I'm confused though....couldn't this have been prevented with a virus scan after they were down torrenting or downloading it? Do they even make an antivirus that can run on a mac?
And FYI, a cheap 16port hub is 30$ online, and almost everyone and their grandmother has a WRT54G sitting in their closet somewhere....they're like cockroaches. And if not, just grab one from ebay for 10$. Then get the tech guys to grab a 1000ft box of ethernet and a box of caps, and have a crimping party:)
Two guys were downloading every linux iso known to mankind, six people were gaming on the 3x xbox 360 we had, and two of us played alot of counterstrike. The rest just either wanted wireless or their roommates forced them into it.
I would torrent anime occasionally, and NO, unless my internet connection cost about 100$ a month it would not make up for it. 120$ box sets with 26 episodes in them suck for fans of a show.
See, we just set up a router in our room with the correct settings, then when one port hit its limit, we switched to another port. 3 ports per room, and 3 rooms jumped on this bandwagon. The downloaders could download, the laptops users could sit anywhere, and nobody could bitch.
You shoulda seen how we wired it though....each wall jack had a cable run to a 16 port hub, then the hub ran to a linksys router running dd-wrt with a few scripts to auto-switch the port it was using once a bandwidth limit was approaching. Was genius. We coulda sold them for cash on ebay.
I live directly on a main road near pittsburgh international airport, so its hard to say. My house is tucked in 1/2 mile off of the road, so maybe they said "oh, he lives right on the main road where the fiber is...it won't cost much to get him as a customer", but when the installers came to lay the cable they didn't second guess their install orders.
They loved our install too, as we have a conduit from the pole to our house. Even got a fios t-shirt:)
Verizon ran it for free to my house, almost a half mile from the main road. Are you saying that it cost them 30,000$ to do that? I mean, we were one of the very first to have fios (at all) in the pittsburgh area.
I guess they strategized and said "oh man he torrents 2TB per month, so when we move to a usage-based model we'll pay it back in a year".
The slashdot mods lull you into a sense of trust with +3 Funny, then round two comes around and they mod you Offtopic instead. Creativity is squashed! I'm blaming Obama!
They were losing less, because that was a good 4-5 years ago when they started picking up with the DMCA requests more....back when TVLinks was still in play. There were far less videos on it back then, and video cameras weren't as cheap as they are today.
The times, they are a changin.
If they would finish deleting all of the old copywrited episodes and the accounts associted with them, then they would save alot in storage. Back when they handled multi-part copywrited episodes, they would just delete one of the parts to make all of them useless. If you search for Dragonball Z, you'll find part 1 and part 3, or part 1 and part 2....it's always missing a part.
I was maintaining code in perl on a 12" laptop (before netbooks...some ultra-portable IBM my company probably stole). Better yet, the client was a porn company, and I was working on their server and website remotely. But because they didn't trust me, I had to either be in the break room working on the code or at one of the video shoots.
They considered firing me after 2 weeks, but instead bought me blinders and earplugs.
You only activate it once, and it merely lets MS know that your copy is legit. If it were a monthly occurence then I might agree with you, but the sad fact is that most people would rather not pay for this OS.
But I do completely agree with you when it comes to upgrading. There really is no good reason to upgrade. It will be forced on the manufacturers for better or worse, and it might become one of those "why can't i open.docx files" situations when people were mad at Office 2007.
As of right now, I buy all of my personal-use OSs legitimately. For W7, I will be trying to upgrade from a student version of Vista Ultimate for 50$ to Windows 7 Ultimate. It was announced that this should work, and I think the new OS is worth the 50$ upgrade.
You are definitely trolling, and trying to connect 7 and Vista....making them appear to be the same thing....is the most senseless mistake I've ever seen.
Get two modern, identical, single-core systems with 1GB of ram and a video card released in the last two years, and install 7 and Vista on both of them. Then tell me which one is more useable and fun.
I ran Vista SP1 and the early W7 beta on a 2.2ghz AMD with 1GB of ram and a 8600GTS, and the difference was night and day. Windows 7 is a sexy XP with nicer tray integration and overall speed. After I uninstalled IE8, it was very nice. I'd say its what Vista should have been.
I used it on windows for almost 2 years before I discovered uTorrent.
Its small, but I'd rather use a command-line based program than bittornado ever again. And why not rtorrent or utorrent? They're both well-developed and work flawlessly...
MPC-HC is very good, and using ZoomPlayer's codec downloader makes it damn near invincible. It auto-configures the codecs, and if you run it again a month or so later, it updates them for you too. It seems to download only the newest version of open source codecs straight from sourceforge. If you wanna use 7zip to extract the codec downloading app out of zoom player's installer you can do that, or you can just use this version here: http://www.box.net/shared/rljvutz9nq
The only thing it doesn't have is quicktime, and downloading quicktime alternative takes care of that.
I really enjoy the codec auto-configure...saves me alot of time getting any sort of media to play on anyone's computer.
I wasn't saying that.NET was good. I was saying that its popular even though other choices are available, so its futile for bitching about it.
Vista is definitely a resource hog cause it didn't have its memory usage with 1GB of ram optimized like how windows 7 does. thats the one very large performance difference that will allow it to be thrown on netbooks and other nonsense and have people happy again.
Zune didn't have just one color, ya know? Only one type of Zune bricked also. I have a 1st gen shuffle I got for free, a sansa clip i won in a contest and a few creative products. I hardly use any of them.
Silverlight's purpose is to have a proprietary video format that can be streamed and not downloaded/saved. Thats it. You can save and convert flash, and every damn person on slashdot knows that silverlight's purpose isn't to be a flash clone except for you.
Its funny the assumptions you make. I'm a java developer for a non-profit running a simple ubuntu server for 30 people running windows boxes. I don't own a zune, and I use firefox.
Windows 7 is alot better than Vista. Alot. Its on my tabletpc right now and its so damn sweet.
You can go fuck microsoft all you want, but I'm currently taken. The mods might like some though;)
1..NET is used by alot of windows developers, and bitching about why they use it and trying to blame MS for developers using.NET instead of java is senseless.
2. Vista was nearly a complete rewrite of the OS, and the 3 apps rule is for W7's starter edition, which anybody with any sense will not buy. Get your facts straight.
3. Zune huh....you probably said "hahahahahahahah" cause you failed at pointing out something bad about it. Sure it was a failure, but so are most products. Atleast they gave the portable media market a shot.
4. MS said that they expected the open source community to make their own version of Silverlight, and they did a few months later...called Moonlight. And its certainly not a replacement for Flash.
bla bla bla IE sucks....yes we all know. Troll, go lurk moar.
What I'm saying is why can't someone make a script or app to do that for me? I'm not lazy, but if Linux ever wants to get new blood they're gonna have to make it alot simpler.
Thank god someone said it. Ya know, HALF of the posts on here so far are "I wont trust MS" or some other closed-mind bullshit from Linux fanbois who MUST have it compatible with the GPL otherwise they piss their pants.
If you take a step back and look at it, it is an amazing licence coming from Microsoft to use on something like this. The only issue the GPL has with it is its slight copyleft policies...go read the copyleft wiki to see if that's really a bad thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
That's what I was trying to communicate, but apparently I'm flamebait:(
That hurts, slashdot...:( I was expecting someone else to dig up old articles with the name Jon or Stewart in them and say "Silly noob, these articles are more than 1% of/."
Maybe yall are still venting after the internet sucking yesterday, but its no reason to take it out on me!
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I'm confused though....couldn't this have been prevented with a virus scan after they were down torrenting or downloading it? Do they even make an antivirus that can run on a mac?
And FYI, a cheap 16port hub is 30$ online, and almost everyone and their grandmother has a WRT54G sitting in their closet somewhere....they're like cockroaches. And if not, just grab one from ebay for 10$. Then get the tech guys to grab a 1000ft box of ethernet and a box of caps, and have a crimping party :)
Who said we were stealing shit?
Two guys were downloading every linux iso known to mankind, six people were gaming on the 3x xbox 360 we had, and two of us played alot of counterstrike. The rest just either wanted wireless or their roommates forced them into it.
I would torrent anime occasionally, and NO, unless my internet connection cost about 100$ a month it would not make up for it. 120$ box sets with 26 episodes in them suck for fans of a show.
See, we just set up a router in our room with the correct settings, then when one port hit its limit, we switched to another port. 3 ports per room, and 3 rooms jumped on this bandwagon. The downloaders could download, the laptops users could sit anywhere, and nobody could bitch.
You shoulda seen how we wired it though....each wall jack had a cable run to a 16 port hub, then the hub ran to a linksys router running dd-wrt with a few scripts to auto-switch the port it was using once a bandwidth limit was approaching. Was genius. We coulda sold them for cash on ebay.
The only thing that I know is that it's gonna somehow involve Locate32 http://www.locate32.net/
I live directly on a main road near pittsburgh international airport, so its hard to say. My house is tucked in 1/2 mile off of the road, so maybe they said "oh, he lives right on the main road where the fiber is...it won't cost much to get him as a customer", but when the installers came to lay the cable they didn't second guess their install orders.
They loved our install too, as we have a conduit from the pole to our house. Even got a fios t-shirt :)
Verizon ran it for free to my house, almost a half mile from the main road. Are you saying that it cost them 30,000$ to do that? I mean, we were one of the very first to have fios (at all) in the pittsburgh area.
I guess they strategized and said "oh man he torrents 2TB per month, so when we move to a usage-based model we'll pay it back in a year".
BE CAREFUL! It's a trap!
The slashdot mods lull you into a sense of trust with +3 Funny, then round two comes around and they mod you Offtopic instead. Creativity is squashed! I'm blaming Obama!
Racketeering Infants Assault Assholes?
Rabid Imbittered Alien Anarchists?
Ragamuffins Inebriated After Angioplasty?
Radishes Interrupt Angry Americans?
Yea, we could totally make this a contest.
Eh, the white text got me. I'd much rather use green or blue.
They were losing less, because that was a good 4-5 years ago when they started picking up with the DMCA requests more....back when TVLinks was still in play. There were far less videos on it back then, and video cameras weren't as cheap as they are today.
The times, they are a changin.
If they would finish deleting all of the old copywrited episodes and the accounts associted with them, then they would save alot in storage. Back when they handled multi-part copywrited episodes, they would just delete one of the parts to make all of them useless. If you search for Dragonball Z, you'll find part 1 and part 3, or part 1 and part 2....it's always missing a part.
Eh, I don't think that beats my experience.
I was maintaining code in perl on a 12" laptop (before netbooks...some ultra-portable IBM my company probably stole). Better yet, the client was a porn company, and I was working on their server and website remotely. But because they didn't trust me, I had to either be in the break room working on the code or at one of the video shoots.
They considered firing me after 2 weeks, but instead bought me blinders and earplugs.
I'm more worried about the tubes. I heard the internet was affected, but nobody seems to care about the tubes anymore.
You only activate it once, and it merely lets MS know that your copy is legit. If it were a monthly occurence then I might agree with you, but the sad fact is that most people would rather not pay for this OS.
But I do completely agree with you when it comes to upgrading. There really is no good reason to upgrade. It will be forced on the manufacturers for better or worse, and it might become one of those "why can't i open .docx files" situations when people were mad at Office 2007.
As of right now, I buy all of my personal-use OSs legitimately. For W7, I will be trying to upgrade from a student version of Vista Ultimate for 50$ to Windows 7 Ultimate. It was announced that this should work, and I think the new OS is worth the 50$ upgrade.
You are definitely trolling, and trying to connect 7 and Vista....making them appear to be the same thing....is the most senseless mistake I've ever seen.
Get two modern, identical, single-core systems with 1GB of ram and a video card released in the last two years, and install 7 and Vista on both of them. Then tell me which one is more useable and fun.
I ran Vista SP1 and the early W7 beta on a 2.2ghz AMD with 1GB of ram and a 8600GTS, and the difference was night and day. Windows 7 is a sexy XP with nicer tray integration and overall speed. After I uninstalled IE8, it was very nice. I'd say its what Vista should have been.
Go lurk moar.
I used it on windows for almost 2 years before I discovered uTorrent.
Its small, but I'd rather use a command-line based program than bittornado ever again. And why not rtorrent or utorrent? They're both well-developed and work flawlessly...
A snapshot of a cloud wouldn't do you much good, except for framing on your wall.
However, if you developed a cloud-making machine, you could have two clouds!
I love you :)
I've been waiting for a released recompiled x86 version for a while...
MPC-HC is very good, and using ZoomPlayer's codec downloader makes it damn near invincible. It auto-configures the codecs, and if you run it again a month or so later, it updates them for you too. It seems to download only the newest version of open source codecs straight from sourceforge. If you wanna use 7zip to extract the codec downloading app out of zoom player's installer you can do that, or you can just use this version here: http://www.box.net/shared/rljvutz9nq
The only thing it doesn't have is quicktime, and downloading quicktime alternative takes care of that.
I really enjoy the codec auto-configure...saves me alot of time getting any sort of media to play on anyone's computer.
I wasn't saying that .NET was good. I was saying that its popular even though other choices are available, so its futile for bitching about it.
Vista is definitely a resource hog cause it didn't have its memory usage with 1GB of ram optimized like how windows 7 does. thats the one very large performance difference that will allow it to be thrown on netbooks and other nonsense and have people happy again.
Zune didn't have just one color, ya know? Only one type of Zune bricked also. I have a 1st gen shuffle I got for free, a sansa clip i won in a contest and a few creative products. I hardly use any of them.
Silverlight's purpose is to have a proprietary video format that can be streamed and not downloaded/saved. Thats it. You can save and convert flash, and every damn person on slashdot knows that silverlight's purpose isn't to be a flash clone except for you.
Its funny the assumptions you make. I'm a java developer for a non-profit running a simple ubuntu server for 30 people running windows boxes. I don't own a zune, and I use firefox.
Windows 7 is alot better than Vista. Alot. Its on my tabletpc right now and its so damn sweet.
You can go fuck microsoft all you want, but I'm currently taken. The mods might like some though ;)
I'm not a microwhore, tyvm. But your points blow.
1. .NET is used by alot of windows developers, and bitching about why they use it and trying to blame MS for developers using .NET instead of java is senseless.
2. Vista was nearly a complete rewrite of the OS, and the 3 apps rule is for W7's starter edition, which anybody with any sense will not buy. Get your facts straight.
3. Zune huh....you probably said "hahahahahahahah" cause you failed at pointing out something bad about it. Sure it was a failure, but so are most products. Atleast they gave the portable media market a shot.
4. MS said that they expected the open source community to make their own version of Silverlight, and they did a few months later...called Moonlight. And its certainly not a replacement for Flash.
bla bla bla IE sucks....yes we all know. Troll, go lurk moar.
What I'm saying is why can't someone make a script or app to do that for me? I'm not lazy, but if Linux ever wants to get new blood they're gonna have to make it alot simpler.
Thank god someone said it. Ya know, HALF of the posts on here so far are "I wont trust MS" or some other closed-mind bullshit from Linux fanbois who MUST have it compatible with the GPL otherwise they piss their pants.
If you take a step back and look at it, it is an amazing licence coming from Microsoft to use on something like this. The only issue the GPL has with it is its slight copyleft policies...go read the copyleft wiki to see if that's really a bad thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
That's what I was trying to communicate, but apparently I'm flamebait :(
That hurts, slashdot...:( I was expecting someone else to dig up old articles with the name Jon or Stewart in them and say "Silly noob, these articles are more than 1% of /."
Maybe yall are still venting after the internet sucking yesterday, but its no reason to take it out on me!
*cries and runs away*
the question is: how many other topics can we find that are !jonstewart?
answer: 99% of them wooooooooooooo