One of the authors (one Alex Halderman) says that it's (big surprise) not really ready for this kind of load, and that it therefore probably won't work well if at all for most people. Of course, since it appeared 1/2 way down the page, chances are it won't get too badly hammered.
Anyway, my search for a cube seemed to work pretty well. A sphere seemed to get me a lot of human heads, but my circles were hardly perfect...
Since Princeton has agreed to protect him (in the legal sense), this isn't really a huge issue. I'm sure they can afford a decent lawyer. See also Princeton Law.
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Actually, yes. I currently have it running AIM, IRC, and ICQ. The IRC support is especially nice if you are dealing with a large number of privmessages. The IRC channels are handled by the "Chat" interface, which I have some qualms with but nothing I can't live with.
Honestly, I don't mind the ICQ interface at all. It is being improved upon, so if you haven't tried it recently, I'd reccomend you do so.
One would think that gaim would be a good argument that interoperability is possible, given that it spports AIM/ICQ (Oscar), MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, Napster, and Zephyr.
As a current RPI student, I can say it hasn't gotten much better. We make jokes about throwing things onto the Hudson, not into it. Troy has earned its nickname as "the armpit of New York". However, if this brings the focus of RPI back on its largest majors (EE & CSYS), I'm all for it.
I never blindly accuse people. Ever. If there's any doubt, I either suicide and follow them or ask for a screenshot. If there's any question in my mind, I always err in the player's favor. It's just when people are AWP'ing through walls and getting kills every time, it's not exactly a tough call....
There was a guy that frequented my server that went by the name of LAN Shark. He routinely went 3:1 or greater. I never saw any indication that he cheated, he was just fast and aimed well. He got accused of cheating by many people, but all the regulars just told them to shut up. I know many good players are accused of cheating - I think it's a symptom of how many people DO cheat that the accusals fly so often.
Re:Counterstrike
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The Mod Squad
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I had to give up on CS. I used to be a decent player and a quite good admin (according to those who frequented my server anyway). I gave up the beast when the cheating got REALLY out of hand around 8 months ago. This was also when I was moving to linux as my only OS (I just booted windows for games), not to mention the fact that I had finals to worry about, and was moving off campus (say goodbye to the dual oc-3's).
At any rate, I'd become disinterested. The newer maps failed to add anything exciting to the game, and I'd played them all to death. I started adding older maps (think beta-4 era) to the rotation (de_desert, etc) but it pissed too many people off. In the end, I'm glad that I gave up the game. I know of no less than 4 people that failed out of my school because of counter-strike alone.
That being said, I can't wait for our ACM's fall LAN party... nothing like a bunch of geeks, some pizza, as much caffiene as you can stomach, and video games that can give you heart attacks when it's not 4 AM...
Well, I know ext3 is great for ease of upgrade and backward compatibility with ext2. You can convert the root filesystem to ext3 without remounting read-only. Also, any ext3 filesystem can be mounted as ext2.
IIRC, it's also more "middle of the road" that reiserfs. What I mean by this is that (performance-wise), it supposedly eliminates the extreme cases. So, you get sligly worse handling of many small files, but eliminate some of the possible ultra-slow cases when dealing with large files.
"Today, however, the simplest act remains a tremendous challenge for any robot."
Well, all they need to create artifical boredrom is a robot with a scoop, and a herring sandwich....
Re:Tempest in a teapot
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ICANN Updates
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Quoth the parent:
"NAMES ARE NOT THE THINGS THEY NAME!"
Well, that's not exactly true... sometimes domains are for exactly what they name, and are used to make a point. Take for instance a group of extremely bitter RPI students. Such people might register rpiscrews.us (no, there's no content there... I have yet to set up vhosts) to make a point.
And as for the triviality of a domain name... good, common words domain names can generate hits on their own. I remember that bomb.com (which has no real content) generated a couple thousand hits per month. That's all based on people thinking "hey, maybe there's something good at bomb.com".
Perhaps Symantec/MacAfee should do some advertising regarding already know virii and worms. I know that twoworms are definately still out there... perhaps they could just target the people whose IPs are listed in above links?;)
In multi-player action games such as "Quake III" and "Half-Life," hackers will try to tap into the servers running online games to execute cheats that let them see through walls or automatically aim weapons.
Most, if not all of the cheats for Half-life and Quake III are client-side or proxy cheats.
Proxy cheats require 2 computers: the one you game on and a proxy that you connect to the server through. The proxy keeps track of what's going on in the game by analyzing the packets that get sent through it. It then makes adjustments (ie aiming corrections) to the packets as they are sent out to the server. This in no way involves breaking into the server.
The common transparency cheats are to a) replace the textures used on the walls with translucent/transparent ones or b) hack your video card's drivers. Neither of those affects the server in any way.
There's a multitude more of these types of cheats. I know because I used to run a decent Half-life and Counterstrike server. I got so depressed at the prevalence of cheating (and cheating accusations), I shut down the server and very rarely play any online games.
Send your congressman/woman a copy of 1984 along with a letter explaining your point of view. The book itself will only run you $7 from bn, and will probably at least get your represenative thinking (if that's at all possible).
Re:Mozilla/Netscape usage & anti-Netscape sent
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Google's Zeitgeist should give you a good idea of what the different browsers' market shares are. Mozilla, Netscape 6, Opera, Konquerer, etc all fall under "Other" unless they're spoofing their browser identification.
Sure it can! All you need is a little program that MAC address bombs the switch. Send it a few millioin MAC addresses, and (depending on the switch of course) it will most likely go into "hub" mode and start broadcasting everything across all the ports.
Of course this will hurt network performance a bit, but c'mon - it's worth it!
Another option would be to just not send anything out to the switch at all - since it doesn't know what's connected, the switch should try to send everything to you. I think.
Yep. That way just about any governmental agency could search the ISP at any time without even having to send a note to the ISP. Sounds like a lot of fun to me. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not give them completely unrestricted access to all the ISPs data to be searched on a whim.
Slashdot Mirror
The A-team is still aired on TV-Land. Or at least it was as of around 6 months ago - I haven't watched much TV since then.
Apparently all's fine now - seems to be working perfectly for me.
One of the authors (one Alex Halderman) says that it's (big surprise) not really ready for this kind of load, and that it therefore probably won't work well if at all for most people. Of course, since it appeared 1/2 way down the page, chances are it won't get too badly hammered.
Anyway, my search for a cube seemed to work pretty well. A sphere seemed to get me a lot of human heads, but my circles were hardly perfect...
Since Princeton has agreed to protect him (in the legal sense), this isn't really a huge issue. I'm sure they can afford a decent lawyer. See also Princeton Law.
(00:15:33) FUNDRAISING: [Global Notice] Good morning, all. We're still fundraising for PDPC/freenode. Please look at http://freenode.info/contrib.shtml and help us if you can. The current total still stands at $1,871.27, so we're about 1,157 $20 contributions away from goal. Have a great morning, and thank you for using freenode! :)
Actually, yes. I currently have it running AIM, IRC, and ICQ. The IRC support is especially nice if you are dealing with a large number of privmessages. The IRC channels are handled by the "Chat" interface, which I have some qualms with but nothing I can't live with.
Honestly, I don't mind the ICQ interface at all. It is being improved upon, so if you haven't tried it recently, I'd reccomend you do so.
IIRC, AIM and ICQ do both follow the same standard these days - they're both Oscar based.
One would think that gaim would be a good argument that interoperability is possible, given that it spports AIM/ICQ (Oscar), MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, Napster, and Zephyr.
As a current RPI student, I can say it hasn't gotten much better. We make jokes about throwing things onto the Hudson, not into it. Troy has earned its nickname as "the armpit of New York". However, if this brings the focus of RPI back on its largest majors (EE & CSYS), I'm all for it.
I never blindly accuse people. Ever. If there's any doubt, I either suicide and follow them or ask for a screenshot. If there's any question in my mind, I always err in the player's favor. It's just when people are AWP'ing through walls and getting kills every time, it's not exactly a tough call....
There was a guy that frequented my server that went by the name of LAN Shark. He routinely went 3:1 or greater. I never saw any indication that he cheated, he was just fast and aimed well. He got accused of cheating by many people, but all the regulars just told them to shut up. I know many good players are accused of cheating - I think it's a symptom of how many people DO cheat that the accusals fly so often.
I had to give up on CS. I used to be a decent player and a quite good admin (according to those who frequented my server anyway). I gave up the beast when the cheating got REALLY out of hand around 8 months ago. This was also when I was moving to linux as my only OS (I just booted windows for games), not to mention the fact that I had finals to worry about, and was moving off campus (say goodbye to the dual oc-3's).
At any rate, I'd become disinterested. The newer maps failed to add anything exciting to the game, and I'd played them all to death. I started adding older maps (think beta-4 era) to the rotation (de_desert, etc) but it pissed too many people off. In the end, I'm glad that I gave up the game. I know of no less than 4 people that failed out of my school because of counter-strike alone.
That being said, I can't wait for our ACM's fall LAN party... nothing like a bunch of geeks, some pizza, as much caffiene as you can stomach, and video games that can give you heart attacks when it's not 4 AM...
I said that it didn't come with the browser, not that it doesn't work.
Aw, crud - knew I'd mess up one of those...
Not when you're using a browser that doesn't come with flash...
Well, I know ext3 is great for ease of upgrade and backward compatibility with ext2. You can convert the root filesystem to ext3 without remounting read-only. Also, any ext3 filesystem can be mounted as ext2.
IIRC, it's also more "middle of the road" that reiserfs. What I mean by this is that (performance-wise), it supposedly eliminates the extreme cases. So, you get sligly worse handling of many small files, but eliminate some of the possible ultra-slow cases when dealing with large files.
they could revive their webserver....
"Today, however, the simplest act remains a tremendous challenge for any robot."
Well, all they need to create artifical boredrom is a robot with a scoop, and a herring sandwich....
Quoth the parent:
"NAMES ARE NOT THE THINGS THEY NAME!"
Well, that's not exactly true... sometimes domains are for exactly what they name, and are used to make a point. Take for instance a group of extremely bitter RPI students. Such people might register rpiscrews.us (no, there's no content there... I have yet to set up vhosts) to make a point.
And as for the triviality of a domain name... good, common words domain names can generate hits on their own. I remember that bomb.com (which has no real content) generated a couple thousand hits per month. That's all based on people thinking "hey, maybe there's something good at bomb.com".
Perhaps Symantec/MacAfee should do some advertising regarding already know virii and worms. I know that two worms are definately still out there... perhaps they could just target the people whose IPs are listed in above links? ;)
Proxy cheats require 2 computers: the one you game on and a proxy that you connect to the server through. The proxy keeps track of what's going on in the game by analyzing the packets that get sent through it. It then makes adjustments (ie aiming corrections) to the packets as they are sent out to the server. This in no way involves breaking into the server.
The common transparency cheats are to a) replace the textures used on the walls with translucent/transparent ones or b) hack your video card's drivers. Neither of those affects the server in any way.
There's a multitude more of these types of cheats. I know because I used to run a decent Half-life and Counterstrike server. I got so depressed at the prevalence of cheating (and cheating accusations), I shut down the server and very rarely play any online games.
Linux installer mirrored here.
Send your congressman/woman a copy of 1984 along with a letter explaining your point of view. The book itself will only run you $7 from bn, and will probably at least get your represenative thinking (if that's at all possible).
Google's Zeitgeist should give you a good idea of what the different browsers' market shares are. Mozilla, Netscape 6, Opera, Konquerer, etc all fall under "Other" unless they're spoofing their browser identification.
Sure it can! All you need is a little program that MAC address bombs the switch. Send it a few millioin MAC addresses, and (depending on the switch of course) it will most likely go into "hub" mode and start broadcasting everything across all the ports.
Of course this will hurt network performance a bit, but c'mon - it's worth it!
Another option would be to just not send anything out to the switch at all - since it doesn't know what's connected, the switch should try to send everything to you. I think.
Yep. That way just about any governmental agency could search the ISP at any time without even having to send a note to the ISP. Sounds like a lot of fun to me. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not give them completely unrestricted access to all the ISPs data to be searched on a whim.