As the other respondant has noted, you don't need to install anything; it's already installed in OS X 10.3+; just open the preference pane and configure it.
WTF! You mean that all this time, I was fighting with osxvnc for NOTHING?!
*runs over to the Mac running 10.4*
Wow. Indeed this works quite well from the Win32 VNCviewer. I always believed you had to buy ARD to do this (and then only control Macs from other Macs, not cross-platform like I'm doing now with VNC).
Thanks a bunch, even though you now make me feel like an idiot for not seeing it sooner:)
have you tried to install Windows XP on a system with SATA disks only and no floppy ? There is absolutely No Way (actually you *can* put the drivers on a custom XP boot disk, if you know how and if you have access to another machine with CD burner. Otherwise no go)
LOL, on my last system I actually had to run back to the computer store to buy a stinkin' floppy drive, because that's exactly what happened during the initial setup:)
Vista *finally* allows third-party drivers at install time on a CD... (woo, progress)
If you want a decent headset, get a Sennheiser... For the same price you will get much much better sound quality. Even TFA mentions this particular headset isn't great for music.
What makes this a "gaming" headset? The bundled microphone? The carrying bag? The price? The fact that it comes in a box?
The keypad and reader should be integrated into one, customer-accessed device, and this unit should only send a "valid" signal to the terminal, not a pincode in whatever form.
We have those in Canada. But as a customer, how can you tell if the device itself is genuine? For example we had cases were fraudsters used a "shell" that wrapped the original keypad + reader, but the shell looks almost identical to the real thing. I've seen some pictures online but I cannot locate them anymore; it was quite impressive. I worked in the industry for more than two years programming for these things, and I would have been fooled.
I've heard of at least one case were fraudsters were actually shelling an entire ATM from a reputable bank at its own site. The real ATM was under the shell, so it would still work and give you your money, yet your PIN + magstripe info are now stolen. How they can do that without being noticed is beyond me!
And then there are a bunch of generic ATMs in bars and gas stations, without any way to know if the machine is legitimate or not... No bank is "attached" to them, just some crap name company you've never heard of.
So, in other words, the problem is the PIN, not the device:-/
There was also a simpler work-around known as guard time. Basically, the modem would expect a counfigurable amount of DTE silence on either side of the escape sequence. This technique was patented by Hayes, who charged a healthy fee for it. So most budget modems suffered from the problem.
Thanks for the insight. I've always wondered why people made such a fuss about +++ATH, because nothing ever happened for me. I thought it was just a lame joke, or an urban legend... It seems US Robotics just paid the license fee:)
I remember USR modems would require a three-second pause after +++, otherwise the modem wouldn't drop to command mode. I think there was an Sx command to set the delay to whatever you wanted.
[...] isn't paging out part of the VM to a hot swappable device just dope-assed?
Yeah, that's not the only weird thing from TFA. For example in the introduction:
"The whole kernel has been reorganized and rewritten to help prevent software from affecting the system in unsavory ways."
I don't believe for a second they rewrote the fscking NT kernel. It may have been adjusted, tweaked, overhauled (insert favorite term) but it hasn't been rewritten.
I don't get it, "Rebuilt from the ground up" is always seen as a positive thing coming from a Marketing dept or a review, but for me (as a developer) that always spells trouble. Rewrite == new untested code == new bugs == stuff that worked before won't anymore.
How do you expect OpenGL to run two 3D Applications utilizing 128mb of GPU RAM, while the UI desktop environment is consuming 32bit of GPU RAM, on a Video card that only as 128mb of RAM?
OpenGL already supports this. It's the same as running that "128MB of GPU RAM" app on a GPU that only has 64MB, the GL implementation manages which textures live in video RAM and which can be evicted. Naturally this will get much much better once video RAM virtualization comes in (as you mentionned originally).
Look at the GL spec, and notice how there is no concept of video memory in there... It is up to the GL implementation to make sure it Just Works. This is no accident.
Sure the Quake Model ran, but pop open two other 3D rich applications tapping into OpenGL. The demonstration would not be quite as pretty.
I agree that the performance will suffer in this example, but that's not the point I'm making. What I'm saying is, all of these apps will continue to work fine even if run simultaneously. Keep in mind, a 3D desktop doesn't even come close to the GPU usage of a typical 3D game...
I think what you're saying is that we need to get the GPU virtualization soon; I completely agree with that. However I believe the existing interface is fine as it is today, as all changes can be transparently implemented at the driver level (hence, non-breaking changes for existing apps).
Part of the problem of Bringing any 3D GPU functions to the desktop is the nature of Video cards, and they are designed to operate in a 2d accelerated mode and a full 3d accelerated mode, with both aspects of the cards not mixing normally.
Actually it's the reverse, you hardly have any 2D-specific hardware left anymore these days. Everything 2D does can be done using 3D primitives. This also adds some nice features "for free" to the 2D primitives, such as blending, filtering, etc.
You still have 2D-specific APIs, and these don't always play well with 3D APIs, but that's entirely a software problem...
A full OpenGl desktop will be problematic when you want to run a 'windowed' version of Quake in for example, as the applicaiton will be expecting to have full control of the OpenGL/GPU and not expecting the first priority to be going to the Desktop Environment.
Running Quake windowed in a 3D desktop is almost a non-issue. Quake DOES NOT CONTROL the GPU, it uses OpenGL to do so. Only the GL implementation (ie the driver) talks to the GPU. The driver is smart enough to dispatch commands appropriately, and to keep a context per app (this is what the GL context is for!).
In the OpenGL Desktop case, every window simply becomes a texture. In your example, that Quake window on the 3D desktop just happens to be Quake's backbuffer...
So to get to the full OpenGL desktop is going to break a lot of existing 3D applications in the *nix/OpenGL world, or a technology to bridge this is going to have to come about.
See above. 3D apps are the easy part. We can already run multiple 3D apps simultaneously without any problems.
Old legacy 2D apps are another matter, but as long as you can reliably implement the legacy 2D API using the modern 3D API, things should work fine. There's your "technology bridge" right there.
In OpenGL that's a bit hard since the rasterization rules give you some leeway in how to render things; this is fine for 3D but even a 1-pixel error is totally unacceptable for a 2D app. *That* is the hard part.:)
AGP isn't entirely a one-way bus. Plenty of AGP video cards were able to do video capture without using any other bus to grab the data.
Indeed. IIRC, the AGP bus supports the PCI protocol too (so you could have an AGP card in PCI mode). It is possible for the GPU to read from and write to normal system memory, provided the memory is locked and the pages are contiguous (so called PCI memory). Back when I was writing video drivers, we used that feature to quickly get data out of the GPU when we could. I suspect video capture cards use this feature, as it's painfully slow to get anything out of AGP memory.
I don't recall the speed ratings, though... There were lots of gotchas (cache coherency, synchronization issues, etc) but even then it was faster than anything the CPU could do.
it definitely adds an element of " I Really gotta keep playing this game " to every game.
Indeed, achievements are the only reason I even bothered to finish King Kong, to get those +1000 points to my gamer card:)
Achievements are quite addictive and are an added incentive to actually finish a game. It also gives you some insight on the kind of gamer you're up against when playing under Live (eg if you have unlocked the All Platinum Medals achievement in PGR3, I do not want to race you). I think it's brilliant!
Speaking of King Kong, there are some more unlockables in the game once you finish it, but you don't get any achievements from them so I won't bother... (hmm, double-edged sword?)
[...] if you leave geeks to their own devices, they'll work on what they want, never mind what they're supposed to. [...] The "ooh! shiny!" coding or app that you're playing with, instead of getting your principal job done.
Eh, this is exactly why so much "utility software" these days is skinnable, yet non-functional...:-/
Most every saleman/sales manager position I've ever heard of has a commission on sales, either a flat rate or depending on the margin of that product. You always encourage more sales and more high-margin sales, and I think every salesperson understands the basics of that.
It may be different in the US, but here in Canada, Best Buy employees are not on commission (or so they say - they even advertise this). If it is the case, I presume there is still some kind of compensation related to sales (otherwise what's the point of selling more?).
Back when the PS2 launched, several stores in my city pulled similar stunts. For example Microplay would not sell you a PS2 unless you bought 2 games with it (from a pre-selection of course), and they did not advertise that fact.
I remember hearing similar stories at the Xbox launch... I'm just glad I managed to avoid those stores until now:)
Extreme programming is your friend on this one. Doesn't matter what language you use, test and retest at every change. Testing is the only, only, only way to get extremely stable software outside of formal verification methods.
It's incredible how much more productive you can be writing the tests first (contrary to what you might think initially). I hardly ever need a debugger anymore, and I know that the code I wrote does the right thing, and doesn't adversely affect something else.
Put the unit tests as a post-build step (or a dummy target in a makefile) and any defect will pop up instantly. If you find a bug not covered by your test suite, add a test that reproduces the problem, ensuring that it will never bite you again.
As much as I appreciate the warning, hints on HOW to know if you're infected would have certainly helped. "Make sure your virus scanner is up to date" isn't much to go on, especially since TFA mentions some (unnamed?) scanners cannot detect the infection.
I never open attachments *ever* so I probably have nothing to worry about.
Thanks a bunch CNN! I'll go look elsewhere for real information.
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As the other respondant has noted, you don't need to install anything; it's already installed in OS X 10.3+; just open the preference pane and configure it.
:)
WTF! You mean that all this time, I was fighting with osxvnc for NOTHING?!
*runs over to the Mac running 10.4*
Wow. Indeed this works quite well from the Win32 VNCviewer. I always believed you had to buy ARD to do this (and then only control Macs from other Macs, not cross-platform like I'm doing now with VNC).
Thanks a bunch, even though you now make me feel like an idiot for not seeing it sooner
have you tried to install Windows XP on a system with SATA disks only and no floppy ? There is absolutely No Way (actually you *can* put the drivers on a custom XP boot disk, if you know how and if you have access to another machine with CD burner. Otherwise no go)
:)
LOL, on my last system I actually had to run back to the computer store to buy a stinkin' floppy drive, because that's exactly what happened during the initial setup
Vista *finally* allows third-party drivers at install time on a CD... (woo, progress)
Do you know how many freaking remotes I have right now?
May I suggest the Harmony remote... Best home theater gadget I ever bought (I got lucky, I only paid $99 CDN for the 659 model).
As a nice side-effect, it also eliminates the support calls from your SO asking how to watch a DVD, etc...
If you want a decent headset, get a Sennheiser... For the same price you will get much much better sound quality. Even TFA mentions this particular headset isn't great for music.
What makes this a "gaming" headset? The bundled microphone? The carrying bag? The price? The fact that it comes in a box?
Poll: Name ONE Bethesda title that didn't suck!
:)
Wayne Gretzky Hockey on Amiga, with the puck that shattered your monitor during the intro. Loads of fun with this one.
Hmm, I guess that kinda proves your point, though...
The keypad and reader should be integrated into one, customer-accessed device, and this unit should only send a "valid" signal to the terminal, not a pincode in whatever form.
:-/
We have those in Canada. But as a customer, how can you tell if the device itself is genuine? For example we had cases were fraudsters used a "shell" that wrapped the original keypad + reader, but the shell looks almost identical to the real thing. I've seen some pictures online but I cannot locate them anymore; it was quite impressive. I worked in the industry for more than two years programming for these things, and I would have been fooled.
I've heard of at least one case were fraudsters were actually shelling an entire ATM from a reputable bank at its own site. The real ATM was under the shell, so it would still work and give you your money, yet your PIN + magstripe info are now stolen. How they can do that without being noticed is beyond me!
And then there are a bunch of generic ATMs in bars and gas stations, without any way to know if the machine is legitimate or not... No bank is "attached" to them, just some crap name company you've never heard of.
So, in other words, the problem is the PIN, not the device
Could you suggest the best download manager to use with FlashGot on Windows?
:)
Try Reget Deluxe... Haven't seen anything better yet.
If only they made a Linux version, I'd finally switch
There was also a simpler work-around known as guard time. Basically, the modem would expect a counfigurable amount of DTE silence on either side of the escape sequence. This technique was patented by Hayes, who charged a healthy fee for it. So most budget modems suffered from the problem.
:)
:)
Thanks for the insight. I've always wondered why people made such a fuss about +++ATH, because nothing ever happened for me. I thought it was just a lame joke, or an urban legend... It seems US Robotics just paid the license fee
I remember USR modems would require a three-second pause after +++, otherwise the modem wouldn't drop to command mode. I think there was an Sx command to set the delay to whatever you wanted.
Ah, memories of my Courier HST...
[...] isn't paging out part of the VM to a hot swappable device just dope-assed?
Yeah, that's not the only weird thing from TFA. For example in the introduction:
"The whole kernel has been reorganized and rewritten to help prevent software from affecting the system in unsavory ways."
I don't believe for a second they rewrote the fscking NT kernel. It may have been adjusted, tweaked, overhauled (insert favorite term) but it hasn't been rewritten.
I don't get it, "Rebuilt from the ground up" is always seen as a positive thing coming from a Marketing dept or a review, but for me (as a developer) that always spells trouble. Rewrite == new untested code == new bugs == stuff that worked before won't anymore.
Apple has no game experiance. It would truly suck
Well, there was this one time, at band camp...
Best ever: Epyx 500XJ
:)
Damn right! I had one of those for my Amiga, with an autofire function. Although the loud microswitch clicking did get annoying after a while...
Hmm, I think I still have a PC version somewhere...
How do you expect OpenGL to run two 3D Applications utilizing 128mb of GPU RAM, while the UI desktop environment is consuming 32bit of GPU RAM, on a Video card that only as 128mb of RAM?
OpenGL already supports this. It's the same as running that "128MB of GPU RAM" app on a GPU that only has 64MB, the GL implementation manages which textures live in video RAM and which can be evicted. Naturally this will get much much better once video RAM virtualization comes in (as you mentionned originally).
Look at the GL spec, and notice how there is no concept of video memory in there... It is up to the GL implementation to make sure it Just Works. This is no accident.
Sure the Quake Model ran, but pop open two other 3D rich applications tapping into OpenGL. The demonstration would not be quite as pretty.
I agree that the performance will suffer in this example, but that's not the point I'm making. What I'm saying is, all of these apps will continue to work fine even if run simultaneously. Keep in mind, a 3D desktop doesn't even come close to the GPU usage of a typical 3D game...
I think what you're saying is that we need to get the GPU virtualization soon; I completely agree with that. However I believe the existing interface is fine as it is today, as all changes can be transparently implemented at the driver level (hence, non-breaking changes for existing apps).
Part of the problem of Bringing any 3D GPU functions to the desktop is the nature of Video cards, and they are designed to operate in a 2d accelerated mode and a full 3d accelerated mode, with both aspects of the cards not mixing normally.
:)
Actually it's the reverse, you hardly have any 2D-specific hardware left anymore these days. Everything 2D does can be done using 3D primitives. This also adds some nice features "for free" to the 2D primitives, such as blending, filtering, etc.
You still have 2D-specific APIs, and these don't always play well with 3D APIs, but that's entirely a software problem...
A full OpenGl desktop will be problematic when you want to run a 'windowed' version of Quake in for example, as the applicaiton will be expecting to have full control of the OpenGL/GPU and not expecting the first priority to be going to the Desktop Environment.
Running Quake windowed in a 3D desktop is almost a non-issue. Quake DOES NOT CONTROL the GPU, it uses OpenGL to do so. Only the GL implementation (ie the driver) talks to the GPU. The driver is smart enough to dispatch commands appropriately, and to keep a context per app (this is what the GL context is for!).
In the OpenGL Desktop case, every window simply becomes a texture. In your example, that Quake window on the 3D desktop just happens to be Quake's backbuffer...
So to get to the full OpenGL desktop is going to break a lot of existing 3D applications in the *nix/OpenGL world, or a technology to bridge this is going to have to come about.
See above. 3D apps are the easy part. We can already run multiple 3D apps simultaneously without any problems.
Old legacy 2D apps are another matter, but as long as you can reliably implement the legacy 2D API using the modern 3D API, things should work fine. There's your "technology bridge" right there.
In OpenGL that's a bit hard since the rasterization rules give you some leeway in how to render things; this is fine for 3D but even a 1-pixel error is totally unacceptable for a 2D app. *That* is the hard part.
AGP isn't entirely a one-way bus. Plenty of AGP video cards were able to do video capture without using any other bus to grab the data.
Indeed. IIRC, the AGP bus supports the PCI protocol too (so you could have an AGP card in PCI mode). It is possible for the GPU to read from and write to normal system memory, provided the memory is locked and the pages are contiguous (so called PCI memory). Back when I was writing video drivers, we used that feature to quickly get data out of the GPU when we could. I suspect video capture cards use this feature, as it's painfully slow to get anything out of AGP memory.
I don't recall the speed ratings, though... There were lots of gotchas (cache coherency, synchronization issues, etc) but even then it was faster than anything the CPU could do.
it definitely adds an element of " I Really gotta keep playing this game " to every game.
:)
Indeed, achievements are the only reason I even bothered to finish King Kong, to get those +1000 points to my gamer card
Achievements are quite addictive and are an added incentive to actually finish a game. It also gives you some insight on the kind of gamer you're up against when playing under Live (eg if you have unlocked the All Platinum Medals achievement in PGR3, I do not want to race you). I think it's brilliant!
Speaking of King Kong, there are some more unlockables in the game once you finish it, but you don't get any achievements from them so I won't bother... (hmm, double-edged sword?)
[...] if you leave geeks to their own devices, they'll work on what they want, never mind what they're supposed to. [...] The "ooh! shiny!" coding or app that you're playing with, instead of getting your principal job done.
:-/
Eh, this is exactly why so much "utility software" these days is skinnable, yet non-functional...
Most every saleman/sales manager position I've ever heard of has a commission on sales, either a flat rate or depending on the margin of that product. You always encourage more sales and more high-margin sales, and I think every salesperson understands the basics of that.
:)
It may be different in the US, but here in Canada, Best Buy employees are not on commission (or so they say - they even advertise this). If it is the case, I presume there is still some kind of compensation related to sales (otherwise what's the point of selling more?).
Back when the PS2 launched, several stores in my city pulled similar stunts. For example Microplay would not sell you a PS2 unless you bought 2 games with it (from a pre-selection of course), and they did not advertise that fact.
I remember hearing similar stories at the Xbox launch... I'm just glad I managed to avoid those stores until now
But I doubt if anybody will buy a brand that's crashed and burned twice.
I have this eerie feeling of having seen all this before...
Extreme programming is your friend on this one. Doesn't matter what language you use, test and retest at every change. Testing is the only, only, only way to get extremely stable software outside of formal verification methods.
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Exactly. Three words: Test Driven Development.
Since you're tied to C++, may I suggest CppUnitLite2 1.1...
It's incredible how much more productive you can be writing the tests first (contrary to what you might think initially). I hardly ever need a debugger anymore, and I know that the code I wrote does the right thing, and doesn't adversely affect something else.
Put the unit tests as a post-build step (or a dummy target in a makefile) and any defect will pop up instantly. If you find a bug not covered by your test suite, add a test that reproduces the problem, ensuring that it will never bite you again.
If you're not familiar with TDD, check out Wikipedia for an explanation and some useful external links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_driven_developm
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WTF?!
It seems some moderators are having fun at my expense. Two posts moderated down to 0? Can someone explain? (Honestly, I'd like to know)
My (GP) post was on topic, and was valid criticism (which is, the CNN article does little to explain how to know if you're infected).
Oh come on, a post with a score of 1 without moderation gets "-1, Overrated"?!
Are there some CNN execs lurking here that must censor anything negative about their company?
As much as I appreciate the warning, hints on HOW to know if you're infected would have certainly helped. "Make sure your virus scanner is up to date" isn't much to go on, especially since TFA mentions some (unnamed?) scanners cannot detect the infection.
I never open attachments *ever* so I probably have nothing to worry about.
Thanks a bunch CNN! I'll go look elsewhere for real information.
They should really make a keyboard for programmers. They could have a For loop key, an "if" key,and put the operators in easier to reach spots.
:)
Ugh, I just had flashbacks of the Timex Sinclair "programmer keyboard" with one BASIC statement per key...
*shudders*
It's been tried plenty before, and it doesn't work, I'm glad this is gone
A fan in the external PSU simply makes sense... air conditioning or not a simple small fan would stop almost all of this trouble.
:)
Actually the 360 does have a fan in its external PSU (yeah, surprised me too), it's just really silent.
Don't have a box yet, huh?