Day One: Ringwraiths killed: 4. V. good. Met up with Hobbits. Walked forty miles. Skinned a squirrel and ate it. Still not King.
Day Four: Stuck on mountain with Hobbits. Boromir really annoying. Not King yet.
Day Six: Orcs killed: none. Disappointing. Stubble update: I look rugged and manly. Yes! Keep wanting to drop-kick Gimli. Holding myself back. Still not King.
Day Ten: Sorry no entries lately. V. dark in Mines of Moria. Big Baelrog. Not King today either.
Day Eleven: Orcs killed: 7. V. good. Stubble update: Looking mangy. Legolas may be hotter than me. I wonder if he would like me if I was King?
Day 28: Beginning to find Frodo disturbingly attractive. Have a feeling if I make a move, Sam would kill me. Also, hairy feet kind of a turn-off. Still not King.
Day 30: In Lothlorien. Think Galadriel was hitting on me. Saucy wench. Nice chat with Boromir. He's not so bad. Took a shower. Yay! But still not King.
Day 32: Orcs killed: none. Stubble update: subtly hairy. Legolas told me that a shadow and a threat had been growing in his mind. I think Legolas might be kinda gay. Nope, not King.
Day 33: Orcs killed: Countless thousands. V. good. Boromir killed by Orcs. Bummer. Though he died bravely in my arms, am now quite sure that he was very definitely gay. Not so sure about Gimli either. RIP Boromir. Still not King, but at least Boromir seemed to think I was. Might however have been blood loss.
Day 34: Frodo went to Mordor. Said he was going alone, but took Sam with him. Why? My God, is everyone in this movie gay but me? Not so sure about me either. Still not King, goddammit.
The project was of course delivered on time (ie: 3 years after the completion date) and Accenture's three project managers received due bonus payments (read: Extortion money to leave and never come back) over the course of the project after each successful milestone (read: as the initial estimate blows out by 400% in terms of time and money required to finish the project) was reached.
We picked the low hanging fruit in the adverse conditions of our client moving the goalposts constantly. We believe that we have increased the visibility of this goal orientated project in line with the expectations of our key stakeholders.
We planned to under promise and over deliver and have come out on top effectively achiving the results in the Big Picture utilitizing the available skill sets of the frontline troops at the coal face.
This is a win-win outcome for us due to our proactive, not reactive, project management using our unique client focus thinking outside the box with goal oriented strategic plan.
This is full compliance with the Cane Toad Mentality (ie: We came, we saw, we ate the local wildlife, we used up all the resources, we left - leaving just enough of us behind to leech what is left forever).
At a LAN party several years ago a mate's machine needed to be fixed (can't remember why). So, here it is on the floor, the side of the case is off and my friend, Cosmo, comes over to have a look.. with a beer in his hand. He had had a few by this time and when he leant over to examine the surgury we were inflicting on someone's P1... his beer leaned with him.
Ok, yes, no power to the comp at this point.. but we mopped up the beer and turned it on 1/2hr later - worked perfectly.
This is a cautionry tale - Drunk mates should not be allowed anywhere near open computer cases
How did he see the hook into his keyboard for keylogging? Should winblows stop that/inform you before it happens?
Thanks,
HH
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You. You out there, who snickered at me and my other almost-30 friends who just spent four consecutive hours discussing video games, nearly coming to blows and shedding the occasional tear. You need to understand us, because video gamers are the future. Gaming is now a 23.2 Zillion dollar industry in the United States alone; it is the next big thing, ready to change the culture in ways everyone but the Japanese will consider bad.
Us game fans believe in our games and we rush to defend our favorite console in the way that we could never defend, say, our country or our women. Visit a video game message board and you'll find verbal warfare, Nintendo owners vs. X-Box owners vs. Playstation 2 owners. Accusations of sexual deviance are their bombs, typographical errors their bullets. You likely do not feel the need to man the ramparts for your favorite play or novel or film, but those works of art don't belong to you; they belong wholly to the writer. You're just a spectator. With a video game, I control the main character, I become the author of the adventure.
If I don't direct Mario to jump on the walking mushroom, the mushroom will roam on to kill again. I'm there, in the room, when Zelda's adventurer Link slays evil overlord Gannon, or when Madden's Defensive End Jerome Lincoln sacks evil QB Rich Gannon. When the Dead or Alive girls are playing bikini volleyball, I'm there, on the beach, pleasuring myself behind a tree.
Sad? Maybe.
When historians 500 years from now look back on the Great Video Game Console Wars of the early 21st Century, who will they say came out the victor?
Nintendo
Almost certainly it will be the Nintendo Gamecube, considering that by the year 2503 the definition of the word "victor" has changed drastically thanks to the actions of incompetent Canadian Empire General Leonard Victor in World War 6. In the 2205 Battle of Fatrock Mountain, Victor's nine armored divisions will be defeated by a lone space marine armed only with a pistol and a case of combat stimpacks.
And so it went with the Gamecube. One does not plan to fail, but rather fails to plan, and just as General Victor botched his battle planning with poor placement of his spawning points and a foolishly littering of his battlefield with Space Marine weapon upgrades, so Nintendo is now paying for its early decisions with a full production halt on its little machine.
What Went Wrong:
No form of entertainment, no matter how enjoyable, will succeed if the average modern male is embarrassed to be caught doing it by his peers. For example, Pixar's CGI cartoons succeed massively with non-child audiences for a very important reason: they took out the musical song-and-dance numbers that threatened the sexuality of previous feature-length cartoon viewers.
A 20 year-old male will watch a story about a cartoon fish if it's funny and he has his girlfriend with him as a gaydar shield. He will not be caught dead watching a cartoon fish if he and his cartoon friends frequently and spontaneously break into song about how wonderful life is under the sea, even if said male works as an oceanographer and agrees wholeheartedly with the assertions contained therein. It has nothing to do with the quality of entertainment; it has everything to do with how foolish one feels doing it.
It's a very simple equation; if it makes us look gay or like our sexual maturity was stunted at age 10, we won't do it. Flopping around on a swingset may still be a lot of fun at my age, but I'll never know. A purse is a handy thing to have, I'm sure, but for me that will always be a hypothetical.
A little, toyish purple game console with a lunch pail handle on back, with cartoonish games about a cartoon Peter Pan-esque Link who saves a cartoon princess and a cartoon plumber who collects little bits of smiley-face sunshine to save the sad, sad smiley-face sunshineless town, might be a lot of fun. Only those of us who are very secure in our manhood will ever know.
I'm not sure if I'd consider it worth buying a 2nd hand DC just for this.. but it shows that there is light at the end of the tunnel for us people addicted to NES/SNES.
Thanks for the notes guys, I'll have a look around.
slightly off-topic, but that's life: You can now get a heap (50?) of the classic Atari 2600 games on a CD (DVD?) for the PS2. It costs about $50 Aus at the moment, and Electronic Boutique stores sell it.
How long until you can get all of the SNES games on a CD/DVD for the PS2, Game Cube, Xbox... (ok, maybe just the Cube:).. Pity I don't have one )
-H
PS: I'm STILL waiting for Smash Bros to come out for the PS2 (or, better: a PS3:) )
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But why aren't there native versions of COGS for my operating system?
Well... Windows is obviously the target of choice for the majority of game developers. Some game developers are cool enough to release versions of their software that runs on other operating sytems, and we applaud that. However, the simple fact is, Windows is by far the most popular operating system for gaming and as such receives the majority of our attention and efforts.
I'm sorry?? Some game developers are cool enough to release versions of their software that runs on other operating sytems, and we applaud that. They run a games server service and they encourage developers who only develop for windows? Sheesh!
Another one:
But COGS is spyware!
COGS isn't spyware. COGS reports and stores some information which is vital to the service. On a technical level, COGS retrieves the MAC address for your network card - a (theoretically) unique ID which is used to identify you as a unique user.
Um, I think I missed something here... they even say this:
Spyware is traditionally considered as software which gathers information about your browsing habits and reports it to advertising agencies. COGS does not do this.
Err.. "COGS reports and stores some information which is vital to the service." Riiight. I'm sorry, how is this not spyware?
It's bad enough that this is compulsary.. let alone that it reports back.
and, finally:
GameArena has no direct interest in your MAC address. If we really wanted to, we could probably get that information from the BigPond routers or something.
Oh, real technical language used there I see. I am wondering: Does this idiot actually know what he is talking about? It seriously looks like he's gone to a meeting with techies, played buzzword bingo with them and decided to write this article.
I am really dissapointed. I do buy games, and when I found Worms World Party I was extatic. The catch? Worms is 'protected' - you need to have the CD in the drive. It reads the damn cd every time a level loads.. and it ruined my cdrom (yes it is an acer.. one which spins up and down when it reads).
Oh, and the damn patch for it doesn't work. *sigh*
This speech is going to be much like the "yes, I can download MP3's.. but I'd rather have the CD".
Someone (can't remember who) sent me a zip file. It contained Terry Pratchet's "The Sea and all of the fishes". This is a short story (hence not having a book to itself) from Pratchet's Discworld series.
I loved it. However, the eyestrain I got from it simply wasn't worth it. I deleted the file after I had read it. Now, much later, I found a volume that had TP's "The sea and all of the fishes" in it, and I bought it.
My conclusion: The paper novel is worth buying. Yes, it's possible to download books and read them.. but no, it's not worth it.
My bookshelf is full of books. I can buy them second hand in good condition for around $7-$8 or new books for $15 - $18. I'm prepared to pay that much for a good book.
Last point: Having the first chapter of a book online rocks. Much better than standing in a bookstood pretending not to read:) I've bought 10 or so books this way (and more to come!).. great it. If I saw the entire book online, I'd probably read the first couple of chapters.. and if I liked it I'd buy it.
You install a piece of software called "Tiny Personal Firewall 3". This will tell you when ANY software is being executed on your machine. It throws up a box asking you if you really want the new software to be installed.
Also: You can use GDIVX (search on google, or see my post down the bottom of this article for the URL) instead of media player.
So.. download and install TPF3.. and move 'media player' to the 'deny access' or 'highly restricted' plane of existance:).
Oh, and it's not a bad firewall either (in my opinion, for windows).
Yes I know, but I wasn't suggesting a complete alternative to Media Player - I was suggesting a nice substitute. I said "GDIVX [divxity.com] runs on XP etc and is better (in my opinion) than the Media Player. There are heaps of players out there.". I personally would love to hear of other players that do the job as well. I congratulate the divxity crew for their app.
My point here is that GDIVX doesn't automatically download nasty program patches that screw your OS. Ok, I agree: another program could make these changes.. but this way you're not allowing the Media Player to do it by not using it in the first place.
A Point - the DRM limitation will ONLY work if such a patch is applied. If your firewall (or system stopper such as TPF3) is blocking such installs/access then it can't be changed. This is what I love about TPF3.. the fact that it stops nasty programs from self installing.
A point you have raised: What happens if M$ put DRM into their next Service Pack for XP? This service pack will be crital.. as it is you can't uninstall anything without hacking. So, from that point of view you are correct. For now, however, I'll stick with my GDIVX and TPF3.
People: GDIVX runs on XP etc and is better (in my opinion) than the Media Player. There are heaps of players out there.
There is a nice program out there for Windows users called Tiny Personal Firewall. This wonderful little program is not just a firewall... it has this WONDERFUL new addition: It tracks and protects your Windows (TM) from nasty software running.
It has default restrictions available and it sets itself up for standard windows programs like Office, IE, etc.
The cool part: When you install a new program TPF3 not only asks you if you want the program to execute, it also asks you what level of execution to grant. For example: Internet explorer (by default) can ONLY download into the c:\download directory.
So... if I'm on a box with XP I install TPF3 and nothing gets by it. Is your Media player trying to contact the Internet? block it! Is your media player trying to install something? Block it! Easy as that. Give it a go.
Greetings,
As we all know the web is being taken over by commercialisation and is being swamped with calls to make it a 'pay for what you use' environment. This is considered offensive to us dinosoaurs who have been around for a long time and who assume that the net is free.. and always will be. There are sites who initially grab you with a 'free' service, such as http://www.schoolfriends.com and nytimes, who get you to use and depend on their products.. and then (schoolfriends) slap you with charges if you wish to continue using the site. On the other hand there are sites, http://www.megatokyo.com, that have a nice link on them saying 'If you want to help keep this site alive please donate'.
So, my question is: Would google look to splitting its services in this manner? That is, the first tier method where you get either
1: Free services (basic services)
2: Subscription services (advanced paid for services)
or perhaps the 'request for donations' line where the site is free, but donations are welcome?
.. does Microsoft benifit from people using Samba?
The logic runs thus: Linux/Unix/Mac users would like to keep their machines and talk to other boxes on the network. Hence, if someone does have a windows box that is being fileshared, doesn't this make the situation better for M$ because people can actually connect to the box?
Because otherwise it'll be a pain to network with M$ stuff and people simply won't bother does it.
Easy answer: I am.
And.. yes.. I do use the above, the GUI, the games, the bloated OS et al... but that doesn't mean so say that I like it.
However, the ultimate comeback here would be: "If you don't like it, do something about!". My reply to this unasked question: I am.:-) and thanks for asking.
Again, a point is conceeded to bloatware: it's very nice, and very useful. I am sincerely looking forward to seeing how hardware such as this will be utilized in the future. I await with baited breath to see the extensive uses that are explored. Meanwhile, I don't need it:)
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Meh. If you want to read the rest: LOTR Diary Joke
Day One:
Ringwraiths killed: 4. V. good.
Met up with Hobbits. Walked forty miles. Skinned a squirrel and ate it.
Still not King.
Day Four:
Stuck on mountain with Hobbits. Boromir really annoying.
Not King yet.
Day Six:
Orcs killed: none. Disappointing. Stubble update: I look rugged and manly.
Yes!
Keep wanting to drop-kick Gimli. Holding myself back.
Still not King.
Day Ten:
Sorry no entries lately. V. dark in Mines of Moria. Big Baelrog.
Not King today either.
Day Eleven:
Orcs killed: 7. V. good. Stubble update: Looking mangy.
Legolas may be hotter than me.
I wonder if he would like me if I was King?
Day 28:
Beginning to find Frodo disturbingly attractive. Have a feeling if I make
a move, Sam would kill me. Also, hairy feet kind of a turn-off.
Still not King.
Day 30:
In Lothlorien. Think Galadriel was hitting on me. Saucy wench.
Nice chat with Boromir. He's not so bad.
Took a shower. Yay!
But still not King.
Day 32:
Orcs killed: none. Stubble update: subtly hairy.
Legolas told me that a shadow and a threat had been growing in his mind.
I think Legolas might be kinda gay.
Nope, not King.
Day 33:
Orcs killed: Countless thousands. V. good.
Boromir killed by Orcs. Bummer. Though he died bravely in my arms, am now
quite sure that he was very definitely gay.
Not so sure about Gimli either.
RIP Boromir.
Still not King, but at least Boromir seemed to think I was. Might however
have been blood loss.
Day 34:
Frodo went to Mordor. Said he was going alone, but took Sam with him. Why?
My God, is everyone in this movie gay but me?
Not so sure about me either.
Still not King, goddammit.
You forgot:
The project was of course delivered on time (ie: 3 years after the completion date) and Accenture's three project managers received due bonus payments (read: Extortion money to leave and never come back) over the course of the project after each successful milestone (read: as the initial estimate blows out by 400% in terms of time and money required to finish the project) was reached.
We picked the low hanging fruit in the adverse conditions of our client moving the goalposts constantly. We believe that we have increased the visibility of this goal orientated project in line with the expectations of our key stakeholders.
We planned to under promise and over deliver and have come out on top effectively achiving the results in the Big Picture utilitizing the available skill sets of the frontline troops at the coal face.
This is a win-win outcome for us due to our proactive, not reactive, project management using our unique client focus thinking outside the box with goal oriented strategic plan.
This is full compliance with the Cane Toad Mentality (ie: We came, we saw, we ate the local wildlife, we used up all the resources, we left - leaving just enough of us behind to leech what is left forever).
At a LAN party several years ago a mate's machine needed to be fixed (can't remember why). So, here it is on the floor, the side of the case is off and my friend, Cosmo, comes over to have a look.. with a beer in his hand. He had had a few by this time and when he leant over to examine the surgury we were inflicting on someone's P1... his beer leaned with him.
Ok, yes, no power to the comp at this point.. but we mopped up the beer and turned it on 1/2hr later - worked perfectly.
This is a cautionry tale - Drunk mates should not be allowed anywhere near open computer cases
Erm why when Tabs are so much better? Go Mozilla! and.. don't forget Go Opera!
Apparently this fee is to pay for the upgrading and maintaining of the infrastructure Telstra maintains for us to be able to have the Net.
However, the Australian goverment is trying to sell off Telstra.. and its infrastructe for a quick profit.
Hi guys,
How did he see the hook into his keyboard for keylogging? Should winblows stop that/inform you before it happens?
Thanks,
HH
You. You out there, who snickered at me and my other almost-30 friends who just spent four consecutive hours discussing video games, nearly coming to blows and shedding the occasional tear. You need to understand us, because video gamers are the future. Gaming is now a 23.2 Zillion dollar industry in the United States alone; it is the next big thing, ready to change the culture in ways everyone but the Japanese will consider bad.
Us game fans believe in our games and we rush to defend our favorite console in the way that we could never defend, say, our country or our women. Visit a video game message board and you'll find verbal warfare, Nintendo owners vs. X-Box owners vs. Playstation 2 owners. Accusations of sexual deviance are their bombs, typographical errors their bullets. You likely do not feel the need to man the ramparts for your favorite play or novel or film, but those works of art don't belong to you; they belong wholly to the writer. You're just a spectator. With a video game, I control the main character, I become the author of the adventure.
If I don't direct Mario to jump on the walking mushroom, the mushroom will roam on to kill again. I'm there, in the room, when Zelda's adventurer Link slays evil overlord Gannon, or when Madden's Defensive End Jerome Lincoln sacks evil QB Rich Gannon. When the Dead or Alive girls are playing bikini volleyball, I'm there, on the beach, pleasuring myself behind a tree.
Sad? Maybe.
When historians 500 years from now look back on the Great Video Game Console Wars of the early 21st Century, who will they say came out the victor?
Nintendo
Almost certainly it will be the Nintendo Gamecube, considering that by the year 2503 the definition of the word "victor" has changed drastically thanks to the actions of incompetent Canadian Empire General Leonard Victor in World War 6. In the 2205 Battle of Fatrock Mountain, Victor's nine armored divisions will be defeated by a lone space marine armed only with a pistol and a case of combat stimpacks.
And so it went with the Gamecube. One does not plan to fail, but rather fails to plan, and just as General Victor botched his battle planning with poor placement of his spawning points and a foolishly littering of his battlefield with Space Marine weapon upgrades, so Nintendo is now paying for its early decisions with a full production halt on its little machine.
What Went Wrong:
No form of entertainment, no matter how enjoyable, will succeed if the average modern male is embarrassed to be caught doing it by his peers. For example, Pixar's CGI cartoons succeed massively with non-child audiences for a very important reason: they took out the musical song-and-dance numbers that threatened the sexuality of previous feature-length cartoon viewers.
A 20 year-old male will watch a story about a cartoon fish if it's funny and he has his girlfriend with him as a gaydar shield. He will not be caught dead watching a cartoon fish if he and his cartoon friends frequently and spontaneously break into song about how wonderful life is under the sea, even if said male works as an oceanographer and agrees wholeheartedly with the assertions contained therein. It has nothing to do with the quality of entertainment; it has everything to do with how foolish one feels doing it.
It's a very simple equation; if it makes us look gay or like our sexual maturity was stunted at age 10, we won't do it. Flopping around on a swingset may still be a lot of fun at my age, but I'll never know. A purse is a handy thing to have, I'm sure, but for me that will always be a hypothetical.
A little, toyish purple game console with a lunch pail handle on back, with cartoonish games about a cartoon Peter Pan-esque Link who saves a cartoon princess and a cartoon plumber who collects little bits of smiley-face sunshine to save the sad, sad smiley-face sunshineless town, might be a lot of fun. Only those of us who are very secure in our manhood will ever know.
Why Nintendo doesn't get t
Well yes, but there is always Open Office.
I've never trually understood the 'upgrade path' for "M$ Office". So far as I know, Office 97 SR2 works on 98, nt, 2000 and XP. Why upgrade?
I'm not sure if I'd consider it worth buying a 2nd hand DC just for this.. but it shows that there is light at the end of the tunnel for us people addicted to NES/SNES. Thanks for the notes guys, I'll have a look around.
slightly off-topic, but that's life: You can now get a heap (50?) of the classic Atari 2600 games on a CD (DVD?) for the PS2. It costs about $50 Aus at the moment, and Electronic Boutique stores sell it.
How long until you can get all of the SNES games on a CD/DVD for the PS2, Game Cube, Xbox... (ok, maybe just the Cube
-H
PS: I'm STILL waiting for Smash Bros to come out for the PS2 (or, better: a PS3
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I'm not even going to comment on what I think of this document as a whole. It's not even worth that. However:
I'm sorry?? Some game developers are cool enough to release versions of their software that runs on other operating sytems, and we applaud that. They run a games server service and they encourage developers who only develop for windows? Sheesh!
Another one:
Um, I think I missed something here... they even say this:
Err.. "COGS reports and stores some information which is vital to the service." Riiight. I'm sorry, how is this not spyware?
It's bad enough that this is compulsary.. let alone that it reports back.
and, finally:
Oh, real technical language used there I see. I am wondering: Does this idiot actually know what he is talking about? It seriously looks like he's gone to a meeting with techies, played buzzword bingo with them and decided to write this article.
I am really dissapointed. I do buy games, and when I found Worms World Party I was extatic. The catch? Worms is 'protected' - you need to have the CD in the drive. It reads the damn cd every time a level loads.. and it ruined my cdrom (yes it is an acer.. one which spins up and down when it reads).
Oh, and the damn patch for it doesn't work. *sigh*
These drinks got me through university. How else do you survive 6 hours straight lectures?
This speech is going to be much like the "yes, I can download MP3's.. but I'd rather have the CD".
Someone (can't remember who) sent me a zip file. It contained Terry Pratchet's "The Sea and all of the fishes". This is a short story (hence not having a book to itself) from Pratchet's Discworld series.
I loved it. However, the eyestrain I got from it simply wasn't worth it. I deleted the file after I had read it. Now, much later, I found a volume that had TP's "The sea and all of the fishes" in it, and I bought it.
My conclusion: The paper novel is worth buying. Yes, it's possible to download books and read them.. but no, it's not worth it.
My bookshelf is full of books. I can buy them second hand in good condition for around $7-$8 or new books for $15 - $18. I'm prepared to pay that much for a good book.
Last point: Having the first chapter of a book online rocks. Much better than standing in a bookstood pretending not to read
Same for music, while we're here.
Also: You can use GDIVX (search on google, or see my post down the bottom of this article for the URL) instead of media player.
So.. download and install TPF3.. and move 'media player' to the 'deny access' or 'highly restricted' plane of existance :).
Oh, and it's not a bad firewall either (in my opinion, for windows).
My point here is that GDIVX doesn't automatically download nasty program patches that screw your OS. Ok, I agree: another program could make these changes.. but this way you're not allowing the Media Player to do it by not using it in the first place.
A Point - the DRM limitation will ONLY work if such a patch is applied. If your firewall (or system stopper such as TPF3) is blocking such installs/access then it can't be changed. This is what I love about TPF3.. the fact that it stops nasty programs from self installing.
A point you have raised: What happens if M$ put DRM into their next Service Pack for XP? This service pack will be crital.. as it is you can't uninstall anything without hacking. So, from that point of view you are correct. For now, however, I'll stick with my GDIVX and TPF3.
GDIVX runs on XP etc and is better (in my opinion) than the Media Player. There are heaps of players out there.
There is a nice program out there for Windows users called Tiny Personal Firewall. This wonderful little program is not just a firewall
It has default restrictions available and it sets itself up for standard windows programs like Office, IE, etc.
The cool part: When you install a new program TPF3 not only asks you if you want the program to execute, it also asks you what level of execution to grant. For example: Internet explorer (by default) can ONLY download into the c:\download directory.
So... if I'm on a box with XP I install TPF3 and nothing gets by it. Is your Media player trying to contact the Internet? block it! Is your media player trying to install something? Block it! Easy as that. Give it a go.
So, my question is: Would google look to splitting its services in this manner? That is, the first tier method where you get either
1: Free services (basic services)
2: Subscription services (advanced paid for services)
or perhaps the 'request for donations' line where the site is free, but donations are welcome?
Can anyone suggest Australian sites with similar information and ordering?
I know about www.cougar.com.au
Thanks,
HH
Plus the fact that dual booting is very common now AND that you CAN run Linux apps in FreeBSD :)
Bing!
Arrgl!!! I just finished downloading 4.5 (replacement disk) today, and I just reinstalled my server box!
Ah well, time to upgrade anyway
I can't wait till 5.0 is released so I can die and go to heaven. Is anyone else waiting till 5.0 to buy the 4cd set + book?
Bing!
The logic runs thus: Linux/Unix/Mac users would like to keep their machines and talk to other boxes on the network. Hence, if someone does have a windows box that is being fileshared, doesn't this make the situation better for M$ because people can actually connect to the box?
Because otherwise it'll be a pain to network with M$ stuff and people simply won't bother does it.
Easy answer: I am.
And.. yes.. I do use the above, the GUI, the games, the bloated OS et al... but that doesn't mean so say that I like it.
However, the ultimate comeback here would be: "If you don't like it, do something about!". My reply to this unasked question: I am. :-) and thanks for asking.
Again, a point is conceeded to bloatware: it's very nice, and very useful. I am sincerely looking forward to seeing how hardware such as this will be utilized in the future. I await with baited breath to see the extensive uses that are explored. Meanwhile, I don't need it :)