Odd. I have a GF2 at work and a GF4 at home, and I run 1600x1200 in both places. Which version of RedHat are you using? Did you download nVidia's drivers?
The new nVidia drivers get downloaded and automatically installed when a user clicks on the RedHat up2date icon on the desktop, right?
It's being added to the current dev version but not in production versions.
I've been reading that same statement for about 2 1/2 years. You can expect a subselects in MySQL at about the same time you'll see Duke Nukem Forever under your christmas tree -- in other words, "real soon now", for sufficiently ludicrous definitions of the word "soon."
Well, to start with, MySQL doesn't use anything even approaching standard SQL. As near as I can tell, some crack-addled monkeys briefly read a "Teach yourself SQL in 21 days" book before they wrote MySQL.
I don't know what Access does now, but in the past it too basically just ignored the SQL standard. At least we can trust that the Microsoft programmers were aware of the existence of the standard while they ignored it.
If you want a decent, reasonably compliant SQL engine, you'll probably use Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or PostgreSQL. Of course, once you actually use any of those, you'll quickly discover the huuuuuge differences in implementation... It turns out that following the standard hardly matters as much as anyone thought...
It's always pronounced S-Q-L. However, Microsoft (and Sybase) call their product "Sequel" Server. You see, Microsoft "Sequel" Server is basically the brand name of a satabase server that uses S-Q-L, in the same way that "Orace Enterprise Edition" is the brand name of a database server that uses S-Q-L, or "Apache" is the brand name of an HTTP server.
So, it's correct to refer to Microsoft "Sequel", as long as you understand that you're talking about the product, and not the language.
No. Timothy is a moron, and doesn't really understand what the download is. You can't download the source to the.NET framework. You can download the source to a Common Language Infrastructure implementation.
The Microsoft.NET Framework includes an optomized implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure. But, the.NET Framework also includes a huge.NET class library, including the Windows Forms classes, the ASP.NET classes, the ADO.NET classes, WebService classes, and a host of others. Most "useful".NET programs are going to use some of the.NET classes.
The.NET framework includes more than this, but the classes are the important part for portability.
Basically, think of CLI as essentially just a compiler and a small standard library. To build a complete application, you're still probably going to use a lot of additional libraries. Microsoft hasn't gone insane, and they still understand that their Operating System is valuable. They haven't started distributing kernel32.dll for free yet, and they aren't going to be distributing the.NET class libraries for free, either.
I should point out, though, that C# and the CLI are pretty damned cool all by themselves. They're rocking sweet technology, and there's no reason a good portable class library couldn't be put on top of them, like Sun has done with their Java implementation.
However, I sort of wonder if MicroSoft hasn't pissed off too many of the big players in the world -- I don't expect Oracle or IBM or Netscape to pick up the CLI and run with it, incorporating it in all of their new products, like they did with Sun's JVM. Ooops, did I say Netscape? Nevermind.
Because VA Software is going broke. They had two colocations spots with Exodus, but to save money they had to consolidate to only one colocation spot.
You remember Slashdot moving a week ago, right? Well, they got rid of all the third party colo servers at the same time, because VA Software didn't have the cash to support them any more.
Yeah, but by the looks of things, VA Software will be going away!
Well, by "lifetime guarantee" I meant, "lifetime of VA Software."
And by "I think we all agree that we're not going to see any pleas on SlashDot in a few months" I meant, "I expect SourceForge and Slashdot to both be unplugged from the net together, in a few months."
Why not use SourceForge? You practically get a lifetime guarantee from VA Software that SourceForge is never going to go away.
I think we all agree that we're not going to see any pleas on SlashDot in a few months for new project space because a vital project repository like SourceForge has folded. In fact, I'd bet cold, hard cash that you'll never read news about SourceForge folding here on Slashdot. I'm that confident in the future direction of VA Software.
What the fuck is going on in that little shitburg town? This is how I read the article.
George Runner was a lawyer working as a soliciter for the Village of Waterville. The village police chief, Lance Martin, set up a video camera to catch George Runner "pilfering" coffee and creamer. (I'm assuming this means that Mr. Runner drank out of the community pot without putting a nickle in the jar, or making a new pot when he drained the old one, or some bullshit like that.)
As a result of the coffee pilfering incident, Mr. Runner lost his job, but after the community outcry against the police chief wasting his time trying to videotape somebody stealing a cup of coffee from the office coffee pot, Police Chief Martin also lost his job.
This in June of this year, the local cable company, which like most cable companies is probably a quasi village-owned monopoly run for the purpose of lining council members pockets with kickbacks, decided to prosecute George Runner for theft of service. The local police department and city council were as pleased as punch to discover they could get the FBI to bring federal charges against Mr. Runner also, and they pursued this option vigorously enough to get the FBI to actually do something about it despite the fact that the FBI has to be a little overworked right now...
So now, the guys in the police department and the city council have finally managed to get George Runner to regret not brewing a new pot of coffee when he drained it.
At least, that's how I'm reading the article. Does anyone from the little Village of Waterville know something different?
But, today is halloween, and yesterday was the 30th. I'm so damed confused...
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When the sales rep. at Dell was told of our decision, he became upset and began demanding explanations as to why we wanted to use a 'desktop' as a server, what version of GNU/Linux we had intended to use and other things that were not any of Dell's concern. This is not the first time this has happened to us.
Dell charges more for their computers than an equivilant machine from ernies-house-of-whiteboxes.
They charge more because they want to stay in business. Selling the cheapest possible computer might seem like a great idea, but it turns out it's a lousy business model, and everyone who's tried has gone broke.
They're able to charge more because they have a reputation for good service and reliable computers. I suspect that's pounded into the Dell sales force's head quite a lot. It's probably also pounded into the sales force head that you try to sell the customer the right tool for the job. If the customer needs a server, sell them a server. If the customer needs a configuration that's been rigourously tested with linux, sell them a configuration that's been rigourously tested with linux.
In this case, I think the Dell rep did the right thing. If this is the kind of thing that has happened to you often in the past, as you claim, then you're probably not very good at selecting the right tool for the job. The Dell rep probably sensed this, and (rightly) decided to call you on it. Since you're basically acting as a consultant to your client, the Dell rep knows that if the buying decision later turns out to have been wrong, either you or Dell are going to be blamed for the failure. If Dell has gone on the record as recommending against your decision, they've placed the fault squarely in your lap. If something fails, you'll look like an ass, and Dell will look golden. If nothing fails, they still have done the right thing for your client.
The question you should be asking is why you're not willing to take the advice of your vendors, and work together with them find the best possible solution for your client's needs.
OK, so it's illegal to build a private sea wall. But, your house is at the bottom of a cliff, on a very wide beach, facing the ocean. And, between your house and the ocean, the state of California has built a:
Frankly, I think that you are smoking waaaaay too much crack.
The price on the high end of the consumer market has slowly crept up in the last five years, from about $200 for the top-of-the-line 3dfx Voodoo when it came out, to about $300 for the top-of-the-line nVidia GForce 4 today.
But on the low end, the prices are as cheap as ever, while the performance on the low end is simply incredible. A GeForce4MX for $75 today is going to be faster than the best $250 card you could buy two years ago.
There are two reason why you can't walk into BestBuy and get an old TNT2 Ultra for $35. First, because just handling quality control and returns makes it not worth their time to sell you a card that cheap. Second, because despite the fact that the TNT2 was fair to decent two years ago, it is just butt-slow by comparison today. The only people buying boxed 3D cards are gamers, and they're just too smart to do something that stupid.
If you want to see how performance has improved in the last few years, check out this Tom's Hardware guide to VGA cards. And you're asking why someone wouldn't sell you one of the cards near the bottom of the chart? The question you should be asking is what kind of moron would be stupid enough to buy one of them?
Wow! I am awed by your obvious brilliance. A guy as smart as you should be hanging out with other Slashdot luminaries, such as PhysicsGenius.
You may also want to send e-mail to some of our geek sisters, like Lover's Arrival, The. According to her bio, she gets all hot and bothered by the smarty types like you.
Early languages were all very low-level, but successive generations have become higher and higher.
The first language was FORTRAN. The second was LISP. Your premise is fundementally flawed -- languages have not been getting higher and higher level. And before I get any spelling flames, I should point out that back in 1959, the names of both languages were still capitalized like that.
What has been happening is that generic support for useful abstractions has been slowly creeping into our languages. It seems that about once every 10 or 15 years the limitations of the current languages to express those abstractions becomes severe enough that people are willing to make a jump to the next generation of languages.
During the 70's and early 80's, ALGOL-like languages, like Pascal, C, and FORTRAN 77 predominated. From the mid 80's through the late 90's, C++ apparently reigned supreme. Now, in the late 90's and early part of the 00's, we're seeing Java and C# move into the forefront of the developer's mind.
I am loath to call any of those languages high level. C++ added generic support for several OO ideas. Java and C# have added garbage collection and much better support for runtime linking.
But in the end, all of these languages are still fairly low level. The biggest thing that has changed is the overwhelming size of the languages standard libraries, and each Operating System's runtime libraries. We've learned a lot about what programmers need to do in the last 50 years, and we've encapsulated a lot of that knowledge into standard, reusable libraries. In return, those libraries have grown huge.
Think about the size of the libraries available to us -- the KDE libraries, the Win32 runtime library, the suite of standard ActiveX controls available on Windows, the huge Java standard library, CPAN, or the new DOT.NET framework. These are where the advances have been made in the last 50 years, but with a price.
In the 70's, one programmer working a few months could have implemented an entire robust optomized copy of the C library himself, down to the syscall level. A good programmer could intimately understand the entire library in a matter of weeks. Today, it would take dozens of programmers working years to implement the Java or DOT.NET libraries. There is probably no-one who can honestly claim an intimate understanding of any of them. We've reached a point where the standard library is bigger than any one person can understand. At that is probably the biggest thing that is going to impede the development of more complex, useful libraries in the near future...
The server room is maintained for the comfort of the servers, not for your comfort. The only reason I can think of not to keep it too cold would be condensation and maybe stress on parts like the hard drives.
Otherwise, keep it at 65 degrees, and either learn to deal with it, or learn to bring a sweater with you.
This type of drop in replacement is the equivalent of dropping in a v8 hemi engine in my VW Bug.
Yes. All software for Linux is powerful and reliable. Anything for Windows is weak and brittle.
Unless you meant that putting a v8 engine into a bug makes it into a jury-rigged car with a lot of home-made parts, with no backseet, that's almost guaranteed to break if you try to use it hard, and which never again really works as a daily driver.
In that case, yes. I would agree that ripping out Exchange to install some half-baked set of brand new servers developed by a financially ailing company is a lot like putting a v8 in a bug.
Thank god you're back. I was sort of missing the good high quality slashdot trolls.
Re:script kiddies are sickoes
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They should be treated just like as if they burned down a building, but no, the law doesn't understand.
They should be treated as if they burned down a building with cute little kitties living inside of it! Because, inside of every blogger there's a cute little kitty, just waiting for you to discover it.
What these hackers have done is atrocious. It's far, far worse than petty graffiti or vandalism. They have trampled the hearts and emotions of sensitive bloggers everywhere. And for that, there can be no justice -- only bitter revenge.
So why not put "only works on US consoles" and omit the chipping part?
Exactly. Saying that it works in chipped models is like saying, "You need money for this auction. You might either earn the money by working, or you can go steal some."
It makes about as much sense as this yahoo who's selling his CD-R disk. On his second try, he decided to sell just the artwork, with the CD-R "for free". Maybe he figured he could get by the eBay police if he pretended to be just like all the lowlife, non-copyright holder duplicators on eBay, who try to do auctions that way.
If you're not breaking any laws, there are a lot of ways to be perfectly honest and forthright, and not look like you're breaking laws. If you can't figure any of them out, especially if you're just selling a US version of a game, then I have to wonder about you...
However, the majority of people don't know how to reset their MAC addresses.
The majority of people don't know how cheat at counter-strike, either. But, people who do cheat at counter-strike have already plugged themselves into a culture where this type of information is readily exchanged.
And, as other people have pointed out, you don't need to change your MAC address. You only need to change the MAC address sent to their servers by a program responding to the same network protocol as the "Complete Online Gaming System" program.
If this sort of "client verification" program becomes common, I'll expect to find hacks to change the MAC addressed delivered to the server in the same place that wall-hacks are currently found. And, unless the people writing these "client verification" programs are an extremely bright and diligent bunch, I'll expect to read about external exploits of these programs on BugTraq in a short time, too.
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Odd. I have a GF2 at work and a GF4 at home, and I run 1600x1200 in both places. Which version of RedHat are you using? Did you download nVidia's drivers?
The new nVidia drivers get downloaded and automatically installed when a user clicks on the RedHat up2date icon on the desktop, right?
It's being added to the current dev version but not in production versions.
I've been reading that same statement for about 2 1/2 years. You can expect a subselects in MySQL at about the same time you'll see Duke Nukem Forever under your christmas tree -- in other words, "real soon now", for sufficiently ludicrous definitions of the word "soon."
Well, to start with, MySQL doesn't use anything even approaching standard SQL. As near as I can tell, some crack-addled monkeys briefly read a "Teach yourself SQL in 21 days" book before they wrote MySQL.
I don't know what Access does now, but in the past it too basically just ignored the SQL standard. At least we can trust that the Microsoft programmers were aware of the existence of the standard while they ignored it.
If you want a decent, reasonably compliant SQL engine, you'll probably use Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or PostgreSQL. Of course, once you actually use any of those, you'll quickly discover the huuuuuge differences in implementation... It turns out that following the standard hardly matters as much as anyone thought...
It's always pronounced S-Q-L. However, Microsoft (and Sybase) call their product "Sequel" Server. You see, Microsoft "Sequel" Server is basically the brand name of a satabase server that uses S-Q-L, in the same way that "Orace Enterprise Edition" is the brand name of a database server that uses S-Q-L, or "Apache" is the brand name of an HTTP server.
So, it's correct to refer to Microsoft "Sequel", as long as you understand that you're talking about the product, and not the language.
No. Timothy is a moron, and doesn't really understand what the download is. You can't download the source to the .NET framework. You can download the source to a Common Language Infrastructure implementation.
.NET Framework includes an optomized implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure. But, the .NET Framework also includes a huge .NET class library, including the Windows Forms classes, the ASP.NET classes, the ADO.NET classes, WebService classes, and a host of others. Most "useful" .NET programs are going to use some of the .NET classes.
.NET framework includes more than this, but the classes are the important part for portability.
.NET class libraries for free, either.
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Basically, think of CLI as essentially just a compiler and a small standard library. To build a complete application, you're still probably going to use a lot of additional libraries. Microsoft hasn't gone insane, and they still understand that their Operating System is valuable. They haven't started distributing kernel32.dll for free yet, and they aren't going to be distributing the
I should point out, though, that C# and the CLI are pretty damned cool all by themselves. They're rocking sweet technology, and there's no reason a good portable class library couldn't be put on top of them, like Sun has done with their Java implementation.
However, I sort of wonder if MicroSoft hasn't pissed off too many of the big players in the world -- I don't expect Oracle or IBM or Netscape to pick up the CLI and run with it, incorporating it in all of their new products, like they did with Sun's JVM. Ooops, did I say Netscape? Nevermind.
Why did VA Software stop providing co-lo space?
Because VA Software is going broke. They had two colocations spots with Exodus, but to save money they had to consolidate to only one colocation spot.
You remember Slashdot moving a week ago, right? Well, they got rid of all the third party colo servers at the same time, because VA Software didn't have the cash to support them any more.
Yeah, but by the looks of things, VA Software will be going away!
Well, by "lifetime guarantee" I meant, "lifetime of VA Software."
And by "I think we all agree that we're not going to see any pleas on SlashDot in a few months" I meant, "I expect SourceForge and Slashdot to both be unplugged from the net together, in a few months."
Why not use SourceForge? You practically get a lifetime guarantee from VA Software that SourceForge is never going to go away.
I think we all agree that we're not going to see any pleas on SlashDot in a few months for new project space because a vital project repository like SourceForge has folded. In fact, I'd bet cold, hard cash that you'll never read news about SourceForge folding here on Slashdot. I'm that confident in the future direction of VA Software.
Could someone explain why you need a clean room to build a satellite?
What the fuck is going on in that little shitburg town? This is how I read the article.
George Runner was a lawyer working as a soliciter for the Village of Waterville. The village police chief, Lance Martin, set up a video camera to catch George Runner "pilfering" coffee and creamer. (I'm assuming this means that Mr. Runner drank out of the community pot without putting a nickle in the jar, or making a new pot when he drained the old one, or some bullshit like that.)
As a result of the coffee pilfering incident, Mr. Runner lost his job, but after the community outcry against the police chief wasting his time trying to videotape somebody stealing a cup of coffee from the office coffee pot, Police Chief Martin also lost his job.
This in June of this year, the local cable company, which like most cable companies is probably a quasi village-owned monopoly run for the purpose of lining council members pockets with kickbacks, decided to prosecute George Runner for theft of service. The local police department and city council were as pleased as punch to discover they could get the FBI to bring federal charges against Mr. Runner also, and they pursued this option vigorously enough to get the FBI to actually do something about it despite the fact that the FBI has to be a little overworked right now...
So now, the guys in the police department and the city council have finally managed to get George Runner to regret not brewing a new pot of coffee when he drained it.
At least, that's how I'm reading the article. Does anyone from the little Village of Waterville know something different?
What's next, Halloween Due Tomorrow on the 30th?
But, today is halloween, and yesterday was the 30th. I'm so damed confused...
When the sales rep. at Dell was told of our decision, he became upset and began demanding explanations as to why we wanted to use a 'desktop' as a server, what version of GNU/Linux we had intended to use and other things that were not any of Dell's concern. This is not the first time this has happened to us.
Dell charges more for their computers than an equivilant machine from ernies-house-of-whiteboxes.
They charge more because they want to stay in business. Selling the cheapest possible computer might seem like a great idea, but it turns out it's a lousy business model, and everyone who's tried has gone broke.
They're able to charge more because they have a reputation for good service and reliable computers. I suspect that's pounded into the Dell sales force's head quite a lot. It's probably also pounded into the sales force head that you try to sell the customer the right tool for the job. If the customer needs a server, sell them a server. If the customer needs a configuration that's been rigourously tested with linux, sell them a configuration that's been rigourously tested with linux.
In this case, I think the Dell rep did the right thing. If this is the kind of thing that has happened to you often in the past, as you claim, then you're probably not very good at selecting the right tool for the job. The Dell rep probably sensed this, and (rightly) decided to call you on it. Since you're basically acting as a consultant to your client, the Dell rep knows that if the buying decision later turns out to have been wrong, either you or Dell are going to be blamed for the failure. If Dell has gone on the record as recommending against your decision, they've placed the fault squarely in your lap. If something fails, you'll look like an ass, and Dell will look golden. If nothing fails, they still have done the right thing for your client.
The question you should be asking is why you're not willing to take the advice of your vendors, and work together with them find the best possible solution for your client's needs.
- a road
- a railroad bed,
- a divided highway,
- a natural gas pipeline, and
- a seawall.
Sweet. At least there's no hypocrisy there.What do slashdotters thing about this pricing?
Frankly, I think that you are smoking waaaaay too much crack.
The price on the high end of the consumer market has slowly crept up in the last five years, from about $200 for the top-of-the-line 3dfx Voodoo when it came out, to about $300 for the top-of-the-line nVidia GForce 4 today.
But on the low end, the prices are as cheap as ever, while the performance on the low end is simply incredible. A GeForce4MX for $75 today is going to be faster than the best $250 card you could buy two years ago.
There are two reason why you can't walk into BestBuy and get an old TNT2 Ultra for $35. First, because just handling quality control and returns makes it not worth their time to sell you a card that cheap. Second, because despite the fact that the TNT2 was fair to decent two years ago, it is just butt-slow by comparison today. The only people buying boxed 3D cards are gamers, and they're just too smart to do something that stupid.
If you want to see how performance has improved in the last few years, check out this Tom's Hardware guide to VGA cards. And you're asking why someone wouldn't sell you one of the cards near the bottom of the chart? The question you should be asking is what kind of moron would be stupid enough to buy one of them?
Wow! I am awed by your obvious brilliance. A guy as smart as you should be hanging out with other Slashdot luminaries, such as PhysicsGenius.
You may also want to send e-mail to some of our geek sisters, like Lover's Arrival, The. According to her bio, she gets all hot and bothered by the smarty types like you.
Early languages were all very low-level, but successive generations have become higher and higher.
The first language was FORTRAN. The second was LISP. Your premise is fundementally flawed -- languages have not been getting higher and higher level. And before I get any spelling flames, I should point out that back in 1959, the names of both languages were still capitalized like that.
What has been happening is that generic support for useful abstractions has been slowly creeping into our languages. It seems that about once every 10 or 15 years the limitations of the current languages to express those abstractions becomes severe enough that people are willing to make a jump to the next generation of languages.
During the 70's and early 80's, ALGOL-like languages, like Pascal, C, and FORTRAN 77 predominated. From the mid 80's through the late 90's, C++ apparently reigned supreme. Now, in the late 90's and early part of the 00's, we're seeing Java and C# move into the forefront of the developer's mind.
I am loath to call any of those languages high level. C++ added generic support for several OO ideas. Java and C# have added garbage collection and much better support for runtime linking.
But in the end, all of these languages are still fairly low level. The biggest thing that has changed is the overwhelming size of the languages standard libraries, and each Operating System's runtime libraries. We've learned a lot about what programmers need to do in the last 50 years, and we've encapsulated a lot of that knowledge into standard, reusable libraries. In return, those libraries have grown huge.
Think about the size of the libraries available to us -- the KDE libraries, the Win32 runtime library, the suite of standard ActiveX controls available on Windows, the huge Java standard library, CPAN, or the new DOT.NET framework. These are where the advances have been made in the last 50 years, but with a price.
In the 70's, one programmer working a few months could have implemented an entire robust optomized copy of the C library himself, down to the syscall level. A good programmer could intimately understand the entire library in a matter of weeks. Today, it would take dozens of programmers working years to implement the Java or DOT.NET libraries. There is probably no-one who can honestly claim an intimate understanding of any of them. We've reached a point where the standard library is bigger than any one person can understand. At that is probably the biggest thing that is going to impede the development of more complex, useful libraries in the near future...
The server room is maintained for the comfort of the servers, not for your comfort. The only reason I can think of not to keep it too cold would be condensation and maybe stress on parts like the hard drives.
Otherwise, keep it at 65 degrees, and either learn to deal with it, or learn to bring a sweater with you.
This type of drop in replacement is the equivalent of dropping in a v8 hemi engine in my VW Bug.
Yes. All software for Linux is powerful and reliable. Anything for Windows is weak and brittle.
Unless you meant that putting a v8 engine into a bug makes it into a jury-rigged car with a lot of home-made parts, with no backseet, that's almost guaranteed to break if you try to use it hard, and which never again really works as a daily driver.
In that case, yes. I would agree that ripping out Exchange to install some half-baked set of brand new servers developed by a financially ailing company is a lot like putting a v8 in a bug.
Thank god you're back. I was sort of missing the good high quality slashdot trolls.
They should be treated just like as if they burned down a building, but no, the law doesn't understand.
They should be treated as if they burned down a building with cute little kitties living inside of it! Because, inside of every blogger there's a cute little kitty, just waiting for you to discover it.
What these hackers have done is atrocious. It's far, far worse than petty graffiti or vandalism. They have trampled the hearts and emotions of sensitive bloggers everywhere. And for that, there can be no justice -- only bitter revenge.
Thank god my favorite blog wasn't hacked.
So why not put "only works on US consoles" and omit the chipping part?
Exactly. Saying that it works in chipped models is like saying, "You need money for this auction. You might either earn the money by working, or you can go steal some."
It makes about as much sense as this yahoo who's selling his CD-R disk. On his second try, he decided to sell just the artwork, with the CD-R "for free". Maybe he figured he could get by the eBay police if he pretended to be just like all the lowlife, non-copyright holder duplicators on eBay, who try to do auctions that way.
If you're not breaking any laws, there are a lot of ways to be perfectly honest and forthright, and not look like you're breaking laws. If you can't figure any of them out, especially if you're just selling a US version of a game, then I have to wonder about you...
However, the majority of people don't know how to reset their MAC addresses.
The majority of people don't know how cheat at counter-strike, either. But, people who do cheat at counter-strike have already plugged themselves into a culture where this type of information is readily exchanged.
And, as other people have pointed out, you don't need to change your MAC address. You only need to change the MAC address sent to their servers by a program responding to the same network protocol as the "Complete Online Gaming System" program.
If this sort of "client verification" program becomes common, I'll expect to find hacks to change the MAC addressed delivered to the server in the same place that wall-hacks are currently found. And, unless the people writing these "client verification" programs are an extremely bright and diligent bunch, I'll expect to read about external exploits of these programs on BugTraq in a short time, too.
I am intimately familiar with Henry
That's a little more than I wanted to know about either you or Henry Rollins.