The system itself could read CD-ROMs and GD-ROMs (Sega's special high-density format) perfectly. GD-ROMs had two tracks, a normal low-density track readable by normal CD-ROMs (PCs, etc) and a high-density Dreamcast-only track. The low-density track often had wallpapers and screensavers one could grab from them on a PC.
A Dreamcast disk requires a bit of special burning (two tracks, the first with at least 4 seconds of data, and other requirements) but the whole disk is accessible.
The reason CD reading was allowed was so that third parties could create unoffical products such as Action Replay, or so artists could have their music CDs have Dreamcast extras (a few CDs in Asia I believe actually did this, but I haven't heard of one in the west). Sega didn't expect the GD-ROM format to be read, but a way was found to read the GD-ROMs (by ripping them from the Dreamcast connected to a PC). The games were then cracked to work on a CD-ROM, and piracy followed. Homebrew developers then created thier own code.
This is another reason I got my iRiver iHP-120 over an iPod. I live in Louisiana, and without commercials, no one here knows what the hell the thing is anyway.
The system admins usually don't know what they're doing, and the system gets broken into--it has nothing to do with the system itself. The admins should know how to configure the system - instead of leaving the defaults on. The defaults for other systems are most probably simply safer than the defaults in Linux.
Is this legal? I don't understand how user submitted reviews would get this site knocked offline. How is this any different from someone posting bad stuff about a teacher on a LiveJournal (or other blogging site) blog?
It seems like other distributions have been following in the way of Knoppix... I tried MandrakeMove but Knoppix really blows it away. Can't wait to see what Gentoo's catalyst bootCD maker turns out like...:)
MozillaFirebird is in the development process. I use MozillaFirebird as my default browser... but it isn't stable. It's at version 0.7. It isn't suitable for a stable desktop distro such as Xandros.
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The system itself could read CD-ROMs and GD-ROMs (Sega's special high-density format) perfectly. GD-ROMs had two tracks, a normal low-density track readable by normal CD-ROMs (PCs, etc) and a high-density Dreamcast-only track. The low-density track often had wallpapers and screensavers one could grab from them on a PC.
A Dreamcast disk requires a bit of special burning (two tracks, the first with at least 4 seconds of data, and other requirements) but the whole disk is accessible.
The reason CD reading was allowed was so that third parties could create unoffical products such as Action Replay, or so artists could have their music CDs have Dreamcast extras (a few CDs in Asia I believe actually did this, but I haven't heard of one in the west). Sega didn't expect the GD-ROM format to be read, but a way was found to read the GD-ROMs (by ripping them from the Dreamcast connected to a PC). The games were then cracked to work on a CD-ROM, and piracy followed. Homebrew developers then created thier own code.
...a beowulf cluster of brains!
Oh, he did, he did.
A man and his server are one.
This is another reason I got my iRiver iHP-120 over an iPod. I live in Louisiana, and without commercials, no one here knows what the hell the thing is anyway.
The system admins usually don't know what they're doing, and the system gets broken into--it has nothing to do with the system itself. The admins should know how to configure the system - instead of leaving the defaults on. The defaults for other systems are most probably simply safer than the defaults in Linux.
Is this legal? I don't understand how user submitted reviews would get this site knocked offline. How is this any different from someone posting bad stuff about a teacher on a LiveJournal (or other blogging site) blog?
It seems like other distributions have been following in the way of Knoppix... I tried MandrakeMove but Knoppix really blows it away. Can't wait to see what Gentoo's catalyst bootCD maker turns out like... :)
MozillaFirebird is in the development process. I use MozillaFirebird as my default browser... but it isn't stable. It's at version 0.7. It isn't suitable for a stable desktop distro such as Xandros.
I feel the same way. I'm just going to continue thinking The Matrix was the only movie.