a smaller scale, but still.
Plus this isn't 'throw up a few boxen to check the data off the sattelites, problem solved' Pick up a Guiness Gook of World Records, this years edition. Take a look for worlds most powerful supercomputer. Know what it is? Seti@Home. And last time i checked, the gov't isn't really throwing seti Huge dumps of cash, so re-building the worlds most powerful supercomputer isn't really an option for them. And since they Still want more users, more cycles, i'd say downsizing their system in favour of a more secure, local computer cluster, is out of the question.
So maybe we'll just chalk it up to the 'not too familiar with SETI' thing and move on.
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Is this an exploit? Is ths ANY different that booting linux from lilo as "linux 1" when you lose your root password (?!?!), of from BSD, typing "boot: s"
Both dump you into single user mode, with no password, giving you full root access.
so i doubt if this was implimented by Apple tech support, unless they've been working on *NIX systems for a looong time before their new jobs at Apple.
I'm not sure why i'm downloading this. I'm happy with openBSD, and dont play on compiling a linux kernal today... but the speed is nice, especially considering its being hit by/. community.
Hmm, thats some pretty flawed logic there. The finger painting i did when i was 3 years old was better than anything da vinci ever did, because hes dead?
i know many people, including myself, who still play dreamcast very regularily, and who have played with ps2 and quickly become bored of it.
Dead? Feh. There are versions of linux being written for it, and if i remember correctly, you can install the latest version of netbsd on it with no problems. Myself, i get a big thrill off of the idea that i can admin my *nix network from my gaming console, without leaving the couch =)
Oh no, i just thought of something! I stopped growing at around age 22. Does that mean i'm dead??? uh oh.
yeah a few scripts would be nice. For us it involved writing a few scripts, and pulling a lot of our hair out in the process. a few nights of leaving the office at dawn to return at 9 am... but it got done.. I'm sure someone with more experience could do it pretty easily.
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How long until someone says something like
"Oh my god they hacked The Gibson!"
Hmmm.
I have last years model of the Emmerson Research MP3/CD player.
As far as i know, there is no protection on it whatseover.
Stop wishing and load up your favorite IRC client. For many months TV show trading channels have been the fastest growing thing on IRC. And yes, the distributors will very often use FTP.
Your wish is granted.
The only weird part is that it takes longer to turn off my system than it does to turn it on. I think it's because of the nVidia drivers I have installed, but I can't confirm that.
You're absolutely correct. The best fix for this is to go into your services menu, and disable "Nvidia driver help".
I dont know exactly what it does, but i'm a gamer, and it being off has not effected me, and it gets rid of those 2+ minute shut down times. In fact, once that was gone, my computer is now shutting down faster than it boots up, as it should.
BTW i didn't discover this on my own, it was on an XP tweaking page, i dont remember where.
Honestly, nor would I. I dont want my air condioner to miss me, or for my clock radio to resent me. The day my fridge develops a crush on me... well, never mind.
I simply thought that it wasn't Only a weird Japanese idea of people getting into intelligent toys/appliances. I think a lot of us are pretty emotionally empty right now.
Oft times, a question is judgement enough. If you ask "Are these people actually that emotionally deprived" a lot of people will argue that you are calling them that, even if it can be hidden behind the guise of a question.
I'm not sure about them All being horrible failures out of asia, i know tamigatchi (sp) Had a huge following among North American children a coule years back, to a point where they were banned from Many public schools in the USA and Canada.
Since when did slashdot become so full of rednecks and intolerance that a comment like This could be modded up??
As humans, we are always exploring our boundries, be ith physical, or emotional/psychological. Its not that the Japanese are emotionally deficient, they are simply exploring further. For a Long time it has been a quest by some humans to Create Life. Talk to an AI coder, ask him/her about their intentions for trying to create artificial life or artificial intelligence. I assure you they will probably Not be an emotionally deficiant hust of a human being, but i vibrant exciting human being.
Someone please mod the parent down to -1 (score -1, Racist Troll) Where it belongs.
I've been dissapointed by Loki once recently. I was thinking of moving from windows to linux on my home gaming system, figured i'd be able to play tribes 2 in linux, since i had heard it was done. I didn't realize the windows cd isn't patchable (like q3a is). To make things worse, Loki only sells complete CDs, not patches. And after spending 70$ on the win version, i figured i may as well say in win than move to linux and pay it again. If he had, for example, been selling a 15 dollar patch, i may have migrated.
Ideally, i'd like game companies to follow id softwares q3a style and make everything cross platform.
Yeah but what are the chances your kid is going to be immortal? Slim to none i'd say :)
Agreed!
Now when you open a game box you think yourself lucky just to find a Playable Game inside of it!
Max Payne was an exception though. it came with a cool mousepad. Gameplay was great too.
Its aimed to the great ignorant masses. It hooks in to netscape.com and all of the portal madness that entails.
Its fluffier than mozilla, and unlike mozilla, it won't expire in 30 days, asking for you to download the newest nightly. Yes, i know, it IS mozilla, but its mozilla with a AOL facelift.
You or i will use mozilla, and will probably get violent if someone tried to force us to use netscape ( i went from 4.x to mozilla about 3 months ago in linux and windows), but there are a lot of simpletons who like a browser they can understand.
BTW did you see the advertisment? "Less confusing! Less buttons!"
I think that sums it up.
ha. obvisouly you missed the humour. lossy / lousy lossy / lousy. look look look :)
i know, a horrible joke. but a joke, nonetheless.
Why the hell would i want a lousy compression format?
Plus if its so lousy it compresses to 0, it means its not there anymore, right?
Its comments like that that hinder the growth of the linux community. Joe newbie finally gets on to an IRC linux help channel, asks about something he thinks is redhat related. He gets replies of "lamer, rtfm, redhat is gay." or, more in line with Taco's "Redhat, um, no comment, Redhat *snicker*"
/. post something so utterly condescending on what is probably the most popular linux distro for newbies, and The Best Known linux outside of the linux community.
The newbie feels dejected, sees the community as a bunch of arrogant geeks (i guess we mainly are?) and goes back to windows where Everyone is willing to help him.
While it seems most of the linux community is realizing this, and is starting to work together to make linux a more newbie friendly place, less distro fanaticism and more helping hands, its quite suprising to see
Here is my main problem with paying for content.
When someone does something for free, there is a passion there. They have something to say and they want you to hear it, and understand it. "Hey people should know about this, this is stuff that matters"
Beyond this, Sometimes the things we should know aren't the things that make us exactly comfortable. If a journalist is thinking about what kind of audience, and therefore profit, he will be making off of an article, he may be tempted to paint the article in a certain way, or better yet, white a completely different article, possibly following some trend he's sure is a "big seller' right now.
Right when profit comes in to play, freedom of opinion has the potential to be comprimised. Aside from that, it Just Feels Wrong. We didn't see hippies in the 60s demanding pay for their sit-ins and marches, and i feel that a lot of the journalism i read today to be just as socially important.
If any of my news sources start demanding money, i will simply go elsewhere, to a newer site, a younger one, that still has the idealistic passion of "Hey people should know this!"
Its true that OBSD Doesn't have SMP, but FreeBSD Does. Now i have never had a chance to play around with FreeBSD SMP, but I have heard Good Things. Not much help, but i figured the answer to "do any of the BSD's Especially freeBSD have SMP" being answered with a "no OpenBSD doesn't have SMP" Was Way misleading, and shouldn't have been modded so high, so i threw in my 2 cents.
Yeah, i dont think anyone here is saying that questioning authority is a bad thing, but Think about this one for a second. Some things are there for a Damn good reason.
Lets say you want to go to the store to buy some RAM. You pull the address out of your yellow pages, and the shop you want to go to is at 123 pine street.
Now you're looking at your map, and you dont see 123 pine street on it, in fact, you don'y even see a pine street.
Now the other guys that name streets and draw maps, who live on the other side of town, they name things a bit differently. The street you live on, 15th Ave, to these other guys, is named 'Oak Drv'.(i guess they have something for trees). Now you didn't know the other name for your street, and you have No idea that pine street is Really 125th St. And you can't go buy your ram, and thats a shame, since more ram is always a good thing.
My point is, we Need Order. We're dealing with computers here. If 5 = 5 only half the time and the other times it can equal 3 or 9, things fall apart.
What was tested here isn't what latency people can really feel but what reported time causes them to look for another server. Yeah i dig that. But watch people in games, the hardcore gamers have their set ping ranges. You see some guy on a 45ms dls feed that aways goes to the same servers, he'll complain, and possibly suck, if he hits a 70ms server. And he'll log off and hunt for a better serv.
Now weirder yet, people find confort zones. I've known people that are used to a steady 8- ping, that don't like competing on servers where they will get a much lower, better ping, simply becasue it will 'throw them off'.
I agree though, people are conditioned to accept certain hard lines between a good ping and bad, or a good and ad anything taking it further, and its often not the case.
I figure a lot of it has to do with a) what we are used to. And b) how fast we are as people.
:)
If you play at a lan party all weekend, and go home to your 80 ping, you swear you're playing in mud. Your rails are off, everything feels Wonky. And yet you may, if you're like me, remember a time where you were Completely comfortable living inside of a 250 ping. 'Getting inside of your lag' we'd say. And after 6 or 8 hours playing quake at 250 ping, eveything in real life seemed a little off, like it would be ok if you could adjust the latency a little
The other thing is, some people are just slower than others. If you're kinda slow, then you might not notice the difference between 150 and 200ms, simply becasue your body doesn't work like that. On the other hand, i know some squirril-people that may be able to detect network latency differences within a few ms no problem.
So i dunno. I guess the article is talking about a law of averages, but i think there is a lot more to consider.
I never did want to touch those things. We make so sure that noone sees when we type in our passwords, sometimes even disguising the way we type, faking hitting certain keys etc, i've seen some Very paranoid people. I'm sure they'll not be happy to know they've been shouting their passwords and credit card numbers across the room for anyone to tune in on.
Sounds like its a whole lot easier than installing a key grabber on a users computer, some quiet geek sitting in the cublicle in the corner could be listneing to it all. fun.
Argh.
'put a bunch IBM Z series boxes straight to the satellites'
That kind of quote really works me up. Ok, so they take a a performance hit checking accurancy, what makes this any different from Anything Else We Do With Computers?? Most things use error checking in some form or another. Yeah i know thats on a smaller scale, but still.
Plus this isn't 'throw up a few boxen to check the data off the sattelites, problem solved' Pick up a Guiness Gook of World Records, this years edition. Take a look for worlds most powerful supercomputer. Know what it is? Seti@Home. And last time i checked, the gov't isn't really throwing seti Huge dumps of cash, so re-building the worlds most powerful supercomputer isn't really an option for them. And since they Still want more users, more cycles, i'd say downsizing their system in favour of a more secure, local computer cluster, is out of the question.
So maybe we'll just chalk it up to the 'not too familiar with SETI' thing and move on.
Is this an exploit? Is ths ANY different that booting linux from lilo as "linux 1" when you lose your root password (?!?!), of from BSD, typing "boot: s"
Both dump you into single user mode, with no password, giving you full root access.
so i doubt if this was implimented by Apple tech support, unless they've been working on *NIX systems for a looong time before their new jobs at Apple.
I'm not sure why i'm downloading this. I'm happy with openBSD, and dont play on compiling a linux kernal today... but the speed is nice, especially considering its being hit by /. community.
So i guess i'm downloading it cuz i can?
Hmm, thats some pretty flawed logic there. The finger painting i did when i was 3 years old was better than anything da vinci ever did, because hes dead?
i know many people, including myself, who still play dreamcast very regularily, and who have played with ps2 and quickly become bored of it.
Dead? Feh. There are versions of linux being written for it, and if i remember correctly, you can install the latest version of netbsd on it with no problems. Myself, i get a big thrill off of the idea that i can admin my *nix network from my gaming console, without leaving the couch =)
Oh no, i just thought of something! I stopped growing at around age 22. Does that mean i'm dead??? uh oh.
yeah a few scripts would be nice. For us it involved writing a few scripts, and pulling a lot of our hair out in the process. a few nights of leaving the office at dawn to return at 9 am... but it got done.. I'm sure someone with more experience could do it pretty easily.