"Microsoft, not content to bloat system requirements for simple tasks, has turned to bloating bandwidth requirements for simple tasks. The new MsFTP protocol requires 4 bytes bandwidth per byte of real data sent. To that end, and in preparation for the commercial acceptance of Internet II running MSTCP/IP, Microsoft has spent billions investing in gigabit PoP technology, to ensure that you will be able to surf to ESPN to check out the score on the game, 10 MB ActiveX control and all."
Under Redhat 6.1, I compiled qwsv and qwcl. I found that at runtime, I get an error like this:
Fatal Error: Pak file has 507261234 files
(or something similar).
There's a problem in QW/client/common.c when it reads the pak file header. Could be a signed/unsigned issue. I wonder if anyone actually tried running the output after compilation at id.
using -j DENY over -j REJECT means that the packet is just dropped by the kernel like it never existed. It means that a reply is never sent. It takes a lot less cpu time and bandwidth this way, as a reply packet does not have to be sent.
The first time a TFC clan called Hate, Inc. pulled the site (which was a Team Fortress Classic news site) because they got upset about stuff posted about them. So they threw a tantrum and pulled it.
First (non-hack): http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/1999/12/ 01/tfcnews.com/ Second (hack): http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/1999/12/ 02/tfcnews.com/
In Canada, all currency $20 and above comes with a small square, about 1 cm x 1 cm, that is yellow or greenish-yellow depending on the angle with respect to a light. In the center, a number, i.e. 20, is printed out of the foil (i.e. the foil is missing).
Well, when I last bought an HP 612C (a printer that's a few years old model), the store recorded the serial number off the box on the receipt (and in their computer system).
what if you photocopy the front of an envelope...
on
IDs in Color Copies
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· Score: 2
...for some reason, like a record of who it was sent too. Then your fscked up.
There are techniques for hiding information into pictures. For example, some pgp 2.6.1 rpm's distribution comes with some stuff for this. If this was done, I don't know how you could remove it. Perhaps changing the image format a few times would remove it (and picture quality) from the conversions.
I know with gnome + enlightenment, you can alt+tab between windows (or any other key combination you choose). However I don't know about things like selecting menu items.
--Not quite on topic, but related...well it's on topic since it's leading to discomfort and wrist strain in X: One thing I've noticed with the mouse in X is that for some mice, the multiplier is just too small. No, I don't mean acceleration. I mean the factor where it takes mouse movement * some factor to calculate each more. See, I have a Logitech Ps/2 firstmouse+, and the base speed is very slow (because to improve resolution it transmits physical movements as smaller steps).
In Windows, with Mouseware, I have these options: - Speed (a slider bar sets this) - Acceleration (slow, medium fast) (controls speed + threshold, or threshold is fixed perhaps)
However when I boot into LINUX, in gnome I have these options: - Acceleration - Threshold.
See there is no way to set the base speed in gnome. I end up kludging it by setting acceration to max and threshold as low as the slider allows.
This mouse movement problem is an X issue, not gnome. There is no way to specify a mouse movement multiplier independant of acceleration and threshold (I dug up the gnome control-center source to see the calls being made and looked those up).
So if you look at it this way, there should be three parameters that affect mouse movement:
accel threshold base multiplier (in X is always 1)
and movement would go like this:
movement threshold: accel * (base multiplier * movement)
However in X it's always, base multiplier = 1 always.
I hope I'm not the only person in the world bothered by this.
But some of the "dumb laws" seem to be people airing their personal gripes, for example. Sorry, I don't recall the specific locations, but I remember these:
- people pissed off about getting speeding tickets -- "In City, State, you can only go 30 mph downtown".
- people pissed off that they couldn't paint their house purple -- "city legislates acceptable house colors"
- someone pissed off that they have to go to smoke outside -- listed as a dumb law: "In ____, ___, smoking indoors is prohibited".
Slashdot Mirror
and you'll see this headline:
"Microsoft, not content to bloat system requirements for simple tasks, has turned to bloating bandwidth requirements for simple tasks. The new MsFTP protocol requires 4 bytes bandwidth per byte of real data sent. To that end, and in preparation for the commercial acceptance of Internet II running MSTCP/IP, Microsoft has spent billions investing in gigabit PoP technology, to ensure that you will be able to surf to ESPN to check out the score on the game, 10 MB ActiveX control and all."
The Powersource website's order form doesn't even have an encrypted order page... what kind of fly-by-night operation is this?
Also, no mention of Linux One in their CD list.
Looks sweet.
We need to get support for this in gimp, ee, etc...
It'd be cool if these beat commercial packages to the punch.
Calgary, Alberta, where I live, is at 3200 ft already.
You know, they probably copied that code piece from somewhere else. The "garbage" was someone's way of saying, "the variable hasn't been set".
Even 2-D, what if you were doing 1600x1200 at 32 bpp? Would extra RAM be wasted?
I use this card, and it performs excellently, plus there's good drivers for LINUX.
Under Redhat 6.1, I compiled qwsv and qwcl. I found that at runtime, I get an error like this:
Fatal Error: Pak file has 507261234 files
(or something similar).
There's a problem in QW/client/common.c when it reads the pak file header. Could be a signed/unsigned issue. I wonder if anyone actually tried running the output after compilation at id.
...
"Also, Linux recognizes more than forty different partition types, such as:"
...
They're on LINUX, so they can do this on a router:
/sbin/ipchains -A input -i eth0 -p icmp --icmp-type ping -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j DENY
using -j DENY over -j REJECT means that the packet is just dropped by the kernel like it never existed. It means that a reply is never sent. It takes a lot less cpu time and bandwidth this way, as a reply packet does not have to be sent.
If you're driving a pickup truck, and they're driving a civic, you'll fair much better. In a head-on collision, the smaller car gets it worst.
Well all those records set by Win NT and 2K were with static content. Hotmail is VERY dynamic.
You have to have the DNS servers for your domain set, then you need to set MX records up.
Go to greatdomains.com, and type in stuff like
/. does it, do you think they can humanly process them all? some will slip through and be registered.
wesuck.com
If everyone from
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Well the second time it WAS hacked.
/ 01/tfcnews.com/ / 02/tfcnews.com/
The first time a TFC clan called Hate, Inc. pulled the site (which was a Team Fortress Classic news site) because they got upset about stuff posted about them. So they threw a tantrum and pulled it.
First (non-hack): http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/1999/12
Second (hack): http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/1999/12
In Canada, all currency $20 and above comes with a small square, about 1 cm x 1 cm, that is yellow or greenish-yellow depending on the angle with respect to a light. In the center, a number, i.e. 20, is printed out of the foil (i.e. the foil is missing).
Well, when I last bought an HP 612C (a printer that's a few years old model), the store recorded the serial number off the box on the receipt (and in their computer system).
...for some reason, like a record of who it was sent too. Then your fscked up.
There are techniques for hiding information into pictures. For example, some pgp 2.6.1 rpm's distribution comes with some stuff for this. If this was done, I don't know how you could remove it. Perhaps changing the image format a few times would remove it (and picture quality) from the conversions.
should read like this (that section near end)
movement less than threshold:
1 * (base multiplier * movement)
movement greater than or equal to threshold:
accel * (base multiplier * movement)
I know with gnome + enlightenment, you can alt+tab between windows (or any other key combination you choose). However I don't know about things like selecting menu items.
--Not quite on topic, but related...well it's on topic since it's leading to discomfort and wrist strain in X:
One thing I've noticed with the mouse in X is that for some mice, the multiplier is just too small. No, I don't mean acceleration. I mean the factor where it takes mouse movement * some factor to calculate each more. See, I have a Logitech Ps/2 firstmouse+, and the base speed is very slow (because to improve resolution it transmits physical movements as smaller steps).
In Windows, with Mouseware, I have these options:
- Speed (a slider bar sets this)
- Acceleration (slow, medium fast) (controls speed + threshold, or threshold is fixed perhaps)
However when I boot into LINUX, in gnome I have these options:
- Acceleration
- Threshold.
See there is no way to set the base speed in gnome. I end up kludging it by setting acceration to max and threshold as low as the slider allows.
This mouse movement problem is an X issue, not gnome. There is no way to specify a mouse movement multiplier independant of acceleration and threshold (I dug up the gnome control-center source to see the calls being made and looked those up).
So if you look at it this way, there should be three parameters that affect mouse movement:
accel
threshold
base multiplier (in X is always 1)
and movement would go like this:
movement threshold:
accel * (base multiplier * movement)
However in X it's always, base multiplier = 1 always.
I hope I'm not the only person in the world bothered by this.
But some of the "dumb laws" seem to be people airing their personal gripes, for example. Sorry, I don't recall the specific locations, but I remember these:
- people pissed off about getting speeding tickets -- "In City, State, you can only go 30 mph downtown".
- people pissed off that they couldn't paint their house purple -- "city legislates acceptable house colors"
- someone pissed off that they have to go to smoke outside -- listed as a dumb law: "In ____, ___, smoking indoors is prohibited".
http: //wire.ap.org/APnews/center_story.html?FRONTID=ART S&STORYID=APIS7146D4G0
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