WinXP... AFAIK not possible to do it (Translated: Either no one has done it yet, or some company has but charges outragiously large prices for it).
If you can, I'd recommend getting a Linux box as a firewall.
If you can't, you might be able to hack together a VMWare (if you can "get" a copy) or Bochs install of Linux. You'd have to do a decent amount of configuring (making your internet connection in Linux, IP forwading/masquerarding, then the tc qdisc implementation to do the actual limiting), but it'd work well. If you configured it right I'm willing to bet it'd beat McAfee's protection and you wouldnt even need it anymore then.
I don't have any experience with DSL -- but i.t wouldn't surprise me if it works the same way.
It's funny cause back in college I had DSL and that is *very* common problem with the technology, I always wondered if cable had it. After graduation, moving out, and ordering cable I quickly discovered that fact.
IIRC, the problem (at least for DSL) exists due to a large send queue on the external interface. TCP/IP ack packets had to sit on "line" for too long, therefore the connection speed was throttled down. Since there's no (easy) way to change the modem's queue (at least not on the one I had), I ended up using the Bandwidth-Limiting HOWTO on my RH 7.2 install. It ended up working pretty well until I upgraded it to RH 9 and discovered half the packages were no longer supported and I didn't have time to tinker with it. After I left I turned over control of administration to someone else and last I heard they were using Smoothwall for it.
The I can mean either Inexpensive or Independent
and the D can be either Drives, Disks, or Devices.
I never understood that... RAID has historically been set up with SCSI drives, (ATA RAID has been more recently developed/implemented) I would hardly consider them cheap compared to ATA (altough recently I have noticed the price differiental somewhat lessened)
Regardless, I still use almost all SCSI in my boxes.
I'd agree... I held off my original plans on purchasing a DVD writer for awhile now, waiting until they released dual layer burners.
I think once they design a drive with slightly better performance I'd definately consider a purchase (especially when Plextor releases a model, specifically a SCSI one, those are the best burners IMHO and experience working as a PC tech for 8+ years)
Based on a quick search, I see estimates prices aroudn $200 for this DL DVD+R driver, I was expecting much higher.
Being able to burn 8gb of data in 45 mins onto a single disc with a drive that costs ~$200 seems like a pretty good deal to me.
I gave up Windows completely a year ago (except TurboTax on my wife's laptop.) Guess what? I smoke a hell of a lot less pot and spend at lot less time on the computer overall. Why? Same reason. Games.
Yeah, I hear you... Bud is one of the few things that calms me down enough to deal with Windows on a regular basis (on my company laptop). Fortunately the rest of my boxes run some sort of Linux/Unix variant.
My own personal belief is that the US has gone suit-happy. Not only are there entirely too many frivolous lawsuits, but corporate america seems to think they can get away with anything (::cough::SCO::cough::).
If that's not enough reason to think a change is needed then I don't know what is.
I'll just come out and admit it, I don't know much about the inner workings of the legal system. I watch Law & Order on occasion (and yes, I've been to court), but does that make me well versed? No.
Oh, and yes I know a few lawyers. I have no problem with them for the most part... It's mostly corporate lawyers that I dislike.
The American legal system is exactly like a couple of five year olds arguing.
Thank you. At least someone else out there can see the judicial system for what is really is.
This country is in need of a revolution. Or at least a rewriting of the Constitution. This bullshit legal stuff has got to go.
Regardless, I think it's great that DC told SCO to basically go phuck themselves. I think a point would be made if every company SCO filed suit against did the same, even though their wishes might not be carried out.
EditPlus is truely an awesome program. Well worth the money.
Couldn't put it better myself... The features is has are enormous, especially with the (easy) syntax highlighting support. I frequently write x86 assembly for my OS I'm writing and trying to create a NASM syntax script for Kate was absurdly difficult. I couldn't even figure out how to make one for gedit, not sure if you can write a custom syntax highlighting script. I stopped after awhile of trying to find a equally-capable application on Linux and just used the Windows install on my laptop (w/Cygwin) instead for development. Although... I have gotten EditPlus installed under Wine and it works quite well.
If you really want to find out how linux really "works" you should try Linux from Scratch.
This I'm sure will help but to really, really know how Linux works, become a kernel hacker. Or write your own OS and make it Linux (POSIX?) compatible.
Well put... Lookup tables were one of the most widely-known (and used) tricks of the game/graphics programmers back in the days of the '486 and such. Hand-rolled assembly in a few key places also made a world of difference.
The only problem with it nowadays is that there is usually so much *crap* going on (lots of models/sprites/etc) that if you were to prerender them all, it'd take up a whole lot of room... maybe something like, I don't know... 6 CD's?.
Back then the processing power wasn't nearly fast enough to keep up with something that complex or large, so prerendering all the graphics took up minimal room.
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I live in NJ, it's illegial to pump our own gas here you insensitive clod!
Actually the full name of the chemical commonly referred to as THC is Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol, known to some as C21 H30 O2.
:)
My personal favorite is [C12 H17 N2 O4 P] but such things will remain nameless here.
WinXP... AFAIK not possible to do it (Translated: Either no one has done it yet, or some company has but charges outragiously large prices for it).
If you can, I'd recommend getting a Linux box as a firewall.
If you can't, you might be able to hack together a VMWare (if you can "get" a copy) or Bochs install of Linux. You'd have to do a decent amount of configuring (making your internet connection in Linux, IP forwading/masquerarding, then the tc qdisc implementation to do the actual limiting), but it'd work well. If you configured it right I'm willing to bet it'd beat McAfee's protection and you wouldnt even need it anymore then.
IIRC, the problem (at least for DSL) exists due to a large send queue on the external interface. TCP/IP ack packets had to sit on "line" for too long, therefore the connection speed was throttled down. Since there's no (easy) way to change the modem's queue (at least not on the one I had), I ended up using the Bandwidth-Limiting HOWTO on my RH 7.2 install. It ended up working pretty well until I upgraded it to RH 9 and discovered half the packages were no longer supported and I didn't have time to tinker with it. After I left I turned over control of administration to someone else and last I heard they were using Smoothwall for it.
And I wonder what Star Trek episode they pulled that line from...
No that's my potato gun!
The I can mean either Inexpensive or Independent and the D can be either Drives, Disks, or Devices.
I never understood that... RAID has historically been set up with SCSI drives, (ATA RAID has been more recently developed/implemented) I would hardly consider them cheap compared to ATA (altough recently I have noticed the price differiental somewhat lessened)
Regardless, I still use almost all SCSI in my boxes.
I'd agree... I held off my original plans on purchasing a DVD writer for awhile now, waiting until they released dual layer burners.
I think once they design a drive with slightly better performance I'd definately consider a purchase (especially when Plextor releases a model, specifically a SCSI one, those are the best burners IMHO and experience working as a PC tech for 8+ years)
Based on a quick search, I see estimates prices aroudn $200 for this DL DVD+R driver, I was expecting much higher.
Being able to burn 8gb of data in 45 mins onto a single disc with a drive that costs ~$200 seems like a pretty good deal to me.
I'd recommend against using the default bittorrent client, it's not all that great. I've used a bunch of clients and my personal favorite is Azureus.
This is great... Knoppix with 2.6.
I just used Knoppix the other day for the first time to save my FC2 test install (accidently removed wrong package). Thanks guys.
I can't wait till they have full boot-from-CDROM support for coLinux... Then I can always have a 2.6 kernel running on practically any machine I use.
I gave up Windows completely a year ago (except TurboTax on my wife's laptop.) Guess what? I smoke a hell of a lot less pot and spend at lot less time on the computer overall. Why? Same reason. Games.
Yeah, I hear you... Bud is one of the few things that calms me down enough to deal with Windows on a regular basis (on my company laptop). Fortunately the rest of my boxes run some sort of Linux/Unix variant.
That's fine... Think what you want.
My own personal belief is that the US has gone suit-happy. Not only are there entirely too many frivolous lawsuits, but corporate america seems to think they can get away with anything (::cough::SCO::cough::).
If that's not enough reason to think a change is needed then I don't know what is.
I'll just come out and admit it, I don't know much about the inner workings of the legal system. I watch Law & Order on occasion (and yes, I've been to court), but does that make me well versed? No.
Oh, and yes I know a few lawyers. I have no problem with them for the most part... It's mostly corporate lawyers that I dislike.
The American legal system is exactly like a couple of five year olds arguing.
Thank you. At least someone else out there can see the judicial system for what is really is.
This country is in need of a revolution. Or at least a rewriting of the Constitution. This bullshit legal stuff has got to go.
Regardless, I think it's great that DC told SCO to basically go phuck themselves. I think a point would be made if every company SCO filed suit against did the same, even though their wishes might not be carried out.
SEC = Securities and Exchange Commission (currently DDoSed)
Do you mean to tell me that the SEC was Slashdotted?
Windows (on a Dell Inspiron 5150):
:)
0. OS/Driver Updates (I don't count these)
1. Firefox
2. SSH Secure Shell
3. EditPlus
4. Cygwin/NASM
5. Bochs
6. Gaim
7. NetStumbler
8. Kazaa K-Lite K++
9. Gimp
10. WinAMP (w/Milkdrop of course)
If it was a desktop I'd install UT2004 as well.
Linux (desktop):
1. NVIDIA drivers
2. Firefox
3. Synaptic
4. Bochs/BFE
5. Azureus
6. UT2004 (gotta love this
7. Pine (yes, I know I've heard it all before)
8. gIFT
9. gkrellm
10. iptraf
I really really really want to put Fedora on my Windows box...
Try CoLinux.
EditPlus is truely an awesome program. Well worth the money.
Couldn't put it better myself... The features is has are enormous, especially with the (easy) syntax highlighting support. I frequently write x86 assembly for my OS I'm writing and trying to create a NASM syntax script for Kate was absurdly difficult. I couldn't even figure out how to make one for gedit, not sure if you can write a custom syntax highlighting script. I stopped after awhile of trying to find a equally-capable application on Linux and just used the Windows install on my laptop (w/Cygwin) instead for development. Although... I have gotten EditPlus installed under Wine and it works quite well.
Just my $0.02.
WinRAR does all those too.
The contents of the C:\Applications\WinRAR\Formats directory on my laptop Win32 install are the following:
ace.fmt
arj.fmt
bz2.fmt
cab.fmt
gz.fmt
iso.fmt
lzh.fmt
tar.fmt
UNACEV2.DLL
uue.fmt
Never tried 7-zip though, sounds good.
Office & Design
- OpenOffice.org
- AbiWord
- GIMP
Internet & Communication
- Mozilla
- FileZilla
- TightVNC
- WinHTTrack
- PuTTY
Multimedia & Games
- Audacity
- CDex
- Crack Attack!
- Sokoban YASC
- Celestia
- Really Slick Screensavers
Utilities & Other
- 7-Zip
- SciTE
- WinPT
- NetTime
That's funny, I count 18.
If you really want to find out how linux really "works" you should try Linux from Scratch.
This I'm sure will help but to really, really know how Linux works, become a kernel hacker. Or write your own OS and make it Linux (POSIX?) compatible.
I still think these are some of the best one-liners from Futurama (some of em you'd have to see in context):
"Goddamn DSL!"
"You know what always cheers me up? Laughing at other people's misfortunes"
"No more cheap crack houses for me!"
Bring it back!
Well put... Lookup tables were one of the most widely-known (and used) tricks of the game/graphics programmers back in the days of the '486 and such. Hand-rolled assembly in a few key places also made a world of difference.
:)
The only problem with it nowadays is that there is usually so much *crap* going on (lots of models/sprites/etc) that if you were to prerender them all, it'd take up a whole lot of room... maybe something like, I don't know... 6 CD's?.
Back then the processing power wasn't nearly fast enough to keep up with something that complex or large, so prerendering all the graphics took up minimal room.
The game still rocks though.
Samus is destroying us! Quick, more cowbell!!
Seriously though, I hope they don't focus on her cup size instead of the plot on this one.
Wonder if they're gonna get Angelina Jolie for this one too...