Nice idea, but do you really want to be 15xp from the next level and be told, "Sorry, your time has expired. You may finish your level in 36 hours"? Better, you could remove the tedium of "grinding", and give those people who can't play 8 hours a day a reasonable edge, by removing the whole concept of leveling. Fights would train you directly, not your character. Your character would always be training for the next more powerful sword, gun, or spell, logged on or not. In this way, you would lose a portion of the unhealthy obsession, and there would no longer be an "addictive" requirement to the game. Well, beyond the fact that the game is probably really good, and that's addictive in itself. Anyways, if you want to try a game that has managed to miss most of Blizzard's mistakes, try EvE.
They actually make the MN700 WiFi router...you can tell because it loses WAN connection every two hours, drops wifi every three thousand packets, and has no extensibility.
*pushes thick glasses up his face, and speaks in a nasal tone*
Well, if you're familiar at all with the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing system, you'd be aware that a bonus of +2 on a normal wisdom score, i.e. 10, would put the individual up close to Solomonic wisdom. However, as the individual is merely a low-level wage-slave employed by McDonald's, they have a starting wisdom of 6, with the +2 bringing him to 8.
Any geek can handle a 1040A, if there's no stocks, mutual funds, real estate sales, or more than a certain (very large) amount of income. It's pretty darn simple, all the directions are written right on the form. For Pete's sake, installing Ubuntu is harder. It'll take two to three hours of training to know how to LEGALLY fill out the related forms for the other crap. To get the best benefits out of the various forms, that takes about 40 hours of training. It's not until you're into "Tax Credits for my Special-Child Bowling League in a Racially Divided Foreign Nation Owned by my Corporation" that it starts getting really hairy./worked as a VITA last tax season
Have you actually looked at the specs on those $299 PCs?
Sure, go ahead and buy one, try to play any modern PC game, try to use the latest OOo or Office XP. I'll wait...Yeah, I thought so. Those boxes are worth approximately what they cost. But that's a separate issue entirely. The reason to build your own system is two-fold: 1) To not pay the Windows Tax, 2) To know what you're actually running.
Just like cars, if you don't know what's under the hood, you're gonna get screwed come maintenance time.
I mean, you find tons of pirated software in government computers.
Source please. I work entirely with government computers, and we have very strict policies about the acquisition of ANY piece of software to ensure all licenseing requirements are met, in addition to verifying that it will be safe in a secure environment. In fact, those same policies have been hampering the uptake of OSS, as some of the requirements are impossible for a "bazaar"-style release to meet.
It's called Gwpcode, which will later be replaced by Qpcode, eventually mutating into VPcode, then all support will be dropped, leading to a massive support community comprised of people who write email viruses and people who write database managers without a single actual line of code.
If you really want to do this, use fingernail polish. Ask your local goth-kiddy where she or he shops, then go get some flat black nail polish. Carefully paint over the keycaps, either removing them first or while they're still on the keyboard, just don't paint them together. Works great and keeps most people from using your keyboard at all. My laptop's been like this for about two years, and I never look at the keyboard, other than those pesky control keys which are different at work and at home.
People who do work on their computer, and I mean real work, not playing games and recompiling their kernel for the 49th time, don't give two shits if their computer has an audio system that rivals your $14,000 home theater system. It really doesn't matter. Then again...you buy Monster Cables, right?
If it's possible to get into a Linux system without knowing the username or the password..*shudders*.
1. Knoppix live CD 2. mount/dev/myharddrive/mnt/temp 3. chroot/mnt/temp 4. passwd 5. Profit.
Amusingly enough, while the first two links from Google are related to Windows, the third is nearly identical to the above, thus yes, you should have Googled it....and you're a CS student? Please.
Also, the only unpatched Apache exploit is an insecure temp file problem. Do you know of a decent-sized Apache-running website that allows rlogin from malicious users? That's why it's called less critical.
Also of interest is the comparison...Apache has more exploits or lesser criticality, and most require a mis-configured web-server before succeeding. Many IIS exploits are more severe, also succeeding on a properly-configured web-server.
In bash, if you type function() {commands; more commands}, it's defining a that you can later call by typing 'function'.
So ":() {" defines a function called ':'. The function recurses by calling itself inside the curly brackets '{:', then for added viciousness calls itself again as a filter '|:'. The whole thing also runs as a background job '&', which means it will keep spawning even faster. '};' ends the function and tells bash to expect another command--the first part only defined the fork bomb, but didn't run it. The last character is a call to the ':' function. On a modern linux system, this will eat about fourty minutes of hard blocking CPU time, if you simultaneously trigger the fork bomb and set off a command to kill it(ask me how I know this).
Strangely enough, both my stock WinXP and Debian computers play multiple videos simultaneously with no problems.
In other news, CFLAGS is usually set by the programmer with the best set of flags for his application. Messing with that just causes problems, Mr. -funrollallmidgets.
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...But anyone in the database should be able to access their information...so that they can correct any errors...
Hmm, click-click...
Joe-Bob, checking database: What? I attacked London? WTF?!?
Muhammed Al-Hackbar: What terrorist attack? My entry in the database is clean. For Allah! *boom*
The only reason it exists at all is because most people say should've, which sounds similar. With the level of knuckle-dragging being taught in most schools today, most people never think about what they're actually writing, and appear teh stoopud.
Oh yeah, and I was taught phonics since I started learning to read.
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Nice idea, but do you really want to be 15xp from the next level and be told, "Sorry, your time has expired. You may finish your level in 36 hours"?
Better, you could remove the tedium of "grinding", and give those people who can't play 8 hours a day a reasonable edge, by removing the whole concept of leveling. Fights would train you directly, not your character. Your character would always be training for the next more powerful sword, gun, or spell, logged on or not. In this way, you would lose a portion of the unhealthy obsession, and there would no longer be an "addictive" requirement to the game. Well, beyond the fact that the game is probably really good, and that's addictive in itself.
Anyways, if you want to try a game that has managed to miss most of Blizzard's mistakes, try EvE.
They actually make the MN700 WiFi router...you can tell because it loses WAN connection every two hours, drops wifi every three thousand packets, and has no extensibility.
Luckily you can put Linux on it.
Gaah! My eyes!
The googles, they do nuthingggg!!!
...when they leverage MacOS X on Intel by forcing iPod users to drop Windows.
Waitamin...what's bad about that?
*pushes thick glasses up his face, and speaks in a nasal tone*
Well, if you're familiar at all with the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing system, you'd be aware that a bonus of +2 on a normal wisdom score, i.e. 10, would put the individual up close to Solomonic wisdom. However, as the individual is merely a low-level wage-slave employed by McDonald's, they have a starting wisdom of 6, with the +2 bringing him to 8.
Thus, he's only slightly less of an idiot.
Any geek can handle a 1040A, if there's no stocks, mutual funds, real estate sales, or more than a certain (very large) amount of income. It's pretty darn simple, all the directions are written right on the form. For Pete's sake, installing Ubuntu is harder. It'll take two to three hours of training to know how to LEGALLY fill out the related forms for the other crap. To get the best benefits out of the various forms, that takes about 40 hours of training. It's not until you're into "Tax Credits for my Special-Child Bowling League in a Racially Divided Foreign Nation Owned by my Corporation" that it starts getting really hairy. /worked as a VITA last tax season
Actually, yes. John Cage has done an adaptation of his "Four Minutes, Thirty-Three Seconds" to the Hip-Hop scene. Best hip-hop track I've ever heard.
Have you actually looked at the specs on those $299 PCs?
Sure, go ahead and buy one, try to play any modern PC game, try to use the latest OOo or Office XP. I'll wait...Yeah, I thought so. Those boxes are worth approximately what they cost. But that's a separate issue entirely. The reason to build your own system is two-fold: 1) To not pay the Windows Tax, 2) To know what you're actually running.
Just like cars, if you don't know what's under the hood, you're gonna get screwed come maintenance time.
I mean, you find tons of pirated software in government computers.
Source please. I work entirely with government computers, and we have very strict policies about the acquisition of ANY piece of software to ensure all licenseing requirements are met, in addition to verifying that it will be safe in a secure environment. In fact, those same policies have been hampering the uptake of OSS, as some of the requirements are impossible for a "bazaar"-style release to meet.
Assuming this isn't a troll, if this is happening, something is VERY, VERY WRONG with your computer.
As in, you're using Gentoo on an overclocked AMD. Stop it.
It's called Gwpcode, which will later be replaced by Qpcode, eventually mutating into VPcode, then all support will be dropped, leading to a massive support community comprised of people who write email viruses and people who write database managers without a single actual line of code.
If you really want to do this, use fingernail polish. Ask your local goth-kiddy where she or he shops, then go get some flat black nail polish.
Carefully paint over the keycaps, either removing them first or while they're still on the keyboard, just don't paint them together.
Works great and keeps most people from using your keyboard at all.
My laptop's been like this for about two years, and I never look at the keyboard, other than those pesky control keys which are different at work and at home.
People who do work on their computer, and I mean real work, not playing games and recompiling their kernel for the 49th time, don't give two shits if their computer has an audio system that rivals your $14,000 home theater system. It really doesn't matter.
Then again...you buy Monster Cables, right?
That...is really condescending.
Not really.
If it's possible to get into a Linux system without knowing the username or the password..*shudders*.
/dev/myharddrive /mnt/temp /mnt/temp
...and you're a CS student? Please.
1. Knoppix live CD
2. mount
3. chroot
4. passwd
5. Profit.
Amusingly enough, while the first two links from Google are related to Windows, the third is nearly identical to the above, thus yes, you should have Googled it.
Not all Economics 101 classes teach anything other than supply and demand curves.
Mine, for example, which is why I'm not an economist.
Surprisingly enough, IIS5, still in wide use, has unpatched vulnerabilities.
http://secunia.com/product/39/
Also, the only unpatched Apache exploit is an insecure temp file problem. Do you know of a decent-sized Apache-running website that allows rlogin from malicious users? That's why it's called less critical.
Also of interest is the comparison...Apache has more exploits or lesser criticality, and most require a mis-configured web-server before succeeding. Many IIS exploits are more severe, also succeeding on a properly-configured web-server.
It is a fork bomb, and a fairly nasty one.
:', then for added viciousness calls itself again as a filter '|:'. The whole thing also runs as a background job '&', which means it will keep spawning even faster. '};' ends the function and tells bash to expect another command--the first part only defined the fork bomb, but didn't run it.
In bash, if you type function() {commands; more commands}, it's defining a that you can later call by typing 'function'.
So ":() {" defines a function called ':'. The function recurses by calling itself inside the curly brackets '{
The last character is a call to the ':' function.
On a modern linux system, this will eat about fourty minutes of hard blocking CPU time, if you simultaneously trigger the fork bomb and set off a command to kill it(ask me how I know this).
And to prevent fork bombs, see man ulimit.
-- Da (helpful) geekboy
Strangely enough, both my stock WinXP and Debian computers play multiple videos simultaneously with no problems.
In other news, CFLAGS is usually set by the programmer with the best set of flags for his application. Messing with that just causes problems, Mr. -funrollallmidgets.
...But anyone in the database should be able to access their information...so that they can correct any errors...
Hmm, click-click...
Joe-Bob, checking database:
What? I attacked London? WTF?!?
Muhammed Al-Hackbar:
What terrorist attack? My entry in the database is clean. For Allah! *boom*
The only reason it exists at all is because most people say should've, which sounds similar. With the level of knuckle-dragging being taught in most schools today, most people never think about what they're actually writing, and appear teh stoopud.
Oh yeah, and I was taught phonics since I started learning to read.
"The main problem with linux is that it requires the user to have an IQ above 75 for best results"
Brilliant!
And I believe you win the thread.
Doesn't help to be registered, even posted logged-in and non-cowardly.
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