Such a device already exists, it was created by a German company (can't remember the name). Unfortunately the decryption key could it contains could be revoked. And it might be illegal in the US.
" and i'm pretty sure most linux installers run straight over anything else that is in the mbr too"
Then you are wrong. Pretty much every Linux distribution in existence gives you the choice of not over writing the MBR, or if you do want to overwrite the MBR, adds an option to boot into Windows or a different OS.
This is contrary to Windows which gives you no choice over whether you want to overwrite the MBR and certainly doesn't give you a nice menu so you can choose which non-Microsoft OS to boot.
I use that very ruleset on my FreeBSD 5.4 router/firewall and I can tell you just prioritising TCP ACKs doesn't help very much.
You can still easily cause terrible ping times in games by saturating the line with a large download. Some more advanced queuing of the outogoing bandwidth would be needed -- I don't know if the gaming routers use a higher priority queue, or specifically reserve a small amount of bandwidth for use by games but it's certainly more than ACK prioritisation.
> I still get good pings when torrenting and playing RTCW:ET.
Yes, torrenting tends not to saturate your download bandwidth unless it's one of the few that are very well seeded.
Doesn't mean anything. I haven't read through the Qt source code but you could more than likely rewrite it to be less lines of code -- it would just be harder to understand for novice programmers, which is who the examples are aimed at.
Err, do you know what DRM stands for? It stands for "Digital Rights Management". By implementing an additional digital -> analogue -> analogue conversion of course you will remove DRM since it's concerned with protecting _digital_ content.
Also if you have a straight digital-to-digital copy and you aren't further compressing using a lossy compression algorithm there will be _zero_ loss of quality.
> (The vans use the RF from the heterodyne tuners to locate TVs that are on, I believe).
Mostly it's just to scare people that don't know their rights. If TV licensing come round in a big van _they cannot_ force you to allow them into your home, they have absolutely zero legal right to do so.
They must have a warrant from the police/magistrate before they can do anything which will take time.
Considering that the propreitors of the rights to the Asterix cartoon character successfully challenged in court Mobilix, a site about mobile UNIX, what are they going to make of an open source PBX called Asterisk?
Wrong. ext3 does not "eliminate files going missing" by improving data integrity. That is nigh on impossible. The only advantage of the journal is that it makes the resulting fsck much quicker.
> Why does everyone think an e-mail program needs a calendar?
Because people with slightly more sophisticated scheduling needs than yours find it useful, for example, to easily be able to e-mail deatails of appointments and so on to other people. The integration between an email client and calendar can help to facilitate this.
And it doesn't even work. It tries to reconnect each time Steam is restarted, it doesn't remember Offline mode as a sticky setting. What a POS. I hope someone comes up with an offline mode crack for it.
And where oh where is this option? When I starts Steam it automatically logs into my account. There is no "offline" option in the password dialog. There are two references to offline mode that I can see:
"Offline mode: ready" (what the hell does this mean)?
[] Don't save account information onto this computer (recommeded for public computers, note this will disable offline mode)
I just found this page. http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area= faq&id= 1050915505,27362300,1050915714,91503900
OK so I should unplug my ethernet connection, start steam, then it will work in offline mode? Yeah, that's really intuitive....
Sorry, but your post is completely untrue. Steam insists on logging online every time you play Half Life. And I'm talking about single player, not multi player. This morning it took me 10 minutes to load Half Life because steam had problems logging in.
There is meant to be an offline mode for Steam, but this is only for dialup users. Somehow it automatically detects the internet connection.
Am I really meant to fumble around the back of my machine, and unplug the ethernet cable (interrupting whatever else I might be doing online like downloading a large file) just to damn play Half Life?
Actually, it's not hard to find another broandband ISP. There are dozens of ADSL ISPs, who all use BT's network as a back bone.
But the filtering AFAIK only takes place on BT's Retail network (different from BT Wholesale who sell capacity on their network to be re-sold by ISPs to their end users).
Nope, because the licence change was done just before 4.4 final, at the release candidate stage, so the fork contains the most recent code just before the licence change took place.
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Such a device already exists, it was created by a German company (can't remember the name). Unfortunately the decryption key could it contains could be revoked. And it might be illegal in the US.
And causes larger strain on e-mail systems that are already struggling thanks to the first bit of spam.
On the contrary, Lloyds consider Linux to be safe enough to use that they are going to be able to make a profit out of it.
No insuarance company is going to insure extremely risky things and make a loss is it?
" and i'm pretty sure most linux installers run straight over anything else that is in the mbr too"
Then you are wrong. Pretty much every Linux distribution in existence gives you the choice of not over writing the MBR, or if you do want to overwrite the MBR, adds an option to boot into Windows or a different OS.
This is contrary to Windows which gives you no choice over whether you want to overwrite the MBR and certainly doesn't give you a nice menu so you can choose which non-Microsoft OS to boot.
I use that very ruleset on my FreeBSD 5.4 router/firewall and I can tell you just prioritising TCP ACKs doesn't help very much.
You can still easily cause terrible ping times in games by saturating the line with a large download. Some more advanced queuing of the outogoing bandwidth would be needed -- I don't know if the gaming routers use a higher priority queue, or specifically reserve a small amount of bandwidth for use by games but it's certainly more than ACK prioritisation.
> I still get good pings when torrenting and playing RTCW:ET.
Yes, torrenting tends not to saturate your download bandwidth unless it's one of the few that are very well seeded.
Doesn't mean anything. I haven't read through the Qt source code but you could more than likely rewrite it to be less lines of code -- it would just be harder to understand for novice programmers, which is who the examples are aimed at.
"The most embarassing comment came from a developer of the GRUB project who went only by the name of "Gord"."
It didn't strike me as being embarassing. Just sarcastic.
Wait until someone cracks it?
Err, do you know what DRM stands for? It stands for "Digital Rights Management". By implementing an additional digital -> analogue -> analogue conversion of course you will remove DRM since it's concerned with protecting _digital_ content.
Also if you have a straight digital-to-digital copy and you aren't further compressing using a lossy compression algorithm there will be _zero_ loss of quality.
> (The vans use the RF from the heterodyne tuners to locate TVs that are on, I believe).
Mostly it's just to scare people that don't know their rights. If TV licensing come round in a big van _they cannot_ force you to allow them into your home, they have absolutely zero legal right to do so.
They must have a warrant from the police/magistrate before they can do anything which will take time.
I had a similar problem with Sweet Sixteen, I couldn't understand a word without the subtitles. I believe the accents are Glasgow-based.
:)
I'm from more London diretion than Scotland
Looks like a 120mm. They aren't _that_ uncommon.
The article linked to states "Published: May 5, 2004".
In case you hadn't noticed, it is now 2005. Not 2004. What kind of moron editor doesn't even catch these basic errors?
Considering that the propreitors of the rights to the Asterix cartoon character successfully challenged in court Mobilix, a site about mobile UNIX, what are they going to make of an open source PBX called Asterisk?
1) Newer Intel Pentium 4s are compatible with AMD's x86 64 bit implementation
2) If they can have one board and then choose whether they want Intel or AMD, isn't that going to make them _less_ confused?
3) If you can't ship the right product to the right person then you have bigger problems than this
Wrong. ext3 does not "eliminate files going missing" by improving data integrity. That is nigh on impossible. The only advantage of the journal is that it makes the resulting fsck much quicker.
No. They made a mistake in messing up the DVD: they should incur the entire costs of replacing it.
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> Why does everyone think an e-mail program needs a calendar?
Because people with slightly more sophisticated scheduling needs than yours find it useful, for example, to easily be able to e-mail deatails of appointments and so on to other people. The integration between an email client and calendar can help to facilitate this.
And it doesn't even work. It tries to reconnect each time Steam is restarted, it doesn't remember Offline mode as a sticky setting. What a POS. I hope someone comes up with an offline mode crack for it.
And where oh where is this option? When I starts Steam it automatically logs into my account. There is no "offline" option in the password dialog. There are two references to offline mode that I can see:
= faq&id= 1050915505,27362300,1050915714,91503900
"Offline mode: ready" (what the hell does this mean)?
[] Don't save account information onto this computer (recommeded for public computers, note this will disable offline mode)
I just found this page.
http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area
OK so I should unplug my ethernet connection, start steam, then it will work in offline mode? Yeah, that's really intuitive....
Sorry, but your post is completely untrue. Steam insists on logging online every time you play Half Life. And I'm talking about single player, not multi player. This morning it took me 10 minutes to load Half Life because steam had problems logging in. There is meant to be an offline mode for Steam, but this is only for dialup users. Somehow it automatically detects the internet connection. Am I really meant to fumble around the back of my machine, and unplug the ethernet cable (interrupting whatever else I might be doing online like downloading a large file) just to damn play Half Life?
Actually, it's not hard to find another broandband ISP. There are dozens of ADSL ISPs, who all use BT's network as a back bone.
But the filtering AFAIK only takes place on BT's Retail network (different from BT Wholesale who sell capacity on their network to be re-sold by ISPs to their end users).
Nope, because the licence change was done just before 4.4 final, at the release candidate stage, so the fork contains the most recent code just before the licence change took place.