Although it's against policy, you'll still find a lot of, *ahem*, back-up games on Ebay.
I bought a Dreamcast a while back, and the guy threw in a sampler pack that had come with it originally. Upon lifting the CD out, it turns out he had forgotten about his lovely CD-R with Ready to Rumble 2 on it.
The moral of the story here being, make sure you're buying from a trusted source if you want legit games. And more often than not, you do, or you'll risk being arrested one of these days, yourself.
Instead of starting up all of these projects that are well known to fall into neverland or trickle like rain in the desert, it would be great if more people wouldn't, and instead get behind a single project in order to keep it alive.
Forks or fresh code that parallel each other idea-wise only go so far (generally), but patches and branched development can live forever.;)
Takes about four seconds to open for me, under Linux, with.2 gigs less than you. And we're high end, believe it or not. God forbid you have an old Pentium box around and you're looking for a mail client.
No extensions/themes, at all. I'll admit I haven't re-created my profile since.6, but really. And people look at me as though I'm a freak when I tell them I like text-only clients.
I certainly hope you don't just slap on the freshest updates, patches, or OSes on yours. I know that I certainly do not on mine, nor know any sane admin who will.
Would I install a kernel from 1999? 'Course not-- however, I would apply a patched version based on the said code. Is this not, in reality, what 2000 + SP5 would have been?
It's oft compared to buying cars. I want something that I know will work five years from now, so what do I do? I buy a car from five years ago brand new, that's been sitting around on some lot. Sure, it will probably require a bit of maintenance as it's aged a bit already, but it's already proven itself reliable (based on experience of others, obviously). I don't need the latest and greatest, I need something I can depend on.:)
If you're happy with 2003, good for you, though. I can happily admit I don't play the Windows Server game, but to each his own.
Oh, and the different between MS and RedHat? Microsoft actually codes the silly thing; RH only packages it, along with some customized utilities. I expect some support from the creator of a package, not the distributor. But that might just be me.
From my understanding, SSL is only client -> server. Server <-> server is still unencrypted, pretty much rendering SSL worthless in the first place. 'Less you only use a single server "network", I suppose.
I agree 100%. Actually, the question describes me perfectly -- and still does.
If it's creating a problem, remove it or keep them from it. If access is removed, they'll simply find some other route to get to it. If you keep them away from it, through some clever method you'll have to think of, they might realize what whatever they're doing is a lot more fun than "LOL"'ing with their friends online.
Personally, I've taken up baking. Keeps me away from the desire, and fills me with yummy cookies, cakes, etc.
If all else fails, buy them a console and PSO. Not that it will make them any more social, but it's a lot more fun.;)
If I'm reading this correctly, this is a server-side addition that more or less bills you for downloading music through "normal" P2P networks -- normal as in ones with their software running.
And this is supposed to work, uhh, how, exactly?
Oh, and let me guess. You downloaded a bad rip and want a better one? Better pay up. Again.
They go after the index sites, more often than not.
Trackers come a dime a dozen, but without the resources for most users to track the trackers via pretty user-submitted (or automated) listings, all the trackers in the world are useless.
I should know. Got a cease and desist for parsing an indexer's data and then publically displaying it, myself. Much as I would have loved to tell them to shove it, being financially ruined by their high priced lawyers didn't sit well with me; it was quickly removed.
In a somehow related note, I often wonder just how their automated systems work -- or rather, don't. For example, a lot of torrent trackers display publically a list of connected IPs. Do their systems pull these, check the netblock for contact info, and mail the ISPs?
The reason for asking is simple. If they do this, how can they prove you were involved in anything, other than being connected to the tracker? Using this logic, how do they prove the file is infringing material to begin with?
Not to condone or belittle the "crime", but really. Something has to be done to keep the little guys (us) safe from these greedy corporations who would just as well ruin us, than have us buy their next CD/DVD release.
One of my favorites was Phantasy Star Online. Can't say if this occurs in the newer versions, but in v2 at least the filter takes out the phrase "hoes", regardless of context.
Fun for when you're talking about your latest pair of s@#$%-- err, sh0es..;)
Always wondered if the filter was also in effect for international players, but alas, swearing in kanji isn't my strong point. Never did get a chance to test it.
Honestly, though. Companies are taking IP far too seriously these days. Calm down, get over it. If anything, it shows whatever you're doing is working, because it's popular! Don't trash it by being a jerk.
XMMS suffers from identity crisis, just like all other WinAMP 2.x clones. It gets boring, quickly. Free form skinning was WinAMP's attempt to curve this in 3.x and 5.x, but so far XMMS really, really lacks here.
The point being, so matter how you skin it up, it looks the same. It's a great little music player, and like WinAMP, needs to move forward, instead of just remaining a silly looking box forever.
Syncing does you absolutely no good unless you're planning on updating afterwords. I would suggest not having it in your cron. The maintainers will thank you for saving their bandwidth.:)
Moreso because they utilize JavaScript, than because you're using Mozilla. A disclaimer designed for people using older Netscape versions and the like, I assume.
1. Remove tin foil hat (I know, I know-- but do it quickly). 2. Unfold hat design and reshape into mask. 3. Cover face with new tin foil mask. 4. Privacy!!!!
<them> HEY YOU @$$WAD U CUT MY OF// <you> uhh, no, your light was red. mine was green. look up from your cell phone time to time and you'd see that, too. <them> STFU n00b im gonna kik ur a$$ so hard u momma gona kry
You can just picture it now, right? Especially among teens who just got their licenses.
Do we really want this?
Wait, do you really want people typing while driving in the first place? *shudder*
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Although it's against policy, you'll still find a lot of, *ahem*, back-up games on Ebay.
I bought a Dreamcast a while back, and the guy threw in a sampler pack that had come with it originally. Upon lifting the CD out, it turns out he had forgotten about his lovely CD-R with Ready to Rumble 2 on it.
The moral of the story here being, make sure you're buying from a trusted source if you want legit games. And more often than not, you do, or you'll risk being arrested one of these days, yourself.
Alternatively..
;)
Instead of starting up all of these projects that are well known to fall into neverland or trickle like rain in the desert, it would be great if more people wouldn't, and instead get behind a single project in order to keep it alive.
Forks or fresh code that parallel each other idea-wise only go so far (generally), but patches and branched development can live forever.
Takes about four seconds to open for me, under Linux, with .2 gigs less than you. And we're high end, believe it or not. God forbid you have an old Pentium box around and you're looking for a mail client.
.6, but really. And people look at me as though I'm a freak when I tell them I like text-only clients.
No extensions/themes, at all. I'll admit I haven't re-created my profile since
Ack. I didn't even realize journals got archived as well. Thanks for pointing it out. :)
Doesn't look much different from the many, many, many RedHat installations I've done in the past.
Come back with screen shots when you have something to actually show off -- like a pretty FB-based GUI.
There'd be no ... for the PSX, at least.
:)
They would have been made for some other console instead. Companies need to make money by making games for something, right?
One of my favorites was the Megaman Legends (Rockman Dash) series, though.
Bring in XP box, drop CD in drive, let scripts run, automated.
:)
I couldn't help but laugh at that, but not with the meaning you intended.
In Korea, only old people make that joke. ;o)
We're talking servers here, right?
:)
I certainly hope you don't just slap on the freshest updates, patches, or OSes on yours. I know that I certainly do not on mine, nor know any sane admin who will.
Would I install a kernel from 1999? 'Course not-- however, I would apply a patched version based on the said code. Is this not, in reality, what 2000 + SP5 would have been?
It's oft compared to buying cars. I want something that I know will work five years from now, so what do I do? I buy a car from five years ago brand new, that's been sitting around on some lot. Sure, it will probably require a bit of maintenance as it's aged a bit already, but it's already proven itself reliable (based on experience of others, obviously). I don't need the latest and greatest, I need something I can depend on.
If you're happy with 2003, good for you, though. I can happily admit I don't play the Windows Server game, but to each his own.
Oh, and the different between MS and RedHat? Microsoft actually codes the silly thing; RH only packages it, along with some customized utilities. I expect some support from the creator of a package, not the distributor. But that might just be me.
From my understanding, SSL is only client -> server. Server <-> server is still unencrypted, pretty much rendering SSL worthless in the first place. 'Less you only use a single server "network", I suppose.
Then again, I could be wrong . . . again.
I agree 100%. Actually, the question describes me perfectly -- and still does.
;)
If it's creating a problem, remove it or keep them from it. If access is removed, they'll simply find some other route to get to it. If you keep them away from it, through some clever method you'll have to think of, they might realize what whatever they're doing is a lot more fun than "LOL"'ing with their friends online.
Personally, I've taken up baking. Keeps me away from the desire, and fills me with yummy cookies, cakes, etc.
If all else fails, buy them a console and PSO. Not that it will make them any more social, but it's a lot more fun.
Good luck~
If I'm reading this correctly, this is a server-side addition that more or less bills you for downloading music through "normal" P2P networks -- normal as in ones with their software running.
And this is supposed to work, uhh, how, exactly?
Oh, and let me guess. You downloaded a bad rip and want a better one? Better pay up. Again.
In short: Nothing to see here. Move along....
They go after the index sites, more often than not.
Trackers come a dime a dozen, but without the resources for most users to track the trackers via pretty user-submitted (or automated) listings, all the trackers in the world are useless.
I should know. Got a cease and desist for parsing an indexer's data and then publically displaying it, myself. Much as I would have loved to tell them to shove it, being financially ruined by their high priced lawyers didn't sit well with me; it was quickly removed.
In a somehow related note, I often wonder just how their automated systems work -- or rather, don't. For example, a lot of torrent trackers display publically a list of connected IPs. Do their systems pull these, check the netblock for contact info, and mail the ISPs?
The reason for asking is simple. If they do this, how can they prove you were involved in anything, other than being connected to the tracker? Using this logic, how do they prove the file is infringing material to begin with?
Not to condone or belittle the "crime", but really. Something has to be done to keep the little guys (us) safe from these greedy corporations who would just as well ruin us, than have us buy their next CD/DVD release.
Improvements? Try brand name.
You know how PHBs are, don't you?
"SuWhaat?! No, we're not putting that on our servers. We're better than that; no up-start, no-name company products for us. We'll use, uhh, Novell!"
And there you go. That's, more or less, it.
One of my favorites was Phantasy Star Online. Can't say if this occurs in the newer versions, but in v2 at least the filter takes out the phrase "hoes", regardless of context.
;)
Fun for when you're talking about your latest pair of s@#$%-- err, sh0es..
Always wondered if the filter was also in effect for international players, but alas, swearing in kanji isn't my strong point. Never did get a chance to test it.
You're violating our IP rights.
Thanks,
You friends from Marvel
Honestly, though. Companies are taking IP far too seriously these days. Calm down, get over it. If anything, it shows whatever you're doing is working, because it's popular! Don't trash it by being a jerk.
Kind of like Netscape?
Yeah. Google will float on top until someone better comes along, or Marketing brings it down.
XMMS suffers from identity crisis, just like all other WinAMP 2.x clones. It gets boring, quickly. Free form skinning was WinAMP's attempt to curve this in 3.x and 5.x, but so far XMMS really, really lacks here.
...or is it just me?
The point being, so matter how you skin it up, it looks the same. It's a great little music player, and like WinAMP, needs to move forward, instead of just remaining a silly looking box forever.
http://www.foobar2000.org/ ;)
..Why?
:)
Syncing does you absolutely no good unless you're planning on updating afterwords. I would suggest not having it in your cron. The maintainers will thank you for saving their bandwidth.
So now we're using /. as a means for recuiting developers for OS projects?
In that case, might I suggest Mozilla?
*sigh*
Moreso because they utilize JavaScript, than because you're using Mozilla. A disclaimer designed for people using older Netscape versions and the like, I assume.
I apologize in advance.
1. Remove tin foil hat (I know, I know-- but do it quickly).
2. Unfold hat design and reshape into mask.
3. Cover face with new tin foil mask.
4. Privacy!!!!
Virtual road rage, and in-car spam? No thanks.
I can see it now..
<them> HEY YOU @$$WAD U CUT MY OF//
<you> uhh, no, your light was red. mine was green. look up from your cell phone time to time and you'd see that, too.
<them> STFU n00b im gonna kik ur a$$ so hard u momma gona kry
You can just picture it now, right? Especially among teens who just got their licenses.
Do we really want this?
Wait, do you really want people typing while driving in the first place? *shudder*
No, this is a feature.
r ain-station-quickly" mode when you camera is enabled. ;)
Also known as the "get-all-those-jerks-off-the-phone-while-at-the-t