Mandrake is great. They've really built something that's useful in its own right, and provides many useful things back into the community. Maybe it's not for you, but it's a great place to start for a lot of people. A nice introduction.
The problem is, Mandrake as a business is like a comedy of errors. All sorts of crazy problems, some of which were outside their control, and some that could (and should) have been avoided in the first place. 20/20 hindsight is nice, so I can't carp too much, but if they could get their shit together for just one release (no distribution problems; keep the paying club members happy, and get them a box before it's been on shelves for 3 months), I think things could turn around in a hurry.
Again not without potentially significant resource to support a source of no revenue.
Blizzard doesn't get any revenue from Battlenet anyway. In fact, they'd probably prefer nobody used it. Save bandwidth money.
As an aside IIRC the bnetd project was open source. What would prevent someone from taking the source, stubbing out the authentication code, and making their own server not requiring CD Keys?
I don't think bnetd checks for keys, so you don't have to stub out that code. The problem I have with the 'keyspace searching' (your first comment), is that this whole server project was engineered by sniffing packets in the first place. You don't think they could figure out the keyserver authentication parts (to contact)? I don't think it's a technical problem, really.
Apache may have more installed units, but it has very little publicity outside the geek community - whereas Microsoft lives or dies by its marketing image, so in a sense sets itself up for attack.
Huh? Attack by whom? You think that the people who are r00ting boxes have never heard of Apache? Joe User may have never heard of it, but he's not the one writing worms anyway.
You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Unfortunately, this word has been subject to managment-speak and yuppie-abuse for so long that the incorrect usage is now listed in the dictionary as well.
Then that's what it means. Like it or not, meanings change over time. Sometimes it's because they've been hijacked, but it doesn't matter.
However, Linux is a different case, Opera 6.11 for Linux isn't all that great.
I agree with that one. It seems really crash-happy in dual-head, so there's something going on. Some of the gestures are kind of fiddly too - like not always working in the transfers window, stuff like that.
Because mouse gestures for Mozilla suck, and the tabs in Opera are far superior. Besides, it's faster. And smaller. And it doesn't have as many holes, this recent news notwithstanding. Don't buy it if you don't want to. Nobody's forcing you.
I'd agree with that. If you have the advantage of living in a city, find out where the Italians drink (and buy) their coffee. They won't settle for the domestic swill.
Interesting note: the Scandinavians drink the most coffee per capita, with Finland well in the lead.
Or are we just a squalid rabble, demanding bread and circuses and safety?
That always reminds me of the Mal Sharpe one where he asks some guy for the Meaning of Life. The man thinks for a bit, and says "Money first, pussy second, and gettin' high third."
This should be a perfect excuse to get a NEW program going, completed, and get a NEW vehicle out there. The government should DEMAND it of NASA if NASA doesn't DEMAND it of itself.
Well, that's always been the problem. The government demands more and more, while paying less and less. Space exploration costs money; there's not really any other way around that. We have a budget of 45 million dollars an HOUR for the military, and just over 15 billion/year for NASA. We can spend whatever we want, really, it just depends what our priorities are.
Fuck, you're dumb. He already told you what the problem was: they installed the patch. So now what?
Edit the source to the patch, so it doesn't break anything. Oh wait, that's out.
Back out the patch until they figure out what's going on. Oh wait, you can't.
Dick around on the MS site trying to find people with similar problems and see what they have in common.
Switch to a real OS where you can do what you need to.
Suffer through it like so many others, rebooting the server once a week and more when it decides to go down.
Troubleshooting's fine and all, but when it's easier to just not patch, and hope you don't get hit, you get things like At its
peak, achieved approximately 3 minutes after it was released, Sapphire scanned the net at over 55 million IP addresses per second. There are better ways of doing things, and 5 minutes of searching isn't going to fix these problems, no matter how much you'd like to believe so. That's why they're looking into switching. I'm sure this problem is not the first one they've had.
As for hardware, there's not much you can do about it. I don't buy for a minute though that "most bluescreens are caused by bad hardware," and programs should never NEVER NEVER bring down the whole server. That's just fucking stupid. If you want to advertise "multitasking," you'd better support it.
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Mandrake is great. They've really built something that's useful in its own right, and provides many useful things back into the community. Maybe it's not for you, but it's a great place to start for a lot of people. A nice introduction.
The problem is, Mandrake as a business is like a comedy of errors. All sorts of crazy problems, some of which were outside their control, and some that could (and should) have been avoided in the first place. 20/20 hindsight is nice, so I can't carp too much, but if they could get their shit together for just one release (no distribution problems; keep the paying club members happy, and get them a box before it's been on shelves for 3 months), I think things could turn around in a hurry.
Karma well in excess of the limit, permanently at "Excellent"
"Permanently," eh? I'll bet I could knock it down faster than you can say 'goatse.'
Please. Don't be ridiculous. Everyone knows that only MEN are silly enough to spend $450 on a new video card every six months.
...by the way, could anyone here lend me $450. I need a new...er...kidney. Yeah.
I dunno, my girlfriend would beg to differ.
Why, sold one to get a Radeon? bwahahahaha
"I don't know what this is, but I know I like porn!"
Again not without potentially significant resource to support a source of no revenue.
Blizzard doesn't get any revenue from Battlenet anyway. In fact, they'd probably prefer nobody used it. Save bandwidth money.
As an aside IIRC the bnetd project was open source. What would prevent someone from taking the source, stubbing out the authentication code, and making their own server not requiring CD Keys?
I don't think bnetd checks for keys, so you don't have to stub out that code. The problem I have with the 'keyspace searching' (your first comment), is that this whole server project was engineered by sniffing packets in the first place. You don't think they could figure out the keyserver authentication parts (to contact)? I don't think it's a technical problem, really.
Don't know if they're this X-Technology, but if so, I'm not sure I'd risk it.
OK, so you're on the "do-not-tell" list. Check. Me, I wanna be told, so I can rape and pillage and prey on the weak.
If Dolly was a object oriented desktop, and Microsoft cloned it...
...It'd get rooted faster than a nekkid sheep in Scotland.
*rimshot*
Ahh, Scotland - where the men are men, and the sheep are nervous.
Apache may have more installed units, but it has very little publicity outside the geek community - whereas Microsoft lives or dies by its marketing image, so in a sense sets itself up for attack.
Huh? Attack by whom? You think that the people who are r00ting boxes have never heard of Apache? Joe User may have never heard of it, but he's not the one writing worms anyway.
They didn't need to trust a third party. The key verifying would have used Blizzard's servers.
1 to 6 megs, huh? Why not use Kazaa like everybody else? :-P
You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Unfortunately, this word has been subject to managment-speak and yuppie-abuse for so long that the incorrect usage is now listed in the dictionary as well.
Then that's what it means. Like it or not, meanings change over time. Sometimes it's because they've been hijacked, but it doesn't matter.
I've never seen her, but if she's a baby-eating Thelemist, dude, I'm there! That is such a turn-on.
However, Linux is a different case, Opera 6.11 for Linux isn't all that great.
I agree with that one. It seems really crash-happy in dual-head, so there's something going on. Some of the gestures are kind of fiddly too - like not always working in the transfers window, stuff like that.
Because mouse gestures for Mozilla suck, and the tabs in Opera are far superior. Besides, it's faster. And smaller. And it doesn't have as many holes, this recent news notwithstanding. Don't buy it if you don't want to. Nobody's forcing you.
Man, I had this vision of a white XBOX controller with only one action button. *shudders*
Yeah, but at least it matches my shoes and my VW.
MEN+KEG=OD
I'd agree with that. If you have the advantage of living in a city, find out where the Italians drink (and buy) their coffee. They won't settle for the domestic swill.
Interesting note: the Scandinavians drink the most coffee per capita, with Finland well in the lead.
Or are we just a squalid rabble, demanding bread and circuses and safety?
That always reminds me of the Mal Sharpe one where he asks some guy for the Meaning of Life. The man thinks for a bit, and says "Money first, pussy second, and gettin' high third."
NASA is the primaray funder of the ISS, something like 90$ of all funds come from the US.
;-)
I think you mean '%', no?
This should be a perfect excuse to get a NEW program going, completed, and get a NEW vehicle out there. The government should DEMAND it of NASA if NASA doesn't DEMAND it of itself.
Well, that's always been the problem. The government demands more and more, while paying less and less. Space exploration costs money; there's not really any other way around that. We have a budget of 45 million dollars an HOUR for the military, and just over 15 billion/year for NASA. We can spend whatever we want, really, it just depends what our priorities are.
- Edit the source to the patch, so it doesn't break anything. Oh wait, that's out.
- Back out the patch until they figure out what's going on. Oh wait, you can't.
- Dick around on the MS site trying to find people with similar problems and see what they have in common.
- Switch to a real OS where you can do what you need to.
- Suffer through it like so many others, rebooting the server once a week and more when it decides to go down.
Troubleshooting's fine and all, but when it's easier to just not patch, and hope you don't get hit, you get things like At its peak, achieved approximately 3 minutes after it was released, Sapphire scanned the net at over 55 million IP addresses per second. There are better ways of doing things, and 5 minutes of searching isn't going to fix these problems, no matter how much you'd like to believe so. That's why they're looking into switching. I'm sure this problem is not the first one they've had.As for hardware, there's not much you can do about it. I don't buy for a minute though that "most bluescreens are caused by bad hardware," and programs should never NEVER NEVER bring down the whole server. That's just fucking stupid. If you want to advertise "multitasking," you'd better support it.
Uh yeah, they installed the patch, and it broke the hardware. Right.
This one's my favourite.