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  1. Re:Parent has merit on Nintendo Apologizes to SuicideGirls · · Score: 1

    What do you think was cut out (...)
    This should answer your question.

    I doubt this was faked. If you're a consultant, you learn to ask forgiveness rather than permission from your corporate handlers while with the public you ask permission rather than forgiveness. Historically, corporate ends up with more bad press then good, even with an apology letter.

    Of course this is the intarweb and the rules of ye olde days may have changed.

  2. Re:I read it on Learning PHP 5 · · Score: 1

    Most people know Rasmus, but he wasnt as available as Lars even back in 1999 :p

  3. I read it on Learning PHP 5 · · Score: 4, Informative

    When this PHP book appeared in Border's Books last week I read through it to make sure I was still up to speed. I've been programming PHP since 2.0 (back when you could go on IRC and talk with Lars). The book is mostly a verbose rehash of select bits from the documentation by a collection of authors. Wow, described it in one sentence. Didnt seem to have anything over the documentation on the PHP website.

    The bit on XML was interesting as I've never needed to use XML and now have a single practical example to point at.

    The book is not a 9...more like a 6. It's a professional paperback monolith and it doesnt spread disinformation. I don't know what's wrong with the reviewer *shrug* but this isn't a book I'd recommend.

  4. Re:PHPNuke on PostNuke Open Source CMS Attacked · · Score: 1

    I can and do. It's laughable by anyone who bothers to D/L and look at it. Thanx for the reply AC.

  5. The trick to Star Wars Trivial Pursuit on New Star Wars DVD for Trivia Buffs · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, the most common answer to Star Wars trivial pursuit questions, was Hoth. If there is a reference to a planet or system, the answer is typically Hoth.

    Being a DVD, you can be sure that many of the new questions will be visual.

  6. Re:PHPNuke on PostNuke Open Source CMS Attacked · · Score: 1

    I think it's fair to say I do not support any PHPNuke spinoffs like PostNuke which are at best, shadows of PHPNuke with compounded issues like being understaffed or undertalented. Yes, I just wanted to use alliteration.

  7. PHPNuke on PostNuke Open Source CMS Attacked · · Score: 1

    While I appreciate PostNuke and all the PHPNuke spinoffs that have appeared over the years, they all have contributed to making PHP seem like a poor language choice given their failure to enforce standards or even review code, they incorporate, properly. Does it work? Ok let's use it. Did it break anything? Ok distribute it. I have personally designed 3 CMS systems and worked on 2. Never have I failed to review and comment EVERY SINGLE LINE of code nor have I ever incorporated or written any code that has directly resulted in the systems being compromised. I tried installing PHPNuke all of 6 months ago and it was a mess. In my professional opinion, I cannot recommend PHPNuke.

    No I am not here to push any other package nor to encourage ppl to "write their own" when I'm sure you can dig up preferable and reliable alternatives from as far as two years back.

  8. Poker on Geeks Playing Poker? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My brother lost about $20k over 5 years learning to play poker. After awhile he started making money. 2 things are necessary to consistently make money playing poker. Patience and time. As of now he lives in Las Vegas as a part time ramp agent and part time gambler, he has paid me back as well as the rest of the $10k or so he had borrowed from everyone. People are drawn in to poker by the "thrill" when the money games are specifically not about that. After you play a couple hundred thousand hands, you get over the thrill and learn a grind that is reminiscent of MMORPGs but with a more lucrative outcome for the investment.

  9. Re:English, motherfucka, do you speak it? on MyDoom Seeks to Destroy Antivirus Firms · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I say virii and get paid to do so. As english is a high context language, your little diatribe helps "educate" in no meaningful way. Toodles.

  10. Steadfast on Spyware/Adware Prevention In Large Deployments? · · Score: 1

    I use steadfast. Sounds a lot like the other solutions, but I like mine best as I can select multiple "unfrozen" directories, which makes it better for programs that get patched a lot. No network overhead.

  11. Re:Bush is winning on X10 Hallowe'en Display · · Score: 1

    Yup, I must be a troll because I comment on THE MAIN TEXT OF THE ARTICLE AND A RELEVANT PART OF THE SITE. How is it that the most paranoid mods get the points?

  12. Bush is winning on X10 Hallowe'en Display · · Score: 0, Troll

    According to all polls including this guy's webcam, Bush is more popular than Kerry. This bothers me. Hulk is clearly winning, as expected.

  13. Re:Hundreds of millions of people on The Empires Strike Back · · Score: 1
    Once you get past a few tens of thousands of individuals, a genuinely representative democracy is no longer a realistic possibility because you lose the ability of every member to directly address the forum deciding the issues.

    It USED to be an unrealistic possibility. Now it's simply an unpalatteable one to academics and politicians.
  14. Re:Counter-Strike 1.5 Server setup Howto-not on Would You Pay for Steam? · · Score: 1

    You will see a post on the forums (as of 10/11/04) from me about this issue. When I said "nobody seems to know anything" I specifically started with the Steamless creators, webmasters, and forumgoers then the WON2 IRC, creators, then webmasters. It's a nightmare of unsupported claims, albeit there are running servers that I can connect to with no admins =/

  15. Re:Counter-Strike 1.5 Server setup Howto-not on Would You Pay for Steam? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As CS requires you to have a key to install on a client machine, the saving grace is that there is no authentication so you can use any key you can generate or otherwise find on the web to play 1.5

    In norway a WON2 network (emulated WON servers) has been set up if you are interested in a minimal amount of authentication where a cheating client can be banned for 5 years from all WON2 servers via key and ip, but this is not very useful in USA and not reliable in most cases of cheating. My 24/7 admins just do manual IP bans and masks if necessary, as we never trusted the original WON servers.

  16. Re:Counter-Strike 1.5 Server setup Howto-not on Would You Pay for Steam? · · Score: 1

    Again, I would think it's obvious I know all of this excepting the part about having to run Steam to play. That is just plain incorrect as any retail 1.5 CS can still connect to plenty of 1.5 no-won servers. Whoops.

  17. Re:Counter-Strike 1.5 Server setup Howto-not on Would You Pay for Steam? · · Score: 1

    65.118.85.111 is one of hundreds of 1.5 servers that have been running no-won since the won servers went down. Unfortunately, this may no longer be possible and it would be nice to know why. 1.5 is not dead, but soon. Most ppl dont like Steam and dont use it. Whoops.

  18. Counter-Strike 1.5 Server setup Howto-not on Would You Pay for Steam? · · Score: 1

    I have been trying to get a public 1.5 server up since the WON servers went down. I have tried 4.1.1.0 windows with no-won patch [S]and I have tried the windows standalone server 1.1.1.0 and I have tried the nowon hacked together 1.1.1.1b standalone and I have tried the 1.0.0.5 retail server, using every combination with/out +sv_lan 1 and -nomaster. I have tried the linux server 3.1.1.0e with the nowon2.pl and every flag/patch combination you can imagine.

    If anyone is able to create a NON-LAN RESTRICTED 1.5 CS server, write a friggin HOWTO. Today I'm going to have to reinstall XP, 4.1.1.0 install a perl interpreter to see if the 4.1.1.0 linux nowon2.pl applies and see if there are any server updates that pertain to 1.5 (like an analog to the 3.1.1.0e patch). This is silly as none of the emails or websites respond making 1.5 essentially dead dead dead.

  19. In a second. on If Mac OS X Came to x86, Would You Switch? · · Score: 1

    To answer the article's primary question summarily, AS FAST AS POSSIBLE.

  20. Um, no on Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Software · · Score: 1

    75% of the crashes that occur in every corporate/business environment I have participated in, are due to poor programming. Many crashes are literally scheduled for. Every heard of Mail Order Manager, Starship, and the literally millions of apps sold to small to medium businesses that fit their budgets more than their needs? Of course not because they are crappy software that fit a niche (cheap and "full o features" that may or may not work). The study is bullshit. I call it like I see it.

  21. Re:And that is why you fail on Green Party Candidate David Cobb Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    There is a level playing field, it's called life. Not everyone likes the idea, that's why they fail...but things change.

  22. Re:claims ? on Patent Concerns Unlikely To Nix Munich Linux Plan · · Score: 1

    You would have to pay him to show you the 283 patents and how linux violates them. He is a consultant.

  23. Re:/. hypocrisy on Google Confirms Chinese Censorship Claims · · Score: 1

    Of course you can be against censorship and against capitalism. What kind of fool equates capitalism with liberty? Oh yeah, some kid in high school posting as AC.

  24. Good review. on Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell · · Score: 1

    This sounds exactly like the kind of book I would like to buy. Sounds a lot like Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere which I thought was awesome.

  25. Re:Two Things on Energy Efficient and Cheap Servers for Home Use? · · Score: 1

    As a small matter of fact jack9.org (back when it was still my domain) ran off a custom LAMP setup on a 200 mhz machine to the tune of 2-8k visitors a month and literally parsed 5 news sites every minute to produce my frontpage (pre-RSS and I still think RSS is primitive crap). I figure about 2500 lines of PHP and hundreds of SQL queries a minute. It worked just perfect for 3 years on cable. Sidenote: my IPX could not handle the same setup.