Ironically enough, Quake III costs 10 cents more than both Enter the Matrix, and the Ultimate Doom Collection at Wal-Mart. I was wandering around after a bathroom break the other day, and saw that not only did they have Quake III, but they a Linux version. Go them! While you're over there, you might try picking up a copy of UT 2004, it also has a native Linux client.
Yes, there is an extremely nice (not noticeably different from a dvd, except for faded colors) rip of Spider-Man 2 going around. *cough*friend got it*cough*.
What's more interesting to me is the fact that thousands of people have grabbed this file from BitTorrent sites like this one that require a registration, valid email et all to join. They literally signed up, and had their IP addy registered into a database of 'trusted ips', so that they could download Spider-Man 2. Simply Astonishing. I've seen 4 or 5 of these sites that appear to be using the same code, it wouldn't take the MPAA more than 30 seconds to start another one and start nabbing people IN THE ACT. Not to mention the fact that all the connected IP Addresses are visible from the tracker page..
I wonder if they're measuring traffic from Debian's apt mirrors, RedHat's up2date, Gentoo's emerge... I know that just between the 4 Debian systems I run there can be anywhere from 100-300 megabytes of updates per week. Granted, one is stable, two are testing and one is unstable. But still, I can't think of a week that I've *ever* downloaded 300 megs of music. Most software packages are much, much larger than even an entire album, so this doesn't surprise me at all.
Can be found at P-P-P Powerbook.com. In short, the guy was contacted after he put his iBook up on eBay. He realized it was a scam, and sent the scammer a notebook instead. The forum has pictures from people who lived around the delivery zone, and were actually there when the scammer opened the faked package. Definately worth a read.
All you have to do is open up gconf-editor and edit the/apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_1 and set it to nautilus.
(emphasis mine)
In KDE, just open up the Control Panel, click KHotKeys, and set win+e to open up firebird (mozilla, konqueror). That's *maybe* 5 mouse clicks and two keypresses. Does anyone here know how to do that in Windows?
Gee, one billion pages and only 15 results for Linux? Why am I not surprised?
Actually, that'd be only 15 results per page. If you went and hit the "NEXT>>" button, you'd get 16-30.. Just remember this the next time you flame someone for not understanding a UI.:-)
You sirs of Gmail Machine have gained my utmost respect. I have watched, in under 20 minutes, your hitcounter move from 7.4 -> 8.2 millions hits. Thats 800,000 hits in 20 minutes, or about 670 hits per second. You have made monkeys out of us, something I haven't seen done so subtly in a long while. Congratulations in your enslavement of the internet populace at large.
My father used to commute 2-3 days out of the week, and work at home the remainder. Now, he works at home full time - the hope being that more time is available for my siblings and I.
However, I think this is *not* the way to go. Ever since Dad has been able to walk 20 feet to his office, he has left it later and later. My advice would be to leave your work as far away from your kids as is possible.
On a seperate note, you will do wonders for your childrens' egos if you "don't notice" them ARP sniffing on you... (Hi, Dad!:-))
No, no no and no. Fighting fire with mass wget will just further clog the network. Think of it, some spammer finds out that you started this scheme. Next thing you know, they put your domain in a spam email and you get ddos'd to high heaven.
Although didn't announce it until recently, VALVe Software's Steam runs better with WineX than it does in windows. The reason for this is simple, in Windows the url loading mechanism works, and there are numerous spots that have adds. With WineX, the URL loader does not work so I can play without annoyances.
Ignoring this, it is possible that Transgaming is the reason there will be no Half-Life2 on Linux. VALVe promised the Linux community a port after they made a Linux version of the dedicated server, but now we learn that H-L 2 will be DirectX 9 only. VALVe may have assumed that linux users could play the game under WineX, and thus it wouldn't be worth it to make a native port. I hope that TransGaming protests by making no effort to support Half-Life2, and urges their subscribers to do likewise.
The way I understand it, what we call free will or sentinence descends from the competitions and trials of being human. Machines will never be sentinent in the same way that we are unless they have offspring and have to try and scavenge for power and bandwidth (shelter, food). If I could just sit still and do nothing while my every need was attended to, there would be no genetic advantage for me to be more intelligent. Thus, if we were treated like we treat our computers some say we wouldn't be intelligent right now. It's more than a little unsettling, but some theories state that the only way for us to create intelligent machine life is to allow it to randomly create itself in much of the same way we all came to be.
I've been using the same install for 4 years now and my patching is as automatic as it gets. My cron job runs one a day with a major update every sunday. It doesn't require paying money, just a small (less than one windows update) amount of time on my part
imagine 50-60W worth of LEDs... drink the Mountain Dew and glow green, start to run out of sugar and you'd glow red.. people could start eating when they changed color instead of when they were hungry
it still has several annoying starcraft bugs that i ran into after less than 10 minutes of testing. also, when you disconnect from a game in counter-strike it greys the screen and hangs, i had to killall wine to get out...if they could just get over themselves and release their patches to winehq things might go better
recently i got the chance to visit japan for two months. while i was there (august 30th - november 4th) i got a different look at the US. i heard the hubbub around the snipers from a completely different angle, and watched as the patriot act was passed. when i entered japan, the things important enough to be mentioned in english were: no firearms, drugs, intoxicants or pornographic articles. going back into america i had to take my compass out of my math bookbag, empty my tolietries kit and get rid of my scissors. it's completely ridiculous to do things like this to 13-14 year olds that only want to get back home. i decided then and there that something wasn't right. when i got home and raised the alarm, people accepted it mutely, almost like sheep. no one seemed to care that they could be taken away without any trial if the government wanted to, or that their isp could be forced to reveal weblogs or ip traffic from their account.
i figure, since im already going to school where there are mostly 13 year old sheep, new zealand won't be much of a change..
or whatever that game was where you shot at the people using calls such as 'im naked, and i have a pizza..' imagine the hunters expressions after 6 hours in a tent..:-)
>And humans were never expendable. The machines needed the energy produced by humans to exist.
Here's my gripe with the Matrix, where is this energy coming from? The machines feed the humans, and the humans give off energy. WHAT?! Didn't someone tell them you lose energy every transformation it makes? It would seem they don't get a net gain unless they have no other way of transforming human food into energy.
As some past poster said, the plot originally involved the machines using us in a distributed computer network. The W. Bros thought this wouldn't fly so it was changed into power, something that makes no sense for those of us that would of understood the distributed computer approach.. We must be hard to keep happy..
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Ironically enough, Quake III costs 10 cents more than both Enter the Matrix, and the Ultimate Doom Collection at Wal-Mart. I was wandering around after a bathroom break the other day, and saw that not only did they have Quake III, but they a Linux version. Go them! While you're over there, you might try picking up a copy of UT 2004, it also has a native Linux client.
Yes, there is an extremely nice (not noticeably different from a dvd, except for faded colors) rip of Spider-Man 2 going around. *cough*friend got it*cough*.
What's more interesting to me is the fact that thousands of people have grabbed this file from BitTorrent sites like this one that require a registration, valid email et all to join. They literally signed up, and had their IP addy registered into a database of 'trusted ips', so that they could download Spider-Man 2. Simply Astonishing. I've seen 4 or 5 of these sites that appear to be using the same code, it wouldn't take the MPAA more than 30 seconds to start another one and start nabbing people IN THE ACT. Not to mention the fact that all the connected IP Addresses are visible from the tracker page..
I wonder if they're measuring traffic from Debian's apt mirrors, RedHat's up2date, Gentoo's emerge... I know that just between the 4 Debian systems I run there can be anywhere from 100-300 megabytes of updates per week. Granted, one is stable, two are testing and one is unstable. But still, I can't think of a week that I've *ever* downloaded 300 megs of music. Most software packages are much, much larger than even an entire album, so this doesn't surprise me at all.
Can be found at P-P-P Powerbook.com.
In short, the guy was contacted after he put his iBook up on eBay. He realized it was a scam, and sent the scammer a notebook instead. The forum has pictures from people who lived around the delivery zone, and were actually there when the scammer opened the faked package. Definately worth a read.
All you have to do is open up gconf-editor and edit the /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_1 and set it to nautilus.
(emphasis mine)
In KDE, just open up the Control Panel, click KHotKeys, and set win+e to open up firebird (mozilla, konqueror). That's *maybe* 5 mouse clicks and two keypresses. Does anyone here know how to do that in Windows?
Gee, one billion pages and only 15 results for Linux? Why am I not surprised?
:-)
Actually, that'd be only 15 results per page. If you went and hit the "NEXT>>" button, you'd get 16-30.. Just remember this the next time you flame someone for not understanding a UI.
You sirs of Gmail Machine have gained my utmost respect. I have watched, in under 20 minutes, your hitcounter move from 7.4 -> 8.2 millions hits. Thats 800,000 hits in 20 minutes, or about 670 hits per second. You have made monkeys out of us, something I haven't seen done so subtly in a long while. Congratulations in your enslavement of the internet populace at large.
And I salute my new gmail-code-bearing overlords!
I am indeed 15. An AC replying to one of my posts last year suggested, in so many words, that I take some more ritalin. :_)
My father used to commute 2-3 days out of the week, and work at home the remainder. Now, he works at home full time - the hope being that more time is available for my siblings and I.
:-))
However, I think this is *not* the way to go. Ever since Dad has been able to walk 20 feet to his office, he has left it later and later. My advice would be to leave your work as far away from your kids as is possible.
On a seperate note, you will do wonders for your childrens' egos if you "don't notice" them ARP sniffing on you... (Hi, Dad!
>RAM memory is $54
RAM memory? That'd be Random Access Memory memory then, right? Just like my PIN number (Personal Identification Number number)...
And who lets users think they are opening mundane jpg's, doc's or other file types when in fact they are not?
./bindshell.jpg .jpg and it got me r00t3d!! wtf, this must be microsofts fault!! :-)
$ chmod u+x bindshell.jpg
$
look, I just ran a
No, no no and no. Fighting fire with mass wget will just further clog the network. Think of it, some spammer finds out that you started this scheme. Next thing you know, they put your domain in a spam email and you get ddos'd to high heaven.
Although didn't announce it until recently, VALVe Software's Steam runs better with WineX than it does in windows. The reason for this is simple, in Windows the url loading mechanism works, and there are numerous spots that have adds. With WineX, the URL loader does not work so I can play without annoyances.
Ignoring this, it is possible that Transgaming is the reason there will be no Half-Life2 on Linux. VALVe promised the Linux community a port after they made a Linux version of the dedicated server, but now we learn that H-L 2 will be DirectX 9 only. VALVe may have assumed that linux users could play the game under WineX, and thus it wouldn't be worth it to make a native port. I hope that TransGaming protests by making no effort to support Half-Life2, and urges their subscribers to do likewise.
No, the /.'rs with significant others aren't on the computer right now..
The way I understand it, what we call free will or sentinence descends from the competitions and trials of being human. Machines will never be sentinent in the same way that we are unless they have offspring and have to try and scavenge for power and bandwidth (shelter, food). If I could just sit still and do nothing while my every need was attended to, there would be no genetic advantage for me to be more intelligent. Thus, if we were treated like we treat our computers some say we wouldn't be intelligent right now. It's more than a little unsettling, but some theories state that the only way for us to create intelligent machine life is to allow it to randomly create itself in much of the same way we all came to be.
so we get the lasers that make noise and move like they're nerf gun darts too?
I've been using the same install for 4 years now and my patching is as automatic as it gets. My cron job runs one a day with a major update every sunday. It doesn't require paying money, just a small (less than one windows update) amount of time on my part
It looked to me like the whole thing was a parody, but I'm such a hopelessly un-objective zealot...
imagine 50-60W worth of LEDs... drink the Mountain Dew and glow green, start to run out of sugar and you'd glow red.. people could start eating when they changed color instead of when they were hungry
to run minix and apache. the poor thing has probably melted itself into oblivion..
it still has several annoying starcraft bugs that i ran into after less than 10 minutes of testing. also, when you disconnect from a game in counter-strike it greys the screen and hangs, i had to killall wine to get out...if they could just get over themselves and release their patches to winehq things might go better
recently i got the chance to visit japan for two months. while i was there (august 30th - november 4th) i got a different look at the US. i heard the hubbub around the snipers from a completely different angle, and watched as the patriot act was passed.
when i entered japan, the things important enough to be mentioned in english were: no firearms, drugs, intoxicants or pornographic articles. going back into america i had to take my compass out of my math bookbag, empty my tolietries kit and get rid of my scissors. it's completely ridiculous to do things like this to 13-14 year olds that only want to get back home. i decided then and there that something wasn't right. when i got home and raised the alarm, people accepted it mutely, almost like sheep. no one seemed to care that they could be taken away without any trial if the government wanted to, or that their isp could be forced to reveal weblogs or ip traffic from their account.
i figure, since im already going to school where there are mostly 13 year old sheep, new zealand won't be much of a change..
or whatever that game was where you shot at the people using calls such as 'im naked, and i have a pizza..' imagine the hunters expressions after 6 hours in a tent.. :-)
>And humans were never expendable. The machines needed the energy produced by humans to exist.
Here's my gripe with the Matrix, where is this energy coming from? The machines feed the humans, and the humans give off energy. WHAT?! Didn't someone tell them you lose energy every transformation it makes? It would seem they don't get a net gain unless they have no other way of transforming human food into energy.
As some past poster said, the plot originally involved the machines using us in a distributed computer network. The W. Bros thought this wouldn't fly so it was changed into power, something that makes no sense for those of us that would of understood the distributed computer approach.. We must be hard to keep happy..
spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam..
but i dont like spam!