Disregarding the obvious flaws such as hinges, weak door frames, and a power source, wouldn't this just open the thing up to being brute forced?
Assuming you could build something small enough to enter the slot and dynamically rearrange the light (the article says it's a 3d pattern?), or hell, pipe the light out of the slot and pipe it back in after reconfiguring it, it would be open to a brute force method of attack.
Perhaps they've got some type of check for this built in. Either way, making something as simple as the lock into a 'high-tech network connected paradigm shifter' (no, the article doesn't say that) simply opens it up the network attack, or worse, sharpies.
It's getting worse! I don't usually join the folks bitching about Ask/. questions, but this is getting old.
The post said exactly what you do, ASK GOOGLE. As more people are getting into this stuff, fewer are learning the way most of us did years and years back -- We Looked It Up.
I don't think/. is the forum for how to network your 4-in-fucking-1 printer, that's what 4-in-1 printer newsgroups and customer support are for.
First off, software costs? Are they referring to the costs of the CD-Rs I have to purchase to burn my Debian CDs?;)
Second, i still can't function on the Apple realm like I do in the PC realm. In a few months I'll grab a new mobo and a CPU and basically breathe life into my PC for $300. I might have a few upgrade issues, but I'll search google and lkml before choosing a chipset/brand.
Macs are probably cheaper to people that hop down to the local electronics superstore and buy a PC, but it's probably not cheaper for alot of the crowd here.
Seems like you could just throw a job description out and have a pile of people show up on your doorstep these days. Least that's how I feel when I surf through fuckedcompany.com;)
Most people are saying, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I hate to add to the fire, but that's basically the right thing to do.
My salvation in this otherwise usless post is that I have examples! Being the long-angry-owner of an Abit KT7A, I can tell you first hand that BIOS upgrades can be a real godsend. My KT7A couldn't run for more than 5 minutes without crashing. Linux ran it pretty well, but Windows BSODed constantly. This is in conjunction to the POS VIA 686B southbridge that pukes when you run an Athlon kernel.
In summary: Yes, BIOS upgrades are useful, but read the ChangeLog and do the upgrade only if you have something you need to fix.
"And when we can," he says, "we try to feed our kernel and video changes back into the community."
What? You try? Were gonna end up in the same boat as all the dead commercial Unices if people don't feed back their changes. I mean damn, they have to under the GPL, right?:(
I don't really agree with the open-handed slap against bnetd, but I think I understand why it's in Blizzard's interest to attempt to shut it down.
Blizzard provides Battle.Net as a free service to those that purchase their games. This allows them to keep their customers in a controlled environment where they can guarantee service. This makes for a better experience for the end user. Sure, battle.net is down on occasion, and sometimes they delete a character or two, but it's free.
Now, with the beta, the situation is different. The bnetd code allowed players who did not have legitimate CD-keys to play together. While I _like_ bnetd, and I fully support their right to do what they've done, I also understand Blizzard's need to protect their investment.
Why buy WarCraft III when I can copy my buddy's CD, use his CD key, and play on a rogue server? Why does it seem noone understands Blizzard's need to protect the time and money they put into this product?
Of course, Kali has been around for awhile, providing us with a way to play Blizzard games (not to mention a million more).
Flame away, I doubt many of you will take the time to see past the fact that a company is picking on a bunch of guys writing code for fun. It's really a shame that Blizz can't find a better way to deal with this... C'mon Vivendi, find a better way!
Blizzard games are special. Blizzard goes out of their way to produce a high-quality-worth-your-money-bygod game. They produce (IMHO) the cream-of-crop in computer games.
I've never heard of Kohan, but if the developers/distributors/fans just march around pointing their noses up rather than giving links and information, I probably don't want to.
That review was terrible. If slashdot wants us to read content, they really should ask timothy to actually play the game first.
I'm beta-testing also, so let me give you a better explanation:
There are 4 races (already mentioned). Each one of them have very particular strategies that make them suited for different players. The real twist on WarIII that breathe life into a dying RTS genre are the Heros,the addition of Neutral units (in that they hate all players equally), and Upkeep.
Each race has 3 heros available. Generally one is a melee, one is a caster, and one is a mixture. Your first Hero only counts against supply (food), but the next one will cost money. Heros gather experience from battle, and you can level up their skills (similar to Diablo II). These skills range from the area-effect spell Blizzard to 'auras' that enchance all the units around your hero. At level 5 your hero gains an 'ultimate' ability that can turn the tide of battle. One of the undead heros can raise all the dead bodies in an area to fight for him, that's pretty powerful.
Neutral units and buildings are scattered around the maps. You must fight the units, and you can use the buildings for hiring mercenaries or buying potions/buffs/spells. This doesn't sound like that big of an addition, but attacking an enemy player who just finished mixing it up with a large group of 'creeps' (the slang for these units) can give you a huge advantage.
Upkeep is the single most revolutionary part of the game. Those familiar with RTS games know all about supply/food/houses or whatever. Traditionally you can only support finite number of units, and to handle more you must invest more money into your base. Upkeep slashes a percentage of your gold relevant to the size of your army. For instance, I might have an undead base with a pile of ziggurats (undead 'farms') that allows me to support 90 units (the game max). If I only have say, 10, I'm in 'No Upkeep', which means that 100% of the gold my acolytes (undead peons) mine goes into the bank. If I decide I want to beef up my defenses with some abominations (undead heavy melee), say 5 or 6 of them, I'll move into 'Low Upkeep'. At this point 30% of my gold is being diverged into/dev/null for 'upkeep' of my units. If I am ready to attack and I pump out a pile of Necros, Gargoyles and Meat Wagons, I'll prolly move into 'High Upkeep', where 70% of my gold is going into/dev/null. This discourages building tons and tons of units and turtling in your base. Unless you maintain a lot of expansion bases and mines, your income would be slowed to a point that losing your army would mean very little money in reserves for a rebuild. This gives the nimble conservative player the opening to pick you apart.
These features, coupled with some really cool little ideas (Orc Raiders gain resources from enemy bases each time they attack a building, human peons and be turned into militia, elven bases can uproot and attack enemies, and undead units heal when on their own land, just to name a few) make WarCraft III much more pleasing for any player. Sure, you can play fast, or you can be defensive and prepare for a long game. Either way you will marvel at the graphics, laugh at Blizzard's sense of humor, marvel at the huge number of strategic possibilities, and have a smashing good time.
*troll on* I don't wanna hear a single comment about the bnetd stuff, I'm happy to pay them $50 for hours and hours of mindless-computer-fun, and I understand them wanting to keep the online play within their control. *troll off*
Moderators, see if you can replace my text with that slop that timothy called a review...
In opening, what is wrong with CVS? If it's such a big piece of shit, where are CVS' authors to address the problem?
With arch, subversion, Bitkeeper, Perforce, and Starteam there is a large group of choices for someone setting up a new project. Having the choice is a good thing, but there is a lack of good information on the topic.
I'm looking to get a RCS setup soon for an open source project, and this article reminded me that maybe CVS isn't a given. To decide, I can go read the docs for each, set each one of them up, and find the one that best suits me. Man, that's gonna suck.
Someone needs to sit down with each of these (and any others of significance) and really do a comparison. Investing the time to get your brain wrapped around a new RCS is very expensive.
I'm 20, and I work for a company that writes software for the Medical Industry... I'm the youngest developer, and the youngest employee in the company. At first, I think I was often overlooked, but as I slowly made a name for myself, I find myself in a very respected situation. From my experience, people my age seem to think we can do it all by ourselves, without anyone else's input. Sure, there are lots of times we probably can, but overall, it gives us a bad rap. I try and play the quiet role, helping out as much as possible, accepting as many challenges as possible, and being a nice guy. Then when the time comes for you to speak, people feel they should listen.
Maybe I'm just lucky to be a company where the demographic puts most everyone in and around the 30s, but either way, I think my tactics have benefited me;)
My thoughts exactly, now we know why the government spends so much money! Who needs all this stuff, shouldn't we be trying to save money? Get a NetGear NIC, Ensoniq 1370 PCI Sound Card, and an S3 Virge/DX 4Mb video card.
Thats a whopping $50, compared to $250 for the SB 128, TNT Card, and 3Com NIC
Sound Blaster PCI 128s are nothing but glorified Ensoniq 1370s, I believe they are 1371s... I've never had one not work! Had 4 of them on 4 difference systems, and never had a problem. I also have switched to the Ensoniq 1370 though, because they are cheaper;) 3Com kicks ass, they always work! But NetGear cards cost 1/5th a 3Com and work as DEC chipsets, you can't beat that;)
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To advertise a gaming peripheral, that's why!
Disregarding the obvious flaws such as hinges, weak door frames, and a power source, wouldn't this just open the thing up to being brute forced?
Assuming you could build something small enough to enter the slot and dynamically rearrange the light (the article says it's a 3d pattern?), or hell, pipe the light out of the slot and pipe it back in after reconfiguring it, it would be open to a brute force method of attack.
Perhaps they've got some type of check for this built in. Either way, making something as simple as the lock into a 'high-tech network connected paradigm shifter' (no, the article doesn't say that) simply opens it up the network attack, or worse, sharpies.
My project, Loggerithim is right up your alley.
I use Loggerithim.
It's getting worse! I don't usually join the folks bitching about Ask /. questions, but this is getting old.
/. is the forum for how to network your 4-in-fucking-1 printer, that's what 4-in-1 printer newsgroups and customer support are for.
The post said exactly what you do, ASK GOOGLE. As more people are getting into this stuff, fewer are learning the way most of us did years and years back -- We Looked It Up.
I don't think
First off, software costs? Are they referring to the costs of the CD-Rs I have to purchase to burn my Debian CDs? ;)
Second, i still can't function on the Apple realm like I do in the PC realm. In a few months I'll grab a new mobo and a CPU and basically breathe life into my PC for $300. I might have a few upgrade issues, but I'll search google and lkml before choosing a chipset/brand.
Macs are probably cheaper to people that hop down to the local electronics superstore and buy a PC, but it's probably not cheaper for alot of the crowd here.
I would sell my soul for a Powerbook though.
Cory 'G' Watson
Seems like you could just throw a job description out and have a pile of people show up on your doorstep these days. Least that's how I feel when I surf through fuckedcompany.com ;)
Most people are saying, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I hate to add to the fire, but that's basically the right thing to do.
My salvation in this otherwise usless post is that I have examples! Being the long-angry-owner of an Abit KT7A, I can tell you first hand that BIOS upgrades can be a real godsend. My KT7A couldn't run for more than 5 minutes without crashing. Linux ran it pretty well, but Windows BSODed constantly. This is in conjunction to the POS VIA 686B southbridge that pukes when you run an Athlon kernel.
In summary: Yes, BIOS upgrades are useful, but read the ChangeLog and do the upgrade only if you have something you need to fix.
"And when we can," he says, "we try to feed our kernel and video changes back into the community." What? You try? Were gonna end up in the same boat as all the dead commercial Unices if people don't feed back their changes. I mean damn, they have to under the GPL, right? :(
I don't really agree with the open-handed slap against bnetd, but I think I understand why it's in Blizzard's interest to attempt to shut it down.
Blizzard provides Battle.Net as a free service to those that purchase their games. This allows them to keep their customers in a controlled environment where they can guarantee service. This makes for a better experience for the end user. Sure, battle.net is down on occasion, and sometimes they delete a character or two, but it's free.
Now, with the beta, the situation is different. The bnetd code allowed players who did not have legitimate CD-keys to play together. While I _like_ bnetd, and I fully support their right to do what they've done, I also understand Blizzard's need to protect their investment.
Why buy WarCraft III when I can copy my buddy's CD, use his CD key, and play on a rogue server? Why does it seem noone understands Blizzard's need to protect the time and money they put into this product?
Of course, Kali has been around for awhile, providing us with a way to play Blizzard games (not to mention a million more).
Flame away, I doubt many of you will take the time to see past the fact that a company is picking on a bunch of guys writing code for fun. It's really a shame that Blizz can't find a better way to deal with this... C'mon Vivendi, find a better way!
Blizzard games are special. Blizzard goes out of their way to produce a high-quality-worth-your-money-bygod game. They produce (IMHO) the cream-of-crop in computer games.
I've never heard of Kohan, but if the developers/distributors/fans just march around pointing their noses up rather than giving links and information, I probably don't want to.
That review was terrible. If slashdot wants us to read content, they really should ask timothy to actually play the game first.
,the addition of Neutral units (in that they hate all players equally), and Upkeep.
/dev/null for 'upkeep' of my units. If I am ready to attack and I pump out a pile of Necros, Gargoyles and Meat Wagons, I'll prolly move into 'High Upkeep', where 70% of my gold is going into /dev/null. This discourages building tons and tons of units and turtling in your base. Unless you maintain a lot of expansion bases and mines, your income would be slowed to a point that losing your army would mean very little money in reserves for a rebuild. This gives the nimble conservative player the opening to pick you apart.
I'm beta-testing also, so let me give you a better explanation:
There are 4 races (already mentioned). Each one of them have very particular strategies that make them suited for different players. The real twist on WarIII that breathe life into a dying RTS genre are the Heros
Each race has 3 heros available. Generally one is a melee, one is a caster, and one is a mixture. Your first Hero only counts against supply (food), but the next one will cost money. Heros gather experience from battle, and you can level up their skills (similar to Diablo II). These skills range from the area-effect spell Blizzard to 'auras' that enchance all the units around your hero. At level 5 your hero gains an 'ultimate' ability that can turn the tide of battle. One of the undead heros can raise all the dead bodies in an area to fight for him, that's pretty powerful.
Neutral units and buildings are scattered around the maps. You must fight the units, and you can use the buildings for hiring mercenaries or buying potions/buffs/spells. This doesn't sound like that big of an addition, but attacking an enemy player who just finished mixing it up with a large group of 'creeps' (the slang for these units) can give you a huge advantage.
Upkeep is the single most revolutionary part of the game. Those familiar with RTS games know all about supply/food/houses or whatever. Traditionally you can only support finite number of units, and to handle more you must invest more money into your base. Upkeep slashes a percentage of your gold relevant to the size of your army. For instance, I might have an undead base with a pile of ziggurats (undead 'farms') that allows me to support 90 units (the game max). If I only have say, 10, I'm in 'No Upkeep', which means that 100% of the gold my acolytes (undead peons) mine goes into the bank. If I decide I want to beef up my defenses with some abominations (undead heavy melee), say 5 or 6 of them, I'll move into 'Low Upkeep'. At this point 30% of my gold is being diverged into
These features, coupled with some really cool little ideas (Orc Raiders gain resources from enemy bases each time they attack a building, human peons and be turned into militia, elven bases can uproot and attack enemies, and undead units heal when on their own land, just to name a few) make WarCraft III much more pleasing for any player. Sure, you can play fast, or you can be defensive and prepare for a long game. Either way you will marvel at the graphics, laugh at Blizzard's sense of humor, marvel at the huge number of strategic possibilities, and have a smashing good time.
*troll on*
I don't wanna hear a single comment about the bnetd stuff, I'm happy to pay them $50 for hours and hours of mindless-computer-fun, and I understand them wanting to keep the online play within their control.
*troll off*
Moderators, see if you can replace my text with that slop that timothy called a review...
A quote on why Intel is building multple 300mm fabs: "Because their die is so goddamned big".
Hah! When's the last time you heard a suit say that in a public interview?!?!?
In opening, what is wrong with CVS? If it's such a big piece of shit, where are CVS' authors to address the problem?
With arch, subversion, Bitkeeper, Perforce, and Starteam there is a large group of choices for someone setting up a new project. Having the choice is a good thing, but there is a lack of good information on the topic.
I'm looking to get a RCS setup soon for an open source project, and this article reminded me that maybe CVS isn't a given. To decide, I can go read the docs for each, set each one of them up, and find the one that best suits me. Man, that's gonna suck.
Someone needs to sit down with each of these (and any others of significance) and really do a comparison. Investing the time to get your brain wrapped around a new RCS is very expensive.
I'm 20, and I work for a company that writes software for the Medical Industry... I'm the youngest developer, and the youngest employee in the company. At first, I think I was often overlooked, but as I slowly made a name for myself, I find myself in a very respected situation. From my experience, people my age seem to think we can do it all by ourselves, without anyone else's input. Sure, there are lots of times we probably can, but overall, it gives us a bad rap. I try and play the quiet role, helping out as much as possible, accepting as many challenges as possible, and being a nice guy. Then when the time comes for you to speak, people feel they should listen.
Maybe I'm just lucky to be a company where the demographic puts most everyone in and around the 30s, but either way, I think my tactics have benefited me;)
My thoughts exactly, now we know why the government spends so much money! Who needs all this stuff, shouldn't we be trying to save money? Get a NetGear NIC, Ensoniq 1370 PCI Sound Card, and an S3 Virge/DX 4Mb video card.
Thats a whopping $50, compared to $250 for the SB 128, TNT Card, and 3Com NIC
Sound Blaster PCI 128s are nothing but glorified Ensoniq 1370s, I believe they are 1371s... I've never had one not work! Had 4 of them on 4 difference systems, and never had a problem. I also have switched to the Ensoniq 1370 though, because they are cheaper;) 3Com kicks ass, they always work! But NetGear cards cost 1/5th a 3Com and work as DEC chipsets, you can't beat that;)