What p2p software is made useless by being behind a NAT? I use kazaa, giFT, bittorrent, konspire, and irc/ftp.. all of these work fine behind a NAT gateway. Port forwarding helps bittorrent, but it's not necessary. I'm behind a few NAT translations (My office->My work places network->ISP is all different NAT's) and I'm still uploading and downloading at great speeds with all these p2p clients. Perhaps your problems lie in the firewalling and not in the address translation.
Did you ever fucking think that maybe the error message wasn't intended for you? Like you could do fuck about it anyways? You obviously can't tell the difference between a java error and a Linux kernel error, so maybe you should just sit back and STFU while the people with intelligence get things to work. It's a pretty straight forward error message. much more so than "A fatal exception has occured". If you want error messages dumbed down to your ability to comprehend why don't you fucking write something instead of being a lecherous waste of air, instead of whining "I'm too stupid to understand! Dumb this down for me so I don't feel as stupid as I really am!"
Basically the point is, if you don't like the article don't read it, and certainly don't post your disapproval of it. I found the article interesting, you didn't. Guess what? Opinions differ. You aren't the embodiment of geekdom and neither am I. It's also "meaningful discussion" in that it is a victory for the geek scoiety in general, and thus is very relevant to "news for nerds". And why does the SCO post autmatically deserve more posts than a new programming language? Some of us actually have to program for a living and we can't always choose what to program in. It's nice to have somewhere to see emerging technologies, even if they are from MS. Your post that because SCO's post had less comments than F# post, it must not be meaningful discussion makes no sense in any way, shape, or form. Number of posts != quality of discussion. Are 400 -1: Troll posts more meaningful than 50 +5: Informative posts? I think not.
I just installed and tested it, and it's pretty cool. It's p2p filesharing for lazy asses. It won't be good for finding those obscure files, as I see no search functionality. Personally, I don't usually go looking for something in particular, I just want to find something cool to entertain me for awhile, which is why I really like torrense.cx. This is similar to that, minus interactivity. All you have to do is subscribe to a channel and you'll automatically get whatever they put out. This is a great distribution method for IRC channels that serve out a specific type of media (ie #futurama, #adultswim, #XXXwhatever). After a new ripping is finished, simply broadcast it and everyone else in the channel will get it. I can't see it being so great for Mp3's because everyone's tastes are so different, even within a single genre. Overall I'll give it a 9 out of a possible 10.
Uh..sorry, but for Napster it had everything to do with the software being used, or more specifically the design of the software. It may make no difference to the RIAA, MPAA, or any of those agencies, but it sure as hell makes a difference to the courts, and this is where the battle is fought.
.. Have never defaced my site with the goatse guy nor deleted critical files. They may not work great at first (or at all) but they're in no way malicious. More dangerous than hackers or virii? I think not.
Why would you want to start a music store under Napster's name? Granted it has good name recognition, but it's often recognition associated with pirating music. It seems to me it would be more of a burden to lift the stigma of the name than the name is worth.
" So are you requiring each player to have a USB keychain to save his or her progress in the game? Or will you require players in a game to have a network connection and save their progress to a server that does have a HD? "
Those two methods both currently work, but one thing you forgot to consider is that almost all computers still have floppies. A small old HDD would suit the purpose of saving your progress, but would be a bit overkill for saving games. I never said to require the user to have anything, I said the purpose of most boot cds is to be playable on a diskless node, or play on a machine without having to make any changes to the disk. I didn't say take the ability to use the HDD out, I just infered that a boot cd that requires a HDD is crippled.
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Actually there is a visual basic clone called Gambas for Linux. Of course no respectable developer would be caught programming in any form of BASIC:P
Thank you for letting everyone know what a mystery time is for you. The original post said 18, not 10. That was a discrepancy fixed LATER by the editors. A little bit of critical thinking would have been in order here.
The kernel of a distro can't be specified down to that level of just your hw config. It doesn't install on your HDD, most things that need to be written to are mounted on a ramdisk, otherwise a bootable CD is kinda useless. The point, IMHO, is to run it on a machine without an HDD. Gentoo has already had a game CD with the nvidia drivers and UT2k3 demo on it, and bootable cd's themselves have been around for years and years (I made one with Win95 and my first 2x burner)
If you really want to know more about bootable CD's and how they work with your favorite OS, a google search is guaranteed to be helpful.
Gentoo has several high paying sponsors such as IBM. They also sell gentoo branded merchandise on their web page. Personally, I'd like to see the offer some enterprise support, but it's really just not that kind of distro (yet).
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Daniel Robbins and the rest of the Gentoo crew have done an amazing job with Gentoo as a Linux distro, and even though it's a relative new-comer, it has exploded onto the scene as a force to be reckoned with. I really believe that they will be as huge a success in the game industry as they were in the Linux distro field, they are competent coders and they know what the average Linux user wants, because they ARE your average Linux users. Also, I've had a few chats with drobbins in #gentoo on freenode. When was the last time you saw the head of your favorite distro kick it wif da homies on #IRC. He was even providing basic support for total newbs. Maybe that's why there's so many of us Gentoo zelouts who just won't shut up about it:)
I was upset when I saw credit for eCos going to Linux. Linux itself is great for embedded platforms, but eCos is not related to Linux at all, and it deserves it's own identity. Let's see how long it takes the editors to fix this discrepancy, if they do at all.
The amazing thing about Doom 3 is that everything isrendered in real time, not drawn out with a bunch of polygons. Consider it the equivalent to playing doom within 3D Studio Max.
This is the dumbest, most wannabe "I use an alternative OS" post I have ever seen. What an idiotic, short sighted idea. Do you have some misguided notion that IRC was created for people running Linux or BSD? I myself use mIRC under wine, becase regardless of what know nothing wannabe elitists think of it, it is one of the best clients out there. So I'm running mIRC under Linux.. does that count in your stupid Windows ban? Hey, let's turn this around. Linux clients shouldn't be able to connect to Windows' servers. At least that would keep your dumbass off of slashdot, and half the internet.
Windows bashing is fine in my book, but making ridiculous suggestions is exactly that.. ridiculous.
I've found some of the best information on blogs. I have no problem with them making a blog specific search, but like the Linux specific search I hope relevant sites can still be found from the main search. It would be a pain to have to search every individual google engine for one bit of info. As it is now, I can use the main search and be pretty sure that I'm going to get a relevant result regardless of what category the site falls under. If I'm looking up what IIRC stands for, I don't really care if I get the info from a JoeBlow's blog or from howstuffworks.com.
Gnomedex is not the geek conference of the year, or even close. Saying geek 6 times in your article won't change that fact. I'm not sure I know what the geek conference of the year is, but I know this isn't it.
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What p2p software is made useless by being behind a NAT? I use kazaa, giFT, bittorrent, konspire, and irc/ftp.. all of these work fine behind a NAT gateway. Port forwarding helps bittorrent, but it's not necessary. I'm behind a few NAT translations (My office->My work places network->ISP is all different NAT's) and I'm still uploading and downloading at great speeds with all these p2p clients. Perhaps your problems lie in the firewalling and not in the address translation.
Did you ever fucking think that maybe the error message wasn't intended for you? Like you could do fuck about it anyways? You obviously can't tell the difference between a java error and a Linux kernel error, so maybe you should just sit back and STFU while the people with intelligence get things to work. It's a pretty straight forward error message. much more so than "A fatal exception has occured". If you want error messages dumbed down to your ability to comprehend why don't you fucking write something instead of being a lecherous waste of air, instead of whining "I'm too stupid to understand! Dumb this down for me so I don't feel as stupid as I really am!"
Fucking moron..
Basically the point is, if you don't like the article don't read it, and certainly don't post your disapproval of it. I found the article interesting, you didn't. Guess what? Opinions differ. You aren't the embodiment of geekdom and neither am I. It's also "meaningful discussion" in that it is a victory for the geek scoiety in general, and thus is very relevant to "news for nerds". And why does the SCO post autmatically deserve more posts than a new programming language? Some of us actually have to program for a living and we can't always choose what to program in. It's nice to have somewhere to see emerging technologies, even if they are from MS. Your post that because SCO's post had less comments than F# post, it must not be meaningful discussion makes no sense in any way, shape, or form. Number of posts != quality of discussion. Are 400 -1: Troll posts more meaningful than 50 +5: Informative posts? I think not.
I just installed and tested it, and it's pretty cool. It's p2p filesharing for lazy asses. It won't be good for finding those obscure files, as I see no search functionality. Personally, I don't usually go looking for something in particular, I just want to find something cool to entertain me for awhile, which is why I really like torrense.cx. This is similar to that, minus interactivity. All you have to do is subscribe to a channel and you'll automatically get whatever they put out. This is a great distribution method for IRC channels that serve out a specific type of media (ie #futurama, #adultswim, #XXXwhatever). After a new ripping is finished, simply broadcast it and everyone else in the channel will get it. I can't see it being so great for Mp3's because everyone's tastes are so different, even within a single genre. Overall I'll give it a 9 out of a possible 10.
Uh..sorry, but for Napster it had everything to do with the software being used, or more specifically the design of the software. It may make no difference to the RIAA, MPAA, or any of those agencies, but it sure as hell makes a difference to the courts, and this is where the battle is fought.
If you need to emphasize something HTMLis much more useful. Do you SHOUT in mid-sentence when you are normally speaking?
do YOU really need to CAPITALIZE every other WORD?
.. Have never defaced my site with the goatse guy nor deleted critical files. They may not work great at first (or at all) but they're in no way malicious. More dangerous than hackers or virii? I think not.
Why would you want to start a music store under Napster's name? Granted it has good name recognition, but it's often recognition associated with pirating music. It seems to me it would be more of a burden to lift the stigma of the name than the name is worth.
" So are you requiring each player to have a USB keychain to save his or her progress in the game? Or will you require players in a game to have a network connection and save their progress to a server that does have a HD? "
Those two methods both currently work, but one thing you forgot to consider is that almost all computers still have floppies. A small old HDD would suit the purpose of saving your progress, but would be a bit overkill for saving games. I never said to require the user to have anything, I said the purpose of most boot cds is to be playable on a diskless node, or play on a machine without having to make any changes to the disk. I didn't say take the ability to use the HDD out, I just infered that a boot cd that requires a HDD is crippled.
Actually there is a visual basic clone called Gambas for Linux. Of course no respectable developer would be caught programming in any form of BASIC :P
Thank you for letting everyone know what a mystery time is for you. The original post said 18, not 10. That was a discrepancy fixed LATER by the editors. A little bit of critical thinking would have been in order here.
"There are mostly four kinds of coins in circulation in the U.S: 1 cent, 5 cents, 18 cents, and 25 cents"
Where is this 18 cent coin? Have I been living under a rock? Are my dimes now worth 18 cents?
The kernel of a distro can't be specified down to that level of just your hw config. It doesn't install on your HDD, most things that need to be written to are mounted on a ramdisk, otherwise a bootable CD is kinda useless. The point, IMHO, is to run it on a machine without an HDD. Gentoo has already had a game CD with the nvidia drivers and UT2k3 demo on it, and bootable cd's themselves have been around for years and years (I made one with Win95 and my first 2x burner)
If you really want to know more about bootable CD's and how they work with your favorite OS, a google search is guaranteed to be helpful.
Gentoo has several high paying sponsors such as IBM. They also sell gentoo branded merchandise on their web page. Personally, I'd like to see the offer some enterprise support, but it's really just not that kind of distro (yet).
Daniel Robbins and the rest of the Gentoo crew have done an amazing job with Gentoo as a Linux distro, and even though it's a relative new-comer, it has exploded onto the scene as a force to be reckoned with. I really believe that they will be as huge a success in the game industry as they were in the Linux distro field, they are competent coders and they know what the average Linux user wants, because they ARE your average Linux users. Also, I've had a few chats with drobbins in #gentoo on freenode. When was the last time you saw the head of your favorite distro kick it wif da homies on #IRC. He was even providing basic support for total newbs. Maybe that's why there's so many of us Gentoo zelouts who just won't shut up about it :)
I was upset when I saw credit for eCos going to Linux. Linux itself is great for embedded platforms, but eCos is not related to Linux at all, and it deserves it's own identity. Let's see how long it takes the editors to fix this discrepancy, if they do at all.
The amazing thing about Doom 3 is that everything isrendered in real time, not drawn out with a bunch of polygons. Consider it the equivalent to playing doom within 3D Studio Max.
Considering OSX is one of the unices, it is quite befitting that it is posted on slashdot.
An idiot responds to an idiot. The second idiot however, was a scared little bitch ass and posted as AC.
This is the dumbest, most wannabe "I use an alternative OS" post I have ever seen. What an idiotic, short sighted idea. Do you have some misguided notion that IRC was created for people running Linux or BSD? I myself use mIRC under wine, becase regardless of what know nothing wannabe elitists think of it, it is one of the best clients out there. So I'm running mIRC under Linux.. does that count in your stupid Windows ban? Hey, let's turn this around. Linux clients shouldn't be able to connect to Windows' servers. At least that would keep your dumbass off of slashdot, and half the internet.
Windows bashing is fine in my book, but making ridiculous suggestions is exactly that.. ridiculous.
No.. this ONLY effects those doing business on both ends within california.
See if you can make a CIFS/SMB connection to his box, try your username and password (He probably stole those too!) and then go crazy deleting stuff.
I've found some of the best information on blogs. I have no problem with them making a blog specific search, but like the Linux specific search I hope relevant sites can still be found from the main search. It would be a pain to have to search every individual google engine for one bit of info. As it is now, I can use the main search and be pretty sure that I'm going to get a relevant result regardless of what category the site falls under. If I'm looking up what IIRC stands for, I don't really care if I get the info from a JoeBlow's blog or from howstuffworks.com.
Gnomedex is not the geek conference of the year, or even close. Saying geek 6 times in your article won't change that fact. I'm not sure I know what the geek conference of the year is, but I know this isn't it.