I remember back when Quake 1 was released. I would have given you long odds that Quake 2 would be made for Windows 95. DOS was faster for running games, why have all the extra overhead of running windows?
I was wrong.
When WinQuake came out and id said they were only going to release games for windows I was shocked. Looking back on it it seems so logical, no more need for all those soundcard drivers and video card drivers in the game. The loss of speed turned out to be a non issue as computers advanced, what made a big difference on a pentium 120 didnt matter so much on a pentium 200.
I'm not saying it's a definite, I just wouldn't write it off.
Your average person sees a product that costs nothing as being worth nothing. The free software community knows that this is not the case. Most people think the only reason a company would not charge for a product is if the product is so bad that people would only use it because it's free.
I think the move to sell Star Office can only be good, hopefully Sun can get it in the stores for Mum and Dad consumers to at least look at.
Underclocking is actually usefull. I used to work for a company that used embedded PC hardware, we used to routinely underclock chips when we knew that they would be going into very hot climates or in places where the ventilation would be poor.
Unless I was imagining the many many hours of fun I had playing doom years ago (and indeed more recently), then no, I dont see how it can be overrated. I dont think any game since has given me the same amount of enjoyment.
It is very well written and the arguments presented are logical. This is the type of rant that MS needs to hear, although they seem to be masters of burying their head in the sand.
I remember when I first got Windows 95, I had it set up so that it booted to DOS. I couldn't understand why I would want to go into windows by default, all that windows was good for (in my mind, having used win 3.1 all those years) was writting up assignments.
I didnt play games in windows to start off with, because it made games run much worse than they did in DOS (on another interesting note I remember reading magazine articles before win 95 came out claiming DOS games would run faster under win 95 than in DOS, hehehe).
Then something happened, ID announced a quake port for win 95 and said from now on they were only going to release games under win 95 not dos. I couldn't believe it at the time, WHY?
Of course, now I know exactly why. Under win 95 they didn't have to worry about sound card drivers, joystick drivers etc. Pretty soon, all games only came out under win 95 and the reason was simple, it was better for both parties. Users didn't have to worry about if a certain game was going to work with their ESS Crap sound card and developers didn't have to worry about the users dodgy sound card either. The small trade off in performance was soon forgotten with the next hardware upgrade.
The point is, people didn't move to win 95 because they could play their dos games, they moved because games ONLY came out for win95. Sure, if you couldnt play dos games in win95 it would have made the transition a lot harder, but it wasn't the defining factor. Linux can not offer a benefit to gamers in running their games, or to developers either. For both parties it is still harder than windows, and this means it will stay a small specialised market for those that already run linux. WineX is a step in a good direction for making the process easier on developers and users, but dont expect a rush of gamers to come from windows.
We had a talk at university given by someone who worked as a security auditor. One of the things they did was try to gain physical access to the computer room (crawling through airvents to get into roof cavities etc.). They also had some fake Telstra (main telco in Australia) uniforms, they would just walk up to reception with a bag of stuff and a modem and ask to get access to the comms room because they had to install something. Apparently it works most of the time, they hardly ever get asked to show a Telstra staff card.
The security of your information is only ever as good as your procedures and staff.
I heard a rumor that Linus was waiting til the release of WinXP to fork the 2.5 kernel. Anyone have info on that? Maybe it was just a rumor.
I would think that is a rumour. Given that in most interviews Linus claims that he isn't all that interested in other operating systesm. Also, what reason would he have to wait until winXP comes out to fork 2.5? Its not like (sorry MS) it's going to change the face of computing. I think you will be waiting until Linus is sick of trying to keep 2.4 stable and gives it to Alan.
By the way, folks, Nautilus is dead. The fact that they went out of business so quickly ought to tell you something about their product.
Was Eazel trying to sell people copies of Nautilus? I dont think so. They were trying to sell services offered through nautilus, which nobody wanted. They went under because they didn't have a revenue stream, not because Nautilus sucked. Nautilus is not dead, the release of 1.0.5 in the last week shows that, the work has been taken up by the community, and Nautilus seems to be benefitting from that.
People have been complaining about the time that it has taken mozilla to reach version 1.0, but from a developers point of view finally stamping "1.0" on the thing is a very hard thing to do. You cant say "oh that will be fixed in the next version" and "that feature is coming soon". Well, you can (and do) but people dont tend to respect you as much...
I'm glad that they have been taking the time to get 1.0 to standard necessary, for some reason AOL saw fit to release netscape 6.0 when they did, which I think was a huge mistake. Lets be glad that the mozilla folks are not so keen to release a product before it is ready.
Nope, they can't. That's what tcp has sequence numbers for. All they could do is a SYN flood, which wouldn't be very effective.
The problem with sequence numbers is that even though the spec's say they are meant to be random, lots of OS's produce predictable sequence numbers (ie win9x).
Seems the obvious flaw with any of these sort of plans is that even "average joe" type people are starting to run firewalls on their personal machines. Add to that most geeky type people running seperate machines for internet sharing / firewalling, and whoever wants to hack your machine is pretty screwed.
They can try and hax0r my linux server that's firewalled such that only the ssh port is open all they want, but I dont think they are going to have much luck...
Now tell me exactly what are they going to do? Sue some random guy at a protest on the other side of the world?
Nope, they will sue the poor bastard who made the bert is evil website, or at least engage in some big time stand over tactics until he takes the whole site down.
Such is the knee jerk reaction to anything on the internet from big corporations these days. Even though the bert is evil website has been around for years and the picture orignated from before september 11th.
The irony of a story about NEWS addiction in a NEWS paper is increadible. I guess they know it will at least reach the target audience of people addicted to news;)
How do you coordinate those efforts without communication technology?
I dont see where all these claims of expert organisation come into the attacks. Airline schedules are available a long time in advance (to book tickets), a few rough guestimates on air speed and you time your schedule and work out what planes to take months in advance.
Once everyone concerned knows the flight numbers and their targets (easy to say over the phone/by mail in a non-obvious way) all they have to do is go do it.
The planes hit the WTC's 18 minutes appart, and the one hitting the pentagon was some time after that, so its not like they timed it to the minute.
I wouldnt be worried about that, simply because it is hard enough to bring the necessary equipment on board a plane to try and hijack it, let alone bring chemical weapons as well. Any biological agent of a useful size to cause infection would likely be detected by sniffer dogs and other protections at the airport.
I dont think the terrorists would take the additional risk, epecially since their actions have unfortunately proved the devastation that can be caused by flying a commercial airline flight into buildings.
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I remember back when Quake 1 was released. I would have given you long odds that Quake 2 would be made for Windows 95. DOS was faster for running games, why have all the extra overhead of running windows?
I was wrong.
When WinQuake came out and id said they were only going to release games for windows I was shocked. Looking back on it it seems so logical, no more need for all those soundcard drivers and video card drivers in the game. The loss of speed turned out to be a non issue as computers advanced, what made a big difference on a pentium 120 didnt matter so much on a pentium 200.
I'm not saying it's a definite, I just wouldn't write it off.
I'm more offended by the blatent tautology than anything else ;)
Your average person sees a product that costs nothing as being worth nothing. The free software community knows that this is not the case. Most people think the only reason a company would not charge for a product is if the product is so bad that people would only use it because it's free.
I think the move to sell Star Office can only be good, hopefully Sun can get it in the stores for Mum and Dad consumers to at least look at.
Your girlfriend hasn't given you a bit a trouble?!? Where can I find such a woman...
Underclocking is actually usefull. I used to work for a company that used embedded PC hardware, we used to routinely underclock chips when we knew that they would be going into very hot climates or in places where the ventilation would be poor.
Unless I was imagining the many many hours of fun I had playing doom years ago (and indeed more recently), then no, I dont see how it can be overrated. I dont think any game since has given me the same amount of enjoyment.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/22816.html
It is very well written and the arguments presented are logical. This is the type of rant that MS needs to hear, although they seem to be masters of burying their head in the sand.
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I remember when I first got Windows 95, I had it set up so that it booted to DOS. I couldn't understand why I would want to go into windows by default, all that windows was good for (in my mind, having used win 3.1 all those years) was writting up assignments.
I didnt play games in windows to start off with, because it made games run much worse than they did in DOS (on another interesting note I remember reading magazine articles before win 95 came out claiming DOS games would run faster under win 95 than in DOS, hehehe).
Then something happened, ID announced a quake port for win 95 and said from now on they were only going to release games under win 95 not dos. I couldn't believe it at the time, WHY?
Of course, now I know exactly why. Under win 95 they didn't have to worry about sound card drivers, joystick drivers etc. Pretty soon, all games only came out under win 95 and the reason was simple, it was better for both parties. Users didn't have to worry about if a certain game was going to work with their ESS Crap sound card and developers didn't have to worry about the users dodgy sound card either. The small trade off in performance was soon forgotten with the next hardware upgrade.
The point is, people didn't move to win 95 because they could play their dos games, they moved because games ONLY came out for win95. Sure, if you couldnt play dos games in win95 it would have made the transition a lot harder, but it wasn't the defining factor. Linux can not offer a benefit to gamers in running their games, or to developers either. For both parties it is still harder than windows, and this means it will stay a small specialised market for those that already run linux. WineX is a step in a good direction for making the process easier on developers and users, but dont expect a rush of gamers to come from windows.
We had a talk at university given by someone who worked as a security auditor. One of the things they did was try to gain physical access to the computer room (crawling through airvents to get into roof cavities etc.). They also had some fake Telstra (main telco in Australia) uniforms, they would just walk up to reception with a bag of stuff and a modem and ask to get access to the comms room because they had to install something. Apparently it works most of the time, they hardly ever get asked to show a Telstra staff card.
The security of your information is only ever as good as your procedures and staff.
http://www.google.com/linux
something like that you mean?
I heard a rumor that Linus was waiting til the release of WinXP to fork the 2.5 kernel. Anyone have info on that? Maybe it was just a rumor.
I would think that is a rumour. Given that in most interviews Linus claims that he isn't all that interested in other operating systesm. Also, what reason would he have to wait until winXP comes out to fork 2.5? Its not like (sorry MS) it's going to change the face of computing. I think you will be waiting until Linus is sick of trying to keep 2.4 stable and gives it to Alan.
By the way, folks, Nautilus is dead. The fact that they went out of business so quickly ought to tell you something about their product.
Was Eazel trying to sell people copies of Nautilus? I dont think so. They were trying to sell services offered through nautilus, which nobody wanted. They went under because they didn't have a revenue stream, not because Nautilus sucked. Nautilus is not dead, the release of 1.0.5 in the last week shows that, the work has been taken up by the community, and Nautilus seems to be benefitting from that.
Not long now until we see women with strange eyes and bad hair running round saying:
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(appologies to Zool for stealing his line).
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People have been complaining about the time that it has taken mozilla to reach version 1.0, but from a developers point of view finally stamping "1.0" on the thing is a very hard thing to do. You cant say "oh that will be fixed in the next version" and "that feature is coming soon". Well, you can (and do) but people dont tend to respect you as much...
I'm glad that they have been taking the time to get 1.0 to standard necessary, for some reason AOL saw fit to release netscape 6.0 when they did, which I think was a huge mistake. Lets be glad that the mozilla folks are not so keen to release a product before it is ready.
Nope, they can't. That's what tcp has sequence numbers for. All they could do is a SYN flood, which wouldn't be very effective.
The problem with sequence numbers is that even though the spec's say they are meant to be random, lots of OS's produce predictable sequence numbers (ie win9x).
Seems the obvious flaw with any of these sort of plans is that even "average joe" type people are starting to run firewalls on their personal machines. Add to that most geeky type people running seperate machines for internet sharing / firewalling, and whoever wants to hack your machine is pretty screwed.
They can try and hax0r my linux server that's firewalled such that only the ssh port is open all they want, but I dont think they are going to have much luck...
Now tell me exactly what are they going to do? Sue some random guy at a protest on the other side of the world?
Nope, they will sue the poor bastard who made the bert is evil website, or at least engage in some big time stand over tactics until he takes the whole site down.
Such is the knee jerk reaction to anything on the internet from big corporations these days. Even though the bert is evil website has been around for years and the picture orignated from before september 11th.
The irony of a story about NEWS addiction in a NEWS paper is increadible. I guess they know it will at least reach the target audience of people addicted to news ;)
I dont see where all these claims of expert organisation come into the attacks. Airline schedules are available a long time in advance (to book tickets), a few rough guestimates on air speed and you time your schedule and work out what planes to take months in advance.
Once everyone concerned knows the flight numbers and their targets (easy to say over the phone/by mail in a non-obvious way) all they have to do is go do it.
The planes hit the WTC's 18 minutes appart, and the one hitting the pentagon was some time after that, so its not like they timed it to the minute.
I would venture a guess that the plane that crashed in pennsilvania rather than a target was the result of heroics from somebody on the plane.
I wouldnt be worried about that, simply because it is hard enough to bring the necessary equipment on board a plane to try and hijack it, let alone bring chemical weapons as well. Any biological agent of a useful size to cause infection would likely be detected by sniffer dogs and other protections at the airport.
I dont think the terrorists would take the additional risk, epecially since their actions have unfortunately proved the devastation that can be caused by flying a commercial airline flight into buildings.