And considering we're talking about a major university, they've probably got a local mirror for most (if not all) distros that would be much faster than BitTorrent.
Not quite. The law says that you pay SoundForge unless you have a separate distribution agreement with the artist. I think indie artists could release their music on a Creative-Commons-style, "Free to broadcast" license that would explicitly give permission for broadcasters, (traditional and internet), to broadcast their music.
I think that teachers are already required to take an oath using that phrase. However, the phrase immediately following is, "and will do everything in my power to suppress such students."
Just wanted to say that I really loved your first 2 episodes. Hadn't known the 3rd was out, but I plan on downloading it tonight. When I see you describe your design process, it really makes sense that they were designed that way. It seems to boil down to either, "Create a setting and storyline, then fill in puzzles and enemies as fit," vs. "Think of some cool enemies, then design a story around them and figure out where the story should take place." I have a feeling I'll be keeping that in mind when I'm playing games in the future.
You're right. I thought there was a way to always win, but I did some playing and realized that there is a sure way for the second player to force a draw. It just requires taking a move that most people won't. I remember seeing references to tic-tac-toe programs that are unbeatable, but "Unbeatable" is not the same thing as "Always Wins".
Glad I did some checking. I had started typing up a response challenging you to ascii-art tic-tac-toe right here on/. I had even made a mention of $50 via PayPal. "Think first, post second" saves the day again, (but didn't quite kick in before I made my original post.)
Counterfeiter's Lawyer: "I'm holding a settlement offer. You should know that there are several references to your 'flayed carcass'."
Counterfeiter: "Yikes! Have you started work on a counter-offer?"
Lawyer: "This is my counter-offer. You don't want to know what they were demanding." (Shudders)
Don't know which radio show you were listening to, but I can guarantee the guest was Tom Mabe. He's a comedian that has released a couple of albums consisting on screwing with telemarketers like that.
Another great one was when he got a call from a man trying to sell pre-paid funeral arrangements. Tom says that he's been feeling suicidal lately, and that getting a call about funeral arrangements is a sign from God that he should go through with it. At one point, the telemarketer actually says something along the line of, "Can you hold off for a couple of days so I can send you some paperwork and you can get signed up with us first?"
Partly, it's the fact that I've already got a 2 GB swap partition, why not use it for Windows as well? From the description, SwapFS allows Windows to use the swap partition for temporary storage, so as soon as Linux boots, anything in the swap partition is overwritten by Linux's own swap - it isn't to let Linux access the Windows swap file.
From all the other posts listed, there may not be much benefit to having the pagefile on a separate partition. However, I still may use it as a place to direct temp files.
I usually go with 2 partitions. One has Windows and all the apps, the other holds the data. Move the "My Documents" folder on to the second partition. Some programs have to have default save locations changed, and a lot of games insist on keeping savegames in the program's directory, but it's not a huge loss if I have to start a game over. This setup makes things a lot nicer the next time Windows is due for a re-install.
Or rather, that's what I'd do if I was setting up a Windows-only machine. My current dual-boot machine has ext3 partitions for / and/home, an NTFS partition for XP. I use the ext3 driver for Windows to mount the/home partition and move "My Documents" to a sub-directory of my linux ~ folder. (I also rename it to documents) I set the Windows installs of Firefox and Thunderbird to use the profiles stored in ~
I had hoped to be able to have/home be an NTFS partition, now that ntfs-3g works so well, but Kubuntu doesn't like/home being on NTFS. I read somewhere this is because NTFS doesn't support links. There's probably a way to force it, but it's not worth it to me.
You're close. It's "System Properties" (Keyboard shortcut is Win-Break), then the "Advanced" tab. Then press the "Settings" button in the "Performance" section, (top section listed). On the new window, pick the "Advanced" tab again, then the "Change" button at the bottom. You can manage Paging Files for each drive/partition listed. On my old machine, I also had a partition dedicated to the paging file and temp files.
I'm actually in the process of setting up a new machine and tweaking all the dual-boot stuff. (XP and Kubuntu) and I found a driver that allows Windows to use a Linux swap partition as temporary storage. I am planning on using it to store the Windows Paging File. Anyone got any real-world experience on how well it works?
http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/
Look for "SwapFS" about halfway down.
Perhaps he's not talking about US dollars. If he was, why would he quote the Euro price and then give a conversion? The Eee is sold by a number of US retailers for $399. I know it sold out quickly most places, but NewEgg is showing it in stock again. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220244 (If I had the money to buy one, there's no way I'd post this till I had my order in.)
What?? Any machine not good enough for Vista isn't good enough for XP? Whatever you're smoking, keep it away from me - I need to be able to think straight.
One of the biggest complaints about Vista I see is that machines that run XP fine are dog slow with Vista.
Interestingly enough, in WW1, Germany tried to convince Mexico to join them by attacking the United States. Germany's argument was that Mexico could re-claim Texas, California, New Mexico, and Arizona. Germany would provide weapons and equipment to Mexico, in exchange for keeping the U.S. busy on their own front. This was prior to the U.S. joining the war in Europe.
The plan backfired on a couple of levels. First of all, Mexico basically said, "Screw you, we're not stupid. Since we don't have any weapons factories in our country, we'd be stuck fighting with whatever you managed to slip past the U.S. Navy. We're not that confident in your ability or willingness to do so." The other problem was that the "secret" diplomatic letter got out and was used to further turn U.S. opinion against Germany and in favor of joining the war.
As an aside, the letter got out because British Intelligence had broken the Germans codes. However, they didn't want to reveal that fact, so they intercepted the letter a second time in Mexico, where it had been re-encoded using a less important coding system.
I'll admit, I was a bit confused by the "Funny" moderation. Reading your post, it seemed informative, perhaps interesting.
Then I read the line, "She stopped him for supposedly stealing squirrels from a park..."
What the hell?
Who would steal squirrels? Is there some illicit, black-market squirrel trade that I don't know about? Are there unscrupulous vets who shave them and sell them to clueless starlets as "vegetarian chihuahuas"? Are squirrels a necessary ingredient in the latest designer club drug?
He's not a complete dumbass. Encrypted torrents will defeat the purposed ISP level copyright-filtering that some telcos (*cough* AT&T *cough*) are advocating. How do you tell if that encrypted data is the source code to Windows 2000, a Linux ISO or a collection of Chuck Norris jokes?
The Chuck Norris joke collection is easy - the packets perform their own QOS by kicking the hell out of any other packets in their way.
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I'll also add Frets On Fire, an open-source Guitar Hero clone. I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of it myself.
And considering we're talking about a major university, they've probably got a local mirror for most (if not all) distros that would be much faster than BitTorrent.
Also agreed. Somebody tag article "boycotgamespot"
Not quite. The law says that you pay SoundForge unless you have a separate distribution agreement with the artist. I think indie artists could release their music on a Creative-Commons-style, "Free to broadcast" license that would explicitly give permission for broadcasters, (traditional and internet), to broadcast their music.
I think that teachers are already required to take an oath using that phrase. However, the phrase immediately following is, "and will do everything in my power to suppress such students."
Real World Nanotech is to Prey
as
Real World Hacking is to "It's a unix system! I know this!"
(and to the anal-retentive Crichton fan, yes I know that was in the movie, not the book)
Just wanted to say that I really loved your first 2 episodes. Hadn't known the 3rd was out, but I plan on downloading it tonight. When I see you describe your design process, it really makes sense that they were designed that way. It seems to boil down to either, "Create a setting and storyline, then fill in puzzles and enemies as fit," vs. "Think of some cool enemies, then design a story around them and figure out where the story should take place." I have a feeling I'll be keeping that in mind when I'm playing games in the future.
Glad I did some checking. I had started typing up a response challenging you to ascii-art tic-tac-toe right here on /. I had even made a mention of $50 via PayPal. "Think first, post second" saves the day again, (but didn't quite kick in before I made my original post.)
I still stand by my claim on WinME, though.
Never mind. If you know what you're doing, you can always win tic-tac-toe, provided you go first.* But there really is no way to win with WinME.
* Lucky the computer in War Games never figured this out. Skynet apparently did, though.
Infadel! How dare you blaspheme the Holy Sacrement!
Counterfeiter's Lawyer: "I'm holding a settlement offer. You should know that there are several references to your 'flayed carcass'."
Counterfeiter: "Yikes! Have you started work on a counter-offer?"
Lawyer: "This is my counter-offer. You don't want to know what they were demanding." (Shudders)
God, I hope you're right. If you are, than we're on the cusp of the end of professional wrestling.
Another great one was when he got a call from a man trying to sell pre-paid funeral arrangements. Tom says that he's been feeling suicidal lately, and that getting a call about funeral arrangements is a sign from God that he should go through with it. At one point, the telemarketer actually says something along the line of, "Can you hold off for a couple of days so I can send you some paperwork and you can get signed up with us first?"
From all the other posts listed, there may not be much benefit to having the pagefile on a separate partition. However, I still may use it as a place to direct temp files.
Or rather, that's what I'd do if I was setting up a Windows-only machine. My current dual-boot machine has ext3 partitions for / and /home, an NTFS partition for XP. I use the ext3 driver for Windows to mount the /home partition and move "My Documents" to a sub-directory of my linux ~ folder. (I also rename it to documents) I set the Windows installs of Firefox and Thunderbird to use the profiles stored in ~
I had hoped to be able to have /home be an NTFS partition, now that ntfs-3g works so well, but Kubuntu doesn't like /home being on NTFS. I read somewhere this is because NTFS doesn't support links. There's probably a way to force it, but it's not worth it to me.
I'm actually in the process of setting up a new machine and tweaking all the dual-boot stuff. (XP and Kubuntu) and I found a driver that allows Windows to use a Linux swap partition as temporary storage. I am planning on using it to store the Windows Paging File. Anyone got any real-world experience on how well it works? http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/ Look for "SwapFS" about halfway down.
Perhaps he's not talking about US dollars. If he was, why would he quote the Euro price and then give a conversion? The Eee is sold by a number of US retailers for $399. I know it sold out quickly most places, but NewEgg is showing it in stock again. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220244
(If I had the money to buy one, there's no way I'd post this till I had my order in.)
One of the biggest complaints about Vista I see is that machines that run XP fine are dog slow with Vista.
Don't you mean "Tuche"?
And when stupid people exercise the Second Amendment... well, that problem tends to take care of itself.
which are square.
The plan backfired on a couple of levels. First of all, Mexico basically said, "Screw you, we're not stupid. Since we don't have any weapons factories in our country, we'd be stuck fighting with whatever you managed to slip past the U.S. Navy. We're not that confident in your ability or willingness to do so." The other problem was that the "secret" diplomatic letter got out and was used to further turn U.S. opinion against Germany and in favor of joining the war.
As an aside, the letter got out because British Intelligence had broken the Germans codes. However, they didn't want to reveal that fact, so they intercepted the letter a second time in Mexico, where it had been re-encoded using a less important coding system.
Then I read the line, "She stopped him for supposedly stealing squirrels from a park..."
What the hell?
Who would steal squirrels? Is there some illicit, black-market squirrel trade that I don't know about? Are there unscrupulous vets who shave them and sell them to clueless starlets as "vegetarian chihuahuas"? Are squirrels a necessary ingredient in the latest designer club drug?
Are they hiring?
He's not a complete dumbass. Encrypted torrents will defeat the purposed ISP level copyright-filtering that some telcos (*cough* AT&T *cough*) are advocating. How do you tell if that encrypted data is the source code to Windows 2000, a Linux ISO or a collection of Chuck Norris jokes?
The Chuck Norris joke collection is easy - the packets perform their own QOS by kicking the hell out of any other packets in their way.