Hey! i was in that case, but later: used a 486 (i think it was DX2-66Mhz?) as router with dialup, when it wasn't connected it acted as a BBS
So it was not "on demand" internet, but still ppp connection, with a 14k4 modem (got one of those to replace a 2400bauds, that was a real pita =) )
Anyway, i didn't know enough of linux those days, and thought it was required to recompile the kernel (iirc it was a redhat 5), to enable the gateway/routing feature.
All i can say: after 24H of compile, you notice you forgot some option and there you go again for another 24H....
Now i've grown up & live with a standard kernel, only compile it when really needed for debugging purposes or so
I have a Samsung Galaxy S for 2 weeks, experienced the same problem, it happened when receiving an incomming call while ending the previous one, after that, couldn't hear anything through the hear-speaker until reboot.
It's fine if you want to play games. And the update is required if you want to play online games.
the update is not required to play online games, there are several ways to bypass the firmware check, and it's quite easy to do actually (mainly changing the dns server for the ps3)
would you do the same thing to ask for games that run under linux?
This is nonsense, $$$ is the mighty word, no letters/mails will change that. But in the case of linux, it's even worse: they don't dare/invest porting games to linux, and don't talk to me about games that are 5 years old.
In the mean time, i got a ps3, never played & bought so many games these last 2 years than in my whole life.
I'm trying to find my treasure girl using google maps, but either:
- the area isn't covered by high definition
- even the 'high res' isn't suffisent to wacht ppl's face
- not enough updates, no "earth movie"
- still didn't found a infrared option to see what ppl are doing at night through the roofs!
Afaik, cds are the worst media to 'backup' your precious data.
The first burnable cds you could buy (in the 90ties) were of a decent quality, i still have some burned ones around, and they are still readable (older than 10yrs). But some newer ones (cheaper, & mass-marketing 'mode') are of an awful quality: i have plenty that "died" when reading them: it begins with some bad CRCs, and then more & more & more, till nothing valuable can be read off it. This happened in LESS THAN 2 YEARS.
The problem with cds:
- They hate sunlight
- they hate being in a too hot, or too cold place
- they hate being in a place with too much/not enough humidity
- and the worst: they react with air (oxygen).
It's build with a 2mm plastic, the dye is on top, with some 'protective' layer over it. Some are better than others.
Now with DVDs, they seem to be from a much better quality already, the explanation is simple: the dye isn't on the surface anymore, but between 2 slides of plastic glued together. The reaction with air seems to be insignifiant. Atm, i have no single failing DVDR that i know. But some brands are of better quality than others.
And btw: "Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies." - Linus Torvalds
I'm looking to make a full diskless desktop client. That shouldn't be much of a trouble for linux. But how should i do it for windows?
I plan to do it over a Gbit network, but no windows terminal server, it 'must' be some virtual network C: drive, so i could benefit of all video acceleration.
I'm thinking to some kind of linux disk server, i've read about iSCSI & iBoot, but i'd like to have a free & software (linux?) based solution.
If you need a good starchart to find stars/constellations/planets, i have one big recommendation for you, it's called skymap: http://skymap.com/products.htm
you can use it in a demo version which is already very useful for a starter.
Hard to tell which one was worst, since i had soo many of them
First: i once let a phone fall on the keyboard, and it broke a key (plastic behind was in 2 pieces), so i decided to glue it, with super fast glue, together again, it worked, waited a moment and then pressed the key, it never came out again.
Second: i was installing computers in a little company, which needed a backup of the older data to put back on newer puters. So ok, that backup was being done through the parallel port with an old streamer, something very very slow, took hours. And when i installed the new computer, installed the backup device back on it, it forced me to do a test with the tape to check if it worked, ok it worked. But i don't know what i had in mind.. I HAD to erase the test, clicked everywhere to erase it.. And whole tape got cleaned (while the primary data already was removed from other harddisks..) I was *white*.... Worst day of my life
Third: Do you know IDE is more or less hotplug? really, it works, done it plenty of times, just umount; hdparm -Y & detach your harddisk,then put it back & remount Until one day, i plugged the power cord upside down, it didn't fit, but there was enough contact to hear a *PATZ* and the harddisk was dead... Sigh
Fourth, no data loss in this one luckily, but almost;) The computer was, case open, in a hallway, and with mates we were fighting, with beer.... Computer got bit of beer on it (i didn't notice), until several months later, i saw the corrosion of the beer on the case, on the mother board, and on the network card.. Sigh:)
Fifth, recently i saw a harddisk of 200GB getting bad clusters, lost some files with it, ok was in bad mood.. but 3 days later, my main harddisk of 36GB with my linux OS on it crashed totally... Thank you computer world! I was totally pissed...
I have prolly many other stories like that left;) but those are the ones i remember best, i hate computers:)
Via is proud to present its first new line of handheld game console that has all the abilities of windows XP, this all into your pocket!
- it bluescreens - it eats more power than required, replace the batteries every 2 hours - you have to reinstall windows xp every month - it can get worms if you plug it on internet! (no need to install outlook, the disk share will be enough) -...:)
Who never played the monkey island games? Those were probably the best adventure games ever made, filled with humor everywhere, probably the only game where it's not boring to talk with the other characters
If they could bring up a movie with a good plot, related to monkey island, and with the same kind of humor! (which will be very hard i think), it would be a great great movie.
Now making a movie of an action game is something pretty stupid, couldn't even watch more than 15 minutes of tomb raider 1, and some years later i even saw they made a second opus? what a disapointement
we all want monkey island! monkeys everywhere, with some scenes filmed in 320*240 pixels & 16 colors (must be great on a cinema screen) =) and the music of monkey, of course
Let's think of blade runner, i played the game, which i enjoyed a lot, before seeing the movie, the game was great, the movie disapointed me
let's think of dune, played both games, those were amazing! then i saw the movie, again, i was deceived...
The connection between game and movie is hard to do, i don't know if it's even possible, they are too different.
But the only movie about game that would attract me is that monkey island. Which isn't planned, and probably never will be.
Now you can virtually travel in a 3D space environment, i've seen this news on newsforge, tried it out, and it was very interesting stuff:)
You can go to the planet/star you want,at the time you want, travelling in a 3D/openGL system showing stars, comets, constellations,... The software is called celestia Celestia link
Also you can get a nice map of the stars using Skymap Link And it runs under wine:)
Those are both great software you have to try out if you are interested in space/stars/...
here is a copy of the article, for the lazy bastards that don't want to register;)
August 31, 2003 Virus Aside, Gates Says Reliability Is Greater By JOHN MARKOFF
MICROSOFT, the world's biggest software maker, is the biggest target for computer viruses like the SoBig.F worm that wreaked havoc two weeks ago. Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, talked last week about what it is doing to keep hackers at bay. Following are excerpts from the conversation.
Q. You wrote a memo last year calling on Microsoft to focus on reliable software. Now we've had this series of computer-security-related events that make it appear to outsiders that you aren't making progress. Have you in fact made progress?
A. Well, we've certainly made a lot of progress in terms of creating more reliable software, building tools so that people can stay up to date so that they don't run into these problems, creating the procedures that make sure that the recovery actions get widely communicated. We'd be the first to say that we're doing more and more on this. It was very important that we got the company focused on it, made it part of the reviews of all the different employees.
The fact that these attacks are coming out and that people's software is not up to date in a way that fully prevents an attack on them is something we feel very bad about. We want the update process to work so automatically that in the future these problems won't happen. The hackers are attacking not only our systems but other systems, and with the right kind of infrastructure and the right kind of work we can make sure they don't disrupt things.
Q. Have these events created a serious public perception problem about Microsoft on the issue of security?
A. Microsoft's reputation for doing great software research is very strong, and people are looking to us now and saying, "no other software company has solved this; you, Microsoft, need to solve it." We're rising to that challenge. The expectation they have of us is very high.
Q. The buffer overrun flaw that made the Blaster worm possible was specifically targeted in your code reviews last year. Do you understand why the flaw that led to Blaster escaped your detection?
A. Understand there have actually been fixes for all of these things before the attack took place. The challenge is that we've got to get the fixes to be automatically applied without our customers having to make a special effort.
Q. You have enemies who are in a crusade to undermine Microsoft. How do you cope with that?
A. I'm not aware of any systematic attempt by any group. There have been a few of these things that have come along. We have to make our systems invulnerable to these things. It's within our ability to make the systems invulnerable because the speed of update is as great or greater than the speed that somebody comes up with an exploit.
Q. Blaster included a message attacking you. Do you take these things personally?
A. No.
Q. Have you considered enabling the Windows XP Firewall by default?
A. The fact is there has been a fire wall inside of Windows that would have blocked MSblast [the worm]. We're doing a better job of getting information out to people of how to turn that on and when they should turn that on. The idea that it would be on by default is something that we have to push the technology to make that work for people. It looks like we've got a solution to do that.
Q. Some people are concerned about the automatic distribution of patches because of the possibility of doing widespread damage.
A. These patches will be signed by us, and things that are put into the critical security path that we have to pass through we have to be very careful that there is no regression in those things. It's a channel that has to be used not for features, but just for very critical things. We have some other ideas such as something called behavior blocking that will obviate the need in
Same experience here, some brands sometimes don't pass the year alive!
To try to recover the most of possible from cds (in data mode only), i have written a little shell script, basically it reads byte per byte (i know i should use blocks of 2048 but that was complicating the rest), if it fails on a reader, it asks you to put the cd in another one, etc
Some readers can read parts of damaged/old cds better than others etc... 2 cd readers required!
here is the link to the script: http://lethalwp.dyndns.org/~lethalwp/file s/recover cd.sh (suppress the space/. inserts, if any):)
Slashdot Mirror
you don't need to restart linux,
just ctrl-alt-backspace, wait for the swap to be annihilated & re-login
Hey! i was in that case, but later: used a 486 (i think it was DX2-66Mhz?) as router with dialup, when it wasn't connected it acted as a BBS
So it was not "on demand" internet, but still ppp connection, with a 14k4 modem (got one of those to replace a 2400bauds, that was a real pita =) )
Anyway, i didn't know enough of linux those days, and thought it was required to recompile the kernel (iirc it was a redhat 5), to enable the gateway/routing feature.
All i can say: after 24H of compile, you notice you forgot some option
and there you go again for another 24H....
Now i've grown up & live with a standard kernel, only compile it when really needed for debugging purposes or so
haven't you read the EULA?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S for 2 weeks, experienced the same problem, it happened when receiving an incomming call while ending the previous one, after that, couldn't hear anything through the hear-speaker until reboot.
Not even the 'number called' tone
i bought the orange box on ps3, so, does this mean i'll be able to play portal, hl, or whatever comes out on linux?
It's fine if you want to play games. And the update is required if you want to play online games.
the update is not required to play online games, there are several ways to bypass the firmware check, and it's quite easy to do actually (mainly changing the dns server for the ps3)
just google for it if you need it
That's where the hack comes in: it breaks the hypervisor and give you access to all of the ps3.
The only thing being done as today is to flash a a new 'theme' in the original flash of the ps3 through the other os.
would you do the same thing to ask for games that run under linux?
This is nonsense, $$$ is the mighty word, no letters/mails will change that. But in the case of linux, it's even worse: they don't dare/invest porting games to linux, and don't talk to me about games that are 5 years old.
In the mean time, i got a ps3, never played & bought so many games these last 2 years than in my whole life.
I'm trying to find my treasure girl using google maps, but either:
- the area isn't covered by high definition
- even the 'high res' isn't suffisent to wacht ppl's face
- not enough updates, no "earth movie"
- still didn't found a infrared option to see what ppl are doing at night through the roofs!
Crap
Afaik, cds are the worst media to 'backup' your precious data.
The first burnable cds you could buy (in the 90ties) were of a decent quality, i still have some burned ones around, and they are still readable (older than 10yrs).
But some newer ones (cheaper, & mass-marketing 'mode') are of an awful quality: i have plenty that "died" when reading them: it begins with some bad CRCs, and then more & more & more, till nothing valuable can be read off it. This happened in LESS THAN 2 YEARS.
The problem with cds:
- They hate sunlight
- they hate being in a too hot, or too cold place
- they hate being in a place with too much/not enough humidity
- and the worst: they react with air (oxygen).
It's build with a 2mm plastic, the dye is on top, with some 'protective' layer over it. Some are better than others.
Now with DVDs, they seem to be from a much better quality already, the explanation is simple: the dye isn't on the surface anymore, but between 2 slides of plastic glued together. The reaction with air seems to be insignifiant. Atm, i have no single failing DVDR that i know.
But some brands are of better quality than others.
And btw:
"Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies." - Linus Torvalds
Hello,
I'm looking to make a full diskless desktop client. That shouldn't be much of a trouble for linux. But how should i do it for windows?
I plan to do it over a Gbit network, but no windows terminal server, it 'must' be some virtual network C: drive, so i could benefit of all video acceleration.
I'm thinking to some kind of linux disk server, i've read about iSCSI & iBoot, but i'd like to have a free & software (linux?) based solution.
Any recommendation?
Hello,
If you need a good starchart to find stars/constellations/planets, i have one big recommendation for you, it's called skymap:
http://skymap.com/products.htm
you can use it in a demo version which is already very useful for a starter.
Way to go! =)
Will a VISA be needed to be able to go there?
Or maybe a work allowing card?
*g*
Hard to tell which one was worst, since i had soo many of them
First: i once let a phone fall on the keyboard, and it broke a key (plastic behind was in 2 pieces), so i decided to glue it, with super fast glue, together again, it worked, waited a moment and then pressed the key, it never came out again.
Second: i was installing computers in a little company, which needed a backup of the older data to put back on newer puters. So ok, that backup was being done through the parallel port with an old streamer, something very very slow, took hours. And when i installed the new computer, installed the backup device back on it, it forced me to do a test with the tape to check if it worked, ok it worked. But i don't know what i had in mind.. I HAD to erase the test, clicked everywhere to erase it.. And whole tape got cleaned (while the primary data already was removed from other harddisks..)
I was *white*.... Worst day of my life
Third: Do you know IDE is more or less hotplug? really, it works, done it plenty of times, just umount; hdparm -Y & detach your harddisk,then put it back & remount
Until one day, i plugged the power cord upside down, it didn't fit, but there was enough contact to hear a *PATZ* and the harddisk was dead...
Sigh
Fourth, no data loss in this one luckily, but almost
Sigh
Fifth, recently i saw a harddisk of 200GB getting bad clusters, lost some files with it, ok was in bad mood.. but 3 days later, my main harddisk of 36GB with my linux OS on it crashed totally... Thank you computer world! I was totally pissed...
I have prolly many other stories like that left
Via is proud to present its first new line of handheld game console that has all the abilities of windows XP, this all into your pocket!
- it bluescreens
- it eats more power than required, replace the batteries every 2 hours
- you have to reinstall windows xp every month
- it can get worms if you plug it on internet! (no need to install outlook, the disk share will be enough)
-
Can it run linux?
Who never played the monkey island games?
Those were probably the best adventure games ever made, filled with humor everywhere, probably the only game where it's not boring to talk with the other characters
If they could bring up a movie with a good plot, related to monkey island, and with the same kind of humor! (which will be very hard i think), it would be a great great movie.
Now making a movie of an action game is something pretty stupid, couldn't even watch more than 15 minutes of tomb raider 1, and some years later i even saw they made a second opus? what a disapointement
we all want monkey island! monkeys everywhere, with some scenes filmed in 320*240 pixels & 16 colors (must be great on a cinema screen) =)
and the music of monkey, of course
Let's think of blade runner, i played the game, which i enjoyed a lot, before seeing the movie, the game was great, the movie disapointed me
let's think of dune, played both games, those were amazing! then i saw the movie, again, i was deceived...
The connection between game and movie is hard to do, i don't know if it's even possible, they are too different.
But the only movie about game that would attract me is that monkey island. Which isn't planned, and probably never will be.
real programmers do:
copy con myprogram.exe
BTX will maybe allow better cooling, but the cpu are consuming too much energy already :(
Anyway, i remember that i've read that ALL BTX motherboards will include DRM technology!
Don't fortget this
Are they dossed? it seems i can't connect to sco.com . Oh Wait, maybe it is slashdotted =)
if gravity doesn't matter, explain me why you can't use a sheet of paper and a ballpoint pen on a wall for more than 5 minutes ?
Now you can virtually travel in a 3D space environment, i've seen this news on newsforge, tried it out, and it was very interesting stuff :)
... The software is called celestia
:)
You can go to the planet/star you want,at the time you want, travelling in a 3D/openGL system showing stars, comets, constellations,
Celestia link
Also you can get a nice map of the stars using Skymap Link
And it runs under wine
Those are both great software you have to try out if you are interested in space/stars/...
here is a copy of the article, for the lazy bastards that don't want to register ;)
August 31, 2003
Virus Aside, Gates Says Reliability Is Greater
By JOHN MARKOFF
MICROSOFT, the world's biggest software maker, is the biggest target for computer viruses like the SoBig.F worm that wreaked havoc two weeks ago. Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, talked last week about what it is doing to keep hackers at bay. Following are excerpts from the conversation.
Q. You wrote a memo last year calling on Microsoft to focus on reliable software. Now we've had this series of computer-security-related events that make it appear to outsiders that you aren't making progress. Have you in fact made progress?
A. Well, we've certainly made a lot of progress in terms of creating more reliable software, building tools so that people can stay up to date so that they don't run into these problems, creating the procedures that make sure that the recovery actions get widely communicated. We'd be the first to say that we're doing more and more on this. It was very important that we got the company focused on it, made it part of the reviews of all the different employees.
The fact that these attacks are coming out and that people's software is not up to date in a way that fully prevents an attack on them is something we feel very bad about. We want the update process to work so automatically that in the future these problems won't happen. The hackers are attacking not only our systems but other systems, and with the right kind of infrastructure and the right kind of work we can make sure they don't disrupt things.
Q. Have these events created a serious public perception problem about Microsoft on the issue of security?
A. Microsoft's reputation for doing great software research is very strong, and people are looking to us now and saying, "no other software company has solved this; you, Microsoft, need to solve it." We're rising to that challenge. The expectation they have of us is very high.
Q. The buffer overrun flaw that made the Blaster worm possible was specifically targeted in your code reviews last year. Do you understand why the flaw that led to Blaster escaped your detection?
A. Understand there have actually been fixes for all of these things before the attack took place. The challenge is that we've got to get the fixes to be automatically applied without our customers having to make a special effort.
Q. You have enemies who are in a crusade to undermine Microsoft. How do you cope with that?
A. I'm not aware of any systematic attempt by any group. There have been a few of these things that have come along. We have to make our systems invulnerable to these things. It's within our ability to make the systems invulnerable because the speed of update is as great or greater than the speed that somebody comes up with an exploit.
Q. Blaster included a message attacking you. Do you take these things personally?
A. No.
Q. Have you considered enabling the Windows XP Firewall by default?
A. The fact is there has been a fire wall inside of Windows that would have blocked MSblast [the worm]. We're doing a better job of getting information out to people of how to turn that on and when they should turn that on. The idea that it would be on by default is something that we have to push the technology to make that work for people. It looks like we've got a solution to do that.
Q. Some people are concerned about the automatic distribution of patches because of the possibility of doing widespread damage.
A. These patches will be signed by us, and things that are put into the critical security path that we have to pass through we have to be very careful that there is no regression in those things. It's a channel that has to be used not for features, but just for very critical things. We have some other ideas such as something called behavior blocking that will obviate the need in
here is a link to a sample code that should be "finally" supported?
p ne t/pnetlib/samples/FormsHello.cs?rev=HEAD&content-t %20ype=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
/. introduces
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/dotgnu-
(remove the space %20) that
Does someone know if this applies to DVD-Rs too?
How long before they die?
Same experience here, some brands sometimes don't pass the year alive!
e s/recover cd.sh /. inserts, if any) :)
To try to recover the most of possible from cds (in data mode only), i have written a little shell script, basically it reads byte per byte (i know i should use blocks of 2048 but that was complicating the rest), if it fails on a reader, it asks you to put the cd in another one, etc
Some readers can read parts of damaged/old cds better than others etc... 2 cd readers required!
here is the link to the script:
http://lethalwp.dyndns.org/~lethalwp/fil
(suppress the space
i won't update the script any further.