His point is the article is not about the server, but the client.
The server has been known to run under emu on the bsd's for a while. The server is quite stable, and meant for multiplay campaigns, not 1 guy going through the single player game.
You load a tape into EVERY vcr by sticking it in the front (neglecting 15 year old top loaders).
You load a dvd by pressing "eject," then putting it in.
You play a tape/dvd by pressing "play."
You do up volume by pressing "volume up".
You change input source by pressing "mode" or "source" in receivers.
You change channels by pressing "channel up/down," and it displays the next channel number.
That's not standard?
The difference in vcr's/tvs/etc are in features and quality, NOT in interface. The interface on every vcr/toaster/car is the same, with slight differences (new bmw 700 series excepted).
To start a car, you put a key in and turn the key. To go, you put it into drive and push the gas.
Get the picture now?
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Then why are you reading a story about nemesis reviews, which is bound to have a spoiler or two at least?
The fact that current dsl equipment effectivly maxes out at 12kft is what's limiting it right now.
Most people are not close enough to the office, so they have to create a remote, which costs a lot of money. If not enough people are in an area slightly too far from the central office to warrant a remote... well... they'll get no dsl.
We don't have japans super-high population density for the most part. THat makes tech rollouts MUCH easier for japan than for the US.
The sony EQ EULA gives you EXTRA rights when you agree to it: the right to connect to their server.
As we all know, it's illegal to attempt to connect to a non-public system that you don't have permission to access. The EULA gives you permission to play the game on their server.
You can RUN eq on YOUR computer all you want. In fact, sony hasn't tried to shut down the "run your own crappy eq server" projects, mainly b/c it'd take a huge company with a ton of $$$ to run servers on the scale sony/verant does.
Well, I'm using gpl'd code in my commercial/closed source product, but millions of people can still get that gpl'd code from the original source, so it's alright.
It's not a magical AIM filter, which is what all the comments are suggesting.
It's a way to run your OWN aim gateway server at your business.
So I am at franks widgets (fwidg). I install the gateway server. Everyone at fwidg logs into the company aim server instead of the official AIM server, as employee@fwidg.com.
So now we have intranet messaging, and apparently others can add us to the contact list as well (outsiders).
OBVIOUSLY since all communication is going through this server, they can log/etc it. But htis is not some sort of magical firewall dropin that listens to aim conversations... there's been opensource projects that can do that for years now.
It looks to me like it's aiming at the jabber and MSN/exchange messenger market. It's a locally hosted central server, so your business stuff isn't going out over the internet, and it authenticates against stuff you already have, according to their marketing. I'd guess that means ldap and active-directory.
You do realize that Sony does not have much, if anything, to do with GTA? They did NONE of the development, and aren't even the publisher!
While they do have a console-exclusivity agreement with sony (I think), that doesn't mean that sony drives them in any way (as opposed to bungie, who is owned by MS).
Your complaint is like writing an article that it's epic's fault that UT2003 didn't use the full dx8.1 spec, which would have sold a lot more radeon9700's and geforce 4's.
I run an xp machine with codeguide (java ide), outlook, outlook express, IE, and putty all the time. No performance problems or stability problems, and I haven't rebooted this machine in 2 months.
"and a X server"
My best guess is THIS is causing your problems. If you're running cygwin, it can REALLY slow down your machine over time in my experience.
Shut down, swap network cards, boot up. On init, it says something like "Your network card has changed, do you you want to copy your old settings to the new card?"
Then it does it, and you boot up. Same thing with video cards/etc.
802.11a is too high power and doesn't have the "tricks" pcs/gsm/digital cellular use to get longer batter life to use for cell phones, if you want any more than a few hours battery life.
-Record everything in best quality. Sure you have 60 hours, but that's at the lowest quality. You reallt only have 15-20 at highest quality.
-Record entire seasons. I would have loved to record the 24 straight hours of "24" at highest quality, and kept them around for when friends come over/etc!
-Go wish-list crazy. I love cops, and it's always showing on 243 channels at once. I could just set it to go cop-crazy, and not worry about it filling up my tivo and pushing other stuff off.
THEY didn't coin the name, other people did, since it takes too long to say all 4 author's names. It's common to refer to a programming book simply by it's author's name, so "gang of four" stuck. Blame whomever first said it.
Did you go to the site? It's a hacker project, with the current version running only on MOD CHIPPED X-BOXES. With MS threatening to use xbox-live to scan for mod chips, I'd say the answer is pretty obvious.
LRP is a router for connection sharing. PGP gives you zonealarm/blackice style firewalling for a windows system (ie restrict outgoing ports to only approved applications, block all incoming ports by default, etc).
Granted, this functionality can be attained using ipchains with various complex filters, but I haven't seen a nice gui that says "only let ftp, icq, mozilla, and ssh open outgoing connections" for linux (or windows, apart from what I named above) yet.
The dreamcast comes with a MODEM. The broadband adapter was sold in VERY small quantities, and goes for 100-200$ BY ITSELF on ebay, so bump up that "cheap" price accordingly.
There's no greater feeling than firing up an IPAQ running X, ssh'ing to my power-machine with x-tunneling set up, then loading up mozilla/codeguide/gimp/other resource intensive program, and having it respond like a dream.
I actually see a need for it MORE on a tiny device, especially with wireless network adapters for IPAQs.
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"playing on the NetBSD machine as server"
His point is the article is not about the server, but the client.
The server has been known to run under emu on the bsd's for a while. The server is quite stable, and meant for multiplay campaigns, not 1 guy going through the single player game.
You load a tape into EVERY vcr by sticking it in the front (neglecting 15 year old top loaders).
You load a dvd by pressing "eject," then putting it in.
You play a tape/dvd by pressing "play."
You do up volume by pressing "volume up".
You change input source by pressing "mode" or "source" in receivers.
You change channels by pressing "channel up/down," and it displays the next channel number.
That's not standard?
The difference in vcr's/tvs/etc are in features and quality, NOT in interface. The interface on every vcr/toaster/car is the same, with slight differences (new bmw 700 series excepted).
To start a car, you put a key in and turn the key.
To go, you put it into drive and push the gas.
Get the picture now?
Then why are you reading a story about nemesis reviews, which is bound to have a spoiler or two at least?
Never before has a comment been better named by subject. It certainly was a waste!
The fact that current dsl equipment effectivly maxes out at 12kft is what's limiting it right now.
Most people are not close enough to the office, so they have to create a remote, which costs a lot of money. If not enough people are in an area slightly too far from the central office to warrant a remote... well... they'll get no dsl.
We don't have japans super-high population density for the most part. THat makes tech rollouts MUCH easier for japan than for the US.
The sony EQ EULA gives you EXTRA rights when you agree to it: the right to connect to their server.
As we all know, it's illegal to attempt to connect to a non-public system that you don't have permission to access. The EULA gives you permission to play the game on their server.
You can RUN eq on YOUR computer all you want. In fact, sony hasn't tried to shut down the "run your own crappy eq server" projects, mainly b/c it'd take a huge company with a ton of $$$ to run servers on the scale sony/verant does.
Well, I'm using gpl'd code in my commercial/closed source product, but millions of people can still get that gpl'd code from the original source, so it's alright.
It's not a magical AIM filter, which is what all the comments are suggesting.
It's a way to run your OWN aim gateway server at your business.
So I am at franks widgets (fwidg). I install the gateway server. Everyone at fwidg logs into the company aim server instead of the official AIM server, as employee@fwidg.com.
So now we have intranet messaging, and apparently others can add us to the contact list as well (outsiders).
OBVIOUSLY since all communication is going through this server, they can log/etc it. But htis is not some sort of magical firewall dropin that listens to aim conversations... there's been opensource projects that can do that for years now.
It looks to me like it's aiming at the jabber and MSN/exchange messenger market. It's a locally hosted central server, so your business stuff isn't going out over the internet, and it authenticates against stuff you already have, according to their marketing. I'd guess that means ldap and active-directory.
It's going to require a HW T&L card (like ut2k3 and bf1942 and others).
That means geforce1 or higher, or radeon or higher. Nothing by matrox before the para-whatsit has T&L AFAIK.
You do realize that Sony does not have much, if anything, to do with GTA? They did NONE of the development, and aren't even the publisher!
While they do have a console-exclusivity agreement with sony (I think), that doesn't mean that sony drives them in any way (as opposed to bungie, who is owned by MS).
Your complaint is like writing an article that it's epic's fault that UT2003 didn't use the full dx8.1 spec, which would have sold a lot more radeon9700's and geforce 4's.
I run an xp machine with codeguide (java ide), outlook, outlook express, IE, and putty all the time. No performance problems or stability problems, and I haven't rebooted this machine in 2 months.
"and a X server"
My best guess is THIS is causing your problems. If you're running cygwin, it can REALLY slow down your machine over time in my experience.
Redhat (and mandrake) have Kudzu.
Shut down, swap network cards, boot up. On init, it says something like "Your network card has changed, do you you want to copy your old settings to the new card?"
Then it does it, and you boot up.
Same thing with video cards/etc.
Just because that's what YOU think it's about doesn't mean that's what it's about.
The "purpose" of the web is defined by those who use it.
When you bake cookies "from scratch," that doesn't mean that you're buying some chips-ahoy's in a ziplock bag and heating them up in the microwave.
It means that you need some tools, a cook book tells you the ingredients and what to with them, and you bake yourself some cookies.
802.11a is too high power and doesn't have the "tricks" pcs/gsm/digital cellular use to get longer batter life to use for cell phones, if you want any more than a few hours battery life.
I have 30 season passes, with 5 wishlists.
:(
It can take an hour or more if I move stuff around a lot
-Record everything in best quality. Sure you have 60 hours, but that's at the lowest quality. You reallt only have 15-20 at highest quality.
-Record entire seasons. I would have loved to record the 24 straight hours of "24" at highest quality, and kept them around for when friends come over/etc!
-Go wish-list crazy. I love cops, and it's always showing on 243 channels at once. I could just set it to go cop-crazy, and not worry about it filling up my tivo and pushing other stuff off.
THEY didn't coin the name, other people did, since it takes too long to say all 4 author's names. It's common to refer to a programming book simply by it's author's name, so "gang of four" stuck. Blame whomever first said it.
ps, love your site
If I stand outside their window at night reading a book, am I stealing their light?
"is this actually by microsoft" ????
Did you go to the site? It's a hacker project, with the current version running only on MOD CHIPPED X-BOXES. With MS threatening to use xbox-live to scan for mod chips, I'd say the answer is pretty obvious.
-Firewall: Linux Router Project and others.
LRP is a router for connection sharing. PGP gives you zonealarm/blackice style firewalling for a windows system (ie restrict outgoing ports to only approved applications, block all incoming ports by default, etc).
Granted, this functionality can be attained using ipchains with various complex filters, but I haven't seen a nice gui that says "only let ftp, icq, mozilla, and ssh open outgoing connections" for linux (or windows, apart from what I named above) yet.
I eagerly await the day that slashdot has popups of duplicate stories as you visit other OSDN sites...
Not completely true.
The dreamcast comes with a MODEM. The broadband adapter was sold in VERY small quantities, and goes for 100-200$ BY ITSELF on ebay, so bump up that "cheap" price accordingly.
There's no greater feeling than firing up an IPAQ running X, ssh'ing to my power-machine with x-tunneling set up, then loading up mozilla/codeguide/gimp/other resource intensive program, and having it respond like a dream.
I actually see a need for it MORE on a tiny device, especially with wireless network adapters for IPAQs.
Pre DMCA world: certainly. they can sell them, and we can try to rip them under fair use laws
Post DMCA world: ban them. If:
-you can't reverse engineer them for fair use
-fair use is still "guaranteed"
then
-they should be illegal.