Sure you can setup linux on a case insensitive FS but no distro will make it easy to do so and you can have a reasonable expectation that sometime a peice of software you wan't will come along that assumes the FS is case sensitive and won't work properly on a case insensitive FS.
were there any? HI-8 is an improved version of video-8. Afaict the main competitors were vhs-c and it's impvoved variant svhs-c.
I'm not sure which analog camcorder format had the highest sales but both hi-8 and vhs-c were popular enough to be availible from places like argos (which is hardly a specialist supplier) for years.
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the/. effect is WAY overrated, if you are suffering from it you either have big file downloads, really shitty hosting (think home DSL/cable or similar) or a badly designed dynamic site (this last one is probablly the most common).
Basically, the Classic Controller is a recreation of the perfect DPad controller (i.e. the SNES controller) with modern controls tacked on. The dualshock was also a digital only controller with analog sticks tacked on which explains why the sticks ended up where they did.
in (in my experience) the most hand-cramping configuration you can imagine. I find them almost unusable. One problem with a lot of console controllers is they have to decide for each side whether to give the comfortable position to a stick or to buttons. The dualshock has the buttons in the comfortable position and the sticks in the uncomfortable one on both sides. The gamecube controller has one side with a stick in the comfortable position and the d-pad in the uncomfortable one and the other side with a group of buttons in the comfortable position and the stick in the other one.
yeah the first stage installer was one of the worst parts of XP. Afaict that insstaller hadn't changed significantly since before win2K. The NT/2K/XP installer is only able to load drivers from the install CD or from a floppy, it doesn't support plug and play making it slow as hell to start (it uses a brute force approach to driver loading) and it runs in text mode (which while not in itself a problem makes it look scary and reduces the ammount of usefull information that can be onscreen at once).
IMO even the 9x installer (which runs under a stripped down win3.x environment) is better.
vista also benifits in the ease of installation stakes from being much newer than even XP SP2 and therefore having far more drivers availible out of the box.
I recently acquired a Dell P3 1 Ghz notebook That will be why you had no trouble then, it's old hardware.
In my experiance with the odd exception for particularlly weired/crappy bits of hardware operating systems are easy to install on hardware that is older than the OS release but a PITA to install on hardware that is newer than the OS release.
Well, the LTS versions of Ubuntu has 3 years on the desktop with a 1.5 year release cycle, in the worst case this means 1.5 years remaining support. no it's three years support (including secutity updates) on the desktop with a two year release cycle. That is one year of overlap. Server stuff gets three years of overlap which is better but still way behind what MS offers.
MS gives at least 2 years (slightly more in the case of XP) of mainstream support overlap followed by another 5 years of extended support giving a minimum of 7 years security update overlap.
if you bought XP right before Vista was released there's no 7 years of support for you, more like 2.5 years Windows vista was released (retail, some other channels got it a little earlier) in january 2007. According to microsoft windows XP will move from mainstream support to extended support on 14/04/2009 and will become unsupported 08/04/2014 . I make that just over 7 years of overlap.
here apt-get distupgrade "just works". Sure as long as you are running a stable release and stick within that release. Upgrading between releases can be much more troublesome.
In the windows world most home and small buisness systems are never upgraded from one windows release to the next. they are purchased with a version of windows and that version of windows stays on them until they are retired. Versions of windows come with a very long security update life cycle that facilitates this (7 YEARS of overlap!).
in the linux world you are lucky to find a vendor offering more than a year of security update overlap for desktop versions. So if you keep your machines for more than a couple of years or you buy your machines just before a new release you are going to have to upgrade to a new release to keep security updates.
sorry should have read the whole of your post before replying. It seems indeed that the latest patch can read setup.exe (which is really a huge mpq file with a small exe stub on the beginning) from the hard drive but you have to copy it manually.
btw if you only want to play multiplayer a much smaller mpq will surfice though you have to build it manually using tools like mpq2k and mpqver.
hmm do you have a source for them removing the CD check from starcraft? I would imagine that would be a bit tricky as starcraft does actually use data from the CD when running.
If it was an exploitable Windows box on the net then it would also be fetching updates from Windows Update every second Tuesday. that leaves plenty of time for it to get 0wned. And that assumes MS gets a patch out soon after the exploit hits the wild (they don't always).
And not everyone runs windows with automatic updates on, nor does everyone run versions of windows that are still getting security updates.
Normally the browser would only have access as your user account, Which it can use to modify your menus so that next time you click that "root terminal" entry the parameters to gksu are a bit different.
Isn't Windows licensed on almost every PC sold before I even get it out of the factory door? Almost every big brand PC sold yes though even that is decreasing after MS got in trouble for some of those agreements that you mentioned.
Whitebox vendors though are generally under no such agreement with MS and they probablly pay more per copy of windows. Whitebox vendors are often quite happy to sell PCs blank or even PCs with pirate copies of windows (this is especially true in poorer countries).
Much as I hate WGA, making it nasty enough to punish whitebox vendors who pirate was probablly a good move. But MS went far far beyond that.
but it's not true that OS X retail boxes are upgrades Does the license let me install it on any machine I want? NO! does every machine the license lets me install it on come with a previous version? YES! That is pretty much the definition of an upgrade copy IMO.
most complex software has bugs. Those bugs are often reveled when a new peice of software interacts with them in new ways. Display drivers are no exception to this and a bug in a driver is the most likely cause of a bluescreen.
So do I but paper books are all too often a pain to get and take a while to acquire. A lot of them also aren't in print which theoretically wouldn't be a problem with non-drm e-books. mmm of course practically it probabblly would be. Look at music, with physical formats I can legally order a copy from practically anywhere in the world. It will almost certainly come in under the import duty/vat threshold so no problems there.
With legit online music I am far more limited, Most vendors are either heavilly geographically restricted or of questionable legality to use. Because it is the vendor and thier customer working together to do the copying they are involved with copyright at a much more direct level than with physical media and that gives the copyright holder far more power.
* Vista Home basic: $199
* Vista Home Premium: $239
* Vista Business: $299
* Vista Ultimate: $399
Other OS Pricing:
* Ubuntu Linux: $0
* Apple OSX Tiger: $149
* Apple OSX Tiger (5 Licenses): $199
Ahh, nice twisted way to present the figures.
Mac OS-X can according to it's license only be installed on apple hardware which WILL have come with some version of OS-X. That makes it effectively an upgrade release. The "5 licenses" figure for OS-X you give is home users only and all the machines must be in the same household. Now there is no question that it's a pretty good deal but how many households really have 5 macs that they want to upgrade at once?
looking at upgrade prices on newegg only ultimate is more expensive than your figure for an OS-X upgrade.
breaking the cable (with the inevitable result that a ship will be sent out, and the cable hauled up) is the last thing you'd want to do. I disagree, you break the cable and wait for them to find the break first, then once they have found the break and are working to fix it then you do the tap (somewhere else on the cable) while the line is being fixed.
on the other hand if they DO know (or at least stronly suspect) it is encrypted and they have the right rescources then there are techniques they can use. The key will be in ram somewhere so if they can copy the ram then they have a much easier path to cracking the encryption than guessing keys at random.
One common hole is that many firewire chipsets allow DMA to all main memory over the firewire bus. So you can plug a firewire device in and DMA out a complete image of the devices memory.
also many laptops have an exposed PCI or PCI express bus in the form of a minipci or cardbus or expesscard or similar slot. Again with many chipsets this will have direct DMA access to all of main memory.
also dram doesn't lose it's content entirely as quickly as you might think, apparently there is enough time to take the modules out, put them in a reader and get back the data albiet with some errors.
As you imply but don't explicitly state directx 10 isn't really about games, immersive games have always been written to monopolise the system and I don't see that changing any time soon. Sure some of them can run in a window but it doesn't tend to be very practical.
it is about the 3D desktop but most 3D desktops so far have been either highly buggy or underwhelming so that is a feature there is little demand for.
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Sure you can setup linux on a case insensitive FS but no distro will make it easy to do so and you can have a reasonable expectation that sometime a peice of software you wan't will come along that assumes the FS is case sensitive and won't work properly on a case insensitive FS.
were there any?
HI-8 is an improved version of video-8. Afaict the main competitors were vhs-c and it's impvoved variant svhs-c.
I'm not sure which analog camcorder format had the highest sales but both hi-8 and vhs-c were popular enough to be availible from places like argos (which is hardly a specialist supplier) for years.
the /. effect is WAY overrated, if you are suffering from it you either have big file downloads, really shitty hosting (think home DSL/cable or similar) or a badly designed dynamic site (this last one is probablly the most common).
Basically, the Classic Controller is a recreation of the perfect DPad controller (i.e. the SNES controller) with modern controls tacked on.
The dualshock was also a digital only controller with analog sticks tacked on which explains why the sticks ended up where they did.
For those who haven't seen an orignal digital only playstation controller (many later playstatation packages were bundled with the dualshock instead) you can see a picture at http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01856/media/Playstation_Controller.jpg .
in (in my experience) the most hand-cramping configuration you can imagine. I find them almost unusable.
One problem with a lot of console controllers is they have to decide for each side whether to give the comfortable position to a stick or to buttons. The dualshock has the buttons in the comfortable position and the sticks in the uncomfortable one on both sides. The gamecube controller has one side with a stick in the comfortable position and the d-pad in the uncomfortable one and the other side with a group of buttons in the comfortable position and the stick in the other one.
yeah the first stage installer was one of the worst parts of XP. Afaict that insstaller hadn't changed significantly since before win2K. The NT/2K/XP installer is only able to load drivers from the install CD or from a floppy, it doesn't support plug and play making it slow as hell to start (it uses a brute force approach to driver loading) and it runs in text mode (which while not in itself a problem makes it look scary and reduces the ammount of usefull information that can be onscreen at once).
IMO even the 9x installer (which runs under a stripped down win3.x environment) is better.
vista also benifits in the ease of installation stakes from being much newer than even XP SP2 and therefore having far more drivers availible out of the box.
I recently acquired a Dell P3 1 Ghz notebook
That will be why you had no trouble then, it's old hardware.
In my experiance with the odd exception for particularlly weired/crappy bits of hardware operating systems are easy to install on hardware that is older than the OS release but a PITA to install on hardware that is newer than the OS release.
Well, the LTS versions of Ubuntu has 3 years on the desktop with a 1.5 year release cycle, in the worst case this means 1.5 years remaining support.
no it's three years support (including secutity updates) on the desktop with a two year release cycle. That is one year of overlap. Server stuff gets three years of overlap which is better but still way behind what MS offers.
MS gives at least 2 years (slightly more in the case of XP) of mainstream support overlap followed by another 5 years of extended support giving a minimum of 7 years security update overlap.
if you bought XP right before Vista was released there's no 7 years of support for you, more like 2.5 years
Windows vista was released (retail, some other channels got it a little earlier) in january 2007. According to microsoft windows XP will move from mainstream support to extended support on 14/04/2009 and will become unsupported 08/04/2014 . I make that just over 7 years of overlap.
here apt-get distupgrade "just works".
Sure as long as you are running a stable release and stick within that release. Upgrading between releases can be much more troublesome.
In the windows world most home and small buisness systems are never upgraded from one windows release to the next. they are purchased with a version of windows and that version of windows stays on them until they are retired. Versions of windows come with a very long security update life cycle that facilitates this (7 YEARS of overlap!).
in the linux world you are lucky to find a vendor offering more than a year of security update overlap for desktop versions. So if you keep your machines for more than a couple of years or you buy your machines just before a new release you are going to have to upgrade to a new release to keep security updates.
sorry should have read the whole of your post before replying. It seems indeed that the latest patch can read setup.exe (which is really a huge mpq file with a small exe stub on the beginning) from the hard drive but you have to copy it manually.
btw if you only want to play multiplayer a much smaller mpq will surfice though you have to build it manually using tools like mpq2k and mpqver.
hmm do you have a source for them removing the CD check from starcraft? I would imagine that would be a bit tricky as starcraft does actually use data from the CD when running.
If it was an exploitable Windows box on the net then it would also be fetching updates from Windows Update every second Tuesday.
that leaves plenty of time for it to get 0wned. And that assumes MS gets a patch out soon after the exploit hits the wild (they don't always).
And not everyone runs windows with automatic updates on, nor does everyone run versions of windows that are still getting security updates.
Normally the browser would only have access as your user account,
Which it can use to modify your menus so that next time you click that "root terminal" entry the parameters to gksu are a bit different.
Isn't Windows licensed on almost every PC sold before I even get it out of the factory door?
Almost every big brand PC sold yes though even that is decreasing after MS got in trouble for some of those agreements that you mentioned.
Whitebox vendors though are generally under no such agreement with MS and they probablly pay more per copy of windows. Whitebox vendors are often quite happy to sell PCs blank or even PCs with pirate copies of windows (this is especially true in poorer countries).
Much as I hate WGA, making it nasty enough to punish whitebox vendors who pirate was probablly a good move. But MS went far far beyond that.
but it's not true that OS X retail boxes are upgrades
Does the license let me install it on any machine I want? NO! does every machine the license lets me install it on come with a previous version? YES! That is pretty much the definition of an upgrade copy IMO.
most complex software has bugs. Those bugs are often reveled when a new peice of software interacts with them in new ways. Display drivers are no exception to this and a bug in a driver is the most likely cause of a bluescreen.
So do I but paper books are all too often a pain to get and take a while to acquire. A lot of them also aren't in print which theoretically wouldn't be a problem with non-drm e-books.
mmm of course practically it probabblly would be. Look at music, with physical formats I can legally order a copy from practically anywhere in the world. It will almost certainly come in under the import duty/vat threshold so no problems there.
With legit online music I am far more limited, Most vendors are either heavilly geographically restricted or of questionable legality to use. Because it is the vendor and thier customer working together to do the copying they are involved with copyright at a much more direct level than with physical media and that gives the copyright holder far more power.
Vista Pricing:
* Vista Home basic: $199
* Vista Home Premium: $239
* Vista Business: $299
* Vista Ultimate: $399
Other OS Pricing:
* Ubuntu Linux: $0
* Apple OSX Tiger: $149
* Apple OSX Tiger (5 Licenses): $199
Ahh, nice twisted way to present the figures.
Mac OS-X can according to it's license only be installed on apple hardware which WILL have come with some version of OS-X. That makes it effectively an upgrade release.
The "5 licenses" figure for OS-X you give is home users only and all the machines must be in the same household. Now there is no question that it's a pretty good deal but how many households really have 5 macs that they want to upgrade at once?
looking at upgrade prices on newegg only ultimate is more expensive than your figure for an OS-X upgrade.
and the GBA seems as tough as the color.
the SP DS and DS lite all have a hinge though which is IMO a likely point of failure.
breaking the cable (with the inevitable result that a ship will be sent out, and the cable hauled up) is the last thing you'd want to do.
I disagree, you break the cable and wait for them to find the break first, then once they have found the break and are working to fix it then you do the tap (somewhere else on the cable) while the line is being fixed.
on the other hand if they DO know (or at least stronly suspect) it is encrypted and they have the right rescources then there are techniques they can use. The key will be in ram somewhere so if they can copy the ram then they have a much easier path to cracking the encryption than guessing keys at random.
One common hole is that many firewire chipsets allow DMA to all main memory over the firewire bus. So you can plug a firewire device in and DMA out a complete image of the devices memory.
also many laptops have an exposed PCI or PCI express bus in the form of a minipci or cardbus or expesscard or similar slot. Again with many chipsets this will have direct DMA access to all of main memory.
also dram doesn't lose it's content entirely as quickly as you might think, apparently there is enough time to take the modules out, put them in a reader and get back the data albiet with some errors.
As you imply but don't explicitly state directx 10 isn't really about games, immersive games have always been written to monopolise the system and I don't see that changing any time soon. Sure some of them can run in a window but it doesn't tend to be very practical.
it is about the 3D desktop but most 3D desktops so far have been either highly buggy or underwhelming so that is a feature there is little demand for.
I have no doubt you can keep most of it down there for a while, years, decades, maybe centuries.
The question is can you keep it down there forever and if not what do you do when it does eventually come out?
Sounds like a pretty simple conspiracy to me, bribe a couple of people to do a cable break and then slip in quietly to do a cable tap or whatever.
Only the bribers and bribees and the people doing the tap need ever know.