Ok, so I wiki'd it and found out, but I've seen exactly ONE of this kind of tapes ever in real life, and all I know was that it was a small video tape used in a camcorder, I couldn't tell you if it was a "Hi8" or some similar competing format (were there any?).
Regardless, I wouldn't call it successful, at least not on the level of Floppy disks and CDs.
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After all, "The Slashdot Effect" can't be more than what Slashdot itself feels, and it survives fine. It's even dynamic.
Still, Slashdot has been designed to handle this much load. Those poor webservers that feel "The Effect" have probably been running perfectly fine at a lower use for years until someone uses them to announce a breakthrough of some sort with images and video and, shortly afterwards they burn out.
Though you missed the 4th possibility: The webserver is a Commodore 64. We only linked to that one once:(
I tried to run Ubuntu x64 fairly recently, and I agree with a few of your points:
* Graphics drivers. I installed Fedora about a year ago and installing their graphics drivers felt like I was hacking my own computer. Maybe that's part of the fun of Linux (heck, of course it is!), but for a wide base of consumers it's also part of the fear. You're lucky, you were installing nVidia drivers. My first attempt was with an ATI x1900xtx. Installing the drivers actually made things worse. It went from somewhat laggy to still having no hardware 3d, and flipping two of the colour channels in videos. After hacking to get DRI hardware 3d working, I tried Beryl (pre Compiz-Fusion) and it would routinely give me an all-white display or be fine for a few minutes and then make all new windows and menus blank, and finally crash. I had one problem I can still remember with my 8800 GTS I got after getting rid of the ATI card. Ubuntu at the time misidentified the card and wanted to install "nvidia" instead of "nvidia-new" (fixed now).
* Accessing my Windows files was a bit of a PITA. I had to install an NTFS driver manually, which meant editing some conf files to auto-mount partitions. Again, that ought to have been automatic to make switching OS's easier. Maybe it's included in more recent distros? I had that on Fedora too. Ubuntu sets it all up for you, but in read-only. (Or at least i did, has this changed?)
* I had a nice soundcard (Creative Audigy 2), and when I installed Linux some of it's advanced features were not working (e.g. CMSS), and the mixer application showed dozens of sliders to set the volume, some of which I couldn't even identify. Then there is the whole issue of using two separate sound architectures. When I installed my new Creative XFI Extreme Sound (which is essentially an Audigy, nothing really XFI or "Extreme" about it, especially as the mic input is really quiet) Ubuntu correctly identified it and installed the drivers, but I ended up with NO volume sliders, and all my audio wasn't working. That was where I stopped using Ubuntu. I might go back to it later.
Actually, getting drunk with friends is fun [...] I must be one of the only people on the planet who disagrees. After a few drinks, instead of smiling like a buffoon, I get really depressed instead.
I have the same problem with a (free) MSDNAA edition of Server 2003. Even the decent anti-virus vendors won't let you run on server without paying hundreds of pounds / month.
"Complexity increases the possibility of failure; a twin-engine airplane has twice as many engine problems as a single-engine airplane." It has twice as many engine problems, but if it only needs one to fly then it's going to be a lot more reliable over all.
The best is when you double-click on the game's icon (after SUCCESSFULLY installing it) and nothing happens. You fail the drm check for an arbitrary reason, and it doesn't even bother to tell you that. I'm looking squarely at Overlord, being the only game I've bought in the past year that I've NEEDED to crack to play. In my case, the most common problem is "what do you mean I can't load a 32-bit DRM driver on Window 64?", which is still very very rare. For some people it's "traces of cd emulation software detected, so I'm going to block you playing from your REAL DISK", which is just as annoying.
Out of the pc games on my shelf at the moment (about 30), at least 13 are either DRM-free (6, most of them guild wars + expansions) or have had a patch released that removes the drm requirement, and all but 2 or 3 of the rest have a no-cd/dvd crack available. Only one I've needed a crack to play, and it fortunately wasn't one of the ones with no crack available. That's not bad odds, but it could be better.
The scary thing is that I now have more games in steam than boxed on my shelf.
ps. I'd rather they implemented some sane error handling in Explorers copy function, so it doesn't crap out at the first read only file. This is the reason I use the Windows port of Midnight Commander to copy/move directories on Windows. Did they fix THAT in Vista? Or crap out completely on the first file it fails to read... It would be nice if it scanned all the files for potential errors like this before starting the copy, or in parallel with the copy, so that questions about what to do about read-only files could be asked before it found one 3 hours into the copy. And the way it only offers you the options of "cancel", "skip folder" and "over-write all" when it encounters a folder with the same name at the destination. What's wrong with an "continue, but ask me if you find a duplicate file"? Or, "delete the entire existing folder and replace it with this one"?
I'm speaking from XP here, I haven't tested file copying in Vista to see if they've done any of this.
A lot of network cards allow you to change their mac address from inside the properties of the card (properties of the lan connection, "configure", or properties of the card in device manager, same thing). It'll be listed as "network address" or "locally administered address", and should be entered without dashes.
I'm pretty sure the nForce 4 and 5 chipsets also allow you to change the integrated network port(s) mac address(es) in the bios too (nForce 5 has twin gigabit network ports).
Having your email address on your own domain can be considered the same as a POBox for post. People can send mail to you, even if you move, and they can't see where you REALLY live.
UT3 with the v1.1 patch doesn't require the dvd either. I don't know about pre-patch, but some people say it doesn't need the dvd straight after install.
You obviously haven't played any recent games this way.
One form of copy protection which is difficult to avoid involves modifying the disk to have two sectors with the same sector number. When seeking to that sector number from one direction, the drive will read one sector, when seeking from the other it will read the other (or something along those lines). This kind of disk can't be copied just by copying the files, because only one of the duplicate sectors will be copied. It can't even be got around by copying the entire disk to another, because CD-R and DVD-R (+/- and RW variants) all have the sector numbers pre-written.
However there hasn't yet been a form of copy protection that couldn't be circumvented by removing the copy-protection code from the executable.
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How about: "If somebody copies my key, will I even know?"
What's Hi8?
Ok, so I wiki'd it and found out, but I've seen exactly ONE of this kind of tapes ever in real life, and all I know was that it was a small video tape used in a camcorder, I couldn't tell you if it was a "Hi8" or some similar competing format (were there any?).
Regardless, I wouldn't call it successful, at least not on the level of Floppy disks and CDs.
After all, "The Slashdot Effect" can't be more than what Slashdot itself feels, and it survives fine. It's even dynamic.
:(
Still, Slashdot has been designed to handle this much load. Those poor webservers that feel "The Effect" have probably been running perfectly fine at a lower use for years until someone uses them to announce a breakthrough of some sort with images and video and, shortly afterwards they burn out.
Though you missed the 4th possibility: The webserver is a Commodore 64. We only linked to that one once
For anyone who doesn't get it, hover over the link and it should say "thepiratebay" rotated 180 (i.e. upside-down and right-left).
That's cool.
I had one problem I can still remember with my 8800 GTS I got after getting rid of the ATI card. Ubuntu at the time misidentified the card and wanted to install "nvidia" instead of "nvidia-new" (fixed now). * Accessing my Windows files was a bit of a PITA. I had to install an NTFS driver manually, which meant editing some conf files to auto-mount partitions. Again, that ought to have been automatic to make switching OS's easier. Maybe it's included in more recent distros? I had that on Fedora too. Ubuntu sets it all up for you, but in read-only. (Or at least i did, has this changed?) * I had a nice soundcard (Creative Audigy 2), and when I installed Linux some of it's advanced features were not working (e.g. CMSS), and the mixer application showed dozens of sliders to set the volume, some of which I couldn't even identify. Then there is the whole issue of using two separate sound architectures. When I installed my new Creative XFI Extreme Sound (which is essentially an Audigy, nothing really XFI or "Extreme" about it, especially as the mic input is really quiet) Ubuntu correctly identified it and installed the drivers, but I ended up with NO volume sliders, and all my audio wasn't working.
That was where I stopped using Ubuntu.
I might go back to it later.
Essentially, I agree with you.
Yes, they announced the failure. It was started by the previous government.
Or you could just make the game's saved-games folder user-writable.
I clicked the link, and Avast! Antivirus automatically broke the connection because it found malware.
Good enough for you?
I run as a "Power User" on XP. No permission to install or write to the Windows folder, but can write to Program Files.
Seems a good compromise.
There's no such thing as absolute stupidity either. Just when you think you've found it, someone else surprises you...
I tend to not drink too much.
I have the same problem with a (free) MSDNAA edition of Server 2003. Even the decent anti-virus vendors won't let you run on server without paying hundreds of pounds / month.
If it was for a job, you should probably have had the corporate edition of Windows XP, which doesn't need activating.
Which, of course, is why it was also the most pirated edition.
Sorry, replied to the wrong person.
Meant to do it here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=444944&cid=22368870
Only if your plane doesn't need both engines running to fly.
The best is when you double-click on the game's icon (after SUCCESSFULLY installing it) and nothing happens. You fail the drm check for an arbitrary reason, and it doesn't even bother to tell you that. I'm looking squarely at Overlord, being the only game I've bought in the past year that I've NEEDED to crack to play. In my case, the most common problem is "what do you mean I can't load a 32-bit DRM driver on Window 64?", which is still very very rare. For some people it's "traces of cd emulation software detected, so I'm going to block you playing from your REAL DISK", which is just as annoying.
Out of the pc games on my shelf at the moment (about 30), at least 13 are either DRM-free (6, most of them guild wars + expansions) or have had a patch released that removes the drm requirement, and all but 2 or 3 of the rest have a no-cd/dvd crack available. Only one I've needed a crack to play, and it fortunately wasn't one of the ones with no crack available. That's not bad odds, but it could be better.
The scary thing is that I now have more games in steam than boxed on my shelf.
Yes?
The "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, in 1978.
It seems BBC Radio 4 has been a good non-music-centric radio station for a VERY long time.
Note: That year is far enough before I was born for my parents to have been younger than I am now.
It would be nice if it scanned all the files for potential errors like this before starting the copy, or in parallel with the copy, so that questions about what to do about read-only files could be asked before it found one 3 hours into the copy.
And the way it only offers you the options of "cancel", "skip folder" and "over-write all" when it encounters a folder with the same name at the destination. What's wrong with an "continue, but ask me if you find a duplicate file"? Or, "delete the entire existing folder and replace it with this one"?
I'm speaking from XP here, I haven't tested file copying in Vista to see if they've done any of this.
A lot of network cards allow you to change their mac address from inside the properties of the card (properties of the lan connection, "configure", or properties of the card in device manager, same thing). It'll be listed as "network address" or "locally administered address", and should be entered without dashes.
I'm pretty sure the nForce 4 and 5 chipsets also allow you to change the integrated network port(s) mac address(es) in the bios too (nForce 5 has twin gigabit network ports).
Having your email address on your own domain can be considered the same as a POBox for post. People can send mail to you, even if you move, and they can't see where you REALLY live.
UT3 with the v1.1 patch doesn't require the dvd either. I don't know about pre-patch, but some people say it doesn't need the dvd straight after install.
You obviously haven't played any recent games this way.
One form of copy protection which is difficult to avoid involves modifying the disk to have two sectors with the same sector number. When seeking to that sector number from one direction, the drive will read one sector, when seeking from the other it will read the other (or something along those lines). This kind of disk can't be copied just by copying the files, because only one of the duplicate sectors will be copied. It can't even be got around by copying the entire disk to another, because CD-R and DVD-R (+/- and RW variants) all have the sector numbers pre-written.
However there hasn't yet been a form of copy protection that couldn't be circumvented by removing the copy-protection code from the executable.
Actually even notepad.exe has changed since Windows 95, IIRC gaining a status bar and Unicode support.