Is it just me or is this the cheapest and simplest replacement for a road trip?
No more worrying about flat tires, or pit stops...
I suppose the worst that could happen is falling asleep at the keyboard and waking up finding yourself somewhere in Alaska (and that's only bad if it wasn't your initial destination)
Seriously, I love this service....sent the link around and everyone went searching for their home addresses...and the speed was GREAT!
Kudos to google for continuing to amaze and wow people with this kind of stuff...sure in a few weeks, I'll probably forget it -- but it was great fun, and a useful tool for the 20 minutes we all drooled over it!
So I went out and picked up the game yesterday at my local EB...they had apparently been selling it since the 24th, which came as a bit of a shock....was nice to see that I got one of the last copies as apparently all but 2 had been pre-purchased or reserverd (the guy next to me said his kid had asked for it for his birthday 2 YEARS AGO)...
Of course, imagine the utter disappointment of getting home and fniding that I could only create my station login and couldn't get a little jump on everyone:(
(Oh well)
I can't wait for this to go live today...should be really exciting (in a "i'm so lame, i have another life online which spends more time interacting with women than I do" kinda way)...again, disappointing that the addon won't come until 2004, but I imagine all the dedicated Star Wars nutters out there will find ways to keep busy until then...
Now I wonder how long until the Mac OS X port (now that EQ has finally arrived for Mac)
...where Kang and Kodos and their fellow aliens take over the earth...all because Lisa wished for World Peace, and eventually all the weapons went away?
Maybe we should take the same approach with copy protection...stop copying media for a few months, all the media companies toss their precious copy protection schemes in a furnace, and that's when we really hit them:)
Maybe this is just me...but WinXP no longer supports VxDs...so perhaps I'm unenlightened or mistaken in my understanding of what a VxD actually does, but I think the fact that VxD support is missing from Windows is what made so many older modems need patches to work under XP (especially in laptops). If WinModems had problems, how on earth is Microsoft going to pull this off?
Anyone who's ever tried to pull binaries off of @home is aware that @home censoring out newsgroups isn't anything new...and frankly, @home doesn't have the resources to keep up with the stuff coming off of USEnet, so I can certainly understand in some cases, dropping a few newsgroups in order to lighten some of the load on their servers, in order to make services for those who use the text only services (and isn't that all they should be used for;) ) that much better.
Of course, all my tests up here in Canada shows that this is the usual UseNET bullcrap, as I'm downloading headers from a few of those newsgroups now....the posting only says nationally, so who knows, maybe Canada has escaped the evil arm once again...
As far as I can surmise, this is just @home's attempt to try and improve service from their newsgroup servers. It's a constant complaint from anyone who uses them (for example, the less than 6 hour retention of headers in some newsgroups in some locations. Screw the DMCA. Why all of the sudden are we seeing this? There's a lot of crap going on about a lot of people losing access due to posting, or downloading of newsgroup headers....I'll believe that when the mounties stroll up to my door.
It should of course be mentioned that Ultra Magnus was rebuilt by the inhabitants of the planet of junk, with Weird Al's "Dare to Be Stupid blaring in the background...
What a song.....
"Put your head in the microwave and get yourself a tan"
Doesn't that say it all tho?
Of course they should stay, and this author makes a great point.......if you ever need to contact someone at the other site, this is the best way......
Of course, if yer in my situation, and someone has already registered a domain with your company's name, WHOIS provides a great way to contact those people.....unless of course, all the contact information in there (phone, e-mail) is garbage....
First, bacteria eating away at all of our extraterrestrial spacecraft...
Then, acid and bacteria in the atmospehre annihilating all life on earth...
What's next: An evil, monopolistic computer company trying to assimilate all of society into a box called.NET?
That this one click shopping thing is considered such a wonder?
Wow, I tried using Amazon's one-click shopping, and I ended up making substantially more than one click...the entire process getting to the point where you can click once is just a pain in the ass....and as far as I'm concerned, buying books by clicking once is fine....buying a computer? That's another matter....
Darn, I'd sure hate to accidentally get shipped a 22" 16x9 flatscreen display!:)
Slightly off topic, but.....
Has anyone else noticed that 3DFX cards seem to be a lot longer than any other GFX cards?
I mean, my Voodoo2 barely fit into my last CPU (DIE COMPAQ, DIE DIE!), and I mean, with a little work (read bending) I managed to get the card in. I haven't had the problem since...but then, today, reading the posts, I saw some shots of the Voodoo 5....and it just astonished me that the cards don't really seem to be case frriendly....just from looking at it, I don't think it would fit into my case, and I ain't bending a $500 card just so it fits in there.....
I wonder if this has some crazy effect on our buying habits....
Or I'm just nuts:)
(Check out http://www.mooshware.com/images/3dfx/V5-6000.jpg to see what I mean)
Does anyone else think 3DFX started on the downhill run around the time of the Voodoo2/Voodoo Banshee series?
Personally, I love my little Voodoo2....the only issue of course being limited to a resolution of 800x600. Even with overclocking, there's only so much you can do with the card.
Before the Voodoo2, 3DFX chips were blowing people away...Woodoo2 came along, and for a short period of time, were amazing. I remember playing Quake 2 on my Voodoo2 and being told that my CPU wasn't fast enough to make the Voodoo2 really perform properly. I stick a Voodoo2 inside a box with a better processor, and while nice, the limitations it was bound to prevented me from going out and grabbing a Voodoo3.
Nowadays, people want high framerates and DVD decoding (or so it seems). Every box I pick up these days says "DVD decoding". I have a GeForce 256 32mb DDR and lemme tell you, no matter which drivers I use, the DVD decoding SUCKS. Maybe my system is holding it back, but honestly....For gaming, I choose NVIDIA....for DVD I pick ATI....woudln't it be nice for someone to throw together an MB with 2 AGP ports, perhaps one for an addon card?
As long as 3dfx keeps up with NVIDIA and ATI as far as releases, they'll do fine. As far as Linux support, 3DFX has easily provided the quickest and easiest. While this may change in the future, if they keep catering to the geek community in this way, 3dfx will most likely make some kind of comeback.
Actually, here in Canada (more specifically, a suburb of Toronto) there's already a new "high-tech" subdivision in the works. Looks very cool, as far as I've heard, but I haven't been able to find out any more information other than the fact that each room is wired for ethernet and cable.
But why stop there? Yeah, it's great to have a room with pre-wired ethernet so that your room doesn't have a mass of cables running around the door frame (like my apartment now does!), but come on! We can do better than that! I'd want my house to have a permanent firewall, Masq server and print server all centrally located. I'd want the house to have some kind of high-bandwidth connection, and the lovely simplicity of being able to operate appliances from a CPU (Imagine telnetting in to set the oveN!)
And yet, the best most "geek house" builders seem to be able to do is wire the rooms for ethernet. We need more!
(As technically unfeasable as this is, I still think it would be fun).
Anyone in the Slashdot community know any architects who are looking for ideas?
What exactly are the base features every house should have? Is pre-wired ether enough, or am I right ot think high-bandwidth connection to the internet is the least on top of pre-wiring rooms? Anyone with an opinion on what to go into the houses, feel free to send me your suggestions!
Just as an afterthought, I guess it is important to note as some people have already mentioned that, financially, commercial software for Linux isn't a sound investment.
We all love companies like Loki that devote so much time to bringing us the games we love, and yet, how many of us actually go out and buy them? Here (in Ottawa, Canada) several posts on a LUG mailing list from retailers consist of complaints that very few of the games are being purchased, and the ones that are being purchased are not in the expected amounts.
Is there a way to make more Linux users buy certain pieces of software? Let's face facts here people: for every commercially available software package in Windows, the chances are pretty good that you can find an open-source project that either mimics or outperforms the windows counterpart...
The best example of this that comes to mind is LICQ (www.licq.org)
While we beg and plead for the software, how much does the retailer charge in order to make themselves a profit, and at the same time, make it appealing enough for a Linux user to buy?
Perhaps this is why InterVid seems to be stalling with their software player.....
Have to agree that having to reboot just to watch a DVD can be a pain...so far I've had no luck getting DVDs to play under linux...
The HOWTO at http://opendvd.org is a great help, but I can't seem to overcome a few little problems...
As far as posting the code to USENET in such a manner, doing so obviously isn't going to give the right impression on major corporations that is needed.
Doing so rates supporters of DeCSS as SPAMMERS and basically is going to create more and more negative attitudes and opinions in the eyes of major businesses.
Are there constructive ways to make the point that we want DVD support under Linux?
I think i've probably filled out a million petitions requesting companies to support such a product...Hell, didn't InterVideo promise us a software player by the end of summer 2001? At this point, Ihave enough trouble finding reference to that product on their web site....
Why are all of these companies switching to the 2.4 series of kernels?
I mean, do they know something the rest of us don't? I'm aware that most of the Linux users out there probably do have a box running a 2.4 series kernel, but I wonder how many of us are willing to actually trade of the security of a tested 2.2 series kernel for these performance enhancements...
Has anyone found a working mirror for the ISO download? I'm trying to download the ISO images from RPMFIND.NET to give to a friend who is new to Linux, and I keep getting Permission Denied!!!
Despite all the Mandrake detractors out there, you really have to admit: their releases, while they do come really really quick, with almost no time between them, they're getting much better at including some of the newer software packages and kernels...
I imagine the reason they used a 2.4 kernel as posted earlier probably has something to do with the fact that right after they released 7.1 with 2.2.15, a certain security advisory told us to upgrade to at least 2.2.16
I imagine this avoids the problem....at least until the 2.4 series of kernels starts to see more usage.
What does this all mean? More security holes for crackers to take advantage of? Only time will tell....
I've subscribed to @home for a bout a year now......and up until recently, I've actually purchased the second IP address just for simplicity's sake. Then, I bought a wireless networking kit for another computer, and that whole plan went straight to hell. @home needs to figure out that realistically, no one is going to want to pay an extra $10 (or whatever it is in your area) for an IP address, especially after flip-flopping back and forth. I remember before @home was available here, cable modem service (known as "the wave") would not allow any kind of connection sharing. Then, the service becomes @home, no networking or sharing allowed, but wait, three months down the road, our policy has to change.
Honestly, this is really going to turn people off cable...this also disturbs me as I'm moving in a week, and have to get the service set up again (look ma, another $80 installation)
Yeah, but where are they gonna get original pentium chips so that they can add the "v"?
I can see it now......
"Intel will allow you to trade up your old Pentium-class computers in exchange for a brand-spanking new Pentium IV. Only $1099!"
Yeah..right......
I've been running WinME since some of the latter BETAs...and while you can't really boot into DOS, or switch to true DOS mode, most programs that run in a DOS window or in DOS mode still work. I think the only exception was Partition Magic 5.0, and I believe a fix was released for that. However, certain things that you're only supposed to be able to do in true DOS mode (like flashing the firmware of a CD-R or DVD-ROM drive) can be done from the regular DOS Prompt, which is just hiding in the accessories menu, instead of the root programs menu.
True, it may not be the windows most people are used to, but after using it for months, I don't think many people are going to miss DOS mode. So far, everything I've needed to do in DOS has worked fine from that prompt....
Missed out on OLS this year, as I moved back to Toronto for the summer........Ironically enough, I also missed out on the COMDEX here....another story... However, the main reason I didn't sign up when my buddies in OCLUG started mailing out announcements was the lack of information I was able to get my hands on as to confirmed speakers, etc. I was probably looking in the wrong place...I'm very happy though that a Canadian event SOLD OUT and was such a success...
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but doesn't Logitech now have an optical mouse out? Seems like maybe there's more competition than some people thought......
Slashdot Mirror
Is it just me or is this the cheapest and simplest replacement for a road trip?
No more worrying about flat tires, or pit stops...
I suppose the worst that could happen is falling asleep at the keyboard and waking up finding yourself somewhere in Alaska (and that's only bad if it wasn't your initial destination)
Seriously, I love this service....sent the link around and everyone went searching for their home addresses...and the speed was GREAT!
Kudos to google for continuing to amaze and wow people with this kind of stuff...sure in a few weeks, I'll probably forget it -- but it was great fun, and a useful tool for the 20 minutes we all drooled over it!
So I went out and picked up the game yesterday at my local EB...they had apparently been selling it since the 24th, which came as a bit of a shock....was nice to see that I got one of the last copies as apparently all but 2 had been pre-purchased or reserverd (the guy next to me said his kid had asked for it for his birthday 2 YEARS AGO)...
:(
Of course, imagine the utter disappointment of getting home and fniding that I could only create my station login and couldn't get a little jump on everyone
(Oh well)
I can't wait for this to go live today...should be really exciting (in a "i'm so lame, i have another life online which spends more time interacting with women than I do" kinda way)...again, disappointing that the addon won't come until 2004, but I imagine all the dedicated Star Wars nutters out there will find ways to keep busy until then...
Now I wonder how long until the Mac OS X port (now that EQ has finally arrived for Mac)
...where Kang and Kodos and their fellow aliens take over the earth...all because Lisa wished for World Peace, and eventually all the weapons went away? Maybe we should take the same approach with copy protection...stop copying media for a few months, all the media companies toss their precious copy protection schemes in a furnace, and that's when we really hit them :)
Maybe this is just me...but WinXP no longer supports VxDs...so perhaps I'm unenlightened or mistaken in my understanding of what a VxD actually does, but I think the fact that VxD support is missing from Windows is what made so many older modems need patches to work under XP (especially in laptops). If WinModems had problems, how on earth is Microsoft going to pull this off?
Anyone who's ever tried to pull binaries off of @home is aware that @home censoring out newsgroups isn't anything new...and frankly, @home doesn't have the resources to keep up with the stuff coming off of USEnet, so I can certainly understand in some cases, dropping a few newsgroups in order to lighten some of the load on their servers, in order to make services for those who use the text only services (and isn't that all they should be used for ;) ) that much better.
Of course, all my tests up here in Canada shows that this is the usual UseNET bullcrap, as I'm downloading headers from a few of those newsgroups now....the posting only says nationally, so who knows, maybe Canada has escaped the evil arm once again...
As far as I can surmise, this is just @home's attempt to try and improve service from their newsgroup servers. It's a constant complaint from anyone who uses them (for example, the less than 6 hour retention of headers in some newsgroups in some locations. Screw the DMCA. Why all of the sudden are we seeing this? There's a lot of crap going on about a lot of people losing access due to posting, or downloading of newsgroup headers....I'll believe that when the mounties stroll up to my door.
It should of course be mentioned that Ultra Magnus was rebuilt by the inhabitants of the planet of junk, with Weird Al's "Dare to Be Stupid blaring in the background...
What a song..... "Put your head in the microwave and get yourself a tan"
Doesn't that say it all tho?
Of course they should stay, and this author makes a great point.......if you ever need to contact someone at the other site, this is the best way...... Of course, if yer in my situation, and someone has already registered a domain with your company's name, WHOIS provides a great way to contact those people.....unless of course, all the contact information in there (phone, e-mail) is garbage....
It's really just you :)
I hereby parent the .patent TLD
Any patents that get any exposure on the web, or involve internet technology must hereby pay me a royalty ;)
One click porn?
First, bacteria eating away at all of our extraterrestrial spacecraft...
.NET?
Then, acid and bacteria in the atmospehre annihilating all life on earth...
What's next: An evil, monopolistic computer company trying to assimilate all of society into a box called
Oh, wait a minute...
That this one click shopping thing is considered such a wonder? Wow, I tried using Amazon's one-click shopping, and I ended up making substantially more than one click...the entire process getting to the point where you can click once is just a pain in the ass....and as far as I'm concerned, buying books by clicking once is fine....buying a computer? That's another matter....
:)
Darn, I'd sure hate to accidentally get shipped a 22" 16x9 flatscreen display!
Who's blaming 3DFX? I'm totally blaming my case manufacturer..... Did you read the DIE COMPAQ, DIE DIE part???
:)
Slightly off topic, but..... Has anyone else noticed that 3DFX cards seem to be a lot longer than any other GFX cards?
:)
I mean, my Voodoo2 barely fit into my last CPU (DIE COMPAQ, DIE DIE!), and I mean, with a little work (read bending) I managed to get the card in. I haven't had the problem since...but then, today, reading the posts, I saw some shots of the Voodoo 5....and it just astonished me that the cards don't really seem to be case frriendly....just from looking at it, I don't think it would fit into my case, and I ain't bending a $500 card just so it fits in there.....
I wonder if this has some crazy effect on our buying habits....
Or I'm just nuts
(Check out http://www.mooshware.com/images/3dfx/V5-6000.jpg to see what I mean)
Does anyone else think 3DFX started on the downhill run around the time of the Voodoo2/Voodoo Banshee series?
Personally, I love my little Voodoo2....the only issue of course being limited to a resolution of 800x600. Even with overclocking, there's only so much you can do with the card.
Before the Voodoo2, 3DFX chips were blowing people away...Woodoo2 came along, and for a short period of time, were amazing. I remember playing Quake 2 on my Voodoo2 and being told that my CPU wasn't fast enough to make the Voodoo2 really perform properly. I stick a Voodoo2 inside a box with a better processor, and while nice, the limitations it was bound to prevented me from going out and grabbing a Voodoo3.
Nowadays, people want high framerates and DVD decoding (or so it seems). Every box I pick up these days says "DVD decoding". I have a GeForce 256 32mb DDR and lemme tell you, no matter which drivers I use, the DVD decoding SUCKS. Maybe my system is holding it back, but honestly....For gaming, I choose NVIDIA....for DVD I pick ATI....woudln't it be nice for someone to throw together an MB with 2 AGP ports, perhaps one for an addon card?
As long as 3dfx keeps up with NVIDIA and ATI as far as releases, they'll do fine. As far as Linux support, 3DFX has easily provided the quickest and easiest. While this may change in the future, if they keep catering to the geek community in this way, 3dfx will most likely make some kind of comeback.
Actually, here in Canada (more specifically, a suburb of Toronto) there's already a new "high-tech" subdivision in the works. Looks very cool, as far as I've heard, but I haven't been able to find out any more information other than the fact that each room is wired for ethernet and cable.
But why stop there? Yeah, it's great to have a room with pre-wired ethernet so that your room doesn't have a mass of cables running around the door frame (like my apartment now does!), but come on! We can do better than that! I'd want my house to have a permanent firewall, Masq server and print server all centrally located. I'd want the house to have some kind of high-bandwidth connection, and the lovely simplicity of being able to operate appliances from a CPU (Imagine telnetting in to set the oveN!)
And yet, the best most "geek house" builders seem to be able to do is wire the rooms for ethernet. We need more!
(As technically unfeasable as this is, I still think it would be fun).
Anyone in the Slashdot community know any architects who are looking for ideas?
What exactly are the base features every house should have? Is pre-wired ether enough, or am I right ot think high-bandwidth connection to the internet is the least on top of pre-wiring rooms? Anyone with an opinion on what to go into the houses, feel free to send me your suggestions!
Just as an afterthought, I guess it is important to note as some people have already mentioned that, financially, commercial software for Linux isn't a sound investment.
We all love companies like Loki that devote so much time to bringing us the games we love, and yet, how many of us actually go out and buy them? Here (in Ottawa, Canada) several posts on a LUG mailing list from retailers consist of complaints that very few of the games are being purchased, and the ones that are being purchased are not in the expected amounts.
Is there a way to make more Linux users buy certain pieces of software? Let's face facts here people: for every commercially available software package in Windows, the chances are pretty good that you can find an open-source project that either mimics or outperforms the windows counterpart...
The best example of this that comes to mind is LICQ (www.licq.org)
While we beg and plead for the software, how much does the retailer charge in order to make themselves a profit, and at the same time, make it appealing enough for a Linux user to buy?
Perhaps this is why InterVid seems to be stalling with their software player.....
Have to agree that having to reboot just to watch a DVD can be a pain...so far I've had no luck getting DVDs to play under linux...
The HOWTO at http://opendvd.org is a great help, but I can't seem to overcome a few little problems...
As far as posting the code to USENET in such a manner, doing so obviously isn't going to give the right impression on major corporations that is needed.
Doing so rates supporters of DeCSS as SPAMMERS and basically is going to create more and more negative attitudes and opinions in the eyes of major businesses.
Are there constructive ways to make the point that we want DVD support under Linux?
I think i've probably filled out a million petitions requesting companies to support such a product...Hell, didn't InterVideo promise us a software player by the end of summer 2001? At this point, Ihave enough trouble finding reference to that product on their web site....
Why are all of these companies switching to the 2.4 series of kernels? I mean, do they know something the rest of us don't? I'm aware that most of the Linux users out there probably do have a box running a 2.4 series kernel, but I wonder how many of us are willing to actually trade of the security of a tested 2.2 series kernel for these performance enhancements...
Has anyone found a working mirror for the ISO download? I'm trying to download the ISO images from RPMFIND.NET to give to a friend who is new to Linux, and I keep getting Permission Denied!!! Despite all the Mandrake detractors out there, you really have to admit: their releases, while they do come really really quick, with almost no time between them, they're getting much better at including some of the newer software packages and kernels... I imagine the reason they used a 2.4 kernel as posted earlier probably has something to do with the fact that right after they released 7.1 with 2.2.15, a certain security advisory told us to upgrade to at least 2.2.16 I imagine this avoids the problem....at least until the 2.4 series of kernels starts to see more usage. What does this all mean? More security holes for crackers to take advantage of? Only time will tell....
I've subscribed to @home for a bout a year now......and up until recently, I've actually purchased the second IP address just for simplicity's sake. Then, I bought a wireless networking kit for another computer, and that whole plan went straight to hell. @home needs to figure out that realistically, no one is going to want to pay an extra $10 (or whatever it is in your area) for an IP address, especially after flip-flopping back and forth. I remember before @home was available here, cable modem service (known as "the wave") would not allow any kind of connection sharing. Then, the service becomes @home, no networking or sharing allowed, but wait, three months down the road, our policy has to change. Honestly, this is really going to turn people off cable...this also disturbs me as I'm moving in a week, and have to get the service set up again (look ma, another $80 installation)
Yeah, but where are they gonna get original pentium chips so that they can add the "v"? I can see it now...... "Intel will allow you to trade up your old Pentium-class computers in exchange for a brand-spanking new Pentium IV. Only $1099!" Yeah..right......
I've been running WinME since some of the latter BETAs...and while you can't really boot into DOS, or switch to true DOS mode, most programs that run in a DOS window or in DOS mode still work. I think the only exception was Partition Magic 5.0, and I believe a fix was released for that. However, certain things that you're only supposed to be able to do in true DOS mode (like flashing the firmware of a CD-R or DVD-ROM drive) can be done from the regular DOS Prompt, which is just hiding in the accessories menu, instead of the root programs menu. True, it may not be the windows most people are used to, but after using it for months, I don't think many people are going to miss DOS mode. So far, everything I've needed to do in DOS has worked fine from that prompt....
Missed out on OLS this year, as I moved back to Toronto for the summer........Ironically enough, I also missed out on the COMDEX here....another story... However, the main reason I didn't sign up when my buddies in OCLUG started mailing out announcements was the lack of information I was able to get my hands on as to confirmed speakers, etc. I was probably looking in the wrong place...I'm very happy though that a Canadian event SOLD OUT and was such a success...
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but doesn't Logitech now have an optical mouse out? Seems like maybe there's more competition than some people thought......