MUCKs are successful because they often are accompanied by a specific focus for creative efforts---in Furcadia's case, anthropomorphism---instead of being solely a free-form modeling environment.
Sometimes, they break CVS versions, in such a way that my profile is corrupted. Subsequently, any version using that profile hangs at application start.
Oh, well. There isn't an extension (yet) that I absolutely can't live without. No, not even Mouse Gestures...
Tyan's got a good-looking quad Opteron board (if only it had an AGP slot!). One of these days, I'm gonna get my hands on one of their 2P boards.
Hopefully, this announcement will drive down the price of the 246 and 248, so that 1GB RAM per proc. will cost less than $1,000...
Of course, I've considered waiting for the dual cored Opterons to come out in 2005. Then again, AFAIK the dual core should still look like a single core to the motherboard.
Gee... all this talk is just making me want all of this stuff more.
hopes to use the company's development talent and wealth of intellectual property
If Sammy so much as lays a finger on Yuji Naga, Sonic Team, or anything in the Sonic franchise, then more heads will roll. Hiroshima will look like a firecracker in comparison. I will give them a new definition for "seppuku." And I will beat the ever-loving crap out of every goddamn Sammy executive, then shove flaming piles of their own yen up their asses.
Between this, and today's announcement on software patents, I'm about ready to unload on someone.
To contradict myself. To start an argument. To be macroscopic. You don't want to know. Because I felt like it. Hysteria! Take your pick.
Hell, I should be studying right now, or something. As we all know, they key to ridding the world of evil is through n-degree homogeneous differential equations.
Though it has been argued (unsuccessfully) that a sponsorship is not necessarily a waiver of amateur status (a bit of a stretch, stretched further by my application of it to this situation). So YMMV: Jeremy Bloom v. NCAA (Warning: DOC file...).
And interestingly, as I preview, the banner ad is for Nike.
PayPal has legal justification. Pending their side of the story, PayPal probably does not have moral justification.
But it's not as though we should blow up the whole world over this! In the grand scheme of things, PayPal is a small fry! If it's alright with you, I'd rather expend more of my limited sanity on bigger moral crusades, like Bush/Ashcroft. Or Microsoft. Or software patents. PayPal isn't going anywhere. More importantly, PayPal isn't actively seeking out trouble! They can be avoided.
[exhale]
Thank you for making me rant; are you satisfied now?
"No need to bother writing secure code cus new chips will have NX technology?"
I don't think that this segment of the programming population falls into those kind of pitfalls very often.
I know at least one other post called it a "fallback" measure, which sounds about right. It's a third line of defense against buffer overflows and the like (the first being good programming practices, the second being things like libsafe).
Sure, it is also helpful towards Microsoft; I can see how it restricts circumvention of DRM. But there are always other ways around. If you overflow into a buffer not protected by NX, you still have arbitrary code execution on your hands.
Of course, this is just what I get from the other posts and intuition. It's not like I RTFA or anything...
Notice that I'm not talking about anything logical. Fear isn't logical. It's a feeling. I specifically used such words as "fear" and "sentiment" to indicate as such.
Just because it can't happen doesn't mean that people won't be afraid that it will.
The fear is that this system will somehow take away the ability to compile one's own drivers. Whether or not you think that this could happen, you must respect this sentiment.
On the issue of drivers, this is related with reverse engineering, one of the hacker qualities on which the open source movement has been based. Alienating driver hacks would greatly undermine Linux.
Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the rest. For example, in 1984, a few users at the MIT AI lab decided to seize power by changing the operator password on the Twenex system and keeping it secret from everyone else. (I was able to thwart this coup and give power back to the users by patching the kernel, but I wouldn't know how to do that in Unix.)
However, occasionally the rulers do tell someone. Under the usual `su' mechanism, once someone learns the root password who sympathizes with the ordinary users, he or she can tell the rest. The "wheel group" feature would make this impossible, and thus cement the power of the rulers.
I'm on the side of the masses, not that of the rulers. If you are used to supporting the bosses and sysadmins in whatever they do, you might find this idea strange at first.
Of course, reimplementing this behavior is a one-liner.
In hindsight, maybe "totalitarian" is misrepresenting Stallman's view. At least I knew it was something like this...
And, from the suauth(5) man page:
# sample/etc/suauth file # # A couple of privileged usernames may # su to root with their own password. # root:chris,birddog:OWNPASS # # Anyone else may not su to root unless in # group wheel. This is how BSD does things. # root:ALL EXCEPT GROUP wheel:DENY # # Perhaps terry and birddog are accounts # owned by the same person. # Access can be arranged between them # with no password. # terry:birddog:NOPASS birddog:terry: NOPASS #
Rare delivered a fanboy's delight in it's final game before crossing over to the Dark Side. OK. So now, I want a Starfox game with some real gameplay. The hand-to-hand combat thing was a decent idea but the implementation sucked. More like an interactive movie (not necessarily a bad thing, but two in a row is overkill).
Despite having a bad experience with XFS, it's what I use.
Now, with that said, XFS can be too good.
Case in point: I accidentally rm'ed most of my homedir. Under most file systems, files are unlinked, yet the data remains, so dumping a raw image or forcing the file system to relink the file is possible; but XFS zeroes out after unlinking.
Otherwise, I swear by XFS. I might try Reiser4 (once it goes stable) as a root partition, though.
to me, it sounds like "just desserts" all around...
Hey, I just had a good idea. Is there any kind of signature, left behind on the user's computer by the various cracked versions, that a worm might be able to pick up on, or any way in general a genuine copy always differs from a cracked copy? Because if there is, then I can imagine lots of forthcoming fun and even some beneficial side effects.
If I missed more than four multiple choice questions, or if my first 'n-1' essays aren't absolutely perfect (and of course, I'll never know these...), I'm gonna be pissed.
Everybody else in my class---all but two definitely 'not geeks'---chickened out and will take the make-up at a later date.
Interestingly, today's Calculus BC exam was less exhausting than Comp Sci AB.
By the way, anybody else get a good chuckle out the portion of the verbal directions that essentially threatens cheaters with copyright violation?
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MUCKs are successful because they often are accompanied by a specific focus for creative efforts---in Furcadia's case, anthropomorphism---instead of being solely a free-form modeling environment.
Sometimes, they break CVS versions, in such a way that my profile is corrupted. Subsequently, any version using that profile hangs at application start.
Oh, well. There isn't an extension (yet) that I absolutely can't live without. No, not even Mouse Gestures...
Tyan's got a good-looking quad Opteron board (if only it had an AGP slot!). One of these days, I'm gonna get my hands on one of their 2P boards.
Hopefully, this announcement will drive down the price of the 246 and 248, so that 1GB RAM per proc. will cost less than $1,000...
Of course, I've considered waiting for the dual cored Opterons to come out in 2005. Then again, AFAIK the dual core should still look like a single core to the motherboard.
Gee... all this talk is just making me want all of this stuff more.
hopes to use the company's development talent and wealth of intellectual property
If Sammy so much as lays a finger on Yuji Naga, Sonic Team, or anything in the Sonic franchise, then more heads will roll. Hiroshima will look like a firecracker in comparison. I will give them a new definition for "seppuku." And I will beat the ever-loving crap out of every goddamn Sammy executive, then shove flaming piles of their own yen up their asses.
Between this, and today's announcement on software patents, I'm about ready to unload on someone.
To contradict myself. To start an argument. To be macroscopic. You don't want to know. Because I felt like it. Hysteria! Take your pick.
Hell, I should be studying right now, or something. As we all know, they key to ridding the world of evil is through n-degree homogeneous differential equations.
!bersl2.RTFA
Though it has been argued (unsuccessfully) that a sponsorship is not necessarily a waiver of amateur status (a bit of a stretch, stretched further by my application of it to this situation). So YMMV: Jeremy Bloom v. NCAA (Warning: DOC file...).
And interestingly, as I preview, the banner ad is for Nike.
OK. Let's clarify what I said.
PayPal has legal justification. Pending their side of the story, PayPal probably does not have moral justification.
But it's not as though we should blow up the whole world over this! In the grand scheme of things, PayPal is a small fry! If it's alright with you, I'd rather expend more of my limited sanity on bigger moral crusades, like Bush/Ashcroft. Or Microsoft. Or software patents. PayPal isn't going anywhere. More importantly, PayPal isn't actively seeking out trouble! They can be avoided.
[exhale]
Thank you for making me rant; are you satisfied now?
Last time I checked, "amateur" meant that you are not getting paid for doing something.
This is not AFAIK a money-making venture. Therefore, these people are amateurs.
to determine with whom they do business. As long as they send Freenet the balance and don't steal, I see nothing (catastrophically) wrong with this.
Back in the day (8+ years, to be precise), I almost used Caesar to model a Roman city for a school project.
"No need to bother writing secure code cus new chips will have NX technology?"
I don't think that this segment of the programming population falls into those kind of pitfalls very often.
I know at least one other post called it a "fallback" measure, which sounds about right. It's a third line of defense against buffer overflows and the like (the first being good programming practices, the second being things like libsafe).
Sure, it is also helpful towards Microsoft; I can see how it restricts circumvention of DRM. But there are always other ways around. If you overflow into a buffer not protected by NX, you still have arbitrary code execution on your hands.
Of course, this is just what I get from the other posts and intuition. It's not like I RTFA or anything...
Read elsewhere in the whois lookup. They have the domain until 2009.
Notice that I'm not talking about anything logical. Fear isn't logical. It's a feeling. I specifically used such words as "fear" and "sentiment" to indicate as such.
Just because it can't happen doesn't mean that people won't be afraid that it will.
The fear is that this system will somehow take away the ability to compile one's own drivers. Whether or not you think that this could happen, you must respect this sentiment.
On the issue of drivers, this is related with reverse engineering, one of the hacker qualities on which the open source movement has been based. Alienating driver hacks would greatly undermine Linux.
This says it all:
Insider sales (over last 6 months): 75,000
Insider purchases: N/A
Or am I just clueless about how this kind of stuff works?
In hindsight, maybe "totalitarian" is misrepresenting Stallman's view. At least I knew it was something like this...
And, from the suauth(5) man page:
The wheel group is the traditional UNIX way of restricting root access to a privledged few.
/etc/suauth---it's in the man page.
It's not this way with GNU su, because RMS don't like it that way (too totalitarian, etc...).
You can make GNU su act like normal su by adding a line in
Rare delivered a fanboy's delight in it's final game before crossing over to the Dark Side. OK. So now, I want a Starfox game with some real gameplay. The hand-to-hand combat thing was a decent idea but the implementation sucked. More like an interactive movie (not necessarily a bad thing, but two in a row is overkill).
Perhaps IBM truly has "mellowed out" in its middle age...
I'm willing to give them support for now. Nevertheless, you know what they say about the price of freedom...
Despite having a bad experience with XFS, it's what I use.
Now, with that said, XFS can be too good.
Case in point: I accidentally rm'ed most of my homedir. Under most file systems, files are unlinked, yet the data remains, so dumping a raw image or forcing the file system to relink the file is possible; but XFS zeroes out after unlinking.
Otherwise, I swear by XFS. I might try Reiser4 (once it goes stable) as a root partition, though.
1. Computers made in the last couple of years still have APM?
2. Apparently, it's just that hard for computer hardware manufacturers to make ACPI work. The heterogeneous nature of x86 doesn't help any, though.
to me, it sounds like "just desserts" all around...
Hey, I just had a good idea. Is there any kind of signature, left behind on the user's computer by the various cracked versions, that a worm might be able to pick up on, or any way in general a genuine copy always differs from a cracked copy? Because if there is, then I can imagine lots of forthcoming fun and even some beneficial side effects.
Um, that's 80135 shares.
By the way, that spells "Boies"---you know, SCO's lawyer...
NO STACKING!!!
If I missed more than four multiple choice questions, or if my first 'n-1' essays aren't absolutely perfect (and of course, I'll never know these...), I'm gonna be pissed.
Everybody else in my class---all but two definitely 'not geeks'---chickened out and will take the make-up at a later date.
Interestingly, today's Calculus BC exam was less exhausting than Comp Sci AB.
By the way, anybody else get a good chuckle out the portion of the verbal directions that essentially threatens cheaters with copyright violation?