Yes, and then you extract some_very_long_filename_with_movie_icon{shared-by- 1337}[2007]_DVDrip.avi.exe and even if you don't have known extension hiding turned on, Windows will truncate the displayed filename and you will doubleclick it to play it.
Or it will unpack your-wonderful-movie.avi.lnk and BONUS!!!MovieScreensaver.exe and no matter what settings you use, your-wonderful-movie.avi.lnk won't display the.lnk, just.avi, despite pointing to the exe.
Phew. It can be hot_paris_hilton_sex_video.exe too. With appropriate icon for wmf. How much time does the user have between first and second click of a doubleclick on the file, when the name "hot_paris_hilton_se..." displayed below the icon turns into full filename?
It's worse. You see, Windows has this lovely feature known as "Hide file extensions for known file types". And guess what? One of these extensions is.exe. Another lovely feature of Windows is that you can assign any arbitrary icon to a file. Like the llovely Winamp llama. So all the bastards need is to rename infect.exe to Britney_Spears-Fuck_Me_Harder.mp3.exe, give it a common mp3 icon, add it to RAR (BT doesn't hide file extensions), then seed it. Your average Windows moron will right-click on the RAR, pick "unpack here", then double-click the icon. Easy like that.
Well, we want to discuss Sony options. And how many cellphones (still in use) go from full charge to dead in 10 minutes? If the PSP battery goes dead way faster than indicated, the unit should be replaced anyway, dead firmware or not. I wonder what would be the chance for releasing cracks for PSP games, so they wouldn't install the upgrade. Or hacking the hardware, so you can override any firmware upgrade anyway.
The cheapest Bluetooth dongle costs about the same as a reasonable quality wireless mouse itself. Why - no idea. I guess it's the overhead too - the mouse's wireless transmission protocol is much simpler than Bluetooth.
I tried the scroll wheel for primary/secondary fire in HalfLife. It makes great rapid fire with weapons like the pistol, unfortunately doesn't allow continuous fire like machinegun or gauss secondary.
First of all were keys. Separate. One press, one effect. Then keys on top of keys. Shift plus a key... And keys on top of keys of keys. Double bucky:) Then, paddles. One manipulator - one rotary wheel, plus a key. Two of them, separate. Plus one key on each. Then came standard joystick, essentially four keys connected into one. Plus one separate (fire). Then came mouse. Two paddles connected into one. Plus two keys on top. About the same time came analog joystick. Two paddles connected into one, but with ability to return to original position by itself. Sometimes better than mouse, sometimes not. Of course, keys on top. Then some aberrations like trackball (mouse on its back) or driving wheel with pedals (2 paddles mounted in specific positions), mousepad without mouse (touch tablet), mousepad without mouse on top of keys (touch pad) micro-joystick on top of keys (trackpoint), etc - marginal use. And all with lots of keys on them. Then they added another paddle on top of the mouse. Wheel mouse. Analog joystick evolved. Two more joysticks were added in paralell (PS gamepad). Sometime along yet another paddle was added to top of mouse. (a4tech etc 2-wheel mice). Some more aberrations. Paddle on top of keys (keyboards with scrollwheels), Joystick on top of joystick (multiple levels of freedom), triple paddles (steering wheels with throttle), touch tablets on top of screens (touch screens), etc. Now we learn Logitech put a joystick on top of a mouse.
Still waiting for mouse on top of a mouse (trackball instead of wheel), mouse on top of a joystick (trackball again, seemed like xbox2 would have it but not), and whatever comes next, following the pattern.
Remember: keys and paddles.
And of course screens on top of screens (windows).
I seriously ponder replacing my Win98SE with 2K, but my priority for Windows are games (I do all the other stuff on Linux anyway), so will most games (especially old ones, DOS times etc) run on it?
Well, I didn't see one, but most cellular phones can check battery charge level, I don't see why PSP shouldn't - and then install the update if only the batteries can last next 15 minutes:P
I know a fanatic who refuses to watch movies on computer screen. He records Divx to VHS tapes and then watches them on TV, from the player. Perverted, isn't it?
Agreed. Except giving them up costs at least "some". They don't always take -all- the freedom away from you. Same here, the sound card wasn't unsupported, simply its support sucked. Get addicted to cigarettes and either buy a box daily, or suffer through giving them up. Pick a product that takes your freedom away from you, that's your free choice, but then face all the hidden costs, all the limits. You are free to do a lot of stuff. Giving up your freedom is one of them (and then the way back is long and hard, if any.) Picking unsupported sound card is simply stupid, but that's your right - and we just advise you not to do it.
Sure. Not "just American products" but products that don't limit your freedom. You hear it all the time: Don't smoke, don't buy cigarettes, once you start smoking you won't be able to stop. Don't take drugs, drugs are a dead end. Don't drive too fast... Sure you are free TO do it all. Except you won't be free AFTER doing it.
Actually, you are free to do anything with it as long as you have time to do it. Sorry, back from work, food, news on TV, some other daily stuff, boot up the computer and you're left with 2-3 hours of "freedom". If it takes me 40 minutes to download and compile some package just so I could watch a DVD on Gentoo, thank you very much. I'd rather go with point&click. My freedom is limited with my time, and Linux requires much more time than alternatives.
And is likely the one largely responsible for the complete shit that was Netscape, the crap that crashed so much that I switched to Internet Explorer because "it just worked"?
No, he wasn't responsible for 4.0. And you won't convince me you switched from Netscape 3 Gold to MSIE 3.0 because it "just worked". It didn't.
The "developer machines" running P4, about 4GHZ, were sold to attendants (some 2000-4000 people, I'd say) for $999, I'd say a bargain price. Now what's the chance a brand spanking new computer with brand spanking new ultra secret operating system gets stolen from one of 2000 nerds? Conspiracy or not, the leak was something that had to happen.
Now the tricky news. The machines are just for development before the official release and are to be returned somewhere around the end of 2006. I wonder if the system stops working then:)
well, the developer machines are sold for $999 to anyone who attended the apple World Developer Conference. The room on the video from it seemed like some 4000 people and I bet most of them bought one. Now even if THEY wouldn't leak it, there's a good chance it would be stolen from one of them - not by dumb gangsta boys but by informed criminals/blackhats who just wanted to lay their hands on it.
For the simplest reason that new non-accelerated gfx cards are a hell to obtain nowadays. Even the on-board ones are accelerated. Sure, if you want to build a custom $30.000 setup on a passive board, or plug in an old PCI gfx card you found in some obscure pawn shop, or dust off your Pentium Pro, or buy a big iron from SGI, go on. But go to the retail store behind the corner and ask for a new computer, but it's to be a server, so no GPU please, and they will ask "Wha?" So you just buy the cheapest they have on the shelf. With a lot of luck, Riva TNT2, with less luck GForce2, or some stripped down Radeon. And good luck installing console on a serial line in a "legacy free" setup without RS232.
You'd hardly ever need to downclock a client/gaming machine. You do this with a server. A server doesn't need a fast GPU, so no need for a fan on it. Downclocked CPU means whole system downclocked, so you can apply passive cooling to the motherboard. There's still a problem with the PSU, but use one with some 200 spare watts, and spin its fan down using, say, a resistor in series, so it works quietly. If you want a quiet desktop, use water cooling. For everything.
...running a server on 486DX80 downclocked to 66MHZ. Original fan+radiator replaced with a radiator alone. From an Athlon. (several more power savings in the system - like not using a CD drive, and the power supply runs just fine with its fan switched off. So, a fanless config.
RTFA? No. You get a slower processor that runs about as hot as the new one, drains about as much power and crashes on overheating by about the same interval. But if you downclock the faster one, you can run it at speed of the slow one, with power usage lower, overheating threshold higher (say, saving on air conditioning?), and possibly with smaller, quiet fan.
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Put the steps of reburn in a script, and it will be trivial - it's quite a few steps, but all very easy, been there, done that. It takes quite a bit of time though (recompressing 2GB of data...), so you may pick the simplified version - edit just the startup script to create links to directories on your flash drive and simply add (mount) them e.g. as/usr/local with your custom stuff, without touching the compressed image.
I'd rather see more flexible system (primarily without opportunity to "write some shit nobody would use, to get $5k"). Say, $1k-$20 bounty, to be given to winner person/team (amount depending on how hard to implement it is, and how desired it os), and in case of several entries, split (or not) into shares dependent upon judging value of the entries.
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Yes, and then you extract some_very_long_filename_with_movie_icon{shared-by- 1337}[2007]_DVDrip.avi.exe and even if you don't have known extension hiding turned on, Windows will truncate the displayed filename and you will doubleclick it to play it.
.lnk, just .avi, despite pointing to the exe.
Or it will unpack your-wonderful-movie.avi.lnk and BONUS!!!MovieScreensaver.exe and no matter what settings you use, your-wonderful-movie.avi.lnk won't display the
Phew. It can be hot_paris_hilton_sex_video.exe too. With appropriate icon for wmf. How much time does the user have between first and second click of a doubleclick on the file, when the name "hot_paris_hilton_se..." displayed below the icon turns into full filename?
It's worse. .exe. Another lovely feature of Windows is that you can assign any arbitrary icon to a file. Like the llovely Winamp llama. So all the bastards need is to rename infect.exe to Britney_Spears-Fuck_Me_Harder.mp3.exe, give it a common mp3 icon, add it to RAR (BT doesn't hide file extensions), then seed it. Your average Windows moron will right-click on the RAR, pick "unpack here", then double-click the icon.
You see, Windows has this lovely feature known as "Hide file extensions for known file types". And guess what? One of these extensions is
Easy like that.
New flash chip $0.80 + rework $1.5
Well, we want to discuss Sony options. And how many cellphones (still in use) go from full charge to dead in 10 minutes? If the PSP battery goes dead way faster than indicated, the unit should be replaced anyway, dead firmware or not.
I wonder what would be the chance for releasing cracks for PSP games, so they wouldn't install the upgrade. Or hacking the hardware, so you can override any firmware upgrade anyway.
The cheapest Bluetooth dongle costs about the same as a reasonable quality wireless mouse itself. Why - no idea. I guess it's the overhead too - the mouse's wireless transmission protocol is much simpler than Bluetooth.
I tried the scroll wheel for primary/secondary fire in HalfLife.
It makes great rapid fire with weapons like the pistol, unfortunately doesn't allow continuous fire like machinegun or gauss secondary.
First of all were keys. Separate. One press, one effect. :)
Then keys on top of keys. Shift plus a key... And keys on top of keys of keys. Double bucky
Then, paddles. One manipulator - one rotary wheel, plus a key. Two of them, separate. Plus one key on each.
Then came standard joystick, essentially four keys connected into one. Plus one separate (fire).
Then came mouse. Two paddles connected into one. Plus two keys on top.
About the same time came analog joystick. Two paddles connected into one, but with ability to return to original position by itself. Sometimes better than mouse, sometimes not. Of course, keys on top.
Then some aberrations like trackball (mouse on its back) or driving wheel with pedals (2 paddles mounted in specific positions), mousepad without mouse (touch tablet), mousepad without mouse on top of keys (touch pad) micro-joystick on top of keys (trackpoint), etc - marginal use. And all with lots of keys on them.
Then they added another paddle on top of the mouse. Wheel mouse.
Analog joystick evolved. Two more joysticks were added in paralell (PS gamepad).
Sometime along yet another paddle was added to top of mouse. (a4tech etc 2-wheel mice).
Some more aberrations. Paddle on top of keys (keyboards with scrollwheels), Joystick on top of joystick (multiple levels of freedom), triple paddles (steering wheels with throttle), touch tablets on top of screens (touch screens), etc.
Now we learn Logitech put a joystick on top of a mouse.
Still waiting for mouse on top of a mouse (trackball instead of wheel), mouse on top of a joystick (trackball again, seemed like xbox2 would have it but not), and whatever comes next, following the pattern.
Remember: keys and paddles.
And of course screens on top of screens (windows).
I seriously ponder replacing my Win98SE with 2K, but my priority for Windows are games (I do all the other stuff on Linux anyway), so will most games (especially old ones, DOS times etc) run on it?
Well, I didn't see one, but most cellular phones can check battery charge level, I don't see why PSP shouldn't - and then install the update if only the batteries can last next 15 minutes :P
I know a fanatic who refuses to watch movies on computer screen. He records Divx to VHS tapes and then watches them on TV, from the player.
Perverted, isn't it?
Agreed. Except giving them up costs at least "some". They don't always take -all- the freedom away from you. Same here, the sound card wasn't unsupported, simply its support sucked. Get addicted to cigarettes and either buy a box daily, or suffer through giving them up. Pick a product that takes your freedom away from you, that's your free choice, but then face all the hidden costs, all the limits. You are free to do a lot of stuff. Giving up your freedom is one of them (and then the way back is long and hard, if any.) Picking unsupported sound card is simply stupid, but that's your right - and we just advise you not to do it.
Sure. Not "just American products" but products that don't limit your freedom. You hear it all the time: Don't smoke, don't buy cigarettes, once you start smoking you won't be able to stop. Don't take drugs, drugs are a dead end. Don't drive too fast...
Sure you are free TO do it all. Except you won't be free AFTER doing it.
Actually, you are free to do anything with it as long as you have time to do it. Sorry, back from work, food, news on TV, some other daily stuff, boot up the computer and you're left with 2-3 hours of "freedom". If it takes me 40 minutes to download and compile some package just so I could watch a DVD on Gentoo, thank you very much. I'd rather go with point&click. My freedom is limited with my time, and Linux requires much more time than alternatives.
And is likely the one largely responsible for the complete shit that was Netscape, the crap that crashed so much that I switched to Internet Explorer because "it just worked"?
No, he wasn't responsible for 4.0. And you won't convince me you switched from Netscape 3 Gold to MSIE 3.0 because it "just worked". It didn't.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc05/
:)
The "developer machines" running P4, about 4GHZ, were sold to attendants (some 2000-4000 people, I'd say) for $999, I'd say a bargain price. Now what's the chance a brand spanking new computer with brand spanking new ultra secret operating system gets stolen from one of 2000 nerds? Conspiracy or not, the leak was something that had to happen.
Now the tricky news. The machines are just for development before the official release and are to be returned somewhere around the end of 2006. I wonder if the system stops working then
well, the developer machines are sold for $999 to anyone who attended the apple World Developer Conference. The room on the video from it seemed like some 4000 people and I bet most of them bought one. Now even if THEY wouldn't leak it, there's a good chance it would be stolen from one of them - not by dumb gangsta boys but by informed criminals/blackhats who just wanted to lay their hands on it.
Don't remember the name, but there was an article on /. about them recently - search. :P
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For the simplest reason that new non-accelerated gfx cards are a hell to obtain nowadays. Even the on-board ones are accelerated. Sure, if you want to build a custom $30.000 setup on a passive board, or plug in an old PCI gfx card you found in some obscure pawn shop, or dust off your Pentium Pro, or buy a big iron from SGI, go on. But go to the retail store behind the corner and ask for a new computer, but it's to be a server, so no GPU please, and they will ask "Wha?"
So you just buy the cheapest they have on the shelf. With a lot of luck, Riva TNT2, with less luck GForce2, or some stripped down Radeon.
And good luck installing console on a serial line in a "legacy free" setup without RS232.
Not mooting the whole point of downclocking though - still power saving, more stable work, higher safe temperature interval...
You'd hardly ever need to downclock a client/gaming machine. You do this with a server. A server doesn't need a fast GPU, so no need for a fan on it. Downclocked CPU means whole system downclocked, so you can apply passive cooling to the motherboard. There's still a problem with the PSU, but use one with some 200 spare watts, and spin its fan down using, say, a resistor in series, so it works quietly.
If you want a quiet desktop, use water cooling. For everything.
...running a server on 486DX80 downclocked to 66MHZ. Original fan+radiator replaced with a radiator alone. From an Athlon.
(several more power savings in the system - like not using a CD drive, and the power supply runs just fine with its fan switched off. So, a fanless config.
RTFA?
No. You get a slower processor that runs about as hot as the new one, drains about as much power and crashes on overheating by about the same interval. But if you downclock the faster one, you can run it at speed of the slow one, with power usage lower, overheating threshold higher (say, saving on air conditioning?), and possibly with smaller, quiet fan.
Put the steps of reburn in a script, and it will be trivial - it's quite a few steps, but all very easy, been there, done that. It takes quite a bit of time though (recompressing 2GB of data...), so you may pick the simplified version - edit just the startup script to create links to directories on your flash drive and simply add (mount) them e.g. as /usr/local with your custom stuff, without touching the compressed image.
I'd rather see more flexible system (primarily without opportunity to "write some shit nobody would use, to get $5k"). Say, $1k-$20 bounty, to be given to winner person/team (amount depending on how hard to implement it is, and how desired it os), and in case of several entries, split (or not) into shares dependent upon judging value of the entries.