*nix people are NOT more technical by nature. I know DOZENS of Linux "geeks" who compile their own software only because of easy compile scripts and easy packages. I started on non-DOS systems, but found DOS _extremely_ usable with QEMM and DesqView, later found Win98 tolerable, and find NT/2k/XP very usable. I'm far more techincal than at least 50% of the programmers in the wild becaus eI know _hardware_. I can't tell you how many coders over the years I've met and known who can write magnificent code, but couldn't install a SIMM in their old 386 if their lives depended on it.
By default, Windows is very insecure, and does need adjusting to become a fast, tech-friendly environment, but so does any Linux distro (although it's usually more secure by default). Being a Windows admin doesn't have to mean a dearth of techincal knowledge. EDUCATE YOURSELF. Don't rely on your PC or OS to educate you. Read technical books, play with hardware, get Cygwin and play with the command line tools. Compile your own programs, too. There's lots of open source Windows software. Learn to program, also.
Don't be intimidated by someone just because they use Linux. Don't be intimidated by the OS holy wars that have been raging since before DOS even existed. Anyone who says ONE OS is better than all is a fool. They're all around because of various niches that needed filled. Linux is growing while Windows is flattening (they're BOTH fattening, too...), sure, but that doesn't mean you're not a useful Admin.
Now, that said, I'll preemptively defend myself. I'd never put Windows up as a server, unless we're talking a home net where the server is also used as a PC. Putting Windows as a server on the net is insane. Linux is far superior there. But, as it stands, Windows is still a better desktop OS. I do sincerely hope Linux keeps improving there, though. Competition is good.
Try this:
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.ht ml#generated_source
It's a bookmarklet that takes the current page, and shows you it's source in a new window, without reloading. It's not the EXACT source from the server though, it's the cleaned up onebeing displayer. It's as close as we get, currently.
Many government mints work with special versions of Photoshop and Illustrator that Adobe creates custom for their uses. It has features such as massive resolution handling capabilities, zoom functions up to 16,000% or 32,000% (as opposed to 1,200%), special color handling abilities (for color shifting inks, and such, to make it easier to work with these materials), and more. They get paid quite well for these versions and features, and so the addition of code co-developed by these banking institutions and governments with Adobe was not a financial decision, but a performance one. Once the performance penalties were solved, they included it. I'm sure Adobe knew it would be easily circumvented, but it makes life slightly more difficult for counterfeiters, and it satisfied the governments (who really aren't good at grasping anti-anything circumvention techniques).
The same constellation is present on the back of the new US twenty dollar bills, except the it uses the small yellow "20" symbol. Look at that PDF on the note with the music notes. Same constellation. It's obviosly independent of the object, it just looks for that geometric pattern.
I haven't yet discovered what on the front of the USD20 note is detected...
Yeah, I do the parallel version easily. I can do it at will at any time, but the crosseyed version is impossible for me. I can also willfully alter my focus somehow. The problem is, I can't alter focus AND cross my eyes, so I can never do the cross eyed ones. The only way I've been able to teach my mom to do the parallel stereograms is to get her to stare at a point on the far wall, relax, then slip the image up to her quickly. After that, she could do it by herself. Try that with your folks if they can't do it...
Yes, because Europeans use SPECIAL radio waves, different from the ones the rest of the world uses, and they only fit inside European satellite dishes.
I remember long before I did this for clients doing it when old MFM drives would start to die. Why do you think we old-hat tech geeks have at least two of everythign on our shelves?
I had a mindo when I read tha theadline. I swore it said "Following the Sperm Trail". Sadly, I reread the headline and saw it was just worthless spam. And I do mean worthless. Spam costs two bucks for 12 ounces. Sperm can get you $50 a shot!
I loved Beneath a Steel Sky, years back when I bought it. It was fantastic, and the entire package carried the theme of the game, including the in-box little comic book. It really brought the whole interactive-comic feeling alive, and I salute Revolution Software for this little gift back to the general gaming community. I'll definetly give their games a +1 modifier when looking at the game shelf next time.;)
Actually, it IS possible to remove MSN Messenger, and even things like Outlook Express. Two ways actually.
You can just delete it, but make sure you delete it from both the program folder, and %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\dllcache which is where the "protected" copies live.
An easier way is to edit %systemroot%\inf\sysoc.inf
Open is in Notepad and under the Edit > Replace menu, replace all instances of HIDE with nothing, save, reboot. Then you can go to Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs and tell Windows to remove it.
"A person in a MMPORPG will feel bad when PKed because he has lost experience, gold, and a sum of his time towards his goal, whatever that may be."
Yes, but if he's killed by another person, or a computer drived NPC is irrelevant. He'll still feel bad. So if there is a choice to play the bad guy, adn one chooses that, and they kill another character, so be it. Everyone's getting what they knew could happen.
"But if one choses to eat ewoks alive, killing the character and booting the user permanently from the server, one should rightfully feel guilty. If one chose to sell out the Mudokans to their fate in order to save their own hide, one should feel guilty."
I disagree with these examples. That is your GOAL in the game in that context (being an 'evildoer' as our braintrust of a President calls it). Does that player feel worse for having been eaten knowing it was a person being the bad guy, versus a bot/scripted game event? I doubt it. Do you feel guilty when playing Quake 3 and you frag the point leader in an elimination round?
It's also called "salting" the records, or seeding the records as well. It's been used for ages. Last time I remember seeing it on a large scale was with those whole-country telephone databases on CD that were popular in the 1990's, before they were availabel free on the net. Some companies were rather restrictive with the licenses, and prohibited using the databases for mailing lists, cold calls, etc., and seeded the database with fake entries so they could tell when it was being abused.
You see, they were going to send all these to Saddam so he could beowulf them for use with the gas centrifuge he hid inder the rose bush and the imaginary urankum he bought from Africa (the country, not the continent).
DNF isn't ever coming out. It's not real. It's like those Pokingmen e-cards that the kiddies trade. 3DRealms knows as long as it's "almost done!" they can keep getting funding. DNF is really just about 2 dozen Photoshop files that they edit for the Suits to say, "See! It's real!" and get another round of cash. It's like that Florida guy who "invented" that magic box to make all phone lines into broadband.;)
Am I the only one really annoyed at this guys use of "memory" for disk space? I _still_ find customers who can't tell the difference between RAM and HDD, and this guy goes and makes it worse for every twit who thinks they know everything. Yes, I know that one can make a theoretical argument for using the term, but really, in practice, memory is RAM. It's just annoying... I'm surprised to see it at Tom's Hardware...
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As for the setup, I use XP (without the damn Luna crap), and Mozilla for web/mail/news. I'm a HUGE Mozilla supporter, as noted by my URL. :)
By default, Windows is very insecure, and does need adjusting to become a fast, tech-friendly environment, but so does any Linux distro (although it's usually more secure by default). Being a Windows admin doesn't have to mean a dearth of techincal knowledge. EDUCATE YOURSELF. Don't rely on your PC or OS to educate you. Read technical books, play with hardware, get Cygwin and play with the command line tools. Compile your own programs, too. There's lots of open source Windows software. Learn to program, also.
Don't be intimidated by someone just because they use Linux. Don't be intimidated by the OS holy wars that have been raging since before DOS even existed. Anyone who says ONE OS is better than all is a fool. They're all around because of various niches that needed filled. Linux is growing while Windows is flattening (they're BOTH fattening, too...), sure, but that doesn't mean you're not a useful Admin.
Now, that said, I'll preemptively defend myself. I'd never put Windows up as a server, unless we're talking a home net where the server is also used as a PC. Putting Windows as a server on the net is insane. Linux is far superior there. But, as it stands, Windows is still a better desktop OS. I do sincerely hope Linux keeps improving there, though. Competition is good.
Try this: http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.ht ml#generated_source
It's a bookmarklet that takes the current page, and shows you it's source in a new window, without reloading. It's not the EXACT source from the server though, it's the cleaned up onebeing displayer. It's as close as we get, currently.
Many government mints work with special versions of Photoshop and Illustrator that Adobe creates custom for their uses. It has features such as massive resolution handling capabilities, zoom functions up to 16,000% or 32,000% (as opposed to 1,200%), special color handling abilities (for color shifting inks, and such, to make it easier to work with these materials), and more. They get paid quite well for these versions and features, and so the addition of code co-developed by these banking institutions and governments with Adobe was not a financial decision, but a performance one. Once the performance penalties were solved, they included it. I'm sure Adobe knew it would be easily circumvented, but it makes life slightly more difficult for counterfeiters, and it satisfied the governments (who really aren't good at grasping anti-anything circumvention techniques).
They use a Bullshit Compressor. Politicians have been using it for years. Thta's hwo you get 10 pounds of manure in a 5 pound bag.
The same constellation is present on the back of the new US twenty dollar bills, except the it uses the small yellow "20" symbol. Look at that PDF on the note with the music notes. Same constellation. It's obviosly independent of the object, it just looks for that geometric pattern. I haven't yet discovered what on the front of the USD20 note is detected...
Yeah, I do the parallel version easily. I can do it at will at any time, but the crosseyed version is impossible for me. I can also willfully alter my focus somehow. The problem is, I can't alter focus AND cross my eyes, so I can never do the cross eyed ones. The only way I've been able to teach my mom to do the parallel stereograms is to get her to stare at a point on the far wall, relax, then slip the image up to her quickly. After that, she could do it by herself. Try that with your folks if they can't do it...
If we can hear a signal of a fraction of a billionth of a watt from one of the Voyager probes, then we'll certainly hear a 5 watt signal from Mars.
Yes, because Europeans use SPECIAL radio waves, different from the ones the rest of the world uses, and they only fit inside European satellite dishes.
I remember long before I did this for clients doing it when old MFM drives would start to die. Why do you think we old-hat tech geeks have at least two of everythign on our shelves?
I had a mindo when I read tha theadline. I swore it said "Following the Sperm Trail". Sadly, I reread the headline and saw it was just worthless spam. And I do mean worthless. Spam costs two bucks for 12 ounces. Sperm can get you $50 a shot!
I loved Beneath a Steel Sky, years back when I bought it. It was fantastic, and the entire package carried the theme of the game, including the in-box little comic book. It really brought the whole interactive-comic feeling alive, and I salute Revolution Software for this little gift back to the general gaming community. I'll definetly give their games a +1 modifier when looking at the game shelf next time. ;)
You can just delete it, but make sure you delete it from both the program folder, and %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\dllcache which is where the "protected" copies live.
An easier way is to edit %systemroot%\inf\sysoc.inf
Open is in Notepad and under the Edit > Replace menu, replace all instances of HIDE with nothing, save, reboot. Then you can go to Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs and tell Windows to remove it.
Yes, but if he's killed by another person, or a computer drived NPC is irrelevant. He'll still feel bad. So if there is a choice to play the bad guy, adn one chooses that, and they kill another character, so be it. Everyone's getting what they knew could happen.
I disagree with these examples. That is your GOAL in the game in that context (being an 'evildoer' as our braintrust of a President calls it). Does that player feel worse for having been eaten knowing it was a person being the bad guy, versus a bot/scripted game event? I doubt it. Do you feel guilty when playing Quake 3 and you frag the point leader in an elimination round?
"You've got a sucker in Pennsylvania!"
It's also called "salting" the records, or seeding the records as well. It's been used for ages. Last time I remember seeing it on a large scale was with those whole-country telephone databases on CD that were popular in the 1990's, before they were availabel free on the net. Some companies were rather restrictive with the licenses, and prohibited using the databases for mailing lists, cold calls, etc., and seeded the database with fake entries so they could tell when it was being abused.
You see, they were going to send all these to Saddam so he could beowulf them for use with the gas centrifuge he hid inder the rose bush and the imaginary urankum he bought from Africa (the country, not the continent).
DNF isn't ever coming out. It's not real. It's like those Pokingmen e-cards that the kiddies trade. 3DRealms knows as long as it's "almost done!" they can keep getting funding. DNF is really just about 2 dozen Photoshop files that they edit for the Suits to say, "See! It's real!" and get another round of cash. It's like that Florida guy who "invented" that magic box to make all phone lines into broadband. ;)
Sure you can. My first wheel mouse was serial. I have 3 of them in a bin. Look here.
I found it much more gratifying to turn MENSA down, personally. "Please join!" Umm, no thanks. Maybe I'm just an easily amused genius... :)
Am I the only one really annoyed at this guys use of "memory" for disk space? I _still_ find customers who can't tell the difference between RAM and HDD, and this guy goes and makes it worse for every twit who thinks they know everything. Yes, I know that one can make a theoretical argument for using the term, but really, in practice, memory is RAM. It's just annoying... I'm surprised to see it at Tom's Hardware...
Fuck you. kthx Gotta love that. Just for pure entertainment value. :)
Can we say "bug!"? :)
No, Mac users are mostly "Ooo, pretty!"