10 gigs? I should've RTFA'd. That's more than enough for a webserver and some samba shares.
Yep... I just think its sad that linux users keep going through the "linux on the toaster!" when it sounds like more and more all everybody wants is a nice simple *nix $200 barebones "just-works" netpliance.
And I've looked - its really hard to put together a PC for under $200, especially in a nice form factor mini-ITX case.
Roll this sucker out with Fedora and let the hardcores wipe it and put on Gentoo.
Idunno, when I read the headline I was hoping for the reverse - that is, a trojan email virus that would use luser computers to DDOS spammers. Instead of white-hats vs. black-hats, we'd have black-hats vs. blacker-hats.
Yeah, Palm is goin' bye-bye. If Bay Street in Toronto is any indication, the suits are all into RIM now. Can't say a blame them - J2ME + Thumbboard + beats Palm-proprietary bytecode + Grafitti2 (ick!), besides Palm being a little late-to-market with cellular support.
Hmm, a PalmSource employee... what would I want to say to a PalmSource employee.
Oh, right.
Apologise for Grafitti 2. Right now.
(unless PalmSource had nothing to do with Grafitti 2 - I just feel that someone should apologise for the fact that I can type as fast in my Motorola T720's phonepad by mashing numbers as I can write in plain english on my friggin' Zire 21)
Well, this is somehwat different. Replacing all of the minimum media in Moz or RH wouldn't be that hard for one decent graphic artist - probably a week's work if you rushed and weren't picky, to get it to minimum usable qualtiy. Plus, even if it was ugly, it would still work.
A game is different - the graphical, sound, and scripted content are a huge body of labour. Look how many 100% free software projects there are, and then compare them to the meagre list of free game projects. Lots of engines, no games.
And that's not even beginning to get into some of the uglier products of the FOSS "art" community - Open Quartz and Free Doom, two resource packs intended to replace all of the "closed" content of Id's Doom and Quake engines. Fugly does not begin to describe them, at least last time I looked (I hear Quartz recently got a new pack of stuff that looks better tho).
Such an abysmal shame - if you could run linux on it and could stick in a real hard disk, every geek and his brother would buy one. After all, we all run fileservers, ftp servers, game servers, print servers, etc. Hell, if you bundled it all up tight enough with a dynDNS service, you could even get it to be a popular end-user device (host 20 gigs of webspace at home! Upload all those old wedding pictures to your website 100 times faster than normal!).
At any rate, the problem is that all these servers that geeks run are usually horribly high-wattage cases, wasting tons of power doing nothing. This little beauty would be perfect for those environmentally-conscious geeks who want a nice low-power server box to drop into their home network.
Yes, well, it just seems stupid that you can do incredibly well on the questions and still fail miserably due to the board. Plus, many newer round-robin games have inventions that keep the other players active while player X is doing his turn - in Trivial Pursuit, you just sit and watch, and this can often take a while if he is good at answering.
now, user downloads the file from p2p, and one user gives him file1 and one user gives him file2.
you get: file3: xxxxxyyxxx which has the same has file1 and file2. That's the problem - not only can two files have the same hash, the combination of those files (as would occur with a corrupted P2P file) also has the same hash.
The blurb is unclear, but it sounds like you have to have created the original file with the original intent that a portion would be "swapped". So, a content creator could create a legitimate piece of content and get that reviewed, and then create a malicious piece of content with the same md5. Not quite as nasty as hacking an existing md5'd file, but still nasty.
Of course, I could be completely misunderstanding the information at hand.
Oh, I wasn't saying that games available in the states are bad - I even see Catan in common toy stores these days - I was just saying that Cheapass is the best North American company for games. Catan is European.
While the questions are excellent, the actual game in Trivial Pursuit is moronic. The board game is horribly chance-oriented "Oh, missed the pie. Missed it again. Missed it again."
Or Carcasonne, or Tikal, or any other clever European historical strategy games set in an esoteric city?
oh, I stand corrected, they have a Carcasonne game.
Alternately, while very few of them are suitable as a gift, CheapAss games still seems to eclipse the entire creative output of the rest of the boardgame/cardgame industry in North America at a fraction of the price.
Still, too bad all my faves are discontinued, like WotC's Robo Rally or CheapAss's Starbase Jeff.
Yup, and the conservative ideology of making up big meaningless policies like "No child left behind" that don't actually do anything to solve the problems ain't so hot either.
The real solution? Do what they did here in Ontario: get in there and get your hands dirty with the school boards - new policies require that teachers test with higher level problems, including specific marking breakdowns for how much of the course is allowed to be rote memorywork. Unfortunately they also added stupid standardised testing in their last round of changes.
Einstein sent this reply, along with a page full of diagrams, to a 15-year-old girl who had written for help on a homework assignment: "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are much greater."
My wife's studying to be a math teacher - she loves that one.
This is obviously part of China's oppressive "great firewall of China". Its disappointing to see Clinton involved in something like this. While I know he made it a point in his administration to maintain good relations with China, this kind of encouragement of their censorship activities shouldn't happen.
Damn - why's he gotta keep smearing my old '90s rose-coloured-glasses?
look into Absolute Annihilation - pleasantly mixes Uberhack-style balancing, rescaled Krogoth (and Arm counterpart, Orcone) and adds new units only where there's a new niche to fill, instead of the usual "everything but the kitchen sink" unit packs, while still adding a healthy list of new units.
I mean really, alarm bells should go off when you release a re-make of your first title in the series (Dune 2000) and it plays almost exactly like your latest release (Tiberium Sun).
I enjoyed Dune II. I thought Command and Conquer was okay. When Red Alert came out, I pretty much had accepted what Westwood was doing: new engine, same game. Its like EA Sports titles, but an RTS.
N generations later, and they still suck compared to Total Annihilation and StarCraft.
On a related note, when did the latinization of Hannukah metamorphose into Channukah? I see that everywhere, but I don't remember when it changed. Did I miss a memo?
The same goes for many Chinese names - like how people now seem to be referring to Mao Tse Tsung as Mao Zedong.
Have a Radeon All-In-Wonder, but we all know how spectacular ATI's Linux drivers are. Would this thing work with my Remote Wonder? Hell, ATIs software division manages to consistently disappoint - the WinXP PVR suite that comes with the AIW is outright _awful_ - for example, there is no way from the TV GUI to discover new files in your library - so if you download something or insert a CD full of movies, you have to use the Windows-style library manager program, which is horribly painful to use from the Remote Wonder. Plus, there's no way to select which sound card to use as output, and I use my onboard soundcard to hook to the TV, leaving my surround-sound Live card for PC gaming uses (ZoomPlayer handles this problem just fine).
OT: Anybody know a good win32 video player with support for a Remote Wonder? One that doesn't use the common dialog box to open files (that just doesn't work on a TV screen - text is too tiny, and unpleasant with the remote).
He wasn't replying to you - he was replying to an AC that posted:
Good. As soon as the internet isn't profibitable at all, the commercialization will go away and it will be returned to the hands of academics, hobbiests and enthusiasts.
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10 gigs? I should've RTFA'd. That's more than enough for a webserver and some samba shares.
Yep... I just think its sad that linux users keep going through the "linux on the toaster!" when it sounds like more and more all everybody wants is a nice simple *nix $200 barebones "just-works" netpliance.
And I've looked - its really hard to put together a PC for under $200, especially in a nice form factor mini-ITX case.
Roll this sucker out with Fedora and let the hardcores wipe it and put on Gentoo.
T? You mean words that end in 'l' that metamorphose into words that end in 't'.
Or developers use some strange language where n, h, and u are all the same letter.
Idunno, when I read the headline I was hoping for the reverse - that is, a trojan email virus that would use luser computers to DDOS spammers. Instead of white-hats vs. black-hats, we'd have black-hats vs. blacker-hats.
Yeah, Palm is goin' bye-bye. If Bay Street in Toronto is any indication, the suits are all into RIM now. Can't say a blame them - J2ME + Thumbboard + beats Palm-proprietary bytecode + Grafitti2 (ick!), besides Palm being a little late-to-market with cellular support.
Hmm, a PalmSource employee... what would I want to say to a PalmSource employee.
Oh, right.
Apologise for Grafitti 2. Right now.
(unless PalmSource had nothing to do with Grafitti 2 - I just feel that someone should apologise for the fact that I can type as fast in my Motorola T720's phonepad by mashing numbers as I can write in plain english on my friggin' Zire 21)
Well, this is somehwat different. Replacing all of the minimum media in Moz or RH wouldn't be that hard for one decent graphic artist - probably a week's work if you rushed and weren't picky, to get it to minimum usable qualtiy. Plus, even if it was ugly, it would still work.
A game is different - the graphical, sound, and scripted content are a huge body of labour. Look how many 100% free software projects there are, and then compare them to the meagre list of free game projects. Lots of engines, no games.
And that's not even beginning to get into some of the uglier products of the FOSS "art" community - Open Quartz and Free Doom, two resource packs intended to replace all of the "closed" content of Id's Doom and Quake engines. Fugly does not begin to describe them, at least last time I looked (I hear Quartz recently got a new pack of stuff that looks better tho).
Such an abysmal shame - if you could run linux on it and could stick in a real hard disk, every geek and his brother would buy one. After all, we all run fileservers, ftp servers, game servers, print servers, etc. Hell, if you bundled it all up tight enough with a dynDNS service, you could even get it to be a popular end-user device (host 20 gigs of webspace at home! Upload all those old wedding pictures to your website 100 times faster than normal!).
At any rate, the problem is that all these servers that geeks run are usually horribly high-wattage cases, wasting tons of power doing nothing. This little beauty would be perfect for those environmentally-conscious geeks who want a nice low-power server box to drop into their home network.
Yes, well, it just seems stupid that you can do incredibly well on the questions and still fail miserably due to the board. Plus, many newer round-robin games have inventions that keep the other players active while player X is doing his turn - in Trivial Pursuit, you just sit and watch, and this can often take a while if he is good at answering.
Wait - no - I'm completely fscking wrong.
I think the point was this.
file1: xxxxxxxxxx
file2: xxxxxyyyyy
%file1 = %file2
now, user downloads the file from p2p, and one user gives him file1 and one user gives him file2.
you get:
file3: xxxxxyyxxx
which has the same has file1 and file2. That's the problem - not only can two files have the same hash, the combination of those files (as would occur with a corrupted P2P file) also has the same hash.
Or I still could be wrong.
The blurb is unclear, but it sounds like you have to have created the original file with the original intent that a portion would be "swapped". So, a content creator could create a legitimate piece of content and get that reviewed, and then create a malicious piece of content with the same md5. Not quite as nasty as hacking an existing md5'd file, but still nasty.
Of course, I could be completely misunderstanding the information at hand.
Oh, I wasn't saying that games available in the states are bad - I even see Catan in common toy stores these days - I was just saying that Cheapass is the best North American company for games. Catan is European.
Idunno, I usually see it used as a "we're all in this together, even Einstein had it tough" sort of inspiration.
While the questions are excellent, the actual game in Trivial Pursuit is moronic. The board game is horribly chance-oriented "Oh, missed the pie. Missed it again. Missed it again."
Or Carcasonne, or Tikal, or any other clever European historical strategy games set in an esoteric city?
oh, I stand corrected, they have a Carcasonne game.
Alternately, while very few of them are suitable as a gift, CheapAss games still seems to eclipse the entire creative output of the rest of the boardgame/cardgame industry in North America at a fraction of the price.
Still, too bad all my faves are discontinued, like WotC's Robo Rally or CheapAss's Starbase Jeff.
Right. Because NCLB fixed everything. Because the red states produce smarkter kids. Because football is more important than academics.
Yeah, its all the lefties' fault.
Yup, and the conservative ideology of making up big meaningless policies like "No child left behind" that don't actually do anything to solve the problems ain't so hot either.
The real solution? Do what they did here in Ontario: get in there and get your hands dirty with the school boards - new policies require that teachers test with higher level problems, including specific marking breakdowns for how much of the course is allowed to be rote memorywork. Unfortunately they also added stupid standardised testing in their last round of changes.
Einstein sent this reply, along with a page full of diagrams, to a 15-year-old girl who had written for help on a homework assignment: "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are much greater."
My wife's studying to be a math teacher - she loves that one.
This is obviously part of China's oppressive "great firewall of China". Its disappointing to see Clinton involved in something like this. While I know he made it a point in his administration to maintain good relations with China, this kind of encouragement of their censorship activities shouldn't happen.
Damn - why's he gotta keep smearing my old '90s rose-coloured-glasses?
look into Absolute Annihilation - pleasantly mixes Uberhack-style balancing, rescaled Krogoth (and Arm counterpart, Orcone) and adds new units only where there's a new niche to fill, instead of the usual "everything but the kitchen sink" unit packs, while still adding a healthy list of new units.
Why don't they just call it like it is:
Command and Conquer: Yeah, Its Still Dune II.
I mean really, alarm bells should go off when you release a re-make of your first title in the series (Dune 2000) and it plays almost exactly like your latest release (Tiberium Sun).
I enjoyed Dune II. I thought Command and Conquer was okay. When Red Alert came out, I pretty much had accepted what Westwood was doing: new engine, same game. Its like EA Sports titles, but an RTS.
N generations later, and they still suck compared to Total Annihilation and StarCraft.
On a related note, when did the latinization of Hannukah metamorphose into Channukah? I see that everywhere, but I don't remember when it changed. Did I miss a memo?
The same goes for many Chinese names - like how people now seem to be referring to Mao Tse Tsung as Mao Zedong.
Have a Radeon All-In-Wonder, but we all know how spectacular ATI's Linux drivers are. Would this thing work with my Remote Wonder? Hell, ATIs software division manages to consistently disappoint - the WinXP PVR suite that comes with the AIW is outright _awful_ - for example, there is no way from the TV GUI to discover new files in your library - so if you download something or insert a CD full of movies, you have to use the Windows-style library manager program, which is horribly painful to use from the Remote Wonder. Plus, there's no way to select which sound card to use as output, and I use my onboard soundcard to hook to the TV, leaving my surround-sound Live card for PC gaming uses (ZoomPlayer handles this problem just fine).
OT: Anybody know a good win32 video player with support for a Remote Wonder? One that doesn't use the common dialog box to open files (that just doesn't work on a TV screen - text is too tiny, and unpleasant with the remote).
He wasn't replying to you - he was replying to an AC that posted:
Good. As soon as the internet isn't profibitable at all, the commercialization will go away and it will be returned to the hands of academics, hobbiests and enthusiasts.
Funny, B2) was my initial reaction when I heard about W's Mars plans myself.