What if the web designer/programmer was actually someone sleeping in bed with the spammers ?.....
<programmer> ok, I am going to create the website for Acme Inc. For 3 grand, I can leave a backdoor for you to get all the email addresses
<spammer> make it 2 grand and 3% cut of all referral fees
<programmer> deal
<spammer> deal
I'll throw in a second vote for snes9x. As can be seen on their download page http://www.snes9x.com/downloads.asp they have ported snes9x to; Solaris, OpenBSD, Irix, N64, FreeBSD, AmigaOS, BeOS, RiscOS, SunOS, MS-DOS, HP-UX, MacOS, Linux and Windows.
Who cares ?
What you slashdot folks don't realize is that the maintainers of the various emulators are all sleeping in bed with each other. Maria Kendora* (snes9x), Nach, kode54, pagefault, _Demo_(zsnes) all work together to understand more about the snes because often the documentation and knowledge they have is so little about whatever odd chips were used in that one obscure game. They'll even resort to reading half-assed patent applications in hopes of sheding some light.
You can even join #zsnes on Freenode, and watch the developement of zsnes right in front of your own eyes. The developement of one OSS emulator is the developement of another. Especially with the tight knit community of coders/hackers.
~sd
* Yes, that isn't his name. Maria Kendora is just a joke about his real name.
Not to flame, but I've often wondered how true this statement is. It seems as if a whole bunch of the archs are "quasi-archs". Meaning the under-lying core is still based on a fairly standardized CPU arch. An example is hpcram, which is based on the StrongARM cpu...
Also, the offical release says 48 archs, not 54 as in the slashdot story
What many Gentoo users fail to realize is that compilation time and man hours can become very expensive for a company.
Why does a company exist ? (hint: to make money...)
To make money using whatever tools work ?
or to make less money using supposedly "better" tools ?
If applications aren't tested against Gentoo, and there is no set release cycle with Gentoo, corporate america isn't going to care about Gentoo. Like it or not, they are going to care about perdictability and saving money. Which (surprisingly (or not so suprising at all)) is exactly what near $1000 overpriced versions of Redhat, Suse, Mandrake are going to do for them.
I can assume it was put to some sort of use. But I honestly get the feeling it was more to have fun, and look cool (which means more bling bling from sponsors, alumni, etc)
The N64 definatly benefited over its lifespan from having an initial shortage, the free advertisement from news outlets interested in parents fighting over a video game machine probably boosted the longterm sales of N64 by a few million systems (and they needed it- that was their weakest console system to date).
Bullshit
The Virtual Boy was their weakest console to date. It even caused the legend himself Gunpei Yokoi (inventor of original Game Boy, Metriod, nuff said) to leave Nintendo. And while the N64 did get a beating from PS-X, it had games the PS-X couldn't touch. (Which makes sense when you think about Nintendo as its own best developer.)
Unlike the Xbox or the PS2, there are no mod-chips for the gamecube. Nintendo did one hell of a job constructing this little machine.
The way to hack the Gamecube is somewhat interesting. Back in the days of the Sega Dreamcast, there was a game known as "Phantasy Star Online", which attempted to connect to a remote server to get and execute whatever code it got from the remote server.... grin:^).
When Sega ported the game to the GameCube, the exploit came with it. So what folks do is they load up Phantasy Star Online 1+11, run a "loader" on their computer (linux or windows). And have the loader on their computer send the gamecube whatever they want (home games, illegal rips, the linux kernel, etc).
This has been over-simplified greatly.
And note: some of you might be thinking about using this to play illegal copies of games. Don't bother. You end up needing to use a bazillion different loaders to load whatever game, and the network port of the Gamecube is limited to 10mbps, which makes many games unplayable.
I'm guesing a linux/unix version would come after the max version.
there's allot of flavors of linux/unix, so it might be handy if they have some experience from doing it good on other systems first.
You do realize that Google has very much mastered linux ? After all, Linux does power their 15,000+ cluster... They wrote GFS (different than Redhat's GFS) for linux too...
Lets start with those damn ultra-bright lights. Holy cow are those super annoying. I'm not even driving but walking down the streets with those suckers turned on is enough blind me.
Because IBM's Blue Gene/L was/is made with off the shelf parts based on the POWER arch. Meaning it becomes much more efficient dollar wise than the custom made stuff NEC keeps pumping out.
(on a side note: Where does Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory get all that money to keep buying the latest and greatest super computer ?!)
Sunny Dubey
PS: Two of the Blue Gene/L folks will be presenting at my LUG tonite. I wonder if they will have any responces to this.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2005/03/super _shuffle_f.html
....
The Shuffle wasn't the only thing they copied
What if the web designer/programmer was actually someone sleeping in bed with the spammers ? .....
...
<programmer> ok, I am going to create the website for Acme Inc. For 3 grand, I can leave a backdoor for you to get all the email addresses
<spammer> make it 2 grand and 3% cut of all referral fees
<programmer> deal
<spammer> deal
This would get pretty interesting pretty fast
Mandrake was the first distro to use BitTorrent on a mass scale for distributing its distro ...
Can't get any more legal than that
Sunny Dubey
Verdana rocks
Sunny Dubey
(not a technical font person etc etc)
cuz my mirror is going down .... heh
http://li3-33.members.linode.com/~sunny/slashdot-m irror/www.hamar.sk/sphere/screenshots.htm
if the bandwidth gets out of hand, I'll shut this mirror down
Sunny Dubey
I'll throw in a second vote for snes9x. As can be seen on their download page http://www.snes9x.com/downloads.asp they have ported snes9x to; Solaris, OpenBSD, Irix, N64, FreeBSD, AmigaOS, BeOS, RiscOS, SunOS, MS-DOS, HP-UX, MacOS, Linux and Windows.
Who cares ?
What you slashdot folks don't realize is that the maintainers of the various emulators are all sleeping in bed with each other. Maria Kendora* (snes9x), Nach, kode54, pagefault, _Demo_(zsnes) all work together to understand more about the snes because often the documentation and knowledge they have is so little about whatever odd chips were used in that one obscure game. They'll even resort to reading half-assed patent applications in hopes of sheding some light.
You can even join #zsnes on Freenode, and watch the developement of zsnes right in front of your own eyes. The developement of one OSS emulator is the developement of another. Especially with the tight knit community of coders/hackers.
~sd
* Yes, that isn't his name. Maria Kendora is just a joke about his real name.
Bleh, it contains nudity
The above should be modded down, not up
Pretty good book, I ended up getting a copy for a fellow geek friend.
It took me a while to find a copy in NYC, but I finally found a store that had it.
Clinky Link
Not to flame, but I've often wondered how true this statement is. It seems as if a whole bunch of the archs are "quasi-archs". Meaning the under-lying core is still based on a fairly standardized CPU arch. An example is hpcram, which is based on the StrongARM cpu ...
Also, the offical release says 48 archs, not 54 as in the slashdot story
And finally, some asshole named Zafer Aydogan stole my NetBSD Toaster dmesg. Real original can be found at the NYCBUG *BSD dmesg project. (Very funny read!)
Cool, enough random crap from me, heh
Sunny Dubey
Stop talking this crazy logic!
...)
What many Gentoo users fail to realize is that compilation time and man hours can become very expensive for a company.
Why does a company exist ? (hint: to make money
To make money using whatever tools work ?
or to make less money using supposedly "better" tools ?
If applications aren't tested against Gentoo, and there is no set release cycle with Gentoo, corporate america isn't going to care about Gentoo. Like it or not, they are going to care about perdictability and saving money. Which (surprisingly (or not so suprising at all)) is exactly what near $1000 overpriced versions of Redhat, Suse, Mandrake are going to do for them.
Sunny Dubey
I'd be highly surprised if the internet combined didn't reach the exabyte mark ...
Sunny Dubey
What exactly did the Big Mac do anyways ?
I can assume it was put to some sort of use. But I honestly get the feeling it was more to have fun, and look cool (which means more bling bling from sponsors, alumni, etc)
Sunny Dubey
The N64 definatly benefited over its lifespan from having an initial shortage, the free advertisement from news outlets interested in parents fighting over a video game machine probably boosted the longterm sales of N64 by a few million systems (and they needed it- that was their weakest console system to date).
Bullshit
The Virtual Boy was their weakest console to date. It even caused the legend himself Gunpei Yokoi (inventor of original Game Boy, Metriod, nuff said) to leave Nintendo. And while the N64 did get a beating from PS-X, it had games the PS-X couldn't touch. (Which makes sense when you think about Nintendo as its own best developer.)
Unlike the Xbox or the PS2, there are no mod-chips for the gamecube. Nintendo did one hell of a job constructing this little machine.
:^).
The way to hack the Gamecube is somewhat interesting. Back in the days of the Sega Dreamcast, there was a game known as "Phantasy Star Online", which attempted to connect to a remote server to get and execute whatever code it got from the remote server.... grin
When Sega ported the game to the GameCube, the exploit came with it. So what folks do is they load up Phantasy Star Online 1+11, run a "loader" on their computer (linux or windows). And have the loader on their computer send the gamecube whatever they want (home games, illegal rips, the linux kernel, etc).
This has been over-simplified greatly.
And note: some of you might be thinking about using this to play illegal copies of games. Don't bother. You end up needing to use a bazillion different loaders to load whatever game, and the network port of the Gamecube is limited to 10mbps, which makes many games unplayable.
Sunny Dubey
What is wrong with the 7000 series ?
thanks
Sunny Dubey
I remember you, god damn you still write lots of crap on slashdot.
Remember this post of yours, and my reply ? I remember explaining basic things to you.
Sunny Dubey
There are plenty of hardcore code, library, kernel hackers running distros like fedora, suse, mandrake, etc
There are also plenty of totaly linux newbies using gentoo, archlinux, etc
I know that this article is a joke (not a funny one either), but these stereotypes need to come to an end.
Sunny Dubey
Sunny Dubey
I'm guesing a linux/unix version would come after the max version. there's allot of flavors of linux/unix, so it might be handy if they have some experience from doing it good on other systems first.
... They wrote GFS (different than Redhat's GFS) for linux too ...
You do realize that Google has very much mastered linux ? After all, Linux does power their 15,000+ cluster
Sunny Dubey
Bush uses Microsoft IIS + ASP and only recently has switched to Akamai
...
...
Kerry uses LAMP and has been on Akamai for sometime now
We already know which IT dept has won
Sunny Dubey
First: Why not ?
Secondly: Maybe some of us want a real *nix on our PPC machines ? (Bah, OS-X is NOT a BSD, read this rant on why OS-X is anything but a BSD)
Sunny Dubey
Lets start with those damn ultra-bright lights. Holy cow are those super annoying. I'm not even driving but walking down the streets with those suckers turned on is enough blind me.
Sunny Dubey
Does IR still work ?
Its not as easy as blue tooth. But when push comes to shove, IR still kicks it.
Sunny Dubey
Why?
Because IBM's Blue Gene/L was/is made with off the shelf parts based on the POWER arch. Meaning it becomes much more efficient dollar wise than the custom made stuff NEC keeps pumping out.
(on a side note: Where does Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory get all that money to keep buying the latest and greatest super computer ?!)
Sunny Dubey
PS: Two of the Blue Gene/L folks will be presenting at my LUG tonite. I wonder if they will have any responces to this.