In defense of Comcast, I didn't see any problems and my connection was and is blazing fast compared to DSL. I can download 250MB files from work in minutes. It is expensive (nearly $110/month with basic digital cable and internet), but the speed feels like what I get at the University.
First of all, pc games are not dead. Second, their reduced popularity is certainly due to the rise in all consoles. With a game cube costing a 100 bucks, consoles are competing well. Anyways, nethack is alive and well.....
There are only two types of IT people. 1) Those who think everybody works for them, and 2) Those who think they work for everybody. In my experience the Type 2 IT person is only successful if they are very, very skilled (generally in areas beyond IT), but more often it is a recipe for failure.
Funny, I just noticed today that I couldn't log in to my dual G5 machine as administrator. Couldn't figure it out, guess I will have to isolate now and debug....
This week on Frontline, arguably the best show on television, is titled, "The way the music died." It looks fascinating and, perhaps, even balanced. I do hope the bottom line is, however, that the music industry is a dated industry that refuses (due to some dumb executives) to adapt.
OK, every once in a while we get an article similar to this. The links change but the article is the same. Passwords are inherently insecure to some sort of guessing attack, is the statement.
I'm going to suggest something here that is perhaps a little controversial. Perhaps, if password zealots spent less time complaining about passwords and spent more time protecting machines from this sort of attack (w/o making an easy path to a DOS attack) this wouldn't be an issue. Imagine this: Passwords are never transfered as plain text. Any systematic attempt at guessing a password is prevented before the attacker gains access. Users make mistakes a few times, even for the most simple passwords, one must sample tens of passwords to break in. Systematic attempts are predictable, just like trolls on slashdot are (generally) identifiable (remember those page lengthening posts?) and spam is filterable.
In my not so humble opinion, password guessing attacks are an administrator problem, not a user problem. And the administrators seem more interested in pestering users than actually developing systems to prevent this type of attack.
1) Rebooting == sux 2) To avoid graphics problems I advise sticking with zork 3) Can't save game or data 4) This would only work if we can get a general linux that always works with most video cards and most audio cards...
when you get stuck 10% of the way through with a puzzle
I find more often than not, that places where I get really stuck in games, they are often issues on *how* to play the game, not necessarily challenging puzzles. For example, in Zelda wind waker, I didn't realize you could pull certain blocks (I didn't play previous versions). The first time I found those blocks I had no idea that they could be moved! It was very frustrating....
(I've never actually owned a guide, I get all my info via walkthroughs on the net)
1) to find a solution to a problem I just can't seem to find the answer to. I'm not going to spend two weeks trying to solve a single problem in a game.
2) to find eggs or secret features to the games that I didn't find after I've finished with the game.
That said, I think guides are pretty outdated. Most of the info you need is available on the net.
-Sean
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I find it kind of sad that you think that the discovery of a chunk of mass (rock, ice or whatever) 2000 km thick rotating around our sun isn't interesting and that you find it sad.
Getting a space elevator mentioned in Nature is huge, whether or not it is a viable project. It will help give it the exposure it needs to get debated on whether it is a viable project by people that could actually help get it off the ground.
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In defense of Comcast, I didn't see any problems and my connection was and is blazing fast compared to DSL. I can download 250MB files from work in minutes. It is expensive (nearly $110/month with basic digital cable and internet), but the speed feels like what I get at the University.
Do the image tags on penny-arcade point to slashdot? That would be an easy way to reduce bandwidth...
First of all, pc games are not dead. Second, their reduced popularity is certainly due to the rise in all consoles. With a game cube costing a 100 bucks, consoles are competing well. Anyways, nethack is alive and well.....
OK. Lets test that by cutting off your pinky toe.
There are only two types of IT people. 1) Those who think everybody works for them, and 2) Those who think they work for everybody. In my experience the Type 2 IT person is only successful if they are very, very skilled (generally in areas beyond IT), but more often it is a recipe for failure.
Funny, I just noticed today that I couldn't log in to my dual G5 machine as administrator. Couldn't figure it out, guess I will have to isolate now and debug....
-Sean
for a disease that has killed relatively few people (statistically speaking).
Yes, but it has the potential to be a very dangerous disease....
Working hard for that fp, huh?
This week on Frontline, arguably the best show on television, is titled, "The way the music died." It looks fascinating and, perhaps, even balanced. I do hope the bottom line is, however, that the music industry is a dated industry that refuses (due to some dumb executives) to adapt.
-Sean
Can it connect seemlessly to Exchange servers?
-Sean
Hmm, have you been watching Rumsfeld lately?
OK, every once in a while we get an article similar to this. The links change but the article is the same. Passwords are inherently insecure to some sort of guessing attack, is the statement.
I'm going to suggest something here that is perhaps a little controversial. Perhaps, if password zealots spent less time complaining about passwords and spent more time protecting machines from this sort of attack (w/o making an easy path to a DOS attack) this wouldn't be an issue. Imagine this: Passwords are never transfered as plain text. Any systematic attempt at guessing a password is prevented before the attacker gains access. Users make mistakes a few times, even for the most simple passwords, one must sample tens of passwords to break in. Systematic attempts are predictable, just like trolls on slashdot are (generally) identifiable (remember those page lengthening posts?) and spam is filterable.
In my not so humble opinion, password guessing attacks are an administrator problem, not a user problem. And the administrators seem more interested in pestering users than actually developing systems to prevent this type of attack.
-Sean
The debate over the name planet is just as silly as the debate over the word "marriage." It just doesn't matter.
Ahhh, My EYES! The goggles do nothing! (Damn you /.)!
1) Rebooting == sux ...
2) To avoid graphics problems I advise sticking with zork
3) Can't save game or data
4) This would only work if we can get a general linux that always works with most video cards and most audio cards
Not insightful.
Neither was the sig, for that matter.
when you get stuck 10% of the way through with a puzzle
I find more often than not, that places where I get really stuck in games, they are often issues on *how* to play the game, not necessarily challenging puzzles. For example, in Zelda wind waker, I didn't realize you could pull certain blocks (I didn't play previous versions). The first time I found those blocks I had no idea that they could be moved! It was very frustrating....
(I've never actually owned a guide, I get all my info via walkthroughs on the net)
1) to find a solution to a problem I just can't seem to find the answer to. I'm not going to spend two weeks trying to solve a single problem in a game.
2) to find eggs or secret features to the games that I didn't find after I've finished with the game.
That said, I think guides are pretty outdated. Most of the info you need is available on the net.
-Sean
Why get all uppity about it: Because it is cool
-Sean
Is the salt going to eat those off roaders trucks alive?
-Sean
Sounds like an academic department in a university. No where else is the competition so high for stakes that are so low. (source unknown) Heh.
-Sean
-or did you just fall for an obvious troll?
I find it kind of sad that you think that the discovery of a chunk of mass (rock, ice or whatever) 2000 km thick rotating around our sun isn't interesting and that you find it sad.
/Obvious
Getting a space elevator mentioned in Nature is huge, whether or not it is a viable project. It will help give it the exposure it needs to get debated on whether it is a viable project by people that could actually help get it off the ground.
-Sean