Wow, this is one up to date news source, this e-week is totally on top of the e-news.
"Many top Bit Torrent sites such as SuprNova, Lokitorren and Bit Tower support millions of downloads daily"
And it only affects the btdownloadgui client, not the torrents themselves. Seems like non-news for people who use Azureus (or any of a number of quality clients, really).
As has been mentioned, simply being scanned is likely not all of your problem, but I do know that Comcast scans all of their users' ports to see if they're breaching contract and hosting a website/ftp etc on common ports. I think theres about 5 that they just scan repeatedly.
Funny story, in fact, they were scanning me and I didn't know who it was (all I had was an IP and very little knowledge about the internets) so I called them up and informed them that "such and such IP is attempting to haxor my boxor!" (well, not exactly like that...)
People have mentioned, like, ICMP auto-respond or sumthin, and that might have something to do with it, with one of the ports they scan. Are you breaching contract?
They say that DirectX is entirely backwards compatible, but I tried to play Deus Ex: Invisible War the other day (which was built around DirectX 8.1) and it kept crashing. A little googling showed that DX:IW won't run with DirectX 9. I'd have to reformat and install everything with DirectX 8.1 if I wanted to play that game. (I'm aware of alternatives to reformatting, but thats not really my point)
How much you wanna bet that XBox will be as backwards compatible as DirectX?
A long time ago, back when engineers built computers instead of marketers, everyone talked about measuring things in flops. Flops was apparantly the well-rounded, accurate and objective measuring system. I believe I only see flops in regards to super computers these days, and it seems to be applied to measure their computational power.
I did a term paper on this last quarter, and the rates in the US are about 30% (and steadily dropping over the past ten years) and in Canada 20% (and similarly dropping).
I'd look up my sources, but I don't wanna... the US statistics came from, like "The Family Administration" or something under the Department of Health and the Canadian one came from an independant study by some Ottawa-based company.
It's some chinsy card made in taiwan (with the appropriately accompanying poorly translated manual) called "PV-951TF" but it works fine as an analog tv tuner, and has an RCA video plug (at whatever resolution those do, I use it for my old japanese Playstation). I don't know about the resolution, but it just does normal tv (Not HDTV).
If I wanna record some show at some time I just set up a cronjob like "Channel X From X:XX to X:XX," like you say. It's not very hard to do that.
I've mostly just used it for normal TV viewing and copying all my old VHS tapes to digital (ever heard of "The Wizard of Light and Sound?"). It doesn't really have "Pause live TV" but I don't think I'd ever want that, anyways.
I only have basic cable, but I don't think it'd be a problem to hook it up to a cable box. If I didn't like the quality of the tuner, I could just go through my VCR or any other external tuner to the RCA input for higher quality.
I don't think the $150 cards have "Record every show of Boston Legal" capacity either... though, you could write a perl script to parse some website with tv listings on it and then have it pick from that fi you really wanted... that'd be pretty easy...
In short, it turns my computer into a normal TV/VCR combo, which seems to have all the relevant functionality of TiVo.
$150 is way, way, way too much. I got a fully functional TV tuner card that I use with mplayer as a DVR and it only cost me $6 (I got a good deal). But www.pricewatch.com puts capture cards around $20.
Longhorn doesn't just show you an icon for a document, for example, but rather an itsy-bitsy picture of the first page.
konqueror has done this for a while... I'm not terribly versed in GUI file managers for X, but I'd presume that other programs do it as well... I guess their new mantra is just a reincarnation of their old mantra "Steal other people's ideas and then charge for it!"
Rather than running just on computers that process 32 bits of data at a time, the new version will run on chips that process 64 bits.
To rephrase: "Windows will finally catch up to the rest of the world and be compatible with emerging technology, a practice that Microsoft is loathe to indulge in (see Internet Explorer)."
"If it's got arithmetic logic on it, then I think our software should be targeting it"
Another rephrasing: "We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile." - Jim Allchin, addressing my TI-86.
I don't know anything about the format structure, but I think it's important to consider the price of production in relation to the real applicability of the benefits of either drive.
Frulla further noted she 'wanted to persuade children that downloading music for free is wrong.'
Just like Americans were persuaded by Al Qaeda to give up their superficial cupidity for fear of having planes crashed into them. When a punishment does not fit a crime, it is terrorism, not justice.
Are we (America) gonna go to war with the Canadian terrorists now?
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Q: How many software engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Sorry, that's a hardware question.
Look at the defacement's source... it seriously looks like it was made in Word!
http://www.vitalsecurity.org/2005/06/aurora-instal l-source-revealed-and-175.html
"Many top Bit Torrent sites such as SuprNova, Lokitorren and Bit Tower support millions of downloads daily"
And it only affects the btdownloadgui client, not the torrents themselves. Seems like non-news for people who use Azureus (or any of a number of quality clients, really).
Funny story, in fact, they were scanning me and I didn't know who it was (all I had was an IP and very little knowledge about the internets) so I called them up and informed them that "such and such IP is attempting to haxor my boxor!" (well, not exactly like that...)
People have mentioned, like, ICMP auto-respond or sumthin, and that might have something to do with it, with one of the ports they scan. Are you breaching contract?
I would suggest the example of Brazil and their major foray into free software.
Clearly it should go to restarting LokiGames.
They're an administrative entity, right?
I wish they'd told me that before I'd seen the movie three times...
Let's just hope this Suck Wang guy has better practices than Dr Toby Russel...
How much you wanna bet that XBox will be as backwards compatible as DirectX?
Consider:_ per_second
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flops
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_instructions
I'd look up my sources, but I don't wanna... the US statistics came from, like "The Family Administration" or something under the Department of Health and the Canadian one came from an independant study by some Ottawa-based company.
If I wanna record some show at some time I just set up a cronjob like "Channel X From X:XX to X:XX," like you say. It's not very hard to do that.
I've mostly just used it for normal TV viewing and copying all my old VHS tapes to digital (ever heard of "The Wizard of Light and Sound?"). It doesn't really have "Pause live TV" but I don't think I'd ever want that, anyways.
I only have basic cable, but I don't think it'd be a problem to hook it up to a cable box. If I didn't like the quality of the tuner, I could just go through my VCR or any other external tuner to the RCA input for higher quality.
I don't think the $150 cards have "Record every show of Boston Legal" capacity either... though, you could write a perl script to parse some website with tv listings on it and then have it pick from that fi you really wanted... that'd be pretty easy...
In short, it turns my computer into a normal TV/VCR combo, which seems to have all the relevant functionality of TiVo.
$150 is way, way, way too much. I got a fully functional TV tuner card that I use with mplayer as a DVR and it only cost me $6 (I got a good deal). But www.pricewatch.com puts capture cards around $20.
I hope the nethack dev team reads this! X|
Whenever those pigeons fly over me, I'm always afraid of getting hit by dropped packets... =/
http://www.galactanet.com/gametable.html
"Gametable is a remote RPG host/client app that allows use of a D&D style battle map, die rollers, etc online."
Not exactly what you're looking for, but in the ballpark of nifty RPG related software.
arch rocks =]
konqueror has done this for a while... I'm not terribly versed in GUI file managers for X, but I'd presume that other programs do it as well... I guess their new mantra is just a reincarnation of their old mantra "Steal other people's ideas and then charge for it!"
Rather than running just on computers that process 32 bits of data at a time, the new version will run on chips that process 64 bits.
To rephrase: "Windows will finally catch up to the rest of the world and be compatible with emerging technology, a practice that Microsoft is loathe to indulge in (see Internet Explorer)."
"If it's got arithmetic logic on it, then I think our software should be targeting it"
Another rephrasing: "We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile." - Jim Allchin, addressing my TI-86.
Thanks!
I don't know anything about the format structure, but I think it's important to consider the price of production in relation to the real applicability of the benefits of either drive.
http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/34579/1290 58.html
Of course, this may turn out like "640k should be enough for anybody" if we go with HD DVD... =/
Just like Americans were persuaded by Al Qaeda to give up their superficial cupidity for fear of having planes crashed into them. When a punishment does not fit a crime, it is terrorism, not justice.
Are we (America) gonna go to war with the Canadian terrorists now?
Who will be the first to write malware that actually kills people?
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