I think we Americans need to protect our children not from P2P networking, but from overbearing legislators that fail to seek the opinions of their individual constituents. Too often are the ears of congresspersons only open to those mouths that speak with short words and big bills.
Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson, Grant, and Franklin seem to do all the talking to congress nowadays, rather than the faxes, phone calls, and letters from those who don't have a buck to spare.
I seriously think I just now topped that, in stupidity value, not in monetary value.
So I just burned 33 CDs to be mailed out Tuesday. I go to play one in my CD player. The awful sound of data screeched across the room. I had burned 33 audio CDs with the ISO file I made instead of the CUE file.
I swear to God, this just happened, and I'm flipping out because I don't have enough CDs or a car to go get more CDs before Tuesday. Dammit.
If I went on a rampage with a chainsaw, picked off nine people with a hunting rifle, and stole a Ferrari with the purpose of getting across town to steal a tank from the local barracks, would I get a copy of GTA: Vice City?
I kept my GMX account spam-free for almost 5 years. GMX also has POP3 and SMTP access, last I checked. It's still scot-free. So, get yourself a decent free email provider with both IMAP/POP3 and SMTP access as well as webmail, and you're set. You can use any email client you want.
It's probably on Fedora.us already. They're pretty good about that. If it's not, get the spec file, change the headers around, and build the RPM yourself. I'm sure you wouldn't be the only one to appreciate that.
The thing is, though, he shouldn't have to pay to have it resurfaced. He has a legal right to backup his own games for personal use (I would find and quote the USC, but I'm too lazy ATM) and since the gaming industry now seeks to prevent that, they should have to provide that backup copy.
We got the XP sp2 beta at work. This is the convo between one of my friends who is a real pro-Microsoft fanatic and I (his name has been changed but he knows who he is):
Him: "Wow, Colin! Look how good this popup blocker is! Nothing's getting through!" Me: "That's great, Schmuck. Now we won't have professors bitching at us about them." Him: "So does that mean you'll move back to Internet Explorer from Firefox since that was your main reason for switching?" Me: "Hell no. Firefox is impervious. Popup problems? What popup problems?" *chuckles* Him: "Well, sp2's popup blocker is impervious, too!" *gets a popup* "FUCK!" Me: *draws on board: FIREFOX >> YOU*
After downloading the newest firmware, resetting my router, forgetting the default password, freaking out because I didn't have Internet access, calling friends who were still asleep, realizing that the WGR614 can connect to Adelphia without configuration, getting the default password from NetGear's website, reconfiguring my router, going back to the Bugtraq page to see the procedure, and executing the procedure, I was met with this:
zcat: wgr614v2v3_V2_15rc4_1_0_2.chk: not in gzip format
This idea was shown in Johnny Mnemonic. When the 320 GB of data was shoved into Johnny's head, it was encrypted with three pictures. Those pictures needed to be reproduced in order to extract the data.
NetGear WGR614 is not affected by this bug. I'm going to try to get its firmware and follow the same procedure listed in that Bugtraq report to see what I can find.
Okay, I am almost a complete newb to Linux. I started out on Mandrake, but got fed up with it because kernel 2.4.19 and XF86 4.3.0 wouldn't run well on my old PII 266. I took a break for a while, and when I got my laptop, I was able to wipe my old WinME machine and put Fedora Core 1 on it. I had ZERO problems. I still have yet to get DRI working, but that's because I haven't had a lot of time to screw around with it and because it has a Radeon 7500 PCI in it. I had more problems with RH9 on my laptop than any other operating system I've use on any computer. Drivers weren't working, sound was nonexistent. I put Fedora Core 2 on it about two weeks ago. I'm not affected by the apparent dual boot bug, as I'm running FC2 and XP pro dual booted. FC2 is so much more streamlined and nicer-looking than RH9 and FC1 could have ever been. I don't see why people don't like it, other than the obvious spatial window management option in Gnome 2.6. I happen to like Gnome, and I think it's a quality Window Manager (better than KDE, imo *dodges flamethrowers*).
No matter which way you look at it, forceful conversion is wrong. If we were to make contact, we could tell them about our religions, but we should never force them to become one of our religions.
There is a baptist church ("baptist" only because they baptize, they're not actually affliated with the Baptist church) nearby that tried to convert all the Methodists (of which I am) and the Presbyterians to their cultist church. Unfortunately, many people went for it, mostly Presbyterians.
Not too long after that church really got going, at my public high school, a "Generation Jesus Bible Club" started. Many people in the high school who weren't members of this church or weren't Christian (my best friend in HS was agnostic) investigated Separation of Church and State laws, and found that it was legal because there were other activities offered at the same time.
The following year, in the girls bathroom appeared a listing of EVERYONE in the ENTIRE high school that had been "saved", "yet to be saved", and "hellbound". It was never publiclly announced whodunit, but it was known that they were a GenJesus member (I still have my theories).
So, if these aliens want to convert, fine, let them. Otherwise, we should just keep our religion to us. Let them know about it just like they'd let us know about theirs, and leave it at that.
AMD is went with x86-64, and Intel said "we'll wait until there is a need."
Intel is now going dual-core, and AMD says "we'll wait until there is a need."
I think AMD has the upperhand, though. Intel has the 64 bit technology, but doesn't want to release it to the consumer market yet, more than likely because the 64 bit version of Windows sucks hardcore. AMD could double the core on an x86-64 proc and beat Intel yet again.
I remember Adi Shamir talked about this at his talk at Carnegie Mellon in March. He gave a brief description and said that it was in the works. So many people doubted it.
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I think we Americans need to protect our children not from P2P networking, but from overbearing legislators that fail to seek the opinions of their individual constituents. Too often are the ears of congresspersons only open to those mouths that speak with short words and big bills.
Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson, Grant, and Franklin seem to do all the talking to congress nowadays, rather than the faxes, phone calls, and letters from those who don't have a buck to spare.
I seriously think I just now topped that, in stupidity value, not in monetary value.
So I just burned 33 CDs to be mailed out Tuesday. I go to play one in my CD player. The awful sound of data screeched across the room. I had burned 33 audio CDs with the ISO file I made instead of the CUE file.
I swear to God, this just happened, and I'm flipping out because I don't have enough CDs or a car to go get more CDs before Tuesday. Dammit.
I threw out a perfectly good hard drive (20 GB, 7200 RPM) when I couldn't get the damned thing to work.
I found out the next day that the red stripe on the IDE cable has to be *towards* the power connector. Dammit.
If I went on a rampage with a chainsaw, picked off nine people with a hunting rifle, and stole a Ferrari with the purpose of getting across town to steal a tank from the local barracks, would I get a copy of GTA: Vice City?
We don't like having to pay for Windows, so we developed our own: Linux.
We aren't that much different; we're just a lot more global and less self-centered.
Dammit, I knew I should have patented blue screens with white text!
I could have charged USD$0.0001 per instance and beat Billy G. out for the richest man award.
I kept my GMX account spam-free for almost 5 years. GMX also has POP3 and SMTP access, last I checked. It's still scot-free. So, get yourself a decent free email provider with both IMAP/POP3 and SMTP access as well as webmail, and you're set. You can use any email client you want.
Ion cannons, anyone?
It's probably on Fedora.us already. They're pretty good about that. If it's not, get the spec file, change the headers around, and build the RPM yourself. I'm sure you wouldn't be the only one to appreciate that.
The thing is, though, he shouldn't have to pay to have it resurfaced. He has a legal right to backup his own games for personal use (I would find and quote the USC, but I'm too lazy ATM) and since the gaming industry now seeks to prevent that, they should have to provide that backup copy.
Didn't it take someone blowing the whistle on Linksys to get them to do it?
We got the XP sp2 beta at work. This is the convo between one of my friends who is a real pro-Microsoft fanatic and I (his name has been changed but he knows who he is):
Him: "Wow, Colin! Look how good this popup blocker is! Nothing's getting through!"
Me: "That's great, Schmuck. Now we won't have professors bitching at us about them."
Him: "So does that mean you'll move back to Internet Explorer from Firefox since that was your main reason for switching?"
Me: "Hell no. Firefox is impervious. Popup problems? What popup problems?" *chuckles*
Him: "Well, sp2's popup blocker is impervious, too!" *gets a popup* "FUCK!"
Me: *draws on board: FIREFOX >> YOU*
This idea was shown in Johnny Mnemonic. When the 320 GB of data was shoved into Johnny's head, it was encrypted with three pictures. Those pictures needed to be reproduced in order to extract the data.
NetGear WGR614 is not affected by this bug. I'm going to try to get its firmware and follow the same procedure listed in that Bugtraq report to see what I can find.
p(atch)(0)WN3D!
Sex > Games
Sex during games...now that's an awesome chixx0r.
Okay, I am almost a complete newb to Linux. I started out on Mandrake, but got fed up with it because kernel 2.4.19 and XF86 4.3.0 wouldn't run well on my old PII 266. I took a break for a while, and when I got my laptop, I was able to wipe my old WinME machine and put Fedora Core 1 on it. I had ZERO problems. I still have yet to get DRI working, but that's because I haven't had a lot of time to screw around with it and because it has a Radeon 7500 PCI in it. I had more problems with RH9 on my laptop than any other operating system I've use on any computer. Drivers weren't working, sound was nonexistent. I put Fedora Core 2 on it about two weeks ago. I'm not affected by the apparent dual boot bug, as I'm running FC2 and XP pro dual booted. FC2 is so much more streamlined and nicer-looking than RH9 and FC1 could have ever been. I don't see why people don't like it, other than the obvious spatial window management option in Gnome 2.6. I happen to like Gnome, and I think it's a quality Window Manager (better than KDE, imo *dodges flamethrowers*).
I got the DVD edition from the torrent.
I burned the DVD on Windows on my 5680.
I booted from the DVD.
*10 minutes pass*
I'm running Fedora Core 2.
I was astounded by the installation time. Usually, I set aside at least 2 hours for a decent installation of ANY distro.
Now I just gotta wait until I can find a tutorial on how to get direct rendering working before I can start gaming on it...
Eh, they could have taken advantage of pricing mistakes.
Okay, can someone explain the release name "Tettnang?" Is it just some crazy made up name or does it have significance?
No matter which way you look at it, forceful conversion is wrong. If we were to make contact, we could tell them about our religions, but we should never force them to become one of our religions.
There is a baptist church ("baptist" only because they baptize, they're not actually affliated with the Baptist church) nearby that tried to convert all the Methodists (of which I am) and the Presbyterians to their cultist church. Unfortunately, many people went for it, mostly Presbyterians.
Not too long after that church really got going, at my public high school, a "Generation Jesus Bible Club" started. Many people in the high school who weren't members of this church or weren't Christian (my best friend in HS was agnostic) investigated Separation of Church and State laws, and found that it was legal because there were other activities offered at the same time.
The following year, in the girls bathroom appeared a listing of EVERYONE in the ENTIRE high school that had been "saved", "yet to be saved", and "hellbound". It was never publiclly announced whodunit, but it was known that they were a GenJesus member (I still have my theories).
So, if these aliens want to convert, fine, let them. Otherwise, we should just keep our religion to us. Let them know about it just like they'd let us know about theirs, and leave it at that.
We don't want to start another Crusades.
I'm picking up on a divergence trend here.
AMD is went with x86-64, and Intel said "we'll wait until there is a need."
Intel is now going dual-core, and AMD says "we'll wait until there is a need."
I think AMD has the upperhand, though. Intel has the 64 bit technology, but doesn't want to release it to the consumer market yet, more than likely because the 64 bit version of Windows sucks hardcore. AMD could double the core on an x86-64 proc and beat Intel yet again.
I remember Adi Shamir talked about this at his talk at Carnegie Mellon in March. He gave a brief description and said that it was in the works. So many people doubted it.
pfft
One of my friends is doing a senior project on Piracy...check out PiracyForums.tk.