I agree that linux is great for the servers, ESPECIALLY if they have the hardware to back it up, but other than a few games, nothing runs under linux.
Now before you people jump on me about the glories of WINE, I've tried this. Games are crashy at best and the DirectX/OpenGL support is crap.
In short, you can run all you servers on a linux machine, but the gaming rig should still be running 98SE because you'll actually be able to play, rather than spend your valuble LAN party time trying to compile the latest DX8 rip off...
I helped to set-up/maintain a small (6 computer) LAN in a classroom which we use to play Quake, AvP, and CS beta 7 at lunch time. Sometimes we'd stay after school and play too. The computers wern't used for much else.
It got a bunch of us into LAN gaming big time, and we held lots of off campus labs...
Ahhh high school, where I never went to class because there were always computers to fix because the distric couldn't afford to hire techs with IQs greater than 3...
I had to do this, just because it sounds like pro-enron/global crossing republican rhetoric...
But you strike me as a capitalist sort of person, a big fan of a powerful state choosing and backing private concerns to control resources. In which case, we could keep all those laws and make sure that they're structured so that the artifical rights granted by the state to mess with the land don't let industry poison us.
You ever BEEN near LA? I suppose not, otherwise you'd notice the oxymoron in your statement...
Trees, if used properly ARE a renewable resource. However, the bulk of wasted trees has nothing to do with paper/lumber, but with the deforestation of the rainforest...
Since that's niether here nor there, let me move on...
The bleaching of paper does add chemicals to it, making it less likely to biodegrade in a useful way. So don't bleach the paper using harmful chemicals. There are many ways in which this can be accomplished, as Bandalier papers here in Santa Fe has demonstrated. Like with most things, binary or bilogical, there is always a better way...
Hey, everyone has a neighbor that walks thier dog by your house and from time to time the dog lays down a nice order of Aunt Fiodocia's Fiber loaf. So do it on your neighbor's lawn, it'll save them money and they won't have to use chemical fetilizers. Plus, it smell a lot worse when they step in it on they way to grab the paper. >:)
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Sure a plasitc book would be nice, but look at it this way:
Plastic (at least most plastics) do not biodegrade. There are exceptions to this, such as plastics made from corn/soy/(and if many people would pull thier heads out of their collective arses)hemp which can biodegrade.
Also, most plastics are petroleum based, so when the oil runs out, so does our gross overuse of plastic (back to the basic conservation of resources debacle...).
To make a general point, maybe we should be more concerned with auditing our resource usage and pollution than with creating a book one can read while wasting water by taking a bath.
(I'm just bitter because I live in a desert and people waste water which they shouldn't. These people in the hills with their lawns and swimming pools are going to be sorry when they have a pretty lawn but nothing to drink...)
Maybe a book like this could get people who live in places like New Mexico to look at how we use our EXTREMELY limited resources.
Not to mention how wasteful the rest of the world is...
Now I don't want to come off as some Tree-Hugging Hippy, but there is a lot of substance to this whole conservation thing. Just look at LA. If they don't find another way of getting water, there are going to be a lot of thirsty people in the near future. (This is the case with much of the west/southwest US).
There is more to be said for clean technologies too. They may be more expensive to implement initially, but in the long run not only do they save money, you're saving the planet so future generations don't have to clean up you mess (fuel-cells and fusion anyone?)...
Most of the other browsers have security holes found in them from time to time as well, but most of the kind crackers out there seems to take a diabolical pleasure in focusing on IE (and since it's one of the core technologies of it, Windows...). If people spent as much time trying to break many of the other Browsers out there, I'm sure they would find they're all their own brand of swiss cheese.
No software is rock solid, even when it's written to be. There's always a european teenager with way too much time on their hands just waiting to turn you Titanium fortress into a window screen...
However dangerous this hole may be, there are a few reasons why it probably won't create an end of the world scenario, most imporatant of these that gopher is absolutly archaic. I personally havn't seen a gopher server since 1996 (at MIT).
Second, as always, Microsoft will have a patch out fairly quickly, which is more that can be said for mozilla half of the time...
It's a real drag that the US Government needs to monitor global telecommunications, but there are good reasons behind it. At least what many citizens of the US and myself consider good reasons...
Sure, keeping terrorism, global crime, and child porn under control are part of it, but where does the line get drawn? If the US can tap these lines, what's to say that other countries aren't entitled to do the same? What's to say they aren't already?
I can understand the need for cyberintelligence and early warning, but I feel the need to bring up the issue of privacy in general. There's so little privacy on the 'net already, do we really need big brother watching what we do in even more depth?
Uncle Sam doesn't have the right to read my mail, but if the government is tapped into the global trunk, sniffing every packet, what's to say they won't read my e-mail, catalouge my credit cards, and track my information habits?
There is a line that must be drawn, and it should be drawn before it's too late.
Pardon me for not making my entire plan for conquering the universe publicly availible.
I was just making a general statement about the current state of affairs. If this didn't paint a pretty enouugh picture for you, maybe you need to seek solice in the wonders of goatse.cx
it's guys like these that drive the security bigwigs at Los Alamos and Sandia crazy. I guess it's keeps them employed though, because once they break it, they'll have to build a stonger algorithm and try to break that one.
Or they could just stop letting people work from home and stop letting their kids play MUDs on their secure terminal:P.
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I agree that linux is great for the servers, ESPECIALLY if they have the hardware to back it up, but other than a few games, nothing runs under linux.
Now before you people jump on me about the glories of WINE, I've tried this. Games are crashy at best and the DirectX/OpenGL support is crap.
In short, you can run all you servers on a linux machine, but the gaming rig should still be running 98SE because you'll actually be able to play, rather than spend your valuble LAN party time trying to compile the latest DX8 rip off...
Too bad it isn't multiplayer.
I helped to set-up/maintain a small (6 computer) LAN in a classroom which we use to play Quake, AvP, and CS beta 7 at lunch time. Sometimes we'd stay after school and play too. The computers wern't used for much else.
It got a bunch of us into LAN gaming big time, and we held lots of off campus labs...
Ahhh high school, where I never went to class because there were always computers to fix because the distric couldn't afford to hire techs with IQs greater than 3...
I had to do this, just because it sounds like pro-enron/global crossing republican rhetoric...
But you strike me as a capitalist sort of person, a big fan of a powerful state choosing and backing private concerns to control resources. In which case, we could keep all those laws and make sure that they're structured so that the artifical rights granted by the state to mess with the land don't let industry poison us.
You ever BEEN near LA? I suppose not, otherwise you'd notice the oxymoron in your statement...
But with open source, it takes the will of some charitable indivdual to fix it. At M$ they have a team of 500 code monkeys working on it ASAP...
Makes me wonder how holes get in there in the first place with that many people working for them...
I bet they would if they could, PANTS RUEL!!! :D
Trees, if used properly ARE a renewable resource. However, the bulk of wasted trees has nothing to do with paper/lumber, but with the deforestation of the rainforest...
Since that's niether here nor there, let me move on...
The bleaching of paper does add chemicals to it, making it less likely to biodegrade in a useful way. So don't bleach the paper using harmful chemicals. There are many ways in which this can be accomplished, as Bandalier papers here in Santa Fe has demonstrated. Like with most things, binary or bilogical, there is always a better way...
Hey, everyone has a neighbor that walks thier dog by your house and from time to time the dog lays down a nice order of Aunt Fiodocia's Fiber loaf. So do it on your neighbor's lawn, it'll save them money and they won't have to use chemical fetilizers. Plus, it smell a lot worse when they step in it on they way to grab the paper. >:)
Sure a plasitc book would be nice, but look at it this way:
Plastic (at least most plastics) do not biodegrade. There are exceptions to this, such as plastics made from corn/soy/(and if many people would pull thier heads out of their collective arses)hemp which can biodegrade.
Also, most plastics are petroleum based, so when the oil runs out, so does our gross overuse of plastic (back to the basic conservation of resources debacle...).
To make a general point, maybe we should be more concerned with auditing our resource usage and pollution than with creating a book one can read while wasting water by taking a bath.
(I'm just bitter because I live in a desert and people waste water which they shouldn't. These people in the hills with their lawns and swimming pools are going to be sorry when they have a pretty lawn but nothing to drink...)
Maybe a book like this could get people who live in places like New Mexico to look at how we use our EXTREMELY limited resources.
Not to mention how wasteful the rest of the world is...
Now I don't want to come off as some Tree-Hugging Hippy, but there is a lot of substance to this whole conservation thing. Just look at LA. If they don't find another way of getting water, there are going to be a lot of thirsty people in the near future. (This is the case with much of the west/southwest US).
There is more to be said for clean technologies too. They may be more expensive to implement initially, but in the long run not only do they save money, you're saving the planet so future generations don't have to clean up you mess (fuel-cells and fusion anyone?)...
*Glares at the baby boomers...*
This is true, but I was just trying to make a point.
The guy who found this hole needs to go outside DURING THE DAY!
AND TAKE A SHOWER
Most of the other browsers have security holes found in them from time to time as well, but most of the kind crackers out there seems to take a diabolical pleasure in focusing on IE (and since it's one of the core technologies of it, Windows...). If people spent as much time trying to break many of the other Browsers out there, I'm sure they would find they're all their own brand of swiss cheese.
No software is rock solid, even when it's written to be. There's always a european teenager with way too much time on their hands just waiting to turn you Titanium fortress into a window screen...
...I can only imagine how someone found this one.
However dangerous this hole may be, there are a few reasons why it probably won't create an end of the world scenario, most imporatant of these that gopher is absolutly archaic. I personally havn't seen a gopher server since 1996 (at MIT).
Second, as always, Microsoft will have a patch out fairly quickly, which is more that can be said for mozilla half of the time...
*Ducks and covers due to flying penguins*
Take acid and make donuts!
ROFLMAO!
In other countries? Unlikely.
As powerful as the US is, they still don't have any jurisdiction over anything but US sovereign territory.
HTH
Don't ask questions like these! It makes the baby Jesus cry!
Hopefully it would also improve you ability to play DoD with friends in the Netherlands...
ENRON RUELS!
It's a real drag that the US Government needs to monitor global telecommunications, but there are good reasons behind it. At least what many citizens of the US and myself consider good reasons...
Sure, keeping terrorism, global crime, and child porn under control are part of it, but where does the line get drawn? If the US can tap these lines, what's to say that other countries aren't entitled to do the same? What's to say they aren't already?
I can understand the need for cyberintelligence and early warning, but I feel the need to bring up the issue of privacy in general. There's so little privacy on the 'net already, do we really need big brother watching what we do in even more depth?
Uncle Sam doesn't have the right to read my mail, but if the government is tapped into the global trunk, sniffing every packet, what's to say they won't read my e-mail, catalouge my credit cards, and track my information habits?
There is a line that must be drawn, and it should be drawn before it's too late.
Pardon me for not making my entire plan for conquering the universe publicly availible.
I was just making a general statement about the current state of affairs. If this didn't paint a pretty enouugh picture for you, maybe you need to seek solice in the wonders of goatse.cx
it's guys like these that drive the security bigwigs at Los Alamos and Sandia crazy. I guess it's keeps them employed though, because once they break it, they'll have to build a stonger algorithm and try to break that one.
:P.
Or they could just stop letting people work from home and stop letting their kids play MUDs on their secure terminal
The american revolution could have been prevented, why couldn't an interplanetary insurrection also be stemmed?
On top of that, how would people on mar fight us? there won't be enough resources there for another 100+ years for anyone to do anything.
whatever, you weirdos...
How much space rights litigation has been going on anyway? Jeebus.
Why can't we just colonize these planets for the good of mankind AS all of mankind. Why do we need more invisible lines in space?
You know, somone once said that you can't see national boundries from space, maybe that's something to think about...