We use it at my company, which is a smaller cellular network to track and document outages and customer complaints as it passes through the multiple departmental blame. I would recommend it though I'm not sure if it meets the sub's criteria. Its got a whole lot of features we don't use at least:)
The Xbox and PS2 are front loading however, the only major game system out right now that is toploading is the GameCube, and that system was designed for the younger audience who probably dont have a rack in their living room.
Game console manufacturers lose money on each system sale. they gain it back when the players purchase games. So it would be smart to design a system where kids didnt have to keep buying new systems.
I can just play media content off of my dreamcast (running linux) for less $$ =P
that says just how i read it, he claimed to do it all on his dreamcast running linux. I also use linux on my dreamcast very frequently as a dumb x terminal on my network. so please, its obvious now that i know more on this topic than you.
thats funny, the dreamcast's video display is a framebuffer xserver which is slow as all hell, and eats up almost all 16 megs of the memory. linuxdc is not tweaked enouph to play any sort of video content.
as others have said already, go read the GPL again. just becouse its in the same box does not mean it requires the source to be released, as it doesnt include any GPL'ed code in there source theer keeping closed.
"NVidia's cards almost always just "Look right", with less graphical glitches or colors that just don't "look right"
Im sorry i always buy Ati Hardware, with the newest cards yes you can notice the speed improvement, and about your lookign right comment you summed it up best...
actually, i was aproached at work, i worked at kmart at the time, and he went to the front desk and asked if anyone who worked there knew much about computers, they said i did and he tried talking me into it.
Twice people have tried to "recruit" me for spamming there stuff before. the first guy wouldnt even tell me anything about what he was except "a company other companies hire to establish there products presence on the internet". i called him a spammer, he took offence and walked away. The other time i just ignored the fellow who tried to talk to me.
If i had any script writing knowhow, im sure it wouldnt be hard to have a script monitor connections and if does see a significant amount of outgoing mail block that network cards mac address.
lets say they did deicide to take one of there customers work and try to exploit it. its probably going to be someone who cant afford the years of trials and appeals to get back the right to there own materials for themselves. so to answer your question, they probably slipped it in thinking they might have a use to use it down the road to steal Intelectual property, and would only use it on someone without the monetary volume to protect there own work.
i never have problems with Maxtor Drives, perhaps i just have excellent luck of the draw, but 90% of my systems use them, seagate and Western digital however, i have lots of problems with.
but your not just recieving a signal that would have been there anyways, you then transmit, and use the connection, sending whatever the hell you got damn please, now your packets are tresspassing onto someone elses's network, was it wide open... yes, but just becouse i disnt lock my front door does not give you the right to come in and drink my damn beer.
Of coarse its assumed at that point thats why the candy is there. As for the WiFi believe it or not most of the unencrypted AP's are not there for public use. yes it is stealing, stealing from people who do not understand the technology, they just plug in and go.
I agree, i use w00t on the occasion as well, like when i frag a clanmate after he/she trash talking for over an hour or so. but its just the word boxen doesnt fit well into sentences on the online community. typically words created are meant to make the typing easier or to make it sound short, sweet and cool. boxen does nothing of the short.
Perhaps it could also be the first time i heard it was the time a script kiddie tried harrassing me, and i went forward to making fun of it. bandwith did rise on my machine as he attempted to dos it though, good thing hes not good at it:)
I know this is slightly offtopic, even though he used it in the topic of this article. but seriously, the use of the word boxen is stupid, we dont say "a box factory makes boxen", so dont use the term for computers.
Whenever someone uses that word to me i turn around and stop listening to them, it really makes me question there inteligence both in the IT field and in general inteligence.
"No support = no users" I dont think valve wants linux users if they havent made a client for it:)
Seriously though im not too sure its cost effective for them to, with all the man hours to put into porting/testing and keeping a linux client up to date with the windows one, they would probably lose money or at very best break even after the adventure, and companies always think about the cash when it comes to decisions like that.
I agree, my system is not as beefy as yours is but i am a 1ghz p3 system with a radeon 8500 video card and 512 megs ram. video playback and opengl games dont get the same speed as they would do in windows.
That is exactly the intended audience to be honest. im not really sure why this is slashdot material becouse the audience is rather small. its for anyone who currently owns the ps2 linux kit, and would rather run debian than a redhat varient on it. very useless for me, but i doubt many people otherwise.
of coarse you dont get the thrill of running linux on an alternative archetecture, or as the kit is meant to me used by, progarmming your own software on a REAL console. Its not to be used in the way of a replacement pc. Not to mention at the same time your solution would be Larger, Lacking features (like tv-out) and on the side would play games slower than the ps2 would (if you like playing games):)
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We use it at my company, which is a smaller cellular network to track and document outages and customer complaints as it passes through the multiple departmental blame. I would recommend it though I'm not sure if it meets the sub's criteria. Its got a whole lot of features we don't use at least :)
The Xbox and PS2 are front loading however, the only major game system out right now that is toploading is the GameCube, and that system was designed for the younger audience who probably dont have a rack in their living room.
Game console manufacturers lose money on each system sale. they gain it back when the players purchase games. So it would be smart to design a system where kids didnt have to keep buying new systems.
harsh words..
I can just play media content off of my dreamcast (running linux) for less $$ =P
that says just how i read it, he claimed to do it all on his dreamcast running linux. I also use linux on my dreamcast very frequently as a dumb x terminal on my network. so please, its obvious now that i know more on this topic than you.
thats funny, the dreamcast's video display is a framebuffer xserver which is slow as all hell, and eats up almost all 16 megs of the memory. linuxdc is not tweaked enouph to play any sort of video content.
How did you do it?
as others have said already, go read the GPL again. just becouse its in the same box does not mean it requires the source to be released, as it doesnt include any GPL'ed code in there source theer keeping closed.
well there is about 10 people who posted that before him
Its not part of the kernel, its applications and video codec lib's. so no they dont need to release any source.
Hardly, there getting money from a private company to put in PVR's and such, the linux community will not gain anything
"NVidia's cards almost always just "Look right", with less graphical glitches or colors that just don't "look right"
Im sorry i always buy Ati Hardware, with the newest cards yes you can notice the speed improvement, and about your lookign right comment you summed it up best...
"Links? References?"
actually, i was aproached at work, i worked at kmart at the time, and he went to the front desk and asked if anyone who worked there knew much about computers, they said i did and he tried talking me into it.
Twice people have tried to "recruit" me for spamming there stuff before. the first guy wouldnt even tell me anything about what he was except "a company other companies hire to establish there products presence on the internet". i called him a spammer, he took offence and walked away. The other time i just ignored the fellow who tried to talk to me.
If i had any script writing knowhow, im sure it wouldnt be hard to have a script monitor connections and if does see a significant amount of outgoing mail block that network cards mac address.
lets say they did deicide to take one of there customers work and try to exploit it. its probably going to be someone who cant afford the years of trials and appeals to get back the right to there own materials for themselves. so to answer your question, they probably slipped it in thinking they might have a use to use it down the road to steal Intelectual property, and would only use it on someone without the monetary volume to protect there own work.
i never have problems with Maxtor Drives, perhaps i just have excellent luck of the draw, but 90% of my systems use them, seagate and Western digital however, i have lots of problems with.
but your not just recieving a signal that would have been there anyways, you then transmit, and use the connection, sending whatever the hell you got damn please, now your packets are tresspassing onto someone elses's network, was it wide open... yes, but just becouse i disnt lock my front door does not give you the right to come in and drink my damn beer.
"The guy could easily secure his network if he felt like it.. or if he was wise enough."
what is it with you people thinking like scam artists. "they were so stupid they were asking for it!"
stealing an ignorant persons bandwith is as bad as selling someone the brooklyn bridge.
Of coarse its assumed at that point thats why the candy is there. As for the WiFi believe it or not most of the unencrypted AP's are not there for public use. yes it is stealing, stealing from people who do not understand the technology, they just plug in and go.
I agree, i use w00t on the occasion as well, like when i frag a clanmate after he/she trash talking for over an hour or so. but its just the word boxen doesnt fit well into sentences on the online community. typically words created are meant to make the typing easier or to make it sound short, sweet and cool. boxen does nothing of the short.
Perhaps it could also be the first time i heard it was the time a script kiddie tried harrassing me, and i went forward to making fun of it. bandwith did rise on my machine as he attempted to dos it though, good thing hes not good at it
I know this is slightly offtopic, even though he used it in the topic of this article. but seriously, the use of the word boxen is stupid, we dont say "a box factory makes boxen", so dont use the term for computers.
Whenever someone uses that word to me i turn around and stop listening to them, it really makes me question there inteligence both in the IT field and in general inteligence.
sometimes it must evolve to fight back :)
"No support = no users" :)
I dont think valve wants linux users if they havent made a client for it
Seriously though im not too sure its cost effective for them to, with all the man hours to put into porting/testing and keeping a linux client up to date with the windows one, they would probably lose money or at very best break even after the adventure, and companies always think about the cash when it comes to decisions like that.
I agree, my system is not as beefy as yours is but i am a 1ghz p3 system with a radeon 8500 video card and 512 megs ram. video playback and opengl games dont get the same speed as they would do in windows.
That is exactly the intended audience to be honest. im not really sure why this is slashdot material becouse the audience is rather small. its for anyone who currently owns the ps2 linux kit, and would rather run debian than a redhat varient on it. very useless for me, but i doubt many people otherwise.
of coarse you dont get the thrill of running linux on an alternative archetecture, or as the kit is meant to me used by, progarmming your own software on a REAL console. Its not to be used in the way of a replacement pc. Not to mention at the same time your solution would be Larger, Lacking features (like tv-out) and on the side would play games slower than the ps2 would (if you like playing games) :)