I don't know about everyone else, but everytime I do a major hardware upgrade, I find that it's a very good time to do a fresh install of any operating systems I'm using at the time. As long as you meticulously back up anything that's important (game saves, important projects, contents of your home dir, etc.) you should be fine. It'll clean out all of those programs that you downloaded, installed, used only once, and then immediately forgot about, cluttering up your hard drive.
The only thing that jumps immediately to mind is the heat issue. I know even some of the old 133 MHz machines could get extremely hot after a few hours' work. With adequate cooling, that shouldn't be a problem, though.
One of the problems I see is that a lot of the users who download and run Open Source software have no desire to learn to program and couldn't contribute to the security even if they wanted to. Just because a piece of software is downloaded 1,000 times, doesn't mean that it's been downloaded by 1,000 programmers who have a could understand the source.
Check out the virus warning I recently came across:
Pay close attention to this warning!
If you receive an email entitled "Bad-times," delete it immediately. Do not open it. Apparently this one is pretty nasty. It will not only erase everything on your hard drive, but it will also delete anything on disks within 20 feet of your computer through the use of subspace field harmonics. It demagnetizes the stripes on ALL of your credit cards. It reprograms your ATM access code, screws up the tracking on your VCR and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you attempt to play. It will program your phone auto dial to call only your mother-in-law's number. This virus will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will drink all your beer. (For God's sake man are you listening?) It will leave dirty socks on the coffee table when you are expecting company. It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all the while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card. It will cause you to run with scissors and throw things in a way that is only fun until someone loses an eye. It will rewrite your backup files, changing all your active verbs to passive tense and incorporating undetectable misspellings, which grossly change the interpretations of key sentences. If the "Bad-times" message is opened in a Windows95/98 environment, it will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hair dryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will not only remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows; it will also refill your skim milk with whole milk.
Wouldn't it be sad if this virus got forwarded to some spam-list 'maintainer' who is dopey enough to keep all of his 'contacts' in MS Outlook? Come to think of it... about 80% of the mail I get is spam. I wonder why I haven't gotten one of these virii yet...
Atleast now there are finally some commercial games being released for Linux... I know that's what is keeping a lot of people from making the transition from Windows.
Hrm. I don't think this is a violatoin unless you don't own the games that you are downloading the songs from. I personally have made several CD's full of music from games that I own, and I 'll be in trouble if that's true.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned http://www.literature.org. They have quite a few of the 'classics' on line. It seems to bea slightly different selection of authors than other sites out there.
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Yes, I know this was posted last year, but there is another hunt for the Lady in Gray in Evansville, IN. They even have streaming video!
I don't know about everyone else, but everytime I do a major hardware upgrade, I find that it's a very good time to do a fresh install of any operating systems I'm using at the time. As long as you meticulously back up anything that's important (game saves, important projects, contents of your home dir, etc.) you should be fine. It'll clean out all of those programs that you downloaded, installed, used only once, and then immediately forgot about, cluttering up your hard drive.
Why do we get instructions on how to do it?
I am hereby calling upon all Linux geeks to band together and produce their own Open-Source version of Damascus Steel
...but I don't even know where to get a Damascus Steel compiler...
in joining my RC-5 cracking team...
So what about us PC-gamers? I'm still waiting for FF9 to be released for my PC. Or did FF8 kill off the FFPC game market?
Easy. Apt wasn't listed as a nominee.
prompt $d$t$p$g
The only thing that jumps immediately to mind is the heat issue. I know even some of the old 133 MHz machines could get extremely hot after a few hours' work. With adequate cooling, that shouldn't be a problem, though.
And I had them both before all this DMCA business.
How cool would it be to ping your laundry?
A T-1000 mouse.
On the label of almost everything I buy, the source code is right there on the package.
Now all I need is a compiler and I'll be all set.
One of the problems I see is that a lot of the users who download and run Open Source software have no desire to learn to program and couldn't contribute to the security even if they wanted to. Just because a piece of software is downloaded 1,000 times, doesn't mean that it's been downloaded by 1,000 programmers who have a could understand the source.
Check out the virus warning I recently came across:
Pay close attention to this warning!
If you receive an email entitled "Bad-times," delete it immediately. Do
not open it. Apparently this one is pretty nasty. It will not only erase
everything on your hard drive, but it will also delete anything on disks
within 20 feet of your computer through the use of subspace field
harmonics. It demagnetizes the stripes on ALL of your credit cards. It
reprograms your ATM access code, screws up the tracking on your VCR and
uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you attempt to play. It
will program your phone auto dial to call only your mother-in-law's
number. This virus will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will drink
all your beer. (For God's sake man are you listening?) It will leave
dirty socks on the coffee table when you are expecting company. It will
replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all the while
dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing their
hotel rendezvous to your Visa card. It will cause you to run with
scissors and throw things in a way that is only fun until someone loses an
eye. It will rewrite your backup files, changing all your active verbs to
passive tense and incorporating undetectable misspellings, which grossly
change the interpretations of key sentences. If the "Bad-times" message
is opened in a Windows95/98 environment, it will leave the toilet seat up
and leave your hair dryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub.
It will not only remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and
pillows; it will also refill your skim milk with whole milk.
*********WARN AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN.*********
Hope I don't get that one.
Wouldn't it be sad if this virus got forwarded to some spam-list 'maintainer' who is dopey enough to keep all of his 'contacts' in MS Outlook? Come to think of it... about 80% of the mail I get is spam. I wonder why I haven't gotten one of these virii yet...
Atleast now there are finally some commercial games being released for Linux... I know that's what is keeping a lot of people from making the transition from Windows.
So, in a nutshell:
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means nothing?
Or am I missing something?
Hrm. I don't think this is a violatoin unless you don't own the games that you are downloading the songs from. I personally have made several CD's full of music from games that I own, and I 'll be in trouble if that's true.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned http://www.literature.org. They have quite a few of the 'classics' on line. It seems to bea slightly different selection of authors than other sites out there.
I guess I'll have to take your word for it... The traffic is so thick, I'm lucky that I can even read Slashdot.