I'm going to ignore the anti-religious flamebait in your post and point out that he said "among the top-selling books of all time". Try actually reading the comment next time.
To make matters worse, they've already announced a widescreen version if I remember correctly, thus killing the version set for release now before it even comes out. Those guys at Tiger, they are some real marketing geniuses.
I'm looking forward to getting my GP2X, though. They realized early on that the real market for niche portable consoles is homebrew and they embraced it right away. The majority of the people getting one won't care if there isn't a single commercial game out for it. If Tiger had done that, they could have used their considerably larger marketing muscle (larger than Game Park Holdings, anyway) to cultivate a sizeable development community around it. Instead it's going to die quickly and get relegated to an obscure chapter of gaming history.
I'm tired of people associating reading with thinking. I could be reading trash romance or crime novels all day long, and I could be watching the News Hour, or Nova, or something even more educational/thought-provoking on TV. The association between reading and knowledge is a holdout from the days when reading was pretty much the only way to get information beyond your immediate surroundings.
Actually no, it's not. It's because watching TV is a much more passive activity. You just sort of sit there and passively take in the information. With a book you have to actually read what's on the page to take in the content, comprehend it, and visualise what it is saying. There are shitty books just as there is shitty television, but the level of involvement in reading is higher and that's more likely where the association between reading and knowledge comes from.
As it stands, it's a better solution than WinForms for cross-platform.NET apps. Until Mono gets a decent implementation of Windows.Forms or MS open sources it, there's really not any better options right now.
Mono has a cross platform GUI framework. GTK# is already fairly stable all-in-all and works well on all platforms except for Mac (which requires X to use it). I'm sure there are people who will dump all over GTK+ here but it is possible to make cross platform.NET apps as long as you don't actually use Microsoft's shit to do it.
My big problem with Fat32 is actually the 4GB file size limit. Kind of aggrivating but I hardly ever use Windows these days so it's not really a big deal.
Personally, I'm not too worried about it not including HD-DVD or Blu-Ray. The vast majority of games these days don't come close to using the space on a normal single-layer DVD anyway. There are exceptions of course but for the most part I don't think it's that much of a restriction. I'd rather have a hard drive myself and I'm a little choked that it's not being included this time around from what I hear.
I have a hard time to see the gain in security by disalowing root but allowing users to login and then sudo.
You must not have much experience with sudo. One of the benefits of it is that it allows you to give root permission to people for specific tasks that they would need that access level for. While there are certainly a lot of people who set their sudoers file to "allow all" for everyone, if sudo is properly implemented no one should be able to do anything they don't NEED to do as root. Sudo also has the benefit of keeping track of what users used it to do what tasks, making it easier to trace the path an attack came from.
Gogo0 also mentioned an added benefit to this scheme so I'm not going to repeat it here.
Yes, but it's not actually their site. This link should sum it up fairly well. Basically they're taking advantage of the University of Alberta's available bandwidth and as such the main OpenBSD ftp is at the mercy of whatever OS the U of A decides to use. If I remember correctly, that same FTP hosted a ton of other OS ISOs. I distinctly remember getting a Slackware ISO from that site back in the day, and there are/were others, I'm sure.
To the AC: As someone who works for an ISP (albeit a Canadian one) this is somewhat true. What basically happens is we'll get an email or a phone call from a company/industry association with an IP address and a message saying that they've been distributing copyrighted materials illegally. Without a court order they can't get any information out of us and we don't volunteer it. Basically the response to them is "thanks, we'll take care of it" and then we call the customer and tell them to stop it. The customer lays low for a while and presumably they start up again when the heat is off them. Our TOS forbid the illegal distribution of copyrighted materials but really, we know it happens and as long as you don't get caught we don't care. If it happens often enough, though, you might wind up looking for another ISP. There's no active policing going on and we don't take responsibility for what our customers are doing, but we have terms of service and if we keep hearing that a customer is violating them then their service can be terminated.
Months later those guys basically said they were wrong in their criticisms of the game, that while it looked stupid in still images, it was considerably more creepy in motion. If you thought the game was shitty, that's fine, but don't call on these guys to back up your opinion when they don't actually share it.
Seriously...I think Grace is a decent enough actor, but can he pull off Eddie Brock? Personally, I think he would have been better cast as Cletus Kasady (aka Carnage).
I agree. I think the biggest stumbling block for Topher Grace to get over would be the fact that Eddie Brock is supposed to be a pretty big guy. He's a weightlifter in his free time. Topher Grace would need to take a LOT of steroids to make for a good Eddie Brock.
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, though. Sam Raimi's done a fucking awesome job with the last two, I'm sure he knows what he's doing with this one.
Yeah, and then you can't do anything with your system because so many vendors write their software so that it's only useable by users with administrator priviledges. Thanks for nothing, ISVs!
I don't see how running an md5 checksum is going to help in this case since the file was infected at the source (the ftp). There's nothing stopping them from replacing the md5sum on that site along with the main.tar.gz or.rpm or whatever. And where are you going to find a trusted 3rd party checksum for the files?
Shit, I just had this problem not that long ago with something as simple as a wallpaper changer for Gnome. The configure file checks to see if you have Python 2.3 on your system, as well as specific versions of GCC and a couple of other things, and if you don't (I had newer versions in all cases) it fails. This was even submitted as a bug to the developer long before I even found this app, and his response was "None of those things are in the repositories for Debian Woody, so I don't care."
This may or may not apply to the topic, but I felt like venting. Feels good!:)
I'm going to have to give this a try. I have yet to come across a good free Visio replacement. I'm sure someone's going to recommend Dia, but I can't stand that program.
They also have a Live CD available. It's not a free Live CD, but it's only 10 Euros and that's considerably cheaper and I believe that if you wind up purchasing the full version after that it counts towards the purchase price. Of course, a more unscrupulous individual may suggest finding it on Bittorrent to try it, but not me.
Anyway, here's the link to the Live CD page. Hope your German is good.
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I'm going to ignore the anti-religious flamebait in your post and point out that he said "among the top-selling books of all time". Try actually reading the comment next time.
To make matters worse, they've already announced a widescreen version if I remember correctly, thus killing the version set for release now before it even comes out. Those guys at Tiger, they are some real marketing geniuses.
I'm looking forward to getting my GP2X, though. They realized early on that the real market for niche portable consoles is homebrew and they embraced it right away. The majority of the people getting one won't care if there isn't a single commercial game out for it. If Tiger had done that, they could have used their considerably larger marketing muscle (larger than Game Park Holdings, anyway) to cultivate a sizeable development community around it. Instead it's going to die quickly and get relegated to an obscure chapter of gaming history.
Yes, the ironing is delicious.
I'm tired of people associating reading with thinking. I could be reading trash romance or crime novels all day long, and I could be watching the News Hour, or Nova, or something even more educational/thought-provoking on TV. The association between reading and knowledge is a holdout from the days when reading was pretty much the only way to get information beyond your immediate surroundings.
Actually no, it's not. It's because watching TV is a much more passive activity. You just sort of sit there and passively take in the information. With a book you have to actually read what's on the page to take in the content, comprehend it, and visualise what it is saying. There are shitty books just as there is shitty television, but the level of involvement in reading is higher and that's more likely where the association between reading and knowledge comes from.
As it stands, it's a better solution than WinForms for cross-platform .NET apps. Until Mono gets a decent implementation of Windows.Forms or MS open sources it, there's really not any better options right now.
Mono has a cross platform GUI framework. GTK# is already fairly stable all-in-all and works well on all platforms except for Mac (which requires X to use it). I'm sure there are people who will dump all over GTK+ here but it is possible to make cross platform .NET apps as long as you don't actually use Microsoft's shit to do it.
Sounds to me like the joke in "sword fighting" went right over somebody's head.
Here's a couple of suggestions for Ext2fs in Windows:
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html
http://www.ext2fs-anywhere.com/
These should let you use Ext2fs in Windows.
My big problem with Fat32 is actually the 4GB file size limit. Kind of aggrivating but I hardly ever use Windows these days so it's not really a big deal.
Personally, I'm not too worried about it not including HD-DVD or Blu-Ray. The vast majority of games these days don't come close to using the space on a normal single-layer DVD anyway. There are exceptions of course but for the most part I don't think it's that much of a restriction. I'd rather have a hard drive myself and I'm a little choked that it's not being included this time around from what I hear.
I have a hard time to see the gain in security by disalowing root but allowing users to login and then sudo.
You must not have much experience with sudo. One of the benefits of it is that it allows you to give root permission to people for specific tasks that they would need that access level for. While there are certainly a lot of people who set their sudoers file to "allow all" for everyone, if sudo is properly implemented no one should be able to do anything they don't NEED to do as root. Sudo also has the benefit of keeping track of what users used it to do what tasks, making it easier to trace the path an attack came from.
Gogo0 also mentioned an added benefit to this scheme so I'm not going to repeat it here.
Yes, but it's not actually their site. This link should sum it up fairly well. Basically they're taking advantage of the University of Alberta's available bandwidth and as such the main OpenBSD ftp is at the mercy of whatever OS the U of A decides to use. If I remember correctly, that same FTP hosted a ton of other OS ISOs. I distinctly remember getting a Slackware ISO from that site back in the day, and there are/were others, I'm sure.
To the AC: As someone who works for an ISP (albeit a Canadian one) this is somewhat true. What basically happens is we'll get an email or a phone call from a company/industry association with an IP address and a message saying that they've been distributing copyrighted materials illegally. Without a court order they can't get any information out of us and we don't volunteer it. Basically the response to them is "thanks, we'll take care of it" and then we call the customer and tell them to stop it. The customer lays low for a while and presumably they start up again when the heat is off them. Our TOS forbid the illegal distribution of copyrighted materials but really, we know it happens and as long as you don't get caught we don't care. If it happens often enough, though, you might wind up looking for another ISP. There's no active policing going on and we don't take responsibility for what our customers are doing, but we have terms of service and if we keep hearing that a customer is violating them then their service can be terminated.
"Kyle Smith is so like an idiot that he ought to come with a clue-by-four so I can use it to beat a clue into his head."
Ended the whole "threat to hunt you down" thing right there.
Of course, he wound up getting tortured and dying (briefly) after that, but I see what you're getting at.
The movie was fucking awesome, by the way.
Months later those guys basically said they were wrong in their criticisms of the game, that while it looked stupid in still images, it was considerably more creepy in motion. If you thought the game was shitty, that's fine, but don't call on these guys to back up your opinion when they don't actually share it.
Seriously...I think Grace is a decent enough actor, but can he pull off Eddie Brock? Personally, I think he would have been better cast as Cletus Kasady (aka Carnage).
I agree. I think the biggest stumbling block for Topher Grace to get over would be the fact that Eddie Brock is supposed to be a pretty big guy. He's a weightlifter in his free time. Topher Grace would need to take a LOT of steroids to make for a good Eddie Brock.
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, though. Sam Raimi's done a fucking awesome job with the last two, I'm sure he knows what he's doing with this one.
There a particular place a Canadian could pick that up online? I'm assuming I'll need a modded XBox to play it, as well.
you must not play many games, then.
Yeah, and then you can't do anything with your system because so many vendors write their software so that it's only useable by users with administrator priviledges. Thanks for nothing, ISVs!
I don't see how running an md5 checksum is going to help in this case since the file was infected at the source (the ftp). There's nothing stopping them from replacing the md5sum on that site along with the main .tar.gz or .rpm or whatever. And where are you going to find a trusted 3rd party checksum for the files?
Shit, I just had this problem not that long ago with something as simple as a wallpaper changer for Gnome. The configure file checks to see if you have Python 2.3 on your system, as well as specific versions of GCC and a couple of other things, and if you don't (I had newer versions in all cases) it fails. This was even submitted as a bug to the developer long before I even found this app, and his response was "None of those things are in the repositories for Debian Woody, so I don't care."
:)
This may or may not apply to the topic, but I felt like venting. Feels good!
I'm going to have to give this a try. I have yet to come across a good free Visio replacement. I'm sure someone's going to recommend Dia, but I can't stand that program.
Unless, of course, nvidia is violating those patents and opening their source would open them to litigation.
Actually, Mr. AC...
They also have a Live CD available. It's not a free Live CD, but it's only 10 Euros and that's considerably cheaper and I believe that if you wind up purchasing the full version after that it counts towards the purchase price. Of course, a more unscrupulous individual may suggest finding it on Bittorrent to try it, but not me.
Anyway, here's the link to the Live CD page. Hope your German is good.