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Ouch! That one hurt... hmm... why not reverse engineer the installer (you never ran it and thus never agreed to the EULA either) and invert the button's functions (ie make the 'I disagree' Button jump to where the I agree button usually goes and vice-versa) Then run it and click on 'I disagree' (You explicitly told them that you didn't like their EULA and the installer will nevertheless set up the software)
Just a thought one of the voices in my head just muttered;)
Hmm, the views in there seem a little strange to me. OK, if SDMI is broken then years of effort are proven to be a waste but, with the knowledge of how SDMI was broken, it can possibly be fixed! And that's the point of the boykott. I personally don't believe that they'll just dismiss SDMI because it was flawed. The purpose of this contest to me was to find leaks in there and fix them before going live and having it cracked one day later.
For me only a PAL based box is going to do any good as I live in Europe.
As for an NTSC version, it doesn't look like they're planning one yet. There's not even a release date for the TV server yet but given the fact that they created a separate company for it (Fast TV Server A.G.) they might consider building one.
Of course I can only speculate here. Best is probably to ask them at: kontakt@tv-server.de
Fast are currently working on their TV Server which has some of these features. Among others it has connectivity like 100Mbit/s UTP, Firewire, USB, free 'EPG'. (Electronic Program Guide) Their page at http://www.tvserver.de is in German so you might need to use the Babelfish.
I don't know about the issue of AD networked stations not being able to access NT4 style shares but I see no reason why they shouldn't
What I DO KNOW is that the active directory can be run in 2 modes: native and mixed. In native mode it will of course deny anything that is not active directory compatible. In mixed mode it's supposed to let you work with older NT stations and servers/domain controllers. (Of course there are some features that require native mode to help force you a bit more towards it and once you're in native mode you can't go back to mixed either;)
About authentication, you'll have to check whether your Kerberos implementation is compatible to the one Microsoft is using and you'll also have to see whether your systems support the SVC records inside DNS. (Here are some RFCs that they refer to: RR records RFC2052, Dynamic DNS update RFC2136/RFC2137)
As for accessing data that is in the AD you'll have to figure out how to do it via LDAP I suppose.
Hope the above helps a bit. Unfortunately I'm no expert in these matters.
I have an SB Live! with a LiveDrive II and have hooked it up with my VideoLogic DigiTheatre DTS and can confirm that it does do Dolby Digital 5.1 (Once the DVD software is properly set up the decoder clearly recognizes the 5.1 signal and handles the rest from there) I didn't have the possibility to test DTS yet because none of my DVDs has a DTS track but in theory that should be possible too.
Greetings
>I don't think the problem is that Ion Storm is making the sequel, but that Eidos turned their back on Looking Glass when they needed help, only to buy the rights at a yardsale.
Well... according to what I know Eidos couldn't finish the deal because they got into financial problems themselves. Lara X (at which number are we?) is not selling as well as the predecessors and some strange game developed by Ion Storm keeps sucking up money like a black hole.
>I don't think Ion Storm did anything wrong in this situation, Eidos did. That's what I'm upset about, and what I think the original commenter is upset about. Ion Storm was duing what it was supposed (well, maybe not Romero's team), Eidos cheated looking glass.
Well, if what I said before then Ion Storm partly is the cause of why Eidos couldn't buy LG. Daikatana just wasted so much money that Eidos didn't have the resources to help LG.
Of course, it's sad to see Looking Glass go, especially as I'm a fan of the System Shock series, the future of which is now hanging in the dark even more than that of the Thief series. The rights for Thief belonged to LG and could be bought but the rights for Shock are held by EA. (You know the giant publisher that ruins just about every game company they hold by making them publish one dumb sequel after the other. An example of this is Origin Inc which used to produce some of the greatest games ever and now starts to slowly vanish)
Anyway, I guess there's not much we can do except for buying the games we like and thus supporting the company who developed it. (Yes, I actually bought both System Shocks;)
Listening to MP3 files and sending them via e-mail are 2 different things. When you listen to them, you may be using up some of your harddisk space but essentially you're not really costing your company money.
As soon as you start distributing them via e-mail however, you are starting to use up valuable bandwidth, delaying more important business related mail and possibly even breaking the law, if you're distributing copyrighted music. (We've seen our e-mail hubs here getting clogged by MP3, MPEG and AVI files which really delayed some important mails by several hours) All that, plus the fact that the network lines usually cost lots of money, gives any company with an 'acceptable use of computer material' policy enough justification to fire you. (At my company you receive a warning first though)
Greetings
Re:ORBS is a net.terrorist!
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>Gee, and what about Mr. Seebs http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/07/19/141 238&cid=111 message. Looks like that crowbar ORBS swings *DOES* break someones windows. And, they just keep breaking his windows.
Is it ORBS' fault that Mr. Seebs is using a buggy mail server that doesn't handle some e-mails correctly? And are they at fault that some admins obviously don't care about privacy to such an extent that they set up their systems to send them a copy of failed relaying mails?
>And posting the IP of a portscaned system for spammers to use looks like collusion WITH the spammers. No need for spammers to do the scanning work.
That is not the objective of ORBS. They should first contact you and 30 days later publish your system as 'for spammers to be used'. BTW: This posting is exactly what prevents spammers from being able to use it, as any mail server using ORBS will not let them through.
>My host is flagged as 'last tested ok' and 'queued for re-testing'.
Then what are you complaining about? They saw that your host is OK and everybody using ORBS will accept your messages.
>ORBS created the 'situation' by *NOT* being reasonable. 1) They do not have proof of spamming from a host
They don't need to have any. They are not accusing you of spamming. They are probing your system because somebody asked them to do so.
>2) They do not provide this proof when asked Please see 1
>3) They do not ASK a sysadmin if they wish to be tested OK, I agree that is something they should do.
>If they had proof, were willing to provide proof, and ASKED before launching their probe attack, an attack that is FAR worse than any one spammers probe attack, then ORBS would not be the net.terrorists that they are!
You are not telling me that some small probes from ORBS are worse than a spammer sending hundreds, maybe thousands of messages through your hosts, are you? I prefer them probing my server from time to time rather than having my bandwidth wasted by spammers.
Greetings
ORBS is NO net.terrorist!
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>You seem to believe that a probe looking for a hole is ok. I do, as long as you don't use the holes you find for any illicit actions.
>If I wander thru your neighborhood with a crow-bar and check for open doors/windows, you'd support that action, so long as I said I'm "doing this to improve the security of the neighborhood"
No, but with a crow-bar you can break my doors/windows, you can't do that with a dumb e-mail probe. What you are describing is much more aggressive than what ORBS are doing.
>Really? Gee, I'm subjected to a UNWANTED attack from ORBS and I should just say "sure, come on back", or should I block future attacks?
No, because you're not subject to an attack, I REPEAT: A PROBE IS NO ATTACK! If I do a portscan of your machine did I harm you? No! If I use the result of the portscan to break into your system, now that is an attack.
>Now, what did ORBS do? They list my host as 'Selectively open relay', which is a lie. And they KNOW it, because the host is listed as 'checked OK'.
Granted, this may have been an error on their part, but you blocking them didn't really help. In fact you worsened the situation and caused your system to be flagged as 'unprobeable'. But the choice of blocking your systems on other servers is not done by ORBS but by the admins of those systems. (If I decide to implement ORBS on my servers tomorrow and I tell it not to let 'unprobeable' systems send mail then I have blocked you. If I decide not to care about the unprobeable ones I'll let them through, the choice is mine)
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Re:ORBS is a net.terrorist! NOT
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>What am I to do when I have an un-provoked attack? Just let them keep it up? Or block the sites where the attacks were comming from. A *RESPONSIBLE* sysadmin blocks the source of the attacks.
What you fail to realize is that IT WAS NOT AN ATTACK! If I ping your IP range to see which servers are there will you sue me for cracking your site?
>They can't even provide PROOF of spam when asked, so why should they be probing my network? Erm... they're not looking for SPAM. They are/were scanning systems susceptible to being used by spammers UPON REQUEST by some person. (Note they are not scanning randomly but you have to specifically point them to the servers they should scan)
Agreed, their methods may be questionable but their system is reported (by its users) to catch 90% of the spam messages on the net and MAPS do definitely NOT have the right to just go ahead and disrupt their service. (If what ORBS is claiming is correct, then MAPS are the net terrorists!)
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Re:How do I implement that in Junkbuster?
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Sorry for the stupid question but I really have no idea where to put that.
Hmm, I'm not sure about this. For example: Who says that your Windows 98 upgrade is only valid when upgrading from Windows 95? If I am right you could upgrade your Win 3.1 directly to Win98 and thus you don't need the 95 one (and can sell it)
I'm just making a guess here but I'm probably wrong, right?;)
Re:Clue: GiS has an International audience...
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Another clue: Geeks in Space wouldn't be half as enjoyable if it was as bone dry as you seem to want it.
Honestly I listen to the show because it's fun. Take some interesting information, some people joking around, add some 'product placement' (conspiracy here;) and you've got Geeks in Space.
I wouldn't want to listen to it if it weren't for the whining and 4 minutes of rambling because then it would be plain boring. As for the obscure US personalities, I have to agree. Being from Europe I don't know most of them either.
Disclaimer: The above was written by Lev_Arris and should therefore not be taken too serious. In addition everything contained herein is strictly IMHO and produced without harming any animals;)
I know that lasers wear off with time, but in this case I don't think that's the fault. (I thinks it's the mechanics because somebody once ripped out the CD-Tray inadvertedly during a performance and since then it makes real awful noises when starting to read a CD;)
Anyway, it still DOES read all the old discs it used to read but certain newer ones won't just be accepted. (All the 'Bravo Hits' and 'Viva Hits' discs, which IMHO seem to be extra low quality productions, get refused with a 'No disc' message)
Interesting, but I can confirm that this isn't the case here. The second unit is exactly the same one (both were purchased at the same time) and does read CD-Rs very well.
I definitely have made similar experiences. I'm working for a small Disco-Team here in Luxembourg and one of our CD decks is really picky about the discs it reads. It doesn't read CD-Rs, refuses scratched discs and don't even think about trying CD-RWs. Anyway over the years we've noticed that it refuses to read more and more of the newer discs. (The old ones are still fine)
The same applies for some of the CDs I've had on several mags. (I encountered some that were absolutely unreadable and I tried multiple different drives)
We've had the same here in Luxembourg where a local radio station reported that ILOVEYOU had destroyed millions of computers (Did their CPU explode?) but completely forgot to mention that one could just delete the mail without launching the attachment and that's it.
They also said that there were no Antivirus tools available that could detect VBS.LoveLetter which was just plain wrong, as I had downloaded updates for InnocuLAN, McAfee, Norton AV and AVP about 2 hours before their report.
I slightly disagree with that. Sure if browsers didn't support PNGs at all, switching your site to PNG would be plain stupid. But fact is, they DO support PNG to some extent. (Often it's only the features like gamma correction etc that are missing) So putting PNGs doesn't completely lock out your visitors (in fact the smaller files make your site download way faster) as long as you're careful enough to avoid the unsupported features in a first step.
Then, as soon as more sites with PNG pop up, Netscape and Micro$oft will see that better support for those formats is needed in their browsers and implement it.
At least that's how I see it. I may be on the completely wrong track as well.;)
Changing the image format won't affect the URL's of a site, except the links to the images. In my case I don't care about those because people who want to use my graphics are requested to download and host them on their server. If they steal my images or link to them against my wish, that'll teach them;)
Well, to me this looks like the push PNG has needed for some time. As soon as some major sites start switching to PNG we'll see IE and Netscape finally implementing proper support for it in browsers and probably other popular software packages will follow.
BTW: Does anybody have a good package for Win32 (yes, my Linux is still only for experimenting 'cause I'm way too stupid to get it up correctly) that could convert an entire site to PNG? (ie convert the images and scan the HTML code, changing all references to PNG) That would be very helpful because I don't have the time to do all that manually.
Well, all newer Origin games were lacking the quality of the older ones. Wing Commander Prophecy, produced after the departure of Chris Roberts, promised lots of things (back to the roots,...) but in fact was just a lot of missions glued together by 10 Video Clips and a poor story which had absolutely nothing in common with the old WCs. (Ahh, good old times when the Kilrathi were still there)
I already predicted the death of Origin Inc at that point, and now I've been confirmed: Richard Garriot is GONE and Wing Commander Online has been cancelled. (To translate this: The Ultima Universe is DEAD, the Wing Commander Universe is just as DEAD and the Privateer Universe already got killed before)
Well, I guess all we can do is write mails and watch as a gaming era goes down, maybe hope that Chris Roberts' Digital Anvil and Richard Garriot's new company, whatever that will be, will succeed in bringing us the quality games we used to have before those mainstream crap games (Tomb Raider and the like) started destroying the market.
This is indeed very old! I've had my G400 for over 6 months now and am very happy with it. It runs well under W98 and even under Linux. (Unfortunately Linux doesn't support the Dual-Head feature yet and the 3D accelleration can only be obtained by compiling GLX, driver etc and I'm way too stupid to be able to get that running) Apart from that the card is pretty good but as far as performance is concerned it is probably slower than those of the newer generation. (Only the GeForce right now)
I've heard Matrox was working on the G800. Can anybody confirm that?
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Ouch! That one hurt ... hmm ... why not reverse engineer the installer (you never ran it and thus never agreed to the EULA either) and invert the button's functions (ie make the 'I disagree' Button jump to where the I agree button usually goes and vice-versa) Then run it and click on 'I disagree' (You explicitly told them that you didn't like their EULA and the installer will nevertheless set up the software)
;)
Just a thought one of the voices in my head just muttered
Greetings,
Lev_Arris
Hmm, the views in there seem a little strange to me. OK, if SDMI is broken then years of effort are proven to be a waste but, with the knowledge of how SDMI was broken, it can possibly be fixed! And that's the point of the boykott. I personally don't believe that they'll just dismiss SDMI because it was flawed. The purpose of this contest to me was to find leaks in there and fix them before going live and having it cracked one day later.
The above is of course only IMHO
Greetings
For me only a PAL based box is going to do any good as I live in Europe.
As for an NTSC version, it doesn't look like they're planning one yet. There's not even a release date for the TV server yet but given the fact that they created a separate company for it (Fast TV Server A.G.) they might consider building one.
Of course I can only speculate here. Best is probably to ask them at: kontakt@tv-server.de
Greetings
Fast are currently working on their TV Server which has some of these features. Among others it has connectivity like 100Mbit/s UTP, Firewire, USB, free 'EPG'. (Electronic Program Guide) Their page at http://www.tvserver.de is in German so you might need to use the Babelfish.
I can't wait for these to come out!
Greetings
It's located under ...
http://www.ubersoft.net/ and it's name is 'Can't Win for losing' in case you come in later and the scripts have moved the URL.
Just FYI. Greetings
I don't know about the issue of AD networked stations not being able to access NT4 style shares but I see no reason why they shouldn't
;)
What I DO KNOW is that the active directory can be run in 2 modes: native and mixed. In native mode it will of course deny anything that is not active directory compatible. In mixed mode it's supposed to let you work with older NT stations and servers/domain controllers. (Of course there are some features that require native mode to help force you a bit more towards it and once you're in native mode you can't go back to mixed either
About authentication, you'll have to check whether your Kerberos implementation is compatible to the one Microsoft is using and you'll also have to see whether your systems support the SVC records inside DNS. (Here are some RFCs that they refer to: RR records RFC2052, Dynamic DNS update RFC2136/RFC2137)
As for accessing data that is in the AD you'll have to figure out how to do it via LDAP I suppose.
Hope the above helps a bit. Unfortunately I'm no expert in these matters.
I have an SB Live! with a LiveDrive II and have hooked it up with my VideoLogic DigiTheatre DTS and can confirm that it does do Dolby Digital 5.1 (Once the DVD software is properly set up the decoder clearly recognizes the 5.1 signal and handles the rest from there) I didn't have the possibility to test DTS yet because none of my DVDs has a DTS track but in theory that should be possible too. Greetings
>I don't think the problem is that Ion Storm is making the sequel, but that Eidos turned their back on Looking Glass when they needed help, only to buy the rights at a yardsale.
... according to what I know Eidos couldn't finish the deal because they got into financial problems themselves. Lara X (at which number are we?) is not selling as well as the predecessors and some strange game developed by Ion Storm keeps sucking up money like a black hole.
;)
Well
>I don't think Ion Storm did anything wrong in this situation, Eidos did. That's what I'm upset about, and what I think the original commenter is upset about. Ion Storm was duing what it was supposed (well, maybe not Romero's team), Eidos cheated looking glass.
Well, if what I said before then Ion Storm partly is the cause of why Eidos couldn't buy LG. Daikatana just wasted so much money that Eidos didn't have the resources to help LG.
Of course, it's sad to see Looking Glass go, especially as I'm a fan of the System Shock series, the future of which is now hanging in the dark even more than that of the Thief series. The rights for Thief belonged to LG and could be bought but the rights for Shock are held by EA. (You know the giant publisher that ruins just about every game company they hold by making them publish one dumb sequel after the other. An example of this is Origin Inc which used to produce some of the greatest games ever and now starts to slowly vanish)
Anyway, I guess there's not much we can do except for buying the games we like and thus supporting the company who developed it. (Yes, I actually bought both System Shocks
Greetings
Listening to MP3 files and sending them via e-mail are 2 different things. When you listen to them, you may be using up some of your harddisk space but essentially you're not really costing your company money.
As soon as you start distributing them via e-mail however, you are starting to use up valuable bandwidth, delaying more important business related mail and possibly even breaking the law, if you're distributing copyrighted music. (We've seen our e-mail hubs here getting clogged by MP3, MPEG and AVI files which really delayed some important mails by several hours) All that, plus the fact that the network lines usually cost lots of money, gives any company with an 'acceptable use of computer material' policy enough justification to fire you. (At my company you receive a warning first though)
Greetings
>Gee, and what about Mr. Seebs1 238&cid=111
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/07/19/14
message. Looks like that crowbar ORBS swings *DOES* break someones windows. And, they just keep breaking his windows.
Is it ORBS' fault that Mr. Seebs is using a buggy mail server that doesn't handle some e-mails correctly? And are they at fault that some admins obviously don't care about privacy to such an extent that they set up their systems to send them a copy of failed relaying mails?
>And posting the IP of a portscaned system for spammers to use looks like collusion WITH the spammers. No need for spammers to do the scanning work.
That is not the objective of ORBS. They should first contact you and 30 days later publish your system as 'for spammers to be used'. BTW: This posting is exactly what prevents spammers from being able to use it, as any mail server using ORBS will not let them through.
>My host is flagged as 'last tested ok' and 'queued for re-testing'.
Then what are you complaining about? They saw that your host is OK and everybody using ORBS will accept your messages.
>ORBS created the 'situation' by *NOT* being reasonable.
1) They do not have proof of spamming from a host
They don't need to have any. They are not accusing you of spamming. They are probing your system because somebody asked them to do so.
>2) They do not provide this proof when asked
Please see 1
>3) They do not ASK a sysadmin if they wish to be tested
OK, I agree that is something they should do.
>If they had proof, were willing to provide proof, and ASKED before launching their probe attack, an attack that is FAR worse than any one spammers probe attack, then ORBS would not be the net.terrorists that they are!
You are not telling me that some small probes from ORBS are worse than a spammer sending hundreds, maybe thousands of messages through your hosts, are you? I prefer them probing my server from time to time rather than having my bandwidth wasted by spammers.
Greetings
>You seem to believe that a probe looking for a hole is ok.
I do, as long as you don't use the holes you find for any illicit actions.
>If I wander thru your neighborhood with a crow-bar and check for open doors/windows, you'd support that action, so long as I said I'm "doing this to improve the security of the neighborhood"
No, but with a crow-bar you can break my doors/windows, you can't do that with a dumb e-mail probe. What you are describing is much more aggressive than what ORBS are doing.
>Really? Gee, I'm subjected to a UNWANTED attack from ORBS and I should just say "sure, come on back", or should I block future attacks?
No, because you're not subject to an attack, I REPEAT: A PROBE IS NO ATTACK! If I do a portscan of your machine did I harm you? No! If I use the result of the portscan to break into your system, now that is an attack.
>Now, what did ORBS do? They list my host as 'Selectively open relay', which is a lie. And they KNOW it, because the host is listed as 'checked OK'.
Granted, this may have been an error on their part, but you blocking them didn't really help. In fact you worsened the situation and caused your system to be flagged as 'unprobeable'. But the choice of blocking your systems on other servers is not done by ORBS but by the admins of those systems. (If I decide to implement ORBS on my servers tomorrow and I tell it not to let 'unprobeable' systems send mail then I have blocked you. If I decide not to care about the unprobeable ones I'll let them through, the choice is mine)
Greetings
>What am I to do when I have an un-provoked attack? Just let them keep it up? Or block the sites where the attacks were comming from. A *RESPONSIBLE* sysadmin blocks the source of the attacks.
... they're not looking for SPAM. They are/were scanning systems susceptible to being used by spammers UPON REQUEST by some person. (Note they are not scanning randomly but you have to specifically point them to the servers they should scan)
What you fail to realize is that IT WAS NOT AN ATTACK! If I ping your IP range to see which servers are there will you sue me for cracking your site?
>They can't even provide PROOF of spam when asked, so why should they be probing my network?
Erm
Agreed, their methods may be questionable but their system is reported (by its users) to catch 90% of the spam messages on the net and MAPS do definitely NOT have the right to just go ahead and disrupt their service. (If what ORBS is claiming is correct, then MAPS are the net terrorists!)
Greetings
Sorry for the stupid question but I really have no idea where to put that.
Greetings
Hmm, I'm not sure about this. For example: Who says that your Windows 98 upgrade is only valid when upgrading from Windows 95? If I am right you could upgrade your Win 3.1 directly to Win98 and thus you don't need the 95 one (and can sell it)
;)
I'm just making a guess here but I'm probably wrong, right?
Another clue: Geeks in Space wouldn't be half as enjoyable if it was as bone dry as you seem to want it.
;) and you've got Geeks in Space.
;)
Honestly I listen to the show because it's fun. Take some interesting information, some people joking around, add some 'product placement' (conspiracy here
I wouldn't want to listen to it if it weren't for the whining and 4 minutes of rambling because then it would be plain boring. As for the obscure US personalities, I have to agree. Being from Europe I don't know most of them either.
Disclaimer: The above was written by Lev_Arris and should therefore not be taken too serious. In addition everything contained herein is strictly IMHO and produced without harming any animals
Greetz
I know that lasers wear off with time, but in this case I don't think that's the fault. (I thinks it's the mechanics because somebody once ripped out the CD-Tray inadvertedly during a performance and since then it makes real awful noises when starting to read a CD ;)
Anyway, it still DOES read all the old discs it used to read but certain newer ones won't just be accepted. (All the 'Bravo Hits' and 'Viva Hits' discs, which IMHO seem to be extra low quality productions, get refused with a 'No disc' message)
Greetings,
Interesting, but I can confirm that this isn't the case here. The second unit is exactly the same one (both were purchased at the same time) and does read CD-Rs very well.
Greetings,
I definitely have made similar experiences. I'm working for a small Disco-Team here in Luxembourg and one of our CD decks is really picky about the discs it reads. It doesn't read CD-Rs, refuses scratched discs and don't even think about trying CD-RWs. Anyway over the years we've noticed that it refuses to read more and more of the newer discs. (The old ones are still fine)
The same applies for some of the CDs I've had on several mags. (I encountered some that were absolutely unreadable and I tried multiple different drives)
Greetings,
We've had the same here in Luxembourg where a local radio station reported that ILOVEYOU had destroyed millions of computers (Did their CPU explode?) but completely forgot to mention that one could just delete the mail without launching the attachment and that's it.
They also said that there were no Antivirus tools available that could detect VBS.LoveLetter which was just plain wrong, as I had downloaded updates for InnocuLAN, McAfee, Norton AV and AVP about 2 hours before their report.
I slightly disagree with that. Sure if browsers didn't support PNGs at all, switching your site to PNG would be plain stupid. But fact is, they DO support PNG to some extent. (Often it's only the features like gamma correction etc that are missing) So putting PNGs doesn't completely lock out your visitors (in fact the smaller files make your site download way faster) as long as you're careful enough to avoid the unsupported features in a first step.
;)
Then, as soon as more sites with PNG pop up, Netscape and Micro$oft will see that better support for those formats is needed in their browsers and implement it.
At least that's how I see it. I may be on the completely wrong track as well.
Greetings,
Changing the image format won't affect the URL's of a site, except the links to the images. In my case I don't care about those because people who want to use my graphics are requested to download and host them on their server. If they steal my images or link to them against my wish, that'll teach them ;)
Greetings,
Well, to me this looks like the push PNG has needed for some time. As soon as some major sites start switching to PNG we'll see IE and Netscape finally implementing proper support for it in browsers and probably other popular software packages will follow.
BTW: Does anybody have a good package for Win32 (yes, my Linux is still only for experimenting 'cause I'm way too stupid to get it up correctly) that could convert an entire site to PNG? (ie convert the images and scan the HTML code, changing all references to PNG) That would be very helpful because I don't have the time to do all that manually.
Greetings,
Well, all newer Origin games were lacking the quality of the older ones. Wing Commander Prophecy, produced after the departure of Chris Roberts, promised lots of things (back to the roots, ...) but in fact was just a lot of missions glued together by 10 Video Clips and a poor story which had absolutely nothing in common with the old WCs. (Ahh, good old times when the Kilrathi were still there)
I already predicted the death of Origin Inc at that point, and now I've been confirmed: Richard Garriot is GONE and Wing Commander Online has been cancelled. (To translate this: The Ultima Universe is DEAD, the Wing Commander Universe is just as DEAD and the Privateer Universe already got killed before)
Well, I guess all we can do is write mails and watch as a gaming era goes down, maybe hope that Chris Roberts' Digital Anvil and Richard Garriot's new company, whatever that will be, will succeed in bringing us the quality games we used to have before those mainstream crap games (Tomb Raider and the like) started destroying the market.
Yours in tears, Michel
This is indeed very old! I've had my G400 for over 6 months now and am very happy with it. It runs well under W98 and even under Linux. (Unfortunately Linux doesn't support the Dual-Head feature yet and the 3D accelleration can only be obtained by compiling GLX, driver etc and I'm way too stupid to be able to get that running) Apart from that the card is pretty good but as far as performance is concerned it is probably slower than those of the newer generation. (Only the GeForce right now)
I've heard Matrox was working on the G800. Can anybody confirm that?
I think it won't work. They're using a mod called Quake2 Wedding Mod and my guess is that this is purpose written just to prevent that :(
Greetings