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Bleh, one can drive almost anything on the snow if you know how, although ice is more fun. 
Give me a piece of crap explorer, a honda, or whatever, I'll make it go if need be. I'd rather stay home and play LFS, though!
Give me a piece of crap explorer, a honda, or whatever, I'll make it go if need be. I'd rather stay home and play LFS, though!
It's not bad, but I've had it for almost 2 years, so it's old to me, and new gadgets get me into things... The G25 is appears a lot better, even just as a wheel, and I'd love to have a clutch pedal, although my understanding is that LFS' clutch isn't all that great. (IRL I drive a stick)
FWIW, I didn't buy the wheel for LFS, I bought it with/for GT4.
LFS made me make it work with my PC. I'd be addicted if I wasn't such an awful driver. Maybe a G25 would help. My DFP is getting long in the tooth.
I think I may be more addicted to gadgets than LFS itself.
BTW, my new t60p runs LFS incredibly well.
I think I may be more addicted to gadgets than LFS itself.
BTW, my new t60p runs LFS incredibly well.
I agree, wabz, but not everyone does. At some point, many gray hats will do the actual hack just to show the software maker/site owner/whatever that they're not BSing. I'm not saying it's right, although I long time ago I did think so (but I was 16 at the time and 'Internet' was still far from being a household word), but a lot of people still do.
Schneier and other of the more respected security researchers only crack their own systems and their client's systems. Not all of them share the same views. As I mentioned, some draw the line at causing damage. Either way, I'm far more comfortable with the people who draw attention to their breakins than those who don't, as the ones who don't are the ones we most need to worry about.
Don't forget that there are an awful lot of people out there who think full disclosure is always bad, no matter how long you give a developer to fix their problems. Those people are, IMO, almost as dangerous as the black hats that break in, steal, and then leave without a trace. In the days before full disclosure, software security was almost universally shit.
Schneier and other of the more respected security researchers only crack their own systems and their client's systems. Not all of them share the same views. As I mentioned, some draw the line at causing damage. Either way, I'm far more comfortable with the people who draw attention to their breakins than those who don't, as the ones who don't are the ones we most need to worry about.
Don't forget that there are an awful lot of people out there who think full disclosure is always bad, no matter how long you give a developer to fix their problems. Those people are, IMO, almost as dangerous as the black hats that break in, steal, and then leave without a trace. In the days before full disclosure, software security was almost universally shit.
I don't know about the rest of you, but the closest the devs came to my credit card info was a confirmation number from Paypal, so yes, your CC information should be safe.
Unfortunately for us, it was seen fit to store our web passwords in clear text, so at the very least those are compromised, or at least in a way that allows them to make it plain text again, since you can view it on the web site. Perhaps also the game password, if that is also stored in clear text. Maybe there's a good reason it isn't considered best practice to store passwords in the clear if it's at all possible not to.
Shame on Phlos for making me change my password after the servers are fixed, and shame on Victor (or whoever) for not keeping security in mind and updating the forum software. As much as I'd like to place all the blame on Phlos, it's just as much the fault of the system administrator when they fail to keep up with security updates, as well as the developer's for writing software with a security problem in the first place.
Like it or not, Phlos' attitude is fairly common among certain types of legitimate security researchers, much less those who use the work of others to crack systems. "We gave you fair warning" is often considered enough in their minds to justify public shaming by cracking the vulnerable system.
The worst thing is that for all we (or the admins, for that matter) know, someone else could have long ago exploited the forum software and absconded with our passwords and just not been kind enough to let everyone know like Phlos did.
By the way, in most states in the US, computer trespass isn't a felony unless it causes monetary damage of at least $10,000.
Unfortunately for us, it was seen fit to store our web passwords in clear text, so at the very least those are compromised, or at least in a way that allows them to make it plain text again, since you can view it on the web site. Perhaps also the game password, if that is also stored in clear text. Maybe there's a good reason it isn't considered best practice to store passwords in the clear if it's at all possible not to.
Shame on Phlos for making me change my password after the servers are fixed, and shame on Victor (or whoever) for not keeping security in mind and updating the forum software. As much as I'd like to place all the blame on Phlos, it's just as much the fault of the system administrator when they fail to keep up with security updates, as well as the developer's for writing software with a security problem in the first place.
Like it or not, Phlos' attitude is fairly common among certain types of legitimate security researchers, much less those who use the work of others to crack systems. "We gave you fair warning" is often considered enough in their minds to justify public shaming by cracking the vulnerable system.
The worst thing is that for all we (or the admins, for that matter) know, someone else could have long ago exploited the forum software and absconded with our passwords and just not been kind enough to let everyone know like Phlos did.
By the way, in most states in the US, computer trespass isn't a felony unless it causes monetary damage of at least $10,000.
Barton core Athlon XPs have a lower clock speed for a given speed rating.
That said, my first thought upon reading the original post was "overheating," but it could be the GPU overheating rather than the CPU.
That said, my first thought upon reading the original post was "overheating," but it could be the GPU overheating rather than the CPU.
I don't see how one follows from the other. It's not as if an enterprising person couldn't do a little port scanning to find a server anyway, or crack the demo servers whose IPs and ports the master server passes out freely to anybody who bothers to download LFS, but you probably know better than I.
Err..unless you mean "crackers" in the sense of "people who steal LFS."
Wouldn't it be nice if you could just type in the IP address and port of a server? 
So how much does one of those things actually cost with the projector?
Even if one could make the LFS/Wine combo run without X, you'd have to have the X libs and headers installed to compile it in the first place. (Now you're going to tell me to download a binary. ).
Don't get me wrong, I'd looove to be able to play LFS on Linux without any emulation, but I'd get more use out of a dedicated server. It would save me from having to waste what few extra CPU cycles and I have on the overhead of running it. More importantly, it would save gobs of memory.
In the end, we make do with what we have, so I use a spare Windows machine and a DSL line, but I'd much rather have a server on 100Mbit Ethernet, and I can't really afford to do that if I have to use half my memory running Wine...
Maybe one day I'll be rich and can afford things like dedicated Windows servers. As it is, I play LFS on an Athlon XP 2100. 
).Don't get me wrong, I'd looove to be able to play LFS on Linux without any emulation, but I'd get more use out of a dedicated server. It would save me from having to waste what few extra CPU cycles and I have on the overhead of running it. More importantly, it would save gobs of memory.
In the end, we make do with what we have, so I use a spare Windows machine and a DSL line, but I'd much rather have a server on 100Mbit Ethernet, and I can't really afford to do that if I have to use half my memory running Wine...
Maybe one day I'll be rich and can afford things like dedicated Windows servers.
As it is, I play LFS on an Athlon XP 2100. What would be useful, and probably much more doable, since there's no need for DX for this, is to have a dedicated server that runs on Linux without Wine/Cedega. I've got a bunch of servers with plenty of resources to run LFS as a server, but when you add in the overhead of Wine and the requirement to export the GUI somewhere (or run X), it gets to be a bit much.
The driver is the same for any of Logitech's modern wheels, download it from ftp://ftp.logitech.com/pub/tec ... rt/joystick/lgs460enu.exe
Edit: Heh, I took so long to find the URL someone else beat me to it.
Edit: Heh, I took so long to find the URL someone else beat me to it.
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