OK, I can understand a joke in poor taste, but since I got modded immediately to Troll I gather than Slashdot doesn't appreciate black humor, probably due to its relatively large Apple fanbase. Time to break my login so I don't bother with comments again.
Large Man with Dead Body: Here's one. The Dead Collector: That'll be ninepence. Steve Jobs: I'm not dead. The Dead Collector: What? Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There's your ninepence. Steve Jobs: I'm not dead. The Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead. Large Man with Dead Body: Yes he is. Steve Jobs: I'm not. The Dead Collector: He isn't. Large Man with Dead Body: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill. Steve Jobs: I'm getting better. Large Man with Dead Body: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment. The Dead Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations. Steve Jobs: I don't want to go on the cart. Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, don't be such a baby. The Dead Collector: I can't take him. Steve Jobs: I feel fine. Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, do me a favor. The Dead Collector: I can't. Large Man with Dead Body: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long. The Dead Collector: I promised I'd be at the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today. Large Man with Dead Body: Well, when's your next round? The Dead Collector: Thursday. Steve Jobs: I think I'll go for a walk. Large Man with Dead Body: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do? Steve Jobs: I feel happy. I feel happy.
[the Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences Jobs with his a whack of his club]
Large Man with Dead Body: Ah, thank you very much. The Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday. Large Man with Dead Body: Right....
FFS people, just hibernate or if you really need minimal boot time, put it on standby.
Don't give me that rubbish about how these power saving modes don't work reliably. They work fine in Vista (for me anyway, heck they work fine for me in Ubuntu), and resuming from hibernation is much faster than Ubuntu's startup time. If they don't work on your Linux rig, well sucks to be you, but that doesn't mean your hardware isn't capable of it, just your distro for whatever reason.
Flamebait post, perhaps, but I wish people would appreciate the fact that fast boots are completely feasible these days, just not necessarily from a cold boot.
Big deal. If Windows gets ideas for its UI from OS X, isn't that a good thing?
Means I can continue to enjoy the great commerical software support of Windows with an improved GUI, making it less of a need to bother switching operating systems. Sounds good for the customer.
For goodness sake, the majority of comments I read about Win 7 are almost overwhelmingly positive. Why must Slashdot continue to moan when Microsoft appear to have learnt from their mistakes with Vista? It's fucking annoying.
Frankly this is the reason why I keep using Word. I'm not prepared to waste my time dealing with the politics of NOT using Word. Just install Windows on at least one machine and life will be simpler. It's not a battle worth fighting.
Does this mean Broadcom can finally stop acting like precious little bitches, resign themselves to the enviable and open-source their officials drivers so we can have complete support?
Why must they insist on holding out? It's obvious that if they don't open source their drivers, someone else will. Might as well supply official drivers in that case.
Virtual machines baby, boot it up, run the keylogger, run the install up to the point where it gives you whatever you need to install, and then reset the hard drive state.
That works. My tactic is also to write the serial that is produced by a keygen into a text file so that in a future install I don't have to re-run the keygen, I just copy/paste the data safely from the file. Doesn't work for the more advanced keys which are based off a unique hash of the system's architecture, but for every else the text file is perfect. Heck, sometimes a key or keys are listed by someone in the comments of the torrent so that you don't HAVE to use a keygen, which is nice.
The bit about having to public disclose the method used for recovering the data is something I missed, which is probably not worth $500 if it was part of a company's secret strategy for recovering drives. You make a good point.:)
How the fuck was this modded Informative? What non-geek, who can barely be encouraged to use something other an IE is going to go to the effort of setting up their own email server? And how can you measure the tangible benefits when they could just use something like GMail and get on with their lives?
Do any of you geeks mingle with non-geeks once in a while?
Games which utilize PunkBuster fuck up pretty badly in 64-bit systems. PB just doesn't like the environment for some reason, though that's not surprising given how invasive it is as a low-level system scanner. Since PB doesn't yet have a 64-bit binary, until it does it will continue to misunderstand the 64-bit architecture and kick/unauthenticate players.
This is from what I've read rather than personal experience so if my info is out of date I'll gladly suck a lemon.
For example I have a hobby redoing soundtrack from old games. It amuses me, and others seem to enjoy it.
Your handle sounded familiar so I checked your website and saw that it's you who made all those neat remixed DOOM tracks I downloaded ages ago. Completely off-topic but I just wanted to say thanks and show my appreciation for it.
Can you feasibly resell a license/copy of a game purchased on Steam?
Nope. There's no way to detach a game once it's purchased onto a Steam account. The best you can do is try to sell the account and hope that Valve doesn't find out if done on eBay or something similar, since they will do their best to deactivate the account.
Steam really isn't the best option if you like selling your games after a while.
Apart from the obvious issue of crippling second-hand games, replaying games in the future is going to be seriously threatened if online activation/authentication becomes the norm. There's no way companies are going to keep servers running for old titles.
We joke about Microsoft all the time here, but stuff like this shows that Windows is still significant enough to be installed on critical systems instead of some customized Linux distro, which is what WE'D have hoped.
Let's face it, Windows isn't going to die no matter what people say. Linux will have to fight even harder to stay significant, somehow.
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OK, I can understand a joke in poor taste, but since I got modded immediately to Troll I gather than Slashdot doesn't appreciate black humor, probably due to its relatively large Apple fanbase. Time to break my login so I don't bother with comments again.
Oblig.:
The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.
[a man puts a body on the cart]
Large Man with Dead Body: Here's one.
The Dead Collector: That'll be ninepence.
Steve Jobs: I'm not dead.
The Dead Collector: What?
Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There's your ninepence.
Steve Jobs: I'm not dead.
The Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
Large Man with Dead Body: Yes he is.
Steve Jobs: I'm not.
The Dead Collector: He isn't.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
Steve Jobs: I'm getting better.
Large Man with Dead Body: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
The Dead Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
Steve Jobs: I don't want to go on the cart.
Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, don't be such a baby.
The Dead Collector: I can't take him.
Steve Jobs: I feel fine.
Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, do me a favor.
The Dead Collector: I can't.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
The Dead Collector: I promised I'd be at the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, when's your next round?
The Dead Collector: Thursday.
Steve Jobs: I think I'll go for a walk.
Large Man with Dead Body: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do?
Steve Jobs: I feel happy. I feel happy.
[the Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences Jobs with his a whack of his club]
Large Man with Dead Body: Ah, thank you very much. ...
The Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
Large Man with Dead Body: Right.
Too soon?
FFS people, just hibernate or if you really need minimal boot time, put it on standby.
Don't give me that rubbish about how these power saving modes don't work reliably. They work fine in Vista (for me anyway, heck they work fine for me in Ubuntu), and resuming from hibernation is much faster than Ubuntu's startup time. If they don't work on your Linux rig, well sucks to be you, but that doesn't mean your hardware isn't capable of it, just your distro for whatever reason.
Flamebait post, perhaps, but I wish people would appreciate the fact that fast boots are completely feasible these days, just not necessarily from a cold boot.
Won't stop people from trying to make it a reality.
Oblig:
http://www.bash.org/?4281
Oh my God. Are you saying that changing one digit in a completely accessible URL is enough to be accused of hacking?
Humanity is hopelessly lost when it comes to common sense.
Big deal. If Windows gets ideas for its UI from OS X, isn't that a good thing?
Means I can continue to enjoy the great commerical software support of Windows with an improved GUI, making it less of a need to bother switching operating systems. Sounds good for the customer.
For goodness sake, the majority of comments I read about Win 7 are almost overwhelmingly positive. Why must Slashdot continue to moan when Microsoft appear to have learnt from their mistakes with Vista? It's fucking annoying.
Frankly this is the reason why I keep using Word. I'm not prepared to waste my time dealing with the politics of NOT using Word. Just install Windows on at least one machine and life will be simpler. It's not a battle worth fighting.
Does this mean Broadcom can finally stop acting like precious little bitches, resign themselves to the enviable and open-source their officials drivers so we can have complete support?
Why must they insist on holding out? It's obvious that if they don't open source their drivers, someone else will. Might as well supply official drivers in that case.
Lacking in ethical stability?
At my place of work this would be cause for a promotion!
That works. My tactic is also to write the serial that is produced by a keygen into a text file so that in a future install I don't have to re-run the keygen, I just copy/paste the data safely from the file. Doesn't work for the more advanced keys which are based off a unique hash of the system's architecture, but for every else the text file is perfect. Heck, sometimes a key or keys are listed by someone in the comments of the torrent so that you don't HAVE to use a keygen, which is nice.
The bit about having to public disclose the method used for recovering the data is something I missed, which is probably not worth $500 if it was part of a company's secret strategy for recovering drives. You make a good point. :)
How the fuck was this modded Informative? What non-geek, who can barely be encouraged to use something other an IE is going to go to the effort of setting up their own email server? And how can you measure the tangible benefits when they could just use something like GMail and get on with their lives?
Do any of you geeks mingle with non-geeks once in a while?
Really, there's no need to wipe it more than once unless you honestly think it will matter. At least these guys think so:
http://16systems.com/zero
It's Windows, not Windos. Though you probably know this anyway yet choose to deliberately misspell it.
Hard to take someone's position seriously if they're prepared to act somewhat juvenile about it.
Games which utilize PunkBuster fuck up pretty badly in 64-bit systems. PB just doesn't like the environment for some reason, though that's not surprising given how invasive it is as a low-level system scanner. Since PB doesn't yet have a 64-bit binary, until it does it will continue to misunderstand the 64-bit architecture and kick/unauthenticate players.
This is from what I've read rather than personal experience so if my info is out of date I'll gladly suck a lemon.
Your handle sounded familiar so I checked your website and saw that it's you who made all those neat remixed DOOM tracks I downloaded ages ago. Completely off-topic but I just wanted to say thanks and show my appreciation for it.
Oh, and I agree with the rest of your post too.
Clippy IS dead. It's been abandoned in all recent MS products, it's only Slashdot that seems to have trouble understanding this.
Ah. Now I'm reminded of why I don't have too many geek friends. They're obsessed with their operating systems more than what they can do with them. :)
You'll always have SOMEONE who wants to put down a wad of cash for a gaming PC.
Nope. There's no way to detach a game once it's purchased onto a Steam account. The best you can do is try to sell the account and hope that Valve doesn't find out if done on eBay or something similar, since they will do their best to deactivate the account.
Steam really isn't the best option if you like selling your games after a while.
Apart from the obvious issue of crippling second-hand games, replaying games in the future is going to be seriously threatened if online activation/authentication becomes the norm. There's no way companies are going to keep servers running for old titles.
We joke about Microsoft all the time here, but stuff like this shows that Windows is still significant enough to be installed on critical systems instead of some customized Linux distro, which is what WE'D have hoped.
Let's face it, Windows isn't going to die no matter what people say. Linux will have to fight even harder to stay significant, somehow.
Why are Macbooks such a popular option at schools/colleges? I thought Apple still wasn't "mainstream".