I'm up to level 38 (as a hunter, which is a good solo class) without ever going into dungeon or doing an elite quest. Now I admit eventually I'll have to, but I just haven't had the time to devote several hours to a dungeon with a bunch of people and then cut out before it's done.
(There's also the small fact that for some reason no one wants to party with a hunter, despite the fact that if it's played well, it's a great puller and can prevent wipes).
Also, WoW's rested state helps give a boost to people who don't play as often. Hard core guys have to fight twice as many mobs basically.
There's different reasons for censorship, like during an active military campaign you just can't let the press report a lot of what's going on since it will tip off the enemy.
Then there's the censorship to move or alter public opinion. Is that what is happening in Iraq today? There are way too many conflicting reports about what's really happening there.
For example, one can read Iraqi blogs like Baghdad Burning to get an insider view, but there's been claims she exaggerates stuff as well, and I've never seen her write an opinion or thought on Saddam himself.
lashdotters often rhetorically ask why composers and lyricists can't simply do it for the love of the craft and forget monetary goals. This is similar to asking why IT consultants can't do the same thing, and charge $10 an hour instead of, say, $50 an hour.
I'm not saying that. One almost always buys music only after hearing it somewhere else. I'm not going to buy something from a band I've never heard. So radio play is like advertising the music. It's to the music industry's benefit that stuff gets radio play. It just seems backwards that the stations have to pay to advertise these songs basically.
So a radio station pays to play music and then if a company is playing the same station, they have to pay too? Wow, what a racket. So the music companies get multiple payments for the same broadcast.
No wonder they think it makes sense to pay a place like itunes to buy music, then pay again for the right to store it on your media or player (in some countries and I bet they wish everywhere).
Are you SERIOUS. Are they the stupidest people on earth. You want someone to buy your product, you need to expose them to it. How does that happen with music?
Sure there isn't some back-channel payments back to the radio stations for this stuff?
I don't buy too much new music basically because of limited options I have in playing it. I listen to streaming stations more often (like this article says) but have to sit there and manually type in the songs into itunes to find them to buy them.
I don't understand why RIAA wants streaming stations to pay them for what amounts to advertising for their members. Do radio stations pay to play music? I'm thinking not.
What I'd like to see is an itunes enhancement that either apple or other stations streams music and while a song is playing, there's a "buy" button so I can just download it if I like it. That would drive my purchases up through the roof. I get to hear if I like a song (more than 30 seconds worth) and the impulse factor is right there. (I've sent that suggestion in already). The streaming stations could get revenue that way too. A referal fee for following a link from a station to buy should help offset the stupid ASCAP/BMI fees to online stations.
The few times I listen to traditional radio, it annoys the piss out of me to hear something good and then not have the artist or song announced after it and have no clue how to find out to buy it. Screw em, let them all play conservative talk radio hosts 24 hours a day.
He was also championing the creation of an "information superhighway" for everyone. Up until then, the Internet was research-only and had explicit prohibitions against commercial activity.
For a short time, like around 1990-92, it was commonly believed that the Internet would remain a research net and a NEW network based on OSI would emerge that would be commercial in nature. It just made sense to open up the Internet rather than reinvent the wheel.
This was all back when Congress didn't barely know what a computer was, let alone email. To have one guy with a clue back then that could actually support the funding was amazing.
I realize there are bad people everywhere, and I also realize Indian police are cracking down on this. It still makes me nervous that the outsourced data and theft is outside the U.S. legal system and recourses to the vicitims is about nil.
So with that in mind, when is some credit card company and bank going to advertise that they guarantee all your data will remain within the U.S. and not be outsourced?
Someone does that, I'll switch to them. I don't care if their rates are not as competitive. I'll pay extra for the peace of mind.
rhn is a big one. Being able to manage all of my system updates from one web page, knowing the exact status of the machines. They also have a higher level of RHN that allows even more management, like provisioning new installs.
World of Warcraft updates are downloaded using their own bittorrent client. They run numerous seeds and you rarely upload what you download and it terminates soon as the download is complete, but it's most definitely a bittorrent client.
Somehow I doubt Blizzard would agree that their use of bittorrent by their clients in this case is illegal!
which is what causes "loot lag" where a player gets stuck in the looting position while the server is queried.
Wow, thanks. I was wondering what that was about. I thought that it was a bug, although it was neat going back into town in my crouched position and floating around (I wonder if I was even seen by other people. I'm guessing probably not)
It's a tad bit different for "civil servants" in the U.S. They have some constitutional protections from being fired without due cause. You can be fired, but it has to be for cause.
We're not talking about file permissions (er, I don't think) but process permissions.
File permissions are permissions granted to a user. This is permissions to various objects and resources granted to programs and processes.
Big difference.
As an example, the author of that Redhat article has a Fedora Core 3 box set up with a very restrictive SELinix configuration and freely gives out the root password and even with root, people can't do anything dangerous to the box.
He's had a similar Debian box out there for two years now and no one has hacked it, even though they already have root and a shell!
I just got done reading an interesting article about SELinux. I'm just curious as to the strengths and weaknesses of each approach.
The SELinux approach sounds to me like a far better way to approach this, actually controlling the permissions of a process with some high degree of precision, down to what files it can use and what other processes it can invoke.
Anyone learned in this stuff care to give a non-flamed opinion of the two approaches strengths and weaknesses? Also, do or will the newer Linux kernels do anything similar regarding stack protection?
You mean all those PCs sitting in college computer labs I administer with their COA labels on them can be lifted and used to activate a copy of XP (since they install using a corp version)????
I had NO IDEA, but I guess Microsoft is giving a head's up to all of our students to hurry up and lift our keys and do their installs before the end of the month.
Nice way to alert people how to pirate your stuff, Microsoft, while further irritating legitimate purchasers.
Wish you had asked each person to describe what environment they are using. It's easier for a one-user shop to switch distros than a large company running mission critical stuff on their servers.
Unfortunately, ole Redhat doesn't understand that either. When they yanked the rug out from Redhat and forced a migration to RHEL, the "support" (as in RHN which we paid for) for the Redhat distros dried up. We weren't ready to switch. Worse, there was no upgrade from redhat 7.3 the RHEL 3 -- you had to install and migrate each box from scratch.
We bit the bullet and did that and purchased the RHEL subscriptions and spent a Christmas holiday working like hell to get the boxes up on RHEL 3.
Now all of my tech staff hate Redhat and want us to move to another distro. That's easier said than done since it would require yet another complete wipe and reinstall and learning the new distro way of doing things. SUSE is top contender so far.
As for Redhat support, not happy with it at all. The few calls we've placed have been aggravating. Each time we ended up solving the problem ourselves and telling the techs how to fix it and hoping it goes into a support db so it saves someone else the hassle.
Then there was the hassle of Kerberos. The version that ships with RHEL 3 was not fully compatible with Microsoft Windows 2003 server due to its tendency to want to use TCP instead of UDP for large replies. Redhat would not back-port support from MIT krb 1.3 into 1.2.7 so we were forced to do that ourselves, then they tell us if we do that they won't support us (but still take the money of course).
Believe it or not, I still like Redhat but patience is growing very thin. They've made some dumb decisions lately. They need to reach go to work on their PR more. They've already lost the support of all of my tech staff. Me, as the director, am far more conservative about just jumping ship due to the overhead hassles and risks of doing it, but I'm real close to supporting that as well.
OK, to close on a more positive note, their decision to sue SOOX for a resolution earned big points in my book, even though the Judge in Delaware has tabled it for now. Fedora works pretty well and I'm actually using that for my own use on a colocated box I rent for my side stuff. RHEL 4 is out and I'm hoping allows an easy upgrade path from RHEL 3 without a reinstall (still need to test that) and should address our compatibility issues -- until next issue comes out of course. And I really like RHN.
Evocam is a great piece of software, and cheap. Allows you to define different zones on the image to trigger different actions, like upload pictures via ftp or email, its own streaming webcam software on an internal webpage, and other neat fun.
I have mine record movements while out as well as speak "Intruder alert, intruder alert" hoping to scare any would-be burglers away while snapping their photo.
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(There's also the small fact that for some reason no one wants to party with a hunter, despite the fact that if it's played well, it's a great puller and can prevent wipes).
Also, WoW's rested state helps give a boost to people who don't play as often. Hard core guys have to fight twice as many mobs basically.
Then there's the censorship to move or alter public opinion. Is that what is happening in Iraq today? There are way too many conflicting reports about what's really happening there.
For example, one can read Iraqi blogs like Baghdad Burning to get an insider view, but there's been claims she exaggerates stuff as well, and I've never seen her write an opinion or thought on Saddam himself.
I'm not saying that. One almost always buys music only after hearing it somewhere else. I'm not going to buy something from a band I've never heard. So radio play is like advertising the music. It's to the music industry's benefit that stuff gets radio play. It just seems backwards that the stations have to pay to advertise these songs basically.
No wonder they think it makes sense to pay a place like itunes to buy music, then pay again for the right to store it on your media or player (in some countries and I bet they wish everywhere).
Are you SERIOUS. Are they the stupidest people on earth. You want someone to buy your product, you need to expose them to it. How does that happen with music?
Sure there isn't some back-channel payments back to the radio stations for this stuff?
I don't understand why RIAA wants streaming stations to pay them for what amounts to advertising for their members. Do radio stations pay to play music? I'm thinking not.
What I'd like to see is an itunes enhancement that either apple or other stations streams music and while a song is playing, there's a "buy" button so I can just download it if I like it. That would drive my purchases up through the roof. I get to hear if I like a song (more than 30 seconds worth) and the impulse factor is right there. (I've sent that suggestion in already). The streaming stations could get revenue that way too. A referal fee for following a link from a station to buy should help offset the stupid ASCAP/BMI fees to online stations.
The few times I listen to traditional radio, it annoys the piss out of me to hear something good and then not have the artist or song announced after it and have no clue how to find out to buy it. Screw em, let them all play conservative talk radio hosts 24 hours a day.
And you don't have to reboot after updating firefox!
For a short time, like around 1990-92, it was commonly believed that the Internet would remain a research net and a NEW network based on OSI would emerge that would be commercial in nature. It just made sense to open up the Internet rather than reinvent the wheel.
This was all back when Congress didn't barely know what a computer was, let alone email. To have one guy with a clue back then that could actually support the funding was amazing.
So with that in mind, when is some credit card company and bank going to advertise that they guarantee all your data will remain within the U.S. and not be outsourced?
Someone does that, I'll switch to them. I don't care if their rates are not as competitive. I'll pay extra for the peace of mind.
True, since the crime had to have happened in India, it narrows the list of possible suspects down to only a billion people.
ADS requires a ton of planning and knowledge to get up and running. RHN is just a freakin web page with some links.
rhn is a big one. Being able to manage all of my system updates from one web page, knowing the exact status of the machines. They also have a higher level of RHN that allows even more management, like provisioning new installs.
It's something I wish Microsoft would offer.
Somehow I doubt Blizzard would agree that their use of bittorrent by their clients in this case is illegal!
Wow, thanks. I was wondering what that was about. I thought that it was a bug, although it was neat going back into town in my crouched position and floating around (I wonder if I was even seen by other people. I'm guessing probably not)
If you want negative comments about your pics, post them to mobog.com. WARNING: Site is not safe for work.
It's a tad bit different for "civil servants" in the U.S. They have some constitutional protections from being fired without due cause. You can be fired, but it has to be for cause.
You have a root shell but can't hack the box. That's pretty impressive.
File permissions are permissions granted to a user. This is permissions to various objects and resources granted to programs and processes.
Big difference.
As an example, the author of that Redhat article has a Fedora Core 3 box set up with a very restrictive SELinix configuration and freely gives out the root password and even with root, people can't do anything dangerous to the box.
He's had a similar Debian box out there for two years now and no one has hacked it, even though they already have root and a shell!
The SELinux approach sounds to me like a far better way to approach this, actually controlling the permissions of a process with some high degree of precision, down to what files it can use and what other processes it can invoke.
Anyone learned in this stuff care to give a non-flamed opinion of the two approaches strengths and weaknesses? Also, do or will the newer Linux kernels do anything similar regarding stack protection?
I had NO IDEA, but I guess Microsoft is giving a head's up to all of our students to hurry up and lift our keys and do their installs before the end of the month.
Nice way to alert people how to pirate your stuff, Microsoft, while further irritating legitimate purchasers.
Speaking for myself, not my employer
Unfortunately, ole Redhat doesn't understand that either. When they yanked the rug out from Redhat and forced a migration to RHEL, the "support" (as in RHN which we paid for) for the Redhat distros dried up. We weren't ready to switch. Worse, there was no upgrade from redhat 7.3 the RHEL 3 -- you had to install and migrate each box from scratch.
We bit the bullet and did that and purchased the RHEL subscriptions and spent a Christmas holiday working like hell to get the boxes up on RHEL 3.
Now all of my tech staff hate Redhat and want us to move to another distro. That's easier said than done since it would require yet another complete wipe and reinstall and learning the new distro way of doing things. SUSE is top contender so far.
As for Redhat support, not happy with it at all. The few calls we've placed have been aggravating. Each time we ended up solving the problem ourselves and telling the techs how to fix it and hoping it goes into a support db so it saves someone else the hassle.
Then there was the hassle of Kerberos. The version that ships with RHEL 3 was not fully compatible with Microsoft Windows 2003 server due to its tendency to want to use TCP instead of UDP for large replies. Redhat would not back-port support from MIT krb 1.3 into 1.2.7 so we were forced to do that ourselves, then they tell us if we do that they won't support us (but still take the money of course).
Believe it or not, I still like Redhat but patience is growing very thin. They've made some dumb decisions lately. They need to reach go to work on their PR more. They've already lost the support of all of my tech staff. Me, as the director, am far more conservative about just jumping ship due to the overhead hassles and risks of doing it, but I'm real close to supporting that as well.
OK, to close on a more positive note, their decision to sue SOOX for a resolution earned big points in my book, even though the Judge in Delaware has tabled it for now. Fedora works pretty well and I'm actually using that for my own use on a colocated box I rent for my side stuff. RHEL 4 is out and I'm hoping allows an easy upgrade path from RHEL 3 without a reinstall (still need to test that) and should address our compatibility issues -- until next issue comes out of course. And I really like RHN.
Same here. I stopped visiting his site after I figured out it was him doing it.
Hmm.... Will have to look into how to MMS a pic via email. Got me thinking now! :)
Yeah, good idea, except I have cats. The false alarms would be a bit of a problem!
I have mine record movements while out as well as speak "Intruder alert, intruder alert" hoping to scare any would-be burglers away while snapping their photo.
Hopefully it will never be "needed."
A great use for the new Mac Mini too!