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i am going to film myself shooting you in the face with a shotgun. haha!
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As regular slashdoters (is that the correct term?) will know, more and more factions are adopting linux as opposed to windows, governments and councils are the best example we have, they are finding the cost is what drives them to it, but (assuming they have the same experience as me) it's the ease of use and sheer number of open source applications that keeps me using it. I would (and have done) pay for Linux, I own real copies of Mandrake 7.2 and Slack 8. these days the myth of hard to install, and hard to maintain is just that, a myth! my mandrake 9 install detected every bit of obscure hardware in one go, it even managed the GeForce 4, which I was suitably impressed with. I think the main problem is that people expect too much from it, as we sit here running our Linux servers and playing the occasional game, we forget about people who have Sony vaio laptops and want all the buttons to function properly:) it's the little things that make the difference, and since we all know that Linux can do everything windows does better, cheaper and faster, this is all it needs to drive I into the main stream.
Good to see money being made here. lets just hope this drive forward doesn't cause open source software to go commercial, I don't know what I would do if nmap wasn't free:)
Just look at it, it represents a huge jump in technology, it's only rivaled by Unreal II, and that's still just a rebuild of the unreal engine.
What else would you say desrves this award?! it's head and shoulders above the competition, so why not give it what it deserves.
Bring on gold copy, and DoomTest:)
There is only one slight problem which i can see with this. It (as Always) spawns from money.
There would need to be a substabntial inverstement by unis/colleges/etc. to prevent cheating in such an exam. for every secrity profesional you get who knows there stuff about locking a system down, you get a good few students who know just as much, if not more about busting them open. you have to look at the fact that computer based exams will be coded by someone, a real person, and therefore could be fallable. especially in a situation where coding is involved, as all the tools to properly use/abuse a system are inplace to allow programs to be compiled and executed. to have a limited system in this situation would be worse than having no system atall.
a few years back i saw an article which defines a similar technology to this http://www.c-3d.net/ uses a technology not disimilar to that of dvd, but has 30+ closely spaced layers, allowing for up to 147 gigabytes on a 12cm disk. to me a "super-sized disk" suggests to me a laser disk sized behemoth, scary stuff. "...disc stores more than any other similar product in the world" there's C-3d right there!
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send me an e-mail, i'll show you soe other sites and methods to use. geekstah[at]gmail[dot]com
i am going to film myself shooting you in the face with a shotgun. haha!
As regular slashdoters (is that the correct term?) will know, more and more factions are adopting linux as opposed to windows, governments and councils are the best example we have, they are finding the cost is what drives them to it, but (assuming they have the same experience as me) it's the ease of use and sheer number of open source applications that keeps me using it. I would (and have done) pay for Linux, I own real copies of Mandrake 7.2 and Slack 8. these days the myth of hard to install, and hard to maintain is just that, a myth! my mandrake 9 install detected every bit of obscure hardware in one go, it even managed the GeForce 4, which I was suitably impressed with. I think the main problem is that people expect too much from it, as we sit here running our Linux servers and playing the occasional game, we forget about people who have Sony vaio laptops and want all the buttons to function properly :) it's the little things that make the difference, and since we all know that Linux can do everything windows does better, cheaper and faster, this is all it needs to drive I into the main stream.
Good to see money being made here. lets just hope this drive forward doesn't cause open source software to go commercial, I don't know what I would do if nmap wasn't free :)
Just look at it, it represents a huge jump in technology, it's only rivaled by Unreal II, and that's still just a rebuild of the unreal engine. What else would you say desrves this award?! it's head and shoulders above the competition, so why not give it what it deserves. Bring on gold copy, and DoomTest :)
There is only one slight problem which i can see with this. It (as Always) spawns from money. There would need to be a substabntial inverstement by unis/colleges/etc. to prevent cheating in such an exam. for every secrity profesional you get who knows there stuff about locking a system down, you get a good few students who know just as much, if not more about busting them open. you have to look at the fact that computer based exams will be coded by someone, a real person, and therefore could be fallable. especially in a situation where coding is involved, as all the tools to properly use/abuse a system are inplace to allow programs to be compiled and executed. to have a limited system in this situation would be worse than having no system atall.
a few years back i saw an article which defines a similar technology to this http://www.c-3d.net/ uses a technology not disimilar to that of dvd, but has 30+ closely spaced layers, allowing for up to 147 gigabytes on a 12cm disk. to me a "super-sized disk" suggests to me a laser disk sized behemoth, scary stuff. "...disc stores more than any other similar product in the world" there's C-3d right there!