It can't get reasonable framerates (except on Doom and Wolf3D) - it has P75 and 16MB RAM. Besides, I suck at FPSes... I prefer them for flight sims - keep in mind, it's keyboard, nipple, or real mouse, and a nipple is most like a joystick of those three, which is most like a flight yoke of all traditional input devices.
(We'll ignore for the duration of this discussion the horrific raw odds of any tech merger working (i.e. Novell buying SUSE).)
Why? Novell buying SuSE can be a good thing for this - my college uses a Novell/Win2K/NT4(on a few servers)/Mac hybrid network. That CAN become NoSE Server/Win2K/NT4(why them, though?)/Mac/NoSE Linux network, which is good for Linux (2000 more converts, anyone?).
Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I didn't know IBMs were affected (especially models that recent), but mine is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 405CS. Same symptoms, except sometimes it'll do it when my finger's still on it! I love the nipples for gaming (it's like a joystick on the keyboard!), but they suck when something like that happens. Ah, well, the Dell Inspiron 1100 came with an external USB mouse - fine for playing a borrowed copy of UT:GOTY...
Keep in mind, SuSE isn't selling custom versions of their distro - they're selling the same box as the SLPro9.0 box, just with a sticker saying "Academic" on it, and a MSRP of $50 instead of $80: http://www.ccvsoftware.com/c/@4PyjmvbDbxkQg/Pages/ product.html?record@CDSU903
What sucks is that they need a student ID, which my high school does not use (although, they could do what they did last time I needed a student ID - make a temporary one), and you must be a full-time college student to get the discount as a college student (I'm in a program where I go to college while I'm in high school, but I'm not going full-time to my college yet... ARRGH!)
Which it IS, but only if it fits in 2.8MB zipped and 5MiB (yes, there's a difference - they said 2800000 bytes and 5MB, but I could tell) unzipped. With the app.
Actually, I prefer good nipples (heh). Bad ones (yes, I have a laptop with a bad one) will suddenly lose calibration randomly, and then keep going in a certain direction for 5-30 seconds - annoying.
Couldn't it be an OLD NT4 box? That's what it looks like to me. 96MB is plenty acceptable in the days of NT4. Keep in mind, 16-32MB was the norm on Win95 boxes, and 32-64MB was the norm on Win98 boxes.
He wasn't asking if Cygwin was legal as in according to US law. He was asking if it was legal in TMDC6. AFAIK, you just have to be able to zip into 2.8MB, and unzip into 5MiB. If you can fit your app compiled for Linux AND Cygwin in 5MiB, you're fine. (and DON'T try expanding Cygwin on the fly - you'll just increase your zip size)
Excuse me, but THEY decided to use this hardware that could be hacked easily. Don't feel sorry for someone just because they made a bad business plan. Do you think people felt sorry for MS when Bob flopped? Do you think people felt sorry Apple when the Apple/// flopped?
They replied to my message. They knew EXACTLY what I was talking about, even though I never actually said what I was talking about:
Hi Eric,
This is from our Chairman and Founder Mark Surfas:
GameSpy welcomes any and all help finding genuine bugs and security breaches on our servers. What we don't welcome are people publishing security hacks that have the potential to hurt our products. GameSpy products are supposed to be about having fun, but hacks and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks take the fun out of it. It doesn't simply hurt GameSpy; it hurts every person playing games with our products.
What this person did was more than reverse engineer two of our products, RogerWilco and GameSpy3D-he was describing our backend services and publishing CDkey generation information without letting us know. At first we welcomed his bug alerts. We responded to him immediately and thanked him for his bug research, as we do with everyone who contacts us with bug information. We even sent him a thank you letter, which we have on file.
But then we found out he was also publishing how to brute force our RogerWilco CDkeys and had published hacks on other game CDkeys as well. He was doing more than reporting bugs; he was publishing game pirating techniques. He published how to attack our network. This is not the way ethical security researchers operate. It was at this point that we stopped our communication with him and asked him to remove the materials in question.
When we were first contacted, this person was associated with a small software security company. They asked if GameSpy wanted to pay a "consulting fee" to fix the hacks. However, these were not bugs; it was information about how our products work. When we brought this to the software security company's attention, they disavowed their relationship with that person and removed him from their servers.
Let me repeat-we welcome any bug alerts and will fix any and all security breaches that come to our attention. We find and fix nearly all of them before any external sources find them. It's all about playing games and having fun, people! That's why we do what we do! However, we won't pay "consulting fees" to people who create CDkey hacks of our proprietary software, then post the results if we don't pay them.
Gamers trust us. We have to protect them from any and all attacks on our network that affects gamers.
Mark Surfas Chairman & Founder GameSpy
If there's anything else we can do to help, please let us know.
Karen "Cobby" Cobb Customer Service Manager GameSpy Industries karen@gamespy.com
I'm a bit amazed that they actually took the time to reply. (Of course, they copy-and-pasted from their official response...) I'm never going to use GameSpy services again, though.
No, it's more like someone stealing your (locked) Escort (after the Pinto, but I chose it because (at least the early '90s models) have an emergency key which will work on all Escorts of that key design) to throw pebbles from it at a building.
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48.625GHz? Must be a Pentium M, or you'd have to use shuttle tiles just to get close enough to plug in an ethernet cable...
Actually, there was an 8.1 beta. They decided to release 9.0, which should have been called 8.1 because it wasn't significant...
It can't get reasonable framerates (except on Doom and Wolf3D) - it has P75 and 16MB RAM. Besides, I suck at FPSes... I prefer them for flight sims - keep in mind, it's keyboard, nipple, or real mouse, and a nipple is most like a joystick of those three, which is most like a flight yoke of all traditional input devices.
(We'll ignore for the duration of this discussion the horrific raw odds of any tech merger working (i.e. Novell buying SUSE).)
Why? Novell buying SuSE can be a good thing for this - my college uses a Novell/Win2K/NT4(on a few servers)/Mac hybrid network. That CAN become NoSE Server/Win2K/NT4(why them, though?)/Mac/NoSE Linux network, which is good for Linux (2000 more converts, anyone?).
Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I didn't know IBMs were affected (especially models that recent), but mine is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 405CS. Same symptoms, except sometimes it'll do it when my finger's still on it! I love the nipples for gaming (it's like a joystick on the keyboard!), but they suck when something like that happens. Ah, well, the Dell Inspiron 1100 came with an external USB mouse - fine for playing a borrowed copy of UT:GOTY...
Actually, it's a re-labeled SuSE 9 Pro box. You get everything you get with SuSE 9 Pro, just it costs $30 less.
Keep in mind, SuSE isn't selling custom versions of their distro - they're selling the same box as the SLPro9.0 box, just with a sticker saying "Academic" on it, and a MSRP of $50 instead of $80: http://www.ccvsoftware.com/c/@4PyjmvbDbxkQg/Pages/ product.html?record@CDSU903
What sucks is that they need a student ID, which my high school does not use (although, they could do what they did last time I needed a student ID - make a temporary one), and you must be a full-time college student to get the discount as a college student (I'm in a program where I go to college while I'm in high school, but I'm not going full-time to my college yet... ARRGH!)
Because it's a link to (or so I've heard) a child porn site.
Where does it say it must only be one file? Hell, the winner of TMDC5 used external files! The invitations all use external files!
No, no. The theme is FUELS, not flammable liquids. Think Alexander (umm...) Hydrogen!
Actually, he didn't use two drives on each IDE channel, because (AFAIK) the EPIAs only support one drive per channel on the integrated IDE controller.
You could be rendering your 3d on the fly if you don't have enough space for your demo...
They aren't that bad if they were actually designed to do graphics - ImageWriters were QUIET for dot matrices!
Which it IS, but only if it fits in 2.8MB zipped and 5MiB (yes, there's a difference - they said 2800000 bytes and 5MB, but I could tell) unzipped. With the app.
Actually, I prefer good nipples (heh). Bad ones (yes, I have a laptop with a bad one) will suddenly lose calibration randomly, and then keep going in a certain direction for 5-30 seconds - annoying.
You CAN change the palette, but TMDC6 doesn't allow changing the palette OR changing the character map.
Couldn't it be an OLD NT4 box? That's what it looks like to me. 96MB is plenty acceptable in the days of NT4. Keep in mind, 16-32MB was the norm on Win95 boxes, and 32-64MB was the norm on Win98 boxes.
He wasn't asking if Cygwin was legal as in according to US law. He was asking if it was legal in TMDC6. AFAIK, you just have to be able to zip into 2.8MB, and unzip into 5MiB. If you can fit your app compiled for Linux AND Cygwin in 5MiB, you're fine. (and DON'T try expanding Cygwin on the fly - you'll just increase your zip size)
WiFi peripherals, anyone? Or maybe a dumb VNC terminal, and an ethernet-connected CD-RW/DVD?
Dude, RTFP, and see that he doesn't even have dial-up.
There are some bugs with Opera on SuSE. Just get the Static QT version - or just google opera 7.2 suse 8.2.
Excuse me, but THEY decided to use this hardware that could be hacked easily. Don't feel sorry for someone just because they made a bad business plan. Do you think people felt sorry for MS when Bob flopped? Do you think people felt sorry Apple when the Apple /// flopped?
They replied to my message. They knew EXACTLY what I was talking about, even though I never actually said what I was talking about:
Hi Eric,
This is from our Chairman and Founder Mark Surfas:
GameSpy welcomes any and all help finding genuine bugs and security breaches on
our servers. What we don't welcome are people publishing security hacks that
have the potential to hurt our products. GameSpy products are supposed to be
about having fun, but hacks and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks take the fun
out of it. It doesn't simply hurt GameSpy; it hurts every person playing games
with our products.
What this person did was more than reverse engineer two of our products,
RogerWilco and GameSpy3D-he was describing our backend services and publishing
CDkey generation information without letting us know. At first we welcomed his
bug alerts. We responded to him immediately and thanked him for his bug
research, as we do with everyone who contacts us with bug information. We even
sent him a thank you letter, which we have on file.
But then we found out he was also publishing how to brute force our RogerWilco
CDkeys and had published hacks on other game CDkeys as well. He was doing more
than reporting bugs; he was publishing game pirating techniques. He published
how to attack our network. This is not the way ethical security researchers
operate. It was at this point that we stopped our communication with him and
asked him to remove the materials in question.
When we were first contacted, this person was associated with a small software
security company. They asked if GameSpy wanted to pay a "consulting fee" to fix
the hacks. However, these were not bugs; it was information about how our
products work. When we brought this to the software security company's
attention, they disavowed their relationship with that person and removed him
from their servers.
Let me repeat-we welcome any bug alerts and will fix any and all security
breaches that come to our attention. We find and fix nearly all of them before
any external sources find them. It's all about playing games and having fun,
people! That's why we do what we do! However, we won't pay "consulting fees"
to people who create CDkey hacks of our proprietary software, then post the
results if we don't pay them.
Gamers trust us. We have to protect them from any and all attacks on our
network that affects gamers.
Mark Surfas
Chairman & Founder
GameSpy
If there's anything else we can do to help, please let us know.
Karen "Cobby" Cobb
Customer Service Manager
GameSpy Industries
karen@gamespy.com
I'm a bit amazed that they actually took the time to reply. (Of course, they copy-and-pasted from their official response...) I'm never going to use GameSpy services again, though.
No, it's more like someone stealing your (locked) Escort (after the Pinto, but I chose it because (at least the early '90s models) have an emergency key which will work on all Escorts of that key design) to throw pebbles from it at a building.
No, it'd be like selling tires with a large weak area, and putting a note saying (to the effect of) slash here to flatten tire by it.