Good equipment has multiple vibration feedback, loud audio alarms, etc. etc. Also, you're looking for a place that offers multiple styles of gameplay (elimination, predator/prey, team play with 'respawn' area, etc.)
As to the hand block shenanigans... the really good equipment uses a type of narrow band IR that is transparent to flesh, or they have really large sensor areas (or multiple sensor areas) that are difficult to cover with limbs. Moreover, the guns are usually two-hands-required-to-fire, so if they're being retarded and trying to block, you're shooting them on the other exposed sensors and they're not returning fire.
My big issue is with people who "dance" in an attempt to keep you from hitting their sensors. God, do they people realize they look like handicapped children at a Yanni concert?
1) I don't know about you, but I rarely feel paintballs through my clothes (I have to constantly check myself when I'm under fire).
Pain is not something I would associate with paintball. I mostly associate paint getting everywhere and trash bags to contain it.
2) The POINT is that what these guys are REALLY looking for is a developer's kit for the "commercial" laser tag systems. I guarantee you could have a real fun time with that if you're a little technically inclined. You could make the system portable and lug it into a gynasium or the woods or where-ever. Some of the more sophisticated systems have fully programmable vests and guns with a LCD display which link via RF to a central server... you can pick firing modes, simulate area attacks, count ammo, track hits on different sensors, stream audio, etc. etc. And if that isn't enough, and you need the pain motivation, they make packs that vibrate, and yes, even shock you. (Usually the shock is a feature that surfaces due to a broken vibrator motor but I digress.) Can you imagine the cool shit you could do with that and a developers kit? You could play Halo outside, complete with in-game chat.
Your friends are playing dumbass laser tag designed for the spawn of Soccer Moms. And no one who plays laser tag competetively plays with only a STUN penalty for getting hit. You get hit, lose points, get hit enough, you're out.
You can't enforce an n-hit kill rule in paintball.
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With a sophisticated laser tag system, you get real time stats, game rules enforced by the equipment itself, etc. etc.
Paintball _is_ fun, but it's a different type of gameplay.
which is to be expected. I didn't know CS4397s came so cheap nowadays (being used in the high-end Marantz player).::shrugs:: Still, my point still stands. You could output that using an optical out (the really high-end Phillips player supports that), and that's at the full 192kHz.
SACDs have an internal DAC. I'm pretty sure it's clocked at 48kHz at 20-bits dithered down from whatever interemediate format is used during the decoding of the SACD track.
If you could pull a 16bitx48kHz digital signal out, I think you'd be pleased with the results.
Water cooling can be a disaster. And it's expensive. And it's a pain when you want to make upgrades to your box (which is assumed since you already are modding it).
I'm hoping the new BTX will get people to reconsider thermal management. Someone needs to take a hint from laptop designers... heat pipes, consolidated radiators, and one or two fans, tops.
a lot of the non-tube equipment tends to have a short development life-cycle. So by the time you're equipment starts acting wonky, the replacement will probably have a few extra features or improvements.
Get a cheap tube amp and put it somewhere in your audio path. Of course, the DSPs are kinda nice in that you can simulate a wide range of products with them, and they don't break...
1) anonymous poster 2) price of product mentioned in "article" 3) website that looks it had a once through by an SEO consultant (just look at that page title)
The only thing the SEO can't get you in 3 is slashdot linkage karma.
So you submit it as "story" to slashdot. Ingenious.
it gives you access to all Solaris' performance counters, system call tracing, etc. and gives you a command interface where you write simple scripts that easily manipulate and present that data in a way which is useful to your performance tuning or debugging purposes.
You could derive work-alike programs for top, sar, ps, etc. etc. using simple dtrace scripts.
And a lot of the statistics would be normally nearly impossible to get without debugging the kernel or poking around in/dev/kmem.
By putting it all in one place, and putting a nice interface on it, all of that is in the past.
What do you want me to tell you? And if you rename it to something obscure, how is an exploit writer going to guess what it is? It has to be put on a website, he'd better make a guess that affects more than one individual...
I don't really see how the shell URL handler is useful anyway. You can probably remove it (or rename it, if you don't want to permanently change the system in a way you can't back out of).
As always, go into HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, find the lone entry called "Shell" and just rename it. Maybe to shell_something.
Mozilla won't hand it off anymore, because it won't find the shell: handler as provided by XP.
Is there anything that breaks after this permanent fix?
Boot from bootable media (solaris install disc, linux boot disc). Mount root filesystem. Edit the shadow file, leaving a blank where the hash should be. unmount, reboot.
Boot normally, but this time, boot single user mode (usually by adding 's' to the bootloader prompt). System will boot, but not ask for the root password, leaving you with a root shell. Then you can run passwd at set the root password to whatever you want.
Alternate option- If running linux, and the bootloader isn't locked down, add following to the end GRUB or LILO "command line": init=/bin/bash s
You will be dropped straight into a root shell, as the scripts that would have asked you for a password will never get run.
And DLT is definitely no cheaper than LTO (same price for slightly less capacity).
Upfront price is anywhere from $1200 to $2000 for a single-slot tape drive of either variety, and $5000-$10000 for modestly configured autoloaders. (7 to 10 tapes, rackmount, possibly with two physical drive units)
This is not including a SCSI card and cables if you need them.
The reason why you do any of this is because you might want to be able to roll the system back to some earlier time, not just ensuring drive failure tolerance (people who buy such backup devices already are backing up a RAID volume). Also, tapes are easier to store than hard drives and they tend to break less easily if you man-handle them.
You are right. In the low end, automated or manual copying between hard disks is sufficient, with DVDs or CD-Rs useful for point-in-time archiving of logs, deliverables, etc.
Extensions in the classic MacOS sense are like kernel modules or plugins. Extension in the Mozilla/Firefox sense are augmentations of the application (usually demand loaded) so they don't significantly impact stability or load time, as far as I can tell. An extension could be implemented in a lot of ways, whether simple or complex. Generally they can't overwrite anything, so they hook into the existing API, and Mozilla provides a pretty vast one.
Mozilla/Firefox don't come with any extensions at all. They are perfectly useful without them. Moz/Firefox may directly incorporate features of popular extensions in later versions, but they cease to be extensions at the point, and are considered part of the application proper.
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Good equipment has multiple vibration feedback, loud audio alarms, etc. etc. Also, you're looking for a place that offers multiple styles of gameplay (elimination, predator/prey, team play with 'respawn' area, etc.)
As to the hand block shenanigans... the really good equipment uses a type of narrow band IR that is transparent to flesh, or they have really large sensor areas (or multiple sensor areas) that are difficult to cover with limbs. Moreover, the guns are usually two-hands-required-to-fire, so if they're being retarded and trying to block, you're shooting them on the other exposed sensors and they're not returning fire.
My big issue is with people who "dance" in an attempt to keep you from hitting their sensors. God, do they people realize they look like handicapped children at a Yanni concert?
1) I don't know about you, but I rarely feel paintballs through my clothes (I have to constantly check myself when I'm under fire).
Pain is not something I would associate with paintball. I mostly associate paint getting everywhere and trash bags to contain it.
2) The POINT is that what these guys are REALLY looking for is a developer's kit for the "commercial" laser tag systems. I guarantee you could have a real fun time with that if you're a little technically inclined.
You could make the system portable and lug it into a gynasium or the woods or where-ever.
Some of the more sophisticated systems have fully programmable vests and guns with a LCD display which link via RF to a central server... you can pick firing modes, simulate area attacks, count ammo, track hits on different sensors, stream audio, etc. etc. And if that isn't enough, and you need the pain motivation, they make packs that vibrate, and yes, even shock you. (Usually the shock is a feature that surfaces due to a broken vibrator motor but I digress.)
Can you imagine the cool shit you could do with that and a developers kit? You could play Halo outside, complete with in-game chat.
Your friends are playing dumbass laser tag designed for the spawn of Soccer Moms. And no one who plays laser tag competetively plays with only a STUN penalty for getting hit. You get hit, lose points, get hit enough, you're out.
With a sophisticated laser tag system, you get real time stats, game rules enforced by the equipment itself, etc. etc.
Paintball _is_ fun, but it's a different type of gameplay.
which is to be expected. I didn't know CS4397s came so cheap nowadays (being used in the high-end Marantz player). ::shrugs:: Still, my point still stands. You could output that using an optical out (the really high-end Phillips player supports that), and that's at the full 192kHz.
No one says you had to dumb it down to SPDIF.
It'd be bitching if we (or someone) could set up a sort of website or service whereby suspected spam links could be collected and analyzed for trends.
Perhaps webhosts could be identified as being problematic... and contacted. Or maybe it might lead one to a compromised ISP or residential net.
How many times does somehow have to remind a slashdotter about this shortcoming of freecache?
Yet somehow, after being mentioned in an article ONCE, freecache is the darling INCORRECT answer for every slashdotting-related problem?
SACDs have an internal DAC. I'm pretty sure it's clocked at 48kHz at 20-bits dithered down from whatever interemediate format is used during the decoding of the SACD track.
If you could pull a 16bitx48kHz digital signal out, I think you'd be pleased with the results.
Water cooling can be a disaster. And it's expensive. And it's a pain when you want to make upgrades to your box (which is assumed since you already are modding it).
I'm hoping the new BTX will get people to reconsider thermal management. Someone needs to take a hint from laptop designers... heat pipes, consolidated radiators, and one or two fans, tops.
a lot of the non-tube equipment tends to have a short development life-cycle. So by the time you're equipment starts acting wonky, the replacement will probably have a few extra features or improvements.
If you don't have a soundcard with a Crystal Semiconductor codec, you're probably missing out. ;-) Some (not all) chipmakers are up to the task.
Get a cheap tube amp and put it somewhere in your audio path. Of course, the DSPs are kinda nice in that you can simulate a wide range of products with them, and they don't break...
I mean, lets break it down.
1) anonymous poster
2) price of product mentioned in "article"
3) website that looks it had a once through by an SEO consultant (just look at that page title)
The only thing the SEO can't get you in 3 is slashdot linkage karma.
So you submit it as "story" to slashdot. Ingenious.
Relatives of really rich or powerful people DO NOT email random people to move money out of the country.
There are plenty of other, easier, and safer ways to do that, especially for rich people.
There's nothing reasonable about it.
it gives you access to all Solaris' performance counters, system call tracing, etc. and gives you a command interface where you write simple scripts that easily manipulate and present that data in a way which is useful to your performance tuning or debugging purposes.
/dev/kmem.
You could derive work-alike programs for top, sar, ps, etc. etc. using simple dtrace scripts.
And a lot of the statistics would be normally nearly impossible to get without debugging the kernel or poking around in
By putting it all in one place, and putting a nice interface on it, all of that is in the past.
Native uncompressed transfer rate of SDLT 320 is 16 MB/s
So LTO-2 is a 25% faster standard.
What do you want me to tell you? And if you rename it to something obscure, how is an exploit writer going to guess what it is? It has to be put on a website, he'd better make a guess that affects more than one individual...
I don't really see how the shell URL handler is useful anyway. You can probably remove it (or rename it, if you don't want to permanently change the system in a way you can't back out of).
As always, go into HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, find the lone entry called "Shell" and just rename it. Maybe to shell_something.
Mozilla won't hand it off anymore, because it won't find the shell: handler as provided by XP.
Is there anything that breaks after this permanent fix?
Boot from bootable media (solaris install disc, linux boot disc). Mount root filesystem. Edit the shadow file, leaving a blank where the hash should be. unmount, reboot.
Boot normally, but this time, boot single user mode (usually by adding 's' to the bootloader prompt). System will boot, but not ask for the root password, leaving you with a root shell. Then you can run passwd at set the root password to whatever you want.
Alternate option- If running linux, and the bootloader isn't locked down, add following to the end GRUB or LILO "command line":
init=/bin/bash s
You will be dropped straight into a root shell, as the scripts that would have asked you for a password will never get run.
And DLT is definitely no cheaper than LTO (same price for slightly less capacity).
Upfront price is anywhere from $1200 to $2000 for a single-slot tape drive of either variety, and $5000-$10000 for modestly configured autoloaders. (7 to 10 tapes, rackmount, possibly with two physical drive units)
This is not including a SCSI card and cables if you need them.
The reason why you do any of this is because you might want to be able to roll the system back to some earlier time, not just ensuring drive failure tolerance (people who buy such backup devices already are backing up a RAID volume). Also, tapes are easier to store than hard drives and they tend to break less easily if you man-handle them.
You are right. In the low end, automated or manual copying between hard disks is sufficient, with DVDs or CD-Rs useful for point-in-time archiving of logs, deliverables, etc.
Well, not by much. It's like 10% higher throughput and you can put a full 200GB, uncompressed, on one tape.
And at a price point under 50 cents to the gigabyte. Woooo.
Extensions in the classic MacOS sense are like kernel modules or plugins. Extension in the Mozilla/Firefox sense are augmentations of the application (usually demand loaded) so they don't significantly impact stability or load time, as far as I can tell. An extension could be implemented in a lot of ways, whether simple or complex. Generally they can't overwrite anything, so they hook into the existing API, and Mozilla provides a pretty vast one.
Mozilla/Firefox don't come with any extensions at all. They are perfectly useful without them. Moz/Firefox may directly incorporate features of popular extensions in later versions, but they cease to be extensions at the point, and are considered part of the application proper.
Download Oracle. Integrate it. Bring it into production.
Then pay for a license. (in that order). Isn't it wonderful?