...the cheat I could have really used in school was a wallhack into the teacher's lounge.
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You nailed it on the head. The Macs I had to use were always locked down, outdated, slow, crash-prone, and badly managed. Because of that, I never really figured out how to use the old MacOS until I set up Basilisk II (a 68k Mac emulator) for myself out of curiosity. That was enough to give it the "gay" label. By the way, do they actually use recent models or old beige Macs from the early 90s?
Plus, it had the same reputation for gaming back in the early 90s as it does now. The response was always, "Oh yeah? Well we have Marathon and Spectre VR on Mac!" I showed Doom to one of my distant relatives for the first time as a kid, who was a Mac user (could still be), and was completely amazed by it.
Of course, PCs were about 4 years ahead of game consoles in 1994 in terms of graphics capabilities. This is considering Doom came out Dec 1993 and Star Fox was out around 1995. Fun game when I finally got around to playing it on emulator, but I was laughing at the graphics in the commercials for it since I had seen Doom first.
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It used to be true that most schools used Macs, but that was in the early 90s. Slightly offtopic, but I think because kids were forced to use these in schools whereas they used PCs everywhere else contributes to some people labeling it as the "gay" computer.
Anyway, Apple used to give discounts to public schools that purchased their computers (10% off I think in California where I went to school) and that's how they broke through. I don't recall many peoply liking those machines and could see that schools were slowly going back to PCs.
In elementary school, we mostly had Apple//e computers (early 90s - underfunded school) and a couple 68k Macs. In Junior High, 68k Macs and then got brand new lower end PPC Macs a year later (1996). Then in high school, we had leftover PPC Macs for the Jornalism people, 486s for the typing classes, and the CAD/CGI class had 486s for 3D Studio for DOS, and Pentium 166 through P2-400 for 3D Studio MAX in Windows.
You simply install the nvidia driver (without the GUI running), edit 1 line in the X config file, and restart X. Actually, this is all clearly spelled out in the readme at nvidia.com.
That would be the normal way of installing the drivers. However, I think the grandparent was talking about incorrect monitor timings. Either that, or NVIDIA's lack of support for 4kstacks linux kernels when FC2 had just come out. When I tried out FC2, I ended up grabbing an 8kstacks version of the kernel off of some dude-I've-never-heard-of-before's website and it worked finally. It never really sits with me easily that I had to download a fix to a potentially widespread problem (due to the combined popularity of NVIDIA and Red Hat) off of some sloppy web page.
Funny you should mention that. At times, I feel I need a manual just to figure out how to read man pages. Some are ok, but for example, man rpm, is a nightmare.
Parker and Stone have made jokes about the government, and not surprisingly, have done a Windows joke in the South Park movie. General: "Fucking Windows 98! Get Bill Gates in here!" (Gates is escorted in) General: "You told us Windows 98 was supposed to be faster!" Bill Gates: "Well, it is faster - over 5 times-" *BANG*
The article's headline may be a little misleading, as it looks like Microsoft isn't directly patenting "sudo", but rather the concept of "a process configured to run under an administrative privilege level." Microsoft patenting "runas" may be a better description.
In other news, an electronically enhanced volleyball within the vicinity of the Cook Islands was claimed to have been pwn3d. When asked for comment, the response we got was "Wiiillsooooon! Wiiilllsooooon! What are we going to do now, Wilson?!"
They only have fifteen electrodes implanted, but it's a start...
Looks like it's nice and high-res so far. Just remember, when you're walking down the street and pick up a square-thingy, just remember how to get the freakin' duck away from you!
I can confirm the use of biodiesel in the midwest. I was actually stationed at an Air Force Base in Oklahoma, and all the diesel fuel pumps on-base for government vehicles were biodiesel. Although, I'm sure the 2 1/2 ton trucks and HMMVs that we ran on it weren't exactly the poster vehicles for energy conservation.
Even if there was a huge breakthrough in fuel-cell technology that was ready for use right now, it still would not have a huge impact, at least initially. Let's assume this story, however probable, wasn't overhyped; People still have to be weaned off of their current vehicles, which are mostly large and gas-powered. In the U.S., that could take decades.
Reminds me of that part in the Simpsons where Lisa (newly crowned Lil' Miss Springfield) is addressing a college football stadium:
Lisa: "College football diverts funds badly needed by education and the arts!" Nerd in bleacher: "Is that true?" Other nerd: "Let's get 'em!" (Nerds start charging after the football players in the field) Nerds: "Reeeee! ereeeee! reeeeee! reeeee!"
I don't have any greater respect for companies like Enron who cooked their books to inflate stock prices, but one can begin to get an insight as to the motivation to do it in the first place. Even more is the shame that companies get punished for not providing short-term gains, which are worth little in the real world in terms of product/service output.
I bet you know what sucks about most Intel motherboards circa 2001? RDRAM. Yeah, my computer's OEM from Gateway and it cost $130 or so retail to get 256 MB more when DDR cost probably $50 or so less. I was thinking pretty conservative when I got extra RAM. The upgrade cycle has gotten so slow that I may still not have to upgrade this computer for another year or so.
Hot on the heels of the 500W power supply review, I've received a tip that we should be expecting an upcoming review of the latest cutting-edge shoebox from Pro Wings.
A lot of the noise levels are measured inches from the case. I saw some noise level measurements a while back for a Shuttle case in the context of tweaking fan speeds for certain temperatures, and some of the levels were 60+ dB. I have no idea how this relates to human hearing at all, but was just something to note.
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Holy crap, how much of a geek does that make me for not thinking of that one first instead of the teacher's lounge?
...the cheat I could have really used in school was a wallhack into the teacher's lounge.
You nailed it on the head. The Macs I had to use were always locked down, outdated, slow, crash-prone, and badly managed. Because of that, I never really figured out how to use the old MacOS until I set up Basilisk II (a 68k Mac emulator) for myself out of curiosity. That was enough to give it the "gay" label. By the way, do they actually use recent models or old beige Macs from the early 90s?
Plus, it had the same reputation for gaming back in the early 90s as it does now. The response was always, "Oh yeah? Well we have Marathon and Spectre VR on Mac!" I showed Doom to one of my distant relatives for the first time as a kid, who was a Mac user (could still be), and was completely amazed by it.
Of course, PCs were about 4 years ahead of game consoles in 1994 in terms of graphics capabilities. This is considering Doom came out Dec 1993 and Star Fox was out around 1995. Fun game when I finally got around to playing it on emulator, but I was laughing at the graphics in the commercials for it since I had seen Doom first.
It used to be true that most schools used Macs, but that was in the early 90s. Slightly offtopic, but I think because kids were forced to use these in schools whereas they used PCs everywhere else contributes to some people labeling it as the "gay" computer.
//e computers (early 90s - underfunded school) and a couple 68k Macs. In Junior High, 68k Macs and then got brand new lower end PPC Macs a year later (1996). Then in high school, we had leftover PPC Macs for the Jornalism people, 486s for the typing classes, and the CAD/CGI class had 486s for 3D Studio for DOS, and Pentium 166 through P2-400 for 3D Studio MAX in Windows.
Anyway, Apple used to give discounts to public schools that purchased their computers (10% off I think in California where I went to school) and that's how they broke through. I don't recall many peoply liking those machines and could see that schools were slowly going back to PCs.
In elementary school, we mostly had Apple
Very few Macs left when I graduated.
You simply install the nvidia driver (without the GUI running), edit 1 line in the X config file, and restart X. Actually, this is all clearly spelled out in the readme at nvidia.com.
That would be the normal way of installing the drivers. However, I think the grandparent was talking about incorrect monitor timings. Either that, or NVIDIA's lack of support for 4kstacks linux kernels when FC2 had just come out. When I tried out FC2, I ended up grabbing an 8kstacks version of the kernel off of some dude-I've-never-heard-of-before's website and it worked finally. It never really sits with me easily that I had to download a fix to a potentially widespread problem (due to the combined popularity of NVIDIA and Red Hat) off of some sloppy web page.
Funny you should mention that. At times, I feel I need a manual just to figure out how to read man pages. Some are ok, but for example, man rpm, is a nightmare.
Parker and Stone have made jokes about the government, and not surprisingly, have done a Windows joke in the South Park movie.
General: "Fucking Windows 98! Get Bill Gates in here!"
(Gates is escorted in)
General: "You told us Windows 98 was supposed to be faster!"
Bill Gates: "Well, it is faster - over 5 times-" *BANG*
Oh great, the two biggest nightmares that exist in the Slashdot crowd are about to combine: Clippy and ActiveX.
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
For those who do not understand the article at all, here is a visual aid to help you understand the mechanics of levitated dipoles.
The article's headline may be a little misleading, as it looks like Microsoft isn't directly patenting "sudo", but rather the concept of "a process configured to run under an administrative privilege level." Microsoft patenting "runas" may be a better description.
...Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt!
In other news, an electronically enhanced volleyball within the vicinity of the Cook Islands was claimed to have been pwn3d. When asked for comment, the response we got was "Wiiillsooooon! Wiiilllsooooon! What are we going to do now, Wilson?!"
They only have fifteen electrodes implanted, but it's a start...
Looks like it's nice and high-res so far. Just remember, when you're walking down the street and pick up a square-thingy, just remember how to get the freakin' duck away from you!
I can confirm the use of biodiesel in the midwest. I was actually stationed at an Air Force Base in Oklahoma, and all the diesel fuel pumps on-base for government vehicles were biodiesel. Although, I'm sure the 2 1/2 ton trucks and HMMVs that we ran on it weren't exactly the poster vehicles for energy conservation.
Even if there was a huge breakthrough in fuel-cell technology that was ready for use right now, it still would not have a huge impact, at least initially. Let's assume this story, however probable, wasn't overhyped; People still have to be weaned off of their current vehicles, which are mostly large and gas-powered. In the U.S., that could take decades.
Actually, what usually happens is that somebody with a six-figure UID will reply to a user with a four-figure UID with this:
"You must be new here."
Disclaimer: I have a high six-figure UID
"Russian memory cards, American memory cards, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!!"
Great, I can just hear Homer Simpson singing his fake ID song, only like this:
"It was a very good bus ride. My name was Brian McGee, when I was seventeen."
Here's the real link to the article:
Linky.
j00000 got pwnz3rd, now your driver's license marks you as a registered sex offender!
Fun.
Reminds me of that part in the Simpsons where Lisa (newly crowned Lil' Miss Springfield) is addressing a college football stadium:
Lisa: "College football diverts funds badly needed by education and the arts!"
Nerd in bleacher: "Is that true?"
Other nerd: "Let's get 'em!"
(Nerds start charging after the football players in the field)
Nerds: "Reeeee! ereeeee! reeeeee! reeeee!"
I don't have any greater respect for companies like Enron who cooked their books to inflate stock prices, but one can begin to get an insight as to the motivation to do it in the first place. Even more is the shame that companies get punished for not providing short-term gains, which are worth little in the real world in terms of product/service output.
I bet you know what sucks about most Intel motherboards circa 2001? RDRAM. Yeah, my computer's OEM from Gateway and it cost $130 or so retail to get 256 MB more when DDR cost probably $50 or so less. I was thinking pretty conservative when I got extra RAM. The upgrade cycle has gotten so slow that I may still not have to upgrade this computer for another year or so.
Hot on the heels of the 500W power supply review, I've received a tip that we should be expecting an upcoming review of the latest cutting-edge shoebox from Pro Wings.
A lot of the noise levels are measured inches from the case. I saw some noise level measurements a while back for a Shuttle case in the context of tweaking fan speeds for certain temperatures, and some of the levels were 60+ dB. I have no idea how this relates to human hearing at all, but was just something to note.