I just pulled out a few CD-Rs that I burnt in early 97 when I purchased my first burner (1x). Guess what? I was able to read all of em without any problems. We're talking 6 1/2 years ago. So I'm not worried.
To refresh your memory, this is what you said:
In my experience, you can bring any Windows 2000 or XP machine with any model of All in Wonder to a screeching blue HALT by simply doing such outlandish and unreasonable things as
The 7500DV falls under the category you mentioned. I also ran the 8 meg version of All In Wonder (PCI) under XP with no problem.
Maybe you meant TV Wonder instead of All In Wonder?;)
I have to totally disagree. I've been running an ATI 7500 All In Wonder DV on Windows XP for over a year and a half and I've never had any of the problems you've mentioned. The only problems I did have at the beginning were due to crappy NVIDIA drivers that remained in the registry even after uninstalling them (causing conflicts). Once I manually removed those reg entries, no more problems.
I'm I the only one who finds this individual totally irresponsible for quitting his job doing this while he has to support a wife and child??? He's putting his addiction before his very own family. This guy needs professional help, and quick.
Lucky. My work laptop got hit 5 mins before this article appeared (though my other 2 XP machines at home weren't affected, strangely enough, since they're all on the same subnet). Once I tossed in firewall rules in ipchains, I was logging on average 2 requests a minute, around 80% of it coming from my own ISP and approximately 60% were unique hosts. I've since turned off logging on those, so my logs don't get filled up with this crap. Wheeeeee indeed!
I had a look at the video and the general theme of their site and realised theres a bit of a fault with their reasoning. They claim that although it might not affect the producers and actors etc because they earn so much, it will affect the 'small' guys like set painters etc...
but... if the movie makes so much as they admit, theyre not going to pay the 'set painters' etc any less because, as they admit, they still will be making more than enough money to pay these guys. They are probably contract workers and will only do it for an acceptable fee. WTF.. shut up you stupid MPAA wankers.
Most of you missed the point of this (there's a few other similar comments). What might/will happen is that since the movie studio gets less money because of movies are being pirated, they'll greenlight less movies. Less movies=less work=less pay for those workers who don't get a cut of the movie. So yeah, they are/will be affected, just not directly like everyone is assuming.
Taking the (unusually) high value of the Canadian dollar, I'm paying 13.77 US$, and that's including the CD tax. Oh yeah, the states has it so much better.
I totally agree with you. How about the poor adult shmucks who work evenings and can only play at night? Penalize everyone for the sake of the kids. It should be the parents' responsibility to enforce this, not the government (except maybe having the internet cafes not admit anyone under the age of 18 between those hours). Where are the parents while this is happening? Why arent they watching what their kids are doing?
I run an Nforce2 based card (Asus A7N8X-DX Deluxe) and I was blown away by the quality of the onboard audio. I had heard motherboards with onboard sound before, and they weren't all that good. I'm glad I held off buying a separate soundcard and tried the onboard audio first. CD audio and surround is as good as my home stereo (which cost a heck of alot more than my motherboard:P). So I totally agree with your statement that 99.9% of the people would find that it's more than good enough.
I kindda liked T3. It's the kind of bubblegum summer movie where you park your brain at the door and just enjoy. Not every movie has to be intellectual or perfectly made. These bubblegum movies is what makes summer movies so great. If I want to think, I'll pick up a book or have conversations with friends.
Hmm, seems like Vietnam-based combat games are a rather crowded genre suddenly - why now?
Hmmm, let's see. BF1942 came out after quite a few popular WW2 based games had already been out (MOHAA, Return To Castle Wolfenstein, etc...). So now they announced a Vietnam game, whoopee! How is that any different than the original BF1942? I really wish/. editors would keep their comments to themselves, or at least keep em in the comments area, and not in the actual news post.
(BTW, I'm really looking forward to BFVietnam. I absolutely love BF1942 and still play almost every day. Far superior game than MOHAA or RTCW).
That's base price. Add stuff like service contracts with EMC, service contracts for the servers (IE: Sun), the network switches/routers, backup systems, the sysadmins and network admins salaries, marketing costs, management salaries, etc... and the figure goes much higher.
Excuse teh language, but it really pisses me off when some clueless hack spouts out "when you can by a harddrive for less than a buck a gig" in such situations. Go ahead, use IDE for intense disk access and see how long it takes before you have a failure. See how long it takes for the IDE HD to choke from bandwidth. See how long it takes before your RAID array fails (I've seen it happen more than I can count).
Right now, Blockbuster will buy one DVD movie and rent it out 50 times. The movie studios make a one time fee of maybe $10
This is actually incorrect (or was, as my information is dated 3-4 years). I had a friend who managed a Blockbuster. The studio took a (small) cut from each and every rental. So it's not just a one time fee (at least, it wasn't 3-4 years ago, with VHS. Might be completely different now).
Thanks for your answers, but I wasn't really looking for them;) I know what Brightmail is, I know what RBLs are, (and why we sometimes get on them). These were not questions, but statements. After all, as I stated above, I am a sysadmin for a national ISP, not some lil mom & pop shop;)
Ack, meant to hit preview, not submit... oh well...
Other thoughts:
How are RBLs any different from other anti-spam services like Brightmail, or even firewalls (IE: I host my own mail, and I've pretty much blocked all of China and Korea so far, along with a few dozen overseas ISPs). All these are done voluntarily. Does this mean an ISP in China has a right to sue me just because I decided to block their CIDR block for the constant flow of spam that came my way (usually thru open relays)? Does this mean companies like Brightmail should be sued, even if they only block specific emails, and not domains/IPs like RBLs do? Does this mean that any ISP or company can sue me since I block all mail from sources that don't resolve reverse DNS?
I'm a sysadmin for a large ISP. We sometimes are added to RBLs (happens when you have millions of users. Either the user knowlingly did it, or got hacked, or has a trojan). Does this mean we should have a right to sue the RBL company for adding us to their list?
I've always wondered about this. Excuse my possible ignorance, but I'm from Canada where the legal system is different than the States.
How can spammers sue anti-spam list maintainers? RBLs are purely voluntary. Companies/ISPs aren't forced by law to use RBLs. They implement RBLs out of their own volition (hopefully after doing a bit of research of the RBL in question).
I can see a point of a non-spammer is accidentaly added to the list and the RBL company refuses to remove the 'offending' company. But in this case, these are known spammers. They don't deny that they send out spam. It just doesn't make any sense. The spammers should be charged with wasting the court's time.
I want an instrument that plays the brown noise, damnit!
We're trying to find the Brown Noise! It's this one pitch, this certain frequency, that makes people lose bowel control!
Brown noise is an ausilation of sound that causes the bowels to losen! The Brown Noise is believed to be ninety-two cents below the lowest octave of E flat. The French experimented with it in World War II.
AICN? A movie review from my 95 year old grandma holds more water than any review AICN can muster. AICN is a crap site, run by an egotestical (yeah, I'm spelling it right) fatass who knows nothing about movies.
I was wondering the exact same thing. Since they are claiming ownership of any and all work, it would make them liable, regardless if other sections of their AUP states otherwise. So if somone were to, for example, post the DeCSS code in one of their message boards, AOL could and (hopefully) would be held responsible. God I hope it happens.
Go and re-read the original message. The original poster said that in Canada phone companies published their own phonebooks. Taking the various Ma Bell's, I was indicating that this was not true. Nowhere was Telus mentioned. BCE did indeed sell it's phonebook division late last year/early this year (unfortunately I don't have my portfolio handy so I can't give you exact dates/details).
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Actually, most teas are known to have more caffeine than coffee. Good enough reason to switch!
I just pulled out a few CD-Rs that I burnt in early 97 when I purchased my first burner (1x). Guess what? I was able to read all of em without any problems. We're talking 6 1/2 years ago. So I'm not worried.
If they make this happen, this will be amazing. Online Quake2 is still my favorite game of all time. This would be very amazing to see.
To refresh your memory, this is what you said: In my experience, you can bring any Windows 2000 or XP machine with any model of All in Wonder to a screeching blue HALT by simply doing such outlandish and unreasonable things as The 7500DV falls under the category you mentioned. I also ran the 8 meg version of All In Wonder (PCI) under XP with no problem. Maybe you meant TV Wonder instead of All In Wonder? ;)
I have to totally disagree. I've been running an ATI 7500 All In Wonder DV on Windows XP for over a year and a half and I've never had any of the problems you've mentioned. The only problems I did have at the beginning were due to crappy NVIDIA drivers that remained in the registry even after uninstalling them (causing conflicts). Once I manually removed those reg entries, no more problems.
I'm I the only one who finds this individual totally irresponsible for quitting his job doing this while he has to support a wife and child??? He's putting his addiction before his very own family. This guy needs professional help, and quick.
Wrong. I just opened up the Task Manager, killed msblast.exe and I was able to delete it. All in normal operations, and not safe mode.
Lucky. My work laptop got hit 5 mins before this article appeared (though my other 2 XP machines at home weren't affected, strangely enough, since they're all on the same subnet). Once I tossed in firewall rules in ipchains, I was logging on average 2 requests a minute, around 80% of it coming from my own ISP and approximately 60% were unique hosts. I've since turned off logging on those, so my logs don't get filled up with this crap. Wheeeeee indeed!
I had a look at the video and the general theme of their site and realised theres a bit of a fault with their reasoning. They claim that although it might not affect the producers and actors etc because they earn so much, it will affect the 'small' guys like set painters etc... but... if the movie makes so much as they admit, theyre not going to pay the 'set painters' etc any less because, as they admit, they still will be making more than enough money to pay these guys. They are probably contract workers and will only do it for an acceptable fee. WTF.. shut up you stupid MPAA wankers.
Most of you missed the point of this (there's a few other similar comments). What might/will happen is that since the movie studio gets less money because of movies are being pirated, they'll greenlight less movies. Less movies=less work=less pay for those workers who don't get a cut of the movie. So yeah, they are/will be affected, just not directly like everyone is assuming.
Lesse here...
Bestbuy has a spindle of 50 blank CDs for 17.99 US$.
I pick mine up for 18.99$ Canadian here.
Taking the (unusually) high value of the Canadian dollar, I'm paying 13.77 US$, and that's including the CD tax. Oh yeah, the states has it so much better.
I totally agree with you. How about the poor adult shmucks who work evenings and can only play at night? Penalize everyone for the sake of the kids. It should be the parents' responsibility to enforce this, not the government (except maybe having the internet cafes not admit anyone under the age of 18 between those hours). Where are the parents while this is happening? Why arent they watching what their kids are doing?
I run an Nforce2 based card (Asus A7N8X-DX Deluxe) and I was blown away by the quality of the onboard audio. I had heard motherboards with onboard sound before, and they weren't all that good. I'm glad I held off buying a separate soundcard and tried the onboard audio first. CD audio and surround is as good as my home stereo (which cost a heck of alot more than my motherboard :P). So I totally agree with your statement that 99.9% of the people would find that it's more than good enough.
I kindda liked T3. It's the kind of bubblegum summer movie where you park your brain at the door and just enjoy. Not every movie has to be intellectual or perfectly made. These bubblegum movies is what makes summer movies so great. If I want to think, I'll pick up a book or have conversations with friends.
A month? RFC states 1 hour, 4 hours, a day and 4 days. After 4 days, bitbucket time. Most ISPs I know of follow the RFC.
Hmm, seems like Vietnam-based combat games are a rather crowded genre suddenly - why now?
/. editors would keep their comments to themselves, or at least keep em in the comments area, and not in the actual news post.
Hmmm, let's see. BF1942 came out after quite a few popular WW2 based games had already been out (MOHAA, Return To Castle Wolfenstein, etc...). So now they announced a Vietnam game, whoopee! How is that any different than the original BF1942? I really wish
(BTW, I'm really looking forward to BFVietnam. I absolutely love BF1942 and still play almost every day. Far superior game than MOHAA or RTCW).
That's base price. Add stuff like service contracts with EMC, service contracts for the servers (IE: Sun), the network switches/routers, backup systems, the sysadmins and network admins salaries, marketing costs, management salaries, etc... and the figure goes much higher.
Excuse teh language, but it really pisses me off when some clueless hack spouts out "when you can by a harddrive for less than a buck a gig" in such situations. Go ahead, use IDE for intense disk access and see how long it takes before you have a failure. See how long it takes for the IDE HD to choke from bandwidth. See how long it takes before your RAID array fails (I've seen it happen more than I can count).
Right now, Blockbuster will buy one DVD movie and rent it out 50 times. The movie studios make a one time fee of maybe $10
This is actually incorrect (or was, as my information is dated 3-4 years). I had a friend who managed a Blockbuster. The studio took a (small) cut from each and every rental. So it's not just a one time fee (at least, it wasn't 3-4 years ago, with VHS. Might be completely different now).
Thanks for your answers, but I wasn't really looking for them ;) I know what Brightmail is, I know what RBLs are, (and why we sometimes get on them). These were not questions, but statements. After all, as I stated above, I am a sysadmin for a national ISP, not some lil mom & pop shop ;)
Ack, meant to hit preview, not submit... oh well... Other thoughts: How are RBLs any different from other anti-spam services like Brightmail, or even firewalls (IE: I host my own mail, and I've pretty much blocked all of China and Korea so far, along with a few dozen overseas ISPs). All these are done voluntarily. Does this mean an ISP in China has a right to sue me just because I decided to block their CIDR block for the constant flow of spam that came my way (usually thru open relays)? Does this mean companies like Brightmail should be sued, even if they only block specific emails, and not domains/IPs like RBLs do? Does this mean that any ISP or company can sue me since I block all mail from sources that don't resolve reverse DNS?
I'm a sysadmin for a large ISP. We sometimes are added to RBLs (happens when you have millions of users. Either the user knowlingly did it, or got hacked, or has a trojan). Does this mean we should have a right to sue the RBL company for adding us to their list?
I've always wondered about this. Excuse my possible ignorance, but I'm from Canada where the legal system is different than the States.
How can spammers sue anti-spam list maintainers? RBLs are purely voluntary. Companies/ISPs aren't forced by law to use RBLs. They implement RBLs out of their own volition (hopefully after doing a bit of research of the RBL in question).
I can see a point of a non-spammer is accidentaly added to the list and the RBL company refuses to remove the 'offending' company. But in this case, these are known spammers. They don't deny that they send out spam. It just doesn't make any sense. The spammers should be charged with wasting the court's time.
Sheesh, doesn't anyone watch SouthPark anymore? This dates back to Season 3. Episode called Worldwide Recorder Concert
mood altering audio signals
I want an instrument that plays the brown noise, damnit!
We're trying to find the Brown Noise! It's this one pitch, this certain frequency, that makes people lose bowel control!
Brown noise is an ausilation of sound that causes the bowels to losen! The Brown Noise is believed to be ninety-two cents below the lowest octave of E flat. The French experimented with it in World War II.
AICN? A movie review from my 95 year old grandma holds more water than any review AICN can muster. AICN is a crap site, run by an egotestical (yeah, I'm spelling it right) fatass who knows nothing about movies.
I was wondering the exact same thing. Since they are claiming ownership of any and all work, it would make them liable, regardless if other sections of their AUP states otherwise. So if somone were to, for example, post the DeCSS code in one of their message boards, AOL could and (hopefully) would be held responsible. God I hope it happens.
Go and re-read the original message. The original poster said that in Canada phone companies published their own phonebooks. Taking the various Ma Bell's, I was indicating that this was not true. Nowhere was Telus mentioned. BCE did indeed sell it's phonebook division late last year/early this year (unfortunately I don't have my portfolio handy so I can't give you exact dates/details).