No. GitHub uses, as the name implies, Git. You git clone the source code:)
People will just have to get used to hosting binaries on some other site, though. Just look at how quickly Flickr got a workaround to allow any file (you can find it on GitHub, incidentally).
It took me 4-5 retries before I remembered the right password, of course. They also had my e-mail. At the very least they do have the original database with data going back 8 years. Whether we can trust the admins is still questionable - for all we know they could be setting up the biggest MAFIAA honeytrap yet;)
Also, there is nothing important or identifying on my profile, at least. The e-mail is an alias only used there, the domain is privacy-guarded to hell (and I'm the provider). Never use a real name, even if you just made a research account. Especially then:)
I don't remember how many years ago it was, but a major provider of sports ads in Europe had drive-by infections. The Flash hate really picked up steam in those days:)
I had an account from 2005, and amazingly still remembered my password. Yep, it's the old DB. What sort of people are running the server is a whole different matter, though.
Chrome is the only one not named Safari or Opera showing local storage etc. easily, you mean;)
Safari has the menu with the boring name "Develop", and Opera has Dragonfly.
I get a lot of those botnet hack attempts on sites I host, and it's mainly Spain, Italy and Ukraine lately, from residential IPs. A few come from the UK, and they're at other server hosts. The last type are actually fixable, as the admins respond. The residential ones either keep quiet and deal with it, or don't care.
The past few months the clustering has dropped off too. It's an isolated login attempt or two a day to Wordpress sites (which one filter bans after 3-5 failures) or SSH ports (rarely, and handled by fail2ban).
Yeah, they move around as they get blocked/lose their accounts. More than half the spam *I* see nowadays seems to come from Ukraine or Spain. There used to be mostly spam originating from Brazil a while back, and a few years ago it was almost exclusively coming from Bulgaria. But the contents were the usual top 10.
Most of the activity in general from Ukraine and Russia is people trying to get into Wordpress sites I run. Fail2ban and plugins take care of them, but I don't get why anyone would want to spend time on trying to get into blogs nobody reads:P
Really - all the visitors are searchbots, spambots and intrusion attempts! If I remove some security measures the only people who'd be drive-by infected are other spammers and hackers.
The best games to buy are the ones which use SteamWorks if available, but let you run them outside Steam. There's a list of games which don't care if Steam is running on the Steam forums. Support those developers to send a message:)
Steam has many parts. There's the distribution, which may sometimes send you an encrypted binary before official release. Once decrypted it may be DRM-free. Then there is the online/social API which requires Steam running, but that's not DRM. Then some use SteamWorks as DRM, and need you to verify online that the game belongs to your account.
Just the default tools included with a big package like Zimbra have done a marvellous job stopping spam from reaching users on my server. After training them to mark spam in the webmail the filters have learned enough to outright reject nearly all spam, but you're right Postgrey can really help. I ran it when I used a simpler setup with Postgres, Dovecot and Roundcube, and we enjoyed a very long period of sweet, spamless service. Then more spam started slipping through at some point.
After I moved to Zimbra for the operation there was still about the same amount spam until the filters had some training and the thresholds were altered from the default spam scores. I trained them initially by feeding it 10GB of legit mail and marking it ham, then a decade or so worth of spam marked as such. The spam graph went from mountain peaks all the way to an occasional hill a week:)
This has been running well for a couple of years, with slight bursts of spam when the trends change. The SpamAssassin learning process is running daily on the inboxes for ham and junk boxes for spam. The users get more ordinary mail than spam, so any junk with a low enough spam score to slip through to the inbox is offset quickly once relearned by the train_spam cronjob. One of my accounts gets the most spam, and it's one or two daily bastards who are now at the rejection threshold. The ones who just barely make it into the filters are sent to SpamCop, and I handle the few which slip through to a customer too occasionally. Rejections are silently dropped, not bounced.
There's truth in that, sadly. The only rejected mail I've sent were spam reports via SpamCop to a notorious company, who rejected it because of SPF errors.
If this input Razer got was in the form of a survey like the ones I get occasionally (and get $10 Amazon coupons for), the questions were probably designed to be able to interpret the answers any way they wanted. Multiple choice - THEIR choices.
This tablet can't possibly last very long while playing a game, so you'd want to be near a power outlet. At that point you're better off with a gaming laptop at least, or perhaps a real desktop. With a real screen and a comfy chair. It's also clearly not intended for purely touch-based input. The two-part gamepad on the sides should be a giveaway there! The controller is a bloody major part of the design, so it's clear they want it to be a portable console of sorts.
Even if battery technology has reached the point where this could let you play CoD for 4 hours, it looks bloody uncomfortable.
That was IAC, not GarageGames. This company bought GG and renamed the sub-company Torque, jacked up prices and devoured souls. I'm sure the CEO also ate babies, but I have no picture evidence. People close to the company can testify this is the sort of thing they would do, though.
I have more hope for the engines now than the IAC days, especially after having seen the improvements on the 2D side. There is still much work left, but people who are really interested in more platforms (like Android) are free to contribute. Please somebody start on Android ports of both engines so the whine can stop;)
I don't buy music software from people who do regional pricing AND awful DRM;)
Ableton give me dollar prices (and dual-platform licenses!), PreSonus show local currency at the current exchange rate. Apple charge US prices+VAT for Logic, and recalculate the tier prices on their app stores now and then. I don't recommend supporting a company which charges such wildly different prices in different regions. There's no one company with a choke hold on DAWs:)
Steam is generally good, but I've just stopped supporting regional pricing there. Valve's own aren't so bad, but they're not exactly releasing new titles frequently. I'm using skeevy game key sites for bigger games. ShopTo also have a few Steam games in their download section, at much more reasonable prices than Steam itself.
TV? I haven't used a real TV in over a decade. It's been all torrents and proxies for other services. Netflix is fairly acceptable once it thinks you're in the US, and the same services that enable this make many previously locked websites suddenly available:)
As long as people are being treated differently they'll be using methods illegal or in the grey zone to get content. The big media companies need to do something about licensing procedures, since it clearly is too hard now. Over a year of negotiations to add another country? HBO Nordic delayed by several months already? Not even when they own all their content is it possible to add a region. Or even a single country. I don't think the problem is technical.
Everything already existing hasn't been ported, but I've definitely noticed a rise in games with Windows/OS X simultaneous launch on Steam. Every game doesn't get a port, but the ones which do at least get them sooner. But OS X probably has ~15x as many desktop users as the various Linux distros, so it might not be that awesome for Linux. We can be certain the indies won't have any reservations now, though. Unity3D is huge among them, and the Linux client export is a first-class feature, like the OS X and Windows players.
Unity definitely had a shaky launch. There is much hatred for it, whether it's warranted anymore or not.
Ubuntu's driver issues aren't purely a Linux kernel issue (although it might be in some cases), because they have their own installers to detect what drivers should be downloaded/installed.
The one thing I've always had issues with was sound. Not directly drivers, but in the past PulseAudio was a pain to keep working. This was mostly fine for about 5 years, before the 2010 editions broke things for me on the desktop again. I've had a much more pleasant desktop experience once things are installed properly in a VM. Using VM auto-installers always left me with really broken locale/keymap settings, and manual installations still give me a US keyboard layout during layout, which is bloody useless for the majority of the world.
It's all fixable, but sometimes searching for the solution will give you conflicting threads. It helps knowing how it all works in the background. I'd say Ubuntu was easier to install and use than Windows at some point (several years, in fact), but the quality of the installer has dropped lately. Internationalisation issues, sound and possibly older hardware are the weak points suddenly. Linux has historically been the best solution to squeeze new life out of old gear, so this is a sad development.
If you're installing a server version of any distro, you'll rarely have any issues at all. Of course, if you are doing that you hopefully have the knowledge to sort out the few issues that could crop up;)
I'll typically start with just a bare server version of Ubuntu for a new computer, then apt-get the desktop environment+package manager frontends I like (both command line and GUI) once I have it recognising the sound hardware. But you shouldn't have to:/
Games with ads have them even if you have a Gold subscription. The ad posters in Rainbow Six:Vegas are an example. You can't play it online without Gold, but the ads keep coming. Netflix have a proper fullscreen client, I believe, so the only ads are for other Netflix movies and shows. But ads == recommendations there, and you chose to have them. But I only use the PS3 nowadays; I escaped from the 360 when the buttons for my games shrank and the ads grew.
It's not the money for most. The OS is still rather new, and companies don't jump at new systems right at launch. It can take years - they're still migrating from XP to 7!
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My copper at home goes for 2.5km, and I'm lucky to get 11Mbit :/
I think copper is here to stay because the ISPs don't consider it worth upgrading.
No. GitHub uses, as the name implies, Git. You git clone the source code :)
People will just have to get used to hosting binaries on some other site, though. Just look at how quickly Flickr got a workaround to allow any file (you can find it on GitHub, incidentally).
It took me 4-5 retries before I remembered the right password, of course. They also had my e-mail. At the very least they do have the original database with data going back 8 years. Whether we can trust the admins is still questionable - for all we know they could be setting up the biggest MAFIAA honeytrap yet ;)
Also, there is nothing important or identifying on my profile, at least. The e-mail is an alias only used there, the domain is privacy-guarded to hell (and I'm the provider). Never use a real name, even if you just made a research account. Especially then :)
I don't remember how many years ago it was, but a major provider of sports ads in Europe had drive-by infections. The Flash hate really picked up steam in those days :)
I had an account from 2005, and amazingly still remembered my password. Yep, it's the old DB. What sort of people are running the server is a whole different matter, though.
Chrome is the only one not named Safari or Opera showing local storage etc. easily, you mean ;)
Safari has the menu with the boring name "Develop", and Opera has Dragonfly.
It's whenever new music no longer makes sense to you.
I get a lot of those botnet hack attempts on sites I host, and it's mainly Spain, Italy and Ukraine lately, from residential IPs. A few come from the UK, and they're at other server hosts. The last type are actually fixable, as the admins respond. The residential ones either keep quiet and deal with it, or don't care. The past few months the clustering has dropped off too. It's an isolated login attempt or two a day to Wordpress sites (which one filter bans after 3-5 failures) or SSH ports (rarely, and handled by fail2ban).
Yeah, they move around as they get blocked/lose their accounts. More than half the spam *I* see nowadays seems to come from Ukraine or Spain. There used to be mostly spam originating from Brazil a while back, and a few years ago it was almost exclusively coming from Bulgaria. But the contents were the usual top 10. Most of the activity in general from Ukraine and Russia is people trying to get into Wordpress sites I run. Fail2ban and plugins take care of them, but I don't get why anyone would want to spend time on trying to get into blogs nobody reads :P
Really - all the visitors are searchbots, spambots and intrusion attempts! If I remove some security measures the only people who'd be drive-by infected are other spammers and hackers.
The best games to buy are the ones which use SteamWorks if available, but let you run them outside Steam. There's a list of games which don't care if Steam is running on the Steam forums. Support those developers to send a message :)
Steam has many parts. There's the distribution, which may sometimes send you an encrypted binary before official release. Once decrypted it may be DRM-free. Then there is the online/social API which requires Steam running, but that's not DRM. Then some use SteamWorks as DRM, and need you to verify online that the game belongs to your account.
Yeah, this practice is what got me to stop using the 360 altogether. Much happier with the PS3 and paying with PSN cards.
Just the default tools included with a big package like Zimbra have done a marvellous job stopping spam from reaching users on my server. After training them to mark spam in the webmail the filters have learned enough to outright reject nearly all spam, but you're right Postgrey can really help. I ran it when I used a simpler setup with Postgres, Dovecot and Roundcube, and we enjoyed a very long period of sweet, spamless service. Then more spam started slipping through at some point.
After I moved to Zimbra for the operation there was still about the same amount spam until the filters had some training and the thresholds were altered from the default spam scores. I trained them initially by feeding it 10GB of legit mail and marking it ham, then a decade or so worth of spam marked as such. The spam graph went from mountain peaks all the way to an occasional hill a week :)
This has been running well for a couple of years, with slight bursts of spam when the trends change. The SpamAssassin learning process is running daily on the inboxes for ham and junk boxes for spam. The users get more ordinary mail than spam, so any junk with a low enough spam score to slip through to the inbox is offset quickly once relearned by the train_spam cronjob. One of my accounts gets the most spam, and it's one or two daily bastards who are now at the rejection threshold. The ones who just barely make it into the filters are sent to SpamCop, and I handle the few which slip through to a customer too occasionally. Rejections are silently dropped, not bounced.
There's truth in that, sadly. The only rejected mail I've sent were spam reports via SpamCop to a notorious company, who rejected it because of SPF errors.
No, you need to install double doors. That's double the security against illegal entry :)
That could potentially be an article of its own. Hope you post it everywhere :)
If this input Razer got was in the form of a survey like the ones I get occasionally (and get $10 Amazon coupons for), the questions were probably designed to be able to interpret the answers any way they wanted. Multiple choice - THEIR choices.
This tablet can't possibly last very long while playing a game, so you'd want to be near a power outlet. At that point you're better off with a gaming laptop at least, or perhaps a real desktop. With a real screen and a comfy chair. It's also clearly not intended for purely touch-based input. The two-part gamepad on the sides should be a giveaway there! The controller is a bloody major part of the design, so it's clear they want it to be a portable console of sorts.
Even if battery technology has reached the point where this could let you play CoD for 4 hours, it looks bloody uncomfortable.
"The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." --Abraham Lincoln
That was IAC, not GarageGames. This company bought GG and renamed the sub-company Torque, jacked up prices and devoured souls. I'm sure the CEO also ate babies, but I have no picture evidence. People close to the company can testify this is the sort of thing they would do, though.
I have more hope for the engines now than the IAC days, especially after having seen the improvements on the 2D side. There is still much work left, but people who are really interested in more platforms (like Android) are free to contribute. Please somebody start on Android ports of both engines so the whine can stop ;)
I don't buy music software from people who do regional pricing AND awful DRM ;)
Ableton give me dollar prices (and dual-platform licenses!), PreSonus show local currency at the current exchange rate. Apple charge US prices+VAT for Logic, and recalculate the tier prices on their app stores now and then. I don't recommend supporting a company which charges such wildly different prices in different regions. There's no one company with a choke hold on DAWs :)
Steam is generally good, but I've just stopped supporting regional pricing there. Valve's own aren't so bad, but they're not exactly releasing new titles frequently. I'm using skeevy game key sites for bigger games. ShopTo also have a few Steam games in their download section, at much more reasonable prices than Steam itself.
TV? I haven't used a real TV in over a decade. It's been all torrents and proxies for other services. Netflix is fairly acceptable once it thinks you're in the US, and the same services that enable this make many previously locked websites suddenly available :)
As long as people are being treated differently they'll be using methods illegal or in the grey zone to get content. The big media companies need to do something about licensing procedures, since it clearly is too hard now. Over a year of negotiations to add another country? HBO Nordic delayed by several months already? Not even when they own all their content is it possible to add a region. Or even a single country. I don't think the problem is technical.
Both questions would have to be really hard!
Everything already existing hasn't been ported, but I've definitely noticed a rise in games with Windows/OS X simultaneous launch on Steam. Every game doesn't get a port, but the ones which do at least get them sooner. But OS X probably has ~15x as many desktop users as the various Linux distros, so it might not be that awesome for Linux. We can be certain the indies won't have any reservations now, though. Unity3D is huge among them, and the Linux client export is a first-class feature, like the OS X and Windows players.
Unity definitely had a shaky launch. There is much hatred for it, whether it's warranted anymore or not.
Ubuntu's driver issues aren't purely a Linux kernel issue (although it might be in some cases), because they have their own installers to detect what drivers should be downloaded/installed.
The one thing I've always had issues with was sound. Not directly drivers, but in the past PulseAudio was a pain to keep working. This was mostly fine for about 5 years, before the 2010 editions broke things for me on the desktop again. I've had a much more pleasant desktop experience once things are installed properly in a VM. Using VM auto-installers always left me with really broken locale/keymap settings, and manual installations still give me a US keyboard layout during layout, which is bloody useless for the majority of the world.
It's all fixable, but sometimes searching for the solution will give you conflicting threads. It helps knowing how it all works in the background. I'd say Ubuntu was easier to install and use than Windows at some point (several years, in fact), but the quality of the installer has dropped lately. Internationalisation issues, sound and possibly older hardware are the weak points suddenly. Linux has historically been the best solution to squeeze new life out of old gear, so this is a sad development.
If you're installing a server version of any distro, you'll rarely have any issues at all. Of course, if you are doing that you hopefully have the knowledge to sort out the few issues that could crop up ;)
I'll typically start with just a bare server version of Ubuntu for a new computer, then apt-get the desktop environment+package manager frontends I like (both command line and GUI) once I have it recognising the sound hardware. But you shouldn't have to :/
How many readers and believers now compared to the early days, though? ;)
Games with ads have them even if you have a Gold subscription. The ad posters in Rainbow Six:Vegas are an example. You can't play it online without Gold, but the ads keep coming. Netflix have a proper fullscreen client, I believe, so the only ads are for other Netflix movies and shows. But ads == recommendations there, and you chose to have them. But I only use the PS3 nowadays; I escaped from the 360 when the buttons for my games shrank and the ads grew.
It's not the money for most. The OS is still rather new, and companies don't jump at new systems right at launch. It can take years - they're still migrating from XP to 7!