On Wednesday morning, Microsoft discovered that a glitch in the patching process resulted in a November fix not being applied to some Windows XP computers. The same patch was sent out again via the Windows update service on Tuesday night. The company is still investigating why and how the patch was reissued.
It looks like someone modified a patch. When a patch gets updated, the KB articles (and often the fixes) are auto-published.
I'd be more interested in knowing why some corporate SUS (Software Update Services, like an in-house Windows Update) subscribers were reporting to NTBugTraq today that they got about a DOZEN updated patches last night!
case modders are the computer equivalent of rice boys.
Yeah, except for two minor points:
1) Case modders don't ride "their $10k car with $8k worth of mods and a ear-splitting fart can" through your neighborhood, wishing that Ricing was a capital offense, and
2) There is a big difference between "ooh, I put in a light and clear window" and doing a real theme.
I built someone a custom red "Mustang" PC with a clearcoat paint job, red neon interior, logo decals, and customized OS theme. Everyone who comes over and sees it on his desk compliments the uniqueness/snazziness of the box. There is no derision deserved for people who invest time to do case mods like the bug; it's functional, it's unique, and it's art. And, by the way, it sits on their desk, so it's for their enjoyment, not yours.
Another area is State education systems and the amount of money paid to administrative professionals...
Such as what positions? My mother-in-law directs a program that joins grants/programs and needs in poorer school districts across a certain state. This means she is in charge of equipping those under-equipped schools. She has an EDD degree (Doctorate in Education), and has spent 30 years in education. She is quite tech-savvy and knows the business/political side of the program inside out.
I am a 20-something with no degree that supports web servers for a corporation.
Our salaries are comparable, and that's to say well below the "Average American Household Income" figures that get quoted all over.
Explain to me how she is making too much money, and/or is unnecessary?
Personal results with Atkins
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Granted that the plural of anecdote is NOT data (as snopes.com loves to tell you), I wanted to give the results of four web/Unix geeks where I work. This is going to sound like an infomercial, but all I can do is give you what I've got, and let you decide if I'm honest or not. Hopefully my low UID and post history will help convince you that I'm sincere.
My buddy, late 30s, lost 35 lbs his first six weeks. One colleague lost 65lbs in 6 months (early 40s), and a guy in his late 20s lost 70lbs in 6 months. So I joined up-- I have been on for eight weeks (I'm 28), and have lost 38lbs (from 262 to 224) so far, following Atkins' New Diet Revolution. That includes going from a 44 inch waist to 38. In two months, without excercise (yet.)
Basically, the Atkins Diet is like a cult of people who cut almost all of the sugars and starches out of their diet. Permanently, if done correctly. I also cut caffeine out (what a hellish 36 hours withdrawal/hangover that was!)-- not required by "The Diet" but I found it helpful. I call it a cult because you have to continually remind yourself and/or your Atkins Buddies that they're doing well, and steer them clear of carby foods. This often means randomly annoying strangers by picking up food containers and looking at them increduously when you look at the labels. For instance, a small bottle of Cranberry juice has 49 carb grams in it; enough for 2.5 days worth on Atkins' Induction phase.
Here are my pros/cons list:
-Pro: I find that I fall asleep/wake up better, and feel "regulated" throughout the day. I do not have post-lunch lag, or groggy mornings where I "need" coffee/Code Red.
-Con: You need to be creative with your food selection and menu planning. You can eat plenty of junk food, as long as you are getting sugar-free candy and soda, and eat stuff like Beef Jerky and Pork Rinds for snacks. You can and should eat the green vegetables specified, in the amounts specified in the book.
-Pro: You are losing weight, especially in the early weeks, enough to look in the mirror and tell the difference. Especially those of us who are fat around the face.
-Con: You need to supplement your diet with vitamins and PLENTY of water. The Diet dehydrates you. I personally find myself drinking somewhere in the neighborhood of a gallon of plain water every day, because I literally feel that thirsty. You also need to make sure you are getting enough fiber, or you will get constipated. The good news is that many sugar-free candies are loaded with non-digestable plant fibers which will take care of that... and much worse if you overdo it!
-Pro: Your total cholesterol goes down. "Good cholesterol" goes up. This is only if you are doing the diet right. The FUDders like to spew that "there's no way so much meat and cheese can be healthy for you." Bullshit. If you're doing it right, your body is metabolizing what you eat, and you are pissing away (literally) your weight through lipolysis-- the breaking down of your stored fat cells. You don't have to skip bacon and eggs, but you also can't eat greasy, saturated-fatty foods for every component of every meal.
-Con: You eventually start to plateau on your weight loss. At this point, if you're not already doing this, it's time to start excercising regularly to kick-start your CV system and calorie burn.
The final con is that about 2/3rd of the population is going to accuse you of eating "unnaturally" or foods that are "unhealthy." Franky, I think they are full of shit. Of the dozen or so people I know that have read the book and implemented it to spec, EVERY ONE has lost between 15 and 30 lbs in the first month. Not a one has had negative health effects with the possible exception of some constipation (not enough fiber/water). The trick is staying on the diet, monitoring your blood sugars and cholesterol level with your doctor, and taking the mindset that The Diet is a whole change in lifestyle, not just a quikc solution to kick 20lbs.
...as much as I dislike replying to T4D, he brings up an interesting scenerio to counter your suggestion of using multiple machines.
I took a spare machine, added a 3ware 6800 ATA RAID controller ($130 on eBay), and installed eight 120GB Maxtor hard drives ($1200 when I bought them last year) and put them in eight Genica hot-swap trays ($60). For about $1500, I now have an 800GB formatted RAID5 array. (Had to throw in a dedicated 400W Antec power supply for HDs.) In a year, two of the drives have flunked, and the replacement drives have rebuilt beautifully.
If you're going to lose the site, you're going to lose your data in either case. All you protect against with the network situation is the complete loss of one machine. Protect your server as much as possible and put your data on it.
Just make sure you keep the "most precious" data offsite on tape of a sneaker-net external hard drive, in case the pop-tart that got stuck in your toaster burns down your house. (This apparently happens about 30 times a year, by the way, including one of my co-workers:)
Preface: I'm usually wrong, but like to give my opinion anyway. Agree, disagree at your leisure; the thrill for me is in the debate, not in the acceptance of my arguments by people who have lived a life other than my own.:)
I realise this is off-topic, but I feel the need to vent anyway. I have never understood why it is illegal to do harm to yourself. After all, you own your body, is it as least once thing that isn't licensed to you (Does God have a EULA?), and so why shouldn't we be allowed to do whatever we want to it?
That's a good little Libertarian now.:) I've most recently been voting Libertarian, but the smug-ideology-without-regard-for-practical-social- implementation aspect irks me. The fact of the matter is, the general population is not self-moderating, self-policing, or even self-bettering.
(Disclaimer: If you're reading slashdot, you're probably not sheeple, but you know who I'm talking about. Visit WalMart and casually overhear about 75% of the conversations going on.) The sheeple need leadership, direction, and a sense of public morality to actually be able to handle some semblence of a "society." Our country, great as it is, is great because of the benevolence of our illuminati, and the respect the "working man" has for that benevolence. Also, in my little world, a heirarchy can sometimes be considered illuminati. For instance, Military/Police are a controlling piece of the system, but not through the actions of the foot soldiers; rather through the actions of their organizations.
Being under the influence of drugs may prompt you to cause harm to others. This, surely, can be solved in neater ways than banning drugs outright. Ban them in public places, but allow them at home.
Because drug-crazed lunatics are happy to stay at home and do their drugs when you tell them to? Next thing you know, you'll be telling me that criminals have started obeying gun control laws?
The overriding mandate for government and law should be (not saying it is, but rather SHOULD BE) caring for the welfare of the society at large. This is not a communist idea, this is a necessity for keeping the society alive and healthy. The debate generated on how exactly to best care for society is what should be going on in legislatures and judicial arenas across the globe. To your point, drugs and people using drugs are harmful to society, and should be moderated out. I'm all for including nicotene products, and possibly caffeine (heresy!) products in the list of harmful products. (After being a very heavy caffeine addict, and suffering a nasty few days of withdrawal, my eight weeks of clarity since have been most enlightening about what a stranglehold caffeine has on our society.)
OK, I think that just about sums up my rant for the day. Thanks for your time.
Russ Cooper, a security expert with TruSecure Corp., said anyone who needs the Windows messaging function that AOL disabled ought to be smart enough to know how to reactivate it.
"I hope more and more providers do this type of proactive security," he said, "and that we don't condemn them for things we wish everybody would do for themselves."
I have been an NTBugTraq member for five years. Russ is usually right, and I think he is in this case. They aren't hacking your computer, they're securing it. If you need the messenger service, re-enable it. It's no different than if they install a software upgrade that conflicts with some other functionality of your specific configuration.
Case in point: OS X, which began as a very slow OS, and with each successive cat (Jaguar, Panther) has become faster and more efficient....at $129 per cat for the priviledge? In that time, I bought WindowsXP Professional OEM for approximately $140... toss in a nice Desktop theme app to make it look like OS X, and you're good to go!
(In the reality distortion field for 13 years before I escaped to "a cheaper place.":) I've been running XP for two years, upgraded my system's hardware about a dozen times, and had ONE Blue Screen of Death......when my hard drive blew a couple hundred sectors and borked the OS. Plug in new drive, ghost the image back to the drive, and away I go.
I read Penny Arcade every day, and find it not only funny but incredibly well drawn. Tycho and Gabe are decent human beings, and I read their Monday-Wednesday-Friday updates on the state of gaming (and the world at large) with interest. I wouldn't consider myself a "fanboy," but I did contribute when they were taking donations.
PS-- I'm not much of a gamer. I own no consoles and only play Quake III Arena, a 4-year old game. I still find Penny Arcade has a quality factor of about 1.0E99 higher than the competition.
Ignoring the poor attempt at writing a sarcastic review (all negative, while actually meaning all positive), I honestly don't find UF funny, and haven't since about the second year. What was that, four years ago?
After a particularly nasty flamewar last year where I politely questioned the humor in Dust Puppy being at the bottom of a portable toilet, being defecated on, and coming out with waste-covered bits of ungested food stuck to himself (I'm not kidding either, look it up for yourself), I decided UF wasn't for me. I haven't visited the site since. It has occasional-hit humor, the drawing hasn't improved from its quaint "raw, untalented" style since the first year, and the people on the board stuff themselves full of dysfunctional, co-dependent social behavior that makes me cringe.
That's just my take. Maybe you like it. If so, more power to you! But I certainly wouldn't recommend UF-newbies spending two cents on purchasing any "products" from Mr. Fraser, intro by Wil "Wesley Crusher/I'm not Wesley!" Wheaton or not.
That's hardly the same thing, and you know it. You can throw a USB card in a beige G3 for $9; I know because I have done it. Then you can hook up a USB keyboard and mouse. But what about the Old World ROM? It's completely different than the Opern Firmware in current machines, and the OS has to handle is differently.
The thing is, when Apple went to iMac/Blue & White/WallStreet, it was a completely revised system design for their product. I suppose they could put a lot of enginerring into 10.3 and try to get it working on the old machines, but where's the value in that?
Things like this is why I abandoned the Apple Cult three years ago, my my Rev A. Bondi iMac became largely obsolete. Maybe YOUR Bondi iMac does what YOU want running 10.2, but my Athlon 2000, GeForce FX, and 1gig of DDR (running XP) provides me much more value than any Mac I have ever owned. And I owned about six of them between 1988 and 1999.
This is yet another example of Apple trying to screw the user...
Yeah, man! Fight the power! I want to run the latest and greatest OS on my six year old computer! Even though I bought into the proprietary platform, knowing full well that Apple goes through hardware generations and OSes every 3-5 years! For the past 15+ years!
No more Apple screwing us over! I want OS 10.4 to support my Mac SE! I put 4 megs of RAM and an ethernet card in that thing... it cost me a bundle in 1989! I want some return on that investment! Damn Apple for screwing the user!
For some people quality is more than, "I get 150fps in Quake 3!"
Wow, man, you're pushing less than 150fps in Q3? I can timedemo between 300 and 400 FPS with my system.
For clan play in Threewave Q3, we server-limit at 90fps... so I just crank up the full-scene anti-aliasing, aniso filtering, and image quality all the way up. I can still sit there maxxed at 90fps at 1024x768, on a system I built almost 18 months ago. (OK, it's a 4 month old video card.)
Sorry, wrong, try again. Downtown and Santa scenes were filmed in Cleveland, Ohio. Higbee's Department store at the corner of Prospect and Ontario. One block south of Public Square, where the parade was filmed.
"Yep, it reads: "Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine!" =)
(Nobody is gonna get that...)"
Not only do I get the reference, I work in an office building (formerly department store) on the corner where the Christmas parade scenes were shot, and across the street from the former department store where the Santa scenes were shot.
and then there are strategy games, not everyone play shooters...
You're talking to a guy who just built an AT-cased system running DOS 6.22 to play the original King's Quest Games. And nothing else.:)
Competitively, I play Quake 3 (Threewave style). It doesn't require a lot to run; my brother's Celeron 533 and TNT2 vidcard can run it fine. The game is 4 years old. But even a 1GHz Via C3, with the northbridge-integrated Savage video chipset, won't be able to render Quake3 very well past 640x480, 16-bit color, and 20 frames per seond. As a comparison, I can push Q3 at about 250FPS on my Athlon XP 2000 and GFFX 5600.
When someone says "LAN Party," I assume they are playing BF1942, a Clancy game, Counterstrike, or at least Diablo 2. Not Quake 2. Yes a few people still play it, but infrequently tote machines around to play some hot 16-player action in somebody's basement.
If so, I recommend an Asus Pundit small form-factor system. Mine has a nice TV tuner ($50), and a Celeron 2.0GHz which ran me all of $67. It has a very nice case, runs quiet, sits well with your entertainment center, and is about three times the CPU power of the C3 1GHz. The way I look at it, this barebones plus a $70 processor is still less expensive than a $100 Mini-ITX case with a $179 1GHz EPIA board. The form factor on the Asus is proprietary, but exceptionally flexible, functional, and not much larger than mini-ITX. I've been very happy with mine!
That is going to be SO hilarious, seeing you play HalfLife 2 on the equivalent of a Celeron 600 with integrated video, while my Athlon XP 1700+, GeForce FX and full ATX case/mobo are playing right next door. For what I believe will be fairly comparable retail prices.:) (Current Mini-ITX with 1GHz C3 are around $200; GeForce FX 5200, ECS mobo and Athlon XP 1700 run about $179 total. Add RAM, Optical, HD, monitor to taste.)
Serve up whoopass at 75 FPS, while the cute but incredibly weak VIA box surrenders ar 3fps.:)
Where is the power circuitry? To run from/charge a battery?
The controller to run a native LCD?
Be sure to include some room for converters to step down the big IDE down to notebook harddrives and optical drives.
Oh and that "1 GHz C3?" It has roughly the computational power of a Celeron 600.
Feel free to invest $1200 in making one of these into a notebook with an LCD, but I'd just assume spend $1000 on a Dell 2GHz and plenty more expansion and connectivity options.
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...They haven't a clue.
On Wednesday morning, Microsoft discovered that a glitch in the patching process resulted in a November fix not being applied to some Windows XP computers. The same patch was sent out again via the Windows update service on Tuesday night. The company is still investigating why and how the patch was reissued.
It looks like someone modified a patch. When a patch gets updated, the KB articles (and often the fixes) are auto-published.
I'd be more interested in knowing why some corporate SUS (Software Update Services, like an in-house Windows Update) subscribers were reporting to NTBugTraq today that they got about a DOZEN updated patches last night!
Ahh yes, an anti-corporate technologist! Where does your paycheck come from? :)
:)
Think of the inverse: People go to companies, take what they learn on the job (company's IP), and sell it on the side, finished or not.
Chaos ensues.
case modders are the computer equivalent of rice boys.
Yeah, except for two minor points:
1) Case modders don't ride "their $10k car with $8k worth of mods and a ear-splitting fart can" through your neighborhood, wishing that Ricing was a capital offense, and
2) There is a big difference between "ooh, I put in a light and clear window" and doing a real theme.
I built someone a custom red "Mustang" PC with a clearcoat paint job, red neon interior, logo decals, and customized OS theme. Everyone who comes over and sees it on his desk compliments the uniqueness/snazziness of the box. There is no derision deserved for people who invest time to do case mods like the bug; it's functional, it's unique, and it's art. And, by the way, it sits on their desk, so it's for their enjoyment, not yours.
If you have no imagination, that's YOUR problem.
Another area is State education systems and the amount of money paid to administrative professionals...
Such as what positions? My mother-in-law directs a program that joins grants/programs and needs in poorer school districts across a certain state. This means she is in charge of equipping those under-equipped schools. She has an EDD degree (Doctorate in Education), and has spent 30 years in education. She is quite tech-savvy and knows the business/political side of the program inside out.
I am a 20-something with no degree that supports web servers for a corporation.
Our salaries are comparable, and that's to say well below the "Average American Household Income" figures that get quoted all over.
Explain to me how she is making too much money, and/or is unnecessary?
Granted that the plural of anecdote is NOT data (as snopes.com loves to tell you), I wanted to give the results of four web/Unix geeks where I work. This is going to sound like an infomercial, but all I can do is give you what I've got, and let you decide if I'm honest or not. Hopefully my low UID and post history will help convince you that I'm sincere.
My buddy, late 30s, lost 35 lbs his first six weeks. One colleague lost 65lbs in 6 months (early 40s), and a guy in his late 20s lost 70lbs in 6 months. So I joined up-- I have been on for eight weeks (I'm 28), and have lost 38lbs (from 262 to 224) so far, following Atkins' New Diet Revolution. That includes going from a 44 inch waist to 38. In two months, without excercise (yet.)
Basically, the Atkins Diet is like a cult of people who cut almost all of the sugars and starches out of their diet. Permanently, if done correctly. I also cut caffeine out (what a hellish 36 hours withdrawal/hangover that was!)-- not required by "The Diet" but I found it helpful. I call it a cult because you have to continually remind yourself and/or your Atkins Buddies that they're doing well, and steer them clear of carby foods. This often means randomly annoying strangers by picking up food containers and looking at them increduously when you look at the labels. For instance, a small bottle of Cranberry juice has 49 carb grams in it; enough for 2.5 days worth on Atkins' Induction phase.
Here are my pros/cons list:
-Pro: I find that I fall asleep/wake up better, and feel "regulated" throughout the day. I do not have post-lunch lag, or groggy mornings where I "need" coffee/Code Red.
-Con: You need to be creative with your food selection and menu planning. You can eat plenty of junk food, as long as you are getting sugar-free candy and soda, and eat stuff like Beef Jerky and Pork Rinds for snacks. You can and should eat the green vegetables specified, in the amounts specified in the book.
-Pro: You are losing weight, especially in the early weeks, enough to look in the mirror and tell the difference. Especially those of us who are fat around the face.
-Con: You need to supplement your diet with vitamins and PLENTY of water. The Diet dehydrates you. I personally find myself drinking somewhere in the neighborhood of a gallon of plain water every day, because I literally feel that thirsty. You also need to make sure you are getting enough fiber, or you will get constipated. The good news is that many sugar-free candies are loaded with non-digestable plant fibers which will take care of that... and much worse if you overdo it!
-Pro: Your total cholesterol goes down. "Good cholesterol" goes up. This is only if you are doing the diet right. The FUDders like to spew that "there's no way so much meat and cheese can be healthy for you." Bullshit. If you're doing it right, your body is metabolizing what you eat, and you are pissing away (literally) your weight through lipolysis-- the breaking down of your stored fat cells. You don't have to skip bacon and eggs, but you also can't eat greasy, saturated-fatty foods for every component of every meal.
-Con: You eventually start to plateau on your weight loss. At this point, if you're not already doing this, it's time to start excercising regularly to kick-start your CV system and calorie burn.
The final con is that about 2/3rd of the population is going to accuse you of eating "unnaturally" or foods that are "unhealthy." Franky, I think they are full of shit. Of the dozen or so people I know that have read the book and implemented it to spec, EVERY ONE has lost between 15 and 30 lbs in the first month. Not a one has had negative health effects with the possible exception of some constipation (not enough fiber/water). The trick is staying on the diet, monitoring your blood sugars and cholesterol level with your doctor, and taking the mindset that The Diet is a whole change in lifestyle, not just a quikc solution to kick 20lbs.
...as much as I dislike replying to T4D, he brings up an interesting scenerio to counter your suggestion of using multiple machines.
:)
I took a spare machine, added a 3ware 6800 ATA RAID controller ($130 on eBay), and installed eight 120GB Maxtor hard drives ($1200 when I bought them last year) and put them in eight Genica hot-swap trays ($60). For about $1500, I now have an 800GB formatted RAID5 array. (Had to throw in a dedicated 400W Antec power supply for HDs.) In a year, two of the drives have flunked, and the replacement drives have rebuilt beautifully.
If you're going to lose the site, you're going to lose your data in either case. All you protect against with the network situation is the complete loss of one machine. Protect your server as much as possible and put your data on it.
Just make sure you keep the "most precious" data offsite on tape of a sneaker-net external hard drive, in case the pop-tart that got stuck in your toaster burns down your house. (This apparently happens about 30 times a year, by the way, including one of my co-workers
Preface: I'm usually wrong, but like to give my opinion anyway. Agree, disagree at your leisure; the thrill for me is in the debate, not in the acceptance of my arguments by people who have lived a life other than my own. :)
:) I've most recently been voting Libertarian, but the smug-ideology-without-regard-for-practical-social- implementation aspect irks me. The fact of the matter is, the general population is not self-moderating, self-policing, or even self-bettering.
I realise this is off-topic, but I feel the need to vent anyway. I have never understood why it is illegal to do harm to yourself. After all, you own your body, is it as least once thing that isn't licensed to you (Does God have a EULA?), and so why shouldn't we be allowed to do whatever we want to it?
That's a good little Libertarian now.
(Disclaimer: If you're reading slashdot, you're probably not sheeple, but you know who I'm talking about. Visit WalMart and casually overhear about 75% of the conversations going on.) The sheeple need leadership, direction, and a sense of public morality to actually be able to handle some semblence of a "society." Our country, great as it is, is great because of the benevolence of our illuminati, and the respect the "working man" has for that benevolence. Also, in my little world, a heirarchy can sometimes be considered illuminati. For instance, Military/Police are a controlling piece of the system, but not through the actions of the foot soldiers; rather through the actions of their organizations.
Being under the influence of drugs may prompt you to cause harm to others. This, surely, can be solved in neater ways than banning drugs outright. Ban them in public places, but allow them at home.
Because drug-crazed lunatics are happy to stay at home and do their drugs when you tell them to? Next thing you know, you'll be telling me that criminals have started obeying gun control laws?
The overriding mandate for government and law should be (not saying it is, but rather SHOULD BE) caring for the welfare of the society at large. This is not a communist idea, this is a necessity for keeping the society alive and healthy. The debate generated on how exactly to best care for society is what should be going on in legislatures and judicial arenas across the globe. To your point, drugs and people using drugs are harmful to society, and should be moderated out. I'm all for including nicotene products, and possibly caffeine (heresy!) products in the list of harmful products. (After being a very heavy caffeine addict, and suffering a nasty few days of withdrawal, my eight weeks of clarity since have been most enlightening about what a stranglehold caffeine has on our society.)
OK, I think that just about sums up my rant for the day. Thanks for your time.
Russ Cooper, a security expert with TruSecure Corp., said anyone who needs the Windows messaging function that AOL disabled ought to be smart enough to know how to reactivate it.
"I hope more and more providers do this type of proactive security," he said, "and that we don't condemn them for things we wish everybody would do for themselves."
I have been an NTBugTraq member for five years. Russ is usually right, and I think he is in this case. They aren't hacking your computer, they're securing it. If you need the messenger service, re-enable it. It's no different than if they install a software upgrade that conflicts with some other functionality of your specific configuration.
Case in point: OS X, which began as a very slow OS, and with each successive cat (Jaguar, Panther) has become faster and more efficient. ...at $129 per cat for the priviledge? In that time, I bought WindowsXP Professional OEM for approximately $140... toss in a nice Desktop theme app to make it look like OS X, and you're good to go!
:) ...when my hard drive blew a couple hundred sectors and borked the OS. Plug in new drive, ghost the image back to the drive, and away I go.
(In the reality distortion field for 13 years before I escaped to "a cheaper place."
I've been running XP for two years, upgraded my system's hardware about a dozen times, and had ONE Blue Screen of Death...
I read Penny Arcade every day, and find it not only funny but incredibly well drawn. Tycho and Gabe are decent human beings, and I read their Monday-Wednesday-Friday updates on the state of gaming (and the world at large) with interest. I wouldn't consider myself a "fanboy," but I did contribute when they were taking donations.
PS-- I'm not much of a gamer. I own no consoles and only play Quake III Arena, a 4-year old game. I still find Penny Arcade has a quality factor of about 1.0E99 higher than the competition.
"I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone."
Ignoring the poor attempt at writing a sarcastic review (all negative, while actually meaning all positive), I honestly don't find UF funny, and haven't since about the second year. What was that, four years ago?
After a particularly nasty flamewar last year where I politely questioned the humor in Dust Puppy being at the bottom of a portable toilet, being defecated on, and coming out with waste-covered bits of ungested food stuck to himself (I'm not kidding either, look it up for yourself), I decided UF wasn't for me. I haven't visited the site since. It has occasional-hit humor, the drawing hasn't improved from its quaint "raw, untalented" style since the first year, and the people on the board stuff themselves full of dysfunctional, co-dependent social behavior that makes me cringe.
That's just my take. Maybe you like it. If so, more power to you! But I certainly wouldn't recommend UF-newbies spending two cents on purchasing any "products" from Mr. Fraser, intro by Wil "Wesley Crusher/I'm not Wesley!" Wheaton or not.
(Mad props to CleverNickName.)
That's hardly the same thing, and you know it. You can throw a USB card in a beige G3 for $9; I know because I have done it. Then you can hook up a USB keyboard and mouse. But what about the Old World ROM? It's completely different than the Opern Firmware in current machines, and the OS has to handle is differently.
The thing is, when Apple went to iMac/Blue & White/WallStreet, it was a completely revised system design for their product. I suppose they could put a lot of enginerring into 10.3 and try to get it working on the old machines, but where's the value in that?
Things like this is why I abandoned the Apple Cult three years ago, my my Rev A. Bondi iMac became largely obsolete. Maybe YOUR Bondi iMac does what YOU want running 10.2, but my Athlon 2000, GeForce FX, and 1gig of DDR (running XP) provides me much more value than any Mac I have ever owned. And I owned about six of them between 1988 and 1999.
This is yet another example of Apple trying to screw the user...
Yeah, man! Fight the power! I want to run the latest and greatest OS on my six year old computer! Even though I bought into the proprietary platform, knowing full well that Apple goes through hardware generations and OSes every 3-5 years! For the past 15+ years!
No more Apple screwing us over! I want OS 10.4 to support my Mac SE! I put 4 megs of RAM and an ethernet card in that thing... it cost me a bundle in 1989! I want some return on that investment! Damn Apple for screwing the user!
For some people quality is more than, "I get 150fps in Quake 3!"
Wow, man, you're pushing less than 150fps in Q3? I can timedemo between 300 and 400 FPS with my system.
For clan play in Threewave Q3, we server-limit at 90fps... so I just crank up the full-scene anti-aliasing, aniso filtering, and image quality all the way up. I can still sit there maxxed at 90fps at 1024x768, on a system I built almost 18 months ago. (OK, it's a 4 month old video card.)
The link to the Microvision states:
... Milton Bradley rolled out just two new cartridges in 1980, and a final two in 1981."
... With a small library of 10 titles..."
:)
"Microvision was introduced by Milton Bradley in 1982.
So, was it released in 1979, or 1982? And:
"...an initial release of seven cartridges... two new cartridges in 1980, and a final two in 1981
So seven plus two plus two equals ten? (Must be midwestern college math, where the "Big Ten" actually has 11 teams
Just seems like a strange set of mistakes for one article.
You are also correct. Check the page for the guy who played "Scut," I came across it while verifying my facts before posting. (Shock!)
Sorry, wrong, try again. Downtown and Santa scenes were filmed in Cleveland, Ohio. Higbee's Department store at the corner of Prospect and Ontario. One block south of Public Square, where the parade was filmed.
"Yep, it reads: "Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine!" =)
:)
(Nobody is gonna get that...)"
Not only do I get the reference, I work in an office building (formerly department store) on the corner where the Christmas parade scenes were shot, and across the street from the former department store where the Santa scenes were shot.
Can you name my location?
Repeat after me:
Pushing ads I did not ask for is not free speech.
I'm sick and tired of this mindset. Do you work for the Direct Marketers Association, perchance?
and then there are strategy games, not everyone play shooters...
:)
You're talking to a guy who just built an AT-cased system running DOS 6.22 to play the original King's Quest Games. And nothing else.
Competitively, I play Quake 3 (Threewave style). It doesn't require a lot to run; my brother's Celeron 533 and TNT2 vidcard can run it fine. The game is 4 years old. But even a 1GHz Via C3, with the northbridge-integrated Savage video chipset, won't be able to render Quake3 very well past 640x480, 16-bit color, and 20 frames per seond. As a comparison, I can push Q3 at about 250FPS on my Athlon XP 2000 and GFFX 5600.
When someone says "LAN Party," I assume they are playing BF1942, a Clancy game, Counterstrike, or at least Diablo 2. Not Quake 2. Yes a few people still play it, but infrequently tote machines around to play some hot 16-player action in somebody's basement.
Is this for PVR and/or DivX/XviD playback?
If so, I recommend an Asus Pundit small form-factor system. Mine has a nice TV tuner ($50), and a Celeron 2.0GHz which ran me all of $67. It has a very nice case, runs quiet, sits well with your entertainment center, and is about three times the CPU power of the C3 1GHz. The way I look at it, this barebones plus a $70 processor is still less expensive than a $100 Mini-ITX case with a $179 1GHz EPIA board. The form factor on the Asus is proprietary, but exceptionally flexible, functional, and not much larger than mini-ITX. I've been very happy with mine!
instant lanparty machine...
:) (Current Mini-ITX with 1GHz C3 are around $200; GeForce FX 5200, ECS mobo and Athlon XP 1700 run about $179 total. Add RAM, Optical, HD, monitor to taste.)
:)
That is going to be SO hilarious, seeing you play HalfLife 2 on the equivalent of a Celeron 600 with integrated video, while my Athlon XP 1700+, GeForce FX and full ATX case/mobo are playing right next door. For what I believe will be fairly comparable retail prices.
Serve up whoopass at 75 FPS, while the cute but incredibly weak VIA box surrenders ar 3fps.
Roll your own notebooks!
Where is the power circuitry? To run from/charge a battery?
The controller to run a native LCD?
Be sure to include some room for converters to step down the big IDE down to notebook harddrives and optical drives.
Oh and that "1 GHz C3?" It has roughly the computational power of a Celeron 600.
Feel free to invest $1200 in making one of these into a notebook with an LCD, but I'd just assume spend $1000 on a Dell 2GHz and plenty more expansion and connectivity options.
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