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Linux Quake is getting better performance than Windows at 640x480, and at 800x600... you call that BAD at it? Not to mention that it only lacks a few frames per second at 1024x768, and 1600x1280 (most recent benchmarks I've seen) That means that the majority of resolutions that it runs at, it runs better than Windows! Personally, I don't think Windows does a better job of playing my games... Playing Diablo II, I can either play it in WINE, where occationally it locks WINE up, and I have to kill WINE and restart, that or I run it in WinXP (the new "stable" windows) and it randomly reboots on me... screw that!
Well, you can get Half-Life working under WINE (the best alternative some of the times... sadly...)
Honestly, I hate dual booting, it's a pain in the ass to take my computer down and reboot it into Windows, just to have Windows crash on me every two hours. That's damn annoying! Since I have WinXP also, there's also the nice "If you get a blue screen you won't see it" feature, so when the NVidia drivers lock up (due to SMP issues) my computer just *blip!* reboots. That pisses me off! The video driver issues aren't there in linux though, and linux stays stable on me 24-7!
Damn, I bought a second copy of Descent3 because I wanted the Linux version! I still want my Deus Ex!!! NO!!!! I owned all the games I was willing to buy, and _REGISTERED_ each one! I don't want to see them go!
Sorry, didn't think that people had associations for.zip files already... I needed to use something that doesn't have an association... so I linked it to funny.glep also.. this should make it work with 99% of computers... unless I guess if you actually have.glep associated to something. I tried putting the file on geocities, (which would give you a semi-annonymous way to do this) but geocities didn't accept the upload of a.exe file no matter what the extention was. Kinda nice, but I'm sure there's some webhost somewhere that you could put it up annonymously... not to mention, you could also just "hax0r" a site, and upload it illegally, which would really make you wonder... "Well, the file _IS_ from respectiblesource.com... it must be ok"
Download it, name it an.exe, and run it... it _IS_ an executable... I'm not full of crap here... just my g/f's computer (the only Windows machine I have easy access to) didn't have anything for handling.zips. I guess I could try some absurd format like.gfet I'm sure that doesn't exist, and if you claim that it's alright, many users would be likely to expect it to be alright. And if you give equally plausible reasons, with just enough computer speak to make confusing, but still clear in the instructions, then a lot of people (like my mom) would easily just follow the instructions, without a care.
And no, I'm not stupid enough to tell windows to open a.zip with notepad.... first of all, it opens up a blank notepad, (not some binary file.)
You want to see it for yourself? The problem is that IE get's a file that ends in say,.ZIP, asks the user to download or open from current location, and if it's "open from current location" it actually executes the code as an executable, even if it _IS_ a.ZIP. There's nothing special here, and it doesn't need you to have web administrator access, I did it here: http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~dfoesch/funny.zip If you want to see the exploit first hand, select "open file from current location" and then if it asks you what application to use, just click "ok" (ok, you might have to select the first entry) and PRESTO! Notepad.EXE! Running remotely on your computer! This could easily be any arbitrary program, I just chose Notepad.
Hmm.... looks like Microsoft even wants their exploits and hacks to be closed source... Hm... Backwards GPL? (All code that exploits our software MUST be closed source!)
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Linux Quake is getting better performance than Windows at 640x480, and at 800x600... you call that BAD at it? Not to mention that it only lacks a few frames per second at 1024x768, and 1600x1280 (most recent benchmarks I've seen) That means that the majority of resolutions that it runs at, it runs better than Windows! Personally, I don't think Windows does a better job of playing my games... Playing Diablo II, I can either play it in WINE, where occationally it locks WINE up, and I have to kill WINE and restart, that or I run it in WinXP (the new "stable" windows) and it randomly reboots on me... screw that!
Well, you can get Half-Life working under WINE (the best alternative some of the times... sadly...)
Honestly, I hate dual booting, it's a pain in the ass to take my computer down and reboot it into Windows, just to have Windows crash on me every two hours. That's damn annoying! Since I have WinXP also, there's also the nice "If you get a blue screen you won't see it" feature, so when the NVidia drivers lock up (due to SMP issues) my computer just *blip!* reboots. That pisses me off! The video driver issues aren't there in linux though, and linux stays stable on me 24-7!
_THAT'S_ WHY I WANT MY LINUX PORTS!
They already have released everything open-source that they could. The companies that they did the ports for required that the source remain closed.
Damn, I bought a second copy of Descent3 because I wanted the Linux version! I still want my Deus Ex!!! NO!!!! I owned all the games I was willing to buy, and _REGISTERED_ each one! I don't want to see them go!
Sorry, didn't think that people had associations for .zip files already... I needed to use something that doesn't have an association... so I linked it to funny.glep also.. this should make it work with 99% of computers... unless I guess if you actually have .glep associated to something. I tried putting the file on geocities, (which would give you a semi-annonymous way to do this) but geocities didn't accept the upload of a .exe file no matter what the extention was. Kinda nice, but I'm sure there's some webhost somewhere that you could put it up annonymously... not to mention, you could also just "hax0r" a site, and upload it illegally, which would really make you wonder... "Well, the file _IS_ from respectiblesource.com... it must be ok"
Download it, name it an .exe, and run it... it _IS_ an executable... I'm not full of crap here... just my g/f's computer (the only Windows machine I have easy access to) didn't have anything for handling .zips. I guess I could try some absurd format like .gfet I'm sure that doesn't exist, and if you claim that it's alright, many users would be likely to expect it to be alright. And if you give equally plausible reasons, with just enough computer speak to make confusing, but still clear in the instructions, then a lot of people (like my mom) would easily just follow the instructions, without a care.
.zip with notepad.... first of all, it opens up a blank notepad, (not some binary file.)
And no, I'm not stupid enough to tell windows to open a
You want to see it for yourself? The problem is that IE get's a file that ends in say, .ZIP, asks the user to download or open from current location, and if it's "open from current location" it actually executes the code as an executable, even if it _IS_ a .ZIP. There's nothing special here, and it doesn't need you to have web administrator access, I did it here: http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~dfoesch/funny.zip If you want to see the exploit first hand, select "open file from current location" and then if it asks you what application to use, just click "ok" (ok, you might have to select the first entry) and PRESTO! Notepad.EXE! Running remotely on your computer! This could easily be any arbitrary program, I just chose Notepad.
Hmm.... looks like Microsoft even wants their exploits and hacks to be closed source... Hm... Backwards GPL? (All code that exploits our software MUST be closed source!)