It all depends on what you do, and what kind of email address you have.
If you want to see some spam go setup a Hotmail account, and without giving it to _anyone_ watch the spam start flowing!
Personally i have noticed a huge increase on my main accounts. I never _ever_ give out my main email's only my @hotmail accounts (which incidently recieve >100 / day) but still in the past month even I have noticed spam in my main work email from 1-2 / day to 5-6 / day! Im going to use spamcop from now..
Unfortunatly my address has obviously been sold off too many spammers it would seem, unfortunatly years ago i did use my work account (for a short time) in InterNIC records.
All we can do about it is, support the likes of mailabuse.org, spamcop.net, and complain! I believe some form of legislation is needed, at least that would minimize the number of legitimate companies spamming. The non-legit spammers (the other 80%) we'll just have to keep fighting online.
Old news, Divx3.11 / 3.20 etc are ripped from the MS codec. But DivX4.0 which is now backwards compatable (mostly:]) is written from scratch. Argueably it isnt quite as good as 3.11 _yet_ but being OpenSource i think is quite an advantage for it..
I dont think you have looked at divx encoding much recently. Or perhaps computer specs. Firstly you say "your hard drive is likely too small" but at the moment the smallest drives you can buy are 20Gig, and the standard is about 30GB, it only takes 4-7GB temp space for encoding. IF you do it that way that is. With programs like FlaskMpeg and some addon's you can do the whole job in one turn ripping directly from the DVD. And on your average P4 chip it only takes 3 hours or so for an average movie.
I doubt it will be long either before downloading divx's becomes even more common than it already is, it doesnt take a CompSci student to relise that on his Cable modem Kazaa can download XYZMovie-divx.avi in only a few hours (taking a 650MB movie).
Think of all the trouble so many 'average-joes' would goto to copy a VHS in the past. Eg. Buying two VCR's!
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Im slightly confused as to which i would prefer less; A laser heating my liver to 2000 degrees, or a bullet to the head?
I remember about 2 years ago i went to visit one of my clients to check a server problem. Anyway this particular clone NT4 server with i might add pretty shitty hardware (all ide, gigabyte M/b eerrgh!) had an uptime of 400 (and something) days! I was quite impressed, of course since the problem was a failed h/d i had to shut it down then.:(
Just one thing I thought i'd add is that anyone who installed the Outlook Security patch, i think it was dated Feb/2000 (Yes thats 2000), wouldnt be infected by this. Also any OutlookXP users.
It blocks all.exe.com.bat.xml.scr.blah blah blah attachments.
Well thats for the four or five people in the world who bothered to download and install that patch!:)
heh, funny thing, MS's way of doing "security patches" == block everything!
Agreed! The Connector is the best thing ive heard about Evolution, and i will be trying it out again now! The fact is thats one of the big things that has been missing from the Linux desktop, Groupware. If the software runs well, does everything it should (ala Outlook) then that's just another good tick when the next company looks at the posibility of moving to Linux on the desktop.
Closed solution you say, costly? Huh, this is an Exchange client your talking about, thats what companies need, so someone has to provide it.
Frankly on a side note, this may be a 'proprietry' solution, but if it really takes off my guess is it will only be a few months before we see the first open source connector.
PS. I think a Notes / Domino connector is the next requirement. Its amazing that we dont have one yet considering the Domino server runs on linux!
Thats rediculous, this is not just some simplistic celebrity worshiping. This is the creator of Linux speaking absolutly franky on operating system design, and Linux history. Its not some bunch of prepared answers to some prepared questions by some lame interviewer, it is far more an insight into how this man works, and why.
It thought it was great! By far one of the most interesting recent/. article on Linus / linux / os development, etc.
On the flip side of that, your (AFAIK) mobile's are expensive. Correct me if im wrong, but the reciever of calls even pays some of the mobile call right?
Here in Aus mobiles are everywhere, obviously. Myself, I use alot for both work and play, i pay $100/month + tax, and basically get unlimited* calls! Well okay it works out to be about 5hours calls on average per month, not including FreeTime, which is basically completely free calls after 8pm and all weekends!
That would be one reason why we have so many mobiles here..
True, but although its designed by an American company, in America, most of the parts are from Japan, and the rest is fabricated in Korea. To use another example.
Thats why no matter where its designed you wont see a "Made in the USA" sticker on it!:)
Oops, clicked submit accidently too early, it wasnt meant to be flamebait.:)
But come to think of it i cant remember my end comment, hmm damn beer.:) (Whoa, re-reading that, yep ive had a few too many, please dis-regard all flame-inciting parts, thanks)
Perhaps he allowed them to search without a warrent so that he wouldnt be imprisoned as a _potential terrorist_ or as your "free-loving" govt calls them "visa violators". I hope a lot of you americans are starting see/hear what the media is saying about your thousands of people detained without charge or apparently even without family contact in many cases. Of course im talking about any media company NOT from the US. Ie NOT CNN / NBC, etc. It appears freedom of press is still taboo over there.:(
I wish i could _at least_ goto VideoEzy or Blockbuster and hire ST:Enterprise (to use a current example of what im watching / leeching), just as i did with all the DS9 and Voy serises. BUT they wont be here even in video shops for a long time, (probably a year at least). Not too mention the two-three year wait for them to come on tv!!
The worst is our "pay-tv", they expect people to pay $45/month to watch 8 year old re-runs of every crap show that came and went on free to air?!?! Okay they sell on the movie channels only, but argh, okay i'm side-tracking.;)
Of course you can see the other side to the argument, new tv shows are scheduled in the ratings season, ie winter, and never in the off-season (summer). Its all about ratings understanably, unfortunatly that damn northern / southern hemisphere would screw that up by at least six months regardless.
The solution? Internet based pay-per-view? Mmmm, i'd pay for that! Hell yeah im so sick to death of these 320x240 divx's of Enterprise!:)
Bah, its far too easy to say that. Just like its far too easy to say 2600 is a hang-out for evil hackers and their supporters.
But that doesnt make it true.
Me, i dont feel bad pirating music, the fact is i havent bought more than 1 cd in the last 5 years, and the only mp3's i _pirate_ are live mix's and such. The simple fact is any music that i would enjoy could only be bought for $50 from import shops. Sorry, i dont need to listen to it that much, ill just download the few i can thanks.
Yep, i'm a crimial.
PS. Before you jump some gun, if i could buy those mix's in mp3 format for $5, supprisingly enough i probably would. At least one..
I can't understand why ive seen next to no mention of Tony Hawke Pro Skater 3 here on slashdot! That game alone would be enough for me to buy the Cube! (nb. I know its on ps2 aswell but mario wont be!:]) THPS2 i played on psx more than i ever played even games like Civ on pc. Something like 3 months averaging 10-30 hours a week!!
But too my point, games like Halo, etc dont appeal to me in the slightest.. That whole genre hasn't appealed to me since Quake2, and in the same way the Xbox or PS2 (for that matter) doesnt appeal that much too me, Ive got 3 pc's for those games.:)
I remember back in primary school thinking that, and argueing that point to my teacher when they talked about the 'ice age'..
But there is an error in that, although they have found 'evidence' now of a meteorid strike in the gulf of mexico, as i remember the evidence showed a 10 or so kilometer creator, which is obviously MUCH smaller than the gulf of mexico!
I would think an impact causing a creator the size of the gulf of mexico, would be the kind that gives us a second moon! (Or there abouts):)
I agree with you completely, Console's definatly need / use less ram, and its not such a new phenonemen, i remember some of the first pc games i got back on my first 386 (when i finnaly moved from Amiga) took up 10-20 disks! WingCommander2/3 i believe?? Althought they both ran on 4-8MB, that in those days was so much!
With PC games its always been the case that when designing a game, you can take into acount the 1-2 year development phase, and consider that in 1-2 years the 'average' pc will be 10x20 times FASTER!
On the other hand with console's (and i might add here computers such as the Amiga:]), what you have is all there will be, ever! Excluding the likes of the mem cards you got with the N64, etc..
In my opinion history of game development, has proven time and time again that given a static hardware base programmers WILL find a better way.
If anyone doesnt believe me go download a Commodore64 emulator, then a demo written say last year for the original C64 and if that doesnt make your jaw drop nothing will!:)
I agree with you very much there, even though i have many disagreements with a lot of things the WTO does, I dont think too many of the protestors understand what they are protesting. (Okay thats a blind generalisation..)
The major job of the WTO is to in some way control and or direct capitalism. The protests such as Seattle give me dejavu of reading about the Communist revolution in Russia at the beginning of last century. All those Marxist / socialist stereotypes that unfortunatly (but not IMO unfairly) seem to be branded on most of the protestors really manages overshadow the 'issues' that need to be protested!
I never played Mario or such when i was young, actually mainly because I never owned a console until this year actually (PS1 for pressent). (but i did play Gianna Sisters (sp?) on Amiga years ago!:]) I've always been a PC gamer, yes i think there is a big difference.
Still i can count hundreds of hours that i played Mario64 at friends places and now on Emulators! That game has so much playability, its unbelievable! Thats why the GameCube will be the first console that i will buy!:)
I disagree that anything will change in two years, or that it is very much different in the US with the DCMA. The fact of this case is those cd's are in a very noticable way defective.
Thats why im sure many people returned them, if you cant play the disc in their computer they think its broken. Your average Joe, may be annoyed knowing that he can't now copy cd's so easily, but much worse he'll be quite pissed off that he cant play it in the way he play's the rest of his cd's!
As others have said before, we/.'ers may be vocal, but at the end of the day its not us that will make them change, its that damn critical mass thing again.:)
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It all depends on what you do, and what kind of email address you have.
If you want to see some spam go setup a Hotmail account, and without giving it to _anyone_ watch the spam start flowing!
Personally i have noticed a huge increase on my main accounts. I never _ever_ give out my main email's only my @hotmail accounts (which incidently recieve >100 / day) but still in the past month even I have noticed spam in my main work email from 1-2 / day to 5-6 / day! Im going to use spamcop from now..
Unfortunatly my address has obviously been sold off too many spammers it would seem, unfortunatly years ago i did use my work account (for a short time) in InterNIC records.
All we can do about it is, support the likes of mailabuse.org, spamcop.net, and complain! I believe some form of legislation is needed, at least that would minimize the number of legitimate companies spamming. The non-legit spammers (the other 80%) we'll just have to keep fighting online.
Old news, Divx3.11 / 3.20 etc are ripped from the MS codec. But DivX4.0 which is now backwards compatable (mostly :]) is written from scratch. Argueably it isnt quite as good as 3.11 _yet_ but being OpenSource i think is quite an advantage for it..
I dont think you have looked at divx encoding much recently. Or perhaps computer specs. Firstly you say "your hard drive is likely too small" but at the moment the smallest drives you can buy are 20Gig, and the standard is about 30GB, it only takes 4-7GB temp space for encoding. IF you do it that way that is. With programs like FlaskMpeg and some addon's you can do the whole job in one turn ripping directly from the DVD. And on your average P4 chip it only takes 3 hours or so for an average movie.
I doubt it will be long either before downloading divx's becomes even more common than it already is, it doesnt take a CompSci student to relise that on his Cable modem Kazaa can download XYZMovie-divx.avi in only a few hours (taking a 650MB movie).
Think of all the trouble so many 'average-joes' would goto to copy a VHS in the past. Eg. Buying two VCR's!
Im slightly confused as to which i would prefer less; A laser heating my liver to 2000 degrees, or a bullet to the head?
Seriously is there much difference?
Sorry to say you have definatly mis-configured something, or your hardware is flakey.
:)
I'd recommend check your drivers, most common cause on Athlon's is lack of recenct VIA4in1 drivers (if its a via chipset).
My athlon runs problem free for weeks, at least except when im home, since i dont quite like the 30something degree's celcius it warms my room upto!
I remember about 2 years ago i went to visit one of my clients to check a server problem. Anyway this particular clone NT4 server with i might add pretty shitty hardware (all ide, gigabyte M/b eerrgh!) had an uptime of 400 (and something) days! I was quite impressed, of course since the problem was a failed h/d i had to shut it down then. :(
My 2c.
Just one thing I thought i'd add is that anyone who installed the Outlook Security patch, i think it was dated Feb/2000 (Yes thats 2000), wouldnt be infected by this. Also any OutlookXP users.
.exe .com .bat .xml .scr .blah blah blah attachments.
:)
It blocks all
Well thats for the four or five people in the world who bothered to download and install that patch!
heh, funny thing, MS's way of doing "security patches" == block everything!
Agreed! The Connector is the best thing ive heard about Evolution, and i will be trying it out again now! The fact is thats one of the big things that has been missing from the Linux desktop, Groupware. If the software runs well, does everything it should (ala Outlook) then that's just another good tick when the next company looks at the posibility of moving to Linux on the desktop.
Closed solution you say, costly? Huh, this is an Exchange client your talking about, thats what companies need, so someone has to provide it.
Frankly on a side note, this may be a 'proprietry' solution, but if it really takes off my guess is it will only be a few months before we see the first open source connector.
PS. I think a Notes / Domino connector is the next requirement. Its amazing that we dont have one yet considering the Domino server runs on linux!
I don't really see the need for Ximian's Exchange connector
In case you didnt notice, you just answered your own question. Yes the connector provides all the features that IMAP doesnt!
IMAP doesn't cover are calendar/meeting, address-book, public folders, server-side inbox rules, poll-less message receipt, dynamic header download (as you scroll), etc...
Thats rediculous, this is not just some simplistic celebrity worshiping. This is the creator of Linux speaking absolutly franky on operating system design, and Linux history. Its not some bunch of prepared answers to some prepared questions by some lame interviewer, it is far more an insight into how this man works, and why.
/. article on Linus / linux / os development, etc.
It thought it was great! By far one of the most interesting recent
On the flip side of that, your (AFAIK) mobile's are expensive. Correct me if im wrong, but the reciever of calls even pays some of the mobile call right?
Here in Aus mobiles are everywhere, obviously. Myself, I use alot for both work and play, i pay $100/month + tax, and basically get unlimited* calls! Well okay it works out to be about 5hours calls on average per month, not including FreeTime, which is basically completely free calls after 8pm and all weekends!
That would be one reason why we have so many mobiles here..
True, but although its designed by an American company, in America, most of the parts are from Japan, and the rest is fabricated in Korea. To use another example.
:)
Thats why no matter where its designed you wont see a "Made in the USA" sticker on it!
Oops, clicked submit accidently too early, it wasnt meant to be flamebait. :)
:) (Whoa, re-reading that, yep ive had a few too many, please dis-regard all flame-inciting parts, thanks)
But come to think of it i cant remember my end comment, hmm damn beer.
Perhaps he allowed them to search without a warrent so that he wouldnt be imprisoned as a _potential terrorist_ or as your "free-loving" govt calls them "visa violators". I hope a lot of you americans are starting see/hear what the media is saying about your thousands of people detained without charge or apparently even without family contact in many cases. Of course im talking about any media company NOT from the US. Ie NOT CNN / NBC, etc. It appears freedom of press is still taboo over there. :(
I totally agree!!
;)
:)
I wish i could _at least_ goto VideoEzy or Blockbuster and hire ST:Enterprise (to use a current example of what im watching / leeching), just as i did with all the DS9 and Voy serises. BUT they wont be here even in video shops for a long time, (probably a year at least). Not too mention the two-three year wait for them to come on tv!!
The worst is our "pay-tv", they expect people to pay $45/month to watch 8 year old re-runs of every crap show that came and went on free to air?!?! Okay they sell on the movie channels only, but argh, okay i'm side-tracking.
Of course you can see the other side to the argument, new tv shows are scheduled in the ratings season, ie winter, and never in the off-season (summer). Its all about ratings understanably, unfortunatly that damn northern / southern hemisphere would screw that up by at least six months regardless.
The solution? Internet based pay-per-view? Mmmm, i'd pay for that! Hell yeah im so sick to death of these 320x240 divx's of Enterprise!
Bah, its far too easy to say that. Just like its far too easy to say 2600 is a hang-out for evil hackers and their supporters.
But that doesnt make it true.
Me, i dont feel bad pirating music, the fact is i havent bought more than 1 cd in the last 5 years, and the only mp3's i _pirate_ are live mix's and such. The simple fact is any music that i would enjoy could only be bought for $50 from import shops. Sorry, i dont need to listen to it that much, ill just download the few i can thanks.
Yep, i'm a crimial.
PS. Before you jump some gun, if i could buy those mix's in mp3 format for $5, supprisingly enough i probably would. At least one..
Ahh i submitted too early! http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=24273&cid=2629 638
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Yes TONY HAWK Should almost be illegal!!
Ahh THPS2 i played non-stop for like 3-4 months when i first got it!
But since i live in this third-world country (Australia) i have to wait till March 2002 or so for my Cube / THPS3 fix!
Noooooooooooo..
How does that help him get Zelda, Pikmin or SSB? :)
I can't understand why ive seen next to no mention of Tony Hawke Pro Skater 3 here on slashdot! That game alone would be enough for me to buy the Cube! (nb. I know its on ps2 aswell but mario wont be! :]) THPS2 i played on psx more than i ever played even games like Civ on pc. Something like 3 months averaging 10-30 hours a week!!
:)
But too my point, games like Halo, etc dont appeal to me in the slightest.. That whole genre hasn't appealed to me since Quake2, and in the same way the Xbox or PS2 (for that matter) doesnt appeal that much too me, Ive got 3 pc's for those games.
But everyone's different, so as you were..
Oops little correction, I was reffering to the Chicxulub crater, 100miles 10k's same thing. :)
I remember back in primary school thinking that, and argueing that point to my teacher when they talked about the 'ice age'..
:)
But there is an error in that, although they have found 'evidence' now of a meteorid strike in the gulf of mexico, as i remember the evidence showed a 10 or so kilometer creator, which is obviously MUCH smaller than the gulf of mexico!
I would think an impact causing a creator the size of the gulf of mexico, would be the kind that gives us a second moon! (Or there abouts)
I agree with you completely, Console's definatly need / use less ram, and its not such a new phenonemen, i remember some of the first pc games i got back on my first 386 (when i finnaly moved from Amiga) took up 10-20 disks! WingCommander2/3 i believe?? Althought they both ran on 4-8MB, that in those days was so much!
:]), what you have is all there will be, ever! Excluding the likes of the mem cards you got with the N64, etc..
:)
With PC games its always been the case that when designing a game, you can take into acount the 1-2 year development phase, and consider that in 1-2 years the 'average' pc will be 10x20 times FASTER!
On the other hand with console's (and i might add here computers such as the Amiga
In my opinion history of game development, has proven time and time again that given a static hardware base programmers WILL find a better way.
If anyone doesnt believe me go download a Commodore64 emulator, then a demo written say last year for the original C64 and if that doesnt make your jaw drop nothing will!
I agree with you very much there, even though i have many disagreements with a lot of things the WTO does, I dont think too many of the protestors understand what they are protesting. (Okay thats a blind generalisation..)
;)
The major job of the WTO is to in some way control and or direct capitalism. The protests such as Seattle give me dejavu of reading about the Communist revolution in Russia at the beginning of last century. All those Marxist / socialist stereotypes that unfortunatly (but not IMO unfairly) seem to be branded on most of the protestors really manages overshadow the 'issues' that need to be protested!
Whoa, a little OT there, ahh screw it.
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I never played Mario or such when i was young, actually mainly because I never owned a console until this year actually (PS1 for pressent). (but i did play Gianna Sisters (sp?) on Amiga years ago! :]) I've always been a PC gamer, yes i think there is a big difference.
:)
Still i can count hundreds of hours that i played Mario64 at friends places and now on Emulators! That game has so much playability, its unbelievable! Thats why the GameCube will be the first console that i will buy!
I disagree that anything will change in two years, or that it is very much different in the US with the DCMA. The fact of this case is those cd's are in a very noticable way defective.
/.'ers may be vocal, but at the end of the day its not us that will make them change, its that damn critical mass thing again. :)
Thats why im sure many people returned them, if you cant play the disc in their computer they think its broken. Your average Joe, may be annoyed knowing that he can't now copy cd's so easily, but much worse he'll be quite pissed off that he cant play it in the way he play's the rest of his cd's!
As others have said before, we