Re:It takes SIX MONTHS to find a particular MP3?!
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agreed, I was looking for a cover of a Zepplin song that I had on cd untill the cd got broke in 2 when it fell out of my car and I wasn't going to go buy the cd just for the one song, and I've even been looking on napster for it and today with napster I finally found it. whoohoo, go napster.
Well, if it doesn't work that well ask for a refund. Oh wait, you can't beacause IT'S FREE!!! That's something that's never ceased to amaze me, how people can bitch about how much a piece of free software, mind you software that many people use often, doesn't work to their standards and therefore should be eliminated from existence. If everyone had this mentality where would we be, no icq, no netscape, no linux(!) since none of you can say that these things never had their bugs, be it early versions or current versions.
I just wish people would calm down about current bugs or issues in programs and claiming those problems to be the end of the world, if you really have a problem with a problem, maybee give the author some feedback, or possibly a little insight into a good solution, or at the worse case, stop using the program. It's just this rampant bashing of a free program as a whole about a few little problems even if the program does do what it was set out to do.
I must say that I've dealt with the problems in napster, but I took those problems for what they are, bugs in a free program that does what I need at least as well as alternatives, then it just depends on what bugs bother you most. I just grabbed the new beta and with a quick looksee (being that I am working and can't spend too much time in it untill later) it seems to have done a little for some of the asthetics for the program, and being that the new beta was jsut released I really shouldn't say much about the search time taking forever today since it could be about overloaded and it may even out pretty soon here. I'm pretty sure I'll keep using it, maybee until something better comes out or untill I just don't care anymore.
The life span of the aluminum depens a lot on where you live, coastal climates being the worst. Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs was/is doing a lot of work on this ultimately using gold as the reflective layer. Other pressing sites also may have done some improvements since then, also, if I remember correctly MFSL was having JVC press their disks.
Well, WoTC is now owned by Hasbro, so I'm sure there'll be money for a while, but in all seriousness, and knowing the innner workings of WoCT personally (check our web site and you might see what I mean,) I do belive they know how obsurd this suit is. I mean, Magic was just as "addicting" for a long time, you just had a little different group that realized what was going on instead of some overreacting parents, oh but wait, parents never overreact.
here ya go, have the Governement buy NetZero for a day and use them, they already have a large user base, huge network, lot's of dial in locations, automatically updated user software that could be made to run the vote, either them or Juno mail, either would work pretty well and lead themselves to be hard to hack.
Remember the Yahoo terms of use thing a short while ago where they claimed to own the contents of the sites they host, well, would that mean they owe $5000 for each site that used gifs? Ya know, since they claimed to own them and all. Although, I think I remember hearing they changed the service agreement and all, but that would be funny, not because it's yahoo or anything, but it would put some good push behind it, I've heard that yahoo is kind of successfull.
so it won't recognize a ide hd without a firmware update, but will it recognize a cdrom? mostly to make the linux install easier (I hate FTP installs!) And to make it clear, I'm not talking about physical connectors and stuff, that can all be done pretty easily since I have seen 44pin laptop ide to standard 40pin ide+power, if I ignore the power I can just power it externally, but will anything recognize the cdrom in a usable state?
I actually had a similar question when we first got our T1 at work, we wanted to figure out how many clients it would take to fill the 1.54mb/s bandwidth based on the fact that people run fine over standard 33.6 modems and are really mostly blocked by latencey and not saturation. It would take some 500 users to saturate our line if we had enough servers to support that number of users, then there would still be room since they still don't use all of their bandwidth. The main differences for you is that on adsl you have more bandwidth than a modem user and more bandwidth will result in more data moved, but you are a single user and should not have any problem. In all seriousness you should not even see the amount of data moved by much of any online game unless you are running a server, and even then it's about negligable. You probably consume more bandwidth surfing the web.
Well, actually I played against a few people, and it only got real bad just when someone was entering (well, after I turned some of the effects down.) I was overly suprised at how well it did hold up, and the fact that after I installed the v2 drivers it came up the first time (it didn't do that on my celeron 300 + tnt.)
matguy Net. Admin.
Re:Quake sucks 2 (who's the moron erasing my posts
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no one erased the post, it's rating was lowered. If you turn your restrictions down you should see it.
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Re:"Just about all the public servers?"
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Also, (from what I've heard) Q2 was just about forced to release early when most of the game was leaked and Id din't want to deal with compeeting against itself. At least that's the story I heard. I forsee this as being a highly organized and deliberate testing process, I applaud the guys at Id. Always have.
Well, how about this, I got it running on a p133, 32mb and a vodoo2. Running well mind you, playable even with the pretty stuff turned on, stable as hell too. That was v1.05, not sure what has changed for that since then. Seems to be easiest with a voodoo2.
As it would be much easier to trace abuse it would also be much easier to maintain abuse. It's much harder to attack someone when their address changes daily. I would think that only people that would/could use static ip's should have them, I wouldn't want my grandpa to have a static ip (his parinoia is bad enough anyway.)
Somewhat ironic, with the past stories of sites overcomming big business trying to legal strongarm them out of their domain names (ajax.org)and now it may turn the other way, I doubt it though.
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agreed, I was looking for a cover of a Zepplin song that I had on cd untill the cd got broke in 2 when it fell out of my car and I wasn't going to go buy the cd just for the one song, and I've even been looking on napster for it and today with napster I finally found it. whoohoo, go napster.
matguy
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That's right, no one reads betanews either.
matguy
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Well, if it doesn't work that well ask for a refund. Oh wait, you can't beacause IT'S FREE!!! That's something that's never ceased to amaze me, how people can bitch about how much a piece of free software, mind you software that many people use often, doesn't work to their standards and therefore should be eliminated from existence. If everyone had this mentality where would we be, no icq, no netscape, no linux(!) since none of you can say that these things never had their bugs, be it early versions or current versions.
I just wish people would calm down about current bugs or issues in programs and claiming those problems to be the end of the world, if you really have a problem with a problem, maybee give the author some feedback, or possibly a little insight into a good solution, or at the worse case, stop using the program. It's just this rampant bashing of a free program as a whole about a few little problems even if the program does do what it was set out to do.
I must say that I've dealt with the problems in napster, but I took those problems for what they are, bugs in a free program that does what I need at least as well as alternatives, then it just depends on what bugs bother you most. I just grabbed the new beta and with a quick looksee (being that I am working and can't spend too much time in it untill later) it seems to have done a little for some of the asthetics for the program, and being that the new beta was jsut released I really shouldn't say much about the search time taking forever today since it could be about overloaded and it may even out pretty soon here. I'm pretty sure I'll keep using it, maybee until something better comes out or untill I just don't care anymore.
matguy
Net. Admin.
The life span of the aluminum depens a lot on where you live, coastal climates being the worst. Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs was/is doing a lot of work on this ultimately using gold as the reflective layer. Other pressing sites also may have done some improvements since then, also, if I remember correctly MFSL was having JVC press their disks.
matguy
Net. Admin.
Well, WoTC is now owned by Hasbro, so I'm sure there'll be money for a while, but in all seriousness, and knowing the innner workings of WoCT personally (check our web site and you might see what I mean,) I do belive they know how obsurd this suit is. I mean, Magic was just as "addicting" for a long time, you just had a little different group that realized what was going on instead of some overreacting parents, oh but wait, parents never overreact.
matguy
Net. Admin.
so that was the sound of a modern day mountain man preparing for the new milenium?
matguy
Net. Admin.
here ya go, have the Governement buy NetZero for a day and use them, they already have a large user base, huge network, lot's of dial in locations, automatically updated user software that could be made to run the vote, either them or Juno mail, either would work pretty well and lead themselves to be hard to hack.
matguy
Net. Admin.
What a stigma: "yeah, I hacked the U.S. Presidential Voting System." Hackers will be lining up for this one, as well as activists.
matguy
Net. Admin.
Remember the Yahoo terms of use thing a short while ago where they claimed to own the contents of the sites they host, well, would that mean they owe $5000 for each site that used gifs? Ya know, since they claimed to own them and all. Although, I think I remember hearing they changed the service agreement and all, but that would be funny, not because it's yahoo or anything, but it would put some good push behind it, I've heard that yahoo is kind of successfull.
matguy
Net. Admin.
oh, does no one remember "My First Sony"?
matguy
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hmmmm what to ask.... As many questions as there should be and I can't think of one, ho hum goes the day.....
matguy
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so it won't recognize a ide hd without a firmware update, but will it recognize a cdrom? mostly to make the linux install easier (I hate FTP installs!) And to make it clear, I'm not talking about physical connectors and stuff, that can all be done pretty easily since I have seen 44pin laptop ide to standard 40pin ide+power, if I ignore the power I can just power it externally, but will anything recognize the cdrom in a usable state?
matguy
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or just get your work to pay for it, teeheehee....
matguy
Net. Admin.
I actually had a similar question when we first got our T1 at work, we wanted to figure out how many clients it would take to fill the 1.54mb/s bandwidth based on the fact that people run fine over standard 33.6 modems and are really mostly blocked by latencey and not saturation. It would take some 500 users to saturate our line if we had enough servers to support that number of users, then there would still be room since they still don't use all of their bandwidth. The main differences for you is that on adsl you have more bandwidth than a modem user and more bandwidth will result in more data moved, but you are a single user and should not have any problem. In all seriousness you should not even see the amount of data moved by much of any online game unless you are running a server, and even then it's about negligable. You probably consume more bandwidth surfing the web.
matguy
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Either that or put some throttling on certain directories (now that I think of it, is that possible?)
matguy
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Well, actually I played against a few people, and it only got real bad just when someone was entering (well, after I turned some of the effects down.) I was overly suprised at how well it did hold up, and the fact that after I installed the v2 drivers it came up the first time (it didn't do that on my celeron 300 + tnt.)
matguy
Net. Admin.
no one erased the post, it's rating was lowered. If you turn your restrictions down you should see it.
matguy
Net. Admin.
Also, (from what I've heard) Q2 was just about forced to release early when most of the game was leaked and Id din't want to deal with compeeting against itself. At least that's the story I heard. I forsee this as being a highly organized and deliberate testing process, I applaud the guys at Id. Always have.
matguy
Net. Admin.
Well, how about this, I got it running on a p133, 32mb and a vodoo2. Running well mind you, playable even with the pretty stuff turned on, stable as hell too. That was v1.05, not sure what has changed for that since then. Seems to be easiest with a voodoo2.
matguy
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I have it on my lan Party server at
http://www.aeigames.com/party/
It's on our T1 here at work, so be nice. (I know the server is NT, I don't have a choice in the matter, it's at work.)
matguy
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As it would be much easier to trace abuse it would also be much easier to maintain abuse. It's much harder to attack someone when their address changes daily. I would think that only people that would/could use static ip's should have them, I wouldn't want my grandpa to have a static ip (his parinoia is bad enough anyway.)
matguy
Net. Admin.
Either that or we just figured out who needs a good accountant.
matguy
Net. Admin.
So, is Andover gonna buy a T1 for you guys? That's what you need, a T1 at home....
matguy
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Somewhat ironic, with the past stories of sites overcomming big business trying to legal strongarm them out of their domain names (ajax.org)and now it may turn the other way, I doubt it though.
matguy
Net. Admin.
I tried mailing iron before, the postage was horrible.
matguy
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