So what you're saying is that Win9x -- which hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people use every day, and are likeyly to continue to use for years to come -- is dead because of an OS which hasn't been released yet?
First I'd like to insert a snarky comment on how Google is such a difficult tool to use, and Thank Goodness for people like me who possess the skills to use such advanced utilities, but anyone who reads Ask Slashdot already knows this, so I'll pass.
Anyway, the file is "aim.odl". Just insert a semicolon in front of the "load_ocm advert" lines, and just for extra safetly, rename the advert.ocm file. There are even little programs you can download that'll do it for you, apparently.
Quake has several mechanisms to spot fake clients and cheaters.
Because fake clients and cheaters serve only to damage the experience for other users. Why else would you use a fake client? If you don't want to pay for Quake, you'd pirate it, not write your own 3D engine. And cheaters is obvious.
Fake AIM clients enhance the experience for other users, because every time a person they want to talk to joins the service, the service is more valuable to them.
Id's restriction against fake clients and cheaters has nothing to do with bandwidth, and everything to do with the players and the game.
Everybody can write an AIM like service and host it.
Yeah, and anybody can build their own telephone system, too. Corporations do it every day. Fuckload of good it does you if it can't talk to anyone else's, though, and that's the difference. Corporate telephone systems have a wire connecting to the outside phone lines. Joe's AIM Server won't have that kind of integration with AOL's AIM servers.
Nobody's going to use Joe's AIM Server if it can't talk to AOL's AIM servers, and by extension, those who connect to them.
what annoys me about tivo is not that they are agregating and selling viewer information, but that they make you pay for the priviledge - $10 per month or $120 per year
Uh, no. If you think that's all you're paying for, unplug your Tivo from the phone line and keep it that way for four weeks. No need to come back and tell me what happened, I already know.
</sarcasm> Seriously, though, where do you think the thing gets its TV listings from? Not only does it cost them money to keep track of that data, but I doubt UUNet lets TiVo have free use of their national dialups.
Okay, I'll give you that (as if I have a choice, right? =P), but the other parts of my argument stand. I can use real PSX accessories, and I can keep my computer's monitor free for other things.
It is a good option if you can't afford the console...though you should be able to pick up a used one for cheap. Or maybe if you don't have a TV. I still think that even the a prefect emulator doesn't compare to the real console.
"I personaly dont understand why anyone would even want to play a playstation anymore, I would rather use a computer with emulation because they can enhance every aspect."
When they work perfectly, they sure can, yeah. I love my NES and Genesis emulators. But PSX?
My experience with Bleem was that if a game works, it works well, but if it doesn't work, it's almost unplayable. And there are tons of games with problems... "can't play sound," "video in black and white only," issues like that. And I could never get it to smooth out my graphics and still perform well.
So I bought a PSOne. I love it. Know why? Every PSX game ever made works perfectly with it. I can use actual PSX controllers and accessories, and real memory cards. And I can play it on my TV, leaving my computer monitor free so I can watch for incoming messages and email.
Personally, I don't understand why anyone would want to use an emulator if they have access to the real thing.
Music "hasn't had a new format in 20 years," says DataPlay
CEO Steve Volk. "It's time to do something new, something smaller, better and
more versatile."
Wow. This guy obviously doesn't use any of this stuff himself.
1) Time to do something new? I don't think so. CDs are more popular than ever, and CD-R drives are just recently entering the price range that Joe Average wants to pay for them.
2) Something smaller? Definitely no, not for me anyway. I lose CDs often enough, and they're 5 inches across. I don't need to be trying to keep track of 3/4" discs.
3) More versatile? I fail to see how this applies. These discs supposedly hold 5 hours of music or 500mb of data. 80 minutes is hard enough for me to fill up, same for the 700mb in terms of data. If these discs do both at once, that's an improvement, but the article wasn't clear on that.
However, it's not going to be more versatile at all until it become ubiquitous. That's why I bought a CD burner instead of a SuperDisk drive. The LS-120 disks would suit my needs just fine...until I need to share data with a friend, or bring things between work and home.
Yeah, CDs suffered the same issues early in their life, I'm sure. And how long did they take to catch on? If they're 20 years old like the guy says, it took about 10 years or more, didn't it? I wouldn't expect these discs to catch on much sooner. People are just now getting comfortable with CDs.
"Only a law enforcement agency has the right to [intercept communications], an ISP does not (unless you have specifically agreed to let them do this, and few would knowingly join an ISP that did)."
Oh, really?
AOL: (Note: Taken from a copy of the TOS circa 1998. I was unable to find a more recent copy.) AOL, Inc. does not access or disclose the contents of private communications (e.g., e-mail, instant messages, Member-created private rooms, oral online communications), unless it in good faith believes that such action is necessary (1) to comply with applicable law or valid legal process (e.g., search warrant or court order); (2) to protect the rights or property of AOL, Inc.; or (3) in emergencies when AOL, Inc. believes that physical safety is at risk.
Earthlink: EarthLink may disclose personal information about Visitors or Members, or information regarding your use of the Services or Web sites accessible through our Services, for any reason if, in our sole discretion, we believe that it is reasonable to do so, including: to satisfy laws, such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, regulations, or governmental or legal requests for such information; to disclose information that is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Acceptable Use Policy or other user policies; to operate the Services properly; or to protect EarthLink and our Members.
Galaxy (my ISP): Galaxy treats e-mail messages as private. Exceptions are those permitted
by law, including under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986
(the "ECPA"). The ECPA permits Galaxy limited ability to intercept and/or disclose electronic messages, including, for example (i) as necessary to operate the system or protect Galaxy's rights or property, (ii) upon legal demand (court orders, warrants, subpoenas) or (iii) where Galaxy
receives information inadvertently which appears to pertain to the commission of a crime.
Emphasis mine in all.
Anyway, my point is that you'll be hard-pressed to find any ISP that won't snoop on your communications if it feels it needs to. And as the bolded statements prove, they can do so for any reason they want to.
Me and a few friends built a Beowulf out of 10 486/66 and P100 machines the school had laying around. There were more than that, but they all had some broken part...we managed to build these 13 machines out of the pieces, though.
We tested the speed with PVMPov. The scene took 12:20 to render on my K6-2/400. The cluster took just over 7 minutes.
Full details are on the page, reply here or email me if you want more info =)
My cell phone doesn't *have* a vibrate mode. It's a Nokia 5160 -- the one that people like to give out for free with service -- and I need to buy a $100+ addon (actually a new battery, go figure) if I want it to be able to vibrate.
Which I might do just 'cause the POS doesn't ring loud enough to be heard through a coat.
(P.S. I do shut it off when going into a library, or movie theatre, etc. I have voicemail; if it's important, they'll leave a message.)
I stayed at a Hilton Garden Inn recently (HGI Denver Airport, this past summer), and they had a RJ-45 in the room I stayed in. I think I figured out it was $10/day or so, which isn't bad if you ask me.
I feel that I should say something strongly worded and possibly obscene, but I really bare you personally no ill will; this misunderstanding is easy enough to make (once).
Good thing, too, unless you missed the first paragraph where I explained that I'm just passing along info I heard somewhere else, and that I don't know what the original intentions were...
Besides, I never said it was good or useful. I totally agree that, if that explanation's right, it's just as silly as encryping your bank records with ROT13. But it's the only good explanation I've heard for why MS would pick Ctrl-Alt-Del -- the traditional "reboot" key sequence -- as "login".
I heard a good explanation for the
control-alt-delete to login thing. Whether or
not this was MS's intention, I'm not sure, but it
certainly works out well.
Using that key sequence to bring up a login
dialog effectively prevents the "false login
screen" style of password sniffers. If one of
those were running, you'd press C-A-D to login,
and get the wrong screen, so immediately you'd
know something was wrong.
SCO is so awful. I have to support a SCO box at work and it's a giant mess of symlinks and nonstandard idiot things.
What, you think I run this box for fun? =) This is the database server for the Town Hall of a smallish (14k people) town in Massachusetts. GCC is on there because one of our vendor's programs has a component that's compiled on-site.
We've got a file server running linux now, desktops run Win9x. At home I dual boot W98 and SuSE 6.4.
Dan B asks: "Like many other students across America, I plan on attending college as a freshman next fall. I am very interested in computers (I only reload the Slashdot site every five minutes), but there is something that perplexes me: why can't I get any? It seems that many companies are looking for computer scientists, but would any girls be desperate enough to accept one? What is the difference anyway? Well, a college guidebook could tell you 'computer engineering deals mostly with hardware' and 'girls deal mostly with shopping and makeup', but that isn't clear enough for me. I believe the Slashdot community would be best fit to offer a more in depth perspective on the two options."
feeding the trolls here, but... mp3.com is pretty strict about not carrying illegal content. everything on the site was put up by the copyright holder, or will be removed very shortly after the first complaint about it. Don't believe me? Ask Bobby Prince, the guy who wrote all the music for Doom and a few other games. He keeps having his site yanked from MP3.com for "copyright violation" despite repeatedly proving to them that he owns the rights to the songs.
Your employer may or may not have penalties for you, but they also may have penalties for the company doing the hiring. I recently spoke with someone from a company offering, basically, back-up tech support for when you can't be there for your users (vacations and such) or when you just need some extra hands. There was a large fine ($75k, I think) if you hire away one of their experts. However, the lady did say that a few companies have thought the fine was worth it and hired them anyway.
You may want to have the company looking to hire you read through their contract with your current employer for any clauses like that.
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It hasn't been the same since Opie and Anthony were canned, if you ask me. Those guys were the life of the station.
The DJs are still better than WBCN, though.
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10.0.0.0/8 -- You got that one right.
172.16.0.0/12 -- That right, too
You messed up on the other one, though. It's 192.168.0.0/16. That's right, the full 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 range is open.
Ref: RCF1918
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So what you're saying is that Win9x -- which hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people use every day, and are likeyly to continue to use for years to come -- is dead because of an OS which hasn't been released yet?
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First I'd like to insert a snarky comment on how Google is such a difficult tool to use, and Thank Goodness for people like me who possess the skills to use such advanced utilities, but anyone who reads Ask Slashdot already knows this, so I'll pass.
Anyway, the file is "aim.odl". Just insert a semicolon in front of the "load_ocm advert" lines, and just for extra safetly, rename the advert.ocm file. There are even little programs you can download that'll do it for you, apparently.
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Yes, except that there's no hacking of the EXE involved in disabling banners. You comment two lines out of a config file.
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Because fake clients and cheaters serve only to damage the experience for other users. Why else would you use a fake client? If you don't want to pay for Quake, you'd pirate it, not write your own 3D engine. And cheaters is obvious.
Fake AIM clients enhance the experience for other users, because every time a person they want to talk to joins the service, the service is more valuable to them.
Id's restriction against fake clients and cheaters has nothing to do with bandwidth, and everything to do with the players and the game.
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Yeah, and anybody can build their own telephone system, too. Corporations do it every day. Fuckload of good it does you if it can't talk to anyone else's, though, and that's the difference. Corporate telephone systems have a wire connecting to the outside phone lines. Joe's AIM Server won't have that kind of integration with AOL's AIM servers.
Nobody's going to use Joe's AIM Server if it can't talk to AOL's AIM servers, and by extension, those who connect to them.
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Uh, no. If you think that's all you're paying for, unplug your Tivo from the phone line and keep it that way for four weeks. No need to come back and tell me what happened, I already know.
</sarcasm> Seriously, though, where do you think the thing gets its TV listings from? Not only does it cost them money to keep track of that data, but I doubt UUNet lets TiVo have free use of their national dialups.
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It is a good option if you can't afford the console...though you should be able to pick up a used one for cheap. Or maybe if you don't have a TV. I still think that even the a prefect emulator doesn't compare to the real console.
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When they work perfectly, they sure can, yeah. I love my NES and Genesis emulators. But PSX?
My experience with Bleem was that if a game works, it works well, but if it doesn't work, it's almost unplayable. And there are tons of games with problems... "can't play sound," "video in black and white only," issues like that. And I could never get it to smooth out my graphics and still perform well.
So I bought a PSOne. I love it. Know why? Every PSX game ever made works perfectly with it. I can use actual PSX controllers and accessories, and real memory cards. And I can play it on my TV, leaving my computer monitor free so I can watch for incoming messages and email.
Personally, I don't understand why anyone would want to use an emulator if they have access to the real thing.
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Wow. This guy obviously doesn't use any of this stuff himself.
1) Time to do something new? I don't think so. CDs are more popular than ever, and CD-R drives are just recently entering the price range that Joe Average wants to pay for them.
2) Something smaller? Definitely no, not for me anyway. I lose CDs often enough, and they're 5 inches across. I don't need to be trying to keep track of 3/4" discs.
3) More versatile? I fail to see how this applies. These discs supposedly hold 5 hours of music or 500mb of data. 80 minutes is hard enough for me to fill up, same for the 700mb in terms of data. If these discs do both at once, that's an improvement, but the article wasn't clear on that.
However, it's not going to be more versatile at all until it become ubiquitous. That's why I bought a CD burner instead of a SuperDisk drive. The LS-120 disks would suit my needs just fine...until I need to share data with a friend, or bring things between work and home.
Yeah, CDs suffered the same issues early in their life, I'm sure. And how long did they take to catch on? If they're 20 years old like the guy says, it took about 10 years or more, didn't it? I wouldn't expect these discs to catch on much sooner. People are just now getting comfortable with CDs.
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Oh, really?
AOL: (Note: Taken from a copy of the TOS circa 1998. I was unable to find a more recent copy.) AOL, Inc. does not access or disclose the contents of private communications (e.g., e-mail, instant messages, Member-created private rooms, oral online communications), unless it in good faith believes that such action is necessary (1) to comply with applicable law or valid legal process (e.g., search warrant or court order); (2) to protect the rights or property of AOL, Inc.; or (3) in emergencies when AOL, Inc. believes that physical safety is at risk.
Earthlink: EarthLink may disclose personal information about Visitors or Members, or information regarding your use of the Services or Web sites accessible through our Services, for any reason if, in our sole discretion, we believe that it is reasonable to do so, including: to satisfy laws, such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, regulations, or governmental or legal requests for such information; to disclose information that is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Acceptable Use Policy or other user policies; to operate the Services properly; or to protect EarthLink and our Members.
Galaxy (my ISP): Galaxy treats e-mail messages as private. Exceptions are those permitted by law, including under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (the "ECPA"). The ECPA permits Galaxy limited ability to intercept and/or disclose electronic messages, including, for example (i) as necessary to operate the system or protect Galaxy's rights or property, (ii) upon legal demand (court orders, warrants, subpoenas) or (iii) where Galaxy receives information inadvertently which appears to pertain to the commission of a crime.
Emphasis mine in all.
Anyway, my point is that you'll be hard-pressed to find any ISP that won't snoop on your communications if it feels it needs to. And as the bolded statements prove, they can do so for any reason they want to.
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Me and a few friends built a Beowulf out of 10 486/66 and P100 machines the school had laying around. There were more than that, but they all had some broken part...we managed to build these 13 machines out of the pieces, though.
We tested the speed with PVMPov. The scene took 12:20 to render on my K6-2/400. The cluster took just over 7 minutes.
Full details are on the page, reply here or email me if you want more info =)
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My cell phone doesn't *have* a vibrate mode. It's a Nokia 5160 -- the one that people like to give out for free with service -- and I need to buy a $100+ addon (actually a new battery, go figure) if I want it to be able to vibrate.
Which I might do just 'cause the POS doesn't ring loud enough to be heard through a coat.
(P.S. I do shut it off when going into a library, or movie theatre, etc. I have voicemail; if it's important, they'll leave a message.)
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Good thing, too, unless you missed the first paragraph where I explained that I'm just passing along info I heard somewhere else, and that I don't know what the original intentions were...
Besides, I never said it was good or useful. I totally agree that, if that explanation's right, it's just as silly as encryping your bank records with ROT13. But it's the only good explanation I've heard for why MS would pick Ctrl-Alt-Del -- the traditional "reboot" key sequence -- as "login".
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I heard a good explanation for the control-alt-delete to login thing. Whether or not this was MS's intention, I'm not sure, but it certainly works out well.
Using that key sequence to bring up a login dialog effectively prevents the "false login screen" style of password sniffers. If one of those were running, you'd press C-A-D to login, and get the wrong screen, so immediately you'd know something was wrong.
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What, you think I run this box for fun? =) This is the database server for the Town Hall of a smallish (14k people) town in Massachusetts. GCC is on there because one of our vendor's programs has a component that's compiled on-site.
We've got a file server running linux now, desktops run Win9x. At home I dual boot W98 and SuSE 6.4.
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# uname -a
SCO_SV hol504 3.2 5.0.5 i386
#
Reading specs from
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
#
#
10 = 9
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Ask Slashdot: Computer Science vs. Sex?
Dan B asks: "Like many other students across America, I plan on attending college as a freshman next fall. I am very interested in computers (I only reload the Slashdot site every five minutes), but there is something that perplexes me: why can't I get any? It seems that many companies are looking for computer scientists, but would any girls be desperate enough to accept one? What is the difference anyway? Well, a college guidebook could tell you 'computer engineering deals mostly with hardware' and 'girls deal mostly with shopping and makeup', but that isn't clear enough for me. I believe the Slashdot community would be best fit to offer a more in depth perspective on the two options."
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Ah, I see... you're a *selective* criminal =)
Seriously, though, sorry for the accusation, but it does seem rather trollish considering mp3.com's true standing.
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You may want to have the company looking to hire you read through their contract with your current employer for any clauses like that.
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And yet, I got modded up three times. Gotta love /.'s crack-smoking moderators =) It's just so easy!
Of course, I've already hit the cap (been there for months now), so whatever...
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1) This affects all common implementations, including the commercial one from SSH.com
2) This doesn't affect OpenSSH 2.3.0, which is Open Source!
Suck it.
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