What sold me on the PS2 was the backwards compatability and the near garantee of a decent software catalog. Means I finally get to play FFVII, Syndicate Wars and Bushido Blade again after my PS1 went to the big second-hand hardware store in the sky. Sure, compared to the other consoles some of the games look like arse, but then compared to a PC this will always be the case too.
Besides, I tend to play the PS2 when I get home after a night out anyway, so someone could probably replace it with a SNES and I doubt I'd notice . . .
Wow - looks like this 'hole' is in Linux too. Time to switch to using nothing but my abacus . ..
I thought standard users couldn't install services by default, but I'm not sure enough to stick my neck out. The biggest problem here is preview panes in mail clients and the fact Windows fires apps based on file extensions that by default aren't even visible. That and the fact that users suck, of course.
The demo has almost everything written in LUA (a game oriented scripting language used by a load of amateur developers) so it's simple to get in and get hacking. All of their stuff is archived in renamed ZIPs and their images are DDS. Sound is all OGG and WAV. It's quite an open engine.
Actually as far as I know there was not a single false positive from the script, although there were 250 people on our course (at the start, at least) so I might not have heard about it. It did catch one group of people out who were pooling their code, though.
I'd have liked to get my hands on it and see how it works, but obviously it was closed source ; )
Our department at uni used to run all of the submitted coding assignments in the first year through a script that would normalise the ident style, remove the comments and change all the variables names so they they could be diffed to check for cheating.
No-one threw their rattle out of their pram then.
I mean, how is this different from someone doing it manually?
Yeah, how did no-one notice what a craptacular name it is? Surely someone must have stopped at some point and thought "Woah! It looks like we're trying to market snow-boarding simians over here . .."
Everytime I see it I get visions of Monkey Kombat.
Actually, B1ackDragon was right - that was what I meant.
I only really know anything about ray tracing through hanging around on graphics forums for real-time stuff and soaking it up subconsciously, so I understand ray tracing from a very basic level, and some of the global illumination techniques are so far over my head that probably register at air traffic control.
Got an advanced graphics module in my course after Christmas though : )
I think it has to be done backwards, or you end up shooting rays all over the place, 99.99% of which are completely redundant. Whereas if you trace them from the screen back to their origin you don't end up burning processor cycles in vain.
But I may have that wrong - I'm a real-time graphics guy ; )
Since cases that do actually make it to trial take about two years, are we doomed to seeing everything out of McBride's mouth, everything on Groklaw, and every other passing thought about SCO for the next two years on slashdot?
But while we're doing this 'properly' - try Googling for "miama riot FTAA" (which I think you'll agree is a fairly neutral search string) and then do a quick check to see how many pages come down on each side.
Well, from a developer point of view it's pretty nice. GL_EXTENSIONS returned so much crap that my 1024 byte character buffer was too small. So one quick edit later - this is what it supports:
If you're an end-user and don't know what that means, then a 'yes' will probably make more sense to you. In terms of buzzwords, it does pixel and vertex shaders. Although you should be calling them fragment and vertex programs. Grrr.
Well at the place I used to work IT at we used an older version of Norton Ghost and had no problems with it. I can't check what version it was because it won't run under Windows and I don't have a machine I can reboot right now. 7.0? Something like that.
Either way, just whip the top off the box, stick in your drive with the image on and use Ghost on a boot disk. Never had a problem with Windows 95, 98 or 2k, including NTFS.
Pulling images down off the network was a bit of a chore, as it'd fail if the lag got too high . . .
We had a policy whereby only laptops we supplied could plug into the network. They were locked down pretty well and set up so that they could only get into the Internet by dialling in to us and then back out again, so it shouldn't have been those.
Still, we never did get a decent explanation from our sysadmin - who is appropriately known as 'Slippery Smith' . . .
Well you clearly didn't get a temp job on a helpdesk a week before the shit hit the fan.
I did >: (
Besides, in business where the sysadmin wasn't a total retard (read: not where I was) there was no way for the worm to get in. The people who needed to patch their systems were the home users who got shafted for not using firewalls. The same people who use Windows because it's not meant to need much setting up . . .
'We' is the vast majority of the Internet. I don't know figures (anyone?) but I know of no-one who uses anything but IE if they're on Windows. Tragic but true.
Mobilising the generic user to actually sit up, pay attention and in short give a shit would be great, but personally, I won't hold my breath . . .
Slashdot Mirror
Ditto.
In the time it would have taken me to read that I could have coded a web server, downloaded the X2 demo and solved the Middle Eastern peace problem.
What ever happened to the art of being concise?
What did you expect from mi2g
These guys are media whores of the hightest degree. Add them to the fucktard list and let's carry on as before.
What sold me on the PS2 was the backwards compatability and the near garantee of a decent software catalog. Means I finally get to play FFVII, Syndicate Wars and Bushido Blade again after my PS1 went to the big second-hand hardware store in the sky. Sure, compared to the other consoles some of the games look like arse, but then compared to a PC this will always be the case too.
Besides, I tend to play the PS2 when I get home after a night out anyway, so someone could probably replace it with a SNES and I doubt I'd notice . . .
Ah, but where do you buy the tin foil?
[me@here ~]$ chmod 700 oh_shit
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Wow - looks like this 'hole' is in Linux too. Time to switch to using nothing but my abacus . .
I thought standard users couldn't install services by default, but I'm not sure enough to stick my neck out. The biggest problem here is preview panes in mail clients and the fact Windows fires apps based on file extensions that by default aren't even visible. That and the fact that users suck, of course.
Looks really nice to mod too.
The demo has almost everything written in LUA (a game oriented scripting language used by a load of amateur developers) so it's simple to get in and get hacking. All of their stuff is archived in renamed ZIPs and their images are DDS. Sound is all OGG and WAV. It's quite an open engine.
And it looks gorgeous and plays well.
Needless to say, we wants it.
Just consider yourself lucky that I didn't try to use a semi-colon . . .
1. The virus makes M$ operating systems look bad.
Actually it's a mass mailer, so all it's doing is making user's look retarded. Again.
2. The DDoS attack goes after every Linux lover's most hated target, SCO.
Well yes, it does. But it ain't going to help our cause at all, is it?
Having said that, I'm going to get me some popcorn and settle down in front of Netcraft >: )
Actually as far as I know there was not a single false positive from the script, although there were 250 people on our course (at the start, at least) so I might not have heard about it. It did catch one group of people out who were pooling their code, though.
I'd have liked to get my hands on it and see how it works, but obviously it was closed source ; )
Our department at uni used to run all of the submitted coding assignments in the first year through a script that would normalise the ident style, remove the comments and change all the variables names so they they could be diffed to check for cheating.
No-one threw their rattle out of their pram then.
I mean, how is this different from someone doing it manually?
Yeah, how did no-one notice what a craptacular name it is? Surely someone must have stopped at some point and thought "Woah! It looks like we're trying to market snow-boarding simians over here . . ."
Everytime I see it I get visions of Monkey Kombat.
Oop Ack Chee indeed.
Actually, B1ackDragon was right - that was what I meant.
I only really know anything about ray tracing through hanging around on graphics forums for real-time stuff and soaking it up subconsciously, so I understand ray tracing from a very basic level, and some of the global illumination techniques are so far over my head that probably register at air traffic control.
Got an advanced graphics module in my course after Christmas though : )
(or reversed, I am not sure which they use)
I think it has to be done backwards, or you end up shooting rays all over the place, 99.99% of which are completely redundant. Whereas if you trace them from the screen back to their origin you don't end up burning processor cycles in vain.
But I may have that wrong - I'm a real-time graphics guy ; )
I never find fscking a chore!
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Quite the opposite in fact . .
. . . we're talking about different things here, aren't we?
Since cases that do actually make it to trial take about two years, are we doomed to seeing everything out of McBride's mouth, everything on Groklaw, and every other passing thought about SCO for the next two years on slashdot?
Darl speaks out of his mouth?
Well you learn something new every day . . .
"Try an actual objective news site."
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Yeah, very funny.
Why don't I just ask Bigfoot about it too . .
But while we're doing this 'properly' - try Googling for "miama riot FTAA" (which I think you'll agree is a fairly neutral search string) and then do a quick check to see how many pages come down on each side.
"You must not live in the U.S. Dissent is bigger than ever, and unstifled."
*cough*
Well, from a developer point of view it's pretty nice. GL_EXTENSIONS returned so much crap that my 1024 byte character buffer was too small. So one quick edit later - this is what it supports:
/me dons asbestos trousers
GL_ARB_multitexture GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_S3_s3tc GL_ARB_depth_texture GL_ARB_fragment_program GL_ARB_multisample GL_ARB_point_parameters GL_ARB_shadow GL_ARB_shadow_ambient GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp GL_ARB_texture_compression GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_vertex_blend GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_ARB_window_pos GL_ATI_draw_buffers GL_ATI_element_array GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap GL_ATI_fragment_shader GL_ATI_map_object_buffer GL_ATI_separate_stencil GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3 GL_ATI_texture_float GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once GL_ATI_vertex_array_object GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object GL_ATI_vertex_attrib_array_object GL_ATI_vertex_streams GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3 GL_ATIX_texture_env_route GL_ATIX_vertex_shader_output_point_size GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_point_parameters GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_texgen_reflection GL_EXT_texture3D GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_cube_map GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_texture_rectangle GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_EXT_vertex_shader GL_HP_occlusion_test GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_NV_blend_square GL_NV_occlusion_query GL_SGI_color_matrix GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_lod GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_multitexture GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays GL_WIN_swap_hint WGL_EXT_extensions_string WGL_EXT_swap_control
If you're an end-user and don't know what that means, then a 'yes' will probably make more sense to you. In terms of buzzwords, it does pixel and vertex shaders. Although you should be calling them fragment and vertex programs. Grrr.
Can't say much for Linux support - I code Win32.
Well at the place I used to work IT at we used an older version of Norton Ghost and had no problems with it. I can't check what version it was because it won't run under Windows and I don't have a machine I can reboot right now. 7.0? Something like that.
Either way, just whip the top off the box, stick in your drive with the image on and use Ghost on a boot disk. Never had a problem with Windows 95, 98 or 2k, including NTFS.
Pulling images down off the network was a bit of a chore, as it'd fail if the lag got too high . . .
We had a policy whereby only laptops we supplied could plug into the network. They were locked down pretty well and set up so that they could only get into the Internet by dialling in to us and then back out again, so it shouldn't have been those.
Still, we never did get a decent explanation from our sysadmin - who is appropriately known as 'Slippery Smith' . . .
Well you clearly didn't get a temp job on a helpdesk a week before the shit hit the fan.
I did >: (
Besides, in business where the sysadmin wasn't a total retard (read: not where I was) there was no way for the worm to get in. The people who needed to patch their systems were the home users who got shafted for not using firewalls. The same people who use Windows because it's not meant to need much setting up . . .
If you were a true convert you'd buy 95, 98, 2k and then XP. As it stands I don't think you're trying hard enough . . .
'We' is the vast majority of the Internet. I don't know figures (anyone?) but I know of no-one who uses anything but IE if they're on Windows. Tragic but true.
Mobilising the generic user to actually sit up, pay attention and in short give a shit would be great, but personally, I won't hold my breath . . .
I must protest! I lurve the Agent!
You can hook it up to mIRC, and hearing Merlin swear in a Stephen Hawking stylee is great entertainment for a few minutes.
Yeah, but wouldn't it be ironic when they cut down your tree to print 100,000 leaflets for a mass letter drop?
>: )