Many games that work with linux now initiate the port on the client side first (send through it and start to recieve) so that the masq server knows where to send the packets, so I don't think you will have any problems..
The new server is alot faster, as located in Andover's dedicated spot with a dedicated link to Exodus..
Right now (051000) IE5 users will find it hard to get in here with a dynamic page, seems to be a bug of some sort.. Will get fixed soon (as from CowboyNeal)
""That is a huge embarrassment for modern physics, where we think we know everything so well and other constants are defined to many, many digits," Gundlach said. "
Hmm.. well it's great that they have recalculated Newton's Gravity Number, but.. in what will we gain with knowing the mass of Earth?
"Gundlach acknowledged that the more precise calculation probably won't mean much to the average person."
Ahh here we go.. not much to us, hrmm.. What will many different Earth Scientists/Chemists learn from this then? The article doesn't seem to mention anything.. Wow, we know the Earth's mass, lets move on to the next operation to waste money..;)
How really important is the value of 'G'? If this is going to make teleportation devices and enhance lightspeed development, I'm all for it! I can't wait to teleport to China and back within seconds, wouldn't anyone love that?
""Gravity is the most important large-scale interaction in the universe, there's no doubt about it," Gundlach said. "It is largely responsible for the fate of the universe. Yet it is relatively little understood.""
What? I'm sure every student in every High School does *many* things concerning gravity, and different sorts of energy and how gravity affects them.. at least *I* did..
Gravity the most important part of this world? I thought it was evading black holes.. Oh wait, that does deal with gravity!:)
Ah well, anything new about our Earth to help to explain it is worth it to me. Good work Gundlach!
This is the stuff that is nice to see in the community. Compaq will, also, get alot of recognition in releasing this too, which is partly probably what they are seeking.
A good idea would be to figure out how to rig up a LCD to this and hook it up in a car with some stuff, and then you'd have a really good car MP3 player!
They say they will fix it in.. two or three weeks? c'mon NVidia..
I don't understand why some companys just discourage opensource soo much.. 3dfx's drivers are way ahead, and much better, and alot contributing to that is because they are open..
Maybe we wouldn't have to wait months for a NVidia driver if they went open.. Do they care about the customer, or their own neck? If they don't start considering Linux and the customer, they're going to cut their own neck.
To do this they would have to put filters that grab out stuff just about everywhere, let alone have a ton of bandwidth, and what kind of computer can sort this stuff?
Furthermore this is just total crap, because nobody should be peeking into other people's business, I bet more crack and drug deals are made with cell phones, why don't they monitor those?
I'm sure someone will come up with something to change this.. Possibly mail turning into a multiple port system? There are lots of ways.. The internet can bend to accomodate annoyances.. most of the time.
Let the government make some "censorware" and the government is going to choose what they want to sensor, and why..
Pretty soon it won't be just pornography, but any other site out there they don't want the people to see.. And plus -- the possibility of the government backdoors (we're all paranoid, and you know they aren't releasing the source to these..).. its just a bad situation all over..
Plus this totally conflicts with free speech and many other things, if they get this passed.. I will be amazed, truely amazed.
Linux is extremely popular because it is totally free and of the large software base supporting it.
GNU is the group of programmers that make all the programs for Linux, and one of the requirements for making a program under the GNU license is that the program must be free and the source must be available to everyone.
"One of the main differences in the varients of Unix between Linux is that almost all Linux software is open source, which with Unix this is usually not true." Says the GNU group..
This kind of thinking is very smart in the OS arena, making the source available to programmers can help advance other programmers' skills to a higher point, and thus in the end you get higher quality software from everyone. Everyone helps everyone else, this is the way life should be..
Those guys on KROQ are HUGE jokesters, they are also the people who thought someone was beating up someone from Radiohead.. Is this REALLY confirmed or just a rumor?
What I want to know is what RMS really thinks about commercial software, and it's place on free operating systems. Should commercial applications be accepted or rejected from a free operating enviroment?
Also, the different type of licenses.. Which does RMS think is the best license? GPL or BSD License or many more..
Take a look at ipmasqadm, and compile in the additional stuff in your kernel. You'll probably find what your looking for, as it dynamically adds different rules for each ip requesting a certain port, therefore you don't have to assign static ips in the rules as before..
From the man page: (man ipmasqadm)
DESCRIPTION Ipmasqadm is used to configure extra masquerading funcionality, usually provided by additional kernel modules.
All in-firewall forwarding takes place by reverse-masquerading so you must create firewall rules that must match desired forwarding as-is the connection had been outgoing (instead of incoming). --
Hmm.. I sure hope the new series doesn't abuse new technology like alot of shows have. Shows that are too rich in special effects suck in my opinion, but I've always been a fan of the Star Trek series, and they've been fairly good at retaining the key aspect of the show. This looks like a welcome addition.:)
Mental Illness is something that people should be educated about, and readily.
I, myself, am clinically depressive, and one of my friends is manic depressive, and my first girlfriend, and my first love, was schizo affective/bipolar.
Being around someone with a mental illness can really hurt, and confuse someone who doesn't understand the person's problem, and possibly make them do things they otherwise wouldn't do. When bipolar people are depressed they seem to always, and do a very good job at it, bring out the absolute worst in people. When they're on their high, its usually opposite or they are just totally annoying.
My girlfriend awhile ago as I said is schizo affective/bipolar and it took me months and months to even "grasp" her mind. Nobody can truely understand someone with a mental illness, it's just impossible unless you feel the same. Eventually I was around her enough to be able to work with her problem and -fairly- well hold myself together (to this date, working with her and a couple other factors is why I am clinically depressive). Soon there after, I was opened to a whole new world of her.
Inside, after you get past the illness, the person can be totally different to someone who knows whats happening. My girlfriend totally changed perspective in my mind, she became the most.. beautiful thing in my life, and shortly thereafter I truely fell in love with her.. and she was my first love.
Awhile later, the relationship ended, and she is still working on getting better in a retreat.. A special school for people with those kind of problems. She is having -major- problems with knowing her self-wealth and actually beliving that she means anything to anyone.. She currently takes exolith, a sort of time release lithium, and a few other drugs to -try- to control her problem. I myself take 60mg of prozac and it works well in controlling the depression.
I found relief in my depression similar to the link posted in this article, doing programming and other computer research takes my mind off myself and more into learning other things.. Helping other people really works well for changing your views if you are really down also.
People with these sorts of mental problems usually have alot more problems in the job place then others. They are often judged too early, and turned down to a job they could be very successful at. Thought their mood may change, their goal usually stays the same.
I guess all I am saying is that were not very different than anyone else out there, and have a pretty normal life. If people were educated about this kind of people (because there are alot of us-more than you might think) then maybe the whole world would be a better place.. hehe:) Just my.02.. -meff
Sure, they could fix the servers to fix these problems but they never will. Making a propeitary client will get them banner advertising, cash, and a "solid" userbase. Sure, this may be an easier way to support, but this is not where Talk City is looking as for doing this.. Once again, we pop back in to the root of all evil.. $$$
Though Talk City knows they are going to lose users from doing this, they also know that the majority of users that they are going to use are the lusers that use stupid scripts and flood stuff on IRC networks. Yes there *are* server side ways to effectively filter this out, but why would they do that? Take advantage of the opportunity, and make a good cover up as to why they must make a dedicated client to connect to their servers.
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Many games that work with linux now initiate the port on the client side first (send through it and start to recieve) so that the masq server knows where to send the packets, so I don't think you will have any problems..
Haha, they better get it up to its "High Standards" because the 6000 with 4 procs can't even beat the GeForce2 DDR ..
The new server is alot faster, as located in Andover's dedicated spot with a dedicated link to Exodus..
:)
Right now (051000) IE5 users will find it hard to get in here with a dynamic page, seems to be a bug of some sort.. Will get fixed soon (as from CowboyNeal)
Great job on the server upgrade
One of the games is missing! You can't forget the Deaf Dumb & Blind kid game!!
:)
That one is the best!
Seems they tried this before, with a big failure:
;)
:)
""That is a huge embarrassment for modern physics, where we think we know everything so well and other constants are defined to many, many digits," Gundlach said. "
Hmm.. well it's great that they have recalculated Newton's Gravity Number, but.. in what will we gain with knowing the mass of Earth?
"Gundlach acknowledged that the more precise calculation probably won't mean much to the average person."
Ahh here we go.. not much to us, hrmm..
What will many different Earth Scientists/Chemists learn from this then? The article doesn't seem to mention anything.. Wow, we know the Earth's mass, lets move on to the next operation to waste money..
How really important is the value of 'G'?
If this is going to make teleportation devices and enhance lightspeed development, I'm all for it! I can't wait to teleport to China and back within seconds, wouldn't anyone love that?
""Gravity is the most important large-scale interaction in the universe, there's no doubt about it," Gundlach said. "It is largely responsible for the fate of the universe. Yet it is relatively little understood.""
What? I'm sure every student in every High School does *many* things concerning gravity, and different sorts of energy and how gravity affects them.. at least *I* did..
Gravity the most important part of this world? I thought it was evading black holes.. Oh wait, that does deal with gravity!
Ah well, anything new about our Earth to help to explain it is worth it to me. Good work Gundlach!
This is the stuff that is nice to see in the community. Compaq will, also, get alot of recognition in releasing this too, which is partly probably what they are seeking.
:)
A good idea would be to figure out how to rig up a LCD to this and hook it up in a car with some stuff, and then you'd have a really good car MP3 player!
Mmm... soo many possibilities
Have fun with this one..
They say they will fix it in .. two or three weeks? c'mon NVidia..
I don't understand why some companys just discourage opensource soo much.. 3dfx's drivers are way ahead, and much better, and alot contributing to that is because they are open..
Maybe we wouldn't have to wait months for a NVidia driver if they went open.. Do they care about the customer, or their own neck? If they don't start considering Linux and the customer, they're going to cut their own neck.
-meff
To do this they would have to put filters that grab out stuff just about everywhere, let alone have a ton of bandwidth, and what kind of computer can sort this stuff?
.. Possibly mail turning into a multiple port system? There are lots of ways.. The internet can bend to accomodate annoyances .. most of the time.
Furthermore this is just total crap, because nobody should be peeking into other people's business, I bet more crack and drug deals are made with cell phones, why don't they monitor those?
I'm sure someone will come up with something to change this
-meff..
Let the government make some "censorware" and the government is going to choose what they want to sensor, and why..
.. its just a bad situation all over..
.. I will be amazed, truely amazed.
Pretty soon it won't be just pornography, but any other site out there they don't want the people to see.. And plus -- the possibility of the government backdoors (we're all paranoid, and you know they aren't releasing the source to these..)
Plus this totally conflicts with free speech and many other things, if they get this passed
This game has been in development for a long time, and its finally released after a LONG time .. Great, but there are some problems:
Will there be a Linux port?
Does it use key checking like Q3A, etc.. (very annoying imo)
How will this stack up against UT, Q3A, etc?
Speak out if you know any of the answers, im downloading the demo right now..
-meff
There are many, many distributed DoS systems. One person could indeed do this, and do it quickly, with the knowledge required..
Remember L0pht's saying they could bring down the internet quickly? It's probably true..
By certain buggy routers, etc.. amplifying the DoS affect, surely it could be done, and it would be like dominos.
Don't you think this should be an EBook? Why paperback it? :)
Linux is extremely popular because it is totally free and of the large software base supporting it.
GNU is the group of programmers that make all the programs for Linux, and one of the requirements for making a program under the GNU license is that the program must be free and the source must be available to everyone.
"One of the main differences in the varients of Unix between Linux is that almost all Linux software is open source, which with Unix this is usually not true." Says the GNU group..
This kind of thinking is very smart in the OS arena, making the source available to programmers can help advance other programmers' skills to a higher point, and thus in the end you get higher quality software from everyone. Everyone helps everyone else, this is the way life should be..
-meff
Once again MS trys to charge in and steal the field of something, now PDA's.
..
..
Its stupid on their part, but people hear the "MS" name and think "OH THE MOST WONDERFUL SOFTWARE COMPANY WE GOTTA GET THIS ONE!"
Sigh.. and the Microsoft Reader is in ROM, and it gets worse.. it runs a MS OS
I hope a Linux PDA comes out sometime soon, to truely compete against this garbage.
-meff
http://slashdot.org/comm ents.pl?sid=00/04/17/1359240&cid=108
This release is just mostly bugfixes and speeding it up.. Mozilla is looking really nice..
BTW, use its FullCircle Feature!! It'll help the developers improve it quicker and more thorough..
-meff
Those guys on KROQ are HUGE jokesters, they are also the people who thought someone was beating up someone from Radiohead .. Is this REALLY confirmed or just a rumor?
-meff
What I want to know is what RMS really thinks about commercial software, and it's place on free operating systems. Should commercial applications be accepted or rejected from a free operating enviroment?
Also, the different type of licenses.. Which does RMS think is the best license? GPL or BSD License or many more..
-meff
Take a look at ipmasqadm, and compile in the additional stuff in your kernel. You'll probably find what your looking for, as it dynamically adds different rules for each ip requesting a certain port, therefore you don't have to assign static ips in the rules as before..
From the man page: (man ipmasqadm)
DESCRIPTION
Ipmasqadm is used to configure extra masquerading funcionality, usually provided by additional kernel modules.
All in-firewall forwarding takes place by reverse-masquerading so you must create firewall rules that must match desired forwarding as-is the connection had been outgoing (instead of incoming).
--
Check out the modules portfw, autofw, mfw etc..
HELL YEAH!
;) :)
About time for some new quickies
These one are goodies too..
-meff
Can't blame someone for trying something else, maybe it will work well ;)
-meff
Maybe we need to legalize prostitution.. we need red light districts in the US ;)
-meff
Hmm.. I sure hope the new series doesn't abuse new technology like alot of shows have. Shows that are too rich in special effects suck in my opinion, but I've always been a fan of the Star Trek series, and they've been fairly good at retaining the key aspect of the show. This looks like a welcome addition. :)
I, myself, am clinically depressive, and one of my friends is manic depressive, and my first girlfriend, and my first love, was schizo affective/bipolar.
Being around someone with a mental illness can really hurt, and confuse someone who doesn't understand the person's problem, and possibly make them do things they otherwise wouldn't do. When bipolar people are depressed they seem to always, and do a very good job at it, bring out the absolute worst in people. When they're on their high, its usually opposite or they are just totally annoying.
My girlfriend awhile ago as I said is schizo affective/bipolar and it took me months and months to even "grasp" her mind. Nobody can truely understand someone with a mental illness, it's just impossible unless you feel the same. Eventually I was around her enough to be able to work with her problem and -fairly- well hold myself together (to this date, working with her and a couple other factors is why I am clinically depressive). Soon there after, I was opened to a whole new world of her.
Inside, after you get past the illness, the person can be totally different to someone who knows whats happening. My girlfriend totally changed perspective in my mind, she became the most .. beautiful thing in my life, and shortly thereafter I truely fell in love with her .. and she was my first love.
Awhile later, the relationship ended, and she is still working on getting better in a retreat.. A special school for people with those kind of problems. She is having -major- problems with knowing her self-wealth and actually beliving that she means anything to anyone .. She currently takes exolith, a sort of time release lithium, and a few other drugs to -try- to control her problem. I myself take 60mg of prozac and it works well in controlling the depression.
I found relief in my depression similar to the link posted in this article, doing programming and other computer research takes my mind off myself and more into learning other things.. Helping other people really works well for changing your views if you are really down also.
People with these sorts of mental problems usually have alot more problems in the job place then others. They are often judged too early, and turned down to a job they could be very successful at. Thought their mood may change, their goal usually stays the same.
I guess all I am saying is that were not very different than anyone else out there, and have a pretty normal life. If people were educated about this kind of people (because there are alot of us-more than you might think) then maybe the whole world would be a better place .. hehe :) Just my .02 .. -meff
Sure, they could fix the servers to fix these problems but they never will. Making a propeitary client will get them banner advertising, cash, and a "solid" userbase. Sure, this may be an easier way to support, but this is not where Talk City is looking as for doing this .. Once again, we pop back in to the root of all evil .. $$$
Though Talk City knows they are going to lose users from doing this, they also know that the majority of users that they are going to use are the lusers that use stupid scripts and flood stuff on IRC networks. Yes there *are* server side ways to effectively filter this out, but why would they do that? Take advantage of the opportunity, and make a good cover up as to why they must make a dedicated client to connect to their servers.
Pure and simple .. Money folks.