You must have: Free disk space: 4.0 GBytes to Install Solaris 9 OS; 5.0 GBytes to Install Java Enterprise System Software Recordable CD-ROM drive: To create CDs using the downloaded zipped files Recordable CDs: Blank 750 recordable or rewriteable CDs, one needed for each CD image downloaded CD labels: Required under license agreement CD writing application: Use cdrecord for Solaris or Easy CD Creator for Windows is recommended Download Manager: Sun Download Manager (Free version) runs on most platforms (see System Requirements for details) Unzip application: WinZip recommended for Microsoft Windows (or use Sun Download Manager's automatic unzip feature)
you also need to "register" on sun's website. so it's as free as the NY times articles online. too bad there isn't a google cache of solaris 9
from the looks of it, the rom looks like the prototype version of the FFII that square was originally going to release but abandoned. which means (i donno but could) that some of the text is in Japanese or doesn't make sense in english.
actually i thought the XP sticker config minimum specs states a 1GHZ Intel or AMD processor.
slowest machine i've gotten it working on was a 500 mhz p3.
i would like to think it's the later however i do feel it would be the first and given the fact that DRM is becoming "popular" wouldn't this not be a blessing but a hinderence of computers to consumers?
although i think it's for the better. get bad code out of public hands. a couple of reasons why i think it's a bad idea
1. force people to upgrade
1.1 forces people to spend money on something they may not need
1.2 forces people to use that windows activation thing 2. security. no more patches for win98. this means that the small group of people with win98 are always going to be vulnerable to internet viruses. Upgrade you say? what if you can't afford it?
i'm sure there are tons more reasons. in fact i'd like to heard more below but these are the two things that worry me because i have very little money and family/friends still using 98.
very true. i guess it goes to another comment that someone else had about writing code in C and it being compilable in C++. while true there are different ways your suppose to write C++ code vs. C code. however it seems a large amount of people use a mix. Or maybe no one is teaching people to program in C++ but in C with C++ constructs.
not really. considering it takes OUR government 10-20 years to recognize technology. i would say this is a rather fast turn around for a body of government set up by bodies of government.
yeah i'd agree with you...you will get modded as flamebait/offtopic. myself included
do you even realize though that the IBM chips that Apple uses are completely different from Pentium processors?
RISC vs. CISC google on it. then repost.
if you want to compare processors speeds you'd be better off comparing Apples to Suns (err hide pun in there somewhere...well maybe not)
if you look at the tech specs a 2ghz apple will outperform a 3ghz pentium. why? because of a couple of reasons
1. RISC vs. CISC. 2. Bus speeds. ever notice how pentium class chips bus speeds don't seem to increasing at the rate of chip speeds? the processor can't do squat if it's waiting for info all the time. 3. instruction speed. this is where AMD shines! as an example (number made up to infer point) an Intel multiple instruction takes 40 clock cycles (so on a 3ghz chip if my math is right you can perform only 75mega multiples) where as on an AMD chip a multiply is 30 clock cycles (which running at 3ghz will give you an additional 25mega multiples)
Intel is for HW what MS is to SW. they don't redesign to improve performance they just leave it there and add extra stuff.
my family feels your pain. about 2 years ago my step-father had a heart attack. my mom got the bills in the mail and she noticed that she was getting charged on her insurance for a doctors visit on a day he wasn't even in the hospital! she promptly called and complained. that did nothing. she even went so far as to search through her records and find the hospital visit dates photo copy them and send them to the insurance copy asking how could he visit when my husband wasn't there? the best part is this doctor then billed her directly. she called and started screaming at the nurse/receptionist and said that if they sent her another bill for the visit she was going to sue for mail fraud.
i got to say i would love to generate my own outfits for my character etc. however i would see a large portion of the people out there creating content to make their character appear nude. i play FFXI and i think they did a great job on the game. no player created content though, and i would say for the right reasons
although i see what your saying what i believe they are "trying" to do is define a set of rules that canadian ISPs have to follow in order to be an ISP. I.E. every open socket's communication must be tracable from start to finish. that's to say that if you live in canada and you use your webbrowser to surf goatse then they will have enough log information to say to the US/canadian gov "Yup John Die at 123 Street did request that page at 1:13 am on JAn 1st 2004"
IANAIA (ISP Admin) but is it possible to open an ISP is the US/canada with tracability? i.e. keep no logs at all? so if the govs were ever to come and ask for logs you would just give them a 0 byte length file names traffic.log? i donno. but i'd pay an extra $20 a month for an ISP that did do that.
IF ANYONE WITH MONEY IS READING THIS! NEW BUSINESS IDEA
Anoynmous ISP: the ISP for those of you that want to keep yourself anonymous.
you read my mind. i was just talking to someone TODAY about this. about how we have ratings for TV, Movies, Video Games, Music, but not books.
why not books? would you seriously want your 7 year old daughter reading a danielle steel novel? how come parents seem to trust the self-parenting of children when it comes to books but not music, TV or video games?
3) Ban the address book, or secure the hell out of it: It's 2003 Microsoft. Viruses have been expliting your address book for over 5 years now. either get rid of it or do something to make other programs impossible to access it.
They wont/cant do this.
the address book is listed as a OLE/COM control. that means that anyone that knows the OLE/COM GUID of the address book can use the address book. Ohh guess what Outlook knows the OLE/COM GUID of the address book. so if yo close off the address book then no application would be able to use it.
the original intention of the address book was for every application that wanted to allow you to email anything (ex. email your chess move to your friend) would simply connect to the address book. allow you to select who to send the chess move to and then contact your email client to send out the email for you. JUST LIKE YOU CLICK ON A MAILTO AND NETSCAPE/MOZILLA OPENS UP YOUR EMAIL CLIENT.
if you are an admin and you truely want to stop address book viri then either...
1. delete the OLE/COM GUID from the registry. look up will fail and their code will either crash or not continue (Depending on how it was written)
2. change the OLE/COM GUID of the address book. this is allowable. that's what COM/DCOM/.NET/distributed computing is all about. finding a service that supports an API and asking it to complete a request for you. by replacing/changing the address book GUID you can replace the address book with a fake one that will always return an empty set.
3. Don't use MS technologies. have you recently heard of someone that was running Opera as a web browser and using Eudora as an email client getting hit by these viri? Yes on a MS machine even not using IE/outlook it is still possible to get this virus however it will require user stupidity rather then MS programmer stupidity.
i simply can't remember of the last virus that was targeted specifically at Linux/MacOSX/BSD. yes said OSes have security holes (admit it no programmer is perfect) but all these virius are targeted at the larger majority... people who are either uniformed/too lazy to change their email/web browser clients.
it's the double edged sword. if you go after them you get sued (see SPAM-rage from a couple of days ago) and they get nothing against them.
do what i do. when someone blindly asks you to "fix" their computer install AV, Ad/spy removal SW, and net nanny. you could even go a bit further and install anti-SPAM SW and a firewall. or if your overly zealous remove the administrator right from that user. Or just add a reg key entry to stop outlook, outlook express, and IE from running and replace accordingly with your favorite SW.
congress isn't gonna do squat but as soon as you do something they'll arrest you. so watch your backside.
considering that you can't get a cell phone these days without GPS technology would you really want the government, or anyone else to locate your wrist within 6ft of it's actual position?
can me a tin foil hat wearing freak but how long until your implanted with a GPS transmitter/receiver upon birth.
"Ok mom and dad, here is your child's birth certificate, SSN, and GPS transmitter number"
Anyone have a hack for a nokia 3589i do completely disable the GPS functionality?
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You must have:
Free disk space: 4.0 GBytes to Install Solaris 9 OS; 5.0 GBytes to Install Java Enterprise System Software
Recordable CD-ROM drive: To create CDs using the downloaded zipped files
Recordable CDs: Blank 750 recordable or rewriteable CDs, one needed for each CD image downloaded
CD labels: Required under license agreement
CD writing application: Use cdrecord for Solaris or Easy CD Creator for Windows is recommended
Download Manager: Sun Download Manager (Free version) runs on most platforms (see System Requirements for details)
Unzip application: WinZip recommended for Microsoft Windows (or use Sun Download Manager's automatic unzip feature)
you also need to "register" on sun's website. so it's as free as the NY times articles online. too bad there isn't a google cache of solaris 9
emacs
i guess you missed the joke then. you know joke. haha
I'm being told that Linux has a very simple preventative built in. Linux comes with the ability to block ALL SYN attacks.
all forms of LINUX too bad they are using UNIX
from the looks of it, the rom looks like the prototype version of the FFII that square was originally going to release but abandoned. which means (i donno but could) that some of the text is in Japanese or doesn't make sense in english.
And I'm installing XI as we speak.
No!!!!!! Don't do it!!!!!! The game kicks ASS and i barely found enough time to finish writ...
actually i thought the XP sticker config minimum specs states a 1GHZ Intel or AMD processor.
slowest machine i've gotten it working on was a 500 mhz p3.
i would like to think it's the later however i do feel it would be the first and given the fact that DRM is becoming "popular" wouldn't this not be a blessing but a hinderence of computers to consumers?
although i think it's for the better. get bad code out of public hands. a couple of reasons why i think it's a bad idea
1. force people to upgrade
1.1 forces people to spend money on something they may not need
1.2 forces people to use that windows activation thing
2. security. no more patches for win98. this means that the small group of people with win98 are always going to be vulnerable to internet viruses. Upgrade you say? what if you can't afford it?
i'm sure there are tons more reasons. in fact i'd like to heard more below but these are the two things that worry me because i have very little money and family/friends still using 98.
very true. i guess it goes to another comment that someone else had about writing code in C and it being compilable in C++. while true there are different ways your suppose to write C++ code vs. C code. however it seems a large amount of people use a mix. Or maybe no one is teaching people to program in C++ but in C with C++ constructs.
not really. considering it takes OUR government 10-20 years to recognize technology. i would say this is a rather fast turn around for a body of government set up by bodies of government.
my question is why he made his own stack object. i could have sworn the STL has a stack object included.
i like how the money of the ultra rich is controlled by the competence of the ultra poor techie doing the work.
ohh wait what was i thinking.
umm wasn't there a commercial for like splinter cell or something game like that one taht promoted this?
thxs. i appreciate it.
" 2) you should be modded down, but not because of your opinion, just the general lack of accuracy in your post."
i agree with you. i do a lot more SW then HW so yes you are completely correct. i should be modded down. in fact i even said so in my post.
if you have more technical expertise then me. i am glad to learn. can you post some links though so we can all gain from your expertise?
yeah i'd agree with you...you will get modded as flamebait/offtopic. myself included
do you even realize though that the IBM chips that Apple uses are completely different from Pentium processors?
RISC vs. CISC google on it. then repost.
if you want to compare processors speeds you'd be better off comparing Apples to Suns (err hide pun in there somewhere...well maybe not)
if you look at the tech specs a 2ghz apple will outperform a 3ghz pentium. why? because of a couple of reasons
1. RISC vs. CISC.
2. Bus speeds. ever notice how pentium class chips bus speeds don't seem to increasing at the rate of chip speeds? the processor can't do squat if it's waiting for info all the time.
3. instruction speed. this is where AMD shines! as an example (number made up to infer point) an Intel multiple instruction takes 40 clock cycles (so on a 3ghz chip if my math is right you can perform only 75mega multiples) where as on an AMD chip a multiply is 30 clock cycles (which running at 3ghz will give you an additional 25mega multiples)
Intel is for HW what MS is to SW. they don't redesign to improve performance they just leave it there and add extra stuff.
Please mod me down now thank you
what exactly about this is an assumption
that the news is only for nerds?
or that it is stuff that matters?
my family feels your pain. about 2 years ago my step-father had a heart attack. my mom got the bills in the mail and she noticed that she was getting charged on her insurance for a doctors visit on a day he wasn't even in the hospital! she promptly called and complained. that did nothing. she even went so far as to search through her records and find the hospital visit dates photo copy them and send them to the insurance copy asking how could he visit when my husband wasn't there? the best part is this doctor then billed her directly. she called and started screaming at the nurse/receptionist and said that if they sent her another bill for the visit she was going to sue for mail fraud.
i got to say i would love to generate my own outfits for my character etc. however i would see a large portion of the people out there creating content to make their character appear nude. i play FFXI and i think they did a great job on the game. no player created content though, and i would say for the right reasons
although i see what your saying what i believe they are "trying" to do is define a set of rules that canadian ISPs have to follow in order to be an ISP. I.E. every open socket's communication must be tracable from start to finish. that's to say that if you live in canada and you use your webbrowser to surf goatse then they will have enough log information to say to the US/canadian gov "Yup John Die at 123 Street did request that page at 1:13 am on JAn 1st 2004"
IANAIA (ISP Admin) but is it possible to open an ISP is the US/canada with tracability? i.e. keep no logs at all? so if the govs were ever to come and ask for logs you would just give them a 0 byte length file names traffic.log? i donno. but i'd pay an extra $20 a month for an ISP that did do that.
IF ANYONE WITH MONEY IS READING THIS! NEW BUSINESS IDEA
Anoynmous ISP: the ISP for those of you that want to keep yourself anonymous.
you read my mind. i was just talking to someone TODAY about this. about how we have ratings for TV, Movies, Video Games, Music, but not books.
why not books?
would you seriously want your 7 year old daughter reading a danielle steel novel?
how come parents seem to trust the self-parenting of children when it comes to books but not music, TV or video games?
3) Ban the address book, or secure the hell out of it: It's 2003 Microsoft. Viruses have been expliting your address book for over 5 years now. either get rid of it or do something to make other programs impossible to access it.
They wont/cant do this.
the address book is listed as a OLE/COM control. that means that anyone that knows the OLE/COM GUID of the address book can use the address book. Ohh guess what Outlook knows the OLE/COM GUID of the address book. so if yo close off the address book then no application would be able to use it.
the original intention of the address book was for every application that wanted to allow you to email anything (ex. email your chess move to your friend) would simply connect to the address book. allow you to select who to send the chess move to and then contact your email client to send out the email for you. JUST LIKE YOU CLICK ON A MAILTO AND NETSCAPE/MOZILLA OPENS UP YOUR EMAIL CLIENT.
if you are an admin and you truely want to stop address book viri then either...
1. delete the OLE/COM GUID from the registry. look up will fail and their code will either crash or not continue (Depending on how it was written)
2. change the OLE/COM GUID of the address book. this is allowable. that's what COM/DCOM/.NET/distributed computing is all about. finding a service that supports an API and asking it to complete a request for you. by replacing/changing the address book GUID you can replace the address book with a fake one that will always return an empty set.
3. Don't use MS technologies. have you recently heard of someone that was running Opera as a web browser and using Eudora as an email client getting hit by these viri? Yes on a MS machine even not using IE/outlook it is still possible to get this virus however it will require user stupidity rather then MS programmer stupidity.
i simply can't remember of the last virus that was targeted specifically at Linux/MacOSX/BSD. yes said OSes have security holes (admit it no programmer is perfect) but all these virius are targeted at the larger majority... people who are either uniformed/too lazy to change their email/web browser clients.
i believe the expression is QED.
yes it is a bad idea.
it's the double edged sword. if you go after them you get sued (see SPAM-rage from a couple of days ago) and they get nothing against them.
do what i do. when someone blindly asks you to "fix" their computer install AV, Ad/spy removal SW, and net nanny. you could even go a bit further and install anti-SPAM SW and a firewall. or if your overly zealous remove the administrator right from that user. Or just add a reg key entry to stop outlook, outlook express, and IE from running and replace accordingly with your favorite SW.
congress isn't gonna do squat but as soon as you do something they'll arrest you. so watch your backside.
considering that you can't get a cell phone these days without GPS technology would you really want the government, or anyone else to locate your wrist within 6ft of it's actual position?
can me a tin foil hat wearing freak but how long until your implanted with a GPS transmitter/receiver upon birth.
"Ok mom and dad, here is your child's birth certificate, SSN, and GPS transmitter number"
Anyone have a hack for a nokia 3589i do completely disable the GPS functionality?
you mean there is 4G? if 3G was marketed as the best thing since sliced bread what will 4G be marketed as?