Another interesting thing about that list is that I could identify about half of them being released for Mac. A higher then usual average I would guess. Granted, there were some open source games on the list...
I like that note about less disasters. That's pretty much what made me stop playing, all that constant tugging me to one planet or another instead of letting me focus on expanding (or at least not shrinking) my domains.
Actually, no. At least not on Mac, don't really know much about the windows version. iTunes keeps track of the inode of the file, so as long as you just move them around, it will be able to find them even if the path changes.
You would actually get that effect by running just slower than the speed of light. For them, only a short while would go by, while it will be years for the rest of the world. There's still the question of in what location they were while running though, and why nobody noticed them.
Of course, you can't really go back in time by running faster than light. It's simply not possible to move FTL, since it would require an infinite amount of energy to accelerate.
Disclaimer: this is all based on what I remember of high school physics
Not all of that code is usable. Most is using the restrictive APSL that is not BSD compatible.
Apple do release some stuff using the BSD licence however. launchd is an example of a good piece of code other OS vendors should consider (though it could use one more turn of refactoring). They've also contributed a lot to llvm, which I think is likely to replace gcc in many systems sometime in the future.
There is one big thing hindering BSD in the data-center, namely employees. In a market starved for competence, I've noticed there has to be a compromise between using the best systems and finding enough employees. While the best linux system admins and programmers have no problem dealing with BSD, when you want to lower your requirements a step it is not so easy.
The workaround would be to turn of acceptance of router advertisements in sysctl. Seems to be the key net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra (or replace all with an interface name).
The advantage is you get rid of your NAT. You can for example use it to access your computer remotly with ssh or file sharing, or get IP telephone provided separately from your ISP.
You can turn on 6to4 in your OS, it will give your whole home network global IPv6 addresses with your IPv4 connected computer as router. Some OSes might require further configuration.
Around here (Sweden) many ISPs actually have a local 6to4 router so the speed is the same, but in some locations you will get a longer route if you do this though.
Go with either bazaar or mercurial. There's not really any reason to consider subversion any more, and frankly I find git too weird to be usable.
Bazaar and mercurial are very similar and both have command sets that seem based on subversion. Bazaar has two nice features that Mercurial lacks: It can work with a central repository, very similar to subversion, and it has launchpad.net, which is a very nice project site. If you don't need either of those features I'd go with Mercurial though, since it's quite a bit faster.
Lets first be clear on what grinding means and how it differs from questing. Grinding is where you kill mobs without having a quest to do it.
Questing is where you kill the same mobs but only because you have a quest to do it.
That's in no way true. What you are describing is grinding vs. grinding quests. Of course, World of Warcraft mostly contains quests that are about grinding, so I can see how you got it wrong. There's some exceptions, but I'd say even if you look for those other quests, you have to do at least 10 times as many grinding quests as others to reach top level.
If you play almost any single-player RPG, you will find that the quests are about going to a certain location, or figuring out how to get past a locked door, or how to convince a certain NPC to hand over an item. They might include killing monsters, but just as likely you just have to talk to the right NPCs, or maybe as a rogue you can sneak past everything.
Those quests might or might not fit in a MMORPG. I don't see any reason they wouldn't, there's certainly plenty of them in the MUDs that predates MMORPGs. It's not really important though. The answer to the question "Is World of Warcraft all about grinding?" is definitily yes.
My sister in law in Thailand decided to get internet when I was there last. Problem is there's no phone lines where she lives, mobile phones came first. So that's what she got, a stationary 3G modem with fixed charge. I think I saw at least 3 NAT passthroughs when I did a traceroute out of her computer. Not a problem for her, but if I ever move there myself, I will certainly be annoyed.
And the same is happening here in Sweden. People who live too far from base stations for *DSL get internet through radio or mobile. We might have enough addresses for everyone to get one (I'm not sure), but we're certainly approaching the line where the home internet user will only have a NATed address.
OS X supports up to 255 characters and can use the same characters as Linux, except for a colon (:). However, the Finder may have trouble with bizarre file names that can be created in the shell.
This is wrong... OS X only accepts UTF-8 sequences, and will also convert them to Unicode NFD before sending them to the hd driver. This can be an issue with Linux since the favourite Unicode form there is NFC, so it might have problems with comparing. OS X does accept colons, it's just that Finder and Carbon converts them to/from / for historical reasons.
For an article aiming at portability, I think they missed out on the biggest issues.
Hrm, I sort of agree, but I wouldn't say linux is slower, because it depends very much on what you do. The extra hardware support might also matter, if you have something unusual.
However, a big advantage of BSD is the base distribution where you get libraries and base tools together with the kernel. There's no risk of a system call existing in the libraries but not in the kernel, and there's no risk of the basic tools being out of sync. Some linux dists are sort of like this too, but it's usually more cumbersome to keep it that way.
NetBSD is the absolutely cleanest OS source base I've found, which is good for stability. Linux (and even FreeBSD to some extent) tends to be very hackish and bloated (one patch upon another). This is probably due to the review process every patch has to go through, which of course on the other hand leads to a slower development process.
And finally, it should be mentioned that the licences are different, though it mostly affects distribution and not usage.
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Unfortunately, you still need an original cd key after the 10 days trial.
That's a problem with the cpu. While you could check the originating syscall instruction in the kernel, it's mostly a tiny inconvenience for the hacker, and won't really help much. Fixing the cpu would help a little, because cache problems would then kick in, but I have some sample code that avoids that problem to.
The big problem with PAM is that it wants to stay in control of the thread and only use callbacks when it needs some information from the user. This cause several problems if you're not willing do dedicate a separate thread to authenticating. If you for example have periodic tasks or want to support multiple users at the same time, you have to make various hacks to make PAM return control of the thread to you.
I think you misunderstood the closed source part. It was about corporations pressuring to be able to use their closed source PAM modules with any PAM application.
I do not agree much with the GP though, and I think the version number system is a weird thing to choose your OS on. NetBSD still has the cleanest source base out there, and BSD in general have lots of advantages over Linux.
This is not about copyright. Copyright is the right you have to distribute a work you are the creator of. Marvel is obviously not the creator of the characters in City of Heroes. Compare with the fact that you can copy someone's drawing, even their stroke style, as long as you don't claim it's an original.
This is about trademarks and IP. Apparently Marvel have trademarks for their characters names and looks. The trademarks would include specific clothing etc, but ofc they might have several for each character. IANAL so I wouldn't know what the law says, but don't mix copyright into it...
That's why you run it in transport mode and then use ipip for the actual tunnel. Last I looked Linux didn't have ipip either, but I think it was planned for 2.6.
Sure, it would be much better if the ipsec traffic came on some pseudointerface, like it did/does in FreeSWAN, completely agree there...
*BSD had (useful) IPv6 long before Linux thanks to kame. OpenBSD is also the last of them to get SMP support, even if it's pretty fresh in NetBSD too (a year or so).
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Another interesting thing about that list is that I could identify about half of them being released for Mac. A higher then usual average I would guess. Granted, there were some open source games on the list...
I like that note about less disasters. That's pretty much what made me stop playing, all that constant tugging me to one planet or another instead of letting me focus on expanding (or at least not shrinking) my domains.
Actually, no. At least not on Mac, don't really know much about the windows version. iTunes keeps track of the inode of the file, so as long as you just move them around, it will be able to find them even if the path changes.
Read the part "Summary of the invention" instead. It's quite undestandable
You would actually get that effect by running just slower than the speed of light. For them, only a short while would go by, while it will be years for the rest of the world. There's still the question of in what location they were while running though, and why nobody noticed them.
Of course, you can't really go back in time by running faster than light. It's simply not possible to move FTL, since it would require an infinite amount of energy to accelerate.
Disclaimer: this is all based on what I remember of high school physics
and they are all to slow to run windows 7 anyway. what's your point?
Show me a cpu made in the last three years that doesn't support 64 bit
Well, it's 3 years and 5 days old, but close enough...
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Not all of that code is usable. Most is using the restrictive APSL that is not BSD compatible.
Apple do release some stuff using the BSD licence however. launchd is an example of a good piece of code other OS vendors should consider (though it could use one more turn of refactoring). They've also contributed a lot to llvm, which I think is likely to replace gcc in many systems sometime in the future.
There is one big thing hindering BSD in the data-center, namely employees. In a market starved for competence, I've noticed there has to be a compromise between using the best systems and finding enough employees. While the best linux system admins and programmers have no problem dealing with BSD, when you want to lower your requirements a step it is not so easy.
Interesting. I only paid about 50 â (euro, slashdot needs an upgrade) for my downloaded copy, and that includes our (outrageous) 25 % VAT in Sweden.
I agree the game was not that great though.
The workaround would be to turn of acceptance of router advertisements in sysctl. Seems to be the key net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra (or replace all with an interface name).
The advantage is you get rid of your NAT. You can for example use it to access your computer remotly with ssh or file sharing, or get IP telephone provided separately from your ISP.
You can turn on 6to4 in your OS, it will give your whole home network global IPv6 addresses with your IPv4 connected computer as router. Some OSes might require further configuration.
Around here (Sweden) many ISPs actually have a local 6to4 router so the speed is the same, but in some locations you will get a longer route if you do this though.
Well, you asked for opinions, and here are mine:
Go with either bazaar or mercurial. There's not really any reason to consider subversion any more, and frankly I find git too weird to be usable.
Bazaar and mercurial are very similar and both have command sets that seem based on subversion. Bazaar has two nice features that Mercurial lacks: It can work with a central repository, very similar to subversion, and it has launchpad.net, which is a very nice project site. If you don't need either of those features I'd go with Mercurial though, since it's quite a bit faster.
Even while being sarcastic, you could've provided a link.
That's in no way true. What you are describing is grinding vs. grinding quests. Of course, World of Warcraft mostly contains quests that are about grinding, so I can see how you got it wrong. There's some exceptions, but I'd say even if you look for those other quests, you have to do at least 10 times as many grinding quests as others to reach top level.
If you play almost any single-player RPG, you will find that the quests are about going to a certain location, or figuring out how to get past a locked door, or how to convince a certain NPC to hand over an item. They might include killing monsters, but just as likely you just have to talk to the right NPCs, or maybe as a rogue you can sneak past everything.
Those quests might or might not fit in a MMORPG. I don't see any reason they wouldn't, there's certainly plenty of them in the MUDs that predates MMORPGs. It's not really important though. The answer to the question "Is World of Warcraft all about grinding?" is definitily yes.
who would run a server on a phone?
My sister in law in Thailand decided to get internet when I was there last. Problem is there's no phone lines where she lives, mobile phones came first. So that's what she got, a stationary 3G modem with fixed charge. I think I saw at least 3 NAT passthroughs when I did a traceroute out of her computer. Not a problem for her, but if I ever move there myself, I will certainly be annoyed.
And the same is happening here in Sweden. People who live too far from base stations for *DSL get internet through radio or mobile. We might have enough addresses for everyone to get one (I'm not sure), but we're certainly approaching the line where the home internet user will only have a NATed address.
This is wrong... OS X only accepts UTF-8 sequences, and will also convert them to Unicode NFD before sending them to the hd driver. This can be an issue with Linux since the favourite Unicode form there is NFC, so it might have problems with comparing.
OS X does accept colons, it's just that Finder and Carbon converts them to/from / for historical reasons.
For an article aiming at portability, I think they missed out on the biggest issues.
Hrm, I sort of agree, but I wouldn't say linux is slower, because it depends very much on what you do. The extra hardware support might also matter, if you have something unusual.
However, a big advantage of BSD is the base distribution where you get libraries and base tools together with the kernel. There's no risk of a system call existing in the libraries but not in the kernel, and there's no risk of the basic tools being out of sync. Some linux dists are sort of like this too, but it's usually more cumbersome to keep it that way.
NetBSD is the absolutely cleanest OS source base I've found, which is good for stability. Linux (and even FreeBSD to some extent) tends to be very hackish and bloated (one patch upon another). This is probably due to the review process every patch has to go through, which of course on the other hand leads to a slower development process.
And finally, it should be mentioned that the licences are different, though it mostly affects distribution and not usage.
Unfortunately, you still need an original cd key after the 10 days trial.
That's a problem with the cpu. While you could check the originating syscall instruction in the kernel, it's mostly a tiny inconvenience for the hacker, and won't really help much. Fixing the cpu would help a little, because cache problems would then kick in, but I have some sample code that avoids that problem to.
The big problem with PAM is that it wants to stay in control of the thread and only use callbacks when it needs some information from the user. This cause several problems if you're not willing do dedicate a separate thread to authenticating. If you for example have periodic tasks or want to support multiple users at the same time, you have to make various hacks to make PAM return control of the thread to you.
I think you misunderstood the closed source part. It was about corporations pressuring to be able to use their closed source PAM modules with any PAM application.
I do not agree much with the GP though, and I think the version number system is a weird thing to choose your OS on. NetBSD still has the cleanest source base out there, and BSD in general have lots of advantages over Linux.
This is not about copyright. Copyright is the right you have to distribute a work you are the creator of. Marvel is obviously not the creator of the characters in City of Heroes. Compare with the fact that you can copy someone's drawing, even their stroke style, as long as you don't claim it's an original.
This is about trademarks and IP. Apparently Marvel have trademarks for their characters names and looks. The trademarks would include specific clothing etc, but ofc they might have several for each character. IANAL so I wouldn't know what the law says, but don't mix copyright into it...
Figures... didn't think it was there because I couldn't find any way to activate it in some 2.4.x kernel.
That's why you run it in transport mode and then use ipip for the actual tunnel. Last I looked Linux didn't have ipip either, but I think it was planned for 2.6.
Sure, it would be much better if the ipsec traffic came on some pseudointerface, like it did/does in FreeSWAN, completely agree there...
Woah, a little less zeal thanks. Apparently the question mattered to my parent, since (s)he asked about it...
*BSD had (useful) IPv6 long before Linux thanks to kame. OpenBSD is also the last of them to get SMP support, even if it's pretty fresh in NetBSD too (a year or so).