The instructions on the SMSH site were incorrect, as were most others. Strangely, the instructions over at http://talk.google.com/ were spot on (imagine that). You do NOT include @gmail.com in your login name. You DO use a "connection server" which is talk.google.com. The "server" is gmail.com, not talk.google.com. Anyway, head on over to Google to get the skinny straight from the horses mouth. Find details here:
GAIM support at Google.
In a business setting (CNN, ABC, other "big businesses" that were "crippled" this time 'round) I agree with you whole heartedly. It's a simple fact that the admin should have had sufficient control and all machines should have been patched up. Even if a rogue employee brings in a PC from home that's infected, it all corporate computers are up to snuff...no worries.
All right, all right, all right, what's it going to be? A new instant messenger for Christopher. A VoIP service for Otis. An Internet based OS for June Marie. And listen! Google's got a new one today. Free WiFi for everyone. Just watch out for the Billmicious Knid (and Grandpa...he kind of gives me the creeps...and while we're at it, so did that "freak-out" boat ride).
Indeed...the qualifier "in this country" is very important. One of two things will happen (in my next to worthless opinion). Either we'll fix things, or many (any that doesn't have DMCA like craziness) other countries will surpass us in terms of technological advancement. Since money talks (and in the long run more money is to be made by advancement than payoffs from the current clan of DMCA pushers)I'm hoping for the latter.
Are you serious? Put down the kool-aid for a sec and consider this. If I buy something (a physical something), I own it. It's mine. If I buy and X-Box and am of the ilk that likes to know what makes things tick, it's my prerogative (and certainly within the bounds of morality) to tear it apart and put it back together. If I can make my X-Box boot Linux (which, contrary to your implication can have a very significant and useful purpose) then more power to me. I will certainly share my knowledge with others who wish to do the same. When it comes to stealing games (copyrighted works of "art"), you are dealing with an entirely different issue. That is akin to me being able to throw my buddy's X-Box into a replicator, push a few buttons and voi lah! 2 X-Boxen. Don't confuse the two concepts. Now, commence kool-aid drinking.
I am a long time SUSE user, having put it to work as a workstation and as a very capable server. I have almost no complaints about it save for the same one that everyone has had up to this point (no ISO's/unreliable FTP). That being the case, I went on the hunt for a really good alternative, at least in the server realm and have landed on CentOS. Man, what a great distro! There are certainly things about SUSE that I like better (which I won't take the time to go into here), but having a RHEL4 server that is fully functional without dropping a dime on it is pretty sweet. If you haven't tried CentOS, I'd strongly recommend it. I'm working on one as I write this that is running a CVS server, WebDAV, OpenGroupware, Postfix, SaMBa, VSFTP, blah blah blah... Very nice stuff indeed.
I remember the guy across the hall from me in college having a NeoGeo (the console alone was close to a grand). His games were in the hundreds of dollars a piece. His games were truly cutting edge at the time. The 360 will be (or had better be at least) cutting edge for it's time.
Me too (not that I read it). I can picture the meeting in which some junior exec concocted this idea. It probably began with "Okay, check this out guys."
The US Navy and the NSA (or what there was of it at the time) used a very similar method to recruit crypto staff during WWII and after. Same during conflict with USSR/Cuba, and so on. Like it or not, the military in this country needs specialized skills (math, engineering, etc.), particular personalities (intel, ops, etc.) and so on; and this is not a bad way of recruiting said talent. If you can get past the idea that "all things done by the Fed are evil", you might consider the outcome if they do not find talented persons to serve. The idea that the military exploits poor, stupid people is a fallacy. The average person that I work with (in the Navy's CT community/NSA) are in the top few percent in terms of intelligence, knowledge, skills and ability. Are their stupid people in the military? Of course, just as there are in the civilian world. Are there poor people that join for financial reasons? Of course, just like there are poor people in the civilian world who take unpleasent jobs for financial reasons. Get over yourselves...Slashdot is not exactly the bastion of geniuses.
Odd as it is, I am ripping/transcoding Spy Kids on my Windows machine at this very moment using AutoGK. The output is not as good as what I can get with H.264 on HandBrake, but alas I am ripping another movie on my G5.;)
We (the Navy) use a Draeger LAR V pure Oxygen system (also known as an MK25 -- pronounced "Mark Twenty Five") or the Draeger LAR VII (and probably newer classified models as Draeger only sells them to the SPECOPS). The VII is a 50% Nitrogen version of teh LAR V by the way. Anyway, they are rebreather systems (use CO2 scrubbers). The LAR V is fairly limited as far as operating depth (about 7M I believe). The LAR VII has no such limitation and is usable to 100M. I believe that both models do bad things if water gets into the mouth-piece and runs down into the scrubber material. Anyway, sort of sketchy, but that's my limited knowledge of it.
Personally, I use HandBrake (the best ripper/transcoder in my opinion -- works on OS X and *nix, can rip high-def, transcodes to H.264 among others, Open Source). Why did they target just this one utility? It seems that they do this every so often; take out a single app among dozens. Thoughts?
If Apple "switches" to Intel x86 on their desktop/laptop line, I'll stand on my head and spit nickles on the town square. Now, if the statement is Apple to "use" Intel, that I could see. Since Apple is rumored to possibly have a tablet, a PDA and a PDA/phone in the works, any of the three could quite possibly use an Intel chip (Centrino, XScale, etc.).
I had an Atari Portfolio back in 1990 (I think it was 1990) and I still like it better than any other I've had. Mind you, it's not that it worked better, or was more capable. It's more an issue of capability for it's day and the fact that it was made by Atari of all companies. It was just an amazing little device that I could use in place of my laptop at the time (a Dell 386/SX-16). I wish I still had it just for fun. What a neat little device.
IIRC, Nintendo had considered putting a very small passive RFID imbedded in the hub of their disks for the Game Cube (I'm assuming that they did not do this). It seemed at the time to be a great way to stop game priating. Granted, the simplest way to defeat would be a hardware hack to get the console to ignore the lack of RFID which would make duplicating the RFID moot. Anyone else recall this, or am I dreaming (I have taken a great deal of cold medicine today).
Indeed. It is full of mostly honorable men and women who work very hard and sacrfice a great deal (time, money, etc.) to protect your ungrateful asses. Have there been problems? Yes, of course. I would contend that the good enormously outweigh the bad in terms of people, actions and such.
I couldn't disagree any more strongly. I have a wife and kids at home. There is a great deal of phone use during "peak" hours when using a cell phone would cause one to go broke. I already use an enormous number of minutes on my cell for work, and have no desire to use more than I do. For $25 a month, I, my wife and kids can talk all they want, when they want to whomever they want. That makes working phone costs into the family budget a WHOLE lot easier. Cell phones are great, and they fill an important gap, but they do not (in most demographics) compete with landline.
Solaris is THE OS in the US Federal arena. While there is a good bit of Linux and Windows in use, Solaris is the mainstay when it comes to production computing. The growth rate is also quite amazing 'round here. The raw number of new Sun boxen brought online on a weekly basis amazes me. It's a good, solid, dependable OS that runs on excellent and reliable hardware. What's not to love from the standpoint of a giant customer who wants to drop in a box and have it "just work". Also keep in mind that Solaris sells a pre-hardened version of its OS and specialized hardware to the Fed for use in high-security environments.
...please call their lead photovoltaic physicist and public relations VP...Bat Boy (formerly lead editor for some of the world most respected check-out line journals).
Well, then send them; Ben Affleck, Paris Hilton, Ellen DeGeneres, Britney Spears, Hilary Duff and a whole slew of others. Shoot, they won't know the difference, and we'll be rid of them.
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The instructions on the SMSH site were incorrect, as were most others. Strangely, the instructions over at http://talk.google.com/ were spot on (imagine that). You do NOT include @gmail.com in your login name. You DO use a "connection server" which is talk.google.com. The "server" is gmail.com, not talk.google.com. Anyway, head on over to Google to get the skinny straight from the horses mouth. Find details here: GAIM support at Google.
In a business setting (CNN, ABC, other "big businesses" that were "crippled" this time 'round) I agree with you whole heartedly. It's a simple fact that the admin should have had sufficient control and all machines should have been patched up. Even if a rogue employee brings in a PC from home that's infected, it all corporate computers are up to snuff...no worries.
All right, all right, all right, what's it going to be? A new instant messenger for Christopher. A VoIP service for Otis. An Internet based OS for June Marie. And listen! Google's got a new one today. Free WiFi for everyone. Just watch out for the Billmicious Knid (and Grandpa...he kind of gives me the creeps...and while we're at it, so did that "freak-out" boat ride).
Indeed...the qualifier "in this country" is very important. One of two things will happen (in my next to worthless opinion). Either we'll fix things, or many (any that doesn't have DMCA like craziness) other countries will surpass us in terms of technological advancement. Since money talks (and in the long run more money is to be made by advancement than payoffs from the current clan of DMCA pushers)I'm hoping for the latter.
Are you serious? Put down the kool-aid for a sec and consider this. If I buy something (a physical something), I own it. It's mine. If I buy and X-Box and am of the ilk that likes to know what makes things tick, it's my prerogative (and certainly within the bounds of morality) to tear it apart and put it back together. If I can make my X-Box boot Linux (which, contrary to your implication can have a very significant and useful purpose) then more power to me. I will certainly share my knowledge with others who wish to do the same. When it comes to stealing games (copyrighted works of "art"), you are dealing with an entirely different issue. That is akin to me being able to throw my buddy's X-Box into a replicator, push a few buttons and voi lah! 2 X-Boxen. Don't confuse the two concepts. Now, commence kool-aid drinking.
I am a long time SUSE user, having put it to work as a workstation and as a very capable server. I have almost no complaints about it save for the same one that everyone has had up to this point (no ISO's/unreliable FTP). That being the case, I went on the hunt for a really good alternative, at least in the server realm and have landed on CentOS. Man, what a great distro! There are certainly things about SUSE that I like better (which I won't take the time to go into here), but having a RHEL4 server that is fully functional without dropping a dime on it is pretty sweet. If you haven't tried CentOS, I'd strongly recommend it. I'm working on one as I write this that is running a CVS server, WebDAV, OpenGroupware, Postfix, SaMBa, VSFTP, blah blah blah... Very nice stuff indeed.
I remember the guy across the hall from me in college having a NeoGeo (the console alone was close to a grand). His games were in the hundreds of dollars a piece. His games were truly cutting edge at the time. The 360 will be (or had better be at least) cutting edge for it's time.
Me too (not that I read it). I can picture the meeting in which some junior exec concocted this idea. It probably began with "Okay, check this out guys."
The US Navy and the NSA (or what there was of it at the time) used a very similar method to recruit crypto staff during WWII and after. Same during conflict with USSR/Cuba, and so on. Like it or not, the military in this country needs specialized skills (math, engineering, etc.), particular personalities (intel, ops, etc.) and so on; and this is not a bad way of recruiting said talent. If you can get past the idea that "all things done by the Fed are evil", you might consider the outcome if they do not find talented persons to serve. The idea that the military exploits poor, stupid people is a fallacy. The average person that I work with (in the Navy's CT community/NSA) are in the top few percent in terms of intelligence, knowledge, skills and ability. Are their stupid people in the military? Of course, just as there are in the civilian world. Are there poor people that join for financial reasons? Of course, just like there are poor people in the civilian world who take unpleasent jobs for financial reasons. Get over yourselves...Slashdot is not exactly the bastion of geniuses.
rindeee heads out door, bag of nickles in hand
Odd as it is, I am ripping/transcoding Spy Kids on my Windows machine at this very moment using AutoGK. The output is not as good as what I can get with H.264 on HandBrake, but alas I am ripping another movie on my G5. ;)
We (the Navy) use a Draeger LAR V pure Oxygen system (also known as an MK25 -- pronounced "Mark Twenty Five") or the Draeger LAR VII (and probably newer classified models as Draeger only sells them to the SPECOPS). The VII is a 50% Nitrogen version of teh LAR V by the way. Anyway, they are rebreather systems (use CO2 scrubbers). The LAR V is fairly limited as far as operating depth (about 7M I believe). The LAR VII has no such limitation and is usable to 100M. I believe that both models do bad things if water gets into the mouth-piece and runs down into the scrubber material. Anyway, sort of sketchy, but that's my limited knowledge of it.
Personally, I use HandBrake (the best ripper/transcoder in my opinion -- works on OS X and *nix, can rip high-def, transcodes to H.264 among others, Open Source). Why did they target just this one utility? It seems that they do this every so often; take out a single app among dozens. Thoughts?
If Apple "switches" to Intel x86 on their desktop/laptop line, I'll stand on my head and spit nickles on the town square. Now, if the statement is Apple to "use" Intel, that I could see. Since Apple is rumored to possibly have a tablet, a PDA and a PDA/phone in the works, any of the three could quite possibly use an Intel chip (Centrino, XScale, etc.).
...I'll stand on my head and spit nickles on the town square...in the nude.
I had an Atari Portfolio back in 1990 (I think it was 1990) and I still like it better than any other I've had. Mind you, it's not that it worked better, or was more capable. It's more an issue of capability for it's day and the fact that it was made by Atari of all companies. It was just an amazing little device that I could use in place of my laptop at the time (a Dell 386/SX-16). I wish I still had it just for fun. What a neat little device.
Out of curiosity and pardoning my ignorance...what are "streaming games"?
IIRC, Nintendo had considered putting a very small passive RFID imbedded in the hub of their disks for the Game Cube (I'm assuming that they did not do this). It seemed at the time to be a great way to stop game priating. Granted, the simplest way to defeat would be a hardware hack to get the console to ignore the lack of RFID which would make duplicating the RFID moot. Anyone else recall this, or am I dreaming (I have taken a great deal of cold medicine today).
But hey, what are the sick and dying in a 3rd world country in comparison to some knucklehead who needs dual Athlon FX's? You're so selfish.
Indeed. It is full of mostly honorable men and women who work very hard and sacrfice a great deal (time, money, etc.) to protect your ungrateful asses. Have there been problems? Yes, of course. I would contend that the good enormously outweigh the bad in terms of people, actions and such.
I couldn't disagree any more strongly. I have a wife and kids at home. There is a great deal of phone use during "peak" hours when using a cell phone would cause one to go broke. I already use an enormous number of minutes on my cell for work, and have no desire to use more than I do. For $25 a month, I, my wife and kids can talk all they want, when they want to whomever they want. That makes working phone costs into the family budget a WHOLE lot easier. Cell phones are great, and they fill an important gap, but they do not (in most demographics) compete with landline.
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Solaris is THE OS in the US Federal arena. While there is a good bit of Linux and Windows in use, Solaris is the mainstay when it comes to production computing. The growth rate is also quite amazing 'round here. The raw number of new Sun boxen brought online on a weekly basis amazes me. It's a good, solid, dependable OS that runs on excellent and reliable hardware. What's not to love from the standpoint of a giant customer who wants to drop in a box and have it "just work". Also keep in mind that Solaris sells a pre-hardened version of its OS and specialized hardware to the Fed for use in high-security environments.
...please call their lead photovoltaic physicist and public relations VP...Bat Boy (formerly lead editor for some of the world most respected check-out line journals).
Well, then send them; Ben Affleck, Paris Hilton, Ellen DeGeneres, Britney Spears, Hilary Duff and a whole slew of others. Shoot, they won't know the difference, and we'll be rid of them.
You need to go back and study history, government and civics a bit. Seriously, I'm not being rude, just giving you some advice.