Hahaha, I always find people uttering that sort of talk pretty funny. It sounds if they want to blame the movie theater for going to see a movie that they didn't like. Tough luck. Sometimes that happens. It's not the end of the world and you might even learn to appreciate other films better because of it.
That said, Meet the Feebles was hillarious.
Is this so very different from releasing a demo of the game, by the way? The shareware version of the original Doom game was basically a demo version of the complete game, where you could play a limited number of levels. Of course, these days you get much less levels to play with, but I suppose that's partly because the game data is so much bigger than it used to be.
Releasing crippled shareware games seems to me the same as demos with the exception that shareware games expect you to register it within a certain period of time or stop using it.
Which doesn't mean there aren't any. Sure, the chance that anyone will be able to exploit an as-of-yet undiscovered hole before the good guys discover it is perhaps pretty small, but nonetheless existant. And then, of course, you have the threat of poorly written PHP or CGI applications, if you do that sort of thing with your Apache.
You only need to be able to run abritrary code as that user. Then you can spawn your own shell. Also, last time I checked IPTables didn't close all buffer overrun flaws in servers run on ports that NEED to be open to the "dirty network."
Well, I didn't. I bet that makes me a lame non-geek Microsoft-celebrating uninsightful (spelled correctly this time) luser, right? It wasn't off-topic to the parent, though, as I see it. Anyway, carry on with your holier-than-thou l33t haxx0r speak.
Heh, reading through an archive of some old flamewar that included Andrew Tanenbaum and Linus Torvalds (see this compressed text file), I came across this piece of text from a message from Tanenbaum, dated 30 Jan 92. Linux complained about how Linux is freely available whereas Minux is not and Andrew thought it was an interesting concept to make software freely available, but only to those who can afford first class hardware (talking about the 386 here).
"Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5."
Interesting, that.:)
(P.s. Sorry-- meant to hit the Preview button. I screwed up the first time)
Processing power/graphics card shouldn't be a problem in my case. It's just that there seem to be two or three gears in which IE tries to smoothly run through the page, and as it is scrolling, you'll have to wait until that scrolling process has ended before it will begin to scroll faster or stop scrolling. It's simply not as responsive as non-smooth scrolling. Besides, who wants to read a moving page? I never saw any use in that. I never used any of those "automatic text scrollers" that you sometimes see in games or demos (I believe there's even a less variant that can do this). Lemme just decide which part of a textfile I want on the screen myself! Control! I want control over my computer! I need to be able to say to it: "Damn it! I want the top of that paragraph at line 5, because I bloody well say it has to be!" It's that sense of power that makes me feel like I matter in this world.
This sounds like such a load of bullshit. Can anybody explain to me how a website is supposed to "look up" stored cache data from a browser? When a user requests a certain website, a browser will simply check to see if the version it has in its cache is still up to date and present the cached data to the user. A third website is not in between this process.
I never understood the smooth scrolling feature in IE. It's so dreadfully annoying! It's simply not very accurate and the page seems to live its own life when using the mouse-wheel. I may be spastic, but I have always been unable to be friends with it. I say: "Go down a bit!" and IE responds with "Sure, let's fucking go down half a screen!" and then it takes its bloody time to do so, too! In the meantime, I have to wait a a whole half seconds before I can undo its over-generous scrolling efforts, upon which it decides I want to see five lines too much from the top of the viewscreen. I-- simply-- get-- the-- urge-- to-- kill when that damn feature's turned on. Who the hell thinks its useful, anyway? Do those people exist?
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And even then there are a few glitches here and there, too:
"There were a few little problems with scrolling from within a window (via the desktop option in the config file) and planet rendering during combat... but he said everything else worked great."
Look, the problem here is that we all feel so l33t and just cannot understand this "confusion" you keep talking about. Doesn't mean it's not there. Some people just don't want that sort of crap. Some people don't want to be experts or even intermediate computere users. Not everybody is as l33t as you.
I haven't checked CGI-Shell out, but if it's well-coded, there shouldn't be much of a problem. Who knows, maybe the commands you are allowed to run can be restricted. Maybe it's not password-protected in a.htaccess way. Maybe (hopefully) it's encrypted through SSL. This definately could be done securely. One just has to be very careful that it really is.
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Yes, but I was wondering: how is this much different from eDonkey? I fail to see the innovative part of BitTorrent and I'd really like to see it.
That's like calling Americans Canadians, really. :)
Hahaha, I always find people uttering that sort of talk pretty funny. It sounds if they want to blame the movie theater for going to see a movie that they didn't like. Tough luck. Sometimes that happens. It's not the end of the world and you might even learn to appreciate other films better because of it. That said, Meet the Feebles was hillarious.
Is this so very different from releasing a demo of the game, by the way? The shareware version of the original Doom game was basically a demo version of the complete game, where you could play a limited number of levels. Of course, these days you get much less levels to play with, but I suppose that's partly because the game data is so much bigger than it used to be.
Releasing crippled shareware games seems to me the same as demos with the exception that shareware games expect you to register it within a certain period of time or stop using it.
Been eating dogfood lately?
Which doesn't mean there aren't any. Sure, the chance that anyone will be able to exploit an as-of-yet undiscovered hole before the good guys discover it is perhaps pretty small, but nonetheless existant. And then, of course, you have the threat of poorly written PHP or CGI applications, if you do that sort of thing with your Apache.
You only need to be able to run abritrary code as that user. Then you can spawn your own shell. Also, last time I checked IPTables didn't close all buffer overrun flaws in servers run on ports that NEED to be open to the "dirty network."
Well, I didn't. I bet that makes me a lame non-geek Microsoft-celebrating uninsightful (spelled correctly this time) luser, right? It wasn't off-topic to the parent, though, as I see it. Anyway, carry on with your holier-than-thou l33t haxx0r speak.
Heh, reading through an archive of some old flamewar that included Andrew Tanenbaum and Linus Torvalds (see this compressed text file), I came across this piece of text from a message from Tanenbaum, dated 30 Jan 92. Linux complained about how Linux is freely available whereas Minux is not and Andrew thought it was an interesting concept to make software freely available, but only to those who can afford first class hardware (talking about the 386 here).
:)
"Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5."
Interesting, that.
(P.s. Sorry-- meant to hit the Preview button. I screwed up the first time)
Heh, reading through an archive of some old flamewar that included Andrew Tanenbaum and Linus Torvalds (see this compressed text file), I came across this piece of text from a message from Tanenbaum, dated 30 Jan 92. Linux complained about how Linux is freely available whereas Minux is not and Andrew thought it was an interesting concept to make software freely available, but only to those who can afford first class hardware (talking about the 386 here).
:)
"5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5."
"Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5."
Interesting, that.
Do you too have these voices in your head?
Processing power/graphics card shouldn't be a problem in my case. It's just that there seem to be two or three gears in which IE tries to smoothly run through the page, and as it is scrolling, you'll have to wait until that scrolling process has ended before it will begin to scroll faster or stop scrolling. It's simply not as responsive as non-smooth scrolling. Besides, who wants to read a moving page? I never saw any use in that. I never used any of those "automatic text scrollers" that you sometimes see in games or demos (I believe there's even a less variant that can do this). Lemme just decide which part of a textfile I want on the screen myself! Control! I want control over my computer! I need to be able to say to it: "Damn it! I want the top of that paragraph at line 5, because I bloody well say it has to be!" It's that sense of power that makes me feel like I matter in this world.
This sounds like such a load of bullshit. Can anybody explain to me how a website is supposed to "look up" stored cache data from a browser? When a user requests a certain website, a browser will simply check to see if the version it has in its cache is still up to date and present the cached data to the user. A third website is not in between this process.
I never understood the smooth scrolling feature in IE. It's so dreadfully annoying! It's simply not very accurate and the page seems to live its own life when using the mouse-wheel. I may be spastic, but I have always been unable to be friends with it. I say: "Go down a bit!" and IE responds with "Sure, let's fucking go down half a screen!" and then it takes its bloody time to do so, too! In the meantime, I have to wait a a whole half seconds before I can undo its over-generous scrolling efforts, upon which it decides I want to see five lines too much from the top of the viewscreen. I-- simply-- get-- the-- urge-- to-- kill when that damn feature's turned on. Who the hell thinks its useful, anyway? Do those people exist?
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978IO$#*(&b*$#(*Yuih789on)Slashdot*(*&@897diu2 79 must get &*(^8923h9sdfjklsdf1more8o0234*women&72816 829
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It must be a black hole. I didn't know those existed in software.
And even then there are a few glitches here and there, too:
"There were a few little problems with scrolling from within a window (via the desktop option in the config file) and planet rendering during combat... but he said everything else worked great."
Well, it's not as if anybody would see the difference.
Look, the problem here is that we all feel so l33t and just cannot understand this "confusion" you keep talking about. Doesn't mean it's not there. Some people just don't want that sort of crap. Some people don't want to be experts or even intermediate computere users. Not everybody is as l33t as you.
I haven't checked CGI-Shell out, but if it's well-coded, there shouldn't be much of a problem. Who knows, maybe the commands you are allowed to run can be restricted. Maybe it's not password-protected in a .htaccess way. Maybe (hopefully) it's encrypted through SSL. This definately could be done securely. One just has to be very careful that it really is.
Pinky: Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?
Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world!
When I get enough karma points, I am *so* gonna moderate you down!
Yes, but we're just the first group to be evacuated. Two other tractors will be sent after us with the rest of the people, they told us.
I would give almost anything to see Mickey Mouse freeze to death.