Any word on when reiserfs will fully support archs other than x86? I'd be interested in trying it out on my sparcs, but as it stands, it doesn't work to well.
If only the only issue was getting a base Linux install running. Many larger corporations have far too many Windows only applications that users must run, and not all of them will work under Wine. I have to run VmWare for those few apps, but most users aren't going to be able to figure that out, and I know our desktop support team sure as hell doesn't want to try and support VmWare across our corporation.
Until every single app can work seamlessly under Linux (either natively or via Wine), it's not an option for most companies that have more than a handful of employees.
I wouldn't say that it's disturbing just because it's someone's ass, it's the shock of seeing an ass stretched that much that shocks people. Living in America or not doesn't matter, it's just that most people aren't used to seeing an anus stretched that wide.
Some of us are lucky enough to work for a company with a pair of OC-3s to teh intarweb, soon to be swapped out for a pair of OC-12s. When your website if making in excess of $3mil US a day though, it's worth the expense:)
As far as I can tell, you submit the full details of the bug to 3com, including exploit code if available. They take a look at it, and decide if they'll offer you some money. If you decide you like the offer, you fill out a W-9 form (in the US), and they send you a check/paypal/whatever.
Perhaps I'm just paranoid, but why would I send them the full details on an exploit without any guarantee back from them? If there was a way to negotiate a deal before providing them the code, it would be alluring, but being forced to trust them to give a reasonable amount of money for what you're submitting feels like it'll get abused.
And then having to fill out a W-9, giving them my SSN, address, and so on just isn't a very comforting thought.
When iTunes offers lossless encodings of every song in their catalog, I'll use it. Until then, why would I want to purchase a low-bitrate lossy encoded song?
Add something else to the crappy key assignment screen: I've yet to get it to accept Alt or Control as valid keys. I use a far different layout than most, and those two keys are crucial. As a result, I've effectively forced to use the wsad layout, because I can't assign Alt or Control to any commands.
Have you tried playing single player with the bots? Zonk mentioned that they cut options, but he didn't go into the detail he should have. Single player has two options. Difficulty (Easy, Medium, Hard) and your choice of 8 maps. Players is forced to 16, FF is forced on. No map rotation or ticket settings are available. No time limit options exist. Basically, if you want to play with bots, you can do it in a very restricted setting, and be prepared to die from TKs more than from the other team. My guess is they only included single player mode because they figured there would be more bitching if they left it out than the bitching from an almost useless single player experience.
If they were to move to more of a constantly updated model, I'd much rather see them do something like what Guild Wars is doing. Minor updates are constantly being fed down from the servers to the client, with larger updates every week or two.
The band-aid to that is to only allow outbound authenticated http/https. This makes it difficult enough to deter most users, the very few who do know how to tunnel traffic are an acceptable risk.
They have improved, but for some people (me being one of them), they don't work as well as a blade. I'm using a Braun 75XX (can't remember the exact model, but one of the 7500 series), and it leaves me with a rash because I have to go over the same spot half a dozen times to get the hair off. It just doesn't seem to cut the hair, while a blade is a one swipe process.
What is annoying is how many games these days require you to run them as administrator. Some of them will allow you to run them as admin while logged into your normal non-privileged account, but a few of them simply will not run unless the logged on account is admin.
PunkBuster is another annoying app that requires admin rights. Why they can't just make the damn thing a service I don't know, but any PunkBuster enabled game requires the logged on user to be administrator.
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Thanks for the second link, that was a great read.
Labor costs are almost nil. It takes under 15 minutes to put parts together, which is slightly longer than it takes to pull the machine out of the box that Dell ships it in. It takes another 30 minutes to install WindowsXP, most of which is automated these days. After 45 minutes, you have a home built machine up and running, without any of the bloat that comes with pre-installed Windows from Dell.
If you're doing anything other than Windows, it's only that extra 15 minutes that you spent putting the parts together, so no matter what OS you choose, the labor costs are almost nothing.
Support on the other hand may be a sticking point. In my experience, it's very rare for me to need support with my computers, mostly because I built them using decent quality parts, and I don't muck them up with lots of crap they don't need. If you tend to need support though, that would make Dell attractive, because of guaranteed support for as long as you pay them.
Anyways, all that was simply to say that the labor costs aren't much, the only real reason to go with an OEM is support.
Hardware keyloggers have been around for a very long time. They aren't as popular in these days of all-USB computers, but when the AT and PS/2 interfaces were common, they were around.
Yep, including the full win32codecs. It even sets up the mplayer-plugin for you. I have the gxine-plugin setup as well, although I'm not sure if that was installed as a part of gxine, or if that was installed seperately.
All the software versions are tracked through Gentoo's Portage system, which is very similar to the BSD ports concept. It makes software installation a breeze, and you really have to play with it to realize how simple it is.
The initial installation takes a little bit of time and effort, however their documentation is absolutely wonderful. I switched from RedHat 9 to Gentoo about the time of FC1 being released, and haven't looked back.
If you used Gentoo, it would be a simple one line command to install all that in an automated fashion, including pulling in dependencies. The entire command would be something like "emerge mplayer gxine netscape-flash realplayer". Come back an hour later, and it's all installed and ready to go.
quote A card lasts a few years, with slowly diminishing results on newer games. /quote
That's exactly what I do. I'm running an X800 now, purchased when HL2 and Doom3 came out, and it'll last me for as long as I keep an AGP slot around. Before that, I had an ATI 9000 budget card, and before that a Nvidia TNT. A card will last several years without a problem, even lower end cards. I spent the extra for the X800, because I enjoy gaming at 1600x1200, and I wanted that card to last until I got rid of my AGP motherboard sometime in the future. It was expensive, but I've spent more in bar tabs over a long weekend:)
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Any word on when reiserfs will fully support archs other than x86? I'd be interested in trying it out on my sparcs, but as it stands, it doesn't work to well.
If only the only issue was getting a base Linux install running. Many larger corporations have far too many Windows only applications that users must run, and not all of them will work under Wine. I have to run VmWare for those few apps, but most users aren't going to be able to figure that out, and I know our desktop support team sure as hell doesn't want to try and support VmWare across our corporation.
Until every single app can work seamlessly under Linux (either natively or via Wine), it's not an option for most companies that have more than a handful of employees.
I wouldn't say that it's disturbing just because it's someone's ass, it's the shock of seeing an ass stretched that much that shocks people. Living in America or not doesn't matter, it's just that most people aren't used to seeing an anus stretched that wide.
Some of us are lucky enough to work for a company with a pair of OC-3s to teh intarweb, soon to be swapped out for a pair of OC-12s. When your website if making in excess of $3mil US a day though, it's worth the expense :)
Calling anything in King's Quest "full motion video" is like calling the @ in Nethack "high resolution graphics".
As far as I can tell, you submit the full details of the bug to 3com, including exploit code if available. They take a look at it, and decide if they'll offer you some money. If you decide you like the offer, you fill out a W-9 form (in the US), and they send you a check/paypal/whatever.
Perhaps I'm just paranoid, but why would I send them the full details on an exploit without any guarantee back from them? If there was a way to negotiate a deal before providing them the code, it would be alluring, but being forced to trust them to give a reasonable amount of money for what you're submitting feels like it'll get abused.
And then having to fill out a W-9, giving them my SSN, address, and so on just isn't a very comforting thought.
It looks like I replied to the wrong post, but I can't figure out what the hell I meant to reply to in the first place :/
When iTunes offers lossless encodings of every song in their catalog, I'll use it. Until then, why would I want to purchase a low-bitrate lossy encoded song?
Add something else to the crappy key assignment screen: I've yet to get it to accept Alt or Control as valid keys. I use a far different layout than most, and those two keys are crucial. As a result, I've effectively forced to use the wsad layout, because I can't assign Alt or Control to any commands.
Have you tried playing single player with the bots? Zonk mentioned that they cut options, but he didn't go into the detail he should have. Single player has two options. Difficulty (Easy, Medium, Hard) and your choice of 8 maps. Players is forced to 16, FF is forced on. No map rotation or ticket settings are available. No time limit options exist. Basically, if you want to play with bots, you can do it in a very restricted setting, and be prepared to die from TKs more than from the other team. My guess is they only included single player mode because they figured there would be more bitching if they left it out than the bitching from an almost useless single player experience.
If they were to move to more of a constantly updated model, I'd much rather see them do something like what Guild Wars is doing. Minor updates are constantly being fed down from the servers to the client, with larger updates every week or two.
I agree with that! CDex is fantastic, and unlike the OP, I had no problems finding it while looking for a Windows based CD ripper.
The band-aid to that is to only allow outbound authenticated http/https. This makes it difficult enough to deter most users, the very few who do know how to tunnel traffic are an acceptable risk.
Last I checked, Gentoo is fully supported on the following archs:
x86, x86_64, sparc32, sparc64, mips, ppc, ppc64, alpha, hppa.
It also runs on the following, but probably isn't considered stable:
sh, m68k, s390, arm, ia64, x86_freebsd, ppc_darwin
That's at least as many supported platforms as Debian, probably more. Yet Gentoo still manages to come out with security updates very quickly.
Nope, never even occured to me to think of something like that.
They have improved, but for some people (me being one of them), they don't work as well as a blade. I'm using a Braun 75XX (can't remember the exact model, but one of the 7500 series), and it leaves me with a rash because I have to go over the same spot half a dozen times to get the hair off. It just doesn't seem to cut the hair, while a blade is a one swipe process.
You must be new here.
What is annoying is how many games these days require you to run them as administrator. Some of them will allow you to run them as admin while logged into your normal non-privileged account, but a few of them simply will not run unless the logged on account is admin.
PunkBuster is another annoying app that requires admin rights. Why they can't just make the damn thing a service I don't know, but any PunkBuster enabled game requires the logged on user to be administrator.
Thanks for the second link, that was a great read.
Labor costs are almost nil. It takes under 15 minutes to put parts together, which is slightly longer than it takes to pull the machine out of the box that Dell ships it in. It takes another 30 minutes to install WindowsXP, most of which is automated these days. After 45 minutes, you have a home built machine up and running, without any of the bloat that comes with pre-installed Windows from Dell.
If you're doing anything other than Windows, it's only that extra 15 minutes that you spent putting the parts together, so no matter what OS you choose, the labor costs are almost nothing.
Support on the other hand may be a sticking point. In my experience, it's very rare for me to need support with my computers, mostly because I built them using decent quality parts, and I don't muck them up with lots of crap they don't need. If you tend to need support though, that would make Dell attractive, because of guaranteed support for as long as you pay them.
Anyways, all that was simply to say that the labor costs aren't much, the only real reason to go with an OEM is support.
Hardware keyloggers have been around for a very long time. They aren't as popular in these days of all-USB computers, but when the AT and PS/2 interfaces were common, they were around.
Yep, including the full win32codecs. It even sets up the mplayer-plugin for you. I have the gxine-plugin setup as well, although I'm not sure if that was installed as a part of gxine, or if that was installed seperately.
All the software versions are tracked through Gentoo's Portage system, which is very similar to the BSD ports concept. It makes software installation a breeze, and you really have to play with it to realize how simple it is.
The initial installation takes a little bit of time and effort, however their documentation is absolutely wonderful. I switched from RedHat 9 to Gentoo about the time of FC1 being released, and haven't looked back.
If you used Gentoo, it would be a simple one line command to install all that in an automated fashion, including pulling in dependencies. The entire command would be something like "emerge mplayer gxine netscape-flash realplayer". Come back an hour later, and it's all installed and ready to go.
Just to clarify, the AC wasn't me :)
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A card lasts a few years, with slowly diminishing results on newer games.
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That's exactly what I do. I'm running an X800 now, purchased when HL2 and Doom3 came out, and it'll last me for as long as I keep an AGP slot around. Before that, I had an ATI 9000 budget card, and before that a Nvidia TNT. A card will last several years without a problem, even lower end cards. I spent the extra for the X800, because I enjoy gaming at 1600x1200, and I wanted that card to last until I got rid of my AGP motherboard sometime in the future. It was expensive, but I've spent more in bar tabs over a long weekend