It might have a good CPU but I get the feeling the graphics chip is underpowered. All I can go by is what I've seen onscreen and I'm not impressed. If its not the hardware then it must be a case of the software developers not really putting much effort into it. Whatever the case its not exactly the ground breaking quantum leap in graphics that the N64 was back in 96.
I'm no fan of MS but no one will deby that the Xbox has the best graphics of the current crop of consoles and thats what gamers go for. The installed base of the PS2 is huge so Sony won't be hurt but in the west I reckon this could kick Nintendos backside as frankly the GC has some pretty damn lame games so far except for Luigis Mansion but thats only of interest if you're 15 or under IMO. The graphics in the other games are pretty woeful and I'm thinking Nintendo may have cut one too many corners in the GC design in trying to keep the price down.
No one in their right mind would use one of the r* tools or telnet to access a box across the internet. However , for internal connections withing a large organisation they are *vital*. Anyone who has worked in a large unix shop (I work in a multinational bank) knows that rlogin and telnet are used all the time to access the various servers over the LAN and VPN , rsh is also used to do a shell script type of RPC. Getting rid of these tools demonstrates what I've always thought about OpenBSD , its just a toy to amuse Theo thats not really aiming at the high end market but rather just as a web server or other ISP type role. Fine , if thats what they want but it'll hardly make much difference as their user base is so small it hardly registers anyway. Bye bye OpenBSD.
This is something anyone who has been involved in a big project knows and to be honest if Mike Smith finds this a problem then he should either have left long ago or gone and got a dose of reality himself before he joined. You will never find a group of homogenised drones who share the same common view about everything even in places like microsoft so in a freeware project such as BSD you've got no chance of an easy life if people disagree with something you may be doing. People are people, you're always going to get egotists , the ones who are always right, the ones who like giving orders, the ones who refuse to take responsibilty for their actions and so on.
All I can say is Welcome to The Real World Mr Smith.
Looks like some javascript starts up an applet that does god knows what. Given that theres a check however to see if you're running a mac and if you are it simply displays an image I suspect its nothing subversive. If you're worried switch off javascript. People should run their browser with it switched off anyway IMO as it has so many security problems.
Which was invented by A K Dewdney of Sci American fame back in 1984. It used a special assembly code language called Redcode. Should be easy to find some links to it in Google and theres even a newsgroup rec.games.corewar (IIRR). Nothing quite like re-inventing the wheel but pretending its new and flash cos its written in a flavour of the month language.
FreeBSD may have a faster filesystem but it has MUCH slower graphics than linux even when running Xfree 4. I have no idea why but on my dual boot machine the X server on 4.5 runs at about 50% the speed of the same server on linux.
Back in the days when CB was popular people frequently ran "burners" that upped the power to 10s if not 100s of whats. Now if someone had one of them in their car, truck or house next to you imagine the radiation you'd be absorbing then. Surely all truckers would have cancer by now? Sure its a much lower frequency but I can tell you from persojnal experience (I once held an aerial that was transmitting by mistake) that even SW radio can heat you up quite considerably!
When you say server side I assume you mean web server side? Given that a lot of server programming has nothing to do with web servers, HTML or any of that mickey mouse shit. Try putting java in a REAL server side app such as a fast throughput bank dataprocessing backend that feeds trader front end screens and watch it die faster than a goldfish in bettery acid.
Both. Java is a bad language implementing a bad idea usually by bad coders (ie people who find C/C++ too difficult or used to do VB) Most web designers are just that , designers. They couldn't code their way out of a paper bag.
Basically it compensates for lean by acceleration or decelleration. If you lean too far and the machine is already at its full speed then given that it can't break the laws of physics you WILL fall over. I'd imagine they've installed some kind of power cutoff device in case of this eventuality otherwise your nose will be pused along the ground at 12mph which could be painful:)
Real dev? Oh , you mean like developing Yet Another Database app for the company? Or some such mickey mouse crap. Hobbyist developers usually try HARD stuff for the challenge. Sounds to me like you're the clown who's simply regurgitated his collage notes to try to sound impressive.
And anyone who's tried to set up an IP6 network knows what a complete bastard it is. Whoever designed it couldn't have come up with a more complex system if they tried. So much for simplifying ip4!
Ok , its far more expensive but Vegas is hardly a city in a slump plus if you're going to transport people from the airport into the centre you need a real transport system , not a mickey mouse toy such as a monorail. Also subways can go anywhere (substrata difficulties aside) whereas trams, light rail and monorails have to follow the current road layout.
I thought all this web enabled kitchen appliances, curtains and pet dogs had joined the 1950s jetson style flying cars and the 1970s Honeywell Kitchen Computer in the Hall of Really Stupid Ideas By Geeks Who Don't Get Out Enough? Guess I was wrong.
"Stable" has a rather fluid definition when applied to the 2.4 series. If you want real stability stick to 2.2 , forget about 2.4 (its a lemon IMO) and wait for 2.6 to arrive.
Why? Because people can use intuition when looking at a CCTV screen. All a machine can do is spot patterns. If a criminal can learn these patterns he can avoid making them and even have a friend somewhere else deliberalty MAKING those patterns to draw the attention of the CCTV operator elsewhere. People assume criminals are stupid. They're not.
I don't know if this is pure co-incidence but I have a dual boot PC with linux and freeBSD (which OS X is based on) both running Xfree86 3 . FreeBSD is noticably slower running X than linux. Perhaps the microkernel architecture of *BSD systems and Darwin causes this slowdown of the graphics subsystem?
Sorry , meant going to there. If he gets spam or ping flooded , well I'm sure there could be exemptions for ICMP packets and if he's simply downloading off a POP3 or IMAP server owned by the ISP then they could do some cross checking.
Surely it wouldn't be too difficult to install some software on the routers that will start reducing the bandwidth a given IP (customer) can use depending on how much they've downloaded in the last few minutes/hours. Perhaps a gradual decrease of their bandwith in a linear way over the space of say a day down to a minimum level would be an idea. And if they simply disconnect and and get a new IP vis DHCP or whatever , well I'm sure the ISP could keep a list of phones numbers people are connecting from (and insist on no anonymous calls if NZ telecom has those).
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It might have a good CPU but I get the feeling the graphics chip is underpowered. All I can go
by is what I've seen onscreen and I'm not impressed. If its not the hardware then it must
be a case of the software developers not really putting much effort into it.
Whatever the case its not exactly the ground breaking quantum leap in graphics that
the N64 was back in 96.
I'm no fan of MS but no one will deby that the Xbox has the best graphics of the current crop
of consoles and thats what gamers go for. The installed base of the PS2 is huge so Sony won't
be hurt but in the west I reckon this could kick Nintendos backside as frankly the GC has some
pretty damn lame games so far except for Luigis Mansion but thats only of interest if you're
15 or under IMO. The graphics in the other games are pretty woeful and I'm thinking Nintendo may
have cut one too many corners in the GC design in trying to keep the price down.
No one in their right mind would use one of the
r* tools or telnet to access a box across the
internet. However , for internal connections withing a large organisation they are *vital*.
Anyone who has worked in a large unix shop (I work in a multinational bank) knows that rlogin
and telnet are used all the time to access the various servers over the LAN and VPN , rsh is also
used to do a shell script type of RPC. Getting rid of these tools demonstrates what I've always
thought about OpenBSD , its just a toy to amuse
Theo thats not really aiming at the high end market but rather just as a web server or other
ISP type role. Fine , if thats what they want but
it'll hardly make much difference as their user base is so small it hardly registers anyway.
Bye bye OpenBSD.
This is something anyone who has been involved in
a big project knows and to be honest if Mike Smith
finds this a problem then he should either have
left long ago or gone and got a dose of reality
himself before he joined. You will never find a
group of homogenised drones who share the same
common view about everything even in places like
microsoft so in a freeware project such as BSD
you've got no chance of an easy life if people
disagree with something you may be doing.
People are people, you're always going to get
egotists , the ones who are always right, the ones
who like giving orders, the ones who refuse to
take responsibilty for their actions and so on.
All I can say is Welcome to The Real World Mr Smith.
Looks like some javascript starts up an applet that does god knows what. Given that theres a check
however to see if you're running a mac and if you are it simply displays an image I suspect its
nothing subversive. If you're worried switch off javascript. People should run their browser
with it switched off anyway IMO as it has so many security problems.
Which was invented by A K Dewdney of Sci American fame back in 1984. It used a special assembly code
language called Redcode. Should be easy to find some links to it in Google and theres even a
newsgroup rec.games.corewar (IIRR).
Nothing quite like re-inventing the wheel but pretending its new and flash cos its written in
a flavour of the month language.
Read what I wrote you clueless fuckwit. They're on the same machine! Dual boot, hello??? Moron.
FreeBSD may have a faster filesystem but it has MUCH slower graphics than linux even when running
Xfree 4. I have no idea why but on my dual boot machine the X server on 4.5 runs at about 50% the
speed of the same server on linux.
Yes I know , I meant "watts". Typo.
Back in the days when CB was popular people frequently ran "burners" that upped the power to 10s if not 100s of whats. Now if someone had one of them in their car, truck or house next to you
imagine the radiation you'd be absorbing then. Surely all truckers would have cancer by now?
Sure its a much lower frequency but I can tell you
from persojnal experience (I once held an aerial that was transmitting by mistake) that even SW
radio can heat you up quite considerably!
When you say server side I assume you mean web server side? Given that a lot of server programming
has nothing to do with web servers, HTML or any of that mickey mouse shit. Try putting java in
a REAL server side app such as a fast throughput bank dataprocessing backend that feeds trader
front end screens and watch it die faster than a goldfish in bettery acid.
I know what XP is. I also know what a piece of shit java is to work with. Your point is?
Both.
Java is a bad language implementing a bad idea usually by bad coders (ie people who find C/C++
too difficult or used to do VB)
Most web designers are just that , designers. They couldn't code their way out of a paper bag.
Java is to extreme programming what battery cars are to drag racing.
Basically it compensates for lean by acceleration or decelleration. If you lean too far and the :)
machine is already at its full speed then given that it can't break the laws of physics you WILL
fall over. I'd imagine they've installed some kind of power cutoff device in case of this
eventuality otherwise your nose will be pused along the ground at 12mph which could be painful
Real dev? Oh , you mean like developing Yet Another Database app for the company? Or some such
mickey mouse crap. Hobbyist developers usually try HARD stuff for the challenge. Sounds to me
like you're the clown who's simply regurgitated his collage notes to try to sound impressive.
And anyone who's tried to set up an IP6 network knows what a complete bastard it is. Whoever
designed it couldn't have come up with a more complex system if they tried. So much for
simplifying ip4!
Ok , its far more expensive but Vegas is hardly a city in a slump plus if you're going to transport
people from the airport into the centre you need a real transport system , not a mickey mouse toy
such as a monorail. Also subways can go anywhere (substrata difficulties aside) whereas trams,
light rail and monorails have to follow the current road layout.
I thought all this web enabled kitchen appliances, curtains and pet dogs had joined the
1950s jetson style flying cars and the 1970s Honeywell Kitchen Computer in the Hall of
Really Stupid Ideas By Geeks Who Don't Get Out Enough? Guess I was wrong.
"Stable" has a rather fluid definition when applied to the 2.4 series. If you want real
stability stick to 2.2 , forget about 2.4 (its a lemon IMO) and wait for 2.6 to arrive.
Why? Because people can use intuition when looking at a CCTV screen. All a machine can do
is spot patterns. If a criminal can learn these patterns he can avoid making them and even have
a friend somewhere else deliberalty MAKING those patterns to draw the attention of the CCTV operator
elsewhere. People assume criminals are stupid.
They're not.
I don't know if this is pure co-incidence but I have a dual boot PC with linux and freeBSD (which
OS X is based on) both running Xfree86 3 . FreeBSD
is noticably slower running X than linux. Perhaps
the microkernel architecture of *BSD systems and Darwin causes this slowdown of the graphics subsystem?
Sorry , meant going to there. If he gets spam or ping flooded , well I'm sure there could be exemptions for ICMP packets and if he's simply
downloading off a POP3 or IMAP server owned by the ISP then they could do some cross checking.
It doesn't matter , if it comes from his IP address then hes using bandwith. I meant doing this on total bandwidth usage , not on TYPE of
usage.
Surely it wouldn't be too difficult to install some software on the routers that will start reducing the bandwidth a given IP (customer) can
use depending on how much they've downloaded in the last few minutes/hours. Perhaps a gradual decrease of their bandwith in a linear way over
the space of say a day down to a minimum level would be an idea. And if they simply disconnect and and get a new IP vis DHCP or whatever , well
I'm sure the ISP could keep a list of phones numbers people are connecting from (and insist on
no anonymous calls if NZ telecom has those).
Just my tuppence worth.