I agree, I'm running Vista Home Premium 32bit and it's rock solid and I play games a fair amount.
Total System Uptime: 1wk 1day 12hrs 20mins 19secs
Sure I wouldn't have bought it to upgrade my machine, but since I as buying a new machine anyway, I figured why not get it? I have 4 gigs of ram, and went with the 32-bit version just because I'm paranoid having heard many gamers' horror stories with 64-bit. It shows 3.5 gig of ram, big deal I lost 512meg, that's what, $25?
I about a week or so ago, I was upgrading my nVIDIA driver, when it was installing, things locked up, hard driving grinding away for 15 minutes or so. I ended up hard resetting and was sure my vista install was toast, I'd at least have to boot into safe mode or preform a repair or something, but nope, the OS came up like nothing happened whatsoever--I've been impressed. The driver probably screwed up, but Vista recovered like a champ.
Vista is a great operating system, and I think it would would have done better if they named it XP2, claiming Longhorn is still in the works and XP2 is simply watered down Longhorn with some cool features cut out so they could meet a sooner release date. Instead they give it a new name, raising everyone's expectations to unusually high levels.
As far as 64-bit goes, if you tried that and that's your cause of disappointment, then it's your own fault--You didn't do your homework.
On a related note, I noticed that most locks can be easily picked by someone with the right know how. So in response, I now keep all the doors on my house and car unlocked, with signs stating this.
Security isn't always so black and white. With security, you usually have to deal with trade offs. If I give someone an sftp account that's chrooted so they can only see their files and they break out of it to download information they're not supposed to, then I have the grounds for a legal battle under the DMCA or whatever--as long as I can find whomever did it. At least I made an attempt, however futile it may have been, to thwart them.
Sure security through obscurity isn't the ultimate, but on top of other layers of security, I'll can sure help.
Take another example, I write an ftp application that stores login information in a file. It would be stupid to store all that data in plain text so anyone can see it, so you obscure it somehow. You could encrypt it for real, but then you'd need a master password just to start the ftp program, which most people would hate. So you obscure the data instead, it's a decent trade off that I'm willing to bet, most programs that store login information take.
I noticed the same thing, clicked around their website, and a few product websites for awhile and was unable to find a red cross logo anywhere. Can anyone find them actually using a red cross logo?
I've had Comcast cable hooked up twice, both times I never let em touch my computer, and the installers were fine with that. And I never touched their crappy email. I ran my own email server just fine and I never had any issues with them. When Comcast cable works right, it's great, but if it doesn't you're out of luck.
I also had the same problem with icq, tried logging in one morning and my password didn't work. My email address I used to sign up with had been shut off, but I was able to track down my friend who still owned the domain and had him set up and email alias for me so I could reset my password. I wanted to keep my 6 digit icq number damn it.:)
I did have a pretty weak password used for it, so it's possible that someone brute forced it.
I have a WRT64GL as well running ddwrt and it's rock solid for me. There's an option to boost the antenna power. You might want to make sure that's not too high over the default or I hear the thing will overheat real quick. If you're having trouble with wireless connectivity, you might want to try an after market directional antenna of sorts. I have a friend who used a pringles can with great success.
I'm actually from Wadsworth, near Akron, but I went to school at OU. I have an uncle that lives somewhere down there that I visit from time to time, beautiful area, you can get lost out there.
Actually, Columbus is closer to Cincinatti than Athens is. Athens is closer to... no where--Marietta maybe? This fact is probably what makes it such a good "party" school. Not very close to anywhere so most people don't go home over the weekend.
I've no idea. You'd think if they didn't sell enough or it was no longer profitable, they would end the line unless they have other reasons for offering the line. I'd be willing to bet they sell more than a "handful". But anyways, what's your point? I was simply answering a question in my original reply:
If you buy a PC today in the U.S. is it possible to get it without Windows? I'm not talking legally, I mean in the sense that does anyone sell it that way? No such thing exists for Dell, HP, Gateway, Lenovo.
Dell has sold their n series for quite some time with an OS. Well, it comes with FreeDOS so that it's technically not a "naked" PC. Slashdot usually posts an article about every 6 months on this "new" line, digg usually posts articles even more often about it.
I'm for it at this point as well. In fact, I'd consider wrapping my whole, unobjectionable site in the tag just to keep censored people out and guessing what they're missing.
Agreed, I use $5 bills in vending machines a fair amount. I even use $20 bills sometimes, like at the post office, where the change they give you is $1 coins. I kinda like using the coins anyway, so that's what I do when I buy stamps.:)
Punching holes seems to be the best way... Sure you can mess people up by punching extra holes in dollars, but you can also mess people up by cutting a larger bill to a smaller size, emboss a bill with extra text, etc.
Nothing will be full proof, so do what's easiest. You have to have a certain sense of trust for people if you're blind in the first place.
I ran into the same problem with gentoo. I tried upgrading, and ended up in some cyclic dependency loop in upgrading packages, meaning I couldn't upgrading package A because it needed package B, and couldn't install package B until I got C, but then couldn't get package C because it needed package A or something I probably spent weeks trying to figure it out off and on. (dual boot machine, mostly use this box for gaming and work, both which require windows)
I eventually roasted the partition and went back to plain old Debian, because even though it's old, it just plain works. And of course/home always goes on a separate partition.:)
Raison D'Etre should work. I bought a bunch of Peter Andersson's stuff a while back. It's usually classified as Dark Ambient, monks singing, bells, etc. You can get a small sample on amazon, but the best place to buy them is directly from the Artist--maybe buy it for next year.:)
Maybe to break the fairplay encryption all you need to do is heat your ipod up. If you get it hot enough, your ipod will melt, and it will no longer contain encrypted files. Problem solved.
Looks like it's fixed, but I have not tested it. From the "Windows Port" page on gaim.sf.net:
GTK+ 2.8.x Unable to connect - Versions of WinGaim prior to 2.0.0beta4 do not work with GTK+ 2.8.0 or newer. The symptoms are an inability to connect and/or frequent disconnections. The issue is specifically in Glib 2.8.x. For those interested in the technical details, the GIOChannel implementation has been rewritten and appears to have some quirks - see the following bugzilla entry. To avoid this problem, use WinGaim 2.0.0beta4 or newer, or stick with GTK+ 2.6.10.
Looks like this problem is fixed in gaim 2.0 beta4, although I haven't test it out yet since I didn't notice until now. I too upgraded gimp to an "unstable" version awhile back to get new features, and installed gtk 2.8 along with it. All the sudden gaim stopped working, found out it was a gaim/gtk bug, so bye-bye gaim, hello miranda-im.
With that being said, I'll probably have to go back and try out gaim2.0 beta 4 now.
I watch maybe around 1.5 hours a day or so, sometimes more, sometimes less, all depends on what else I got planned that day. I usually watch more on the weekends to play catch up. Daily Show, Heroes, Supernatural, Mythbusters, South Park, the ocassional movie, etc. Interestingly enough, before we got the DVR, I watched a LOT less. And if they ever make it impossible to skip commercials, then I'll be watching a lot less again.
The firefox plugin, slashdotter, has OMG!!! Ponies!!! support you know. Just turned it on, the only drawback is that the stylesheet gets changed after page load.
I believe he was referring to the "Knights of the Round" materia that could be found in FFVII in the NE corner of the map on a lone island somewhere, to be accessed only via a Gold Chocobo.
KotR is a very powerful summon materia, but I personally didn't use it much, the animation took forever. I found I could kill stuff faster with a 4x cut materia and mimic, and of course phoenix/final attack to keep alive.
Incidentally this is kind of what killed FFVIII for me, the summons took too damn long, I got bored. Any of the series after that I haven't played since they stopped porting the games to the PC.
I used to work for the Parks Dept for the local city here during summers after high school. I learned there real quick that the fridge was the last place I wanted to keep my food--it was nasty. So I started bringing my own mini-cooler with my lunch in it. There everyone was very friendly and never heard of anyone getting their lunch stolen--besides, every there ate at the same time and in the same room. It's kinda obvious when you see the guy two seats down eating your meatloaf sandwich.
When I got a job in IT I just did the same thing. There, people had problems with their lunch being stolen, but not me, since it really never left my sight. Sure I got up to use the restroom and got up to fix machines or whatever, but it looks rather suspicious if you go into someone's cube, sneaking around when they're not there. It's much less risky to reach in the fridge and grab one paper bag when there's 6 others in the fridge that look just like it--who's gonna know that wasn't your lunch?
I'm in almost the same situation. Games lately have been a let down. Games like Prey are fun, but I pretty much got my fill from the demo and multiplayer was just annoying from my experience. There's a few promising games out there on the horizon such as Spore, and UT2007 seems promising as well, but these are few and far between.
I do think the WoW factor seems to be a big one. While I personally don't play it or have any desire to, I know a lot of people that play it, and pretty much nothing else.
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I agree, I'm running Vista Home Premium 32bit and it's rock solid and I play games a fair amount.
Total System Uptime: 1wk 1day 12hrs 20mins 19secs
Sure I wouldn't have bought it to upgrade my machine, but since I as buying a new machine anyway, I figured why not get it? I have 4 gigs of ram, and went with the 32-bit version just because I'm paranoid having heard many gamers' horror stories with 64-bit. It shows 3.5 gig of ram, big deal I lost 512meg, that's what, $25?
I about a week or so ago, I was upgrading my nVIDIA driver, when it was installing, things locked up, hard driving grinding away for 15 minutes or so. I ended up hard resetting and was sure my vista install was toast, I'd at least have to boot into safe mode or preform a repair or something, but nope, the OS came up like nothing happened whatsoever--I've been impressed. The driver probably screwed up, but Vista recovered like a champ.
Vista is a great operating system, and I think it would would have done better if they named it XP2, claiming Longhorn is still in the works and XP2 is simply watered down Longhorn with some cool features cut out so they could meet a sooner release date. Instead they give it a new name, raising everyone's expectations to unusually high levels.
As far as 64-bit goes, if you tried that and that's your cause of disappointment, then it's your own fault--You didn't do your homework.
On a related note, I noticed that most locks can be easily picked by someone with the right know how. So in response, I now keep all the doors on my house and car unlocked, with signs stating this.
Security isn't always so black and white. With security, you usually have to deal with trade offs. If I give someone an sftp account that's chrooted so they can only see their files and they break out of it to download information they're not supposed to, then I have the grounds for a legal battle under the DMCA or whatever--as long as I can find whomever did it. At least I made an attempt, however futile it may have been, to thwart them.
Sure security through obscurity isn't the ultimate, but on top of other layers of security, I'll can sure help.
Take another example, I write an ftp application that stores login information in a file. It would be stupid to store all that data in plain text so anyone can see it, so you obscure it somehow. You could encrypt it for real, but then you'd need a master password just to start the ftp program, which most people would hate. So you obscure the data instead, it's a decent trade off that I'm willing to bet, most programs that store login information take.
I'm not certain that allergies or asthma are a good thing.
I noticed the same thing, clicked around their website, and a few product websites for awhile and was unable to find a red cross logo anywhere. Can anyone find them actually using a red cross logo?
I've had Comcast cable hooked up twice, both times I never let em touch my computer, and the installers were fine with that. And I never touched their crappy email. I ran my own email server just fine and I never had any issues with them. When Comcast cable works right, it's great, but if it doesn't you're out of luck.
I also had the same problem with icq, tried logging in one morning and my password didn't work. My email address I used to sign up with had been shut off, but I was able to track down my friend who still owned the domain and had him set up and email alias for me so I could reset my password. I wanted to keep my 6 digit icq number damn it. :)
I did have a pretty weak password used for it, so it's possible that someone brute forced it.
I have a WRT64GL as well running ddwrt and it's rock solid for me. There's an option to boost the antenna power. You might want to make sure that's not too high over the default or I hear the thing will overheat real quick. If you're having trouble with wireless connectivity, you might want to try an after market directional antenna of sorts. I have a friend who used a pringles can with great success.
I'm actually from Wadsworth, near Akron, but I went to school at OU. I have an uncle that lives somewhere down there that I visit from time to time, beautiful area, you can get lost out there.
:)
The locals are definitely interesting people.
Actually, Columbus is closer to Cincinatti than Athens is. Athens is closer to... no where--Marietta maybe? This fact is probably what makes it such a good "party" school. Not very close to anywhere so most people don't go home over the weekend.
Dell has sold their n series for quite some time with an OS. Well, it comes with FreeDOS so that it's technically not a "naked" PC. Slashdot usually posts an article about every 6 months on this "new" line, digg usually posts articles even more often about it.
I'm for it at this point as well. In fact, I'd consider wrapping my whole, unobjectionable site in the tag just to keep censored people out and guessing what they're missing.
Like this?
:)
I think our good friend Justin Frankel is responsible for this thing. Damn it gets annoying real quick.
Agreed, I use $5 bills in vending machines a fair amount. I even use $20 bills sometimes, like at the post office, where the change they give you is $1 coins. I kinda like using the coins anyway, so that's what I do when I buy stamps. :)
Punching holes seems to be the best way... Sure you can mess people up by punching extra holes in dollars, but you can also mess people up by cutting a larger bill to a smaller size, emboss a bill with extra text, etc.
Nothing will be full proof, so do what's easiest. You have to have a certain sense of trust for people if you're blind in the first place.
I ran into the same problem with gentoo. I tried upgrading, and ended up in some cyclic dependency loop in upgrading packages, meaning I couldn't upgrading package A because it needed package B, and couldn't install package B until I got C, but then couldn't get package C because it needed package A or something I probably spent weeks trying to figure it out off and on. (dual boot machine, mostly use this box for gaming and work, both which require windows)
/home always goes on a separate partition. :)
I eventually roasted the partition and went back to plain old Debian, because even though it's old, it just plain works. And of course
Raison D'Etre should work. I bought a bunch of Peter Andersson's stuff a while back. It's usually classified as Dark Ambient, monks singing, bells, etc. You can get a small sample on amazon, but the best place to buy them is directly from the Artist--maybe buy it for next year. :)
Maybe to break the fairplay encryption all you need to do is heat your ipod up. If you get it hot enough, your ipod will melt, and it will no longer contain encrypted files. Problem solved.
Looks like this problem is fixed in gaim 2.0 beta4, although I haven't test it out yet since I didn't notice until now. I too upgraded gimp to an "unstable" version awhile back to get new features, and installed gtk 2.8 along with it. All the sudden gaim stopped working, found out it was a gaim/gtk bug, so bye-bye gaim, hello miranda-im.
With that being said, I'll probably have to go back and try out gaim2.0 beta 4 now.
They do, it's just with bullets instead of your hand.
I watch maybe around 1.5 hours a day or so, sometimes more, sometimes less, all depends on what else I got planned that day. I usually watch more on the weekends to play catch up. Daily Show, Heroes, Supernatural, Mythbusters, South Park, the ocassional movie, etc. Interestingly enough, before we got the DVR, I watched a LOT less. And if they ever make it impossible to skip commercials, then I'll be watching a lot less again.
The firefox plugin, slashdotter, has OMG!!! Ponies!!! support you know. Just turned it on, the only drawback is that the stylesheet gets changed after page load.
I believe he was referring to the "Knights of the Round" materia that could be found in FFVII in the NE corner of the map on a lone island somewhere, to be accessed only via a Gold Chocobo.
KotR is a very powerful summon materia, but I personally didn't use it much, the animation took forever. I found I could kill stuff faster with a 4x cut materia and mimic, and of course phoenix/final attack to keep alive.
Incidentally this is kind of what killed FFVIII for me, the summons took too damn long, I got bored. Any of the series after that I haven't played since they stopped porting the games to the PC.
I used to work for the Parks Dept for the local city here during summers after high school. I learned there real quick that the fridge was the last place I wanted to keep my food--it was nasty. So I started bringing my own mini-cooler with my lunch in it. There everyone was very friendly and never heard of anyone getting their lunch stolen--besides, every there ate at the same time and in the same room. It's kinda obvious when you see the guy two seats down eating your meatloaf sandwich.
When I got a job in IT I just did the same thing. There, people had problems with their lunch being stolen, but not me, since it really never left my sight. Sure I got up to use the restroom and got up to fix machines or whatever, but it looks rather suspicious if you go into someone's cube, sneaking around when they're not there. It's much less risky to reach in the fridge and grab one paper bag when there's 6 others in the fridge that look just like it--who's gonna know that wasn't your lunch?
I'm in almost the same situation. Games lately have been a let down. Games like Prey are fun, but I pretty much got my fill from the demo and multiplayer was just annoying from my experience. There's a few promising games out there on the horizon such as Spore, and UT2007 seems promising as well, but these are few and far between.
I do think the WoW factor seems to be a big one. While I personally don't play it or have any desire to, I know a lot of people that play it, and pretty much nothing else.