run linux and you wont be stealing software! since i've been running linux, i can now finally claim to have no illegally obtained software on my computer... If i see a game i like, i test it with wine and if it works, i buy it.. nice little filter... i know the OS itself isnt illegally obtained... i know the many apps i use aren't illegally obtained... -- and all apps are now (as of about a year ago) now better than the commercial conterparts.. IMHO i still have yet to see an email client out there with better filtering than sylpheed-claws.... there are no browsers out there besides mozilla ones that do popup filtering (doesnt the new konqueror do it?) and i love tabbed browsing and all the apps that use a tabbed interface (gaim, multi-gnome-terminal, etc) now that i know the powers and advantages of linux (bsd, and all related systems) i dont think i'll be going back to windows any time soon.. and now that money is no longer an issue for me anymore.. i still have no plans on using windows.. I had originally switched to linux because i didnt want to mess with having to crack the new M$ OS each time i wanted to install it... i sure as hell wasnt going to buy it... i funally took the plunge and i've been legal in terms of software ever since... --- my laptop even came with a *legal* copy of XP pro --- and first thing i did was kill it and isntall linux... after a couple weeks (suitable burn-in time) i peeled off all the "XP' related stickers.. -- i find that i buy a lot more software now than i ever did before... -- because i DONT HAVE TO buy everything...anyone ever called M$ tech support? i know i havnt... --- spending a buttload of money to have them tell you to reinstall windows.. that's just BS (almost as bad as RTFM -- except RTFM is a lot more usefule --- (sometimes) --- for questions like "how do i make a linux server" --- not many people have the patience to hold your hand through that... and there are too many components ---
here's a proposal new rtfm format:
RTFM:net3-howto
moral of the long-winded rant ---- if you're addicted to software piracy... do something about it.... getting caught sux!
well -- in most cases it's hackers --- the nvidia drivers under linux are awesome.. (besides the drivers not being GPL) i really wish more companies provided drivers....even if closed source... and it'd be really nice if they provided source so they could be incorporated into the kernel
i really dont see the point in not making drivers open source... why would releasing information on how to interface to a sound card, video card, or whatever need to be so proprietary and secretive? most sound cards are just like all other sound cards with a few differences or addons here and there.. same with video.. and openGL, which most cards support... is open source.. so why not the drivers?
" he means 'as long' as in keeping windows running. sure, windows might be easy to set up, but then how long does it run for?"
Back when I ran windows, I had to erase and re-install the OS every 3 months reliably... It was really getting sick.. seemed like it got worse every time i rebooted.. which was quite often... under linux... i never have to reboot unless i added some hardware or want to recompile the kernel... and the system never 'spontaneously' degrades..
i can keep a linux machine on and running reliably without rebooting much longer than i could keep a windows on my HD without killing it and reinstalling
deltree/y C:\windows became my favorite command after a while...
whereas -- here's my current uptime on my server: root:echoes:/home/admins/prmths# uptime
2:12am up 311 days, 8:10, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
and that was when i added another hard disk before that it was another few hundred days
windows prison? -- besides games, I'm fully content with linux these days, There are tons of good browsers, full-featured email clients, video players, quick and easy guis, support for just about every piece of mainstream hardware, openoffice is great for word processing and has been able to open every MSOffice document i've tried, every instant messenger protocol is supported, wine/winex runs a lot of existing win32 apps out there, dosemu works decently, there are emulators out for just about every console system that's emulated on win32, ---
besides ease of installation issues (for the average user), commercial win32 games, and lib version problems with the packagers, i see no reason to stay with windows.
in terms of porting software --- why not just use a set of cross-platform a/v and i/o libs for writing programs? (libSDL)
-- does a great job -- and i dont see why someone doesnt make an addon lib that uses whichever widget set that is available on the system (gtk, qt, win32, aqua, plain old X, etc) seems like a pretty trivial thing to me... i've been writing cross-platform apps for quite some time... i usually make my own guis though (games -- most of the time i want a specific look)
i'm sure that a good amount of linux users out there these days have a machine capable of hardware acceleration (with the exception of certain laptop graphics cards which have shitty support of GL) I've often wondered why there isnt a GL based window manager or even all of X be GL accelerated with the right drivers.. wouldnt that solve most of the alpha channel problems and overall video speed issues that some people always complain about?
It'd be nice to design a whole new gui subsystem that does only local stuff.. maybe have an X capable module that you add on to the main system for backwards compatability and remote stuff. a new gui system is far overdue.... Add a few more framebuffer drivers to the kernel and make them more functional (change vid modes on the fly, support alpha, gl, etc have just a window manager on a framebuffer-- have all programs use the window manager for gui widgets
maybe i'll make one:) libsdl supports both X and framebuffer (as well as almost everything else) although i get tons of flickering on certain video cards in framebuffer...
I've already made a nice OS/X style interface for a game i'm working on (actually remake -- ultima 0-6 http://ucr.exahost.net -- crappy site.. nothing up for download yet just screenshots - dont slashdot me TOO bad!;) )
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Anyway: I bought Neverwinter Nights the day it came out, and I still haven't played it. I'm waiting for the Linux port.
You and a ton of other people I know...
It's not worth it for me to clean off my system or buy a new HD just to play a game... going back to windows just isnt something i want to do anymore..
for now, I have my dreamcast, saturn, 3do and genesis.
BTW, is there any *real* difference in the AGP 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x protocols? or is it just 'timing' that would make something unstable? I've never seen any instability and dont understand how switching between the speeds would make something unstable (given both the card and chipset support that speed)
i'm not much for organized religion or anything... but i've heard about someone saying that all the pslams in the bible relate to the cooresponding year in the 20th century --- and there are 150 psalms...
could they be influenced by that rumor?;)
--- just an observation
then again.. any song/poem could be interpereted in any way --- especially given the length of a year and the number of events that can happen in that given year;)
i never did like mac OS9 and below... os/x is nice though... except for some endian conversion... i could get a a friend of mine to EASILY compile and run any programs i wrote... it was damn cool... i'm seriously considering getting a mac sooner or later... especially with a G4 processor.. everything seems a lot more responsive with a G4 than with an x86 G3 seemed to be on par with x86... and i saw no reason to change...
G4 may be a good alternative for most of the *nix community if palladium works out as M$ wants...
my main bitch is that some of those mac cases are just too damn pretty to mod! =[
i see nothing wrong with this logic... but then again.. name one thing MS did in the interest of the general public... sure, we all know bill gates donates tons of stuff to schools, whatever.. but in the end.. the schools have to pay M$ back in other ways...
M$ does make a decent office app, and despite all the exploits in it.. outlook is a pretty good program... as well as IE... the point of slashdot is that most of us are sick and tired of all the M$ bullshit going on lately... all the crashes, all the big-brother techniques, over-priced software, piss-poor server stability, etc...
some big corporations want "accountability" --- they can always blame windows for a crash.. especially if they're not directly in the internet biz...
MS has its place... it's just not in close proximity to me (and i'm sure a lot of slashdot people agree) I am personally sick and tired of the stability issues, and the MS gestapo techniques..
I personally wouldnt reccomend linux, bsd, etc to a gamer... or a soccer mom or whoever.... then again... if there was a nicer packaging system out there (ie lib versions werent an issue) and if the game co's released native linux or bsd binaries at the same time as the windoze ones... and if software installation could be easily done without root priveledges, i'd definitely reccomend linux or bsd
fry's opened up am year or two ago in my area (houston, tx) and they get a TON of business in their PC area... as much as i hate to admit it... the fry's computer guys are a bit more knowledgable in computers than most best buy guys i've talked to... hopefully the fry's guys get some backbone..
check out sept 20-26 of reallifecomics.com (they go 5 years into the future and see an alternate "fry's") -- not posting a direct link in order to not slashdot reallife...;)
Or do I mean newspeak? "Palladium is watching YOU!"
funny.. the big-brother feeling is the reason i refused to run XP... -- and decided to go 100% linux and dump M$ permanantly... i'm sick of always having to crack all my software to not give them my info.... i used to run 98se for games, office, movies, etc -- once i found out about mplayer and xmms/avi/asf/mpeg support, the enhanced wine releases, and so on... i switched and never looked back.. and best of all.. i'm now 100% legal in terms of software! (paying a couple hundred bux for something like MS office if you want to use it once or twice every few months just seems disgusting... -- I dont have that kind of money to spend on something i'll barely use)
it's all about being practical... I'm sure a lot of people feel the same way... If i use a piece of software ALL THE TIME, hell yea i'd buy it...the developers put some hard work into it... why would i want to cheat them? of course i *could* get a free copy... but it just wouldnt be right...
with open source, the software is free and the people write the programs because they want to.. not because they have to... IMHO it makes a better product.. i've 'requested' features in several projects.. some have been implemented, some havnt... with commercial software.. unless you have some financial base with the company in question, they'll pretty much tell you to go screw yourself..
palladium is anti-innovation/anti-progress If i decide to write a game or web app, or whatever.. and i want to make it fully cross platform so everyone can enjoy it.. it COULD run on M$ systems but it wont...
--- as long as you get a PC.... then again.. isnt walmart supposed to be selling machines with lindows? Like i've mentioned many times... one thing i've noticed about the linux community.. nothing can stop it... hell.. even the uncrackable X-box has been 'fixed' i bet that the worst case scenario is that you'll need to patch your bios.. or something really simple like that...
i just bought a laptop -- fujitsu lifebook C series --- awesome machine for linux -- every bit of hardware supported It came with XP and the first thing *i* did was install slackware.. (i bought and returned about 5 laptops that week to find one that worked... a simple half-truth about the hardware not working got me around restocking fees --- actually the second fujitsu lifebook i've owned... great machines from my experience...)
I had to pay the M$ tax, but... i was willing to put up with that... I know the average consumer will never change their OS..... but i dont really care about them... I'm considering selling OS-less machines sooner or later.. or maybe install a stupid-proof modification of a distro pre-installed (i love chroot) maybe there'll be a market for 'pre-fixed' machines;)
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I'm sure there will be a way to get around it... I havnt heard of a single security function that is totally un-crackable... (128 bit decryption takes a while..[a LONG while] but....i'm sure palladium doesnt use anything that fancy.... it cant...) -- i'm sure that once a working software key for running programs is found... an appropriate change will be made to the kernel or whatever.. and like magic... everything works again.. i bet that the palladium system is no harder to crack than the x-box
" Just wait for Media Player for Linux to appear.. you too will sell your mortal soul to Bill Gatez" ummm.....no i have mplayer plays everything media player does..and lots more... and i can even use my dxr3 decoder to pipe *any* supported video out to my tv while keeping my main screen on VGA;)
compared to mplayer, or xine, MS media player is nothing (as long as you're running x86 =[ ) i hope they find a way to emulate win32 on other platforms if needed...
anybody up for making an xmms plugin that uses mplayer as the back-end for all media types?
i run a web hosting company and my customers need to be able to send email out thru my server from wherever they are... when i first setup the server, i had it up as an open relay (i know, i should be shot)... things were quiet... but after a year or two... i started getting load averages of 4 or 5 from all the damn spammers... i got myself on an RBL list and everything... after a ton of research and a couple days, I installed SMTP authentification under qmail and like magic.. no more spammers -- and for people who had accounts, it was still open for them..
Those damn thieves were about to kill my business! (not like i make enough for it to matter... )
moral of the story... open relays are bad!! use SOMETHING to close it up to the general public! smtp auth works awesome --- just make a web based FAQ on how to add smtp auth support on client side --- the concept of an extra checkbox escapes some people..
"Martin Roth aims to solve the spam problem by educating spammers about proper e-mail marketing practices. But to educate them, he first has to find them."
i think MS FUD should from this point on be called MSF i dont think MS has anymore uncertainty or doubt...
but anyways, on another note... I dont understand how this thing can work... how the hell can this 'new technology' see the difference between an 'approved jpeg' from an unapproved one? what does the bios have to do with what pages come up in a web browser? sure as hell cant stream all data thru the bios to check for 'GNU' or 'linux', etc... actually.. i'd like to see them try -- those machines will as slow as 8088's... or is it JUST the bootup stuff that is supposed to be checked? -- and then... what's stopping the kernel/bootloader guys from just changing the code a bit to make it work? i REALLY dont see how they can implement this successfully without unbearably slowing the machine down... I wonder how far all the MS subordinate companies will allow themselves to be taken before they take action...
This is retarded... there are tons of extremely gifted people that will figure out a way to circumvent any BS that's thrown our way... It's been done before and it'll be done as often as needs be. This is exactly the reason i hate microsoft. they wanna rule the damn world and control us 'peons' It seems to me that the guys up in redmond are getting desperate... i wonder how long they can keep up this "our way or no way" ideal... wasnt there a recent report that MS is loging around $150 on each X-box it sells? is it just me or does it seem like MS is crumbling? (or maybe REALLY BAD growing pains)
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run linux and you wont be stealing software! .... there are no browsers out there besides mozilla ones that do popup filtering (doesnt the new konqueror do it?) .. and now that money is no longer an issue for me anymore.. i still have no plans on using windows.. I had originally switched to linux because i didnt want to mess with having to crack the new M$ OS each time i wanted to install it... i sure as hell wasnt going to buy it... i funally took the plunge and i've been legal in terms of software ever since... --- my laptop even came with a *legal* copy of XP pro --- and first thing i did was kill it and isntall linux... after a couple weeks (suitable burn-in time) i peeled off all the "XP' related stickers.. -- i find that i buy a lot more software now than i ever did before... -- because i DONT HAVE TO buy everything...anyone ever called M$ tech support? i know i havnt... --- spending a buttload of money to have them tell you to reinstall windows.. that's just BS (almost as bad as RTFM -- except RTFM is a lot more usefule --- (sometimes) --- for questions like "how do i make a linux server" --- not many people have the patience to hold your hand through that... and there are too many components ---
since i've been running linux, i can now finally claim to have no illegally obtained software on my computer...
If i see a game i like, i test it with wine and if it works, i buy it..
nice little filter... i know the OS itself isnt illegally obtained... i know the many apps i use aren't illegally obtained... -- and all apps are now (as of about a year ago) now better than the commercial conterparts.. IMHO i still have yet to see an email client out there with better filtering than sylpheed-claws
and i love tabbed browsing and all the apps that use a tabbed interface (gaim, multi-gnome-terminal, etc)
now that i know the powers and advantages of linux (bsd, and all related systems) i dont think i'll be going back to windows any time soon
here's a proposal new rtfm format:
RTFM:net3-howto
moral of the long-winded rant ----
if you're addicted to software piracy... do something about it.... getting caught sux!
hm.. i thought that doorknobs on hobbit holes were in the center of the door... ;)
well -- in most cases it's hackers --- the nvidia drivers under linux are awesome.. (besides the drivers not being GPL) i really wish more companies provided drivers....even if closed source...
and it'd be really nice if they provided source so they could be incorporated into the kernel
i really dont see the point in not making drivers open source... why would releasing information on how to interface to a sound card, video card, or whatever need to be so proprietary and secretive?
most sound cards are just like all other sound cards with a few differences or addons here and there..
same with video..
and openGL, which most cards support... is open source.. so why not the drivers?
bah
makes no sense to me...
" he means 'as long' as in keeping windows running. sure, windows might be easy to set up, but then how long does it run for?"
... i never have to reboot unless i added some hardware or want to recompile the kernel... and the system never 'spontaneously' degrades..
/y C:\windows became my favorite command after a while...
Back when I ran windows, I had to erase and re-install the OS every 3 months reliably... It was really getting sick.. seemed like it got worse every time i rebooted.. which was quite often...
under linux
i can keep a linux machine on and running reliably without rebooting much longer than i could keep a windows on my HD without killing it and reinstalling
deltree
whereas -- here's my current uptime on my server:
root:echoes:/home/admins/prmths# uptime
2:12am up 311 days, 8:10, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
and that was when i added another hard disk before that it was another few hundred days
windows prison?
-- besides games, I'm fully content with linux these days, There are tons of good browsers, full-featured email clients, video players, quick and easy guis, support for just about every piece of mainstream hardware, openoffice is great for word processing and has been able to open every MSOffice document i've tried, every instant messenger protocol is supported, wine/winex runs a lot of existing win32 apps out there, dosemu works decently, there are emulators out for just about every console system that's emulated on win32, ---
besides ease of installation issues (for the average user), commercial win32 games, and lib version problems with the packagers, i see no reason to stay with windows.
in terms of porting software --- why not just use a set of cross-platform a/v and i/o libs for writing programs? (libSDL)
-- does a great job -- and i dont see why someone doesnt make an addon lib that uses whichever widget set that is available on the system (gtk, qt, win32, aqua, plain old X, etc)
seems like a pretty trivial thing to me... i've been writing cross-platform apps for quite some time... i usually make my own guis though (games -- most of the time i want a specific look)
is it just me or does this sound like something that would tie into ZPF energy theories?
i'm sure that a good amount of linux users out there these days have a machine capable of hardware acceleration (with the exception of certain laptop graphics cards which have shitty support of GL)
.... Add a few more framebuffer drivers to the kernel and make them more functional (change vid modes on the fly, support alpha, gl, etc
:)
;) )
I've often wondered why there isnt a GL based window manager or even all of X be GL accelerated with the right drivers.. wouldnt that solve most of the alpha channel problems and overall video speed issues that some people always complain about?
It'd be nice to design a whole new gui subsystem that does only local stuff.. maybe have an X capable module that you add on to the main system for backwards compatability and remote stuff.
a new gui system is far overdue
have just a window manager on a framebuffer-- have all programs use the window manager for gui widgets
maybe i'll make one
libsdl supports both X and framebuffer (as well as almost everything else)
although i get tons of flickering on certain video cards in framebuffer...
I've already made a nice OS/X style interface for a game i'm working on (actually remake -- ultima 0-6 http://ucr.exahost.net -- crappy site.. nothing up for download yet just screenshots - dont slashdot me TOO bad!
Anyway: I bought Neverwinter Nights the day it came out, and I still haven't played it. I'm waiting for the Linux port. You and a ton of other people I know... It's not worth it for me to clean off my system or buy a new HD just to play a game... going back to windows just isnt something i want to do anymore ..
for now, I have my dreamcast, saturn, 3do and genesis.
BTW, is there any *real* difference in the AGP 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x protocols? or is it just 'timing' that would make something unstable? I've never seen any instability and dont understand how switching between the speeds would make something unstable (given both the card and chipset support that speed)
i was really happy with the first movie...
even though all of the bombadil saga was pulled out.. etc...
but i guess they cant leave it all in since it'd take about a solid day to play the full thing...
i cant wait to see the two towers... i havnt seen anything with treebeard... anyone heard anything?
i'm also kind of curious on how much crunch power the fellowship took compared to the two towers...
i'm not much for organized religion or anything...
;)
;)
but i've heard about someone saying that all the pslams in the bible relate to the cooresponding year in the 20th century --- and there are 150 psalms...
could they be influenced by that rumor?
--- just an observation
then again.. any song/poem could be interpereted in any way --- especially given the length of a year and the number of events that can happen in that given year
i never did like mac OS9 and below... ...
os/x is nice though...
except for some endian conversion... i could get a a friend of mine to EASILY compile and run any programs i wrote
it was damn cool...
i'm seriously considering getting a mac sooner or later...
especially with a G4 processor.. everything seems a lot more responsive with a G4 than with an x86
G3 seemed to be on par with x86... and i saw no reason to change...
G4 may be a good alternative for most of the *nix community if palladium works out as M$ wants...
my main bitch is that some of those mac cases are just too damn pretty to mod! =[
umm..
originally, the whole point of linux is that you could run *nix on a 'cheap' pc as opposed to buying an 'expensive' unix machine...
and with sun architecture, you cant play some/a lot of avi/asf/wmv/wma files!
palladium... ;)
mmmm..
i have a level 6 true atlantian techno wizard character
pretty damn cool
and he hates the coallition..
hm.. i wonder... coallition == M$?
OMFG!! MICROSOFT IS GOING MILITARISTIC!!!
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!
VERY NOOOOOOO!!!!!
hm.. i wonder who the federation of magic is... maybe apple?
i see nothing wrong with this logic... but then again.. name one thing MS did in the interest of the general public...
... the point of slashdot is that most of us are sick and tired of all the M$ bullshit going on lately...
... it's just not in close proximity to me (and i'm sure a lot of slashdot people agree) I am personally sick and tired of the stability issues, and the MS gestapo techniques..
sure, we all know bill gates donates tons of stuff to schools, whatever.. but in the end.. the schools have to pay M$ back in other ways...
M$ does make a decent office app, and despite all the exploits in it.. outlook is a pretty good program... as well as IE
all the crashes, all the big-brother techniques, over-priced software, piss-poor server stability, etc...
some big corporations want "accountability" --- they can always blame windows for a crash.. especially if they're not directly in the internet biz...
MS has its place
I personally wouldnt reccomend linux, bsd, etc to a gamer... or a soccer mom or whoever....
then again... if there was a nicer packaging system out there (ie lib versions werent an issue)
and if the game co's released native linux or bsd binaries at the same time as the windoze ones... and if software installation could be easily done without root priveledges, i'd definitely reccomend linux or bsd
sad but true....
;)
fry's opened up am year or two ago in my area (houston, tx)
and they get a TON of business in their PC area...
as much as i hate to admit it... the fry's computer guys are a bit more knowledgable in computers than most best buy guys i've talked to...
hopefully the fry's guys get some backbone..
check out sept 20-26 of reallifecomics.com (they go 5 years into the future and see an alternate "fry's") -- not posting a direct link in order to not slashdot reallife...
Or do I mean newspeak? "Palladium is watching YOU!"
.. not because they have to... IMHO it makes a better product.. i've 'requested' features in several projects.. some have been implemented, some havnt... .. unless you have some financial base with the company in question, they'll pretty much tell you to go screw yourself..
funny.. the big-brother feeling is the reason i refused to run XP... -- and decided to go 100% linux and dump M$ permanantly... i'm sick of always having to crack all my software to not give them my info.... i used to run 98se for games, office, movies, etc -- once i found out about mplayer and xmms/avi/asf/mpeg support, the enhanced wine releases, and so on... i switched and never looked back.. and best of all.. i'm now 100% legal in terms of software! (paying a couple hundred bux for something like MS office if you want to use it once or twice every few months just seems disgusting... -- I dont have that kind of money to spend on something i'll barely use)
it's all about being practical... I'm sure a lot of people feel the same way... If i use a piece of software ALL THE TIME, hell yea i'd buy it...the developers put some hard work into it... why would i want to cheat them? of course i *could* get a free copy... but it just wouldnt be right...
with open source, the software is free and the people write the programs because they want to
with commercial software
palladium is anti-innovation/anti-progress
If i decide to write a game or web app, or whatever.. and i want to make it fully cross platform so everyone can enjoy it..
it COULD run on M$ systems but it wont...
--- as long as you get a PC.... .. nothing can stop it... hell.. even the uncrackable X-box has been 'fixed'
... i was willing to put up with that... ... but i dont really care about them... ;)
then again.. isnt walmart supposed to be selling machines with lindows? Like i've mentioned many times... one thing i've noticed about the linux community
i bet that the worst case scenario is that you'll need to patch your bios.. or something really simple like that...
i just bought a laptop -- fujitsu lifebook C series --- awesome machine for linux -- every bit of hardware supported
It came with XP and the first thing *i* did was install slackware..
(i bought and returned about 5 laptops that week to find one that worked... a simple half-truth about the hardware not working got me around restocking fees --- actually the second fujitsu lifebook i've owned... great machines from my experience...)
I had to pay the M$ tax, but
I know the average consumer will never change their OS..
I'm considering selling OS-less machines sooner or later.. or maybe install a stupid-proof modification of a distro pre-installed (i love chroot)
maybe there'll be a market for 'pre-fixed' machines
I'm sure there will be a way to get around it... I havnt heard of a single security function that is totally un-crackable... (128 bit decryption takes a while..[a LONG while] but....i'm sure palladium doesnt use anything that fancy.... it cant...) -- i'm sure that once a working software key for running programs is found... an appropriate change will be made to the kernel or whatever .. and like magic... everything works again..
i bet that the palladium system is no harder to crack than the x-box
" Just wait for Media Player for Linux to appear .. you too will sell your mortal soul to Bill Gatez" ...no ;)
...
ummm..
i have mplayer
plays everything media player does..and lots more... and i can even use my dxr3 decoder to pipe *any* supported video out to my tv while keeping my main screen on VGA
compared to mplayer, or xine, MS media player is nothing
(as long as you're running x86 =[ )
i hope they find a way to emulate win32 on other platforms if needed
anybody up for making an xmms plugin that uses mplayer as the back-end for all media types?
i run a web hosting company and my customers need to be able to send email out thru my server from wherever they are... when i first setup the server, i had it up as an open relay (i know, i should be shot) ... things were quiet... but after a year or two... i started getting load averages of 4 or 5 from all the damn spammers... i got myself on an RBL list and everything...
... )
after a ton of research and a couple days, I installed SMTP authentification under qmail and like magic.. no more spammers -- and for people who had accounts, it was still open for them..
Those damn thieves were about to kill my business!
(not like i make enough for it to matter
moral of the story... open relays are bad!! use SOMETHING to close it up to the general public! smtp auth works awesome --- just make a web based FAQ on how to add smtp auth support on client side --- the concept of an extra checkbox escapes some people..
"Martin Roth aims to solve the spam problem by educating spammers about proper e-mail marketing practices. But to educate them, he first has to find them."
...
"hello mr. spammer, meet mr. 2x4"
*SMACK*
mplayer seems to play the audio in this clip... sounds like the same one that was posted earlier...
i think MS FUD should from this point on be called MSF
... or is it JUST the bootup stuff that is supposed to be checked? -- and then... what's stopping the kernel/bootloader guys from just changing the code a bit to make it work? i REALLY dont see how they can implement this successfully without unbearably slowing the machine down...
i dont think MS has anymore uncertainty or doubt...
but anyways, on another note...
I dont understand how this thing can work...
how the hell can this 'new technology' see the difference between an 'approved jpeg' from an unapproved one? what does the bios have to do with what pages come up in a web browser? sure as hell cant stream all data thru the bios to check for 'GNU' or 'linux', etc... actually.. i'd like to see them try -- those machines will as slow as 8088's
I wonder how far all the MS subordinate companies will allow themselves to be taken before they take action...
This is retarded... there are tons of extremely gifted people that will figure out a way to circumvent any BS that's thrown our way... It's been done before and it'll be done as often as needs be. This is exactly the reason i hate microsoft. they wanna rule the damn world and control us 'peons'
It seems to me that the guys up in redmond are getting desperate... i wonder how long they can keep up this "our way or no way" ideal...
wasnt there a recent report that MS is loging around $150 on each X-box it sells?
is it just me or does it seem like MS is crumbling? (or maybe REALLY BAD growing pains)
that's always bugged me... WTF is a gigaquad... i know it's star trek.. but what type of data? possibly analog? or 4 state? (off, low, high, on)?