Keep in mind that whoever uses software released under the GPL must read it first. If you do not agree...you don't have to use it and you can write your own code for whatever purpose you desire. Just because said companies are now at risk of "knock-offs" by releasing the code does make me feel any sympathy for them and this article is basically saying that they didn't play by the rules and now they shouldn't have to follow them because its not fair...oh boo hoo.
Webmin is a dog. Slower than any other web-based administration tool I've ever seen. I have two more servers to remove it from before its completely out of my environment...finally.
Good points but I disagree with the whole idea of building some sort of mechanism to automatically identify aim-bots. I played q3 for over 3 years and qualified for quakecon in the CTF finals just this past august ( couldn't go because some clanmates ditched last minute ) but you could say I'm not to bad at the game. I've seen people cheating and I've seen how good they have become at using it. I'm not talking about public servers where anyone can join and just play...because most of those cheaters are easy to spot. I'm talking about competition in tournaments where the cheat will only use the auto-aim for one shot to make the kill nobody else can make before its too late. I used a modification called OSP which recorded weapon statistics and they are easy to get around.
Anyway...good paper but the problem of cheating is going to take a lot more thought than just looking at aim statistics and making a "best guess" on who is cheating.
Its not good. Period. If your willing to open the source thats one thing. To have it "leaked" aka stolen its another. I have a friend who makes his own games who thinks all games should be open source for the benefits it would provide against cheating so he opens his own code. I think thats great to have the option. Unfortunately I think this is going to cause a lot of cheating problems quicker than it would have if the source was never "leaked". Cheating will almost certainly always be a problem but this may make it worse. I wish we could trust everyone to play fairly but we can't.
Only time will tell how this plays out. In the meantime I feel badly for gamers.
I think your mistaken. In my company we are rolling ahead with out Linux installs and didn't even hiccup with all this SCO bs. Everyone I know in the tech industry that already had plans to install Linux says that they are still doing so and others expect Linux to win out when proposing solutions to management soon.
I think most people, with half a brain, can see the bs for what it is and are going about their business.
I know I shouldn't be feeding trolls this late as they may get an upset stomach but maybe he DID evaluate the needs and realized that it could be done with open standards software. Living in massachusetts showed me that they have a great system for taking care of interactions with the state online. They do a good job...have done a good job and I can't see the problem with them making a change.
Now put down the bag of "I don't know what I"m talkinga bout" and go to sleep.
I just read that HP will be sponsoring the SCO Roadshow http://www.sco.com/partners/city_to_city/oct2003/ and I am fairly disgusted. It has been suggested that the users of Linux write to you to explain that we will no longer be purchasing your printers. Thats fine and dandy if I was contemplating the purchase of one. However, I am not. What I am contemplating is the purchase of 10 servers from HP in order to replace our entire email system as well as DNS services and a ticketing system. After reading that you will be supporting SCO, who has tried to do more damage to the Linux community than any other company it the short history of Linux, I will be sure to recommend that we use one of your, more linux friendly, competitors.
Thank you and have a nice day, Gary -name-removed Systems Administrator -company-removed
...Video games causes violence BS. Lets cash in on getting shot!
The reality is no more simple than this:
Stupid people will do stupid things.
You can expand stupid to people not brought up well...people who have been mistreated etc but I prefer to classify them as stupid when they DO STUPID things.
Doesn't matter if they played GTA all day...or watched backyard wrestling...or if they saw faces of death and got interested. Next thing you know they might be at a zoo clubbing seals.
Video games don't kill people....stupid people do.
First: I bought more CDs a few years ago because I could download music...give it a listen...weed out the garbage, and there is a LOT of garbage out there, and pick and choose what I wanted. I would then go to the local music store and buy between 2-4 CDs of the best stuff. I didn't do this every week but I did buy a lot of CDs for someone who is also raising children and owning a home. I own somewhere in the neighborhood of 300-400 CDs and around 200 tapes. Now that I don't have the option to listen before I buy (unless you count the shit they play on the radio 40x a day as a preview of good music...which its not) I buy CDs rarely. I don't download music anymore either unless its Sublime bootlegs (which Skunk records actually doesn't care about) or underground bands who are promoting their music on their own. Most of the CDs I buy now are actually of underground unsigned bands. So I make many less trips to the local Newbury Comics, my local chain to buy music.
2nd: How are you going to enforce this blacklisting? The kid you kicked out of you're store went down the block and bought the CD elsewhere. Your not going to change his behavior by assaulting him and swearing at him in your "more family friendly and christian oriented" shop. Do you propose a photo ID system? How many people do you think openly discuss putting albums on the Internet in your store? How will you know if they are doing it? Do you suggest the RIAA track down everyone...make them submit to photos and finger printing and add it to a database and then before you can make a purchase you use some biometric to see if they are on "the list"?
I can apprieciate your stance and how the downturn in sales can seriously affect your life in a lot of ways but I doubt very highly that online music trading is really causing you serious problems. If you look at the numbers you'll see that during napsters reign record sales were up. So was the economy. To ignore the poor economy's affect on record sales, a product that is low on the list of "needs" is foolish.
Nobody can know for sure what mp3s and tools like kazaa have had on the industry and its entirely possible it has had a negative effect. I think there is evidence to the contrary out there but does anyone really know for sure? I doubt it. Data can be interpreted in many ways.
I do know that everyone I talk to is pissed off at the RIAA and are buying fewer albums as a result. As more and more news comes out about them taking 12 year olds to court and trying to get people to settle for $50,000.00 and other such heavy handed practices I think you're going to see an even steeper decrease in record sales.
The RIAA responded to the suit with a maxim: "No good deed goes unpunished, apparently."
Wow what a good deed. They did a good deed by having that 12 year old's mom pay $2,000.00 too...why are they so mis-understood??!
I say we just give them what they want. Stop downloading...stop buying and find other sources of music. I buy CDs from cdbaby.com (I'm not affiliated in any way) from artists that are unsigned and have found a lot of good music. I also listen to a lot of local stuff and some of the smaller record companies that actually promote bootlegs and similar things. Like skunk records.
My god no! Lets look at it for what it was...fat kid in school is too dumb to take embarrasing video out of video camera....friends find it...put it on web....he gets owned....how does that deserve anything?
Its just because everyone feels guilty about laughing at the fat kid that people want to send him shit and get him into the movie.
As great as this CD is...(I listen to it regularly) I still think that even $10 is too much for it. Afterall it was produced almost 20 years ago. Surely it has lost some value?
I find it interesting that only 30% of the moderation was "Funny" since humor was implied. Did some of you mods actually read this and assume it was informative and interesting? lol
Thank you for some REAL insight. Now I'm not just sucking up because I live in souther NH too;) But your comment on the body shops is dead on. I Just posted about indian tech workers from WiPro who my old startup used to use. I hated the fact that instead of hiring americans they brought in WiPro people...but then again I didn't know an unemployed tech worker in 1998 so it didn't piss me off so much...now though...it really gets my goat. Luckily I still have a job...but a lot of my friends do not and I work with a LOT of foreign nationals...very irksome.
I've never once met a tech worker who made $60k out of college....ever. Now I"m in systems and maybe there are some really talented programmers and maybe even good sysadmins that make that much but that is just not the 'norm'. In my experience fresh out of college IT workers make around 30-40k to start. I also worked with a company called wipro, not my choice, which was based in India and they would send consultants to the US to work for us as well as some that stayed in India. Now if they were to be believed they made more than $10k USD a year. One guy I spoke with told me he was round 25-30k a year USD and he was based in India and did about 1/2 of his work here in the US. This was about 3 years ago.
I'm not arguing that its not cheaper to do business in India and other 3rd world nations..just that the gaps you describe might be a bit exaggerated...then again..maybe not...its only me personal experience.
Worth noting I'm in the Boston IT market so its not like I'm working in east bumfuck ohio.;)
I'd prefer people actually learn about a system before using it daily and on the Internet. Yes I know its too much to ask but colleges...high schools and maybe even as young as elementary schools should start teaching children who use computers, at a more in depth level than playing games and using 1 or 2 apps, that its important to know thy system.
My parents are of the clueless hoard that don't know what or how or when to update for patches so I do that for them. A lot of people don't have a UNIX SA for a son so they are shit out of luck.
I do think that if people were taught the correct way to use a computer ( not only the software itself but how to update, upgrade and hell just save documents in an orderly fashion on the Hard Disk ) from day one...this would be LESS of a problem. It won't ever go away but through good teaching some of it can be addressed.
But seriously your going to compare Linux or OpenBSD to windows in terms of security? Lets be realistic. On top of the types of exploits that target poorly written software for both OS's. Such as say your average
WU FTP exploit and your average IIS exploit that are say both remotely executable over the net
and
a poorly DESIGNED (read: feature not a bug) app such as Microsoft Outlook express.
How come I've never had to worry about an email that might wreak havoc on my computer system in Linux...whether I"m using PINE or MUTT or even Evolution? Sure its partly due to the fact that as a normal user on my machine I can't do any real major damage..but its also because evolution (or whatever) doesn't have "Features" included that would allow a script to run and gather up my address book and start sending everyone some free porn.
I could write some more paragraphs arguing my point but I think you get the idea. There is a difference between human err and poorly designed or badly designed software.
I wish they would make a version...
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...that portrayed faramir correctly. I can forgive all the other stuff they messed up in the two towers but the whole faramir business and taking the poor hobbit back to gondor just drives me crazy...kind of like Jar Jar did when I saw EP 1.
How is the parent insightful? He starts to talk about the topic and then degrades into a "we knew about the 9/11 attacks before they happened" conspiracy theory. No your not a terrorist but you should keep it on-topic.
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I'm using 2.6.0-test7-mm1 and I have ONLY SATA drives...works fine.
Keep in mind that whoever uses software released under the GPL must read it first. If you do not agree...you don't have to use it and you can write your own code for whatever purpose you desire. Just because said companies are now at risk of "knock-offs" by releasing the code does make me feel any sympathy for them and this article is basically saying that they didn't play by the rules and now they shouldn't have to follow them because its not fair...oh boo hoo.
Webmin is a dog. Slower than any other web-based administration tool I've ever seen. I have two more servers to remove it from before its completely out of my environment...finally.
Good points but I disagree with the whole idea of building some sort of mechanism to automatically identify aim-bots. I played q3 for over 3 years and qualified for quakecon in the CTF finals just this past august ( couldn't go because some clanmates ditched last minute ) but you could say I'm not to bad at the game. I've seen people cheating and I've seen how good they have become at using it. I'm not talking about public servers where anyone can join and just play...because most of those cheaters are easy to spot. I'm talking about competition in tournaments where the cheat will only use the auto-aim for one shot to make the kill nobody else can make before its too late. I used a modification called OSP which recorded weapon statistics and they are easy to get around.
Anyway...good paper but the problem of cheating is going to take a lot more thought than just looking at aim statistics and making a "best guess" on who is cheating.
Thanks for the link.
Its not good. Period. If your willing to open the source thats one thing. To have it "leaked" aka stolen its another. I have a friend who makes his own games who thinks all games should be open source for the benefits it would provide against cheating so he opens his own code. I think thats great to have the option. Unfortunately I think this is going to cause a lot of cheating problems quicker than it would have if the source was never "leaked". Cheating will almost certainly always be a problem but this may make it worse. I wish we could trust everyone to play fairly but we can't.
Only time will tell how this plays out. In the meantime I feel badly for gamers.
I think your mistaken. In my company we are rolling ahead with out Linux installs and didn't even hiccup with all this SCO bs. Everyone I know in the tech industry that already had plans to install Linux says that they are still doing so and others expect Linux to win out when proposing solutions to management soon.
I think most people, with half a brain, can see the bs for what it is and are going about their business.
I know I shouldn't be feeding trolls this late as they may get an upset stomach but maybe he DID evaluate the needs and realized that it could be done with open standards software. Living in massachusetts showed me that they have a great system for taking care of interactions with the state online. They do a good job...have done a good job and I can't see the problem with them making a change.
Now put down the bag of "I don't know what I"m talkinga bout" and go to sleep.
They did not. I'm sure they got a lot of emails today.
...Video games causes violence BS. Lets cash in on getting shot!
The reality is no more simple than this:
Stupid people will do stupid things.
You can expand stupid to people not brought up well...people who have been mistreated etc but I prefer to classify them as stupid when they DO STUPID things.
Doesn't matter if they played GTA all day...or watched backyard wrestling...or if they saw faces of death and got interested. Next thing you know they might be at a zoo clubbing seals.
Video games don't kill people....stupid people do.
Looks like I got owned...weeeee
First: I bought more CDs a few years ago because I could download music...give it a listen...weed out the garbage, and there is a LOT of garbage out there, and pick and choose what I wanted. I would then go to the local music store and buy between 2-4 CDs of the best stuff. I didn't do this every week but I did buy a lot of CDs for someone who is also raising children and owning a home. I own somewhere in the neighborhood of 300-400 CDs and around 200 tapes. Now that I don't have the option to listen before I buy (unless you count the shit they play on the radio 40x a day as a preview of good music...which its not) I buy CDs rarely. I don't download music anymore either unless its Sublime bootlegs (which Skunk records actually doesn't care about) or underground bands who are promoting their music on their own. Most of the CDs I buy now are actually of underground unsigned bands. So I make many less trips to the local Newbury Comics, my local chain to buy music.
2nd: How are you going to enforce this blacklisting? The kid you kicked out of you're store went down the block and bought the CD elsewhere. Your not going to change his behavior by assaulting him and swearing at him in your "more family friendly and christian oriented" shop. Do you propose a photo ID system? How many people do you think openly discuss putting albums on the Internet in your store? How will you know if they are doing it? Do you suggest the RIAA track down everyone...make them submit to photos and finger printing and add it to a database and then before you can make a purchase you use some biometric to see if they are on "the list"?
I can apprieciate your stance and how the downturn in sales can seriously affect your life in a lot of ways but I doubt very highly that online music trading is really causing you serious problems. If you look at the numbers you'll see that during napsters reign record sales were up. So was the economy. To ignore the poor economy's affect on record sales, a product that is low on the list of "needs" is foolish.
Nobody can know for sure what mp3s and tools like kazaa have had on the industry and its entirely possible it has had a negative effect. I think there is evidence to the contrary out there but does anyone really know for sure? I doubt it. Data can be interpreted in many ways.
I do know that everyone I talk to is pissed off at the RIAA and are buying fewer albums as a result. As more and more news comes out about them taking 12 year olds to court and trying to get people to settle for $50,000.00 and other such heavy handed practices I think you're going to see an even steeper decrease in record sales.
The RIAA responded to the suit with a maxim: "No good deed goes unpunished, apparently."
Wow what a good deed. They did a good deed by having that 12 year old's mom pay $2,000.00 too...why are they so mis-understood??!
I say we just give them what they want. Stop downloading...stop buying and find other sources of music. I buy CDs from cdbaby.com (I'm not affiliated in any way) from artists that are unsigned and have found a lot of good music. I also listen to a lot of local stuff and some of the smaller record companies that actually promote bootlegs and similar things. Like skunk records.
My god no! Lets look at it for what it was...fat kid in school is too dumb to take embarrasing video out of video camera....friends find it...put it on web....he gets owned....how does that deserve anything?
Its just because everyone feels guilty about laughing at the fat kid that people want to send him shit and get him into the movie.
Fat canadian = jar jar for EP3?
I too pulled out out of thin air:
Legacy Of Brutality by the misfits
here is the Cheap CD price. ($15.41 with shipping 12.99 without)
Pretty steep for an album put out in 1985
Amazon Price is $13.99 and 16.97 with shipping.
So the difference isn't that much.
As great as this CD is...(I listen to it regularly) I still think that even $10 is too much for it. Afterall it was produced almost 20 years ago. Surely it has lost some value?
It takes just as long no matter how you sort it. If you want to just look at the top or bottom
ls -lrt |tail -n
ls -lt |head -n
Moderation +3
40% Interesting
30% Informative
30% Funny
I find it interesting that only 30% of the moderation was "Funny" since humor was implied. Did some of you mods actually read this and assume it was informative and interesting? lol
Thank you for some REAL insight. Now I'm not just sucking up because I live in souther NH too ;) But your comment on the body shops is dead on. I Just posted about indian tech workers from WiPro who my old startup used to use. I hated the fact that instead of hiring americans they brought in WiPro people...but then again I didn't know an unemployed tech worker in 1998 so it didn't piss me off so much...now though...it really gets my goat. Luckily I still have a job...but a lot of my friends do not and I work with a LOT of foreign nationals...very irksome.
I've never once met a tech worker who made $60k out of college....ever. Now I"m in systems and maybe there are some really talented programmers and maybe even good sysadmins that make that much but that is just not the 'norm'. In my experience fresh out of college IT workers make around 30-40k to start. I also worked with a company called wipro, not my choice, which was based in India and they would send consultants to the US to work for us as well as some that stayed in India. Now if they were to be believed they made more than $10k USD a year. One guy I spoke with told me he was round 25-30k a year USD and he was based in India and did about 1/2 of his work here in the US. This was about 3 years ago.
;)
I'm not arguing that its not cheaper to do business in India and other 3rd world nations..just that the gaps you describe might be a bit exaggerated...then again..maybe not...its only me personal experience.
Worth noting I'm in the Boston IT market so its not like I'm working in east bumfuck ohio.
of course I prefer
/dev/hda1 (yeah yeah I'm assuming IDE)
yes >
Now if this works for you...you should be using Windows.
I'd prefer people actually learn about a system before using it daily and on the Internet. Yes I know its too much to ask but colleges...high schools and maybe even as young as elementary schools should start teaching children who use computers, at a more in depth level than playing games and using 1 or 2 apps, that its important to know thy system.
My parents are of the clueless hoard that don't know what or how or when to update for patches so I do that for them. A lot of people don't have a UNIX SA for a son so they are shit out of luck.
I do think that if people were taught the correct way to use a computer ( not only the software itself but how to update, upgrade and hell just save documents in an orderly fashion on the Hard Disk ) from day one...this would be LESS of a problem. It won't ever go away but through good teaching some of it can be addressed.
It allows toast to enter and exit at will!
But seriously your going to compare Linux or OpenBSD to windows in terms of security? Lets be realistic. On top of the types of exploits that target poorly written software for both OS's. Such as say your average
WU FTP exploit and your average IIS exploit that are say both remotely executable over the net
and
a poorly DESIGNED (read: feature not a bug) app such as Microsoft Outlook express.
How come I've never had to worry about an email that might wreak havoc on my computer system in Linux...whether I"m using PINE or MUTT or even Evolution? Sure its partly due to the fact that as a normal user on my machine I can't do any real major damage..but its also because evolution (or whatever) doesn't have "Features" included that would allow a script to run and gather up my address book and start sending everyone some free porn.
I could write some more paragraphs arguing my point but I think you get the idea. There is a difference between human err and poorly designed or badly designed software.
...that portrayed faramir correctly. I can forgive all the other stuff they messed up in the two towers but the whole faramir business and taking the poor hobbit back to gondor just drives me crazy...kind of like Jar Jar did when I saw EP 1.
Alas I'll still buy the videos.
I have to admit that site is pretty interesting. Thanks for the link.
How is the parent insightful? He starts to talk about the topic and then degrades into a "we knew about the 9/11 attacks before they happened" conspiracy theory. No your not a terrorist but you should keep it on-topic.