Which is fine until the file gets blocked for being a passworded zip. Assuming the p2p network is only allowing authorized mp3s, why wouldnt it stop everything else?
The only way I could see going about this would be modulating the data into sound, then encoding that into the mp3. Considering the lossy nature of mp3, I'd be suprised if this worked.
It's deleted in the sense that when the thread gets archived, its archived at a threshhold of 1 so anything thats -1 is gone for good.
I do agree though, slashdot cares much more about freedom of speech than most online community sites where threads get deleted because of one offensive comment.
Perl5 has lasted us 10 years. If they were to do one major change a month, messing with backwards compatability in your scripts would become a major pain. This way its atleast one major headache rather than a decade long depression.
Performance is a funny issue.. Back in the 1.5 days, CounterStrike ran MUCH better in wine than in windows XP. I'm talking atleast 20fps difference, easily more.
I've yet to try the new winex/steam as I play counter-strike in leauges and really don't want a VAC bug to ban me for 5 years, both for having to explain 'no I was not cheating' and because I'd have to ditch my 0:1:2496 steamid.
I'd honestly not want to rely on winex now that Valve is pushing an update once a week over steam, the chances of it breaking are just not something I wan't to think about.
"Find me a consumer grade PC worth anywhere near this that was built in 1999"
Of course that won't happen. We payed less then and its worth less now, as is to be expected with x86 hardware. If you're only buying things so they stay valuable with time, I'd recommend diamonds, or maybe collecting antiques. I'd rather have something functional and cheap, and if the hardware is even less expensive 5 years down the line? great. that means if I need to replace something it won't cost an arm and my soul.
But then whats the point of using a laptop if you're hauling around a mouse and monitor? I suppose lanning would be easier, but it just doesnt feel like a laptop. Now, if someone case mods this laptop into a monitor with external jacks for headphones/mouse/keyboard, that might be kinda cool.
Yeah, but having to carry around a mouse for gaming kind of defeats the purpose of a laptop. Portability + big clunky mouse with large cord just doesnt fit.
Personally, if I get a laptop I'd rather get one that isn't wasting cpu cycles on a >ghz cpu and crazy graphics card. I'm a gamer, sure, but thats not what laptops are for. LCDs suck for gaming, as does laptop keyboards, and requiring a real usb mouse.
Thats my problem also, but I realised I spent more time complaining about being bored than being productive and just grabbed a copy of win2k3c(..from the store..) so I can resume my gaming addiction. Of course then I started gaming all day and now have zero productivity.. damn counter-strike/natural selection/day of defeat/wc3/whatever else is lurking on my machine.
I downloaded the ut2k4 windows demo yesterday, and it only has directX support. I know traditionally you get to choose which renderer you want, but I was under the assumption the GL one wasn't even finished (hence no inclusion). Any plans for an OpenGL ut2k4 windows demo?
" * To transfer one whole album as a unit" For BitTorrrent, you can have multiple files in one torrent, I've seen a few tv series distributed this way. Much better than needing 2x4gigs for extracting/watching. For other things than this has a point, but atleast using tar would be so much better as then you could extract just what you have if the download dies halfway, but you still hav the other problems.
"I can think of several ways to rationalize removing a big file from my eMule shared folder: "
You left out the biggest: Stupid people zipping large movies.
Lets say you have a 500mb movie. Now lets zip it. This zip should be about.. 499.9megs(and take a year to extract). In order to both share and archive the movie, you'll need to keep the zip around, AND keep the 'live' (extracted) version, which is a whole gig for what should be a simple 500mb file.
Why to people keep zipping large lossy compressed data?
"HTML doesn't implement XSL because practically nobody uses XSL."
Chicken and the egg. Why did NCSA Mosaic implement HTML? No one uses it, this gopher thing is all we'll ever need.
XSL isn't really complex, check the w3school tutorial on it, you'll learn it in about an hour or two of messing around. It does get a little ugly when working with tags that have arguments, but HTML gets ugly to when working on highly redundant elements (think news posts or other such repeated blocks of html), and XSL cleans that up nicely.
But it produces a webpage that to the average user is just a normal webpage, but to us powerusers we actually have real data that can be worked with.
It would be so much easier to parse a webpage like that and actually get usable data, than fudging through lots of crappy html parsing thats easy to paste. It also allows you to provide much more data than you actually use, and transform it later. Look at the file list page, and the screenshot/pictures galleries. Same xml, lots more info than I use. This data could easily be transformed into whatever other spec I want on the fly, and I love that.
I do admit browser conformance isn't absolutely needed, but it helps a lot. Currently I'm hoping someone releases an apache module to do xsl serverside based on useragent and request string (for example, ?xsl=xml to get the raw xml, ?xsl=xhtml, ?xsl=txt, etc, defaults gotten from useragent)
Still doesn't support XSL, as shown on http://semi.getanotherfuckingisp.com. key: mozil la: perfectly rendered IE: supports the xsl but not the css konq/opera: doesnt support the xsl.
Considering XSL is an old(5 or so years) spec needed for the web to develope further, especially in a way the OSS community would prefer, its pathetic that some browsers still just don't render it at all.
I had a similar idea... I'd like to see a worm just start hitting random domains, just a GET request to http://akljfhaksjdfhaskldh.net, maybe 2 every 10 seconds or other such interval. Not only would you hammer sitefinder, you'd fill isp caches causing them to take notice and block the sitefinder trash...not that I'm conding anything like this..
Depends how you do it. In the traditional Knoppix sense, sure. But what if rather than having just the server OS be on the cdrom, your entire website was a cdrom? Just burn your updated cdrom, mail it to your NOC, they slap it in and reboot. Any exploits are limited to denial of service as its all readonly. Obviously wouldnt work for all situations, but could be really useful for some. Think rolling back an update being as simple as swapping a cd.
one awp, a shield, a he grenade, a deagle, an m4, kevlar, and full ammo.
(they're actually patching that bug today.. go buy a grenade, prime it but dont throw it (just hold the attack key like you were), now buy whatever guns you want, as many as you can afford. you can keep the shield up with your gun out. goodluck havefun.)
Quake2? Honestly, Halo doesnt look at all graphically appealing to me. Its like quake3 textures + Tribes 2 landscapes, with some quake2 settings/general map feel.
Its not in their backpack, thats a common misconception. In reality, all of the skilled players have just learned to fire a weapon out of their ass. I fart nothing but headshots.
After a few months of playing, more skilled people start joining the game as it gets more popular, and more people have practice. Anyone whos good within the first month or two of a game arn't good at the game, they're just decent at gaming in general. Once people have had a few months to learn the game(maps/weapons/classes/whatever), they actually get strategies and can outskill someone who is only good 'by default'. Atleast, this is how it is/was in counterstrike. Genenerally most of the best players have been playing competitively for 3 or so years now (where competitively is mostly 3 or so matches a day excluding weekends, for 3 years, it adds up). But theres still some people that have been playing for 3+ years non-competitively (maybe they play when their friends on, when they have nothing else to do, when their normal game is broken, whatever), who would get spanked by someone whos actually improved over the years.
I don't mean any of this as an insult, just a possible explination. Sure there is plenty of cheats, but its really hard to detect them -- The only valid anticheat is doing it on lan. the close second would be games with spectating, but even thats only good for detecting(not stopping) cheaters, and you still need a large amount of skill to tell, I've seen people acuse me of cheating just because I killed someone through a wall(a so called spam spot, as in somewhere worth emptying 15-30 shots into because theres usually someone on the other side).
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Which is fine until the file gets blocked for being a passworded zip. Assuming the p2p network is only allowing authorized mp3s, why wouldnt it stop everything else?
The only way I could see going about this would be modulating the data into sound, then encoding that into the mp3. Considering the lossy nature of mp3, I'd be suprised if this worked.
It's deleted in the sense that when the thread gets archived, its archived at a threshhold of 1 so anything thats -1 is gone for good.
I do agree though, slashdot cares much more about freedom of speech than most online community sites where threads get deleted because of one offensive comment.
"Since when do we need to place a value on individual expression?"
Since the moderation system was added to slashdot?
Perl5 has lasted us 10 years. If they were to do one major change a month, messing with backwards compatability in your scripts would become a major pain. This way its atleast one major headache rather than a decade long depression.
Performance is a funny issue.. Back in the 1.5 days, CounterStrike ran MUCH better in wine than in windows XP. I'm talking atleast 20fps difference, easily more.
I've yet to try the new winex/steam as I play counter-strike in leauges and really don't want a VAC bug to ban me for 5 years, both for having to explain 'no I was not cheating' and because I'd have to ditch my 0:1:2496 steamid.
I'd honestly not want to rely on winex now that Valve is pushing an update once a week over steam, the chances of it breaking are just not something I wan't to think about.
"Find me a consumer grade PC worth anywhere near this that was built in 1999"
Of course that won't happen. We payed less then and its worth less now, as is to be expected with x86 hardware. If you're only buying things so they stay valuable with time, I'd recommend diamonds, or maybe collecting antiques. I'd rather have something functional and cheap, and if the hardware is even less expensive 5 years down the line? great. that means if I need to replace something it won't cost an arm and my soul.
But then whats the point of using a laptop if you're hauling around a mouse and monitor? I suppose lanning would be easier, but it just doesnt feel like a laptop. Now, if someone case mods this laptop into a monitor with external jacks for headphones/mouse/keyboard, that might be kinda cool.
Yeah, but having to carry around a mouse for gaming kind of defeats the purpose of a laptop. Portability + big clunky mouse with large cord just doesnt fit.
Just tried it and it worked, although it was much laggier(on my geforce2mx400 64mb pci..)
I was a little weary of messing with the config(or console for that matter) as I've always been more of a quaker.
..But I'm open to donations.
Personally, if I get a laptop I'd rather get one that isn't wasting cpu cycles on a >ghz cpu and crazy graphics card. I'm a gamer, sure, but thats not what laptops are for. LCDs suck for gaming, as does laptop keyboards, and requiring a real usb mouse.
Thats my problem also, but I realised I spent more time complaining about being bored than being productive and just grabbed a copy of win2k3c(..from the store..) so I can resume my gaming addiction. Of course then I started gaming all day and now have zero productivity.. damn counter-strike/natural selection/day of defeat/wc3/whatever else is lurking on my machine.
I downloaded the ut2k4 windows demo yesterday, and it only has directX support. I know traditionally you get to choose which renderer you want, but I was under the assumption the GL one wasn't even finished (hence no inclusion). Any plans for an OpenGL ut2k4 windows demo?
" * To transfer one whole album as a unit" /watching. For other things than this has a point, but atleast using tar would be so much better as then you could extract just what you have if the download dies halfway, but you still hav the other problems.
For BitTorrrent, you can have multiple files in one torrent, I've seen a few tv series distributed this way. Much better than needing 2x4gigs for extracting
OR get a better bt client. azureus is decent. as is ABC. google is your friend, I am not.
"I can think of several ways to rationalize removing a big file from my eMule shared folder: "
You left out the biggest: Stupid people zipping large movies.
Lets say you have a 500mb movie. Now lets zip it. This zip should be about.. 499.9megs(and take a year to extract). In order to both share and archive the movie, you'll need to keep the zip around, AND keep the 'live' (extracted) version, which is a whole gig for what should be a simple 500mb file.
Why to people keep zipping large lossy compressed data?
"HTML doesn't implement XSL because practically nobody uses XSL."
Chicken and the egg. Why did NCSA Mosaic implement HTML? No one uses it, this gopher thing is all we'll ever need.
XSL isn't really complex, check the w3school tutorial on it, you'll learn it in about an hour or two of messing around.
It does get a little ugly when working with tags that have arguments, but HTML gets ugly to when working on highly redundant elements (think news posts or other such repeated blocks of html), and XSL cleans that up nicely.
But it produces a webpage that to the average user is just a normal webpage, but to us powerusers we actually have real data that can be worked with.
It would be so much easier to parse a webpage like that and actually get usable data, than fudging through lots of crappy html parsing thats easy to paste. It also allows you to provide much more data than you actually use, and transform it later. Look at the file list page, and the screenshot/pictures galleries. Same xml, lots more info than I use. This data could easily be transformed into whatever other spec I want on the fly, and I love that.
I do admit browser conformance isn't absolutely needed, but it helps a lot. Currently I'm hoping someone releases an apache module to do xsl serverside based on useragent and request string (for example, ?xsl=xml to get the raw xml, ?xsl=xhtml, ?xsl=txt, etc, defaults gotten from useragent)
Still doesn't support XSL, as shown on http://semi.getanotherfuckingisp.com.l la: perfectly rendered
key:
mozi
IE: supports the xsl but not the css
konq/opera: doesnt support the xsl.
Considering XSL is an old(5 or so years) spec needed for the web to develope further, especially in a way the OSS community would prefer, its pathetic that some browsers still just don't render it at all.
I had a similar idea... I'd like to see a worm just start hitting random domains, just a GET request to http://akljfhaksjdfhaskldh.net, maybe 2 every 10 seconds or other such interval. Not only would you hammer sitefinder, you'd fill isp caches causing them to take notice and block the sitefinder trash. ..not that I'm conding anything like this..
me-->(_(_)====DO:--verisign.net A 64.94.110.11
That about sums up the whole sitefinder thing. Verisign sucks my peenar.
Depends how you do it. In the traditional Knoppix sense, sure. But what if rather than having just the server OS be on the cdrom, your entire website was a cdrom? Just burn your updated cdrom, mail it to your NOC, they slap it in and reboot. Any exploits are limited to denial of service as its all readonly. Obviously wouldnt work for all situations, but could be really useful for some. Think rolling back an update being as simple as swapping a cd.
one awp, a shield, a he grenade, a deagle, an m4, kevlar, and full ammo.
(they're actually patching that bug today.. go buy a grenade, prime it but dont throw it (just hold the attack key like you were), now buy whatever guns you want, as many as you can afford. you can keep the shield up with your gun out. goodluck havefun.)
Quake2? Honestly, Halo doesnt look at all graphically appealing to me. Its like quake3 textures + Tribes 2 landscapes, with some quake2 settings/general map feel.
What exactly did Halo innovate?
Its not in their backpack, thats a common misconception. In reality, all of the skilled players have just learned to fire a weapon out of their ass. I fart nothing but headshots.
After a few months of playing, more skilled people start joining the game as it gets more popular, and more people have practice. Anyone whos good within the first month or two of a game arn't good at the game, they're just decent at gaming in general. Once people have had a few months to learn the game(maps/weapons/classes/whatever), they actually get strategies and can outskill someone who is only good 'by default'.
Atleast, this is how it is/was in counterstrike. Genenerally most of the best players have been playing competitively for 3 or so years now (where competitively is mostly 3 or so matches a day excluding weekends, for 3 years, it adds up).
But theres still some people that have been playing for 3+ years non-competitively (maybe they play when their friends on, when they have nothing else to do, when their normal game is broken, whatever), who would get spanked by someone whos actually improved over the years.
I don't mean any of this as an insult, just a possible explination. Sure there is plenty of cheats, but its really hard to detect them -- The only valid anticheat is doing it on lan. the close second would be games with spectating, but even thats only good for detecting(not stopping) cheaters, and you still need a large amount of skill to tell, I've seen people acuse me of cheating just because I killed someone through a wall(a so called spam spot, as in somewhere worth emptying 15-30 shots into because theres usually someone on the other side).