Troll much? If someone can figure out that they need SATA drivers (as opposed to calling their techie friend, or just disabling AHCI in the BIOS), they can probably figure out how to slipstream drivers in.
I would be, albeit subtly. I think this is a great test - making people wake up to their own stupidity is never a bad thing, and it's better to have them find out this way than have to help them out of the middle of a real credit card theft scenario.
Indeed. I stumbled on that article (and a couple others like it; I can't remember them off the top of my head) on Wikipedia the other day by fluke. Mind you, given the media's love of sensationalism, I guess focusing on peoples' being inconvenienced by this is viewed to be more worthwhile (read: profitable) than pointing out the sense behind the closure of the airways.
The WRT160NL was designed to be the direct successor to the WRT54GL. It doesn't seem to have taken off, though, and while it supports Wireless N, for whatever reason, it doesn't support Gigabit Ethernet.
I've started playing a lot of Valve games lately, and now find it hard to go back to some of the other FPSs I've played before. The Steam community feature actually has me enjoying the social interaction, rather than dreading nettards.
Indeed. TF2 is the only multiplayer game through which I've made online friends (or at least acquaintances). The combination of team-based gameplay and built-in voice chat (along with good server browser that makes coming back to the same server again and again easy) makes it highly conducive to that sort of thing in a way unlike no other game I've ever seen.
Yeah, all the games GOG has available for free have been released as freeware elsewhere too. As far as I'm concerned, the freebies function as demos of how GOG's purchasing and packaging systems work. Still, even that's good to have around, because people can clearly see how the whole thing works without having to shell out anything.
The problem with VirtualBox (or any other virtualization, for that matter) is that, if students' hardware is incapable of booting from a USB stick, it's probably old enough that smooth virtualization will also be impossible. Even though it would be slow (although hopefully not as slow as virtualizing), a customized LiveCD with required software preinstalled coupled with a USB stick for storage would probably be a better option.
Mind you, providing a VirtualBox disk image for those who can run it wouldn't be at all a bad idea, either.
Recently, during a freeleech period, a private music tracker with ~120k users handled over 570TB traffic. In six days. Obviously, beeing freeleech, that's more than that tracker would normally see in a couple months, but that's still a LOT of traffic.
While I didn't get to play the original Assassin's Creed until last year, it was definitely on my list of top 10 most enjoyed games of 2009, and quite possibly top 3. I'd been anticipating AC2 for months, and I actually went into my neighbourhood EB Games (GameStop for all you Americans) to preorder it, not doing so only because I couldn't preorder the limited edition for PC. I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this: weeks after its release, I still haven't bought it because of the DRM, and now I'm a patron saint of anti-DRM movements worldwide, etc.
My point is, you're wrong: some of us, especially those of us who have flaky, unreliable Internet, will avoid a (potentially) favourite game because it's inappropriately “protected”.
They came first with puzzles and card keys, and I didn't speak up because it was a reasonable anti-piracy method. Then they came with CD keys, and I didn't speak up because while it was annoying, I could still install on my multiple computers and it wasn't that inconvenient. Then they came with online activation, and I didn't speak up because I moved to Steam which at least still guaranteed the game working on multiple machines. Then they came with “always-on” DRM and now I'm not buying any DRM'd games at all.
I've never managed to d/l an ISO yet where the checksum tallied.
I highly recommend BitTorrent, unless it's throttled. If the torrent is properly seeded, you should be able to max out your connection (just make sure you set the max number of peers high enough - that way, even if you get stuck with a lot of slow uploaders, you'll still be able to go at a decent pace), and any good torrent client will do checksum verification and redownload chunks of the file as necessary ensuring you get a proper copy of the file.
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Troll much? If someone can figure out that they need SATA drivers (as opposed to calling their techie friend, or just disabling AHCI in the BIOS), they can probably figure out how to slipstream drivers in.
Related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBO5dh9qrIQ.
I would be, albeit subtly. I think this is a great test - making people wake up to their own stupidity is never a bad thing, and it's better to have them find out this way than have to help them out of the middle of a real credit card theft scenario.
Indeed. I stumbled on that article (and a couple others like it; I can't remember them off the top of my head) on Wikipedia the other day by fluke. Mind you, given the media's love of sensationalism, I guess focusing on peoples' being inconvenienced by this is viewed to be more worthwhile (read: profitable) than pointing out the sense behind the closure of the airways.
The WRT160NL was designed to be the direct successor to the WRT54GL. It doesn't seem to have taken off, though, and while it supports Wireless N, for whatever reason, it doesn't support Gigabit Ethernet.
In Canada, it sure does: $60 for 10Mb service, and $1.50/GB overage fees past 95GB (up to a maximum of $50). That looks like $90/mo to me.
Indeed. TF2 is the only multiplayer game through which I've made online friends (or at least acquaintances). The combination of team-based gameplay and built-in voice chat (along with good server browser that makes coming back to the same server again and again easy) makes it highly conducive to that sort of thing in a way unlike no other game I've ever seen.
Yeah, all the games GOG has available for free have been released as freeware elsewhere too. As far as I'm concerned, the freebies function as demos of how GOG's purchasing and packaging systems work. Still, even that's good to have around, because people can clearly see how the whole thing works without having to shell out anything.
So, you're suggesting a full suite of testing on daily antivirus signatures? Yeah, that's a great use of time.
The problem with VirtualBox (or any other virtualization, for that matter) is that, if students' hardware is incapable of booting from a USB stick, it's probably old enough that smooth virtualization will also be impossible. Even though it would be slow (although hopefully not as slow as virtualizing), a customized LiveCD with required software preinstalled coupled with a USB stick for storage would probably be a better option.
Mind you, providing a VirtualBox disk image for those who can run it wouldn't be at all a bad idea, either.
I see your point, but please, never use that argument again - hunting makes up far more than 10% of gun use in North America.
Recently, during a freeleech period, a private music tracker with ~120k users handled over 570TB traffic. In six days. Obviously, beeing freeleech, that's more than that tracker would normally see in a couple months, but that's still a LOT of traffic.
Meet my uncle. That guy over there, with the bone spurs on his hips. That whole walking thing? Yeah, agony.
Maybe stop to think before hitting Submit next time, hm?
FTFY.
Pretty sure the password was hunter2.
Hi. I'm one of those babies who was colicky, was taken to a chiropractor, and STFU because of it.
I'll agree that it's not good for much else beyond back/neck/shoulder pain, and some chiropractors are lousy for even that.
Pst, Slashdot hates UTF characters. Try this.
I get what he's talking about, and I can sympathize - I have this problem every time I have to use a friend's MPB.
It's OK. We all accidentally a verb every once in a while.
Neither lunch nor a movie cost the income of a few hours' of labour (assuming the average wage of an 18-to-25-year-old).
Hi.
While I didn't get to play the original Assassin's Creed until last year, it was definitely on my list of top 10 most enjoyed games of 2009, and quite possibly top 3. I'd been anticipating AC2 for months, and I actually went into my neighbourhood EB Games (GameStop for all you Americans) to preorder it, not doing so only because I couldn't preorder the limited edition for PC. I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this: weeks after its release, I still haven't bought it because of the DRM, and now I'm a patron saint of anti-DRM movements worldwide, etc.
My point is, you're wrong: some of us, especially those of us who have flaky, unreliable Internet, will avoid a (potentially) favourite game because it's inappropriately “protected”.
They came first with puzzles and card keys, and I didn't speak up because it was a reasonable anti-piracy method. Then they came with CD keys, and I didn't speak up because while it was annoying, I could still install on my multiple computers and it wasn't that inconvenient. Then they came with online activation, and I didn't speak up because I moved to Steam which at least still guaranteed the game working on multiple machines. Then they came with “always-on” DRM and now I'm not buying any DRM'd games at all.
Try “rip it”.
Who burns CD's any more?
I guess it'd be too much to hope they're actually decent.
AFAIK, the Compaq TC1000 (followed by the HP Compaq TC1100) was the first.
I highly recommend BitTorrent, unless it's throttled. If the torrent is properly seeded, you should be able to max out your connection (just make sure you set the max number of peers high enough - that way, even if you get stuck with a lot of slow uploaders, you'll still be able to go at a decent pace), and any good torrent client will do checksum verification and redownload chunks of the file as necessary ensuring you get a proper copy of the file.
--- Mr. DOS