Assuming 0wnz0red.com is a well-done forgery, even the most clueful geek would have a really, really, really, hard time telling that he's at anything but yahoo.com.
Although seeing that the pages are riddled with the goatse man is usually a pretty dead giveaway.:)
Almost every site, try going to suprnova.org I think it is. The whole site is in HTML rendered with javascript, it's death to gecko as soon as you hit the page. Sure it's 90% warez and whatever, but I just go there for the legal junk, like the ut2004 vehicle demo, etc.
Besides that one site, oh ya, and my bank, I don't have to touch IE at all and am a much happier person for it. Well ok, I have to use windows update also, but only when I'm running windows.:)
That was my main incentive to switch to 2.6. I had to compile all sorts of other external modules into it to do what I wanted. I had to compile the alsa drivers separately, I had to compile i2c and lm sensors separately as well. With 2.6, everything's built right in, so it's not a big deal to compile a new kernel.
Plus the problem with my 200 gig WD digital hard drive not responding after a few days has magically gone away. No complaints here, I had test9 up 19 days, test11 is has been up 4.5 days so far, because I didn't get a chance to compile it until 4.5 days ago.:)
There's always Weapons Factory for Q3, and my personal favorite Quake3 Fortress. Both great games, but both are in danger of dying since not nearly as many people still have Quake 3 installed anymore.
I fear Q3F is close to it's death. It'll be a sad day to stop playing it, kinda like the last days I played Action Quake2. lostinfo.com went down, among others, and eventually it was hard to find a good game with a decent amount of players on it anymore. Right now no one even plays Q3F on US servers until after like 5pm or so, and after 2 or 3am? Forget about it.
I spent many Friday and Saturday nights at college playing Quake1 Threewave and ThunderWalker CTF from 2:30am (when the bars closed) until I couldn't stay awake any longer --(usually around 8-9am or so when the sun got to be too bright shining in my window)
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Actually it was Doom that started the ball rolling for mods. Heck there were probably even Wolfenstein mods. Search around for Alien Doom or Starwar Doom, there were some really really creative mods out for Doom, for an engine that wasn't really meant to be modded. Actually, Doom has the capability of loading external pwads which replaced levels, sprites, and sound effects, but you couldn't change any of the programming side of it, until DeHacked (I think that's what it was called) came out, which allowed you to apply a binary patch to your Doom executable, modifying things like firing rate, damage, etc. It was only after so many people modified Doom, and Doom2, that id software finally saw how good it was for sales to their game that they made Quake easily moddable off the bat.
heh, I kinda doubt a few millimeters of rubber is going to insulate anything against lightning.
Kinda like how people say tires insulate a car against lightning, a few inches of rubber isn't going to do squat, according to my high school physics teacer, you're safe in a car because lightning stays on the outside of a metal enclosure.
Kind of like a fiend of mine. I sold him one of my extra computers awhile back. Maybe about a month ago he calls me up, saying that IE is out of control, as he's getting quite a few popups. He's your average single white male, who visits the occassional porn site with other friends who come over and using his computer, doing God knows what, and let me tell you, that computer was a mess. Basically as soon as you opened up IE, there were popups all over the place, so many the machine was absolutely unusable. I couldn't help me self, I just sat that in front of the computer, laughing my ass off in amazment how much shit was just automatically popping up without me even doing anything. I had to use ftp to download mozilla, install it, download spybot search and destroy, and install and run it, it found hundreds of things wrong. No doubt he got infected with some spyware trojan that installs more spyware.
Anyways, he now uses mozilla per my advice, and hasn't had a popup since.:)
Indeed, unfortunately, this article is cluttered up with people saying slashdot != freshmeat (as usual), and lame beaver jokes.
I think there's one discussion about the pre-empt stuff being fubarred, but that's about it, kinda disappointing there aren't more people taking about the kernel itself. I'm still running test9 on my main box, was gonna compile test10 today, good thing I didn't, or else I'd be one of those ever popular "dang I just compiled version x - 1 an hour ago" people.
weird, I've been running 2.6.0-test9 w/pre-empt on my linux box, it does quite a bit of server stuff, plus I use it as a workstation for a couple hours a day maybe, no problems at all
Exactly, I had SA integrated into exim with custom rules and what not, but it would break on upgrading the debian package, happened twice, needed to tweak exim.
Then I found out about the beauty of procmail once I looked into filtering all spam to it's own folder without email client filters. So now, I have different emails filtered to specific folders before it ever hits my inbox. Oh and I had to disable the bayesian filter, it was catching way to many not spam emails. Stuff that didn't have any keywords in it at all. One was just a couple quick sentences from a friend, who knows why it thought it was spam.:( I really should re-enable the bayes stuff, and figure out how to teach it what isn't spam.
Here's a watered down version of my procmail file for those interested: http://gid0ze.net/dl/dot.procmailrc
That always kinda annoyed me, I've run the gentoo filemanager for quite awhile, it's pretty nice sans the annoying "file list jumps to the top when selecting things sometimes" bug, that I've been unable to find out exactly how to reproduce it. Anyway, one day a friend was saying all how he's running gentoo, and I'm like me too, only to find out he was talking about this new linux distribution.
Honestly people, how long does a google search really take? Or do people just not care? I have a project called roomjuice, I'd be rather annoyed if some big company took the name, making my small project hard to find on google all the sudden.
Too bad he changed the text of the article. I doubt the original page really said this:
This mapping consists of frequent traceroute-style anal probes, one to each registered Internet entity. From this, we build a tree showing the paths to most of the nets on the Internet.
Exactly. But some programs aren't quite as a good. Take the good ol gimp vs photoshop argument. That reflects my feelings on the whole situation the best. Sure gimp's not as good as photoshop, but it's not about being better, it's about being free.
As long as I can still get my work done in gimp vs photoshop, I don't see a reason to waste my hard earned money on something I don't need when I can get something that's almost as good for free. Sure some linux programs are better than window programs, great for linux, makes me want to use it that much more.
Exactly, this was my first thought. He briefly mentions the problems of cvs in a paragraph, but says nothing on how he deals with them. I'm guessing he just puts up with the difficult of it.
I kinda forgot about the whole percentage of ticket sales deal thing. Kinda sucks. I guess this is the case of we all know the problem, but no one can think of a solution.
But in reality, theaters have traditionally complained about getting screwed over, but I've yet to see a movie theater in this area close down due to lack of funds. So they must be doing ok--not rolling on the dough, but not bobbing for peanuts yet either.
Well there was this one $2 2nd run one that closed down, but that wasn't exactly unexpected, it was a dump and no one wanted to go there.
That's one thing that really annoys me. That's why I don't buy food at the theaters, I don't WANT 32-64 ounces of pop and a giant tub of popcorn. A 12 ounce can, and a small thing of popcorn would be enough, thanks, but since I can't buy the sizes I want, I buy nothing, I just make sure I eat before I go to the theater.
They give you massive quantities so they can justify charging you up out the ass for it, it's just annoying. I know the arguement behind it, the theater makes all their money on the consessions, well too bad, if they want to make money on me, they have one of two options, charge less for concessions, or charge more for the ticket.
Sure you could argue that I buy the big gulp and not drink all of it, but I'm just a dumb animal, I'll eat/drink whatever's put in front of me to completion, which leaves me needing the pit stop. And wait a minute, it took you 15 minutes to take a piss, or did you drop the kids off at the pool while you were at it?:)
I ran the 2.4 serious through various test kernels and most of the stable kernels, I never had a serious problem, short of the vm subsystem pushing vital things out of memory to cache my mp3s I was playing.
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weird, maybe it's only a firebird issue then, I think I tried mozilla 1.5 as well tho, or maybe it's a linux problem....
Assuming 0wnz0red.com is a well-done forgery, even the most clueful geek would have a really, really, really, hard time telling that he's at anything but yahoo.com.
:)
Although seeing that the pages are riddled with the goatse man is usually a pretty dead giveaway.
Almost every site, try going to suprnova.org I think it is. The whole site is in HTML rendered with javascript, it's death to gecko as soon as you hit the page. Sure it's 90% warez and whatever, but I just go there for the legal junk, like the ut2004 vehicle demo, etc.
:)
Besides that one site, oh ya, and my bank, I don't have to touch IE at all and am a much happier person for it. Well ok, I have to use windows update also, but only when I'm running windows.
In other news, with the recent Slashdotting, Princeton shows they're super-smart, for not posting the recent core scans online, at 2megs a pop.
Well, kinda except that a story about images of the center of the earth is now missing images. A torrent would have been nice.
That was my main incentive to switch to 2.6. I had to compile all sorts of other external modules into it to do what I wanted. I had to compile the alsa drivers separately, I had to compile i2c and lm sensors separately as well. With 2.6, everything's built right in, so it's not a big deal to compile a new kernel.
:)
Plus the problem with my 200 gig WD digital hard drive not responding after a few days has magically gone away. No complaints here, I had test9 up 19 days, test11 is has been up 4.5 days so far, because I didn't get a chance to compile it until 4.5 days ago.
There's always Weapons Factory for Q3, and my personal favorite Quake3 Fortress. Both great games, but both are in danger of dying since not nearly as many people still have Quake 3 installed anymore.
I fear Q3F is close to it's death. It'll be a sad day to stop playing it, kinda like the last days I played Action Quake2. lostinfo.com went down, among others, and eventually it was hard to find a good game with a decent amount of players on it anymore. Right now no one even plays Q3F on US servers until after like 5pm or so, and after 2 or 3am? Forget about it.
I spent many Friday and Saturday nights at college playing Quake1 Threewave and ThunderWalker CTF from 2:30am (when the bars closed) until I couldn't stay awake any longer --(usually around 8-9am or so when the sun got to be too bright shining in my window)
Actually it was Doom that started the ball rolling for mods. Heck there were probably even Wolfenstein mods. Search around for Alien Doom or Starwar Doom, there were some really really creative mods out for Doom, for an engine that wasn't really meant to be modded. Actually, Doom has the capability of loading external pwads which replaced levels, sprites, and sound effects, but you couldn't change any of the programming side of it, until DeHacked (I think that's what it was called) came out, which allowed you to apply a binary patch to your Doom executable, modifying things like firing rate, damage, etc. It was only after so many people modified Doom, and Doom2, that id software finally saw how good it was for sales to their game that they made Quake easily moddable off the bat.
heh, I kinda doubt a few millimeters of rubber is going to insulate anything against lightning.
Kinda like how people say tires insulate a car against lightning, a few inches of rubber isn't going to do squat, according to my high school physics teacer, you're safe in a car because lightning stays on the outside of a metal enclosure.
Kind of like a fiend of mine. I sold him one of my extra computers awhile back. Maybe about a month ago he calls me up, saying that IE is out of control, as he's getting quite a few popups. He's your average single white male, who visits the occassional porn site with other friends who come over and using his computer, doing God knows what, and let me tell you, that computer was a mess. Basically as soon as you opened up IE, there were popups all over the place, so many the machine was absolutely unusable. I couldn't help me self, I just sat that in front of the computer, laughing my ass off in amazment how much shit was just automatically popping up without me even doing anything. I had to use ftp to download mozilla, install it, download spybot search and destroy, and install and run it, it found hundreds of things wrong. No doubt he got infected with some spyware trojan that installs more spyware.
:)
Anyways, he now uses mozilla per my advice, and hasn't had a popup since.
Heh, I was just about to something similar. Beaten. :(
Indeed, unfortunately, this article is cluttered up with people saying slashdot != freshmeat (as usual), and lame beaver jokes.
I think there's one discussion about the pre-empt stuff being fubarred, but that's about it, kinda disappointing there aren't more people taking about the kernel itself. I'm still running test9 on my main box, was gonna compile test10 today, good thing I didn't, or else I'd be one of those ever popular "dang I just compiled version x - 1 an hour ago" people.
weird, I've been running 2.6.0-test9 w/pre-empt on my linux box, it does quite a bit of server stuff, plus I use it as a workstation for a couple hours a day maybe, no problems at all
that's the problem with bayes, I never figured out how to train it
Exactly, I had SA integrated into exim with custom rules and what not, but it would break on upgrading the debian package, happened twice, needed to tweak exim.
:( I really should re-enable the bayes stuff, and figure out how to teach it what isn't spam.
Then I found out about the beauty of procmail once I looked into filtering all spam to it's own folder without email client filters. So now, I have different emails filtered to specific folders before it ever hits my inbox. Oh and I had to disable the bayesian filter, it was catching way to many not spam emails. Stuff that didn't have any keywords in it at all. One was just a couple quick sentences from a friend, who knows why it thought it was spam.
Here's a watered down version of my procmail file for those interested: http://gid0ze.net/dl/dot.procmailrc
fyi, my usb mouse stopped working around test 4 or 5 (I know it worked in test3), and then started working again around test7 or 8....
That always kinda annoyed me, I've run the gentoo filemanager for quite awhile, it's pretty nice sans the annoying "file list jumps to the top when selecting things sometimes" bug, that I've been unable to find out exactly how to reproduce it. Anyway, one day a friend was saying all how he's running gentoo, and I'm like me too, only to find out he was talking about this new linux distribution.
Honestly people, how long does a google search really take? Or do people just not care? I have a project called roomjuice, I'd be rather annoyed if some big company took the name, making my small project hard to find on google all the sudden.
heh same, there's probably quite a few video toasters still around and in use by local cable companies
Too bad he changed the text of the article. I doubt the original page really said this:
This mapping consists of frequent traceroute-style anal probes, one to each registered Internet entity. From this, we build a tree showing the paths to most of the nets on the Internet.
Exactly. But some programs aren't quite as a good. Take the good ol gimp vs photoshop argument. That reflects my feelings on the whole situation the best. Sure gimp's not as good as photoshop, but it's not about being better, it's about being free.
As long as I can still get my work done in gimp vs photoshop, I don't see a reason to waste my hard earned money on something I don't need when I can get something that's almost as good for free. Sure some linux programs are better than window programs, great for linux, makes me want to use it that much more.
Exactly, this was my first thought. He briefly mentions the problems of cvs in a paragraph, but says nothing on how he deals with them. I'm guessing he just puts up with the difficult of it.
I kinda forgot about the whole percentage of ticket sales deal thing. Kinda sucks. I guess this is the case of we all know the problem, but no one can think of a solution.
But in reality, theaters have traditionally complained about getting screwed over, but I've yet to see a movie theater in this area close down due to lack of funds. So they must be doing ok--not rolling on the dough, but not bobbing for peanuts yet either.
Well there was this one $2 2nd run one that closed down, but that wasn't exactly unexpected, it was a dump and no one wanted to go there.
That's one thing that really annoys me. That's why I don't buy food at the theaters, I don't WANT 32-64 ounces of pop and a giant tub of popcorn. A 12 ounce can, and a small thing of popcorn would be enough, thanks, but since I can't buy the sizes I want, I buy nothing, I just make sure I eat before I go to the theater.
:)
They give you massive quantities so they can justify charging you up out the ass for it, it's just annoying. I know the arguement behind it, the theater makes all their money on the consessions, well too bad, if they want to make money on me, they have one of two options, charge less for concessions, or charge more for the ticket.
Sure you could argue that I buy the big gulp and not drink all of it, but I'm just a dumb animal, I'll eat/drink whatever's put in front of me to completion, which leaves me needing the pit stop. And wait a minute, it took you 15 minutes to take a piss, or did you drop the kids off at the pool while you were at it?
Where do you work? You don't happen to be an editor for slashdot, do you?
Were the Macintosh monitors they used real as well? :)
I ran the 2.4 serious through various test kernels and most of the stable kernels, I never had a serious problem, short of the vm subsystem pushing vital things out of memory to cache my mp3s I was playing.