My school's filter is a little smarter - it blocks Google cache and most anonymisers. The simple solution is to set up a web proxy server using CGIProxy on your home machine.
Could someone with no linux skills set up a networkable linux box that boots off a floppy?
Could someone with no specialized skills set up a networkable router box running any OS that boots off a floppy? Of course not. You try to do a specialized job, you need specialized skills.
i think it'll be interesting to see the higher graphics on the X-box version of Vice City
The XBox version will probably be a quick port of the PC version (they both use DirectX, after all), so I doubt the graphics will be any better than what you can currently get on PC.
Galeon had it before Safari or Firebird even existed.
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why? because they still have kazaa lite, anti-scientology and DeCSS links.
So does Google. The second result for scientology is xenu.net. The first result for KaZaA Lite is kazaalitekpp.com. And the first eight results for a decss search are all pages offering the DeCSS code.
No, because the PS2 doesn't emulate a PS1. it has actual PS1 hardware included. However, since the Xbox is more than capable of emulating PS1 games (through Bleem), the PS3 should have no problem doing them in software if needed.
I didn't figure out how to bring up the main DVD menu, which would have hopefully made figuring out where on the disc the movie was trivial.
Aside from the GUI (mplayer and xine have probably the two most utterly awful GUI's I've ever seen), mplayer's biggest flaw is that it doesn't support interactive DVD menus. This is being addressed in mplayer-G2, which is a rewrite supporting interactivity, pluggable GUIs, and all sorts of fun stuff like that.
Also, I wouldn't recommend using mplayer as an mp3 jukebox. XMMS, Rhythmbox, etc. are designed for that and work much better than mplayer, which was originally intended to be a simple one-file movie player.
mplayer (the movie player) is already illegal in a million other ways. I doubt they care much about GameSpy. Besides, the names don't legally conflict because they're in completely unrelated fields.
The mplayer Windows port was infantile a few months ago. I suggest you try it again. If it still bitches at you, then please file a bug report - that's how this sort of thing gets fixed.
if i stretch a window or go fullscreen, it would only make sense that the video inside stretches too (but it doesnt)
If your video card has decent drivers (anything recent from nVidia or ATI works fine), mplayer will use the xv extension, which scales the video in hardware. Otherwise, you'll need to enable software scaling with the -zoom command-line option.
Judging from the times they quoted, I doubt it did get 12.5mph. It probably actually got 3mph and the lazy reported wrote 12.5 cause that's what's in the product literature.
mplayer is working on a native win32 version (no X11 or cygwin dependencies). It's coming along nicely, except for the GUI. There are no official releases yet, but you can find binaries if you poke around the mailing list archives.
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Grub is irrelevent. You can set passwords in lilo too, it's just that no one does.
The fact is that Altivec is really good at some things (such as rc5 cracking), and that G5s are probably the fastest per dollar if those things are what you want to do. How fast they can render CG, serve databases, or play chess is irrelevent if what you want to do is crack rc5.
For certain types of processing (rc5 cracking is one example), Macs completely smoke PCs. For example, distributed.net stats show that a 667Mhz G4 can process more keys/second than a 2.8Ghz P4. Considering how much faster a 2Ghz G5 would be, a 1100-node cluster would be damn powerful if you were doing work that mapped well onto Altivec.
The problem is that eventually the government will find out every address that's ever been used (or 99% of them, anyway), even if it doesn't know all of the current ones. It can then just grep the logs for those people who used the proxy, and go hunt them down. They can do some major intimidation and scare everyone off of trying to use these proxies.
I agree that at least some people will be able to use these services, and that some is better than none. I just don't think they'll be particuarly effective.
Jaguar, XP, Outlook, KaZaA, QuickTime, Quartz, DirectX, etc., there are a million proprietary apps or technologies with nondescriptive names. Besides, no end user should ever have to hear about Cairo, they should just see good-looking graphics.
So why couldn't the government listen to the broadcasts or monitor the bulk emails? There's no way to get the information to citizens without also reaching the government.
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If you don't want your children to have a DVD player in their room, they definately shouldn't have a TV and gaming system there, for the same reasons.
My school's filter is a little smarter - it blocks Google cache and most anonymisers. The simple solution is to set up a web proxy server using CGIProxy on your home machine.
Could someone with no specialized skills set up a networkable router box running any OS that boots off a floppy? Of course not. You try to do a specialized job, you need specialized skills.
The XBox version will probably be a quick port of the PC version (they both use DirectX, after all), so I doubt the graphics will be any better than what you can currently get on PC.
Decent TV: $370
Deus Ex 2 for Xbox: $50
Total: $600
Compare to:
Already have dual Athlons - $0
Current mobo is fine - $0
Got a gig of RAM - $0
Got a Radeon 9700 PRO - $0
Deus Ex 2 for PC - $40
Total - $40
Playing DE2 with a mouse at 1600x1200: priceless.
Galeon had it before Safari or Firebird even existed.
So does Google. The second result for scientology is xenu.net. The first result for KaZaA Lite is kazaalitekpp.com. And the first eight results for a decss search are all pages offering the DeCSS code.
Is it that hard to use Google?
Among other things, it bundles Gecko.
No, because the PS2 doesn't emulate a PS1. it has actual PS1 hardware included. However, since the Xbox is more than capable of emulating PS1 games (through Bleem), the PS3 should have no problem doing them in software if needed.
Aside from the GUI (mplayer and xine have probably the two most utterly awful GUI's I've ever seen), mplayer's biggest flaw is that it doesn't support interactive DVD menus. This is being addressed in mplayer-G2, which is a rewrite supporting interactivity, pluggable GUIs, and all sorts of fun stuff like that.
Also, I wouldn't recommend using mplayer as an mp3 jukebox. XMMS, Rhythmbox, etc. are designed for that and work much better than mplayer, which was originally intended to be a simple one-file movie player.
mplayer (the movie player) is already illegal in a million other ways. I doubt they care much about GameSpy. Besides, the names don't legally conflict because they're in completely unrelated fields.
The mplayer Windows port was infantile a few months ago. I suggest you try it again. If it still bitches at you, then please file a bug report - that's how this sort of thing gets fixed.
If your video card has decent drivers (anything recent from nVidia or ATI works fine), mplayer will use the xv extension, which scales the video in hardware. Otherwise, you'll need to enable software scaling with the -zoom command-line option.
Up Mt. Washington you'd be lucky to average half that. Try it someday - it's not the world's easiest climb.
Judging from the times they quoted, I doubt it did get 12.5mph. It probably actually got 3mph and the lazy reported wrote 12.5 cause that's what's in the product literature.
Nope, sorry, it's a road. Never been to Mt. Washington, have you?
mplayer is working on a native win32 version (no X11 or cygwin dependencies). It's coming along nicely, except for the GUI. There are no official releases yet, but you can find binaries if you poke around the mailing list archives.
Grub is irrelevent. You can set passwords in lilo too, it's just that no one does.
You can run OSX without a GUI. It would be pretty sweet if they all did have monitors, though.
The fact is that Altivec is really good at some things (such as rc5 cracking), and that G5s are probably the fastest per dollar if those things are what you want to do. How fast they can render CG, serve databases, or play chess is irrelevent if what you want to do is crack rc5.
For certain types of processing (rc5 cracking is one example), Macs completely smoke PCs. For example, distributed.net stats show that a 667Mhz G4 can process more keys/second than a 2.8Ghz P4. Considering how much faster a 2Ghz G5 would be, a 1100-node cluster would be damn powerful if you were doing work that mapped well onto Altivec.
I agree that at least some people will be able to use these services, and that some is better than none. I just don't think they'll be particuarly effective.
Jaguar, XP, Outlook, KaZaA, QuickTime, Quartz, DirectX, etc., there are a million proprietary apps or technologies with nondescriptive names. Besides, no end user should ever have to hear about Cairo, they should just see good-looking graphics.
So why couldn't the government listen to the broadcasts or monitor the bulk emails? There's no way to get the information to citizens without also reaching the government.