We have a shell script cron'd to go off every night that mounts users hard drive's via smb, then backs them up with tar to a raid. Then we archive those to tape for an offsite backup. The raid backup is great because when I get a "I just deleted my spreadsheet" call I can have it back in a few minutes. Your only worry is making sure they have there c$ "administrative" share available for your data syphon. You could even get snazzy with it and make a web interface with php/apache like we did, but were a bit larger operation and have lUsers using the system.
It seems that this is a kneejerk to the RMS mentality. There is a middle ground and there are places where the GPL really has no business. And the GPL just happens to be a wonderfull thing in alot of situations. I think the government could reap grand rewards from the use of GPL, but I also believe that there is a time and a place for such a liscense. This whitepaper reads to me like it was written by somebody that was handcuffed to RMS for a few hours. There were some good points in there, their just hard to pick out because he is really overdoing it and losing credibility because of it.
There have been many attempts to do things about this. Plenty of bot detectors for the fps's. Between diablo 1 and 2 there were many changes made for anti-cheating concerns. If you look at the top of the changelog here. You'll see that anti-cheat protection is right on top. I believe its goin to be the same battle as OS security, and game console copy protection. There is always going to be something that somebody can do to cheat the system, and there will always be somebody willing to do it just to make themselves feel a little more powerfull.
edge
"It's all fun and games untill somebody looses a harddrive."
In our cad lab in high-school we had a free day every month or whenever the instructor got lazy. We would usually have about 2 or 3 guys eating my super-shotgun in DOOM II. Those were the days, before all that new-fangled gl stuff. Now we have to thow our own lan parties.
I keep hearing that the FBI's "Information Network" needs some major restructuring. Including a much needed upgrade too all their hardware, and a big fat-daddy database to keep all their intelligence handy with smart searches and logic bots to trigger alarms. Mabey we can convince them of the merits of open source, and at the same time create some jobs for us linux h4x0rs.
If you were strong enough, do you think that a golf ball could escape the gravity of the moon? Does anybody know the math to that? How much force would need to be exerted on a golf ball at a 45degree angle to become free of the moons gravity?
My amd bot will kick your intel bot up and down the street. Now a beowulf cluster of these would certainly be a party. Droves of robots armed with 802.11 roaming around bumping into each other. It's a far cry from the matrix but we can teach them to be evil!
I would really like to see some virtual reality gear become commercialized bastardized and available at my local http://www.thinkgeek.com . They had lame 640x480 headsets back in the descent/doom days with (bad)head tracking for around 700$. I know I'd pay the same for something based on todays technology that looked nice and worked well. Anybody else think so or is VR just dead?
We have seen many things in the last two years that outperform silicon based transistors. When it becomes cost effective and just plain realistic, thats when I wan't to hear about it. Is there anything cool that we might actually be using in 5 years?
Open office is shaping up nicely and has the ability to import everybodys office doc's. As for the custom apps, I would recommend webification for most of them, or a nice compile against wine librarys. With the samba project around your shouldn't be forced to do everything at once.
Whatever happened to lunatic fringe??? It was an after dark screensaver / game and it was perty darn cool.. they were even supposed to be releasing a retail version of it. It seems to have faded away somewhere... not even abandonware. Hmmmmm If only I didn't use all my floppies as ninja stars.
I ran a T-bird 900 with a GeForce3 for awhile on 2.4.17 using NVagp and never had one bit of a problem. Now I have a XP 1700+ and still have no problem, though i've switched my board from a kt133a to a kt266a and have to use agpgart because the NVidia driver dosn't support my chipset. Still perfectly stable (i've noticed one or two graphical glitches in glx apps lately but never a lockup or a crash)
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder when gentoo will put it in the portage tree..
Looks like ximain has more monkey names to use.
Now strippers can tell what I'm throwing on the table at a glance.
How much cash do you think they would pay to let them grow a couple test thymus' in me?
uh oh... gnome fan with mod points got me.
Mabey it'll beat duke nukem forever!
I'll have to check that out, thanks.
We have a shell script cron'd to go off every night that mounts users hard drive's via smb, then backs them up with tar to a raid. Then we archive those to tape for an offsite backup. The raid backup is great because when I get a "I just deleted my spreadsheet" call I can have it back in a few minutes. Your only worry is making sure they have there c$ "administrative" share available for your data syphon. You could even get snazzy with it and make a web interface with php/apache like we did, but were a bit larger operation and have lUsers using the system.
edge
A hack here and some ducktape there and you've got yourself a game!
It seems that this is a kneejerk to the RMS mentality. There is a middle ground and there are places where the GPL really has no business. And the GPL just happens to be a wonderfull thing in alot of situations. I think the government could reap grand rewards from the use of GPL, but I also believe that there is a time and a place for such a liscense. This whitepaper reads to me like it was written by somebody that was handcuffed to RMS for a few hours. There were some good points in there, their just hard to pick out because he is really overdoing it and losing credibility because of it.
edge
.02$
There have been many attempts to do things about this. Plenty of bot detectors for the fps's. Between diablo 1 and 2 there were many changes made for anti-cheating concerns. If you look at the top of the changelog here. You'll see that anti-cheat protection is right on top. I believe its goin to be the same battle as OS security, and game console copy protection. There is always going to be something that somebody can do to cheat the system, and there will always be somebody willing to do it just to make themselves feel a little more powerfull.
edge
"It's all fun and games untill somebody looses a harddrive."
In our cad lab in high-school we had a free day every month or whenever the instructor got lazy. We would usually have about 2 or 3 guys eating my super-shotgun in DOOM II. Those were the days, before all that new-fangled gl stuff. Now we have to thow our own lan parties.
So who's gonna get a kernel booting on the GBA? Then we can get mpg123 goin and flash the cartridge with our fav mp3's.
I keep hearing that the FBI's "Information Network" needs some major restructuring. Including a much needed upgrade too all their hardware, and a big fat-daddy database to keep all their intelligence handy with smart searches and logic bots to trigger alarms. Mabey we can convince them of the merits of open source, and at the same time create some jobs for us linux h4x0rs.
This could revolutionize the pr0n industry!! Just think of the implications... (and where you could zoom).
If you were strong enough, do you think that a golf ball could escape the gravity of the moon? Does anybody know the math to that? How much force would need to be exerted on a golf ball at a 45degree angle to become free of the moons gravity?
My amd bot will kick your intel bot up and down the street. Now a beowulf cluster of these would certainly be a party. Droves of robots armed with 802.11 roaming around bumping into each other. It's a far cry from the matrix but we can teach them to be evil!
I would really like to see some virtual reality gear become commercialized bastardized and available at my local http://www.thinkgeek.com . They had lame 640x480 headsets back in the descent/doom days with (bad)head tracking for around 700$. I know I'd pay the same for something based on todays technology that looked nice and worked well. Anybody else think so or is VR just dead?
jeremy
I believe gannondorf is the human counterpart
of the transformed piglike gannon.
We have seen many things in the last two years that outperform silicon based transistors. When it becomes cost effective and just plain realistic, thats when I wan't to hear about it. Is there anything cool that we might actually be using in 5 years?
...and the unit will also double as a maid/butler when you're not searching for Rupes and fighting Gandolf.
Gandolf? That nice old wizard? Don't you mean gannon? Just my 1.5 cents.
jeremy
Open office is shaping up nicely and has the ability to import everybodys office doc's. As for the custom apps, I would recommend webification for most of them, or a nice compile against wine librarys. With the samba project around your shouldn't be forced to do everything at once.
jeremy
Whatever happened to lunatic fringe??? It was an
after dark screensaver / game and it was perty darn
cool.. they were even supposed to be releasing a
retail version of it. It seems to have faded away
somewhere... not even abandonware. Hmmmmm If only
I didn't use all my floppies as ninja stars.
edge
Has anybody addressed the amd cache coherency bug? I'm still booting with mem=nopentium. That makes me sad.
jeremy
I ran a T-bird 900 with a GeForce3 for awhile on 2.4.17 using NVagp and never had one bit of a problem. Now I have a XP 1700+ and still have no problem, though i've switched my board from a kt133a to a kt266a and have to use agpgart because the NVidia driver dosn't support my chipset. Still perfectly stable (i've noticed one or two graphical glitches in glx apps lately but never a lockup or a crash)