It deletes files in your download directory? Does that really matter?
If you consider for a moment that the default download directory on Linux is your home, and on Windows it's your desktop, then you should see that "yes", it does really matter...
Once they move away from the nonprofit, educational purposes of their system they can expect to be deluged by cease and desist orders. Before you break out the tissue box though...
I doubt many people get that excited about cease and desist orders...
Well, some of us don't bother listening to any of the bollocks. Watching the dead-eyed, hypocrytical liars responding to carefully filtered questions with statements statistically proven to garner support from the average couch potato just sends me into a trance. The pricks we keep penned in over in Whitehall shouldn't get any TV coverage.
In fact, if we just walled up all the doors and windows of parliment with all the fuckers inside I'm sure the country would function a whole lot better...
While I agree about Gnome's shit spatial browser idea, there was plenty to be fixed in Evo 1.4. I stopped using it as the html rendering of emails was diabolical. Some people (me included) do actually need to receive html emails and have them look vaguely similar to the layout that was sent. This is why I'm currently using Thunderbird for email. I also have a lot of mailboxes, and folders set up, and Evo was taking a huge amount of resources, whereas Thunderbird, with the same amount of data takes barely half of the resources.
I will be trying Evo 2.0 as soon as the ebuild appears though...
This site was mentioned here a few months back. Basically a stripped down games console, which you can buy/build and then write games/whatever to run on the hardware. The software to program the thing is included. Programming it (using assembler) is very similar to coding for the old VCS console. Since there's no video RAM (unless you choose to add it to the hardware), your code directly controls the output as the raster scans across the screen - meaning you have to actually count the clock cycles in your code to ensure you don't end up with electric soup! I think it also has sound hardware, and there's nothing stopping you adding any other mods.
There are some demos available for download on the site, with full source etc. I don't work for them or anything, but I'm seriously thinking of buying one so I can dive into some retro-coding;-)
What about "olde" mainframes running assembler code? The pool of expertise is drying up... sometimes you need to pitch the hardware.
Yeah but maybe they should have replaced it with something that, you know, actually works...
I'm all for change, but I wouldn't swap my car for a brand new sparkling wheelchair, my haircut for a mullet, or my soul/self respect for a job writing VBScript. It just doesn't seem right, you know?
It's obviously lunacy for any company to replace a proven system, which has given years of reliable service with some piece of trash that crashes if left running for over a month. That said, I was under the impression that a simple "at" job could be used on a Windows machine to run a script periodically (at is similar to cron, except far less capable, of course). Such a script could, if I'm not mistaken, be used to reboot the machine. One would think this would be an ideal way to hide the problem very nicely.
We use a similar system to reboot all of our NT servers every weekend to help prevent crashes during the week (doesn't work of course, but still).
It won't run. At all. Don't waste your bandwidth, seriously.
In contrast to a lot of others here, I really enjoyed the game, both the graphics and level design. My Windows machine is hardly cutting edge (Athlon 2000XP, 1GB DDR400, FX5700, Abit nforce2) but I could play at 1024x768, medium quality at between 40-60fps for the majority of the time. It looks amazing, really, and is scary as hell if played in the dark with headphones. I'm going to be slotting an XP3200 in the mb this week to see how much difference it makes.
This is the real kicker that helped me convert a LOT of people over to Firefox - and these are people who honestly couldn't give a stuff about computers, let alone web browsers! The ability to right-click and remove an entire advertising server in one go really put a fire under the rollout. We (in the IT dept) have had calls from loads of people to come and install "that cool web browser thing that stops adverts" since it appeared.
Whilst installing/configuring Firefox, we also usually find spyware all over the place due to the users trying to use shite-ware browser bars etc to stop adverts (in reality they just end up with more). On one PC, as soon as IE was launched there were popups with porn ads all over the screen - how the guy managed to get any work done I'll never know... maybe he didn't, come to think of it;-)
Honestly XHTML will probably just save us a little bandwidth and make the site look a little prettier, but only the hardcore readers will notice the difference...
Good point; after all, how many of them would you find reading slashdot?;-)
and add it to your acl section. Then whenever your proxy encounters it.slashdot.org/blah, it's rewritten as slashdot.org/blah. You can obviously do this for any section, and you don't need to set up all your web browsers with an ugly javascript hack!
Not only that, but it's pretty simple to speed up OO's load time dramatically just by increasing the memory settings within OO. I'm puzzled as to why they're so low to start with to be honest.
It is still a slug though - my work machine takes a good 15 seconds to load it up (P4 2.6ghz, FC2, 384MB, slowish 40GB HD); I use Gnumeric for spreadsheet work, since OO Calc takes so damned long to get going even once it's cached.
I dunno; maybe they like using the internet? Intel may be an Evil CorporationTM, but they've got as much interest as anyone else in keeping it going.
Or maybe - just maybe - they're doing something nice.
Or maybe people have finally realized they don't actually need a 3.2ghz cpu to browse web pages and read email. So Intel have decided to put all that extra power to "good use" by proposing a new abstraction layer over the top of the TCP/IP stack. It's certainly not to lessen the traffic...
You have to remember that a large percentage of the Linux machines are the spammers' own servers...
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There is one thing that bothers me with Java though. You never know when the garbage collection will be performed... Actually on mobile phones, where you're working with extremely limited hardware and very little RAM, it's common practice to force the garbage collector to run regularly. I usually call the gc in the central game loop to prevent "hitches" during play as a large(ish) block is freed up randomly.
Since just about every game I've written is under 30k in size (including graphics and sound), and most run in phones with as little as 100k of usable RAM, no hardware sprites etc, I'd say that Java can be pretty efficient!
Sorry, but anyone who says that there's no reason to buy a soundcard over the pitiful, cheap onboard chipsets they have thrown in with their motherboards has never heard a real soundcard with today's games. There is a WORLD of difference between an "SBLive" chip and an Audigy card with all the hardware effects turned up to 11. You might as well claim there's no point in anyone buying a $500 car stereo when you can hear the radio on a $5 AM job you can pick up at a flea market.
The ability of a card to perform processing on the audio *in hardware*, thus removing the CPU of the need, results in better gameplay, and more realistic sound. I'm not an audiophile, but I can actually *feel* the difference...
When I last tried using Winamp to play video files it kept screwing up the colours. The same files played fine on WMP. Of course now I tend to use the DivX player (if I'm using Windows), or MPlayer (if not)...
I don't mind things being complicated, but I do mind people fooling themselves that they're simple when they're not...
If you have problems following that short sequence of instructions that have been "spoon fed" you, then you really shouldn't be attempting to install and configure a database server anyway. If you install almost ANY version of Linux, you CAN install MySQL with a single command or mouse click, or as an option during installation. If you pay for a root server, or shared hosting, MySQL will already be there, configured for you.
If you're too bone idle to read a *very simple* guide to install something, it's really not for you.
No, that was the "hardest" install - but it will work for ANY Linux distro. I was illustrating a point. The easiest way (for Linux) is installing from RPM, or emerging, or apt-getting etc, depending upon your distro of choice.
Eh?! MySQL has to be one of the simplest pieces of software to install (on Linux at least). Just create a user/group called mysql (in the unlikely event that you don't already have them) ungzip it somewhere, and make sure ALL the directories/sub directories are owned by mysql and group mysql (this trips people up). Change to the directory created when you ungzipped it. Type./configure and it'll sort itself out and start up. Then change the password for root etc... For subsequent boots, add an init script to start it automatically, or change to the mysql directory, type "bin/safe_mysqld &" and you're running.
What they are looking to do is to integrate the filesystem into a database system, where files are organized not by directory, but by use/type/relationship. Even I have a hard time wrapping my head around what this will look like once it's carried out.
I just hope to god it doesn't end up like the Nautilus "Spacial browser" - maybe the worst idea of all time;-)
Apparently if you view the original image (I think the ones linked are resized copies) in Photoshop and view only the blue channel, the word "FAKE" is written across the top right.
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It deletes files in your download directory? Does that really matter?
If you consider for a moment that the default download directory on Linux is your home, and on Windows it's your desktop, then you should see that "yes", it does really matter...
Once they move away from the nonprofit, educational purposes of their system they can expect to be deluged by cease and desist orders. Before you break out the tissue box though...
I doubt many people get that excited about cease and desist orders...
Well, some of us don't bother listening to any of the bollocks. Watching the dead-eyed, hypocrytical liars responding to carefully filtered questions with statements statistically proven to garner support from the average couch potato just sends me into a trance. The pricks we keep penned in over in Whitehall shouldn't get any TV coverage.
In fact, if we just walled up all the doors and windows of parliment with all the fuckers inside I'm sure the country would function a whole lot better...
While I agree about Gnome's shit spatial browser idea, there was plenty to be fixed in Evo 1.4. I stopped using it as the html rendering of emails was diabolical. Some people (me included) do actually need to receive html emails and have them look vaguely similar to the layout that was sent. This is why I'm currently using Thunderbird for email. I also have a lot of mailboxes, and folders set up, and Evo was taking a huge amount of resources, whereas Thunderbird, with the same amount of data takes barely half of the resources.
I will be trying Evo 2.0 as soon as the ebuild appears though...
This site was mentioned here a few months back. Basically a stripped down games console, which you can buy/build and then write games/whatever to run on the hardware. The software to program the thing is included. Programming it (using assembler) is very similar to coding for the old VCS console. Since there's no video RAM (unless you choose to add it to the hardware), your code directly controls the output as the raster scans across the screen - meaning you have to actually count the clock cycles in your code to ensure you don't end up with electric soup! I think it also has sound hardware, and there's nothing stopping you adding any other mods.
;-)
There are some demos available for download on the site, with full source etc. I don't work for them or anything, but I'm seriously thinking of buying one so I can dive into some retro-coding
What about "olde" mainframes running assembler code? The pool of expertise is drying up... sometimes you need to pitch the hardware.
Yeah but maybe they should have replaced it with something that, you know, actually works...
I'm all for change, but I wouldn't swap my car for a brand new sparkling wheelchair, my haircut for a mullet, or my soul/self respect for a job writing VBScript. It just doesn't seem right, you know?
It's obviously lunacy for any company to replace a proven system, which has given years of reliable service with some piece of trash that crashes if left running for over a month. That said, I was under the impression that a simple "at" job could be used on a Windows machine to run a script periodically (at is similar to cron, except far less capable, of course). Such a script could, if I'm not mistaken, be used to reboot the machine. One would think this would be an ideal way to hide the problem very nicely.
We use a similar system to reboot all of our NT servers every weekend to help prevent crashes during the week (doesn't work of course, but still).
It won't run. At all. Don't waste your bandwidth, seriously.
In contrast to a lot of others here, I really enjoyed the game, both the graphics and level design. My Windows machine is hardly cutting edge (Athlon 2000XP, 1GB DDR400, FX5700, Abit nforce2) but I could play at 1024x768, medium quality at between 40-60fps for the majority of the time. It looks amazing, really, and is scary as hell if played in the dark with headphones. I'm going to be slotting an XP3200 in the mb this week to see how much difference it makes.
This is the real kicker that helped me convert a LOT of people over to Firefox - and these are people who honestly couldn't give a stuff about computers, let alone web browsers! The ability to right-click and remove an entire advertising server in one go really put a fire under the rollout. We (in the IT dept) have had calls from loads of people to come and install "that cool web browser thing that stops adverts" since it appeared.
;-)
Whilst installing/configuring Firefox, we also usually find spyware all over the place due to the users trying to use shite-ware browser bars etc to stop adverts (in reality they just end up with more). On one PC, as soon as IE was launched there were popups with porn ads all over the screen - how the guy managed to get any work done I'll never know... maybe he didn't, come to think of it
Honestly XHTML will probably just save us a little bandwidth and make the site look a little prettier, but only the hardcore readers will notice the difference...
;-)
Good point; after all, how many of them would you find reading slashdot?
Not only that, but it's pretty simple to speed up OO's load time dramatically just by increasing the memory settings within OO. I'm puzzled as to why they're so low to start with to be honest.
It is still a slug though - my work machine takes a good 15 seconds to load it up (P4 2.6ghz, FC2, 384MB, slowish 40GB HD); I use Gnumeric for spreadsheet work, since OO Calc takes so damned long to get going even once it's cached.
It's possible to do that, but anyone with a clue will have set up their mx to reject anything that fails a reverse lookup...
Fair enough, but can you swing the nunbchuks like this dude?
I dunno; maybe they like using the internet? Intel may be an Evil CorporationTM, but they've got as much interest as anyone else in keeping it going.
Or maybe - just maybe - they're doing something nice.
Or maybe people have finally realized they don't actually need a 3.2ghz cpu to browse web pages and read email. So Intel have decided to put all that extra power to "good use" by proposing a new abstraction layer over the top of the TCP/IP stack. It's certainly not to lessen the traffic...
Holy crap. That makes me a secuirty expert! Time to update the resume!
If I were you I'd brush up on my spell checker skills before firing off those CVs...
You have to remember that a large percentage of the Linux machines are the spammers' own servers...
There is one thing that bothers me with Java though. You never know when the garbage collection will be performed...
Actually on mobile phones, where you're working with extremely limited hardware and very little RAM, it's common practice to force the garbage collector to run regularly. I usually call the gc in the central game loop to prevent "hitches" during play as a large(ish) block is freed up randomly.
Since just about every game I've written is under 30k in size (including graphics and sound), and most run in phones with as little as 100k of usable RAM, no hardware sprites etc, I'd say that Java can be pretty efficient!
Sorry, but anyone who says that there's no reason to buy a soundcard over the pitiful, cheap onboard chipsets they have thrown in with their motherboards has never heard a real soundcard with today's games. There is a WORLD of difference between an "SBLive" chip and an Audigy card with all the hardware effects turned up to 11. You might as well claim there's no point in anyone buying a $500 car stereo when you can hear the radio on a $5 AM job you can pick up at a flea market.
The ability of a card to perform processing on the audio *in hardware*, thus removing the CPU of the need, results in better gameplay, and more realistic sound. I'm not an audiophile, but I can actually *feel* the difference...
When I last tried using Winamp to play video files it kept screwing up the colours. The same files played fine on WMP. Of course now I tend to use the DivX player (if I'm using Windows), or MPlayer (if not)...
I don't mind things being complicated, but I do mind people fooling themselves that they're simple when they're not...
If you have problems following that short sequence of instructions that have been "spoon fed" you, then you really shouldn't be attempting to install and configure a database server anyway. If you install almost ANY version of Linux, you CAN install MySQL with a single command or mouse click, or as an option during installation. If you pay for a root server, or shared hosting, MySQL will already be there, configured for you.
If you're too bone idle to read a *very simple* guide to install something, it's really not for you.
No, that was the "hardest" install - but it will work for ANY Linux distro. I was illustrating a point. The easiest way (for Linux) is installing from RPM, or emerging, or apt-getting etc, depending upon your distro of choice.
Eh?! MySQL has to be one of the simplest pieces of software to install (on Linux at least). Just create a user/group called mysql (in the unlikely event that you don't already have them) ungzip it somewhere, and make sure ALL the directories/sub directories are owned by mysql and group mysql (this trips people up). Change to the directory created when you ungzipped it. Type ./configure and it'll sort itself out and start up. Then change the password for root etc... For subsequent boots, add an init script to start it automatically, or change to the mysql directory, type "bin/safe_mysqld &" and you're running.
What they are looking to do is to integrate the filesystem into a database system, where files are organized not by directory, but by use/type/relationship. Even I have a hard time wrapping my head around what this will look like once it's carried out.
;-)
I just hope to god it doesn't end up like the Nautilus "Spacial browser" - maybe the worst idea of all time
Apparently if you view the original image (I think the ones linked are resized copies) in Photoshop and view only the blue channel, the word "FAKE" is written across the top right.