Is there, or should there be, a single, publicly known, media-like organization that is the central entity for this kind of thing?
If I find a security flaw in someone's system, I send all of the details to this group. Then they alert the company in question. If nothing is done, then the summary of the flaw is pubicized. Eventually the details would be publicized.
With a media-like orientation, they can at least try to protect their sources of information.
As with all MS software designed to aid interoperability, SFU is geared towards migrating users from another environment to Windows. It provides tools that allow communication, but they are specifically designed to not work well enough to be a long term solution.
Some people have had success using kerberos as a security system, allowing both Windows and linux systems to authenticate off of it. It mean moving away from the AD user management, and I never got it to work right, but there is a fair amount of info out there about it.
I'm told that USC has used such a setup for a few years. Tale a look at these these.
>>there is no differnce between story presentation on a console and a PC, just controller scheme
That is a total crock. What are you smoking?
Granted, you COULD make a game for a console that played like a PC designed game, but that would be suicide for a designer to do. There is a different expectation for console style play and story then for PC. Call me a PC fanboy, fine. I'm happy to tell you that I don't like console play. Not that I think it's technically or ethically or spiritually inferior. It's just DIFFERENT, and I don't enjoy that style.
I think a simple guideline (which probably won't stand up for even a minute of/. analysis) is that console games are expected to be experienced in the family room, with a few people sitting around and watching and talking. PC games are more typically expected to be played alone, by sad and confused deviants like myself.
A designer targeting one of those as the primary platform will do things very differently depending on which one they are going for.
Simple games can easily sit on either platform. No one cares where they play Tetris. I'm talking about games that are designed to take full advantage of the environment. Sure, I guess you like Halo because, as it is, it was designed well for the console and that style of play. But that style of play is CRAP on a PC. They were originally doing it for PC, in which case it would have been a game I would have loved, and you might have hated.
>>I can't believe you're connecting "ringworld" with "good gameplay".
I didn't. I simply said that I hate the fact that the ringworld environment is now "used up." I have dreamed of playing a game in that environemnt for 20 years. The last ones really sucked.
>>it's just pathetically sad that people see FPS and they stop there and rate the game (Good on PC cuz of mouse/keyboard, bad on console cuz I can't twitch with controller).
And by the way, this is stupid.
I prefer to play PC games with a controller. It's the twitchiness of the console games that I find unlikable.
VMware does not have good graphics virtualization yet. They are looking at it.
From a VMware Technical Support guy:
There is no hardware acceleration available with the VMware virtual video card. Hardware provided 3-d acceleration won't work at all, last I checked.
Windows Direct X provides software emulation where hardware acceleration is not available; unfortunately this is *very slow* and some/most 3d games don't even run with software emulated acceleration being the only 3d available.
This is a feature request (look in the feature requests forum), but we don't have a 3-d video card virtualized yet, so I can't tell you for sure whether or not this will happen in the future.
If we end up providing a full 3-d capable virtualized video card, I'll make sure to update on the feature requests forum when that happens.
>>The Democrats only want to take YOUR money >>and fritter it away. It is funny how >>multi-millionaires like Ted Kennedy are so >>willing to take your money for his programs.
While the republicans simply want to take my money and fritter it away, while not taking away the money of millionaires like ted Kennedy.
.... grant Email Tax Exemptions to the richest corporations, while claiming that the vast majority of the exemptions are being granted to the bottom 50% of email senders.
Learning something by rote, BEFORE you have the ability to comprehend it, will make you far less likely to ever have any chance of incorporating those ideas into your view of the world.
It just sets up a kind of weird, false idol that has no connection to any real thoughts or feelings.
It's the kind of thing that creates all of the Rebel flag waving freaks around these parts, who are the first to scream that we need to string up Johnny Taliban, and lock up any people who oppose the American Way.
But the Rebel flag is the symbol of the greatest treason and mass deaths of Americans that ever happened.
Hey, you get the CMTS and the T1, and I'll come out and hook up your whole complex, from cable modems in the apartments to CMTS and router configurations.
I used Sophos and mailscanner on linux to protect our company. They worked great. I had a script get virus updates twice a day from the Sophos site and incorporate them into the scan. Once a month, they sent a CD with an engine update which just dropped in the directory.
It was easy to modify the mail messages (plain text and html versions) that were sent to me and to the intended recipients when something was detected. Lots of options, and easy to configure.
Well, according to "policy," the installer can't do anything unless you are running a supported OS that boots with no errors. He is supposed to install the ISP's marketing software, change the homepage to the ISP's advertising portal, yada yada yada.
BUT there is very little standardization among installers. The quality is EXTREMELY low. I worked for a company that specialized in Cable Modem installations for broadband providers, and still the majority of the contractors were just Cable TV techs. I started out as a Tech, having not worked for about a year. Of course, I was promoted to Regional Training Supervisor within a few weeks. I wrote a Standard Operating Procedure Manual for doing Cable Modem installs that was used by 150 or so techs in Atlanta. After that company was bankrupted (by the owner stealing money, equipment, and blatant discrimination against white people and women (Thanks again, James Clavon!)), I saw that my manual was being taken by the techs to other companies, and those other companies promptly made it their official document.
Anyway, when I wrote it, I had to take into account the demands of the ISP's that contracted us to do the installs, but I took advantage of every loophole that I could to have the install done the way that I would want it done on MY machine.
Specifically, there was software provided by the ISP which was SUPPOSED to make all of the modifications to the system required, but it crapped out a lot of the time. At the time (about two years ago) the software did JUST make the TCP/IP changes, add an email account (to Outlook Express), change the home page, and send a machine description (hardware stats) to the ISP. I encouraged techs to avoid using this software and do the entire process manually.
Yada yada, more random info: As a supervisor, I had to tell techs to bail on the install if the machine didn't fit the ISP's minimum reqs (like supported OS), but if I was doing an install, or was nearby when a tech radioed me with a problem, I would get the install done for anyone who wanted the service. I could judge the customers pretty well, in that if they were self-sufficient computer users, I would just give them the TCP/IP connection, because that's all they needed. If they needed tech support in the future, they'd have to deal with either putting up a temporary supported OS, removing their firewall (unsupported), or (my preferred method) just lying to tech support, giving the answers that will lead them down their trouble shooting checklist towards getting the damned connection fixed.
Anyway.... I don't know about thew state of affairs today. Now I'm more on the CMTS end in that field. I wouldn't be suprised if the software had spyware components. When I was getting out of that area, they were introducing a "ToolKit" application which WAS somewhat useful in that it would check the status of connections to email, news, & DNS servers, etc. They wanted it to run in the systray and I think it did report back some traffic and usage info to the ISP. But when I had a connection problem, it was easy to start that app and confirm they were having email issues. Now, they probably have much more Orwellian things in the works....
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It simply proves that oak tree is the most important thing in the universe.
Maybe they'll let everyone have the administrator password, and then expell anyone who attaches to an administrtive share.
Maybe Beverly Sweeney should take the school's Computer Literacy class.
blah blah blah.
But, really, all we had was a mainframe with paper teletypes terminals.
The most subversive things we did was use the banner program to print dirty words in large letters.
Is there, or should there be, a single, publicly known, media-like organization that is the central entity for this kind of thing?
If I find a security flaw in someone's system, I send all of the details to this group. Then they alert the company in question. If nothing is done, then the summary of the flaw is pubicized. Eventually the details would be publicized.
With a media-like orientation, they can at least try to protect their sources of information.
Whatever, probably a bad idea....
I for one welcome our new International Robot Racing Federation masters.
As with all MS software designed to aid interoperability, SFU is geared towards migrating users from another environment to Windows. It provides tools that allow communication, but they are specifically designed to not work well enough to be a long term solution.
Some people have had success using kerberos as a security system, allowing both Windows and linux systems to authenticate off of it. It mean moving away from the AD user management, and I never got it to work right, but there is a fair amount of info out there about it.
I'm told that USC has used such a setup for a few years. Tale a look at these these.
>>there is no differnce between story presentation on a console and a PC, just controller scheme
/. analysis) is that console games are expected to be experienced in the family room, with a few people sitting around and watching and talking. PC games are more typically expected to be played alone, by sad and confused deviants like myself.
That is a total crock. What are you smoking?
Granted, you COULD make a game for a console that played like a PC designed game, but that would be suicide for a designer to do. There is a different expectation for console style play and story then for PC. Call me a PC fanboy, fine. I'm happy to tell you that I don't like console play. Not that I think it's technically or ethically or spiritually inferior. It's just DIFFERENT, and I don't enjoy that style.
I think a simple guideline (which probably won't stand up for even a minute of
A designer targeting one of those as the primary platform will do things very differently depending on which one they are going for.
Simple games can easily sit on either platform. No one cares where they play Tetris. I'm talking about games that are designed to take full advantage of the environment. Sure, I guess you like Halo because, as it is, it was designed well for the console and that style of play. But that style of play is CRAP on a PC. They were originally doing it for PC, in which case it would have been a game I would have loved, and you might have hated.
>>I can't believe you're connecting "ringworld" with "good gameplay".
I didn't. I simply said that I hate the fact that the ringworld environment is now "used up." I have dreamed of playing a game in that environemnt for 20 years. The last ones really sucked.
>>it's just pathetically sad that people see FPS and they stop there and rate the game (Good on PC cuz of mouse/keyboard, bad on console cuz I can't twitch with controller).
And by the way, this is stupid.
I prefer to play PC games with a controller. It's the twitchiness of the console games that I find unlikable.
Stalker looks very cool.
Holy christ. I'm afraid and excited that it might be better than Half-Life2.
Of course, I'm also afriad that it might suck.
VMware does not have good graphics virtualization yet. They are looking at it.
From a VMware Technical Support guy:
There is no hardware acceleration available with the VMware virtual video card. Hardware provided 3-d acceleration won't work at all, last I checked.
Windows Direct X provides software emulation where hardware acceleration is not available; unfortunately this is *very slow* and some/most 3d games don't even run with software emulated acceleration being the only 3d available.
This is a feature request (look in the feature requests forum), but we don't have a 3-d video card virtualized yet, so I can't tell you for sure whether or not this will happen in the future.
If we end up providing a full 3-d capable virtualized video card, I'll make sure to update on the feature requests forum when that happens.
>>The Democrats only want to take YOUR money
>>and fritter it away. It is funny how
>>multi-millionaires like Ted Kennedy are so
>>willing to take your money for his programs.
While the republicans simply want to take my money and fritter it away, while not taking away the money of millionaires like ted Kennedy.
.... grant Email Tax Exemptions to the richest corporations, while claiming that the vast majority of the exemptions are being granted to the bottom 50% of email senders.
>>Or are you one of those who thinks all religious people are crazy/lunatic?
If we are speaking about organized religion, then for the most part, yes. Definately a diagnosable mental condition.
Great intentions, but here's the problem:
Learning something by rote, BEFORE you have the ability to comprehend it, will make you far less likely to ever have any chance of incorporating those ideas into your view of the world.
It just sets up a kind of weird, false idol that has no connection to any real thoughts or feelings.
It's the kind of thing that creates all of the Rebel flag waving freaks around these parts, who are the first to scream that we need to string up Johnny Taliban, and lock up any people who oppose the American Way.
But the Rebel flag is the symbol of the greatest treason and mass deaths of Americans that ever happened.
-jmlyle
And next it will go from 'gaseous' to 'plasma,' instantly killing anyone who accesses it, and spawning its own form of life.
Well, let's just say that the experience has made me better equipped to deal with a bad performance review.
Hey, you get the CMTS and the T1, and I'll come out and hook up your whole complex, from cable modems in the apartments to CMTS and router configurations.
I used Sophos and mailscanner on linux to protect our company. They worked great. I had a script get virus updates twice a day from the Sophos site and incorporate them into the scan. Once a month, they sent a CD with an engine update which just dropped in the directory.
It was easy to modify the mail messages (plain text and html versions) that were sent to me and to the intended recipients when something was detected. Lots of options, and easy to configure.
Well, according to "policy," the installer can't do anything unless you are running a supported OS that boots with no errors. He is supposed to install the ISP's marketing software, change the homepage to the ISP's advertising portal, yada yada yada.
BUT there is very little standardization among installers. The quality is EXTREMELY low. I worked for a company that specialized in Cable Modem installations for broadband providers, and still the majority of the contractors were just Cable TV techs. I started out as a Tech, having not worked for about a year. Of course, I was promoted to Regional Training Supervisor within a few weeks. I wrote a Standard Operating Procedure Manual for doing Cable Modem installs that was used by 150 or so techs in Atlanta. After that company was bankrupted (by the owner stealing money, equipment, and blatant discrimination against white people and women (Thanks again, James Clavon!)), I saw that my manual was being taken by the techs to other companies, and those other companies promptly made it their official document.
Anyway, when I wrote it, I had to take into account the demands of the ISP's that contracted us to do the installs, but I took advantage of every loophole that I could to have the install done the way that I would want it done on MY machine.
Specifically, there was software provided by the ISP which was SUPPOSED to make all of the modifications to the system required, but it crapped out a lot of the time. At the time (about two years ago) the software did JUST make the TCP/IP changes, add an email account (to Outlook Express), change the home page, and send a machine description (hardware stats) to the ISP. I encouraged techs to avoid using this software and do the entire process manually.
Yada yada, more random info:
As a supervisor, I had to tell techs to bail on the install if the machine didn't fit the ISP's minimum reqs (like supported OS), but if I was doing an install, or was nearby when a tech radioed me with a problem, I would get the install done for anyone who wanted the service. I could judge the customers pretty well, in that if they were self-sufficient computer users, I would just give them the TCP/IP connection, because that's all they needed. If they needed tech support in the future, they'd have to deal with either putting up a temporary supported OS, removing their firewall (unsupported), or (my preferred method) just lying to tech support, giving the answers that will lead them down their trouble shooting checklist towards getting the damned connection fixed.
Anyway.... I don't know about thew state of affairs today. Now I'm more on the CMTS end in that field. I wouldn't be suprised if the software had spyware components. When I was getting out of that area, they were introducing a "ToolKit" application which WAS somewhat useful in that it would check the status of connections to email, news, & DNS servers, etc. They wanted it to run in the systray and I think it did report back some traffic and usage info to the ISP. But when I had a connection problem, it was easy to start that app and confirm they were having email issues. Now, they probably have much more Orwellian things in the works....
jmlyle