People should give their spare CPU cycles to useful distributed computing efforts like www.dcypher.net or www.distributed.net. If you want to actually contribute to something useful you should go to the links above instead of wasting your time with SETI@Home which sends out duplicate work because it already has too many people helping:P
I find it amusing that they actually thought their protection would actually stand up against any sort of effort to break it. They could look at the history of CD protection as an example, every time a new format to insure the CD couldn't be copied it was quickly broken.
It seems odd to me that they are using 200 MHZ K6-2 chips, the cost of this chip is so low as to be not even a factor in the price for only 11. To be a supercomputer I think it would need about 50 of those chips, but that still would be a mediocre supercomputer in my opinion:P
I came across an interesting item on the Jagged Alliance web site (www.jaggedalliance.com): "Jagged Alliance 2 To Be Ported To Linux: Tribsoft will be developing a Linux port of Jagged Alliance 2. Jagged Alliance 2 for Linux will be bundled with the new Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business expansion pack. "The growing acceptance of Linux is one of the most important trends in this industry," said series creator Ian Currie. "We're extremely pleased that Tribsoft will be bringing Jagged Alliance 2 to this platform." Jagged Alliance 2 for Linux will be available in Spring 2000. " For those of you not familiar with Jagged Alliance 2, it is an excellent game and hopefully Sir-Tech will continue to port some of its upcoming games, I'd love to see Wizardry 8 for Linux;).
If you don't want to look at anonymous posts you can always just set your score threshold at 1 and you wouldn't see any (unless the post was excellent and received points).
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People should give their spare CPU cycles to useful distributed computing efforts like www.dcypher.net or www.distributed.net. If you want to actually contribute to something useful you should go to the links above instead of wasting your time with SETI@Home which sends out duplicate work because it already has too many people helping :P
I find it amusing that they actually thought their protection would actually stand up against any sort of effort to break it. They could look at the history of CD protection as an example, every time a new format to insure the CD couldn't be copied it was quickly broken.
It seems odd to me that they are using 200 MHZ K6-2 chips, the cost of this chip is so low as to be not even a factor in the price for only 11. To be a supercomputer I think it would need about 50 of those chips, but that still would be a mediocre supercomputer in my opinion :P
I came across an interesting item on the Jagged Alliance web site (www.jaggedalliance.com): "Jagged Alliance 2 To Be Ported To Linux: Tribsoft will be developing a Linux port of Jagged Alliance 2. Jagged Alliance 2 for Linux will be bundled with the new Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business expansion pack. "The growing acceptance of Linux is one of the most important trends in this industry," said series creator Ian Currie. "We're extremely pleased that Tribsoft will be bringing Jagged Alliance 2 to this platform." Jagged Alliance 2 for Linux will be available in Spring 2000. " For those of you not familiar with Jagged Alliance 2, it is an excellent game and hopefully Sir-Tech will continue to port some of its upcoming games, I'd love to see Wizardry 8 for Linux ;).
If you don't want to look at anonymous posts you can always just set your score threshold at 1 and you wouldn't see any (unless the post was excellent and received points).
Well, it took them long enough, but at least they're making an effort to return the airwaves to the people.
I don't understand this "loss of freedom" you are talking about...What does electronic voting have to do with it?