I went last year, and had a good time. Spent most of the weekend drunk off my ass, but that was all part of it. They had a bit of a problem with immature little scriptkiddies running around, but a lot of good knowledgable speakers made up for it. Looks like this years is even better. Props to the organizers for all their hard work
Microsoft is doing this type of trickery a bit too often with their hotfixes. For many "nonessential" fixes, they won't publically release the fix in lieu of requiring calls to their tech support. Apparently they don't want to fully test for any ill effects of the hotfixes, so they try to release it to a small subset of people that are known to have the problem (I guess they are afraid of the liability of releasing to all). As far as i'm concerned, their hotfixes are installed "at your own risk" anyway. Googling the Q-number will almost always find you a mirror anyway;-)
....I don't know about everybody else, but this type of underhanded protection just makes me want to boycott cd's altogether and get ALL my music from p2p networks. Isn't this the exact type piracy they are trying to stop with their defec^N^N^N^N^Nprotected cd's?
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I went last year, and had a good time. Spent most of the weekend drunk off my ass, but that was all part of it. They had a bit of a problem with immature little scriptkiddies running around, but a lot of good knowledgable speakers made up for it. Looks like this years is even better. Props to the organizers for all their hard work
Microsoft is doing this type of trickery a bit too often with their hotfixes. For many "nonessential" fixes, they won't publically release the fix in lieu of requiring calls to their tech support. Apparently they don't want to fully test for any ill effects of the hotfixes, so they try to release it to a small subset of people that are known to have the problem (I guess they are afraid of the liability of releasing to all). As far as i'm concerned, their hotfixes are installed "at your own risk" anyway. Googling the Q-number will almost always find you a mirror anyway ;-)
....I don't know about everybody else, but this type of underhanded protection just makes me want to boycott cd's altogether and get ALL my music from p2p networks. Isn't this the exact type piracy they are trying to stop with their defec^N^N^N^N^Nprotected cd's?
A system that can pump out 64 gflops only running at a measly 500Mhz? Really shows how poorly mhz is as a measure of system performance.
An i thought that I didn't have enough to do on weekends....