Or how about selecting a region on your drive? Windows enforces firmware limitations on regionalizing DVD drives, meaning it sets one initially (usually by coutry it is sold in), and you can only change it five times (ever... the hardware, not software, tracks it). Just go to Device Manager, then select properties for your DVD drive. The DVD region tab will tell you everything you need to know. PowerDVD should work fine at this point. The real issue with PowerDVD on Linux is it is not available for gentoo, LFS, mandrake, etc... and I refuse to abandon my gentoo goodness for any commercial software.
if it would take 37 months to print 1TB of data on one printer, and he generates 1TB of data a month, all he needs are 37 printers, and infinite paper to go with his infinite toner;)
I run distcc on my three gentoo boxen at home, the slowest being a 75 MHz cyrix... the more the merrier, but as long as you can tap one good computer, it is worth it. Also, bandwidth is a consideration, but you can still connect to one or two remote machines over DSL or cable (I haven't tried more than two remote machines). So, if you can hoodwink your friends into helping you compile, it should be manageable.
wow... your cable must be awesome, or your school's network must suck... we get sustained transfer rates (up and down)of about 10-15Mbps on a bad day, hitting twice that on a good day.
I work for the University of Hawaii's ITS department. Our network security is ensured by studying traffic at every switch on campus. Each switch (and router) is capable of detecting suspicious activity ranging from high traffic and port scanning to traffic on common virus and filesharing ports. Any questionable activity is forwarded to our networking center, where further analysis can determine the exact nature of the threat, even down to the name of the file you are transferring through bittorrent, for example. The main server then decides whether or not to block the machine, which it can do by MAC, IP, and even netbios name. The blocked users must then have an ITS staff member clean their system before they are re-enabled. As a whole, I think our system is far less intrusive, more effective, and harder to defeat than the system your college is proposing.
I can't help but notice how many people have mentioned that NTFS write support is not marked experimental anymore, yet nobody has said if they can _really_ use NTFS from Linux. Has anyone been able to create files or directories? How about changing the file size, or deleting files? If you have, we need to talk... I would like to know how to get that level of functionality for myself and others.
You want a reason to use something other than FAT32 or NTFS on Windows? Here goes... I have a laptop that dual boots Windows XP and Linux 2.6.5. I have limited space (one 80GB hard drive, and no, I don't have the room or money to add a second one). I need as much of that storage space available as possible for both operating systems. Currently my only solution for that is to use FAT32 on my large partition, as NTFS support in Linux is _essentially_ read-only. This, however, leaves me with the issue of only having files up to 3.99GB. This would be okay with me, except my job requires me to emulate a wide variety of operating systems, and I often run out of space in my disk images because of that restriction. If delus10n0, or any other flamers, can suggest other alternatives, please do tell.
Frankly, I hope to see the day that people do go to jail for speeding. It's a good deal more dangerous than recording a movie... Keep in mind that I'm not talking about one or two mph over the limit, but since when does 35 mph mean 45 or 50 mph? In the past ten years, I've seen tolerated speeds go from 5 mph over the limit to 15 mph over. At this rate, our residential streets will become 60 mph zones in twenty years. Would you want your kids living on a freeway? I know I wouldn't...
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did I miss something? Gentoo PPC has autoconf...
Or how about selecting a region on your drive? Windows enforces firmware limitations on regionalizing DVD drives, meaning it sets one initially (usually by coutry it is sold in), and you can only change it five times (ever... the hardware, not software, tracks it). Just go to Device Manager, then select properties for your DVD drive. The DVD region tab will tell you everything you need to know. PowerDVD should work fine at this point. The real issue with PowerDVD on Linux is it is not available for gentoo, LFS, mandrake, etc... and I refuse to abandon my gentoo goodness for any commercial software.
an amateur with a 1DmkII? I envy him/her...
if it would take 37 months to print 1TB of data on one printer, and he generates 1TB of data a month, all he needs are 37 printers, and infinite paper to go with his infinite toner ;)
I run distcc on my three gentoo boxen at home, the slowest being a 75 MHz cyrix... the more the merrier, but as long as you can tap one good computer, it is worth it. Also, bandwidth is a consideration, but you can still connect to one or two remote machines over DSL or cable (I haven't tried more than two remote machines). So, if you can hoodwink your friends into helping you compile, it should be manageable.
wow... your cable must be awesome, or your school's network must suck... we get sustained transfer rates (up and down)of about 10-15Mbps on a bad day, hitting twice that on a good day.
I work for the University of Hawaii's ITS department. Our network security is ensured by studying traffic at every switch on campus. Each switch (and router) is capable of detecting suspicious activity ranging from high traffic and port scanning to traffic on common virus and filesharing ports. Any questionable activity is forwarded to our networking center, where further analysis can determine the exact nature of the threat, even down to the name of the file you are transferring through bittorrent, for example. The main server then decides whether or not to block the machine, which it can do by MAC, IP, and even netbios name. The blocked users must then have an ITS staff member clean their system before they are re-enabled. As a whole, I think our system is far less intrusive, more effective, and harder to defeat than the system your college is proposing.
three browsers if you count Mozilla...
Agreed. Caps Lock is useful in games when you need a locking (as in toggling) key, but numlock is too far away from the standard wasd configuration.
I can't help but notice how many people have mentioned that NTFS write support is not marked experimental anymore, yet nobody has said if they can _really_ use NTFS from Linux. Has anyone been able to create files or directories? How about changing the file size, or deleting files? If you have, we need to talk... I would like to know how to get that level of functionality for myself and others.
You want a reason to use something other than FAT32 or NTFS on Windows? Here goes...
I have a laptop that dual boots Windows XP and Linux 2.6.5. I have limited space (one 80GB hard drive, and no, I don't have the room or money to add a second one). I need as much of that storage space available as possible for both operating systems. Currently my only solution for that is to use FAT32 on my large partition, as NTFS support in Linux is _essentially_ read-only. This, however, leaves me with the issue of only having files up to 3.99GB. This would be okay with me, except my job requires me to emulate a wide variety of operating systems, and I often run out of space in my disk images because of that restriction. If delus10n0, or any other flamers, can suggest other alternatives, please do tell.
Frankly, I hope to see the day that people do go to jail for speeding. It's a good deal more dangerous than recording a movie... Keep in mind that I'm not talking about one or two mph over the limit, but since when does 35 mph mean 45 or 50 mph? In the past ten years, I've seen tolerated speeds go from 5 mph over the limit to 15 mph over. At this rate, our residential streets will become 60 mph zones in twenty years. Would you want your kids living on a freeway? I know I wouldn't...