Okay. So the nuclear bombs were just a continuation of a trend of atrocities. Sounds like a significant historic event that bears reflecting on it.
"If the Germans had dropped atomic bombs on cities instead of us, we would have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them." (Leo Szilard via WP)
It's extremely useful in theory. Useful enough that I think some mobile phone service providers have offered something similar: hold your phone to the speakers and they'll try to identify the song that's being played. Obviously it's more useful than metadata when you just don't have any metadata such as artist or title, ie when it's either a song you just don't know or if the names elude you. Happens to me often enough.
So what's the problem? Set your BT client to a non-standard port - more than a single port isn't necessary - and set the priority of this port to low. Seems straightforward to me. Granted, it would be nice if this stuff worked "magically" via UPnP or a similar device.
With good traffic shaping you can easily play FPS while downloading. I used cFos Speed to play CS:S and got in-game pings between 60 and 80 ms (vs 30 to 50 without a download). Not perfect, but quite playable. Unfortunately there does not seem to be any free alternative to cFos Speed - I searched without luck.
I already mentioned it somewhere else, but MM also did his presentation in December 04 at the chaos communication congress in Berlin. I guess that wasn't the first time, either, it must be his standard show.:P
This was also discussed in 2004's chaos communication congress in Germany. And I assume a couple of times before that. Major Malfunction's (he never gave us a real name at that venue) talk was hilarious, though, probably the most amusing official event I was at. Way too short, though, I'd have loved to hear more.
(remembering you can unlock it in the PS2 versions without downloading anything)
Yes, by using third party memory modification tools (like, I think, GameShark). So you have to actually buy something instead of downloading it, the latter not being an option for the PS2. In the same way you can unlock the PC version without downloading anything, simply by using notepad. Neither thing is something anybody but an extremely small number of people will be able to do without external help. And in fact nobody did find out for the PS2 version until it was modified in the PC version (where vastly more powerful modding tools exist).
Because you're in a place that's populated by high schoolers?
Yes, obviously. And he wants to have a place that's not populated by high schoolers. To strain your analogy, there are such things as high school football games, where high school students hang out, they aren't totally dominant in every sports event.
With PCs - All I've ever seen in BIOS is the boot order sequence - and sleep info (sleeping on a Mac is handled by the OS and not the boot chip).
Well, my BIOS does offer selecting the drive to boot from manually. I assume what you describe for the Mac, ie booting from a cloned HD would easily work the same way. I do agree that getting rid of boot loaders in favor of the Apple approach is great, although I have nightmares about "System Folders" on System 7 that weren't recognized as such. And I'm not sure what you mean by "sleep info" - I'm pretty sure the power management settings you make in the BIOS are irrelevant, since all modern operating systems override them. The same goes for a number of other settings ("typematic rate" etc.).
I don't understand. How does switching the active boot drive by holding one of four keys make macs easier to troubleshoot than PCs? And what do you think could possibly be lost in the Intel transition? PCs can easily boot from internal or external storage or via network. I can see how making the computer act as an external drive aids troubleshooting a lot, and I've marveled when I saw it in action for the first time. I don't think PCs can do that, so that's okay. But whether it takes holding a key or configuring a BIOS setting to do it is largely irrelevant as far as I can see. Sure, the former is faster by maybe 10 seconds, but on the other hand you don't have to memorise the keys for the latter. And besides, with some modern boards you don't have to go into the BIOS config to switch the booting drive - I think holding F8 displays a menu on mine.
I think there's still some hope left for market forces. Sure, geeks aren't large enough a market. But people who want to play their "pirated" movies and music are a fairly large market - just look at the mp3 player boom - and chances are some manufacturers will cater to them. Most DVD players you can buy these days, especially those sold at Wal-Mart et al, are capable of playing back DivX. And as far as I know it's not difficult at all to find a DVD player that is either region-less out of the box or trivially easy to modify that way.
English version is here. Beware, though, the full name is 8.02 technology preview 1. The full version should appear soon, although it won't include the (basic) bittorrent support that was the reason for the technology preview release.
Seriously, you're wrong. There are huge differences in the noise level of after-market power supplies (ie. those intended for mod or self-build rigs). Considering that you say yourself that you can hear and identify by sound all the components in your PC, you maybe aren't in the position to judge the difference. In a somewhat quiet rig you shouldn't hear most of them, especially not distintively...
Well this might be a fun little hack, but considering that HDs only use 10 to 15W, I'm not sure if it's necessary in terms of power saving. If you're worried about noise, try using laptop HDs. That's what the cool kids are doing, anyway. In conjunction with some sort of suspension - and without it, usually - laptop HDs are either extremely quiet or virtually silent. Also, your system would basically require working without a swap file, since this is one thing you don't want to do with flash memory due to the relatively limited number of rewrites.
Stop burning 450 WATTS of power to browse the web or send email.
Where on earth do you get your numbers from. Virtually no PC - including pretty much all "gamer" PCs - uses anywhere near as much power. Half of that under load, less at idle. Just because people keep buying absurdly powerful PSUs it doesn't mean they use them to their maximum rating all the time - or ever.
First impression: not bad at all. It actually works in Opera (8.02) which I hadn't expected at all. Well, mouse wheel zooming doesn't, but I don't blame them. Dragging the map works, as does zooming with the widget. The space reserved for the map is way larger than in Google Maps - this is great, Google should take note of it. It also sports a version of what Google calls "hybrid" view, they call it aerial view with labels.
Not that I really disagree (I think this is all somewhat of a non-issue), but seeing how this is an error in a system software, exploiting a buffer overflow might lead to a security escalation, ie you might "get root". The user can only run an application within the context of his or her own account, barring other exploits anyway.
And I'm considering that it might also have had fewer vulnerabilities simply because of other circumstances: fewer broadband/always-on connections, fewer internet connections overall, fewer spammers in need of relay zombies, and so on. I make no claims as to which OS is more or less secure in its default config (ie including networking services) mostly because I really have no idea how secure Windows 98 is.
Not really a contradiction, no. Maybe a bit poorly worded, but it's pretty clear what the guy wants to say when you take it in context.
Regarding the prices - are you comparing the price of a newly released album with a budget (somewhat aged) game? I might be wrong, but I'd be surprised to learn that KD was sold for 20 bucks during release week. Console titles initially retail for twice than that or more as far as I know (I've never owned one).
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It's simple. You just habe to make an ass out of yourself, publicly. Posting on Slashdot, you're already halfway there! ;)
Plus it gives people something to bitch about and blame pretty much everything that goes wrong on. They always appreciate that.
"To sympathize with them, is to denigrate the millions of my countrymen who were brutally slaughtered."
No, it's not. What a black and white world you must live in.
Okay. So the nuclear bombs were just a continuation of a trend of atrocities. Sounds like a significant historic event that bears reflecting on it.
"If the Germans had dropped atomic bombs on cities instead of us, we would have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them." (Leo Szilard via WP)
Yes, there are homes out there who sell electricity to the grid rather than buy.
Sure. Not many, though. And they don't use something like this as a heater.
It's extremely useful in theory. Useful enough that I think some mobile phone service providers have offered something similar: hold your phone to the speakers and they'll try to identify the song that's being played. Obviously it's more useful than metadata when you just don't have any metadata such as artist or title, ie when it's either a song you just don't know or if the names elude you. Happens to me often enough.
So what's the problem? Set your BT client to a non-standard port - more than a single port isn't necessary - and set the priority of this port to low. Seems straightforward to me. Granted, it would be nice if this stuff worked "magically" via UPnP or a similar device.
With good traffic shaping you can easily play FPS while downloading. I used cFos Speed to play CS:S and got in-game pings between 60 and 80 ms (vs 30 to 50 without a download). Not perfect, but quite playable. Unfortunately there does not seem to be any free alternative to cFos Speed - I searched without luck.
I already mentioned it somewhere else, but MM also did his presentation in December 04 at the chaos communication congress in Berlin. I guess that wasn't the first time, either, it must be his standard show. :P
This was also discussed in 2004's chaos communication congress in Germany. And I assume a couple of times before that. Major Malfunction's (he never gave us a real name at that venue) talk was hilarious, though, probably the most amusing official event I was at. Way too short, though, I'd have loved to hear more.
(remembering you can unlock it in the PS2 versions without downloading anything)
Yes, by using third party memory modification tools (like, I think, GameShark). So you have to actually buy something instead of downloading it, the latter not being an option for the PS2. In the same way you can unlock the PC version without downloading anything, simply by using notepad. Neither thing is something anybody but an extremely small number of people will be able to do without external help. And in fact nobody did find out for the PS2 version until it was modified in the PC version (where vastly more powerful modding tools exist).
Because you're in a place that's populated by high schoolers?
Yes, obviously. And he wants to have a place that's not populated by high schoolers. To strain your analogy, there are such things as high school football games, where high school students hang out, they aren't totally dominant in every sports event.
With PCs - All I've ever seen in BIOS is the boot order sequence - and sleep info (sleeping on a Mac is handled by the OS and not the boot chip).
Well, my BIOS does offer selecting the drive to boot from manually. I assume what you describe for the Mac, ie booting from a cloned HD would easily work the same way. I do agree that getting rid of boot loaders in favor of the Apple approach is great, although I have nightmares about "System Folders" on System 7 that weren't recognized as such.
And I'm not sure what you mean by "sleep info" - I'm pretty sure the power management settings you make in the BIOS are irrelevant, since all modern operating systems override them. The same goes for a number of other settings ("typematic rate" etc.).
I don't understand. How does switching the active boot drive by holding one of four keys make macs easier to troubleshoot than PCs? And what do you think could possibly be lost in the Intel transition? PCs can easily boot from internal or external storage or via network. I can see how making the computer act as an external drive aids troubleshooting a lot, and I've marveled when I saw it in action for the first time. I don't think PCs can do that, so that's okay.
But whether it takes holding a key or configuring a BIOS setting to do it is largely irrelevant as far as I can see. Sure, the former is faster by maybe 10 seconds, but on the other hand you don't have to memorise the keys for the latter. And besides, with some modern boards you don't have to go into the BIOS config to switch the booting drive - I think holding F8 displays a menu on mine.
I think there's still some hope left for market forces. Sure, geeks aren't large enough a market. But people who want to play their "pirated" movies and music are a fairly large market - just look at the mp3 player boom - and chances are some manufacturers will cater to them. Most DVD players you can buy these days, especially those sold at Wal-Mart et al, are capable of playing back DivX. And as far as I know it's not difficult at all to find a DVD player that is either region-less out of the box or trivially easy to modify that way.
English version is here. Beware, though, the full name is 8.02 technology preview 1. The full version should appear soon, although it won't include the (basic) bittorrent support that was the reason for the technology preview release.
Seriously, you're wrong. There are huge differences in the noise level of after-market power supplies (ie. those intended for mod or self-build rigs). Considering that you say yourself that you can hear and identify by sound all the components in your PC, you maybe aren't in the position to judge the difference. In a somewhat quiet rig you shouldn't hear most of them, especially not distintively...
Well this might be a fun little hack, but considering that HDs only use 10 to 15W, I'm not sure if it's necessary in terms of power saving. If you're worried about noise, try using laptop HDs. That's what the cool kids are doing, anyway. In conjunction with some sort of suspension - and without it, usually - laptop HDs are either extremely quiet or virtually silent. Also, your system would basically require working without a swap file, since this is one thing you don't want to do with flash memory due to the relatively limited number of rewrites.
Stop burning 450 WATTS of power to browse the web or send email.
Where on earth do you get your numbers from. Virtually no PC - including pretty much all "gamer" PCs - uses anywhere near as much power. Half of that under load, less at idle. Just because people keep buying absurdly powerful PSUs it doesn't mean they use them to their maximum rating all the time - or ever.
First impression: not bad at all. It actually works in Opera (8.02) which I hadn't expected at all. Well, mouse wheel zooming doesn't, but I don't blame them. Dragging the map works, as does zooming with the widget. The space reserved for the map is way larger than in Google Maps - this is great, Google should take note of it. It also sports a version of what Google calls "hybrid" view, they call it aerial view with labels.
Not that I really disagree (I think this is all somewhat of a non-issue), but seeing how this is an error in a system software, exploiting a buffer overflow might lead to a security escalation, ie you might "get root". The user can only run an application within the context of his or her own account, barring other exploits anyway.
And I'm considering that it might also have had fewer vulnerabilities simply because of other circumstances: fewer broadband/always-on connections, fewer internet connections overall, fewer spammers in need of relay zombies, and so on. I make no claims as to which OS is more or less secure in its default config (ie including networking services) mostly because I really have no idea how secure Windows 98 is.
In that case, consider me surprise and accept my apologies. :)
Not really a contradiction, no. Maybe a bit poorly worded, but it's pretty clear what the guy wants to say when you take it in context.
Regarding the prices - are you comparing the price of a newly released album with a budget (somewhat aged) game? I might be wrong, but I'd be surprised to learn that KD was sold for 20 bucks during release week. Console titles initially retail for twice than that or more as far as I know (I've never owned one).
How many massive Net worm infections occurred during 98's reign compared to 2000 and XP?
Not many, I'm sure. But is that due to Windows 98's marvelous security or is it due to other reasons?