Although, 802.11g built in cards, (most new notebooks) from my experiance have a hard time connecting to 802.11b.
Do you have an example of this?
I have a Centrino notebook and it has no problem connecting to my LinkSys WAP11b at home or the Cisco (don't know model off hand) b at work. I was under the impression that almost all g/b can connect to each other...
I would take a survey of the customers to see if this is even in demand or if it would be used by more then a few people.
If there are lots of people interested, you will need to figure a price that will be able to maintain it over time, a bandwidth price/#of customers.
Also in the survey find out what these customers think is a reasonable amount to pay for the service.
If it is in demand and not a financial burden, I would look into getting a Wireless B AP...we don't want the 'creative' customers going crazy with that 54Mb pipe (11Mb should be more then enough for the average customer). Just be sure you have a big enough pipe to handle a bulk load of people and small enough where it's not a waste if money.
Does anyone actually think that the lack of a single format is scaring consumers away from ebooks, and solely because of this they've been a flop? I'd wager to guess that ebook sales are going to be pretty dismal for quite a ways into the future.
Yes, but not for the right reasons. If eBook readers were shoved down our throats with advertisments like the iPod w/iTunes is, they would sell millions!
I have no problems reading a book on my PalmOS, but then the format problem comes in and causes problems. There have been more then a few eBooks I would of purchased if they were available in a format I could use. I would love to see a format standard with eBooks and only have one download option (instead of 6 options where I have to pay for each option)...if this were the case I would easily be able to get my wife buying eBooks for $2-$7 instead of paperbacks at $7-$9 and hardcover from $15...not to mention you can fit about 700 eBooks on a CD and paper books take a lot of physical space
Might be talking about the 'new' beta drivers http://public.pny.com/quadro/FX3000g/Linux/ I've heard they are not bad and now have a 'Linux control panel' that allows you to graphicly control all of those sweet little tweaks nVidia loves to brag about
No kidding, I use hotwayd to get my Hotmail and when I checked it after 18 hours and there was not a single peice of mail I had to go through the web logon just to make sure hotwayd wasn't broken!
Wasteland was one of the best games every made, I originally burned out my floppy driver for my Commodore64 with this game (ran off 4 5 1/4" floppy disks, lots of swapping) and played through it at least 5 separate times. I even got it in Interplays 10 year anniversary pack for the PC, and played it another 3 or 4 times through, still play it on occasion. Fountain of Dreams was never Wasteland 2...the only similarities was that it used the same game engine.
Wasteland 2 was never made because of licensing issues between Interplay and Electronic Arts (EA was the biggest and meanest game company in the '80s).
Fallout was what got me away from playing Wasteland again (was halfway through the game again when I found Fallout) and was very impressed with the story, even though it was not Wasteland by far it was a great story. Fallout 2, for some reason, never hooked me as much. I still have yet to pass the game.
I think I am one of the very few people that liked Fallout Tactics...maybe because I was still disappointed with Fallout 2 and was not expecting it to be Fallout 3 (it never was). The default settings did suck, but changing it to turn based combat made the feel of Fallout come out and the interface enhancements made it much easier to play (I would like to play the first 2 Fallout games on the FT:BOS engine). I was looking forward to Fallout 3 hopping that they have kept the openness of the RPG element in Fallout 1 & 2 with and even more enhanced engine then FT:BOS.
Being a big fan of Post-Apocalyptic games/stories and think that the Fallout version is a solid and diverse world, I look forward to playing Brotherhood of Steel on the PS2...not expecting to play an RPG and knowing that the story world has been changed slightly, I don't think it will be terrible and will be giving it a fair chance that it deserves.
Your probably right, Lindows has gotten a very bad name in the Linux community when it was introduced.
Since it's introduction Lindows has made some great changes and has turned out to be a fairly decent Debian/KDE release. Install apt-get and don't use "Click n' Run"
I do agree with you, the "not a big deal" was the wrong wording (why else was the server taken down?)
why was it exploitable and how many others are exploitable too?
That is the real question...there was no specifics released about what the server was, what it was running, if it's been patched...only that it was compromised. Hopefully when they discover what did happen they will let everyone know
HL was based off of licensed Quake I code...then heavly modified (netcode was used for HL multiplayer
As mentioned, calling HL a Quake mod is like calling Jedi Knight II, Star Trek: Elite Forces, Alice and a whole slew of other officially realesed games mods, for Quake III...
expecially when the compromise did not touch the portage tree and was mearly a rootkit install and some logs edited
Slack security or not, it didn't affect the tree, It was caught within an hour of compomise and taken off-line...how the hell can this be considered "slack attitude to security"??! RTFA
Only 20 people sync'd with this server within that hour it was compromised...not a big deal, expecially when the compromise did not touch the portage tree and was mearly a rootkit install and some logs edited...not to mention it is a donated server used for other purposes, the attacker might not of even known it was used for Gentoo rsync...
But the server is down and will be scrubbed and re-sync'd, just to be safe
ELQ might not be my favorite reviewer but one thing she does, and does well, is find any and all flaws in an OS
She finds flaws that are the most obscure and exploits them as if they are there only for her to find exploit. Is there any mention of reading the release notes? They usually make reference to such issues...just glanced at their site, anyone know where to FIND the release notes?? Sun has always had the worst web layout...
It's always good to read about new distros and what's good/bad with them, but when a minor thing like a specific NIC having a bug...it's not something go ballistic over and write half a page of how angry you are. Now if it was with MOST NICs, yes then it's a good case to go ballistic:)
Not really, it's true.
I know of many users that don't know what USB is or even how to use it! "Just plug it in the USB port" and they look at you like your from another planet, and proceed to attempt to pulg the USB cable into the floppy drive
RTFM is over used, but maybe if half these people would at least glance through the manual they might have half a clue of what to do!
I'm not user bashing, I'm I D 10 T bashing!
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I think what SCO is aiming at with that $699 license is that Linux is a server and should be licensed as one
Not their fault they believe that "Linux is not ready for the desktop"...
I have to say though, that server on my laptop is great for playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory!!
How? Because it ships with yum and apt? Which are just dependancy solver frontends to RPM?
Fedora uses 90% of Red Hat's tools, try a "rpm -qa | grep redhat-config" on Red Hat 9 and Fedora and the list will be almost, if not, identical...
"Fedora != Redhat" needs a more/better explanation
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I have a Centrino notebook and it has no problem connecting to my LinkSys WAP11b at home or the Cisco (don't know model off hand) b at work. I was under the impression that almost all g/b can connect to each other...
I would take a survey of the customers to see if this is even in demand or if it would be used by more then a few people.
If there are lots of people interested, you will need to figure a price that will be able to maintain it over time, a bandwidth price/#of customers.
Also in the survey find out what these customers think is a reasonable amount to pay for the service.
If it is in demand and not a financial burden, I would look into getting a Wireless B AP...we don't want the 'creative' customers going crazy with that 54Mb pipe (11Mb should be more then enough for the average customer). Just be sure you have a big enough pipe to handle a bulk load of people and small enough where it's not a waste if money.
I have no problems reading a book on my PalmOS, but then the format problem comes in and causes problems. There have been more then a few eBooks I would of purchased if they were available in a format I could use. I would love to see a format standard with eBooks and only have one download option (instead of 6 options where I have to pay for each option)...if this were the case I would easily be able to get my wife buying eBooks for $2-$7 instead of paperbacks at $7-$9 and hardcover from $15...not to mention you can fit about 700 eBooks on a CD and paper books take a lot of physical space
Might be talking about the 'new' beta drivers
http://public.pny.com/quadro/FX3000g/Linux/
I've heard they are not bad and now have a 'Linux control panel' that allows you to graphicly control all of those sweet little tweaks nVidia loves to brag about
No kidding, I use hotwayd to get my Hotmail and when I checked it after 18 hours and there was not a single peice of mail I had to go through the web logon just to make sure hotwayd wasn't broken!
Too bad they would expire after 3 days...so eBay wouldn't carry it, unless it was a "Buy now...or loose 'em!"
Wasteland was one of the best games every made, I originally burned out my floppy driver for my Commodore64 with this game (ran off 4 5 1/4" floppy disks, lots of swapping) and played through it at least 5 separate times. I even got it in Interplays 10 year anniversary pack for the PC, and played it another 3 or 4 times through, still play it on occasion. Fountain of Dreams was never Wasteland 2...the only similarities was that it used the same game engine.
Wasteland 2 was never made because of licensing issues between Interplay and Electronic Arts (EA was the biggest and meanest game company in the '80s).
Fallout was what got me away from playing Wasteland again (was halfway through the game again when I found Fallout) and was very impressed with the story, even though it was not Wasteland by far it was a great story. Fallout 2, for some reason, never hooked me as much. I still have yet to pass the game.
I think I am one of the very few people that liked Fallout Tactics...maybe because I was still disappointed with Fallout 2 and was not expecting it to be Fallout 3 (it never was). The default settings did suck, but changing it to turn based combat made the feel of Fallout come out and the interface enhancements made it much easier to play (I would like to play the first 2 Fallout games on the FT:BOS engine). I was looking forward to Fallout 3 hopping that they have kept the openness of the RPG element in Fallout 1 & 2 with and even more enhanced engine then FT:BOS.
Being a big fan of Post-Apocalyptic games/stories and think that the Fallout version is a solid and diverse world, I look forward to playing Brotherhood of Steel on the PS2...not expecting to play an RPG and knowing that the story world has been changed slightly, I don't think it will be terrible and will be giving it a fair chance that it deserves.
Your probably right, Lindows has gotten a very bad name in the Linux community when it was introduced.
Since it's introduction Lindows has made some great changes and has turned out to be a fairly decent Debian/KDE release. Install apt-get and don't use "Click n' Run"
Give it a couple days...it usually takes mainstream media 3-5 days to bring stuff like this up, but they will
"Why bother getting a new Desktop OS when WindowsXP works great!"
even though it took 30 years...how many haX0rs do you know that have machine capable of running TeraFLOPs per second?
That is the real question...there was no specifics released about what the server was, what it was running, if it's been patched...only that it was compromised. Hopefully when they discover what did happen they will let everyone know
ye of little faith for ibiblio hosting services!
They may get slow, but never stop!
HL was based off of licensed Quake I code...then heavly modified (netcode was used for HL multiplayer
As mentioned, calling HL a Quake mod is like calling Jedi Knight II, Star Trek: Elite Forces, Alice and a whole slew of other officially realesed games mods, for Quake III...
Only 20 people sync'd with this server within that hour it was compromised...not a big deal, expecially when the compromise did not touch the portage tree and was mearly a rootkit install and some logs edited...not to mention it is a donated server used for other purposes, the attacker might not of even known it was used for Gentoo rsync...
But the server is down and will be scrubbed and re-sync'd, just to be safe
You can 'fix' logs, but you can't fix all the md5sums that are scattered around the internet
She finds flaws that are the most obscure and exploits them as if they are there only for her to find exploit. Is there any mention of reading the release notes? They usually make reference to such issues...just glanced at their site, anyone know where to FIND the release notes?? Sun has always had the worst web layout...
It's always good to read about new distros and what's good/bad with them, but when a minor thing like a specific NIC having a bug...it's not something go ballistic over and write half a page of how angry you are. Now if it was with MOST NICs, yes then it's a good case to go ballistic
Not NEARLY as bad as American McGee!!
Not really, it's true.
I know of many users that don't know what USB is or even how to use it! "Just plug it in the USB port" and they look at you like your from another planet, and proceed to attempt to pulg the USB cable into the floppy drive
RTFM is over used, but maybe if half these people would at least glance through the manual they might have half a clue of what to do!
I'm not user bashing, I'm I D 10 T bashing!
I think what SCO is aiming at with that $699 license is that Linux is a server and should be licensed as one
Not their fault they believe that "Linux is not ready for the desktop"...
I have to say though, that server on my laptop is great for playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory!!
Fedora uses 90% of Red Hat's tools, try a "rpm -qa | grep redhat-config" on Red Hat 9 and Fedora and the list will be almost, if not, identical...
"Fedora != Redhat" needs a more/better explanation
or Fedora
or Gentoo
or Debian
or SuSE (ftp install)
or Slackware
or Vector
or Knoppix
or one of the thousands of others