Or just generate one from here: https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm - I have the same password I generated for around 2 years now, no-one has hacked into it (WPA) and I have it on my Pen Drive as a text file if another computer wants to connect to the wireless, I have to physically set it up so it can get on... Really simple.
Lets see... You can get a 7.6gb Torrent in around 2-3 days from a so called 0-day release...
With Usenet you get the same release within hours.. Anyone who is serious into pirating NOT using usenet isnt a pirate. Check out NFOHump's forums... nearly every one on there downloads using usenet. I think you need to re-check your facts my friend..
Actually the US lost 11 over the cold war period, and Mother Russia far more.
The United States lost 11 nuclear bombs in accidents during the Cold War that were never recovered, according to the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
An estimated 50 nuclear warheads, most of them from the former Soviet Union, still lie on the bottom of the world's oceans, according to the environmental group Greenpeace.
One of the most celebrated accidents took place over Palomares, Spain, in January 1966 when a U.S. B-52 collided with a KC-135 tanker during midair refueling and released all four of its hydrogen bombs in the ensuing explosion. Seven of the 11 crewmen aboard both planes were killed.
Actually you could, because I have been living in the USA for the past 6 years.. I escaped one crap political environment to another, that isn't quite as crap as I don't get taxed to the eyeballs anymore...
"This party isn't really Labour. Labour was started to help the people. This lot are only interested in helping the rich. This Labour government has become a bunch of arrogant, close minded, greedy, self-righteous, control freaks, pulling the whole UK into their personal police state hell and no one can tell them anything, otherwise they get labeled opposition (or worse) and then simply ignored."
Labor stopped being Labor (A party for the working class people) when John Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_(UK_politician)) died back in 1994. Since then Labor has been the mirror image of the conservative party and only really got in power due to Thatcher and John Major's total screwing of the people. The reason they have stayed in power so long is that everyone remembers the Tory years and keep hoping that it will get better with labor, but it never does.
Really the British public have no real choice of who will lead the country more so than any other country, the opposing sides are exactly the same. I personally think there needs to be a major shakedown and reworking of at least on of the parties to get things working for the people again, instead of people working for the government.
Actually you are modifying the hardware with hacked Firmware.. No matter how you look at it you are modifying the hardware to do what it should not. Now if you was putting a loader on the Xbox then yes that would be a software workaround..
Actually yes it does.. If you are running the pirated version of Vista properly you need to hack your system BIOS. Its no different and people can and WILL do it regardless.
Same as people can and WILL Lap their CPU's and such like...
The argument is baseless and most individuals, will do it regardless of any such warranties!!
1) Opening the X360
2) Taking the DVD Drive out
3) Connect the DVD Drive to a SATA connection on your PC after finding what MFG the drive is
4) FLASH NEW FIRMWARE to Said DVD Drive (That would be a HARDWARE MODIFCATION ASSHAT)
5) Put the Drive back in the X360 after the flash is complete
Yes that IS a "hardware Modification" as you are updating the FIRMWARE with a hacked one.
You never said easy.. you said "Dumbed down for the consoles". There are MANY console games that are also far from easy. My point is its not being dumbed down for consoles. Its the same damn gameplay elements that are in all the other Diablo's.. And for the record I have finished all the Diablo games. Please try to put some filler in your discussion other than " you obviously havent played it".
Diablo isn't that complicated of a concept to begin with. As I said in my previous post its really like a evolution on the original Gauntlet with a beginning and an end and great visuals and a great story. Theres NOTHING to dumb down in the first place. Get over it.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Diablo games aren't/were'nt that complicated in the first place! You could play Diablo 1 and 2 with one hand on the mouse. Really when you look at it Diablo is really just a Gauntlet clone with good storytelling. There's never been ANYTHING complicated about Diablo.. Which in my opinion is what makes it great!.. No need to think about anything, just click and play.
And I have Nero 8 (8.3.2.1) installed on my PC and there is no Scout(NMIndexing service is disabled) and Nero backup services running at all. Care to name any other services for all the world to see?
That's why some people made the "Nero-Lite" Installers that take all the crap out of them. Just Nero-Burning Rom and nothing more.
Also I'm calling BS on that post. Both Nero-Backup and the Indexing service (Nero Scout) can both be disabled on install using the custom install, and have been able to be disabled for a couple of years now. The only thing it places in the startup is a call home to see if all files are upto date, and you can disable that with a reg edit or even msconfig.
Lets not get away from the issue here.. The article states that ALL the GPUS are bad, and that their "proof" is the HP Link. The HP problem has NOTHING to do with the GPU's AT ALL. Its the motherboards.. Lets face it they are crap, and yes I totally agree with you that I will probably not buy a HP laptop ever again, but that's not the point I was trying to make.
The point is that they are grasping at straws and literally state that ALL the GPUS are bad. Its quite clear that they aren't, and that they have ZERO PROOF that they are other than an "Inquirer Mole".
People have bad experiences with all MFG's across the board with a huge amount of products, and like I said - Why dont they (the Inquirer) run some smear stories about Abit's Motherboards, Asus's GFX cards, Creative's Sound cards etc... Plenty of people have problems with those too... so they must be ALL bad.. Not a working one in them... ever..... right?
But they are saying that all chips are bad from like a two year MFG life-span. I'm very surprised that from within that two years that they are saying that they are all bad now... Wheres the proof?... How do you get it to fail and show it fails consistently on every card based on those chips? A CPU/CHIP is very easy to replicate if they are ALL bad (Pentium FPU bug for example).
I mean really, the story came from Inquirer "moles"... Hardly the bastion of reliable information now is it?..
And the actual HP link on the said article (presented as "proof" no less - which made me LOL) is nothing to do with the GPU chip overheating.. its the Mainboard (which granted is nVidia based, but its not the GPU like they are making it out to be) that is overheating due to a bad BIOS profile being put into the notebook originally, if you don't have the issues (which I might add are Wi-Fi loss, total Power failiure and other things - Nothing GPU related except maybe the display issue) and flash to the new BIOS you dont get the issue. HP are replacing the motherboards on affected notebooks. It affects more than just the GPU it affects many things over the mainboard. My wife has one and her Wi-Fi card stopped working... due to overheating caused by a bad BIOS.. once its burned you cant get it back, but HP will swap the Mobo free of charge. It took less than a week for them to repair it and have it back at my house..
Granted I doubt I'll get a nvidia motherboard in a laptop again (I wont in a desktop either for that matter due to NF4 issues with Vista and nVidia's slowness to correct them and even acknowledge that they existed - But that's another story), but to run a story that ALL gpu's are bad with only conspiracy theories as proof, thats just borderline madness..
Its just typical Inquirer, We'll pull a hardware vendor out of the hat and find some minor crap and blow it out of proportion for great Justice and story telling malarky...
I read the article, and they are just pulling straws because some "mole" told them some dirt....
They have no proof whatsoever that its the GPU causing any failures.. None... Zip... Nada...
Telling readers to go to the forums to check is stupid too.. Goto Asus's, Abit, DFI's, hell even ATI Forums.. there you will find hundreds and hundreds of users with problems with their boards. Perhaps they should run smear stories on them too, seeing that their products are obviously ALL defective too..??
Besides its currently cool to Diss Nvidia atm it seems.
If you are taking the Inquirer's as the reliable source then I'm sure you think the Daily Star or the National Enquirer are papers filled with facts that are totally true on a daily basis. Hell even The Onion is more truthful than the Inquirer to be quite honest... I'm amazed that some of you take it as gospel.
Once I see a statement from the OEM's supposedly affected by the so-called "GPU" Problem (Funny how it could be a Motherboard issue just like HP claim it is already) or I see some factual write up on it from Ars, or Anannd, or another more reputable site that knows what they are doing, then I'll believe it.. as it is I will take it with a pinch of salt personally. Remember they were SO RIGHT the DirectX10 for Windows XP story too..
"Well, thankfully (for now) FIOS is unmetered and most certainly will be hyped by Verizon. The cable companies may rake in money for a year or two, but their greed will get the best of them and they won't know when to stop. By that time, Verizon's FIOS infrastructure will be pretty much complete in most markets and everyone will be switching."
Only flaw in that statement is that Verizon is slowly selling off its landline and FIOS system off. Here in New Hampshire, they sold off everything except the wireless to Fairpoint. There is no hope in hell that the rest of NH, Vermont and Maine will ever see FIOS now as they shipped it off, to a company who cannot even hope to cope and is failing in every way.
Verizon is slowly only gearing up to the Wireless carrier as its only market, as that is where the big money is!
"Anyone know anybody who bought Vista except as bundled with hardware?"
As if ANYONE here on/. is going to even admit that. And if they do, they will be stoned in the streets along with thier dog... Get real..
What the arcticle fails to tell you is this:
Since SP1 was in RC stage it has done the same thing. Disabled known software BIOS exploits, and has done nothing to the Hardware BIOS hack. The current RTM of SP1 is the SAME as RC Refresh 2 that was released a few weeks ago. None of the Service pack releases have any WGA code that will stop the BIOS hacks... YET..
Im sure once SP1 is rolled out to the public in March, there will be a WGA update disguised as a critical update that will come out soon after. Then we will be seeing headlines of "SP1 disables BIOS hacks". Mark my words, this is not over yet by a long shot.
I doubt very much that they will sell it to Sprint/Nextel. They have just laid off 4,000 employees and are Closing 125 of thier stores nationwide. Sprint just isnt making any money at the moment, and thier churn far exceeds that of the other top 5 Wireless telcos.
Sprint will be focusing on revitalising its marketing and trying to win customers back, rather than bank money in a high risk venture that wont even pay off for them for years to come.
To show my age it would be this:http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/scripts/picshow.php?image=videosport.jpg&folder=/Museum/Pong&back=/Museum/Pong/index.php
I owned one of those plugged into my portable black and white TV. Of course space invaders was out in the arcades at the time and it blew this junk into the water...
Then came the Atari 2600.......
Freelancer does work (in fact its installed on my system complete with mods for Starwars ships etc)
Spybot search and destroy also works (Again installed and running on my system)
The Gimp has always been flakey at best under windows. It was unstable on windows XP, or I always had some odd crashes with it..
I have yet to see a game work becuase of the lack of Directplay implementation.. and lets be honest here, how many AAA titles use(d) Directplay
"A lot of 32bit software just does not run under 64bit Vista. I would suggest you try running a trial version of the 64bit Vista version first before committing."
Being a user of Vista x64 since febuary, would you care to point out this "lot of 32bit software"?
I havent found one item that does not work due to it being Vista X64. Now on XPx64 on the other hand I got this crap all the time, but I havent had it on Vista X64.
Back to the topic on hand, the only problem I can see that you will get is if anything relies on DirectSound. DirectX10 dropped the DirectSound Hardware layer and now does it through emulation Via Vista's new sound layer. The only problem I had with this was the Audigy 2 soundcard having real issues running with some games. Creative would not own it and said that users would have to buy ALchemy to bring back functionality. However what Creative DIDNT tell you is that every other sound card MFG, and all onboard sound systems work perfectly under Vista, but thiers doesnt.. Not a big deal for me, but as a Cubase user that may be you major bugbear.
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Or just generate one from here: https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm - I have the same password I generated for around 2 years now, no-one has hacked into it (WPA) and I have it on my Pen Drive as a text file if another computer wants to connect to the wireless, I have to physically set it up so it can get on... Really simple.
Lets see... You can get a 7.6gb Torrent in around 2-3 days from a so called 0-day release...
With Usenet you get the same release within hours.. Anyone who is serious into pirating NOT using usenet isnt a pirate. Check out NFOHump's forums... nearly every one on there downloads using usenet. I think you need to re-check your facts my friend..
The United States lost 11 nuclear bombs in accidents during the Cold War that were never recovered, according to the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
An estimated 50 nuclear warheads, most of them from the former Soviet Union, still lie on the bottom of the world's oceans, according to the environmental group Greenpeace.
One of the most celebrated accidents took place over Palomares, Spain, in January 1966 when a U.S. B-52 collided with a KC-135 tanker during midair refueling and released all four of its hydrogen bombs in the ensuing explosion. Seven of the 11 crewmen aboard both planes were killed.
Actually you could, because I have been living in the USA for the past 6 years.. I escaped one crap political environment to another, that isn't quite as crap as I don't get taxed to the eyeballs anymore...
"This party isn't really Labour. Labour was started to help the people. This lot are only interested in helping the rich. This Labour government has become a bunch of arrogant, close minded, greedy, self-righteous, control freaks, pulling the whole UK into their personal police state hell and no one can tell them anything, otherwise they get labeled opposition (or worse) and then simply ignored."
Labor stopped being Labor (A party for the working class people) when John Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_(UK_politician)) died back in 1994. Since then Labor has been the mirror image of the conservative party and only really got in power due to Thatcher and John Major's total screwing of the people. The reason they have stayed in power so long is that everyone remembers the Tory years and keep hoping that it will get better with labor, but it never does.
Really the British public have no real choice of who will lead the country more so than any other country, the opposing sides are exactly the same. I personally think there needs to be a major shakedown and reworking of at least on of the parties to get things working for the people again, instead of people working for the government.
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No he is far worse... Read some of his articles and weep.
Actually you are modifying the hardware with hacked Firmware.. No matter how you look at it you are modifying the hardware to do what it should not. Now if you was putting a loader on the Xbox then yes that would be a software workaround..
Asshat is now handed back at you.
Actually yes it does.. If you are running the pirated version of Vista properly you need to hack your system BIOS. Its no different and people can and WILL do it regardless.
Same as people can and WILL Lap their CPU's and such like...
The argument is baseless and most individuals, will do it regardless of any such warranties!!
Ok "Assclown" here we go..
1) Opening the X360
2) Taking the DVD Drive out
3) Connect the DVD Drive to a SATA connection on your PC after finding what MFG the drive is
4) FLASH NEW FIRMWARE to Said DVD Drive (That would be a HARDWARE MODIFCATION ASSHAT)
5) Put the Drive back in the X360 after the flash is complete
Yes that IS a "hardware Modification" as you are updating the FIRMWARE with a hacked one.
Now please piss off and die
"Assclown" - Funny, maybe you should look in the mirror.. You are doing such a good job of making an "Assclown" of yourself...
You never said easy.. you said "Dumbed down for the consoles". There are MANY console games that are also far from easy. My point is its not being dumbed down for consoles. Its the same damn gameplay elements that are in all the other Diablo's.. And for the record I have finished all the Diablo games. Please try to put some filler in your discussion other than " you obviously havent played it".
Diablo isn't that complicated of a concept to begin with. As I said in my previous post its really like a evolution on the original Gauntlet with a beginning and an end and great visuals and a great story. Theres NOTHING to dumb down in the first place. Get over it.
Ummm.. Diablo 3 dumbed down???
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Diablo games aren't/were'nt that complicated in the first place! You could play Diablo 1 and 2 with one hand on the mouse. Really when you look at it Diablo is really just a Gauntlet clone with good storytelling. There's never been ANYTHING complicated about Diablo.. Which in my opinion is what makes it great!.. No need to think about anything, just click and play.
Same as Oblivion a CD check and that's pretty much it
And I have Nero 8 (8.3.2.1) installed on my PC and there is no Scout(NMIndexing service is disabled) and Nero backup services running at all. Care to name any other services for all the world to see?
That's why some people made the "Nero-Lite" Installers that take all the crap out of them. Just Nero-Burning Rom and nothing more. Also I'm calling BS on that post. Both Nero-Backup and the Indexing service (Nero Scout) can both be disabled on install using the custom install, and have been able to be disabled for a couple of years now. The only thing it places in the startup is a call home to see if all files are upto date, and you can disable that with a reg edit or even msconfig.
Lets not get away from the issue here.. The article states that ALL the GPUS are bad, and that their "proof" is the HP Link. The HP problem has NOTHING to do with the GPU's AT ALL. Its the motherboards.. Lets face it they are crap, and yes I totally agree with you that I will probably not buy a HP laptop ever again, but that's not the point I was trying to make.
The point is that they are grasping at straws and literally state that ALL the GPUS are bad. Its quite clear that they aren't, and that they have ZERO PROOF that they are other than an "Inquirer Mole".
People have bad experiences with all MFG's across the board with a huge amount of products, and like I said - Why dont they (the Inquirer) run some smear stories about Abit's Motherboards, Asus's GFX cards, Creative's Sound cards etc... Plenty of people have problems with those too... so they must be ALL bad.. Not a working one in them... ever..... right?
But they are saying that all chips are bad from like a two year MFG life-span. I'm very surprised that from within that two years that they are saying that they are all bad now... Wheres the proof?... How do you get it to fail and show it fails consistently on every card based on those chips? A CPU/CHIP is very easy to replicate if they are ALL bad (Pentium FPU bug for example).
I mean really, the story came from Inquirer "moles"... Hardly the bastion of reliable information now is it?..
And the actual HP link on the said article (presented as "proof" no less - which made me LOL) is nothing to do with the GPU chip overheating.. its the Mainboard (which granted is nVidia based, but its not the GPU like they are making it out to be) that is overheating due to a bad BIOS profile being put into the notebook originally, if you don't have the issues (which I might add are Wi-Fi loss, total Power failiure and other things - Nothing GPU related except maybe the display issue) and flash to the new BIOS you dont get the issue. HP are replacing the motherboards on affected notebooks. It affects more than just the GPU it affects many things over the mainboard. My wife has one and her Wi-Fi card stopped working... due to overheating caused by a bad BIOS.. once its burned you cant get it back, but HP will swap the Mobo free of charge. It took less than a week for them to repair it and have it back at my house..
Granted I doubt I'll get a nvidia motherboard in a laptop again (I wont in a desktop either for that matter due to NF4 issues with Vista and nVidia's slowness to correct them and even acknowledge that they existed - But that's another story), but to run a story that ALL gpu's are bad with only conspiracy theories as proof, thats just borderline madness..
Its just typical Inquirer, We'll pull a hardware vendor out of the hat and find some minor crap and blow it out of proportion for great Justice and story telling malarky... I read the article, and they are just pulling straws because some "mole" told them some dirt.... They have no proof whatsoever that its the GPU causing any failures.. None... Zip... Nada...
Telling readers to go to the forums to check is stupid too.. Goto Asus's, Abit, DFI's, hell even ATI Forums.. there you will find hundreds and hundreds of users with problems with their boards. Perhaps they should run smear stories on them too, seeing that their products are obviously ALL defective too..??
Besides its currently cool to Diss Nvidia atm it seems.
If you are taking the Inquirer's as the reliable source then I'm sure you think the Daily Star or the National Enquirer are papers filled with facts that are totally true on a daily basis. Hell even The Onion is more truthful than the Inquirer to be quite honest... I'm amazed that some of you take it as gospel.
Once I see a statement from the OEM's supposedly affected by the so-called "GPU" Problem (Funny how it could be a Motherboard issue just like HP claim it is already) or I see some factual write up on it from Ars, or Anannd, or another more reputable site that knows what they are doing, then I'll believe it.. as it is I will take it with a pinch of salt personally. Remember they were SO RIGHT the DirectX10 for Windows XP story too..
Only flaw in that statement is that Verizon is slowly selling off its landline and FIOS system off. Here in New Hampshire, they sold off everything except the wireless to Fairpoint. There is no hope in hell that the rest of NH, Vermont and Maine will ever see FIOS now as they shipped it off, to a company who cannot even hope to cope and is failing in every way.
Verizon is slowly only gearing up to the Wireless carrier as its only market, as that is where the big money is!
"Anyone know anybody who bought Vista except as bundled with hardware?" As if ANYONE here on /. is going to even admit that. And if they do, they will be stoned in the streets along with thier dog... Get real..
I personally would say no : http://www.starwars.com/theclonewars/news/news20080129.html Unless you like skinny, werid King Tut style tattooed regject that looks like she's from a Tim Burton Film...
What the arcticle fails to tell you is this: Since SP1 was in RC stage it has done the same thing. Disabled known software BIOS exploits, and has done nothing to the Hardware BIOS hack. The current RTM of SP1 is the SAME as RC Refresh 2 that was released a few weeks ago. None of the Service pack releases have any WGA code that will stop the BIOS hacks... YET.. Im sure once SP1 is rolled out to the public in March, there will be a WGA update disguised as a critical update that will come out soon after. Then we will be seeing headlines of "SP1 disables BIOS hacks". Mark my words, this is not over yet by a long shot.
I doubt very much that they will sell it to Sprint/Nextel. They have just laid off 4,000 employees and are Closing 125 of thier stores nationwide. Sprint just isnt making any money at the moment, and thier churn far exceeds that of the other top 5 Wireless telcos.
Sprint will be focusing on revitalising its marketing and trying to win customers back, rather than bank money in a high risk venture that wont even pay off for them for years to come.
Just my 2 cents.
To show my age it would be this :http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/scripts/picshow.php?image=videosport.jpg&folder=/Museum/Pong&back=/Museum/Pong/index.php
I owned one of those plugged into my portable black and white TV. Of course space invaders was out in the arcades at the time and it blew this junk into the water...
Then came the Atari 2600.......
Freelancer does work (in fact its installed on my system complete with mods for Starwars ships etc)
Spybot search and destroy also works (Again installed and running on my system)
The Gimp has always been flakey at best under windows. It was unstable on windows XP, or I always had some odd crashes with it..
I have yet to see a game work becuase of the lack of Directplay implementation.. and lets be honest here, how many AAA titles use(d) Directplay
"A lot of 32bit software just does not run under 64bit Vista. I would suggest you try running a trial version of the 64bit Vista version first before committing."
Being a user of Vista x64 since febuary, would you care to point out this "lot of 32bit software"?
I havent found one item that does not work due to it being Vista X64. Now on XPx64 on the other hand I got this crap all the time, but I havent had it on Vista X64.
Back to the topic on hand, the only problem I can see that you will get is if anything relies on DirectSound. DirectX10 dropped the DirectSound Hardware layer and now does it through emulation Via Vista's new sound layer. The only problem I had with this was the Audigy 2 soundcard having real issues running with some games. Creative would not own it and said that users would have to buy ALchemy to bring back functionality. However what Creative DIDNT tell you is that every other sound card MFG, and all onboard sound systems work perfectly under Vista, but thiers doesnt.. Not a big deal for me, but as a Cubase user that may be you major bugbear.