I go to Johnson and Wales University. At this college, none of these file sharing programs are blocked. I believe that my college should block them because they are choking all bandwidth we have. Most of the time I'm downloading at about 5-10k/sec. I'm lucky to get bursts up to 30k/sec. This is at a university too guys. This is just HORRIBLE. Last year I was always maxing out the line at the capped rate 150k/sec (yeah that sucks, but it's a shitload better than what we get now).
The problem is all the morons at my college run these file sharing programs 24/7. I know this because I go around fixing peoples computers when they ask. I have seen people running Morpheus with about 20+ files downloading or queued with about 60+ files uploading or at least trying to. These people are just completely choking off all bandwidth. Buying more bandwidth will just get filled up as fast because the problem is the people letting all that crap transfer around.
If you guys know anyway on blocking morpheus/kazaa from the main server point at the IT department, please tell me so I can forward the information over to them. I personally don't care if my college blocks it. If they did I'd have more bandwidth and a much higher latency. (I'm pinging about 600ms+, so playing games online is not worth it and that pisses me off. I'm a big tribes2/counterstrike/Quake3/Return to Castle Wolfenstein fan).
So really, even though I'm not a real fan of the way the RIAA works, I'm all for them getting Morpheus/KaZaA blocked. I'm sure that would temporarily provide much wanted bandwidth before the next big file sharing program comes out.
For the time being I'd like my college to block it. So if any of you know how to do it, I'd merrily send the information forward to the tech department.
Is this a 1st post or did all the comments get lost?
Is this just my lucky day?
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As soon as I am no longer able to use Win2k and force to upgrade to the next Microsoft Operating System will be the day I move to Linux.
Right now Win2k is perfect for me. It's stable, fast and easy to use. Now from my point of view I look back to what I was using just a few months ago. I was using Win98 because of motherboard issues with Win2k. At the time I was in no position to go from Win98 to Linux because I didn't have the time to learn everything again. I have toyed around with Linux in the past, but not fully because I needed a system right then and there I could fully use to my knowledge. Now anyways, I look back to Win98 and I see hell. Unstable, buggy and just a general annoyance. I look to the future and I see WinXP. I don't like the idea of my operating system phoning home or disabling my system if I move my hardware around too much because it invades my privacy. I have other quarrels, but I just want to basically point out my reasoning.
To sum it up, Win2k does everything I want. Going back to Win98 isn't an option, going forward to WinXP is a definate no-no.
As soon as Win2k can no longer function for me, that is the day I move to Linux.
"We've been working closely with Microsoft - BlackIce is widely used inside Microsoft - in order to make sure it works well," Rob Graham, founder of NetworkIce told us.
According to Steve Gibson, Black Ice is fairly ineffective (Scroll down to "Personal Firewalls and IRC Zombie/Bot Intrusions
") against actually protecting the system. Now I personally don't want to have Black Ice built into my operating system. I'd like the ability to use Zone Alarm at the very least. I prefer to use Tiny Personal Firewall, because it allows me to allow/deny connections on different protocols and ports as well as do MD5 checksums of programs.
Who knows, MS might make Black Ice in WinXP decent, but I at least what the freedom to choose my own security setup.
You should not open anything remotely suspicious no matter what platform you are on!
I mean... it's not like other platforms are immune to stupid users...
Well, that's always true but in all honesty I've never really heard of a *NIX/MAC/QNX/BeOS virus or script that executes evil commands. I just wrote "Win32 platform" because it is by far the most susceptible OS to viruses.
But if other systems are known to have attempts of attacks, I'd be interested in read about it.
It's basically the old school Netscape Communicator email client with a dash of red lizard hehe.
I don't believe it has the email attachment flaws Outlook is prone to, but anyone who decides to see the attachments included deserve what they get. It should be common sense to not open anything remotely suspicious if you're on a Win32 platform.
Anyways, I like using Mozilla's mail client. Reminds me of the days when Netscape was decent.
When he stated "I guess those laws allowed a senator for from the state to get away with murder" the first thing that clicked in my mind was the who Condit/Levy case since it's one of the top long running stories now. As for you, I never stated that the Levy case had anything to do with Massachusetts.
I guess those laws allowed a senator from the state to get away with murder (or at least negligenct homicide)
Not until they find the body of Levy will it be a murder. If you wanna call a missing persons case a murder case you might as well stop sending out those little cards in the mail of kids that say "Have you seen me?" because they're already dead, right?
On a more ontopic note, I am a Massachusetts/Rhode Island resident. My home is in MA, my college is in RI (In my dreams I attend Brown, but go to the ghetto Johnson and Wales). In RI drivers aren't required to have insurrance or bullshit like that. It's horrifying to cross the street with those maniacs driving around the city. Now I'll be 19 within a few weeks, sometime before then I'll FINALLY be getting my drivers permit or license or something. I'll be interested to see how MA officers will act in light of this.
God damnit, I'm gunna get karma burned for this but...
I've spammed my beowulf cluster here on here many times before. Unfortunatly my host is dead and he hosts all the files so I can't mirror it somewhere else. Some day my 13 node beowulf cluster that rendered images in povray shall arise again!
The site is http://beowulf.alignment.net... I think it'll load if you get the IP which I have no idea.
To sum it up my geek friends and I built a beowulf cluster from spare parts sitting in the back of our high school storage area. 10 486's and 3 P2-200mhz Debian boxes powered PVMPov and allowed us (Me specifically since I'm the POV-Ray guy of us) to do distributed raytracing over the cluster.
Now if only I could get that website up you could see all the pictures and videos we made...
Argh, I'm gunna feel the karma burn.
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I think that sexy model marrying the doctor was a bit bogus. I mean, come on, even though it's TV-PG how are they supposed to uh.. do a little "peer to peer file exchanging" if ya know what I mean...
For 18k, that'll get you about a nice one FULL page newspaper advertisement in the daily paper. I'm talking a full paper page, not just a half, but a full page for $18,000.
That's just for a daily newspaper.
The spray paint advertising from the IBM employee has allowed thousands and thousands of city people to see the ads. With/. and other news sites people around the world can see it.
$18,000. Dirt cheap advertising for international attention...
...with the minor cost of it being done illegally.
I've been reading forums on gaming for a while now, one thing I hear constantly is "That game is dead." Hell I'm even seeing people say that "Quake3 is dead" and how Counter-Strike is the game that is going to replace Quake3 as a tournament game. Other people claim that games like Quake3 (Even Quake1, Doom2) are still alive and kicking. Both sides put up a good argument on which is dead and not.
But I do agree with you, they are classic and still fun to play with.
This just shows that just because a game has two sequals to it does not mean the original is dead. Even more interesting is that The CPL is running an up coming tournament which includes DOOM2 and QuakeWorld as a deathmatch games.
Certainly interesting for a couple of games most people considered dead...
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I go to Johnson and Wales University. At this college, none of these file sharing programs are blocked. I believe that my college should block them because they are choking all bandwidth we have. Most of the time I'm downloading at about 5-10k/sec. I'm lucky to get bursts up to 30k/sec. This is at a university too guys. This is just HORRIBLE. Last year I was always maxing out the line at the capped rate 150k/sec (yeah that sucks, but it's a shitload better than what we get now).
The problem is all the morons at my college run these file sharing programs 24/7. I know this because I go around fixing peoples computers when they ask. I have seen people running Morpheus with about 20+ files downloading or queued with about 60+ files uploading or at least trying to. These people are just completely choking off all bandwidth. Buying more bandwidth will just get filled up as fast because the problem is the people letting all that crap transfer around.
If you guys know anyway on blocking morpheus/kazaa from the main server point at the IT department, please tell me so I can forward the information over to them. I personally don't care if my college blocks it. If they did I'd have more bandwidth and a much higher latency. (I'm pinging about 600ms+, so playing games online is not worth it and that pisses me off. I'm a big tribes2/counterstrike/Quake3/Return to Castle Wolfenstein fan).
So really, even though I'm not a real fan of the way the RIAA works, I'm all for them getting Morpheus/KaZaA blocked. I'm sure that would temporarily provide much wanted bandwidth before the next big file sharing program comes out.
For the time being I'd like my college to block it. So if any of you know how to do it, I'd merrily send the information forward to the tech department.
I believe it's DivX ;-)
Is this a 1st post or did all the comments get lost?
Is this just my lucky day?
As soon as I am no longer able to use Win2k and force to upgrade to the next Microsoft Operating System will be the day I move to Linux.
Right now Win2k is perfect for me. It's stable, fast and easy to use. Now from my point of view I look back to what I was using just a few months ago. I was using Win98 because of motherboard issues with Win2k. At the time I was in no position to go from Win98 to Linux because I didn't have the time to learn everything again. I have toyed around with Linux in the past, but not fully because I needed a system right then and there I could fully use to my knowledge. Now anyways, I look back to Win98 and I see hell. Unstable, buggy and just a general annoyance. I look to the future and I see WinXP. I don't like the idea of my operating system phoning home or disabling my system if I move my hardware around too much because it invades my privacy. I have other quarrels, but I just want to basically point out my reasoning.
To sum it up, Win2k does everything I want. Going back to Win98 isn't an option, going forward to WinXP is a definate no-no.
As soon as Win2k can no longer function for me, that is the day I move to Linux.
"640GB ought to be enough for anybody." --Bill Gates, 2020
:-/
Hopefully ram prices will be decent then
"We've been working closely with Microsoft - BlackIce is widely used inside Microsoft - in order to make sure it works well," Rob Graham, founder of NetworkIce told us.
According to Steve Gibson, Black Ice is fairly ineffective (Scroll down to "Personal Firewalls and IRC Zombie/Bot Intrusions
") against actually protecting the system. Now I personally don't want to have Black Ice built into my operating system. I'd like the ability to use Zone Alarm at the very least. I prefer to use Tiny Personal Firewall, because it allows me to allow/deny connections on different protocols and ports as well as do MD5 checksums of programs.
Who knows, MS might make Black Ice in WinXP decent, but I at least what the freedom to choose my own security setup.
Yes Jon Katz is a professional writer!
13th paragraph down...
Dahlberg, who seems ill at ease in this movie and is flat throughout, simply wants to get home.
Well he could have slipped worse and said "Marky Mark, who seems ill..."
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You should not open anything remotely suspicious no matter what platform you are on!
I mean... it's not like other platforms are immune to stupid users...
Well, that's always true but in all honesty I've never really heard of a *NIX/MAC/QNX/BeOS virus or script that executes evil commands. I just wrote "Win32 platform" because it is by far the most susceptible OS to viruses.
But if other systems are known to have attempts of attacks, I'd be interested in read about it.
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For me I just use...
mozilla.exe -mail
It's basically the old school Netscape Communicator email client with a dash of red lizard hehe.
I don't believe it has the email attachment flaws Outlook is prone to, but anyone who decides to see the attachments included deserve what they get. It should be common sense to not open anything remotely suspicious if you're on a Win32 platform.
Anyways, I like using Mozilla's mail client. Reminds me of the days when Netscape was decent.
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..just what does this have to do with Enlightenment?
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Like I said, I had CA in my mind since I misunderstood.
Geez you geeks are harsh today.
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When he stated "I guess those laws allowed a senator for from the state to get away with murder" the first thing that clicked in my mind was the who Condit/Levy case since it's one of the top long running stories now. As for you, I never stated that the Levy case had anything to do with Massachusetts.
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I guess those laws allowed a senator from the state to get away with murder (or at least negligenct homicide)
Not until they find the body of Levy will it be a murder. If you wanna call a missing persons case a murder case you might as well stop sending out those little cards in the mail of kids that say "Have you seen me?" because they're already dead, right?
On a more ontopic note, I am a Massachusetts/Rhode Island resident. My home is in MA, my college is in RI (In my dreams I attend Brown, but go to the ghetto Johnson and Wales). In RI drivers aren't required to have insurrance or bullshit like that. It's horrifying to cross the street with those maniacs driving around the city. Now I'll be 19 within a few weeks, sometime before then I'll FINALLY be getting my drivers permit or license or something. I'll be interested to see how MA officers will act in light of this.
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God damnit, I'm gunna get karma burned for this but... I've spammed my beowulf cluster here on here many times before. Unfortunatly my host is dead and he hosts all the files so I can't mirror it somewhere else. Some day my 13 node beowulf cluster that rendered images in povray shall arise again! The site is http://beowulf.alignment.net ... I think it'll load if you get the IP which I have no idea.
To sum it up my geek friends and I built a beowulf cluster from spare parts sitting in the back of our high school storage area. 10 486's and 3 P2-200mhz Debian boxes powered PVMPov and allowed us (Me specifically since I'm the POV-Ray guy of us) to do distributed raytracing over the cluster.
Now if only I could get that website up you could see all the pictures and videos we made...
Argh, I'm gunna feel the karma burn.
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I think that sexy model marrying the doctor was a bit bogus. I mean, come on, even though it's TV-PG how are they supposed to uh.. do a little "peer to peer file exchanging" if ya know what I mean...
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There have been some pirate dvds of The Phantom Menace already.
At least this would be an official release with some extra goodies.
I guess I'll buy this one.
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It was...
"And unlike some other Robin Hood's, I can speak with a British accent"
...as far as I remember.
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Work UPS :)
You sure did that, and they promoted your ass like.. how many times? hehe.
Anyways my buddy Restil is right, work UPS in the meantime. You lose weight, gain muscles and if you speak english and spanish they'll promote you.
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Heh, I would pick a Sound Blaster Live! Platnum 5.1 over that X-Gamer. Adds on another $100 to the total.
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For 18k, that'll get you about a nice one FULL page newspaper advertisement in the daily paper. I'm talking a full paper page, not just a half, but a full page for $18,000.
/. and other news sites people around the world can see it.
That's just for a daily newspaper.
The spray paint advertising from the IBM employee has allowed thousands and thousands of city people to see the ads. With
$18,000. Dirt cheap advertising for international attention...
...with the minor cost of it being done illegally.
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I've been reading forums on gaming for a while now, one thing I hear constantly is "That game is dead." Hell I'm even seeing people say that "Quake3 is dead" and how Counter-Strike is the game that is going to replace Quake3 as a tournament game. Other people claim that games like Quake3 (Even Quake1, Doom2) are still alive and kicking. Both sides put up a good argument on which is dead and not.
But I do agree with you, they are classic and still fun to play with.
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This just shows that just because a game has two sequals to it does not mean the original is dead. Even more interesting is that The CPL is running an up coming tournament which includes DOOM2 and QuakeWorld as a deathmatch games.
Certainly interesting for a couple of games most people considered dead...
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I always called that Mac G4 cube computer "the borg box" because it reminded me of the Borg Cubes.
shrug.
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Lzip should have gotten $5000 for being the best compression program.
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I wonder how Apple feels about this contest.
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