I do play games other than shmups and racing games. I like to play oldschool battlechess again and again and again until the computer wins. I love those pixilated THO's* the queen gets when she's about to take something.
* - Titty Hard On
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Played fine on mplayer for me. Pathetic rhymes and all. Too bad it's too big to fit on an AOL floppy or I'd share it with all my friends. Maybe AOL will start putting out their crap on CDRW's and I'll be able to share stuff again.
to play donkey kong for 10 minutes, let alone two hours. Now, give donkey kong a railgun or put him in a racecar and let me play against some human victims and I could play for 36 straight hours.
They are about to buy off the whole damn country. This will make Bush's meager tax money payoff seem like peanuts to the microsoft stock owning public. Well, I have to give them credit. If they can afford to part with 10 billion, this is a great way to purchase good will.
I totally agree. I'd like to see tabbed browsing in IE. I'd like to see mplayer be improved to the point that it's as good as microsoft media player. Some people hate the new media player 9, but I actually like it aside from the mild privacy issues.
I can see where you are coming from. I guess what I should have said was, now innovative is it to do something that UNIX and unixish OS's have been doing forever? And yeah, I'm mighty biased. I admit it. I could have put more thought into my pointless reply to an AC instead of reacting. On the other hand, I didn't directly link the window manager issue with the multi-language issue. You fabricated that on your own. So your point has no relevance no matter how biased I am.:) It does tend to highlight the lack of intellect and "fishing for fact" bias you displayed in your pointless reply to my non-AC posting.:)
3) Office Suites. AMAZING! How old is this one? What have they really changed other than introducing incompatabilities with other office suites and changing standards and file formats?
4) Multi-language Programming Framework. How many languages do you need? What purpose does this really serve? Is this really innovation?
5) A whole bunch of crap that failed. I'd only add, and a whole bunch of crap nobody really needed in the first place that was marketed to death until accepted.
If I am not mistaken, Linux/OSS is the only place anything new is happening. With a wide range of window manager choices as far and wide and varied as snowflakes. With applications that aren't copies so much as work-alikes, each with their own features that make them better than the so called originals they are copying. You simply can't talk about something like this with no actual experience. It's high time people like yourselves take the time to get familiar with the subject matter instead of regurgitating everything you read coming from the FUD mills.
Pretend web caching. That's where you: mv hellworld.c superduperwebcacherino.c and charge joe cluelesscorp 25 grand for it. It's so perfect you don't even have to reconfigure your browsers! Then you go to mexico and live like a king for 3 years before coming back with a new identity and patent pretend IDS.
Not that I usually reply to a well written flame from an anonymous coward but,
You actually made an excellent counterpoint to my "sympathy for the fucking geek bastards" post as you so eloquently put it. The attitude you have is precisely the reason so many high quality people, by my definition anyway, are out of work.
They are replaced by the people that pass the HR litmus test. It used to be that a real UNIX department told HR they were hiring people and HR went along with it because they realized they had no clue how to decide who was good and who wasn't. Then with the tech market disaster, PHB's and other non-technical managers were able to take advantage of the situation by making sure that only a certain type of person would make it into their tech department ranks. No more individuals. Instead, cookie cutter personnel. Fine young republicans that would have the important qualities you look for in an employee like good Caddy skills and the ability to shine shoes and do cost-benefit analysis and make a good pot of coffee when told to do so. They gave HR complete power. HR was thrilled because it was easy for them to weed out the 'undesirables' and pick the finest yes men out of the wind driven drifts of resumes coming in. So now we have exactly what you said. Admins, coders, and developers that do "EXACTLY what they are told". So when marketing comes up with some shit insane idea that will never work and is doomed to fail, they will do the best they can AND take the blame when it does fail because that's what they are supposed to do. And they will get their skinny asses fired. That's the way things work now. Is that really better? When the "pimple farming pork vacuum assholes" (pork vacuum is fucking hilarious btw, I'm stealing it) were in charge of the IT departments of the world, they'd be very vocal about stupidity coming from the non-tech elite. Now it doesn't matter. IT is the guinea pig cum scapegoat for a lot of companys. They can always fire the whole department and outsource to india. In the end, the company that comes up with the middle road between my argument and yours is the one that will succeed. There just aren't very many out there doing much more than taking advantage of the current tech decline by seriously underpaying half-talented suite wearing yes men that will do what they are told and self destruct and fall on their swords like good corporate lapdogs.:)
Usually has to do with overzealous abuse people that are heavily overworked accidentally concluding that a forged return address is a guilty party. The other common cause is running any older versions of netscape's shitty email server software.:) I have no idea why so many people fork out so much money for this single-threaded piece of crap. It's like having an open-relay that you close 9 billion times, but the latch is broken.
I actually expected this. A project as brilliant as Gentoo was probably going to follow in the footsteps of FreeBSD. So now they have their Guido. Big surprise. It's kinda like how The Smashing Pumpkins did/do/whatever nothing but fight nonstop, but put out goodness. Same thing goes for The Pixies until they broke up in 91. You need those premadonna's though. They fire up everyone else enough by either inspiration or plain pissing them off to get to the really interesting aspects of people. People end up doing things that they never expected. Like say, donating 5 machines for the cause. You need people with these questionable methods and morals running the show. A blowjob in the oval office happens. Look how great openbsd is. I'm from the school of UNIX where Admins were Gods. You treated them like gold. Heads of other departments kissed your ass or you didn't do shit for them. Sometimes I really miss those days *sniff!*. You can argue til you are blue in the face that you can't run a business that way. Those fat smelly hippy geeks didn't deserve those huge salaries and aerialon chairs and insane levels of power, but is it really better now? Open Source projects are one of the last places someone that wants to get their power on can find refuge. It's one of the few places they can get the loyalty and admiration they feel they rightly deserve for being the type of God necessary to pull of the types of things necessary to make something as stunningly beautiful as Gentoo. Let them have their lame tantrums. Let them play God and cuss people out and ignore the lusers. As long as they keep doing the kinds of things that will allow them to get away with it. I, for one, miss the stuck up asshole admin/coder/developer. He was always a great friend as long as you were clueful and didn't ask stupid fucking questions you could find the answer too in 5 minutes on your own. If we didn't live in a culture the constantly rewarded mediocrity and scorned intelligence, they wouldn't act that way because they wouldn't have too.
Pocket PCs boast 128 MB SDRAM, built-in Wi-Fi and MPEG4 video and audio streaming and capture capabilities. The new devices are also equipped with software...
We are rapidly approaching a handheld porn creation studio!
It is official; IBM confirms: SCO is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO community when IDC confirmed that SCO market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent IBM survey which plainly states that SCO has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Microsoft Zealot to predict SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
unixware is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time unixware developers only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: unixware is dying.
All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
Maybe I lucked out in regards to my mouse choice. I have a logitech mx300 that I took apart and removed the internal metal weight from. For rails, it's important to have the lightest mouse possible. This disqualifies anything cordless. Starting with the mx300, Logitech started using their 800dpi technology optical sensors borrowed from their then recent wireless optical mouseman line. So you get the benefit of the higher resolution, without the battery weight. As for the settings in my mouse section of my XF86Config, they look like this:
The only thing profound in there is the SampleRate line. It may or may not even be making a difference. I've always included it. All I know is my mouse is a hell of a lot smoother under linux. I use 125 because that's supposed to be the maximum speed that USB communicates with the mouse. Hope this helps.
I dual boot XP and Gentoo. I keep both of them very up to date. I LOVE quake3 arena railgun only mods. You can't begin to compare the difference between quake3 under linux and XP using nVidia cards. I get higher fps, better pings, smoother gameplay, and the mouse feels at least 5 times better under Gentoo. That's just how it is. I spent a week trying to tweak quake3 under XP to get it to play better than it does on Gentoo because I was CONVINCED it should play better on XP. Well, it doesn't. Fixed the stuck at 60hz issue. Still not as good. Installed Logitech drivers instead of using default XP mouse drivers. Still not as good. Hacked my registery to tweak my mouse more. STILL feels like shit compared to Gentoo. Now take all that information and understand it applies to UT2003 also from my experience. Quake3 and UT2003 have such vastly superior gameplay under Gentoo than they do under XP, I honestly feel I have an unfair advantage when I'm up against the win32 crowd. The fact that I usually win the server with a 100ms ping speaks volumes. I can't wait to have the same unfair advantage with Doom3.
I think it happened because it was supposed to in my case. A large part of the admin work I've had in the past involved task automation. I worked for a very 'frugal' employer that wasn't interested in spending money for anything. Over time, the projects I spent time on got increasingly complex. What started out in the early years as mostly writing simple perl glue code to make product A talk to product B snowballed into writing full shopping cart programs in C. I made the jump to developer when I was tasked to write custom web-based applications for internal customers on the fly utilizing full project life cycles. Eventually the projects got big enough that I required a team of underlings to help me code my visions. I ended up doing less and less admin work, and more straight developing until that's all I was doing. I guess the best advice I can give is a two parter.
#1. Make damn sure you are the kind of person that can sit down and puke up X number of lines of half decent code in X number of hours without going insane eventually. Developing isn't for everyone. To be honest it ultimately wasn't for me and I burned out on it.
#2 Help out. Speak up and get yourself involved with a team working on something that interests you. If that doesn't work, give some of your time to a well chosen open source project. I've seen plenty of developer wannabe's get instant attention and admiration by putting in time with an open source project that directly benefits the company they work for. It's a great way to get noticed.
$exyGrl is actually a bored 56 year old plumber from upstate newyork with a huge beergut and a love for wearing women's lingerie. There are no real women on the net. It's a conspiracy.
There you go again. Please stop being so predictable. Pray away the gay zulux. You know full well I'm using the word 'gay' in the common "same thing as lame" meaning. I'm sure you've been called it enough times to know.
As gay as it was posting your lame c-64 reply, posting again as an anonymous coward in some pathetic attempt to show support for your gay cause is even more gay. You really need help.
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don't get me wrong,
I do play games other than shmups and racing games.
I like to play oldschool battlechess again and again
and again until the computer wins. I love those
pixilated THO's* the queen gets when she's about
to take something.
* - Titty Hard On
Played fine on mplayer for me. Pathetic rhymes and
all. Too bad it's too big to fit on an AOL floppy or
I'd share it with all my friends. Maybe AOL will
start putting out their crap on CDRW's and I'll be
able to share stuff again.
to play donkey kong for 10 minutes, let alone two
hours. Now, give donkey kong a railgun or put him
in a racecar and let me play against some human
victims and I could play for 36 straight hours.
Cool. Then it will be an even better deal for 3
bucks when I rent it with Hulk.
They are about to buy off the whole damn country.
This will make Bush's meager tax money payoff seem
like peanuts to the microsoft stock owning public.
Well, I have to give them credit. If they can afford
to part with 10 billion, this is a great way to
purchase good will.
I totally agree. I'd like to see tabbed browsing
in IE. I'd like to see mplayer be improved to the
point that it's as good as microsoft media player.
Some people hate the new media player 9, but I
actually like it aside from the mild privacy issues.
cd /usr/portage/app-games/
/usr/ports/games
ls
on Gentoo
OR
cd
ls
on *BSD
has a TON of free games. Albeit, they are mostly
highly offensive games.
4) Multi-language Programming Framework.
:) It does :)
I can see where you are coming from. I guess what
I should have said was, now innovative is it to
do something that UNIX and unixish OS's have been
doing forever? And yeah, I'm mighty biased. I
admit it. I could have put more thought into my
pointless reply to an AC instead of reacting.
On the other hand, I didn't directly link the
window manager issue with the multi-language issue.
You fabricated that on your own. So your point has
no relevance no matter how biased I am.
tend to highlight the lack of intellect and
"fishing for fact" bias you displayed in your
pointless reply to my non-AC posting.
1) Tablet PC.
Yeah, GRiD did that 15 years ago
2) SQL as a File System.
Why bother?
3) Office Suites.
AMAZING! How old is this one? What have they really
changed other than introducing incompatabilities
with other office suites and changing standards
and file formats?
4) Multi-language Programming Framework.
How many languages do you need? What purpose
does this really serve? Is this really innovation?
5) A whole bunch of crap that failed.
I'd only add, and a whole bunch of crap nobody
really needed in the first place that was
marketed to death until accepted.
If I am not mistaken, Linux/OSS is the only place
anything new is happening. With a wide range
of window manager choices as far and wide
and varied as snowflakes. With applications
that aren't copies so much as work-alikes, each
with their own features that make them better than
the so called originals they are copying. You
simply can't talk about something like this with
no actual experience. It's high time people like
yourselves take the time to get familiar with the
subject matter instead of regurgitating everything
you read coming from the FUD mills.
Pretend web caching. That's where you:
mv hellworld.c superduperwebcacherino.c and charge
joe cluelesscorp 25 grand for it. It's so perfect
you don't even have to reconfigure your browsers!
Then you go to mexico and live like a king for
3 years before coming back with a new identity
and patent pretend IDS.
Not that I usually reply to a well written flame
:)
from an anonymous coward but,
You actually made an excellent counterpoint to my
"sympathy for the fucking geek bastards" post as
you so eloquently put it. The attitude you have is
precisely the reason so many high quality people,
by my definition anyway, are out of work.
They are replaced by the people that pass the HR
litmus test. It used to be that a real UNIX
department told HR they were hiring people and HR
went along with it because they realized they had
no clue how to decide who was good and who wasn't.
Then with the tech market disaster, PHB's and
other non-technical managers were able to take
advantage of the situation by making sure that
only a certain type of person would make it into
their tech department ranks. No more individuals.
Instead, cookie cutter personnel. Fine young
republicans that would have the important
qualities you look for in an employee like good
Caddy skills and the ability to shine shoes and
do cost-benefit analysis and make a good pot of
coffee when told to do so. They gave HR complete
power. HR was thrilled because it was easy for
them to weed out the 'undesirables' and pick the
finest yes men out of the wind driven drifts of
resumes coming in. So now we have exactly what
you said. Admins, coders, and developers that do
"EXACTLY what they are told". So when marketing
comes up with some shit insane idea that will
never work and is doomed to fail, they will do
the best they can AND take the blame when it does
fail because that's what they are supposed to do.
And they will get their skinny asses fired. That's
the way things work now. Is that really better?
When the "pimple farming pork vacuum assholes"
(pork vacuum is fucking hilarious btw, I'm
stealing it) were in charge of the IT departments
of the world, they'd be very vocal about stupidity
coming from the non-tech elite. Now it doesn't
matter. IT is the guinea pig cum scapegoat for
a lot of companys. They can always fire the whole
department and outsource to india. In the end,
the company that comes up with the middle road
between my argument and yours is the one that
will succeed. There just aren't very many out
there doing much more than taking advantage of
the current tech decline by seriously underpaying
half-talented suite wearing yes men that will
do what they are told and self destruct and
fall on their swords like good corporate lapdogs.
Usually has to do with overzealous abuse people :)
that are heavily overworked accidentally concluding
that a forged return address is a guilty party.
The other common cause is running any older versions
of netscape's shitty email server software.
I have no idea why so many people fork out so much
money for this single-threaded piece of crap. It's
like having an open-relay that you close 9 billion
times, but the latch is broken.
I actually expected this. A project as brilliant as
Gentoo was probably going to follow in the footsteps
of FreeBSD. So now they have their Guido. Big
surprise. It's kinda like how The Smashing Pumpkins
did/do/whatever nothing but fight nonstop, but put
out goodness. Same thing goes for The Pixies until
they broke up in 91. You need those premadonna's
though. They fire up everyone else enough by either
inspiration or plain pissing them off to get to the
really interesting aspects of people. People end up
doing things that they never expected. Like say,
donating 5 machines for the cause. You need people
with these questionable methods and morals running
the show. A blowjob in the oval office happens.
Look how great openbsd is. I'm from the school of
UNIX where Admins were Gods. You treated them like
gold. Heads of other departments kissed your ass
or you didn't do shit for them. Sometimes I really
miss those days *sniff!*. You can argue til you
are blue in the face that you can't run a business
that way. Those fat smelly hippy geeks didn't
deserve those huge salaries and aerialon chairs
and insane levels of power, but is it really
better now? Open Source projects are one of the
last places someone that wants to get their
power on can find refuge. It's one of the few
places they can get the loyalty and admiration
they feel they rightly deserve for being the
type of God necessary to pull of the types of
things necessary to make something as stunningly
beautiful as Gentoo. Let them have their lame
tantrums. Let them play God and cuss people out
and ignore the lusers. As long as they keep doing
the kinds of things that will allow them to get
away with it. I, for one, miss the stuck up
asshole admin/coder/developer. He was always
a great friend as long as you were clueful and
didn't ask stupid fucking questions you could find
the answer too in 5 minutes on your own. If we
didn't live in a culture the constantly rewarded
mediocrity and scorned intelligence, they wouldn't
act that way because they wouldn't have too.
Pocket PCs boast 128 MB SDRAM, built-in Wi-Fi and MPEG4 video and audio streaming and capture capabilities. The new devices are also equipped with software...
We are rapidly approaching a handheld porn creation studio!
It is official; IBM confirms: SCO is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO community when IDC confirmed that SCO market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent IBM survey which plainly states that SCO has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Microsoft Zealot to predict SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
unixware is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time unixware developers only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: unixware is dying.
All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
Fact: SCO is dying
it's called lasertag.
wouldn't get a large number of people shot by
police officers.
Maybe I lucked out in regards to my mouse choice.
I have a logitech mx300 that I took apart and
removed the internal metal weight from. For rails,
it's important to have the lightest mouse possible.
This disqualifies anything cordless. Starting with
the mx300, Logitech started using their 800dpi
technology optical sensors borrowed from their
then recent wireless optical mouseman line. So
you get the benefit of the higher resolution,
without the battery weight. As for the settings
in my mouse section of my XF86Config, they
look like this:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "SampleRate" "125"
EndSection
The only thing profound in there is the SampleRate
line. It may or may not even be making a
difference. I've always included it. All I know
is my mouse is a hell of a lot smoother under
linux. I use 125 because that's supposed to be
the maximum speed that USB communicates with
the mouse. Hope this helps.
I dual boot XP and Gentoo. I keep both of them
very up to date. I LOVE quake3 arena railgun only
mods. You can't begin to compare the difference
between quake3 under linux and XP using nVidia
cards. I get higher fps, better pings, smoother
gameplay, and the mouse feels at least 5 times
better under Gentoo. That's just how it is.
I spent a week trying to tweak quake3 under XP
to get it to play better than it does on Gentoo
because I was CONVINCED it should play better on
XP. Well, it doesn't. Fixed the stuck at 60hz
issue. Still not as good. Installed Logitech
drivers instead of using default XP mouse
drivers. Still not as good. Hacked my registery
to tweak my mouse more. STILL feels like shit
compared to Gentoo. Now take all that information
and understand it applies to UT2003 also from
my experience. Quake3 and UT2003 have such
vastly superior gameplay under Gentoo than they
do under XP, I honestly feel I have an unfair
advantage when I'm up against the win32 crowd.
The fact that I usually win the server with
a 100ms ping speaks volumes. I can't wait to
have the same unfair advantage with Doom3.
to clarify, it was a FreeBSD x86 server. The
largest ftp site in the world.
I think it happened because it was supposed to in
my case. A large part of the admin work I've had
in the past involved task automation. I worked for
a very 'frugal' employer that wasn't interested in
spending money for anything. Over time, the projects
I spent time on got increasingly complex. What
started out in the early years as mostly writing
simple perl glue code to make product A talk to
product B snowballed into writing full shopping cart
programs in C. I made the jump to developer when I
was tasked to write custom web-based applications
for internal customers on the fly utilizing full
project life cycles. Eventually the projects got
big enough that I required a team of underlings
to help me code my visions. I ended up doing less
and less admin work, and more straight developing
until that's all I was doing. I guess the best
advice I can give is a two parter.
#1. Make damn sure you are the kind of person that
can sit down and puke up X number of lines of
half decent code in X number of hours without
going insane eventually. Developing isn't for
everyone. To be honest it ultimately wasn't for me
and I burned out on it.
#2 Help out. Speak up and get yourself involved
with a team working on something that interests
you. If that doesn't work, give some of your time
to a well chosen open source project. I've seen
plenty of developer wannabe's get instant
attention and admiration by putting in time with
an open source project that directly benefits
the company they work for. It's a great way to
get noticed.
Hope this helps
$exyGrl is actually a bored 56 year old plumber
from upstate newyork with a huge beergut and a love
for wearing women's lingerie. There are no real
women on the net. It's a conspiracy.
There you go again. Please stop being so predictable.
Pray away the gay zulux. You know full well I'm
using the word 'gay' in the common "same thing
as lame" meaning. I'm sure you've been called it
enough times to know.
As gay as it was posting your lame c-64 reply,
posting again as an anonymous coward in some
pathetic attempt to show support for your gay
cause is even more gay. You really need help.