I just added a new SCSI storage array to our server here and this seems to only affect compressed files copied to the external storage array and not my existing compressed volumes. 2 weeks and 5 Dell technicians (who have worked very hard with me to figure out what was going on) and I only found out about this today from a short posting on Microsoft's newsgroups. I uninstalled said KB, and I'm instantly back in business. MS needs to fix this fast, as corruption of unique data is the number 1 IT sin. Thank god we have multiple levels of backups.
I cut a section off my I-Opener mainboard using a dremel but the carbide drill bit I was using caught, and the force tossed it hard against a wall about 2 feet away. It works just fine to this day. quoted from my own webpage here: http://www.unixmonkey.net/projects/iopener/ page6.p hp "I then realized the RJ45 jack would not fit in the place where the phone out jack was, due to the number of pins being different and longer (not to mention clearing the solder). So I got out the dremel and cut about a 2cm x 1cm sqare out of the motherboard. I guess I was just pissed and bullheadedly determined, because I know I shouldn't have done that.
Yes you heard me right yet again, We (the royal we) cut (WITH A DREMEL!) a square (WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!) out of the motherboard (THE DAMN MOBO!!) to fit the RJ45 connector (BUT IT COULD HAVE EASILY FIT ANYWHERE ELSE!!!)
I never claimed to all that smart, and at that time didn't know that most motherboard PCB's are sandwiched with 3 or more layers. I cleaned up the board of all the debris and powered it on (just to make sure, since my tungsten carbide bit flipped out during the cut and sent the board flying 2 feet into the wall).
THATS RIGHT, I CUT MY MOBO WITH A DREMEL, AND IT CAUSED IT TO FLY 2 FEET INTO A WALL!!!
hrm...Anyway, I powered it on and....nothing. I guess I wasn't that suprised.
I cleaned it off even more meticulously, and checked the whole PCB for signs of damage. Sure enough, right by the cut, there was a broken trace (actually the trace was hanging off the board like a piece of hair coming out of your arm). I repaired that and tried again. Woila! LIFE!"
You can keep most of your hardware, just buy a replacement G4 motherboard and processor and keyboard (if you aren't using a USB one). Most everything else will work.
the game uplink, though isnt quite as flashy as some movie interfaces, but I think it certainly looks like it came straight out of 'the net' or even 'sneakers'
A little over 2 years ago...there wasnt very good support for some old video cards I had in some 486's. A friend lent me the disks for XiG accelerated X. Installation was fast and easy, and had a pretty small footprint.
mind you, I never played any games on this system or had dri-this or nv-driver that. but it was fast and usable in slackware 7 with 2.2
I've been running linux and IRIX exclusively for the past 4 years, and I have not been a gamefan since the days of DOS (system shock, anyone?) Just last summer, I bought Soldier of Fortune for linux, and I absolutely loved it.
Then I went back and bought Quake3, Unreal Tournament, Heretic2, Quake 2, Halflife, Descent3, myth2, Fallout1&2, RTCW, starcraft and commandos2
I can't help it....I'm addicted, I play about 2 hours a day or more and I never have to look at at a windows splash screen.
I also like to play pingus and pysol.
Do your sanity a favor, ditch windows. People that say you can't game on a linux box are just whiny jackasses. If it weren't for linux, I'd have to do all my gaming on IRIX (reversi and quake1&2 are about it)
With wine and Transgaming wineX, many decent games for windows are given a chance on linux. Maybe I can't run EVERY game (System Shock 2 and Mechwarrior 3), but there are plenty good games to choose from.
In Orson Welle's "Time Machine" there were two classes of people: The Eloi, who are the civilized class. They do whatever they please all day everyday (which mostly involves sitting around and eating), and the Morlocks, they too used to be human, but years of living underground and attending to the technology that keeps things going have turned them into scruffy BOFH monsters, that come up occasionally to eat an Eloi. The Eloi accept this as a cost of living so well.
If you want to see what I believe will happen in the future, check out 'Brazil', a future where most things are automated enough, that to create work, they had to create unecessary jobs (the tons of decision makers all asking one guy for his opinion, the thousand people working for Mr. Kurtzweiler, but all they do is look busy, and watch tv) All most people (middle class) do is push paperwork from person to person.
I run a fraternity house's network at Purdue, and we have a single ADSL line that goes to a BSD box that NAT's the connection to the 60 or so clients in the house. With the 100mb a day limit, if everyone downloads 2mb, we are then rate-limited for the rest of the day, and the bandwidth-shaping software purdue uses actually DROPS up to 90% of packets (instead of just throttling down the bandwidth).
Usually we've hit the cap by 9:00 am
I've contacted the university, but they are less than sympathetic.
Our only choice is to cancel our ADSL, and then re-sign up for it at a much higher cost through verizon. (which will take 3-5 weeks) 3-5 weeks without internet access.
Everyone looks at me with puppy dog eyes and says "why is our internet so slow" It really hurts.
Is is possible (plausible) that MS will somehow find a way to break xml so that xml-compliant browsers and applications won't be able to read the future word files? MS broke its implementation of java (and by all rights shouldn't be called java anymore).
I can't think of a reason why MS would want to change word to use xml, it does not seem to be in their interest to do so. MS Word has become the standard in business and education. If you open those markets to alternative word processors, MS will really be hurt. Who would buy word, when a free or cheap program could write and read word docs?
The problem is that, once enough DVD manufacturers have picked up on this (and I believe enough already have), then others will quickly follow suit. Eventually, when the market is saturated with WMF DVD players, People will have a choice between MPEG2 or WMF formats when they burn off a disk, and of course people will more and more use WMF, because congress will ban regular MPEG2 DVDs because they don't have any DRM. Then there will be no other choice.
Proprietary, closed media formats hurt everybody except for stock owners. People only pay because they want to use the technology, not because it is for the greater good, and to get back at evil pirates and hackers.
I'm 22, and I got started coding Fortran for small businesses in High School (at about 15), and I joined the Army and have done networking with them since 17. I now work for a University in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Dept. It takes a lot of cpus to model weather data. Even if you don't count my freelancing in High School, I've been doing IT for over 5 years.
if source code is free speech, and compiled code is not. Then distribution of the code is allowed, but compiling and using the code is not. Don't expect binaries for libcss just yet. What I'm getting from this is I still can't USE deCSS.
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I just added a new SCSI storage array to our server here and this seems to only affect compressed files copied to the external storage array and not my existing compressed volumes. 2 weeks and 5 Dell technicians (who have worked very hard with me to figure out what was going on) and I only found out about this today from a short posting on Microsoft's newsgroups. I uninstalled said KB, and I'm instantly back in business. MS needs to fix this fast, as corruption of unique data is the number 1 IT sin. Thank god we have multiple levels of backups.
the Abyss is my favorite James Cameron movie.
Its also very technically accurate aside from the alien things.
They use the new "locking" feature, but it is off by default. Log in now, and lock your account before you lose it.
I think you are thinking of their binary Nforce chipset drivers, which are for 2.4 series only (that I know of).
Not thier graphics card drivers.
Odd, my version runs fine on win2000 & XP SP1 DX9b with no funnystuff or patches.
I think I might have the GOTY edition or something because when I went to run the patch, it said I was already up-to-date.
I cut a section off my I-Opener mainboard using a dremel but the carbide drill bit I was using caught, and the force tossed it hard against a wall about 2 feet away. It works just fine to this day./ page6.p hp
quoted from my own webpage here:
http://www.unixmonkey.net/projects/iopener
"I then realized the RJ45 jack would not fit in the place where the phone out jack was, due to the number of pins being different and longer (not to mention clearing the solder). So I got out the dremel and cut about a 2cm x 1cm sqare out of the motherboard. I guess I was just pissed and bullheadedly determined, because I know I shouldn't have done that.
Yes you heard me right yet again, We (the royal we) cut (WITH A DREMEL!) a square (WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!) out of the motherboard (THE DAMN MOBO!!) to fit the RJ45 connector (BUT IT COULD HAVE EASILY FIT ANYWHERE ELSE!!!)
I never claimed to all that smart, and at that time didn't know that most motherboard PCB's are sandwiched with 3 or more layers. I cleaned up the board of all the debris and powered it on (just to make sure, since my tungsten carbide bit flipped out during the cut and sent the board flying 2 feet into the wall).
THATS RIGHT, I CUT MY MOBO WITH A DREMEL, AND IT CAUSED IT TO FLY 2 FEET INTO A WALL!!!
hrm...Anyway, I powered it on and....nothing. I guess I wasn't that suprised.
I cleaned it off even more meticulously, and checked the whole PCB for signs of damage. Sure enough, right by the cut, there was a broken trace (actually the trace was hanging off the board like a piece of hair coming out of your arm). I repaired that and tried again. Woila! LIFE!"
Or how about I KEEP MY HARD-EARNED MONEY, and not allow the goverment to take 40-60% of my wages.
Oh, and awesome. Can't wait to try this.
Don't forget the 17" mac monitor on the cover of the DVD and Videocassette, I bet all the laptops except for dade's were macs.
You can keep most of your hardware, just buy a replacement G4 motherboard and processor and keyboard (if you aren't using a USB one). Most everything else will work.
the game uplink, though isnt quite as flashy as some movie interfaces, but I think it certainly looks like it came straight out of 'the net' or even 'sneakers'
for the gamers edition mandrake entered an agreement with TRANSGAMING, who makes windows games run under wine.
But, It would be a good idea. Any company picking up loki would probably be beneficial.
I wonder if they'll have a sale before the end of the month...I'd love to buy the rest of the games I don't already have...but I'm dead broke.
He should be so lucky,
I do computer repair and systems administration for Purdue University, and my pay rate is $7.25 an hour.
A little over 2 years ago...there wasnt very good support for some old video cards I had in some 486's. A friend lent me the disks for XiG accelerated X. Installation was fast and easy, and had a pretty small footprint.
mind you, I never played any games on this system or had dri-this or nv-driver that. but it was fast and usable in slackware 7 with 2.2
I've been running linux and IRIX exclusively for the past 4 years, and I have not been a gamefan since the days of DOS (system shock, anyone?) Just last summer, I bought Soldier of Fortune for linux, and I absolutely loved it.
Then I went back and bought Quake3, Unreal Tournament, Heretic2, Quake 2, Halflife, Descent3, myth2, Fallout1&2, RTCW, starcraft and commandos2
I can't help it....I'm addicted, I play about 2 hours a day or more and I never have to look at at a windows splash screen.
I also like to play pingus and pysol.
Do your sanity a favor, ditch windows. People that say you can't game on a linux box are just whiny jackasses. If it weren't for linux, I'd have to do all my gaming on IRIX (reversi and quake1&2 are about it)
With wine and Transgaming wineX, many decent games for windows are given a chance on linux. Maybe I can't run EVERY game (System Shock 2 and Mechwarrior 3), but there are plenty good games to choose from.
In Orson Welle's "Time Machine" there were two classes of people: The Eloi, who are the civilized class. They do whatever they please all day everyday (which mostly involves sitting around and eating), and the Morlocks, they too used to be human, but years of living underground and attending to the technology that keeps things going have turned them into scruffy BOFH monsters, that come up occasionally to eat an Eloi. The Eloi accept this as a cost of living so well.
If you want to see what I believe will happen in the future, check out 'Brazil', a future where most things are automated enough, that to create work, they had to create unecessary jobs (the tons of decision makers all asking one guy for his opinion, the thousand people working for Mr. Kurtzweiler, but all they do is look busy, and watch tv) All most people (middle class) do is push paperwork from person to person.
Last I heard it was 100mb/24 hour period.
I run a fraternity house's network at Purdue, and we have a single ADSL line that goes to a BSD box that NAT's the connection to the 60 or so clients in the house. With the 100mb a day limit, if everyone downloads 2mb, we are then rate-limited for the rest of the day, and the bandwidth-shaping software purdue uses actually DROPS up to 90% of packets (instead of just throttling down the bandwidth).
Usually we've hit the cap by 9:00 am
I've contacted the university, but they are less than sympathetic.
Our only choice is to cancel our ADSL, and then re-sign up for it at a much higher cost through verizon. (which will take 3-5 weeks) 3-5 weeks without internet access.
Everyone looks at me with puppy dog eyes and says "why is our internet so slow" It really hurts.
Is is possible (plausible) that MS will somehow find a way to break xml so that xml-compliant browsers and applications won't be able to read the future word files? MS broke its implementation of java (and by all rights shouldn't be called java anymore).
I can't think of a reason why MS would want to change word to use xml, it does not seem to be in their interest to do so. MS Word has become the standard in business and education. If you open those markets to alternative word processors, MS will really be hurt. Who would buy word, when a free or cheap program could write and read word docs?
Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!
The problem is that, once enough DVD manufacturers have picked up on this (and I believe enough already have), then others will quickly follow suit. Eventually, when the market is saturated with WMF DVD players, People will have a choice between MPEG2 or WMF formats when they burn off a disk, and of course people will more and more use WMF, because congress will ban regular MPEG2 DVDs because they don't have any DRM. Then there will be no other choice.
Proprietary, closed media formats hurt everybody except for stock owners. People only pay because they want to use the technology, not because it is for the greater good, and to get back at evil pirates and hackers.
Can I use this to filter posts by "Anonymous Coward"?
That would make a lot of the comments much easier to read.
With this new system, all offtopic and trolling commenters will be encouraged to use Anonymous Coward, so as not to make many people's sh*t lists.
Frankly, I think if you want to have your voice heard, you should sign up and log on.
I'm 22, and I got started coding Fortran for small businesses in High School (at about 15), and I joined the Army and have done networking with them since 17. I now work for a University in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Dept. It takes a lot of cpus to model weather data. Even if you don't count my freelancing in High School, I've been doing IT for over 5 years.
Are you referring to BaconHead, one of the fine films released under the Troma label?
if source code is free speech, and compiled code is not. Then distribution of the code is allowed, but compiling and using the code is not. Don't expect binaries for libcss just yet. What I'm getting from this is I still can't USE deCSS.