You're completely right, it's completely inappropriate, but for some reason I laughed. Sorry!
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Try Knoppmyth. Yeah, it's Knoppix-based and thus Debian, but try it anyway. Go outside your comfort zone. I've been using it for about a year now. The last few versions have been very easy to set up. I don't have a digital card tho, so don't know how it will play with your ATSC card.
I can't tell if you are being serious or not, but google R4DS and LMP-ng. Obviously not Nintendo sanctioned, but most of that is already possible. I should be receiving my R4 today. Can't wait!
I don't really see it as bad for Nintendo. The PS1 was easily hackable, and it did extremely well. The PS2, not quite as hackable early on, but with the release of HDAdvance and the Mr Brown code exploit, it became easier to hack than the PS1. Don't forget about swap magic. The PS2 has done so well that Sony is continuing to sell and support them. The XBox was another relatively easily hacked machines, with early plugin chips, later solder chips and soft-modding. It also has done extremely well (although Microsoft did take a big loss, but that's their fault for selling at a loss; they still did well enough to move on to the 360).
N64? Hard to pirate, didn't do very well. The only real exception to this is Sega's Dreamcast, which was very easy to pirate/run homebrew, but the failure on that machine had more to do with Sega's marketting issues, game library, and previous failures with the Saturn and Genesis 32x and CD systems. Sega was in trouble long before Dreamcast rips.
The Wii is already popular with the older and casual gamer crowd, and that population usually wouldn't go through the hoops involved in a hardware or even software mod. I only see this as a win for Nintendo, despite the fact that they will try to squash it.
And anyone half-trained in looking for explosives would realize it was just a breadboard with some LEDs on it and a 9v battery for power. It sucks that the smart people around us should have to think, "Hmm, will I get shot today if some dumbass underpaid goon thinks I'm wearing a bomb?".
Land of the free indeed. Home of the brave. More like home of the paranoid.
I wouldn't say *NOBODY* is going in for a Wii and coming out with an Xbox 360, especially when price cuts are around the corner. Sooner or later, there are people that will get sick of waiting.
Component parts may become cheaper, but just having a factory and operating it costs money. I'm sure there is some sweet spot where you don't want to produce below a certain amount. Not to mention the fact that they want as many people to buy as possible, because the big N will make more money on games.
I bet one of the 1st Wii updates will be more flash ram, or possibly a small hard drive (but much more likely to be more flashram). Maybe a built in NIC.
No, I think Nintendo is probably running at or near capacity, but the next step would be to open or expand a factory, and they don't want to invest the money, just to satisfy initial demand that will inevitably decline in the future.
Actually, they do sell linux servers to businesses. I have one. Red Hat and I believe Suse were the only choices, so I went for a bare machine and dropped Debian on it. Dell just doesn't sell Ubuntu to businesses, which kind of makes sense, considering Ubuntu is primarily a user-oriented operating system, despite the existence and capability of installing it as a server OS. I do find it strange that they can offer some kind of support for their server OS systems, but they won't for the home. Maybe it is just to early, and they are already taking a risk as-is. Maybe it is because the support comes from the Red Hat Network (RHN), I'm not familiar with Ubuntu's support system. I expect to see support pop up in the future.
The phone will live or die based on the fact that it costs $500 with a 2 year contract. You can make a really nice car that gets 100 mpg, but if the market can't afford it, you aren't going to revolutionize anything. Sure, it may end up like the Newton, with a rabid following; and yeah, some of that functionality will trickle down and affect the industry. But talking about the success of this phone is silly; it just costs too much.
All the more reason to bring some/all of that work back "in house". Are you really saving money by globalization if you have to use military (mis)adventures to secure it? Personally I think transport energy costs are going to do globalization in anyway.
Obvious, yes. I think the real story here is that this is what medical geeks do in their spare time; apply their trade to historic events in a what-if scenario.
Wii has the nunchuck to provide analog precision control. They still use it, and easily more than than half the games for the wii use the nunchuck. (some games like Wario Waare Smooth Moves only use it for certain parts, Wii Sports uses it for some games, etc)
Work is just that: work. You shouldn't hate your job, but it doesn't have to be 100% fulfilling. Do something useful in your free time. If you are good at IT and are satisfied with the benefits, then just do it.
Spoken like a true conservative know-nothing. Building an economy based on shifting your work outside the country is a house of cards. Wait till wages rise in those countries or some foreign disaster affects the work. We are exploiting people who's governments do not provide the kind of protections enjoyed in the US. It started in textiles and manufacturing, and it is going up the chain. What do you do with a nation of 300 million people who have nowhere to work? What happens to those outsourcing businesses when their market (which remains mainly in the US, don't kid yourself that we are exporting much of anything) cannot afford their services?
It's utopian capitalism, and utopian systems are fictitious.
>Vista is a Pinto with a jet engine mounted on it backwards, painted Zune Brown, with a dealer-installed decal on the side that says "WOW!". And you have to buy the Ultimate Edition for twice the price to be able to let someone else drive, or do work on the engine.
Just keep it handy so you don't have to use a PS2 or PS3 to play them. Having seen about every PS2 I have ever come across die at some point due to laser alignment issues, it helps to not use the new consoles if you have an old one that will play the games. I keep a gamecube around so I don't put any additional wear on the Wii by playing GC games on it. Same for the PS2. I softmodded mine and play almost everything off the hard drive, and I have a slim model for the stuff that won't work on the hard drive.
I know GP asked about PS1, but for the PS2, they tend to be able to read CD games long after they get finicky on DVD discs, and part of the softmodding process involves booting a PS1 CD.
If you just want something geeky to do, restrain yourself. This hardware is only going to get harder to find/more expensive to buy on ebay.
I don't get it. Is this a client that runs on your personal machine? Or something installed on University machines?
If the former, then yeah, the kid had it coming. You don't bypass security on computers that aren't yours. Punishment was too harsh, but it sounds like he did break policy, and the university is in the right to do something. If he didn't have permission to bypass security on their network for research, then he has no excuse.
Now if it was the latter, and he did this on his OWN machine on the university network, then unless they state somewhere specifically that you "MUST BE RUNNING CCA TO ACCESS OUR CRAPPY NETWORK!!" then the university doesn't really have a case.
IANAL, but I am in IT. We are slightly lax about what we allow our employees to do with their machines, since we have less than 200 employees. But if they bypassed security? Break of usage policy, case closed.
The article is vague, how exactly did he "patch some holes" by bypassing CCA?
I think you're missing something. Not everyone can really hear the difference. It may be obvious to you, but not to everyone else. Just be happy you have good hearing. Or feel cursed because only you and a few other % of the population qualify as "audiophiles" that would notice.
I had the same thing. I took a spare CRT, and my boss at the time really liked the setup, so he got me matching 17" LCD's. One of my coworkers also got matching 17's. My old boss now has 4 monitors, 2 19" LCD's, a 17", and a widescreen 24. He only really does work on 2 of them, the 17 is for viewing our internal help desk website for new tickets, and the widescreen is for our camera DVR system. My new boss now has a 19" LCD to connect to his laptop, and we are talking about pushing 2 monitors down to some of the regular non-IT employees in certain positions where they would benefit.
It's nice to work in an environment where people recognize potential productivity increase when they see it. 17" LCDs are cheap now. Easily $150 or less. A spare video card or a dual vid card can be cheap, I spent $35 on the one I use at work.
If you job complains about spending $150 on a long term investment in your productivity, then you should start looking for a new job. Of course, people are giving away CRTs all the time, you could always offer to bring one in. Check freecycle.
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You're completely right, it's completely inappropriate, but for some reason I laughed. Sorry!
Try Knoppmyth. Yeah, it's Knoppix-based and thus Debian, but try it anyway. Go outside your comfort zone. I've been using it for about a year now. The last few versions have been very easy to set up. I don't have a digital card tho, so don't know how it will play with your ATSC card.
http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html
I can't tell if you are being serious or not, but google R4DS and LMP-ng. Obviously not Nintendo sanctioned, but most of that is already possible. I should be receiving my R4 today. Can't wait!
I don't really see it as bad for Nintendo. The PS1 was easily hackable, and it did extremely well. The PS2, not quite as hackable early on, but with the release of HDAdvance and the Mr Brown code exploit, it became easier to hack than the PS1. Don't forget about swap magic. The PS2 has done so well that Sony is continuing to sell and support them. The XBox was another relatively easily hacked machines, with early plugin chips, later solder chips and soft-modding. It also has done extremely well (although Microsoft did take a big loss, but that's their fault for selling at a loss; they still did well enough to move on to the 360).
N64? Hard to pirate, didn't do very well. The only real exception to this is Sega's Dreamcast, which was very easy to pirate/run homebrew, but the failure on that machine had more to do with Sega's marketting issues, game library, and previous failures with the Saturn and Genesis 32x and CD systems. Sega was in trouble long before Dreamcast rips.
The Wii is already popular with the older and casual gamer crowd, and that population usually wouldn't go through the hoops involved in a hardware or even software mod. I only see this as a win for Nintendo, despite the fact that they will try to squash it.
And anyone half-trained in looking for explosives would realize it was just a breadboard with some LEDs on it and a 9v battery for power. It sucks that the smart people around us should have to think, "Hmm, will I get shot today if some dumbass underpaid goon thinks I'm wearing a bomb?".
Land of the free indeed. Home of the brave. More like home of the paranoid.
Except the game sold well long before the hot coffee BS/"controversy". And it had two prequels that sold well. And it's just a badass game.
And if anyone still believes this stuff is all about stopping terrorism, you are an idiot. This is all about controlling the domestic herd.
I wouldn't say *NOBODY* is going in for a Wii and coming out with an Xbox 360, especially when price cuts are around the corner. Sooner or later, there are people that will get sick of waiting.
Component parts may become cheaper, but just having a factory and operating it costs money. I'm sure there is some sweet spot where you don't want to produce below a certain amount. Not to mention the fact that they want as many people to buy as possible, because the big N will make more money on games.
I bet one of the 1st Wii updates will be more flash ram, or possibly a small hard drive (but much more likely to be more flashram). Maybe a built in NIC.
No, I think Nintendo is probably running at or near capacity, but the next step would be to open or expand a factory, and they don't want to invest the money, just to satisfy initial demand that will inevitably decline in the future.
Actually, they do sell linux servers to businesses. I have one. Red Hat and I believe Suse were the only choices, so I went for a bare machine and dropped Debian on it. Dell just doesn't sell Ubuntu to businesses, which kind of makes sense, considering Ubuntu is primarily a user-oriented operating system, despite the existence and capability of installing it as a server OS. I do find it strange that they can offer some kind of support for their server OS systems, but they won't for the home. Maybe it is just to early, and they are already taking a risk as-is. Maybe it is because the support comes from the Red Hat Network (RHN), I'm not familiar with Ubuntu's support system. I expect to see support pop up in the future.
Mod parent +1, Sad but true
The phone will live or die based on the fact that it costs $500 with a 2 year contract. You can make a really nice car that gets 100 mpg, but if the market can't afford it, you aren't going to revolutionize anything. Sure, it may end up like the Newton, with a rabid following; and yeah, some of that functionality will trickle down and affect the industry. But talking about the success of this phone is silly; it just costs too much.
All the more reason to bring some/all of that work back "in house". Are you really saving money by globalization if you have to use military (mis)adventures to secure it? Personally I think transport energy costs are going to do globalization in anyway.
Obvious, yes. I think the real story here is that this is what medical geeks do in their spare time; apply their trade to historic events in a what-if scenario.
Wii has the nunchuck to provide analog precision control. They still use it, and easily more than than half the games for the wii use the nunchuck. (some games like Wario Waare Smooth Moves only use it for certain parts, Wii Sports uses it for some games, etc)
"Less Talk More Rokk" on GH2 was a synth song. One of my favorites. They could pull it off.
Work is just that: work. You shouldn't hate your job, but it doesn't have to be 100% fulfilling. Do something useful in your free time. If you are good at IT and are satisfied with the benefits, then just do it.
Spoken like a true conservative know-nothing. Building an economy based on shifting your work outside the country is a house of cards. Wait till wages rise in those countries or some foreign disaster affects the work. We are exploiting people who's governments do not provide the kind of protections enjoyed in the US. It started in textiles and manufacturing, and it is going up the chain. What do you do with a nation of 300 million people who have nowhere to work? What happens to those outsourcing businesses when their market (which remains mainly in the US, don't kid yourself that we are exporting much of anything) cannot afford their services?
It's utopian capitalism, and utopian systems are fictitious.
>Vista is a Pinto with a jet engine mounted on it backwards, painted Zune Brown, with a dealer-installed decal on the side that says "WOW!". And you have to buy the Ultimate Edition for twice the price to be able to let someone else drive, or do work on the engine.
Fixed that for you.
Just keep it handy so you don't have to use a PS2 or PS3 to play them. Having seen about every PS2 I have ever come across die at some point due to laser alignment issues, it helps to not use the new consoles if you have an old one that will play the games. I keep a gamecube around so I don't put any additional wear on the Wii by playing GC games on it. Same for the PS2. I softmodded mine and play almost everything off the hard drive, and I have a slim model for the stuff that won't work on the hard drive.
I know GP asked about PS1, but for the PS2, they tend to be able to read CD games long after they get finicky on DVD discs, and part of the softmodding process involves booting a PS1 CD.
If you just want something geeky to do, restrain yourself. This hardware is only going to get harder to find/more expensive to buy on ebay.
err, switch "former" and "latter", I got them backwards.
I don't get it. Is this a client that runs on your personal machine? Or something installed on University machines?
If the former, then yeah, the kid had it coming. You don't bypass security on computers that aren't yours. Punishment was too harsh, but it sounds like he did break policy, and the university is in the right to do something. If he didn't have permission to bypass security on their network for research, then he has no excuse.
Now if it was the latter, and he did this on his OWN machine on the university network, then unless they state somewhere specifically that you "MUST BE RUNNING CCA TO ACCESS OUR CRAPPY NETWORK!!" then the university doesn't really have a case.
IANAL, but I am in IT. We are slightly lax about what we allow our employees to do with their machines, since we have less than 200 employees. But if they bypassed security? Break of usage policy, case closed.
The article is vague, how exactly did he "patch some holes" by bypassing CCA?
For those that couldn't get past all the doubleclink.net stuff,h tml?articleID=199201237
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.j
I think you're missing something. Not everyone can really hear the difference. It may be obvious to you, but not to everyone else. Just be happy you have good hearing. Or feel cursed because only you and a few other % of the population qualify as "audiophiles" that would notice.
I had the same thing. I took a spare CRT, and my boss at the time really liked the setup, so he got me matching 17" LCD's. One of my coworkers also got matching 17's. My old boss now has 4 monitors, 2 19" LCD's, a 17", and a widescreen 24. He only really does work on 2 of them, the 17 is for viewing our internal help desk website for new tickets, and the widescreen is for our camera DVR system. My new boss now has a 19" LCD to connect to his laptop, and we are talking about pushing 2 monitors down to some of the regular non-IT employees in certain positions where they would benefit.
It's nice to work in an environment where people recognize potential productivity increase when they see it. 17" LCDs are cheap now. Easily $150 or less. A spare video card or a dual vid card can be cheap, I spent $35 on the one I use at work.
If you job complains about spending $150 on a long term investment in your productivity, then you should start looking for a new job. Of course, people are giving away CRTs all the time, you could always offer to bring one in. Check freecycle.