But he said their drivers need work, and they do for the reasons he states. The hardware is pretty damn impressive. It's a shame the drivers aren't. And how can the performance gap be stunning if the ati card holds it's own? From what I've read they perform about the same when you average out what each card does better. I'm willing to bet cash you own one of these:)
That's why if you are looking for hardcore gaming performance, the best bang for the buck right now is one of the geforce3 class cards. You can pick up a ti200 for about 70 bucks at pricewatch.com. You can then overclock it using the detonator drivers on windows, or nvclock on linux. If you can find the original geforce3, it's slightly faster than the ti200. If you luck out and find a ti500 like I did (65 bucks on eBay) get one of those. They are only about 4 percent slower than the geforce for ti4200, and a lot cheaper if you can find one.
"I would imagine a sizeable portion of the readership of 2CPU.com simply don't have the time or the desire to constantly engross themselves in games."
Up until recently, I would only run dual proc systems. Part of it was geek pride and bragging rights. I eventually got absolutely sick of dealing with the hidden hassels involved with dealing with SMP. I took my dual 1 ghz pentium III system apart, along with my raid, and enormous server case, and sold the whole thing as parts on eBay. With the money I made, I put together a freaking screamer of a system based on an overclocked tbred 1700+. Know what I miss? Being able to run xmms while playing quake3 or unreal. I can't do that now. Sure, my fps is 4 times faster at higher resolutions, and I can play ut2003 and it's really pretty. But the fastest video card in the world isn't going to make me able to play quake3 or any other CPU intensive game if I have xmms running, or even kazaa-lite open using wine. I really liked killing a few hours waiting for music to finish downloading (I'm on dialup) by playing games. The next motherboard I get will be dual proc.
I'd be quiet if I were you and just be happy that your manager occasionally comes down from on high to mingle with the commoners. Make sure to kiss the feet of your corporate masters who see fit to pay you at all. Remember, you are just a smartass know it all computer person and people like you are literally a dime a dozen in India. You'll bend over if you know what's good for ya.:) THANK YOU FOR LOOKING OUT FOR US CORPORATE AMERICA!!
Then you aren't looking hard enough. Take the logic a few steps forward without going out of your way to only highlight the points that prove your initial argument. In effect, be open minded and you'll understand where my original post was going pretty fast.
No kidding. A decade ago I was dead set on getting out of the USA. What I came up with in the end was, it truly isn't any better anywhere else. You end up trading evils, depending on what's important to you. I have certain things I need to be happy.
Fast cars and a room to drive them.
My guns, and a place to shoot them.
Some group of people I can interact with that are intellectually stimulating.
High quality hospitals in case I wreck my cars or shoot myself in the leg by accident.
My current girlfriend has to like the place too so I don't have to deal with whining.
The Govt' can't have so much invasive power that it effects my quality of life.
There has to be some sort of high bandwidth internet so I can play first person shooters with a low ping.
I have to have access to top quality hotwings and pizza, or the stuff to make them.
I have to be able to at least order and have delivered new computer hardware, dvds, etc.
I have to be able to get employment that provides me with the standard of living I'm used too.
And that's the reality of the situation. In the end, my selfish needs will keep me here despite how horribly messed up things are and how much I disagree with what my elected representatives do with my country. When that list of things I enjoy above starts disappearing in this country, I can start looking elsewhere again. If everything goes completely to shit everywhere, I'll grab an axe and head off to the deepest darkest woods I can find. I'll chop down some trees, make a house, build a chimney out of rocks, and plant a garden. It's good to know how to survive in the woods. I'd seriously miss my cars, guns, computers, hospitals, etc. My girlfriend would probably be pissy for a few months also.
Ethics in goverment are more often used as a means to an end as apposed to some set of values. The parties are quite literally at war with each other to maintain control. You'll see both parties doing truly unethical things to each other, trying to hide it, then crying foul at each other. Because of this lack of geniune ethics in the system, you don't ever have to feel the need to take the "moral highground" on an issue like this. They sure aren't going to in washington unless there is an agenda to justify.
I can think of any number of actions to "shake things up a bit". What's so smart about doing something for the sake of just "doing something"?
That isn't the logic. At least, that's not what I said anyway. What I said was THIS would probably work out to supply more positives than negatives in the end. In any situation, there are positives and negatives. Failure to fully recognise a majority of them is where most ignorant bias comes from. You can find positives in the worst of situations and learn from them. You can find negatives in the best of situations and work to prevent them in the future. You can put a spin on the positives, downplay the negatives, and be a politician also.
Most attempts to "shake up the system" have faired poorly for just about everyone involved. The only revolution where the revolutionaries didn't consume their own was the American one, and all things being equal, our system works out pretty ok.
You can also completely misinterpret something someone said, put words in their mouths, and run off on some tangent that has nothing to do with what they were talking about. It seems you got stuck on one thing I said, took it out of context, then ran with it. I totally agree with all your points, even though they have nothing to do with what I was talking about.:) I didn't "say I wanted a revolution" at all. For the same reason that we didn't "consume our own" during our revolution is the same reason we'd do fine with 4 or 5 political parties to pick from.
Even if you think vote trading is a bad bad thang because it undermines the system in place, it's for that exact same reason it's a good thing. One way or another, it shakes up the system a bit. It calls more attention to campaign finance reform, and raises questions about the current electorial college system. I think the overall effect this will have on the awareness aspect of things will outweigh any perceived negatives. Perhaps we could have a few more political parties receiving national level campaign finance in the future. It's kinda un-american to have two heavily dug in parties receiving all that cash, with little chance in hell of any other party getting to promote their candidates. I'd imagine there would be plenty of reform on many levels if we had 4 or 5 strong political parties competing for your votes. Competition == choice == good.
Of the practice of sneaking text based games in daemons. I think either classic adventure or mansion was on one of the mindspring DNS servers for a while. You could play with nslookup. It went along the lines of:
nslookup www.blah.com 207.69.188.186 forward
and you'd get your request back and at the bottom of it would be something like:
You enter a room and a loud clear voice says "ritnew is a charming word" or whatever your next move was. I'd love to find another one of these.
From a server standpoint, I ran a freebsd 2.1.7 machine and updated with cvs until it hit 4.7 with no major hickups. It's nice to never have to completely reinstall. I've been playing with Gentoo for a while now, it's it's also quite nice in this respect. They say that my 1.4rc2 should upgrade seemlessly to 1.4 final, but that remains to be seen. I'm crossing my fingers that I'll never have to install another version of gentoo again, and I can just keep updating it with emerge sync.
When I'm told there is a drug test is "Hmmm, do you guys have a problem with that here?" And they say "what?". And then I say "I mean, you must have some sort of huge problem with drug users working here if you are doing testing. I don't want to work with a bunch of druggies". And they say some line about it being quite normal. Then I mention that it's a first for me, and seems kinda silly. Sometimes they've dropped the requirement, but most of the time they go through with it. I don't care either way. But from experience, the companies that test had the most potheads, coked out managers, and everybody knows that marketing is completely on crack.
I know someone that did all their child support proceedings in another state, but still started getting bugged by Georgia. Georgia claimed he owned 25k in back child support. The best part is they didn't do any fact checking or information verification. They took his crazy bitch ex-wife's word for it. Turns out she read on a message board how you can get revenge against an ex by making a false claim of owed back child support. His crime was meeting someone new and actually being happy. That set her off. They even messed up his credit report with the groundless claim of owed support. It took him months of phonecalls, letters, and faxes to get it straightened out. In the meantime he was turned down for a bunch of loans because of his credit report. In the end, he hooked up with my lawyer and things got fixed. It's truly scary how child support law works. I'm definitely not one to defend deadbeat dads, but the system is so horrendously screwed in how it works, that a lot of those deadbeat dads might just be victims of overzealous and downright unfair laws. The person paying the child support is constantly put into a position where they have to dispute the claims of the other party. The person with custody can make very wild claims on costs, childcare, etc. and doesn't have to produce any proof at all. I had another friend that had to hire a private investigator to prove that his ex was:
a: married again b: employed c: not using daycare d: not paying rent
The court takes whatever the person with custody says as truth. Also, they make you fill out an income and expense sheet, but they don't take any of your information into consideration. They have a set formula they are going to use that doesn't factor in your bills, rent, etc. at all. They also don't care if you have any kids to support on top of the one you owe support for. The only way around that is sneaky. You have to get your spouse/significant other/etc. to file for support on your own kids. Then it factors into the total amount they can take of your income for support. In some states they can take as much as 55 percent. This way the amount that's getting taken gets decreased when they take the percentage for your other kids and put it right back into your bank account.
In the end, I'm not saying that deadbeat dads and moms aren't pieces of crap. They are. I'm just saying that things aren't always the way they seem. This is yet another situation where justice is something you have to pay a lot of money to get.
But I'm waiting for some truly inspired 802.11 applications. For example:
A wristwatch that downloads your schedule, events, meetings, what's for lunch that day, etcetera when you walk into your school, uni, campus, job, etc.
Receivers in your home stereo, shelf system at work, car stereo, etc. that automatically grab the playlist off a drive and play songs when you issue the verbal "play, repeat, random" command without it ever leaving your pocket.
and of course,
Vib*cough**cough* personal massagers! Imagine the possibilities!
I checked over 3 epox boards I have here. They appear to be fine. No suspect looking capacitors. YMMV. I've been using an 8k5a2+ for a while and I'm really liking the thing. Using it now. The onboard sound is a PITA to get working with surround and linux though. When you do give up and get the OSS commercial driver, you'll notice a 30ms lag in every game until you give up again and get something cheap that works great with kernel drivers like an es1371. Damn The Strokes are a good band.
I was an oper. Lets leave it at that. I wouldn't want anyone to think I'm like the typical ex-oper admin and have any illusion that IRC wasn't anything but an incredible waste of time.
This is pointless. This policy change. The kids will figure out they can do all of their filesharing inside an Eggdrop bot (or whatever they use now it's been a while) and quit advertising it in the channel. In a way, Dalnet wins anyway. I don't think they REALLY want the bullshit involved with having to kill off 100 channels a day with the SAME group of people over and over again. Talk about work. If they do go all rambo, they'll just get their network attacked again. Once the kids figure out they can allow TELNET backdoors to their bots, dcc connections to the bots, and handle ALL transfers inside the bots, you'll have a bunch of channels with unsuspicious names and a ton of people sitting in them saying absolutely nothing with no screen scroll. So basically it will look like your average efnet (I'm so leet cause I've been on IRC for 5 months that I don't talk anymore and anybody that does is a loser) channels. Once again, what does dalnet care. Out of site (pun intended), out of mind. What's curious is that by setting this policy, it could be interpreted that they now have a legal obligation to stop illegal file trading. Couldn't this potentially open them up to litigation? I honestly don't know, I'm asking. Their biggest hope though is that the kids figure out they aren't wanted, and take off for browner pastures. I left IRC about year and some change ago, and have only looked back a few times. Before that I got involved around the time that the #afd and #trek channels on efnet got sick of getting picked on and the morons there and Dalvenjahahahahaha saddled up his horse and started a new network. I doubt there are any #real-regs left, but hi if'n yar around.
Never thinking I'd be one to say this, but this appears to be a kinda weak way to pick on microsoft today. Now, don't get me wrong... I LOVE trashing microsoft. It brings the worse linux and windows fanboys out to raise pure hell defending their favorite OS and/or decision in what to run on their hard earned hardware. You get to read tons of emotion filled posts with little to no fact checking, then read the replies from clueful people that tear those posts apart. This story just feels kinda cheap is all. Like beating a stable full of dead horses. It also only serves to whip up the fanboys and make them that much more zealous in their defense of their pet OS's, and increasingly silly in their replies. If the goal is enlightenment for the masses, we are missing the mark.
While Linux may not be fundamentally more secure then NT
Should read: While Linux may be fundamentally more secure then NT
I can only assume this is what you meant to type because of the well known advantage Linux has over NT in the security arena. I mean, the department of Homeland Security even made the switch recently for this exact same reason.
Microsoft did their part by releasing a patch later that broke their first patch. I can tell you have a lot of angst about this and want to cast blame everywhere you can, but clearly Microsoft dropped the ball. So sorry. Thank you for playing.
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But he said their drivers need work, and they do for :)
the reasons he states. The hardware is pretty damn
impressive. It's a shame the drivers aren't. And
how can the performance gap be stunning if the
ati card holds it's own? From what I've read they
perform about the same when you average out what
each card does better. I'm willing to bet cash you
own one of these
That's why if you are looking for hardcore gaming
performance, the best bang for the buck right now
is one of the geforce3 class cards. You can pick
up a ti200 for about 70 bucks at pricewatch.com.
You can then overclock it using the detonator
drivers on windows, or nvclock on linux. If you
can find the original geforce3, it's slightly
faster than the ti200. If you luck out and find
a ti500 like I did (65 bucks on eBay) get one of
those. They are only about 4 percent slower than
the geforce for ti4200, and a lot cheaper if you
can find one.
Tom does honest to gHod LINUX reviews! I almost
pooped myself the first time I found one by accident
using google.
"I would imagine a sizeable portion of the readership of 2CPU.com simply don't have the time or the desire to constantly engross themselves in games."
Up until recently, I would only run dual proc
systems. Part of it was geek pride and bragging
rights. I eventually got absolutely sick of dealing
with the hidden hassels involved with dealing
with SMP. I took my dual 1 ghz pentium III system
apart, along with my raid, and enormous server
case, and sold the whole thing as parts on eBay.
With the money I made, I put together a freaking
screamer of a system based on an overclocked
tbred 1700+. Know what I miss? Being able to run
xmms while playing quake3 or unreal. I can't do
that now. Sure, my fps is 4 times faster at
higher resolutions, and I can play ut2003 and
it's really pretty. But the fastest video card
in the world isn't going to make me able to play
quake3 or any other CPU intensive game if I have
xmms running, or even kazaa-lite open using wine.
I really liked killing a few hours waiting for
music to finish downloading (I'm on dialup) by
playing games. The next motherboard I get will be
dual proc.
cool....
LONG LIVE ROCK!
I'd be quiet if I were you and just be happy that :)
your manager occasionally comes down from on high
to mingle with the commoners. Make sure to kiss
the feet of your corporate masters who see fit to
pay you at all. Remember, you are just a smartass
know it all computer person and people like you are
literally a dime a dozen in India. You'll bend over
if you know what's good for ya.
THANK YOU FOR LOOKING OUT FOR US CORPORATE AMERICA!!
Then you aren't looking hard enough. Take the logic
a few steps forward without going out of your way
to only highlight the points that prove your
initial argument. In effect, be open minded and
you'll understand where my original post was going
pretty fast.
No kidding. A decade ago I was dead set on getting
out of the USA. What I came up with in the end was,
it truly isn't any better anywhere else. You end
up trading evils, depending on what's important to
you. I have certain things I need to be happy.
Fast cars and a room to drive them.
My guns, and a place to shoot them.
Some group of people I can interact with that
are intellectually stimulating.
High quality hospitals in case I wreck my cars or
shoot myself in the leg by accident.
My current girlfriend has to like the place too
so I don't have to deal with whining.
The Govt' can't have so much invasive power that
it effects my quality of life.
There has to be some sort of high bandwidth
internet so I can play first person shooters with
a low ping.
I have to have access to top quality hotwings
and pizza, or the stuff to make them.
I have to be able to at least order and have
delivered new computer hardware, dvds, etc.
I have to be able to get employment that provides
me with the standard of living I'm used too.
And that's the reality of the situation. In the
end, my selfish needs will keep me here despite
how horribly messed up things are and how much
I disagree with what my elected representatives
do with my country. When that list of things I
enjoy above starts disappearing in this country,
I can start looking elsewhere again. If everything
goes completely to shit everywhere, I'll grab an
axe and head off to the deepest darkest woods I
can find. I'll chop down some trees, make a house,
build a chimney out of rocks, and plant a garden.
It's good to know how to survive in the woods.
I'd seriously miss my cars, guns, computers,
hospitals, etc. My girlfriend would probably be
pissy for a few months also.
Ethics in goverment are more often used as a means
to an end as apposed to some set of values. The
parties are quite literally at war with each other
to maintain control. You'll see both parties doing
truly unethical things to each other, trying to
hide it, then crying foul at each other. Because
of this lack of geniune ethics in the system, you
don't ever have to feel the need to take the
"moral highground" on an issue like this. They sure
aren't going to in washington unless there is an
agenda to justify.
I can think of any number of actions to "shake things up a bit". What's so smart about doing something for the sake of just "doing something"?
:) I didn't "say I
That isn't the logic. At least, that's not what I
said anyway. What I said was THIS would probably
work out to supply more positives than negatives
in the end. In any situation, there are positives
and negatives. Failure to fully recognise a
majority of them is where most ignorant bias comes
from. You can find positives in the worst of
situations and learn from them. You can find
negatives in the best of situations and work to
prevent them in the future. You can put a spin
on the positives, downplay the negatives, and be
a politician also.
Most attempts to "shake up the system" have faired poorly for just about everyone involved. The only revolution where the revolutionaries didn't consume their own was the American one, and all things being equal, our system works out pretty ok.
You can also completely misinterpret something
someone said, put words in their mouths, and run
off on some tangent that has nothing to do with
what they were talking about. It seems you got
stuck on one thing I said, took it out of context,
then ran with it. I totally agree with all your
points, even though they have nothing to do with
what I was talking about.
wanted a revolution" at all. For the same reason
that we didn't "consume our own" during our
revolution is the same reason we'd do fine with
4 or 5 political parties to pick from.
perl -MIO::Socket -e 'IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr=>"www.microsoft.co m:139")->send("bye",MSG_OOB)'
ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d rockwellmodemuser.internet.com
The source of the webpage for that NTY webpage hack
a while ago was art also.
Even if you think vote trading is a bad bad thang
because it undermines the system in place, it's for
that exact same reason it's a good thing. One way
or another, it shakes up the system a bit. It calls
more attention to campaign finance reform, and
raises questions about the current electorial
college system. I think the overall effect this will
have on the awareness aspect of things will outweigh
any perceived negatives. Perhaps we could have a few
more political parties receiving national level
campaign finance in the future. It's kinda
un-american to have two heavily dug in parties
receiving all that cash, with little chance in
hell of any other party getting to promote their
candidates. I'd imagine there would be plenty of
reform on many levels if we had 4 or 5 strong
political parties competing for your votes.
Competition == choice == good.
Of the practice of sneaking text based games in
daemons. I think either classic adventure or
mansion was on one of the mindspring DNS servers
for a while. You could play with nslookup. It
went along the lines of:
nslookup www.blah.com 207.69.188.186 forward
and you'd get your request back and at the bottom
of it would be something like:
You enter a room and a loud clear voice says
"ritnew is a charming word"
or whatever your next move was. I'd love to find
another one of these.
From a server standpoint, I ran a freebsd 2.1.7
machine and updated with cvs until it hit 4.7 with
no major hickups. It's nice to never have to
completely reinstall. I've been playing with Gentoo
for a while now, it's it's also quite nice in this
respect. They say that my 1.4rc2 should upgrade
seemlessly to 1.4 final, but that remains to be
seen. I'm crossing my fingers that I'll never have
to install another version of gentoo again, and I
can just keep updating it with emerge sync.
When I'm told there is a drug test is "Hmmm, do you
guys have a problem with that here?" And they say
"what?". And then I say "I mean, you must have some
sort of huge problem with drug users working here
if you are doing testing. I don't want to work
with a bunch of druggies". And they say some line
about it being quite normal. Then I mention that
it's a first for me, and seems kinda silly.
Sometimes they've dropped the requirement, but most
of the time they go through with it. I don't care
either way. But from experience, the companies
that test had the most potheads, coked out
managers, and everybody knows that marketing is
completely on crack.
I know someone that did all their child support
proceedings in another state, but still started
getting bugged by Georgia. Georgia claimed he owned
25k in back child support. The best part is they
didn't do any fact checking or information
verification. They took his crazy bitch ex-wife's
word for it. Turns out she read on a message board
how you can get revenge against an ex by making a
false claim of owed back child support. His crime
was meeting someone new and actually being happy.
That set her off. They even messed up his credit
report with the groundless claim of owed support.
It took him months of phonecalls, letters, and
faxes to get it straightened out. In the meantime
he was turned down for a bunch of loans because of
his credit report. In the end, he hooked up with
my lawyer and things got fixed. It's truly scary
how child support law works. I'm definitely not
one to defend deadbeat dads, but the system is so
horrendously screwed in how it works, that a lot
of those deadbeat dads might just be victims of
overzealous and downright unfair laws. The person
paying the child support is constantly put into
a position where they have to dispute the claims
of the other party. The person with custody can
make very wild claims on costs, childcare, etc.
and doesn't have to produce any proof at all.
I had another friend that had to hire a private
investigator to prove that his ex was:
a: married again
b: employed
c: not using daycare
d: not paying rent
The court takes whatever the person with custody
says as truth. Also, they make you fill out
an income and expense sheet, but they don't take
any of your information into consideration. They
have a set formula they are going to use that
doesn't factor in your bills, rent, etc. at all.
They also don't care if you have any kids to
support on top of the one you owe support for.
The only way around that is sneaky. You have to
get your spouse/significant other/etc. to file
for support on your own kids. Then it factors into
the total amount they can take of your income for
support. In some states they can take as much as
55 percent. This way the amount that's getting
taken gets decreased when they take the percentage
for your other kids and put it right back into
your bank account.
In the end, I'm not saying that deadbeat
dads and moms aren't pieces of crap. They are. I'm
just saying that things aren't always the way they
seem. This is yet another situation where justice
is something you have to pay a lot of money to
get.
But I'm waiting for some truly inspired 802.11
applications. For example:
A wristwatch that downloads your schedule, events,
meetings, what's for lunch that day, etcetera when
you walk into your school, uni, campus, job, etc.
Receivers in your home stereo, shelf system at
work, car stereo, etc. that automatically grab
the playlist off a drive and play songs when
you issue the verbal "play, repeat, random"
command without it ever leaving your pocket.
and of course,
Vib*cough**cough* personal massagers! Imagine
the possibilities!
I checked over 3 epox boards I have here. They
appear to be fine. No suspect looking capacitors.
YMMV. I've been using an 8k5a2+ for a while and
I'm really liking the thing. Using it now. The
onboard sound is a PITA to get working with
surround and linux though. When you do give up
and get the OSS commercial driver, you'll notice a 30ms lag
in every game until you give up again and get
something cheap that works great with kernel
drivers like an es1371. Damn The Strokes are a
good band.
Space Shuttles?
I was an oper. Lets leave it at that. I wouldn't
want anyone to think I'm like the typical ex-oper
admin and have any illusion that IRC wasn't anything
but an incredible waste of time.
This is pointless. This policy change. The kids
will figure out they can do all of their filesharing
inside an Eggdrop bot (or whatever they use now
it's been a while) and quit advertising it in the
channel. In a way, Dalnet wins anyway. I don't
think they REALLY want the bullshit involved with
having to kill off 100 channels a day with the
SAME group of people over and over again. Talk
about work. If they do go all rambo, they'll just
get their network attacked again. Once the kids
figure out they can allow TELNET backdoors to
their bots, dcc connections to the bots, and
handle ALL transfers inside the bots, you'll
have a bunch of channels with unsuspicious names
and a ton of people sitting in them saying
absolutely nothing with no screen scroll.
So basically it will look like your average efnet
(I'm so leet cause I've been on IRC for 5 months
that I don't talk anymore and anybody that does
is a loser) channels. Once
again, what does dalnet care. Out of site (pun
intended), out
of mind. What's curious is that by setting this
policy, it could be interpreted that they now
have a legal obligation to stop illegal file
trading. Couldn't this potentially open them
up to litigation? I honestly don't know, I'm
asking. Their biggest hope though is that
the kids figure out they aren't wanted, and
take off for browner pastures. I left IRC
about year and some change ago, and have only
looked back a few times. Before that I got
involved around the time that the #afd and
#trek channels on efnet got sick of getting
picked on and the morons there and
Dalvenjahahahahaha saddled up his horse and
started a new network. I doubt there are any
#real-regs left, but hi if'n yar around.
fortune -m "Dave Barry" | more
:)
:)
I know it works on a lot of the BSD's.
I suppose Dave's stuff has to be in fortune for that
to work, but I know it's in FreeBSD by default.
Enjoy.
Never thinking I'd be one to say this, but this
appears to be a kinda weak way to pick on
microsoft today. Now, don't get me wrong...
I LOVE trashing microsoft. It brings the worse
linux and windows fanboys out to raise pure hell
defending their favorite OS and/or decision in
what to run on their hard earned hardware. You
get to read tons of emotion filled posts with
little to no fact checking, then read the replies
from clueful people that tear those posts apart.
This story just feels kinda cheap is all. Like
beating a stable full of dead horses. It also only
serves to whip up the fanboys and make them that
much more zealous in their defense of their pet
OS's, and increasingly silly in their replies.
If the goal is enlightenment for the masses, we
are missing the mark.
While Linux may not be fundamentally more secure then NT
Should read:
While Linux may be fundamentally more secure then NT
I can only assume this is what you meant to type
because of the well known advantage Linux has over
NT in the security arena. I mean, the department of
Homeland Security even made the switch recently for
this exact same reason.
Microsoft did their part by releasing a patch later
that broke their first patch. I can tell you have
a lot of angst about this and want to cast blame
everywhere you can, but clearly Microsoft dropped
the ball. So sorry. Thank you for playing.
Mods for first person shooters can be enormous.
http://ns-co.net/ as an example.
You could also have the linux binaries for them.
You could carry Tenebrae, quakeforge, etc. It would
add up eventually.