And in other news...Security expert Joe Blow made the stunning annoucement that theoritically peoples Unix accounts could be hacked if the chose a word in the dictionary. Joe say, "Yes I know this has been known for some time, and most Unix implementations take care not to allow dictionary words, but I just wanted to be safe and let others know of my discovery". Joe Blows comany, Obvious Fixes, sells software to resolve this issue.
I think the biggest problem with something like Yahoo is that its not tied to an ISP service. Anyone here actually USED AOL. It's very portal like, except better managed and easier to follow than Yahoo. AOL gets money from profitable websites for linking to them on thier "front page". Everytime someone logs into AOL, there it is. It's to the point now that many people think AOL IS the internet. Yahoo has no such advantage. I think eventually, the "portals" will be swallowed up by big ISPs to provide a "service" to their customers.
"Is the idea here to port what PC/Mac users no longer want to buy? More and more stories on/. surround the idea of running windows on linux, running old crappy windows games on linux, etc. why?
Perhaps someone could enlighten me as to why anyone should care why game technology older than many Linux developers should be exciting."
Old does NOT mean boring. This is a common misconception. High end graphics is nothing more than eye-candy. That being said, there is nothing wrong with eye-candy, but its not the end all be all of gaming. Look at Diablo II. Not exactly Quake 3 graphics, but still fun and quite popular. You know what the number one machine of all time for gaming is? PC? Nope. PSX? Nope. N64? Nope. The number one gaming system of all time, is the gameboy at a stunning 8 bits of power.
I still play a number of original Nintendo games. They were fun then, they are fun today.
"Which doesn't do the merchant any good if they're still assuming that the shopper gave them the correct price when they hit "Buy". Of course, any intelligent software designer would never have trusted the user with the price in the first place-- it would have have been grabbed out of the DB and totalled by the server just before passing it to the credit card authorizer."
You don't understand. The merchant has not choice in the matter. The way the credit card authorization works is exactly how the previous poster describes and there is NO way around it other than finding a company that actually has proper authorization. In places like the UK, this is impossible, in the US it's unlikely (if not impossible).
"Yeah, good point. Look at how those games screwed you up. Hypocrite."
Flamebait, eh. I'll address it anyway. Let me tell you something about me. I know right from wrong. In fact, I'm an expert in religous morality, both past and present forms. When I was a child, morality consisted little more than "will I get spanked for this?" and "can I get away for this?". That's the reality of a 5 year old. They don't fully understand the implications of death, much less the implications of love and sex. I sure didn't. Which is why I want to expose my children to such things in a controlled enviroment, rather than let some video game writer do it for me. As they get older, and I am certain they understand right from wrong, and that games are not real, I will let them play games. But, it will be my choice. I'm not a hippocrite, I just don't want others raising my kids.
This is a great idea. I'm 28 years old, about to get married and have children. I LOVE playing Half Life (only reason I actually own Windows), but when I have kids, I dont want my 5 year old starting up some video game whose objective is to blow people apart. Just like I don't want them to view R movies on HBO (which my Digital Cable box can prevent). It's my choice. End of story. It's not censor. It's not to "appease the government". If anything, it's to appease parents. It's a good thing.
In other news, the CEO of Iomega, the company that makes those unreliable drives that are warrentied till "the end of their life", bitched today that he could not get drunk while bribing senators to save his companies ass.
Look, it todays world, if you want it you can get high speed access almost anywhere. Cable, DSL, Dish, etc.. Asking the gaming community to write code that is backwardly compatible to dial up connectivity is just a waste of time
Not everyone on the planet live in a dorm where one can get free 100MB ethernet. Infact, over 50% of americans still connect with "yesterdays" technology. It just makes good business sense to make a game playable over 56K. You know, that idea called profit, which is something every company should be interested in.
Being one who does research in a Uni, I am bessed with access to a fast connection and can play UT in the off hours in my lab. At home, I have 56K...why because getting broadband here is priced only for businesses and even if it weren't I can only get DSL, which the owners of my apt building wouldn't be too keen for them to hook up. Most of the US, and even less the World, can't get high speed internet, and if they can they are lucky to get it for a reasonable price.
As always, this will be modded down as a troll, but at this point, Karma be damned, I don't care.
With all due respect to the FSF, who cares what they think is "free software". They set up conditions for a definition of "free" and insist till the end of time that software is not "free" unless it follows the GPL (or some very close and related liscense). Personally, I think the GPL could never be called "free" because of how restrictive it is.
That all being said, the dogmatic insistence of a definition of "Free" and some self appointed experts who happen to make a lot of noise to not take the fact away that one can get the source to Darwin, and hence the low level code for OS X, look at it, poke at it, and prod it. That is a boom for developers writing drivers, that is a boom for programmers who need to see how things interact with hardware (game developers), and that is a boom for Apple customers who have technical knowledge and want to get OS X running on non-G3/G4 machines. Say all you want, its BETTER that not having the source at all. Apple should be given credit for it.
Some guy with a PhD found out that MSNBC would actually listen to him and write a couple paragraphs that "Darwin is vindicated" because of the "Human Genome". I know how these guys work. They have Genetic data where they then try to explain differences using evolution. Fairly reasonable thing to do. All he's doing is take the explaination for the differences and using it to say "Darwin is vindicated", which is not a reasonable thing to do.
Instead you should just state, "Evolution is a fact". Human beings, in thier short time of recorded history have seen cows in Australia evolve to the enviroment, virii and bacteria evolve to resist drugs, new breeds of dogs and cats appear, et al. There is NO disputing the fact of evolution. Now if you want to suggest human evolved from other primates, you'll have some resistence, but once its explained that Evolution is a fact, it's not that hard to see it happening.
Since that archive is nothing more the collection of the copy righted writings of 100s of thousands if not millions of people, they have to "Open Source" it. If they don't I will write a cease and desist letter and send it to Google that they return my copy righted work to me and then delete them from the archive.
This review says very little about the book itself.
From the review
"It seems that the main purpose of the book is to describe how FreeBSD can be integrated into current network structures that include Microsoft clients and servers -- a very useful idea. The author describes step by step how this can be done, and in which particular situations."
The review may have been not very well written or organized, but it did answer your issue.
Anyone who goes to the more shady parts of UseNET would be familiar with those posts that pretty much look like nothing more than random words following some kind of spam looking message. Always totoally pointless, always with faked headers. I've always assumed they were people chatting (with some stupid rot 26 encoding, or whatever) with one another in an already noisy enviroment. With a nice tool like this, now they can spamm YOU and talk to one another at the same time.
Gawd, what a terse docuement! Anyone else bother reading the ruling? It reads like well documented code, where the code itself was completly uncipherable.
A LOT of Slashdot viewers are GPL proponents (and as such see it as a political decision), the rest are either BSD, MacOS, Windows, BeOS, et al. If you ask Stallman, he would first argue with you about what "free" means and what "open source" means, then tell you to use Linux. If you ask any of those kind BSD folks, they will tell you it depends on what you need, but you should use some form of BSD. If you ask a Mac kid, first they will tell you how Mac OS X will make your breakfast every mourning, then tell you to shell out for a whole new computer.... You get the point.
It boils down to what you NEED. Computers are nothing more than tools that do a job. If you current computer does everything that you bought it for, then use it. If it doesn't, maybe you should use a different OS until your current OS supports the features that fit YOUR NEEDS. Personally, I've been using Macs since about 92. I have NEVER thought to myself, "Crap, I need to use Windows to do this" MacOS fits my needs. It may or may not fit yours.
Don't let your OS choice be a political issue, it a matter of what you need your computer to do. If only Windows fits that need, then use it.
In my institute, we have 14 or so Unix boxes (Linux/IRIX/ULTRIX) and 7 NT boxes. Our admin spents his ENTIRE day fixing the NT boxes. In three years, I have seen ONE unix box crash ONCE . In the past week, I have seen WinNT crash on 2 seperate machines. Noone uses the NT machines, except for web browsing and printing.
If you are a cook and your 1 year old oven immittently dies for no reason, you have the stove replaced. If you new car decides every now and then to shutdown at stop lights, you would return it. If this happened to a LOT of people, there would be a class action lawsuit. Then why pray tell would you buy a computer that intermittently dies for no reason and let your customers business rely on it?
THis reminds me of George W. Bush's campain for the Republican nomination. Vote for me, I'm a winner. You say it long enough, people beleive it. Take this comment from the Troll quoted in the article:
"So in some senses (that) puts the Linux phenomenon and the Unix phenomenon at the top of the list"
Unix phenomenon? You mean the fact that most servers run Unix and not WIndows? This is very telling. An uneducated businessman will read this and think, "Gee, Windows must be under attack by this thing called Unix." which by impication means Unix is the minority.
If you use the language of a champion, you will project the fact you are the winner by default and people will all beleive you are the winner. That's the best advertising anyone can get. "Use Window2k, it's the future". But the problem is, there are a lot of people who don't know that Microsofts future is Unix's yesterday...
"And the recent security problems with Windows2K, coupled with the lack of key enterprise elements in the new system, really call into question whether Windows2K should be used at all"
Being a Mac user I see/read/hear Trolls all the time. If I responded to every Troll, I would spend the rest of my life doing it. Granted, this is coming from MS, and as such the press is gonna post it, but that doesn't make it anymore than it is: A Troll.
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And in other news...Security expert Joe Blow made the stunning annoucement that theoritically peoples Unix accounts could be hacked if the chose a word in the dictionary. Joe say, "Yes I know this has been known for some time, and most Unix implementations take care not to allow dictionary words, but I just wanted to be safe and let others know of my discovery". Joe Blows comany, Obvious Fixes, sells software to resolve this issue.
I think the biggest problem with something like Yahoo is that its not tied to an ISP service. Anyone here actually USED AOL. It's very portal like, except better managed and easier to follow than Yahoo. AOL gets money from profitable websites for linking to them on thier "front page". Everytime someone logs into AOL, there it is. It's to the point now that many people think AOL IS the internet. Yahoo has no such advantage. I think eventually, the "portals" will be swallowed up by big ISPs to provide a "service" to their customers.
Perhaps someone could enlighten me as to why anyone should care why game technology older than many Linux developers should be exciting."
Old does NOT mean boring. This is a common misconception. High end graphics is nothing more than eye-candy. That being said, there is nothing wrong with eye-candy, but its not the end all be all of gaming. Look at Diablo II. Not exactly Quake 3 graphics, but still fun and quite popular. You know what the number one machine of all time for gaming is? PC? Nope. PSX? Nope. N64? Nope. The number one gaming system of all time, is the gameboy at a stunning 8 bits of power.
I still play a number of original Nintendo games. They were fun then, they are fun today.
This text is not the posters original work. The original is for a leaflet found at Operation Clambake's Web site here
You don't understand. The merchant has not choice in the matter. The way the credit card authorization works is exactly how the previous poster describes and there is NO way around it other than finding a company that actually has proper authorization. In places like the UK, this is impossible, in the US it's unlikely (if not impossible).
Flamebait, eh. I'll address it anyway. Let me tell you something about me. I know right from wrong. In fact, I'm an expert in religous morality, both past and present forms. When I was a child, morality consisted little more than "will I get spanked for this?" and "can I get away for this?". That's the reality of a 5 year old. They don't fully understand the implications of death, much less the implications of love and sex. I sure didn't. Which is why I want to expose my children to such things in a controlled enviroment, rather than let some video game writer do it for me. As they get older, and I am certain they understand right from wrong, and that games are not real, I will let them play games. But, it will be my choice. I'm not a hippocrite, I just don't want others raising my kids.
This is a great idea. I'm 28 years old, about to get married and have children. I LOVE playing Half Life (only reason I actually own Windows), but when I have kids, I dont want my 5 year old starting up some video game whose objective is to blow people apart. Just like I don't want them to view R movies on HBO (which my Digital Cable box can prevent). It's my choice. End of story. It's not censor. It's not to "appease the government". If anything, it's to appease parents. It's a good thing.
In other news, the CEO of Iomega, the company that makes those unreliable drives that are warrentied till "the end of their life", bitched today that he could not get drunk while bribing senators to save his companies ass.
Not everyone on the planet live in a dorm where one can get free 100MB ethernet. Infact, over 50% of americans still connect with "yesterdays" technology. It just makes good business sense to make a game playable over 56K. You know, that idea called profit, which is something every company should be interested in.
Being one who does research in a Uni, I am bessed with access to a fast connection and can play UT in the off hours in my lab. At home, I have 56K...why because getting broadband here is priced only for businesses and even if it weren't I can only get DSL, which the owners of my apt building wouldn't be too keen for them to hook up. Most of the US, and even less the World, can't get high speed internet, and if they can they are lucky to get it for a reasonable price.
Consider yourself lucky.
Finish my Quote, then come back in shame.
That all being said, the dogmatic insistence of a definition of "Free" and some self appointed experts who happen to make a lot of noise to not take the fact away that one can get the source to Darwin, and hence the low level code for OS X, look at it, poke at it, and prod it. That is a boom for developers writing drivers, that is a boom for programmers who need to see how things interact with hardware (game developers), and that is a boom for Apple customers who have technical knowledge and want to get OS X running on non-G3/G4 machines. Say all you want, its BETTER that not having the source at all. Apple should be given credit for it.
Instead you should just state, "Evolution is a fact". Human beings, in thier short time of recorded history have seen cows in Australia evolve to the enviroment, virii and bacteria evolve to resist drugs, new breeds of dogs and cats appear, et al. There is NO disputing the fact of evolution. Now if you want to suggest human evolved from other primates, you'll have some resistence, but once its explained that Evolution is a fact, it's not that hard to see it happening.
Since that archive is nothing more the collection of the copy righted writings of 100s of thousands if not millions of people, they have to "Open Source" it. If they don't I will write a cease and desist letter and send it to Google that they return my copy righted work to me and then delete them from the archive.
For those of you who have NO idea why this is written this way, I provide you with the following link at Arstechnica
We have Mozilla running on IRIX here.
From the review
"It seems that the main purpose of the book is to describe how FreeBSD can be integrated into current network structures that include Microsoft clients and servers -- a very useful idea. The author describes step by step how this can be done, and in which particular situations."
The review may have been not very well written or organized, but it did answer your issue.
The CNN article has no new images, all of them, with the exception the image from much earlier today. CNN won't due.
The future is looking bright.
Gawd, what a terse docuement! Anyone else bother reading the ruling? It reads like well documented code, where the code itself was completly uncipherable.
It boils down to what you NEED. Computers are nothing more than tools that do a job. If you current computer does everything that you bought it for, then use it. If it doesn't, maybe you should use a different OS until your current OS supports the features that fit YOUR NEEDS. Personally, I've been using Macs since about 92. I have NEVER thought to myself, "Crap, I need to use Windows to do this" MacOS fits my needs. It may or may not fit yours.
Don't let your OS choice be a political issue, it a matter of what you need your computer to do. If only Windows fits that need, then use it.
This link should get around most filtering software.
Oh, come on! Everyone knows the moon landings were faked .
If you are a cook and your 1 year old oven immittently dies for no reason, you have the stove replaced. If you new car decides every now and then to shutdown at stop lights, you would return it. If this happened to a LOT of people, there would be a class action lawsuit. Then why pray tell would you buy a computer that intermittently dies for no reason and let your customers business rely on it?
"So in some senses (that) puts the Linux phenomenon and the Unix phenomenon at the top of the list"
Unix phenomenon? You mean the fact that most servers run Unix and not WIndows? This is very telling. An uneducated businessman will read this and think, "Gee, Windows must be under attack by this thing called Unix." which by impication means Unix is the minority.
If you use the language of a champion, you will project the fact you are the winner by default and people will all beleive you are the winner. That's the best advertising anyone can get. "Use Window2k, it's the future". But the problem is, there are a lot of people who don't know that Microsofts future is Unix's yesterday...
"And the recent security problems with Windows2K, coupled with the lack of key enterprise elements in the new system, really call into question whether Windows2K should be used at all"
Being a Mac user I see/read/hear Trolls all the time. If I responded to every Troll, I would spend the rest of my life doing it. Granted, this is coming from MS, and as such the press is gonna post it, but that doesn't make it anymore than it is: A Troll.