I had a friend of mine, call me up last week. She was all upset on the phone and asked how well I could "wipe" a harddrive so there is no more data in in no matter what. At first, I wasn't going to do it. After she explained the story, I grabbed my tomsroot bootdisk and headed over to issue the dd command:P
Apparently, her son was talking to some girl in his class... it was a typical 14 year old conversation. You know those, talking about sex, but in very odd terms.
Needless to say, at some point, his father (who doesn't live with them) was able to install some VNC software. He was monitoring his conversations and turned on the logging. When he seen what was going on, he called Dyfus. (Division of youth and family services) Which, one a side note for those who don't know. Is a child protection agency that is more intrested in prosecuting parents for anything they can, and ripping familys apart. They are NOT there to help you, only hurt you... even durring times when its beyond your control.
My friend recived a call from Dyfus which informed her that the next day to be home and they are coming to confiscate the computer for an investigation. On another side note, they should be required to have a search warrent for this, some idiot gave them full access to peoples homes without a search warrent. Which in some cases is good, but not all.
They didn't give all the details to why they where doing this, but she already knew since the father was complaining about it a few days before.
I told her to press charges against the father for unauthorized access to the computer. But, the local police department refussed to file the charges.
Without getting too off topic, they could have charged her with endangering a minor if they had gotten access to those logs. Which, honestly is total bullshit. Thats what 14 year old kids do... come on, lol.
This is very simular to the spam debait, only becuase its the ones that go out of there way to hide who they really are, and where it came from.
I hate spam as much as everyone else. I have a series of filters I use to get rid of as much as possiable. Even then, it only works about 98% of the time.
If I install AIM, they have a little bar that shows ads. That doesn't bother me. I get a free service from them, then just have to have a SMALL add in the "buddy list". Small price to pay.
What I don't agree with, is companys that install spyware without telling you about it. They NEED to say they are going to install it, and when you uninstall the application, the spyware needs to be uninstalled as well.
Another thing, which is how they get you to install there spyware. I had a problem a while back, I went to some silly joke website. It asked if I wanted to install Macromadia Flash. (Notice the spelling) Since this was a new latop, I said sure. From that day on, every 12 hours and everytime the laptop booted up. It would ask if I wanted to install "free scratch cards". Funny, there is a EULA, and an accept button. No decline / cancel / exit button, no close button, etc.
Everytime you would delete the file, it would reappear a few hours later. Still to this day, I can't figure out how to get rid of it. I did however find a way to disable it, but its still on my machine.
That should be illegal. You should be required to tell the user WHAT they are REALLY installing. Misspelling company names and what not should be considered as fraud. Bundling spyware with other freeware apps without mentioning this to the user should also be illegal.
Hijacking browsers and making it very difficult to change, or reset should also be illegal. I had a friend of mine whos machine was taking over so bad, that is browser only had 1 inputbox. No back and forward arrows, no stop or refresh. Just a inputbox which submits to a spyware search engine. Which interestingly enough returned the SAME results as google, even had the same style. The difference is, the names where changed and there was ads ALL over the place. It was so bad, that a reinstall of windows was the best option.
I don't have a problem with ads on freeware apps. As long as...
1) I am told about it 2) When I uninstall the freeware app, the spyware goes along. 3) It doesn't damage my system by hijacking it. 4) There isn't fraud as to the source of the application or its install methods.
A month ago, I started working with Java and C#. Basicly, I was looking for a new language to develop some client side applications.
Java is ugly, and very slow. Not to mention, there are a billion different ways of handling widgets, some of which are so ugly, they aren't even worth using. I think the "brushed metal" look is rather dead, move on. I have always had bad luck with getting Java apps installed. Somehow, it always turns into a nightmare. I could only imagine what the end user would go through.
C# was much nicer. Its syntax is much closer to C++. It doesn't require header files, which I have always hated:P
Outside of the language, what I liked most about C# was the fact you can compile native code, and THEN create byte code for cross platform. The byte code is optional. Lets face it, byte code is slow.
C isn't dead, its not going anywhere for a very long time, Same thing with C++.
I have a friend of mine who is a cop in the local town. We were talking about lo-jack about 8 years ago. I asked him how many cars they recovered using it. He told me, durring the entire year they recovered about 5 or so. 90% of the department had the units installed in there cars.
Problem is, it took a great deal of resources to track each case. You generally needed 3+ cars to triangulate it correctly. Not to mention a few hours of work.
Needless to say, most of the time they ignored them. Few weeks later we where BSing at a local store (he was on duty), I looked over and noticed the device was showing the direction and tag of a stolen car. I pointed this out only to get a shrug out of him.
While these devices are great, and I am sure they have helped a lot of people. The problem is law enforcement doesn't generally care, or don't have time to deal with it.
I am running Debian stable, and let me tell ya, its been nothing but trouble trying to upgrade the kernel.
First problem, was getting the new module utilitys installed, I had to setup pinning. Not too hard, but was a pain to find some clear docs on this.
After that, I had many issues with getting iptables working. I can't find the damn thing in menuconfig, maybe I am blind, but I ended up just editing the.config file.
iptables still isn't fully working, I can't even connect to the internet using the machine it self. Why ? Becuase, bind9 is bitching about the kernel version. dhcpd isn't working either, due to kernel version.
When I migrated from 2.2 -> 2.4, there wasn't this many issues. I understand that the changes are needed, and things will clean up over time. I just wish there was better docs explaining WHAT has to be done.
Another intresting note, is that insmod doesn't work correctly, however modprobe does. Which, is very odd in it self.
I am too frustered after tooling around with it today, spent 2 hours on it. I will try it again next week.
I really want to upgrade to 2.6, since it better supports the opteron chips and better support (From what I have heard) on SATA / raid cards. (I have a 3ware SATA raid controller)
I have been with Nextel for 2 years now, and I love there service. Sure, the line drops once in a while, but nothing more then t-mobile, verizon, etc.
I switched to Nextel for unlimited incoming calls, unlimited nights and weekends for $80 a month. I ended up spending much more though, so I just upgraded my plan to the $199 plan which is unlimited incoming and outgoing, 24/7. There is *no* provider that can beat this. I also use the Nextel as a backup line in case my cable modem goes down. I use it when I am on the road as well, which works nice.
I ended up getting rid of my house line, since its now useless to me.
Nextel could use some work in there coverage areas, I agree. But, for the price I can't find another provider who even comes close. I use my phone an outrageous ammount, $199 is still better then $560 (with t-mobile)
You could always add an algorithm to it, which could be as simple as:
a = (yesterdays sunrise time * todays sunrise * tommorow moonrise) / 3 b = (yesterdays moonrise time * todays moonrise * tommorow moonrise) / 3 c = (yesterdays high tide time * todays high tide time * tommorow high tide time) / 3 d = (yesterdays low tide time * todays low tide time * tommorow low tide time) / 3
Then from then, you can specify the order of the key... ABDC, ACDB, AADD, ABDD, etc
You can go very crazy with it, or make it so silly and stuiped no one would figure it out.
Eitherway, this is a really cool idea I am going to look into.
A friend of mine, had a dish for 6 months, we hang out at his house all the time to drink, watch movies, sports, etc.
Durring this time, there was a huge blizard that rolled through. The picture quailty was really bad, when there was signal at all. We had to keep going outside to clean the dish off. If anything gets inside it, it will start crapping out.
Durring normal rain, you will notice little "bleeps" here and there on the picture. Typically, it only happens 2 times durring a 1 hour show and its very minor. However, durring very heavy down pours, the signal disappears. At times, there is signal but its unbareable to even look at.
The only times wind will affect your signal, is if your dish isn't properly secured. Any movment on the dish will create poor signal. Of course things like leaves, branchs, acorns, etc will create problems.
Now, he moved over to digital cable. It rocks, very little downtime at all. Plus, ondemand is great. Just make sure you get the best package they have. Starz and Cenimax are the best ondemand packages out there. The movie selection is generally much better. Depending on your cable provider, they are usually free access as long as you have the big package. I rent over 100 movies a month with it for free. Beats renting from the video store. But, the video store is going to have a better selection:P
I would recommend what others have suggested. Get cable first, try it for a few months, then switch to the dish. The dish companys are giving out good deals to people who switch from cable. Try it for a few months, if you don't like it vs cable, many cable companys are giving out the same deals to switch back.
I ran rh on all my workstations and servers for quite some time. I had been using rh since 5.0... Then, rh started becoming a serious bitch to keep things updated. I never got those silly up2date rpm packagers to actually work correctly. Then there was a period where there was serious changes to binary names, locations, etc that really screawed up a number of things that I did. I had to re-write all these.spec files, modify and re-compile some apps, etc.
Enough was enough. I was getting a replacement server in a few weeks, I figured that was a great chance for me to finally make the switch to Debian. At first, I only inteded to switch my server over to it. After using it for a month, I switched my 2 workstations and laptop over to it.
My biggest complaint about Debian, is out of date packages. By the time the next upgrade comes along, all of your applications are seriously out of date.
I found apt pinning, which works great for some applications to solve this. But, others like KDE from testing, have made things quite a mess. It took a while to solve some dependices, but at this point all of gnome is broken while trying to find libjava.so, I hope to fix this soon:P
Debian might not be the best for workstations (Lets face it, people want the newest crap for a GUI), but by far the best distro for servers.
I have 2 Broadcom NICs in my new server. They work just fine, haven't had a problem with them.
From what I remeber, there are 2 drivers. The ones from Broadcome, which are a bitch to install and have poor performance, and the other thats in the kernel it self. Its listed as tg3. I am still running 2.4 kernel on that server, so I imagine 2.6 should work fine.
Stock Debian kernels don't appear to have this NIC compiled in, I can't figure out for the life of me why not.
When I lived in Michigan, the ISP out there blocked port 80, but allowed 443. (Which is pretty funny). So, I just ran a SSL server. To this day, I still run an SSL server. My local server is for me only, not anyone else. I use it to check my mail, do some work remotly, system status's, etc. (I used to have webcams setup on it for when I was on vaction to watch my house)
Apple and other companies like them don't release software to linux because of people like DVD-Jon. All they see of the community are people who are willing to break into software in order to save a buck and then claim that they are doing it in the name of freedom. Until the Linux community stops behavior like DVD-Jon's, software like iTunes will never be available.
I agree for the most part, breaking the encryption doesn't help. However, how is someone supposed to develop a free source version if no other company is going to ? Sure, its in the name of freedom. I want to make x work with y. The best example I can think of, is take a VCR and a TV, both of which have different adapaters and don't work together. You make your own cable to connect them . Those 2 products where never intended to work together, but what should stop you from tring or doing it ? You OWN those 2 products, they are yours. You have the freedom to do what you choose . (Within reason, I mean, just becuase you own that shovel, it doesn't give you the right to smack someone in the head with it) If you legally purchased an ACC song, why can't you make it work in a OS that doesn't support it. I am not talking about giving it to all your friends, you personally.
Besides, as it has been said before. Why try to sell software on Linux when someone will just write a free version. In a community where most people use the OS because it is free, which software program do you think will be more popular?
I use Linux for a number of reasons. Free, being the first and general reason. Open source, in my book this is important. If something doesn't work, I can in theory fix it. Better overall security, people are ALWAYS looking through the source code tring to find a way to break it. Things tend to get fixed quicker this way.
Just becuase there is a free version of xyz app, doesn't mean that I will use it. I have bought MANY Linux apps in the past. Kylix vs kdevelop is a much different world. Kylix works very well, and worth the purchase. (Too many they don't make it anymore)
Linux is gaining a lot of new ground everyday. You can walk into wal-mart and buy a cheap Linux based computer. Why should those people not be able to use iTunes ?
Here is a good example... why should anyone buy MS office ? Open office is a free download.
The point is, the 10 GB model is $300. For the extra $50, its much more worth it I think. Big deal, the mini iPod is smaller. Thats just silly. I own a 10 GB model, which I got as a christmas bonus. (Quite honestly the coolest bonus I have ever gotten:P )
Sure, in a few months the price will prolly drop. I don't think it will sell as well as the 10 GB models. The 20 GB and 40 GB models are kind of over priced. I personally wouldn't spend $500 for the 40 GB.
I can't understand why Apple doesn't port iTunes to Linux. If that where the case, I would use it more then I do now. Its a pain in the ass having to reboot just to do it.
When I bought my Dell laptop, they wanted $900 for 1 GB RAM. I almost fell out of my chair when I heard that. Needless to say, I order the laptop with the stock 128 MB RAM, then ordered 1 GB from cost to cost memory for ~$150.
In regards to the topic, I just bought a dual drive which supports all the standards. I have been buying mostly + blanks. They are pretty damn expensive right now for DVD+RW. $49 for 15. Eitherway, I use it for backups so its not a big deal. I waited for 2 years to buy a DVD burner, hoping they would pick a damn standard already. That doesn't seem like its going to happen anytime soon.
If you where to give MS that kind of power, things would be MUCH worse then now. Lets think about this:
The first people to buy these new machines would be newbies and die hard MS fans (all 4 of them).
Over time, as people start buying them, more manufactures want to be compatible with these new devices. They start releasing products that work just for these new machines. Few years down the line, they start dropping support for the "normal computers".
Blah blah blah, in the end it would be the death of the "normal" machines.
Sure, I belive that BIOS could use some updating. I find it funny as hell that there is an option for a 5-1/4 low density drive in BIOS for my new dual AMD Opteron machine. I think its fairly safe to say, we can drop support for 5-1/4 floppys (and 8":)
Eitherway, I am sure there are ways to improve how it works, performance, etc.
However, MS is *NOT* the company they should be only listening to. Intel does this a lot recently, and they are basicly shooting them selfs in the foot.
Anyway, this idea will prolly die off, BIOS (like our friend the 5-1/4" floppy) are hard to kill off. Many have tried, all have failed. I just hope that AMD doesn't follow Intel.
I think this year was really good for movies. At the begining of the year, the main movies I wanted to see was Scary movie 3 and Bruce almighty. Then there was T3 which I was dying to see. All 3 of those, where really good.
I had a bad feeling about The Matrix, I was very disappointed. Matrix 2 was... ok, and I was expecting Matrix 3 to be better. But, when I left the theature (Spelling, I know, STFU) I was so pissed about how bad it was.
Then, of course, there was LotR, which... was possiably one of the best movies I have ever seen. I was so pleased with the over all series of movies.
I wonder how next year will be, there are some intresting things coming out next year, but nothing even close to LotR.
- Aliens vs Preditor (I hope they don't fuck this up) - Butterfly affect (Looks pretty intresting) - Day after tommorow (Looks intresting, but might flop... yet another end of the world movie) - Spiderman 2 (Looks pretty promissing)
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Kylix's IDE ties in very well to the code. You can set all your properties for a component using the IDE, without changing your code. Double clicking on a component will bring you RIGHT to that section of code, or if it doesn't exist, creates it for you. I think that in it self saves a lot of development time.
Things like kdevelop don't do this. I really wish they would. This way, I can move away from a commerical only product to something more open. I do opensource development, so being locked into buying new versions of a commerical complier / IDE really sucks.
- I think it was poor marketing, they should have stuck with the delphi name. Many people have no idea what Kylix is. - Applications don't port as well as you would hope. I wrote a fairly large application in Delphi, many becuase my Linux workstation was dead for a while. (Hardware failure) When I got my workstation back up and running, it took well over 3 weeks to port it. The forms where screawed up, and there was a slew of components that where avaiable in Kylix. TLabelEdit is a good example. - Applications written or complied in Kylix where laggy compaired to the Windows version. They don't run as well. - Path issues. When you write an application in Kylix, you have to have a small shell script just to load your application. It makes things more of a pain in the ass. Its something that was never fixed since Kylix 1.0 (I own all versions of Kylix) - The IDE responded different at times then Delphi. Which made development a pain at times. - Font support sucks in Kylix. - Bugs wheren't getting fixed along with Delphi. Kylix users had to wait months before it was updated. - BDE isn't avaiable for Linux. Sure, its not as good as dbExpress, but made porting old applications a pain. - Price vs what you get. The enterprise version is $2000. That gives you ALL the tools. Sorry, but I am doing this on the side from my normal job. I can't afford to drop $2000 on a development platform. The professional version is $500, which is cutting it close. Anything more, and I wouldn't buy it. - It was never designed from the ground up to work multiplatform. (Well, dual platform, Windows and Linux was all they supported) This is why a number of these issues exist. - Delphi is moving towards.NET bullshit. I will NOT be buying the next version of Delphi becuase of this. I belive this is also the main reason why they are talking about scraping the Linux version. Its obvious that.NET isn't avaiable for Linux, so they would have to create wrappers and use buble gum to hold it together.
All in all, its sad to see. The Linux development market is very hard. Its even harder for client applications then server side stuff. Companys are generally using Linux more for there servers then workstations.
I am suprised they mentioned CS instead of EQ. I personally know far more people who play EQ then play CS. I personally play both, and have been for the past 4 years.
Outside of work, I spend most of my time coding and/or playing EQ or CS. I typically only watch TV for 2 things.
1) 24... damn good show, been watching it since the first season. 2) Charmed... mainly because thats what my family likes to watch durring dinner. I don't turn on the TV just to watch that.
Once in a while I will get a chance to watch the Simpsons or what not. But, its pretty rare.
Most of the shows on TV these days suck. I can't stand watching things like "Friends"... it makes me sick. When people don't like whats on TV, they will find other things to ammuse them selfs. Online gaming plays a big role in this, and its not just the 18 - 24 crowd. I know plenty of people in there 40s playing EQ and what not.
Its kind of like when they said that internet piracy was to blame for the bad sales of "The hulk"... no, it was becuase the movie sucked ass. Sorry, but I dont spend my money on movies that look bad.
I mainly use PHP for my development, but when it comes to client side applications I use Delphi / Kylix. For your basic simple things, it works quite well and has some nice debugging and error reporting. However, when doing things like database working using the BDE, its a nightmare. Most of the time the errors don't point to anything to help debug it. The errors are sometimes so general, it could mean someone forgot to put the toliet seat down.
I have found that many developers (of the debuggers or IDEs) don't spend enough time creating error messages for all sorts of common problems.
They have gotten 10 times better in recent years. I personally *hate* most C / C++ IDEs becuase the application just segfaults, or what not instead of saying what the hell happened. I am a poor C / C++ programmer, so it doesn't help me move any futher into it.
A few years ago, after Q3A was released. (I bought it from amazon) I went back to write a small review on it, I figured, why the hell not. About 3 weeks later, I got a call from my friends father who said they just bought it. He said while he was thinking about getting it, the noticed my name on the reviews. He figured it would be good if I was playing it:)
At anyrate... there are like 1% of those which are real. Just try to pick and choice what to belive. I belive in my review on Q3A I said like 3 disavatages it had over xyz product. (Can't remeber off hand) Thats a good thing to look out for. Spelling and grammer errors are an intresting thing to look for.
Yes, I agree with this as well. Your location information should only be sent out when you are within close range. This in it self would be quite difficault. Rangers, druids and bards have a tracking skill. Ranger are the only ones who can sort there tracking by range and what not. So, adding a check to give just those classes a slightly longer range update would be fine. Tracking is done client side, it should be server side imo. Which is another thing that can be done.
HP updates need to happen when you target someone within a very close range. Which it already does for the most part. Ok, so Sony does send a little too much data sometimes, but remeber, it needs to be sent. If you on the other side of the zone, very far away from someone. It doesn't (anymore) send updates on someone elses where abouts.
Character levels shouldn't be sent either. Unless they don't have anon or roleplay on. (Mobs should never show there true level) Character classes shouldn't be sent either unless the same reasons above. There race has to be sent, becuase if you are close to them, you need to see what they look like and what kinda armor they have. Lots of the good armor all have different looks to them.
Sony should make a little more effort into securing what they send and don't send. But, remeber, the ShowEQ / SEQ developers or users are no angels either.
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I had a friend of mine, call me up last week. She was all upset on the phone and asked how well I could "wipe" a harddrive so there is no more data in in no matter what. At first, I wasn't going to do it. After she explained the story, I grabbed my tomsroot bootdisk and headed over to issue the dd command :P
... it was a typical 14 year old conversation. You know those, talking about sex, but in very odd terms.
... even durring times when its beyond your control.
... come on, lol.
Apparently, her son was talking to some girl in his class
Needless to say, at some point, his father (who doesn't live with them) was able to install some VNC software. He was monitoring his conversations and turned on the logging. When he seen what was going on, he called Dyfus. (Division of youth and family services) Which, one a side note for those who don't know. Is a child protection agency that is more intrested in prosecuting parents for anything they can, and ripping familys apart. They are NOT there to help you, only hurt you
My friend recived a call from Dyfus which informed her that the next day to be home and they are coming to confiscate the computer for an investigation. On another side note, they should be required to have a search warrent for this, some idiot gave them full access to peoples homes without a search warrent. Which in some cases is good, but not all.
They didn't give all the details to why they where doing this, but she already knew since the father was complaining about it a few days before.
I told her to press charges against the father for unauthorized access to the computer. But, the local police department refussed to file the charges.
Without getting too off topic, they could have charged her with endangering a minor if they had gotten access to those logs. Which, honestly is total bullshit. Thats what 14 year old kids do
This is very simular to the spam debait, only becuase its the ones that go out of there way to hide who they really are, and where it came from.
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I hate spam as much as everyone else. I have a series of filters I use to get rid of as much as possiable. Even then, it only works about 98% of the time.
If I install AIM, they have a little bar that shows ads. That doesn't bother me. I get a free service from them, then just have to have a SMALL add in the "buddy list". Small price to pay.
What I don't agree with, is companys that install spyware without telling you about it. They NEED to say they are going to install it, and when you uninstall the application, the spyware needs to be uninstalled as well.
Another thing, which is how they get you to install there spyware. I had a problem a while back, I went to some silly joke website. It asked if I wanted to install Macromadia Flash. (Notice the spelling) Since this was a new latop, I said sure. From that day on, every 12 hours and everytime the laptop booted up. It would ask if I wanted to install "free scratch cards". Funny, there is a EULA, and an accept button. No decline / cancel / exit button, no close button, etc.
Everytime you would delete the file, it would reappear a few hours later. Still to this day, I can't figure out how to get rid of it. I did however find a way to disable it, but its still on my machine.
That should be illegal. You should be required to tell the user WHAT they are REALLY installing. Misspelling company names and what not should be considered as fraud. Bundling spyware with other freeware apps without mentioning this to the user should also be illegal.
Hijacking browsers and making it very difficult to change, or reset should also be illegal. I had a friend of mine whos machine was taking over so bad, that is browser only had 1 inputbox. No back and forward arrows, no stop or refresh. Just a inputbox which submits to a spyware search engine. Which interestingly enough returned the SAME results as google, even had the same style. The difference is, the names where changed and there was ads ALL over the place. It was so bad, that a reinstall of windows was the best option.
I don't have a problem with ads on freeware apps. As long as
1) I am told about it
2) When I uninstall the freeware app, the spyware goes along.
3) It doesn't damage my system by hijacking it.
4) There isn't fraud as to the source of the application or its install methods.
A month ago, I started working with Java and C#. Basicly, I was looking for a new language to develop some client side applications.
:P
Java is ugly, and very slow. Not to mention, there are a billion different ways of handling widgets, some of which are so ugly, they aren't even worth using. I think the "brushed metal" look is rather dead, move on. I have always had bad luck with getting Java apps installed. Somehow, it always turns into a nightmare. I could only imagine what the end user would go through.
C# was much nicer. Its syntax is much closer to C++. It doesn't require header files, which I have always hated
Outside of the language, what I liked most about C# was the fact you can compile native code, and THEN create byte code for cross platform. The byte code is optional. Lets face it, byte code is slow.
C isn't dead, its not going anywhere for a very long time, Same thing with C++.
I have a friend of mine who is a cop in the local town. We were talking about lo-jack about 8 years ago. I asked him how many cars they recovered using it. He told me, durring the entire year they recovered about 5 or so. 90% of the department had the units installed in there cars.
Problem is, it took a great deal of resources to track each case. You generally needed 3+ cars to triangulate it correctly. Not to mention a few hours of work.
Needless to say, most of the time they ignored them. Few weeks later we where BSing at a local store (he was on duty), I looked over and noticed the device was showing the direction and tag of a stolen car. I pointed this out only to get a shrug out of him.
While these devices are great, and I am sure they have helped a lot of people. The problem is law enforcement doesn't generally care, or don't have time to deal with it.
I am running Debian stable, and let me tell ya, its been nothing but trouble trying to upgrade the kernel.
.config file.
First problem, was getting the new module utilitys installed, I had to setup pinning. Not too hard, but was a pain to find some clear docs on this.
After that, I had many issues with getting iptables working. I can't find the damn thing in menuconfig, maybe I am blind, but I ended up just editing the
iptables still isn't fully working, I can't even connect to the internet using the machine it self. Why ? Becuase, bind9 is bitching about the kernel version. dhcpd isn't working either, due to kernel version.
When I migrated from 2.2 -> 2.4, there wasn't this many issues. I understand that the changes are needed, and things will clean up over time. I just wish there was better docs explaining WHAT has to be done.
Another intresting note, is that insmod doesn't work correctly, however modprobe does. Which, is very odd in it self.
I am too frustered after tooling around with it today, spent 2 hours on it. I will try it again next week.
I really want to upgrade to 2.6, since it better supports the opteron chips and better support (From what I have heard) on SATA / raid cards. (I have a 3ware SATA raid controller)
I have been with Nextel for 2 years now, and I love there service. Sure, the line drops once in a while, but nothing more then t-mobile, verizon, etc.
I switched to Nextel for unlimited incoming calls, unlimited nights and weekends for $80 a month. I ended up spending much more though, so I just upgraded my plan to the $199 plan which is unlimited incoming and outgoing, 24/7. There is *no* provider that can beat this. I also use the Nextel as a backup line in case my cable modem goes down. I use it when I am on the road as well, which works nice.
I ended up getting rid of my house line, since its now useless to me.
Nextel could use some work in there coverage areas, I agree. But, for the price I can't find another provider who even comes close. I use my phone an outrageous ammount, $199 is still better then $560 (with t-mobile)
You could always add an algorithm to it, which could be as simple as:
... ABDC, ACDB, AADD, ABDD, etc
a = (yesterdays sunrise time * todays sunrise * tommorow moonrise) / 3
b = (yesterdays moonrise time * todays moonrise * tommorow moonrise) / 3
c = (yesterdays high tide time * todays high tide time * tommorow high tide time) / 3
d = (yesterdays low tide time * todays low tide time * tommorow low tide time) / 3
Then from then, you can specify the order of the key
You can go very crazy with it, or make it so silly and stuiped no one would figure it out.
Eitherway, this is a really cool idea I am going to look into.
A friend of mine, had a dish for 6 months, we hang out at his house all the time to drink, watch movies, sports, etc.
:P
Durring this time, there was a huge blizard that rolled through. The picture quailty was really bad, when there was signal at all. We had to keep going outside to clean the dish off. If anything gets inside it, it will start crapping out.
Durring normal rain, you will notice little "bleeps" here and there on the picture. Typically, it only happens 2 times durring a 1 hour show and its very minor. However, durring very heavy down pours, the signal disappears. At times, there is signal but its unbareable to even look at.
The only times wind will affect your signal, is if your dish isn't properly secured. Any movment on the dish will create poor signal. Of course things like leaves, branchs, acorns, etc will create problems.
Now, he moved over to digital cable. It rocks, very little downtime at all. Plus, ondemand is great. Just make sure you get the best package they have. Starz and Cenimax are the best ondemand packages out there. The movie selection is generally much better. Depending on your cable provider, they are usually free access as long as you have the big package. I rent over 100 movies a month with it for free. Beats renting from the video store. But, the video store is going to have a better selection
I would recommend what others have suggested. Get cable first, try it for a few months, then switch to the dish. The dish companys are giving out good deals to people who switch from cable. Try it for a few months, if you don't like it vs cable, many cable companys are giving out the same deals to switch back.
I ran rh on all my workstations and servers for quite some time. I had been using rh since 5.0 ... Then, rh started becoming a serious bitch to keep things updated. I never got those silly up2date rpm packagers to actually work correctly. Then there was a period where there was serious changes to binary names, locations, etc that really screawed up a number of things that I did. I had to re-write all these .spec files, modify and re-compile some apps, etc.
:P
Enough was enough. I was getting a replacement server in a few weeks, I figured that was a great chance for me to finally make the switch to Debian. At first, I only inteded to switch my server over to it. After using it for a month, I switched my 2 workstations and laptop over to it.
My biggest complaint about Debian, is out of date packages. By the time the next upgrade comes along, all of your applications are seriously out of date.
I found apt pinning, which works great for some applications to solve this. But, others like KDE from testing, have made things quite a mess. It took a while to solve some dependices, but at this point all of gnome is broken while trying to find libjava.so, I hope to fix this soon
Debian might not be the best for workstations (Lets face it, people want the newest crap for a GUI), but by far the best distro for servers.
I have 2 Broadcom NICs in my new server. They work just fine, haven't had a problem with them.
From what I remeber, there are 2 drivers. The ones from Broadcome, which are a bitch to install and have poor performance, and the other thats in the kernel it self. Its listed as tg3. I am still running 2.4 kernel on that server, so I imagine 2.6 should work fine.
Stock Debian kernels don't appear to have this NIC compiled in, I can't figure out for the life of me why not.
*shrug*
When I lived in Michigan, the ISP out there blocked port 80, but allowed 443. (Which is pretty funny). So, I just ran a SSL server. To this day, I still run an SSL server. My local server is for me only, not anyone else. I use it to check my mail, do some work remotly, system status's, etc. (I used to have webcams setup on it for when I was on vaction to watch my house)
Apple and other companies like them don't release software to linux because of people like DVD-Jon. All they see of the community are people who are willing to break into software in order to save a buck and then claim that they are doing it in the name of freedom. Until the Linux community stops behavior like DVD-Jon's, software like iTunes will never be available.
... why should anyone buy MS office ? Open office is a free download.
I agree for the most part, breaking the encryption doesn't help. However, how is someone supposed to develop a free source version if no other company is going to ? Sure, its in the name of freedom. I want to make x work with y. The best example I can think of, is take a VCR and a TV, both of which have different adapaters and don't work together. You make your own cable to connect them . Those 2 products where never intended to work together, but what should stop you from tring or doing it ? You OWN those 2 products, they are yours. You have the freedom to do what you choose . (Within reason, I mean, just becuase you own that shovel, it doesn't give you the right to smack someone in the head with it) If you legally purchased an ACC song, why can't you make it work in a OS that doesn't support it. I am not talking about giving it to all your friends, you personally.
Besides, as it has been said before. Why try to sell software on Linux when someone will just write a free version. In a community where most people use the OS because it is free, which software program do you think will be more popular?
I use Linux for a number of reasons. Free, being the first and general reason. Open source, in my book this is important. If something doesn't work, I can in theory fix it. Better overall security, people are ALWAYS looking through the source code tring to find a way to break it. Things tend to get fixed quicker this way.
Just becuase there is a free version of xyz app, doesn't mean that I will use it. I have bought MANY Linux apps in the past. Kylix vs kdevelop is a much different world. Kylix works very well, and worth the purchase. (Too many they don't make it anymore)
Linux is gaining a lot of new ground everyday. You can walk into wal-mart and buy a cheap Linux based computer. Why should those people not be able to use iTunes ?
Here is a good example
The point is, the 10 GB model is $300. For the extra $50, its much more worth it I think. Big deal, the mini iPod is smaller. Thats just silly. I own a 10 GB model, which I got as a christmas bonus. (Quite honestly the coolest bonus I have ever gotten :P )
Sure, in a few months the price will prolly drop. I don't think it will sell as well as the 10 GB models. The 20 GB and 40 GB models are kind of over priced. I personally wouldn't spend $500 for the 40 GB.
I can't understand why Apple doesn't port iTunes to Linux. If that where the case, I would use it more then I do now. Its a pain in the ass having to reboot just to do it.
When I bought my Dell laptop, they wanted $900 for 1 GB RAM. I almost fell out of my chair when I heard that. Needless to say, I order the laptop with the stock 128 MB RAM, then ordered 1 GB from cost to cost memory for ~$150.
In regards to the topic, I just bought a dual drive which supports all the standards. I have been buying mostly + blanks. They are pretty damn expensive right now for DVD+RW. $49 for 15. Eitherway, I use it for backups so its not a big deal. I waited for 2 years to buy a DVD burner, hoping they would pick a damn standard already. That doesn't seem like its going to happen anytime soon.
If you where to give MS that kind of power, things would be MUCH worse then now. Lets think about this:
:)
The first people to buy these new machines would be newbies and die hard MS fans (all 4 of them).
Over time, as people start buying them, more manufactures want to be compatible with these new devices. They start releasing products that work just for these new machines. Few years down the line, they start dropping support for the "normal computers".
Blah blah blah, in the end it would be the death of the "normal" machines.
Sure, I belive that BIOS could use some updating. I find it funny as hell that there is an option for a 5-1/4 low density drive in BIOS for my new dual AMD Opteron machine. I think its fairly safe to say, we can drop support for 5-1/4 floppys (and 8"
Eitherway, I am sure there are ways to improve how it works, performance, etc.
However, MS is *NOT* the company they should be only listening to. Intel does this a lot recently, and they are basicly shooting them selfs in the foot.
Anyway, this idea will prolly die off, BIOS (like our friend the 5-1/4" floppy) are hard to kill off. Many have tried, all have failed. I just hope that AMD doesn't follow Intel.
I think this year was really good for movies. At the begining of the year, the main movies I wanted to see was Scary movie 3 and Bruce almighty. Then there was T3 which I was dying to see. All 3 of those, where really good.
... ok, and I was expecting Matrix 3 to be better. But, when I left the theature (Spelling, I know, STFU) I was so pissed about how bad it was.
... was possiably one of the best movies I have ever seen. I was so pleased with the over all series of movies.
... yet another end of the world movie)
I had a bad feeling about The Matrix, I was very disappointed. Matrix 2 was
Then, of course, there was LotR, which
I wonder how next year will be, there are some intresting things coming out next year, but nothing even close to LotR.
- Aliens vs Preditor (I hope they don't fuck this up)
- Butterfly affect (Looks pretty intresting)
- Day after tommorow (Looks intresting, but might flop
- Spiderman 2 (Looks pretty promissing)
Kylix's IDE ties in very well to the code. You can set all your properties for a component using the IDE, without changing your code. Double clicking on a component will bring you RIGHT to that section of code, or if it doesn't exist, creates it for you. I think that in it self saves a lot of development time.
Things like kdevelop don't do this. I really wish they would. This way, I can move away from a commerical only product to something more open. I do opensource development, so being locked into buying new versions of a commerical complier / IDE really sucks.
Heres my sugestions as to why this is happening.
.NET bullshit. I will NOT be buying the next version of Delphi becuase of this. I belive this is also the main reason why they are talking about scraping the Linux version. Its obvious that .NET isn't avaiable for Linux, so they would have to create wrappers and use buble gum to hold it together.
- I think it was poor marketing, they should have stuck with the delphi name. Many people have no idea what Kylix is.
- Applications don't port as well as you would hope. I wrote a fairly large application in Delphi, many becuase my Linux workstation was dead for a while. (Hardware failure) When I got my workstation back up and running, it took well over 3 weeks to port it. The forms where screawed up, and there was a slew of components that where avaiable in Kylix. TLabelEdit is a good example.
- Applications written or complied in Kylix where laggy compaired to the Windows version. They don't run as well.
- Path issues. When you write an application in Kylix, you have to have a small shell script just to load your application. It makes things more of a pain in the ass. Its something that was never fixed since Kylix 1.0 (I own all versions of Kylix)
- The IDE responded different at times then Delphi. Which made development a pain at times.
- Font support sucks in Kylix.
- Bugs wheren't getting fixed along with Delphi. Kylix users had to wait months before it was updated.
- BDE isn't avaiable for Linux. Sure, its not as good as dbExpress, but made porting old applications a pain.
- Price vs what you get. The enterprise version is $2000. That gives you ALL the tools. Sorry, but I am doing this on the side from my normal job. I can't afford to drop $2000 on a development platform. The professional version is $500, which is cutting it close. Anything more, and I wouldn't buy it.
- It was never designed from the ground up to work multiplatform. (Well, dual platform, Windows and Linux was all they supported) This is why a number of these issues exist.
- Delphi is moving towards
All in all, its sad to see. The Linux development market is very hard. Its even harder for client applications then server side stuff. Companys are generally using Linux more for there servers then workstations.
Robocop vs Terminator. If the Terminator loses, I will shoelace IRL.
I am suprised they mentioned CS instead of EQ. I personally know far more people who play EQ then play CS. I personally play both, and have been for the past 4 years.
... damn good show, been watching it since the first season. ... mainly because thats what my family likes to watch durring dinner. I don't turn on the TV just to watch that.
... it makes me sick. When people don't like whats on TV, they will find other things to ammuse them selfs. Online gaming plays a big role in this, and its not just the 18 - 24 crowd. I know plenty of people in there 40s playing EQ and what not.
... no, it was becuase the movie sucked ass. Sorry, but I dont spend my money on movies that look bad.
Outside of work, I spend most of my time coding and/or playing EQ or CS. I typically only watch TV for 2 things.
1) 24
2) Charmed
Once in a while I will get a chance to watch the Simpsons or what not. But, its pretty rare.
Most of the shows on TV these days suck. I can't stand watching things like "Friends"
Its kind of like when they said that internet piracy was to blame for the bad sales of "The hulk"
I mainly use PHP for my development, but when it comes to client side applications I use Delphi / Kylix. For your basic simple things, it works quite well and has some nice debugging and error reporting. However, when doing things like database working using the BDE, its a nightmare. Most of the time the errors don't point to anything to help debug it. The errors are sometimes so general, it could mean someone forgot to put the toliet seat down.
I have found that many developers (of the debuggers or IDEs) don't spend enough time creating error messages for all sorts of common problems.
They have gotten 10 times better in recent years. I personally *hate* most C / C++ IDEs becuase the application just segfaults, or what not instead of saying what the hell happened. I am a poor C / C++ programmer, so it doesn't help me move any futher into it.
I haven't seen the first one yet either. My GF wants me to go and see it, only reason I am doing it is to see the Terminator 3 trailer :)
:)
Yes, I know its avaiable online, I watched it 5 mins after it was released yesterday at 6:30pm PST. I still wanna see it on the big screen hehe
A few years ago, after Q3A was released. (I bought it from amazon) I went back to write a small review on it, I figured, why the hell not. About 3 weeks later, I got a call from my friends father who said they just bought it. He said while he was thinking about getting it, the noticed my name on the reviews. He figured it would be good if I was playing it :)
... there are like 1% of those which are real. Just try to pick and choice what to belive. I belive in my review on Q3A I said like 3 disavatages it had over xyz product. (Can't remeber off hand) Thats a good thing to look out for. Spelling and grammer errors are an intresting thing to look for.
At anyrate
Yes, I agree with this as well. Your location information should only be sent out when you are within close range. This in it self would be quite difficault. Rangers, druids and bards have a tracking skill. Ranger are the only ones who can sort there tracking by range and what not. So, adding a check to give just those classes a slightly longer range update would be fine. Tracking is done client side, it should be server side imo. Which is another thing that can be done.
HP updates need to happen when you target someone within a very close range. Which it already does for the most part. Ok, so Sony does send a little too much data sometimes, but remeber, it needs to be sent. If you on the other side of the zone, very far away from someone. It doesn't (anymore) send updates on someone elses where abouts.
Character levels shouldn't be sent either. Unless they don't have anon or roleplay on. (Mobs should never show there true level) Character classes shouldn't be sent either unless the same reasons above. There race has to be sent, becuase if you are close to them, you need to see what they look like and what kinda armor they have. Lots of the good armor all have different looks to them.
Sony should make a little more effort into securing what they send and don't send. But, remeber, the ShowEQ / SEQ developers or users are no angels either.