The Adblock guys wrote about Giorgio Maone’s dishonesty:

For years, NoScript has been using a trick to prevent Adblock Plus from working on its domains. Fixing this issue was never particularly high on my list of priorities (though I finally came around and fixed it after the recent events) so at some point I suggested that EasyList should be extended by a filter to block ads specifically on NoScript’s domains. This finally happened two weeks ago.

What followed was a small war — the website would add various tricks to prevent Adblock Plus with EasyList from blocking ads, EasyList kept adjusting filters. Then, a week ago a new NoScript version was released. A few days later I noticed first bug reports — apparently, Adblock Plus “glitches” were observed with this NoScript version, especially around NoScript’s domains (but not only those). When I investigated this issue I couldn’t believe my eyes. NoScript was extended by a piece of obfuscated (!) code to specifically target Adblock Plus and disable parts of its functionality. The issues caused by this manipulation were declared as “compatibility issues” in the NoScript forum, even now I still didn’t see any official admission of crippling Adblock Plus. Clearly, NoScript is moving from the gray area of adware into dark black area of scareware, making money at user’s expense at any cost.

Giorgio Maone the scumbag finally caved in because of the public outcry, offering a dishonest apology for being greedy:

I beg you to accept my most sincere apologies and believe in my shame and contrition.
I know I’ve done something horrible, creating a scandal like the Mozilla community never had faced before and betraying the trust of many, many people.
Please help me to repair the damage I’ve caused with my errors.

Giorgio, you’ve already burned all your bridges by proving that you have no qualms about fooling people and modifying other people’s machines just for a few dollars more. Your apologies are worthless and ignored.

Windows

• VLC
• Firefox + Adblock + Flashblock
• Flash
• Disable Flash updates
• OpenOffice
• Set default save formats for OO

Linux

• Adblock + Flashblock

Install the following

aptitude install mc pidgin x11vnc p7zip-full p7zip-rar k3b vlc gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

Uninstall the following

aptitude purge gwibber gwibber-service empathy empathy-common nautilus-sendto-empathy ubuntuone-client ubuntuone-client-gnome ubuntuone-client-tools

Linux server

aptitude install mc libapache2-mod-evasive

WordPress

Setup the following:

• Y-m-d
• H:i
• Permalinks with date and name

Install the following:

• Category Posts Widget
• TinyMCE Advanced
• NoSpamNX
• ThreeWP Upcoming Posts

People’s favorite complaints are:

• Bloat: every new version of Photoshop is bigger, slower and filled with stupid features that nobody neither cares about nor uses but they’re in there just so that Adobe can release another round of expensive shit. And people are forced to buy it all because of the virtual monopoly Adobe has.
• Virtual monopoly: the only reason you charge 1500$ for Photoshop is because you can. If people had a choice they wouldn’t buy your expensive shit but since “everyone” uses Photoshop then everyone must use Photoshop.
• Macromedia Flash: buying someone else’s work and then ditching the Linux version; keeping the format closed; keeping the format at all; etc.
• Adobe updater: just search for adobe updater hate
• Security: how many times has Acrobat Reader been patched for security holes? How is it even possible that a text reader and image viewer can even have security holes? Well done, Adobe.

Personally I use GIMP for all my private and paying photo work. It works for me and it works for my clients.

I don’t really know where to start when it comes to Microsoft. Be it breaking into college computer rooms to steal computer time, stealing standards, tampering with federal evidence or just being complete assholes… Microsoft is all of the above.

Since I myself don’t have the time to explain exactly what Microsoft has done in the way of unethical, illegal behavior, I’ll let this guy explain why I hate Microsoft.

2000 Selling overclocked processors

Intel, after having lost the race to 1Ghz to AMD, overclocked a CPU to 1.13GHz.

I offered Tom my working 1.13GHz sample so that he may get some benchmarks and complete a review of the processor.  After declining, I made the same offer to Kyle who accepted.  Kyle then contacted Tom and mentioned that he’d like to get a hold of Tom’s CPU which also failed most of the tests and demonstrate this in front of an Intel engineer.

Armed with our 1.13GHz sample, Tom’s sample and Kyle’s sample, the Intel engineer and Kyle went at it.

You can visit Kyle’s description of what tests each CPU failed, but the basic conclusion was that our 1.13GHz sample ran through all of the tests perfectly, with one exception.  Tom provided Kyle with a hard drive formatted with Tom’s standard Linux test suite, which included a Kernel compilation test that Tom normally runs in order to test the stability of overclocked processors.  According to Tom, all normally clocked CPUs he has benchmarked have passed this test flawlessly, while most overclocked CPUs fail.

It was on this test that all three chips failed, a test that has never failed on a normally clocked CPU but has failed on overclocked processors.  Why would a normally clocked CPU fail a test that only overclocked CPUs would fail?

There is a fine line between “overclocking” and what AMD/Intel do to increase the yields on their CPUs, but as long as they work, increasing the core voltage of a CPU in order to hit a higher clock speed is fine.  Overclockers do it on a daily basis and run their systems harder than a lot of your average home users with very few problems.

It seems like this time around Intel may have pushed a little too far, since only two of the processors that made it out as review samples seemed to fail horribly, however it wouldn’t be surprising if most of the review samples failed the Linux kernel compilation test.  The fact that the three processors, ours, Kyle’s and Tom’s all failed the Linux kernel compilation test, a test that is failed normally by processors with poor margins, seems to indicate that maybe Intel was taking a bigger risk than they should’ve with releasing a 1.13GHz Pentium III.  Is clock speed really that important?

Looks like Intel is a company dominated by marketers and not by engineers.

2010 Using its size to out-leverage AMD

Being the biggest CPU manufacturer in the world means you have great power and, in Intel’s case, absolutely no responsibility.

The New York suit alleges that Intel gave Dell billions in rebates and deals so long as it didn’t sell any AMD-powered computers, paid HP hundreds of millions to cap sales of AMD-powered business desktops at 5 percent, and paid IBM not to market an AMD server.

Intel has “settled” which I translate to “realized they’re guilty if they were to proceed with the court case any further, so they gave out some blood money to make people shut up”.

This is why I buy AMD chips: they haven’t yet begun to fuck over smaller folk just to stay on top of the hill. Note that when AMD does become a bully I’ll go over to buying someone else’s chips. VIA, if they still exist…

Nvidia used to be a company I liked. I remember the fight between 3dfx and Nvidia: the 3dfx folk were busy putting more GPUs on one board while Nvidia were busy improving their 32bit rendering which 3dfx didn’t catch up to until real late in the game. After 3dfx died there was a long and drawn out competition between ATI and Nvidia with the two leapfrogging each other every year. Then in 2009 Nvidia gave up and decided to lie to their customers.

My next GPU purchase will be ATI but first I have to wait for my two 7600GS cards to die – which could take a while.

2009 Rebadging old GPUs

All of that brings us to today where NVIDIA is taking the 9800 GTX+ and calling it a GeForce GTS 250.

Calling out Nvidia on their lies gets you blacklisted.

It is always funny when an unethical company turns on its own supporters as Nvidia did with the latest ‘all new’ GT250 cards. This time however, their PR stunts cross the line from unethical to purposely false, and hilarity ensues.

What are we talking about? The rebranding of the venerable G92, aka the 8800GT, 9800GT, 9800GTX, 9800GTX+, and several other variants as the GTS250. The NDA goes up on the third of March, and we have complete scores already, but there is no difference between these cards and the older G92 cards. We will save you from having to pour over spreadsheets scratching your head wondering how it is different… it isn’t at all.

The new parts are 55nm, just like the old. The clocks aren’t different, nothing from a user perspective is different, other than the card losing 9550, an X and a +. Oh yeah, they are jacking up the price for the stupid as well.

Nvidia, however, is desperate to make this seem like something new. Sales are in the toilet, chips cancelled, and 40nm parts are looking unhealthy. Turd polishing time. Enter the marketeers, but they have a problem, some sites are, *GASP*, honest, and will print the truth.

Nvidia has this allergic reaction to the truth, and tries to change how it is presented at every opportunity.

This time however, they crossed the line from plausible deniability to flat out deception. In the middle of last week we heard what Nvidia was up to this time around, but just couldn’t believe they would be THAT sleazy. A day or so later, HardOCP published a story about Nvidia stock ‘plummeting’, basically an indignant backhand for being cut out of the GTS250′s launch. Point one confirmed. The rest soon followed.

Just what are the green fumblers doing this time? Two things: one bad, the other downright deceptive. The bad one is simple, if you don’t review Nvidia cards and say that PhysX is the greatest thing since sliced bread and CUDA makes sex better, you aren’t doing a good enough job. They will gently nudge you to change your tune, basically praise PhysX and CUDA until you wear the letters off your keyboard.

The carrot and stick approach might help here, but Nvidia doesn’t like carrots. They just threaten. Kyle at HardOPC made the deal-breaking mistake of being honest, so it is doghouse time for him, and the site. Welcome to the club, we even have a fort. I assume Kyle got the list of who got cut too, so will know we will have quite big-name company soon joining us soon. Punch and pie.

So, short story, Nvidia is playing with the press once again. And since it has no new product, it is desperately afraid of the truth getting out. And if you didn’t drool over PhysX and CUDA enough, you are cut out. This is exactly what Apple does to keep the press in line, but Apple has something Nvidia doesn’t: competence.

If that wasn’t bad enough, the next part is. Normally, when a vendor cuts you out, if you really care, you can go to one of their partners and get boards/chips/whatever. Sometimes this is even a better idea because one or two tend to have a special card, overclocked, shiny metal cooler, or box with bigger breasts on the model. This time Nvidia specifically forbade partners from giving sites parts if they were on honesty hiatus.

Not only that, but the flat-out dishonesty is that Nvidia gave its board partners ‘special’ boards to send to reviewers. They are not allowed to give out their own vanilla cards, they MUST use the special set supplied by Nvidia.

Why is this dishonest? Want to bet that those boards have cherry-picked chips and RAM that clocks to the moon? That they will do everything better than any card you will ever be able to buy? Basically, Nvidia supplied ringers to the press that are not representative of what you can buy, and forced OEMs to give them to review sites without telling them. The technical term is ‘mushrooming’, feed them [scatological reference deleted] and keep them in the dark.

Remember now, this is the same 55nm G92 that you have been able to buy for six months or more, there is NO difference between that and the 9800GTX+. Nvidia has to show a difference to avoid their new hare-brained branding/stupid fanboi-fleecing scheme from tanking, so they are stacking the reviews.

They cut out anyone they thought would be critical and gave the rest cards that are nothing like what anyone can buy. They shut up OEMs, and forced them to give out cards that were flat out fantasy parts in the hopes that it would generate some good press. If they don’t, well, you can always cut them out of the next round.

This behaviour on Nvidia’s part is not only unethical, but it is purposefully dishonest. They are knowingly giving out parts that are not representative of retail pieces, and doing so without telling the reviewers. Readers won’t know, sites may or may not know, and in general, it hurts everyone but Nvidia. Unless the word gets out, then hilarity ensues.

Spread the word guys, and don’t trust any of the upcoming reviews where the part was not purchased at a retail outlet using real money.

Atomic Note: We’ll be keeping our eyes peeled for incredibly high-clocking samples in the future, and we’ll not be very impressed if we get one – we review what you’d expect to get, not what they’d like us to.

Okay, so they wouldn’t get to finance the sequel. So? So they would be out of jobs. So? They would work somewhere else. Who cares? They do, but that’s their problem. Everyone doesn’t have to worry because they’ll be out of jobs. You do what you want: don’t buy their products out of charity if you don’t want to. And the masses have made it quite clear that they do not want to.

Do you think that people have some default position of caring for others? The vast, vast, vast majority do not. Scarcely a soul lifts a single finger to help, in any way, the hordes of children rotting on shitty cots in Africa. And you expect these same people to worry about Hollywood movie makers and other “content producers” getting paid? Ha!

Or, are people to worry, for their own good? To worry that they won’t have these wonderful movies and music to watch and to listen to no longer if they keep these terribly self-destructive actions up? Equally preposterous. Every modern consumer knows that with the production of a product comes, as well, the production of its desire. No movie is without its trailer, no album is without its hype, no hip new clothing brand is without its magazine spreads. People go to watch the Lord of the Rings because they’re told to go watch Lord of the Rings. (Except for a few because they’re fans or whatever, something not contained in the structure on production-consumption. And you’ll notice that those are the people that pay for the DVD, that pay for the show. Just like the fans of bands who buy the albums, because you’re a fan and that’s what you do, you’re not just buying a product.)

This is the advice of everyone in the business of selling shit: you have to tell people they want it. You have to persuade them. Who in their right mind is going to pay fifty dollars for a pair of jeans that are pre-worn and pre-ripped which say “I live so little, I have to pay for clothes that make it looked like I’ve lived instead?” Everyone! You just have to tell them that it’s cool.

And, say all the makers of these clothes that everyone wants go out of business. Oh no, you say! A great tragedy for sure, right? I mean, it’s obviously a good thing that must be saved because everyone pays their hard earned cash for these clothes! Not the case, however. As I said, every consumer knows, the production of any consumer product comes with it the production of its desire. When the product disappears, so will any desire for it. So, if all the super-cool jeans disappeared, no one would care. People would just buy some other jeans. And it is the same with movies, music, etc. Britney Spears no longer around to soothe me with her melodie dolce? I guess I’ll, *gasp*, listen to something else? But from where, if the RIAA is fully out of business? And so we’re brought to a question that if said, with seriousness, in front of any musician who knows the business would, no doubt, burst out laughing. Musicians make music, have for ten thousand years, won’t stop because they’re not making a living for it, like any artist. “Starving artist,” ever heard the term? There’s truth behind that. Would Van Gogh have stopped painting if he didn’t make enough to live off of it? Oh wait, he didn’t.

Indie artists with a small group of actual fans(like any artists, whereas big famous musicians have that along with a large group of people that purchase them for consumptive reasons that I mentioned) but with little production costs don’t give a damn about copyright infringment of their work. Go ahead and download them as much as you want: they know that without the internet you would have never heard about them in the first place. Only the people they have immeadiate contact with at shows, around their town, in their musical community would: and those are where the actual fans are, and they buy the music anyway.

So, musics with million dollar productions won’t exist any longer. And Hollywood movies with 500 million dollar productions won’t either. Like the jeans, is this not a tragedy? Like the jeans, no. People lived before Warner Brothers and Fox and Universal and people lived before Elektra and Columbia and Universal. They will live after them as well. Just as happy as before. No movie to watch? No, Britney to listen to in the car? Maybe they’ll put in that CD their friend’s brother made, or turn on the radio, or nothing at all. No summer blockbuster to go see!? Maybe they’ll go to some local film fest, see some indie movie, or maybe go outside instead, talk with friends, do something else, anything else, it’s fucking summer. And it’s fucking life in general, you don’t need movies to be happy. People know this, so they’ll gladly continue these “self-destructive” and “morally reprehensible” acts of IP “theft” when given the chance.

The problem

Ical cannot both subscribe to a calendar and publish to the same calendar using Webdav.

The idea

Publish the local version of the calendar.

Requirements

• The calendar has only one author
• You should know your way around the terminal
• The calendar file(s) are in ~/Library/Calendars.

The solution

This is what I did, and I don’t know shit about OSX (yeah, the thing where they take other people’s work and slap their logo on it and then don’t give back).

1. Fetch a copy of the calendar from the net. This will create a whole bunch of .ics files. Why Apple doesn’t have one big file for the calendar events I don’t know.
2. Create a new local calendar
3. Close Ical
4. Copy the Events directory from the copy to the new local calendar
5. Delete the Calendar Cache file. I think it was called something like that. It’s in the Calendars directory, at any rate. This will force Ical to reload all the calendars.
6. Start Ical
7. Publish the newly-created local calendar to the Webdav address

Now, when the author creates a new event both the author and the people subscribing to the online copy of the calendar will see the changes.

The other solution is to use the free and open calendar program Mozilla Sunbird, but it’s not as shiny as Ical so Mac people won’t like it.

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Ladda hem skriptet

Skriptet finns att ladda hem från userscripts.

Hur man använder skriptet

1. Installera
2. Besök Flashback.
3. Öppna about:config, sök efter flashback_ignore och där bör du se några inställningar.

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Requirements

1. These instructions are for Windows – Linux folk usually help themselves and Mac folk don’t know how to play games.
2. CorsixTH uses the data files from the original Theme Hospital game. Where you find a copy of the original game is beyond the scope of this tutorial. Ask around.
3. The data files need to be unpacked or mounted. In this tutorial we have installed Virtual CloneCD and mounted the downloaded image.
4. You’ll need to download the second playable beta of Corsix TH.

Installing Theme Hospital

You’ve either unpacked the files somewhere or mounted the ISO using a DVD emulator (such as Virtual CloneCD). Either way is fine, as long as you can get to the game files.

We’re not going to install Theme Hospital, we’re just going to copy its files.

Your Theme Hospital image should be mounted.

Right click on the virtual drive and choose open.

You should now see all the files from the game.

Right click on the HOSP directory and choose copy.

The rest of the files are not necessary. Only the HOSP directory contains the data files for the actual game.

Right click in some other folder and choose paste.

It doesn’t matter where you paste them as long as you know in which directory you put the files. Choosing My Documents is easy because the directory is shown (see screenshot lower down).

The files are being copied...

Copying done! Go into the folder with a double-click.

Remeber where the files are!

That path, encircled, is what you’ll be needing later when you install CorsixTH.

Installing CorsixTH

Go to the download page of CorsixTH.

Select the installer.

Save the file somewhere.

When the download is complete, run the file.

Yes, Windows. Run the installer.

English will do fine.

Next.

That's interesting. Next.

Where to install Corsix TH. The default is fine.

Remember where you copied Theme Hospital to? Copy that address.

Paste the Theme Hospital address / path here. The path should end with HOSP.

Next.

Yay! Finished!

You have now installed CorsixTH and pointed it to the place where you have your original Theme Hospital data files.

Running CorsixTH

Corsix TH can be found in the start menu.

If it works correctly you’ll see the screen below:

The Corsix TH opening menu.

CorsixTH encountered an error during startup – consult the log window for details.

Error message telling you that the Theme Hospital data files could not be found.

If you see this message it’s probably because the address to the data files is not correct.

Go to where you installed CorsixTH. The default is C:\Program Files\CorsixTH.

In the Corsix TH program files directory, there is a config.txt.

Double-click the config.txt file to open it with notepad.

Make sure the theme_hospital_install setting is correct.

When you type in the correct address for the files, make sure you include the double square brackets.

theme_hospital_install = [[C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\HOSP]]

If that still doesn’t work, join us on the #corsix-th IRC channel.