Also after install remember to untick "check for new versions of winamp at startup" and "allow winamp to report anonymous usage statistics" from the Preferences;)
I think the parent means planes that have an unstable airframe, like the F-22 Raptor for example, that wont stay in the air without computers keeping it stable. Take that 777, make all the computers in it malfunction and it will still fly, glide at least. Do that to an F22 and it will drop like a rock... I'm not aware of any civilian airliners that would be like this, but maybe they are coming. I would feel less safe flying in one of those than a "traditional" airliner.
BitTorrent is quite nice, though I found that sharing files with it isn't quite easy, since you need to seed the file yourself if no one else has it yet. So if you are keeping up a thousand downloads on your website for example, you'd need to run a thousand bittorent seeds for those.
It would be nice if the bittorrent tracker file could have a regular http or ftp link in it, from which the BT client would start downloading the file in case no seeds are found. I think that would make it alot easier to use for legal file downloads in websites.
I wonder what thats about... If they'd want to start logging & indexing IRC channel discussions, they'd either need some kind of deal with IRC server operators to get traffic from them, or just have their own googlebot on every IRC channel. The second option is quite hard: Most servers have a limitation on how many channels you can be on, for example at most of IRCnet its 11 channels I believe. And theres 46600 channels currently on IRCnet. They'd need 4237 connections open to get in all of those, the IRCops might not like that and would propably G-Line google.com to block access. Not to mention that many IRC channels would propably ban the bot too...
Looks like they really are doing a sequel, the original Doom FPS was also capped (to 31fps if I remember correctly)
Maybe there could be motion blur support to use when cards get fast enough to be able to run it for more than 60fps?
My ISP has been blocking ports 0 - 1024, except 113 ever since I got my DSL. It really has been more use than pain, even though I wanted to get rid of it at first. But thanks to it, I havent had the need to install any firewalls and have been safe from all the worms and I can use microsoft networking in my LAN with simple passwords and it feels secure. All my boxes also get their ip's from the isp's DHCP server, so setting up things like NFS would be problematic without that firewall, now I know that if theres traffic coming to the NFS ports it comes from my LAN and can be just allowed to enter no matter what ip the box has.
I also run FTP, HTTP and SSH servers here, they run on nonstandard ports but that either hasnt given me any trouble yet, quite the opposite: I have received zero "scans" and zero IIS attack attempts (I run apache anyway though) to those ports, which again gives me the impression that its better this way.
Only thing i'm worried is that if my ISP some day takes off this firewall without making an announcement of it then all my systems would be left open, and I cant check if its still there unless I ask someone from outside the firewall to try to scan me or something.
It sure is going to be risky business to kill backwards compatibility to all current Office versions. It could end up being good for the free alternatives, if your current office version is no longer supported and MS tells you to stop using it, then why not switch into a free alternative that works with the old documents too instead of a new, expensive MS office suite? Especially since MS Office hasn't really got anything that revolutionary new for years that would be worth the massive license costs and losing all compatibility.
I prefer to have things available online these days rather than having them on a CD. I have hundreds and hundreds of CD's stacked up everywhere, and its becoming slower to find something small from those cd's than find and download it from the net. Especially the CD's that came with a magazine get useless quite fast as the things there get old, and the process of finding the cd and listening to the loud cd drive reading it is far less comfortable than just finding and using the same content from the internet.
I find it more interesting to have access to magazine articles from the net after subscribing. That way the content is always available from almost anywhere in addition to the paper magazine.
Next intel will issue a benchmark that tells the exact opposite, and then a third party benchmark will tell that there really isn't that much difference between them after all.
"The software has already been tested with air traffic controllers."
Nice, safe place they found to beta test their stuff. Something going wrong there is not going to cause any trouble, right?
Hmm.. My GA-8IGX mobo has support for it, based on the i845 chipset which is quite old already. I think there certainly are alot of systems that support it, its just not a very commonly known feature.
I did the same thing with a bunch of 1,6GB western digital hard-drives a few years back, I got a pile of broken ones for free and was able to salvage 4 into working condition by changing the logic boards from those that made funny noises to those that sounded fine but the BIOS did not detect.
It should be called Quakembly these days, most people are there to play quake/cs and not watch the demo compos which is what the whole thing was originally about.
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Also after install remember to untick "check for new versions of winamp at startup" and "allow winamp to report anonymous usage statistics" from the Preferences ;)
Not to mention hardware loss, when the pigeon with your 180GB HD tied to its leg doesn't come back.
I think the parent means planes that have an unstable airframe, like the F-22 Raptor for example, that wont stay in the air without computers keeping it stable. Take that 777, make all the computers in it malfunction and it will still fly, glide at least. Do that to an F22 and it will drop like a rock... I'm not aware of any civilian airliners that would be like this, but maybe they are coming. I would feel less safe flying in one of those than a "traditional" airliner.
BitTorrent is quite nice, though I found that sharing files with it isn't quite easy, since you need to seed the file yourself if no one else has it yet. So if you are keeping up a thousand downloads on your website for example, you'd need to run a thousand bittorent seeds for those.
It would be nice if the bittorrent tracker file could have a regular http or ftp link in it, from which the BT client would start downloading the file in case no seeds are found. I think that would make it alot easier to use for legal file downloads in websites.
I wonder what thats about... If they'd want to start logging & indexing IRC channel discussions, they'd either need some kind of deal with IRC server operators to get traffic from them, or just have their own googlebot on every IRC channel. The second option is quite hard: Most servers have a limitation on how many channels you can be on, for example at most of IRCnet its 11 channels I believe. And theres 46600 channels currently on IRCnet. They'd need 4237 connections open to get in all of those, the IRCops might not like that and would propably G-Line google.com to block access. Not to mention that many IRC channels would propably ban the bot too...
Is there a Linux port available?
Looks like they really are doing a sequel, the original Doom FPS was also capped (to 31fps if I remember correctly) Maybe there could be motion blur support to use when cards get fast enough to be able to run it for more than 60fps?
Since when would it be a more secure choice to use a Windows based fileserver instead of a Linux one?
It inlcudes source not only from HL2, but also from HL1, TF2, and CS. Thats why there is OpenGL code in there, and its real.
"SEATTLE -- Greetings from ATI's "Shader Days" event"
;)
Somehow I guessed ATI was going to win the benchmarks there...
...here.
Which one of my boxes is insecure and by what way? ;)
My ISP has been blocking ports 0 - 1024, except 113 ever since I got my DSL. It really has been more use than pain, even though I wanted to get rid of it at first. But thanks to it, I havent had the need to install any firewalls and have been safe from all the worms and I can use microsoft networking in my LAN with simple passwords and it feels secure. All my boxes also get their ip's from the isp's DHCP server, so setting up things like NFS would be problematic without that firewall, now I know that if theres traffic coming to the NFS ports it comes from my LAN and can be just allowed to enter no matter what ip the box has.
I also run FTP, HTTP and SSH servers here, they run on nonstandard ports but that either hasnt given me any trouble yet, quite the opposite: I have received zero "scans" and zero IIS attack attempts (I run apache anyway though) to those ports, which again gives me the impression that its better this way.
Only thing i'm worried is that if my ISP some day takes off this firewall without making an announcement of it then all my systems would be left open, and I cant check if its still there unless I ask someone from outside the firewall to try to scan me or something.
"...force P2P apps to include warning labels that users may be exposed to pornography"
They should put those labels on all web browsers too then.
It sure is going to be risky business to kill backwards compatibility to all current Office versions. It could end up being good for the free alternatives, if your current office version is no longer supported and MS tells you to stop using it, then why not switch into a free alternative that works with the old documents too instead of a new, expensive MS office suite? Especially since MS Office hasn't really got anything that revolutionary new for years that would be worth the massive license costs and losing all compatibility.
I prefer to have things available online these days rather than having them on a CD. I have hundreds and hundreds of CD's stacked up everywhere, and its becoming slower to find something small from those cd's than find and download it from the net. Especially the CD's that came with a magazine get useless quite fast as the things there get old, and the process of finding the cd and listening to the loud cd drive reading it is far less comfortable than just finding and using the same content from the internet.
I find it more interesting to have access to magazine articles from the net after subscribing. That way the content is always available from almost anywhere in addition to the paper magazine.
Next intel will issue a benchmark that tells the exact opposite, and then a third party benchmark will tell that there really isn't that much difference between them after all.
"The software has already been tested with air traffic controllers." Nice, safe place they found to beta test their stuff. Something going wrong there is not going to cause any trouble, right?
"Chinese Government to Use Only Local Software"
"China is placing official support behind the Red Flag Linux operating system"
Linux is local software coded by the Chinese?
Hmm.. My GA-8IGX mobo has support for it, based on the i845 chipset which is quite old already. I think there certainly are alot of systems that support it, its just not a very commonly known feature.
How about an version that you can (easily) put on an USB flash memory card and boot from there?
...then could you use it to disinfect the system? Or at least notify the owner of the box, by making a txt file at the desktop or something.
hmm... so he switched the whole logic board?
I did the same thing with a bunch of 1,6GB western digital hard-drives a few years back, I got a pile of broken ones for free and was able to salvage 4 into working condition by changing the logic boards from those that made funny noises to those that sounded fine but the BIOS did not detect.
This saves some useful space, at least from the trash can where windows 95 belongs.
It should be called Quakembly these days, most people are there to play quake/cs and not watch the demo compos which is what the whole thing was originally about.