Quick question, suppose you want to keep track of system configuration changes using a source control management system - e.g. cvs. How do you do that on Windows? It's easy on unix machines.
Okay, in the stuff I've DM'd recently on pen & paper the following has happened in my last two sessions
a: In order to sneak through a gatehouse over a river entrance the druid of the group cast waterbreathing on herself which shares to all in contact, turned into a crocodile via shape change and ferried the party underwater neatly avoiding detection.
b: The rouge was worried that the statues might animate and ran to to collect a cloak lying on the floor exiting by jumping out of the window tumbling into the moat and swimming off.
Is the computer *really* going to be able to cope with these even with the assitance of a real life DM?
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" Finally, while giving away an unlimited number of copies to China may seem like a good idea, because the Chinese students may prefer this software when they are older, just remember how easy it is to get illegally pirated software in China. Who would pony up $75 when they could buy it on the streets for $5? This is like giving candy to child shoplifters in the hopes that when they get older they'll stop shoplifting and buy your candy. "
It's an extremely effective way to claim 50 million sales in the first week.
" Sex is supposed to be an expression of mutual love between two people, something that pornographers go to great lengths to destroy. "
Sex is a way to generate children. It's enjoyable to encourage you to do it. Your genes are attempted to ensure their survival and this is how they do it.
Everything else is human ideas about how we are supposed to behave.
" After all, why would you look at pictures of sex, when you can actually have sex? "
Why read books about conversations when you can have conversations? Why look at pictures of mountains when you can climb mountains? Why listen to music when you can play music? Why watch football when you can play football?
Maybe watching is a different activity to participating and maybe some people like [either|both|none].
I've bought two Dell pre-installed RedHat boxes. One came with the wrong version [7.0 instead of 7.1] and the other didn't boot. I had to boot Windows NT from the Dell recovery disk in order to install RedHat from the supplied CD's.
I'll stick to blank machines and my own CD's thank you very much. I'll pay RedHat if I have trouble installing since I have to do it myself anyway.
Except that the BBC isn't part of the MPAA. Buy off the BBC and you're giving very little if any money to the MPAA. They also aren't in the DVD-CCA and try very hard to support open standards as far as possible. e.g. Ogg radio & masses of Linux, Freebsd and Solaris servers. They also push an immense amount of bandwidth [1.5Gbps on the Queen Mothers funerals] and have no adverts.
It's not like they've even enforced much of a price difference - £25 ~ $37 which isn't far off the $35 recommended for the US price.
Or alternatively, maybe some people are prepared to sacrifice some unused processing speed for real tangible benefits like lower power consumption, no fans, silent hard disks.
My primary machine when at home is a P166 laptop with agressive power down on the hard disk. For the majority of tasks - e.g. email & web surfing the disk the disk is off and the machine is silent. It's also running on about 8W so it lasts a while on batteries.
My question is, why can't I buy a silent desktop machine? I have to buy a noisy power hungry machine several times faster than I want.
Samba is not licensed by Microsoft, but I am not breaking the law if I allow pirated copies of WinXP to connect to it. The lawbreaker is the owner of the pirated copy of XP.
Apache is not licensed by Opera. If someone uses a cracked copy of Opera to access my server that's not my fault.
In the case of bnetd, I believe there are channel bots that can be used. If a cracked channel bot is used on Battle.net is blizzard liable if the purpose of of Battle.net is to enforce copy protection?
" I'm still waiting for that list of what a "pure" manager contributes, BTW. "
They talk to the other pure managers on the other side of the deal - hopefully the managers from two companies will tie each others time up completely allowing the engineers from both places to talk freely to build something that works.
A steady stream of buzzwords to achieve full buzzword 4.3 compliance as required by the client?
e.g. 'We supply the Solaris Workstations' becomes 'delivered in a robust 64bit security enhanced custom configured appliance terminals'
I regret to inform you that the mastering on the new Alanis Morissette CD catalogue number $foo is faulty. Using my own ehanced proprietry CD mastering toolkit I have been able to remaster the CD correctly such that it complies with the CD Audio standard [reference $document_at_phillips] and now plays correctly on all devices bearing the CD Audio mark which your disc did not.
I regret to inform you that the cost of doing this has been
blank media $1 mastering time $50
I enclose an invoice for the following amount and a correctly mastered CD for your use.
I hereby grant you license to sell the remastered Alanis album for a royalty of $0.01 per copy.
If in future you wish to avoid the royalty I can supply you with a standards compilant mastering writer for the sum of $10000.
Please pay the invoice by cheque payable to $my_name within 28 days.
No it doesn't, that's why I had to jump through three zillion hoops in order to make it go.
It was nice getting the built in game logging features though - every game played on the server is logged and I think the new versions will even manage the ladder for you.
I'm a user of FSGS so I can play starcraft multiplayer games - here's why
My network consists of two segments, a wireless ethernet segment and a wired 10Mbit segment. Inbetween these is a linux machine with an ADSL connection to the internet.
Starcraft is UDP based, it's a horrendous amount of firewall hacking to get the three (or more) machines behind the firewall to play on battle.net. I can't use IPX since the linux machine won't forward the packets across network segments.
It was trivial to install FSGS on the linux server and point all the clients at it - hey presto - we have working network play *even* if my ADSL line is off.
What did I do that was illegal ?
Incidently I have to use a cracked version of Starcraft on the laptop because it only has one pcmcia slot so it can only use one of the network or cdrom at anyone time.
" Aye. The problem happens when you try coordinating these with clocks outside of that reference frame "
No there is no difficulty atall. The clocks are syncronised at a certain event [in my case the traveller leaving point A was defined to be (0,0) for all reference frames]. The clocks will run at a relative speed of gamma between all reference frames.
It is also possible for each person in each reference frame to calculate the space-time coordinates at which each event happens in each other persons reference frame.
The high speed observer in this case not only observes that the traveller arrives before he leaves, in his reference frame all observers will conclude that the traveller arrives before he leaves.
Now, since all inertial frames are equivalent [which is actually where the relativity comes in - there is no preferred frame, all are equivalent] the statement
'The traveller arrives before he leaves'
is true
as is the statment
'The traveller arrives after he leaves'
Do you think we have a paradox here?
Oh, from the travellers rest frame (v = 4c)
gamma = 1/sqrt(-3) = - i/sqrt(3)
assuming he synchronises his clock at x=0 t=0 with everyone else he arrives at
Would you like to explain how is clock is going to display the imaginary time?
[just as a postscript, I'm a bit out of practice with relativity, I haven't done anything serious for about 2 years when I finished my degree in Experimental and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University.]
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I guess you never wish to converse with a blind person, or someone who's restricted to a text only medium then?
Not to mention some refinements to a DVD ripper based on DeCSS, a number of customised cracking tools targetted specifically at www.nsa.gov etc. etc.
Quick question, suppose you want to keep track of system configuration changes using a source control management system - e.g. cvs. How do you do that on Windows? It's easy on unix machines.
I warrant that this software does everything that the source code states it will.
Okay, in the stuff I've DM'd recently on pen & paper the following has happened in my last two sessions
a: In order to sneak through a gatehouse over a river entrance the druid of the group cast waterbreathing on herself which shares to all in contact, turned into a crocodile via shape change and ferried the party underwater neatly avoiding detection.
b: The rouge was worried that the statues might animate and ran to to collect a cloak lying on the floor exiting by jumping out of the window tumbling into the moat and swimming off.
Is the computer *really* going to be able to cope with these even with the assitance of a real life DM?
"
Finally, while giving away an unlimited number of copies to China may seem like a good idea, because the Chinese students may prefer this software when they are older, just remember how easy it is to get illegally pirated software in China. Who would pony up $75 when they could buy it on the streets for $5? This is like giving candy to child shoplifters in the hopes that when they get older they'll stop shoplifting and buy your candy.
"
It's an extremely effective way to claim 50 million sales in the first week.
"
Sex is supposed to be an expression of mutual love between two people, something that pornographers go to great lengths to destroy.
"
Sex is a way to generate children. It's enjoyable to encourage you to do it. Your genes are attempted to ensure their survival and this is how they do it.
Everything else is human ideas about how we are supposed to behave.
"
After all, why would you look at pictures of sex, when you can actually have sex?
"
Why read books about conversations when you can have conversations? Why look at pictures of mountains when you can climb mountains? Why listen to music when you can play music? Why watch football when you can play football?
Maybe watching is a different activity to participating and maybe some people like [either|both|none].
I've bought two Dell pre-installed RedHat boxes. One came with the wrong version [7.0 instead of 7.1] and the other didn't boot. I had to boot Windows NT from the Dell recovery disk in order to install RedHat from the supplied CD's.
I'll stick to blank machines and my own CD's thank you very much. I'll pay RedHat if I have trouble installing since I have to do it myself anyway.
Except that the BBC isn't part of the MPAA. Buy off the BBC and you're giving very little if any money to the MPAA. They also aren't in the DVD-CCA and try very hard to support open standards as far as possible. e.g. Ogg radio & masses of Linux, Freebsd and Solaris servers. They also push an immense amount of bandwidth [1.5Gbps on the Queen Mothers funerals] and have no adverts.
It's not like they've even enforced much of a price difference - £25 ~ $37 which isn't far off the $35 recommended for the US price.
"
But bnetd? It's really just a way for people to play pirated videogame software.
"
CD Writers? It's really just a way for people to copy music and videogames.
The protection mechanism covers connecting to battle.net, a tcp/ip based game brokering service.
I can play multiplayer starcraft via IPX, Serial or Modem without connecting to battle.net. I believe I can play over the net via kali too.
Or alternatively, maybe some people are prepared to sacrifice some unused processing speed for real tangible benefits like lower power consumption, no fans, silent hard disks.
My primary machine when at home is a P166 laptop with agressive power down on the hard disk. For the majority of tasks - e.g. email & web surfing the disk the disk is off and the machine is silent. It's also running on about 8W so it lasts a while on batteries.
My question is, why can't I buy a silent desktop machine? I have to buy a noisy power hungry machine several times faster than I want.
Slander Slander Slander.
Many pimps and hustlers are nice people.
Okay,
Suppose it does play on my linux machine via cdparanoia or similar.
Can I sue them for mislabelling it?
Which is bizarre because with commercial software it's usually greeted with a hearty 'fuck off'.
The thought I had was to write DeCSS.
Wait for the MPAA to send the boys knocking and point out that the company owns the code and should be sued.
I wonder how long it would take the company to decide that they didn't really mean what was in the contract.
RedHat 7.2 Professional.
Credit Card bootable recovery CD ROM.
Exactly what everybody needs.
My m100 went for about a month without batteries and didn't lose any data.
That might just be because I had a full up to date backup though.
Okay, in my example,
Samba is not licensed by Microsoft, but I am not breaking the law if I allow pirated copies of WinXP to connect to it. The lawbreaker is the owner of the pirated copy of XP.
Apache is not licensed by Opera. If someone uses a cracked copy of Opera to access my server that's not my fault.
In the case of bnetd, I believe there are channel bots that can be used. If a cracked channel bot is used on Battle.net is blizzard liable if the purpose of of Battle.net is to enforce copy protection?
This is an advertisment for company $foo.
For a fee of $x / month we will allow you to use some of our network services with limited disk space allocated to you.
These are the services on offer
1 HTTP : You may connect and download material from our HTTP server.
2 FTP : You may connect and upload or download material from our FTP server subject to your disk space limits.
3 SMB / CIFS : You may upload or download files subject to your disk space limits
4 IRC : You may connect to our IRC server and engage with other paying users of our service
5 BNETD : You may connect to our bnet server to play online games with other paying users.
6 ECHO : You may have packets echoed back to your IP.
7 NFS : You my transfer files subject to your disk space limit.
8 QUAKE3 : You may connect to our Quake server and play against other users of our system.
Can someone tell me why *I* as service provider am breaking the law if someone uses a pirated client in case (5) but I am not all the other cases.
"
I'm still waiting for that list of what a "pure" manager contributes, BTW.
"
They talk to the other pure managers on the other side of the deal - hopefully the managers from two companies will tie each others time up completely allowing the engineers from both places to talk freely to build something that works.
A steady stream of buzzwords to achieve full buzzword 4.3 compliance as required by the client?
e.g. 'We supply the Solaris Workstations' becomes 'delivered in a robust 64bit security enhanced custom configured appliance terminals'
Invoice them.
Dear Sir,
I regret to inform you that the mastering on the new Alanis Morissette CD catalogue number $foo is faulty. Using my own ehanced proprietry CD mastering toolkit I have been able to remaster the CD correctly such that it complies with the CD Audio standard [reference $document_at_phillips] and now plays correctly on all devices bearing the CD Audio mark which your disc did not.
I regret to inform you that the cost of doing this has been
blank media $1
mastering time $50
I enclose an invoice for the following amount and a correctly mastered CD for your use.
I hereby grant you license to sell the remastered Alanis album for a royalty of $0.01 per copy.
If in future you wish to avoid the royalty I can supply you with a standards compilant mastering writer for the sum of $10000.
Please pay the invoice by cheque payable to $my_name within 28 days.
Yours Sincerely
$yourname
Director, CD Fix Ltd.
No it doesn't, that's why I had to jump through three zillion hoops in order to make it go.
It was nice getting the built in game logging features though - every game played on the server is logged and I think the new versions will even manage the ladder for you.
I'm a user of FSGS so I can play starcraft multiplayer games - here's why
My network consists of two segments, a wireless ethernet segment and a wired 10Mbit segment. Inbetween these is a linux machine with an ADSL connection to the internet.
Starcraft is UDP based, it's a horrendous amount of firewall hacking to get the three (or more) machines behind the firewall to play on battle.net. I can't use IPX since the linux machine won't forward the packets across network segments.
It was trivial to install FSGS on the linux server and point all the clients at it - hey presto - we have working network play *even* if my ADSL line is off.
What did I do that was illegal ?
Incidently I have to use a cracked version of Starcraft on the laptop because it only has one pcmcia slot so it can only use one of the network or cdrom at anyone time.
"
Aye. The problem happens when you try coordinating these with clocks outside of that reference frame
"
No there is no difficulty atall. The clocks are syncronised at a certain event [in my case the traveller leaving point A was defined to be (0,0) for all reference frames]. The clocks will run at a relative speed of gamma between all reference frames.
It is also possible for each person in each reference frame to calculate the space-time coordinates at which each event happens in each other persons reference frame.
The high speed observer in this case not only observes that the traveller arrives before he leaves, in his reference frame all observers will conclude that the traveller arrives before he leaves.
Now, since all inertial frames are equivalent [which is actually where the relativity comes in - there is no preferred frame, all are equivalent] the statement
'The traveller arrives before he leaves'
is true
as is the statment
'The traveller arrives after he leaves'
Do you think we have a paradox here?
Oh, from the travellers rest frame (v = 4c)
gamma = 1/sqrt(-3) = - i/sqrt(3)
assuming he synchronises his clock at x=0 t=0 with everyone else he arrives at
t' = gamma(t - vx/c^2)
= - i/(sqrt(3)) (a/4c - 4ca/4ac^2)
= sqrt(3)ai/4c
or in imaginary time.
Would you like to explain how is clock is going to display the imaginary time?
[just as a postscript, I'm a bit out of practice with relativity, I haven't done anything serious for about 2 years when I finished my degree in Experimental and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University.]