Here's the relevant part from Gnutella 0.2 release notes:
"Distributed nature of servant makes it pretty damned tough for college administrators to block access to the gnutella service. Ability to change the port you listen on makes it even harder for those college administrators to block access. Ability to define your own internal network with a single exit point to the rest of the internet makes it almost fucking impossible for college sysadmins to block the free uninhibited transfer of information."
Succinct and well put description of our problem. =)
Many of the systems I know and use (gnutella, giFT, Freenet) all have configurable port numbers... and on most OSes you can set the port number freely (in most UNIXes anything over 1024 is free for users to (ab)use).
Actually, Santa's workshop (actually located in Korvatunturi, Finland) was linuxized a long time ago.
Don't believe me? See for yourself. "The site www.korvatunturi.fi is running Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux) PHP/3.0.12 mod_perl/1.21 on Linux." (no doubt they chose Red Hat...)
And they're actively cheating Microsoft. You know, many kids wish for computers these days - and Santa made the mistake of making an OS deal with MS.
Of course, it's easy for them to put in Linux if the kids want it - if MS asks anything, they ask the parents to tell MS death squads that they bought the computer in parts, put it togheter and installed Linux - and conclude this proof by questioning Santa's very existence.
Nonsense! Solitaire is mostly played by managers who don't really add any meaningful value anyway. Geeks are those who get the actual job done.
Right! Geeks don't play Solitaire - they play Minesweeper! Card games? Bah. We have cardboard crack, who needs old card games... Now Minesweeper, on the other hand...
Well, the method itself (and similar methods in server-side web scripting languages) was not the buggy part - it was just that people didn't realize it returned year-1900 and not year without centuries part...
I remember that the New Year's Day in year 100 (or 19100, depending on website) was ocassionally a very happy one.
Nautilus is the same way. If you still use GMC you have no built-in browser sucking up space.
Nautilus can also be installed without Mozilla components, which makes it render web pages as raw HTML... It's a common condition in Debian when there's a new mozilla-browser package but nautilus-mozilla package hasn't catched up yet =)
MS and QT are too closed, and the Real server is way too expensive.
Not to mention the lack of quality. QT is pretty good but only for Windows; I've never got ASF to play correctly; And Real was impressive on 28.8k but stinks really bad on ISDN and anything better than that...
Hope someone makes a HTTP streaming server (icecast?) to also support something like VP3 video (pretty good quality) with Vorbis sound (cooler than MP3 on low bitrates) =)
When I leave the room to get a snack that I saw advertised in the previouse commercial break, I can pause the signal so I don't miss any valuable and high quality advertisements for useful goods and services!
And if I had a PVR, I would not only make it record me some programs, but also make it record all commercials I want, too.
I actually respect commercials as a form of visual art - whether or not I will actually buy anything based on advertising is an entirely different issue.
Just don't force me to watch dumb commercials and everything OK by me =)
- WWWWolf, hoping adcritic.com will return soon...
But there are a lot of one-man projects that look pretty cool. For example, I thought X-Plane was pretty amazing: looks and sounds pretty nice (at least my old version, the new version looks and sounds even more impressive) and is very realistic.
Then, there are projects like Nethack: Developed by a group, with not too many visual arts or music talents... but the game itself is what counts, and even when it's ASCII or has ugly graphics, the game itself is excellent.
But this, of course, doesn't mean that everyone is instantaneously able to make games like these =)
Erm. Obviously you don't deal with multiple X configs. =)
Personally, I had a "game setup" once that ran "lighter" X11 session, and all excessive services on my machine were turned off. What WM, you may ask? twm. Didn't want WindowMaker to affect my framerate =)
Nowadays, I consider setting up a separate "movie player" setup (because nVIDIA drivers screw up the XVidMode stuff when using TV-Out, so I can't really play games if TV-Out is enabled all the time!) - again, twm would be just fine for that setup.
Sure, GNOME and all the other WMs sit on top of it,
None of the other window managers depend on twm! If you don't like it, you can remove it =)
Err CNTL-ALT-+ ? Have you set your resolutions up in your config?
No, color depth, not screen dimensions.
Once X is started, AFAIK you can't change from the bit depth. Usually this isn't a problem, but when running on >16bpp and using programs that absolutely insists on using 8bpp (such as the original abuse.x11 - thank God for Abuse-SDL! =), there's no other way except to restart the server OR run multiple servers.
That's not an issue to deal with too often, fortunately, but I'd love it if screen resolution could be changed on the fly. And when I say resolution, I mean DPI, not screen dimensions (that's what XVidMode and Ctrl+Alt+(+/-) are for =)
Operation Flashpoint is undoubtedly the best FPS I've ever played. Granted, it's not the best-looking one or "fun", but it's realistic and above all atmospheric. It's not about Quake-style bloodbaths - it's about realistic war. This isn't "shoot stuff that runs"; It's "oh shit, here I am. And those Commies are coming here. I guess I run." =)
It's not really an FPS. It's more like a "soldier simulator".
Don't blame me if it hasn't been marketed too much. I just heard, one day, from a local game magazine that there was this "totally world-changing" game I had never heard of - bought it, and loved it.
Yet another of those games that don't get the attention they so much deserve...
(Now, if only I could make Direct3D 8 to work properly on my machine again, it just blew up one day... Glad OpenGL works, so I can spectate Q3F in Linux while waiting for my copy of Myth II to arrive.)
Agreed, calling this discrimiation is a bit too strong, but streaming.asf only is still a bad move.
I did dualboot to Windows to watch this; No, I couldn't watch it because streaming was too slow, even on my broadband goodness. (Apparently no one there could think that someone outside USA would be interested in seeing what the "silly amerikans" are doing. =) With downloadable clip, this could have been averted...
Sort of like choice between guillotining or axing. =)
(In WM version, I saw three seconds of video and then it video froze... could only hear the sound. In Real version, it showed maybe 5 seconds of video+sound after loooong buffering, and then it got stuck buffering... (WMP7 and RealPlayer 8 Basic.) Any guesses on why I would prefer downloadable version? =)
...but don't go overboard and talk down to MS people saying MySQL is as good as (or better) than SQL Server. It does a disservice to everyone involved.
Precisely. MySQL is still definitely behind other RDBMSes. It's great for giving people who are used to MS Access some biiiig jaw drops, but I guess SQL Server users are probably going to laugh it out of the door after they type BEGIN; =)
I use PostgreSQL myself, and if people are going to make a big honkin' database, I just go "mmmh, there's Oracle, I hear it's expensive but also pretty good."
SOAP is great to get stuff from web in format programs understand.
Yes, it's possible to use HTML parsing and stuff for any site (I'm using such tools in Everything2.com), but they all need atrocitious amount of HTML parsing. Thank God for visual-regexp. =)
However, if E2 would use SOAP, I'd just ask them "Give me IDs of writeups matching title "don't force your gray philosophy on me" and it gives them, and I have them in an @array. Period.
(Praying the security bug in SOAP::Lite will be fixed and Nate will make good use of mod_soap =)
Before Blizzard/Vivendi 2: Tides of Lawsuits started, Blizzard was a cool company and they liked people who did little things like WarDraft or the big.PUD messer thing...
...and that time, I played Blizzard's games.
Then, after they got hostile towards StarDraft project and bnetd, I can't really remember playing a lot of Blizzard's games - and if I have played them, I've more played them more on single-player mode. (I'm more of a "slow builder" type. Any newbie grunt-rusher can smother me with a little wet sock.)
I really can't remember when I last time touched that brilliant and most amazing WC2. And, I think I won't play it online, either - I doubt Microsoft Zone still provides IPX emulation, and Blizzard charges extra for WC2BattleNetEdition.
Actually, I don't think I'd even eliminate Jar Jar. I think that if I just dubbed him over with, whatever, the Japanese language track, or some other language that I wouldn't understand at all, and subtitled him, he'd be tolerable.
Actually, I heard that one of these "phantom edits" left some Jar-Jar in, but added synthetic alien sounds on sound track, and subtitled it with some Deep Wisdom. A relatively easy way to make an annoying character to sound smart =)
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Oh, somewhere around 1 to 65535...
Here's the relevant part from Gnutella 0.2 release notes:
Succinct and well put description of our problem. =)
Many of the systems I know and use (gnutella, giFT, Freenet) all have configurable port numbers... and on most OSes you can set the port number freely (in most UNIXes anything over 1024 is free for users to (ab)use).
Actually, Santa's workshop (actually located in Korvatunturi, Finland) was linuxized a long time ago.
Don't believe me? See for yourself. "The site www.korvatunturi.fi is running Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux) PHP/3.0.12 mod_perl/1.21 on Linux." (no doubt they chose Red Hat...)
And they're actively cheating Microsoft. You know, many kids wish for computers these days - and Santa made the mistake of making an OS deal with MS.
Of course, it's easy for them to put in Linux if the kids want it - if MS asks anything, they ask the parents to tell MS death squads that they bought the computer in parts, put it togheter and installed Linux - and conclude this proof by questioning Santa's very existence.
=)
Javascript's misuse of Date.getYear().
Well, the method itself (and similar methods in server-side web scripting languages) was not the buggy part - it was just that people didn't realize it returned year-1900 and not year without centuries part...
I remember that the New Year's Day in year 100 (or 19100, depending on website) was ocassionally a very happy one.
Nautilus can also be installed without Mozilla components, which makes it render web pages as raw HTML... It's a common condition in Debian when there's a new mozilla-browser package but nautilus-mozilla package hasn't catched up yet =)
Hope someone makes a HTTP streaming server (icecast?) to also support something like VP3 video (pretty good quality) with Vorbis sound (cooler than MP3 on low bitrates) =)
And if I had a PVR, I would not only make it record me some programs, but also make it record all commercials I want, too.
I actually respect commercials as a form of visual art - whether or not I will actually buy anything based on advertising is an entirely different issue.
Just don't force me to watch dumb commercials and everything OK by me =)
- WWWWolf, hoping adcritic.com will return soon...
If it's OpenOffice-based, then the save files are just .zips with the XML document in them...
Point well taken.
But there are a lot of one-man projects that look pretty cool. For example, I thought X-Plane was pretty amazing: looks and sounds pretty nice (at least my old version, the new version looks and sounds even more impressive) and is very realistic.
Then, there are projects like Nethack: Developed by a group, with not too many visual arts or music talents... but the game itself is what counts, and even when it's ASCII or has ugly graphics, the game itself is excellent.
But this, of course, doesn't mean that everyone is instantaneously able to make games like these =)
Ahem, you forgot the most important part - the replacement for Kazaa. =)
(Also some additional assembly may also be required.)
Erm. Obviously you don't deal with multiple X configs. =)
Personally, I had a "game setup" once that ran "lighter" X11 session, and all excessive services on my machine were turned off. What WM, you may ask? twm. Didn't want WindowMaker to affect my framerate =)
Nowadays, I consider setting up a separate "movie player" setup (because nVIDIA drivers screw up the XVidMode stuff when using TV-Out, so I can't really play games if TV-Out is enabled all the time!) - again, twm would be just fine for that setup.
None of the other window managers depend on twm! If you don't like it, you can remove it =)
Once X is started, AFAIK you can't change from the bit depth. Usually this isn't a problem, but when running on >16bpp and using programs that absolutely insists on using 8bpp (such as the original abuse.x11 - thank God for Abuse-SDL! =), there's no other way except to restart the server OR run multiple servers.
That's not an issue to deal with too often, fortunately, but I'd love it if screen resolution could be changed on the fly. And when I say resolution, I mean DPI, not screen dimensions (that's what XVidMode and Ctrl+Alt+(+/-) are for =)
Yes, it uses HTTP as transport medium, so it doesn't have all of the nifty features - but if you want just to listen to music, it's *great*.
There used to be a Athena widget set-based browser for X11 called Chimera. (At least Debian seems to carry it still...)
It was a nice browser, just, ahem, limited in functionality - and, due to Athena, somewhat... unaesthetic.
Shouldn't Chimera (MacOS browser) rather be called Phoenix, then, or something? =)
Operation Flashpoint is undoubtedly the best FPS I've ever played. Granted, it's not the best-looking one or "fun", but it's realistic and above all atmospheric. It's not about Quake-style bloodbaths - it's about realistic war. This isn't "shoot stuff that runs"; It's "oh shit, here I am. And those Commies are coming here. I guess I run." =)
It's not really an FPS. It's more like a "soldier simulator".
Don't blame me if it hasn't been marketed too much. I just heard, one day, from a local game magazine that there was this "totally world-changing" game I had never heard of - bought it, and loved it.
Yet another of those games that don't get the attention they so much deserve...
(Now, if only I could make Direct3D 8 to work properly on my machine again, it just blew up one day... Glad OpenGL works, so I can spectate Q3F in Linux while waiting for my copy of Myth II to arrive.)
Agreed, calling this discrimiation is a bit too strong, but streaming .asf only is still a bad move.
I did dualboot to Windows to watch this; No, I couldn't watch it because streaming was too slow, even on my broadband goodness. (Apparently no one there could think that someone outside USA would be interested in seeing what the "silly amerikans" are doing. =) With downloadable clip, this could have been averted...
Choice between Windows Media and Real. Quaint.
Sort of like choice between guillotining or axing. =)
(In WM version, I saw three seconds of video and then it video froze... could only hear the sound. In Real version, it showed maybe 5 seconds of video+sound after loooong buffering, and then it got stuck buffering... (WMP7 and RealPlayer 8 Basic.) Any guesses on why I would prefer downloadable version? =)
You know, people have this idea that if it's so good, it can't be "free". There just has to be some catch, right?
(Well, in case of GPLed software, there is a catch, but it's for developers and distributors, not users =)
And why not? It's possible. In fact, it's not even painful.
And didn't Kevin Poulsen hAx0r the Arpanet with a VIC-20 back in 1984? (I doubt that needed more than a terminal program, though =)
I use PostgreSQL myself, and if people are going to make a big honkin' database, I just go "mmmh, there's Oracle, I hear it's expensive but also pretty good."
Here in technical circles, cat | grep is known as useless use of cat =)
HTML is great to make pages readable for users.
SOAP is great to get stuff from web in format programs understand.
Yes, it's possible to use HTML parsing and stuff for any site (I'm using such tools in Everything2.com), but they all need atrocitious amount of HTML parsing. Thank God for visual-regexp. =)
However, if E2 would use SOAP, I'd just ask them "Give me IDs of writeups matching title "don't force your gray philosophy on me" and it gives them, and I have them in an @array. Period.
(Praying the security bug in SOAP::Lite will be fixed and Nate will make good use of mod_soap =)
You threw it away?
You know, I did something better:
Before Blizzard/Vivendi 2: Tides of Lawsuits started, Blizzard was a cool company and they liked people who did little things like WarDraft or the big .PUD messer thing...
...and that time, I played Blizzard's games.
Then, after they got hostile towards StarDraft project and bnetd, I can't really remember playing a lot of Blizzard's games - and if I have played them, I've more played them more on single-player mode. (I'm more of a "slow builder" type. Any newbie grunt-rusher can smother me with a little wet sock.)
I really can't remember when I last time touched that brilliant and most amazing WC2. And, I think I won't play it online, either - I doubt Microsoft Zone still provides IPX emulation, and Blizzard charges extra for WC2BattleNetEdition.
Your Pipe of Death is no match for my Hoe of Destruction! =)