In 1998 Cisco entered the "hot" intrusion detection market buy buying WheelGroup and their NetSonar product. Seemingly unable or unwilling to understand/develop the product, it was finally killed in 2003, by which time Cisco had put some (not very good) IDS technology into their own core products.
Largely an irrelevance in the IDS world up until today.... they just decided to have another go at it..
"Cisco Systems Inc. said today it will acquire IDS, IPS and anti -malware specialist Sourcefire Inc.for $2.7 billion."
Cisco are NOT going to merge with Sourcefire, but this time around say they will leave it as a separate business unit, perhaps it will work better for them than NetSonar in 1998, perhaps it wont wither and die.
Incredible that Cisco could not successfully grow such capability in-house. Just goes to show that large companies cant achieve much!
It's pretty simple, Cisco is notorious for writing spectacularly shitty software, especially anything security related. They make decent enough hardware, but their software is attrocious.
So, they just periodically buy up vendors who have fairly good software in the market they want, and use it. Generally after a few revisions it turns into the same Cisco shitpile as their own home-grown stuff, but that's when they decide to go buy someone else.
I never trusted download.com, and so never used it. I always assumed that they were bundling crapware in with the downloads, because that website was so hideous, it looked like a fly by night operation.
Last I checked, Android was just another distribution of Linux, much like your precious Nokia. While I'd love to have a C-based userland, it's still Linux on arm.
I have an older phone, but I'm still running a recent kernel (2.6.35) on armv71. Busybox and so on are there, it's only real problem is as I said a lack of C in the userland. It's not hard to get extra tools on there, although I'd love to see Portage. With distcc, it would even be pretty quick to compile and install new software.
What makes your Nokia so much better? The way I see it, it's like arguing what is better, ubuntu or fedora. Both are Linux, just with different UI wrappers.
I haven't played since the beta, but is spotting still broken? Komarin was one of the worst maps for that, whoever got impatient and moved first lost.
Also, are the Russian tanks still better than everything else? The KV for instance got either the solid 107mm or the hilarious 152mm, while the equal tiered Pz4 got the 75L/70 (which wasn't a bad gun, but it's no 107mm), and the T1 heavy was even worse, with that peashooter 76mm.
And then things like the T29 being too competitive with the IS, so it got nerfed multiple times. Or the Russian TDs having an effective camo rating of at 50m, while the German TDs couldn't even hide in a bush from 500m away.
Our Siemens PBX switches run on OS/2. Thankfully it is 2.1, but still pretty bad.
Unfortunately, they are looking at replacing them with Cisco VOIP, which is hilariously insecure. I'd rather have those non-network attached OS/2 boxes than a VOIP product from a company known for their terrible software. And of course the expense of replacing every single phone in the company (~5k phones) with a new Cisco VOIP phone.
The best rules are always off strip, because they need to attract customers. Things like max ratio bet on craps changes wildly depending upon strip/off-strip, and even between places on-strip like MGM vs Belaggio.
You can do the same thing for $500 with a generic white-box, or probably a little less if you assemble it yourself. Why pay extra for commodity parts if you aren't going to use the one thing that differentiates it from it's competitors?
And for the matter, why use BSD? It died, haven't you heard?
The funniest thing about the shit we export, is that you guys drink it. Then again, crap like Heineken is popular here, so I guess everyone exports the shit for others to drink.
High res screen? Since when is 1280x800 a high resolution on a 14" laptop? Or worse, 1440x900 on a 15"? My 3 year old HP is running 1920x1200 on a 15". That's the *minimum* resolution needed to be considered high resolution.
And the keyboards, holy christ are they shitty. I'm glad for you that you enjoy them, but I'll stick with a non-chiclet keyboard thank you very much.
I'll agree with you on the case however, I wish this one wasn't a metal/plastic hybrid, and a solid metal case. It doesn't flex much, but even a little bit of flex makes me worry.
I tried it for about 9 days before giving up in disgust because they broke the most commonly used shortcuts I use, and there is no way to fix it. Well, I could fix it by patching and re-compiling it myself, but I stopped building Firefox from source ~6 years ago and have no desire to restart.
malda had it right about the ipod. It was lame, but he didn't count on the marketing machine at Apple, or the incredible loyalty Apple fans had. Remember, that first version of it only worked with OSX, so the only people buying it already were sucking at Job's teat. Take a rabid fanbase that will buy anything and everything a company puts out (and then proselytize about it incessantly), and a marketing department that could sell sand in the Sahara, and you have an instant success. Once the hype built up to a critical mass (and Apple added Windows support), it quickly became the market leader, and the rest is history.
It was still lame however, especially compared to the competition.
All the old USB drives were like that. I have a 32MB one sitting here on my desk with a write-enable switch on it. About the time they started coming out with the 64-128MB drives is when they stopped putting those switches on them.
The early small ones (4-16MB) were considered to be larger floppies. Floppies had the little tab on them to prevent writing, so the USB drives did too. Once they started becoming more popular, and the capacities started rising, the manufacturers realized they were being used more as a supplement to storage than as a traditional floppy disk. So they started removing the write switch. There are still some made today with that switch, but they are really expensive (considered a premium feature, so they can charge 50% more).
"Ruining the economy". You're funny. D2 hasn't had an economy for 10 years. The day the first guy figured out how to dupe sojs, it ended. And hell, even before that when people realized you could gamble for sojs by having the other unique rings in your stash. D2 and economy are two words that don't go together.
Robosport. I haven't seen that mentioned in years. I still have the box, manual, and floppy disks sitting here. That game was amazing fun, and was the first turn based game I ever saw. I later found xcom, and never really went back. It was a blast though.
Man, I remember that. It was a 30MB download, which didn't take too long on dual-channel ISDN. It was a huge change coming from Eudora, but was actually quite functional. I think within a few days of starting to use it I never went back to Eudora again.
Take a look at Google Voice + Android. All the phone numbers on a single phone that you could ever possibly want, and 'free' if you live in Canada/USA.
None of the new ones are quite as open, but there are several that are considered easier to work with. I believe the g2, mytouch 4g, and the desire are the easiest ones, but I don't have any of them so I can't say for sure. All of them have custom roms, and while they don't come unlocked like the nexus, they are quite simple to get root on.
You may want to reconsider Android when you're looking at a new phone in the future. I was in a very similar situation to you last year; I was looking for a new phone, and was looking very closely at Symbian. I had an older Nokia for a few years that I really liked, and so Symbian was my obvious first choice when looking for a new phone. However, the number of choices for Android, and the linux kernel are what finally made me chose Android. I couldn't find a Nokia phone with the hardware and form factor that I wanted, but was able to find an Android phone that was almost perfect.
It does everything you've listed as well, even sharing the Internet connection via wifi if you so desire. I use the usb tether when I'm on the train, so as to keep my phone nicely charged while playing Eve. However, it's as simple as touching a single button to toggle on/off the wifi hotspot as well, so if I like the people I'm sitting with I usually offer to share the Internet connection with them so they can use their laptops online too. I don't even have to unplug it from the laptop to do so, so I'm still getting my usb tether+charge too.
However, a huge warning. If you do consider Android in the future, make sure you get a phone that doesn't have a vendor's crapware layered on top of it. Some of them (AT&T is the worst in the US) will cripple your phone to the point that you pretty much have to wipe it and reinstall with a clean custom OS. That is usually pretty simple, but it can be a hassle for non-technical users. The best solution is to just purchase an Android phone that isn't crippled from the start, but it's an easy trap to fall into if you're not aware of it before buying.
Your mistake was buying a Motorola phone. Next time, stick with a vendor that doesn't add their own crapware on top of Android. The original Nexus One was good, presumably the upcoming Nexus S will be the same.
That doesn't help with your current phone, but luckily that's a relatively easy process to fix, assuming a basic level of computer competency. You found Slashdot, so hopefully that means you fit the requirements.
There are two ways of fixing your problem, the easy way and the good way. The easy way:
Get root adb uninstall/path/to/shit/application.apk adb remove/path/to/shit/application.apk
Hopefully there aren't any other processes that require that apk, or they'll break. Seeing as how you're using a phone with all kinds of vendor crap dropped on top of the os, and custom 'motoblur', etc you may have a problem. Hopefully it works.
The good way: Go to xda, install a custom rom (I use cyanogen, but it doesn't look like there is one for the droid 2) You can try this one, looks like it's pretty close to stock: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=851623 Congratulations, you now have an Android device that isn't crippled by vendor bloatware. Hopefully you've learned your lesson for the future.
Once Winamp was bought out by aol, it went to hell. Or I should say, development basically stopped, and the adware junk you're seeing started showing up. It's still useful, but it hasn't changed in the last 15ish years.
Civ 4 only really shines once you get the Beyond The Sword expansion. It still could use a little polish, but that one fixed most of the major bugs and performance problems with the original release and the first two expansions.
I'll second that other person, and say that the *only* way to do Gyala is via the backdoor route. The only reason to ever follow the normal route is if you want the challenge; the backdoor route is the best way to go. Quite easy in fact once you've done it a few times and know the route. Far easier than the Eternal Grove actually, because it's entirely possible to do it solo (with npcs).
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In 1998 Cisco entered the "hot" intrusion detection market buy buying WheelGroup and their NetSonar product. Seemingly unable or unwilling to understand/develop the product, it was finally killed in 2003, by which time Cisco had put some (not very good) IDS technology into their own core products.
Largely an irrelevance in the IDS world up until today.... they just decided to have another go at it..
"Cisco Systems Inc. said today it will acquire IDS, IPS and anti -malware specialist Sourcefire Inc.for $2.7 billion."
Cisco are NOT going to merge with Sourcefire, but this time around say they will leave it as a separate business unit, perhaps it will work better for them than NetSonar in 1998, perhaps it wont wither and die.
Incredible that Cisco could not successfully grow such capability in-house. Just goes to show that large companies cant achieve much!
It's pretty simple, Cisco is notorious for writing spectacularly shitty software, especially anything security related. They make decent enough hardware, but their software is attrocious.
So, they just periodically buy up vendors who have fairly good software in the market they want, and use it. Generally after a few revisions it turns into the same Cisco shitpile as their own home-grown stuff, but that's when they decide to go buy someone else.
I never trusted download.com, and so never used it. I always assumed that they were bundling crapware in with the downloads, because that website was so hideous, it looked like a fly by night operation.
Bring back ftp.cdrom.com
Last I checked, Android was just another distribution of Linux, much like your precious Nokia. While I'd love to have a C-based userland, it's still Linux on arm.
I have an older phone, but I'm still running a recent kernel (2.6.35) on armv71. Busybox and so on are there, it's only real problem is as I said a lack of C in the userland. It's not hard to get extra tools on there, although I'd love to see Portage. With distcc, it would even be pretty quick to compile and install new software.
What makes your Nokia so much better? The way I see it, it's like arguing what is better, ubuntu or fedora. Both are Linux, just with different UI wrappers.
I haven't played since the beta, but is spotting still broken? Komarin was one of the worst maps for that, whoever got impatient and moved first lost.
Also, are the Russian tanks still better than everything else? The KV for instance got either the solid 107mm or the hilarious 152mm, while the equal tiered Pz4 got the 75L/70 (which wasn't a bad gun, but it's no 107mm), and the T1 heavy was even worse, with that peashooter 76mm.
And then things like the T29 being too competitive with the IS, so it got nerfed multiple times. Or the Russian TDs having an effective camo rating of at 50m, while the German TDs couldn't even hide in a bush from 500m away.
Our Siemens PBX switches run on OS/2. Thankfully it is 2.1, but still pretty bad.
Unfortunately, they are looking at replacing them with Cisco VOIP, which is hilariously insecure. I'd rather have those non-network attached OS/2 boxes than a VOIP product from a company known for their terrible software. And of course the expense of replacing every single phone in the company (~5k phones) with a new Cisco VOIP phone.
The best rules are always off strip, because they need to attract customers. Things like max ratio bet on craps changes wildly depending upon strip/off-strip, and even between places on-strip like MGM vs Belaggio.
You missed option 3, which is scam it. It's the proper pvp way of doing it anyway.
You can do the same thing for $500 with a generic white-box, or probably a little less if you assemble it yourself. Why pay extra for commodity parts if you aren't going to use the one thing that differentiates it from it's competitors?
And for the matter, why use BSD? It died, haven't you heard?
The funniest thing about the shit we export, is that you guys drink it. Then again, crap like Heineken is popular here, so I guess everyone exports the shit for others to drink.
High res screen? Since when is 1280x800 a high resolution on a 14" laptop? Or worse, 1440x900 on a 15"? My 3 year old HP is running 1920x1200 on a 15". That's the *minimum* resolution needed to be considered high resolution.
And the keyboards, holy christ are they shitty. I'm glad for you that you enjoy them, but I'll stick with a non-chiclet keyboard thank you very much.
I'll agree with you on the case however, I wish this one wasn't a metal/plastic hybrid, and a solid metal case. It doesn't flex much, but even a little bit of flex makes me worry.
I tried it for about 9 days before giving up in disgust because they broke the most commonly used shortcuts I use, and there is no way to fix it. Well, I could fix it by patching and re-compiling it myself, but I stopped building Firefox from source ~6 years ago and have no desire to restart.
malda had it right about the ipod. It was lame, but he didn't count on the marketing machine at Apple, or the incredible loyalty Apple fans had. Remember, that first version of it only worked with OSX, so the only people buying it already were sucking at Job's teat. Take a rabid fanbase that will buy anything and everything a company puts out (and then proselytize about it incessantly), and a marketing department that could sell sand in the Sahara, and you have an instant success. Once the hype built up to a critical mass (and Apple added Windows support), it quickly became the market leader, and the rest is history.
It was still lame however, especially compared to the competition.
Yes, you can disable auto-loading. It's actually turned off by default when you roll your kernel, it's just that all the major distros enable it.
All the old USB drives were like that. I have a 32MB one sitting here on my desk with a write-enable switch on it. About the time they started coming out with the 64-128MB drives is when they stopped putting those switches on them.
The early small ones (4-16MB) were considered to be larger floppies. Floppies had the little tab on them to prevent writing, so the USB drives did too. Once they started becoming more popular, and the capacities started rising, the manufacturers realized they were being used more as a supplement to storage than as a traditional floppy disk. So they started removing the write switch. There are still some made today with that switch, but they are really expensive (considered a premium feature, so they can charge 50% more).
"Ruining the economy". You're funny. D2 hasn't had an economy for 10 years. The day the first guy figured out how to dupe sojs, it ended. And hell, even before that when people realized you could gamble for sojs by having the other unique rings in your stash. D2 and economy are two words that don't go together.
Robosport. I haven't seen that mentioned in years. I still have the box, manual, and floppy disks sitting here. That game was amazing fun, and was the first turn based game I ever saw. I later found xcom, and never really went back. It was a blast though.
Man, I remember that. It was a 30MB download, which didn't take too long on dual-channel ISDN. It was a huge change coming from Eudora, but was actually quite functional. I think within a few days of starting to use it I never went back to Eudora again.
Take a look at Google Voice + Android. All the phone numbers on a single phone that you could ever possibly want, and 'free' if you live in Canada/USA.
None of the new ones are quite as open, but there are several that are considered easier to work with. I believe the g2, mytouch 4g, and the desire are the easiest ones, but I don't have any of them so I can't say for sure. All of them have custom roms, and while they don't come unlocked like the nexus, they are quite simple to get root on.
You may want to reconsider Android when you're looking at a new phone in the future. I was in a very similar situation to you last year; I was looking for a new phone, and was looking very closely at Symbian. I had an older Nokia for a few years that I really liked, and so Symbian was my obvious first choice when looking for a new phone. However, the number of choices for Android, and the linux kernel are what finally made me chose Android. I couldn't find a Nokia phone with the hardware and form factor that I wanted, but was able to find an Android phone that was almost perfect.
It does everything you've listed as well, even sharing the Internet connection via wifi if you so desire. I use the usb tether when I'm on the train, so as to keep my phone nicely charged while playing Eve. However, it's as simple as touching a single button to toggle on/off the wifi hotspot as well, so if I like the people I'm sitting with I usually offer to share the Internet connection with them so they can use their laptops online too. I don't even have to unplug it from the laptop to do so, so I'm still getting my usb tether+charge too.
However, a huge warning. If you do consider Android in the future, make sure you get a phone that doesn't have a vendor's crapware layered on top of it. Some of them (AT&T is the worst in the US) will cripple your phone to the point that you pretty much have to wipe it and reinstall with a clean custom OS. That is usually pretty simple, but it can be a hassle for non-technical users. The best solution is to just purchase an Android phone that isn't crippled from the start, but it's an easy trap to fall into if you're not aware of it before buying.
Your mistake was buying a Motorola phone. Next time, stick with a vendor that doesn't add their own crapware on top of Android. The original Nexus One was good, presumably the upcoming Nexus S will be the same.
That doesn't help with your current phone, but luckily that's a relatively easy process to fix, assuming a basic level of computer competency. You found Slashdot, so hopefully that means you fit the requirements.
There are two ways of fixing your problem, the easy way and the good way. The easy way:
Get root /path/to/shit/application.apk /path/to/shit/application.apk
adb uninstall
adb remove
Hopefully there aren't any other processes that require that apk, or they'll break. Seeing as how you're using a phone with all kinds of vendor crap dropped on top of the os, and custom 'motoblur', etc you may have a problem. Hopefully it works.
The good way:
Go to xda, install a custom rom (I use cyanogen, but it doesn't look like there is one for the droid 2)
You can try this one, looks like it's pretty close to stock: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=851623
Congratulations, you now have an Android device that isn't crippled by vendor bloatware. Hopefully you've learned your lesson for the future.
Once Winamp was bought out by aol, it went to hell. Or I should say, development basically stopped, and the adware junk you're seeing started showing up. It's still useful, but it hasn't changed in the last 15ish years.
Civ 4 only really shines once you get the Beyond The Sword expansion. It still could use a little polish, but that one fixed most of the major bugs and performance problems with the original release and the first two expansions.
You're missing a key one: World of Tanks. Hilarious fun, and 'free' (micro transactions).
I'll second that other person, and say that the *only* way to do Gyala is via the backdoor route. The only reason to ever follow the normal route is if you want the challenge; the backdoor route is the best way to go. Quite easy in fact once you've done it a few times and know the route. Far easier than the Eternal Grove actually, because it's entirely possible to do it solo (with npcs).