Interesting how age is not mentioned in that article at all from what I read... Note that it sometimes takes longer to get into different parts of the IT field (degrees take more years to get, etc)
It would be interesting if the affected Bluetooth-enabled Nokia phones mentioned in a previous article a few weeks ago were somehow able to transfer their goods to PocketPCs......come on now, how many people do YOU know with a Bluetooth-enabled PocketPC, who leave Bluetooth discovery on? (I have an iPaq 2215, but Bluetooth is off to save battery life)
This is a neat proof-of-concept, but I think these virus creators should go back to hacking cell phones if they want to make waves.:)
What makes you think you......... oh wait a second.
Egad, there IS a door behind that paint splotch.
Okay, nevermind. It's been WAY too long since I last played that game. I was about to liken the mysterious paint thinner scenario to Chuck the Plant (which is mysterious, but does nothing.)
For a good time, pour the paint thinner on the monster plant upstairs... >:)
I suppose the only way to take care of this... in Windows, would be to create a separate partition solely for the swap file have a boot batch file run that would format/0000 the swap file drive each time the system is restarted. (of course, if doing this from command prompt, it would require the partition to be formatted to FAT32, ew. No thanks.)
Also... of course, the first thing I did when I got my load o' RAM, was to try to run without a swap file at all.
Amazingly, everything was splendid until I tried to print something. Bloody HP printer bloat crap. If there's anything I'd like to see open source/custom drivers made for, it would be the HP All-in-One printer/scanner things. The install is over 100MB. >_
but... yes, apparently my printer "needs" a swap file present to spool. I don't understand why it can't just spool to RAM.:)
and I did RTFA, and realize they're talking about the swap file......but I have 1.5GB of RAM, and I have a 20MB swap file that's overwritten each time I reboot my PC.
Most Windows systems use the default setting for virtual memory, which is "windows managed" -- which means it's overwritten each time the system is rebooted. What's the big deal?
Has anyone here actually hex edited a swap file before? How is the data actually stored? For the reasons mentioned in the article, I imagine it would at least... not store data transmitted via SSL in plain text (why the heck would form data stick around in RAM anyway?)
Sounds like a neat project for after work today.:)
Final Fantasy this and that... Kingdom Hearts blah blah blah... where's the mention of Star Ocean: Til the End of Time, or Dragon Warrior VIII (or V, we can wish)......If Square-Enix ends up eating the Enix portion of their merger, I'm going to cry.;_;
This is great and all, but what about the actual play mechanics? I'll be convinced this will be grand once I get to see a video of the game engine in action.
What happens during battles? How is the character animation? We have some pretty screenshots, but let's see this thing in action!:)
This thing does look pretty sweet, though. I wonder how long it'll be before some type of... homebrew software is developed for it:D (*cough* SNES emulator~@#~@#$!@#$)
It's strongly against their policies. eBay does not police itself. It relies solely on customers to report questionable activity. They almost always act on these reports.
The best deals I've come across lately on eBay are "Buy it Now!" items. It's much more convenient than bidding on traditional auctions and worrying about being sniped or shilled. Of course, if you only bid the max you're willing to pay, you won't have to worry about it.
Ah yes, a large corporation is profiting. Call in the cavalry! They must be partaking in uncouth business practics...!
Or not.
I've been a member of eBay since early 1998. I've seen the company grow beyond anything I'd ever expected... and it changes OFTEN. Even today, the terms and agreements are constantly being rewritten, because eBay seems to be a company that learns from its mistakes.
Does anyone else remember when the feedback forum used to be a free-for-all? Until a few years ago, you didn't even have to have proof of a completed auction before you could leave feedback for someone! That, of course, has been fixed, and better user verification has been implemented, and lots of other things have been fixed... and will surely continue to be fixed.
Some great insight can be found here - http://pages.ebay.com/community/boards/index.html -- You can read about scams that the community is aware of, sometimes you can read about interesting...idiots being scammed... it's a great way to learn how not to be by the example of others.:p
Remember, the best defense is knowledge. I still boast a 100% feedback rating, and I've bought and sold many high-dollar items. I'll be back here to eat my hat the day I get burned, but as long as I extensively research the sellers I'm buying stuff from (for example, looking at the seller's bidding and selling history, both past and present) I feel it may be a while.
Corruption will exist anywhere if you look hard enough. In a community with millions of users and tens of millions of auctions running at any given time, it won't be hard to find. Such is life.:)
Most of the time when this happens, the account has gotten hijacked (don't tell me you've never received one of those "we need to verify your account information" phishing e-mails) and the hijacker uses the good feedback and the age of the account to aid in ripping off users.
If you see someone who's been a member of eBay for over 3 years, but hasn't had any account activity for a few months and then starts listing plasma tvs for insanely low prices, for heaven's sake, don't bid!:)
The best way to reduce people getting taken by fraudulent sellers is to increase awareness. eBay has even listed warnings about Western Union wire transfers......and if they haven't already, they should ban them as forms of payment.
They're trying, but they can't catch everything. They rely on their users to police auctions for them (though man, being auction police would be a really neat job, I have to admit.)
PayPal does NOT provide excellent customer service.
Try calling them sometime. You'll be bounced around from person to person, who will read scripts to you at faster-than-light speeds by people who seem to possess no independent thought of their own.
I phoned them once because I needed to change the billing address for the credit card I had on file, and it wasn't letting me "verify" it... turns out it was because (according to them) it was a check card and my bank doesn't provide electronic verifiction (hmm, interesting, I've never had this problem with any other site before)...but it took about four rude people to transfer me from place to place until I finally got the answer from an even more-rude young man who had a condescending tone and started his exit speech (thank you for calling paypal... etc etc) without even asking me if I had any other questions.
I swear, the people they have on the phones there must have 3 minute call limits or something.
Without a doubt, I can say that PayPal has provided the worst customer service experience I've ever had. (with AT&T being the best)
I did RTFA. I skipped right down to the table at the bottom, and in my skimming, I guess I missed a little bit. Ok, so 45 minutes.
9 gigs in 45 minutes!
That's still plenty fast. 8)
come on now, can anyone remember a first-generation "new technology" burner that had "screaming" speeds? I still have my old 1x Mitsumi CD-R drive around somewhere. I got a 4x in 1999, found that I could burn a CD-R in 15 minutes, and thought I was pimpin'.:\
The majority of bargain-priced(?) DVD-+R/W drives out there burn at 4x. 8x drives appeared on the market maybe 6 months back, and the 12x ones have yet to hit the shelves.
This one burns at 8x.
That's 9 gigs in 30 minutes.
What's the problem? That's plenty fast.
Final Fantasy I and II were for the Famicom (in two instances; they were later rereleased on Famicom on a multi-cart.)
I would still like to see an official GBA port of FFIV (Super Famicom) though (was re-released as FFIV as part of FF Chronicles for PSX, you may also know it as FF2.)
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Interesting how age is not mentioned in that article at all from what I read... Note that it sometimes takes longer to get into different parts of the IT field (degrees take more years to get, etc)
It would be interesting if the affected Bluetooth-enabled Nokia phones mentioned in a previous article a few weeks ago were somehow able to transfer their goods to PocketPCs ... ...come on now, how many people do YOU know with a Bluetooth-enabled PocketPC, who leave Bluetooth discovery on? (I have an iPaq 2215, but Bluetooth is off to save battery life)
:)
This is a neat proof-of-concept, but I think these virus creators should go back to hacking cell phones if they want to make waves.
Dude. Get a PocketPC.
:D
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... heck, even playstation emulators for these things.
:)
WiFi, bluetooth, all kinds of word processing stuff... and my iPaq 2215 supports CF 1/2 and SD/MMC media
There's a SNES emulator out for it that is blazing fast, I'm getting it to play more than full speed now with sound. It's really great.
http://paqpark.nuclearfallout.net/forum/viewtopic
and of course it goes without saying that there are countless gb/nes
Go PocketPC and never look back.
PLEASE MOD PARENT UP! :)
zophar.net is a general emulation site, and as such, is seldomly updated in a timely fashion when it comes to translation news.
The Whirlpool is your best source for game translation news, period.
Hee hee.
... ... oh wait a second.
What makes you think you...
Egad, there IS a door behind that paint splotch.
Okay, nevermind. It's been WAY too long since I last played that game. I was about to liken the mysterious paint thinner scenario to Chuck the Plant (which is mysterious, but does nothing.)
For a good time, pour the paint thinner on the monster plant upstairs... >:)
That's actually a very good point.
:)
I suppose the only way to take care of this... in Windows, would be to create a separate partition solely for the swap file have a boot batch file run that would format/0000 the swap file drive each time the system is restarted. (of course, if doing this from command prompt, it would require the partition to be formatted to FAT32, ew. No thanks.)
Also... of course, the first thing I did when I got my load o' RAM, was to try to run without a swap file at all.
Amazingly, everything was splendid until I tried to print something. Bloody HP printer bloat crap. If there's anything I'd like to see open source/custom drivers made for, it would be the HP All-in-One printer/scanner things. The install is over 100MB. >_
but... yes, apparently my printer "needs" a swap file present to spool. I don't understand why it can't just spool to RAM.
and I did RTFA, and realize they're talking about the swap file... ...but I have 1.5GB of RAM, and I have a 20MB swap file that's overwritten each time I reboot my PC.
:)
Most Windows systems use the default setting for virtual memory, which is "windows managed" -- which means it's overwritten each time the system is rebooted. What's the big deal?
Has anyone here actually hex edited a swap file before? How is the data actually stored? For the reasons mentioned in the article, I imagine it would at least... not store data transmitted via SSL in plain text (why the heck would form data stick around in RAM anyway?)
Sounds like a neat project for after work today.
They're not going to be getting rid of the Usenet archive.
They're going to be adding to it. "Google Groups 2" will be the usenet archive as well as the new groups service.
Hey now, Lynx is THE way to surf... at work.
Most of my favorite news pages support it fairly well, and I don't need images to read news.
Plus, it's really hard for someone peeking over my shoulder to see what I'm reading about. 8)
Well, I meant a good one... one that can harness the extra processing power to perhaps emulate the SPC700 without overclocking the system. :)
Final Fantasy this and that... Kingdom Hearts blah blah blah... where's the mention of Star Ocean: Til the End of Time, or Dragon Warrior VIII (or V, we can wish) ... ...If Square-Enix ends up eating the Enix portion of their merger, I'm going to cry. ;_;
This is great and all, but what about the actual play mechanics? I'll be convinced this will be grand once I get to see a video of the game engine in action.
:)
What happens during battles? How is the character animation? We have some pretty screenshots, but let's see this thing in action!
clearly someone has never picked up a Gameboy Advance SP. :)
Yay, X and Y buttons.
...where are the shoulder buttons?
... homebrew software is developed for it :D (*cough* SNES emulator~@#~@#$!@#$)
...but...
Damn.
This thing does look pretty sweet, though. I wonder how long it'll be before some type of
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I have a pile of them on my desk at work, all mounted on cute little paperclip stands.
:)
They're mirrors. I can now see people sneaking up behind me.
The look on the face of the purchaser when he finds out the item he purchased from China is a cheap knock-off:
Priceless.
eBay's help file about shill bidding
It's strongly against their policies. eBay does not police itself. It relies solely on customers to report questionable activity. They almost always act on these reports.
The best deals I've come across lately on eBay are "Buy it Now!" items. It's much more convenient than bidding on traditional auctions and worrying about being sniped or shilled. Of course, if you only bid the max you're willing to pay, you won't have to worry about it.
Ah yes, a large corporation is profiting. Call in the cavalry! They must be partaking in uncouth business practics...!
:p
:)
Or not.
I've been a member of eBay since early 1998. I've seen the company grow beyond anything I'd ever expected... and it changes OFTEN. Even today, the terms and agreements are constantly being rewritten, because eBay seems to be a company that learns from its mistakes.
Does anyone else remember when the feedback forum used to be a free-for-all? Until a few years ago, you didn't even have to have proof of a completed auction before you could leave feedback for someone! That, of course, has been fixed, and better user verification has been implemented, and lots of other things have been fixed... and will surely continue to be fixed.
Some great insight can be found here - http://pages.ebay.com/community/boards/index.html -- You can read about scams that the community is aware of, sometimes you can read about interesting...idiots being scammed... it's a great way to learn how not to be by the example of others.
Remember, the best defense is knowledge. I still boast a 100% feedback rating, and I've bought and sold many high-dollar items. I'll be back here to eat my hat the day I get burned, but as long as I extensively research the sellers I'm buying stuff from (for example, looking at the seller's bidding and selling history, both past and present) I feel it may be a while.
Corruption will exist anywhere if you look hard enough. In a community with millions of users and tens of millions of auctions running at any given time, it won't be hard to find. Such is life.
Most of the time when this happens, the account has gotten hijacked (don't tell me you've never received one of those "we need to verify your account information" phishing e-mails) and the hijacker uses the good feedback and the age of the account to aid in ripping off users.
:)
...and if they haven't already, they should ban them as forms of payment.
If you see someone who's been a member of eBay for over 3 years, but hasn't had any account activity for a few months and then starts listing plasma tvs for insanely low prices, for heaven's sake, don't bid!
The best way to reduce people getting taken by fraudulent sellers is to increase awareness. eBay has even listed warnings about Western Union wire transfers...
They're trying, but they can't catch everything. They rely on their users to police auctions for them (though man, being auction police would be a really neat job, I have to admit.)
PayPal does NOT provide excellent customer service.
...but it took about four rude people to transfer me from place to place until I finally got the answer from an even more-rude young man who had a condescending tone and started his exit speech (thank you for calling paypal... etc etc) without even asking me if I had any other questions.
Try calling them sometime. You'll be bounced around from person to person, who will read scripts to you at faster-than-light speeds by people who seem to possess no independent thought of their own.
I phoned them once because I needed to change the billing address for the credit card I had on file, and it wasn't letting me "verify" it... turns out it was because (according to them) it was a check card and my bank doesn't provide electronic verifiction (hmm, interesting, I've never had this problem with any other site before)
I swear, the people they have on the phones there must have 3 minute call limits or something.
Without a doubt, I can say that PayPal has provided the worst customer service experience I've ever had. (with AT&T being the best)
(/rant)
Yes, but it should break those users down by client version...
I bet very many of those are bots.
I did RTFA. I skipped right down to the table at the bottom, and in my skimming, I guess I missed a little bit. Ok, so 45 minutes.
:\
9 gigs in 45 minutes!
That's still plenty fast. 8)
come on now, can anyone remember a first-generation "new technology" burner that had "screaming" speeds? I still have my old 1x Mitsumi CD-R drive around somewhere. I got a 4x in 1999, found that I could burn a CD-R in 15 minutes, and thought I was pimpin'.
Damn speed demons.
The majority of bargain-priced(?) DVD-+R/W drives out there burn at 4x. 8x drives appeared on the market maybe 6 months back, and the 12x ones have yet to hit the shelves. This one burns at 8x. That's 9 gigs in 30 minutes. What's the problem? That's plenty fast.
Ok. I'll try for 100% right.
Final Fantasy I and II were for the Famicom (in two instances; they were later rereleased on Famicom on a multi-cart.)
I would still like to see an official GBA port of FFIV (Super Famicom) though (was re-released as FFIV as part of FF Chronicles for PSX, you may also know it as FF2.)
Last I checked, a PSOne, as cute as it may be, doesn't fit in my jeans pocket... nor will it last up to 14 hours using a tiny Li-Ion battery.
There's nothing like pulling out the ol' GBA SP out during a break at work, or during a long wait to be seated at a restaurant.