Cyrix 486 66Mhz (which died after 2 weeks of usage and was replaced for free for an AMD K5-80Mhz), 4 megs of RAM, 420 megs Samsung HDD and a 1 Mb Trident videocard that was as large as a keyboard. I then didn't understand the difference between RAM and HDD and thought "How can Dos, Norton, Warcraft, Doom all the other stuff fit in 4 megs?". The thing was in an AT case with a power switch that occasionally sparked when the system was turned on. And later the case cover screws loosened and when I installed a 48x cdrom the case cover made a really loud noise when the cdrom was spinning at full speed. The 14-inch no-name (Tystar) monitor was surprisingly good and had far better focus than many Samsung monitors at the time.
I've entered university two years ago and I've been styding various programming algorithms there (like width- and depth- searching in graphs, data flow etc). When I recently played Warcraft (haven't played it for three years or more) I've found out that I'm applying the stuff I've been studying. Particulary, using width-searching when I'm developing my home base. As a result, I'm beating the computer all the time and often even some of my hardcore-gaming friends. Well, if I haven't entered university, I would be actually not playing games better. So, it's my education that's helping me play better and not vice-versa. And about bilingual players: if your native language is not English and you know only one language it's kind of hard to be playing non-translated English games. One more interesting fact: my native language is Russian, but while I was playing Doom 3 (in English) for the first time I found myself swearing in English. Was kind of funny when I found out.
When I get mod points, I usually try to mod up unmoderated posts. There is often really insightful/interesting stuff hidden under (Score:1) and at the bottom of the page, which most moderators seem to ignore. Modding a (Score:4, Insightful) with lots of replies further up doesn't make sense to me. It's already perfectly visible, and that's the whole point of moderation: to identify good stuff and make it more visible that uninteresting stuff.
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The editors should definetly have read the book, especially the part that compares two article names as strings and appends [dupe] to one of them.
When I once failed a exam, I became REALLY depressed. I didn't want to do anything, and actually wanted to feel myself even worse. So I started preparing for the next exam and found out that my concentration was much better that it usually is. I got excellent marks for all exams following the one I failed. Following that event, I sometimes deliberately tried to force depression on myself when I wanted to play UT2004 instead of studying. Beleive me, it works. It worked so well that I prepared three times more the needed material and the the professor asked me why I did much more than really needed.
It looks pretty much like Safari to me: - address bar on on top, Search next to it - no menu (because it's not needed in Mac OS) - back/forward buttons in a tight group next to address bar, no stop button
EA's Need for Speed has lots of product placement. Stuff like one car considered to be better than another (and drives better), or "better" cars are unlocked as the player progresses through the game (although a "better" car is actually the same as the player's previous car). And there are lots of ads in NFS Underground 2 and NFS Most Wanted. Like Cingular, Burger King, Axe, Old Spice, AutoZone etc.
Only today I had to hold my dog by the neck pressing it to the floor in order to prove that I'm in a higher position. Otherwise it would probably bite me all the time, take my things and not give them back, and growl me away from the best place for watching TV. And it's a MittelSchnauzer, not a giant wolfhound!
Robotic pets IMHO are soulless, even when they show emotions, because they're programmed to do that. They are also much more stupid and fragile (no regeneration!).
When I first registered my Gmail inbox, I got 3 spam messages in a week's period. Now it's 25 messages a day. And I never left my address in any suspicious place. It strikes me that the same people are sending the same spam over and over again. 40% is 0em s0f7w4re, 40% is p3n1s pi11s, and 10% is University Degrees, and I'd say that all the mail I get is sent from about 5-6 companies, each sending 2-4 emails a day. And these spammers don't even bother to change their subject lines! How stupid they are to think that the more mail I send, the higher chance I'll buy their stuff.
Sony may heve less features, but the features its devices do have work really great. For example, I have exchanged my Palm Zire 71 PDA for a Sony Clie SJ-22. The clie has a much slower CPU, no audio/mp3 etc. and uses an older-generation OS. But the device just feels good. Solid, durable (for example it has a replaceable battery unlike most Palm Powered PDAs out there), with long battery life. Another example is SonyEricsson mobile phones, which have the most logical interface I've ever seen. However their MP3 players are crap because of the heavy DRM. Maybe also other products which are bundled with DRM because of the Sony Music/Sony Pictures departments. Oh, and Sony had MP3 players at least 3 years ago - they were players that read MP3s from Cds. It's just that they've added flash memory and hard drive based players only recently.
Then who is a network admin? If he restricts you from getting/etc/shadow from your corporate server or even slashdot.org? An interesting question indeed.
When I recently checked OEM prices for CPUs, it was interesting that a 64-bit Sempron costs only slightly more than a Celeron with roughly the same perfomance. And Intel doesn't have any reasonably priced 64-bit chips... It's also interesting what x86 imacs would be like if Apple chose 64-bit CPUs, because, well, they had 64-bit G5 before.
When I encounter a keyboard in some public place like internet cafe or simply a shared computer at work, it's usually REALLY dirty. So dirty that the keys are brownish-gray. And although dirty mice isn't such a problem now because optical mice are more popular, in my university library I clean out loads of crap from any mechanical mouse I ever use. Personal computers are another matter, because if you hate dirty keyboards you can either throw them away or clean them. Nobody will be spending his own time/money on cleaning a public computer keyboard he probably won't be seeing ever again.
Yes, I usually install RPMs without thinking about the reliability of the source - because, well, my PC is isolated from the network by a hardware D-Link router and don't have any servers on my Linux box, so most rootkits that act like trojans are useless. Next, most viruses on Gnutella etc. target Windows users. And downloading packages with apt/urpmi/etc. from the distro vendor usually doesn't require any cracks. And of course I trust my distro vendor because if I suspected them of putting rootkits, I'd be using a different one. Also, rootkits are usually installed manually when a system is hacked, because every distro out there uses different folders for holding stuff (e.g. SUSE stores KDE in/opt, Kubuntu stores it in/usr), different utilities etc. so a virus maker ends with a fat binary that isn't guaranteed to work on every box out there. It's easier to write a virus that hits 90% of all users (Windows).
>Please don't take this the wrong way but... were you visting warez/porn sites on IE?
I was downloading some cracks with Firefox (1 virus) and then some more with Gnutella (2 additional viruses). The viruses were so nasty that even Safe Mode didn't boot at all. And then always the risk of doing something stupid because it Windows doesn't ask the root password before doing some serious stuff. And running as a Limited user actually causes some software not to function at all.
>Legit apps on the net usually don't cause much problems.
I've been using Linux for nearly a year with no Windows on my PC. After that, I had to use Windows (developed.NET apps) and on the first day got 3 completely different viruses and managed to get my system completely screwed up. Before that I had a huge experience in Windows and never had any real problems with that kind of stuff. However it appears that I've completely lost awareness of the possible dangers of running every app without checking first. So it appears that Linux and probably Mac users are less aware of malware and do some really careless things because the probability of getting a virus is extremely low.
So if your neighbor is listening to some crappy music at insane volume levels, he's making a public performance of the song and must be sued. The best way to deal with that situation is to call RIAA, not yor local police. Guess copyright infringment will result in a larger fine than making loud noises.
Well, actually WMP downloads album covers, missing tags etc. while the user is listening to songs. Try playing a dir with popular MP3s and when you hear all of them it will probably filled with files named AlbumArt****.jpg. Every time you request an album cover or missing tags, it may (or not) be logged. And WMP does it silently, no questions. However there's an option to disable this. Personally, I don't mind. I even have my last.fm account tied to Amarok, and last.fm actually links all music you listen to your username for everyone out there to see.
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Cyrix 486 66Mhz (which died after 2 weeks of usage and was replaced for free for an AMD K5-80Mhz), 4 megs of RAM, 420 megs Samsung HDD and a 1 Mb Trident videocard that was as large as a keyboard. I then didn't understand the difference between RAM and HDD and thought "How can Dos, Norton, Warcraft, Doom all the other stuff fit in 4 megs?".
The thing was in an AT case with a power switch that occasionally sparked when the system was turned on. And later the case cover screws loosened and when I installed a 48x cdrom the case cover made a really loud noise when the cdrom was spinning at full speed.
The 14-inch no-name (Tystar) monitor was surprisingly good and had far better focus than many Samsung monitors at the time.
Yes, you're right. Sorry for the mistake.
Most people don't know what a bio-rootkit is, so why should they care?
I've entered university two years ago and I've been styding various programming algorithms there (like width- and depth- searching in graphs, data flow etc).
When I recently played Warcraft (haven't played it for three years or more) I've found out that I'm applying the stuff I've been studying. Particulary, using width-searching when I'm developing my home base. As a result, I'm beating the computer all the time and often even some of my hardcore-gaming friends.
Well, if I haven't entered university, I would be actually not playing games better. So, it's my education that's helping me play better and not vice-versa.
And about bilingual players: if your native language is not English and you know only one language it's kind of hard to be playing non-translated English games.
One more interesting fact: my native language is Russian, but while I was playing Doom 3 (in English) for the first time I found myself swearing in English. Was kind of funny when I found out.
When I get mod points, I usually try to mod up unmoderated posts. There is often really insightful/interesting stuff hidden under (Score:1) and at the bottom of the page, which most moderators seem to ignore. Modding a (Score:4, Insightful) with lots of replies further up doesn't make sense to me. It's already perfectly visible, and that's the whole point of moderation: to identify good stuff and make it more visible that uninteresting stuff.
Original story
The editors should definetly have read the book, especially the part that compares two article names as strings and appends [dupe] to one of them.
When I once failed a exam, I became REALLY depressed. I didn't want to do anything, and actually wanted to feel myself even worse. So I started preparing for the next exam and found out that my concentration was much better that it usually is. I got excellent marks for all exams following the one I failed.
Following that event, I sometimes deliberately tried to force depression on myself when I wanted to play UT2004 instead of studying. Beleive me, it works. It worked so well that I prepared three times more the needed material and the the professor asked me why I did much more than really needed.
The only patch for stupid is a swift boot in the ass. ;-)
Only on Slashdot a comment like that will be moderated "4, Informative"
In fact, there was a photo of Optimus Mini with keys acting like Ctrl, Alt and Del.
It looks pretty much like Safari to me:
- address bar on on top, Search next to it
- no menu (because it's not needed in Mac OS)
- back/forward buttons in a tight group next to address bar, no stop button
IBM no longer makes Thinkpads. Their whole PC division was sold to Chinese manufacturer Lenovo.
It will be more like Compaq Portable.
EA's Need for Speed has lots of product placement.
Stuff like one car considered to be better than another (and drives better), or "better" cars are unlocked as the player progresses through the game (although a "better" car is actually the same as the player's previous car).
And there are lots of ads in NFS Underground 2 and NFS Most Wanted. Like Cingular, Burger King, Axe, Old Spice, AutoZone etc.
IE 7 leaked as in sewage pipes :P
Only today I had to hold my dog by the neck pressing it to the floor in order to prove that I'm in a higher position. Otherwise it would probably bite me all the time, take my things and not give them back, and growl me away from the best place for watching TV. And it's a MittelSchnauzer, not a giant wolfhound!
Robotic pets IMHO are soulless, even when they show emotions, because they're programmed to do that. They are also much more stupid and fragile (no regeneration!).
When I first registered my Gmail inbox, I got 3 spam messages in a week's period. Now it's 25 messages a day. And I never left my address in any suspicious place.
It strikes me that the same people are sending the same spam over and over again. 40% is 0em s0f7w4re, 40% is p3n1s pi11s, and 10% is University Degrees, and I'd say that all the mail I get is sent from about 5-6 companies, each sending 2-4 emails a day. And these spammers don't even bother to change their subject lines! How stupid they are to think that the more mail I send, the higher chance I'll buy their stuff.
Sony may heve less features, but the features its devices do have work really great.
For example, I have exchanged my Palm Zire 71 PDA for a Sony Clie SJ-22. The clie has a much slower CPU, no audio/mp3 etc. and uses an older-generation OS. But the device just feels good. Solid, durable (for example it has a replaceable battery unlike most Palm Powered PDAs out there), with long battery life. Another example is SonyEricsson mobile phones, which have the most logical interface I've ever seen.
However their MP3 players are crap because of the heavy DRM. Maybe also other products which are bundled with DRM because of the Sony Music/Sony Pictures departments.
Oh, and Sony had MP3 players at least 3 years ago - they were players that read MP3s from Cds. It's just that they've added flash memory and hard drive based players only recently.
Then who is a network admin? If he restricts you from getting /etc/shadow from your corporate server or even slashdot.org?
An interesting question indeed.
When I recently checked OEM prices for CPUs, it was interesting that a 64-bit Sempron costs only slightly more than a Celeron with roughly the same perfomance.
And Intel doesn't have any reasonably priced 64-bit chips...
It's also interesting what x86 imacs would be like if Apple chose 64-bit CPUs, because, well, they had 64-bit G5 before.
When I encounter a keyboard in some public place like internet cafe or simply a shared computer at work, it's usually REALLY dirty. So dirty that the keys are brownish-gray.
And although dirty mice isn't such a problem now because optical mice are more popular, in my university library I clean out loads of crap from any mechanical mouse I ever use.
Personal computers are another matter, because if you hate dirty keyboards you can either throw them away or clean them. Nobody will be spending his own time/money on cleaning a public computer keyboard he probably won't be seeing ever again.
Yes, I usually install RPMs without thinking about the reliability of the source - because, well, my PC is isolated from the network by a hardware D-Link router and don't have any servers on my Linux box, so most rootkits that act like trojans are useless. /opt, Kubuntu stores it in /usr), different utilities etc. so a virus maker ends with a fat binary that isn't guaranteed to work on every box out there. It's easier to write a virus that hits 90% of all users (Windows).
Next, most viruses on Gnutella etc. target Windows users.
And downloading packages with apt/urpmi/etc. from the distro vendor usually doesn't require any cracks. And of course I trust my distro vendor because if I suspected them of putting rootkits, I'd be using a different one.
Also, rootkits are usually installed manually when a system is hacked, because every distro out there uses different folders for holding stuff (e.g. SUSE stores KDE in
>Please don't take this the wrong way but... were you visting warez/porn sites on IE?
I was downloading some cracks with Firefox (1 virus) and then some more with Gnutella (2 additional viruses).
The viruses were so nasty that even Safe Mode didn't boot at all.
And then always the risk of doing something stupid because it Windows doesn't ask the root password before doing some serious stuff. And running as a Limited user actually causes some software not to function at all.
>Legit apps on the net usually don't cause much problems.
Except for Sony's rootkit...
I've been using Linux for nearly a year with no Windows on my PC. After that, I had to use Windows (developed .NET apps) and on the first day got 3 completely different viruses and managed to get my system completely screwed up. Before that I had a huge experience in Windows and never had any real problems with that kind of stuff. However it appears that I've completely lost awareness of the possible dangers of running every app without checking first.
So it appears that Linux and probably Mac users are less aware of malware and do some really careless things because the probability of getting a virus is extremely low.
So if your neighbor is listening to some crappy music at insane volume levels, he's making a public performance of the song and must be sued.
The best way to deal with that situation is to call RIAA, not yor local police. Guess copyright infringment will result in a larger fine than making loud noises.
Well, actually WMP downloads album covers, missing tags etc. while the user is listening to songs.
Try playing a dir with popular MP3s and when you hear all of them it will probably filled with files named AlbumArt****.jpg.
Every time you request an album cover or missing tags, it may (or not) be logged.
And WMP does it silently, no questions. However there's an option to disable this.
Personally, I don't mind. I even have my last.fm account tied to Amarok, and last.fm actually links all music you listen to your username for everyone out there to see.