Here in Austin, TWRR originally didn't cap us. We got 10 Mbit/s down, and 768 Kbit/s up, and it was nice.
Then suddenly it got slower. And stayed slower. Finally, we confronted TWRR, and they admitted that they'd capped us at 2 Mbit/s down and 384 Kbit/s up. Well, at least they finally admitted it.
In any event, 1.5 Mbit/s down isn't too bad. Did they put a upstream cap on too? If so, what's it set at? Didn't @Home have a 128 Kbit/s cap on upstream?
No, it really doesn't. At least not yet -- it's too early to raise the `monopoly' flag quite yet.
DVDs, VCD's and music CD's are the most commonly played thing on DVD players right now. MP3 CD's are probably trailing a little, but many DVD players now support them as well.
Think of the codecs that are the most popular after these -- and like it or not, Windows media are pretty high up there. After this, they'll probably be looking at Quicktime, Realmedia and divx. Of course, the movie industry probably hates divx, and so if they're going to discriminate against anything, they'll probably discriminate against divx. On the other hard, the same DVD player companies that make region free players and players that can turn off Macrovision probably know that we'd want divx too and would probably give it to us:)
Windows media files are already being supported by many (most?) mp3 players. Like it or not, they're becoming a standard -- and they have the `content control' (translation: copy protection) that the industry wants.
This is what I get from
http://www.colemanpowermate.com/fuelcell/airgen.sh tml...
SecureIIS application firewall security
alert
HTTP Request caused a security alert, please
contact our web master if you are getting this alert in error.
What is SecureIIS SecureIIS offers websites
running Microsoft Internet Information Server a broad range of protection
from common vulnerabilities, both known and unknown. Because SecureIIS
does not protect against specific vulnerabilities, but classes of
vulnerabilities, it allows for a much more far reaching layer of security.
Yes, the Vulnerability is over! I cannot view the web page on their product. Guess I can't click on `Buy'! eEye saves the day and my pocketbook from this particular class of vulnerability!
In any case, the first bad guy who spots it using tripwire or some other checksumming tool with half a brain will publish it immedietly. It's just not a good time for keystone cops right now. Not when were delivering justice across the world.
Hopefully those smart enough to use something like Tripwire will also be smart enough not to run random.exe's sent to them:)
In fact, I'd hope that most people smart enough to actually use encryption are also smart enough not to run random.exe's sent to them. The only way the FBI could actually make this work more than a tiny percentage of the time would be to have the various popular mail readers know FBI sent emails when it receives them and to run the.exe automatically.
Either that, or they'd have some secret way of tricking mailers to run it -- some new bug would do, at least until it's fixed.
It was $150 - $50 rebate (final price $100 + tax) at Best Buy last friday if you got there at 5:30am or so so that you're first in line for the 7am opening. The 15 or 30 units that they had were sold out by 7:02am:\
Note to self: Next year, find out what's on sale before hand (techbargains.com works nicely), buy it the wednesday before at full price, then do a price match once it goes on sale at around 11am or so:)
I think you misunderstood the post you're replying to.
He was suggesting using the standard DOS partitioning scheme (you know -- up to 4 primary partitions, one of which can be turned into a logical/extended partition for more partitions) with an ext2 filesystem put onto these partitions.
There are other options -- you could just mke2fs/dev/hda if you wanted to, and you could use one of the other available partitioning schemes if you wanted -- but using the standard DOS scheme probably makes the most sense for most people.
Of course, that page won't let my browser in either...
Basically, they force you to `upgrade' to IE before you can even complain about being forced to `upgrade' to IE.
Support is the usual reason given ...
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The usual reason given is the lack of support.
Yes, it's FUD, but it's true to a degree -- it's often difficult to find support for open source things. And if it breaks, you get to keep both parths -- if you're not able to fix it yourself, you're at the author's mercy.
Yes, if Windows breaks, you're at Microsoft's mercy to fix it too, but many companies feel a lot more comfortable relying on a big company than on a few guys who program for fun.
Yes, you can buy support for many free software products, but these don't seem very popular for some reason.
I'm not saying that these reasons are particularly valid, but they are the reasons most commonly given...
I was thinking of all the `Loki will port X game to Linux' posts that seem to make it to slashdot. -- they almost always force you to buy the game again (Loki didn't do Unreal Tournament, did he? THAT you could download a Linux port for, and that was done right (and later versions had the Linux version on the CD.))
Ooops. X-Plane came out in Decmber of 2000, according to Gamespot. -- not Feb 2001 as the other review said.
And it hasn't quite made it to $9.99 yet (at least not via mail order) -- EBWorld.com seems to sell it for $19.99. Not sure how much it is over at the mall...
Unfortunately, doing Linux ports of games months or even years after the Windows version has been released is a really poor business model.
The people who really wanted to buy X-Plane already did -- months ago, when it came out initially. These people aren't likely to go out and buy it *again* -- even though it'll now run on their favorite OS -- unless they're TRULY dedicated to the game.
X-Plane came out in Feburary for Win32. How many games do you know of that you like so much that you'll buy it *again* after eight months? Not many!
If you want people to buy Linux games and buy them in reasonable numbers, you're going to need to release the Linux version at about the same time as the Windows version -- otherwise, only a few people are going to buy your game.
Suppose you've got your average gamer -- he dual boots between Linux and Windows. He goes into the computer store, and sees X-Plane for Linux -- $50. He then sees X-Plane for Windows in the bargian bin for $10. Which is he likely to buy?
The same applies to Mac ports of PC games, but to a lesser degree -- after all, outside of something like SoftPC, a Mac cannot run the same software as a Windows box -- where a x86 box that runs Linux box could also run Windows and therefore Windows games.
In any event, since Austin is doing the port for free, I guess they're not going to lose much on this one, even if nobody buys it.
The Industry has repeated promised to 'lower' the price of CD's once they became cheap and easy to produce. I think that we can all see that this was a load of unmitigated bullshit, since it should have happened around '85 or '86.
You know, I've heard this before, but I've never seen any such `promise' in writing anywhere. Do you have any references for this?
I recall seeing somewhere that some RIAA or MPAA executive was asked about this (about CD costing more than Cassette/Vinyl or DVD costing more than VHS, even though CD and DVD cost much less to make) and his answer was that the customer was getting more (better quality, more convenience) and so that's why they pay more. Perhaps the story just slowly morphed over the years...
Deep Space 9 had a similar arc, if you need a Star Trek arc.
Voyager had a general direction too, but DS9 had a stronger `story'...
B5's was still better, of course...
Um, these aren't likely to hover ...
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... can hover at up to 25,000ft
Since it's basically a standard plane (and not some helicopter, autogyro or something else) it's not going to hover like a helicopter. And it's very unlikely to have enough power/thrust to `hang on the prop' like many overpowered stunt planes can (or many R/C planes:)
..
Unless it gets a head wind that's higher than it's stall speed (54 knots -- pretty slow) in which case it could appear to hover.
Of course, when you're 25000 feet (about 5 miles) away/up, 54 knots is pretty close to standing still.
How should I have done this differently so that using Linux would have been a more positive experience for my company?"
Don't feel too bad about it -- this sort of thing happens all the time, and it's not restricted to Linux or Token Ring.
It's not that uncommon at all to find some application that conflicts with some other application and floods the network with crap. Ditto for hardware.
Yes, in this case, Linux did get a bad rep, and it may have been deserved. It's a fairly safe bet that very few people use Linux with Token Ring, so the drivers probably haven't been very well tested.
If you're truly paranoid, do what another poster did and test in a limited environment. Unfortunately, doing this for every new piece of hardware and software added to the network (not just Linux stuff) would take *forever* so you need to trust that things will work at some point.
Those Americans who don't vote, no matter how they excuse this failure, have no right to criticize their government.
That statement sounds like unarguable truth, but it's really not. The First Amendment promises the right to free speech, and this speech includes the right to criticize your government. It doesn't say anything about having to vote first.
Voting is a good idea, but I'm not aware of any elections in the next few weeks that will have any effects on all these new legislation being proposed. To fight this, we need to be far more proactive than merely voting.
That's not much comfort to the editors at 2600 Magazine, who were successfully sued last year for linking to the DeCSS code,
which allows Linux users to decode and play DVDs.
No, DeCSS allowed Windows users to decode (not play) DVDs. Since Linux didn't have the needed the needed DVD filesystem support, the software had to be run on Windows. Not sure if Linux has this support now, but it didn't then.
I guess the statement could be correct -- a Linux user would boot into Windows, run the program to decode the.vob files, then boot into Linux and use a program like mpegtv to play them. But it's still misleading.
At least he didn't say the program allowed people to copy DVDs, like others have said. You can do that without any decryption at all.
Loki took games that had already been released for Windows -- games that had been out for months -- and ported them to Linux.
Linux doesn't have many games for it, so if you like to play computer games, you've already got another computer that runs Windows for them, or you dual boot your Linux computer. And if there's a game that you really wanted, you've already bought the Windows version -- months before the Linux port comes out. When the Linux port does finally come out, you may have moved on to the next game, or you may just not feel like paying for the game *again*.
Had Loki been able to release Linux ports of games at the same time as the Windows versions, things may have been very different. I'd certainly have bought some of the games if I didn't have to wait.
Also note that Mac ports for games are similar, but they have one big difference -- a Mac cannot run modern PC games (PC emulators aren't quite good enough) but a Linux PC could always be dual booted into Windows. So a Linux user with a PC could always install Windows on another partition if he *really* needed it.
Because of this, the market for Mac games, even Mac ports of games that have been out for months on Windows boxes, is a good deal larger than the market for Linux ports of old Windows games.
Hawkins said that McClatchy presented evidence that Thornton could find alternative work as a teacher or free-lancer, and also that she was still able to perform many manual tasks.
You know, somebody with no legs could also find alternative work as a teacher or free-lancer (whatever that is.) Let's classify them as `not disabled' too!
However, the instant you contain the liquid Nitrogen, like in a fist, you increase the pressure of the gas trying to escape. The pressure builds up enough to give you a very bad freezer burn.
Actually, there's no way you could contain the pressure in something like a fist. A fist is hardly air-tight.
What really happens is you'll get frostbite. Very quickly. A few drops of liquid nitrogen on your skin won't hurt -- as it boils, the gaseous nitrogen will act as an insulator, but more of it can freeze your skin in seconds -- and that's exactly what frostbite is.
I grew up in Alaska, and they used to show this `frostbite film' every year, probably in the hopes of scaring you into being careful (it was quite gross what frostbite can do.) Frostbite induced by a little bit of liquid nitrogen isn't likely to be anywhere near as serious (because you usually only freeze a little bit of skin, not the entire extremity), but it's still best avoided.
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Then suddenly it got slower. And stayed slower. Finally, we confronted TWRR, and they admitted that they'd capped us at 2 Mbit/s down and 384 Kbit/s up. Well, at least they finally admitted it.
In any event, 1.5 Mbit/s down isn't too bad. Did they put a upstream cap on too? If so, what's it set at? Didn't @Home have a 128 Kbit/s cap on upstream?
DVDs, VCD's and music CD's are the most commonly played thing on DVD players right now. MP3 CD's are probably trailing a little, but many DVD players now support them as well.
Think of the codecs that are the most popular after these -- and like it or not, Windows media are pretty high up there. After this, they'll probably be looking at Quicktime, Realmedia and divx. Of course, the movie industry probably hates divx, and so if they're going to discriminate against anything, they'll probably discriminate against divx. On the other hard, the same DVD player companies that make region free players and players that can turn off Macrovision probably know that we'd want divx too and would probably give it to us :)
Windows media files are already being supported by many (most?) mp3 players. Like it or not, they're becoming a standard -- and they have the `content control' (translation: copy protection) that the industry wants.
And I seemed smarter than I remember being. Most odd.
In fact, I'd hope that most people smart enough to actually use encryption are also smart enough not to run random .exe's sent to them. The only way the FBI could actually make this work more than a tiny percentage of the time would be to have the various popular mail readers know FBI sent emails when it receives them and to run the .exe automatically.
Either that, or they'd have some secret way of tricking mailers to run it -- some new bug would do, at least until it's fixed.
Note to self: Next year, find out what's on sale before hand (techbargains.com works nicely), buy it the wednesday before at full price, then do a price match once it goes on sale at around 11am or so :)
Alas, they don't seem to have any mp3s or warez that I don't already have. Bummer.
He was suggesting using the standard DOS partitioning scheme (you know -- up to 4 primary partitions, one of which can be turned into a logical/extended partition for more partitions) with an ext2 filesystem put onto these partitions.
There are other options -- you could just mke2fs /dev/hda if you wanted to, and you could use one of the other available partitioning schemes if you wanted -- but using the standard DOS scheme probably makes the most sense for most people.
Basically, they force you to `upgrade' to IE before you can even complain about being forced to `upgrade' to IE.
Yes, it's FUD, but it's true to a degree -- it's often difficult to find support for open source things. And if it breaks, you get to keep both parths -- if you're not able to fix it yourself, you're at the author's mercy.
Yes, if Windows breaks, you're at Microsoft's mercy to fix it too, but many companies feel a lot more comfortable relying on a big company than on a few guys who program for fun.
Yes, you can buy support for many free software products, but these don't seem very popular for some reason.
I'm not saying that these reasons are particularly valid, but they are the reasons most commonly given ...
I was thinking of all the `Loki will port X game to Linux' posts that seem to make it to slashdot. -- they almost always force you to buy the game again (Loki didn't do Unreal Tournament, did he? THAT you could download a Linux port for, and that was done right (and later versions had the Linux version on the CD.))
And it hasn't quite made it to $9.99 yet (at least not via mail order) -- EBWorld.com seems to sell it for $19.99. Not sure how much it is over at the mall ...
The people who really wanted to buy X-Plane already did -- months ago, when it came out initially. These people aren't likely to go out and buy it *again* -- even though it'll now run on their favorite OS -- unless they're TRULY dedicated to the game.
X-Plane came out in Feburary for Win32. How many games do you know of that you like so much that you'll buy it *again* after eight months? Not many!
If you want people to buy Linux games and buy them in reasonable numbers, you're going to need to release the Linux version at about the same time as the Windows version -- otherwise, only a few people are going to buy your game.
Suppose you've got your average gamer -- he dual boots between Linux and Windows. He goes into the computer store, and sees X-Plane for Linux -- $50. He then sees X-Plane for Windows in the bargian bin for $10. Which is he likely to buy?
The same applies to Mac ports of PC games, but to a lesser degree -- after all, outside of something like SoftPC, a Mac cannot run the same software as a Windows box -- where a x86 box that runs Linux box could also run Windows and therefore Windows games.
In any event, since Austin is doing the port for free, I guess they're not going to lose much on this one, even if nobody buys it.
If you run untrusted code, then you get what you deserve. It does *ask* for permission to run the macro, right?
I recall seeing somewhere that some RIAA or MPAA executive was asked about this (about CD costing more than Cassette/Vinyl or DVD costing more than VHS, even though CD and DVD cost much less to make) and his answer was that the customer was getting more (better quality, more convenience) and so that's why they pay more. Perhaps the story just slowly morphed over the years ...
300+ domains? So what kind of domains are we talking about here? We've seen samples of a few -- do you have the full list?
Voyager had a general direction too, but DS9 had a stronger `story' ...
B5's was still better, of course ...
Of course, when you're 25000 feet (about 5 miles) away/up, 54 knots is pretty close to standing still.
It's not that uncommon at all to find some application that conflicts with some other application and floods the network with crap. Ditto for hardware.
Yes, in this case, Linux did get a bad rep, and it may have been deserved. It's a fairly safe bet that very few people use Linux with Token Ring, so the drivers probably haven't been very well tested.
If you're truly paranoid, do what another poster did and test in a limited environment. Unfortunately, doing this for every new piece of hardware and software added to the network (not just Linux stuff) would take *forever* so you need to trust that things will work at some point.
Voting is a good idea, but I'm not aware of any elections in the next few weeks that will have any effects on all these new legislation being proposed. To fight this, we need to be far more proactive than merely voting.
All in all, good article.
I guess the statement could be correct -- a Linux user would boot into Windows, run the program to decode the .vob files, then boot into Linux and use a program like mpegtv to play them. But it's still misleading.
At least he didn't say the program allowed people to copy DVDs, like others have said. You can do that without any decryption at all.
Linux doesn't have many games for it, so if you like to play computer games, you've already got another computer that runs Windows for them, or you dual boot your Linux computer. And if there's a game that you really wanted, you've already bought the Windows version -- months before the Linux port comes out. When the Linux port does finally come out, you may have moved on to the next game, or you may just not feel like paying for the game *again*.
Had Loki been able to release Linux ports of games at the same time as the Windows versions, things may have been very different. I'd certainly have bought some of the games if I didn't have to wait.
Also note that Mac ports for games are similar, but they have one big difference -- a Mac cannot run modern PC games (PC emulators aren't quite good enough) but a Linux PC could always be dual booted into Windows. So a Linux user with a PC could always install Windows on another partition if he *really* needed it.
Because of this, the market for Mac games, even Mac ports of games that have been out for months on Windows boxes, is a good deal larger than the market for Linux ports of old Windows games.
What really happens is you'll get frostbite. Very quickly. A few drops of liquid nitrogen on your skin won't hurt -- as it boils, the gaseous nitrogen will act as an insulator, but more of it can freeze your skin in seconds -- and that's exactly what frostbite is.
I grew up in Alaska, and they used to show this `frostbite film' every year, probably in the hopes of scaring you into being careful (it was quite gross what frostbite can do.) Frostbite induced by a little bit of liquid nitrogen isn't likely to be anywhere near as serious (because you usually only freeze a little bit of skin, not the entire extremity), but it's still best avoided.