Surely if they're forking out $100,000 in prize money, they can afford to bring along a rack to put their switches in, rather than leaving them lying around on the floor ready for someone to step on?
I buy all my games. I work as a software developer for a small company, and I know how much piracy hurts us. However, I do crack games on occasion when I want to play them on a LAN with my friends.
Generally, I'll install the game on their machine, crack it, play some multiplayer and remove it when we're finished.
There used to be several games back in the day, that came with 2 cds in the box, and one of the cds would allow you to start a LAN game only. (I'm thinking Total Annhialation, but there were more.) As most games come on more than one CD these days, it would be great if we were allowed to do this.
Really? With physical access to the hardware I don't see how having any flavour of NT installed would make much difference. If you can press reset or unplug and replug the power cable, (you'll need to be able to do this anyway if you're running Windows;) you can get back to the BIOS. You'd need to have a BIOS password on each machine to prevent boot-from-cd. Nothing to do with NT domain security.
Many moons ago, I found a bug in Exchange Server 5.5. It was a fairly minor bug, in that it was easy to avoid, but it *did* crash Exchange Server if it was encountered. (It was to do with newsgroup names longer than 256 characters... Probably meant there was an exploit in there though, with a badly crafted newsgroup list...)
Anyway, after spending weeks on the phone to MS Tech Support, getting treated like an idiot and gradually getting escalated, someone finally came and admitted that it was a bug.
They then asked "are you sure you need us to fix it? We're all very busy working on the next version of Exchange right now, and it *is* quite a minor bug."
I have a ghosts n' goblins machine at home. It's impossible. I set the difficulty to zero (I think it goes up to three) and put it on max (8 or so) lives, and I effectively had infinite continues.
I played it for about five hours solid and got to the last level, but just couldn't kill the boss at the end. The last level was particularly annoying, as it didn't have a point halfway through that you could restart at if you got killed. You had to play the level from the start each time.
Eventually I had to stop playing, because my hands hurt too much. I still play it from time to time, but I've never re-attempted that marathon. It's just too much like hard work. Apparently you have to play the game through twice to complete it, too.
The guy who sold me the machine told me that he'd give me my money back if I could show him a photograph of the final screen.
Yep. Lilo -R configname makes it reboot into 'configname' on the next reboot only. - I do this every time I upgrade the kernel on a remote machine.
I *also* set up a cron job to reboot the machine every 20 minutes or so, so if something happens like it comes up without networking, it'll reboot back into the old kernel in 20 min. If it comes up, I can kill the cron job and remove the entry for the old kernel.
Saved my life more than once. Particularly on those pesky cheap co-lo boxes where you have to pay someone to reboot it for you.
Apparently, a lot of F1 drivers (particularly the new, younger ones who can't drive so much due to modern testing limitations) use games to learn the tracks and get a feel for what they're supposed to do. Some commentators have even said this negatively effects their driving style because they rely too much on visual cues, rather than the 'feel' of the racecar.
I for one though, have noticed the benefit of playing games to improve my driving. When getting in karts for the first time when I was about 19, I noticed I was clearly a lot faster than everyone else I went with, - even people who'd been before. (Bar one guy who'd spent a little while doing it in amateur competition, so had driven a _lot_) - I put this down to the considerable length of time I'd put in on games such as Geoff Crammond's F1GP in it's various incarnations.
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Surely if they're forking out $100,000 in prize money, they can afford to bring along a rack to put their switches in, rather than leaving them lying around on the floor ready for someone to step on?
*sigh*
And don't forget: ferarri = fiat
I buy all my games. I work as a software developer for a small company, and I know how much piracy hurts us. However, I do crack games on occasion when I want to play them on a LAN with my friends.
Generally, I'll install the game on their machine, crack it, play some multiplayer and remove it when we're finished.
There used to be several games back in the day, that came with 2 cds in the box, and one of the cds would allow you to start a LAN game only. (I'm thinking Total Annhialation, but there were more.) As most games come on more than one CD these days, it would be great if we were allowed to do this.
Really? With physical access to the hardware I don't see how having any flavour of NT installed would make much difference. If you can press reset or unplug and replug the power cable, (you'll need to be able to do this anyway if you're running Windows ;) you can get back to the BIOS. You'd need to have a BIOS password on each machine to prevent boot-from-cd. Nothing to do with NT domain security.
Many moons ago, I found a bug in Exchange Server 5.5. It was a fairly minor bug, in that it was easy to avoid, but it *did* crash Exchange Server if it was encountered. (It was to do with newsgroup names longer than 256 characters... Probably meant there was an exploit in there though, with a badly crafted newsgroup list...)
Anyway, after spending weeks on the phone to MS Tech Support, getting treated like an idiot and gradually getting escalated, someone finally came and admitted that it was a bug.
They then asked "are you sure you need us to fix it? We're all very busy working on the next version of Exchange right now, and it *is* quite a minor bug."
Sheesh!
I have a ghosts n' goblins machine at home. It's impossible. I set the difficulty to zero (I think it goes up to three) and put it on max (8 or so) lives, and I effectively had infinite continues.
I played it for about five hours solid and got to the last level, but just couldn't kill the boss at the end. The last level was particularly annoying, as it didn't have a point halfway through that you could restart at if you got killed. You had to play the level from the start each time.
Eventually I had to stop playing, because my hands hurt too much. I still play it from time to time, but I've never re-attempted that marathon. It's just too much like hard work. Apparently you have to play the game through twice to complete it, too.
The guy who sold me the machine told me that he'd give me my money back if I could show him a photograph of the final screen.
Yep. Lilo -R configname makes it reboot into 'configname' on the next reboot only. - I do this every time I upgrade the kernel on a remote machine.
I *also* set up a cron job to reboot the machine every 20 minutes or so, so if something happens like it comes up without networking, it'll reboot back into the old kernel in 20 min. If it comes up, I can kill the cron job and remove the entry for the old kernel.
Saved my life more than once. Particularly on those pesky cheap co-lo boxes where you have to pay someone to reboot it for you.
Apparently, a lot of F1 drivers (particularly the new, younger ones who can't drive so much due to modern testing limitations) use games to learn the tracks and get a feel for what they're supposed to do. Some commentators have even said this negatively effects their driving style because they rely too much on visual cues, rather than the 'feel' of the racecar.
I for one though, have noticed the benefit of playing games to improve my driving. When getting in karts for the first time when I was about 19, I noticed I was clearly a lot faster than everyone else I went with, - even people who'd been before. (Bar one guy who'd spent a little while doing it in amateur competition, so had driven a _lot_) - I put this down to the considerable length of time I'd put in on games such as Geoff Crammond's F1GP in it's various incarnations.
... abandon the registry and have a nice, flat configuration file for each service and program.