What is 20 years getting assraped in prison compared to what RIAA wants to do to filesharers?
The difference?
The child pornographer would get repeatedly and endlessly raped for 20 years.
The filesharer would get repeatedly and endlessly raped for 20 years, and the guards would charge the rapists for your time, and split the cash 20/80 with the RIAA.
The good thing about your ISP providing Usenet is speed. The connection is strictly between your home and the ISP.
ISP's outsourced their NNTP offerings to the big boys (Giganews, Newshosting, etc.) years ago because it was cheaper to pay them for access to their servers than it was to keep them in house. It did, however, mean that the connections between the ISP and those particular news providers got way better.
Damn. I had meant in the sense of the OEM crap-installed version doing that, only for it to be as annoying as AV2009 and its variants.
A quick google search says that checkup app is bundled with flash and other things, but being a sideline install is close enough.
I don't give too much care to false positive cookies, as I've learned them to be overhyped, but false positive virus or malware infection is some seriously slimy tactics. IIRC, the AV 2009 folks got their assets frozen and sued to oblivion, but/. hasn't updated us on that in a while.
I read up on it and seem to recall that back in the day. It drove me so nuts having to constantly close ActiveX dialogs that SP2 was like a panacea against the awfulness. Still, post-SP2, I *will* admit that I fell for a site that told me I needed to click the yellow bar and all that...
And that was the first time I manually hunted down and removed a virus. Been pretty damn good at it ever since (special thanks to Mark Russinovich:D).
And then torrenting OpenOffice inside of the US would be illegal for an entirely different reason than 99% of all the other torrent traffic out on the inter-tubes.
The worst thing is the 30 day trial period of an antivirus. Ensures that your PC will be unsecure afterwards (and that the average user did not install a proper, and maybe free, AV).
I'll one-up that with the people who have expired AV products that they don't care about, then feed their credit cards to Antivirus 2009 because of how annoying it is with its doom-and-gloom.
Funny that Symantec and co. could take a lesson from the criminals, eh?
Of all the people I've done computer work for, one of the worst offenders is a man who owns a small business I do side work for. He would somehow manage to acquire viruses at alarming rates.
It stopped when I forced him to use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer, and set him up with a limited user account and told him he'd need to log out or switch users to an administrator if he wanted to install something.
Hasn't had a problem since.
Everyone else I've tried that (or something similar) with is too obstinate or stubborn to recognize or believe when I tell them that they're actually clicking "Yes please, install this virus on my computer" over and over again, every time they want a new free, useless desktop widget or application or game produced by a company no one's heard of... that just has to have Admin privileges to run...
That was a barrier for me too, but having discovered I really do want to leave the server on 100% of the time, after discovering that running a VM didn't tank the box down (1.75G Ram 2.8GHz P4 Box with Server 2008) and got good performance, which I didn't think would happen (heh), it made sense.
Until I can run everything I need 100% of the time on something like a Sheeva plug, or get a really cheap but capable laptop that'll make a good server (and won't tempt me to use as a laptop), reasonably low-power SFF x86 hardware will have to suffice.
The Indexing Service and Windows Search are not the same thing. I never used Windows Search under XP because I had gone out of my way to learn how to configure the Indexing Service (which is a huge pain in the ass) so that Start > Search would give me indexed results. I never experienced the Indexing Service pwning my machine as you say, though, and I indexed 3+ TB worth of stuff with it.
You have to do heavy configuration in Vista with Windows Search to have it search outside your profile, but once you do, the searches are much faster than XP was, compared to Indexing Service or WDS based searches.
Also, on XP, if you did configure the built-in Indexer to index your stuff, Start > Search would give you results from both in and out of the index, from what I recall. It might be folder-based as to whether or not something not in the index that was supposed to be was included (but was newly created for example, and hadn't been indexed yet), but I can't really remember anymore... been using Vista for too long now:P
home routers crap out if you open too many. Hopefully it's less of a problem today
I tell you sir, it's still a problem. The $30 NAT routers of today are just as big of a hunk of crap as they were 4 years ago, they just increased the profit margins with the lower manufacturing costs that economy of scale has brought to the industry.
Personally, I threw a second NIC in my server, installed VMWare Server, and now run Smoothwall as a guest, routing for my network. I probably would have done this years ago but it took a lot for me to break my love/hate relationship with DD-WRT and it's GPL violating "author," and I finally gave up trying to find good support for UPnP on a Windows-based solution.
Give it a try if you like to torrent stuff, especially while gaming.
I work on enough computers that I build up an OEM and Dell image of XP a couple times a year in case I need to do reinstalls.
I've never slipstreamed Vista updates, but if your net connection is fast enough, you really don't need to reboot more than once or twice to apply every update.
That said, I'd love to figure out how to slipstream IE8 and WGA and so on, as the process I mentioned above *does* leave a few things out.
Well, not in the sense of having no datastore, i simply mean without rotating hard disks present in the server. Flash storage accomplishes that, but you could use gPXE to connect it to an iSCSI target and remotely access its VMFS datastore from there.... if it were possible to do so with ESX, of course. You might not want to swap to it, and it'd really demand another NIC and so on, but that's what I really meant.
Chicken and egg indeed! On that note, perhaps you would put the PXE service on your SAN, no?
It's of sincere interest to me because we're turning some whitebox servers whose raid controllers aren't on the ESX HCL into hosts. I read that VMWare is moving ESXi as their premeir hypervisor to replace ESX, so this kind of setup would be interesting to explore, though i imagine that a flash based local datastore would be more... robust.
In practice, I don't know... I imagine that the secondary instance will still receive network traffic bound for the cluster, so it'd probably be perceived as a hiccup when the primary one goes down, which is good enough for most services.
While you could argue that the presence of DRM in WiiWare devalues the product, meaning it should cost less, I think you'd be reaching.
I suspect they're playing the market to compete with other WiiWare titles, though I could be wrong... I don't know how much WiiWare stuff averages in price. Nonetheles, the practice is a little slimy.
However, to say that the developer is implying that, due to my choice of platform, I should pay more than someone else is beyond insulting to me as a customer... so at the very least, I hope you're not right.
I found that that, coupled with the gameplay I had sampled on my counsin's Wii, was enough to compel me to purchase it.
Granted, the fact that it cost $5 more, direct from the publisher, to purchase for my PC than it did to purchase for the Wii, was almost enough to compel me to turn back around and steal it.
In the end, I just ended up installing it on every computer I own, and figured I got my money's worth. WoG and Crayon Phyisics are the only games I've bought in recent memory that charged a fair price, and the only ones that didn't bullshit me with DRM.
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What is 20 years getting assraped in prison compared to what RIAA wants to do to filesharers?
The difference?
The child pornographer would get repeatedly and endlessly raped for 20 years.
The filesharer would get repeatedly and endlessly raped for 20 years, and the guards would charge the rapists for your time, and split the cash 20/80 with the RIAA.
....Hey, you did ask...
group sex with Oprah Winfrey, Rosie O'Donnell, Roseanne Barr and Chelsea Clinton
That's the absolute worst thing I've read in a long time.
Well done, sir.
The good thing about your ISP providing Usenet is speed. The connection is strictly between your home and the ISP.
ISP's outsourced their NNTP offerings to the big boys (Giganews, Newshosting, etc.) years ago because it was cheaper to pay them for access to their servers than it was to keep them in house. It did, however, mean that the connections between the ISP and those particular news providers got way better.
Damn. I had meant in the sense of the OEM crap-installed version doing that, only for it to be as annoying as AV2009 and its variants.
/. hasn't updated us on that in a while.
A quick google search says that checkup app is bundled with flash and other things, but being a sideline install is close enough.
I don't give too much care to false positive cookies, as I've learned them to be overhyped, but false positive virus or malware infection is some seriously slimy tactics. IIRC, the AV 2009 folks got their assets frozen and sued to oblivion, but
a company name of "ClickYesToContinue"
That's... evil.
:D).
I read up on it and seem to recall that back in the day. It drove me so nuts having to constantly close ActiveX dialogs that SP2 was like a panacea against the awfulness. Still, post-SP2, I *will* admit that I fell for a site that told me I needed to click the yellow bar and all that...
And that was the first time I manually hunted down and removed a virus. Been pretty damn good at it ever since (special thanks to Mark Russinovich
And then torrenting OpenOffice inside of the US would be illegal for an entirely different reason than 99% of all the other torrent traffic out on the inter-tubes.
Neat.
Not good, just neat.
The worst thing is the 30 day trial period of an antivirus. Ensures that your PC will be unsecure afterwards (and that the average user did not install a proper, and maybe free, AV).
I'll one-up that with the people who have expired AV products that they don't care about, then feed their credit cards to Antivirus 2009 because of how annoying it is with its doom-and-gloom.
Funny that Symantec and co. could take a lesson from the criminals, eh?
Of all the people I've done computer work for, one of the worst offenders is a man who owns a small business I do side work for. He would somehow manage to acquire viruses at alarming rates.
It stopped when I forced him to use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer, and set him up with a limited user account and told him he'd need to log out or switch users to an administrator if he wanted to install something.
Hasn't had a problem since.
Everyone else I've tried that (or something similar) with is too obstinate or stubborn to recognize or believe when I tell them that they're actually clicking "Yes please, install this virus on my computer" over and over again, every time they want a new free, useless desktop widget or application or game produced by a company no one's heard of... that just has to have Admin privileges to run...
For great justice, take off every tag.
PC server+modem+etc uses about 100 watts.
That was a barrier for me too, but having discovered I really do want to leave the server on 100% of the time, after discovering that running a VM didn't tank the box down (1.75G Ram 2.8GHz P4 Box with Server 2008) and got good performance, which I didn't think would happen (heh), it made sense.
Until I can run everything I need 100% of the time on something like a Sheeva plug, or get a really cheap but capable laptop that'll make a good server (and won't tempt me to use as a laptop), reasonably low-power SFF x86 hardware will have to suffice.
If there's a way to uninstall WS4 after SP2, not just disabling it, I will.
FWIW, there's no real advantage to going Rambo on system services that you feel have wronged you in the past.... Disabling them really is enough ;)
The Indexing Service and Windows Search are not the same thing. I never used Windows Search under XP because I had gone out of my way to learn how to configure the Indexing Service (which is a huge pain in the ass) so that Start > Search would give me indexed results. I never experienced the Indexing Service pwning my machine as you say, though, and I indexed 3+ TB worth of stuff with it.
:P
You have to do heavy configuration in Vista with Windows Search to have it search outside your profile, but once you do, the searches are much faster than XP was, compared to Indexing Service or WDS based searches.
Also, on XP, if you did configure the built-in Indexer to index your stuff, Start > Search would give you results from both in and out of the index, from what I recall. It might be folder-based as to whether or not something not in the index that was supposed to be was included (but was newly created for example, and hadn't been indexed yet), but I can't really remember anymore... been using Vista for too long now
home routers crap out if you open too many. Hopefully it's less of a problem today
I tell you sir, it's still a problem. The $30 NAT routers of today are just as big of a hunk of crap as they were 4 years ago, they just increased the profit margins with the lower manufacturing costs that economy of scale has brought to the industry.
Personally, I threw a second NIC in my server, installed VMWare Server, and now run Smoothwall as a guest, routing for my network. I probably would have done this years ago but it took a lot for me to break my love/hate relationship with DD-WRT and it's GPL violating "author," and I finally gave up trying to find good support for UPnP on a Windows-based solution.
Give it a try if you like to torrent stuff, especially while gaming.
See here to do what the parent speaks of.
I work on enough computers that I build up an OEM and Dell image of XP a couple times a year in case I need to do reinstalls.
I've never slipstreamed Vista updates, but if your net connection is fast enough, you really don't need to reboot more than once or twice to apply every update.
That said, I'd love to figure out how to slipstream IE8 and WGA and so on, as the process I mentioned above *does* leave a few things out.
Accidental AC... That's a first for me.
It has to have somewhere to put it's VMFS
Well, not in the sense of having no datastore, i simply mean without rotating hard disks present in the server. Flash storage accomplishes that, but you could use gPXE to connect it to an iSCSI target and remotely access its VMFS datastore from there.... if it were possible to do so with ESX, of course. You might not want to swap to it, and it'd really demand another NIC and so on, but that's what I really meant.
Chicken and egg indeed! On that note, perhaps you would put the PXE service on your SAN, no?
It's of sincere interest to me because we're turning some whitebox servers whose raid controllers aren't on the ESX HCL into hosts. I read that VMWare is moving ESXi as their premeir hypervisor to replace ESX, so this kind of setup would be interesting to explore, though i imagine that a flash based local datastore would be more... robust.
The ESX beta/RC (build 140815) will, indeed, boot and install over a network
Has anyone done a PXE boot of the ESX OS itself yet, though?
AFAIK, the only "diskless" ESX deployments rely on flash storage.
One of the statistics measured by virtualcenter is the lag you're asking about.
The first hit on google images should give you a good idea.
In practice, I don't know... I imagine that the secondary instance will still receive network traffic bound for the cluster, so it'd probably be perceived as a hiccup when the primary one goes down, which is good enough for most services.
[1] Yes I realise that some / many people also play games on dedicated hardware
Last I heard the statistics, more games are played on consoles than on desktop/laptop computers.
People such as you and I may understand that there is no better platform for playing video games than the PC, but we're obviously the minority here.
computer users who are more likely to be gamers.
[citation needed]
Please don't make ignorant assumptions. Just because computers can play games doesn't mean that everyone uses them that way.
The world is full of people who use computers to work or be entertained without playing games. At all.
No no no, only string theory has 11 dimensions.
Chuck has as many dimensions as he pleases, and Chuck is not a theory; Chuck is real. And unlike string theory, he will kill you.
It's possible that Jesus didn't say that because dying at 33 with no children, he didn't exactly pull that off himself!
While you could argue that the presence of DRM in WiiWare devalues the product, meaning it should cost less, I think you'd be reaching.
I suspect they're playing the market to compete with other WiiWare titles, though I could be wrong... I don't know how much WiiWare stuff averages in price. Nonetheles, the practice is a little slimy.
However, to say that the developer is implying that, due to my choice of platform, I should pay more than someone else is beyond insulting to me as a customer... so at the very least, I hope you're not right.
World of Goo has no DRM.
I found that that, coupled with the gameplay I had sampled on my counsin's Wii, was enough to compel me to purchase it.
Granted, the fact that it cost $5 more, direct from the publisher, to purchase for my PC than it did to purchase for the Wii, was almost enough to compel me to turn back around and steal it.
In the end, I just ended up installing it on every computer I own, and figured I got my money's worth. WoG and Crayon Phyisics are the only games I've bought in recent memory that charged a fair price, and the only ones that didn't bullshit me with DRM.