This was used to make some of the very best games ever made on multiple platforms. I'm sorry to see it get snapped up by the Borg of silicon. Although I'm probably not nearly as sorry as the companies who currently have games in production using Havok. Games that used Havok http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_using_physics_engines#Games_using_Havok
Googling "PassTheHash toolkit" brings up 1 hit. I didn't even know that was possible with Google. I've gotten zero hits, but one hit? Anyway it's Pass-The-Hash Toolkit. Gotta include those dashes.:-)
Way to ruin the Nano Apple. It was in no way a good idea to bloat the Nano so we could have video on it. Honestly, most of us simply don't want to watch video on a 2" screen. We wanted a cheaper Nano with more memory.
Nice job on the other ipods though. Hacked Ipodtouch + Skype = Goodness? Boy would that put a stick in Apple's craw.
Best comment heard so far regarding the Nano: "Does it do the truffle shuffle?"
Not sure if it is related but RyanVM and his addons can no longer be downloaded from his site. You can find the latest pack RVMUpdatePack2.1.11.7z elsewhere though. Last packs MD5 was 2A1534598304646757CFE6D8C6F0F221
Especially for people who bought the game and then couldn't activate it. I can't wait until a year from now when 2k is out of business and users can no longer play the game they purchased.
Must everything digital now come with an expiration date?
Punish your users and they'll go away, or more likely warez it. This is going to be one of those games where most people run the cracked version to simply not have to deal with 2k game's bullshit DRM. Gotta love being stuck between the Securerom people and the Bioshock people both blaming each other while the users are stuck in the middle sans $50. Fu 2kgames.
And that money would go to other projects and NOT Mozilla right? Because Mozilla is rolling in dough and bringing in something like $50 million+ a year. As far as I'm concerned I wouldn't use a Firefox card unless it was guaranteed that the money went to deserving projects that actually needed the money.
"Let Linux users pay the amount it takes to support Linux"
But your pulling numbers out of your butt with regards to how much it really would cost to support linux users. It is not likely that it is 92% harder or more expensive to port it to linux. If the entire project took 365 days to code and only 14 of them to port to linux part what then? How about the idea that Windows users would be responsible for say 92% of the bandwith costs to run the back end and linux only represented 2% of the costs, etc.
Who continue to sell Vista without informing consumers that their computers won't be able to play all of that HD content that the OEMs continue to flout as the reason why they need new a shiny new Vista system now!
Every single computer and Monitor sold today that doesn't fully support all of that bullshit HD DRM should have a big warning on it saying "WARNING THIS PRODUCT IS OBSOLETE AND WILL BE UNABLE PREMIUM HD CONTENT!". Yep that Vista turned out to be a real boon for multimedia enthusiasts. Trojan horse is more like it.
Nvidia's drivers have turned to crap, especially for Vista. Their 8800 series is still full of bugs(alt-tab in and out of games much?) and they almost had a class action lawsuit because of their deceptive marketing. Talk about a botched launch... They've gone from having the best set of unified graphics drivers available to a company who many users feel can't be trusted to support the hardware they are selling. I've pimped Nvidia for years as the gpus to buy because of their former solid drivers, now ATI/AMD is many accounts a better choice for Vista users and stabiilty.
Both companies trade places for who has the best gpu or driver for any given time period and right now Nvidia is just not cutting it.
PS if you want to use Linux but your a gamer dual-boot or buy a console. Complaining about ATI's linux drivers is problem #4,239 for why Linux doesn't make a great desktop for most people, don't expect that to change anytime soon.
Your ignoring the big performance hit and high hardware requirements for Vista. Granted 2k is slightly faster than XP on the same hardware but unlike Vista you don't need to make such a quantum leap in order to get XP to run as quickly as 2000.
Also XP brought us things like a built-in firewall, clear type, remote desktop, 64bit support, etc.
It also brought some unwelcome things like product activation and DRM, but on the whole it is widely agreed that XP is a respectable upgrade over 2000. This is where your argument pretty much falls apart, it is not widely agreed that Vista is a worthwhile upgrade over XP, in fact it is quite the opposite. So your statement that "But XP, in its current state, has no selling point." isn't really true. If it had no selling point then why are people still clamoring for XP and why are we seeing vendors who had moved to Vista had to cave in to the huge demand to bring XP back?
That simply did not happen on such a large scale with XP. I remember the XP haters(I was probably one of them) and the complaints about speed when XP first came out but they pail in comparison to the revolt I'm seeing against Vista. IMHO this is new and different then any other MS transition to date. Or maybe I should just say this is the worst Microsoft OS transition to date and when you look at what happened internally during Vista's development cycle nobody should be surprised at the outcome.
Your right that in 200x when Windows 7 comes out that these same old arguments will crop up, but unless MS pulls a rabbit out of their asses with Vista SP1 your going to see a huge amount of users sticking with XP until Windows 7 comes out.
Just get over that fantasy already. At the bare minimum Patents and DRM guarantee that in the long run Linux will never function as a drop-in replacement for Windows or OS X for Joe User. Certain font settings can't be turned on by default, most audio/video codecs are patented and designed for Windows/OS X use, hardware vendors want to keep their secrets and still don't care about providing drivers for Linux, and worst of all Windows and OS X work well enough to make justifying the move to Linux a difficult proposition. Personally I'm OK with all of this, I just wish people would stop beating this dead horse.
You mean you actually talked to someone in tech support who not only knew what a packet was but also looked up what was happening on their end at a technical level? How many drones did you have to speak to telling you to A)reboot or B)reinstall your machine? Did you use chicken blood or ox blood to perform this magic?
The DX10 out now are crap and a year from now won't be able to play any of the demanding DX10 games coming out. If your looking for a cheap but very fast card I recommend the X1950Pro http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8 2E16814102061 $112 after rebate including shipping. This will last you while without putting a huge hole in your pocket, plus if you end up running Vista at least the performance won't totally suck like it does if you try to use an Nvidia cards under Vista.
Gotta love how they ignore DPI settings etc. I can't even see the menu on my 1400x1050 laptop because it's some special hardcoded gui. Oh and I'll keep harping on the lack of middle-click autoscrolling and middle click to close tabs until Apple gets its butt in gear and fixes these omissions.
Without middle-click scrolling, Safari is a no show on Windows. That's like leaving out the close button or address bar. Missing autoscroll + missing middle-click to close tabs = Broken by any sane and fair measurement. Do not pass go, go back to web browser school, bye-bye.
Oh, and for the record I was very much looking forward to this. What a disappointment.
Is someone there making 5 million a year? Which devs get paid and how much? $50 million is a lot of money to spread around when you have only ~40 employees( per mozilla.org site announcing reorg from 2005). Are you more or less inclined to work hard on a project that is making that much money from your contributions?
These same questions have been around for quite a while but it's still fun to revisit them. While I don't think that the money will stop people from contributing their time, I do think they have a snow ball's chance in hell of ever asking for money again to do another NY Times ad.
People like Vista because A) it's new, shiny, and different B) they wasted a crap load of money on the "Ultimate" edition or C) they are foolish enough to believe it is an upgrade over XP. In some ways it is actually an upgrade over XP, in many many others ways right now it is a big step backwards. Face it, people are going to use it no matter how bad it is.
Whenever you mouse over it, or anything basically happens with it your cpu gets spiked. I'd be interested in seeing if disabling the sidebar helps with battery life. Someone should also compare if certain widgets are causing problems.
In my experience unless you have a cutting edge card you should be able to find a driver that works OK in XP, although there are obivously exceptions. But on Vista....well let's just say Nvidia fell down and bumped its head 6 months ago and never got up. The Vista drivers are garbage and it took outright revolt to even get them to admit there was a serious problem. If you upgrade to Vista be prepared to see a massive framerate loss on some of your favorites titles. If you insist on upgrading make dam sure your game is playable on Vista. If I was Microsoft I'd be extremely pissed by now regarding how badly Nvidia is botching their drivers. For the first time since my Voodoo days I will probably be buying a non-Nvidia card.
The data recovery services I've worked with , Ontrack etc, can respond same day. If you can wait a few days, days not weeks, you will probably only get nicked ~$2,000. Unless the drive is physically damaged the entire process would be trivial for a company of any means.
I'm sure your right about the deadlines being a huge problem if you miss them, but unless its just literally about to print in most situations a recovery service should be able to help you out.
Nope, that's way off what the average PC costs to run.
He does have a point thought about using lower power modes. On newer PCs it seems to work well and it will save you bucks if you have several PCs in your house.
How about needing >1GB to basically do nothing but sit there? How about it being on average 10-30% slower than XP on the same hardware? Some of that will improve over time, some of that won't.
We all accept that new OS=you need to upgrade your system. It's not that Vista is so slow on fast hardware, it is btw, its that it is so slow while offering so little above XP. Sadly there just isn't any payoff for even having hardware that is fast enough to make Vista perform as well as XP. Here's to hoping SP1 is one hell of a service pack...
I shouldn't constantly be staring at the stupid green bar at the top of Explorer waiting for Vista to finish displaying the files in a directory. I love it when some of the photos never get thumbnails. Explorer in Xp for all of its warts is noticeably faster at displaying directories and copying data around.
You just know there is some insane DRM checker running 50,000 a second to check to make sure that your actually allowed to view you own files.
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This was used to make some of the very best games ever made on multiple platforms. I'm sorry to see it get snapped up by the Borg of silicon. Although I'm probably not nearly as sorry as the companies who currently have games in production using Havok. Games that used Havok http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_using_physics_engines#Games_using_Havok
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Googling "PassTheHash toolkit" brings up 1 hit. I didn't even know that was possible with Google. I've gotten zero hits, but one hit? Anyway it's Pass-The-Hash Toolkit. Gotta include those dashes.
Way to ruin the Nano Apple. It was in no way a good idea to bloat the Nano so we could have video on it. Honestly, most of us simply don't want to watch video on a 2" screen. We wanted a cheaper Nano with more memory.
Nice job on the other ipods though. Hacked Ipodtouch + Skype = Goodness? Boy would that put a stick in Apple's craw.
Best comment heard so far regarding the Nano: "Does it do the truffle shuffle?"
Not sure if it is related but RyanVM and his addons can no longer be downloaded from his site. You can find the latest pack RVMUpdatePack2.1.11.7z elsewhere though. Last packs MD5 was 2A1534598304646757CFE6D8C6F0F221
Especially for people who bought the game and then couldn't activate it. I can't wait until a year from now when 2k is out of business and users can no longer play the game they purchased.
Must everything digital now come with an expiration date?
Punish your users and they'll go away, or more likely warez it. This is going to be one of those games where most people run the cracked version to simply not have to deal with 2k game's bullshit DRM. Gotta love being stuck between the Securerom people and the Bioshock people both blaming each other while the users are stuck in the middle sans $50. Fu 2kgames.
And that money would go to other projects and NOT Mozilla right? Because Mozilla is rolling in dough and bringing in something like $50 million+ a year. As far as I'm concerned I wouldn't use a Firefox card unless it was guaranteed that the money went to deserving projects that actually needed the money.
"Let Linux users pay the amount it takes to support Linux"
But your pulling numbers out of your butt with regards to how much it really would cost to support linux users. It is not likely that it is 92% harder or more expensive to port it to linux. If the entire project took 365 days to code and only 14 of them to port to linux part what then? How about the idea that Windows users would be responsible for say 92% of the bandwith costs to run the back end and linux only represented 2% of the costs, etc.
Who continue to sell Vista without informing consumers that their computers won't be able to play all of that HD content that the OEMs continue to flout as the reason why they need new a shiny new Vista system now!
Every single computer and Monitor sold today that doesn't fully support all of that bullshit HD DRM should have a big warning on it saying "WARNING THIS PRODUCT IS OBSOLETE AND WILL BE UNABLE PREMIUM HD CONTENT!". Yep that Vista turned out to be a real boon for multimedia enthusiasts. Trojan horse is more like it.
Nvidia's drivers have turned to crap, especially for Vista. Their 8800 series is still full of bugs(alt-tab in and out of games much?) and they almost had a class action lawsuit because of their deceptive marketing. Talk about a botched launch... They've gone from having the best set of unified graphics drivers available to a company who many users feel can't be trusted to support the hardware they are selling. I've pimped Nvidia for years as the gpus to buy because of their former solid drivers, now ATI/AMD is many accounts a better choice for Vista users and stabiilty.
Both companies trade places for who has the best gpu or driver for any given time period and right now Nvidia is just not cutting it.
PS if you want to use Linux but your a gamer dual-boot or buy a console. Complaining about ATI's linux drivers is problem #4,239 for why Linux doesn't make a great desktop for most people, don't expect that to change anytime soon.
Your ignoring the big performance hit and high hardware requirements for Vista. Granted 2k is slightly faster than XP on the same hardware but unlike Vista you don't need to make such a quantum leap in order to get XP to run as quickly as 2000.
Also XP brought us things like a built-in firewall, clear type, remote desktop, 64bit support, etc.
It also brought some unwelcome things like product activation and DRM, but on the whole it is widely agreed that XP is a respectable upgrade over 2000. This is where your argument pretty much falls apart, it is not widely agreed that Vista is a worthwhile upgrade over XP, in fact it is quite the opposite. So your statement that "But XP, in its current state, has no selling point." isn't really true. If it had no selling point then why are people still clamoring for XP and why are we seeing vendors who had moved to Vista had to cave in to the huge demand to bring XP back?
That simply did not happen on such a large scale with XP. I remember the XP haters(I was probably one of them) and the complaints about speed when XP first came out but they pail in comparison to the revolt I'm seeing against Vista. IMHO this is new and different then any other MS transition to date. Or maybe I should just say this is the worst Microsoft OS transition to date and when you look at what happened internally during Vista's development cycle nobody should be surprised at the outcome.
Your right that in 200x when Windows 7 comes out that these same old arguments will crop up, but unless MS pulls a rabbit out of their asses with Vista SP1 your going to see a huge amount of users sticking with XP until Windows 7 comes out.
Just get over that fantasy already. At the bare minimum Patents and DRM guarantee that in the long run Linux will never function as a drop-in replacement for Windows or OS X for Joe User. Certain font settings can't be turned on by default, most audio/video codecs are patented and designed for Windows/OS X use, hardware vendors want to keep their secrets and still don't care about providing drivers for Linux, and worst of all Windows and OS X work well enough to make justifying the move to Linux a difficult proposition. Personally I'm OK with all of this, I just wish people would stop beating this dead horse.
You mean you actually talked to someone in tech support who not only knew what a packet was but also looked up what was happening on their end at a technical level? How many drones did you have to speak to telling you to A)reboot or B)reinstall your machine? Did you use chicken blood or ox blood to perform this magic?
The DX10 out now are crap and a year from now won't be able to play any of the demanding DX10 games coming out. If your looking for a cheap but very fast card I recommend the X1950Pro http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8 2E16814102061 $112 after rebate including shipping. This will last you while without putting a huge hole in your pocket, plus if you end up running Vista at least the performance won't totally suck like it does if you try to use an Nvidia cards under Vista.
Gotta love how they ignore DPI settings etc. I can't even see the menu on my 1400x1050 laptop because it's some special hardcoded gui. Oh and I'll keep harping on the lack of middle-click autoscrolling and middle click to close tabs until Apple gets its butt in gear and fixes these omissions.
Without middle-click scrolling, Safari is a no show on Windows. That's like leaving out the close button or address bar. Missing autoscroll + missing middle-click to close tabs = Broken by any sane and fair measurement. Do not pass go, go back to web browser school, bye-bye.
Oh, and for the record I was very much looking forward to this. What a disappointment.
Is someone there making 5 million a year? Which devs get paid and how much? $50 million is a lot of money to spread around when you have only ~40 employees( per mozilla.org site announcing reorg from 2005). Are you more or less inclined to work hard on a project that is making that much money from your contributions?
These same questions have been around for quite a while but it's still fun to revisit them. While I don't think that the money will stop people from contributing their time, I do think they have a snow ball's chance in hell of ever asking for money again to do another NY Times ad.
I've been hearing this for a decade now. Frankly I'm much more impressed with kerio Mail Server.
People like Vista because A) it's new, shiny, and different B) they wasted a crap load of money on the "Ultimate" edition or C) they are foolish enough to believe it is an upgrade over XP. In some ways it is actually an upgrade over XP, in many many others ways right now it is a big step backwards. Face it, people are going to use it no matter how bad it is.
Whenever you mouse over it, or anything basically happens with it your cpu gets spiked. I'd be interested in seeing if disabling the sidebar helps with battery life. Someone should also compare if certain widgets are causing problems.
In my experience unless you have a cutting edge card you should be able to find a driver that works OK in XP, although there are obivously exceptions. But on Vista....well let's just say Nvidia fell down and bumped its head 6 months ago and never got up. The Vista drivers are garbage and it took outright revolt to even get them to admit there was a serious problem. If you upgrade to Vista be prepared to see a massive framerate loss on some of your favorites titles. If you insist on upgrading make dam sure your game is playable on Vista. If I was Microsoft I'd be extremely pissed by now regarding how badly Nvidia is botching their drivers. For the first time since my Voodoo days I will probably be buying a non-Nvidia card.
The data recovery services I've worked with , Ontrack etc, can respond same day. If you can wait a few days, days not weeks, you will probably only get nicked ~$2,000. Unless the drive is physically damaged the entire process would be trivial for a company of any means.
I'm sure your right about the deadlines being a huge problem if you miss them, but unless its just literally about to print in most situations a recovery service should be able to help you out.
"If we take just a reasonable estimate that a computer uses 400 Watts idling along, we can find some astounding figures."
That doesn't sound very reasonable to me.
".4 kW (400watts) * 720 Hours * $0.12kW/h = $34.56"
Nope, that's way off what the average PC costs to run.
He does have a point thought about using lower power modes. On newer PCs it seems to work well and it will save you bucks if you have several PCs in your house.
It's a great program and hats off to the company for offering it for free.
"What do you mean by resource intensive?"
How about needing >1GB to basically do nothing but sit there? How about it being on average 10-30% slower than XP on the same hardware? Some of that will improve over time, some of that won't.
We all accept that new OS=you need to upgrade your system. It's not that Vista is so slow on fast hardware, it is btw, its that it is so slow while offering so little above XP. Sadly there just isn't any payoff for even having hardware that is fast enough to make Vista perform as well as XP. Here's to hoping SP1 is one hell of a service pack...
I shouldn't constantly be staring at the stupid green bar at the top of Explorer waiting for Vista to finish displaying the files in a directory. I love it when some of the photos never get thumbnails. Explorer in Xp for all of its warts is noticeably faster at displaying directories and copying data around.
You just know there is some insane DRM checker running 50,000 a second to check to make sure that your actually allowed to view you own files.