Now really, who will get all this money for advertising? The consummer still needs to buy the game, right? So what, all this spyware and ads revenue is a "bonus" to the game developer? If the game would be offered for free upon installation of this spyware, I would then accept it. I would get myself another HDD with another Windows installation just for that game.
My fellow/.ers, is this the starting of the end of privacy? Whatever happened too good old gaming.
All this website does is list the podcasts with an extremely small description of what they are. Why not offer a review for every of those podcasts and include a rating mark for each one.
Aswell, my personnal favorite is Security Now. Steve Gibson is a wonderful person and he really knows what he's explaining about. I know that most of the hardcore security guys hate him for "dumbing down" terms and concepts. But, I strongly believe that it is in his interest to make people understand what he's talking about, and not just showing off vocabulary that nobody understands. Bundled with Leo Laporte, Security Now is an amazing podcast and I always enjoy listening to it.
Is it only me, but... I always like to have a console (or otherwise called a terminal) accessible on the boxes that I own. I want to be able to SSH them and change configs, hack it up, or just play around. The reason why I'm still with IPcops is that it has a full Linux console accessible locally and also via SSH. M0n0wall doesn't. So how about pfSense, does it or doesn't it?
Any comments on it? I know that I'm not _supposed_ to install stuff on a firewall, but gosh, it's a full-blown computer that just there.
I'm currently using IPcops, but I've heard great things about BSD. The recent IPcops updates have been breaking things. But it's working out great in my environment. And, I guess I'll need to plug, but I even have a webcam which shows all my networking equipments and computers in my basement: http://thelab.servegame.com:8080/view/index.shtml (The IPCop box is the lower-right one, the one to the left of it is a Windows box that's never up (Hey, guess why;-) and the upper right one is my storage server.
Is there an alternative to this "Brain Exercise" game for the PC? Brain Age sure looks interesting, but I'm not going to buy a console just to be able to play this one game (I know that Nintendo wants me to do that, but I don't have the money).
I know that PopCap Games makes great puzzle games from time to time, but are there any others? Maybe open source, even?
They have logins for manywebsites of all categories. If if there isn't a login, they supply you with websites that allow you to create temporary email accounts.
This is good news, but I wonder if it's web interface, stability and value is up to par with other networking routers. I hope that they won't be using a stupid mini OS that will crash every once it receives too many connections. Even better, could people boot Linux on it?
I know this is a bit off-topic, but does it provide sufficent cooling? I've been using many routers throughout the years and most of them have processors without heatsinks which heat up A LOT. In fact, I install a fan on every switch that I have (And use a Linux box as the router). Does heat actually do something to the router? Or are they all designed to support tremendous temperatures?
That's a really nice insensitive. I would sure wish that more women were involved in computing, and actually interested by it. Almost 80% of the woman I met use the computer just for chatting to their friends through instant messenging.
Having a woman's touch on a software would be really great. I sure hope this project is a success and brings some great woman into OSS.
That's because with OSS, Windows users are reassured that there is no spyware, phone-home features or anything else unwanted in a "freeware" program. And, they don't want to pay for commercial software.
I've recently used Windows in a VM environment (thank you very much, I'm a Mac and Linux geek) and I was browsing for freeware software. Almost all of that software had malware bundled with it. Gosh, I'm so thankful that I'm not using Windows every day. It is hilarious! You can't trust any single piece of software.
So yes, people like OSS because you can trust OSS. You know what's in there and you know that it won't harm the system. And plus, OSS software is mostly of greater quality than the usual freeware.
I don't know if the news source can be trusted. And how come a few words that this average salesman said suddenly become news?
Pirates won't stop pirating movies and their quality always increases. They'll try getting the actual film from the theatres and rip it. Or even yet, get an "internal agent" which would work closely with the movie to leak a copy. Ah, so many possibilities!
As for the movie itself, I still have to force myself to read the book before watching it.
I'm a Mac user myself, while using Linux on my laptop and servers. I do have a Windows server that I RDP into every once awhile to use these Windows-only applications or do work remotely. I try to run as a non-admin user and it isn't that bad. But, two things bug me:
Firstly, some applications will go crazy if you don't run as an administrator. Maybe it's because of a bug in the software, but Photoshop refused to load under a normal user, stating that my installation was "corrupted" (while it worked perfectly in administrator)
Secondly, some java applets on the web will refuse to run. It's not a great deal, but I go into them once awhile.
But, Windows has this nice tool which allows you to run a certain program under another user (kind of a sudo, but more simple). The problem with that is that you need the "Terminal Services" and "Second user login" services to be running, which will take quite some RAM on the lower spec machines.
So get your friend to try it! You have nothing to lose. Next week, tell him to install Linux.
Is the next version of the DMCA upon us? Why does everyone supopse that companies must babysit their products.
It's not Google's problem is their product can be used in a malice situation. Same thing would apply for almost anything. You could stab a person with a pencil, then blame the pencil for it.
I think this is pathetic. It's the companie's problem if they don't have good enough piracy protection. Don't go after the search companies!
Indeed. I can also recall some other commercial substances that tried to immitate Play-Doh. Unfortunately, most of them did not have the same characteristics and seemed to be harder to handle and aswell more messy.
Essentially, it's a open source Limewire client which connects to Gnutella. It looks like the "pro" version of Limewire, so it's easy to use but it's free and open source.
Also, uTorrentdeserves a mention to be wicked-small and fast Torrent client for Windows. It only takes 155 KB of space!
CentOS is one of my favorite distributions. I use them on numerous servers as well as my desktop and laptop computer. For those who didn't have the chance to check it out, you should.
There are many RPM packages out there and this distribution is extremely stable. I'm proud for them to release another release!
Yeah, on the first-boot screen Windows does that and it's all natural. The image that they show stating "Please Wait" is at 680x480 and Windows normally changes the resolution to 800x600. And you are free to move the mouse cursor werever you want.
270mbit cable connection in Montreal? I'm still here strugging with Sympatico to provide me 1.5mbit. Videotron offers cable Internet but they do so for $90 a month for 8mbit.
Like many other people, I assume that you are locked into Windows for most games. But, if you do play games and if they are available for Linux, try to play them on Linux. Your performance may be augmented by very much.
Now what you should do is, first of all, make sure that you have enough RAM. Observe your hard disk drive activiy LED while playing games. If your game stumbles, you'll need more RAM. And let me make this clear, the minimum today for gaming should be at least 1GB. If your games require more, feed the beast with fresh RAM DIMMs.
The second thing you want to do is to open your task manager and then starting and playing your game. The task manager will then create a graph of the CPU usage which you'll be able to look on later. Does the CPU spike for a while? Is it always on the edge? A new CPU will cure!
Otherwise, it is safe to assume that your video card is up for an upgrade.
Really, there aren't many bottlenecks possible in a gaming system. Everything is logical.
If I'm not mistaking, I think that many gamer benchmark programs can also test the bandwidth. Most of these benchmarking tools will do many tests and then give the user a total score.
I'm pretty sure that 3D Mark from Futuremark has an option to just perform bandwidth and filling tests and then report back on how it went. Heck, FutureMark even has a database where thoudsands of gamers posted their scores along with their computer specifications, it could be an information goldmine to you.
But never the less, you have a very interesting point with the bandwidth. Something that I too would like to find out.
PS: I think I read an article somewhere saying that Google Earth optimizes it's display and the earth's shape as well for best performance. I run Google Earth on a X600 and it is extremely smooth. Wouldn't the Internet connection be an important bottleneck (if you guys didn't work out with Google to get a local cache of the earth)
Speaking of "superfetch", arn't most USB storage devices running on flash memory? Flashable memory does tend to stop working after a certain number of flashes. Moving in and out huge ammount of data will seriously shorten the life of these devices.
Seriously though, I would like Microsoft to improve their caching abbilities using the system's RAM. For now, Windows only has two setting. To cache minimally, or maximally. So what do I do when I got 2GB of RAM, want a run a 300mb application and cache the rest? According to Microsoft, they recommend not to cache because Windows will store that application in the paging file. Talk about stupidity.
Seriously, if mainstream applications would be ported to Linux, more people would switch.
Correct. They probably want to attract some enterprise buyers who actually own servers and possibly already use some Sun applications.
But then, why add blogs to the equation? I don't know many companies who have a blog and would be ready to post this totally random review of a server on it.
Perhaps they're trying to get big blogging sites who own their own server racks to post a review. I bet you that Ars Technica is up for this:-) Never the less, I like the Ars reviews. These guys are ammazing, it would be awesome if they could score a server from Sun.
Also, as for the credit information, if you look at their pages correctly. They state that they'll automatically bill you for the machine if it's not returned within 60 days. Trust me, they wouldn't give away a 5000$ machine without asking any credit or monetary information!
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Who said that I'm going to pay?
By the time that Vista is going to be released, ReactOS will be stable!
What? You can't be serious! Oh wait.... You are?
/.ers, is this the starting of the end of privacy? Whatever happened too good old gaming.
Now really, who will get all this money for advertising? The consummer still needs to buy the game, right? So what, all this spyware and ads revenue is a "bonus" to the game developer? If the game would be offered for free upon installation of this spyware, I would then accept it. I would get myself another HDD with another Windows installation just for that game.
My fellow
All this website does is list the podcasts with an extremely small description of what they are. Why not offer a review for every of those podcasts and include a rating mark for each one.
Aswell, my personnal favorite is Security Now. Steve Gibson is a wonderful person and he really knows what he's explaining about. I know that most of the hardcore security guys hate him for "dumbing down" terms and concepts. But, I strongly believe that it is in his interest to make people understand what he's talking about, and not just showing off vocabulary that nobody understands. Bundled with Leo Laporte, Security Now is an amazing podcast and I always enjoy listening to it.
Is it only me, but... I always like to have a console (or otherwise called a terminal) accessible on the boxes that I own. I want to be able to SSH them and change configs, hack it up, or just play around. The reason why I'm still with IPcops is that it has a full Linux console accessible locally and also via SSH. M0n0wall doesn't. So how about pfSense, does it or doesn't it?
;-) and the upper right one is my storage server.
Any comments on it? I know that I'm not _supposed_ to install stuff on a firewall, but gosh, it's a full-blown computer that just there.
I'm currently using IPcops, but I've heard great things about BSD. The recent IPcops updates have been breaking things. But it's working out great in my environment. And, I guess I'll need to plug, but I even have a webcam which shows all my networking equipments and computers in my basement: http://thelab.servegame.com:8080/view/index.shtml
(The IPCop box is the lower-right one, the one to the left of it is a Windows box that's never up (Hey, guess why
Is there an alternative to this "Brain Exercise" game for the PC? Brain Age sure looks interesting, but I'm not going to buy a console just to be able to play this one game (I know that Nintendo wants me to do that, but I don't have the money).
I know that PopCap Games makes great puzzle games from time to time, but are there any others? Maybe open source, even?
http://www.bugmenot.com/
They have logins for manywebsites of all categories.
If if there isn't a login, they supply you with websites that allow you to create temporary email accounts.
This is good news, but I wonder if it's web interface, stability and value is up to par with other networking routers. I hope that they won't be using a stupid mini OS that will crash every once it receives too many connections. Even better, could people boot Linux on it?
I know this is a bit off-topic, but does it provide sufficent cooling? I've been using many routers throughout the years and most of them have processors without heatsinks which heat up A LOT. In fact, I install a fan on every switch that I have (And use a Linux box as the router). Does heat actually do something to the router? Or are they all designed to support tremendous temperatures?
"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."
Microsoft sure is trying to silence the masses from knowing all of this!
Yes, it's all a conspiracy theory.
That's a really nice insensitive. I would sure wish that more women were involved in computing, and actually interested by it. Almost 80% of the woman I met use the computer just for chatting to their friends through instant messenging.
Having a woman's touch on a software would be really great. I sure hope this project is a success and brings some great woman into OSS.
That's because with OSS, Windows users are reassured that there is no spyware, phone-home features or anything else unwanted in a "freeware" program. And, they don't want to pay for commercial software.
I've recently used Windows in a VM environment (thank you very much, I'm a Mac and Linux geek) and I was browsing for freeware software. Almost all of that software had malware bundled with it. Gosh, I'm so thankful that I'm not using Windows every day. It is hilarious! You can't trust any single piece of software.
So yes, people like OSS because you can trust OSS. You know what's in there and you know that it won't harm the system.
And plus, OSS software is mostly of greater quality than the usual freeware.
Nothing to see here, move along?
That's sure the way Apple wants it until WWDC!
Agreed.
I don't know if the news source can be trusted. And how come a few words that this average salesman said suddenly become news?
Pirates won't stop pirating movies and their quality always increases. They'll try getting the actual film from the theatres and rip it. Or even yet, get an "internal agent" which would work closely with the movie to leak a copy. Ah, so many possibilities!
As for the movie itself, I still have to force myself to read the book before watching it.
I'm a Mac user myself, while using Linux on my laptop and servers. I do have a Windows server that I RDP into every once awhile to use these Windows-only applications or do work remotely. I try to run as a non-admin user and it isn't that bad. But, two things bug me:
Firstly, some applications will go crazy if you don't run as an administrator. Maybe it's because of a bug in the software, but Photoshop refused to load under a normal user, stating that my installation was "corrupted" (while it worked perfectly in administrator)
Secondly, some java applets on the web will refuse to run. It's not a great deal, but I go into them once awhile.
But, Windows has this nice tool which allows you to run a certain program under another user (kind of a sudo, but more simple). The problem with that is that you need the "Terminal Services" and "Second user login" services to be running, which will take quite some RAM on the lower spec machines.
So get your friend to try it! You have nothing to lose.
Next week, tell him to install Linux.
Is the next version of the DMCA upon us? Why does everyone supopse that companies must babysit their products.
It's not Google's problem is their product can be used in a malice situation. Same thing would apply for almost anything. You could stab a person with a pencil, then blame the pencil for it.
I think this is pathetic. It's the companie's problem if they don't have good enough piracy protection. Don't go after the search companies!
Indeed. I can also recall some other commercial substances that tried to immitate Play-Doh. Unfortunately, most of them did not have the same characteristics and seemed to be harder to handle and aswell more messy.
I think that FrostWire deserves a mention aswell.
Essentially, it's a open source Limewire client which connects to Gnutella. It looks like the "pro" version of Limewire, so it's easy to use but it's free and open source.
Also, uTorrentdeserves a mention to be wicked-small and fast Torrent client for Windows. It only takes 155 KB of space!
And for Linux, use TorrentFlux which is a PHP torrent client which is controlable from the web.
It's really sweet and it's way nicer than VNCing to a Linux desktop filled with BitTorrent clients opened.
Oh no! A moderator's worst nightmare.
I don't know wether to mod it as Informative or Funny.
Where are you CmdrTaco when we need you?
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CentOS is one of my favorite distributions. I use them on numerous servers as well as my desktop and laptop computer. For those who didn't have the chance to check it out, you should.
There are many RPM packages out there and this distribution is extremely stable. I'm proud for them to release another release!
Yeah, on the first-boot screen Windows does that and it's all natural. The image that they show stating "Please Wait" is at 680x480 and Windows normally changes the resolution to 800x600. And you are free to move the mouse cursor werever you want.
Another idiocy of Windows.
WHAT?
270mbit cable connection in Montreal? I'm still here strugging with Sympatico to provide me 1.5mbit. Videotron offers cable Internet but they do so for $90 a month for 8mbit.
So where do you see 270mbit? Tell me.
Like many other people, I assume that you are locked into Windows for most games. But, if you do play games and if they are available for Linux, try to play them on Linux. Your performance may be augmented by very much.
Now what you should do is, first of all, make sure that you have enough RAM. Observe your hard disk drive activiy LED while playing games. If your game stumbles, you'll need more RAM. And let me make this clear, the minimum today for gaming should be at least 1GB. If your games require more, feed the beast with fresh RAM DIMMs.
The second thing you want to do is to open your task manager and then starting and playing your game. The task manager will then create a graph of the CPU usage which you'll be able to look on later. Does the CPU spike for a while? Is it always on the edge? A new CPU will cure!
Otherwise, it is safe to assume that your video card is up for an upgrade.
Really, there aren't many bottlenecks possible in a gaming system. Everything is logical.
If I'm not mistaking, I think that many gamer benchmark programs can also test the bandwidth. Most of these benchmarking tools will do many tests and then give the user a total score.
I'm pretty sure that 3D Mark from Futuremark has an option to just perform bandwidth and filling tests and then report back on how it went. Heck, FutureMark even has a database where thoudsands of gamers posted their scores along with their computer specifications, it could be an information goldmine to you.
But never the less, you have a very interesting point with the bandwidth. Something that I too would like to find out.
PS: I think I read an article somewhere saying that Google Earth optimizes it's display and the earth's shape as well for best performance. I run Google Earth on a X600 and it is extremely smooth. Wouldn't the Internet connection be an important bottleneck (if you guys didn't work out with Google to get a local cache of the earth)
Speaking of "superfetch", arn't most USB storage devices running on flash memory? Flashable memory does tend to stop working after a certain number of flashes. Moving in and out huge ammount of data will seriously shorten the life of these devices.
Seriously though, I would like Microsoft to improve their caching abbilities using the system's RAM. For now, Windows only has two setting. To cache minimally, or maximally. So what do I do when I got 2GB of RAM, want a run a 300mb application and cache the rest? According to Microsoft, they recommend not to cache because Windows will store that application in the paging file. Talk about stupidity.
Seriously, if mainstream applications would be ported to Linux, more people would switch.
Correct. They probably want to attract some enterprise buyers who actually own servers and possibly already use some Sun applications.
:-)
But then, why add blogs to the equation? I don't know many companies who have a blog and would be ready to post this totally random review of a server on it.
Perhaps they're trying to get big blogging sites who own their own server racks to post a review. I bet you that Ars Technica is up for this
Never the less, I like the Ars reviews. These guys are ammazing, it would be awesome if they could score a server from Sun.
Also, as for the credit information, if you look at their pages correctly. They state that they'll automatically bill you for the machine if it's not returned within 60 days. Trust me, they wouldn't give away a 5000$ machine without asking any credit or monetary information!