M$-ified USB? Geez, MS has suddenly stooped to taking existing accepted standards and 'enhancing' them, thus turning an open standard into a proprietar...er...nevermind.
Not that I think it will be a serious issue, especially if the design change is simply in the shape of the hardware, but even if there is a software change it shouldn't matter too much. I have a device that lets me use a PS/2 keyboard (in addition to PSX or Saturn controllers) on the DC (and a new device allows for PS/2 mice on the DC as well), so I don't think that it will be too long before similar devices appear for X-box.
Slightly OT: EA/Bullfrog doesn't seem to think that a FPS needs a keyboard/mouse setup -- look at Q3R for PS2. On second thought, don't look.
From what I've heard the input devices are all USB(which sets off my Irony Meter(tm) for some reason), so chances are it'll accept most any USB keyboard or mouse.
AFAIK, both NetBSD and Linux were ported to the DC. I think that the NetBSD port is better maintained, but I've not kept up with either very much. I just play games on mine.
I'm using a PII233 that I'm upgrading to 400 soon, so I can use it as a game server as well (local games only, of course, I'd *NEVER* run a public server through my cable connection). Of course I've secured it with a strong ipchains ruleset based on TrinityOS (which I'll replace with iptables once I figure it out)
I never mentioned it to the cable guy, but someone had to come and look at the lines when our signal got weak and he didn't say anything about the modem going into a small and akwardly-set up PC in a room with three desktop machines and lots of cat 5 strewn about the room. IIRC @Home's user agreements prohibit the use of IP sharing programs like WinGate if they can detect it running -- which seems appropriate enough to me, because if they can detect it then you've set it up improperly and your machine is a security breach waiting to happpen.
So Congress should be looking into regulating open source?
Do you really want them to waste taxpayer dollars on such a such a monumentally stupid inquiry that would accomplish nothing at best and at worst would seriously limit consumer choice and freedom?
Wait...how would that be any different than what they normally do?
Anyway, Microsoft has no room to speak wrt stifling 'innovation', and they won't until they come out with a product that is actually innovative and not a rip-off of an OS or design that predates their stuff by several years.
Or you could just look at what was in the original/. article: "The head of Celera was "astonished" to learn of this grad student's genius -- ten thousand lines of C in a month, and why?"
Er, actually, quoting from the/. commentary:
"The head of Celera was "astonished" to learn of this grad student's genius -- ten thousand lines of C in a month, and why?"
So it looks like it was done in C, which is slightly different than assembly.
And any errors in the code have nothing to do with the fact that I've not coded in C in over a year. It's uh...part of the encryption:) And don't try to put that code into the DNA sequence of a bacteria -- I've already patented the idea in a partnership with Amazon and Altavista (for search indexing of DNA)
So does this mean that the US government is going to attempt to put restrictions/bans on the export of certain bacteria out of the country? Screen anyone leaving the US to make sure that they are not carrying this dangerous form of encryption within their bodies?
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M$-ified USB? Geez, MS has suddenly stooped to taking existing accepted standards and 'enhancing' them, thus turning an open standard into a proprietar...er...nevermind.
Not that I think it will be a serious issue, especially if the design change is simply in the shape of the hardware, but even if there is a software change it shouldn't matter too much. I have a device that lets me use a PS/2 keyboard (in addition to PSX or Saturn controllers) on the DC (and a new device allows for PS/2 mice on the DC as well), so I don't think that it will be too long before similar devices appear for X-box.
Slightly OT: EA/Bullfrog doesn't seem to think that a FPS needs a keyboard/mouse setup -- look at Q3R for PS2. On second thought, don't look.
From what I've heard the input devices are all USB(which sets off my Irony Meter(tm) for some reason), so chances are it'll accept most any USB keyboard or mouse.
AFAIK, both NetBSD and Linux were ported to the DC. I think that the NetBSD port is better maintained, but I've not kept up with either very much. I just play games on mine.
I'm using a PII233 that I'm upgrading to 400 soon, so I can use it as a game server as well (local games only, of course, I'd *NEVER* run a public server through my cable connection). Of course I've secured it with a strong ipchains ruleset based on TrinityOS (which I'll replace with iptables once I figure it out)
I never mentioned it to the cable guy, but someone had to come and look at the lines when our signal got weak and he didn't say anything about the modem going into a small and akwardly-set up PC in a room with three desktop machines and lots of cat 5 strewn about the room. IIRC @Home's user agreements prohibit the use of IP sharing programs like WinGate if they can detect it running -- which seems appropriate enough to me, because if they can detect it then you've set it up improperly and your machine is a security breach waiting to happpen.
So Congress should be looking into regulating open source? Do you really want them to waste taxpayer dollars on such a such a monumentally stupid inquiry that would accomplish nothing at best and at worst would seriously limit consumer choice and freedom? Wait...how would that be any different than what they normally do? Anyway, Microsoft has no room to speak wrt stifling 'innovation', and they won't until they come out with a product that is actually innovative and not a rip-off of an OS or design that predates their stuff by several years.
Or you could just look at what was in the original /. article: "The head of Celera was "astonished" to learn of this grad student's genius -- ten thousand lines of C in a month, and why?"
Er, actually, quoting from the /. commentary:
"The head of Celera was "astonished" to learn of this grad student's genius -- ten thousand lines of C in a month, and why?"
So it looks like it was done in C, which is slightly different than assembly.
D'oh! Tried HTML formatting! Lemme try again.
:) And don't try to put that code into the DNA sequence of a bacteria -- I've already patented the idea in a partnership with Amazon and Altavista (for search indexing of DNA)
#ncludeiway
oidvay ntiway ainmay()
{
rintfpay("elloHay orldWay!/nay");
eturnray();
}
And any errors in the code have nothing to do with the fact that I've not coded in C in over a year. It's uh...part of the encryption
#ncludeiway oidvay ntiway ainmay() { rintfpay("elloHay orldWay!"); eturnray(); }
So does this mean that the US government is going to attempt to put restrictions/bans on the export of certain bacteria out of the country? Screen anyone leaving the US to make sure that they are not carrying this dangerous form of encryption within their bodies?
Er...By what perversion of the imagination is calling someone an asshole equivalent to a threat of physical violence?