What kind of novelty games are these? Grapics and sounds and things. A jedi needs these things not. Ok, maybe graphics.
The game that affected me most is Netrek. It has poor graphics, almost no sound, is hard to learn, has a lot of abusive people in it (Hi Fugi), wears out mice quicker than I've ever seen, may cause You to lose your hair and your grades to drop (did for me anyway, can't swear it was the game though). In other words, good clean fun.
Flying in to take a planet, carrying 5 armies in a DD, cloaked, with missiles flying all over the place still gets my heart pumping more than any 1st person shooter I've ever seen.
The number of players are declining, but You can still catch a game once in a while.
It takes long to learn, but when You're in the game, You're IN the game.
If You want that, try Mnet (http://mnet.sourceforge.net/).
* Distributed files over several nodes * Each block is encrypted on disk. * Transfers between nodes are encrypted * Swarm downloads * Works on several platforms * Freenet-like anonymity * Open source (LGPL license)
New version will include bittorrent-like URI's to just paste into Your browser, but for now You have to use a web or python GUI. FEC (Error correction) is also being worked on for the new version.
Do read some more about it on their webpage as I think it's a really interesting project.
We know Microsoft isn't going to "win" in the long run (they're losing our data centers already, and eventually they'll lose our desktops and office suites as well), but when they do these extremely silly things they actually help hasten their own eventual demise, by rapidly educating the public (and the policy makers) about what's wrong with current regulation.
Are You so sure they won't "win"? They're working on that damn Palladium cruft that will make all Open Source software either expensive or just plain gone from their platform, and don't think they won't get away with it. In the name of "security" most managers will gladly purchase any palladium machine.
I imagine Management going someething like this: "-No viruses can run on this machine, ever again You say? Wonderful, viruses costs us $X/year, we'll have 3000 of those computers"
When big buissness has bought enough computers (and they will) most consumers (that don't have a clue anyway) will purchase their own Palladium machine, and pretty soon You won't be able to log into Hotmail, Your bank or wherever without your Palladium enabled machine.
I can't believe that US:DOJ/DOC agreed to this. I'm already thinking about another career, perhaps management? I mean, how hard can it be to sit around getting paid a whole lot for making uneducated guesses about shit I don't know anything about and then forcing smart people to do dumb things? On second thought, perhaps I'll just become a male stripper instead, atleast that job has some integrity.
[snip]In the end, the RIAA is still a business and has a right to make money.[snip]
They have a right to _try_ to make money. They don't have a right to make money. If companies had the right to make money, then they could say things like "This filesharing buissness is hurting our sales, so we demand that it'll be judged illegal." or "This automobile buissness is hurting our lucurative horse trading buissness so we demand that it'd be stopped!".
Now, I do agree with most of what you're saying, but in the above case your choice of words were unfortunate.
I'm just whining here, but why does a new install have to remove all my gestures, autoscroll and other nice addons that I've collected? Every time I upgrade I have to hit Mozdev to get those again. Quite annoying. Yes, I know I can save some folders and do other weird stuff to make sure this doesn't happen, but by god, think of the newbies. (Ok, so the last part was a bit over the top, but still...)
Oh, and with the new spam-filtering-rules Mozilla has now become my fav mailclient. Combined with IMAP it just rocks.
Thank You to all developers. Perhaps I should go file that bug now. The annoying one.
Buying a computer without Windows? How? Where? Last time I tried they told me it was impossible. They did offer not to send the media, but I still had to pay for it.
It would be interesting to see performance #'s on these things. They're "only" running at 500mhz, so how do they compare to other MIPS based cpu's? Basically, just how good is there engineering. It's nice for the Chinese to have a home grown cpu to use in their home grown machines, but so far it looks like a major yawn in relation to the overall cpu market.
Tell that to SGI. They're the ones that own MIPS Technologies. All SGI-machines that run IRIX runs on MIPS-processors and they do it damn well. The latest chip is a 600MHz, but those 600MHz can't be compared to Intel/AMD-MHz since the architecture is different.
Also these machines consume a fraction of the power that Intel/AMD does, I think the latest Pentium weighs in at about 130W and the latest (R14000 or R16000) at 16W, and in this case bigger is not better. This means that You can put a lot of CPU's in one machine and get less powerconsumtion and less heat. Combine this with SGI's kickass architecture with good interconnect and You've got a really good machine. SGI has no equal when it comes to fluid dynamics calculations as an example. No, linux doesn't come close (yet), although the Altrix looks promising.
And yes, I know, SGI is too expensive to justify the cost in most cases. Unfortunatly.
Please do remember that the kids in the porno pictures are real persons, with real lives hopefully. They have been taken advantage of (raped?) and photographed/filmed while this was going on. They have been abused, and now the abuse keeps living it's own life on the web. The horrible things that happened to them are availible for anyone to see. I don't think they'd like that one bit.
Imagine a similar thing happening to You. Say some thugs comes along and beat you up, and then post this on the web as entertainment, would You like it?
Yeah, they changed the name from Palladium to Trusted Computing Platform didn't they? And since we all agree that its main purpose is to keep peoples right to their interllectual property perhaps we should call it:
Trusted Computing Platform / Interlectual Property, or just TCP/IP for short.
This is going to change fast, thanks to Safari. Whenever a page looks incorrect or doesn't function in Safari, click the little bug icon in the upper-right corner, and it pops up a dialog where you can send feedback directly to Apple's Safari team. It can optionally include a screenshot of the page.
Now this would be a killer app for Mozilla-like browsers. Whenever something doesn't look right, You can popup a dialog with a screenshot and some text explaining that the page is "broken" in some way.
Not many people can be bothered to take a screenshot, start a mail-client, write a letter explaining what the problem is, mail the letter and screenshot to "www.broken-site.com".
If 90% of this is already done and all the user had to do was to provide a name and where to send the complaint, I bet we'd see a lot of changes in the web-world.
"Would You FIX the F*CKING page already? We get 500 screenshots a day and it's wrecking havoc in our mailserver"
Problem moved from the person doing the browsing to the person writing bad html.
It works almost exactly like you describe if I remember correctly.
Your file is split up in chunks, and distributed over a number of nodes. Then each chunk is replicated to some other nodes to provide redundancy. I'm not sure about the parity data, but I think it's stored in the chunks so that You don't have to get all blocks. 75% or so will do. Do check it out though. It's an interesting project. Version 0.6.0-STABLE was released a few weeks ago.
Another thing worth mentioning is that some people probably patched their system with sp3, which I believe was supposed to fix this problem, but then applied some other patches that broke sp3 again.
I heard this from our Windows admins at work as an explaination as to why we were hit.
And as someone mentioned below, it just takes one person with a laptop or a poorly configured firewall somewhere in the organisation to get hit.
Still, it's funny as hell that MS got shafted. Especially as they say that "If You just keep your system patched, its no problem. We can't be held responsible for what You don't do."
I would also suggest checking out "urpmi" (how's that for a crappy name?) on Mandrake. I have yet to find something bad about it, except the name. It installs packages, satisfies dependencies and can also update the whole system.
I keep an this in my crontab to make sure my system is up to date.
urpmi.update -a ; urpmi --auto-select --auto
It checks for new packages and downloads and installs the new ones.
Hint: Before you can use urpmi.update, make sure you have something to update. Try urpmi.addmedia.
Who can give a guarantee that nobody tampers with the results or creates a database with citizens voting information?
Who can garuntee that now with the papaer based systems? At some point you have to trust somebody.
I don't know how it's done where You're at. But where I come from, I show my voters card, show my ID, then I get an envelope, I go behind a screen, put my vote in the envelope (no ID on either envelope or vote paper), and put the envelope in the ballot box with hundereds or thousand other envelopes.
Now, how can they identify MY envelope among all the others?
That kind of anonymity is much harder to do on the web. I'm sure there is a way, but its much harder and much more easy to abuse.
Another thing that one might have to concider is how free then voter is. How can they guarantee that there is only one in front of the computer? I can see some potential for influence by some other person. There is a reason why we go into the voting booth one by one. Everyone should be free to vote as they see fit, without someone else influencing them.
Really, I could care less if the CD was playable on my pc or not. I have a cd-player, I can play it there. Although I shouldn't have to. So they got that one down.
What I guess they're trying to prevent is people converting their CD's to mp3's, and that's when I get upset. I like mp3's. They play on my mp3-player, I can fit a whole lot of them on another CD to bring to work. This is what I want to do. This is my right, since I paid for the music. Why do they feel the urge to deny me my rights?
People live up, or down, to expectations. If they treat me like a criminal, perhaps I should start act like one too?
Guess what? Giving a CD of good songs to your father is not one of your rights under copyright.
Actually it is. Where I live we still have the right to give away copies of our CD's to our "closest friends". The same goes for movies. Doing it with software is illegal however.
What "relatives and closest friends" are is up to the court to decide if someone thinks you have too many friends (ie spread your files too much).
I'd like to be able to copy my cd's, make mp3 (or ogg) out of them, give a cd of good songs to my father and stuff like that.
If DRM can let me keep those rights and still be accepted by the media companies, I'd accept it too. Atleast if the other option is that I lose all these rights through legislation and copy protected cd's that won't let me make mp3 or copy them.
...each user that uses Mandrake on one or more boxes bought atleast one boxed set from them, they'd be home free. Right?
I haven't so far, but I will since I use Mandrake on a few machines. The price is a hell of a lot better than the price of WinXP, and they don't try to force any registration or similar thing on You.
A feature that I really like about Mandrake is the "urpmi". I don't need to register anywhere, just point out where the upgrades live (on some ftp mirror) and have a "urpmi.update -a ; urpmi --auto-select --auto" in my crontab, and my system will be up to date and I don't even have to care. I even upgraded my 9.0 system to a 9.1 (the devel-version) this way. All I had to do was to point the urpmi to the devel-version and it took care of everything.
Yeah? Can I make(or get) an.ogg out of them to keep on my laptop? Can I make(or get) an.mp3 to keep in my mp3-player? Can I make a copy of the CD to keep in my car to prevent the (yet another) original CD to become scratched and broken.
If this is the case I'd love to buy the new format. I don't mind copy protection, but I and _NOT_ the record companies should decide when and where I listen to the music I bought.
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I use Linux (Mandrake) on my laptop, but I have yet to find any decent replacement for "Offline files" or the "Briefcase" or whatever it's called.
.haeger
When I connect my laptop to the network I want it to synchronize my files. If it can do this via ssh to any remote server, even better.
Anyone know of any such product for Linux?
What kind of novelty games are these? Grapics and sounds and things. A jedi needs these things not. Ok, maybe graphics.
The game that affected me most is Netrek.
It has poor graphics, almost no sound, is hard to learn, has a lot of abusive people in it (Hi Fugi), wears out mice quicker than I've ever seen, may cause You to lose your hair and your grades to drop (did for me anyway, can't swear it was the game though).
In other words, good clean fun.
Flying in to take a planet, carrying 5 armies in a DD, cloaked, with missiles flying all over the place still gets my heart pumping more than any 1st person shooter I've ever seen.
The number of players are declining, but You can still catch a game once in a while.
It takes long to learn, but when You're in the game, You're IN the game.
If You want that, try Mnet (http://mnet.sourceforge.net/).
.haeger
* Distributed files over several nodes
* Each block is encrypted on disk.
* Transfers between nodes are encrypted
* Swarm downloads
* Works on several platforms
* Freenet-like anonymity
* Open source (LGPL license)
New version will include bittorrent-like URI's to just paste into Your browser, but for now You have to use a web or python GUI.
FEC (Error correction) is also being worked on for the new version.
Do read some more about it on their webpage as I think it's a really interesting project.
No, I don't work for them. I just like the idea.
Did I hear "Disney" stage?
.haeger
Are You so sure they won't "win"? They're working on that damn Palladium cruft that will make all Open Source software either expensive or just plain gone from their platform, and don't think they won't get away with it. In the name of "security" most managers will gladly purchase any palladium machine.
I imagine Management going someething like this:
"-No viruses can run on this machine, ever again You say? Wonderful, viruses costs us $X/year, we'll have 3000 of those computers"
When big buissness has bought enough computers (and they will) most consumers (that don't have a clue anyway) will purchase their own Palladium machine, and pretty soon You won't be able to log into Hotmail, Your bank or wherever without your Palladium enabled machine.
I can't believe that US:DOJ/DOC agreed to this.
I'm already thinking about another career, perhaps management? I mean, how hard can it be to sit around getting paid a whole lot for making uneducated guesses about shit I don't know anything about and then forcing smart people to do dumb things? On second thought, perhaps I'll just become a male stripper instead, atleast that job has some integrity.
They have a right to _try_ to make money. They don't have a right to make money. If companies had the right to make money, then they could say things like "This filesharing buissness is hurting our sales, so we demand that it'll be judged illegal." or "This automobile buissness is hurting our lucurative horse trading buissness so we demand that it'd be stopped!".
Now, I do agree with most of what you're saying, but in the above case your choice of words were unfortunate.
Yes, I know I can save some folders and do other weird stuff to make sure this doesn't happen, but by god, think of the newbies. (Ok, so the last part was a bit over the top, but still...)
Oh, and with the new spam-filtering-rules Mozilla has now become my fav mailclient. Combined with IMAP it just rocks.
Thank You to all developers. Perhaps I should go file that bug now. The annoying one.
Last time I tried they told me it was impossible. They did offer not to send the media, but I still had to pay for it.
*sigh*
Tell that to SGI. They're the ones that own MIPS Technologies. All SGI-machines that run IRIX runs on MIPS-processors and they do it damn well. The latest chip is a 600MHz, but those 600MHz can't be compared to Intel/AMD-MHz since the architecture is different.
Also these machines consume a fraction of the power that Intel/AMD does, I think the latest Pentium weighs in at about 130W and the latest (R14000 or R16000) at 16W, and in this case bigger is not better.
This means that You can put a lot of CPU's in one machine and get less powerconsumtion and less heat.
Combine this with SGI's kickass architecture with good interconnect and You've got a really good machine. SGI has no equal when it comes to fluid dynamics calculations as an example. No, linux doesn't come close (yet), although the Altrix looks promising.
And yes, I know, SGI is too expensive to justify the cost in most cases. Unfortunatly.
The horrible things that happened to them are availible for anyone to see. I don't think they'd like that one bit.
Imagine a similar thing happening to You. Say some thugs comes along and beat you up, and then post this on the web as entertainment, would You like it?
Trusted Computing Platform / Interlectual Property, or just TCP/IP for short.
I see an embrace and extend coming our way...
Now this would be a killer app for Mozilla-like browsers. Whenever something doesn't look right, You can popup a dialog with a screenshot and some text explaining that the page is "broken" in some way.
Not many people can be bothered to take a screenshot, start a mail-client, write a letter explaining what the problem is, mail the letter and screenshot to "www.broken-site.com".
If 90% of this is already done and all the user had to do was to provide a name and where to send the complaint, I bet we'd see a lot of changes in the web-world.
"Would You FIX the F*CKING page already? We get 500 screenshots a day and it's wrecking havoc in our mailserver"
Problem moved from the person doing the browsing to the person writing bad html.
It works almost exactly like you describe if I remember correctly.
Your file is split up in chunks, and distributed over a number of nodes. Then each chunk is replicated to some other nodes to provide redundancy.
I'm not sure about the parity data, but I think it's stored in the chunks so that You don't have to get all blocks. 75% or so will do.
Do check it out though. It's an interesting project. Version 0.6.0-STABLE was released a few weeks ago.
I heard this from our Windows admins at work as an explaination as to why we were hit.
And as someone mentioned below, it just takes one person with a laptop or a poorly configured firewall somewhere in the organisation to get hit.
Still, it's funny as hell that MS got shafted. Especially as they say that "If You just keep your system patched, its no problem. We can't be held responsible for what You don't do."
Buissnessplan here.
I keep an this in my crontab to make sure my system is up to date.
urpmi.update -a ; urpmi --auto-select --auto
It checks for new packages and downloads and installs the new ones.
Hint: Before you can use urpmi.update, make sure you have something to update. Try urpmi.addmedia.
Who can garuntee that now with the papaer based systems? At some point you have to trust somebody.
I don't know how it's done where You're at. But where I come from, I show my voters card, show my ID, then I get an envelope, I go behind a screen, put my vote in the envelope (no ID on either envelope or vote paper), and put the envelope in the ballot box with hundereds or thousand other envelopes.
Now, how can they identify MY envelope among all the others?
That kind of anonymity is much harder to do on the web. I'm sure there is a way, but its much harder and much more easy to abuse.
What I guess they're trying to prevent is people converting their CD's to mp3's, and that's when I get upset. I like mp3's. They play on my mp3-player, I can fit a whole lot of them on another CD to bring to work. This is what I want to do. This is my right, since I paid for the music. Why do they feel the urge to deny me my rights?
People live up, or down, to expectations. If they treat me like a criminal, perhaps I should start act like one too?
Actually it is. Where I live we still have the right to give away copies of our CD's to our "closest friends". The same goes for movies. Doing it with software is illegal however.
What "relatives and closest friends" are is up to the court to decide if someone thinks you have too many friends (ie spread your files too much).
Wanna know the country?
I'd like to be able to copy my cd's, make mp3 (or ogg) out of them, give a cd of good songs to my father and stuff like that.
If DRM can let me keep those rights and still be accepted by the media companies, I'd accept it too.
Atleast if the other option is that I lose all these rights through legislation and copy protected cd's that won't let me make mp3 or copy them.
I don't trust my win-box farther than I can throw it (which happens to be approximatly 7,5 meters if detached from all cables.)
Jar Jaromir
I haven't so far, but I will since I use Mandrake on a few machines. The price is a hell of a lot better than the price of WinXP, and they don't try to force any registration or similar thing on You.
A feature that I really like about Mandrake is the "urpmi". I don't need to register anywhere, just point out where the upgrades live (on some ftp mirror) and have a "urpmi.update -a ; urpmi --auto-select --auto" in my crontab, and my system will be up to date and I don't even have to care.
I even upgraded my 9.0 system to a 9.1 (the devel-version) this way. All I had to do was to point the urpmi to the devel-version and it took care of everything.
I really hope they make it.
Want to be a stable node?
Can I make(or get) an
If this is the case I'd love to buy the new format. I don't mind copy protection, but I and _NOT_ the record companies should decide when and where I listen to the music I bought.
I play Hattrick