The hard drive installer script for knoppix rocks.
Just type knx-hdinstall as root and off you go.
It's easy enough that the only technical knowledge you need to get up and running is how to use cfdisk, and there's lots of uncomplicated tutorials to be found on how to create swap and install partitions.
Want to upgrade apps? apt-get upgrade. ta da!
Want to set up a web server with php and mysql to do some web design testing? It's already there. Just look in the distro or on the relevant web sites for the docs.
Knoppix is a great learning linux, and being able to start the distro solely from CD gives a newbie the chance to become familiar with it before they commit to a HD install. Until they're ready they can always save their settings to the location of their choice.
I'm no Linux guru, or fanatical advocate either. I just like what I see.
Postscript: Any time I travel in the future, one of these CDs will be coming with me. If I need to check my bank account info or other sensitive data you can bet I'm not doing it from an untrustworthy OS on someone elses machine. No worries of infection with keyloggers or whatever this way:)
It doesn't really matter if you're new to online gaming or just to specific titles. There is a learning curve that embraces not only the game but interacting with the community that plays that game.
Some servers will have friendly people that don't mind if you're new and make mistakes. Others will be full of loudmouths who won't cut you any slack. Ignore them.:)
I found with America's Army that if you say you're new, and learning the ropes in a level, that people will generally accept mistakes if you listen to and learn from the advice they offer. With a team game, a smart player knows they have nothing to gain from ripping up a newbie teammate. The more they can help you become an effective player, the better it is for the team. And with a good team around you it doesn't take long to learn the ins and outs of a new level.
If it's deathmatch, just have fun. Run around learning the level for the first few rounds. Don't worry about racking up a huge frag count. If you can practice offline and learn the gameplay that way so much the better.
Whether you buy the game 6 months or 6 hours after it comes out, there will be people on the server who are going to be better than you. Don't worry about it. Have fun, treat others with respect, and you'll find that you'll start to recognize the names of other players that are fun to play with or against.
And don't let cheaters get you all worked up. Eventually they get bored and bugger off. The cheating mentality also seems to have a very short attention span, provided you don't entertain them by freaking out on them:)
What crime boom? The amount of violent crime per capita has been dropping for decades in both Canada and the US. The media needs something to sensationalize though.
Look at the number of people killed by sharks each year. It's such a small number compared to the amount of people who enter the water. Pigs kill more people every year than sharks do. But which looks more dramatic on the news? A huge shark swimming toward a camera, or a pig eating slop in a stall?
From what we see in the news of Detroit each night, there's nothing but shootings and robberies. But I bet there's lots of residents there who haven't been shot at or robbed in their lifetime.
Best line was one student who when Darl asked if he was impacted by MyDoom.A e-mail virus answered 'No, I use Linux'."
At this point Darl wrung his hands gleefully and said "Sic 'im boys!". Two heavyset men set upon the freeloading nerd and, after a brief struggle, relieved him of his wallet. "Anyone else use Linux?", Darl jeered, as he pocketed 2 dollars, fifty five cents, and an expired bus pass.
Let's compare this situation to a bar? I haven't been to a bar yet that didn't have at least one person threaten or assault another while I was there. (This includes minor incidences like spitting or shoving, or having to be dragged out by bouncers).
So then by the reasoning of these laws all bars should be equipped with cameras inside and outside.
Drug deals also happen in bar bathrooms. Let's put cameras in the bathrooms.
It's just silly when there's a media reaction to events, they create this fantastical link between this new "menace", and then laws are rushed into place to deal with it.
I just don't like shelling out money for something that turns out to be broken when it comes out of the box or shortly after.
1 RCA D52130, 52" Projection television. Less than a year old and one of the tubes fried. It was still under warranty, so I thought it wouldn't be a problem. Part replacement time? 5 to 6 months minimum. I hounded the store where I bought it from until they took it back.
replaced it with:
a Samsung TXM3096WHF. Sure it was smaller, but I had no interest in getting another projection TV. Less than a year later the tube in this one is showing a green hotspot on the right side. The longer the screen is on, the uglier the color gets on that side. It has to be sent back to Samsung for servicing or replacement.
Maybe I'm just cursed, but it seems like so many products are crapping out too quickly these days.
If you're using the original drive you can do that. If you put in a new drive that isn't lockable, or has the wrong layout you won't be able to play on live. It looks for files in specific locations. So if you put a bigger drive in, you just stash everything else on F or G, and leave the other drives virtually untouched. No issues.
Once you've modded it though, you can't play live unless the original drive layout is visible and the drive is lockable, and of course the mod chip needs to be bypassable.
If you're not playing on Live, you don't need to worry about whether the drive is lockable or not.
Call them back. Record the call. After they're done explaining that they won't do anything, inform them that they are now knowingly sending you unsolicited spam, and ask where you should fax the invoice, as you will be billing them for each unsolicited email that you receive.
Do it as a bluff, or do it with the intent to bill. If you have them on tape saying they know they're bombing innocent third parties with email, they're going to change their ways pretty quickly. Newspapers love that shit:)
Our mailserver catches all but the newest ones floating around out there. But our mailboxes are still getting filled with dozens if not hundreds of messages from other companies servers saying "Your sending our users viruses!".
Since the servers invariably aren't verifying the authenticity of addresses that have been spoofed, they're sending out useless messages by the thousands. What an annoying "feature".
I tell my family and co-workers that unless you were expecting the attachment, don't open it. Doesn't matter what kind of file it is. Save it to a/suspect directory where it can be scanned later or you can verify that the person sending it did.
The number of people I know that click on anything has dropped considerably. There's a couple that would get infected even if the file was called "Data_Destroying_Spam_Serving_Executable.zip", but they'll never come around.
It's like people driving into a pothole to see how deep it is.
It would seem that the real goal is to show how many people are stupid enough to still click on attachments when they have no idea what the fuck they are.
Too true. It's almost as though people have forgotten that we have winter jackets that can keep us warm in -40 (for both Imperial and Metric).
Having gloves like these means not having to keep my hands stuffed in the pockets of my nice warm jacket when it's bitter. They're not going to sap enough heat from my body drop my core temperature. I'd be in more danger if I didn't wear a hat.
The funny thing about MSN messenger is that they've been nice enough to give the heads up to third party developers when making a change... Not the best example to give:)
A company that I worked for used the same system prior to 99. if you had an email address of foobar@foo.bar, then your website or whatever was foobar.foo.bar.
When the lander touched down last week, I offhandedly mentioned to my girlfriend that I would volunteer in a second if they wanted to send someone there, even if it meant being unable to return.
Apparently the female mind takes this as a personal slight. D'oh.
Not since I went digital. Now the LEDs on my tinfoil hat just go dim. I'm glad I had a spare. If you turn them upside down you can collect your supersolid helium and smarties in them.
One of my coworkers shipped a game to a friend via FedEx. The package arrived seeminly intact, but when the recipient opened it, the CDs had been removed.
Mail is only as trustworthy as the person handling the goods.
Slashdot Mirror
The hard drive installer script for knoppix rocks.
:)
Just type knx-hdinstall as root and off you go.
It's easy enough that the only technical knowledge you need to get up and running is how to use cfdisk, and there's lots of uncomplicated tutorials to be found on how to create swap and install partitions.
Want to upgrade apps?
apt-get upgrade.
ta da!
Want to set up a web server with php and mysql to do some web design testing? It's already there. Just look in the distro or on the relevant web sites for the docs.
Knoppix is a great learning linux, and being able to start the distro solely from CD gives a newbie the chance to become familiar with it before they commit to a HD install. Until they're ready they can always save their settings to the location of their choice.
I'm no Linux guru, or fanatical advocate either. I just like what I see.
Postscript: Any time I travel in the future, one of these CDs will be coming with me. If I need to check my bank account info or other sensitive data you can bet I'm not doing it from an untrustworthy OS on someone elses machine. No worries of infection with keyloggers or whatever this way
It doesn't really matter if you're new to online gaming or just to specific titles. There is a learning curve that embraces not only the game but interacting with the community that plays that game.
:)
:)
Some servers will have friendly people that don't mind if you're new and make mistakes. Others will be full of loudmouths who won't cut you any slack. Ignore them.
I found with America's Army that if you say you're new, and learning the ropes in a level, that people will generally accept mistakes if you listen to and learn from the advice they offer. With a team game, a smart player knows they have nothing to gain from ripping up a newbie teammate. The more they can help you become an effective player, the better it is for the team. And with a good team around you it doesn't take long to learn the ins and outs of a new level.
If it's deathmatch, just have fun. Run around learning the level for the first few rounds. Don't worry about racking up a huge frag count. If you can practice offline and learn the gameplay that way so much the better.
Whether you buy the game 6 months or 6 hours after it comes out, there will be people on the server who are going to be better than you. Don't worry about it. Have fun, treat others with respect, and you'll find that you'll start to recognize the names of other players that are fun to play with or against.
And don't let cheaters get you all worked up. Eventually they get bored and bugger off. The cheating mentality also seems to have a very short attention span, provided you don't entertain them by freaking out on them
Have fun.
Now there's a thought... Slashdotting someone's girlfriend...
Give him a threesome :)
As a geek, his odds of having such an encounter are incredibly slim compared to other geeks. This would elevate him to godhood among his peers.
Be prepared for him to jump up and down on the bed proclaiming "I am legend!" afterwards.
What crime boom? The amount of violent crime per capita has been dropping for decades in both Canada and the US. The media needs something to sensationalize though.
Look at the number of people killed by sharks each year. It's such a small number compared to the amount of people who enter the water. Pigs kill more people every year than sharks do. But which looks more dramatic on the news? A huge shark swimming toward a camera, or a pig eating slop in a stall?
From what we see in the news of Detroit each night, there's nothing but shootings and robberies. But I bet there's lots of residents there who haven't been shot at or robbed in their lifetime.
"Millions of Vulnerabilities Waiting to be Exploited!"
:)
They're called users
Best line was one student who when Darl asked if he was impacted by MyDoom.A e-mail virus answered 'No, I use Linux'."
At this point Darl wrung his hands gleefully and said "Sic 'im boys!". Two heavyset men set upon the freeloading nerd and, after a brief struggle, relieved him of his wallet. "Anyone else use Linux?", Darl jeered, as he pocketed 2 dollars, fifty five cents, and an expired bus pass.
You say "several" but just how common is this?
Let's compare this situation to a bar? I haven't been to a bar yet that didn't have at least one person threaten or assault another while I was there. (This includes minor incidences like spitting or shoving, or having to be dragged out by bouncers).
So then by the reasoning of these laws all bars should be equipped with cameras inside and outside.
Drug deals also happen in bar bathrooms. Let's put cameras in the bathrooms.
It's just silly when there's a media reaction to events, they create this fantastical link between this new "menace", and then laws are rushed into place to deal with it.
One word:
Diversification.
Extra features I can live without...
I just don't like shelling out money for something that turns out to be broken when it comes out of the box or shortly after.
1 RCA D52130, 52" Projection television. Less than a year old and one of the tubes fried. It was still under warranty, so I thought it wouldn't be a problem. Part replacement time? 5 to 6 months minimum. I hounded the store where I bought it from until they took it back.
replaced it with:
a Samsung TXM3096WHF. Sure it was smaller, but I had no interest in getting another projection TV. Less than a year later the tube in this one is showing a green hotspot on the right side. The longer the screen is on, the uglier the color gets on that side. It has to be sent back to Samsung for servicing or replacement.
Maybe I'm just cursed, but it seems like so many products are crapping out too quickly these days.
If you're using the original drive you can do that.
If you put in a new drive that isn't lockable, or has the wrong layout you won't be able to play on live. It looks for files in specific locations. So if you put a bigger drive in, you just stash everything else on F or G, and leave the other drives virtually untouched. No issues.
Once you've modded it though, you can't play live unless the original drive layout is visible and the drive is lockable, and of course the mod chip needs to be bypassable.
If you're not playing on Live, you don't need to worry about whether the drive is lockable or not.
Call them back. Record the call.
:)
After they're done explaining that they won't do anything, inform them that they are now knowingly sending you unsolicited spam, and ask where you should fax the invoice, as you will be billing them for each unsolicited email that you receive.
Do it as a bluff, or do it with the intent to bill. If you have them on tape saying they know they're bombing innocent third parties with email, they're going to change their ways pretty quickly. Newspapers love that shit
They were actually just plans discussing the possibilty of sending the virus.
:P
He already emailed all the ones he got from the US 20 years ago
Our mailserver catches all but the newest ones floating around out there. But our mailboxes are still getting filled with dozens if not hundreds of messages from other companies servers saying "Your sending our users viruses!".
Since the servers invariably aren't verifying the authenticity of addresses that have been spoofed, they're sending out useless messages by the thousands. What an annoying "feature".
Think of it as the "Slashdot Lottery"!
:P
Pick random UIDs and submit them. You can win 250k!
The irony is that it would probably work, given enough time
I tell my family and co-workers that unless you were expecting the attachment, don't open it. Doesn't matter what kind of file it is. Save it to a /suspect directory where it can be scanned later or you can verify that the person sending it did.
The number of people I know that click on anything has dropped considerably. There's a couple that would get infected even if the file was called "Data_Destroying_Spam_Serving_Executable.zip", but they'll never come around.
It's like people driving into a pothole to see how deep it is.
Not just a proxy, a backdoor.
Info here.
It would seem that the real goal is to show how many people are stupid enough to still click on attachments when they have no idea what the fuck they are.
Too true.
It's almost as though people have forgotten that we have winter jackets that can keep us warm in -40 (for both Imperial and Metric).
Having gloves like these means not having to keep my hands stuffed in the pockets of my nice warm jacket when it's bitter. They're not going to sap enough heat from my body drop my core temperature. I'd be in more danger if I didn't wear a hat.
The funny thing about MSN messenger is that they've been nice enough to give the heads up to third party developers when making a change... Not the best example to give :)
But otherwise, good points.
"Lientenant Hobbes, welcome to Harsh Realm.
A company that I worked for used the same system prior to 99. if you had an email address of foobar@foo.bar, then your website or whatever was foobar.foo.bar.
How does one go about challenging these patents?
Interesting to see this pop up.
When the lander touched down last week, I offhandedly mentioned to my girlfriend that I would volunteer in a second if they wanted to send someone there, even if it meant being unable to return.
Apparently the female mind takes this as a personal slight. D'oh.
Not since I went digital. Now the LEDs on my tinfoil hat just go dim.
I'm glad I had a spare. If you turn them upside down you can collect your supersolid helium and smarties in them.
One of my coworkers shipped a game to a friend via FedEx. The package arrived seeminly intact, but when the recipient opened it, the CDs had been removed.
Mail is only as trustworthy as the person handling the goods.