I used to pplay quake2 a lot and the community was pretty good. No major cheaters annd such. Most of them moved on to q3. Of course, i think gamespy has really started to suck since i last played, so it may no longer be feasable to find games (q2 has no builtin gamebrowser)
Finally a group that tries to make their cds worth buying. Like dvds with special features and superior quality, their bonus dvd adds a motive to buy the cd. I'm less impressed with the blanks, but it does make a good statement about the group. I've never heard of them before, but i'm gonna dl some of their stuff to see if i like it and if so i'll buy their cd set.
Considering that video chat sucks and nobody actually uses it besides as a neat gimmick, it'll be a long time before the gaim devs waste their time writing a video module, imo.
this looks suprisingly similar to the design of my G5. Except for the separate temp zones, but they can't do that with a builkd-it-yourself form factor. Or could they? Anyone know? Maybe they'll call it CTX.
This sort of thing is going to destroy their credibility.
Amnesty has credibiblility? These are the same people that were protesting the war in Iraqa because it was EXPENSIVE, not protesting for a good reason.
Much of the commentary on the SCO distributed denial of service scenario, including our own, has been based on the premise that SCO badly wants to keep their web site running. This may not be the case: unlike Microsoft, which has a real business to run and a real need to keep its web site operational, SCO Executives may not strongly care about the availability of www.sco.com. After all, Michael Doyle's half a billion dollar patent win against Microsoft scarcely hinged on the response times of the Eolas web site.
In fact, the author of the MyDoom virus has delegated control of directing the most enormous volume of http traffic that the Internet has yet seen to hostmaster@sco.com. On a whim, SCO can direct that Tsunami at an object of their choosing, simply by changing an A record in named.conf in time for the change to propagate by Sunday.
In this context, SCO Executives may have latitude to consider alternative defenses which do not involve having to parlay with low-down-no-good-Linux-loving-CDN-providers.
Solution 1: Move the SCO site to somewhere that has the clue and the clout to cope.
Consequences: SCO Executives buy a small business shared hosting account at Yahoo, noting that it runs on FreeBSD, not Linux, and point www.sco.com at the new account.
webhosting.yahoo.com stays up, and serves all the http requests from the infected machines at the same speed that the www.yahoo.com front page normally loads. Virus author kicks the cat in frustration. SCO's entire corporate cash resources exhausted by Yahoo's bandwidth surcharges in the first eight minutes. Yahoo pre-announces record quarter for hosting division.
Solution 2: Take www.sco.com out of the DNS.
Consequences: Everyone has a quiet weekend. SCO Execs drink Budweiser and watch the Superbowl. Global media considers that the virus author "has won". Anti-virus company Execs do not return journalists' calls on "What was all that fuss?"
Solution 3: Point www.sco.com at someone you don't like.
Consequences: SCO Executives take a poll on which web site annoys them the most. Slashdot wins. hostmaster@sco.com CNames www.sco.com to slashdot.org. SCO Execs cackle demonically at the prospect of slashdotting Slashdot.
Linux community notices DNS change propagating within five minutes. Eric Raymond calls for "restraint in the face of SCO's continual provocation". Undeterred, Linux community launches internet-wide round the clock hackathon, and finds six "trivially insecure" US military installations shortly after the US military go home on Friday afternoon. Spend Saturday soaking up the totally awesome graphics on the Stealth bomber flight simulators, and then obliterate most of Utah, sco.com name servers and all, on Sunday morning hours before the DDoS is due to hit Slashdot. SCO Execs still laughing themselves helpless about the/. Effect when the bomb hits.
New, previously unknown Linux Thought Leader declares that "we have met the enemy, and they are gone". Traffic to Slashdot triples, Hemos weeps about the size of OSDN's unsold banner inventory. Follow up posts enthuse about the quality of the stealth bomber user interface, then propose that they should sort out "the problem in Redmond" before they give the US Military their network back in time for Monday morning. New Linux Thought Leader concurs, adding that there's a carding site in Moscow that really ticks him off, too. Armageddon.
Solution 4: Get to the Windows machines before they go off.
Consequences: SCO executives persuade Slashdot readers that Windows machines are their common enemy and that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Someone in the Linux community notices Colin Percival's Depenguinator program, and considers that with some minor modifications, it can be distributed by the MyDoom virus, and as its payload, download and install Debian 3.0r2, KDE, Open Office and Evolution. Changes name of program to "De Penguinator".
Entire set of infected Windows machines is reached and eith
Methinks Appleworks will eventually become a version of openoffice, but only after the OSS community ports it to aqua. Apple feels like its dev time would be better speant on stuff like iLife that may make people actually switch to the mac, which a decent version of appleworks won't as MS office is pleanty good enough, even if apple doesn't profit off it directly.
My guess is that the guys at Apple think office:mac is good enough for now and they would rather spend their money replacing shitty software (IE) and working on crazy new things for iLife (like GarageBand). I'm sure eventually appleworks will become a version of oo.org, but its not as big a priority as things that would make people actually switch to the mac. Also, they might be waiting for the OSS community to port oo.org to the aqua interface instead of spending valuable dev time on stuff that will eventually be done anyway.
For the record i use oo.org on a mac and it does a damn good job, imo.
are you using oo 1.0.3? cause tat loads slow when running a custom compiled versio on gentoo x86. Once they have oo 1.1 (they might already; i haven't checked) for OSX, it'll be much faster. It is on linux.
cause i can't always remember if yahoo is 66.218.71.198 or 66.218.71.189. Hell, i barely know my own phone number and you expect me to remember ip addresses?
People expect Apple to be perfect and when they dies, the owners get pissed. Somebody figured out that about.1% of ibooks have the logic board issues. That's pretty damn good, but nobody writes articles about "My iBook still works" just "my iBook died." Other manufacturors that have a reputation for cheap computers (Dell, Compaq, etc) are spared this because people aren't surprised when their Dell* needs to go in for service.
*It's just an example, I know Dells don't die much more often than other cheap computers.
if we could have picked any landing site on mars, it would be Opportunity's. An examination of bedrock will tell us much more about mars than analyzing rocks that may have come from space. Also, is Opportunity set up to look for life?
btw, Firebird on OSX says the color image contains errors. Anyone else having that happen?
And you can buy a nice house for the price of a high-end exotic sports car, too. Does that mean that Ferrari should give up, stop making cars, and go out of business?
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firebird^H^H^H^Hfox
I used to pplay quake2 a lot and the community was pretty good. No major cheaters annd such. Most of them moved on to q3. Of course, i think gamespy has really started to suck since i last played, so it may no longer be feasable to find games (q2 has no builtin gamebrowser)
Finally a group that tries to make their cds worth buying. Like dvds with special features and superior quality, their bonus dvd adds a motive to buy the cd. I'm less impressed with the blanks, but it does make a good statement about the group. I've never heard of them before, but i'm gonna dl some of their stuff to see if i like it and if so i'll buy their cd set.
Considering that video chat sucks and nobody actually uses it besides as a neat gimmick, it'll be a long time before the gaim devs waste their time writing a video module, imo.
PS... You'll want all the RAM you can afford.
But don't buy from the apple store as they overprice the ram. Just get direct form crucial or newegg and you'll save a good bit of $$$
this looks suprisingly similar to the design of my G5. Except for the separate temp zones, but they can't do that with a builkd-it-yourself form factor. Or could they? Anyone know? Maybe they'll call it CTX.
Shake the case and if nothng important falls out, it's not necessary
This sort of thing is going to destroy their credibility.
Amnesty has credibiblility? These are the same people that were protesting the war in Iraqa because it was EXPENSIVE, not protesting for a good reason.
In your kitchen drawers on the right side of the sink, third one down under the ziploc bags.
--The Governor
Much of the commentary on the SCO distributed denial of service scenario, including our own, has been based on the premise that SCO badly wants to keep their web site running. This may not be the case: unlike Microsoft, which has a real business to run and a real need to keep its web site operational, SCO Executives may not strongly care about the availability of www.sco.com. After all, Michael Doyle's half a billion dollar patent win against Microsoft scarcely hinged on the response times of the Eolas web site.
/. Effect when the bomb hits.
In fact, the author of the MyDoom virus has delegated control of directing the most enormous volume of http traffic that the Internet has yet seen to hostmaster@sco.com. On a whim, SCO can direct that Tsunami at an object of their choosing, simply by changing an A record in named.conf in time for the change to propagate by Sunday.
In this context, SCO Executives may have latitude to consider alternative defenses which do not involve having to parlay with low-down-no-good-Linux-loving-CDN-providers.
Solution 1: Move the SCO site to somewhere that has the clue and the clout to cope.
Consequences: SCO Executives buy a small business shared hosting account at Yahoo, noting that it runs on FreeBSD, not Linux, and point www.sco.com at the new account.
webhosting.yahoo.com stays up, and serves all the http requests from the infected machines at the same speed that the www.yahoo.com front page normally loads. Virus author kicks the cat in frustration. SCO's entire corporate cash resources exhausted by Yahoo's bandwidth surcharges in the first eight minutes. Yahoo pre-announces record quarter for hosting division.
Solution 2: Take www.sco.com out of the DNS.
Consequences: Everyone has a quiet weekend. SCO Execs drink Budweiser and watch the Superbowl. Global media considers that the virus author "has won". Anti-virus company Execs do not return journalists' calls on "What was all that fuss?"
Solution 3: Point www.sco.com at someone you don't like.
Consequences: SCO Executives take a poll on which web site annoys them the most. Slashdot wins. hostmaster@sco.com CNames www.sco.com to slashdot.org. SCO Execs cackle demonically at the prospect of slashdotting Slashdot.
Linux community notices DNS change propagating within five minutes. Eric Raymond calls for "restraint in the face of SCO's continual provocation". Undeterred, Linux community launches internet-wide round the clock hackathon, and finds six "trivially insecure" US military installations shortly after the US military go home on Friday afternoon. Spend Saturday soaking up the totally awesome graphics on the Stealth bomber flight simulators, and then obliterate most of Utah, sco.com name servers and all, on Sunday morning hours before the DDoS is due to hit Slashdot. SCO Execs still laughing themselves helpless about the
New, previously unknown Linux Thought Leader declares that "we have met the enemy, and they are gone". Traffic to Slashdot triples, Hemos weeps about the size of OSDN's unsold banner inventory. Follow up posts enthuse about the quality of the stealth bomber user interface, then propose that they should sort out "the problem in Redmond" before they give the US Military their network back in time for Monday morning. New Linux Thought Leader concurs, adding that there's a carding site in Moscow that really ticks him off, too. Armageddon.
Solution 4: Get to the Windows machines before they go off.
Consequences: SCO executives persuade Slashdot readers that Windows machines are their common enemy and that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Someone in the Linux community notices Colin Percival's Depenguinator program, and considers that with some minor modifications, it can be distributed by the MyDoom virus, and as its payload, download and install Debian 3.0r2, KDE, Open Office and Evolution. Changes name of program to "De Penguinator".
Entire set of infected Windows machines is reached and eith
What plugin do i need to watch those ads? Firebird and IE don't sem to know what do do with the video.
The deal expired. But that would explain why Appleworks continued to suck for so long.
Methinks Appleworks will eventually become a version of openoffice, but only after the OSS community ports it to aqua. Apple feels like its dev time would be better speant on stuff like iLife that may make people actually switch to the mac, which a decent version of appleworks won't as MS office is pleanty good enough, even if apple doesn't profit off it directly.
My guess is that the guys at Apple think office:mac is good enough for now and they would rather spend their money replacing shitty software (IE) and working on crazy new things for iLife (like GarageBand). I'm sure eventually appleworks will become a version of oo.org, but its not as big a priority as things that would make people actually switch to the mac. Also, they might be waiting for the OSS community to port oo.org to the aqua interface instead of spending valuable dev time on stuff that will eventually be done anyway.
For the record i use oo.org on a mac and it does a damn good job, imo.
are you using oo 1.0.3? cause tat loads slow when running a custom compiled versio on gentoo x86. Once they have oo 1.1 (they might already; i haven't checked) for OSX, it'll be much faster. It is on linux.
some of these upstart two-bit "nations"...
Canada? or England?
cause i can't always remember if yahoo is 66.218.71.198 or 66.218.71.189. Hell, i barely know my own phone number and you expect me to remember ip addresses?
but if i can't spell dictioanarie how do i get one off ebay?
C++ has exceptions? I never knew that. Well, i'm back to there not being anything that I like better about Java then C++.
People expect Apple to be perfect and when they dies, the owners get pissed. Somebody figured out that about .1% of ibooks have the logic board issues. That's pretty damn good, but nobody writes articles about "My iBook still works" just "my iBook died." Other manufacturors that have a reputation for cheap computers (Dell, Compaq, etc) are spared this because people aren't surprised when their Dell* needs to go in for service.
*It's just an example, I know Dells don't die much more often than other cheap computers.
if we could have picked any landing site on mars, it would be Opportunity's. An examination of bedrock will tell us much more about mars than analyzing rocks that may have come from space. Also, is Opportunity set up to look for life?
btw, Firebird on OSX says the color image contains errors. Anyone else having that happen?
Linus: If you strike me down i will become more powerful than you could ever imagine.
actually the kernel is so configurable, that may well happen.
And you can buy a nice house for the price of a high-end exotic sports car, too. Does that mean that Ferrari should give up, stop making cars, and go out of business?
No, they should make houses.
I don't see why those can't be combined.