Right now, I work at the greatest place to meet all kinds of people.
A convenience store.:) Don't really need the money, because you see, it's a great place to meet lots of people, and you'd be surprised at the age group that smokes pot.
Nicely dressed old men come in and buy zigzag's or a 50 cent swisher... One AFAIK of them works at a certain shoe company here.
And don't kid yourself, I've smoked out with the law too. They get it for free.:)
The only people nowadays that get anything from the "war on drugs" are the suburban housewives and country club members that are convinced something is being done about their "streets".
People are just more discreet. I have to get rid of something I purchased every now and then because it's laced. If I could buy it in a specialty shop, then I could guarantee that it passes chemical inspections, and pay a tax that will better my community (hopefully).
Yes, I read a study in New Scientist's Journal, they fed (not forced, just instead of oats:) a horse 40 pounds of marijuana and it ended up just falling asleep.
Pot lasts in your system for about a month, but the slightest signs of it normally dissipate in about 2 days at most (we're talking a lot of heavy smoking).
In fact, AFAIK the only brain cell loss that comes from pot smoking IIRC is when someone holds and chokes while smoking. This is hearsay, but if someone could verify it.. But of course, you could do this with air if you had a bad lung problem.:)
See, a lot of people smoke too much weed, and that's why they feel all dumbed down.
Ever notice that when you have just one beer, you're just a little loose, but when you have 10, you're falling on the floor?
Pot does this with the mind. The more you smoke, the more you focus on one single topic, which is why when people are really stoned, they don't do much but sit there, they're either thinking or watching tv, etc...
But when you smoke a little, at least for me, it makes it easier to concentrate on a specific thing. (like perl or a game) I tend (through numbers, not silly inaccurate perception) to play Counterstrike better when I smoke.
But of course, the big problem with pot is that it's effects are pretty random for different people. This is just me, but I know others who are the same way. And no, if you don't have anything to concentrate on, pot isn't going to give you something to concentrate on. You still have to have willpower (to a lesser degree though heh).
I think you're mixed up.... Generally the loonies out there are of some religious sect, and while I'm not accusing Christianity of endorsing this by any means of the word...
They are the largest group. People don't tend to need to defend their right to lack religion in this country....
OSS is hardly communism... Some of us in here need to start acting on that "willing to try new things" B.S. and take a government class.
If OSS was communism our software would be provided by one source, and the software that we used would chosen by another. Hardly "Open" by any sense of the word.
The better definition is an anarchial one, or socialistic-libertarian. (note: for the unwashed, socialism still is not communism and never will be, so drop it). The users and authors of the software make their own choices, while being represented and guided (but not CONTROLLED) by leaders approved through popularity..
Please, please, get it right before you ASS-U-ME like that.
Man, this is old-boys-networkism if I've ever come across it. If they truly think that only old hands at the market deserve to be in on IPOs, it amounts to saying to the people who aren't in the game yet that they aren't allowed to make some really big money -- and under the guise of "it's for your own protection."
Money (unfortunately) is very important to people. Think of it like having the difference between a trained surgeon and joe down the street performing an operation. Not that I'm saying it takes 6 years of training to trade stock, but it should be something that people are at least experienced in before investing in something flaky, if not to protect themselves but the businesses that depend on the stock. Imagine if many of the Open-Source writing investors cashed out the day after Red Hat went fully public? There is a good reason.
In my (very uninformed and inexperienced:) opinion, I think that there should just be a holding limit on anyone who invests before an IPO.
Have any of you ever heard of ipautofw? You can use this little tool under linux to make anything you want to work, either to be enabled temporarily in a script (for a game) or permanently (ICQ)...
There's also a port forwarding patch for the kernel, which is probably insecure as hell but does do the job.
For ICQ for windows, there are firewall settings that you can setup, to have all communication sent through ports 2000-4000. At least under my standard ip masq setup, it works fine.
No kidding, this is exactly what I was thinking as well.
That's why I liked Sin so much (multiplayer at least, single player.. well....). It had Duke-Nukem like attitude.
People don't really give kingpin the design respect it deserves.. The levels and character models are beautifully designed, and it's the first game that I've seen that actually gets lighting on models correct (yes, even half life can't get it right, although HL has a nice lighting engine).
Also, if anyone has played the demo for more than 5 seconds, they'd know that the enemies as well are very, very smart in a head-to-head situation, they actually do things like strafe, duck shots, and don't walk around corners. HL and (especially) Shogo are the only other games that I've seen do this well, but even they are easier tricked. I've seen HL marines charge at me like dumbasses when i'm holding a rocket launcher..
At least the hoodlums in kingpin know to run when I fire a burst of flame in their direction.:)
A guy I know at work says he has a beta of XF4.0 (read: he could be full of shit AFAIK but considering i'm writing this post I trust him enough to speak it) and says that the his TNT is more than adequate playing q3test, and setting up DRI is a little more than setting up modelines for the resolutions you want to use.
Good things to hear, now I just need to get him to burn a copy of that beta...:)
I hate MS just as much as the next guy, but I still think it is messed up to release a program like this. The end result is that script kiddies will do the only thing they know how to do.
People are missing the point that these holes ALREADY exist. What CDC is doing is just what you are explaining, giving something for the technically challenged (read: script kiddies) to exploit to the point of blatant redundancy, which will HOPEFULLY provide some certain company in redmond to get off their ass and acknowledge the fact that these bugs do exist.
The simple thing is, is that if places like rootshell, l0pht, and CDC didn't exist, we'd still have wonderful "features" like the winnuke and teardrop. IIRC Microsoft took quite a long time fixing winnuke, and took very little time (in comparison) when fixing teardrop. They learned from their mistakes, because people were getting rather tired of complaining about how their computers were locking up when on IRC.
This all comes down to simple math. The more publicized an exploit is, the quicker it gets fixed. So CDC wraps a whole bunch of exploits into one nice little package with an easy to use interface, makes it hard to get rid of, and starts calling the press houses.
Tom obviously has never taken a class on critical thinking or philosophy (both in the same depending on where you go), because he would know that the quickest way to lose an argument among your peers is to take stabs at them.
And as much as I imagine tom would probably hate to admit it, RMS is his peer.
The last few weeks the only thing that I have seen out of this man (in newsgroups and here on slashdot), are jabs against those who promote the GPL, whether or not it be hostile in nature.
The fact that he responds with such furor over the GPL convinces me to the fact that he is just as zealotrous about other licences (BSD is what he seems to favor) as RMS is.
In other words, the article could be applied just as well to him as it could to RMS. He's interested in promoting his views over the views of others, which is his clear intent in the writing of this utter crap.
Personally, I think that both GPL and BSD are good, solid licenses. Why? Because it's not my place to say what another author can slap on to protect his code. Personally, I'd use GPL, but that's my choice.
So here's some friendly advice Tom: no matter how much of a license bigot (which I am forced to assume by your prose) you are, you should take some tips from Thomas Payne and the Linux Advocacy HOWTO.
I find it interesting that you berate Microsoft for not releasing their code on one hand, and then you accuse them of wanting to steal your code on the other hand.
No, I don't think that's what he was saying. He doesn't want Microsoft to MAKE MONEY off of his code without contributing to his effort somehow.
There is near constant noise on this site against other platforms, against anyone not technologically oriented (business men, sales people, marketing, management), constantly bashing of anyone who doesn't agree with the GPL, etc.
This has nothign to do with linux. This is a college hacker stigma that has been around since the late '60s. Apple used to have a commercial that aired on one of the superbowls with businessmen in suits walking off a cliff like lemmings. 'nuff said.
As a side not I find it disturbing that Linus thinks it is ok for people to write off color source code.
I'm not going to reply to the rest, I think being rude to somene else should qualify you for the highest level of scrutiny availiable.
But, why are people getting so angry about profanity in the source code? Linus and hte other kernel hackers have no one to report to with this code than themselves, and people really need to get it together and realize that perhaps the writers don't find profanity profane, or just don't care.
Be professional and drop the angry-zit-faced-teenage-hacker image!!!
Define professional. I think what they do on a daily basis is more than professional, they work after hours, keep a good schedule, and make sure they meet their deadlines. How many "professionals" can you say do that?
Disclaimer: This is all speculation, flame me if you want.
It just seems, that after reading this article, that directly combats one of infoworld's editors, it would be somewhat hard for this to get published.
Of course, I don't work for or track infoworld. But it does seem like ZDNet and Infoworld know what to put up to rake in those banner ads. I don't have either of these sites bookmarked but I end up reading at least one article on their sites everyday courtesy of slashdot....
I think to myself, "hmm. this might be something different". But no, it's some clueless idiot with a new name claiming that he knows something that the rest of the world doesn't. I don't give a damn if he invented ethernet or not, when does an EE and former CEO become a credible journalist? Now, I'm not going to claim that slashdot should change anything, but I cannot understnad why anyone would even waste their time reading this dribble. (including myself, I clicked the link too)
All we're doing is filling some advertisers' back pocket and reading something we've heard 500 times before... "Linux will never make it". Well let em think that. In fact, tell them that, because they're just going to accuse you of radical thinking if you don't. These people do not respond to logical argument, and therefore, their argument should not be considered logical either.
Don't waste your time reading this crap. Click reload on slashdot a few times and donate your bandwidth to filling Rob's back pocket instead. Keep using and developing linux, and the numbers will speak for themselves. Devote your energy to supporting development mailing lists or contacting hardware makers to petition driver support.
I guess it just amazes me that this utter troll-dom more than likely just designed to generate ad revenue, and link to a petreley article, again, to generate ad revenue, is wasting people's time when they could just spend 20 minutes in Jesse Berst's section on ZDNet and read the same stuff.
All it takes is one person to write some stupid GUI to parse an RC file and create dialog boxes and radio buttons for it.
I'm not flaming you, but Windowmaker is a perfect example of this. Each and every one of those wonderful textfiles, since version 0.20, has had an equal and usable GUI to wrap around it, providing full functionality at the point, click, and destroy level.
It's just a matter of time before enough programs come with a gui config, and write that config to a text file. I have tons of programs that do this already (licq, windowmaker, netscape, xfmail..)
It's not the file format, it's the usability layer. I wish people would recognize this.
After all, if windows programs required you to edit the registry instead of using a gui config that's provided by the program, people would be flocking to linux in droves.:)
There is - it's called the "Disable Macros" button that pops up when you open a document that contains macros. As I said before though, this most recent virus was not a macro virus.
Cool. It's good to see that MS is finally offering options of this caliber... which goes without saying that this is a new policy.. I'd love to figure out how to disable that stupid HTML replacement for a "host not found" error in IE4 (i hope this was fixed in IE5, it has to be the most annoying thing in the world).
Enough bickering though. Even though this button exists, and despite the fact I don't know crap about this "virus" (which 90% of media-labeled "viruses" are about as complex as a batch file -- a trojan), the admins at these places should not be allowing any form of automatically-executing or manually-executing attachments arriving in people's mailboxes.
The standardly traded mail format is just text - these guys should be processing this crap before it gets to the office. I'm thoroghly amazed it's not, especially in gov't offices where mission critical has just a little extra dash of critical sugar sprinkled onto it.
Micro$oft trademarks everything. Why can't we have a few? (I'm guessing M$ will begin trademarking letters soon. It's not like they can't afford to TM the entire dictionnary.)
Next thing we know they'll be trademarking "trademark" and "TM".:)
(go for it, slap me with a -1 - i had fun anyways) -Erik-
How many FPS could your Voodoo3 3000 crank out in 16-bit color back in mid-April? Lots. A TNT-2 Ultra? Effectivly zero.
What about your Voodoo3 in true 32-bit color, compared to my TNT-1?
TNT-1: Lots. V3: Zero. You see, the V3 doesn't do true 32-bit color, it fakes it. and when I want to play games on my machine with color settings worth of today's high quality games, I want 32-bit. I also don't want yesterday's technology, which is what a V3 is. I see no benefit for replacing my TNT-1 with a V3, but I see great reasons for getting a Rage128, G400, or TNT2.
Don't moan because you bought a lousy card... You could have waited like all those hardware sites told you to for the newer cards.
And I'm sorry, I still have yet to see an instance where someone needs a faster desktop machine *YESTERDAY*.
Regardless, the new name scares me. Hello? I got WinAMP for one reason - to play MP3s. The other formats were nice, but who wants music in.wav anymore? Did I ever see a TiMidity plugin to make MIDI bearable? Can't someone code up a S3M player like MOD4WIN that plays 'em *nice* instead of jusr porting MIDAS again? And the latest versions of WinAMP have a (*gasp*) browser, no doubt for "synchronised multimedia". Call me a luddite, but I just want something that plays MP3s and plays 'em well. (Nitrane is a hell of a decoder, wish the rest of the product was as good).
MOD4Win is very pretty. Reliable and fast, it is not. The last good mod player that I have seen was DMP (dual or digital mod player), which was a console program for DOS and OS/2. I still have yet to find a MOD player that plays with as low cpu usage as this one did under OS/2 with DART (less than.3 cpu usage)...
If you're looking for quality, mikmod is very nice IMO, although I'd like it better if it handled surround sound properly.
With the exception of the ultra-specific and diversified tracker formats, I would be more than happy to welcome a nice multimedia player that handles several formats WELL. It would also be nice to see one that is built in a fashion that is modular, so if I don't need a mpeg decoder, I won't have to use one.
So far, x11amp has done this (and winamp as well.. x11amp is great if you want a direct ripoff of winamp). As long as it keeps doing it and I'm insured that I can get a free product, I'm more than happy to have something to play various sound formats (I don't use video much, i'm one of the lucky people to own a VCR and a television:).
OSS/Linux would probably stifle a lot of issues if it would at least release it's source for review and home modification. I have no need to pay $40 for such a product personally, but you won't see me plopping binary-only modules into my kernel, either.
Regarding the ALSA thing, it does irk me to think that because the commercial product can't use it, that the free version is stuffed in the same manner. I imagine this will be or already has been corrected by the Free Software community, but it's disconcerting to think that this comes in light of these news.
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Right now, I work at the greatest place to meet all kinds of people.
:) Don't really need the money, because you see, it's a great place to meet lots of people, and you'd be surprised at the age group that smokes pot.
:)
A convenience store.
Nicely dressed old men come in and buy zigzag's or a 50 cent swisher... One AFAIK of them works at a certain shoe company here.
And don't kid yourself, I've smoked out with the law too. They get it for free.
The only people nowadays that get anything from the "war on drugs" are the suburban housewives and country club members that are convinced something is being done about their "streets".
People are just more discreet. I have to get rid of something I purchased every now and then because it's laced. If I could buy it in a specialty shop, then I could guarantee that it passes chemical inspections, and pay a tax that will better my community (hopefully).
-Erik-
I'm sorry, people like this piss me off.
Just stop. Stop for 2 or 3 weeks, and make sure when your friends come over and offer you buds, you refuse.
You'll get used to it. A good friend of mine once said, "After so much drug use, the only drug left is reality itself."
So pop a couple of pills of reality and get a backbone.
-Erik-
Yes, I read a study in New Scientist's Journal, they fed (not forced, just instead of oats :) a horse 40 pounds of marijuana and it ended up just falling asleep.
:)
Pot lasts in your system for about a month, but the slightest signs of it normally dissipate in about 2 days at most (we're talking a lot of heavy smoking).
In fact, AFAIK the only brain cell loss that comes from pot smoking IIRC is when someone holds and chokes while smoking. This is hearsay, but if someone could verify it.. But of course, you could do this with air if you had a bad lung problem.
-Erik-
It all depends on how much you smoke.
See, a lot of people smoke too much weed, and that's why they feel all dumbed down.
Ever notice that when you have just one beer, you're just a little loose, but when you have 10, you're falling on the floor?
Pot does this with the mind. The more you smoke, the more you focus on one single topic, which is why when people are really stoned, they don't do much but sit there, they're either thinking or watching tv, etc...
But when you smoke a little, at least for me, it makes it easier to concentrate on a specific thing. (like perl or a game) I tend (through numbers, not silly inaccurate perception) to play Counterstrike better when I smoke.
But of course, the big problem with pot is that it's effects are pretty random for different people. This is just me, but I know others who are the same way. And no, if you don't have anything to concentrate on, pot isn't going to give you something to concentrate on. You still have to have willpower (to a lesser degree though heh).
-Erik-
No one ever said you had to use ext2fs, there are other alternatives out there.
-Erik-
UPS is 3 words. :)
-Erik-
I think you're mixed up.... Generally the loonies out there are of some religious sect, and while I'm not accusing Christianity of endorsing this by any means of the word...
They are the largest group. People don't tend to need to defend their right to lack religion in this country....
Can anyone say "David Koresh" with me?
-Erik-
OSS is hardly communism... Some of us in here need to start acting on that "willing to try new things" B.S. and take a government class.
If OSS was communism our software would be provided by one source, and the software that we used would chosen by another. Hardly "Open" by any sense of the word.
The better definition is an anarchial one, or socialistic-libertarian. (note: for the unwashed, socialism still is not communism and never will be, so drop it). The users and authors of the software make their own choices, while being represented and guided (but not CONTROLLED) by leaders approved through popularity..
Please, please, get it right before you ASS-U-ME like that.
-Erik-
Man, this is old-boys-networkism if I've ever come across it. If they truly think that only old hands at the market deserve to be in on IPOs, it amounts to saying to the people who aren't in the game yet that they aren't allowed to make some really big money -- and under the guise of "it's for your own protection."
:) opinion, I think that there should just be a holding limit on anyone who invests before an IPO.
Money (unfortunately) is very important to people. Think of it like having the difference between a trained surgeon and joe down the street performing an operation. Not that I'm saying it takes 6 years of training to trade stock, but it should be something that people are at least experienced in before investing in something flaky, if not to protect themselves but the businesses that depend on the stock. Imagine if many of the Open-Source writing investors cashed out the day after Red Hat went fully public? There is a good reason.
In my (very uninformed and inexperienced
-Erik-
Have any of you ever heard of ipautofw? You can use this little tool under linux to make anything you want to work, either to be enabled temporarily in a script (for a game) or permanently (ICQ)...
There's also a port forwarding patch for the kernel, which is probably insecure as hell but does do the job.
For ICQ for windows, there are firewall settings that you can setup, to have all communication sent through ports 2000-4000. At least under my standard ip masq setup, it works fine.
All of this stuff is at ipmasq.cjb.net.
-Erik-
No kidding, this is exactly what I was thinking as well.
:)
That's why I liked Sin so much (multiplayer at least, single player.. well....). It had Duke-Nukem like attitude.
People don't really give kingpin the design respect it deserves.. The levels and character models are beautifully designed, and it's the first game that I've seen that actually gets lighting on models correct (yes, even half life can't get it right, although HL has a nice lighting engine).
Also, if anyone has played the demo for more than 5 seconds, they'd know that the enemies as well are very, very smart in a head-to-head situation, they actually do things like strafe, duck shots, and don't walk around corners. HL and (especially) Shogo are the only other games that I've seen do this well, but even they are easier tricked. I've seen HL marines charge at me like dumbasses when i'm holding a rocket launcher..
At least the hoodlums in kingpin know to run when I fire a burst of flame in their direction.
-Erik-
A guy I know at work says he has a beta of XF4.0 (read: he could be full of shit AFAIK but considering i'm writing this post I trust him enough to speak it) and says that the his TNT is more than adequate playing q3test, and setting up DRI is a little more than setting up modelines for the resolutions you want to use.
:)
Good things to hear, now I just need to get him to burn a copy of that beta...
-Erik-
I hate MS just as much as the next guy, but I still think it is messed up to release a program like this. The end result is that script kiddies will do the only thing they know how to do.
People are missing the point that these holes ALREADY exist. What CDC is doing is just what you are explaining, giving something for the technically challenged (read: script kiddies) to exploit to the point of blatant redundancy, which will HOPEFULLY provide some certain company in redmond to get off their ass and acknowledge the fact that these bugs do exist.
The simple thing is, is that if places like rootshell, l0pht, and CDC didn't exist, we'd still have wonderful "features" like the winnuke and teardrop. IIRC Microsoft took quite a long time fixing winnuke, and took very little time (in comparison) when fixing teardrop. They learned from their mistakes, because people were getting rather tired of complaining about how their computers were locking up when on IRC.
This all comes down to simple math. The more publicized an exploit is, the quicker it gets fixed. So CDC wraps a whole bunch of exploits into one nice little package with an easy to use interface, makes it hard to get rid of, and starts calling the press houses.
This isn't rocket science, it's called politics.
-Erik-
Tom obviously has never taken a class on critical thinking or philosophy (both in the same depending on where you go), because he would know that the quickest way to lose an argument among your peers is to take stabs at them.
And as much as I imagine tom would probably hate to admit it, RMS is his peer.
The last few weeks the only thing that I have seen out of this man (in newsgroups and here on slashdot), are jabs against those who promote the GPL, whether or not it be hostile in nature.
The fact that he responds with such furor over the GPL convinces me to the fact that he is just as zealotrous about other licences (BSD is what he seems to favor) as RMS is.
In other words, the article could be applied just as well to him as it could to RMS. He's interested in promoting his views over the views of others, which is his clear intent in the writing of this utter crap.
Personally, I think that both GPL and BSD are good, solid licenses. Why? Because it's not my place to say what another author can slap on to protect his code. Personally, I'd use GPL, but that's my choice.
So here's some friendly advice Tom: no matter how much of a license bigot (which I am forced to assume by your prose) you are, you should take some tips from Thomas Payne and the Linux Advocacy HOWTO.
-Erik-
Weren't they the inventors of the "look and feel" lawsuit in the first place?
IIRC, I believe that's why the EMACS maintainers won't port it to Macintosh.
-Erik-
I could easily see this being the "interactive chastity belt" of the future.
:)
Think about it, if I was a over-concerned father of a 14 year old these days... this would be a prime advantage to make my remington useful.
-Erik-
I find it interesting that you berate Microsoft for not releasing their code on one hand, and then you accuse them of wanting to steal your code on the other hand.
No, I don't think that's what he was saying. He doesn't want Microsoft to MAKE MONEY off of his code without contributing to his effort somehow.
-Erik-
There is near constant noise on this site against other platforms, against anyone not technologically oriented (business men, sales people, marketing, management), constantly bashing of anyone who doesn't agree with the GPL, etc.
This has nothign to do with linux. This is a college hacker stigma that has been around since the late '60s. Apple used to have a commercial that aired on one of the superbowls with businessmen in suits walking off a cliff like lemmings. 'nuff said.
-Erik-
As a side not I find it disturbing that Linus thinks it is ok for people to write off color source code.
I'm not going to reply to the rest, I think being rude to somene else should qualify you for the highest level of scrutiny availiable.
But, why are people getting so angry about profanity in the source code? Linus and hte other kernel hackers have no one to report to with this code than themselves, and people really need to get it together and realize that perhaps the writers don't find profanity profane, or just don't care.
Be professional and drop the angry-zit-faced-teenage-hacker image!!!
Define professional. I think what they do on a daily basis is more than professional, they work after hours, keep a good schedule, and make sure they meet their deadlines. How many "professionals" can you say do that?
-Erik-
Disclaimer: This is all speculation, flame me if you want.
It just seems, that after reading this article, that directly combats one of infoworld's editors, it would be somewhat hard for this to get published.
Of course, I don't work for or track infoworld. But it does seem like ZDNet and Infoworld know what to put up to rake in those banner ads. I don't have either of these sites bookmarked but I end up reading at least one article on their sites everyday courtesy of slashdot....
I think to myself, "hmm. this might be something different". But no, it's some clueless idiot with a new name claiming that he knows something that the rest of the world doesn't. I don't give a damn if he invented ethernet or not, when does an EE and former CEO become a credible journalist? Now, I'm not going to claim that slashdot should change anything, but I cannot understnad why anyone would even waste their time reading this dribble. (including myself, I clicked the link too)
All we're doing is filling some advertisers' back pocket and reading something we've heard 500 times before... "Linux will never make it". Well let em think that. In fact, tell them that, because they're just going to accuse you of radical thinking if you don't. These people do not respond to logical argument, and therefore, their argument should not be considered logical either.
Don't waste your time reading this crap. Click reload on slashdot a few times and donate your bandwidth to filling Rob's back pocket instead. Keep using and developing linux, and the numbers will speak for themselves. Devote your energy to supporting development mailing lists or contacting hardware makers to petition driver support.
I guess it just amazes me that this utter troll-dom more than likely just designed to generate ad revenue, and link to a petreley article, again, to generate ad revenue, is wasting people's time when they could just spend 20 minutes in Jesse Berst's section on ZDNet and read the same stuff.
-Erik-
All it takes is one person to write some stupid GUI to parse an RC file and create dialog boxes and radio buttons for it.
:)
I'm not flaming you, but Windowmaker is a perfect example of this. Each and every one of those wonderful textfiles, since version 0.20, has had an equal and usable GUI to wrap around it, providing full functionality at the point, click, and destroy level.
It's just a matter of time before enough programs come with a gui config, and write that config to a text file. I have tons of programs that do this already (licq, windowmaker, netscape, xfmail..)
It's not the file format, it's the usability layer. I wish people would recognize this.
After all, if windows programs required you to edit the registry instead of using a gui config that's provided by the program, people would be flocking to linux in droves.
-Erik-
There is - it's called the "Disable Macros" button that pops up when you open a document that contains macros.
As I said before though, this most recent virus was not a macro virus.
Cool. It's good to see that MS is finally offering options of this caliber... which goes without saying that this is a new policy.. I'd love to figure out how to disable that stupid HTML replacement for a "host not found" error in IE4 (i hope this was fixed in IE5, it has to be the most annoying thing in the world).
Enough bickering though. Even though this button exists, and despite the fact I don't know crap about this "virus" (which 90% of media-labeled "viruses" are about as complex as a batch file -- a trojan), the admins at these places should not be allowing any form of automatically-executing or manually-executing attachments arriving in people's mailboxes.
The standardly traded mail format is just text - these guys should be processing this crap before it gets to the office. I'm thoroghly amazed it's not, especially in gov't offices where mission critical has just a little extra dash of critical sugar sprinkled onto it.
Caffiene is good.
-Erik-
Micro$oft trademarks everything. Why can't we have a few? (I'm guessing M$ will begin trademarking letters soon. It's not like they can't afford to TM the entire dictionnary.)
:)
Next thing we know they'll be trademarking "trademark" and "TM".
(go for it, slap me with a -1 - i had fun anyways)
-Erik-
How many FPS could your Voodoo3 3000 crank out in 16-bit color back in mid-April? Lots. A TNT-2 Ultra? Effectivly zero.
What about your Voodoo3 in true 32-bit color, compared to my TNT-1?
TNT-1: Lots. V3: Zero. You see, the V3 doesn't do true 32-bit color, it fakes it. and when I want to play games on my machine with color settings worth of today's high quality games, I want 32-bit. I also don't want yesterday's technology, which is what a V3 is. I see no benefit for replacing my TNT-1 with a V3, but I see great reasons for getting a Rage128, G400, or TNT2.
Don't moan because you bought a lousy card... You could have waited like all those hardware sites told you to for the newer cards.
And I'm sorry, I still have yet to see an instance where someone needs a faster desktop machine *YESTERDAY*.
-Erik-
Regardless, the new name scares me. Hello? I got WinAMP for one reason - to play MP3s. The other formats were nice, but who wants music in .wav anymore? Did I ever see a TiMidity plugin to make MIDI bearable? Can't someone code up a S3M player like MOD4WIN that plays 'em *nice* instead of jusr porting MIDAS again? And the latest versions of WinAMP have a (*gasp*) browser, no doubt for "synchronised multimedia". Call me a luddite, but I just want something that plays MP3s and plays 'em well. (Nitrane is a hell of a decoder, wish the rest of the product was as good).
.3 cpu usage)...
:).
MOD4Win is very pretty. Reliable and fast, it is not. The last good mod player that I have seen was DMP (dual or digital mod player), which was a console program for DOS and OS/2. I still have yet to find a MOD player that plays with as low cpu usage as this one did under OS/2 with DART (less than
If you're looking for quality, mikmod is very nice IMO, although I'd like it better if it handled surround sound properly.
With the exception of the ultra-specific and diversified tracker formats, I would be more than happy to welcome a nice multimedia player that handles several formats WELL. It would also be nice to see one that is built in a fashion that is modular, so if I don't need a mpeg decoder, I won't have to use one.
So far, x11amp has done this (and winamp as well.. x11amp is great if you want a direct ripoff of winamp). As long as it keeps doing it and I'm insured that I can get a free product, I'm more than happy to have something to play various sound formats (I don't use video much, i'm one of the lucky people to own a VCR and a television
OSS/Linux would probably stifle a lot of issues if it would at least release it's source for review and home modification. I have no need to pay $40 for such a product personally, but you won't see me plopping binary-only modules into my kernel, either.
Regarding the ALSA thing, it does irk me to think that because the commercial product can't use it, that the free version is stuffed in the same manner. I imagine this will be or already has been corrected by the Free Software community, but it's disconcerting to think that this comes in light of these news.
Whoa. Sleep dep, i'm getting victorian. Better stop.
-Erik-