It will still run with an old (or even no) air filter, but it will end up totalled eventually if you operate it like that...
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Google ies4linux... It's a bundle of wine designed specifically to run various versions of ie. That said, can't you move to another bank? all the banks i've used here work fine with both safari and firefox (havent tried accessing them from anything else).
Do you block the combination of IP and user? If so, couldnt an attacker simply cycle through a block of usernames such that each user wasnt tried more than once every 10 seconds?
I like systems which block the user after failed attempts, but leave your IP alone... Makes it absolutely trivial to DoS the system by simply sending invalid auth requests for all the users.
Only NT already has RPC functions available remotely by default which let you see the password policy, see accounts that are locked, see what usernames exist, see what groups the accounts are in etc...
Performance had very little to do with it, unless you were trying to emulate x86...
High prices of the hardware... The vicious circle - a lack of commercial software caused by a lack of users, and a lack of users caused by the lack of software...
Itanium systems would have been fine for open source hobbyist use, except for their high price.
Commercial platforms tend to address dependency hell by having a small set of standard libs on the system and then bundling everything else with the app - a horribly inefficient system.. You can do the same on open platforms too but its generally frowned upon.
Packaging systems just provide so much convenience, i cant imagine having to install and update applications manually and i would never install anything that isn't package managed.
Sure, you would still get those who can't imagine the world without their questionable talent... You would also get those who have a real passion for their work, some who are good some who are bad...
On the plus site, you wouldn't get the manufactured bands who couldn't care less about music and who are only in it for the money... You would also still get people performing live, you know actually working to earn their money instead of sitting back and collecting royalties for years.
In years gone by sure the big distributors would have screwed everyone, these days distribution via the internet is cheap and easy, and if it were legal far more people would be doing it. Most people who don't use torrents or equivalent distribution methods either think it's wrong, or are scared by fud about malware etc.
The trouble is, being locked in a french/danish/us prison would probably be an improvement in quality of life for the average somalian pirate... It's not really much of a deterrent.
You still lose fidelity unless you download flac files, mp3 and similar lossy compression formats do reduce the quality, wether or not you can tell the difference is down to how good and well trained your ears are, how good your speakers are etc. Many people couldn't tell the difference between an original and a poor copy on audio cassette complete with loud background hissing.
Also look at the Itanium processor line, it was too expensive so hobbyists couldn't afford them, and too new so they couldn't buy old ones... Availability of a platform to the masses increases user experience of it, and users like to run what they're familiar with and have used before.
A good packaging system is pretty much the domain of open OS's, commercial vendors seemingly don't want to make it easy to manager software... No commercial OS really has ever really had a decent package management system.
The more recent sun machines were very competitively priced, i had a few of their fairly lowend amd based 1u boxes and they were roughly the same price as similar spec machines from dell and hp.
They could run windows, linux, bsd or whatever, but they could also be bought fully configured and supported with solaris.. There's a lot to be said for buying hardware and software packaged up and designed to work together... That's part of the attraction of Apple too. You know that if you buy a sun box everything will work out of the box with solaris and it will be extremely stable... With OpenSolaris you got all the freedom of linux combined with the stability of a fully supported hardware/software bundle.
The gain is that there is a large portion of society that simply cannot afford to buy these games, if not for cheap pirate copies they simply wouldn't have any games at all.
There is also the fact that pirate copies don't have any onerous drm schemes, and are thus superior to the purchased version.
Finally there is the try before you buy aspect, demo versions are rare and quite often don't give you a good idea of the game (eg they will quite often be the first level which is good, and the remaining levels are total garbage and you cant save etc)... Also you really can't trust reviews these days, publishers pay off the reviewers. Quite a lot of games are absolute garbage and they're hoping people will buy them and by the time the buyer realises how shit they are, its too late.
Also as the cost of distributing a game has been going down, the price of games has been going up... Games that come on a single cd/dvd in a flimsy packet these days cost more than a game from a few years ago that came on a rom cartridge with a thick paper manual and in a box with all kinds of other goodies.
How about making games cheaper and making it up on volume? You could quite easily undercut the pirates because pressing thousands of copies is much cheaper than burning media. If pirate copies cost the same as legit copies and legit copies had no onerous drm restrictions noone would ever bother with pirate copies.
I have a similar setup, i used to get constant calls from the same small handful of marketing companies so now i have Asterisk configured to route any calls from them to a series of sound samples of borat... He starts off saying hello, waits a few seconds, says hello again, waits a few secs, then asks who he's speaking to etc...
Competing on product merit is less profitable because you actually have to invest in improving your product, you can't just keep selling the same old shit at ridiculously high prices and hope the competitors don't overtake and undercut you.
While WAFL may be more mature it won't stay that way... NetApp will need to seriously innovate if they want to compete with ZFS based competitors, and that will decrease their profit margins.
Having such a poor resolution puts you at a significant disadvantage in a multiplayer scenario, whereas multiplayer on a console will have everyone on the same resolution.
Also 50fps is below the monitor refresh rate and not an immediate division of it so some frames stay on the screen for 2 refreshes, some for 1 etc which makes the game appear less smooth... Plus if the system cannot manage to render the game comfortably at the refresh rate with room to spare it might slow down on busy scenes, which seriously hurts gameplay. I want my games to run at a consistent fps at all times and never deviating.
512 to 2gb is not a huge jump, and consider that is 512mb which is solely dedicated to the game, compared to 2gb that must be shared with the os, drivers, background processes etc.
Try playing something like halo on a p3/700mhz with 64mb of ram and see how it compares to the xbox version on virtually identical hardware.
Also 512mb is a HUGE amount compared to just a few years ago, game worlds aren't really that much more complex than they were you just get better graphics these days...
What you need then, is something like the original Amiga... If you were a gamer, you bought a specific model Amiga and there were several years between releases, all of the games were pretty much written for the base spec A500 or A1200 and there were no controls on who could write games - there was a thriving scene of homebrew as well as plenty of big name games.
Make a machine, guarantee that its spec will remain identical for 5 years before a replacement comes out, make it available in a form factor which is suitable for connection to a tv, get some big name game publishers on board and make it able to boot games directly from dvd... Most importantly, ensure that the hardware remains fixed and that third parties don't come out with incompatible versions and place no restrictions whatsoever on who can write and publish software for the platform.
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It will still run with an old (or even no) air filter, but it will end up totalled eventually if you operate it like that...
Google ies4linux...
It's a bundle of wine designed specifically to run various versions of ie.
That said, can't you move to another bank? all the banks i've used here work fine with both safari and firefox (havent tried accessing them from anything else).
Do you block the combination of IP and user? If so, couldnt an attacker simply cycle through a block of usernames such that each user wasnt tried more than once every 10 seconds?
I like systems which block the user after failed attempts, but leave your IP alone... Makes it absolutely trivial to DoS the system by simply sending invalid auth requests for all the users.
Only NT already has RPC functions available remotely by default which let you see the password policy, see accounts that are locked, see what usernames exist, see what groups the accounts are in etc...
Windows doesn't bother to salt its hashes either...
What open source systems don't do hashing? Must be pretty niche applications or someone would have contributed a patch by now.
Performance had very little to do with it, unless you were trying to emulate x86...
High prices of the hardware...
The vicious circle - a lack of commercial software caused by a lack of users, and a lack of users caused by the lack of software...
Itanium systems would have been fine for open source hobbyist use, except for their high price.
Commercial platforms tend to address dependency hell by having a small set of standard libs on the system and then bundling everything else with the app - a horribly inefficient system.. You can do the same on open platforms too but its generally frowned upon.
Packaging systems just provide so much convenience, i cant imagine having to install and update applications manually and i would never install anything that isn't package managed.
Sure, you would still get those who can't imagine the world without their questionable talent...
You would also get those who have a real passion for their work, some who are good some who are bad...
On the plus site, you wouldn't get the manufactured bands who couldn't care less about music and who are only in it for the money...
You would also still get people performing live, you know actually working to earn their money instead of sitting back and collecting royalties for years.
In years gone by sure the big distributors would have screwed everyone, these days distribution via the internet is cheap and easy, and if it were legal far more people would be doing it. Most people who don't use torrents or equivalent distribution methods either think it's wrong, or are scared by fud about malware etc.
The trouble is, being locked in a french/danish/us prison would probably be an improvement in quality of life for the average somalian pirate... It's not really much of a deterrent.
You still lose fidelity unless you download flac files, mp3 and similar lossy compression formats do reduce the quality, wether or not you can tell the difference is down to how good and well trained your ears are, how good your speakers are etc. Many people couldn't tell the difference between an original and a poor copy on audio cassette complete with loud background hissing.
Sysinternals tools may be free on their own, but they require you to purchase windows in order to use them.
You don't need to buy anything from oracle in order to use opensolaris.
Also look at the Itanium processor line, it was too expensive so hobbyists couldn't afford them, and too new so they couldn't buy old ones...
Availability of a platform to the masses increases user experience of it, and users like to run what they're familiar with and have used before.
A good packaging system is pretty much the domain of open OS's, commercial vendors seemingly don't want to make it easy to manager software... No commercial OS really has ever really had a decent package management system.
The more recent sun machines were very competitively priced, i had a few of their fairly lowend amd based 1u boxes and they were roughly the same price as similar spec machines from dell and hp.
They could run windows, linux, bsd or whatever, but they could also be bought fully configured and supported with solaris.. There's a lot to be said for buying hardware and software packaged up and designed to work together... That's part of the attraction of Apple too. You know that if you buy a sun box everything will work out of the box with solaris and it will be extremely stable...
With OpenSolaris you got all the freedom of linux combined with the stability of a fully supported hardware/software bundle.
Which isn't what they're doing, they are registering their own domains which means they can then create valid SPF and DKIM records for them.
Surely spam filters can just check for domains which are less than a few days old...
The gain is that there is a large portion of society that simply cannot afford to buy these games, if not for cheap pirate copies they simply wouldn't have any games at all.
There is also the fact that pirate copies don't have any onerous drm schemes, and are thus superior to the purchased version.
Finally there is the try before you buy aspect, demo versions are rare and quite often don't give you a good idea of the game (eg they will quite often be the first level which is good, and the remaining levels are total garbage and you cant save etc)... Also you really can't trust reviews these days, publishers pay off the reviewers. Quite a lot of games are absolute garbage and they're hoping people will buy them and by the time the buyer realises how shit they are, its too late.
Also as the cost of distributing a game has been going down, the price of games has been going up... Games that come on a single cd/dvd in a flimsy packet these days cost more than a game from a few years ago that came on a rom cartridge with a thick paper manual and in a box with all kinds of other goodies.
How about making games cheaper and making it up on volume? You could quite easily undercut the pirates because pressing thousands of copies is much cheaper than burning media. If pirate copies cost the same as legit copies and legit copies had no onerous drm restrictions noone would ever bother with pirate copies.
I have a similar setup, i used to get constant calls from the same small handful of marketing companies so now i have Asterisk configured to route any calls from them to a series of sound samples of borat... He starts off saying hello, waits a few seconds, says hello again, waits a few secs, then asks who he's speaking to etc...
Unfortunately, those folks make the purchasing decisions in most organizations...
Competing on product merit is less profitable because you actually have to invest in improving your product, you can't just keep selling the same old shit at ridiculously high prices and hope the competitors don't overtake and undercut you.
While WAFL may be more mature it won't stay that way...
NetApp will need to seriously innovate if they want to compete with ZFS based competitors, and that will decrease their profit margins.
Having such a poor resolution puts you at a significant disadvantage in a multiplayer scenario, whereas multiplayer on a console will have everyone on the same resolution.
Also 50fps is below the monitor refresh rate and not an immediate division of it so some frames stay on the screen for 2 refreshes, some for 1 etc which makes the game appear less smooth...
Plus if the system cannot manage to render the game comfortably at the refresh rate with room to spare it might slow down on busy scenes, which seriously hurts gameplay. I want my games to run at a consistent fps at all times and never deviating.
512 to 2gb is not a huge jump, and consider that is 512mb which is solely dedicated to the game, compared to 2gb that must be shared with the os, drivers, background processes etc.
Try playing something like halo on a p3/700mhz with 64mb of ram and see how it compares to the xbox version on virtually identical hardware.
Also 512mb is a HUGE amount compared to just a few years ago, game worlds aren't really that much more complex than they were you just get better graphics these days...
What you need then, is something like the original Amiga...
If you were a gamer, you bought a specific model Amiga and there were several years between releases, all of the games were pretty much written for the base spec A500 or A1200 and there were no controls on who could write games - there was a thriving scene of homebrew as well as plenty of big name games.
Make a machine, guarantee that its spec will remain identical for 5 years before a replacement comes out, make it available in a form factor which is suitable for connection to a tv, get some big name game publishers on board and make it able to boot games directly from dvd... Most importantly, ensure that the hardware remains fixed and that third parties don't come out with incompatible versions and place no restrictions whatsoever on who can write and publish software for the platform.
Ghana were not the host nation this year, south africa is...