If I can install Windows XP Professional on this thing. Admit it, with Linux on it, about the only people who'd want to use it is from 3rd world countries. Now, with Windows it would be slightly more usable.
What "iffy cards" support TCP checksum offloading? You're not going to find that feature on a typical Realtek nic that's in a typicalslashdotuser's Linux box. I think what the poster meant is there are dodgy Linux drivers for the said hardware, and quote, "for drivers/ide there are *lots* of problems with error handling", so to me it seems the problem is quite Linux specific and doesn't affect the rest of us who use a proper OS. I have no problem using Intel server GbE nics w/checksum offloading in Windows 2003 Server R2.
You could simply, like, BUY A LEGITIMATE COPY OF WINDOWS. I know I did, and more than once. I've had zero problems with genuine advantage checks, it shows up once or twice a month when I go download something off Microsoft site, its completely transparent to legitimate user.
And what exactly IS the point of validating Ubuntu or whatever as genuine windows anyway???
Intel introduced something called 'CSA' bus (http://www.intel.com/design/network/events/idf/cs a.htm), which was higher bandwidth than PCI and was to be used for "streaming" devices like NICs and such. Making this 'general purpose' and user accessible was the next logical step. Go intel!
You think? They already banned toothpaste, nothing will stop them from doing this.
> I'm still waiting for airlines to install power sockets. I've flown hundreds of flights around the US on several airlines in the past several years and I have only found ONE plane that had power.
I just recently flew from Japan to Taiwan on China Airlines, Airbus A330 plane, and they had 110v power on each seat AND a lan socket (but i'm not sure if that was usable as I didn't have a cat5 cable with me). Boeing is behind times with their planes...
Bwhaha, ANALOG DVR that records from 'any analog source'? Hello, this IS 2006 is it? Why is this news and especially news for NERDS? Nobody would buy an analog DVR in 2006, most people have HD/digital cable by now, and you can rent cable company's DVRs for like 5 bucks a month and never worry about what OS it runs. Who the hell needs this, especially for $250 (you can buy a hardware mpeg2 encoder card for your PC for $50 and have same functionality as this PVR if you're inclined to record analog for some reason).
Still missing the most needed feature...
on
DirecTV's New HD-DVR
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That is 5C-enabled firewire ports to allow archiving contents off the DVR. What good is a 500? or whatever GB box when the only way to add new content to it is delete old recordings. What if you want to save a show, the only choice is analog (SD) output, what a waste.
VMWare is definitely a lot better than VPC. One of the very handy features in VMWare is snapshots/machine cloning feature, and while VPC offers some kind of snapshot functionality, its less intuitive and limited.
Also, (in my personal experience), VMWare has been as fast as native, and at times even 'faster' than native - because of smart disk caching, tasks like installing Windows XP as vmware guest complete faster than native on same hardware.
VMWare 5.5 can also do pass-through Direct3D emulation (its a beta option, see http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_vidsound_ d3d.html), don't know about OpenGL, hopefully by 2006 nobody actually cares enough about OpenGL to make a difference.
I want 5 minutes of my life back that I spent watching their "screencast". So what does this "control panel" do? Auto-installs blogging software for you? Wow, what a progress. What about user management, account management, etc etc? The dude showed him editing some.html in nano, is that what they expect all users to do? This isnt even a "control panel" in any sense of it, its just some GUI installer for blogtrash.
ISP control panel does a million more things. Yawn.
Well, this isnt exactly new - there used to be a http://www.google.com/unclesam which is similar to their custom searches like/linux and/microsoft, and limited results to.gov sites. The only thing that looks different now is they have personalized newsfeeds related to government stuff, which you could already do on your personalized page anyway, if you were so interested.
What do we have at http://darkcreek.com/detective_equipment/notebook. htm? A few pages with obvious products listed, but without any actual product names, links, or anything except for some google ads, in the hope that whoever reads this trash will be clicking them. What is that page trying to achieve other than ad views? Nothing. Now let's look at this 'ant' (http://aqfl.net/) guy who submits this story. His 'site' is another collection of pagerank inflating spam links. Of course by getting it on slashdot, he's going to make another few hundred $ in ad views. Is it a slow news day that you have to post trash like this to front page? Shame, taco
I heard horror stories of people with 'acquired' versions of Windows XP who went to the 'new' 'Windows Update' service and ended up with an annoying tray icon constantly reminding them that their version of XP is pirated.
But you know, I havent been to WindowsUpdate in over a year. I use a great (and free) tool provided by microsoft themselves - called "MBSA" (Microsoft Base Security Analyzer) to download and install updates.
With MBSA, I can do a quick install of Windows XP with SP2 integrated in vmware, then run this tool, and find out that (as of yesterday) there are 39 hotfixes needed for vanilla XPSP2 install, and it gives me direct (no WGA crap) links to download these updates. All I have to do then is save them all one by one, integrate them into a XP SP2 iso image, and use this pre-integrated disk to install with.
Since i reinstall windows every few months this is not a problem, and for those who insist on keeping windows machine installed longer, they can simply use MBSA to download incremental updates and install them manually.
It was revealed today that three minutes before his 'Drowned Alive' was due
to end, David Blaine was forced out of his water-filled glass bubble early with
an unknown cause.
The Gay Nigger Assocation of America is proud to announce that this was due
to the heroic actions of GNAA member 'trogg', a recent recruit to the proud
legion of Internet niggers. During the last few minutes of his stunt, the GNAA
can reveal that images of famous internet celebrities 'goatse' and 'tubgirl'
were taped to the outside of his bubble, where Blaine could see them in all
their glory.
As Blaine turned to look at this explicit imagery, he began to have
convulsions of the anus as his poop began to flow out of his rectum. This
caused the water to turn a muddy-brown colour. Blaine then attempted to take
off his oxygen mask, possibly hoping to ingest the diseased water in order to
get a real taste of rectal prolapse.
The organisers of the stunt then feared for his safety as Blaine reached for
his erect penis, as the palms of his hands were suffering from myosis. With
this, two divers jumped into the water to save Blaine before he had a chance to
touch his throbbing rod, and succeeded in pulling him out in time. He was out
of breath as he was rushed to hospital, suffering from the effects of the stunt
upon his body.
When Blaine was interviewed in hospital by the Gay Nigger Association of the
America, he had this to say: "JEWS DID WTC".
About David Blaine:
Kike magician.
About GNAA: GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first
organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one
common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
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America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join
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Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!
Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAAFirst Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.
Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up
today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit
links to your successful First Post, and you will be tested on
your knowledge of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE.
If you are having trouble locating #GNAA, the official GAY NIGGER
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA irc channel, you might be on a wrong irc network.
The correct network is NiggerNET, and you can connect to
irc.gnaa.us as our official server. Follow this link if you are using an irc client such as mIRC.
If you have mod points and would like to support GNAA, please moderate this
What is this 'local memory'? On-die cache? How the fuck can you screw that up to make it 16Mbit?
PS3 is way overkill for a console anyway. What are they thinking? Not everyone needs a console with 1GB of memory, huge HDD, which also doubles as a DVD Player/Entertainment center/Memory stick player (you betcha sony is already adding THAT feature), oh and can also play some games.
I'm all for Nintendo's new console. Its cheap, it will have amazing games AND they're not trying to make it the center of your digital home.
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But perhaps this should be a hint for Carmack to get out of rocket business and get back to coding 3d games?
If I can install Windows XP Professional on this thing.
Admit it, with Linux on it, about the only people who'd want to use it is from 3rd world countries.
Now, with Windows it would be slightly more usable.
What "iffy cards" support TCP checksum offloading? You're not going to find that feature on a typical Realtek nic that's in a typicalslashdotuser's Linux box.
I think what the poster meant is there are dodgy Linux drivers for the said hardware, and quote, "for drivers/ide there are *lots* of problems with error handling", so to me it seems the problem is quite Linux specific and doesn't affect the rest of us who use a proper OS. I have no problem using Intel server GbE nics w/checksum offloading in Windows 2003 Server R2.
Sorry, it's called exhibition or demo or trade show, but no way in hell its an "event for bloggers".
Some of the effects look like they were lifted from http://effectv.sourceforge.net/ (windows port http://pbx.mine.nu/effectv/) and if that's the case, where's the source? :)
DTCP encryption and it's correspondent M5 cipher hasn't been cracked.
And unlikely that it will.
And DTCP is the DRM of choice over high-speed digital buses such as 1394 and now over ethernet with DTCP-IP.
You could simply, like,
BUY A LEGITIMATE COPY OF WINDOWS.
I know I did, and more than once.
I've had zero problems with genuine advantage checks, it shows up once or twice a month when I go download something off Microsoft site, its completely transparent to legitimate user.
And what exactly IS the point of validating Ubuntu or whatever as genuine windows anyway???
http://master.debian.org/~srivasta/leader2007/
more info here
Sam Hocevar won the Debian Project Leader election by 8 votes over Steve McIntyre
Since when are "bloggers" considered "journalists"?
For more info see here
http://sam2007.zoy.org/
Believe it!
I'd like to evaluate this new technology.
Intel introduced something called 'CSA' bus (http://www.intel.com/design/network/events/idf/cs a.htm), which was higher bandwidth than PCI and was to be used for "streaming" devices like NICs and such. Making this 'general purpose' and user accessible was the next logical step. Go intel!
When did Slashdot become 'advertisements for shitty products that aren't really all that unique or important'?
Oh, wait...
You think? They already banned toothpaste, nothing will stop them from doing this.
> I'm still waiting for airlines to install power sockets. I've flown hundreds of flights around the US on several airlines in the past several years and I have only found ONE plane that had power.
I just recently flew from Japan to Taiwan on China Airlines, Airbus A330 plane, and they had 110v power on each seat AND a lan socket (but i'm not sure if that was usable as I didn't have a cat5 cable with me). Boeing is behind times with their planes...
Bwhaha, ANALOG DVR that records from 'any analog source'? Hello, this IS 2006 is it?
Why is this news and especially news for NERDS?
Nobody would buy an analog DVR in 2006, most people have HD/digital cable by now, and you can rent cable company's DVRs for like 5 bucks a month and never worry about what OS it runs. Who the hell needs this, especially for $250 (you can buy a hardware mpeg2 encoder card for your PC for $50 and have same functionality as this PVR if you're inclined to record analog for some reason).
That is 5C-enabled firewire ports to allow archiving contents off the DVR.
What good is a 500? or whatever GB box when the only way to add new content to it is delete old recordings.
What if you want to save a show, the only choice is analog (SD) output, what a waste.
VMWare is definitely a lot better than VPC.
_ d3d.html), don't know about OpenGL, hopefully by 2006 nobody actually cares enough about OpenGL to make a difference.
One of the very handy features in VMWare is snapshots/machine cloning feature, and while VPC offers some kind of snapshot functionality, its less intuitive and limited.
Also, (in my personal experience), VMWare has been as fast as native, and at times even 'faster' than native - because of smart disk caching, tasks like installing Windows XP as vmware guest complete faster than native on same hardware.
VMWare 5.5 can also do pass-through Direct3D emulation (its a beta option, see http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_vidsound
I want 5 minutes of my life back that I spent watching their "screencast". .html in nano, is that what they expect all users to do?
So what does this "control panel" do? Auto-installs blogging software for you?
Wow, what a progress.
What about user management, account management, etc etc?
The dude showed him editing some
This isnt even a "control panel" in any sense of it, its just some GUI installer for blogtrash.
ISP control panel does a million more things.
Yawn.
Well, this isnt exactly new - there used to be a http://www.google.com/unclesam which is similar to their custom searches like /linux and /microsoft, and limited results to .gov sites. The only thing that looks different now is they have personalized newsfeeds related to government stuff, which you could already do on your personalized page anyway, if you were so interested.
What do we have at http://darkcreek.com/detective_equipment/notebook. htm? A few pages with obvious products listed, but without any actual product names, links, or anything except for some google ads, in the hope that whoever reads this trash will be clicking them. What is that page trying to achieve other than ad views? Nothing. Now let's look at this 'ant' (http://aqfl.net/) guy who submits this story. His 'site' is another collection of pagerank inflating spam links. Of course by getting it on slashdot, he's going to make another few hundred $ in ad views. Is it a slow news day that you have to post trash like this to front page? Shame, taco
overheard on irc:
if you want to get rid of annoying WGA shit, search LegitCheck.dll for 8B8560FFFFFF and replace the first one (near offset 2E8EE) with 33C090909090
I heard horror stories of people with 'acquired' versions of Windows XP who went to the 'new' 'Windows Update' service and ended up with an annoying tray icon constantly reminding them that their version of XP is pirated.
But you know, I havent been to WindowsUpdate in over a year.
I use a great (and free) tool provided by microsoft themselves - called "MBSA" (Microsoft Base Security Analyzer) to download and install updates.
With MBSA, I can do a quick install of Windows XP with SP2 integrated in vmware, then run this tool, and find out that (as of yesterday) there are 39 hotfixes needed for vanilla XPSP2 install, and it gives me direct (no WGA crap) links to download these updates. All I have to do then is save them all one by one, integrate them into a XP SP2 iso image, and use this pre-integrated disk to install with.
Since i reinstall windows every few months this is not a problem, and for those who insist on keeping windows machine installed longer, they can simply use MBSA to download incremental updates and install them manually.
Dessimat0r - Trollcore, NYC
It was revealed today that three minutes before his 'Drowned Alive' was due to end, David Blaine was forced out of his water-filled glass bubble early with an unknown cause.
The Gay Nigger Assocation of America is proud to announce that this was due to the heroic actions of GNAA member 'trogg', a recent recruit to the proud legion of Internet niggers. During the last few minutes of his stunt, the GNAA can reveal that images of famous internet celebrities 'goatse' and 'tubgirl' were taped to the outside of his bubble, where Blaine could see them in all their glory.
As Blaine turned to look at this explicit imagery, he began to have convulsions of the anus as his poop began to flow out of his rectum. This caused the water to turn a muddy-brown colour. Blaine then attempted to take off his oxygen mask, possibly hoping to ingest the diseased water in order to get a real taste of rectal prolapse.
The organisers of the stunt then feared for his safety as Blaine reached for his erect penis, as the palms of his hands were suffering from myosis. With this, two divers jumped into the water to save Blaine before he had a chance to touch his throbbing rod, and succeeded in pulling him out in time. He was out of breath as he was rushed to hospital, suffering from the effects of the stunt upon his body.
When Blaine was interviewed in hospital by the Gay Nigger Association of the America, he had this to say: "JEWS DID WTC".
About David Blaine:
Kike magician.
About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!
Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!
Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and you will be tested on your knowledge of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE.
If you are having trouble locating #GNAA, the official GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA irc channel, you might be on a wrong irc network. The correct network is NiggerNET, and you can connect to irc.gnaa.us as our official server. Follow this link if you are using an irc client such as mIRC.
If you have mod points and would like to support GNAA, please moderate this
What is this 'local memory'? On-die cache? How the fuck can you screw that up to make it 16Mbit?
PS3 is way overkill for a console anyway. What are they thinking? Not everyone needs a console with 1GB of memory, huge HDD, which also doubles as a DVD Player/Entertainment center/Memory stick player (you betcha sony is already adding THAT feature), oh and can also play some games.
I'm all for Nintendo's new console. Its cheap, it will have amazing games AND they're not trying to make it the center of your digital home.