That seems strange. Do you use the Twilight Hack to launch homebrew every time or have you just never gotten into homebrew? Once the Homebrew Channel is on your system you can launch homebrew through it from an SD card. Just install the HBC and you don't need TP anymore. You just have to be careful not to delete the HBC, and check wiibrew.org before every update in case it removes the HBC. So far, no updates have, although they have removed hacked TP saves.
Actually, it sounds like from what marcan said, it might have closed the hole more or less permanently.
# Twilight Hack no longer works. Iâ(TM)d like to remind everyone that this exploit has been in use for over a year. Whether it comes back or a new game exploit takes its place, I think we can say itâ(TM)s served us all well.
While this doesn't necessarily mean that the hack is dead, it seems like they're moving on to the next exploitable game. Also, you don't really need the Twilight Hack once you've installed the Homebrew Channel, and this update does not remove the Homebrew Channel. I held off on updating for a while but I actually buy WiiWare games, so this update is actually useful for me, and I keep my Homebrew Channel. The Twilight Hack finally being fixed does not really matter to me.
Their updates always say that, but it's usually not true if all you've done is install the Homebrew Channel. More invasive (irresponsible) hacks might cause problems but if you stick to the Homebrew Channel only (and DVDx I guess) so far there are no problems. Team Twiizers is generally careful about what they do.
Yeah, I would advise you to just use the Twilight Hack and install the Homebrew Channel and then update - the update does not remove the Homebrew Channel but it does close the hole for the Twilight Hack once and for all, or at least so it would seem. There isn't really a drawback to having the Homebrew Channel on your Wii, except for the maybe 1meg of space it takes up. That way if you later decide you want to use homebrew, you won't have to wait for the next exploit. Team Twiizers, the team behind the Twilight hack, have been sitting on other exploits for when this finally got properly patched, but it's going to take them time to actually put out the next hack so if there's any chance you want homebrew just hack it now and then update.
Umm, so do I. I'm not aware where else you would install it to. I do have UAC turned off though. But I don't really see what UAC would have to do with offline mode.
One of the CS professors here is working on a research project that seems to have a similar use, except it relies on binary analysis. http://bitblaze.cs.berkeley.edu/ They also made a tool to automatically generate exploits based on Microsoft patches, and I guess they're just hoping that that capability doesn't fall into the wrong hands... Professor Song is scary.
Meh, I thought that was bullshit then and I still do now. I guess I can see where it could start to get long if using Active Directory and roaming profiles, but a 15 minute boot clearly indicates PEBKAC, or at least PEAIT.
True, but it seems like the original article doesn't have any sources, and there still isn't even any confirmation that Dell is working on a smartphone at all. Also, Slashdot should have linked to the MarketWatch article and not linked to the AppleInsider at all, since it's just a flamebait post. Nowhere in the MarketWatch article does it mention carriers thinking it was dull; in fact, I would not be surprised if the lack of interest was because it included too many features that they couldn't cripple, especially if they went to Verizon with this supposed prototype.
/disgruntled Verizon user. Seriously, only their $300 smartphones come with wifi, and now they require a data plan anyway so it's kind of moot. Bleh.
I agree completely, but I think the market where Apple is really growing is the laptop market, when people go to college. In my humanities classes I see probably as many Macbooks as PC laptops, or sometimes even more. I guess Macbooks are a little more portable than the average PC laptop, so that might be a biased sample. And in the science/engineering classes, there are far fewer Macs, probably because a lot of us are gamers. So basically, I think at this point Apple is really focused on the laptop market, and doesn't care so much about people who want a real computer. Personally, I've decided that I'm never going to buy an OEM built desktop again anyway, and I bet most people who care about upgradeability will be doing the same.
Yeah, I guess I did mean dumb terminal. But dunno, in my experience in Vista the disk is definitely not spinning constantly; in fact, I just fired up task manager and checked the number of IO writes that the indexer has made this login session and it's only made 2522; whereas Pidgin has made 1777, Firefox 468,000, and Steam about 3 million (updating TF2 I believe). It's also only using 3 megs of RAM; certainly not a resource hog. It's doing what a background process generally should be doing, processing stuff without interrupting my workflow. I installed Windows Search on XP as well and that did cause the disks to thrash, but I think that was because of the initial indexing. I did uninstall it because that machine was low on RAM as it was, but if it had more RAM and a better hard drive I would have left it on. I think the initial full index might seem to make your hard drive thrash, but once that's done it hardly does anything. Remember, by default it only indexes the user home folders, not the entire disk.
Right, but the summary started off with "AppleInsider has an article..." which immediately set off my bullshit detector. Even the marketwatch article is based on what an analyst said, and I for one don't put much worth in what analysts say, because there's no source cited. And the summary is written in a purposely inflammatory way and bashes Dell for no good reason. I don't own a Dell, but the XPS and Studio lines look really attractive. Bleh. I don't know if I should have expected better from Slashdot.
Seriously, I don't know how that got modded insightful. My Vista machine boots to the desktop and is usable in under a minute. 15 minutes is complete bullshit unless he's trying to run it on a 486 or something.
Uh, does anyone else find it a bit suspect that this is from a site called Apple Insider? For me that completely ruins the credibility of this story. I mean, any smartphone is miles less dull than the generic clamshells and candybars that the telcos keep pushing.
Sure, but I could build an entire PC for that much, and it would be a pretty good PC too. The prices on the whole i7 ecosystem are kind of ridiculous. My theory is that Intel invented triple channel RAM as a bailout to the DRAM companies.
What are you smoking? The DSi can use ALL of the same software as the DS/DSLite, so DS/DSL/DSi>>>iPhone+iPod Touch. Nintendo just passed the 100 million point with the DS.
Full employment is defined as around 5% unemployment. This is made up of frictional unemployment, people between jobs or looking for their first one, structural unemployment, people whose skills are obsolete, and cyclical unemployment, unemployment due to the ebb and flow of the business cycle.
I'm pretty sure any sane OS does the same thing. And I wasn't aware this was some sort of war to gain users; I use both Windows and Linux comfortably for their respective strengths.
In fact, I think the very top of the line smartphone has 288MB of RAM only. I bet 512MB would seem like heaven. Although for a long time I think smartphones were stuck at 64MB, but recently they realized that WinMo sucks down a lot of RAM and that DRAM prices have been falling so why not give these things more RAM? I think this is why Firefox has been having trouble getting onto smartphones, right now I think the Fennec alpha is only supposed to run on an HTC Touch Pro which is the one with 288MB RAM (depending on model/carrier though).
This is true, my dad is an engineer who works on NIF and his coworkers have also told me that the whole infinite energy thing is just marketing for politicians. Still, I think NIF is important because it's enabling pure physics research which you just can't do at that scale without the backing of the DoE. Of course, I may be slightly biased since NIF is also helping to pay for my college tuition... but yeah, pure research needs to continue.
Hi, my dad is an engineer who works on NIF, and I've talked with some of his coworkers as well, and they said that the profitability of NIF is sort of what they say to market it to politicians and the public. The truth of the matter is that the main purpose is for pure research, which is something the US is sorely lacking these days. Then the guy went off on a rant about how no one does research anymore, but yeah. The research they do there might lead to something that becomes profitable, but NIF itself is mainly for pure research.
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That seems strange. Do you use the Twilight Hack to launch homebrew every time or have you just never gotten into homebrew? Once the Homebrew Channel is on your system you can launch homebrew through it from an SD card. Just install the HBC and you don't need TP anymore. You just have to be careful not to delete the HBC, and check wiibrew.org before every update in case it removes the HBC. So far, no updates have, although they have removed hacked TP saves.
While this doesn't necessarily mean that the hack is dead, it seems like they're moving on to the next exploitable game. Also, you don't really need the Twilight Hack once you've installed the Homebrew Channel, and this update does not remove the Homebrew Channel. I held off on updating for a while but I actually buy WiiWare games, so this update is actually useful for me, and I keep my Homebrew Channel. The Twilight Hack finally being fixed does not really matter to me.
Their updates always say that, but it's usually not true if all you've done is install the Homebrew Channel. More invasive (irresponsible) hacks might cause problems but if you stick to the Homebrew Channel only (and DVDx I guess) so far there are no problems. Team Twiizers is generally careful about what they do.
Yeah, I would advise you to just use the Twilight Hack and install the Homebrew Channel and then update - the update does not remove the Homebrew Channel but it does close the hole for the Twilight Hack once and for all, or at least so it would seem. There isn't really a drawback to having the Homebrew Channel on your Wii, except for the maybe 1meg of space it takes up. That way if you later decide you want to use homebrew, you won't have to wait for the next exploit. Team Twiizers, the team behind the Twilight hack, have been sitting on other exploits for when this finally got properly patched, but it's going to take them time to actually put out the next hack so if there's any chance you want homebrew just hack it now and then update.
Ah. What are the contents of the binary blob? Assuming you were actually offline, the game couldn't be downloading any content...
Umm, so do I. I'm not aware where else you would install it to. I do have UAC turned off though. But I don't really see what UAC would have to do with offline mode.
Uh, yes it can. I'm not sure what your problem is, but I definitely have been able to run Steam offline in Vista.
One of the CS professors here is working on a research project that seems to have a similar use, except it relies on binary analysis. http://bitblaze.cs.berkeley.edu/ They also made a tool to automatically generate exploits based on Microsoft patches, and I guess they're just hoping that that capability doesn't fall into the wrong hands... Professor Song is scary.
Meh, I thought that was bullshit then and I still do now. I guess I can see where it could start to get long if using Active Directory and roaming profiles, but a 15 minute boot clearly indicates PEBKAC, or at least PEAIT.
True, but it seems like the original article doesn't have any sources, and there still isn't even any confirmation that Dell is working on a smartphone at all. Also, Slashdot should have linked to the MarketWatch article and not linked to the AppleInsider at all, since it's just a flamebait post. Nowhere in the MarketWatch article does it mention carriers thinking it was dull; in fact, I would not be surprised if the lack of interest was because it included too many features that they couldn't cripple, especially if they went to Verizon with this supposed prototype.
/disgruntled Verizon user. Seriously, only their $300 smartphones come with wifi, and now they require a data plan anyway so it's kind of moot. Bleh.
I agree completely, but I think the market where Apple is really growing is the laptop market, when people go to college. In my humanities classes I see probably as many Macbooks as PC laptops, or sometimes even more. I guess Macbooks are a little more portable than the average PC laptop, so that might be a biased sample. And in the science/engineering classes, there are far fewer Macs, probably because a lot of us are gamers. So basically, I think at this point Apple is really focused on the laptop market, and doesn't care so much about people who want a real computer. Personally, I've decided that I'm never going to buy an OEM built desktop again anyway, and I bet most people who care about upgradeability will be doing the same.
Yeah, I guess I did mean dumb terminal. But dunno, in my experience in Vista the disk is definitely not spinning constantly; in fact, I just fired up task manager and checked the number of IO writes that the indexer has made this login session and it's only made 2522; whereas Pidgin has made 1777, Firefox 468,000, and Steam about 3 million (updating TF2 I believe). It's also only using 3 megs of RAM; certainly not a resource hog. It's doing what a background process generally should be doing, processing stuff without interrupting my workflow. I installed Windows Search on XP as well and that did cause the disks to thrash, but I think that was because of the initial indexing. I did uninstall it because that machine was low on RAM as it was, but if it had more RAM and a better hard drive I would have left it on. I think the initial full index might seem to make your hard drive thrash, but once that's done it hardly does anything. Remember, by default it only indexes the user home folders, not the entire disk.
Right, but the summary started off with "AppleInsider has an article..." which immediately set off my bullshit detector. Even the marketwatch article is based on what an analyst said, and I for one don't put much worth in what analysts say, because there's no source cited. And the summary is written in a purposely inflammatory way and bashes Dell for no good reason. I don't own a Dell, but the XPS and Studio lines look really attractive. Bleh. I don't know if I should have expected better from Slashdot.
I'm curious, what do you mean by that? It seems to be working fine for me, despite what you say.
I agree on the browser thing though; it's like the thin client all over again, but using 10x more resources than an equivalent desktop programs.
Seriously, I don't know how that got modded insightful. My Vista machine boots to the desktop and is usable in under a minute. 15 minutes is complete bullshit unless he's trying to run it on a 486 or something.
Ah, I didn't notice that. That explains it I guess...
Uh, does anyone else find it a bit suspect that this is from a site called Apple Insider? For me that completely ruins the credibility of this story. I mean, any smartphone is miles less dull than the generic clamshells and candybars that the telcos keep pushing.
Sure, but I could build an entire PC for that much, and it would be a pretty good PC too. The prices on the whole i7 ecosystem are kind of ridiculous. My theory is that Intel invented triple channel RAM as a bailout to the DRAM companies.
What are you smoking? The DSi can use ALL of the same software as the DS/DSLite, so DS/DSL/DSi>>>iPhone+iPod Touch. Nintendo just passed the 100 million point with the DS.
Full employment is defined as around 5% unemployment. This is made up of frictional unemployment, people between jobs or looking for their first one, structural unemployment, people whose skills are obsolete, and cyclical unemployment, unemployment due to the ebb and flow of the business cycle.
Actually, Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation are two separate entities, and MoCo isn't a non-profit.
I'm pretty sure any sane OS does the same thing. And I wasn't aware this was some sort of war to gain users; I use both Windows and Linux comfortably for their respective strengths.
In fact, I think the very top of the line smartphone has 288MB of RAM only. I bet 512MB would seem like heaven. Although for a long time I think smartphones were stuck at 64MB, but recently they realized that WinMo sucks down a lot of RAM and that DRAM prices have been falling so why not give these things more RAM? I think this is why Firefox has been having trouble getting onto smartphones, right now I think the Fennec alpha is only supposed to run on an HTC Touch Pro which is the one with 288MB RAM (depending on model/carrier though).
This is true, my dad is an engineer who works on NIF and his coworkers have also told me that the whole infinite energy thing is just marketing for politicians. Still, I think NIF is important because it's enabling pure physics research which you just can't do at that scale without the backing of the DoE. Of course, I may be slightly biased since NIF is also helping to pay for my college tuition... but yeah, pure research needs to continue.
Hi, my dad is an engineer who works on NIF, and I've talked with some of his coworkers as well, and they said that the profitability of NIF is sort of what they say to market it to politicians and the public. The truth of the matter is that the main purpose is for pure research, which is something the US is sorely lacking these days. Then the guy went off on a rant about how no one does research anymore, but yeah. The research they do there might lead to something that becomes profitable, but NIF itself is mainly for pure research.