Just buy second computer and kvm switch. Then run windows on one, and linux on the other. Surf, email, firewall/proxy and what ever you want with linux, and use the windows for office and gaming etc. Switching from system to another takes second or two. Your windows stays clean since you're surfing with linux and have it as firewall too.
Yes, it's another $400 and there's expense of power for running two computers, but linux works nicely on older hardware too. Once you buy good computer for your second desktop, you should be able to run it for several years. If you need to upgrade, you probably can use some of the parts left over from upgrading the gaming machine.
Wanna save $50-100 and skip buying the kvm switch? Just use vnc over network then, or remote desktop. It'll suck for gaming, perfectly good for office though.
This way, you get the best of the both worlds, without too much hassle.
s/linux/bsd/ if that's your flavour, same principle applies
> The tag is embedded in paperwork and "chip readers note the entry or exit of visitors who pass by and transmit that information to a government-maintained database.
What's preventing people from storing their tickets and passports at locked storage boxes at airport?
That way they have complete freedom to roam around the country without being followed, the database doesn't even show them ever leaving the airport if the reader is at the front exit.
Or is there some limiting law that visitor must have his/her visa with him/her all times when moving outdoors that I missed?
bonding is better way to go with multilink
atleast if the operator on both of the links is same
you'll end up with one ip and both links in use, or you can configure the other to be failover
see/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/bonding.tx t
for more information
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> I've always wondered why warez groups don't pick up on this as a way to get first-run movies. The hospitality window is about two months after a movie hits theaters
I think you answered yourself there, good warez groups tend to release stuff before it even gets to theatres, not two months after.
Your firewire-capture method would create telesync rip, there's risk of going out of sync and possible glitches in video or sound caused by disturbances in other rooms nearby(old electric razors, hairdryers etc).
For early releases, scene groups use high-quality telecine machines to capture the source from cinema reels, creating better quality telecine rips.
They also use the original 5.1 soundtrack, so the sound is what you'd hear in theatres.
I ran something similar on uniproc 1,6gig sempron with 512 memory.
The server had ~300 active users at peak hours and processed something like 50-100 queries/second.(daily average)
The server load never exceeded 30% and performance was snappy enough.
My advice, don't throw away thousands of dollars if you can get away with less to start with.
Try running the forum and database on lower end machine first, and if you want, you can try stress-testing it with load generators to see wether it performs well enough.
If it can't handle the load, upgrade.
Assembly today is shit. Just another lan party for kids today, it was cool back in 99 and before when it was real demoscene event.
Now it's just overcommercial and focused on langames, some even complain why they make everyone turn off their monitors and stop playing because of the compos on main screen.
Sadly socially responsible =! financially profitable.
Explains why rich shareholders push operations towards China.
And lets not forget, once China gets their human rights issues resolved, there's tons of profit to be made.
It is after all the largest market area in the world, and currently growing at fastest pace compared to the rest of the world.
Could someone tell me where outside USA (and Canada?) there are frat houses?
We have something similar here in Finland, but most of them are hosted inside school properity, not really houses, and officially it's not permitted to serve alcohol there. Atleast in keg-amounts.
Why bother with hour system if we're changing the calendar/time in first place?
It would make much more sense to use more accurate measuring system like one that bases on half-life of isotopes.
Of course it would be rather inconvenient to say it's 12*10^6 past last decay of u-358, but it could be commonplace already to our great grandchildren.
TA mentions audio features so I guess you could use skype to get the phone features working. Sure, the coverage area wouldn't be anything near gsm, but the device wasn't ment to replace phones to begin with.
I've replaced the cord in my sennheisers twice now, and earpads once. the replaceable accessories have now cost almost as much as the headphones alone when I bought them.
Though the headphones have lasted for over 10 years now, I decided no more part replacing for those.
Perhaps it's time to move to cordless ones when the new parts fail.
That'll be 3 years from now, if the current wear-rate continues.
Things that kept me going wireless before was bad battery life and bad wireless units that caused noise in the reception. I think they have those flaws covered by now.
How fast was "quite speedy"?
How was the latency over that link?
And what kind of limits did they put to the bandwidth use?
I'd guess they are limiting it somehow, because it's shared radio link.
I'm interested because one major company won bidding on permission to build flash-OFDM network here in Finland to old, now obsolete 450MHz frequency band. They're planning to have the preliminary network up and running at september 2006 and the entire country covered at 2009.
yes, the government in Sweden is sponsoring the building of broadband network. I don't recall the exact figures, but I think their goal is to make 2Mbit/s or better available to every corner of the country in next few years.
Well, pretty much every country except USA charges for local calls,
might be one of the reasons why AOL & dialup is still so popular there.
On side note, about 10 years ago, the ISP's here(europe) charged $60/month for dialup, then add the local call charge, and if that's not bad enough, you had limited hour-usage on the dialup connection. I don't remember how many hours it was per month, but it was really expensive if you actually used the entire hour limit. (something like $800-1000 in phone bill)
I'd have to guess that the reason for that was expensive routing when going across atlantic or something.
Once the pipes to abroad were switched to fiber, those charges dissappeared and broadband started emerging slowly.
The 25Mbit I now get for $40/month isn't so bad when considering what I had to pay for internet 10 years ago.
Though if I lived in a larger city, I'd probably have 100Mbit for that same price.
It's common for dial-up connections to have local charges, so you have to pay-per-minute to access the service.
For some users, it's still cheaper to use the dialup every now and then to check email, but if the online-time goes
beyond certain level, it just becomes financially more reasonable to get broadband than to use dialup.
Nice idea, but you're ~2 years late.
Modern spam zombies use p2p network to send messages back and forth, they aren't controlled from centralized irc servers anymore.
The article discusses decoding the control messages sent between the bots in their own network, and how to take control of them, and possibly shutting them down.
> This is one huge ass scam type deal, yet totally legal and ingenius.
So all economy is scam to you?
> Even if someone goes "No thanks, I'd like to sell you the land back, can I have my money please" they still get the intrest in the long turn and make a profit.
How is that any different from selling or buying physical properity?
You always take a small risk when purchasing properity.
Take manhattan as example. I'm pretty sure the relatives of natives who originally sold the land with glass beads would be able to buy it back for the same price.(yea, urban legend I know..)
But the point is, values fluctuate and if you buy 100 acres of sahara desert, for 5 million dollars, you'd probably have hard time selling it forward with that same price, or with profit.
But what if you discover oil from that area?
I'd say you'd make nice profit by selling the land to some large company, who's more than eager to refine and distribute the oil.
That's the same risk the people on SL are taking when buying digital acres.
They might come up with something oil-like in digital world which would make nice profit for them.
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Just buy second computer and kvm switch.
Then run windows on one, and linux on the other.
Surf, email, firewall/proxy and what ever you want with linux, and use the windows for office and gaming etc.
Switching from system to another takes second or two.
Your windows stays clean since you're surfing with linux and have it as firewall too.
Yes, it's another $400 and there's expense of power for running two computers, but linux works nicely on older hardware too.
Once you buy good computer for your second desktop, you should be able to run it for several years.
If you need to upgrade, you probably can use some of the parts left over from upgrading the gaming machine.
Wanna save $50-100 and skip buying the kvm switch?
Just use vnc over network then, or remote desktop. It'll suck for gaming, perfectly good for office though.
This way, you get the best of the both worlds, without too much hassle.
s/linux/bsd/ if that's your flavour, same principle applies
I just tried the game and it looks pretty amazing considering the lo-fi approach.
Most games overdo stuff with graphics when they could focus on content.
Now all we need is some cows, logs, perhaps some water, dual player, 2x tac2 and rear view of a mockup car with lotus logo.
> The tag is embedded in paperwork and "chip readers note the entry or exit of visitors who pass by and transmit that information to a government-maintained database.
What's preventing people from storing their tickets and passports at locked storage boxes at airport?
That way they have complete freedom to roam around the country without being followed, the database doesn't even show them ever leaving the airport if the reader is at the front exit.
Or is there some limiting law that visitor must have his/her visa with him/her all times when moving outdoors that I missed?
bonding is better way to go with multilink
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/bonding.tx t
for more information
atleast if the operator on both of the links is same
you'll end up with one ip and both links in use, or you can configure the other to be failover
see
> I've always wondered why warez groups don't pick up on this as a way to get first-run movies. The hospitality window is about two months after a movie hits theaters
I think you answered yourself there, good warez groups tend to release stuff before it even gets to theatres, not two months after.
Your firewire-capture method would create telesync rip, there's risk of going out of sync and possible glitches in video or sound caused by disturbances in other rooms nearby(old electric razors, hairdryers etc).
For early releases, scene groups use high-quality telecine machines to capture the source from cinema reels, creating better quality telecine rips.
They also use the original 5.1 soundtrack, so the sound is what you'd hear in theatres.
I ran something similar on uniproc 1,6gig sempron with 512 memory.
The server had ~300 active users at peak hours and processed something like 50-100 queries/second.(daily average)
The server load never exceeded 30% and performance was snappy enough.
My advice, don't throw away thousands of dollars if you can get away with less to start with.
Try running the forum and database on lower end machine first, and if you want, you can try stress-testing it with load generators to see wether it performs well enough.
If it can't handle the load, upgrade.
Assembly today is shit. Just another lan party for kids today, it was cool back in 99 and before when it was real demoscene event.
Now it's just overcommercial and focused on langames, some even complain why they make everyone turn off their monitors and stop playing because of the compos on main screen.
Sadly socially responsible =! financially profitable.
Explains why rich shareholders push operations towards China.
And lets not forget, once China gets their human rights issues resolved, there's tons of profit to be made.
It is after all the largest market area in the world, and currently growing at fastest pace compared to the rest of the world.
if it does 80x24, it's enough for me, everything beyond that is just bonus
> Frat houses all over the world
Could someone tell me where outside USA (and Canada?) there are frat houses?
We have something similar here in Finland, but most of them are hosted inside school properity, not really houses, and officially it's not permitted to serve alcohol there. Atleast in keg-amounts.
As a finn, I'd jump to the chance to move to Norway as soon as possible, this EU nonsense is starting to resemble too much USA.
and apparently I'm coming up with new isotopes too.. that was intended to say u-238, rather than 358..
oh well, need more coffee
Why bother with hour system if we're changing the calendar/time in first place?
It would make much more sense to use more accurate measuring system like one that bases on half-life of isotopes.
Of course it would be rather inconvenient to say it's 12*10^6 past last decay of u-358, but it could be commonplace already to our great grandchildren.
> IPSEC Services
Yes, lets turn off the firewall.
Brilliant.
If you have no clue what I'm talking about, I suggest reading this.
TA mentions audio features so I guess you could use skype to get the phone features working. Sure, the coverage area wouldn't be anything near gsm, but the device wasn't ment to replace phones to begin with.
I've replaced the cord in my sennheisers twice now, and earpads once. the replaceable accessories have now cost almost as much as the headphones alone when I bought them. Though the headphones have lasted for over 10 years now, I decided no more part replacing for those.
Perhaps it's time to move to cordless ones when the new parts fail.
That'll be 3 years from now, if the current wear-rate continues.
Things that kept me going wireless before was bad battery life and bad wireless units that caused noise in the reception. I think they have those flaws covered by now.
How fast was "quite speedy"?
How was the latency over that link?
And what kind of limits did they put to the bandwidth use?
I'd guess they are limiting it somehow, because it's shared radio link.
I'm interested because one major company won bidding on permission to build flash-OFDM network here in Finland to old, now obsolete 450MHz frequency band. They're planning to have the preliminary network up and running at september 2006 and the entire country covered at 2009.
>"... Instead, our brain is cascading through shades of grey."
.. and if you do enough LSD you'll have more colors
>I guess some brains just have more contrast then others...
> Is it subsidized by the government in any way?
yes, the government in Sweden is sponsoring the building of broadband network.
I don't recall the exact figures, but I think their goal is to make 2Mbit/s or better available to every corner of the country in next few years.
here's coral cache of mirrordot, seems to be much faster than the original site or mirrordot
2 81d7bde2185d2d7a523fdf2cf/index.html
http://mirrordot.org.nyud.net:8090/stories/522c43
Well, pretty much every country except USA charges for local calls,
might be one of the reasons why AOL & dialup is still so popular there.
On side note, about 10 years ago, the ISP's here(europe) charged $60/month for dialup, then add the local call charge, and if that's not bad enough,
you had limited hour-usage on the dialup connection. I don't remember how many hours it was per month, but it was really expensive
if you actually used the entire hour limit. (something like $800-1000 in phone bill)
I'd have to guess that the reason for that was expensive routing when going across atlantic or something.
Once the pipes to abroad were switched to fiber, those charges dissappeared and broadband started emerging slowly.
The 25Mbit I now get for $40/month isn't so bad when considering what I had to pay for internet 10 years ago.
Though if I lived in a larger city, I'd probably have 100Mbit for that same price.
It's common for dial-up connections to have local charges, so you have to pay-per-minute to access the service.
For some users, it's still cheaper to use the dialup every now and then to check email, but if the online-time goes
beyond certain level, it just becomes financially more reasonable to get broadband than to use dialup.
Nice idea, but you're ~2 years late.
Modern spam zombies use p2p network to send messages back and forth, they aren't controlled from centralized irc servers anymore.
The article discusses decoding the control messages sent between the bots in their own network, and how to take control of them, and possibly shutting them down.
Oh come on.. give the man some credit..
He's geek, so naturally he cloned himself instead adopting.
> This is one huge ass scam type deal, yet totally legal and ingenius.
So all economy is scam to you?
> Even if someone goes "No thanks, I'd like to sell you the land back, can I have my money please" they still get the intrest in the long turn and make a profit.
How is that any different from selling or buying physical properity?
You always take a small risk when purchasing properity.
Take manhattan as example. I'm pretty sure the relatives of natives who originally sold the land with glass beads would be able to buy it back for the same price.(yea, urban legend I know..)
But the point is, values fluctuate and if you buy 100 acres of sahara desert, for 5 million dollars, you'd probably have hard time selling it forward with that same price, or with profit.
But what if you discover oil from that area?
I'd say you'd make nice profit by selling the land to some large company, who's more than eager to refine and distribute the oil.
That's the same risk the people on SL are taking when buying digital acres.
They might come up with something oil-like in digital world which would make nice profit for them.