Isn't it ironic [don't you think]?
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Unreal for Linux?
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It's funny that the chief point that Windows users raise for -- and can substantiate -- for MS superiority is that Windows has more games. Like that really matters to most people; I couldn't care less about playing Unreal or Quake or SiN or Half-Life or Heretic or Descent on a mission-critical server. At this point, you might as well take the money you save buying/running linux instead of Windows (especially now that we have legal precedence for abolishing the MS tax) and go get yourself an N64 and a very large screen TV.
Hey all, Soren here. If you're using anything slower than a 128K ISDN GET OFF MY FTP SITE. Let this Quake III movie get spread around a little, and then move in. My T1 is at 98.7% and everything's going slow. Do the people with real connections a favor and let them get it first so they can mirror it.
Hope you check back on this:) I'm one year ahead of you in about the same position (graduating in June), and here's what I've found:
MIT -- Duh. Good, expensive, a bit snobby, and not much other than technical fields
Carnegie Mellon -- wishes it was MIT
Cal Tech -- Again, very techie but not as snobby/expensive as MIT
UC-Berkeley, Duke -- Good CS, also has many more diverse offerings
Rensaeller, Cal Poly -- decent, but I didn't investigate too much
What I actually found (and I can be backed up by several sources) is two things: if you read and follow Slashdot, you already know more about computing than 50% of CS majors, and if you go to a good school (as you're likely to get in to), then you don't even need to be a CS major to get valuable computing experience. I am planning to do Biochem wherever I go next year (U of Chicago, Berkeley, or UW-Madison), with CS as either my minor or dual major. I stayed away from big-tech schools like MIT and CMU because they had little to offer outside of computing--British Literature is a possible major but nobody goes to MIT to write papers contrasting Pope and Swift. My recommendation: unless you're an absolute hard-core geek (like you'd wire a 100BaseT port to your brain to reduce keyboard lag), find a college you like and a major you like, and pick up computer experience as part of the fun of college (ie, play around with your box hooked up to the Ethernet, help other people, and mess with your accounts on the ancient UNIX systems most universities have). CS/EE tends to be one of the most obsessive majors; I know a few people who burned out so much in 4 years that they didn't want to get a job in it, but couldn't go anywhere else that paid well because that's all they knew.
Dang it, I didn't realize I could be making $60k/year for linux admin! I'm still raking in single-digits-per-hour figures here. Child labor exploitation, that's what it is....
Well, with 322 comments and counting, I doubt anyone will read this. I am a HS senior and a certifiable (MCSE? Who needs it?) major computer geek. I could probably hit the market and pull in >$40k right now, straight out of school. But I'm still going on to college. Why? I'm looking forward to learning something other than geek stuff. Well-roundedness is good and my bottom line is not the sum of my existence, no matter what any industry reports say. Wish me luck!
... are by far the best training tools (plus they're cheap!). I've been a sysadmin at a decent-sized ISP since February. I started the job with basically no knowledge of networking and only a few month's occasional-use familiarity with linux. Now I've taught myself a glut of skills (see my resume) by messing around with the system, exploring, and lots of reading: manpages, mail archives, LDP, source code, anything. There's no better way to learn than by doing.
We're going to need to set up some sort of mirror network for this trailer. It's going to be huge, both in file size and in demand.
Don't fall prey to the ultimate /. effect
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Serious recommendation guys:
Get your huge tarball now and get the patches one at a time, even if you don't recompile in between. The netload of a few hundred thousand people trying to get a 12-meg tarball all at the same time is going to be like nothing the internet has ever seen before. Get the major download over with now, get the patches as they come out, and then when the final patch-2.2.0.gz comes, apply it and recompile. This is going to be huger than the IE 4.0 release, mark my words. Let's show we know how to be better prepared than MS was.
On a side note, has anyone else noticed incredibly huge numbers of TCP checksum errors when trying to FTP something? I'm talking to Alan about this, but I'm sure we could use a few more case studies if anyone else has noticed the same problem.
Okay, one request first: anyone not using a 64K ISDN or faster connection, stay off this site until we let some people with real bandwidth get the files mirrored. And if you do have a fast connection, please offer yourself as a mirror. More mirrors == less strain on the servers.
And now the drumroll: go see my collection of movies (I have most of the ones from the site, but not the South Park one) at:
I have 18.5 megs of it on a server behind a T1, and I'm willing to let the/. effect on it if I can just get the rest of the movie. Email me please if I can get the other 1.5 megs from you.
This is yet another demonstration that flamewars and political infighting are the linux community's greatest weakness. We'll never achieve world domination if we keep killing each other. Kudos to Scoop for all his efforts so far, and Scoop, PLEASE DON'T LET THE TROLLS WIN
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It's funny that the chief point that Windows users raise for -- and can substantiate -- for MS superiority is that Windows has more games. Like that really matters to most people; I couldn't care less about playing Unreal or Quake or SiN or Half-Life or Heretic or Descent on a mission-critical server. At this point, you might as well take the money you save buying/running linux instead of Windows (especially now that we have legal precedence for abolishing the MS tax) and go get yourself an N64 and a very large screen TV.
If any of you RHAD guys read this, have you tried 007 multiplayer in you "off" hours? It's far more cathartic than Bomberman.
Hey all, Soren here. If you're using anything slower than a 128K ISDN GET OFF MY FTP SITE. Let this Quake III movie get spread around a little, and then move in. My T1 is at 98.7% and everything's going slow. Do the people with real connections a favor and let them get it first so they can mirror it.
Hmm, I guess John Carpenter missed that BugNET article. Or maybe "stuff" is his euphemism for "bug fixes."
I'm one year ahead of you in about the same position (graduating in June), and here's what I've found:
- MIT -- Duh. Good, expensive, a bit snobby, and not much other than technical fields
- Carnegie Mellon -- wishes it was MIT
- Cal Tech -- Again, very techie but not as snobby/expensive as MIT
- UC-Berkeley, Duke -- Good CS, also has many more diverse offerings
- Rensaeller, Cal Poly -- decent, but I didn't investigate too much
What I actually found (and I can be backed up by several sources) is two things: if you read and follow Slashdot, you already know more about computing than 50% of CS majors, and if you go to a good school (as you're likely to get in to), then you don't even need to be a CS major to get valuable computing experience. I am planning to do Biochem wherever I go next year (U of Chicago, Berkeley, or UW-Madison), with CS as either my minor or dual major. I stayed away from big-tech schools like MIT and CMU because they had little to offer outside of computing--British Literature is a possible major but nobody goes to MIT to write papers contrasting Pope and Swift. My recommendation: unless you're an absolute hard-core geek (like you'd wire a 100BaseT port to your brain to reduce keyboard lag), find a college you like and a major you like, and pick up computer experience as part of the fun of college (ie, play around with your box hooked up to the Ethernet, help other people, and mess with your accounts on the ancient UNIX systems most universities have). CS/EE tends to be one of the most obsessive majors; I know a few people who burned out so much in 4 years that they didn't want to get a job in it, but couldn't go anywhere else that paid well because that's all they knew.Dang it, I didn't realize I could be making $60k/year for linux admin! I'm still raking in single-digits-per-hour figures here. Child labor exploitation, that's what it is....
Well, with 322 comments and counting, I doubt anyone will read this. I am a HS senior and a certifiable (MCSE? Who needs it?) major computer geek. I could probably hit the market and pull in >$40k right now, straight out of school. But I'm still going on to college. Why? I'm looking forward to learning something other than geek stuff. Well-roundedness is good and my bottom line is not the sum of my existence, no matter what any industry reports say. Wish me luck!
... are by far the best training tools (plus they're cheap!). I've been a sysadmin at a decent-sized ISP since February. I started the job with basically no knowledge of networking and only a few month's occasional-use familiarity with linux. Now I've taught myself a glut of skills (see my resume) by messing around with the system, exploring, and lots of reading: manpages, mail archives, LDP, source code, anything. There's no better way to learn than by doing.
We're going to need to set up some sort of mirror network for this trailer. It's going to be huge, both in file size and in demand.
Serious recommendation guys:
Get your huge tarball now and get the patches one at a time, even if you don't recompile in between. The netload of a few hundred thousand people trying to get a 12-meg tarball all at the same time is going to be like nothing the internet has ever seen before. Get the major download over with now, get the patches as they come out, and then when the final patch-2.2.0.gz comes, apply it and recompile. This is going to be huger than the IE 4.0 release, mark my words. Let's show we know how to be better prepared than MS was.
On a side note, has anyone else noticed incredibly huge numbers of TCP checksum errors when trying to FTP something? I'm talking to Alan about this, but I'm sure we could use a few more case studies if anyone else has noticed the same problem.
Okay, one request first: anyone not using a 64K ISDN or faster connection, stay off this site until we let some people with real bandwidth get the files mirrored. And if you do have a fast connection, please offer yourself as a mirror. More mirrors == less strain on the servers.
/. effect.
And now the drumroll: go see my collection of movies (I have most of the ones from the site, but not the South Park one) at:
ftp://ftp.soren.cinternet.net/movies/
It's a 50-connections max site, so please remember the ground rules before you contribute to the
I have 18.5 megs of it on a server behind a T1, and I'm willing to let the /. effect on it if I can just get the rest of the movie. Email me please if I can get the other 1.5 megs from you.
This is yet another demonstration that flamewars and political infighting are the linux community's greatest weakness. We'll never achieve world domination if we keep killing each other. Kudos to Scoop for all his efforts so far, and Scoop, PLEASE DON'T LET THE TROLLS WIN
in /usr/src/linux/include/asm/param.h change
#ifndef HZ
#define HZ 100
#endif
to:
#ifndef HZ
#define HZ 1024
#endif
I don't know enough about kernel hacking to explain what the scheduler does exactly, but this helps a lot.