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« Last post by 40hz on February 09, 2009, 03:48 PM »It's almost like Wine is a weird sub-species of cloud computing...-Edvard (February 09, 2009, 03:44 PM)
Now that's deep.
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It's almost like Wine is a weird sub-species of cloud computing...-Edvard (February 09, 2009, 03:44 PM)
Apparently it works flawlessly under Wine. Not the same, I know...-Edvard (February 09, 2009, 03:19 PM)
My name is Arend Stührmann, also known as CCP Whisper, and I am the producer in charge of the project bringing EVE Online to the Mac and Linux operating systems. As you may know, we have been working in partnership with Transgaming Technologies, utilizing their Cider engine to allow EVE Online to run on the Mac OS and their Cedega engine to enable operation under Linux. This project went live in late 2007 and in that time we have seen the same slow, steady growth in the numbers of users of the Mac client that has characterized the growth of EVE Online throughout its history. However we have not seen a similar growth in the numbers using our Linux client.
It is for this reason that I am sorry to have to announce that from the 10th of March onwards CCP will no longer be officially supporting the Linux operating system. The low amount of users of the Linux client did not justify the degree of additional complexity having three operating systems imposes on our development and release schedules.
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Should you wish to continue playing EVE Online under Linux there are several options available. Some of these are free and some require purchase of software. A selection of these is at the bottom of this e-mail along with basic instructions on how to use EVE Online through them. If you wish to stop playing EVE Online and want to request a refund of unused game time, please contact our billing department by filing a petition in the billing category. They will assist you in obtaining a refund for the remaining game time and closing your account.
)Those are for those fancy government workers and bankers! Otherwise, it's an excuse for corporations like Hallmark to induce guilt that I'm not buying their products based on cultural expectations. Me don't play that.-zridling (February 09, 2009, 11:14 AM)
I'm ambivalent.
On the one hand, a SQL injection attack is entirely unrelated to the sort of security that Kaspersky's tools deliver. I mean, protecting me from viruses and worms has nothing to do with the protecting me from my own badly-designed web site.
On the other hand, vulnerability to SQL injection is completely web development 101 -- it's the easiest sort of attack to prevent, there's really no excuse for falling victim to it (I say as I look nervously around me).-CWuestefeld (February 09, 2009, 12:55 PM)
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Yesterday I reported how the security vendor Kaspersky had allegedly fallen victim to a SQL Injection attack, with the usa.kaspersky.com website hacked and plenty of data potentially exposed. I said that Kaspersky would no doubt make an official statement sooner rather than later, and it has. Unfortunately it is one that still leaves plenty of questions unanswered and reminds me of a man facing a firing squad with fingers in ears and yelling 'la la la' like that will stop the bullets.
SQL injections are like Jedi mind tricks. With the wave of a hand and a discreetly placed suggestion - in this case SQL database commands buried deep inside a long URL - hackers are able to turn weak-minded websites against themselves. Often, the compromise is fairly innocuous and comes in the form of a simple site defacement. Not so with the SQL injection that visited Kaspersky.
It allowed any Jedi knight who knew the secret passphrase to trick the website into dumping entire tables in its database.
"This was a typical UNION injection attack that enables SELECT statements to be poisoned with information from foreign tables," according to one Reg reader account that was confirmed by Tocsixu.
The reader, who was able to duplicate the attack Unu laid out here, continued:
My girlfriend and I do Valentine's all year long. Why restrict the feeling to one day a year?Then you aren't doing the crappy commercial Valentines jig. Bringing back flowers to your dear one after a random day at work means a boatload more than buying a zillion roses and a ton of chocolate on that stupid valentines day.-40hz (February 09, 2009, 10:39 AM)-f0dder (February 09, 2009, 10:42 AM)
making single people miserable-f0dder (February 09, 2009, 08:03 AM)
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FreeBSD[/u] logo.
It's kind of a recent change.
FreeBSD has the ball with horns, NetBSD has the flag, OpenBSD has the blowfish, and all of them have beastie.-Gothi[c] (February 09, 2009, 06:40 AM)
Unforgivable!( Especially since I use BSD and should know better.)
That's 859 different entries. I think that should keep one occupied.-Gothi[c] (February 09, 2009, 06:32 AM)
21 More of the Best Free Linux Games
Over the past 4 months we have continued to receive a steady stream of emails from individuals recommending games that were not included in our previous free game articles.
After much testing, we have whittled down these users' recommendations to a list of 21 highly addictive Linux games, covering as many different types of game genre as possible. Hopefully, there should be something of interest here for all types of gamers! All of these games are great fun to play.
To be eligible for inclusion in the list below, games again needed to satisfy the following requirements:
Free to play (no download charge, no monthly charge)
Does not require Wine to run. Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows software.
Not in the early stages of development
If you missed the first two parts in this series, check out 42 of the Best Free Linux Games, and 42 More of the Best Free Linux Games.
We have taken these 84 games and together with this latest set of 21 games have also compiled the Top 100 Free Linux Games, a single reference point.
Top 100 Free Linux Games
"Can I game on it" is a frequently asked question we hear from Windows users toying with the idea of trying Linux for the first time. Well, the simple answer is yes!
What's more, there's a huge range of Linux games which are available to download at no cost. The list below represents the top 100 games, covering a broad spectrum of game genres. Hopefully there be a selection of games here that will interest anyone.
Did you see any women reply prior to that comment?-Ehtyar (February 08, 2009, 01:12 PM)
I don't know - it is difficult to tell with the use of nick names-Carol Haynes (February 08, 2009, 02:20 PM)
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Btw this comment made me laugh:I started using Linux with the Yggdrasil distribution which came with the "The Linux Bible". I even remember carrying it around and people would give me funny looks, like I belonged to some crazy religion. Some would even ask me about it. I have to admit at the time I probably dressed weird and/or my fly was down, which was known to happen on a few occasions; hence, the weird looks as well.-Paul Keith (February 08, 2009, 12:21 PM)
The FreeBSD Daemon
Linda Branagan is an expert on daemons. She has a T-shirt that sports the daemon in tennis shoes that appears on the cover of the 4.3BSD manuals and The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System by S. Leffler, M. McKusick, M. Karels, J. Quarterman, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA 1989.
She tells the following story about wearing the 4.3BSD daemon T-shirt:
Last week I walked into a local "home style cookin' restaurant/watering hole" in Texas to pick up a take-out order. I spoke briefly to the waitress behind the counter, who told me my order would be done in a few minutes.
So, while I was busy gazing at the farm implements hanging on the walls, I was approached by two "natives." These guys might just be the original Texas rednecks.
``Pardon us, ma'am. Mind if we ask you a question?''
Well, people keep telling me that Texans are real friendly, so I nodded.
``Are you a Satanist?''
Well, at least they didn't ask me if I liked to party.
``Uh, no, I can't say that I am.''
``Gee, ma'am. Are you sure about that?'' they asked.
I put on my biggest, brightest Dallas Cowboys cheerleader smile and said, ``No, I'm positive. The closest I've ever come to Satanism is watching Geraldo.''
``Hmmm. Interesting. See, we was just wondering why it is you have the lord of darkness on your chest there.''
I was this close to slapping one of them and causing a scene -- then I stopped and noticed the shirt I happened to be wearing that day. Sure enough, it had a picture of a small, devilish-looking creature that has for some time now been associated with a certain operating system. In this particular representation, the creature was wearing sneakers.
They continued: ``See, ma'am, we don't exactly appreciate it when people show off pictures of the devil. Especially when he's lookin' so friendly.''
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Wow, thanks for taking us along, 40hz!-zridling (February 08, 2009, 08:11 AM)
From the archives: the best distros of 2000
Posted at 11:14am on Saturday February 7th 2009
Distros
Back in May 2000 the first issue of Linux Format magazine hit the newsstands. One of its features was a group test of Linux distributions, reflecting the state of play in Linux flavours at the time. If you fancy a trip down memory lane or just a quick look at how beautiful Linux wasn't all those years ago, we've dug out the original article complete with screenshots - read on!
Historical note
Remember that nine years is a long time in the computing world -- and even more so for Linux. In 2000 the OS was still regarded as a niche player, a fantastic showcase of technology for geeks but not yet ready for prime time. Today we see Linux on netbooks, Linux on Dell boxes, Linux everywhere; it's serious business.
Corel Linux is long dead, despite a high-profile entrance into the distro scene, while Caldera Linux occupied a healthy position (before the SCO shenanigans busted it up). SUSE, Mandrake, Red Hat and Mandriva are still alive in various flavours, while the British Definite distro bought the farm and WinLinux only made it to a 2003 release.
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This problem occurs when a thread of the Portcls.sys file tries to reacquire a spin-lock if an I/O request packet (IRP) is canceled at certain points in its processing. The thread has two locks. Therefore, a deadlock results.
I'm occasionally getting a BSOD on PORTCLS.SYS which I believe is a WinXP Pro sound system driver. I'm using the onboard sound and WinXP Pro is a fresh install only last weekend. Anyone else hear of this?
The police are always afraid that reduced visibility is going to lead to me being run over by a salt truck or something. I have been told that if I stay on my own block they will leave me alone.-app103 (February 02, 2009, 10:11 PM)
Go to http://www.virtualpl...rum=0&thread=975 and scroll down to grigri's post for the download link. BTW, the .zip is attached to the first post in this thread as well.-PhilB66 (February 07, 2009, 11:36 AM)
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