Exactly. I've been playing WoW since the beta, and have been following the community just as long. The game's sales have blown Blizzard's predictions away. They had to add new servers the day after release because there were so many people buying/playing it. And the holidays doubled that already enormous player base.
Even though this thread is way old, you might see this.
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The shirt had 42 on the front, and a reference to the towel on the back. If you've read the book you'd know what both of these things were references to instantly.
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The day i dumped them was when Dan was wearing a H2G2 t-shirt from Jynx, and NOBODY knew what it was referring to. I think Yoshi finally piped up and informed everyone on the show.
I have an SN95G5. With the bios-controlled fan speeds set to "medium," it's surprisingly quiet compared to most PCs. My Dell at work is still better in terms of fan noise though.
If you set the fan to "low," you'll get nearly-silent operation, but the machine runs too hot for my liking. I didn't have any stability problems with it set like this, but i could feel the heat radiating off the case, and the fan grille in back was almost hot enough to be painful to the touch.
The fan sounds like a hair dryer when you run it at full speed.
i think the best idea would be to find the best 92mm fan you can and replace the one that comes stock.
The other response to my post is correct. The apache user itself is a special case, a "normal" user that happens to be running a vulnerable app like you suggest would be a possible way to remotely root a machine.
I don't see why not.
Local roots are used for privilege escalation. If someone had access to the apache account on the machine, they could then gain root access.
I agree! Invent This, XPlay, and Icons are the only shows i watch on G4 anymore. The first one is almost never shown if at all, and i rarely see an episode of Icons - much less a new one.
Thanks GOD XPlay hasn't been changed. It's the only G4 show i watch on a regular basis.
It's practically becoming an MTV advertisement itself. The Screensavers has a random movie or music star on every week that has absolutely nothing to do with tech. Most of them admit to never playing video games at all.
Because he made companies millions of dollars while you were filing your TPS reports.
I know some people who had one good idea a long time ago - they bought Microsoft stock when it first went public. Why should just a little effort guarantee them enormous income?
In terms of gaming, he's old - although not an old fart.
Age has little to do with it anyways - he might have been gaming since he was very young, while the first game some frat boy at the college down the street from me played was Halo.
The grandparent would be considered a much older gamer having experienced a large part of the growth of the gaming industry.
I spent a long time writing a reply to this, because this is a subject i feel deeply about, but couldn't quite get it right. So here's a poor summation of my thoughts.
In short: Either games are getting crappier, or the crappy games are starting to sell well to the frat boys of the world. Good games are still being made because there are still a lot of people willing to buy them, but those people (and soon, those games) are in the minority. Joe Sixpack - you know him, he just slammed 8 beers and banged a drunk college freshman - is the new cash cow. Halo sucks, sells millions. You can't tell me it's a better game than something like Deus Ex, Half Life, Tribes, or Quake.
Maybe things will change when said frat boys become introduced to quality titles, but i doubt it will happen.
If you listen to the Geeks In Space archives, there's one episode where they talk about strained silicon, and how they weren't sure what it was because the story in the submission bin required a wall street journal subscription.
The "overworked without compensation" problem is prevelant in the tech industry, and EA just so happened to be a huge target that several people went after and it snowballed from there. Hopefully this will have an effect on policies everywhere.
Actually it's because the porn industry chose VHS over Betamax. There's a funny/interesting article out there about how media formats don't take off until the porn industry picks them up. I'd post a link but googling anything with "porn" in it is not a smart thing to do at work:)
Of course an unpatched XP machine is going to be "compromised" quickly - look at how many worms have been going around exploiting remote vulnerabilities in the past year or two! Anyone who's installed XP on a machine that wasn't firewalled from the internet properly has had to deal with this.
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Exactly. I've been playing WoW since the beta, and have been following the community just as long. The game's sales have blown Blizzard's predictions away. They had to add new servers the day after release because there were so many people buying/playing it. And the holidays doubled that already enormous player base.
Even though this thread is way old, you might see this. Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The shirt had 42 on the front, and a reference to the towel on the back. If you've read the book you'd know what both of these things were references to instantly.
The day i dumped them was when Dan was wearing a H2G2 t-shirt from Jynx, and NOBODY knew what it was referring to. I think Yoshi finally piped up and informed everyone on the show.
Are you implying that you can only play music from iTunes on your iPod? If so, you're dead wrong.
Back when i was playing Marathon daily, i would hear the sound effects from the game every so often.
WardriveMeNot is one of my favs.
I have an SN95G5. With the bios-controlled fan speeds set to "medium," it's surprisingly quiet compared to most PCs. My Dell at work is still better in terms of fan noise though.
If you set the fan to "low," you'll get nearly-silent operation, but the machine runs too hot for my liking. I didn't have any stability problems with it set like this, but i could feel the heat radiating off the case, and the fan grille in back was almost hot enough to be painful to the touch.
The fan sounds like a hair dryer when you run it at full speed.
i think the best idea would be to find the best 92mm fan you can and replace the one that comes stock.
Yup, that's pretty much it.
The other response to my post is correct. The apache user itself is a special case, a "normal" user that happens to be running a vulnerable app like you suggest would be a possible way to remotely root a machine.
I don't see why not. Local roots are used for privilege escalation. If someone had access to the apache account on the machine, they could then gain root access.
This isn't the protocol's fault.
Must have been a theme episode, the vast majority of XPlay's episodes are high quality - just like they were on TechTV.
I agree! Invent This, XPlay, and Icons are the only shows i watch on G4 anymore. The first one is almost never shown if at all, and i rarely see an episode of Icons - much less a new one. Thanks GOD XPlay hasn't been changed. It's the only G4 show i watch on a regular basis.
It's practically becoming an MTV advertisement itself. The Screensavers has a random movie or music star on every week that has absolutely nothing to do with tech. Most of them admit to never playing video games at all.
Because he made companies millions of dollars while you were filing your TPS reports.
I know some people who had one good idea a long time ago - they bought Microsoft stock when it first went public. Why should just a little effort guarantee them enormous income?
In terms of gaming, he's old - although not an old fart.
Age has little to do with it anyways - he might have been gaming since he was very young, while the first game some frat boy at the college down the street from me played was Halo.
The grandparent would be considered a much older gamer having experienced a large part of the growth of the gaming industry.
So i'll drive to a random subdivision and use the wireless "provided" by someone who doesn't know enough to secure it.
How about Half Life 2, Deus Ex, or KOTOR?
I spent a long time writing a reply to this, because this is a subject i feel deeply about, but couldn't quite get it right. So here's a poor summation of my thoughts.
In short: Either games are getting crappier, or the crappy games are starting to sell well to the frat boys of the world. Good games are still being made because there are still a lot of people willing to buy them, but those people (and soon, those games) are in the minority. Joe Sixpack - you know him, he just slammed 8 beers and banged a drunk college freshman - is the new cash cow. Halo sucks, sells millions. You can't tell me it's a better game than something like Deus Ex, Half Life, Tribes, or Quake.
Maybe things will change when said frat boys become introduced to quality titles, but i doubt it will happen.
I cannot think of one instance of the Daily Show praising Kerry or any Democrats. Did you see what they did with the democratic national convention?
If you listen to the Geeks In Space archives, there's one episode where they talk about strained silicon, and how they weren't sure what it was because the story in the submission bin required a wall street journal subscription.
Making fun of republicans is considered left-wing spin now?
The "overworked without compensation" problem is prevelant in the tech industry, and EA just so happened to be a huge target that several people went after and it snowballed from there. Hopefully this will have an effect on policies everywhere.
I'm not sure what's creepier, the fact that you share a porn collection, or that someone found your post +1 informative.
Actually it's because the porn industry chose VHS over Betamax. There's a funny/interesting article out there about how media formats don't take off until the porn industry picks them up. I'd post a link but googling anything with "porn" in it is not a smart thing to do at work :)
Of course an unpatched XP machine is going to be "compromised" quickly - look at how many worms have been going around exploiting remote vulnerabilities in the past year or two! Anyone who's installed XP on a machine that wasn't firewalled from the internet properly has had to deal with this.