I almost didnt read this article since i imagined it was going to be some lame psone with a screen + battery stuck together with duct tape, but DAMN! thats the nicest looking mod I've even seen. very professional looking, although with such short battery life, not particularly useful. I guess with a 12v adaptor it would be nice for long car trips
I look upon speeding similarly. 72mph on the motorway is SPEEDING. Under ANY circumstances. Until the law ALLOWS 72mph, 72mph is SPEEDING.
THERE IS NO GREY AREA HERE PEOPLE.
In Australia speedometers are only guaranteed to be accurate to within +/- 10%, so if your were flashed doing 109km/h in a 100km/h zone you can appeal the fine. while you may still get the fine for 109, most of the time the cops are sensible enough not to bother with 3 or 4 km/h over the limit. pretty decent grey area if you ask me, I'd be suprised if your speedometer is calliberated any differently.
How do you know that it's a "good" Worm how does your firewall or AV software?
it shouldnt matter in the slightest, your firewall should be blocking the "white knight" and your AV attacking it. the concept is to secure computers, not leave them open to friendly viruses. if the "white knight" cant infect then the virus its counteracting cant either
2. How is one to know if the "White Knight" is actually what it claims to be? Better still, a "White Knight" closing a vulnerability, but opening a backdoor?
i didnt RTFA so maybe im wrong about this, but I would think a "white knight" wouldnt claim to be a "white knight", it would just infect you, do its job and move on. if it opens a backdoor then its obviously not a "white night", but a plain old virus.
For others, who have mission critical application or other extensions on the target OS, such "White Knights" may send a shiver down the spine:
its their own fault for not securing the flaw, be it through patches, firewalling or what ever other method would help. If the "white knight" can exploit a vunerability then so can a real virus, and i know which id rather have forced upon me
I think the problem is that for most people to consider a hack cool, it has to be more than making something do something new; It must also be useful. This, simply put, is not.
If you have, say, 3000 pictures, that's only 15 CD-Rs.
No, its more like 45 CD-Rs, not a big difference in cost but a PITA and lot of time burning off all those cds. with cd failure rates as bad as they are you ARE going to lose photos if you dont burn off multiple copies of EVERY disc. I trust my hard drive more than flakey CD-Rs
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If you don't like cli you could always use another Linux distro or Knoppix LiveCD to install Gentoo...
I'll vouch for that. I've done a Gentoo install from knoppix and its was beautiful, little konsole window there bootstrapping my new Gentoo system while I was browsing the web and playing frozen bubble in a knoppix desktop
you think people click the links to READ information? NO! of course not! its a Legitimate way that the OSDN can DDoS sites they dont like; SCO, RIAA, MS, etc. in this case there was a secret dispute between timothy and mod asylum, so he gave them a right good slashdotting
wtf are you talking about? gnome is beautifully integrated with gnome apps. oh... i think I get it, you 'tried' gnome, but wanted to use all your KDE apps instead of the nicely integrated gtk equivilants.
I have to disagree with this. I'm running Gnome2.6 on a PII 350Mhz (the 384MB of ram doesnt hurt performance any;P its the one Doom3 requirement I meet) and it runs at least as nice as qt apps, if not better. windows feels quite sluggish on this same hardware, but i dont know if thats what you were refering to by "wind32".
I've also come from a fluxbox background, installed gnome2.6 last week to see why this "spatial navigation" thing was causing so much fuss. I'm also damn impressed. everything integrates so beautifully and its really a pleasure to use. on the topic of spatial naviagation, I cant say im a fan... it just brings back memories of windows95. never a good thing.
having never used one I cant really argue, but wouldn't you get a sore thumb quite quickly? I cant imagine playing with a trackball for many hours before developing some severe RSI
However, while playing games like Socom on the PS2 and Halo and sports games on the Xbox, I've noticed a trend of squeaky adolescent voices in voice chat, or at least more than I've heard in the average Counter-Strike server.
while I've never played online console games I refuse to believe this claim. you cant get more squeaky adolescent voices on any game than on an average counter-strike server without letting spectators use voicechat too. you just cant get any more than 100%
yeah, he's wrong. apart from the fact that IE5 for windows doesnt even resemble IE6 for windows. lets not go into the differences between platforms. Products by the name IE exist on multiple platforms. IE is not multiplatform. there is a difference
well look then, im telling you firefox on linux has it edit -> prefernces, which is different to the windows one. this isnt an "As far as I know...", it an "I use both in my daily usage and know for a fact..."
edit -> preferences is where the options are on linux. tools -> options on windows. NFI why they chose to have inconsistant menu layout between operating systems
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I almost didnt read this article since i imagined it was going to be some lame psone with a screen + battery stuck together with duct tape, but DAMN! thats the nicest looking mod I've even seen. very professional looking, although with such short battery life, not particularly useful. I guess with a 12v adaptor it would be nice for long car trips
wow, that sure is a lot of empty space you got there!
I look upon speeding similarly. 72mph on the motorway is SPEEDING. Under ANY circumstances. Until the law ALLOWS 72mph, 72mph is SPEEDING. THERE IS NO GREY AREA HERE PEOPLE.
In Australia speedometers are only guaranteed to be accurate to within +/- 10%, so if your were flashed doing 109km/h in a 100km/h zone you can appeal the fine. while you may still get the fine for 109, most of the time the cops are sensible enough not to bother with 3 or 4 km/h over the limit. pretty decent grey area if you ask me, I'd be suprised if your speedometer is calliberated any differently.
Wow! and look at all the redundancy! oh wait! there isnt any! lets solve dvd rot with hdd failures, great plan!
who modded this tripe informative?
I'm utterly certain of that. It's taken *two years* for something as simple as this article on MIRV to get whipped into proper shape.
If you knew something was wrong with it two years ago, why didnt you fix it?
How do you know that it's a "good" Worm how does your firewall or AV software?
it shouldnt matter in the slightest, your firewall should be blocking the "white knight" and your AV attacking it. the concept is to secure computers, not leave them open to friendly viruses. if the "white knight" cant infect then the virus its counteracting cant either
2. How is one to know if the "White Knight" is actually what it claims to be? Better still, a "White Knight" closing a vulnerability, but opening a backdoor?
i didnt RTFA so maybe im wrong about this, but I would think a "white knight" wouldnt claim to be a "white knight", it would just infect you, do its job and move on. if it opens a backdoor then its obviously not a "white night", but a plain old virus.
For others, who have mission critical application or other extensions on the target OS, such "White Knights" may send a shiver down the spine:
its their own fault for not securing the flaw, be it through patches, firewalling or what ever other method would help. If the "white knight" can exploit a vunerability then so can a real virus, and i know which id rather have forced upon me
I think the problem is that for most people to consider a hack cool, it has to be more than making something do something new; It must also be useful. This, simply put, is not.
while big numbers are nice, they arent much use unless your using a RAID of RAIDS (I wonder if thats even possible)
If you have, say, 3000 pictures, that's only 15 CD-Rs.
No, its more like 45 CD-Rs, not a big difference in cost but a PITA and lot of time burning off all those cds. with cd failure rates as bad as they are you ARE going to lose photos if you dont burn off multiple copies of EVERY disc. I trust my hard drive more than flakey CD-Rs
If you don't like cli you could always use another Linux distro or Knoppix LiveCD to install Gentoo...
I'll vouch for that. I've done a Gentoo install from knoppix and its was beautiful, little konsole window there bootstrapping my new Gentoo system while I was browsing the web and playing frozen bubble in a knoppix desktop
He called new players who sucked "nubs."
hahah... n00b journalist
When you have a bad feeling after reading the news, that usualy means the news was not good.
no, it just means your tinfoil hat is on crooked
heh.. on closer inspection, it appears you have a slashdot ID one third the size of mine, so maybe you're just slow :P
Obligatory "you must be new here"
you think people click the links to READ information? NO! of course not! its a Legitimate way that the OSDN can DDoS sites they dont like; SCO, RIAA, MS, etc. in this case there was a secret dispute between timothy and mod asylum, so he gave them a right good slashdotting
note: this post may not be entirely factual
-not so well integrated
wtf are you talking about? gnome is beautifully integrated with gnome apps. oh... i think I get it, you 'tried' gnome, but wanted to use all your KDE apps instead of the nicely integrated gtk equivilants.
I have to disagree with this. I'm running Gnome2.6 on a PII 350Mhz (the 384MB of ram doesnt hurt performance any ;P its the one Doom3 requirement I meet) and it runs at least as nice as qt apps, if not better. windows feels quite sluggish on this same hardware, but i dont know if thats what you were refering to by "wind32".
I've also come from a fluxbox background, installed gnome2.6 last week to see why this "spatial navigation" thing was causing so much fuss. I'm also damn impressed. everything integrates so beautifully and its really a pleasure to use. on the topic of spatial naviagation, I cant say im a fan... it just brings back memories of windows95. never a good thing.
having never used one I cant really argue, but wouldn't you get a sore thumb quite quickly? I cant imagine playing with a trackball for many hours before developing some severe RSI
However, while playing games like Socom on the PS2 and Halo and sports games on the Xbox, I've noticed a trend of squeaky adolescent voices in voice chat, or at least more than I've heard in the average Counter-Strike server.
while I've never played online console games I refuse to believe this claim. you cant get more squeaky adolescent voices on any game than on an average counter-strike server without letting spectators use voicechat too. you just cant get any more than 100%
yeah, he's wrong. apart from the fact that IE5 for windows doesnt even resemble IE6 for windows. lets not go into the differences between platforms. Products by the name IE exist on multiple platforms. IE is not multiplatform. there is a difference
As far as I know...
well look then, im telling you firefox on linux has it edit -> prefernces, which is different to the windows one. this isnt an "As far as I know...", it an "I use both in my daily usage and know for a fact..."
need to copy the url and paste it into a new window. i guess they dont like external referals
edit -> preferences is where the options are on linux. tools -> options on windows. NFI why they chose to have inconsistant menu layout between operating systems