Ya know, this thing has gotten enough coverage in the media that criminals are going to be on the lookout for any attachments, even from family/friends/partners in crime.
Most likely some researcher will post signatures from the file anyways, and somebody will create a detection utility just for the purpose of detecting this one "virus".
Anybody have any experience with this service? I've had it for a couple weeks now and have violated a couple major points in their TOS so far.
They say 2.5 GB per month, I managed to reach that in the first 3 days. They say no running of servers of any kind, I'm running Apache (only allowing specific IP addresses though), VNC, and SQL Server which I've since modified to only listen on the loopback, for security purposes, not adelphia.
So has anybody gotten their wrist slapped by these guys, or worse, had their service shut off for similar violations?
My girlfriend used to get pretty pissed because when my video card would start doing anything 3D, it would cause a hum on the FM station she used to listen to. I think it was in the 100-105 range. The faster it performed 3D ops, the higher the pitch of the hum.
I made an openGL app that simply resized a spinnging sphere to random sizes. The smaller it got, the faster it moved, the higher the pitch. I never tried making it play music though.
Absolutely. It's not like the first thought of Red Hat's execs were "what can we do to help the children".
If the offer was sincere, they'd help the schools no matter what, now wouldn't they? It's not like Red Hat's a charity organization. They're trying to make money, and I don't think they'd object to being as rich as MS.
I just finished building my Windows 2000 system with new HD,RAM,CDR,VID. The only problem is that I can't get my Adlib Gold card to work. Can somebody tell me exactly where I can obtain drivers. Actually I would prefer it if you just came to my house and installed them for me too. When you stop by, maybe you could show me how to use this weird "Start" button thingy. Thanks.
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Duh, this won't affect the average grandma using a computer for e-mail.
It's going to be one more reason that will prevent an advanced Windows user from switching to Linux. Of course there are a million other reasons as well.
But it's also a stumbling block for anybody that is serious about creating software for Linux if they are just going with the defacto standard of shoving everything into one folder. Why not put EVERYTHING in one folder then. It's just one of those things where it's not exciting enough for a developer to spend his time fixing it. That's another issue though.
My original comment wasn't meant to provide the magic solution as to why more people don't adopt Linux, it's a single piece of a 20,000 piece puzzle.
BTW, to the person that modded my original comment as a troll, grow up.
Linux developers are geeks. They know that the only people that use their products are going to be geeks. Hence the end users will understand the laziness.
Of course I can't help but think that too much laziness is keeping developers from working towards making Linux a desktop competitor.
Was this suppose to be funny? You've actually descibed my perception of corporate applications to a tee. Lots of little individual things written in whatever language the consultant of the year wanted to use.
Wait until they figure out how to take control of your car and make you stop at a location. At that point they'd make you get out, lock the doors for 15 minutes, and not let you back in until you show the in-car camera your receipt.
I know this is slightly offtopic, but I downloaded a Carlin MP3 from an HBO show from 1999 that I never saw or heard before. The first ten minutes he talked about terrorists and how they're not going to be stupid enough to use a bomb, but they'll take knives and dozens of other weapons that the airlines would let you take on board. He then went into talking about how we'd all be afraid of anthrax in our drinking water.
I know it's just comedy, but he's a smart guy and that was just a little creepy hearing about this stuff from a 2 year old recording.
So how exactly would these resources be returned to earth? We're pretty good at launching big things into orbit. But I think the descent of these resources would need to be a little more controlled than MIR dropping into the ocean.
Of course we could just drop them into the ocean, and then mine them again.
Every game seems to use this effect now, and they all put it in their screen shots. But why do they use it so much? Does anybody feel that this enhances gameplay or even the graphics in any way whatsoever?
Lens flare is not experienced with your eyes in real life. It's an effect of a camera lense. So in a game where the creator wants to make it look at real as possible, and make it appear as you're in the action, why would they use an effect that makes it feel like you're behind a camera?
The only purpose I could see using for is maybe in a sports sim that allows replay, or possibly in some cinematic sequences where you'd be looking at a TV within the game.
I got burned out and took up weight lifting for a couple years. Aside from casual internet surfing I didn't do anything with computers, or at least anything that required creative thought to instruct the computer to do what I wanted it to.
After a couple years I got back into programming and have been happily doing it for the last 5 years. The trick is not to isolate yourself or force yourself to code and be creative unless it's absolutely necessary for a project at your job. Prior to my "break" I was forcing myself to spend about 8 hours a day in front of the computer while I was still in high school. My classes usually consisted of my ignoring the teacher and hand-writing code in a notebook (the paper kind). I was obsessed. Like any obsession, it'll drive you mad.
Is there a medical term for somebody that spends an unhealthy amount of time in front of a computer?
"CrossOver also integrates with Gnome and KDE to let you transparently open any Word, Excel or PowerPoint file. But even better, you can open this type of attachements directly from any mail client."
Where I work, we just take any estimate and multiply it by 3 and that seems to be a lot closer to the end result.
Of course that doesn't stop the managers from asking every day, starting on the first day, whether or not the 3 month project you're working on is complete.
It's not just processor speeds anymore. People are satisfied with most components now.
It's not like the old days, jumping from CGA -> EGA -> VGA -> SVGA, or from monochrome to color. There's not a big need for consumers to go get 19+" monitors when the 17" are nice enough for most people. Likewise with hard drives. It far less likely that a regular consumer will fill up the 30GB drive that's standard now.
The manufacturers have realized this for awhile. Hard drives, video cards, memory, and every other component is now marketed as "making the internet faster".
The sad thing for the industry is not only the current economy, but also that new hardware isn't going to be as revolutionary as it once was.
It all comes down to the "Killer App" syndrome. There's no need for new hardware until new software is available to take advantage of it. And without a need for new hardware, the hardware manufacturers don't have any immediate need to spend lots of time and money on R&D.
New software needs to come first. I tend to see that most programmers are busy enough playing catch-up with all the new stuff available, implementing new communication APIs and what not. I'm sure a lot just haven't had time to do anything revolutionary.
That's interesting. Is there a Windows equivalent to open files being screwed up with one simple command? We use a DB engine that does stuff like that all the time.
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Ya know, this thing has gotten enough coverage in the media that criminals are going to be on the lookout for any attachments, even from family/friends/partners in crime.
Most likely some researcher will post signatures from the file anyways, and somebody will create a detection utility just for the purpose of detecting this one "virus".
Anybody have any experience with this service? I've had it for a couple weeks now and have violated a couple major points in their TOS so far.
They say 2.5 GB per month, I managed to reach that in the first 3 days. They say no running of servers of any kind, I'm running Apache (only allowing specific IP addresses though), VNC, and SQL Server which I've since modified to only listen on the loopback, for security purposes, not adelphia.
So has anybody gotten their wrist slapped by these guys, or worse, had their service shut off for similar violations?
My girlfriend used to get pretty pissed because when my video card would start doing anything 3D, it would cause a hum on the FM station she used to listen to. I think it was in the 100-105 range. The faster it performed 3D ops, the higher the pitch of the hum.
I made an openGL app that simply resized a spinnging sphere to random sizes. The smaller it got, the faster it moved, the higher the pitch. I never tried making it play music though.
Absolutely. It's not like the first thought of Red Hat's execs were "what can we do to help the children".
If the offer was sincere, they'd help the schools no matter what, now wouldn't they? It's not like Red Hat's a charity organization. They're trying to make money, and I don't think they'd object to being as rich as MS.
I just finished building my Windows 2000 system with new HD,RAM,CDR,VID. The only problem is that I can't get my Adlib Gold card to work. Can somebody tell me exactly where I can obtain drivers. Actually I would prefer it if you just came to my house and installed them for me too. When you stop by, maybe you could show me how to use this weird "Start" button thingy. Thanks.
DISCLAIMER: For those of you that will post serious responses, it's something called sarcasm. Look it up before replying.
Does anybody know if there are any good games that will keep a youngster entertained for hours on end? Somebody that already likes Mario.
I've seen Sonic and that's just a little too fast for a 5 year old.
Duh, this won't affect the average grandma using a computer for e-mail.
It's going to be one more reason that will prevent an advanced Windows user from switching to Linux. Of course there are a million other reasons as well.
But it's also a stumbling block for anybody that is serious about creating software for Linux if they are just going with the defacto standard of shoving everything into one folder. Why not put EVERYTHING in one folder then. It's just one of those things where it's not exciting enough for a developer to spend his time fixing it. That's another issue though.
My original comment wasn't meant to provide the magic solution as to why more people don't adopt Linux, it's a single piece of a 20,000 piece puzzle.
BTW, to the person that modded my original comment as a troll, grow up.
Linux developers are geeks. They know that the only people that use their products are going to be geeks. Hence the end users will understand the laziness.
Of course I can't help but think that too much laziness is keeping developers from working towards making Linux a desktop competitor.
Not flamebait, not a troll, just a comment.
Was this suppose to be funny? You've actually descibed my perception of corporate applications to a tee. Lots of little individual things written in whatever language the consultant of the year wanted to use.
The DMV in NY is about 1.5 years behind in paper work. I had just got notified in August 2001, of a lapse in my insurance that happened in Dec. 99.
It would be really nice if you could do DMV stuff online but I don't see how they're going to get it done at this pace.
Wait until they figure out how to take control of your car and make you stop at a location. At that point they'd make you get out, lock the doors for 15 minutes, and not let you back in until you show the in-car camera your receipt.
I know this is slightly offtopic, but I downloaded a Carlin MP3 from an HBO show from 1999 that I never saw or heard before. The first ten minutes he talked about terrorists and how they're not going to be stupid enough to use a bomb, but they'll take knives and dozens of other weapons that the airlines would let you take on board. He then went into talking about how we'd all be afraid of anthrax in our drinking water.
I know it's just comedy, but he's a smart guy and that was just a little creepy hearing about this stuff from a 2 year old recording.
So how exactly would these resources be returned to earth? We're pretty good at launching big things into orbit. But I think the descent of these resources would need to be a little more controlled than MIR dropping into the ocean.
Of course we could just drop them into the ocean, and then mine them again.
Do you were glasses? I do, and I don't get lense flare effects from them.
Every game seems to use this effect now, and they all put it in their screen shots. But why do they use it so much? Does anybody feel that this enhances gameplay or even the graphics in any way whatsoever?
Lens flare is not experienced with your eyes in real life. It's an effect of a camera lense. So in a game where the creator wants to make it look at real as possible, and make it appear as you're in the action, why would they use an effect that makes it feel like you're behind a camera?
The only purpose I could see using for is maybe in a sports sim that allows replay, or possibly in some cinematic sequences where you'd be looking at a TV within the game.
Is the company named Adelphia?
Verizon DSL service: 768 down, 256 up
Those numbers don't refer to "days" do they.
Nobody'll probably read the 700th post but...
I got burned out and took up weight lifting for a couple years. Aside from casual internet surfing I didn't do anything with computers, or at least anything that required creative thought to instruct the computer to do what I wanted it to.
After a couple years I got back into programming and have been happily doing it for the last 5 years. The trick is not to isolate yourself or force yourself to code and be creative unless it's absolutely necessary for a project at your job. Prior to my "break" I was forcing myself to spend about 8 hours a day in front of the computer while I was still in high school. My classes usually consisted of my ignoring the teacher and hand-writing code in a notebook (the paper kind). I was obsessed. Like any obsession, it'll drive you mad.
Is there a medical term for somebody that spends an unhealthy amount of time in front of a computer?
Security? Quote from their webpage:
"CrossOver also integrates with Gnome and KDE to let you transparently open any Word, Excel or PowerPoint file. But even better, you can open this type of attachements directly from any mail client."
This doesn't sound like "better" to me.
Where I work, we just take any estimate and multiply it by 3 and that seems to be a lot closer to the end result.
Of course that doesn't stop the managers from asking every day, starting on the first day, whether or not the 3 month project you're working on is complete.
It's not just processor speeds anymore. People are satisfied with most components now.
It's not like the old days, jumping from CGA -> EGA -> VGA -> SVGA, or from monochrome to color. There's not a big need for consumers to go get 19+" monitors when the 17" are nice enough for most people. Likewise with hard drives. It far less likely that a regular consumer will fill up the 30GB drive that's standard now.
The manufacturers have realized this for awhile. Hard drives, video cards, memory, and every other component is now marketed as "making the internet faster".
The sad thing for the industry is not only the current economy, but also that new hardware isn't going to be as revolutionary as it once was.
It all comes down to the "Killer App" syndrome. There's no need for new hardware until new software is available to take advantage of it. And without a need for new hardware, the hardware manufacturers don't have any immediate need to spend lots of time and money on R&D.
New software needs to come first. I tend to see that most programmers are busy enough playing catch-up with all the new stuff available, implementing new communication APIs and what not. I'm sure a lot just haven't had time to do anything revolutionary.
They probably didn't have a 2 ft. high crawl space that they had to run it through.
I think last time I checked Pixar.com (probably over a year ago), they had Geri's Game for download.
<SARCASM>While we're posting articles like this, I was over at CNN and they have some new information too.</SARCASM>
That's interesting. Is there a Windows equivalent to open files being screwed up with one simple command? We use a DB engine that does stuff like that all the time.
Yes, it's way to scary to program in assembler now-a-days. The human brain can't store both Perl and Assembler code, so one of them has to go.