It seems to me like it'd be a better idea to build a system that isn't quite the highest end, and don't buy expensive overclocking equipment. Then, when it seems to be getting a little slow, buy a new processor that will likely be faster than anything you could have overclocked for the same or less money. Sure it sounds cool to say you have an ultra high clocked system, but in 6 months when there's faster non-overclocked, who's laughing?
At 14 Mbps it's definitely fast for most home networking. Much cheaper than rewiring your home, but when you think about you'll need one of these in each room that you're using the powerlines for ethernet. That could get a tad expensive if you do it in a majority of your rooms. If you're just connecting one room that is across the house then this would probably be a lot easier than wiring it the whole way.
Home Alone 2 is on TV and after watching all of the terrible accidents that the bad guys go through I now realize why I don't attempt to update Linux myself, especially a development version. I could practically kill myself in the process, and it would be by my doing.
The percentage of people buying xbox's and reverse engineering them would be extremely small. Those with the knowledge to even do it is extremely small; I'll admit that I probably couldn't do this. There are always those people who buy a console and only get 1 or 2 games, and this would just add a few more doing relatively the same thing.
This post doesn't really warrant being on the front page of slashdot really; there's already portable MP3 players with hard drives. It's no surprise that more would come out. Just because it looks slightly like the ipod doesn't mean it's any more special than another mp3 player. It's good that more of these are getting to market, but I see nothing revolutionary here, or news worthy for that matter.
bleem! repeatedly stated that warez was killing them, each new release they would have some new copy protection that would soon be broken. A good deal of people who did use bleem! probably aquired it illegally.
I never personally tried the bleemcast! (for dreamcast), but considering there are so many games that are so cheap for the Dreamcast now it simply wouldn't even be worth it to pay for just one PS game on the DC. On top of that, the system required putting in the bleem! cd, starting the DC, then taking it out and putting in the PS disc, all quite a big hassle.
I personally have a motherboard with the ATA100 built onto it, and to be honest, it has been less than perfect. Half the programs in Windows 2000 have problems figuring out where the hard drive is, in windows xp this problem seems to have disappeared for me. I couldn't even install the operating system on it, I had to stick it on the regular channel then switch it over.
This is also a Promise controller, not some no-name where you might expect such things for it being integrated onto the motherboard.
Hopefully if ATA133 gets implemented onto some motherboards they'll figure out how to make it run a little more smoothly.
At this url: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-7783542.html? tag=owv there's info on Aerie Networks looking to talk to municipal governments resell their wireless services like utilities. So not only are they reactivating it in some areas, they're also looking for new ways to sell their services and hopefully turn a profit unlike Metricom.
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This is good for the user who doesn't know enough about Mozilla to go and download it often. This is for the person who likes to be able to go to Netscape's page, download their latest browser and just go with it. More people will get a newer Mozilla branch which is more stable and faster, which is good.
For the Slashdot community you're still better off downloading the Mozilla milestones instead of waiting for a Netscape branch every so often.
How about carrying a small UPS with you and tell the receptionist you're there to replace the UPS on the mainframe? A bit more direct, and that would REALLY show how weak security can be.
Well, it looks to me like there were just "rumors" that it would be released by Christmas 2002, not announced. It's not a delay, it's just a more accurate estimate on the time it'll be done.
I get all kinds of spam that obviously uses a program, because it says "this email was sent to: myemail@here.com"
Wouldn't that screw up the checksum? Of course they could just take say the middle 75% of each email and that would be enough and probably not run into those problems quite as often.
Part of the reason they don't do better is because:
a) user generated stories/articles just aren't feasable for the topic (like talking about the new Blue's Clue's computer game- I'm sure there's some slashcode sites like this)
or
b) There are better places to get the same info
or
c) They are just trying to rip off slashdot completely which gets them nowhere
So, some cases, this may be true, but for the majority it probably isn't.
I have Verizon DSL, and mine doesn't require software. It must depend on what part of Verizon's service area you live in.
I just have my DSL modem which I can plug into my network card or router and it works no problem.
I'm really starting to hate my DSL for other reasons though, and surprisingly, it's my ISP's fault, not Verizon (although Verizon does route the traffic to my ISP).
Punkbuster, the program that checks client side files and now cvars will flag almost all versions of these Asus files because they are technically cheats. Either the Asus users are going to need to use other drivers or just play older drivers because Asus had to include the cheat with or without someone requesting it.
I'm not sure why they couldn't allow people to bring in their own mice and perhaps keyboards.
If they play any games such as Team Fortress Classic, I know some people have really big configurations that they feel are necessary to play at their normal level or close to it.
I'd like to see how they'll handle people perhaps bringing in their own configurations on floppy disks.
I'm really curious if they can get all of these games to run without getting into any legal trouble with Microsoft. I sure hope this isn't vaporware though.
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What I meant is, it would be buggy and have a big version number that doesn't really represent what the product is.
All we need now is to have this turned into a quake 3 map (or similar first person shooter) and have a good 'ol deathmatch game.
if this was some big software company, this would probably be version 3.0. (internet explorer anyone?)
I rather enjoy going to colleges' student centers and reading everyone's email. Hope this won't change my ways.
It seems to me like it'd be a better idea to build a system that isn't quite the highest end, and don't buy expensive overclocking equipment. Then, when it seems to be getting a little slow, buy a new processor that will likely be faster than anything you could have overclocked for the same or less money. Sure it sounds cool to say you have an ultra high clocked system, but in 6 months when there's faster non-overclocked, who's laughing?
At 14 Mbps it's definitely fast for most home networking. Much cheaper than rewiring your home, but when you think about you'll need one of these in each room that you're using the powerlines for ethernet. That could get a tad expensive if you do it in a majority of your rooms. If you're just connecting one room that is across the house then this would probably be a lot easier than wiring it the whole way.
Home Alone 2 is on TV and after watching all of the terrible accidents that the bad guys go through I now realize why I don't attempt to update Linux myself, especially a development version. I could practically kill myself in the process, and it would be by my doing.
The percentage of people buying xbox's and reverse engineering them would be extremely small. Those with the knowledge to even do it is extremely small; I'll admit that I probably couldn't do this. There are always those people who buy a console and only get 1 or 2 games, and this would just add a few more doing relatively the same thing.
This post doesn't really warrant being on the front page of slashdot really; there's already portable MP3 players with hard drives. It's no surprise that more would come out. Just because it looks slightly like the ipod doesn't mean it's any more special than another mp3 player. It's good that more of these are getting to market, but I see nothing revolutionary here, or news worthy for that matter.
bleem! repeatedly stated that warez was killing them, each new release they would have some new copy protection that would soon be broken. A good deal of people who did use bleem! probably aquired it illegally.
I never personally tried the bleemcast! (for dreamcast), but considering there are so many games that are so cheap for the Dreamcast now it simply wouldn't even be worth it to pay for just one PS game on the DC. On top of that, the system required putting in the bleem! cd, starting the DC, then taking it out and putting in the PS disc, all quite a big hassle.
I personally have a motherboard with the ATA100 built onto it, and to be honest, it has been less than perfect. Half the programs in Windows 2000 have problems figuring out where the hard drive is, in windows xp this problem seems to have disappeared for me. I couldn't even install the operating system on it, I had to stick it on the regular channel then switch it over.
This is also a Promise controller, not some no-name where you might expect such things for it being integrated onto the motherboard.
Hopefully if ATA133 gets implemented onto some motherboards they'll figure out how to make it run a little more smoothly.
At this url: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-7783542.html? tag=owv there's info on Aerie Networks looking to talk to municipal governments resell their wireless services like utilities. So not only are they reactivating it in some areas, they're also looking for new ways to sell their services and hopefully turn a profit unlike Metricom.
This is good for the user who doesn't know enough about Mozilla to go and download it often. This is for the person who likes to be able to go to Netscape's page, download their latest browser and just go with it. More people will get a newer Mozilla branch which is more stable and faster, which is good.
For the Slashdot community you're still better off downloading the Mozilla milestones instead of waiting for a Netscape branch every so often.
How about carrying a small UPS with you and tell the receptionist you're there to replace the UPS on the mainframe? A bit more direct, and that would REALLY show how weak security can be.
I almost wouldn't doubt it could be done.
Either this will make a huge company that will struggle just like both companies are doing now or suddenly they'll dominate.
I'm betting they'll lose billions their first year.
I wonder what they'll call it.
Well, it looks to me like there were just "rumors" that it would be released by Christmas 2002, not announced. It's not a delay, it's just a more accurate estimate on the time it'll be done.
That's the correct link to the FAQ.
I get all kinds of spam that obviously uses a program, because it says "this email was sent to: myemail@here.com"
Wouldn't that screw up the checksum? Of course they could just take say the middle 75% of each email and that would be enough and probably not run into those problems quite as often.
Part of the reason they don't do better is because:
a) user generated stories/articles just aren't feasable for the topic (like talking about the new Blue's Clue's computer game- I'm sure there's some slashcode sites like this)
or
b) There are better places to get the same info
or
c) They are just trying to rip off slashdot completely which gets them nowhere
So, some cases, this may be true, but for the majority it probably isn't.
However, the massive bandwidth they use sure isn't cheap.
I wonder what that kind of domain would go for... Hopefully it won't turn into something of an adult nature. (wink)
I have Verizon DSL, and mine doesn't require software. It must depend on what part of Verizon's service area you live in. I just have my DSL modem which I can plug into my network card or router and it works no problem. I'm really starting to hate my DSL for other reasons though, and surprisingly, it's my ISP's fault, not Verizon (although Verizon does route the traffic to my ISP).
Punkbuster, the program that checks client side files and now cvars will flag almost all versions of these Asus files because they are technically cheats. Either the Asus users are going to need to use other drivers or just play older drivers because Asus had to include the cheat with or without someone requesting it.
I'm not sure why they couldn't allow people to bring in their own mice and perhaps keyboards.
If they play any games such as Team Fortress Classic, I know some people have really big configurations that they feel are necessary to play at their normal level or close to it.
I'd like to see how they'll handle people perhaps bringing in their own configurations on floppy disks.
I'm really curious if they can get all of these games to run without getting into any legal trouble with Microsoft. I sure hope this isn't vaporware though.