Iron E - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Punkbuster service (Score 3, Interesting) 93

by Iron E on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @05:46AM (#26979999) Attached to: <em>Quake Live</em> Public Beta Launches To High Demand

Some of the hilarious wording from the Punkbuster license agreement:

Licensee agrees that the invasive nature of PunkBuster software is necessary to meet this purpose and goal. Licensee agrees that any harm or lack of privacy resulting from the installation and use of PunkBuster software is not as valuable to Licensee as the potential ability to play interactive online games with the benefits afforded by using PunkBuster software.

Comment Re:"Better" is relative... (Score 1) 334

by Iron E on Tuesday January 27, 2009 @03:17PM (#26627073) Attached to: Mozilla Donates $100K To the Ogg Project

That may have been valid in 2002 when Vorbis 1.0 was released, but by now its not much of an excuse. I have a Cowon G3 (released 2004) with official Vorbis support and it plays them without problems.

There's also the patent problem with MP3, although that should expire in the next couple of years.

Comment Re:Partially disclosed? (Score 1) 301

by Iron E on Sunday January 11, 2009 @06:32PM (#26410443) Attached to: Storm Worm Botnet "Cracked Wide Open"

Seriosly, what language is this: "QlpoOTFBWSZTWZCbNyYBVlN/"?

C in this case. The file format is a UUencoded .tar.bz2 archive.

Comment Re:If you need something done right do it yourself (Score 1) 430

by Iron E on Thursday October 16, 2008 @05:59PM (#25406013) Attached to: Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins

If the company does have a competent IT department, the boss will at least know what the problem is, that it is being worked on and get an estimate when the service is expected to be back. Afterwards he'll get a report why it happened and what is being done to minimize the chance of a similar outage in the future.

I'm not saying all IT stuff should be done in-house, but if you go with a giant like Google (for whom Gmail and GoogleApps isn't their main business), this negligible transparency seems the most you can expect.

Slashdot Top Deals