I used it a couple of times with two mice on a pc. It worked pretty well. I think it supported two mice by having a driver for serial mice built in, so that it would use the installed driver for one mouse, and the internal driver for the other.
Over all, I think I would have liked network or modem multiplayer support better than the two mouse method. It was too tempting to peek at that the other player was doing. --
I just saw it today (after reading the comments here) and I must say that I liked it.
It felt like when I was roleplaying with friends back in middle school.
I also actually liked the ending - I felt that it was a good example of misuse of a magical item. (If one party member is dead, and another makes a request of a powerful item that they be reunited, which is the easier method: Ressurrect the one, or kill the rest? ) --
But "Day of the Tentacle" contains the origional "Maniac Mansion" game embedded within it (find an old computer in the game, and use it) so that collection does include the origional Maniac Mansion:-) --
The only change I've had to reboot for was when I first enabled my airport card.
If you make changes to network settings from the GUI, it asks you to reboot, but if you make the changes from the command line, it works fine without rebooting.
I use my Ibook at home and at work. At home, it uses en1 (airport) at at work I use en0 (ethernet).
I just run a script that uses ifconfig and route
to shut down the interface I'm not using, and
to reconfigure the one I am. Works like a charm, and I've never had to reboot. --
The decision makes Britain the first country to approve the commercial use of gene technology in this way.
As when I signed up for my current health insurance, I had to undergo genetic screening.
(I'll see if I can find my copy of the form I had to sign, giving them permission to run the tests, and explaining what they would be checking for.)
As I recall, the form was a masterwork of fine print - on the front, in big letters it explained that it was to check to see if I had AIDS, or other serious diseases with a long latent period.
On the back, in very light colored letters it explained that I was also giving my consent for genetic screening for preexisting conditions..
The test itself was simple, a tissue sample from the inside of my mouth was sealed in a vial with was injected with some blue fluid, and then slapped in a mailer to some testing company.
It was SGI's File System Navigator - a rather cool program for doing 3d visualizations of a file system. It's fun to play with, and actually suprisingly usable for normal work. --
the NTFS support in Linux is already good enough for many uses. This is a lifesaver - It's come in handy for both recovering admin passwords (some people where I work have the admin password for their machines) as well as recovering data from corrupted filesystems. --
I've run Roxen 1.2 on a 486 with 8 megs of ram with acceptable speed (faster than apache on that system).
On my current server: (Pentium 120 / 128 megs of ram / FreeBSD 4.0) Roxen 2.0 has 10 megs resident in memory. It currently has 15-20 virtual servers set up, most of which use databases and Pike, and 2 of which use php4.
I would suggest that you try Roxen 2.0, and skip 2.1 for the moment - I tried to switch to it last night, and I kept getting backtraces when trying to load IMHO. --
I really like the
IMHO webmail system.
I use it both at work, and on my home system.
The install is a snap, configuration is easy,
and it has a lot of nice features (spellchecker, LDAP directories, etc).
The only real thing that I think some people might see as a disadvantage is that you have to be running Roxen to use it (I see this as an advantage, but I really like Roxen). --
I use
IMHO to do pretty much what you describe: One box running IMAP that I either access from a normal client, or via the web mail interface. It works great for me.
Plus, I can keep an eye on the security of my mail, and be (reasonably) sure that no one is snooping around. --
What I don't understand is what kind of mentality could result in doing that.
It's obvious once you understand basic economics - I'll explain it for you.
First, in order to simulate the effects of years of economic training, drink a couple of shots of Whiskey (I'm using Knob Creek bourbon).
Ok - ready?
Let's say Intel sells the good chips at P1, and has a demand of D1 at that price. They are making a total of (D1)*(P1)=$1.
There is a set of people (D2) who aren't willing to pay P1 for the good chips - they want something at a lower price, P2.
Intel could drop the price of the good chips to P2 Is less than P1, and make (D1+D2)P2=$2. In some cases, $2 Is greater than $1, and this is the action they should take.
Now, there is a third option - Price Discrimination:
Intel releases a new chip, which they have crippled in some way. For the majority of the people who are willing to pay full price for the good chip, it is of no use to them, but for many of the people who want something cheaper, it is barely usable.
Now the equation for how much money they make looks something like this:
(D1-(D1*e1%))*P1+(D2+(D1*e1%))*p2=$3
(e1% are people who will buy the inferior chip instead of the good one)
Now, the trick is, by keeping e1 low (by making the chip inferior to the good chip) and by adjusting the prices carefully, $3 can be made much greater than $1 and $2.
Make sense to you? If not, take another drink and read it again...
--
Yeah - it is a little pricy. It used to be much cheaper, but they boosted the price a couple of months ago. I think they were trying to encourage people to switch to tci@home.
Still, I consider it well worth the cost, for the high bandwidth, and freedom to do pretty much whatever I want with it:-) --
-- User comments
CREATE TABLE "user_comments" (
"text" lztext,
"section" int4,
"name", char(60) default 'anonymous',
"mail", char(60) default 'none',
"web", char(60) default 'none',
"parent" int4 DEFAULT 0,
"id" SERIAL,
"date" timestamp DEFAULT 'now()'
);
create index user_parent_index on user_comments(parent);
--(unique indices are implicitly created on the id fields by the SERIAL type)
Ok - posted stories go in my_comments,
and the user replies are stored in user_comments,
with user_comments.id being a unique id for every reply, section indicating the story to which it is
a reply, and parent indicating the comment to which this is a reply (to allow threading).
Let's say you run into problems with users editing
the URLs used to access this system, and they start leaving random comments scattered in hidden places in the system. Let's suppose you want to stop this:
ALTER TABLE user_comments ADD CONSTRAINT user_section_constraint FOREIGN KEY (section) REFERENCES my_comments (id)
MATCH FULL
ON DELETE CASCADE
ON UPDATE CASCADE
DEFERRABLE;
There - now all replies have to be to a valid story. You also have the advantage that if you delete a story, or change the ID of a story, all of the comments get either deleted or updated as part of the same transaction. --
Running a website off a cable modem or asymmetric DSL is like running a website off a 57K modem.
Not if you have a decent cable modem provider - I get a 10 megabit chunk of a 100 megabit backbone (there aren't many people on my node, so I get close to the full bandwidth most of the time) with some very liberal TOS (I've never had them enforce clause 10-C).
It's nice living in an area which was one of the inital testing areas for cable modems, and to still be on the prototype network for testing how much bandwith is possible over cable modems:-) --
Slashdot Mirror
You could also actually get hard drives for the 8 bit atari systems, so there are many options beyond casettes.
--
I used it a couple of times with two mice on a pc. It worked pretty well.
I think it supported two mice by having a driver for serial mice built in, so that it would use the installed driver for one mouse, and the internal driver for the other.
Over all, I think I would have liked network or modem multiplayer support better than the two mouse method. It was too tempting to peek at that the other player was doing.
--
What are you talking about? both Lynx and Links work just fine for me.
--
I just saw it today (after reading the comments here) and I must say that I liked it.
It felt like when I was roleplaying with friends back in middle school.
I also actually liked the ending - I felt that it was a good example of misuse of a magical item.
(If one party member is dead, and another makes a request of a powerful item that they be reunited, which is the easier method: Ressurrect the one, or kill the rest? )
--
Or, if you were using Roxen, you could just wrap your code in tags, and let roxen handle the rest...
--
Good:
Bad:
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I stuck a copy of the image on my server at http://house.ofdoom.com/~hunger f3/ mirror/698.jpg
--
But "Day of the Tentacle" contains the origional "Maniac Mansion" game embedded within it (find an old computer in the game, and use it) so that collection does include the origional Maniac Mansion :-)
--
Wouldn't it be funny if Rob decided to randomaly renumber everyone? ;-)
--
The only change I've had to reboot for was when I first enabled my airport card.
If you make changes to network settings from the GUI, it asks you to reboot, but if you make the changes from the command line, it works fine without rebooting.
I use my Ibook at home and at work. At home, it uses en1 (airport) at at work I use en0 (ethernet).
I just run a script that uses ifconfig and route to shut down the interface I'm not using, and to reconfigure the one I am. Works like a charm, and I've never had to reboot.
--
As when I signed up for my current health insurance, I had to undergo genetic screening.
(I'll see if I can find my copy of the form I had to sign, giving them permission to run the tests, and explaining what they would be checking for.)
As I recall, the form was a masterwork of fine print - on the front, in big letters it explained that it was to check to see if I had AIDS, or other serious diseases with a long latent period.
On the back, in very light colored letters it explained that I was also giving my consent for genetic screening for preexisting conditions..
The test itself was simple, a tissue sample from the inside of my mouth was sealed in a vial with was injected with some blue fluid, and then slapped in a mailer to some testing company.
--
It was SGI's File System Navigator - a rather cool program for doing 3d visualizations of a file system. It's fun to play with, and actually suprisingly usable for normal work.
--
the NTFS support in Linux is already good enough for many uses.
This is a lifesaver - It's come in handy for both recovering admin passwords
(some people where I work have the admin password for their machines)
as well as recovering data from corrupted filesystems.
--
I've run Roxen 1.2 on a 486 with 8 megs of ram with acceptable speed (faster than apache on that system).
On my current server:
(Pentium 120 / 128 megs of ram / FreeBSD 4.0)
Roxen 2.0 has 10 megs resident in memory.
It currently has 15-20 virtual servers set up, most of which use databases and Pike, and 2 of which use php4.
I would suggest that you try Roxen 2.0, and skip 2.1 for the moment - I tried to switch to it last night, and I kept getting backtraces when trying to load IMHO.
--
I really like the IMHO webmail system.
I use it both at work, and on my home system.
The install is a snap, configuration is easy, and it has a lot of nice features (spellchecker, LDAP directories, etc).
The only real thing that I think some people might see as a disadvantage is that you have to be running Roxen to use it
(I see this as an advantage, but I really like Roxen).
--
I actually picked up a package at their depot once. The trick is not to ask if you can pick it up, you tell them you need to pick it up that night.
Tried it a couple of times - no luck any time. I don't know anyone who has managed to do it with the UPS depot near where I live.
--
At least with FedEx you can always go and pick it up that evening.
--
It's funny this question should come up now - the web server Roxen added support for mounting a tar file in it's virtual file space earlier today.
--
The MiniJam looks a lot better in my view - according to the FAQ:
If you already have MMC cards, it will cost around $100
(Looks like it's $200 with one 32 meg card)
plays MP3s at any bit rate from 32K to 320K
should be software upgradable to support additional codecs in the future
lets you store programs/data on the MMC cards
it has a LED alarm
Looks like a much better deal to me - I'll probably get one.
--
I use IMHO to do pretty much what you describe: One box running IMAP that I either access from a normal client, or via the web mail interface. It works great for me.
Plus, I can keep an eye on the security of my mail, and be (reasonably) sure that no one is snooping around.
--
What I don't understand is what kind of mentality could result in doing that.
It's obvious once you understand basic economics - I'll explain it for you.
First, in order to simulate the effects of years of economic training, drink a couple of shots of Whiskey (I'm using Knob Creek bourbon).
Ok - ready?
Let's say Intel sells the good chips at P1, and has a demand of D1 at that price. They are making a total of (D1)*(P1)=$1.
There is a set of people (D2) who aren't willing to pay P1 for the good chips - they want something at a lower price, P2.
Intel could drop the price of the good chips to P2 Is less than P1, and make (D1+D2)P2=$2. In some cases, $2 Is greater than $1, and this is the action they should take.
Now, there is a third option - Price Discrimination:
Intel releases a new chip, which they have crippled in some way.
For the majority of the people who are willing to pay full price for the good chip, it is of no use to them, but for many of the people who want something cheaper, it is barely usable.
Now the equation for how much money they make looks something like this:
(D1-(D1*e1%))*P1+(D2+(D1*e1%))*p2=$3
(e1% are people who will buy the inferior chip instead of the good one)
Now, the trick is, by keeping e1 low (by making the chip inferior to the good chip) and by adjusting the prices carefully, $3 can be made much greater than $1 and $2.
Make sense to you? If not, take another drink and read it again...
--
I have a copy of Code Warrior for Red Hat Linux (Gnu edition) version 4 right here.
Basically, they ported the editor, and project manager, and use egcs as the backend compiler.
It's decent, but I found myself missing their backend compiler (It kicks serious butt).
They were working on a full port of the entire package (editor, compiler, debugger, etc) to Linux, but I don't know what the status of that it.
--
Yeah - it is a little pricy. It used to be much cheaper, but they boosted the price a couple of months ago. I think they were trying to encourage people to switch to tci@home.
:-)
Still, I consider it well worth the cost, for the high bandwidth, and freedom to do pretty much whatever I want with it
--
Here's a practical example.
Let's say you wanted to set up a slashdot style message base. You could start out with the following:
-- Posted Stories
CREATE TABLE "my_comments" (
"text" lztext,
"id" SERIAL,
"date" timestamp DEFAULT 'now()'
);
-- User comments
CREATE TABLE "user_comments" (
"text" lztext,
"section" int4,
"name", char(60) default 'anonymous',
"mail", char(60) default 'none',
"web", char(60) default 'none',
"parent" int4 DEFAULT 0,
"id" SERIAL,
"date" timestamp DEFAULT 'now()'
);
create index user_parent_index on user_comments(parent);
--(unique indices are implicitly created on the id fields by the SERIAL type)
Ok - posted stories go in my_comments,
and the user replies are stored in user_comments,
with user_comments.id being a unique id for every reply, section indicating the story to which it is
a reply, and parent indicating the comment to which this is a reply (to allow threading).
Let's say you run into problems with users editing
the URLs used to access this system, and they start leaving random comments scattered in hidden places in the system. Let's suppose you want to stop this:
ALTER TABLE user_comments ADD CONSTRAINT user_section_constraint FOREIGN KEY (section) REFERENCES my_comments (id)
MATCH FULL
ON DELETE CASCADE
ON UPDATE CASCADE
DEFERRABLE;
There - now all replies have to be to a valid story. You also have the advantage that if you delete a story, or change the ID of a story, all of the comments get either deleted or updated as part of the same transaction.
--
Running a website off a cable modem or asymmetric DSL is like running a website off a 57K modem.
:-)
Not if you have a decent cable modem provider - I get a 10 megabit chunk of a 100 megabit backbone (there aren't many people on my node, so I get close to the full bandwidth most of the time) with some very liberal TOS (I've never had them enforce clause 10-C).
It's nice living in an area which was one of the inital testing areas for cable modems, and to still be on the prototype network for testing how much bandwith is possible over cable modems
--