I also recommend purefptd (pureftpd.org). Its most recent revision now supports TLS-encrypted authentication, as well. Its mailing list is active and helpful, and the main developer (Frank Denis) jumps on bugs very quickly. It supports MySQL and LDAP authentication, as well as other goodies.
Nice to see Apple is responding more quickly to security problems. I didn't even hear about this through my regular channels until after I had seen the update in Software Update.
A good post, and more thorough than my own. But no, I didn't mean bunnyhopping, I meant strafe jumping. I am a fps gamer and have been for past, oh, 8 years or so. It's not strafejumping like in q1-3 but strafejumping it is indeed. Bunnyhopping is, IMHO, something different than the behavior I mentioned. Thanks for the vid card tip... My GF3 is 64 mb so I'll give it a shot.
In response to those who can't read very well, I know very well that the M16A2 cannot fire full auto. If you re-read my post, you will see that this is what I implied. People (perhaps with a script) manage to make it fire full auto, presumably using burst mode.
While the performance is understandably poor on my dual 800 (1.5 gb, GF3... I get around 20 fps) the game has real potential. Unfortunately its close quarters combat is quite flawed. Strafe jumping junkies who somehow manage to squeeze full-auto fire out of their M16A2 abound. Disappointing, to say the least. Looks like the devs kind of gave up on polishing the gameplay about 5/6ths of the way to completion. All that would be required to fix this is a simple realistically correct adjustment: You can't strafe jump while holding a full-auto assault rifle. Or, at least, my knowledge of the human body doesn't state that it's true. Who knows what genetically engineered super soldiers the Army is cooking up these days, though;) I think perhaps some chained-jumping handicaps like those in RtCW, I think it was, would be appropriate. But, there are a handful of weapons to use, and sniping is appropriately difficult (though I haven't had a chance to try out it outside of the training field... yes I am an Exper Marksman:) ). So, to sum up... A game with strong potential, but it needs polish. And more FPS.
I dunno, I can think of so many better things that keep on going and going and going...
Journalists will continue to call Apple "beleagured" and proclaim that the death of Apple is assured. "Do you hear that, Mr. Jobs? That is the sound of inevitability."
Apple will continue to make computers with ridiculously low bus and ram speeds (though we all hope the 970 will fix this:)
Windows users will continue to blame the occasional failure of interoperability on the stupid Mac users and not the well-known flaws in their OS. Special characters in Word files, anyone? I wouldn't say that the SPoD sticks around very long anyway, thanks to the joys of an OS with "kill -9":)
Both of those are solved problems.
Differential equations can model them well...
Yes, I know that wasn't your question, but you know the joke about the mathematician in the burning building, right?
This is certainly a signficant advance in mathematics... prime numbers are one of the most enigmatic, yet useful aspects of number theory. What I'm really curious to see is whether or not this will help the efforts to find a more efficient algorithm for factoring a number into its prime factors. (A multiple of two very large primes is an integral part of RSA encryption, as well as other schemes.)
While avoiding doing some homework, I found this image of a black panther:
click!
I think that guy would have been more effective (and amusing) than David Boies in a courtroom.
(You thought it was going to be a gang member, didn't you?:)
Well, for me, "installing" sendmail consisted of adjusting a few flags in configuration files (OS X). Installing qmail consisted of many hours of frustration and an eventually non-working mail server. All qmail setup instructions that I could find have steps in them that do not apply in OS X, and though I tried to accomplish the same task using OS X tools like niutil, I still couldn't get qmail to launch. Besides, I'm only hosting mail for myself so sendmail works for my needs.
I've been a mac user for a long time, and at my school I've always been ridiculed (!) because of this. (Don't ask me why... It's not like I was obnoxious. It's just that once I let it out that I used a mac *gasp* people felt it necessary to taunt me about that.) However, I have noticed that a lot of the people who used to feel so antagonistic are now seeming to feel a little upset/curious about Apple's new hardware, the iMac especially. "It's lame! Ugh! No pci slots!...... (pause)
But it does look cool." And, since OS X came out, a few of the less abrasive PC users have expressed interest about running on a *real* UNIX OS.
To sum up, I can't point to anything specific, but even those CS majors are feeling less cozy towards microsoft. I think this is what Apple is doing right: hardware that doesn't look like someone whacked it with the ugly stick, and a good, solid OS.
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I know it's real because I am the internal all-students mailing list moderator and I approved it.
I also recommend purefptd (pureftpd.org). Its most recent revision now supports TLS-encrypted authentication, as well. Its mailing list is active and helpful, and the main developer (Frank Denis) jumps on bugs very quickly. It supports MySQL and LDAP authentication, as well as other goodies.
Nice to see Apple is responding more quickly to security problems. I didn't even hear about this through my regular channels until after I had seen the update in Software Update.
A good post, and more thorough than my own. But no, I didn't mean bunnyhopping, I meant strafe jumping. I am a fps gamer and have been for past, oh, 8 years or so. It's not strafejumping like in q1-3 but strafejumping it is indeed. Bunnyhopping is, IMHO, something different than the behavior I mentioned. Thanks for the vid card tip... My GF3 is 64 mb so I'll give it a shot.
In response to those who can't read very well, I know very well that the M16A2 cannot fire full auto. If you re-read my post, you will see that this is what I implied. People (perhaps with a script) manage to make it fire full auto, presumably using burst mode.
While the performance is understandably poor on my dual 800 (1.5 gb, GF3... I get around 20 fps) the game has real potential. Unfortunately its close quarters combat is quite flawed. Strafe jumping junkies who somehow manage to squeeze full-auto fire out of their M16A2 abound. Disappointing, to say the least. Looks like the devs kind of gave up on polishing the gameplay about 5/6ths of the way to completion. All that would be required to fix this is a simple realistically correct adjustment: You can't strafe jump while holding a full-auto assault rifle. Or, at least, my knowledge of the human body doesn't state that it's true. Who knows what genetically engineered super soldiers the Army is cooking up these days, though ;) I think perhaps some chained-jumping handicaps like those in RtCW, I think it was, would be appropriate. But, there are a handful of weapons to use, and sniping is appropriately difficult (though I haven't had a chance to try out it outside of the training field... yes I am an Exper Marksman :) ). So, to sum up... A game with strong potential, but it needs polish. And more FPS.
I dunno, I can think of so many better things that keep on going and going and going...
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Journalists will continue to call Apple "beleagured" and proclaim that the death of Apple is assured. "Do you hear that, Mr. Jobs? That is the sound of inevitability."
Apple will continue to make computers with ridiculously low bus and ram speeds (though we all hope the 970 will fix this
Windows users will continue to blame the occasional failure of interoperability on the stupid Mac users and not the well-known flaws in their OS. Special characters in Word files, anyone?
I wouldn't say that the SPoD sticks around very long anyway, thanks to the joys of an OS with "kill -9"
iTunes is Carbon. Hence, the fact that it runs on OS X does not mean it will run with little modification on *NIX.
Both of those are solved problems. Differential equations can model them well... Yes, I know that wasn't your question, but you know the joke about the mathematician in the burning building, right?
This is certainly a signficant advance in mathematics... prime numbers are one of the most enigmatic, yet useful aspects of number theory. What I'm really curious to see is whether or not this will help the efforts to find a more efficient algorithm for factoring a number into its prime factors. (A multiple of two very large primes is an integral part of RSA encryption, as well as other schemes.)
While avoiding doing some homework, I found this image of a black panther: click! :)
I think that guy would have been more effective (and amusing) than David Boies in a courtroom.
(You thought it was going to be a gang member, didn't you?
Well, for me, "installing" sendmail consisted of adjusting a few flags in configuration files (OS X). Installing qmail consisted of many hours of frustration and an eventually non-working mail server. All qmail setup instructions that I could find have steps in them that do not apply in OS X, and though I tried to accomplish the same task using OS X tools like niutil, I still couldn't get qmail to launch. Besides, I'm only hosting mail for myself so sendmail works for my needs.
I've been a mac user for a long time, and at my school I've always been ridiculed (!) because of this. (Don't ask me why... It's not like I was obnoxious. It's just that once I let it out that I used a mac *gasp* people felt it necessary to taunt me about that.) However, I have noticed that a lot of the people who used to feel so antagonistic are now seeming to feel a little upset/curious about Apple's new hardware, the iMac especially. "It's lame! Ugh! No pci slots! ... ... (pause)
But it does look cool." And, since OS X came out, a few of the less abrasive PC users have expressed interest about running on a *real* UNIX OS.
To sum up, I can't point to anything specific, but even those CS majors are feeling less cozy towards microsoft. I think this is what Apple is doing right: hardware that doesn't look like someone whacked it with the ugly stick, and a good, solid OS.