Very true, I thought that the video was made for entertainment only and not to show off their cool design or teach somebody how to make their own.... this video does not belong on slashdot but on the front page of youtube or similar.
Even so there are levels of risk that are acceptable. Life is risky but we take the risk of taking a shower knowing that we may slip and fall and become injured or die as a result. There is a big difference between the risk you take while taking a shower and driving a car, if you slip in the shower you kill yourself and yourself alone.
If you fuck up while driving you will most likely not hit the tree but hit somebody else around you.
I would hope that people have enough common sense to know that driving comes first but apparently that is not the case.....
Nice, if I had a mod points I would give one to you. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/5/9/ is very funny... still laughing
The DRM still only allows three total installs for the lifetime of the game How is this better then constant validation?
So if I install it on my Desktop, Laptop and maybe at work... I would only play it on one computer at a time.
Now if one of the machines crashes, I am thinking about my Gaming (win XP) Desktop here, it has become unstable and needs a reload soon.... I would have to beg to get one more install.... keep your game!
Here is another solar powered service which suits my own needs better because they also offer VPS plus access to a clustered database server.... anybody found a better offer?
Oh well, looks like SolarHost is not a good choice.... could be because it is 3:47 am in Florida... still dark:)
Server not found Firefox can't find the server at www.solarhost.com
Both posts about solar need to be +5 to spread the word that solar powered data centers exist. I just setup my server at a regular data center but would have tried the solar alternative instead....
Just checked the price of http://www.aiso.net/hosting-plans.asp might be time to move again or at least setup a server to check reliability.... thanks for posting!!!!
WTF is going on here? I have been reading through the comments and it appears as if most "nerds" have been pussy wiped by other distros and don't understand the point of actually knowing your OS.
If you learn Slackware, you know Linux! Why is that you ask? Because Slackware does not come with a bunch of highly modified packages, Slackware is build using tested and known to be working code. Configuration and partition is done by hand. Slackware does not crash if setup properly, it is a perfect OS for any server or Desktop.... if you know what you are doing but it is not for you grandma. It is an Operating System for "real" nerds:)
With all the bitching about lack of features in Slackware, it may be time for you "nerds" to go and load up Vista for the ultimate hand holding experience.
You all remind me of that computer technician we have at work, he thinks he is the freaking king but knows nothing about computers. He fixes issues by running every GUI tool on his thumb drive and hoping that one of them sticks. When I ask him how he fixed it, he has no clue and says that "Tool xyz" fixed it. When I ask him to run "regedit" his eyes open wide and he starts to sweat.... cold sweat. Dude you are not a computer tech, geek, nerd, hacker.... whatever. Go home and learn something.... almost forgot, he is A+ certified, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Same goes for Slackware, use it, learn it, know Linux or use openSuSE and stop the bitching.
Here is the URL to the fork... I am getting a function error on the first URL right now but this should be fixed soon... http://funpidgin.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/funpidgin
A fork of pidgin which aims to provide minor features that have not been addressed by the pidgin development team (including manual textbox resizing). See funpidgin.sf.net for details.
Some countries distinguish between voice and video recordings, so it may be perfectly legal to record somebody without audio but recording audio with video may render the video inadmissible in court. If I remember correctly the USA is one of those countries, I remember hearing about a case on TV where an abusive police officer was filmed and his verbal abuse was recorded along with the abuse. Since recording the audio is not permitted he was never punished and still "abuses and serves as he pleases"
Digital Cameras have IR filters to increase image quality but some clothing may become invisible as well:)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_photography
Digital camera sensors are inherently sensitive to infrared light, which would interfere with the normal photography by confusing the autofocus calculations or softening the image (because infrared light is focused differently than visible light), or oversaturating the red channel. Also, some clothing is transparent in the infrared, leading to unintended (at least to the manufacturer) uses of video cameras.[4] Thus, to improve image quality and protect privacy, many digital cameras employ infrared blockers.
Ha, take that PHP haters.... this one is not caused by a n00b using PHP, it is caused by n00b using ASP.
Wait a minute.... could that possibly mean that PHP/ASP is not at fault when this stuff happens but the programmer(s)... where is this world coming to when the language can not be blamed anymore?
crap, I already posted in this discussion and can not give you a mod point for being extra funny... your post made my day!!
But seriously, TrueCrypt rocks! I have been using it for quite some time now, it is nice to be able to use the encrypted volume on any one of the major operating systems.... now I don't have to feel bad anymore when I loose my flash drive... funny thing is that I have not lost it since I started to encrypt it.. go figure...
And what makes the court think that a border security guard is the least bit qualified to search a laptop? I always get a bad feeling when passing through airport security because of my Linux laptop which does not dual boot into Windows and has an encrypted home partition. Even if I supply them with my decryption password, I doubt they even know how to spell KDE or how to find hidden folders let alone encrypted file volumes..... And since I am not running Windows I must have something to hide, step over there for a few days until we investigate further or give us your laptop and prepare to never see it again.....
And once the bad kiddy porn enjoying pieces of human crap learn about the problems of border searches, they will start encrypting the disgusting collection of ones and zeros. Show me one border security guard who could figure out that the system file xyz is not really a system file but a encrypted volume.....
I see Ubuntu as over hyped or over advertised because it feels like every time I open Linux Journal there is another article about something Ubuntu related as if it was the only disto left on earth. Same goes for other websites, Ubuntu here, Ubuntu there.... enough already.
I will admit a degree of bias here as I just don't like Gnome and since Ubuntu is Gnome focused I would never use it. I know there is Kbuntu but then I might as well use a different distro all together.
So my choice for Server, Workstation and Laptop has been openSUSE for quite some time. My server is running CentOS 5.1 now because my VPS provider does not offer an openSUSE image but I hope to outgrow my VPS server soon to switch to my own hardware, then it is back to openSUSE all the way....
Guess that makes me an openSUSE fanboy now... damn
SUSE was my first Linux distribution because I could purchase it at BestBuy.... that was many years ago. I eventually switched to Slackware to learn Linux but decided to switch back to SUSE a few years ago because I wanted to become productive instead of hunting depended software to satisfy./configure Don't get me wrong, there is noting wrong with the "hands on" Linux systems as I recommend Slackware to anybody who wants to know Linux.
One thing that makes me shake my head is the over hyped Ubuntu distribution, bracing for negative mod points now... Seriously though, OpenSUSE makes it so simple to install almost any program, add Pacman's repository, install Mplayer and it all begins to "just work"...
If you have not tried OpenSUSE, give it a try, I doubt you will regret it.
BTW, I am typing this on my Fujitsu laptop connected to a wireless lan which worked "out of the box"... Windows is a true sandbox OS for me now, useful only for gaming....
I used to service computers onsite and ran into this ALL the time. The customer usually reported one or more of the following problems:
1) Very slow Internet connection.... 2) Sometimes the Internet connection just won't work..... 3) My printer stopped working a few months ago.... 4) Somebody printed something on my printer (thanks to the auto discovery crap in XP and a shared printer)
Usually the customer was using one of the many unsecured connections available. After changing the default SSID AND setting them up with WPA encryption it worked fine. Almost forgot, I always smiled when I entered "their" router with the SSID "Linksys" or "Dlink" only to find out that the router I was about to configure was not really their own router but some neighbor's router with the same default SSID. Is Vista smart enough to distinguish between routers with the same SSID but different MAC addresses?
PHP has got to be one of the worst things that ever happened to web development. Let me guess, you are the type of person blaming a gun or gun manufactures when you shoot yourself in the foot....
How is this PHP's fault? Any wannabe programmer can write crap with any language, ANY language.
BTW, my gmail password is XyZbh*Dfi6fjG8sf...... damn gmail, why did they not protect me from posting my password online, this has to be gmail's fault!!!!
I have been using http://www.omnis.com/ to register all my domains for the past years. I have tried GoDaddy (horrible website), Dotster and a few others but none are as cheap and good as Omnis. Omnis even offers support on weekends, give them a try..... as far as hosting, I signed up with http://www.slicehost.com/ a few months ago and love it.
Same here, I have been using Slicehost for three months now and would never go back.
I setup a small slice running CentOS 5 server hosting all my domains for $20 a month. I have tested the site availability with hostracker set to 1 minute intervals for 5 domains and result has been 100% uptime.
I totally agree, I used to play games back on my Amiga 500 and they used to be FUN. Indiana Jones, Maniac Mansion, Elite I,... to name a few. The crap they produce nowadays is not worth buying anymore since most games focus on visual effects and totally ignore what makes games great and fun. Most PC games use at least 4.7GB of storage, 4.65GB for the textures, the rest for code...
My latest disappointment in games in Total War2, the game AI is one of the worst I have seen in ages. The AI has the clear advantage (200men vs 1000men) but it retreats to be killed one by one.... it's like shooting at non moving targets.
Then there is Galactic Civilization, the AI is pretty good, I tried to sneak an attack in from the back and the AI contacted me and told me to be careful unless I wanted to start a war.... I was impressed, I have never seen an AI "figure out" what I was planning to do! Unfortunately the game had too many other flaws, serious math errors when adding up numbers in the status window plus a few others.
I think the worst thing that has happened to games/software is the invention of the Internet, now games can be sold like certain operating systems, full of bugs or even incomplete since they can be patched later. Plus they are protected selling their crap since returning is almost impossible in the USA due to our ohh so great laws.
Speaking of patches, Total War2 has a 1.3 patch which is 500MB and a 1.2 patch which is 500MB as well. 1.3 requires 1.2..... 1GB worth of updates since the release! NUTS!
Now I am finally old enough to say "Boy, I sure remember the good old days...."
I don't know, look at the picture in the article. The e-paper has the same problem early LCDs had, a very narrow viewing angle. Literally, nothing to see yet;)
I started to get wrist pain when the mouse manufactures started to release ergonomic mice. These new mice are higher then the old style from 5-10years ago.
I have been noticing more and more pain in my wrist during the past year and finally decided to try the Trackball route. I ordered the Logitech TrackMan about 6 months ago and never had any more wrist pain.
I can now navigate my computer faster then with a standard mouse, moving from one side of my wide screen to the other requires a quick spin on the ball. Unfortunately the trackman is not as precise as my Logitech Laser mouse but it is accurate enough for it's price. Sometimes I have problems selecting the exact pixel I want in Gimp but it will work.
I'm not a gamer but when I do play games I fall back on my Lasermouse.
I can now enjoy my computer addiction without wrist pain cause by over engineered mice.
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Very true, I thought that the video was made for entertainment only and not to show off their cool design or teach somebody how to make their own.... this video does not belong on slashdot but on the front page of youtube or similar.
If you fuck up while driving you will most likely not hit the tree but hit somebody else around you.
I would hope that people have enough common sense to know that driving comes first but apparently that is not the case.....
Now if one of the machines crashes, I am thinking about my Gaming (win XP) Desktop here, it has become unstable and needs a reload soon
Here is another solar powered service which suits my own needs better because they also offer VPS plus access to a clustered database server.... anybody found a better offer?
http://imountain.com/web/home
http://imountain.com/web/services/clustered-vps/clustered-vps-pricing/3
Firefox can't find the server at www.solarhost.com
Both posts about solar need to be +5 to spread the word that solar powered data centers exist. I just setup my server at a regular data center but would have tried the solar alternative instead....
.... thanks for posting!!!!
Just checked the price of http://www.aiso.net/hosting-plans.asp might be time to move again or at least setup a server to check reliability
WTF is going on here? I have been reading through the comments and it appears as if most "nerds" have been pussy wiped by other distros and don't understand the point of actually knowing your OS.
:)
.... whatever. Go home and learn something.... almost forgot, he is A+ certified, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
If you learn Slackware, you know Linux! Why is that you ask?
Because Slackware does not come with a bunch of highly modified packages, Slackware is build using tested and known to be working code. Configuration and partition is done by hand. Slackware does not crash if setup properly, it is a perfect OS for any server or Desktop.... if you know what you are doing but it is not for you grandma. It is an Operating System for "real" nerds
With all the bitching about lack of features in Slackware, it may be time for you "nerds" to go and load up Vista for the ultimate hand holding experience.
You all remind me of that computer technician we have at work, he thinks he is the freaking king but knows nothing about computers. He fixes issues by running every GUI tool on his thumb drive and hoping that one of them sticks. When I ask him how he fixed it, he has no clue and says that "Tool xyz" fixed it. When I ask him to run "regedit" his eyes open wide and he starts to sweat.... cold sweat.
Dude you are not a computer tech, geek, nerd, hacker
Same goes for Slackware, use it, learn it, know Linux or use openSuSE and stop the bitching.
http://funpidgin.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/funpidgin A fork of pidgin which aims to provide minor features that have not been addressed by the pidgin development team (including manual textbox resizing). See funpidgin.sf.net for details.
Look who is talking....
The war on "terror" is estimated to cost:
$341.4 million per day http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home
$720 Million Each Day http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/21/AR2007092102074.html
$100,000 per minute http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002780385_spending03.html
Cost of Terror War Hits 430 Billion http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34040
Some countries distinguish between voice and video recordings, so it may be perfectly legal to record somebody without audio but recording audio with video may render the video inadmissible in court. If I remember correctly the USA is one of those countries, I remember hearing about a case on TV where an abusive police officer was filmed and his verbal abuse was recorded along with the abuse.
Since recording the audio is not permitted he was never punished and still "abuses and serves as he pleases"
I could not help myself, here is an example
http://www.kaya-optics.com/products/voyuerism.shtml
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_photography Digital camera sensors are inherently sensitive to infrared light, which would interfere with the normal photography by confusing the autofocus calculations or softening the image (because infrared light is focused differently than visible light), or oversaturating the red channel. Also, some clothing is transparent in the infrared, leading to unintended (at least to the manufacturer) uses of video cameras.[4] Thus, to improve image quality and protect privacy, many digital cameras employ infrared blockers.
I thought my knowledge of English was good enough to decipher most statements, apparently not.
Doing input validation is not the languages responsibility, it is the coders.
Ha, take that PHP haters .... this one is not caused by a n00b using PHP, it is caused by n00b using ASP.
Wait a minute.... could that possibly mean that PHP/ASP is not at fault when this stuff happens but the programmer(s)... where is this world coming to when the language can not be blamed anymore?
crap, I already posted in this discussion and can not give you a mod point for being extra funny ... your post made my day!!
... funny thing is that I have not lost it since I started to encrypt it .. go figure...
But seriously, TrueCrypt rocks! I have been using it for quite some time now, it is nice to be able to use the encrypted volume on any one of the major operating systems.... now I don't have to feel bad anymore when I loose my flash drive
And what makes the court think that a border security guard is the least bit qualified to search a laptop?
I always get a bad feeling when passing through airport security because of my Linux laptop which does not dual boot into Windows and has an encrypted home partition. Even if I supply them with my decryption password, I doubt they even know how to spell KDE or how to find hidden folders let alone encrypted file volumes.....
And since I am not running Windows I must have something to hide, step over there for a few days until we investigate further or give us your laptop and prepare to never see it again.....
And once the bad kiddy porn enjoying pieces of human crap learn about the problems of border searches, they will start encrypting the disgusting collection of ones and zeros. Show me one border security guard who could figure out that the system file xyz is not really a system file but a encrypted volume.....
I see Ubuntu as over hyped or over advertised because it feels like every time I open Linux Journal there is another article about something Ubuntu related as if it was the only disto left on earth. .... enough already.
....
... damn
Same goes for other websites, Ubuntu here, Ubuntu there
I will admit a degree of bias here as I just don't like Gnome and since Ubuntu is Gnome focused I would never use it. I know there is Kbuntu but then I might as well use a different distro all together.
So my choice for Server, Workstation and Laptop has been openSUSE for quite some time. My server is running CentOS 5.1 now because my VPS provider does not offer an openSUSE image but I hope to outgrow my VPS server soon to switch to my own hardware, then it is back to openSUSE all the way
Guess that makes me an openSUSE fanboy now
SUSE was my first Linux distribution because I could purchase it at BestBuy.... that was many years ago. ./configure
... Windows is a true sandbox OS for me now, useful only for gaming....
I eventually switched to Slackware to learn Linux but decided to switch back to SUSE a few years ago because I wanted to become productive instead of hunting depended software to satisfy
Don't get me wrong, there is noting wrong with the "hands on" Linux systems as I recommend Slackware to anybody who wants to know Linux.
One thing that makes me shake my head is the over hyped Ubuntu distribution, bracing for negative mod points now... Seriously though, OpenSUSE makes it so simple to install almost any program, add Pacman's repository, install Mplayer and it all begins to "just work"...
If you have not tried OpenSUSE, give it a try, I doubt you will regret it.
BTW, I am typing this on my Fujitsu laptop connected to a wireless lan which worked "out of the box"
I used to service computers onsite and ran into this ALL the time. The customer usually reported one or more of the following problems:
1) Very slow Internet connection....
2) Sometimes the Internet connection just won't work.....
3) My printer stopped working a few months ago....
4) Somebody printed something on my printer (thanks to the auto discovery crap in XP and a shared printer)
Usually the customer was using one of the many unsecured connections available. After changing the default SSID AND setting them up with WPA encryption it worked fine.
Almost forgot, I always smiled when I entered "their" router with the SSID "Linksys" or "Dlink" only to find out that the router I was about to configure was not really their own router but some neighbor's router with the same default SSID.
Is Vista smart enough to distinguish between routers with the same SSID but different MAC addresses?
How is this PHP's fault? Any wannabe programmer can write crap with any language, ANY language.
BTW, my gmail password is XyZbh*Dfi6fjG8sf
I have been using http://www.omnis.com/ to register all my domains for the past years. ..... as far as hosting, I signed up with http://www.slicehost.com/ a few months ago and love it.
I have tried GoDaddy (horrible website), Dotster and a few others but none are as cheap and good as Omnis. Omnis even offers support on weekends, give them a try
As far as Network Solutions goes, shame on you!
Same here, I have been using Slicehost for three months now and would never go back.
I setup a small slice running CentOS 5 server hosting all my domains for $20 a month. I have tested the site availability with hostracker set to 1 minute intervals for 5 domains and result has been 100% uptime.
Slicehost.com rocks!
I totally agree, I used to play games back on my Amiga 500 and they used to be FUN. Indiana Jones, Maniac Mansion, Elite I,... to name a few. The crap they produce nowadays is not worth buying anymore since most games focus on visual effects and totally ignore what makes games great and fun. Most PC games use at least 4.7GB of storage, 4.65GB for the textures, the rest for code...
.... it's like shooting at non moving targets.
.... I was impressed, I have never seen an AI "figure out" what I was planning to do! Unfortunately the game had too many other flaws, serious math errors when adding up numbers in the status window plus a few others.
..... 1GB worth of updates since the release! NUTS!
My latest disappointment in games in Total War2, the game AI is one of the worst I have seen in ages. The AI has the clear advantage (200men vs 1000men) but it retreats to be killed one by one
Then there is Galactic Civilization, the AI is pretty good, I tried to sneak an attack in from the back and the AI contacted me and told me to be careful unless I wanted to start a war
I think the worst thing that has happened to games/software is the invention of the Internet, now games can be sold like certain operating systems, full of bugs or even incomplete since they can be patched later. Plus they are protected selling their crap since returning is almost impossible in the USA due to our ohh so great laws.
Speaking of patches, Total War2 has a 1.3 patch which is 500MB and a 1.2 patch which is 500MB as well. 1.3 requires 1.2
Now I am finally old enough to say "Boy, I sure remember the good old days...."
I don't know, look at the picture in the article. The e-paper has the same problem early LCDs had, a very narrow viewing angle. Literally, nothing to see yet ;)
I started to get wrist pain when the mouse manufactures started to release ergonomic mice. These new mice are higher then the old style from 5-10years ago.
I have been noticing more and more pain in my wrist during the past year and finally decided to try the Trackball route. I ordered the Logitech TrackMan about 6 months ago and never had any more wrist pain.
I can now navigate my computer faster then with a standard mouse, moving from one side of my wide screen to the other requires a quick spin on the ball. Unfortunately the trackman is not as precise as my Logitech Laser mouse but it is accurate enough for it's price. Sometimes I have problems selecting the exact pixel I want in Gimp but it will work.
I'm not a gamer but when I do play games I fall back on my Lasermouse.
I can now enjoy my computer addiction without wrist pain cause by over engineered mice.