I remember playing Klingon Accademy with a few friends, one in the federation battleship, myself in the attack shuttle. Aside from my really entertaining atack runs doing nothing, he once shot at me with one of the phaser 4's. I saw the beam end right in front of me, thought oh god, I'm safe, as my momentum caried me right into it. *poof*, time to respawn, but it was the greatest angle to see a beam ever.
I recently added some nice eye candy that made a web site a hell of a lot easier to navigate, as well as adding quite a bit of needed functionality. The javascript that I used uses a cookie to keep track of what you have done to navigate the page so that it doesn't reset itself everytime you click to navigate somewhere else. It doesn't keep track of anything about you, just about the page you are looking at. Is this a good reason?
I was never really a trackball fan, but I can use them well enough, and really had no problem with them, at least until I hurt my thumb playing ultimate frizbee. I think until my thumb is better I will hate trackballs with a passion.
"What are we going to have to do to convince "ordinary users" to visit WindowsUpdate once in a while?" Well not having to worry about Microsoft breaking their systems with each patch would be a good start.
Having just driven my car (1990 model) with a faulty starter, power stearing failure, in addition to having the doors frozen shut, I can honestly say that opening the door was actually the hardest thing about driving that night (with a missing headlight on an icy road)
so you are saying that the majority of people don't have a firewall (WinXP builtin or otherwise), aren't NAT'ed (anyone who has more than one machine at home and one internet connection), or would really like to play a game years from now without worrying about activating it (I still install my original (not even Game of the Year) Edition of HL and enjoy it something like 6 years after it's release. Now I fully expect that there will be a crack for this activation shortly (at least for single player) but telling us that if we are in any of a dosen rather common situation we are screwed, well that just isn't a great way to operate.
I was thinking back to the old cd players that I found simple to use and how they had a few buttons to do everything (stop, play, pause, etc) how hard would it be to have some kind of hardware buttons on a PC that could be programmed to do this kinda thing?
Has anyone considered how the large number of popups from things like the firewall and other new security reminders is going to effect the apathy that most people feel about reading things that pop up and not just clicking OK on everything?
I ran RH6.2 for the longest time, but ran into problems with tring to update some programs, and really ran into problems trying to install it on my laptop (2 years ago) that was when I updated, when I couldn't do everything I wanted with it. I still have yet to find a distro that I like as much.
Just wanted to point out that Linux (XFree86 4.3.0) supports the Radon 7500 Mobility quite nicely on my Dell Inspiron 4150 that is quietly running the xsrceensaver in RH9 while I type away at my desktop (uses the ATI driver (loads the Radon (generic) driver))
A few years ago I was taking a Cisco course that was offered through out school by the local Tech Institution. I was working on a way to log into a Win2k server box over a modem so that I could do various things from home (never did exactly figure out what as the net connection at the school was crap and the modem never did work), but as I was looking at the network I ran across the schools web page and looked at the server behind it (WinNT 4 with IIS, luckally patched for code red that had been running rampant about that time). I could log onto the sever through FTP as Anonymous and browse through the few files that were there. The one gem I found was a Access database with personal information about every single employee of the district. Beeing the good little boy I told IT (wonderful when the teachers listen to you). The server stoped serving FTP for about a week and then it was back up with the offending file. It didn't get taken back down until they did a major upgrade over the summer and put a Win2k box in its place. (that and half the IT staff got replaced that year). Ahh the stories of our IT staff, I could go on forever.
The main reason why *nix boxes don't have anywhere near the number of virii infect them is because the average *nix user has had to set the box up themselves and had to go through the learning curve that is involved in that. Anyone who has got enough knowledge to set up a *nix box (and in reality most people that accually are able to install windows) have enough general computer sence to not catch virii. I personally hate virus scanners as they just take up my resources. Periotic scans let me know that I am not just overconfident that I am invoulnerable, but infact paying enough attention to what I do on a regular basis to delete the emails with attachments like 'happy99.exe' even though I don't in truth _know_ that it is in fact a virus. *nix isn't really a safer OS from virii, it just has a better trained user base.
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I remember playing Klingon Accademy with a few friends, one in the federation battleship, myself in the attack shuttle. Aside from my really entertaining atack runs doing nothing, he once shot at me with one of the phaser 4's. I saw the beam end right in front of me, thought oh god, I'm safe, as my momentum caried me right into it. *poof*, time to respawn, but it was the greatest angle to see a beam ever.
I recently added some nice eye candy that made a web site a hell of a lot easier to navigate, as well as adding quite a bit of needed functionality. The javascript that I used uses a cookie to keep track of what you have done to navigate the page so that it doesn't reset itself everytime you click to navigate somewhere else. It doesn't keep track of anything about you, just about the page you are looking at. Is this a good reason?
I kinda hate to admit it, but it was the t-shirt that really got me interested
I was never really a trackball fan, but I can use them well enough, and really had no problem with them, at least until I hurt my thumb playing ultimate frizbee. I think until my thumb is better I will hate trackballs with a passion.
"What are we going to have to do to convince "ordinary users" to visit WindowsUpdate once in a while?"
Well not having to worry about Microsoft breaking their systems with each patch would be a good start.
I got a girlfriend out of fixing a computer once. Let me tell you, it ain't all it's chalked up to be.
Having just driven my car (1990 model) with a faulty starter, power stearing failure, in addition to having the doors frozen shut, I can honestly say that opening the door was actually the hardest thing about driving that night (with a missing headlight on an icy road)
so you are saying that the majority of people don't have a firewall (WinXP builtin or otherwise), aren't NAT'ed (anyone who has more than one machine at home and one internet connection), or would really like to play a game years from now without worrying about activating it (I still install my original (not even Game of the Year) Edition of HL and enjoy it something like 6 years after it's release. Now I fully expect that there will be a crack for this activation shortly (at least for single player) but telling us that if we are in any of a dosen rather common situation we are screwed, well that just isn't a great way to operate.
What exactly is the diference between a file format and a codec? Is the file format just the result of the media being acted upon by the codec?
I was thinking back to the old cd players that I found simple to use and how they had a few buttons to do everything (stop, play, pause, etc) how hard would it be to have some kind of hardware buttons on a PC that could be programmed to do this kinda thing?
Has anyone considered how the large number of popups from things like the firewall and other new security reminders is going to effect the apathy that most people feel about reading things that pop up and not just clicking OK on everything?
I ran RH6.2 for the longest time, but ran into problems with tring to update some programs, and really ran into problems trying to install it on my laptop (2 years ago) that was when I updated, when I couldn't do everything I wanted with it. I still have yet to find a distro that I like as much.
there is just something that struck me as funny about LID (LInux Desktop)
Just wanted to point out that Linux (XFree86 4.3.0) supports the Radon 7500 Mobility quite nicely on my Dell Inspiron 4150 that is quietly running the xsrceensaver in RH9 while I type away at my desktop (uses the ATI driver (loads the Radon (generic) driver))
A few years ago I was taking a Cisco course that was offered through out school by the local Tech Institution. I was working on a way to log into a Win2k server box over a modem so that I could do various things from home (never did exactly figure out what as the net connection at the school was crap and the modem never did work), but as I was looking at the network I ran across the schools web page and looked at the server behind it (WinNT 4 with IIS, luckally patched for code red that had been running rampant about that time). I could log onto the sever through FTP as Anonymous and browse through the few files that were there. The one gem I found was a Access database with personal information about every single employee of the district. Beeing the good little boy I told IT (wonderful when the teachers listen to you). The server stoped serving FTP for about a week and then it was back up with the offending file. It didn't get taken back down until they did a major upgrade over the summer and put a Win2k box in its place. (that and half the IT staff got replaced that year). Ahh the stories of our IT staff, I could go on forever.
The main reason why *nix boxes don't have anywhere near the number of virii infect them is because the average *nix user has had to set the box up themselves and had to go through the learning curve that is involved in that. Anyone who has got enough knowledge to set up a *nix box (and in reality most people that accually are able to install windows) have enough general computer sence to not catch virii. I personally hate virus scanners as they just take up my resources. Periotic scans let me know that I am not just overconfident that I am invoulnerable, but infact paying enough attention to what I do on a regular basis to delete the emails with attachments like 'happy99.exe' even though I don't in truth _know_ that it is in fact a virus. *nix isn't really a safer OS from virii, it just has a better trained user base.