If a game won't install on the HD and insists on the CD being in the drive, please let me know before hand.
This is entirely irrelevant. If you're complaining because you can't install your program to the hard drive, and want your game to perform better, download a copy of Daemon Tools, rip the CD to ISO, copy the ISO to your hard drive, and play it from there.
If you're going to complain, complain about something that *can't* be remedied, or worked around.
...as I downloaded patches off of the net on a virgin XP install
Windows Update is nice for keeping up to date with all the patches for windows as they are released. But using it to patch a series of machines doing fresh installs is silly.
At the height of the Blaster worm, I had to reinstall Windows for a friend of mine. I connected to the net in order to update Window XP, and her machine was reinfected within five minutes of connecting: before the machine could be patched.
I learned my lesson. Here is a guide on how to slipstream an installation of Windows XP and SP1.
Although I wouldn't recommend it, you can also slipstream a copy of Windows SP2 Beta 1. When SP2 is finalized, I fully intend to create a slipstream version of that for the next time I have to reinstall windows somewhere.
See, this is why service packs are a Good Thing (TM).
Ah God...
AOL is a complete and total bitch when it comes to detecting spam.
My project Slashster, being a Friendster clone per se, sends out email recommendations from people on the site to others inviting them to join the site.
I found with Yahoo and Hotmail, that typically altering the email message not to include any sort of links (other than possibly slashster.com without the http://), typically allows the message to go through the filter. After all, most spam messages include some kind of tracking url in order to show where they came from. Right?
Not so with AOL. Pretty much any sort of attempt I do of sending an email through it have it flag up as spam. I suppose what happened was that someone hit the spam button for my site, and it was blacklisted.
It is possible to get whitelisted though. But you have to contact AOL in order to be part of the whitelist. You also need to fill out an application saying how many emails you plan on sending out a day, whatnot.
What kind of crap is this? I mean, they don't actually expect us to fill out an application for EVERY ISP out there that wants to lower spam. Ugh. Do I have to honestly write Hotmail, Yahoo, Earthlink, AOL, Adelphia, Comcast, and every other ISP / email provider out there to say "Hey, I'm not spam. Don't block me." or is there a better way? I doubt there's anything better.
It gets on my nerves, especially considering that I've started receiving mass emails from people who have invited me to Orkut. I haven't even joined that site yet, and of course, any sort of message from them does *NOT* show up as spam... Figures.
Note: I know some of you saying that sending Social Networking emails would be considered spam. I'm not sure if it could, after all, it's not the same email sent out to thousands of people. It's rather, one person sending another person a message, through my server. I know some of you will disagree, but eh.
Besides, I would find a remote control a better option than speech, since a remote control wouldn't force me to scream "NEXT SLIDE" across the room like an idiot before it recognizes what I'm saying.
Well, I for one have always wanted to scream NEXT PICTURE at the end of each slide, like Professor Butterhands.
Of course, nobody is going to get what I'm saying.
Sorry, no Janet Jackson or swimsuit pics in this article.
The poster to this story is pretty funny... I think most of us nerds here cared more about that dangling tit than anything else in the game. Then again... I think most everyone cares about the dangling tit more than the actual game.
History has a funny way of remembering things. If you don't believe me, think about how many people sum up the Clinton presidency into one word: blowjob.
But even if I didn't know anything about computer hardware and such, here's the part that I noticed that would raise the red flag:
There's no dynamic element to the webpage, whatsoever!!!
There's no shoppping cart system, at all! All that's there is a "buy now" paypal link on each of the product pages.
Maybe it's me, but using a third party processor like Paypal, Ibill, whatnot, holds against a company's legitimacy. Sadly, I'd be better off giving my credit card number over the net to another store because at least those who can process credit card orders through the web have a merchant account.
Places that have merchant accounts are very picky about chargebacks. A company like Michael's Computers wouldn't be able to have one for very long.
Why can't car companies make an electric car that doesn't look like a bad futuristic science fiction movie? I mean, why do they have to make it sooo ugly that people will only buy it on the principle of fuel economy?
I imagine, if car companies made models of cars that looked *exactly* the same as their gas counterparts, and only marginally more expensive, that people would be willing to start making the switch. Appearances are important when choosing a car, to some people. They want things that are sexy. Not cars that will prevent them from getting laid for the next 5-7 years.
Not like the average slashdotter thinks along those lines, eh?;)
In our infinite desire to please everyone we worked very closely with a company that could provide us with a truly Enterprise Class SQL stress application. We cannot reveal the identity of the Corporation that provided us with the application because of non-disclosure agreements in place.
Okay... So we know what kind of hardware they're testing against, but not knowing what kind of software they're benchmarking? "We're using an enterprise scenario" isn't good enough.
It's nice to look at pretty charts and all, but I imagine anyone who is going to investigate enterprise level solutions is going to want to know EXACTLY what this is being benchmarked on.
Even though I typically tend to trust Anandtech's outlook on things, I'm still kind of so-so on this review. Their forum test is not really externally reproducible and their enterprise test is too vague. I doubt any IT person would weigh this review too heavily when making a decision.
Then again, I could be wrong.
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Not sure why that was modded as funny, but thank you.
I am honestly more interested in making this a project, than a site. I have the site there primarily for testing. If slashster the site got really popular, and had a lot of users, it'd be beneficial for stress testing and the like.
What I'd really love to see are subculturish sites based off of this. Say for instance, college alumnus sites, that sort of thing.
To me, SlashCode is a lot more beneficial than Slashdot. After all, I guess if you don't like the way things are run on/., I guess there's the option of setting up my own place.
Then again, maybe I should have thought about that before complaining... Hmmm...
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...But some self-proclaimed doc stole the plutonium and left me a bunch of pinball machine parts.
Blow up dolls don't talk... not unless you put a tape recorder on them Teddy Ruxspin style. ;)
After you strap friggin' lasers on their heads.
This is entirely irrelevant. If you're complaining because you can't install your program to the hard drive, and want your game to perform better, download a copy of Daemon Tools, rip the CD to ISO, copy the ISO to your hard drive, and play it from there.
If you're going to complain, complain about something that *can't* be remedied, or worked around.
Windows Update is nice for keeping up to date with all the patches for windows as they are released. But using it to patch a series of machines doing fresh installs is silly.
At the height of the Blaster worm, I had to reinstall Windows for a friend of mine. I connected to the net in order to update Window XP, and her machine was reinfected within five minutes of connecting: before the machine could be patched.
I learned my lesson. Here is a guide on how to slipstream an installation of Windows XP and SP1.
Although I wouldn't recommend it, you can also slipstream a copy of Windows SP2 Beta 1. When SP2 is finalized, I fully intend to create a slipstream version of that for the next time I have to reinstall windows somewhere.
See, this is why service packs are a Good Thing (TM).
My project Slashster, being a Friendster clone per se, sends out email recommendations from people on the site to others inviting them to join the site.
I found with Yahoo and Hotmail, that typically altering the email message not to include any sort of links (other than possibly slashster.com without the http://), typically allows the message to go through the filter. After all, most spam messages include some kind of tracking url in order to show where they came from. Right?
Not so with AOL. Pretty much any sort of attempt I do of sending an email through it have it flag up as spam. I suppose what happened was that someone hit the spam button for my site, and it was blacklisted.
It is possible to get whitelisted though. But you have to contact AOL in order to be part of the whitelist. You also need to fill out an application saying how many emails you plan on sending out a day, whatnot.
What kind of crap is this? I mean, they don't actually expect us to fill out an application for EVERY ISP out there that wants to lower spam. Ugh. Do I have to honestly write Hotmail, Yahoo, Earthlink, AOL, Adelphia, Comcast, and every other ISP / email provider out there to say "Hey, I'm not spam. Don't block me." or is there a better way? I doubt there's anything better.
It gets on my nerves, especially considering that I've started receiving mass emails from people who have invited me to Orkut. I haven't even joined that site yet, and of course, any sort of message from them does *NOT* show up as spam... Figures.
Note: I know some of you saying that sending Social Networking emails would be considered spam. I'm not sure if it could, after all, it's not the same email sent out to thousands of people. It's rather, one person sending another person a message, through my server. I know some of you will disagree, but eh.
(Together at last)
Thank you Simpsons.
Well, I for one have always wanted to scream NEXT PICTURE at the end of each slide, like Professor Butterhands.
Of course, nobody is going to get what I'm saying.
Guess you didn't think that one through ;)
Now I know where the GNAA posts from.
At least I'd be getting health care and not be thrown out on the street.
So darl... Any allegations of SCO code being in "adduser"?
The poster to this story is pretty funny... I think most of us nerds here cared more about that dangling tit than anything else in the game. Then again... I think most everyone cares about the dangling tit more than the actual game.
History has a funny way of remembering things. If you don't believe me, think about how many people sum up the Clinton presidency into one word: blowjob.
What... with Hugo Weaving as an Alien in sunglasses?
The trolls are gonna love this one.
I couldn't find a FF1 airship picture handy, sorry. I know, I'm a bastard.
Unless it's powered with a FLOATER
There's no dynamic element to the webpage, whatsoever!!!
There's no shoppping cart system, at all! All that's there is a "buy now" paypal link on each of the product pages.
Maybe it's me, but using a third party processor like Paypal, Ibill, whatnot, holds against a company's legitimacy. Sadly, I'd be better off giving my credit card number over the net to another store because at least those who can process credit card orders through the web have a merchant account.
Places that have merchant accounts are very picky about chargebacks. A company like Michael's Computers wouldn't be able to have one for very long.
But will it keep all those GNAA posts out of slashdot? ;)
I think that writing a recipe section for a Gothic website has to definately be the low point of my programming career.
See, this is what I hate.
Why can't car companies make an electric car that doesn't look like a bad futuristic science fiction movie? I mean, why do they have to make it sooo ugly that people will only buy it on the principle of fuel economy?
I imagine, if car companies made models of cars that looked *exactly* the same as their gas counterparts, and only marginally more expensive, that people would be willing to start making the switch. Appearances are important when choosing a car, to some people. They want things that are sexy. Not cars that will prevent them from getting laid for the next 5-7 years.
Not like the average slashdotter thinks along those lines, eh? ;)
All hail the overlord!
In our infinite desire to please everyone we worked very closely with a company that could provide us with a truly Enterprise Class SQL stress application. We cannot reveal the identity of the Corporation that provided us with the application because of non-disclosure agreements in place.
Okay... So we know what kind of hardware they're testing against, but not knowing what kind of software they're benchmarking? "We're using an enterprise scenario" isn't good enough.
It's nice to look at pretty charts and all, but I imagine anyone who is going to investigate enterprise level solutions is going to want to know EXACTLY what this is being benchmarked on.
Even though I typically tend to trust Anandtech's outlook on things, I'm still kind of so-so on this review. Their forum test is not really externally reproducible and their enterprise test is too vague. I doubt any IT person would weigh this review too heavily when making a decision.
Then again, I could be wrong.
I am honestly more interested in making this a project, than a site. I have the site there primarily for testing. If slashster the site got really popular, and had a lot of users, it'd be beneficial for stress testing and the like.
What I'd really love to see are subculturish sites based off of this. Say for instance, college alumnus sites, that sort of thing.
To me, SlashCode is a lot more beneficial than Slashdot. After all, I guess if you don't like the way things are run on /., I guess there's the option of setting up my own place.
Then again, maybe I should have thought about that before complaining... Hmmm...
Sorry, I just don't see the need to spend hours looking over your code just to find out what does.
You can always just install it, which does not take hours and hours to do.
But you are right. I need a tour page.