I just wanted to let everyone know, that I just purchased one of the shirts and the donation was 4.00$...That's pretty sweet...Having the donation made me buy a shirt, but I didn't realize it would be so high. If I know my math, that's 20% of the entire price (Including S&H). I hope a lot of you buy shirts (But not enough that I don't get mine for a year) =] and help the EFF for helping us.
By FAR is AC a simply *superior* game then Call To Power...I own Civ, Civ2, Civ2:MGE, CTP, AC, and the AC Addon. Call To Power is the worst yet. The graphics maybe pretty, but that doesn't make up for the simple lack of interest the game generates. One thing to remember, Sid didn't do Call To Power. From what I understand, the only reason they could use the good Civ name was because they won a lawsuit. AC should be compaired to Civ2, and does a good job of taking up where Civ2 left off. I bought AC when it came out, and I'm still playing it (Same with Civ2, is that bad?) My one bit of advice: Don't play AC to win, play AC to play. =] Pretty simple. But it will keep you playing for a long time.
On a side note, we have issues: Try to play AC on a speedy system. Something over 300mhz. It will generally be rather smooth. Don't play on an NT box if you choose to play on Windows, as it screws with the sound. Make sure you (of course) get the latest patches. Lastly, have to fear of kicking a little ass.. =]
The problem isn't just for FTPing and Telneting. It's the fact that they (ICANN, etc) weren't suppost to allow people to register domains starting or ending in slashes...Read the article.. =] It may not be hurting someone, but if you were MS, would you want someone else to register microsoft-.com? That was one of the domains registered.
(Mind my type, this Netscape font is pretty small..:)
Anyway, as with the trial, they said in order for the gentlemen to have reverse engineered Xing, they would of had to click through an agreement saying that they cannot. Now...Does that agreement (And I assume most other license agreement) apply to the machine and anyone who uses it, or just to the person who installed and accepted it? If it only applies to the person who clicked 'Okay', couldn't person A of installed it, and person B reversed it? I don't know much about RE'ing myself, so I don't even know if you *need* to install the software, but I'm assuming so. Anyway, back onto my topic. If person B did reverse it, would he still be subject to the agreement, since he is not actually *using* the software, but just watching what it does? I would assume, if the case is that he would not be under the terms, then the case would hold even less water then before. Someone feel free to clear that up for me.. =]
As a non-quake player, I can't say for sure what exactly a client reports to a server. Exactly how hard would would it be for the server to be a little more intelligent? If a cheating person is shooting someone with a machine gun doing 50 points of damage per shot, I *think* it wouldn't be hard for the server to notice that the gun is doing too much damage. Maybe have the server know what damage each gun does, how much health a person should have, and how quickly a certain gun fires/recharges. In my thinking, I wouldn't assume that would be hard to do, but I'm always ready for corrections. If this was actually possible, perhaps a flag could be added to the server. Something like AllowPlayerCheat=On/Off...If the server doesn't want cheaters, and it detects one, it can boot them off with a message of "Player 1 was cheating, and has been removed from the game"
To me, that's a pretty simple solution, but I also assume it would seriously bump up the required bandwidth, and also bump lag up. Again, I'm not sure what info is already passed to the server, but I'm assuming it will pass something about hit/miss fires from a gun, or how much health a user has left to drain.
In a scenerio like this, I assume you would just now have to rely on servers set to not allow cheat, or if they do, let people know. Anyone think of a way around that? I'm up for opinions, as this is pretty interesting.
On a side note, I don't think this actually damagages OSS, but proves at how quickly people can find paths that could damage your hard-worked program, amongst other pos. bugs...
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Being a Scorpio myself, I do follow a very *very* close interpritation of a text-book Scorpio.. Read about the generic Scorpio personality, and that's me.. =]
On a side note, I somewhat agree, since only really once has a horroscope of mine "come true" But having that happen (In the place I read it, it was almost word for word what happened) was one of the trippiest (Is that a word?) things that ever happened to me. A few times I've had minor things "come true", but nothing worth being special.
Maybe we *do* control our own fate, and can sort-of warp events in some wild way to make other events happen because we believe they will happen. =] Just my thought.
I agree totally with you on the price war being a awesome thing for us little people. =] But, I can't say AMD is trying really to screw consumers with the pricing of their K7. I think they are excellent prices. You might forget that AMD is much much smaller and has much much more riding on the K7 then Intel has on the P3. Intel can afford to screw up a bit here and there (820, rambus, etc, etc) They have the market(mind)-share and the spare cash to do this with.
On the other hand, AMD really doesn't. They are taking (took?) a major gamble on their K7 chip. I wish AMD the best of luck with their business, and hope everything pays off for them. I wouldn't mind paying 200$ for a K7-500 or so, because I know the chip is worth it. I've read the articles, reviews, etc. I've also seen it in action, so I know my 200$ would be going to something worthwhile.
On the other hand (I'm on my third hand now) Intel charges more Mhz for Mhz on their chips then the superior (IMHO) K7. Why? Because they can. Because they know people will pay for it. AMD can't afford to think like that.
In case anyone cares to play a 'net-wide version of Tradewars. You can find it here:
http://www.shareplay.com/spacemerchant/
It's still pretty devel last time I played, but very stable. I might also tell you about Utopia, which can be found here:
http://games.eesite.com/utopia/
Kind of a LORD/Usurper/TW2000 feel game..Fantasy, of course. You might like them, you might not. Personally, I don't because I liked TW(2000) being only a 100 people or so max. But...Enjoy. On a side note, Space Merchant is *really* nice on a fast-fast connection...Enjoy
Though I have to say I'd like to see the developers of WINE get ahold of that, I doubt it would happen. If you haven't already, you might want to check out a few/. stories ago where they have the Q&A session with those lawyer people =].. A few questions asked talked about the source for Windows being released, and most, if not all, replies were stating that it would not happen. Something along the lines of the judge not being able to take away the IP of MS. I agree with the fact that they shouldn't be able to lose their code, but maybe release code for other portions (APIs for eg) that would still benifit other developers. Also maybe if they were somehow regulated (I have no idea how that would work, and I will never claim to be able to dictate law, etc). Anyway...My two cents worth.
I read most of the interviews because my girlfriend is addicted to Diablo 1 and really wants D2. I'm looking at the situation like this: We bought Alpha Centauri when it first came out. Now there are 4 - 5 patches for it.. Bugs ran like mad around the game. I'd *much* rather have a game delayed 2-4 months so they can work bugs out and make it more worth my money, then getting a game 2 months early, with so many bugs and playing issues that make the game pointless. Blizzard has really never let us down with some nifty games, and I'm sure Diablo 2 will be as groovy as I hear. I don't mind waiting a few extra months for it.
They did it because it's cool. "Hackers" are the "in" people. They are the cream of the crop. Cream of the crop of losers maybe. If any real cracker would actually agree to be interviewed on MTV, then they really don't care much for their name-sake. Now we're going to have another explosion of script-kiddies out there downloading pre-packaged exploits from your local AOL webpage. I'd actually like to see a *real* cracker interview. That would be interesting to me, but how interesting would it be to the MTV crowd? MTV = Media != Not always the truth. What can we expect? It's sickening, but I'd actually be interested if they made any valid points in this show. In the time being, maybe I'll just plot to blow up MTV. Save all the little infuential boys and girls out there.
Yeah, I too read an article on that not too long ago...It still falls into the optical computing, but not quite what I meant.. =] (Not your fault, though) I guess I was wondering about something along the lines of Optical CPUs (Are there such thing?) Anyway, yes, that multi-layer CD did sound nifty. I heard they use two lazers and where they both come to a point on focus, that is where it would read. But, how transperant is each data storage layer have to be in order for the lazer to read the inner most layer with good accuracy? I know single layer CDs of now are somewhat transparent, but I would assume 6x's the layering would make that 7th layer pretty hard to read. Someone want to enlighten me on why is this possible? =]
I was just wondering what everyone's view on using optical computing. The ups, the downs, and the in-betweens. Also wanted opinions on the holopgrahic storage devices that were once a big-talker, but what happened? Did they ever make it worthwhile, or did solid-state hardware pretty much make it not worthwhile? I still remember hearing about the cube-drive thing that had a hologram inside that was the data being stored. I never had a really good chance to read into these technologies, so I lost contact with following them. Anyone have any info, or opinions to spare?
I guess I shouldn't of been so general in that statement.. For that, I apologize. =] The point I'm trying to get across is about having the MAC on an IP wouldn't much of a big deal since even having an IP can lead back to the user. I would assume the only real people that would be bothered by this would be some uninformed script kiddie. But this is just my thinking, I would be happy for someone to show me a scenerio where this is a very bad thing to have. But, through my eyes, I don't quite see the difference of having a MAC addy tied onto an IP, or just having a IPv4 IP..Though I am willing to let someone proove me wrong with a better point then what I have. =]
Or maybe because people truely don't generally care. It's not hard for someone to send me logs of them getting nuked (I work at an ISP) Compairing the IP and time to the radius logs and finding exactly who did it. It's even easier with static IPs. Why is there no stink about it? I think because there is no need for a stink. I don't quite follow some certain privacy activists with some of the stuff they say. I think some of them don't quite understand what privacy they already *don't* have... Give it up, if you have nothing to hide, then you don't need to be worried, IMHO. I'm not selling government secrets, so the governement wouldn't look at me very long (Still MO). (proc sarcasm) Until they make it mandatory for the government to watch every packet that flies in and out of my bridge, I really don't care.. (end proc)
From what I understand, and have been told (My Father is in the X-Files fan club) the show was never meant to go over 5 seasons. So when some people complain of repeditive content, you can understand why. Truely the movie did mostly 'end' the series, since most everything was in the open by then, and Mulder got what he was looking for. Be it true or not about how long the show was intended to last (I hope somone will correct me if I am wrong) it's still a dissapointment to see the cast slowly leaving. I pretty much own my TV for X-Files.. =] But like any good show, it has to end somewhere. At least what they did have, they made to be a Very Good Thing. Looks like I'm going to be back in front of the monitor 16 hours a day again.. =]
::Torvalds dodged questions about his company, a so-far top-secret Silicon Valley venture called Transmeta::
Who *does* actually own Transmeta? Or is the owner like the bad guy from the Inspector Gadget cartoon. And who else special works there? I know Linus and the MS guy, but what other well-known computer geeks are employeed by them?
::I'm curious - why aren't any of the big-name Linux companies (Red Hat, I'm looking in your direction) spreading their own version of FUD back at Microsoft?::
I'd like to take a pop at that question, and hope I don't insult anyone. Here goes:
The general population of Windows users, I feel, don't seem to be as computer 'intelligent' as the general population of Linux users. I think it would be pointless for *any* Linux distro company to spread FUD and they would find the bachlash of their own users more damaging to themselves then against MS. I'd almost like to compare Linux and MS to breasts. (Or maybe I just like breasts?) Anyway...Linux has some nice boobs. They are round, firm, non-saggy and keep growing (yaa!). MS boobs on the other hand, are small, have rotten implants (Like from that Breast-Man movie:) and not as nice as Linux's boobs. Now.. When they both are wearing baggy sweatshirts, you really can't tell the size. This is what the info is for. Linux will tell you straight out about the breasts they have, will show you the ups and downs of using(playing with) them. MS, on the other hand, feels their boobs aren't quite good enough, so instead of getting rid of those moldy implants, they will rant and rave at how ugly and useless, and claim Linux has implants. MS, instead of making them better, spend more time making better boobs appear just as ugly as their own.(That would apply to any software MS sends the FUD-ships out for)
That's just my view.. =] I feel both OS's are functional and worthwhile in their own ways, but I'll always prefer Linux and BSD has my servers. I don't feel I need 5,000 reviews telling me a OS is stable, when I can find out the facts for myself.
But, NT was based on VMS, and since I have no clue on how old VMS is, I won't try to make a tree like you did.. =]
And since when did age tell you how *bad* something is? I usually look at software like wine. Generally the older it is, the better it is. But in a different light then wine, since software has time to improve, update. I don't quite follow the point that MS is trying to make in saying old roots=bad.
I don't think MS gets it. Anytime Linux is prooven to not live up to something, people fix it. It's like getting a cut on your arm.. =] It's almost a lose-lose situation for MS to post this stuff. Now that Linux is getting bigger, you have those *ahem* reporters that start labeling these articles as FUD. So, less and less people like MS. Big woop acutally, since there are still more that like them.. And since the developers are so quick and sharp, Linux's shortcomings can be turned around in no time. I, for one, was glad the Mindcraft tests happened. Look what it did for the kernel and Samba. I wouldn't mind if MS funded a few more stress-tests to find where Linux can improve.
No easy way to update RPMs? Try reading the man page. =] The -U does a 'update' though it might not be an update some people like. Of course everyone knows what the -v is for.. =] And of course the -h prints hash marks. Anyway, the help associated with the -U is as follows: Upgrade the package currently installed to the version in the new RPM. This is the same as install, except all other versions of the package are removed from the system. I do agree with the package dep. part, but hey, that's the fun of admin'ing.. =] As for a 'central location' of RPMs, try http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/...They have more then just RedHat rpms (SuSe, Caldera, OpenLinux, etc)...Though, RPM Repository and Linuxberg have to be the best sites to goto.. =]
Yes, it's true, Communicator is bloated, while Nav generally isn't. But I also like a good GUI mail program to go along with my browser. And even then I still have better luck with IE. Amazingly enough, Netscape locks up on me more often then IE5.. =] Netscape lost my vote when 3.0 was released. A lot of times I just play is safe with lynx.. =] Features don't get to me much, since I don't visit super-java'd pages, etc. So I just want something that displays pages without locking up (Which Netscape generally doesn't do for me..) =]
Anyone mind posting a list of bug fixes/additions if they find one/find out on your own? I, for one, hate Netscape with a passion because of many of the...Features...But I'm always willing to give it another try.. =] But I won't waste my time downloading it without knowing why the new version of this bloated browser is so special.
"circuitry for permanently storing memory stores temporarily stored when a determination is made that a sequence of translated instructions will execute without exception or error on the host processor"
Here is how it should look:
"ciruitry for 'permanently storing memory stores' temporarily stored when...." It might be easier if you abbreviate it..
"ciruitry for PSMS's temporarily stored when.."
Make sense now? =] The whole dern document is like that. It's sick..I had to read certain sentences multiple times.. =] It's like reading a book with no periods, no capitals, no nothing. Insane. But yeah...Still sounds cool.. =]
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I just wanted to let everyone know, that I just purchased one of the shirts and the donation was 4.00$ ...That's pretty sweet...Having the donation made me buy a shirt, but I didn't realize it would be so high. If I know my math, that's 20% of the entire price (Including S&H). I hope a lot of you buy shirts (But not enough that I don't get mine for a year) =] and help the EFF for helping us.
By FAR is AC a simply *superior* game then Call To Power...I own Civ, Civ2, Civ2:MGE, CTP, AC, and the AC Addon. Call To Power is the worst yet. The graphics maybe pretty, but that doesn't make up for the simple lack of interest the game generates. One thing to remember, Sid didn't do Call To Power. From what I understand, the only reason they could use the good Civ name was because they won a lawsuit. AC should be compaired to Civ2, and does a good job of taking up where Civ2 left off. I bought AC when it came out, and I'm still playing it (Same with Civ2, is that bad?)
My one bit of advice: Don't play AC to win, play AC to play. =] Pretty simple. But it will keep you playing for a long time.
On a side note, we have issues: Try to play AC on a speedy system. Something over 300mhz. It will generally be rather smooth. Don't play on an NT box if you choose to play on Windows, as it screws with the sound. Make sure you (of course) get the latest patches. Lastly, have to fear of kicking a little ass.. =]
The problem isn't just for FTPing and Telneting. It's the fact that they (ICANN, etc) weren't suppost to allow people to register domains starting or ending in slashes...Read the article.. =]
It may not be hurting someone, but if you were MS, would you want someone else to register microsoft-.com? That was one of the domains registered.
(Mind my type, this Netscape font is pretty small.. :)
Anyway, as with the trial, they said in order for the gentlemen to have reverse engineered Xing, they would of had to click through an agreement saying that they cannot. Now...Does that agreement (And I assume most other license agreement) apply to the machine and anyone who uses it, or just to the person who installed and accepted it? If it only applies to the person who clicked 'Okay', couldn't person A of installed it, and person B reversed it? I don't know much about RE'ing myself, so I don't even know if you *need* to install the software, but I'm assuming so. Anyway, back onto my topic. If person B did reverse it, would he still be subject to the agreement, since he is not actually *using* the software, but just watching what it does? I would assume, if the case is that he would not be under the terms, then the case would hold even less water then before. Someone feel free to clear that up for me.. =]
The source for the ToolKit can be found here:
http://www.3ilinux.com/uibtoolktsrc.gz
I hope that helps you out. I'd be interested in looking at it, but heck, I don't do C++ . =]
As a non-quake player, I can't say for sure what exactly a client reports to a server. ...If the server doesn't want cheaters, and it detects one, it can boot them off with a message of "Player 1 was cheating, and has been removed from the game"
Exactly how hard would would it be for the server to be a little more intelligent? If a cheating person is shooting someone with a machine gun doing 50 points of damage per shot, I *think* it wouldn't be hard for the server to notice that the gun is doing too much damage. Maybe have the server know what damage each gun does, how much health a person should have, and how quickly a certain gun fires/recharges. In my thinking, I wouldn't assume that would be hard to do, but I'm always ready for corrections.
If this was actually possible, perhaps a flag could be added to the server. Something like AllowPlayerCheat=On/Off
To me, that's a pretty simple solution, but I also assume it would seriously bump up the required bandwidth, and also bump lag up. Again, I'm not sure what info is already passed to the server, but I'm assuming it will pass something about hit/miss fires from a gun, or how much health a user has left to drain.
In a scenerio like this, I assume you would just now have to rely on servers set to not allow cheat, or if they do, let people know. Anyone think of a way around that? I'm up for opinions, as this is pretty interesting.
On a side note, I don't think this actually damagages OSS, but proves at how quickly people can find paths that could damage your hard-worked program, amongst other pos. bugs...
Being a Scorpio myself, I do follow a very *very* close interpritation of a text-book Scorpio.. Read about the generic Scorpio personality, and that's me.. =]
On a side note, I somewhat agree, since only really once has a horroscope of mine "come true" But having that happen (In the place I read it, it was almost word for word what happened) was one of the trippiest (Is that a word?) things that ever happened to me. A few times I've had minor things "come true", but nothing worth being special.
Maybe we *do* control our own fate, and can sort-of warp events in some wild way to make other events happen because we believe they will happen. =] Just my thought.
I agree totally with you on the price war being a awesome thing for us little people. =] But, I can't say AMD is trying really to screw consumers with the pricing of their K7. I think they are excellent prices. You might forget that AMD is much much smaller and has much much more riding on the K7 then Intel has on the P3. Intel can afford to screw up a bit here and there (820, rambus, etc, etc) They have the market(mind)-share and the spare cash to do this with.
On the other hand, AMD really doesn't. They are taking (took?) a major gamble on their K7 chip. I wish AMD the best of luck with their business, and hope everything pays off for them. I wouldn't mind paying 200$ for a K7-500 or so, because I know the chip is worth it. I've read the articles, reviews, etc. I've also seen it in action, so I know my 200$ would be going to something worthwhile.
On the other hand (I'm on my third hand now) Intel charges more Mhz for Mhz on their chips then the superior (IMHO) K7. Why? Because they can. Because they know people will pay for it. AMD can't afford to think like that.
Anyway...That's just my 2 pennies worth.
In case anyone cares to play a 'net-wide version of Tradewars. You can find it here:
http://www.shareplay.com/spacemerchant/
It's still pretty devel last time I played, but very stable.
I might also tell you about Utopia, which can be found here:
http://games.eesite.com/utopia/
Kind of a LORD/Usurper/TW2000 feel game..Fantasy, of course. You might like them, you might not. Personally, I don't because I liked TW(2000) being only a 100 people or so max. But...Enjoy. On a side note, Space Merchant is *really* nice on a fast-fast connection...Enjoy
Though I have to say I'd like to see the developers of WINE get ahold of that, I doubt it would happen. If you haven't already, you might want to check out a few /. stories ago where they have the Q&A session with those lawyer people =] .. A few questions asked talked about the source for Windows being released, and most, if not all, replies were stating that it would not happen. Something along the lines of the judge not being able to take away the IP of MS. I agree with the fact that they shouldn't be able to lose their code, but maybe release code for other portions (APIs for eg) that would still benifit other developers. Also maybe if they were somehow regulated (I have no idea how that would work, and I will never claim to be able to dictate law, etc). Anyway...My two cents worth.
I read most of the interviews because my girlfriend is addicted to Diablo 1 and really wants D2. I'm looking at the situation like this: We bought Alpha Centauri when it first came out. Now there are 4 - 5 patches for it .. Bugs ran like mad around the game. I'd *much* rather have a game delayed 2-4 months so they can work bugs out and make it more worth my money, then getting a game 2 months early, with so many bugs and playing issues that make the game pointless. Blizzard has really never let us down with some nifty games, and I'm sure Diablo 2 will be as groovy as I hear. I don't mind waiting a few extra months for it.
They did it because it's cool. "Hackers" are the "in" people. They are the cream of the crop.
Cream of the crop of losers maybe. If any real cracker would actually agree to be interviewed on MTV, then they really don't care much for their name-sake. Now we're going to have another explosion of script-kiddies out there downloading pre-packaged exploits from your local AOL webpage. I'd actually like to see a *real* cracker interview. That would be interesting to me, but how interesting would it be to the MTV crowd? MTV = Media != Not always the truth. What can we expect? It's sickening, but I'd actually be interested if they made any valid points in this show. In the time being, maybe I'll just plot to blow up MTV. Save all the little infuential boys and girls out there.
Yeah, I too read an article on that not too long ago...It still falls into the optical computing, but not quite what I meant.. =] (Not your fault, though) I guess I was wondering about something along the lines of Optical CPUs (Are there such thing?)
Anyway, yes, that multi-layer CD did sound nifty. I heard they use two lazers and where they both come to a point on focus, that is where it would read. But, how transperant is each data storage layer have to be in order for the lazer to read the inner most layer with good accuracy? I know single layer CDs of now are somewhat transparent, but I would assume 6x's the layering would make that 7th layer pretty hard to read. Someone want to enlighten me on why is this possible? =]
I was just wondering what everyone's view on using optical computing. The ups, the downs, and the in-betweens. Also wanted opinions on the holopgrahic storage devices that were once a big-talker, but what happened? Did they ever make it worthwhile, or did solid-state hardware pretty much make it not worthwhile? I still remember hearing about the cube-drive thing that had a hologram inside that was the data being stored. I never had a really good chance to read into these technologies, so I lost contact with following them. Anyone have any info, or opinions to spare?
I guess I shouldn't of been so general in that statement.. For that, I apologize. =] The point I'm trying to get across is about having the MAC on an IP wouldn't much of a big deal since even having an IP can lead back to the user. I would assume the only real people that would be bothered by this would be some uninformed script kiddie. But this is just my thinking, I would be happy for someone to show me a scenerio where this is a very bad thing to have. But, through my eyes, I don't quite see the difference of having a MAC addy tied onto an IP, or just having a IPv4 IP..Though I am willing to let someone proove me wrong with a better point then what I have. =]
Or maybe because people truely don't generally care. It's not hard for someone to send me logs of them getting nuked (I work at an ISP) Compairing the IP and time to the radius logs and finding exactly who did it. It's even easier with static IPs. Why is there no stink about it? I think because there is no need for a stink. I don't quite follow some certain privacy activists with some of the stuff they say. I think some of them don't quite understand what privacy they already *don't* have... Give it up, if you have nothing to hide, then you don't need to be worried, IMHO. I'm not selling government secrets, so the governement wouldn't look at me very long (Still MO). (proc sarcasm) Until they make it mandatory for the government to watch every packet that flies in and out of my bridge, I really don't care.. (end proc)
From what I understand, and have been told (My Father is in the X-Files fan club) the show was never meant to go over 5 seasons. So when some people complain of repeditive content, you can understand why. Truely the movie did mostly 'end' the series, since most everything was in the open by then, and Mulder got what he was looking for. Be it true or not about how long the show was intended to last (I hope somone will correct me if I am wrong) it's still a dissapointment to see the cast slowly leaving. I pretty much own my TV for X-Files.. =] But like any good show, it has to end somewhere. At least what they did have, they made to be a Very Good Thing. Looks like I'm going to be back in front of the monitor 16 hours a day again.. =]
::Torvalds dodged questions about his company, a so-far top-secret Silicon Valley venture called Transmeta::
Who *does* actually own Transmeta? Or is the owner like the bad guy from the Inspector Gadget cartoon. And who else special works there? I know Linus and the MS guy, but what other well-known computer geeks are employeed by them?
::I'm curious - why aren't any of the big-name Linux companies (Red Hat, I'm looking in your direction) spreading their own version of FUD back at Microsoft? ::
:) and not as nice as Linux's boobs. Now.. When they both are wearing baggy sweatshirts, you really can't tell the size. This is what the info is for. Linux will tell you straight out about the breasts they have, will show you the ups and downs of using(playing with) them. MS, on the other hand, feels their boobs aren't quite good enough, so instead of getting rid of those moldy implants, they will rant and rave at how ugly and useless, and claim Linux has implants. MS, instead of making them better, spend more time making better boobs appear just as ugly as their own.(That would apply to any software MS sends the FUD-ships out for)
I'd like to take a pop at that question, and hope I don't insult anyone. Here goes:
The general population of Windows users, I feel, don't seem to be as computer 'intelligent' as the general population of Linux users. I think it would be pointless for *any* Linux distro company to spread FUD and they would find the bachlash of their own users more damaging to themselves then against MS. I'd almost like to compare Linux and MS to breasts. (Or maybe I just like breasts?) Anyway...Linux has some nice boobs. They are round, firm, non-saggy and keep growing (yaa!). MS boobs on the other hand, are small, have rotten implants (Like from that Breast-Man movie
That's just my view.. =] I feel both OS's are functional and worthwhile in their own ways, but I'll always prefer Linux and BSD has my servers. I don't feel I need 5,000 reviews telling me a OS is stable, when I can find out the facts for myself.
But, NT was based on VMS, and since I have no clue on how old VMS is, I won't try to make a tree like you did.. =]
And since when did age tell you how *bad* something is? I usually look at software like wine. Generally the older it is, the better it is. But in a different light then wine, since software has time to improve, update. I don't quite follow the point that MS is trying to make in saying old roots=bad.
I don't think MS gets it. Anytime Linux is prooven to not live up to something, people fix it. It's like getting a cut on your arm.. =] It's almost a lose-lose situation for MS to post this stuff.
Now that Linux is getting bigger, you have those *ahem* reporters that start labeling these articles as FUD. So, less and less people like MS. Big woop acutally, since there are still more that like them..
And since the developers are so quick and sharp, Linux's shortcomings can be turned around in no time. I, for one, was glad the Mindcraft tests happened. Look what it did for the kernel and Samba. I wouldn't mind if MS funded a few more stress-tests to find where Linux can improve.
No easy way to update RPMs? Try reading the man page. =] The -U does a 'update' though it might not be an update some people like. Of course everyone knows what the -v is for .. =] And of course the -h prints hash marks. Anyway, the help associated with the -U is as follows: Upgrade the package currently installed to the version in the new RPM. This is the same as install, except all other versions of the package are removed from the system. ...They have more then just RedHat rpms (SuSe, Caldera, OpenLinux, etc) ...Though, RPM Repository and Linuxberg have to be the best sites to goto.. =]
I do agree with the package dep. part, but hey, that's the fun of admin'ing.. =]
As for a 'central location' of RPMs, try http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/
Yes, it's true, Communicator is bloated, while Nav generally isn't. But I also like a good GUI mail program to go along with my browser. And even then I still have better luck with IE. Amazingly enough, Netscape locks up on me more often then IE5.. =] Netscape lost my vote when 3.0 was released. A lot of times I just play is safe with lynx.. =] Features don't get to me much, since I don't visit super-java'd pages, etc. So I just want something that displays pages without locking up (Which Netscape generally doesn't do for me..) =]
Anyone mind posting a list of bug fixes/additions if they find one/find out on your own? I, for one, hate Netscape with a passion because of many of the ...Features...But I'm always willing to give it another try.. =] But I won't waste my time downloading it without knowing why the new version of this bloated browser is so special.
Here is how it looks:
"circuitry for permanently storing memory stores temporarily stored when a determination is made that a sequence of translated instructions will execute without exception or error on the host processor"
Here is how it should look:
"ciruitry for 'permanently storing memory stores' temporarily stored when...."
It might be easier if you abbreviate it..
"ciruitry for PSMS's temporarily stored when.."
Make sense now? =] The whole dern document is like that. It's sick..I had to read certain sentences multiple times.. =] It's like reading a book with no periods, no capitals, no nothing. Insane. But yeah...Still sounds cool.. =]