Basicly, no. End users are the scum of the internet, no ISP really cares what happens to you as long as you pay the bill. If you don't, they don't care because others will. Your best bet would be to detect the port scan (eg, >5 sequential connections from the same host, or >15 nonsequential ones) and nullroute it so they get no response at all. Of course they can get around that, but if you're avoiding the common drones it doesnt matter.
Second off, its not an attack, its just trying to get more information on you. Calling it an attack makes it sound bad, which furthers scare away the masses(who then get to vote on this stuff). If your isp didnt limit your upstream so much you wouldn't even notice it. nmap running in standard mode doesnt use nearly as much packets or bandwidth as my isp flooding me with arp who-has packets to see whos on.
sidenote, be careful with whatever you do. Last time I found out a friend of mine ran a stupid windows firewall that would automaticly firewall anything that portscanned him, I spoofed a scan from his dns, then after I had fun watching him wonder why he couldnt resolve anything, I spoofed one from his gateway. Automated dropping is dangerous.
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I have always prefered mplayer(yes, in windows too). Runs on anything, and will play anything. Usually has the least problems with screwy videos too (eg, a few bad frames that would crash WiMP)
The interface still needs work, but once you're playing a movie does it really matter?
How long until the rest of you non-austiners get to watch some OBT productions? (Anyone familure with Austin's public access should have atleast seen some of his shows. Ol' Bitty was the most longing ran one that I remember, Currently doing Clown Time.
Of course, the reason his shows are so good is they're uncensored un-prescreened call in with the random locals that are up at 1am. This will kind of take that community feel away.
Just as an asside, installing a mixer would only be a fix if linux's audio didn't rucas-fail it.
In windows, Once my soundcard is detected (which involves a driver install, no worse or easier than linux) I have fully working 4 channel audio in any app. I can easily leave my mp3 player open and play any game, controlling my mp3 player with global hotkeys. While doing so, if someone messages me on aim, I hear it. I know to stop and check at the next point I can.
In linux, you either get one of the very few soundcards that can create virtual dsp devices and then manually configure each application to use its own, or you're stuck with one app locking the card. Said app will most likely do no better than 2 channel audio.
People suggest installing a software mixer like ARTSD or ESD, they say windows uses a software mixer so its no different (And they're right, about windows using one that is.)
But heres the difference, in windows, you don't notice it. In linux your app has to support the software mixer, or you can wrap it (artsdsp) which crashes under any odd load like wine. Even if your app works fine, it will cause very nontrivial resource usage, and completely ruin the required lowlatency that audio work needs. Try playing quake with artsd dropping your fps and occasionally dropping sounds too, be it entirely not played or just cut off half way through.
And thats just sound support. Theres a lot of other flaws I could easily rant about too. I hate that I have to run windows to have things work properly, but thats just what you have to do. It's not like you miss out on much, most of the OSS elitists have been replaced by people like me who just want to get things done, so you can just as easily run any of the good 'linux apps' on windows (nmap, mplayer, firefox, gaim, ~all of kde, the entire linux kernel if you feel the need(LVM cygwin patches), perl, all gnu c stuff, etc etc)
For the record, I've used linux since the early 2.2 kernel days. I prefer commandline to gui, and am in no way incapable of fixing my OS.
I remember that too, its a good concept, but just doesn't work with our society. While driving around here in Austin recently I remembered seeing someone on a yellow bike and wondering if it was public or if they were just unlucky enough to own a yellow bike. What happened if you owned a yellow bike when they introduced that program? Or if a dick of a friend painted your bike yellow as a prank?
Is possible and highly probably, and you should be damned proud. If you only want freedom for people who agree with you, you're no better fundamentaly than the most oppresive of rulers. If you had the power to remove all kiddie porn from tor/freenet/$PRODUCT_X, would you? What if a christian fundamentalist had the same power to remove all talk of homosexuality? (a sins a sin..) Bush removing all info about the cipro(anthax antidote) a month prior to the whitehouse being anthraxed?
You either have free speech or you don't, anything less than entire freedom(especially for those of controversial subjects) is as worthless as not having any at all.
"The real question is, when it's finished, will it finally allow those cutting-edge innovations: copy and paste?"
Assuming they don't get rid of the feature thats been around since win95's COMMAND.COM (And maybe win3.11, I never really did much with win3.11).
Right click in the console window, select Mark, highlight some text. now you can paste it whereever you want. To paste text in the console, right click -> paste.
It's odd how many windows users can't figure that one out./never/ right clicked just to see what happens? or used the buttons on command.com that did the same functionality?
"That belief will keep you in line right up until America is the most abusive, corrupt, damning country in the world. "
Technically, it will keep you in line as long until you think america is the most abusive, corrupt, damning, country in the world. Obviously they won't let that happen, after all, its Eurasia thats the evil ones we're at war with. or is that Eastasia?
You don't really need a user escalation flaw in the OS on a single user machine (Such as a desktop linux box) Anything you need root to destroy/gain access to could be reinstalled with the os install disks (debians get/load selections makes this easy enough that you'd be done in a day). Anything that can only be read/destroyed by the user is $HOME, where all your code/pictures/downloads/logs/keys/all that good stuff is.
Do I really care? If I'm playing competitively I'll have all the textures disabled anyways (r_max_size 1), If I'm playing to try and get immersed in some alternate reality, then in that reality maybe they use crates to move everything around.
Although I think this was targetting console games. You're playing a game where the means of getting your objective accomplished is shooting people, and the game even aims for you because you use a dinky analog stick. Do you care if the textures are bad?
Yes, because theres only 3 readers of slashdot. Oh, wait, theres many houndreds of thousands of active readers, all of which have their own preferences and thoughts? Crazy.
The way you worded that made that sound like fm isn't yet another dubious cctld. I'm sure all those shitty internet radio stations using.fm are all hosted in the federated states of micronesia.
KTpro is pretty much standard for playing against humans. It lets anyone connected admin it via votes. For example, if everyone does a/dm6 in console the map goes to dm6. Similar for setting all the other options. http://servu.quakeworld.nu/ is good for finding an empty server to go play a friend on.
Or get a copy of FrogBot and play some bots, thats suprisingly fun too. quakeworld.nu/forum is a good place to look for all things modern qw. (clients/mods/maps/etc)
Compare it to current quake1, not original quake1. Q1 has been enhanced a ton since the original days. Compared to the original winquake/dos quake, sure this looks great. Compared to the duel I had earlier on dm6, it looks about on par. I'm judging only by screenshots of course, I'm about to play it now. One thing that looks especially nice is I think I saw md3 player models. Q1 is capable of this in its current moddified form, but noone uses it as it breaks netplay compatability.
Forking a new game like this so as to not worry about netplay compatability is nice for progression, but does come at a cost. When my 1.9ghz 1gb ram gf5600 gaming box died and I was stuck on a 350mhz 128mb of buggy sdram with 8mb onboard sis.. I just had to to turn off all the particle explosions, dynamic lighting, cut the res down, etc and still had a great game. Once you start forcing people into one modernized client you start to screw over the older ones.
Off to go give it a test play. I wonder if it still uses original quakec, or if they used the FTEQuake mods to load quake2 or quake3 dll/qvm's.
If it makes you feel any better, We've had this for ages. Action quake2/Action HalfLife are the exact same premise, The Specialists is also a movie-inspired mod.
If they don't get any rights until they're 18, how will they know what to do with them when they get them? Give them responsibility when they're mature enough to handle it and still have time to learn from their mistakes.
I think I speak on behalf of everyone when I proudly figlet:
|w henm y daugh t er hitp uber t yinea r lyhada| |he ar ta ttack . shest arte dlooking li ke awoma n andsud| |den lys hewas w earin grev ealingclo thi ngand s taying| |outl atew i thher friends.ra ther t hanbec| |omea nove r-pro t ectiv epar ent,idecid edto tryfo r get-me| |-not pant ies.. t heywo rkwo nderfully. mywi feand i bought| |ours arah sever a lpair ssowecanwa tchh eraro u |
Also, late breaking news: Bonsai kitten may not be real! Apple vibrator? fake!
Seriously. Where does all of the slashdot subscriber money go? I know this bad html4 layout costs dozens of gigs of bandwidth a month that could be saved with proper css, but even then, OSN needs to fire these 'editors' (Which are really just gatekeepers) and hire people who actually edit. JonKatz may have been annoying as hell, But at least he did his job.
" Can anyone think of a reason why you need more than one of these cards? Currently my machine runs the most complex game I can think of (HalfLife 2) at 1280x960 at more frames per second than my monitor even scans at."
Running 4 copies of it? Joking, but not entirely. One of these days Valve might wisen up and make their games more competition friendly like QuakeWorld, which has a nice split screen mode that makes spectating matches a lot easier.
That, and of course if videocards were only made to run the games currently out there we'd still be on voodoo's because nobody needs anything better.
Though I do miss the days when ATI wasn't really a competitor. (See a very old valve hardware survey I found.) ATI and Creative are on my list of people I'd never buy from because of the bad driver history.
The windows key is a good idea, I wish my Model-M had one. It's not like it magicly stops working in linux or something. If I had one, I'd use it purely for window manager/shell binds, like switching windows/frames/etc(I use Ion). Keep ctrl/alt for apps.
Also, why hasn't there been any real change in keyboard layout? I know the transitioning would suck, but I can think of two minor changes that would make data entry a ton easier: Tab key on numpad, Backspace key for half of the spacebar.
They may not have made money, but they are better off. Every xbox sold is another user in their large userbase that they pimp to developers. It's just like when people started pirating windows and microsoft didn't care, then once they hold the market, then they start acting. I don't think MS even mentioned working against piracy until XP.
Offtopic, but why do we still use cdkeys? If I'm downloading a 4 gig dvdr, downloading 16 more bytes of the cdkey really isn't going to put me out any.
When they first added it that was for logged in accounts to, Not sure what they're doing with it because CmdrTaco believes in security through obscurity (Why isn't the lameness filter in cvs slashcode?). It's just as easy for a bot to login, or for that matter automaticly sign up a new account for every N posts. As for the captcha's themself, pwncha (c)GNAA will take care of slashdots captchas a bit more reliably than that. Hey taco, next time you're silently responding to gnaa floods, 1) Be a man and admit changes, 2) Don't use tech thats been broken.
"My point is the attitude of the people. Admission of the fact that he had PGP on his computer shouldn't be a condemning factor of his behavior and should be based on his crimes. NOT THE FACILITATOR, MEANS, TOOL (Physical or otherwise) OR SOFTWARE to commit such crimes. He was using perfectly legal encryption utilities and software."
Legal tools being used for something illegal can easily add on to crimes. For example, I can sit around and listen to an RF scanner all day, but if I got caught doing a drug deal and were listening to cops radios on it, then it becomes illegal (in addition to the drug stuff.)
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Basicly, no. End users are the scum of the internet, no ISP really cares what happens to you as long as you pay the bill. If you don't, they don't care because others will.
Your best bet would be to detect the port scan (eg, >5 sequential connections from the same host, or >15 nonsequential ones) and nullroute it so they get no response at all.
Of course they can get around that, but if you're avoiding the common drones it doesnt matter.
Second off, its not an attack, its just trying to get more information on you. Calling it an attack makes it sound bad, which furthers scare away the masses(who then get to vote on this stuff). If your isp didnt limit your upstream so much you wouldn't even notice it. nmap running in standard mode doesnt use nearly as much packets or bandwidth as my isp flooding me with arp who-has packets to see whos on.
sidenote, be careful with whatever you do. Last time I found out a friend of mine ran a stupid windows firewall that would automaticly firewall anything that portscanned him, I spoofed a scan from his dns, then after I had fun watching him wonder why he couldnt resolve anything, I spoofed one from his gateway.
Automated dropping is dangerous.
I have always prefered mplayer(yes, in windows too). Runs on anything, and will play anything. Usually has the least problems with screwy videos too (eg, a few bad frames that would crash WiMP)
The interface still needs work, but once you're playing a movie does it really matter?
and who would have thought... it figures.
How long until the rest of you non-austiners get to watch some OBT productions? (Anyone familure with Austin's public access should have atleast seen some of his shows. Ol' Bitty was the most longing ran one that I remember, Currently doing Clown Time.
Of course, the reason his shows are so good is they're uncensored un-prescreened call in with the random locals that are up at 1am. This will kind of take that community feel away.
Just as an asside, installing a mixer would only be a fix if linux's audio didn't rucas-fail it.
In windows, Once my soundcard is detected (which involves a driver install, no worse or easier than linux) I have fully working 4 channel audio in any app. I can easily leave my mp3 player open and play any game, controlling my mp3 player with global hotkeys. While doing so, if someone messages me on aim, I hear it. I know to stop and check at the next point I can.
In linux, you either get one of the very few soundcards that can create virtual dsp devices and then manually configure each application to use its own, or you're stuck with one app locking the card. Said app will most likely do no better than 2 channel audio.
People suggest installing a software mixer like ARTSD or ESD, they say windows uses a software mixer so its no different (And they're right, about windows using one that is.)
But heres the difference, in windows, you don't notice it. In linux your app has to support the software mixer, or you can wrap it (artsdsp) which crashes under any odd load like wine. Even if your app works fine, it will cause very nontrivial resource usage, and completely ruin the required lowlatency that audio work needs. Try playing quake with artsd dropping your fps and occasionally dropping sounds too, be it entirely not played or just cut off half way through.
And thats just sound support. Theres a lot of other flaws I could easily rant about too. I hate that I have to run windows to have things work properly, but thats just what you have to do. It's not like you miss out on much, most of the OSS elitists have been replaced by people like me who just want to get things done, so you can just as easily run any of the good 'linux apps' on windows (nmap, mplayer, firefox, gaim, ~all of kde, the entire linux kernel if you feel the need(LVM cygwin patches), perl, all gnu c stuff, etc etc)
For the record, I've used linux since the early 2.2 kernel days. I prefer commandline to gui, and am in no way incapable of fixing my OS.
I remember that too, its a good concept, but just doesn't work with our society. While driving around here in Austin recently I remembered seeing someone on a yellow bike and wondering if it was public or if they were just unlucky enough to own a yellow bike. What happened if you owned a yellow bike when they introduced that program? Or if a dick of a friend painted your bike yellow as a prank?
Is possible and highly probably, and you should be damned proud.
If you only want freedom for people who agree with you, you're no better fundamentaly than the most oppresive of rulers. If you had the power to remove all kiddie porn from tor/freenet/$PRODUCT_X, would you? What if a christian fundamentalist had the same power to remove all talk of homosexuality? (a sins a sin..) Bush removing all info about the cipro(anthax antidote) a month prior to the whitehouse being anthraxed?
You either have free speech or you don't, anything less than entire freedom(especially for those of controversial subjects) is as worthless as not having any at all.
"The real question is, when it's finished, will it finally allow those cutting-edge innovations: copy and paste?"
/never/ right clicked just to see what happens? or used the buttons on command.com that did the same functionality?
Assuming they don't get rid of the feature thats been around since win95's COMMAND.COM (And maybe win3.11, I never really did much with win3.11).
Right click in the console window, select Mark, highlight some text. now you can paste it whereever you want. To paste text in the console, right click -> paste.
It's odd how many windows users can't figure that one out.
"That belief will keep you in line right up until America is the most abusive, corrupt, damning country in the world. "
Technically, it will keep you in line as long until you think america is the most abusive, corrupt, damning, country in the world. Obviously they won't let that happen, after all, its Eurasia thats the evil ones we're at war with. or is that Eastasia?
You don't really need a user escalation flaw in the OS on a single user machine (Such as a desktop linux box) Anything you need root to destroy/gain access to could be reinstalled with the os install disks (debians get/load selections makes this easy enough that you'd be done in a day). Anything that can only be read/destroyed by the user is $HOME, where all your code/pictures/downloads/logs/keys/all that good stuff is.
/bin and /usr than /home any day.
I'd rather lose
Do I really care? If I'm playing competitively I'll have all the textures disabled anyways (r_max_size 1), If I'm playing to try and get immersed in some alternate reality, then in that reality maybe they use crates to move everything around.
Although I think this was targetting console games. You're playing a game where the means of getting your objective accomplished is shooting people, and the game even aims for you because you use a dinky analog stick. Do you care if the textures are bad?
Yes, because theres only 3 readers of slashdot. Oh, wait, theres many houndreds of thousands of active readers, all of which have their own preferences and thoughts? Crazy.
The way you worded that made that sound like fm isn't yet another dubious cctld. I'm sure all those shitty internet radio stations using .fm are all hosted in the federated states of micronesia.
Its been done, you don't even have to generate the files as long as you use a cgi/php script for it. Not sure what happened to it if anything.
KTpro is pretty much standard for playing against humans. It lets anyone connected admin it via votes. For example, if everyone does a /dm6 in console the map goes to dm6. Similar for setting all the other options.
http://servu.quakeworld.nu/ is good for finding an empty server to go play a friend on.
Or get a copy of FrogBot and play some bots, thats suprisingly fun too. quakeworld.nu/forum is a good place to look for all things modern qw. (clients/mods/maps/etc)
Compare it to current quake1, not original quake1. Q1 has been enhanced a ton since the original days. Compared to the original winquake/dos quake, sure this looks great. Compared to the duel I had earlier on dm6, it looks about on par. I'm judging only by screenshots of course, I'm about to play it now. One thing that looks especially nice is I think I saw md3 player models. Q1 is capable of this in its current moddified form, but noone uses it as it breaks netplay compatability.
Forking a new game like this so as to not worry about netplay compatability is nice for progression, but does come at a cost. When my 1.9ghz 1gb ram gf5600 gaming box died and I was stuck on a 350mhz 128mb of buggy sdram with 8mb onboard sis.. I just had to to turn off all the particle explosions, dynamic lighting, cut the res down, etc and still had a great game. Once you start forcing people into one modernized client you start to screw over the older ones.
Off to go give it a test play. I wonder if it still uses original quakec, or if they used the FTEQuake mods to load quake2 or quake3 dll/qvm's.
If it makes you feel any better, We've had this for ages. Action quake2/Action HalfLife are the exact same premise, The Specialists is also a movie-inspired mod.
If they don't get any rights until they're 18, how will they know what to do with them when they get them? Give them responsibility when they're mature enough to handle it and still have time to learn from their mistakes.
I think I speak on behalf of everyone when I proudly figlet:
|w henm y daugh t er hitp uber t yinea r lyhada|
|he ar ta ttack . shest arte dlooking li ke awoma n andsud|
|den lys hewas w earin grev ealingclo thi ngand s taying|
|outl atew i thher friends.ra ther t hanbec|
|omea nove r-pro t ectiv epar ent,idecid edto tryfo r get-me|
|-not pant ies.. t heywo rkwo nderfully. mywi feand i bought|
|ours arah sever a lpair ssowecanwa tchh eraro u |
Also, late breaking news: Bonsai kitten may not be real! Apple vibrator? fake!
Seriously. Where does all of the slashdot subscriber money go? I know this bad html4 layout costs dozens of gigs of bandwidth a month that could be saved with proper css, but even then, OSN needs to fire these 'editors' (Which are really just gatekeepers) and hire people who actually edit. JonKatz may have been annoying as hell, But at least he did his job.
I tried it, They don't have either profile. No google cache either. :(
" Can anyone think of a reason why you need more than one of these cards? Currently my machine runs the most complex game I can think of (HalfLife 2) at 1280x960 at more frames per second than my monitor even scans at."
Running 4 copies of it? Joking, but not entirely. One of these days Valve might wisen up and make their games more competition friendly like QuakeWorld, which has a nice split screen mode that makes spectating matches a lot easier.
That, and of course if videocards were only made to run the games currently out there we'd still be on voodoo's because nobody needs anything better.
Though I do miss the days when ATI wasn't really a competitor. (See a very old valve hardware survey I found.) ATI and Creative are on my list of people I'd never buy from because of the bad driver history.
The windows key is a good idea, I wish my Model-M had one. It's not like it magicly stops working in linux or something. If I had one, I'd use it purely for window manager/shell binds, like switching windows/frames/etc(I use Ion). Keep ctrl/alt for apps.
Also, why hasn't there been any real change in keyboard layout? I know the transitioning would suck, but I can think of two minor changes that would make data entry a ton easier: Tab key on numpad, Backspace key for half of the spacebar.
They may not have made money, but they are better off. Every xbox sold is another user in their large userbase that they pimp to developers. It's just like when people started pirating windows and microsoft didn't care, then once they hold the market, then they start acting. I don't think MS even mentioned working against piracy until XP.
Offtopic, but why do we still use cdkeys? If I'm downloading a 4 gig dvdr, downloading 16 more bytes of the cdkey really isn't going to put me out any.
When they first added it that was for logged in accounts to, Not sure what they're doing with it because CmdrTaco believes in security through obscurity (Why isn't the lameness filter in cvs slashcode?). It's just as easy for a bot to login, or for that matter automaticly sign up a new account for every N posts.
As for the captcha's themself, pwncha (c)GNAA will take care of slashdots captchas a bit more reliably than that. Hey taco, next time you're silently responding to gnaa floods, 1) Be a man and admit changes, 2) Don't use tech thats been broken.
"My point is the attitude of the people. Admission of the fact that he had PGP on his computer shouldn't be a condemning factor of his behavior and should be based on his crimes. NOT THE FACILITATOR, MEANS, TOOL (Physical or otherwise) OR SOFTWARE to commit such crimes. He was using perfectly legal encryption utilities and software."
Legal tools being used for something illegal can easily add on to crimes. For example, I can sit around and listen to an RF scanner all day, but if I got caught doing a drug deal and were listening to cops radios on it, then it becomes illegal (in addition to the drug stuff.)
I'm sure there are other examples.