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Pictures from Seattle's Classic Gaming Weekend
Cyberroach has pictures from last week's Classic Gaming Weekend in Seattle. The pictures include an "Obsolete Media Festival" with a guy who makes music with an Atari 2600, Commodore C64, and a dot-matrix printer; old hardware from the NorthWest Classic Gaming Enthusiasts' Meeting; and the 6th Annual Atari Championship.
I remember my first real experience with computers--my friend had a commodore 64, and we used to play on it all the time. He had tons of games, but it was frustrating sometimes trying to get them to run. The C64 had a weird prompt backed by a blue screen (!!) and you needed to follow a fairly complex set of instructions to get any games to actually load.
But it was this very machinery that led me to experiment with basic on my own PC, back in the day. Ah, the memories...
They are hardly obsolete, businesses that need carbon copys and have thousands of pages of automated reports printed out every day still buy & use them. But for home use, maybe they are a little dated.
Disclaimer: On the other hand, I am kind of a psycho...
Oh come on now... Some sysadmin actually configured IIS correctly. It's not smoking, it's not blue screening, and it's not down.
They likely don't have the bandwidth or the server sized appropriately for the number of similtaneous connections that slashdot refers.
Would you rather they left it open to "unlimited" connections on a undersized network connection, then have 75% of the connections time out?
Microsoft sucks. They got a crappy security track record (so did *nix, many years ago)... They overcharge, they bloat (as if your latest linux distro doesn't begin to look a little like the latest Oracle distro).
Get off it already. It seems about 75% of people have their anti-MS stuff ready to copy & paste into any post.
You're getting boring, slashdot crowd.