I don't know what percentage of Dell laptops might use broadcom wifi, but it would be nice for a big name to pressure them into making usable linux drivers.
It's a problem for sighted folk too; I didn't realize how much I _listen_ for cars more than I look both ways before crossing the street until I was almost mowed down by an electric vehicle. It was a fairly quiet day w/o any wind, but I didn't hear any tire noise until after the driver honked and was really close. A little low rumbling from every car is (IMNSHO) better than virtually silent 50 mph death dealers.
Does the law require the beeping noises on trucks when they back up, or is that a bonus feature?
A doom( prboom?) clone runs great on open embedded with ARM cpus, but the iPaqs I played it on actually had buttons and a four-way toggle key for movement. I think playing an action game on an iPhone might be a little more difficult.
Now, Day of the Tentacle with Scummvm would be neat...
When did that happen? I keep convincing people to try out linux (or at least OSS on their MS Windows boxes), and quite a few make the switch. The people I see sticking with Windows are the gamers (which might explain MS's drive to push the Xbox360).
I set up a hotmail account recently, and sent a few test messages to it. Only 1 out of 10 got through. The others didn't go into my spam-filter, they just didn't get through. I complained, never got an answer. It really makes me want to buy their upgraded service. NOT! (Sorry for the 1990's phraseology, it seemed appropriate)
1 hour and 20 minutes travel & shopping time beats overnight delivery or "3 hour response warranty service" sometimes. If you're lucky like a company I worked for, you're less than three minutes from a Fry's/Best Buy/Foo, and Corporate VP whims can be met in record time.
Just because the author never sits around and laughs at really bad games, or plays them with friends in social settings, they shouldn't assume no one does.
Agreed. I can still quote two phrases that came from puzzle games my friends and I played as a group:
"Feeling Lonely?" - The Seventh Guest
"Want some rye? 'Course you do!" - Return to Zork
Both phrases were repeated over and over in the (bad) games, and became an inside joke amongst us.
I loved the generic Ultima (Overland) that was in System Shock. Whenever I wanted to take a break from mutants and robots, I'd play the many sub-games that you'd collect as software additions.
It'd be neat if Fallout 3's Pipboy did the same thing (even if it's just Pong). Things like this add depth to the game universe. It shows the designers were thinking.
Ransoming information isn't the cash cow you think it is. The black hats have more incentive to _not_ let the originating company know there is an exploit. What is needed is a way to make the good guys want to find the exploits first and do something about it.
There's already a _greater_ cash incentive for the scum, and they're already finding exploits. What is needed is a lesser, legal cash incentive for the good guys, so that the good guys find them first.
*sigh* Time to stop suggesting a homogeneous hardware environment with LTSP + Openmosix. Now I need to suggest $8000 servers that don't scale easily (like openmosix can by trading desktops for compute nodes).
because politicians and others confuse it with marijuana, and demigog it to death
It's probably more likely that it's because marijuana can be very easily hidden in a field of Hemp than in a field of anything else.
Unfortunately, there are negative repercussions to bad karma, such as lack of AC posting. Yes, post on topics I'm interested in, with a genuine opinion about and some useful knowledge that I have attempted to impart. The result being that I have bad karma (specifically mods not liking what I said), and as a result, have to use an entirely different account in order to post anonymously on a controversial subject.
Assuming you don't want to bother with slipstreaming, you can download the patches (only the non-obsoleted ones) from technet.microsoft.com's security section, stick them all in a directory on a CD, and run something like
for/f %X in ('dir -whateverTheFlagIsForSimplifiedOutput *.exe') do %X/silent/noreboot
in a batch file. I used to do that a lot. The nice part about XP is you didn't have to run that extra prog that would allow multiple patches at once.
Any IT group worth its salt would reimage it with their linux image, even if their distro of choice is Ubuntu. Reimaging takes 2 minutes of attention, and saves up to hours of tweaking.
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I don't know what percentage of Dell laptops might use broadcom wifi, but it would be nice for a big name to pressure them into making usable linux drivers.
It's a problem for sighted folk too; I didn't realize how much I _listen_ for cars more than I look both ways before crossing the street until I was almost mowed down by an electric vehicle. It was a fairly quiet day w/o any wind, but I didn't hear any tire noise until after the driver honked and was really close. A little low rumbling from every car is (IMNSHO) better than virtually silent 50 mph death dealers.
Does the law require the beeping noises on trucks when they back up, or is that a bonus feature?
Look what we did to our iphones with Hubba Bubba Ink(R). Try it.
No Way! *licks screen*
Ha HA! You got Inked dude!
Spelling corrected.
That's cool. I suppose it'd work even better with iphone's multi-touch. GP is another example of me thinking tightly within the box.
Guess it's been a while since he modded something +1 100% f^H^H^H^H^H^HInsightful
A doom( prboom?) clone runs great on open embedded with ARM cpus, but the iPaqs I played it on actually had buttons and a four-way toggle key for movement. I think playing an action game on an iPhone might be a little more difficult. Now, Day of the Tentacle with Scummvm would be neat...
When did that happen? I keep convincing people to try out linux (or at least OSS on their MS Windows boxes), and quite a few make the switch. The people I see sticking with Windows are the gamers (which might explain MS's drive to push the Xbox360).
And that's what temporary fake email accounts are for. 10 minute lifetime is more than enough.
I set up a hotmail account recently, and sent a few test messages to it. Only 1 out of 10 got through. The others didn't go into my spam-filter, they just didn't get through. I complained, never got an answer. It really makes me want to buy their upgraded service. NOT! (Sorry for the 1990's phraseology, it seemed appropriate)
1 hour and 20 minutes travel & shopping time beats overnight delivery or "3 hour response warranty service" sometimes. If you're lucky like a company I worked for, you're less than three minutes from a Fry's/Best Buy/Foo, and Corporate VP whims can be met in record time.
But was your group inspired by a video game? ;P
Agreed. I can still quote two phrases that came from puzzle games my friends and I played as a group:
"Feeling Lonely?" - The Seventh Guest
"Want some rye? 'Course you do!" - Return to Zork
Both phrases were repeated over and over in the (bad) games, and became an inside joke amongst us.
I loved the generic Ultima (Overland) that was in System Shock. Whenever I wanted to take a break from mutants and robots, I'd play the many sub-games that you'd collect as software additions.
It'd be neat if Fallout 3's Pipboy did the same thing (even if it's just Pong). Things like this add depth to the game universe. It shows the designers were thinking.
Ransoming information isn't the cash cow you think it is. The black hats have more incentive to _not_ let the originating company know there is an exploit. What is needed is a way to make the good guys want to find the exploits first and do something about it.
There's already a _greater_ cash incentive for the scum, and they're already finding exploits. What is needed is a lesser, legal cash incentive for the good guys, so that the good guys find them first.
This and other "pro-muppet" comments aren't "funny" they're accurate. Look it up or watch an episode, then mod Parent informative.
*sigh* Time to stop suggesting a homogeneous hardware environment with LTSP + Openmosix. Now I need to suggest $8000 servers that don't scale easily (like openmosix can by trading desktops for compute nodes).
Microsoft's roadmap? All ur NPI are belong to us:5 36230
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/17/1
It's probably more likely that it's because marijuana can be very easily hidden in a field of Hemp than in a field of anything else.
Unfortunately, there are negative repercussions to bad karma, such as lack of AC posting. Yes, post on topics I'm interested in, with a genuine opinion about and some useful knowledge that I have attempted to impart. The result being that I have bad karma (specifically mods not liking what I said), and as a result, have to use an entirely different account in order to post anonymously on a controversial subject.
good thing you didn't type it on a computer keypad.
Assuming you don't want to bother with slipstreaming, you can download the patches (only the non-obsoleted ones) from technet.microsoft.com's security section, stick them all in a directory on a CD, and run something like /f %X in ('dir -whateverTheFlagIsForSimplifiedOutput *.exe') do %X /silent /noreboot
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in a batch file. I used to do that a lot. The nice part about XP is you didn't have to run that extra prog that would allow multiple patches at once.
Any IT group worth its salt would reimage it with their linux image, even if their distro of choice is Ubuntu. Reimaging takes 2 minutes of attention, and saves up to hours of tweaking.
Then they'll modify the content like we saw in the Alien movies, and W 40.000 will seem like a cheap knockoff again.