No Quake has ever used TCP/IP. UDP/IP yes. TCP/IP no. (Shudders at the thought of playing Quake over TCP...)
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This is exactly the situation we want! It will force all our bosses that security is of utmost importance, and it will force Microsoft to either shape up or ship out.
If only this sort of thing weren't illegal where I live...
Actually, most of the games I know are enthusiastic about Linux. Whether they have the skills to administer a Linux system is another story, of course.
Why is Microsoft the only one with the privilege of getting automatic bug reports for their products? Why can't each vendor set up an address where crash dumps can be sent?
Agreed. I buy books and print documentation because they're much easier to read on paper than on my screen (especially since I don't have a dualhead). ------
Not really. Most newer monitors won't even try to run out of spec, and expensive chips usually have thermal shutdown. As far as CPU voltage goes, I suggest NOT using the "jumperless" mode of your motherboard. ------
Since when is reality supposed to represent economic theory, rather than the other way around?
"What do you mean the people on the other side of the world don't fall off? We must pass a law to forbid the earth from being round; we must make the earth obey the laws of physics!" ------
Let's face it. We have neither the numbers nor the unity for any attempt at boycott by us to make a difference.
Just look around. There STILL isn't an Association of Information Technology Professionals backed by all of us. And we've been being abused for HOW long? It's clear now that the EFF is not our leader, and we therefore have no leader at all.
In other words, unless we organize (and weed out the whining teenagers who just are in it for the rebellion), we're going to continue to be screwed. We have lots of resources. It's high time we used them. ------
"Solid engineering" dictates that crypto-based copy protection is impossible ("Let me get this straight. You've giving me the ciphertext AND the key??") So, rather than recognising "piracy" as a cost of doing business in the software world, they try to litigate everyone out of existence. ------
You obviously don't understand ROT-13. From the Jargon File:
rot13:/rot ther'teen/ [{Usenet}: from "rotate alphabet 13 places"],
v. The simple Caesar-cypher encryption that replaces each
English letter with the one 13 places forward or back along
the alphabet, so that "The butler did it!" becomes "Gur ohgyre
qvq vg!" Most {Usenet} news reading and posting programs
include a rot13 feature. It is used to enclose the text in a
sealed wrapper that the reader must choose to open - e.g. for
posting things that might offend some readers, or {spoiler}s.
A major advantage of rot13 over rot(N) for other N is that it
is self-inverse, so the same code can be used for encoding and
decoding.
[{Jargon File}]
In other words, I hereby forbid you under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, to decode, or distribute a device to decode, or distribute the decoded form of, the following copyrighted work, without prior written consent from myself:
V guvax V'yy nccyl sbe n cngrag ba EBG-13.
If you decode this, or sold a device that decodes this, you can be charged under U.S. criminal law. That kinda sucks, doesn't it?
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Now I know why some OSS software is so buggy!
No Quake has ever used TCP/IP. UDP/IP yes. TCP/IP no. (Shudders at the thought of playing Quake over TCP...)
If only this sort of thing weren't illegal where I live...
The key difference is that nobody forces the GPL on anyone.
But isn't that line-of-sight?
What are you talking about? Canada's been a corporosocialist country for quite a while, now. ;-)
Actually, most of the games I know are enthusiastic about Linux. Whether they have the skills to administer a Linux system is another story, of course.
Um.. For games, yes. There aren't too many free software developers who have the resources of a 10-person crew working full time on a game.
Why is Microsoft the only one with the privilege of getting automatic bug reports for their products? Why can't each vendor set up an address where crash dumps can be sent?
Refresh rate? I want a static LCD matrix! With a multi-touch screen.
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Agreed. I buy books and print documentation because they're much easier to read on paper than on my screen (especially since I don't have a dualhead).
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Not really. Most newer monitors won't even try to run out of spec, and expensive chips usually have thermal shutdown. As far as CPU voltage goes, I suggest NOT using the "jumperless" mode of your motherboard.
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"What do you mean the people on the other side of the world don't fall off? We must pass a law to forbid the earth from being round; we must make the earth obey the laws of physics!"
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What's irritating is that you can have >30 karma, and the lame filter will still reject your posts.
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( ... ) is a subshell. The gunzip does nothing. if the ".gz" file isn't actually gzipped, it will be executed by the "source" command.
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Just look around. There STILL isn't an Association of Information Technology Professionals backed by all of us. And we've been being abused for HOW long? It's clear now that the EFF is not our leader, and we therefore have no leader at all.
In other words, unless we organize (and weed out the whining teenagers who just are in it for the rebellion), we're going to continue to be screwed. We have lots of resources. It's high time we used them.
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Lol. That's got to be the best response I've heard all day! :)
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I think if the only daemons that ran as root were wrappers that setuid()'d to other users, we'd be rid of many 'nix security problems.
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HAH! KDE is much slower than WindowMaker and fvwm!
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"Solid engineering" dictates that crypto-based copy protection is impossible ("Let me get this straight. You've giving me the ciphertext AND the key??") So, rather than recognising "piracy" as a cost of doing business in the software world, they try to litigate everyone out of existence.
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Send registered paper mail. See how much they ignore you then!
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The internet is not as free a media as you would think. It only takes a few firewall rules...
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As much as I hate the retarded CD-R tax, it doesn't make it illegal for me to perform my duties as a network security professional.
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Sort of like Cantonese vs. Mandarin, but the other way around.
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rot13: /rot ther'teen/ [{Usenet}: from "rotate alphabet 13 places"],
v. The simple Caesar-cypher encryption that replaces each
English letter with the one 13 places forward or back along
the alphabet, so that "The butler did it!" becomes "Gur ohgyre
qvq vg!" Most {Usenet} news reading and posting programs
include a rot13 feature. It is used to enclose the text in a
sealed wrapper that the reader must choose to open - e.g. for
posting things that might offend some readers, or {spoiler}s.
A major advantage of rot13 over rot(N) for other N is that it
is self-inverse, so the same code can be used for encoding and
decoding.
[{Jargon File}]
In other words, I hereby forbid you under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, to decode, or distribute a device to decode, or distribute the decoded form of, the following copyrighted work, without prior written consent from myself:
V guvax V'yy nccyl sbe n cngrag ba EBG-13.
If you decode this, or sold a device that decodes this, you can be charged under U.S. criminal law. That kinda sucks, doesn't it?
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