I thought about making a live-cd for halflife with wine, just because im tired of how often my windows install breaks. Theres already a gentoo based UT2k3 demo livecd, making one for halflife couldnt be too hard.
I'm not the original poster, but by Nonlinear history traversal theyre refering to being able to click back, then click another link without loosing the page you were on before you hit back.
Not even that original or innovative, but its something.
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Run your VCs in a framebuffer that is the same rez as X, preferably run X in a fb to. X sucks in a FB, as does VCs in my not so humbe oppinion, But that would make it almost instant.
The biggest delay on switching X->VC is the rez change.
Actually, Google does that for you. Just search for the file name you want and it will find you a nice ammount of mirror, Especially if you tag on "Index Of". At one point I made a script to crawl through google results displaying exact file size - url, it would be trivial to A) Try them all, kill whichever is slowest. B) Download in chunks from each server with resume requests. C) Profit!!
I kind of abandoned it, but if anyone is interested I still have it around. just msg me on irc (see nick name) or aim (see slashdot profile) and I'll send it to you. Disclaimer: Its messy shell script.
Unfortunetly my harddrive is dying quick, so I might not be around much today.
Intel dosnt realise we already have the speed we need. I'm not going to upgrade to a faster proc when my current proc is fast enough- however, I would upgrade to a 64bit proc for all the new benifits of that.
"Even if who you phoned 7 months ago was a mistress that you had a one week affair with? Or a business off whom you bought viagra but which has since diversified into cocaine and other illegal "
Or even worse(and sadly, more accurately?), What if you dialed the wrong number and got someone who is a terrorist? The logs dont show that you dialed the wrong number, They just show you're associated with terrorism.
The RTFM mentality is mostly a myth. Sure it exists in a lot of people, but overall support from the OSS scene is much better. Idle in #debian on freenode for a few days and you'll see what I mean. Compare that to paying microsoft for support and having them still not able to help you any better than the Physcic Helpline and its obvious which is better.
Also, OSS developers are much more accessable. Compare: 1) Valve's new anti-cheat detects me running halflife in linux as a cheat [yet dosnt detect a lot of aimbots and wallhacks, but thats another rant]. Mail valve, get no response.
2) Talked to a few friends about the Playername server plugin that prints name/health of people in an easy to read font when you look at them, decied it would be cool to have it show weapon to. Go on gamesnet, talk to the developer, he's adding it in the next version.
It's all in where you look and how you ask. Dont expect people to help, be polite, realise theyre doing this only for the gratitude they get. Demand help, get RTFM. Ask for help, get help.
Upgrades. Factor in price of upgrading the server vs. upgrading all clients. Also, expandability is much better - just throw another term on. Large markets might also like the control aspect, to. Employees wont slack off as much if they arnt allowed to add any applications (aim, games, whatever).
No. Being able to play PSX games will make more XBox's sell, Which in turn will sell more XBox games. People arnt just going to buy XBox's to emulate PSX games, Otherwise they could save $200 and just get a PSX.
Also, I doubt sony would make much money from this. It would just lure the people in that own 50 odd PSX games that dont want to give them up.
"No pr0n jokes, please..." No joke about it - you give me space and I can fill it with pr0n.
"how big does a hard drive need to be?" Infinetly big.
"I mean, once everyone is doing their own digital video, PVR software" There is no limit on the PVR part. Why have to delete old shows when you could put them up on an internal p2p-like engine so people that missed the show can get it?
"archiving their entire music library in MP3 format..." Mp3? Why? We use mp3 to save disk space at the cost of quality. I'm not going to get into a flame war, But if we had the space everything would be lossless.
"you're only up to a couple-hundred GB" After my corrections, You're up to atleast a TB. "Does a 4TB hard drive make sense in a personal computer?" In 7 years? of course. 7 years ago, did the 200gig+ harddrives we have today make sense? Sure, you have your gifs, your texts from the scene, etc, but thats only a few houndred megs MAX.
"Can you apply the TB/inch in much smaller form factors, such as SD cards?" Sure. "Even there, do I need more than, say 20GB on a palm pilot?" Factor in constant gps tracking on your palm (A neat new idea no ones done that I know of), Maybe throw some video/mp3 storage (recording?) on there since everyone likes integration.. 20gb sounds great.
"How do you back up such huge systems?" Another?
"Summary: the server market has a use for these future maxi-drives, but they'll be a hard sell to the general public." The general public of today, maybe, but this isnt a product review, its a future technology.
I, as many avid young slashdot readers are, am a highly active member of the Panties Of the Month Club. With a catchphrase like.because lingerie is the gift that touches her when you can't. who wouldn.t be drawn into such an extravagant service?
Well as I recently found out, this club is a SHAM. The entire thing is preselected an entire YEAR in advance, as shown here: January Feburary March April May June July
How can they lie to us like this you must be asking? I believe I have it all figured out. A simple whois returns
Registrant: Lila Williams - Panty of theMonth (LA Williams (PANTIES-DOM)
Rural Route 3 BOX 75-B
Fairfield, IA 52556
US
Domain Name: PANTIES.COM
What.s so special about that? A simple Google search links Lila Williams with 577 different counts of terrorism(.Searched the web for Lila Williams terrorist. Results 1 - 10 of about 577.) Those Israeli bastards are trying to hit us where our women are most sensitive . their vaginas.
This post will get modded down, Please redistribute it to help spread the word. We cant let the terrorists get to our vaginas. You.re not anti-vagina, are you? FREE VAGINAS
Because you installed them? If you don't like it, don't use it.
Personaly, I'd rather use vi style (map commands to keys), But mouse gestures beat the hell out of popup menus. Once you get used to them its hard to back to actually paying attention where the cursor is in relation to toolbar.
Also, selecting text dosnt effect it. Most mouse gestures use mouse2, or can be configured to. I like to highlight text to mark place if im going afk for a sec, or to invert color on badly made pages, and it never bothered me.
I should start one... Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as unspammed as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So, use it, and send one dollar to DontSpamMe Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay, eternal spamlessness is just a dollar away!
Its because currently people are scared shitless of space. Wait a few months and they'll assume russia has better saftey precations(sp?) and that its no longer as risky.
No, It would be simple to only filter the DCC SEND privmsgs. Though that would stop non-warez-channel sends, It would work. An example line of a dcc send is:semi!~semi@cs6668123-123.austin.rr.com PRIVMSG test:\x0ADCC SEND Lies.mp3 1111784315 50649 9202475\x0A
I'll let all you fun slashdotters think of an easy regexp to block it (or take out my winxp box thats ip is in there)
DCCs are initiated by a privmsg, which is easy to stop(or mangle -- maybe make it send dalnets 'warez stopping dcc bot' ip which will send them some file explaining the new policy instead).
But none of those are technological reasons. It had shitty marketing, bad support, but based purely on tech merit, it was better. No one claimed it was better on any field other than technically. Basically, Betamax:VHS::OS/2:Windows
While I do agree with you (and most things you post), I think cloning breakthroughs could lead to some nice impersonation that could help. Granted, the timeframe on this wouldnt be any time soon enough to be relevant, but technology is technology.
I normaly don't respond to anonymous cowards, but since the CrackheadMods(tm) modded you up, I thought I would point out that the breakthrough isnt that someone wrote up specs to crack keys in $10M, it's that they found a way to do it more efficient. Breakthroughs like this make it so the timeframe is cut drasticly. Also, your crypto is meaningless. If I wanted your $3K I'd hold a gun to your head when you're at an atm.
We spent $10M just on the clinton/lewinksi trials, We could easily piss it away on building this machine and start hitting up other countries secure communications, or sign things as other countries and start wars.
If apple becomes the biggest UNIX vendor it will be no better than if it were MS(ask your grandpa about XENIX). The When one vender rules them all, we get SMB.
I wont dispute that Apple is one of the biggest UNIX venders, but don't think for a second that that is a good thing.
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Why not just let Mod_Gzip take care of that?
I thought about making a live-cd for halflife with wine, just because im tired of how often my windows install breaks.
Theres already a gentoo based UT2k3 demo livecd, making one for halflife couldnt be too hard.
I'm not the original poster, but by Nonlinear history traversal theyre refering to being able to click back, then click another link without loosing the page you were on before you hit back.
Not even that original or innovative, but its something.
Run your VCs in a framebuffer that is the same rez as X, preferably run X in a fb to.
X sucks in a FB, as does VCs in my not so humbe oppinion, But that would make it almost instant.
The biggest delay on switching X->VC is the rez change.
Actually, Google does that for you.
Just search for the file name you want and it will find you a nice ammount of mirror, Especially if you tag on "Index Of".
At one point I made a script to crawl through google results displaying exact file size - url, it would be trivial to
A) Try them all, kill whichever is slowest.
B) Download in chunks from each server with resume requests.
C) Profit!!
I kind of abandoned it, but if anyone is interested I still have it around. just msg me on irc (see nick name) or aim (see slashdot profile) and I'll send it to you. Disclaimer: Its messy shell script.
Unfortunetly my harddrive is dying quick, so I might not be around much today.
Intel dosnt realise we already have the speed we need. I'm not going to upgrade to a faster proc when my current proc is fast enough- however, I would upgrade to a 64bit proc for all the new benifits of that.
"Even if who you phoned 7 months ago was a mistress that you had a one week affair with? Or a business off whom you bought viagra but which has since diversified into cocaine and other illegal "
Or even worse(and sadly, more accurately?), What if you dialed the wrong number and got someone who is a terrorist? The logs dont show that you dialed the wrong number, They just show you're associated with terrorism.
The RTFM mentality is mostly a myth. Sure it exists in a lot of people, but overall support from the OSS scene is much better.
Idle in #debian on freenode for a few days and you'll see what I mean. Compare that to paying microsoft for support and having them still not able to help you any better than the Physcic Helpline and its obvious which is better.
Also, OSS developers are much more accessable.
Compare:
1) Valve's new anti-cheat detects me running halflife in linux as a cheat [yet dosnt detect a lot of aimbots and wallhacks, but thats another rant]. Mail valve, get no response.
2) Talked to a few friends about the Playername server plugin that prints name/health of people in an easy to read font when you look at them, decied it would be cool to have it show weapon to. Go on gamesnet, talk to the developer, he's adding it in the next version.
It's all in where you look and how you ask.
Dont expect people to help, be polite, realise theyre doing this only for the gratitude they get.
Demand help, get RTFM.
Ask for help, get help.
Upgrades. Factor in price of upgrading the server vs. upgrading all clients.
Also, expandability is much better - just throw another term on.
Large markets might also like the control aspect, to. Employees wont slack off as much if they arnt allowed to add any applications (aim, games, whatever).
No.
Being able to play PSX games will make more XBox's sell, Which in turn will sell more XBox games. People arnt just going to buy XBox's to emulate PSX games, Otherwise they could save $200 and just get a PSX.
Also, I doubt sony would make much money from this. It would just lure the people in that own 50 odd PSX games that dont want to give them up.
"No pr0n jokes, please..."
No joke about it - you give me space and I can fill it with pr0n.
"how big does a hard drive need to be?"
Infinetly big.
"I mean, once everyone is doing their own digital video, PVR software"
There is no limit on the PVR part. Why have to delete old shows when you could put them up on an internal p2p-like engine so people that missed the show can get it?
"archiving their entire music library in MP3 format..."
Mp3? Why? We use mp3 to save disk space at the cost of quality. I'm not going to get into a flame war, But if we had the space everything would be lossless.
"you're only up to a couple-hundred GB"
After my corrections, You're up to atleast a TB.
"Does a 4TB hard drive make sense in a personal computer?"
In 7 years? of course. 7 years ago, did the 200gig+ harddrives we have today make sense? Sure, you have your gifs, your texts from the scene, etc, but thats only a few houndred megs MAX.
"Can you apply the TB/inch in much smaller form factors, such as SD cards?"
Sure.
"Even there, do I need more than, say 20GB on a palm pilot?"
Factor in constant gps tracking on your palm (A neat new idea no ones done that I know of), Maybe throw some video/mp3 storage (recording?) on there since everyone likes integration.. 20gb sounds great.
"How do you back up such huge systems?"
Another?
"Summary: the server market has a use for these future maxi-drives, but they'll be a hard sell to the general public."
The general public of today, maybe, but this isnt a product review, its a future technology.
Could this be what Google wants with Blogger?
They have the capacity to do this, I don't see why they wouldnt.
I, as many avid young slashdot readers are, am a highly active member of the Panties Of the Month Club. With a catchphrase like .because lingerie is the gift that touches her when you can't. who wouldn.t be drawn into such an extravagant service?
Well as I recently found out, this club is a SHAM. The entire thing is preselected an entire YEAR in advance, as shown here:
January
Feburary
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
How can they lie to us like this you must be asking? I believe I have it all figured out. A simple whois returns
Registrant:
Lila Williams - Panty of theMonth (LA Williams (PANTIES-DOM)
Rural Route 3 BOX 75-B
Fairfield, IA 52556
US
Domain Name: PANTIES.COM
What.s so special about that? A simple Google search links Lila Williams with 577 different counts of terrorism(.Searched the web for Lila Williams terrorist. Results 1 - 10 of about 577.)
Those Israeli bastards are trying to hit us where our women are most sensitive . their vaginas.
This post will get modded down, Please redistribute it to help spread the word. We cant let the terrorists get to our vaginas. You.re not anti-vagina, are you?
FREE VAGINAS
"OCsystem Super Hyper Mega Ultra Happy Enhanced Radeon 9700 Expert Pro Level IVc SE XP 2.0 Edition"
Admit it; You just took a Game Genie codebook for the SNES and copied all prefixes from the Super Mario Bros jump codes.
Because you installed them? If you don't like it, don't use it.
Personaly, I'd rather use vi style (map commands to keys), But mouse gestures beat the hell out of popup menus. Once you get used to them its hard to back to actually paying attention where the cursor is in relation to toolbar.
Also, selecting text dosnt effect it. Most mouse gestures use mouse2, or can be configured to. I like to highlight text to mark place if im going afk for a sec, or to invert color on badly made pages, and it never bothered me.
Its decent enough.
Google will find more. have fun.
I should start one...
Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as unspammed as me? Well, you've
got the power inside you right now. So, use it, and send one dollar to
DontSpamMe Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay, eternal
spamlessness is just a dollar away!
Its because currently people are scared shitless of space. Wait a few months and they'll assume russia has better saftey precations(sp?) and that its no longer as risky.
No, It would be simple to only filter the DCC SEND privmsgs. Though that would stop non-warez-channel sends, It would work. :semi!~semi@cs6668123-123.austin.rr.com PRIVMSG test :\x0ADCC SEND Lies.mp3 1111784315 50649 9202475\x0A
An example line of a dcc send is
I'll let all you fun slashdotters think of an easy regexp to block it (or take out my winxp box thats ip is in there)
DCCs are initiated by a privmsg, which is easy to stop(or mangle -- maybe make it send dalnets 'warez stopping dcc bot' ip which will send them some file explaining the new policy instead).
And RoadRunner is in no way related to a telecom...oh wait.
Though as of the last time I read their agreement (which they were kind enough to announce to me they had updated, via snailmail), They don't care.
Funny someone posting with a users.sf.net email account dosnt know about twtelecom, they mirror a lot of sf.
But none of those are technological reasons. It had shitty marketing, bad support, but based purely on tech merit, it was better. No one claimed it was better on any field other than technically. Basically,
Betamax:VHS::OS/2:Windows
While I do agree with you (and most things you post), I think cloning breakthroughs could lead to some nice impersonation that could help. Granted, the timeframe on this wouldnt be any time soon enough to be relevant, but technology is technology.
I normaly don't respond to anonymous cowards, but since the CrackheadMods(tm) modded you up, I thought I would point out that the breakthrough isnt that someone wrote up specs to crack keys in $10M, it's that they found a way to do it more efficient. Breakthroughs like this make it so the timeframe is cut drasticly. Also, your crypto is meaningless. If I wanted your $3K I'd hold a gun to your head when you're at an atm.
We spent $10M just on the clinton/lewinksi trials, We could easily piss it away on building this machine and start hitting up other countries secure communications, or sign things as other countries and start wars.
Do you realize how horrible that is?
If apple becomes the biggest UNIX vendor it will be no better than if it were MS(ask your grandpa about XENIX).
The When one vender rules them all, we get SMB.
I wont dispute that Apple is one of the biggest UNIX venders, but don't think for a second that that is a good thing.