But I prefer to watch HD movies on my HD television. Movies on my windows box are usually run in the background while I do other things. Now with a media center PC I can send movies to the 360, and one could use the HD-DVD to do that function. But, why not just hook it to the 360 anyway?
I too long for that wonderous day, undoubtedly far in the future, when PC graphics cards with TV outputs are finally invented.
Seeing teenagers download my favorite OS for free, or seeing the experience cheapened in the eyes of others because its running on unsupported hardware bothers me.
I love it when teenagers download my favorite OS for free and especially like to see it running on previously unsupported hardware.
The other difference between us is that if I ever started worrying that the product of some random corporation was being "cheapened" by the actions of others, I'd probably shoot myself.
Does slavish devotion to companies which you don't have a personal stake in come bundled with every Mac or is it an optional add-on?
Does anyone know of a good NetHack GUI for OS X? All I've found is the old Carbon version, and something based on QT. They are both incredibly ugly.
So not only do you need a GUI to play a fundamentally text based game but you're complaining that the window decorations on the GUI you have clash with your oh-so-pretty OSX.
Are you trying to be a parody of the whiniest, most irritating Mac user ever created or are you just like that in real life?
As it seems judging on the majority of the comments, the first thing an *experienced* user would do on an XP machine would be to deactivate the MS firewall and install a third party firewall.
We obviously have a very different definition of experienced. Your's seems to include installing one of the invariably rancid 3rd party software firewalls.
How do you even begin to choose between ZoneAlarm, Kerio, Norton, McAfee and all the other alternatives? Do thorough research and pick the one that sucks the least amount of dead donkey cock least often? It's not exactly a pinnacle of excellence is it?
I'm not the OP, but my Genius VideoCam LOOK doesn't work (I got the driver to detect it according to dmesg but no programs can read from it). I also tested a Logitech QuickCam Exprees which does work but looks *much* worse than it does in Windows.
The only reason that people buy webcams is so that they can show their genitals to unsuspecting, under-aged girls. The fact the picture quality is worse is a major win for Linux in my opinion.
Oh, and I've just noticed you bought a Genius product. You sick fucking freak.
Seriously though. What pisses me off is we get giant monopolies like Microsoft who thumb their noses at the law and interoperability but when Apple gets a good thing going, some Bill Gates look-alike geek who's idea of an awesome vacation is to hack into a DRM, has to slip and slide between paragraphs of law to reverse engineer it with the sole interest in breaking up the harmony Apple's got going between the store and the iPod.
If you were in front of me right now I would shoot you in the face. I know it sounds harsh but it's for the good of humanity.
Actually I'd do it twice. Once for the pro-DRM, pro-Apple corporate shilling. The other for using "Helloooo!" in a written comment.
... Or you can get the 20GB PS3 w/ HDMI for $500, and install Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 on it with Myth TV, and you basically have almost the same thing. A Blu-ray media center , Nvidia graphics, USB ports, HDMI 1.3 with HDCP, etc. on the cheap.
Yeah, and you could also get it and then find it doesn't allow you to do even one tenth of that.
It's made by Sony. Which do you think is more fucking likely, Einstein?
Of course, let's discount the fact that it can act as a PPTP endpoint (feature from m0n0wall).
Yes I think we should, since it has no relevance to what the grandparent was talking about.
What he is pointing out is that if you have a lot of visitors behind your pfSense based corporate firewall and they want to make PPTP connections back to their corporate networks, it will not work. Because there is no support for multiple PPTP passthrough.
I would love to tell you all about a perfect example of this becoming a problem at a major event because of our choice of OpenBSD for a product. But I can't. Suffice to say you would be amazed how many companies actually use PPTP for their remote connectivity.
How would having it act as a PPTP endpoint help in this case?
40f-50f cooler, and 5c-10c for all you out of the usa
Since this asshole gets a simple Farenheit to Centigrade conversion so spectacularly wrong, do you really think it's wise to trust him with modifying your kernel?
A 10C reduction in temparature is equivalent to around 18F, not 50. I know exactly why he made that mistake and it is a seriously retarded reason - 10C is 50F.
Although since you're probably all Mac zealots, as far as I'm concerned you can try pissing on the keyboard to cool it down.
->(caveat) If your CIO tells you you -must- use windows servers, explain to him that you would, but they require a "token ring" and all of them fell into the "ethernet" and they must be found first. Much like telling an idiot to sit in the corner of a round room, it will distract him for the better part of the next quarter.
You can use the archive function to go back to about two thousand and fucking four. That way you can answer the question yourself instead of everyone else having to go through this tired old shit yet again.
Second Life seems to be filled with losers who don't actually have a life. The game should be called "No Life".
And what does the fact that you actually took the time to post such an obvious and uncreative joke say about your life?
Also, I have never tried Second Life. You must have done in order to form such an opinion. Therefore the obvious conclusion is that you are a loser with no life. You didn't really think this through did you?
I understand that it's up to individual ISPs to decide what they do with these block lists, but too many were relying on them blindly to reject email from any source that ended up on a block list.
Then you should take the matter up with those ISPs.
What's that you say? They completely ignored you because you're an insignificant little prick with an axe to grind? Sounds like you just received a reality check regarding your own importance.
Never mind, you can always sue them all. After all, they're restricting your 1st amendment rights to "free speach"! It guarantees that everyone has to listen to everything you say whether they want to or not.
And if that fails you can start posting incoherent rants on NANAE. Make sure to create plenty of sock puppets to back you up. I estimate your chances of success to be at least a hundred percent.
Is it OK if every child has a laptop but the parts from their old one are leaching lead into their water supply and they are too dumb to use them? Driver maintenance helps keep hardware out of landfills.
So in summary, closed drivers poison children? I'm glad you're not a zealot - you might have come out with some really absurd, over the top shit.
Anyway, there is an open driver for the Marvell wireless chip. The problem is that it's GPL'd. Which means it will take effort for the OpenBSD crowd to re-write it because "it's not free enough". Sounds like selfish whining to me.
I don't see why they didn't just use OpenBSD for the OS. Then they could make the whole thing closed and proprietary and nobody would be able to do a thing about it. If that did happen, what would your reaction be? Please do reply - I'm genuinely interested in how you would deal with that eventuality. Would it be "free enough" then?
What a bunch of lies. It was OLPC who claimed the opensource banner years ago, when they rejected OSX by saying it was not Open Source enough.
Can you provide a source to backup your claim that they ever considered OSX? Because it sounds ludicrous to me.
If you're making what is to be a cheap, mass-produced and basically "embedded" device you're not going to consider OSX unless you're stark raving mad.
These things don't have hard drives or a gig of RAM. They certainly don't have graphics chips capable of running Quartz. I guess you could give them retarded one button trackpads if you wanted, so I'll give you that one.
It's a fine line between troll and deluded Apple zealot. Which one are you?
What kind of hardware they tested it on? If the CPU is 2 GHz, doesn't 20-40 times faster mean that the GPU runs at something like 40-80 GHz? That's incredible.
You must have taken a wrong turning. This is Slashdot - Digg is just down the corridor, 3rd on the left.
Or do the triangle rendering algorithms in the graphics card somehow help the folding calculations?
No, it's the Phong shading algorithms that do it. Normal CPUs aren't able to simulate the shininess of the molecules properly.
The latest intel 64 bit lines are supposed to work with microsoft's software to prevent use of debuggers and other program modifications (such "malware" as the windvd patch to allow DVD-A ripping) through encorporation of "non executable" memory/register sections.
Granted I'm no einstein on the subject..
No, you're no Einstein on the subject which is why the previous sentence I quoted is absolute crap. The "protection" against loading unsigned drivers in Win x64 is entirely software based and works on AMD chips as well as it does on Intel. AMD were the first to introduce memory protection - it wasn't designed for DRM reasons and doesn't really have anything to do with the feature you're talking about.
Surely this isn't a fair or even comparison - they're comparing VMWare ESX which runs on bare-metal against Microsoft Virtual Server which runs on top of Windows (XP/2003) so obviously ESX has an advantage as it runs directly on the hardware.
Surely the fact that VMWare do actually offer a version that runs on bare metal while Microsoft don't, is an obvious advantage to VMWare?
Or do you think that people who need that kind of performance in an enterprise enviroment are going to hold off using VMWare because it wouldn't be fair to MS when they don't have a similar product?
we're a Microsoft shop so we're going to stick with what we know.
Why do people feel it should be against the law to make a living. Could Slashdot exist without the ad's? No it couldn't. By blocking ads you are making it harder for people to make a living doing something they have worked hard at.
Allow me to translate :
Why do people feel that they don't owe me a living? It's not fair! Waaaaaahhhh!
ESP works fine, providing your cheap router recognises the protocol and routes it... A lot of cheaper consumer level routing devices will only route tcp/udp/icmp.
Gosh, if only there were some way of wrapping the IPSEC packets in UDP or TCP headers.
What a shame there are not more pure gamers and enlightened technical thinkers about Slashdot nowadays rather than having the populace fall to the Herd Mind of Rage which is all too popular in so many areas of thought these days.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that you got beaten a lot at school.
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But I prefer to watch HD movies on my HD television. Movies on my windows box are usually run in the background while I do other things. Now with a media center PC I can send movies to the 360, and one could use the HD-DVD to do that function. But, why not just hook it to the 360 anyway?
I too long for that wonderous day, undoubtedly far in the future, when PC graphics cards with TV outputs are finally invented.
Seeing teenagers download my favorite OS for free, or seeing the experience cheapened in the eyes of others because its running on unsupported hardware bothers me.
I love it when teenagers download my favorite OS for free and especially like to see it running on previously unsupported hardware.
The other difference between us is that if I ever started worrying that the product of some random corporation was being "cheapened" by the actions of others, I'd probably shoot myself.
Does slavish devotion to companies which you don't have a personal stake in come bundled with every Mac or is it an optional add-on?
Microsoft is on the attack and they have a HUGE war chest! So a quick duck out of the way of this impending doom may just be Solaris. Whooo 'da thunk?
No man, you got it all wrong.
It's Joerg Schilling and his magentic personality that's going to draw people towards OpenSolaris in their millions!
My scenario is, I think, more plausible than yours.
I believe Microsoft has an optional hardware upgrade available for download on Windows Update.
Hardware updates from Windows Update have a nearly 100% record of completely hosing my systems. Has anyone else experienced this or am I just unlucky?
Does anyone know of a good NetHack GUI for OS X? All I've found is the old Carbon version, and something based on QT. They are both incredibly ugly.
So not only do you need a GUI to play a fundamentally text based game but you're complaining that the window decorations on the GUI you have clash with your oh-so-pretty OSX.
Are you trying to be a parody of the whiniest, most irritating Mac user ever created or are you just like that in real life?
As it seems judging on the majority of the comments, the first thing an *experienced* user would do on an XP machine would be to deactivate the MS firewall and install a third party firewall.
We obviously have a very different definition of experienced. Your's seems to include installing one of the invariably rancid 3rd party software firewalls.
How do you even begin to choose between ZoneAlarm, Kerio, Norton, McAfee and all the other alternatives? Do thorough research and pick the one that sucks the least amount of dead donkey cock least often? It's not exactly a pinnacle of excellence is it?
I'm not the OP, but my Genius VideoCam LOOK doesn't work (I got the driver to detect it according to dmesg but no programs can read from it). I also tested a Logitech QuickCam Exprees which does work but looks *much* worse than it does in Windows.
The only reason that people buy webcams is so that they can show their genitals to unsuspecting, under-aged girls. The fact the picture quality is worse is a major win for Linux in my opinion.
Oh, and I've just noticed you bought a Genius product. You sick fucking freak.
Seriously though. What pisses me off is we get giant monopolies like Microsoft who thumb their noses at the law and interoperability but when Apple gets a good thing going, some Bill Gates look-alike geek who's idea of an awesome vacation is to hack into a DRM, has to slip and slide between paragraphs of law to reverse engineer it with the sole interest in breaking up the harmony Apple's got going between the store and the iPod.
If you were in front of me right now I would shoot you in the face. I know it sounds harsh but it's for the good of humanity.
Actually I'd do it twice. Once for the pro-DRM, pro-Apple corporate shilling. The other for using "Helloooo!" in a written comment.
This is a Mandrake machine, 2.4.22-10mdkenterprise
I couldn't get it to work on Slackware 2.0 either. I even upgraded to Kernel 2.0.
What a piece of shit.
... Or you can get the 20GB PS3 w/ HDMI for $500, and install Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 on it with Myth TV, and you basically have almost the same thing. A Blu-ray media center , Nvidia graphics, USB ports, HDMI 1.3 with HDCP, etc. on the cheap.
Yeah, and you could also get it and then find it doesn't allow you to do even one tenth of that.
It's made by Sony. Which do you think is more fucking likely, Einstein?
Of course, let's discount the fact that it can act as a PPTP endpoint (feature from m0n0wall).
Yes I think we should, since it has no relevance to what the grandparent was talking about.
What he is pointing out is that if you have a lot of visitors behind your pfSense based corporate firewall and they want to make PPTP connections back to their corporate networks, it will not work. Because there is no support for multiple PPTP passthrough.
I would love to tell you all about a perfect example of this becoming a problem at a major event because of our choice of OpenBSD for a product. But I can't. Suffice to say you would be amazed how many companies actually use PPTP for their remote connectivity.
How would having it act as a PPTP endpoint help in this case?
40f-50f cooler, and 5c-10c for all you out of the usa
Since this asshole gets a simple Farenheit to Centigrade conversion so spectacularly wrong, do you really think it's wise to trust him with modifying your kernel?
A 10C reduction in temparature is equivalent to around 18F, not 50. I know exactly why he made that mistake and it is a seriously retarded reason - 10C is 50F.
Although since you're probably all Mac zealots, as far as I'm concerned you can try pissing on the keyboard to cool it down.
->(caveat) If your CIO tells you you -must- use windows servers, explain to him that you would, but they require a "token ring" and all of them fell into the "ethernet" and they must be found first. Much like telling an idiot to sit in the corner of a round room, it will distract him for the better part of the next quarter.
The BOFH is strong in this one.
What has happened to the concept of -stable (2.6) and -experimental (2.7) trees?
http://www.lkml.org/
You can use the archive function to go back to about two thousand and fucking four. That way you can answer the question yourself instead of everyone else having to go through this tired old shit yet again.
Second Life seems to be filled with losers who don't actually have a life. The game should be called "No Life".
And what does the fact that you actually took the time to post such an obvious and uncreative joke say about your life?
Also, I have never tried Second Life. You must have done in order to form such an opinion. Therefore the obvious conclusion is that you are a loser with no life. You didn't really think this through did you?
I understand that it's up to individual ISPs to decide what they do with these block lists, but too many were relying on them blindly to reject email from any source that ended up on a block list.
Then you should take the matter up with those ISPs.
What's that you say? They completely ignored you because you're an insignificant little prick with an axe to grind? Sounds like you just received a reality check regarding your own importance.
Never mind, you can always sue them all. After all, they're restricting your 1st amendment rights to "free speach"! It guarantees that everyone has to listen to everything you say whether they want to or not.
And if that fails you can start posting incoherent rants on NANAE. Make sure to create plenty of sock puppets to back you up. I estimate your chances of success to be at least a hundred percent.
Is it OK if every child has a laptop but the parts from their old one are leaching lead into their water supply and they are too dumb to use them? Driver maintenance helps keep hardware out of landfills.
So in summary, closed drivers poison children? I'm glad you're not a zealot - you might have come out with some really absurd, over the top shit.
Anyway, there is an open driver for the Marvell wireless chip. The problem is that it's GPL'd. Which means it will take effort for the OpenBSD crowd to re-write it because "it's not free enough". Sounds like selfish whining to me.
I don't see why they didn't just use OpenBSD for the OS. Then they could make the whole thing closed and proprietary and nobody would be able to do a thing about it. If that did happen, what would your reaction be? Please do reply - I'm genuinely interested in how you would deal with that eventuality. Would it be "free enough" then?
What a bunch of lies. It was OLPC who claimed the opensource banner years ago, when they rejected OSX by saying it was not Open Source enough.
Can you provide a source to backup your claim that they ever considered OSX? Because it sounds ludicrous to me.
If you're making what is to be a cheap, mass-produced and basically "embedded" device you're not going to consider OSX unless you're stark raving mad.
These things don't have hard drives or a gig of RAM. They certainly don't have graphics chips capable of running Quartz. I guess you could give them retarded one button trackpads if you wanted, so I'll give you that one.
It's a fine line between troll and deluded Apple zealot. Which one are you?
I can only imagine Microsoft must use similar techniques, but obviously a tad more intensive; can anyone shed any light?
That's quite an imagination you've got there. Ever thought of becoming a Sci-Fi author?
What kind of hardware they tested it on? If the CPU is 2 GHz, doesn't 20-40 times faster mean that the GPU runs at something like 40-80 GHz? That's incredible.
You must have taken a wrong turning. This is Slashdot - Digg is just down the corridor, 3rd on the left.
Or do the triangle rendering algorithms in the graphics card somehow help the folding calculations?
No, it's the Phong shading algorithms that do it. Normal CPUs aren't able to simulate the shininess of the molecules properly.
The latest intel 64 bit lines are supposed to work with microsoft's software to prevent use of debuggers and other program modifications (such "malware" as the windvd patch to allow DVD-A ripping) through encorporation of "non executable" memory/register sections.
Granted I'm no einstein on the subject..
No, you're no Einstein on the subject which is why the previous sentence I quoted is absolute crap. The "protection" against loading unsigned drivers in Win x64 is entirely software based and works on AMD chips as well as it does on Intel. AMD were the first to introduce memory protection - it wasn't designed for DRM reasons and doesn't really have anything to do with the feature you're talking about.
Surely this isn't a fair or even comparison - they're comparing VMWare ESX which runs on bare-metal against Microsoft Virtual Server which runs on top of Windows (XP/2003) so obviously ESX has an advantage as it runs directly on the hardware.
Surely the fact that VMWare do actually offer a version that runs on bare metal while Microsoft don't, is an obvious advantage to VMWare?
Or do you think that people who need that kind of performance in an enterprise enviroment are going to hold off using VMWare because it wouldn't be fair to MS when they don't have a similar product?
we're a Microsoft shop so we're going to stick with what we know.
Oh, I guess you do.
Why do people feel it should be against the law to make a living. Could Slashdot exist without the ad's? No it couldn't. By blocking ads you are making it harder for people to make a living doing something they have worked hard at.
Allow me to translate :
Why do people feel that they don't owe me a living? It's not fair! Waaaaaahhhh!
ESP works fine, providing your cheap router recognises the protocol and routes it... A lot of cheaper consumer level routing devices will only route tcp/udp/icmp.
Gosh, if only there were some way of wrapping the IPSEC packets in UDP or TCP headers.
What a wonderful world that would be.
What a shame there are not more pure gamers and enlightened technical thinkers about Slashdot nowadays rather than having the populace fall to the Herd Mind of Rage which is all too popular in so many areas of thought these days.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that you got beaten a lot at school.
Seriously, I'm not wrong am I?