I'm pretty sure Gentoo Linux servers don't know what software I'm running, either, but still somehow I seem to be able to update my system without downloading everything. I guess this must be because Windows Update is better because of, uhm... I give up, you tell me.
This is exactly the thing that popped into my mind, too. I got a T-bird 750 sitting under the desk here and would just love to get rid of the noise.
I honestly don't get the "not for laptop market" idea, either. Like stated in a previous post somewhere the real bottleneck in laptops is the HDD anyway. I think you could make a killing selling laptops that actually do have a longer operating time on battery power alone as opposed to 1.5 hours but you can play Half Life on it and it looks GREAT.
I don't get it that everyone is truly happy with laptops that run out of juice in an hour or two and PDAs that die in 3 or 4. My Palm V did quite a nice mileage on the battery before recharging was necessary and I have to admit I miss those days. Sure, it didn't play MP3s. But it did the job it was meant to do, which is taking notes and keeping dates and suchlike.
Oh well, apparently I'm a minority among consumers.
You've been watching too many movies. Only in movies does the hacker try once with something VERY obvious and fails, then something else and fails again and finally thinks (aloud) for a moment and suddenly gets it.
One solution to this is login delay. You know, doubling the time between typing in the login and password with every failed attempt. You can start with 10ms or something ridiculously small, it really doesn't matter. Even if you make the maximum time something like 30s it already makes your average attack quite a bit slower than it usually would be. Picture trying millions of combinations with 30sec in between tries. That's right, even with ONE million tries you already have waited one year. And to (mis)quote a famous geek: One year should be enough for everyone
Winamp already plays Ogg out of the box. So do the Open Source counterparts (Zinf and XMMS do at least) but still MP3 seems to be the thing.
For me MP3 is the preferred format because my car stereo plays it but not Ogg. It is a couple years old and I don't intend to replace it because a) it works and b) I don't have the money. Had there been an Ogg-enabled car stereo around at the time I bought it things would be different.
The whole MP3 vs. Ogg conversation reminds me of VHS vs. Beta vs. V-2000. Which one wins has little to do with which one is best.
It was not my intention to bury the idea. Quite the opposite. But it does interest me to know the price of things. No matter how clean it is, if the barrel of oil costs twice what it costs from the Middle East, guess which barrel Exxon & co will always choose to buy? Remeber the Kyoto treaty? Yeah, it was too expensive, screw that. The truth seems to be that no matter the environmental benefits, it's money and mostly only money that matters. That's why I hope this thing is economically sound because otherwise it'll be just another nice technology that gets forgotten.
...what the price for those barrels of oil was? It's good to know that we can do it if necessary, but I don't think it will happen in a large scale unless it is economically viable. So, is it? I been through the ConAgra site, the res-energy site, the CWT site and a lot of the little green guys' sites. No luck anywhere. Either they don't want to release the figures or I'm really, really dumb. Or maybe both.
SCO wrote it. From scratch. Now cough up that $699!
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do remember that cars that have used fossil-based diesel that suddenly switch over to biodiesel can get clogged fuel filters at first so you might wanna have a spare one in advance. Or did you think about getting it converted to using veggie oil instead? I find converting the oil to biodiesel a niftier thing as then your car does not require modifications. I believe you can buy filtered waste vegetable oil at a relatively low price or get unfiltered at restaurants for free.
Just incase you don't know, here's a nifty link on making biodiesel and suchlike.
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I fully agree. Oil pollutes a whole lot when used as fuel. When used in making plastic etc it can then be recycled.
Environmental issues should not be tossed aside in this, either. Why not use as environmentally friendly fuels as possible - whether it is bioalcohol, biodiesel, turkey offal or cold fusion, as long as it works and doesn't pollute it rocks - and try to keep pollution at bay? Things would be a whole lot different if you actually had to pay for polluting. Say a fuel tax based on who much the fuel in question taxes the environment or something. Preferably a relatively simple system so even Bush could follow the conversation at least in the beginning.
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I don't see what's funny about this. To me energy is an issue and very much more interesting than, say, a dupe article about Lindows being now called whatnot or SCO now claiming black is in fact a hue of white. If energy issues are not interesting to you, you don't have to read the article (as if someone here reads them before posting anyway) but to me, energy IS stuff that matters. And yes, I do believe it takes a fair amount of nerds to do something about it, too. So yes, it belongs to Slashdot, IMO anyway.
Yeah. At 16th level you're lucky to make a few plat and some experience. But it's the same with all games I guess, you gotta be a n00b before you can slowly become l337;)
My hat's off to you for not wasting as much time on it as I did, tho.
Yes, it most definitely would speed things up. I powerleveled a friend to level 13 or 14 in a relatively short time. The problem is that it gets slower as you progress. But at a guess you can progress quite fast with a lot of help, yes, but I don't think there's any way of not wasting at least a few weeks on just building the character and not making any money. It used to be possible to make some money with secondary skills such as brewing and smithing and I don't even remember what the sewing was called. But the really big money comes from killing very powerful monsters and looting the money & items and you can't do that before you got a killer character. Ofcourse after you have the killer character you can consentrate on making money and will probably have an income greater than the average. It just takes time to get there. And even then you'll be making a few bucks an hour. I guess it beats working at McDonald's but that's about it.
Just in case you're even remotely serious: It takes a few months of serious gaming before you get to the point where you can earn several hundred platinum in an hour. I should know, I was hooked on the game for like 5 months. So before you get to earning it will cost you the monthly fee and a lot of time. If you'd play anyway is another story, but I can imagine a few more lucrative businesses than playing EverCrack
2) the boss (if not stupid enough to be whacked by more conventional means) might get a tad suspicious comparing masses: average golf ball 45g at most, same volume of space (approx. 40 cc) filled with Hf: approg 530g. Not to mention (what does that mean anyway? Shouldn't you say TO mention?)
3) You probably couldn't afford it on your salary unless you ARE the boss
I really don't get it. Why is it better to write an application that works on linux than to try and make a platform that can utilize both linux and windoze apps?
As long as the aforementioned platform is free as in Willy, who cares anymore? The whole point of the excercize was to be freed from the constraints of the evil kingdom in Redmond, right? So if you can run windows apps without windows, you're free, right? This will give you freedom to use whatever software you like (ok, Mac apps next but I think those can wait a little longer) on your box, paying for it only to those who you deem deserving of it.
Why is Samba good for providing linux-windoze compatibility and suchlike, but this Canadian linux bad for providing (allegedly, I haven't tried it so I don't know for sure) the capability to run windoze apps on linux bad? Sounds to me like a bad case of "blame Canada"
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Everybody says they are reading the articles but all they really wanna do is see the pictures
I'm pretty sure Gentoo Linux servers don't know what software I'm running, either, but still somehow I seem to be able to update my system without downloading everything. I guess this must be because Windows Update is better because of, uhm... I give up, you tell me.
It has been confirmed that water is, indeed, wet and that it may not be necessary to pay SCO $699 to keep using Linux
This is exactly the thing that popped into my mind, too. I got a T-bird 750 sitting under the desk here and would just love to get rid of the noise.
I honestly don't get the "not for laptop market" idea, either. Like stated in a previous post somewhere the real bottleneck in laptops is the HDD anyway. I think you could make a killing selling laptops that actually do have a longer operating time on battery power alone as opposed to 1.5 hours but you can play Half Life on it and it looks GREAT.
I don't get it that everyone is truly happy with laptops that run out of juice in an hour or two and PDAs that die in 3 or 4. My Palm V did quite a nice mileage on the battery before recharging was necessary and I have to admit I miss those days. Sure, it didn't play MP3s. But it did the job it was meant to do, which is taking notes and keeping dates and suchlike.
Oh well, apparently I'm a minority among consumers.
2) For my password I use a few things from my childhood that no one will ever come up with.
;)
Now I can extort you with the dirty details AND use your login
Ah yes. But how, then, is not OpenOffice more succesful? It is free and it is Microsoft Office compatible, right?
You've been watching too many movies. Only in movies does the hacker try once with something VERY obvious and fails, then something else and fails again and finally thinks (aloud) for a moment and suddenly gets it.
One solution to this is login delay. You know, doubling the time between typing in the login and password with every failed attempt. You can start with 10ms or something ridiculously small, it really doesn't matter. Even if you make the maximum time something like 30s it already makes your average attack quite a bit slower than it usually would be. Picture trying millions of combinations with 30sec in between tries. That's right, even with ONE million tries you already have waited one year. And to (mis)quote a famous geek: One year should be enough for everyone
I'd buy your argumentation if Linux was dominating over Windows. After all, it is more cost effective and also technically superior.
If you prefer the comparison of Microsoft Office vs. OpenOffice, fine, I'll go along with that. The point is still the same.
No, what he means to say is that against the common tradition in Slashdot he actually tried to read the article ;)
Winamp already plays Ogg out of the box. So do the Open Source counterparts (Zinf and XMMS do at least) but still MP3 seems to be the thing.
For me MP3 is the preferred format because my car stereo plays it but not Ogg. It is a couple years old and I don't intend to replace it because a) it works and b) I don't have the money. Had there been an Ogg-enabled car stereo around at the time I bought it things would be different.
The whole MP3 vs. Ogg conversation reminds me of VHS vs. Beta vs. V-2000. Which one wins has little to do with which one is best.
...please stop making comments about movies that aren't yet out here behind god's back.
I honestly don't understand why parent is modded flamebait. Redundant I could understand, as everybody here knows this already, but not flamebait.
It was not my intention to bury the idea. Quite the opposite. But it does interest me to know the price of things. No matter how clean it is, if the barrel of oil costs twice what it costs from the Middle East, guess which barrel Exxon & co will always choose to buy? Remeber the Kyoto treaty? Yeah, it was too expensive, screw that. The truth seems to be that no matter the environmental benefits, it's money and mostly only money that matters. That's why I hope this thing is economically sound because otherwise it'll be just another nice technology that gets forgotten.
...what the price for those barrels of oil was? It's good to know that we can do it if necessary, but I don't think it will happen in a large scale unless it is economically viable. So, is it? I been through the ConAgra site, the res-energy site, the CWT site and a lot of the little green guys' sites. No luck anywhere. Either they don't want to release the figures or I'm really, really dumb. Or maybe both.
SCO wrote it. From scratch. Now cough up that $699!
do remember that cars that have used fossil-based diesel that suddenly switch over to biodiesel can get clogged fuel filters at first so you might wanna have a spare one in advance. Or did you think about getting it converted to using veggie oil instead? I find converting the oil to biodiesel a niftier thing as then your car does not require modifications. I believe you can buy filtered waste vegetable oil at a relatively low price or get unfiltered at restaurants for free.
Just incase you don't know, here's a nifty link on making biodiesel and suchlike.
I fully agree. Oil pollutes a whole lot when used as fuel. When used in making plastic etc it can then be recycled.
Environmental issues should not be tossed aside in this, either. Why not use as environmentally friendly fuels as possible - whether it is bioalcohol, biodiesel, turkey offal or cold fusion, as long as it works and doesn't pollute it rocks - and try to keep pollution at bay? Things would be a whole lot different if you actually had to pay for polluting. Say a fuel tax based on who much the fuel in question taxes the environment or something. Preferably a relatively simple system so even Bush could follow the conversation at least in the beginning.
I don't see what's funny about this. To me energy is an issue and very much more interesting than, say, a dupe article about Lindows being now called whatnot or SCO now claiming black is in fact a hue of white. If energy issues are not interesting to you, you don't have to read the article (as if someone here reads them before posting anyway) but to me, energy IS stuff that matters. And yes, I do believe it takes a fair amount of nerds to do something about it, too. So yes, it belongs to Slashdot, IMO anyway.
Next reply, please.
Yeah. At 16th level you're lucky to make a few plat and some experience. But it's the same with all games I guess, you gotta be a n00b before you can slowly become l337 ;)
My hat's off to you for not wasting as much time on it as I did, tho.
Yes, it most definitely would speed things up. I powerleveled a friend to level 13 or 14 in a relatively short time. The problem is that it gets slower as you progress. But at a guess you can progress quite fast with a lot of help, yes, but I don't think there's any way of not wasting at least a few weeks on just building the character and not making any money. It used to be possible to make some money with secondary skills such as brewing and smithing and I don't even remember what the sewing was called. But the really big money comes from killing very powerful monsters and looting the money & items and you can't do that before you got a killer character. Ofcourse after you have the killer character you can consentrate on making money and will probably have an income greater than the average. It just takes time to get there. And even then you'll be making a few bucks an hour. I guess it beats working at McDonald's but that's about it.
Just in case you're even remotely serious: It takes a few months of serious gaming before you get to the point where you can earn several hundred platinum in an hour. I should know, I was hooked on the game for like 5 months. So before you get to earning it will cost you the monthly fee and a lot of time. If you'd play anyway is another story, but I can imagine a few more lucrative businesses than playing EverCrack
Sounds like an urban legend to me. All their workers will be tied up clicking links
DO have a cow, man! ;)
1) it doesn't explode by hitting it with a driver
2) the boss (if not stupid enough to be whacked by more conventional means) might get a tad suspicious comparing masses: average golf ball 45g at most, same volume of space (approx. 40 cc) filled with Hf: approg 530g.
Not to mention (what does that mean anyway? Shouldn't you say TO mention?)
3) You probably couldn't afford it on your salary unless you ARE the boss
I really don't get it. Why is it better to write an application that works on linux than to try and make a platform that can utilize both linux and windoze apps?
As long as the aforementioned platform is free as in Willy, who cares anymore? The whole point of the excercize was to be freed from the constraints of the evil kingdom in Redmond, right? So if you can run windows apps without windows, you're free, right? This will give you freedom to use whatever software you like (ok, Mac apps next but I think those can wait a little longer) on your box, paying for it only to those who you deem deserving of it.
Why is Samba good for providing linux-windoze compatibility and suchlike, but this Canadian linux bad for providing (allegedly, I haven't tried it so I don't know for sure) the capability to run windoze apps on linux bad? Sounds to me like a bad case of "blame Canada"