Why is this a bad move? Think of how many grade school students use Yahoo. Now think of how most elementary schools and some parents use "Internet filtering software" to block "offensive content." Yahoo uses banner ads to collect revenue as well, obviously. They may lose more money than they make. The press has hyped this way up, too, so a few misinformed parents might forbid their kids from using Yahoo anyway. And a few, in reality, is quite a lot when you look at the population of the Internet that visits Yahoo.
Another thing: How about these "kids credit cards" that are going around lately, where the parents put money in them and they work just like a regular Visa/MasterCard/etc.? Is Yahoo's credit card authentication system going to be able to tell these "underage" cards from normal credit cards? And since there'll be no log for the parents since there wasn't a transaction...
... The Linux-compatible Tribes 2 engine is being sold, source and all, for $100 by GarageGames. They're all ex-Sierra/Dynamix employees with a license.
You do, however, have to publish your game through GG...
Before you mod me down, let me explain. As a triber, I enjoyed many things about Tribes. You didn't have to have the fastest machine in the world (133 mhz would do) to run it, it was fast-paced and very fun, and really stable.
Now we get Tribes 2, after a three year wait. I bought the game for $49.95 from a local store, brought it home, and installed it on my Win2k gaming machine (it's nothing too great, but it plays Q3, Tribes, and various other games really well.)
The installation process goes fairly well, no big problems. It is a huge game, though, taking 550MB of space (standard install).
I start the game. Three required patches available (keep in mind, this is the same night the game was released!) I downloaded the patches and attempted to apply them, only to get a few errors regarding the files being invalid.
To make a long story short, Dynamix shipped a bad disc. I was lucky enough to get it. I went back out and found another copy of Tribes 2 at another store. Came back, uninstalled the previous copy, and installed from the new disc.
Started Tribes 2 and reapplied the three patches. They applied this time around. Tribes 2 launches and crashes, yet again. I used a fix described at TribalWar in order to switch from OpenGL to Direct3D without entering the game. Restarted the game -- wow, I was in!
Now it wanted my CD key. Tribes 2 uses an authentication system (Windows XP/Office XP, anyone?) in order to create an account for you to play with other people via the Internet. I input my CD key.
"CD key rejected. Your key is already in use."
Uuuuuuuuugh! I reinstalled Tribes 2 and reapplied the patches. Woah, it accepts the CD key. I went ahead and created my account. There are plenty of servers, many with a great ping. I joined a CTF game, to be greeted by none other than a GPF.
I restarted Tribes 2. Re-entered the game. No GPF this time. Woohoo! I was about to play the most anticipated game of 2001! I join the game, OoO, 40 fps and it looks great.
I step outside (spawned inside) and my framerate drops to 7fps. This is with everything turned down at 640x480 on a 550 mhz PIII and a Voodoo3 (yes, I know, getting old, but it's way above T2's system requirements stated on the box, which are a 350mhz PII.)
Needless to say, I switched back to Tribes, which many people seem to be doing. That disc didn't earn its permanent slot in my CD-ROM.
I decided to read Sierra's message boards, where there was a thread about poor performance. You know what the developer's response was to us 3dfx owners? "Get a newer computer!" And they claim to support 3dfx chipsets from the V2 up.
Dynamix has taken everything that was great about T1 and thrown it down the drain. You have to have the fastest machine and expect slower gameplay.
To sum it up:
- This game is very buggy, plays like a beta
- Very unstable, crashes all the time
- Graphics are poor unless you've got a 1.2ghz Athlon and a GeForce 2, even then it's jumpy
Dynamix was aiming to please people like IGN and Daily Radar, not the common gamer. Definitely not recommended. Many long-time Tribers feel the same as I do.
That should tell you something right there. I think they mean RedHat 6.0 with kernel 2.0.34 installed?
The Cobalt Linux implementation is as secure as any commercial Unix implementation on the market today. Linux was developed with publicly reviewable source code, and as such, has been subjected to a tremendous amount of security testing. In our opinion, as a provider of internet services, our server is more secure and stable than Microsoft Windows NT.
Sure it was, four or five months ago. Things change.
An individual with enough computing power and 'hacking' expertise could crack a password and gain access to the system. Such an individual, in order to crack the password, would also need direct access to the network that the RAQ administrator uses to access the RAQ. Once again, this feature is inherent to nearly all Unix systems.
But, uh, if the machine is relatively secure, how exactly is the attacker going to get to/etc/shadow?
The RAQ II server uses Sendmail 8.8.8.
Errrrrgh...
I think what you've got is an ISP that will start you off with a server that was secure a few months ago (or currently, raise your hand if you think they check). They leave you responsible for hardening it and most likely give no support whatsoever... Well, at least not free support. A lot of co-location companies are doing that.
I hate to plug, but if you're looking for another dedicated provider, I would try Rackspace. They start you off with a pretty secure server with all the latest packages and will apply a patch for you, help you, or do any work of that type for free.
But, here are a few sites that will help you get familiar with Linux security:
... Mr. Katz has brought up a decent point. Stay at it.
I agree that videogames are not to blame for our society's decay. Parents, as corny as this sounds, just aren't making sure their kids know right from wrong. And I'm not talking about the shooters, I'm talking about the bullies.
While preventing bullying altogether is virtually impossible, a lot of times, I'd bet, you can prevent some bullying...
Videogames are just the politician's and society's scapegoat. People have their heads buried so far in the sand...
Some parents actually sit with their kids and watch TV. They could enable the V-CHIP to allow the kid the maximum control while making sure they didn't stumble onto anything inappropriate. It doesn't mean they're lazy.
And the V-CHIP isn't censorship. At least, I don't consider keeping a five year old from watching a sex channel censorship.
And I hope you all don't, either. It isn't as though the V-CHIP is telling us what we can or can't watch. It's only letting the owner of the device use it as they wish.
Yes, that's right. Where are the parents? How do these teens get all of the stuff needed to carry out a school shooting? How do they sneak a gun to school? How do the parents not know something's up when their kid spends hours locked in their room and barely talks to anyone? (Yes, the obvious response will be that the kid acts happy, keeps it to themselves, and sneaks a small gun into school. But, wouldn't a caring, good parent know when their kid is hiding something?)
Of course, video games are an easy excuse. Well, I say oxygen causes school shootings. Yes, that's right. Let's outlaw oxygen. I mean, obviously, poor parenting has nothing to do with these school shootings. Only these evil VIDEO GAMES.
Okay, rant off.
You know, most parents, if paying attention to their kids, should know something is wrong with their children. Video games are being used as an excuse because we just don't want to admit our faults. They're easy to use as an excuse. I don't think playing Tribes would cause me to want to go out and shoot a bunch of people.
Point: The parents need to pay attention to their kids. And the politicians need to stop blaming everything bad on video games in order to get their votes.
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Looks like another reason to use djbdns, which has a $500 security guarantee and is supposedly a lot more efficient than BIND.
I've used GAIM a little -- it's a lot better than this piece of junk they're trying to get Linux users to use.
They should embrace GAIM -- and possibly even work together with the developers to make their own software better. Easier for them, better for the users.
They should embrace Jabber -- they own ICQ and AIM, why not put out a melding of ICQ and AIM based on Jabber? I mean, it is open source. Again, easier for them, better for the users.
But the above will never happen. We are talking about AOL. Instant messaging has been around as "MSG" since the IRC days, or even the "write" or "talk" commands on *nix. AOL is simply losing the best selling point of its service -- "instant messaging." This makes them angry.
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Bad move, Yahoo.
Why is this a bad move? Think of how many grade school students use Yahoo. Now think of how most elementary schools and some parents use "Internet filtering software" to block "offensive content." Yahoo uses banner ads to collect revenue as well, obviously. They may lose more money than they make. The press has hyped this way up, too, so a few misinformed parents might forbid their kids from using Yahoo anyway. And a few, in reality, is quite a lot when you look at the population of the Internet that visits Yahoo.
Another thing: How about these "kids credit cards" that are going around lately, where the parents put money in them and they work just like a regular Visa/MasterCard/etc.? Is Yahoo's credit card authentication system going to be able to tell these "underage" cards from normal credit cards? And since there'll be no log for the parents since there wasn't a transaction...
Bad Yahoo, bad!
... The Linux-compatible Tribes 2 engine is being sold, source and all, for $100 by GarageGames. They're all ex-Sierra/Dynamix employees with a license.
You do, however, have to publish your game through GG...
Before you mod me down, let me explain. As a triber, I enjoyed many things about Tribes. You didn't have to have the fastest machine in the world (133 mhz would do) to run it, it was fast-paced and very fun, and really stable.
Now we get Tribes 2, after a three year wait. I bought the game for $49.95 from a local store, brought it home, and installed it on my Win2k gaming machine (it's nothing too great, but it plays Q3, Tribes, and various other games really well.)
The installation process goes fairly well, no big problems. It is a huge game, though, taking 550MB of space (standard install).
I start the game. Three required patches available (keep in mind, this is the same night the game was released!) I downloaded the patches and attempted to apply them, only to get a few errors regarding the files being invalid.
To make a long story short, Dynamix shipped a bad disc. I was lucky enough to get it. I went back out and found another copy of Tribes 2 at another store. Came back, uninstalled the previous copy, and installed from the new disc.
Started Tribes 2 and reapplied the three patches. They applied this time around. Tribes 2 launches and crashes, yet again. I used a fix described at TribalWar in order to switch from OpenGL to Direct3D without entering the game. Restarted the game -- wow, I was in!
Now it wanted my CD key. Tribes 2 uses an authentication system (Windows XP/Office XP, anyone?) in order to create an account for you to play with other people via the Internet. I input my CD key.
"CD key rejected. Your key is already in use."
Uuuuuuuuugh! I reinstalled Tribes 2 and reapplied the patches. Woah, it accepts the CD key. I went ahead and created my account. There are plenty of servers, many with a great ping. I joined a CTF game, to be greeted by none other than a GPF.
I restarted Tribes 2. Re-entered the game. No GPF this time. Woohoo! I was about to play the most anticipated game of 2001! I join the game, OoO, 40 fps and it looks great.
I step outside (spawned inside) and my framerate drops to 7fps. This is with everything turned down at 640x480 on a 550 mhz PIII and a Voodoo3 (yes, I know, getting old, but it's way above T2's system requirements stated on the box, which are a 350mhz PII.)
Needless to say, I switched back to Tribes, which many people seem to be doing. That disc didn't earn its permanent slot in my CD-ROM.
I decided to read Sierra's message boards, where there was a thread about poor performance. You know what the developer's response was to us 3dfx owners? "Get a newer computer!" And they claim to support 3dfx chipsets from the V2 up.
Dynamix has taken everything that was great about T1 and thrown it down the drain. You have to have the fastest machine and expect slower gameplay.
To sum it up:
Dynamix was aiming to please people like IGN and Daily Radar, not the common gamer. Definitely not recommended. Many long-time Tribers feel the same as I do.
You know MS, they'll leave the Clippy code in Office XP so they can revive him at any time and bloat the software even more.
That should tell you something right there. I think they mean RedHat 6.0 with kernel 2.0.34 installed?
The Cobalt Linux implementation is as secure as any commercial Unix implementation on the market today. Linux was developed with publicly reviewable source code, and as such, has been subjected to a tremendous amount of security testing. In our opinion, as a provider of internet services, our server is more secure and stable than Microsoft Windows NT.
Sure it was, four or five months ago. Things change.
An individual with enough computing power and 'hacking' expertise could crack a password and gain access to the system. Such an individual, in order to crack the password, would also need direct access to the network that the RAQ administrator uses to access the RAQ. Once again, this feature is inherent to nearly all Unix systems.
But, uh, if the machine is relatively secure, how exactly is the attacker going to get to
The RAQ II server uses Sendmail 8.8.8.
Errrrrgh...
I think what you've got is an ISP that will start you off with a server that was secure a few months ago (or currently, raise your hand if you think they check). They leave you responsible for hardening it and most likely give no support whatsoever... Well, at least not free support. A lot of co-location companies are doing that.
I hate to plug, but if you're looking for another dedicated provider, I would try Rackspace. They start you off with a pretty secure server with all the latest packages and will apply a patch for you, help you, or do any work of that type for free.
But, here are a few sites that will help you get familiar with Linux security:
Hope this helps...
I'm wondering what SGI thinks is wrong with (censored by SGI). Why are they trying to shut down (censored by SGI)IL?
SGI would never censor the word (censored by SGI!)
(note: the above post about (Censored by SGI) was a joke.)
At the current growth and development rate of the Internet, who's to say we'll even be using TLDs like these anymore?
In 2006 this may not even matter...
Actually, I own my copy of Windows 2000 Pro. Purchased it retail and downloaded the IE6 beta, with authorization, from MS's site.
:)
Have a great day.
Time to become a FreeBSD zealot, I guess.
They'd run their own OS, but they're hosted by sunsite.
They don't have the bandwidth to host a site like openbsd.org, so they're smart enough not to try.
... a real Good Times Outlook Express-based virus. And it would spread fairly fast now that everyone thinks it's a hoax... :/
I guess they aren't supporting the 6.0 beta. I see no patches for it. It'd be nice if they told us if it was affected or not...
Thanks for leaving your beta-ers out in the cold, MS.
There was a shooting at a Roman Catholic school in Pennsylvania.
... Mr. Katz has brought up a decent point. Stay at it.
I agree that videogames are not to blame for our society's decay. Parents, as corny as this sounds, just aren't making sure their kids know right from wrong. And I'm not talking about the shooters, I'm talking about the bullies.
While preventing bullying altogether is virtually impossible, a lot of times, I'd bet, you can prevent some bullying...
Videogames are just the politician's and society's scapegoat. People have their heads buried so far in the sand...
It only takes one successful copy to spread throughout the entire Internet via file-sharing utilities... :)
It won't matter if the CD is copyable anymore.
"Wide Open" reported it, not RedHat. That's a news grabber.
The quote that I was gonna include at the top:
"This is a boon to lazy parents everywhere"...
Sorry about that!
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Some parents actually sit with their kids and watch TV. They could enable the V-CHIP to allow the kid the maximum control while making sure they didn't stumble onto anything inappropriate. It doesn't mean they're lazy.
And the V-CHIP isn't censorship. At least, I don't consider keeping a five year old from watching a sex channel censorship.
And I hope you all don't, either. It isn't as though the V-CHIP is telling us what we can or can't watch. It's only letting the owner of the device use it as they wish.
Regarding the Ashcroft thing...
Where are the parents?
Yes, that's right. Where are the parents? How do these teens get all of the stuff needed to carry out a school shooting? How do they sneak a gun to school? How do the parents not know something's up when their kid spends hours locked in their room and barely talks to anyone? (Yes, the obvious response will be that the kid acts happy, keeps it to themselves, and sneaks a small gun into school. But, wouldn't a caring, good parent know when their kid is hiding something?)
Of course, video games are an easy excuse. Well, I say oxygen causes school shootings. Yes, that's right. Let's outlaw oxygen. I mean, obviously, poor parenting has nothing to do with these school shootings. Only these evil VIDEO GAMES.
Okay, rant off.
You know, most parents, if paying attention to their kids, should know something is wrong with their children. Video games are being used as an excuse because we just don't want to admit our faults. They're easy to use as an excuse. I don't think playing Tribes would cause me to want to go out and shoot a bunch of people.
Point: The parents need to pay attention to their kids. And the politicians need to stop blaming everything bad on video games in order to get their votes.
Looks like another reason to use djbdns, which has a $500 security guarantee and is supposedly a lot more efficient than BIND.
For RedHat users, here's how to apply the fixes:
Download the appropriate RPMs to fix BIND.
At a shell, as root, type rpm -Ui package -- package of course being the name of the RPM.
I've used GAIM a little -- it's a lot better than this piece of junk they're trying to get Linux users to use.
They should embrace GAIM -- and possibly even work together with the developers to make their own software better. Easier for them, better for the users.
They should embrace Jabber -- they own ICQ and AIM, why not put out a melding of ICQ and AIM based on Jabber? I mean, it is open source. Again, easier for them, better for the users.
But the above will never happen. We are talking about AOL. Instant messaging has been around as "MSG" since the IRC days, or even the "write" or "talk" commands on *nix. AOL is simply losing the best selling point of its service -- "instant messaging." This makes them angry.
They're monitoring our instant messages?
Aren't these supposed to be (well, sort of) private?
I know that it's definitely possible, as almost all instant messages (the ones that aren't sent via a direct connection) pass through the AOL servers.
I'm not sure, but wouldn't this be in violation of a law or two?
Batteries in the GBA are said to last for twelve hours.
Because the GameCube uses a specialized 1.5 gb "GCN-ROM" disc that are basically unreadable in any other type of drive. :)
Specs on the GameCube are available here.
... Shouldn't computers containing stuff that shouldn't be seen not be networked in the first place?