Now, I'm just grasping at straws, here, but I am fairly sure I understand why Funcom rushed Anarchy Online out the door, and, while it does frustrate me to no end, I am somewhat willing to accept the rationale.
As anyone in the field is well aware, Venture Capital money has pretty much run dry for all but the most obviously successful startups. Funcom's upper management probably saw the status reports of Anarchy Online, during its Beta, and decided to release Anarchy Online, at its current state of RAM thirst, illogical combat physics and anemic servers, because they were most likely running short of money.
By selling off a hundred thousand units of a $49.00 game, they bought themselves time to fix all these bugs, instead of going insolvent and being snatched up by some larger organization, like Microsoft or Activision, which, in the gaming industry today, is a fate worse than death. I'm/still/ boycotting Activision for a lot of their idiotic marketing decisions.
Yes, it drives me nuts to have a copy of Anarchy Online on my hard drive, when playing it is a ticklish amalgation of crashes, bizarre bugs and rather good gameplay. When the game works, and the servers aren't lagged, and when I have the resolution up high enough that the interface doesn't give me tunnel vision, it is probably the best MMORPG out there, and the first commercial online game that actually has game mechanics complex enough to hold my attention for a while, if you exclude The Eternal City.
So, have some sympathy for the poor devils, and ease off.. They're patching as fast as they can.
Of course, having had off to dinner and returned, I realize that you are right, many of the software projects linked to by Slashdot probably don't appreciate the stampede of unwashed hax0rs running up their hosting bill. But, they aren't the type to sue, either.
The suggestion in the FAQ is certainly valid, but somehow I can't quite see the Slashdot editors, who are too put upon to actually proofread their own articles, taking the time to mirror a site prior to posting.
Aye.. Heaven forfend that a publication that makes its money by advertisements and eyeballs suddenly experience a spike of new, interested readers who may actually stay around for a while.
Frankly, most sites are a bit frustrated with the arrival of the Slashdot Effect, and it often infuriates the system administrators, because they wish they had the resources to handle it, but the upper management types find that their only regret was not being able to serve their content to everyone who came to look.
Sue? Because someone gave them publicity? Publicity is Currency, in media terms.
I know, that seems a little crude, using a text-only browser on X11, but, if you properly configure the viewers for it, you can view images, etc. in other child windows.
I use Links for a lot of my quick-look-up style web-browsing, due to its lightweight and speed.
Okay, it's a troll, and I'm compulsive. Let's get that out of the way.
Speaking as a commercial developer, and looking at the complexity of the Mozilla project's goal, the time taken thus far has not been too excessive. If you've tracked the thrashing in Bugzilla, you'll note that their QA is actually much more comprehensive than many private organizations, which means that we are eventually going to get a much stabler browser.
For all those complaining about speed, and bloat, remember that 0.9 was the first of the Optimizations milestones to be released. You may have noticed that the number of bugs from 0.7 (Actually one of the M* releases, which was retroactively named 0.7 for the new scheme.)to 0.8 was much smaller than 0.8 to 0.9, which is directly in step with the fact that they are now ripping out all the unnecessary scaffolding in the code. Regressions are definately to be expected.
Just watching the processes involved, ignoring the possibly excessive scope, the Mozilla project itself is a wonderful example of using simple tool to manage a group. How many of you pro's have looked at a problem report in Vantive, and seen that many well-tempered and politics-neutral comments directly related to the problem?
And in the case of the iDen phones, MASS. These suckers are heavy, and their battery life is very short, compared to their lighter, smaller PCS brethren.
Well, as a QA geek, and a fairly heavy tester of Mozilla, I think it looks excellent. The #1 thing that drives me batty with most projects is an unrealistic deadline that forces a product out the door before it is ready. (*cough* NS6)
The Mozilla team is taking the more rigorous stand of 'When it is ready', and ignoring many of the pressures being put upon them by the self-declared generals of the open-source war.
I say more power to them, and I can't wait until 1.0.
I can't list how many people I met at my last position who knew how to work around the shell, or even knew some of the keypresses in vi who/totally/ lacked the knowledge required of them as system administrators. (*Cough* What does 127.0.0.1 refer to?)
Now, I'm not going to drop this one at the feet of the Linux boom, since a sister project, FreeBSD was the source of a lot of my training, but let us not mistake that a bit of facility with bash, and a full GNU environment, makes a sysadmin. There is a lot of knowledge beyond driving the box required, here.
In defense of the thought that these Mac guys will become Unix Admins, I have learned that an intelligent veteran of another computer discipline, self-motivated and willing to ask questions, is very likely to become an excellent admin, if given enough time to get up to speed. The only question for them, is whether they want to take that time, either concurrently with their work load, as I did, or making small change as a Junior Sysadmin somewhere, and changing a/lot/ of backup tapes.
The point is, sometimes us non-Linux users don't/want/ to spend hours patching and coercing someone else's crappy code to play nicely with other Unixen.
And if you're about to suggest 'submit a patch', be assured, I always do, and half the time, it takes an eternity to make it into the source tree.
Usually, it's -fpermissive, to make gcc stop wailing about the crufty old OpenWindows headers.
Rrrr, last time I noticed, Linux depended pretty heavily on the GNU toolchain for building.. Just like FreeBSD.. Beyond GNU's chain for compilation, the kernel doesn't have dependencies. There's no reason a new distro couldn't be built around FreeBSD's kernel.
I seem to remember some Debian packagers talking about adopting FreeBSD's kernel way back when.
Yeah.. I've been starting to use encap more and more.. It's handy for people used to slapping everything in/opt then symlinking.
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This will also affect PCI chipsets.. Basically, anything using PCNet or PCNet fast chipsets will have problems with the install.. Vectra VLs, for example, can't do the network install with the bundled NIC.
If you are using FreeBSD 2.2 for a server, you might want to upgrade, since there have been many security updates to the kernel and various userland apps. Also, there have been numerous performance improvements that you might want.
If it's just sitting in the corner doing one or two simple tasks, by all means, stick with 2.2. My old 486 laptop is still running 2.2.x, since all it does is telnet and a little lynx-work.
Believe it or no, part of the Hotmail login process involves HTTPS.. The Mozilla build you are getting most likely does not have HTTPS support compiled in..
There/is/ a solution, however.. Start Mozilla, then go to iplanet's PSM site with Mozilla and scroll down to near the bottom, and select which OS you are using.. (Linux, or Windows)
If you're not using one of those two OS's, follow the build instructions and roll your own. PSM is a drop-in SSL library for Mozilla, and will provide HTTPS support.
..from the Slashdot peanut gallery. These issues are, correctly,/not/ considered PDT for the 6.0 release of/Netscape/. They will most likely be addressed in a minor release coming after 6.0. Netscape has reached a certain critical 'Put up or Shut up' moment in their development, and they feel the need to get a product out the door. If you are honestly suggesting IE 6 as a much more standards compliant browser, you really need to think about Netscape 6's siamese twin:
Mozilla 6. Mozilla 6 is including as many of these fixes as it can that do not radically affect the stability of the browser, in their own concurrent push towards a complete product.
Thank you, Michael, for yet again proving that Slashdot authors do not know whereof they speak.
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Obviously, you are not a native of Texas.. While I may not enjoy the climate, most of the people are nice, the government seems to function well, and the education is quite adequate. I especially like the low costs of the colleges down here.
I have been in the third world, and I can very honestly say that Texas does not resemble it in the least. You, who have probably never stepped from behind your monitor, should probably consider a little moderation in your outbursts, Mr. Anonymous Coward.
As for a vote for Nader being a vote for Bush, if you take a careful look at the electoral college system, consider the fact that most of Americans are going to sheepishly vote for Bush or Gore, you may come to understand that voting for Nader, now, gives us a better chance in the future of having a candidate and a party worth getting up in arms about..
That being said, if I, or many other Nader supporters, really thought their vote would reduce Gore's chances of attaining office, I am rather sure we would vote for Gore. I am not particularly eager to see the right wing get their fists on the throat of the Supreme Court.
This isn't an Mp3 player.. What the submitter is trying ever so awkwardly to day, is that you stick an audio source in one end, FM is emitted out the other to, say, your car stereo.
This isn't nearly as novel as it sounds, and you don't need to buy Canadian. Circuit city et al. carry similar equipment, albeit usually with shorter ranges, for CD adapter kits for vehicles that are incompatible with audio-tape adaptors.
Slashdot Mirror
Now, I'm just grasping at straws, here, but I am fairly sure I understand why Funcom rushed Anarchy Online out the door, and, while it does frustrate me to no end, I am somewhat willing to accept the rationale.
/still/ boycotting Activision for a lot of their idiotic marketing decisions.
As anyone in the field is well aware, Venture Capital money has pretty much run dry for all but the most obviously successful startups. Funcom's upper management probably saw the status reports of Anarchy Online, during its Beta, and decided to release Anarchy Online, at its current state of RAM thirst, illogical combat physics and anemic servers, because they were most likely running short of money.
By selling off a hundred thousand units of a $49.00 game, they bought themselves time to fix all these bugs, instead of going insolvent and being snatched up by some larger organization, like Microsoft or Activision, which, in the gaming industry today, is a fate worse than death. I'm
Yes, it drives me nuts to have a copy of Anarchy Online on my hard drive, when playing it is a ticklish amalgation of crashes, bizarre bugs and rather good gameplay. When the game works, and the servers aren't lagged, and when I have the resolution up high enough that the interface doesn't give me tunnel vision, it is probably the best MMORPG out there, and the first commercial online game that actually has game mechanics complex enough to hold my attention for a while, if you exclude The Eternal City.
So, have some sympathy for the poor devils, and ease off.. They're patching as fast as they can.
Of course, having had off to dinner and returned, I realize that you are right, many of the software projects linked to by Slashdot probably don't appreciate the stampede of unwashed hax0rs running up their hosting bill. But, they aren't the type to sue, either.
The suggestion in the FAQ is certainly valid, but somehow I can't quite see the Slashdot editors, who are too put upon to actually proofread their own articles, taking the time to mirror a site prior to posting.
Aye.. Heaven forfend that a publication that makes its money by advertisements and eyeballs suddenly experience a spike of new, interested readers who may actually stay around for a while.
Frankly, most sites are a bit frustrated with the arrival of the Slashdot Effect, and it often infuriates the system administrators, because they wish they had the resources to handle it, but the upper management types find that their only regret was not being able to serve their content to everyone who came to look.
Sue? Because someone gave them publicity? Publicity is Currency, in media terms.
Frankly, on my GNU/Debian system, I find installing /any/ kind of RPM hazardous to my system's health.
You create a lock that is so primitive, all you need to do is push in a little with a coat hanger, or an awl, and it unlocks.
Do you ban awls, or coat hangers?
How about if it requires an rod of metal, bent a single time, to a certain angle.
Do we ban rods of metal? Or the knowledge of that little angle?
My best suggestion would be Links
I know, that seems a little crude, using a text-only browser on X11, but, if you properly configure the viewers for it, you can view images, etc. in other child windows.
I use Links for a lot of my quick-look-up style web-browsing, due to its lightweight and speed.
Okay, it's a troll, and I'm compulsive. Let's get that out of the way.
Speaking as a commercial developer, and looking at the complexity of the Mozilla project's goal, the time taken thus far has not been too excessive. If you've tracked the thrashing in Bugzilla, you'll note that their QA is actually much more comprehensive than many private organizations, which means that we are eventually going to get a much stabler browser.
For all those complaining about speed, and bloat, remember that 0.9 was the first of the Optimizations milestones to be released. You may have noticed that the number of bugs from 0.7 (Actually one of the M* releases, which was retroactively named 0.7 for the new scheme.)to 0.8 was much smaller than 0.8 to 0.9, which is directly in step with the fact that they are now ripping out all the unnecessary scaffolding in the code. Regressions are definately to be expected.
Just watching the processes involved, ignoring the possibly excessive scope, the Mozilla project itself is a wonderful example of using simple tool to manage a group. How many of you pro's have looked at a problem report in Vantive, and seen that many well-tempered and politics-neutral comments directly related to the problem?
And in the case of the iDen phones, MASS. These suckers are heavy, and their battery life is very short, compared to their lighter, smaller PCS brethren.
Well, as a QA geek, and a fairly heavy tester of Mozilla, I think it looks excellent. The #1 thing that drives me batty with most projects is an unrealistic deadline that forces a product out the door before it is ready. (*cough* NS6)
The Mozilla team is taking the more rigorous stand of 'When it is ready', and ignoring many of the pressures being put upon them by the self-declared generals of the open-source war.
I say more power to them, and I can't wait until 1.0.
I can't list how many people I met at my last position who knew how to work around the shell, or even knew some of the keypresses in vi who /totally/ lacked the knowledge required of them as system administrators. (*Cough* What does 127.0.0.1 refer to?)
/lot/ of backup tapes.
Now, I'm not going to drop this one at the feet of the Linux boom, since a sister project, FreeBSD was the source of a lot of my training, but let us not mistake that a bit of facility with bash, and a full GNU environment, makes a sysadmin. There is a lot of knowledge beyond driving the box required, here.
In defense of the thought that these Mac guys will become Unix Admins, I have learned that an intelligent veteran of another computer discipline, self-motivated and willing to ask questions, is very likely to become an excellent admin, if given enough time to get up to speed. The only question for them, is whether they want to take that time, either concurrently with their work load, as I did, or making small change as a Junior Sysadmin somewhere, and changing a
Insert beowulf cluster of web-furbies comment here.
On a LX or an IPC, OpenBSD seems to support the hardware better than Solaris. Then again, these are crufty old orphans. =)
Yep. It was ftp.cdrom.com's banner back in '96 that made me a FreeBSD convert. =)
It's fat, dumb and happy on my Dell Latitude.
The point is, sometimes us non-Linux users don't /want/ to spend hours patching and coercing someone else's crappy code to play nicely with other Unixen.
And if you're about to suggest 'submit a patch', be assured, I always do, and half the time, it takes an eternity to make it into the source tree.
Usually, it's -fpermissive, to make gcc stop wailing about the crufty old OpenWindows headers.
Rrrr, last time I noticed, Linux depended pretty heavily on the GNU toolchain for building.. Just like FreeBSD.. Beyond GNU's chain for compilation, the kernel doesn't have dependencies. There's no reason a new distro couldn't be built around FreeBSD's kernel. I seem to remember some Debian packagers talking about adopting FreeBSD's kernel way back when.
Yeah.. I've been starting to use encap more and more.. It's handy for people used to slapping everything in /opt then symlinking.
This will also affect PCI chipsets.. Basically, anything using PCNet or PCNet fast chipsets will have problems with the install.. Vectra VLs, for example, can't do the network install with the bundled NIC.
If you are using FreeBSD 2.2 for a server, you might want to upgrade, since there have been many security updates to the kernel and various userland apps. Also, there have been numerous performance improvements that you might want.
If it's just sitting in the corner doing one or two simple tasks, by all means, stick with 2.2. My old 486 laptop is still running 2.2.x, since all it does is telnet and a little lynx-work.
Believe it or no, part of the Hotmail login process involves HTTPS.. The Mozilla build you are getting most likely does not have HTTPS support compiled in..
There /is/ a solution, however.. Start Mozilla, then go to iplanet's PSM site with Mozilla and scroll down to near the bottom, and select which OS you are using.. (Linux, or Windows)
If you're not using one of those two OS's, follow the build instructions and roll your own. PSM is a drop-in SSL library for Mozilla, and will provide HTTPS support.
Good luck!
..from the Slashdot peanut gallery. These issues are, correctly, /not/ considered PDT for the 6.0 release of /Netscape/. They will most likely be addressed in a minor release coming after 6.0. Netscape has reached a certain critical 'Put up or Shut up' moment in their development, and they feel the need to get a product out the door. If you are honestly suggesting IE 6 as a much more standards compliant browser, you really need to think about Netscape 6's siamese twin:
Mozilla 6. Mozilla 6 is including as many of these fixes as it can that do not radically affect the stability of the browser, in their own concurrent push towards a complete product.
Thank you, Michael, for yet again proving that Slashdot authors do not know whereof they speak.
(Moderators: This posting is either Insightful or Flamebait, not Overrated or Offtopic. Please moderate accordingly.)
Obviously, you are not a native of Texas.. While I may not enjoy the climate, most of the people are nice, the government seems to function well, and the education is quite adequate. I especially like the low costs of the colleges down here.
I have been in the third world, and I can very honestly say that Texas does not resemble it in the least. You, who have probably never stepped from behind your monitor, should probably consider a little moderation in your outbursts, Mr. Anonymous Coward.
As for a vote for Nader being a vote for Bush, if you take a careful look at the electoral college system, consider the fact that most of Americans are going to sheepishly vote for Bush or Gore, you may come to understand that voting for Nader, now, gives us a better chance in the future of having a candidate and a party worth getting up in arms about..
That being said, if I, or many other Nader supporters, really thought their vote would reduce Gore's chances of attaining office, I am rather sure we would vote for Gore. I am not particularly eager to see the right wing get their fists on the throat of the Supreme Court.
This isn't an Mp3 player.. What the submitter is trying ever so awkwardly to day, is that you stick an audio source in one end, FM is emitted out the other to, say, your car stereo.
This isn't nearly as novel as it sounds, and you don't need to buy Canadian. Circuit city et al. carry similar equipment, albeit usually with shorter ranges, for CD adapter kits for vehicles that are incompatible with audio-tape adaptors.
Why not use MySQL? Slashdot does. =)
Pity the poor computer salespeople.
'Yes.. I'm here to complain about this keyboard for my PS/2'
'Why? What's wrong with it'
'There's no freaking square ports on the back of my computer! It doesn't fit!'
Or even worse
'Funny.. I bought a mouse from you that said it was PS/2 compatible.. But my son's playstation didn't like it one bit.'