Absolutely, I'm surprised they're still there. And, as another poster pointed out, telnet and (to a lesser extent) ftp have to be next on the chopping block. Makes more sense than Perl being ripped from FreeBSD anyway.
Some more notes on framerate. Framerate good, but only while paired with a high refresh on the monitor. 130fps on a monitor refresing at 60Hz? Every second frame gets chucked. Most modern monitors can do 100Hz at 800x600 and that's where I'd start if I were you.
To set refresh rates under 'doze, change the screen resoltution to what you want to be playing games at, then use the advanced tab to change the refresh rate. You can now change back to your normal desktop rez and your games will start up at the higher refresh.
This doesn't work under 2k, you need registry hacks to do it under 2k. Don't know about XP.
Air Force Captain Elissa Beddow, that is. Having trained with the military, found herself flying remote controlled spy missions to find escaping al Queda fighers and lead a fighter jet to their location she, and I quote:"almost wanted to scream, 'Run! Get out of the way! You're going to be killed!' "
For god's sake, of course they're going to be killed, trollop. And don't forget you did your part to kill them from your cozy chair in Pakistan.
Seriously, perhaps we should go back to men with big sticks. At least the moral issues would be crystal clear to all involved.
...meaning, of course, that in order to be able to implement JPEG2000 we need a patent licencing authority - JPEG-LA, anyone? Of course, they would want to charge 0.001c/download and everyone goes running back to DCT.
Seriously, this is exactly the position in video compression right now. Dire, in other words.
Yeah, they just copied it. I did a traceroute on the two servers earlier and (from memory) one is *ca.verio.net and the other *va.verio.net. So unless they have a Windows box in California acting as a proxy for a FreeBSD box in Vaginia, they just copied the contents over.
"It's using between 7 percent and 10 percent of those to run Linux and the e-mail system."
For seven hundred email addresses, this strikes me as piss poor. Hell, a second hand P200 with good SCSI drives could run 700 accounts of qmail without breaking into a sweat.
So why does slashdot? There are thousands of submissions, and yet this happens all the time. If you're getting bored of working on the site, just quit, I'm sure there are hundreds who would jump at the chance.
I'm not sure how this relates to blade II, but I do know a thing or two about milk frothers - for cappunccino, presumably? You want a stainless steel one. Put it on the stove to get the milk warm/hot, then put it in the sink, hold the lid on with a sponge, and give it some frothing the milk. I have no idea why ours works so much better than the glass ones, except perhaps that since it's steel I'm not nearly so worried about beating the crap out of it. You hold the lid with a sponge because the milk usually comes glooping out of the hole at the top where the frother goes.
Keep in mind that your network adapter is going to have a MAC address that Sony, no doubt, knows.
I doubt it since rewriting a MAC address is dead simple - a bridging firewall with no rules will do the trick. Do, however, bear in mind that it's entirely likely that PS2's all have a hardware identifier that sony will know.
I mean, look at the situation here:.NET has come to the party late and intends to kill the thoroughly rolling Java bandwagon; In an effort to prove that common sense doesn't exist, the open source community starts embracing C# (ffs) and the CLR - Miguel DeIcaza is spotted blowing Steve Ballmer at CeBit; So Sun do what any sensible threatened competitor would do - start suing their mindshare.
Fsck's sake, I can understand them wanting to ensure that people remember Java=Sun so please buy our nice purple boxes, especially with IBM's increasingly successfuly campaign to do a runner with both Java and Linux's mindshare. But... suing a fansite? A _BIG_ fansite full of people who like to walk around persuading people to use Java?
What's the status of logging on POP servers? As best I know there isn't any, hence the only "proof" that you got the email would be the combination of the SMTP logs showing the mail was received at your ISP, and the fact the mail wasn't on disk any more.
Anyway, could always "steam the letter open" using POP's TOP command.
If you look at it, what they're actually claiming a patent on is collecting people's scores and putting them on the WWW.
Now, admittedly if this all goes ahead it's going to piss a lot of people off. Customers, for instance. I'm sure Anandtech et al would have a thing or two to say about it as well. But it's no show stopper. It's not like they're suing John Carmack for writing network games or anything.
And besides, he was the prior art in this case - the patent was filed end of August '99.
And I quote: "you may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display, or run other executable software residing on the Workstation".
Presumably this would include a telnet/ssh daemon and the cygwin installation needed to make them useful? Cygwin is the life blood of unixen trapped in a windows world - what now if the pointy haired ones 'upgrade' to XP?
I agree with you. It's all completely barking mad. We really need one, maybe two languages that developers can rally behind. One is C/C++, depending on whether you're in the Gnome or KDE camps (-1, Flamebait). The other should maybe be Java (-2, Pisses off Python jockies), although the open source-iness of Java is currently under some debate. Perhaps Perl? Given it's solid backing in the scripting / admin community, it would make a sensible choice.
So, choose our language, and get some support behind it. Witness the wonder that is KDevelop:) And get some good documentation, which was part of Miguel's reasoning to use.net.
I don't get it. Is it done on a limited time basis? Do they do it while being hosed down with freezing salt water? Then how come the top rated guy had 11% of his code fail system test?
Slashdot Mirror
Serious Sam 2. It's the tits.
Dave
Eight million dollars? It probably has eight million dollars worth of servers.
Dave
You're preaching to the choir here, man.
Dave
Now, if only we can convince core to remove sendmail...
Oh, dream on. You'll be wanting to get rid of BIND next.
Dave
Absolutely, I'm surprised they're still there. And, as another poster pointed out, telnet and (to a lesser extent) ftp have to be next on the chopping block. Makes more sense than Perl being ripped from FreeBSD anyway.
Dave
Some more notes on framerate. Framerate good, but only while paired with a high refresh on the monitor. 130fps on a monitor refresing at 60Hz? Every second frame gets chucked. Most modern monitors can do 100Hz at 800x600 and that's where I'd start if I were you.
To set refresh rates under 'doze, change the screen resoltution to what you want to be playing games at, then use the advanced tab to change the refresh rate. You can now change back to your normal desktop rez and your games will start up at the higher refresh.
This doesn't work under 2k, you need registry hacks to do it under 2k. Don't know about XP.
Dave
I can't envision hooking up 3 CRTs
I can, it's about to be winter down here.
Dave
Air Force Captain Elissa Beddow, that is. Having trained with the military, found herself flying remote controlled spy missions to find escaping al Queda fighers and lead a fighter jet to their location she, and I quote:"almost wanted to scream, 'Run! Get out of the way! You're going to be killed!' "
For god's sake, of course they're going to be killed, trollop. And don't forget you did your part to kill them from your cozy chair in Pakistan.
Seriously, perhaps we should go back to men with big sticks. At least the moral issues would be crystal clear to all involved.
Dave
I think he means it's the mutts nuts. Y'know, the dogs bollocks.
Dave
To Whom It May Concern:
Sadly, nobody. You're lucky if it's spelt right.
Dave
...meaning, of course, that in order to be able to implement JPEG2000 we need a patent licencing authority - JPEG-LA, anyone? Of course, they would want to charge 0.001c/download and everyone goes running back to DCT.
Seriously, this is exactly the position in video compression right now. Dire, in other words.
Dave
Yeah, they just copied it. I did a traceroute on the two servers earlier and (from memory) one is *ca.verio.net and the other *va.verio.net. So unless they have a Windows box in California acting as a proxy for a FreeBSD box in Vaginia, they just copied the contents over.
Dave
Not very well apparently:
"It's using between 7 percent and 10 percent of those to run Linux and the e-mail system."
For seven hundred email addresses, this strikes me as piss poor. Hell, a second hand P200 with good SCSI drives could run 700 accounts of qmail without breaking into a sweat.
Dave
It's true, the /. editors want us to go someplace else. I'm just waiting for the banner ad to tell us where it is....
Dave
Look, does the New York times have the same story on the front page two days in a row? No.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/24/153
So why does slashdot? There are thousands of submissions, and yet this happens all the time. If you're getting bored of working on the site, just quit, I'm sure there are hundreds who would jump at the chance.
FFS
Dave
I'm not sure how this relates to blade II, but I do know a thing or two about milk frothers - for cappunccino, presumably? You want a stainless steel one. Put it on the stove to get the milk warm/hot, then put it in the sink, hold the lid on with a sponge, and give it some frothing the milk. I have no idea why ours works so much better than the glass ones, except perhaps that since it's steel I'm not nearly so worried about beating the crap out of it. You hold the lid with a sponge because the milk usually comes glooping out of the hole at the top where the frother goes.
Dave
Keep in mind that your
network adapter is going to have a MAC address that Sony, no doubt, knows.
I doubt it since rewriting a MAC address is dead simple - a bridging firewall with no rules will do the trick. Do, however, bear in mind that it's entirely likely that PS2's all have a hardware identifier that sony will know.
Dave
Page 2 - "This page is intentionally blank". IBM harking back to the good ol' days?
Dave
We were told that we could only use the word "Java" if we followed exactly the kind of bizarre rules that Sun is imposing on JavaRanch.
.sig is beautifully reciprocal.
Perhaps a quick mail to the webmaster at JavaRanch?
Heh, BTW your
Dave
I mean, look at the situation here: .NET has come to the party late and intends to kill the thoroughly rolling Java bandwagon; In an effort to prove that common sense doesn't exist, the open source community starts embracing C# (ffs) and the CLR - Miguel DeIcaza is spotted blowing Steve Ballmer at CeBit; So Sun do what any sensible threatened competitor would do - start suing their mindshare.
Fsck's sake, I can understand them wanting to ensure that people remember Java=Sun so please buy our nice purple boxes, especially with IBM's increasingly successfuly campaign to do a runner with both Java and Linux's mindshare. But... suing a fansite? A _BIG_ fansite full of people who like to walk around persuading people to use Java?
Once again: Head->Table... Bang! Bang! Bang!
Dave
What's the status of logging on POP servers? As best I know there isn't any, hence the only "proof" that you got the email would be the combination of the SMTP logs showing the mail was received at your ISP, and the fact the mail wasn't on disk any more.
Anyway, could always "steam the letter open" using POP's TOP command.
Dave
If you look at it, what they're actually claiming a patent on is collecting people's scores and putting them on the WWW.
Now, admittedly if this all goes ahead it's going to piss a lot of people off. Customers, for instance. I'm sure Anandtech et al would have a thing or two to say about it as well. But it's no show stopper. It's not like they're suing John Carmack for writing network games or anything.
And besides, he was the prior art in this case - the patent was filed end of August '99.
Dave
And I quote: "you may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display, or run other executable software residing on the Workstation".
Presumably this would include a telnet/ssh daemon and the cygwin installation needed to make them useful? Cygwin is the life blood of unixen trapped in a windows world - what now if the pointy haired ones 'upgrade' to XP?
Dave
I agree with you. It's all completely barking mad. We really need one, maybe two languages that developers can rally behind. One is C/C++, depending on whether you're in the Gnome or KDE camps (-1, Flamebait). The other should maybe be Java (-2, Pisses off Python jockies), although the open source-iness of Java is currently under some debate. Perhaps Perl? Given it's solid backing in the scripting / admin community, it would make a sensible choice.
:) And get some good documentation, which was part of Miguel's reasoning to use .net.
So, choose our language, and get some support behind it. Witness the wonder that is KDevelop
But, yes, bollocks to C#
Dave
I don't get it. Is it done on a limited time basis? Do they do it while being hosed down with freezing salt water? Then how come the top rated guy had 11% of his code fail system test?
Dave