I think I should try Debian's Apt... Now let me see...
$ rpm -i apt-get-i386.rpm
# # # # # # # # # (lameness filter no like rpm's pound signs)
Package apt-get is installed! Have a nice day;)
0h w0w! d4t's l33t!
Slightly OT, but good natured.
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A verry "HOT" discussion is currently underway on the Linuxgames.com web-forum. Many good points are being made and due to the nature of WineX being used for Win32 games on Linux, the Linuxgames.com debates are quite good.
I own a couple High-Voltage-Differential SCSI drives, made by Quantum, and I can't touch them they get so hot. They spin at 5400 RPM. I have a lowly Maxtor EIDE Harddrive that also spins at 5400 RPM and after 3 hours of equally intense opearation as my HVD SCSI drives, it is only a little warm. About 1 year ago, my second Quantum HVD HDD developed some bad sectors because it got too hot. Since, I've installed all my harddrives in 5.25" drive bays with Harddrive Heatsinks with Fans, and front-mounted Harddrive Fans and I've been able to supress heat and prevented any bad sectors from further forming.
It makes me happy that my Maxtor EIDE HDD performs poorer than the HVD SCSI, yet the Maxtor HDD is more energy efficient and less prone to failure while the HVD SCSI gets hot as a grill and they don't tell you. They don't even tell you to use any kind of Heatsinks and Fans for all the newer harddrives and that just isn't honest business!
And so too rounded SCSI cables and flames on cars.
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and those super-models that undress themselves and have someone "paint" a bathing suit on their naked body(just gimme a water-hose please).
Tom used to present benchmarks based on over-clockability and now I see none.
At the same rate, Tom's older overclocking-howto articles showed his massive 150watt water-cooling behemother that stood 1 foot tall on your CPU and pushed the silicon's temperature back to the recesses of antarctica. And it was all quiet and didn't use moving parts to cool it down (fans).
I have a 54watt peltier and a larger-than-average heatsink and tiny 12vdc fan on my Athlon system and it don't make a peep. Harddrives truly are the source of heat in a computercase. SCSI drives...don't get me started about the performance and heat dissipation ratios of SCSI harddrives compared to EIDE/ATAP harddrives.
The performance in the oven was spectacular: at 421 degrees Fahrenheit, it was finished baking in 16 minutes.
As a chef in my own home, I didn't use any of those counter-strike matches; the oven is thermostatically controlled and is able to turn itself off and relight itself.
I don't buy or try not to buy anything that has been DirectX-issued. Namely, I avoid DirectX-products because Microsoft is driven moreso by profit and market monopolizing policies than making a product that has good performance and is stable. Do you remember baking in your room while playing Diablo II using 3Dfx Glide graphics? My [wittle, itty-bitty] Voodoo2 graphics accelerator's Glide on Diablo 2 performed at 80+ frames per second while my GeForce3's DirectDraw and Direct3D never went above 65 frames per second.
His name couldn't be posted because his name itself destroys all...
Or possibly, he knows he will receive feedback and he will die when an hundred trolls, linux zealots, and gnu hippies (emph. added) say his name in retaliation for reporting the success of a company that has attained a product release and public relations strategy that marvels Bill Gates' and Microsofts:
1...borrow, purchase, or steal another work in progress 2...modify the code and slap your name on it 3...produce massive ammounts of public entertainum 4...release product while secretly designing a product that will force the obsoletion and upgrade of the current product within four months 5...make million$ of dollar$ and go through a process of removing unethical, moral, and retirement-age employees 6...goto 2
I expect Linuxgames.com to have a more fun [emph. added] discussion because Transgaming has received much of its praise and generally much of its hatred from people who venture through linuxgames.com's website quarter-daily [w00t crazy geeks]
I must say, Transgaming is at E3 right now and from what I've heard, they have made no intent on commending and respecting Winehq.com and the Linux community in general for being the first contribution to the Transgaming WineX project. I suspect either they are attempting to market a product respectively preventing the appearance of Unix technology spooking the more computer-savvy (win32-based) customer, or is in total disregard for Winehq.com and the Linux community due to the nature of their product STEALING INCENTIVE OF COMPANIES RELEASING NATIVE LINUX SOFTWARE.
Alot of WOMEN will be investing their futures in IP, computer programming, and engineering; thus they will grow big and fat from sitting down 8 hours a day and their spouse will not want to have sex with them.
I think I should be the first to point out a few intracacies of this article. The top "10" jobs don't count from 1 to 10; there is a job "0" simply because in Unix we don't count starting with "1", we count beginning with "0". And the top job that nobodoy sees offered is:
0. Manhore
Don't count me wrong, people. Everyone loves a BIG workplace with LITTLE competition. It's something we all can both capitalize and monopolize upon. We are the men replacing the dykes, ok? We don't need much: just travel from mansion to mansion with our tools in our own pockets. Steer clear of the San Fernando Valley and San Francisco because those areas are heavily unionized that the average porn-stare makes only $200 an hour with %75 of their hourly wage deducted for Union dues. But for us Manhores, it's like selling candybars for our grade school teachers, but instead we're the ones pimping ourselves for $100 and hour and not a furby!
The ironic part is whether the digitized versions will last/be usable longer then the clay tablets.
I can agree wholehartedly. [Yes, the ironic part is whether these Darwin-MacOSX/Apache hosted images could outlast the cuneiform tablets they hold dear to a good-ol' slashdotting.
KronkTaco: Me no like ship on mars. Last ship saw blow up an' nice lady teacher die
Major*Neal:ahh, that's a verry unhappy day, KronkTaco. To lighten your day up, how 'bout I start a poll to the people of the great land of Liberty, America, on what they think
Ratman Michael: (just walks in) Heya guys, you haven't payed me for the web services (slishslish) And besides, there hasn't been much action lately on the TV. Does it need to be fixed again? Where are all the criminals I get to help fight? I wanna see some action. grrr I'm ready. I mean, first the boiler last month, then the toilette seat, the blender.. oh i'm waitin' for a super-hero challenge.
Van Troll: Dudes, can you like Imagine? I mean, a BEOwulf cluster of my golden Internet Axes?
Salon.com's review of nVidia, 3Dfx, and MS stank!
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First, of all,
3Dfx created the consumer graphics market.
Second,
nVidia's NV1 wasn't their first product; nVidia's first product was a hybrid videocard and soundcard that of which model name I forget. (and how many people would like to see a SoundBlaster Audigy and nVidia5 on a 64bit PCI slot someday?)
Third,
Microsoft did not create Direct3D and later rename it to DirectX; DirectX is a collection of more that just a 3D graphics API: DirectDraw (2D Graphics API)
Direct3D (3D Graphics API)
DirectSound (sound generation API)
DirectMusic (midi and FM synthesis API)
DirectInput (joysticks, gamepads, and like-said API)
DirectPlay (Network-protocol-transparent communication services)
DirectPoop ( the list goes )
Forth,
nobody could achieve what 3Dfx had already done. 3Dfx started the 3D graphics market and nobody will know the end of the 3D graphics market unless you can predict when the asteroid hits the moon and the moon plumets into planet earth knocking earth into Venus, Mercury, the Sun, and eventually changing the planetary alignment to bring Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Your-Anus into a collision-course with the Sun that results in a post-nuclear explosion that causes a worm-hole, a tear in space and time, to occur and deliver the post-nuclear blast to other un-charted galaxies and the entire universe disappears finaly in a single little *pop* like a water baloon on a freshly-cut grass lawn. (Ouch)
WTF are you tempting Microsoft in doing? Do you actually want to have embeded Microsoft Windows XP? Maybe the act of embedding Microsoft Windows XP in a toaster oven in which Microsoft can prove normal operation as inserting bread constitutes Windows XP to load, cook your bread, and finally eject your toast; constituting a true-MS blue screen of death system hang. True from Bill Gates' mouth, and I quote,
"Who uses their toaster oven longer than 25 days anyway?"
Well, actually you have quite a good idea. Linux is stable after it ejects your toast, so maybe its better the operating system just hangs itself, ie turn-off, instead of wasting all that time with uptime. Then again, the same could be said about websites that don't use their bandwidth because of non-popularity, yet run linux and provide 99.9% uptime. Wow, I never imagined saying this... By Microsoft Windows crashing every week or two, Microsoft is in fact saving people money on their electricity bill.
I, being the owner of a DEC Alpha 21264b-based computer system, the programming methodolgy enjoyed on the 64bit DEC Alpha platforms applies to Intel's IA64. In respect to the IA64 and the Alpha platform, it is generally not necessary for so many different programming methodologies to split the computer programming world. Rather, the programming environment should once again abstract the hardware and the underlying kernel software, in order for programs to remain portable to other platforms and operating systems in general. Such a risk to split the programming industry on product, rather than by platform, is suicide to competitors as the only companies able to survive are the ones that band together (ie Microsoft and Intel and Blizzard). At the same rate, some companies take a verry financially unethical approach to supporting other platforms in respect to supporting a given platform's adoption (ID Software porting/releasing programs on Linux, Solaris, Alpha, et al).
So, it is to valid conclusion that the only chance of industry adoption of Intel's IA64 platform is which market share supports it first(Linux!) or which company creates yet another hardware abstraction layer(Microsoft) to allow compatibility with software of previous platforms(8086,80286,80386/ia32,win16,win32,ia64, et al).
So, in respect to the DOJ ability to fillander their poor legal efforts, Intel's IA64 will prove another success of how Microsoft may monopolize an industry based on its position to make decisions that utterly control the success of other companies and corporations. I rest my case.
Seeing into the future, or rather a possible future of Blizzard re-conciling with users of free software...a message from Blizzard Entertainment Inc...
Dear users of Bnetd and all free software projects,
Recently, the Blizzard Entertainment Inc. staff have come under attack by Sony Inc. for our staff's delight of exchanging mp3 music while coding. Sony has binded that DMCA on our asses and we understand what it feels like to be a country losing more freedoms everyday. To our utmost conciousness, we shall provide our respects to living as free individuals by releasing all our pending legal attacks on the Bnetd project, releasing all legal accusations and court arrangements, providing limited code support for a fully functional and obfuscated closed-source branch of Bnetd to work optimaly with CD-key protected Blizzard software, and we shall join the Free Software Foundation both financially, legally, and spiritually in reaching a conclusion and removal of the DMCA from planet earth. We at Blizzard Entertainment Inc. shall also considier releasing an openGL rederer for Diablo2, and shall further our respects to the many Unix-like communities by porting Diablo2 immediately to Unix and there-after providing a Linux port of Warcraft3 on equal release and media of Microsoft Windows and Macintosh OSX. We thankyou for your understanding and we are happy to join you Linux and BSD Zealots on slaughtering the DMCA.
Sincerely,
Senior Lead Uber-general coder Herculeen Maximus Sam Lantinga
and
Blizzard Entertainment Inc. President "BOB"
..well, at least that is what I am currently visualizing. I can dream, can't I?;)
The best way for Ad-ware to not be detected by an anti-spyware vigilante program is to observe the phylosophy of the wandering Jew. For those of you who don't understand, the anti-spyware programs are indeed looking for Ad-ware. So, who says Ad-ware can't be installed by the user under a different name and perhaps its executable and data files could use some sort of binary modification, chosen during Ad-ware's install-time, to not be detectable.
Ok, ok... Some of you still don't understand. Lets say the anti Ad-ware programs are looking for adware.exe on a hardware and for ad-ware related information in the MSWindows registry. For ad-ware to circumvent detection, it must allow the user to specify different different MSWindows registry labels and then the files on the harddrive must be slightly modified to have different file lengths and overlooked filenames from what the ant ad-ware programs expect to find.
Take, for example, the sysadmin tool SATAN. A cracker with a unix shell account could use SATAN to detect flaws in a particular computer's security. So, the cracker uploads SATAN into onto a fileshare within execute access of a shell account, and then renaming SATAN to ANGEL. Get my drift?
They are all drying up! First they are free to browse and download, with the occasional advertisement you must read and walk through, and now just to see a picture of a dead zombie-man taking a piss you must register!
I have too many passwords to remember as it is! remembered when planetquake moved its network from cdrom.com to fileplanet.com. I'm interested in gaming, but I'm not that interested to where I must have an account and remember a password for each and ever website that has gaming content I might download. FilePlanet is an example of a big turn-off. And they know it.
How does it feel to read an awesome review of a Quake modification, movie, or new game, and just when you think you are going to download it they throw you onto a fileplanet.com server and you already convinced yourself "NO MORE ACCOUNTS I USE ONLY ONCE" ??
I was playing a game of Diablo2 via Windoze and I had to use the bathroom really bad. I was sore, I was holding myself for so long that my teeth were floating. After returning to my computer, gone for only 4 minutes of #1 and #2, I returned to A Blue Screen Of Death "System Error Reading drive E" and I found the CDROM drive to be ejected about 25% of the tray.
Diablo2 defaults to playing tracks of Music on the Diablo2 PlayDisc. The CDROM music that Diablo2 uses is simply sampled from the CDROM drive and mixed at the Soundcard via a 4 pin CDROM drive cable. Perhaps if I had disabled Diablo2's Music, in the Options menu, this would not have happened.
I had to cold-shutdown the computer, remove the cdrom drive, open the cdrom drive, and basically shake all the shattered peices of the Diablo2 Playdisc from the drive. To this day, I still blame Blizzard and Microsoft. I haven't figured why the CDROM drive will not close, but I kept it in hopes I can figure out why it will not. I also kept the peices of my Diablo2 Playdisc, re-assembled them as a puzzle, took a picture, and made the picture available to Blizzard in hopes they will send me a replacement at a small service charge for me. I don't think they will, and I bought my box of Diablo2 at a swapmeet for $10 (yes new).
Does anyone think it's safe to keep a CDROM drive in service, 'cause it blew my Diablo2 Playdisc to chunks, should I get a new CDROM drive, or should I be hung for not using Transgaming's WineX ?
From what posts I've read in this article, there is much to blame on the CDROMs being old and unable to withstand the higher centrifugal forces caused by today's CDROM drives. That brings me to a question of my own. I just heard that Transgaming's WineX has maken strides to correct the CDROM copy-protection issues present on many games, including Diablo2, and many games are now playable in Transgaming WineX because of this new compliance. That doesn't solve the issue of old CDROMs or outright defectived CDROMs from self destructing in a CDROM drive.
MY QUESTION: Has anyone tried modifying a Linux CDROM driver to limit a CDROM drive's RPM rating and not by limiting the data read bandwidth?
IMPLICATIONS: It would be verry nice if there was a proc filesystem entry or a configuration file in/etc that users or administrators may limit the performance of a CDROM drive or possibly detect a CDROM's media age and determine whether it may be operated at 1500 RPM, 3000 RPM, or 4500 RPM, or something more hardware equal to 150KB/s (rated 1X), 1300/KB/s (rated 8x), or (rated 52X)?
Whereas "Internet1" is the place we loved and enjoyed, recently taken over by the evil skynet super computer and giving everyone the obligatory "mark" of recognition.
And to circumvent this system which devoured the original networks, a small handful of freedom fighters take to the sewers of San Jose, with pricy/durable laptops, 802.11b, all in a giant bumperboat outfitted with an experimental methane energy converter up their asses. Their job is to hack into Internet1, unenslave and employ the oppressed people within, and protect intrusion of their homeland mainframe, Hydron, from the evil hailst--&&&#$%^ cough cought, I mean Internet1 agents.
Uhm, I see a pattern hear. Maybe we need to create Internet2. Anyone that wants.GOV and Micro$oft can use Internet1 while anyone who wants freedom, low latency, and anonymity can use Internet2. Yay:)
What I mean to say is there are just some things you must do in secret. Bnetd is a peice of software you just don't want to be seen with. Tim Jung is brave to stand up and shout back at Blizzard for work that is done in his own free time: doesn't condone piracy, and does not claim it will interoperate with Blizzard software products.
Come on people! What ever happened to the good things we should do in secret? What ever happened to anonymity?
Why didn't Tim simply release a public letter saying the Bnetd project shall be canceled, the Bnetd Project homepage removed and released, and then secretly and anonymously host the bnetd project on usenet? There are just some things you must do in secret. The stakes of challenging a multi-million dollar lawyer are just too high. The same can be said about Linux in general.
You can't participate in a system of government that doesn't support freedom of speech. A government that doesn't support freedom of speach is either fascist or communist. You either take the mark or you die in trying not to. Nobody should push anyone around, but you can't blame Tim. He's going to lose. There is no denying it.
I don't recall whether BLOAD and BSAVE were supported in GWBasic, but I am entirely aware that BLOAD and BSAVE are supported in QBasic. QBasic's BLOAD and BSAVE are different a little from AppleSoft Basic just by order of the bits they work with: Apple Computers vs. x86 Compatibles.
The successor to GWBasic is BWBasic and al I know is you'll find it bundled with FreeDOS. BWBasic(aka ByWater Basic) does not support BLOAD and BSAVE. I stopped thinking about BASIC programming a long time ago. It is verry painful for me to think about BASIC and it sustains my sanity to mentor you with the words: Maybe you should forget about BASIC programming too.
You obviously know more about the history of the BASIC programming language than I obviously know...that is a sad quality anyone might admit on their re~sume.
I attended a few GNU hippy revivals for help and they taught me to fight my addiction; I stopped immediately. There is hope for you, friend.:)
Just start a new addiction: beer, gummy-worms, apples, pictures of your mom. Oh wow, can you imagine? Learning something worthwhile? Especially apples...the secret lives of...apples.:(
(*This post is quite long and is well worth the reading*) (*spoiler: Vice President of WebStream Internet Solutions makes a verry good point about "unmetered" data bandwidth*)
I received an unsolicited (spam) eMail from a webstream administrator trying to market to me for webhosting. I've taken a verry sincere approach to spam recently by threatening every spammer with an invisible sword, but the eMail I got from webstream gave me an opportunity to respond with a good question...Unlimited Bandwidth. And so I asked the "said" webstream marketer a good question and I received a verry nice eMail from the Vice President! Here is the message I received back from Vice President Dubec...
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Question -
"If you have unmetered bandwidth, how does one
find out if you are really getting that?"
There is no such thing as unmetered bandwidth available. The unmetered idea is a sales / marketing concept based upon the fact that few web sites ever hit 1GB, much less 2, 6, or 20 GB (our limits without added charge, dependent on hosting option purchased). Most of the "unmetered" company's will dump you if you get too much bandwidth. Read the agreement and you will find an excessive bandwidth clause. This said, if they are a commercial server, check your logs summary. This tells you how much traffic, bandwidth, and more that your web site is using. If all you have available is a counter, you are getting ripped off -- visitor logs, and a summary over the past year is a mark of a hosting professional.
2) How does one find out when you have exceeded the bandwidth limit and are being cut??
A harp here. Never go with a hosting company that offers unlimited anything. It is unrealistic. Go with one that has limits, WITH added costs if you exceed the norms. That is the mark of a knowledgeable, established, and true professional hosting company. (Remember, a full use of a T1 is $600-$1,200 per month. Expecting that someone would allow a site to use $1,200 of cost for receipts of $20 is stupid. Same thing for space. If I have a 20Gb drive on the server and you use it all, then my costs are $300 for the server lease alone-excluding traffic, accordingly don't expect a bill for $20.)
3) What happens when the bandwidth limit is exceeded?? Depends on your ISP. Unlimited companies usually just dump you -- if you lose business, so be it. (We have several clients that are now with us, and came to use because they went through this very situation. Losing $1,000's in the process) Others, such as ourselves, notify you that you have exceeded normal limits and give you options, such as purchasing bandwidth or other needs as prepurchased, spot market, etc.
4) What's the bear minimum of bandwidth required by any web site??
Few successful web sites ever exceed 1 GB per month. We have one that is generating $60,000 in gross sales per month and they are still at only 1.2 GB per month in traffic. In my experience, the exceptions are software manufacturers (which allow the visitor to download software), and large companies. (We host some sites in the University of Colorado and other colleges and their traffic demands are pretty high.)
5) When you have a 5000MB limit for your site, how many
people can access your site at the same time without any
problems?
Sorry, wrong measurement criteria. I can give you any traffic limit I want and it does not relate to access at the same time. If we are talking people per second, the real issue is server load, not traffic load. With eight redundant connections, my server load is my limitation as a web host. The server load depends on programs running on the specified server, and other issues. 1,000 people accessing per second is our usual stated limit, however, it appears that the real limit on a UNIX server of the type we run is much higher.
George Dubec Vice President of Corporate Sales WebStream Internet Solutions
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I think I should try Debian's Apt... Now let me see...
;)
$ rpm -i apt-get-i386.rpm
# # # # # # # # # (lameness filter no like rpm's pound signs)
Package apt-get is installed! Have a nice day
0h w0w! d4t's l33t!
http://www.linuxgames.com/news/index.php3/5653
I contest, you have the most Original Username.
It makes me happy that my Maxtor EIDE HDD performs poorer than the HVD SCSI, yet the Maxtor HDD is more energy efficient and less prone to failure while the HVD SCSI gets hot as a grill and they don't tell you. They don't even tell you to use any kind of Heatsinks and Fans for all the newer harddrives and that just isn't honest business!
and those super-models that undress themselves and have someone "paint" a bathing suit on their naked body(just gimme a water-hose please).
AKA Peltier effect...
Tom used to present benchmarks based on over-clockability and now I see none.
At the same rate, Tom's older overclocking-howto articles showed his massive 150watt water-cooling behemother that stood 1 foot tall on your CPU and pushed the silicon's temperature back to the recesses of antarctica. And it was all quiet and didn't use moving parts to cool it down (fans).
I have a 54watt peltier and a larger-than-average heatsink and tiny 12vdc fan on my Athlon system and it don't make a peep. Harddrives truly are the source of heat in a computercase. SCSI drives...don't get me started about the performance and heat dissipation ratios of SCSI harddrives compared to EIDE/ATAP harddrives.
That lawyer is on fire.
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Somehow I feel rather unclean by quoting those goatse lawyers.
It needs more pizza sauce.
The performance in the oven was spectacular: at 421 degrees Fahrenheit, it was finished baking in 16 minutes.
As a chef in my own home, I didn't use any of those counter-strike matches; the oven is thermostatically controlled and is able to turn itself off and relight itself.
I don't buy or try not to buy anything that has been DirectX-issued. Namely, I avoid DirectX-products because Microsoft is driven moreso by profit and market monopolizing policies than making a product that has good performance and is stable. Do you remember baking in your room while playing Diablo II using 3Dfx Glide graphics? My [wittle, itty-bitty] Voodoo2 graphics accelerator's Glide on Diablo 2 performed at 80+ frames per second while my GeForce3's DirectDraw and Direct3D never went above 65 frames per second.
His name couldn't be posted because his name itself destroys all...
Or possibly, he knows he will receive feedback and he will die when an hundred trolls, linux zealots, and gnu hippies (emph. added) say his name in retaliation for reporting the success of a company that has attained a product release and public relations strategy that marvels Bill Gates' and Microsofts:
1...borrow, purchase, or steal another work in progress
2...modify the code and slap your name on it
3...produce massive ammounts of public entertainum
4...release product while secretly designing a product that will force the obsoletion and upgrade of the current product within four months
5...make million$ of dollar$ and go through a process of removing unethical, moral, and retirement-age employees
6...goto 2
I expect Linuxgames.com to have a more fun [emph. added] discussion because Transgaming has received much of its praise and generally much of its hatred from people who venture through linuxgames.com's website quarter-daily [w00t crazy geeks]
I must say, Transgaming is at E3 right now and from what I've heard, they have made no intent on commending and respecting Winehq.com and the Linux community in general for being the first contribution to the Transgaming WineX project. I suspect either they are attempting to market a product respectively preventing the appearance of Unix technology spooking the more computer-savvy (win32-based) customer, or is in total disregard for Winehq.com and the Linux community due to the nature of their product STEALING INCENTIVE OF COMPANIES RELEASING NATIVE LINUX SOFTWARE.
Alot of WOMEN will be investing their futures in IP, computer programming, and engineering; thus they will grow big and fat from sitting down 8 hours a day and their spouse will not want to have sex with them.
I think I should be the first to point out a few intracacies of this article. The top "10" jobs don't count from 1 to 10; there is a job "0" simply because in Unix we don't count starting with "1", we count beginning with "0". And the top job that nobodoy sees offered is: 0. Manhore
Don't count me wrong, people. Everyone loves a BIG workplace with LITTLE competition. It's something we all can both capitalize and monopolize upon. We are the men replacing the dykes, ok? We don't need much: just travel from mansion to mansion with our tools in our own pockets. Steer clear of the San Fernando Valley and San Francisco because those areas are heavily unionized that the average porn-stare makes only $200 an hour with %75 of their hourly wage deducted for Union dues. But for us Manhores, it's like selling candybars for our grade school teachers, but instead we're the ones pimping ourselves for $100 and hour and not a furby!
We don't even need to make any advertising banners; they're ready to be stamped on our shirts (yours truly)
I can agree wholehartedly. [Yes, the ironic part is whether these Darwin-MacOSX/Apache hosted images could outlast the cuneiform tablets they hold dear to a good-ol' slashdotting.
Should we pray to the moon god?
Puppet-pal Timothy: I-just-heard-that-today too, Puppet-pal Hemos
KronkTaco: Me no like ship on mars. Last ship saw blow up an' nice lady teacher die
Major*Neal:ahh, that's a verry unhappy day, KronkTaco. To lighten your day up, how 'bout I start a poll to the people of the great land of Liberty, America, on what they think
Ratman Michael: (just walks in) Heya guys, you haven't payed me for the web services (slishslish) And besides, there hasn't been much action lately on the TV. Does it need to be fixed again? Where are all the criminals I get to help fight? I wanna see some action. grrr I'm ready. I mean, first the boiler last month, then the toilette seat, the blender.. oh i'm waitin' for a super-hero challenge.
Van Troll: Dudes, can you like Imagine? I mean, a BEOwulf cluster of my golden Internet Axes?
3Dfx created the consumer graphics market.
Second,
nVidia's NV1 wasn't their first product; nVidia's first product was a hybrid videocard and soundcard that of which model name I forget. (and how many people would like to see a SoundBlaster Audigy and nVidia5 on a 64bit PCI slot someday?)
Third,
Microsoft did not create Direct3D and later rename it to DirectX; DirectX is a collection of more that just a 3D graphics API:
DirectDraw (2D Graphics API)
Direct3D (3D Graphics API)
DirectSound (sound generation API)
DirectMusic (midi and FM synthesis API)
DirectInput (joysticks, gamepads, and like-said API)
DirectPlay (Network-protocol-transparent communication services)
DirectPoop ( the list goes )
Forth,
nobody could achieve what 3Dfx had already done. 3Dfx started the 3D graphics market and nobody will know the end of the 3D graphics market unless you can predict when the asteroid hits the moon and the moon plumets into planet earth knocking earth into Venus, Mercury, the Sun, and eventually changing the planetary alignment to bring Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Your-Anus into a collision-course with the Sun that results in a post-nuclear explosion that causes a worm-hole, a tear in space and time, to occur and deliver the post-nuclear blast to other un-charted galaxies and the entire universe disappears finaly in a single little *pop* like a water baloon on a freshly-cut grass lawn. (Ouch)
"Who uses their toaster oven longer than 25 days anyway?"
Well, actually you have quite a good idea. Linux is stable after it ejects your toast, so maybe its better the operating system just hangs itself, ie turn-off, instead of wasting all that time with uptime. Then again, the same could be said about websites that don't use their bandwidth because of non-popularity, yet run linux and provide 99.9% uptime. Wow, I never imagined saying this... By Microsoft Windows crashing every week or two, Microsoft is in fact saving people money on their electricity bill.
Great Idea!!
I, being the owner of a DEC Alpha 21264b-based computer system, the programming methodolgy enjoyed on the 64bit DEC Alpha platforms applies to Intel's IA64. In respect to the IA64 and the Alpha platform, it is generally not necessary for so many different programming methodologies to split the computer programming world. Rather, the programming environment should once again abstract the hardware and the underlying kernel software, in order for programs to remain portable to other platforms and operating systems in general. Such a risk to split the programming industry on product, rather than by platform, is suicide to competitors as the only companies able to survive are the ones that band together (ie Microsoft and Intel and Blizzard). At the same rate, some companies take a verry financially unethical approach to supporting other platforms in respect to supporting a given platform's adoption (ID Software porting/releasing programs on Linux, Solaris, Alpha, et al).
So, it is to valid conclusion that the only chance of industry adoption of Intel's IA64 platform is which market share supports it first(Linux!) or which company creates yet another hardware abstraction layer(Microsoft) to allow compatibility with software of previous platforms(8086,80286,80386/ia32,win16,win32,ia64, et al).
So, in respect to the DOJ ability to fillander their poor legal efforts, Intel's IA64 will prove another success of how Microsoft may monopolize an industry based on its position to make decisions that utterly control the success of other companies and corporations. I rest my case.
Dear users of Bnetd and all free software projects,
Recently, the Blizzard Entertainment Inc. staff have come under attack by Sony Inc. for our staff's delight of exchanging mp3 music while coding. Sony has binded that DMCA on our asses and we understand what it feels like to be a country losing more freedoms everyday. To our utmost conciousness, we shall provide our respects to living as free individuals by releasing all our pending legal attacks on the Bnetd project, releasing all legal accusations and court arrangements, providing limited code support for a fully functional and obfuscated closed-source branch of Bnetd to work optimaly with CD-key protected Blizzard software, and we shall join the Free Software Foundation both financially, legally, and spiritually in reaching a conclusion and removal of the DMCA from planet earth. We at Blizzard Entertainment Inc. shall also considier releasing an openGL rederer for Diablo2, and shall further our respects to the many Unix-like communities by porting Diablo2 immediately to Unix and there-after providing a Linux port of Warcraft3 on equal release and media of Microsoft Windows and Macintosh OSX. We thankyou for your understanding and we are happy to join you Linux and BSD Zealots on slaughtering the DMCA.
Sincerely,
Senior Lead Uber-general coder Herculeen Maximus Sam Lantinga
and
Blizzard Entertainment Inc. President "BOB"
The best way for Ad-ware to not be detected by an anti-spyware vigilante program is to observe the phylosophy of the wandering Jew. For those of you who don't understand, the anti-spyware programs are indeed looking for Ad-ware. So, who says Ad-ware can't be installed by the user under a different name and perhaps its executable and data files could use some sort of binary modification, chosen during Ad-ware's install-time, to not be detectable.
Ok, ok... Some of you still don't understand. Lets say the anti Ad-ware programs are looking for adware.exe on a hardware and for ad-ware related information in the MSWindows registry. For ad-ware to circumvent detection, it must allow the user to specify different different MSWindows registry labels and then the files on the harddrive must be slightly modified to have different file lengths and overlooked filenames from what the ant ad-ware programs expect to find.
Take, for example, the sysadmin tool SATAN. A cracker with a unix shell account could use SATAN to detect flaws in a particular computer's security. So, the cracker uploads SATAN into onto a fileshare within execute access of a shell account, and then renaming SATAN to ANGEL. Get my drift?
They are all drying up!
First they are free to browse and download, with the occasional advertisement you must read and walk through, and now just to see a picture of a dead zombie-man taking a piss you must register!
I have too many passwords to remember as it is! remembered when planetquake moved its network from cdrom.com to fileplanet.com. I'm interested in gaming, but I'm not that interested to where I must have an account and remember a password for each and ever website that has gaming content I might download. FilePlanet is an example of a big turn-off. And they know it.
How does it feel to read an awesome review of a Quake modification, movie, or new game, and just when you think you are going to download it they throw you onto a fileplanet.com server and you already convinced yourself "NO MORE ACCOUNTS I USE ONLY ONCE" ??
I was playing a game of Diablo2 via Windoze and I had to use the bathroom really bad. I was sore, I was holding myself for so long that my teeth were floating. After returning to my computer, gone for only 4 minutes of #1 and #2, I returned to A Blue Screen Of Death "System Error Reading drive E" and I found the CDROM drive to be ejected about 25% of the tray.
Diablo2 defaults to playing tracks of Music on the Diablo2 PlayDisc. The CDROM music that Diablo2 uses is simply sampled from the CDROM drive and mixed at the Soundcard via a 4 pin CDROM drive cable. Perhaps if I had disabled Diablo2's Music, in the Options menu, this would not have happened.
I had to cold-shutdown the computer, remove the cdrom drive, open the cdrom drive, and basically shake all the shattered peices of the Diablo2 Playdisc from the drive. To this day, I still blame Blizzard and Microsoft. I haven't figured why the CDROM drive will not close, but I kept it in hopes I can figure out why it will not. I also kept the peices of my Diablo2 Playdisc, re-assembled them as a puzzle, took a picture, and made the picture available to Blizzard in hopes they will send me a replacement at a small service charge for me. I don't think they will, and I bought my box of Diablo2 at a swapmeet for $10 (yes new).
Here is a picture of my destroyed "Diablo2 Playdisc" CDROM.
Does anyone think it's safe to keep a CDROM drive in service, 'cause it blew my Diablo2 Playdisc to chunks, should I get a new CDROM drive, or should I be hung for not using Transgaming's WineX ?
From what posts I've read in this article, there is much to blame on the CDROMs being old and unable to withstand the higher centrifugal forces caused by today's CDROM drives. That brings me to a question of my own. I just heard that Transgaming's WineX has maken strides to correct the CDROM copy-protection issues present on many games, including Diablo2, and many games are now playable in Transgaming WineX because of this new compliance. That doesn't solve the issue of old CDROMs or outright defectived CDROMs from self destructing in a CDROM drive.
MY QUESTION: Has anyone tried modifying a Linux CDROM driver to limit a CDROM drive's RPM rating and not by limiting the data read bandwidth?
IMPLICATIONS: It would be verry nice if there was a proc filesystem entry or a configuration file in /etc that users or administrators may limit the performance of a CDROM drive or possibly detect a CDROM's media age and determine whether it may be operated at 1500 RPM, 3000 RPM, or 4500 RPM, or something more hardware equal to 150KB/s (rated 1X), 1300/KB/s (rated 8x), or (rated 52X)?
And to circumvent this system which devoured the original networks, a small handful of freedom fighters take to the sewers of San Jose, with pricy/durable laptops, 802.11b, all in a giant bumperboat outfitted with an experimental methane energy converter up their asses. Their job is to hack into Internet1, unenslave and employ the oppressed people within, and protect intrusion of their homeland mainframe, Hydron, from the evil hailst--&&&#$%^ cough cought, I mean Internet1 agents.
Uhm, I see a pattern hear. Maybe we need to create Internet2. Anyone that wants .GOV and Micro$oft can use Internet1 while anyone who wants freedom, low latency, and anonymity can use Internet2. Yay :)
What I mean to say is there are just some things you must do in secret. Bnetd is a peice of software you just don't want to be seen with. Tim Jung is brave to stand up and shout back at Blizzard for work that is done in his own free time: doesn't condone piracy, and does not claim it will interoperate with Blizzard software products.
Come on people! What ever happened to the good things we should do in secret? What ever happened to anonymity?
Why didn't Tim simply release a public letter saying the Bnetd project shall be canceled, the Bnetd Project homepage removed and released, and then secretly and anonymously host the bnetd project on usenet? There are just some things you must do in secret. The stakes of challenging a multi-million dollar lawyer are just too high. The same can be said about Linux in general.
You can't participate in a system of government that doesn't support freedom of speech. A government that doesn't support freedom of speach is either fascist or communist. You either take the mark or you die in trying not to. Nobody should push anyone around, but you can't blame Tim. He's going to lose. There is no denying it.
I don't recall whether BLOAD and BSAVE were supported in GWBasic, but I am entirely aware that
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BLOAD and BSAVE are supported in QBasic. QBasic's BLOAD and BSAVE are different a little from AppleSoft Basic just by order of the bits they work with: Apple Computers vs. x86 Compatibles.
The successor to GWBasic is BWBasic and al I know is you'll find it bundled with FreeDOS. BWBasic(aka ByWater Basic) does not support BLOAD and BSAVE. I stopped thinking about BASIC programming a long time ago. It is verry painful for me to think about BASIC and it sustains my sanity to mentor you with the words: Maybe you should forget about BASIC programming too.
You obviously know more about the history of the BASIC programming language than I obviously know...that is a sad quality anyone might admit on their re~sume.
I attended a few GNU hippy revivals for help and they taught me to fight my addiction; I stopped immediately. There is hope for you, friend.
Just start a new addiction: beer, gummy-worms, apples, pictures of your mom. Oh wow, can you imagine? Learning something worthwhile? Especially apples...the secret lives of...apples.
I wouldn't want a 21" CPU
How about a 21" joystick? ;)
(*This post is quite long and is well worth the reading*)
(*spoiler: Vice President of WebStream Internet Solutions makes a verry good point about "unmetered" data bandwidth*)
I received an unsolicited (spam) eMail from a webstream administrator trying to market to me for webhosting. I've taken a verry sincere approach to spam recently by threatening every spammer with an invisible sword, but the eMail I got from webstream gave me an opportunity to respond with a good question...Unlimited Bandwidth. And so I asked the "said" webstream marketer a good question and I received a verry nice eMail from the Vice President! Here is the message I received back from Vice President Dubec...
...
Question -
"If you have unmetered bandwidth, how does one
find out if you are really getting that?"
There is no such thing as unmetered bandwidth available. The
unmetered idea is a sales / marketing concept based upon the fact
that few web sites ever hit 1GB, much less 2, 6, or 20 GB (our
limits without added charge, dependent on hosting option
purchased). Most of the "unmetered" company's will dump you if you
get too much bandwidth. Read the agreement and you will find an
excessive bandwidth clause.
This said, if they are a commercial server, check your logs
summary. This tells you how much traffic, bandwidth, and more that
your web site is using. If all you have available is a counter, you
are getting ripped off -- visitor logs, and a summary over the past
year is a mark of a hosting professional.
2) How does one find out when you have exceeded
the bandwidth limit and are being cut??
A harp here. Never go with a hosting company that offers unlimited
anything. It is unrealistic. Go with one that has limits, WITH
added costs if you exceed the norms. That is the mark of a
knowledgeable, established, and true professional hosting
company. (Remember, a full use of a T1 is $600-$1,200 per month.
Expecting that someone would allow a site to use $1,200 of cost for
receipts of $20 is stupid. Same thing for space. If I have a 20Gb
drive on the server and you use it all, then my costs are $300 for
the server lease alone-excluding traffic, accordingly don't expect
a bill for $20.)
3) What happens when the bandwidth limit is exceeded??
Depends on your ISP. Unlimited companies usually just dump you --
if you lose business, so be it. (We have several clients that are
now with us, and came to use because they went through this very
situation. Losing $1,000's in the process) Others, such as
ourselves, notify you that you have exceeded normal limits and give
you options, such as purchasing bandwidth or other needs as
prepurchased, spot market, etc.
4) What's the bear minimum of bandwidth required
by any web site??
Few successful web sites ever exceed 1 GB per month. We have one
that is generating $60,000 in gross sales per month and they are
still at only 1.2 GB per month in traffic. In my experience, the
exceptions are software manufacturers (which allow the visitor to
download software), and large companies. (We host some sites in the
University of Colorado and other colleges and their traffic demands
are pretty high.)
5) When you have a 5000MB limit for your site, how many
people can access your site at the same time without any
problems?
Sorry, wrong measurement criteria. I can give you any traffic limit
I want and it does not relate to access at the same time. If we are
talking people per second, the real issue is server load, not
traffic load. With eight redundant connections, my server load is
my limitation as a web host. The server load depends on programs
running on the specified server, and other issues. 1,000 people
accessing per second is our usual stated limit, however, it appears
that the real limit on a UNIX server of the type we run is much
higher.
George Dubec
Vice President of Corporate Sales
WebStream Internet Solutions