i played ultima online for 3.5 years, from 1998 to 2001. for my first 7x GM i needed 2 years. i left the game after it had become really really lame (power hour, trammel etc.) - i made a 7x gm in less than 3 weeks.
i havn't played in 1.5 years now, but i can say i could make these $30 characters in 2 days. trash. i make 85 magery on the first day, plus gm swords, tactics, anatomy. why spend $30 for this?
for a free remake of pqmagic, try GNU parted. actually, it doesn't support all the new filesystems, not even reiser (which brings its own tools for that), but it's a good start. works well for me when resizing FAT partitions.
I've always used Cherry G81 or G80 keyboards, and I've noticed a limit of something between 5 and 10 keys pressed at a time, with a PS/2 keyboard. I havn't tested my Cherry G80 USB keyboard yet, but even with "only" 5 or 10 keys, this is not a problem.
Logitech keyboards really suck in my opinion. Keyboard and monitor are your primary interfaces to your computer, you should take care when selecting them. You don't need 2.5 GHz and 2 gigs RAM. You need a good keyboard and a good monitor.
What about ftp.de.kernel.org, ftp.nl.kernel.org, etc.?
If you have country TLD's, the kernel.org would have to register several hundred domains. With country on the 3rd level they only need one domain. Still there is the advantage of knowing which mirror to take.
uhm.. no. Just because 99% of all cracks need a shell, it doesn't mean hacking is impossible without a shell.. just imagine a buffer overflow in the linux TCP stack, or firewalling code. You insert your code which listens to a socket, accepts a bigger program there, this bigger program is executed, and writes a shell programm to the hard disk, which is then executed... all this without a single daemon running before the machine was hacked.
Just a thought.
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Mozilla 1.0rc3 runs just fine on my P II notebook with 266 MHz and 96 MB RAM. Feels somehow faster than netscape 4.77.
Will the industry introduce new annoying concepts which will keep me from making my backup copy? How much time will hackers need to crack it? How much will the industry whine about these hackers?
Or is this just a try to make movies even LARGER so cable and DSL users can't share movies in high quality anymore? (ever downloaded a 27 gig file?)
Record and movie companies aren't involved in file sharing - trying to figure what your point has to do with file sharing, I can't see how these companies lose money on file sharing..
They miss the chance to make more profit, but that's not exactly the same as losing money. It's only what they want us to believe.
complex kernel bloat as kernel-based web servers tends to have the security holes you want to move away from when killing all processes...
moving userland code to the kernel does not improve security, worse, the code is now running as root instead of your favorite apache user. killing processes like login, sshd, syslogd etc. does. (ok you can argue about killing syslogd improving security as you can't read any log files anymore)
Even Wolfenstein wasn't the first 3D (2.5D) FPS - Ultima Underworld was before.. ok it's not really a shooter.. but it's FPS and you can bash evil monsters. I used to play Ultima Underworld 2 on my 386 SX-25, that was 1992 or so, the first part was some years earlier.
Quake wasn't the first true 3D FPS - System Shock has been release several years before, and also was "real" 3D.
If you send me a word document containing OLE objects, I also have to buy your expensive additional software you created your charts and spreadsheets with to view your document!
Well, ok, I can view it without, but that's just the small screenshot which is attached to nearly every OLE object (BLOAT?). Only a screenshot! Bad quality! I can't scale that because it's not a vector. Ever printed a word document containing OLE objects you don't have the programs for? Looks ugly!
Just send PDF, DVI, PS or whatever - but please not DOC!
Ok, it works, but have you ever tried to CVS annotate a Word.doc file? Or show the diffs?
Where's the use and power of CVS if you can't do that?
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Many people don't know it, but Windows is in fact modular;)
The SMB protocol in Windows is just ONE driver.. you can integrate others as well, you "only" need to have deep knowledge of the internals of Windows (one thing I don't have). My point is, you don't need M$' cooperation for that. I guess if someone who really knows Windows writes a driver, it can be made work better than any reverse engineered SMB server emulation.
One problem with missing M$' cooperation is that it won't be shipped with Windows. Many admins don't even install service packs regularly - why should they be more motivated to install 3rd party drivers.. on all clients! It's just not automatically in there when Windows is freshly installed. Seems funny that this is a real problem, but mustn't be underestimated.
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.. and the team really does great work.
But, the SMB protocol is a moving target, we had to see that several times in the past. The Samba team has always managed to readapt to new protocol versions. Everyone who has worked with Windows' network Neighborhood knows that SMB is also a really really broken protocol which only works with much patience.
Wouldn't it be just better to invent a very new protocol, and provide clean clients for all major operating systems (Linux, BSD, windows 9x/NT, etc.). For Linux/Unix/BSD, something better than NFS is really required - NFS sucks (security? etc.)
I'm a bit thinking about efforts like Coda which is in the Linux kernel for years now, and there also exists a Windows client. Last time I checked there was no NT client which makes Coda practically useless at this stage.
But I think a clean, well designed, secure and stable protocol would be a benefit for big company's networks and for home networks. I work as developer, but I often help our admins. It's a network of w2k, NT4, Linux and FreeBSD machines (about 60 computers). The Windows machines always suck... in many cases because SMB doesn't work as it should.
Strange, currently I am receiving 5 mod points every 14 days... the first time I got modpoints was a few days after I metamoderated two times. That was 3 months ago,,and you can calculate how many times I have been mod since then... never been mod before, although I have created my account several years ago.
btw. does anyone already know what "Who you like and dislike is not private" means? Where can I see someone's friends and foes? The trolls will adapt to the new system... will they now see the number of "Foe" ratings as score?
Well, there are some very funny trolls in here, which is the reason I'm always browsing at -1;-) I'd never switch to 0 if I want to be entertained...
Well, XFree86 is just one implementation of the thing you mean (other implementations are used rarely nowadays, mostly in commercial unices)... it's called X Window System, or X11 short. Compare the sites http://www.x.org and http://www.xfree86.org.
If you return a CD, there is much cost involved in this - vendors who sell the CD and receive it back next day, they have to change your money, etc. - it's time the shops lose. Well, the shops, not the record company.
But now about the record company - if yo u bring a CD which costed $10 back to the shop, and they sell it the next day - the record company lose the $10 you have effectively NOT spent on the CD. If you hadn't returned the CD, they would have earned $20 (yours, plus $10 from the guy who buys another one next day). If you bring it back, they only earn $10.
In practice, they will feel it... but I believe they will whine "evil pirates! their fault, not ours!" like they already do nowadays. So they won't learn from their mistakes.
But the whole thing really annoys me. I have got around 300 CDs, maybe 10 of them copied (because my favorite store didn't offer them). If I can't listen to my CDs in my car or in my computer (there's no CD player in my office, only a computer and earphones), well - I will not be able to use commercial CDs I've bought. This will FORCE me to make copies of CDs. Well, when I'm forced to do that, why should I spend money on it? The industry does NOT offer me products I can use! Well, I want to have the music... so there is one possibility left. You might already guess it...
btw, the German magazine c't (http://www.heise.de/ct) had a very long article about copying copy protected CDs.... the best way to start is owning a Plextor CDROM drive.. well I got one in my private computer:-)
sometimes I'm sick of the Linux kernel... 2.4 feels really good, rich of features etc., but in some situations I've learned to hate this kernel.. the one thing that keeps me with Linux is Debian's packet management.
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i played ultima online for 3.5 years, from 1998 to 2001. for my first 7x GM i needed 2 years. i left the game after it had become really really lame (power hour, trammel etc.) - i made a 7x gm in less than 3 weeks.
i havn't played in 1.5 years now, but i can say i could make these $30 characters in 2 days. trash. i make 85 magery on the first day, plus gm swords, tactics, anatomy. why spend $30 for this?
for a free remake of pqmagic, try GNU parted. actually, it doesn't support all the new filesystems, not even reiser (which brings its own tools for that), but it's a good start. works well for me when resizing FAT partitions.
I've always used Cherry G81 or G80 keyboards, and I've noticed a limit of something between 5 and 10 keys pressed at a time, with a PS/2 keyboard. I havn't tested my Cherry G80 USB keyboard yet, but even with "only" 5 or 10 keys, this is not a problem.
Logitech keyboards really suck in my opinion. Keyboard and monitor are your primary interfaces to your computer, you should take care when selecting them. You don't need 2.5 GHz and 2 gigs RAM. You need a good keyboard and a good monitor.
Current "High-End" DLP projectors for digital movie theatres have a resolution of about 1024 x something.
I remember playing Quake III in 1600x1200..
But ok, the next-gen projectors are planned to have 4096 pixels horizontally - I admit that 1024 is just not enough to be better than celluloid.
At least FSF doesn't think that GPL and BSD license are compatible:
GPL-Incompatible, Free Software Licenses
But then again, who cares what RMS thinks about BSD license... I couldn't find a real reason for this incompatibility.
What about ftp.de.kernel.org, ftp.nl.kernel.org, etc.?
If you have country TLD's, the kernel.org would have to register several hundred domains. With country on the 3rd level they only need one domain. Still there is the advantage of knowing which mirror to take.
where can I download this fantastic nosense troll generator?
uhm.. no. Just because 99% of all cracks need a shell, it doesn't mean hacking is impossible without a shell.. just imagine a buffer overflow in the linux TCP stack, or firewalling code. You insert your code which listens to a socket, accepts a bigger program there, this bigger program is executed, and writes a shell programm to the hard disk, which is then executed... all this without a single daemon running before the machine was hacked.
Just a thought.
Mozilla 1.0rc3 runs just fine on my P II notebook with 266 MHz and 96 MB RAM. Feels somehow faster than netscape 4.77.
GPLv2 says:
"The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it."
Obfuscated source code is obviously not "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it". 'Nuff said.
Will the industry introduce new annoying concepts which will keep me from making my backup copy? How much time will hackers need to crack it? How much will the industry whine about these hackers?
Or is this just a try to make movies even LARGER so cable and DSL users can't share movies in high quality anymore? (ever downloaded a 27 gig file?)
Record and movie companies aren't involved in file sharing - trying to figure what your point has to do with file sharing, I can't see how these companies lose money on file sharing..
They miss the chance to make more profit, but that's not exactly the same as losing money. It's only what they want us to believe.
The example just doesn't fit here..
Cite from Andy Mueller-Maghun, ICANN director and Chaos Computer Club lead member:
"No intellectual property was stolen on 18C3 - it was augmented" (ok my bad direct translation from German..)
original link (German Heise newsticker article): 18C3: Hackernetzwerk war Europas größter File-Sharing-Knoten
complex kernel bloat as kernel-based web servers tends to have the security holes you want to move away from when killing all processes...
moving userland code to the kernel does not improve security, worse, the code is now running as root instead of your favorite apache user. killing processes like login, sshd, syslogd etc. does. (ok you can argue about killing syslogd improving security as you can't read any log files anymore)
Even Wolfenstein wasn't the first 3D (2.5D) FPS - Ultima Underworld was before.. ok it's not really a shooter.. but it's FPS and you can bash evil monsters. I used to play Ultima Underworld 2 on my 386 SX-25, that was 1992 or so, the first part was some years earlier.
Quake wasn't the first true 3D FPS - System Shock has been release several years before, and also was "real" 3D.
Charts, spreadsheets embedded? Thats even worse!
If you send me a word document containing OLE objects, I also have to buy your expensive additional software you created your charts and spreadsheets with to view your document!
Well, ok, I can view it without, but that's just the small screenshot which is attached to nearly every OLE object (BLOAT?). Only a screenshot! Bad quality! I can't scale that because it's not a vector. Ever printed a word document containing OLE objects you don't have the programs for? Looks ugly!
Just send PDF, DVI, PS or whatever - but please not DOC!
Ok, it works, but have you ever tried to CVS annotate a Word .doc file? Or show the diffs?
Where's the use and power of CVS if you can't do that?
Many people don't know it, but Windows is in fact modular ;)
The SMB protocol in Windows is just ONE driver.. you can integrate others as well, you "only" need to have deep knowledge of the internals of Windows (one thing I don't have). My point is, you don't need M$' cooperation for that. I guess if someone who really knows Windows writes a driver, it can be made work better than any reverse engineered SMB server emulation.
One problem with missing M$' cooperation is that it won't be shipped with Windows. Many admins don't even install service packs regularly - why should they be more motivated to install 3rd party drivers.. on all clients! It's just not automatically in there when Windows is freshly installed. Seems funny that this is a real problem, but mustn't be underestimated.
.. and the team really does great work. But, the SMB protocol is a moving target, we had to see that several times in the past. The Samba team has always managed to readapt to new protocol versions. Everyone who has worked with Windows' network Neighborhood knows that SMB is also a really really broken protocol which only works with much patience.
Wouldn't it be just better to invent a very new protocol, and provide clean clients for all major operating systems (Linux, BSD, windows 9x/NT, etc.). For Linux/Unix/BSD, something better than NFS is really required - NFS sucks (security? etc.)
I'm a bit thinking about efforts like Coda which is in the Linux kernel for years now, and there also exists a Windows client. Last time I checked there was no NT client which makes Coda practically useless at this stage.
But I think a clean, well designed, secure and stable protocol would be a benefit for big company's networks and for home networks. I work as developer, but I often help our admins. It's a network of w2k, NT4, Linux and FreeBSD machines (about 60 computers). The Windows machines always suck... in many cases because SMB doesn't work as it should.
Strange, currently I am receiving 5 mod points every 14 days... the first time I got modpoints was a few days after I metamoderated two times. That was 3 months ago,,and you can calculate how many times I have been mod since then... never been mod before, although I have created my account several years ago.
;-) I'd never switch to 0 if I want to be entertained...
btw. does anyone already know what "Who you like and dislike is not private" means? Where can I see someone's friends and foes? The trolls will adapt to the new system... will they now see the number of "Foe" ratings as score?
Well, there are some very funny trolls in here, which is the reason I'm always browsing at -1
Well, XFree86 is just one implementation of the thing you mean (other implementations are used rarely nowadays, mostly in commercial unices)... it's called X Window System, or X11 short. Compare the sites http://www.x.org and http://www.xfree86.org.
I believe you're somewhat wrong here..
:-)
If you return a CD, there is much cost involved in this - vendors who sell the CD and receive it back next day, they have to change your money, etc. - it's time the shops lose. Well, the shops, not the record company.
But now about the record company - if yo u bring a CD which costed $10 back to the shop, and they sell it the next day - the record company lose the $10 you have effectively NOT spent on the CD. If you hadn't returned the CD, they would have earned $20 (yours, plus $10 from the guy who buys another one next day). If you bring it back, they only earn $10.
In practice, they will feel it... but I believe they will whine "evil pirates! their fault, not ours!" like they already do nowadays. So they won't learn from their mistakes.
But the whole thing really annoys me. I have got around 300 CDs, maybe 10 of them copied (because my favorite store didn't offer them). If I can't listen to my CDs in my car or in my computer (there's no CD player in my office, only a computer and earphones), well - I will not be able to use commercial CDs I've bought. This will FORCE me to make copies of CDs. Well, when I'm forced to do that, why should I spend money on it? The industry does NOT offer me products I can use! Well, I want to have the music... so there is one possibility left. You might already guess it...
btw, the German magazine c't (http://www.heise.de/ct) had a very long article about copying copy protected CDs.... the best way to start is owning a Plextor CDROM drive.. well I got one in my private computer
they were thinking about calling it Debian/win32, RMS told them 'win32' sounds like someone is winning - obviously, nobody is ;)
sometimes I'm sick of the Linux kernel... 2.4 feels really good, rich of features etc., but in some situations I've learned to hate this kernel.. the one thing that keeps me with Linux is Debian's packet management.
Yeah, kill that beast! My servers run ProFTPD, and it's really great both in features and configuration.
But still I wonder what's more secure - wuftpd after 100 security holes found and the same number of bugfixes, or a newcomer like ProFTPD..