The higher end server ethernet cards tend to do this automatically; they generally create a virtual NIC for the OS to use, then do it all transparently to the OS. This allows for clustering and for failover of NICs. Said highend cards are also often multiport.
Dells, for example, tend to use the Intel ones.
CTP was roundly excoriated as a buggy, poorly playtested game
Yes, I played it for exactly four minutes, and twenty-two seconds. The game design was actually less intelligent than Civ1, after 8 years.
And I still remember when the developers claimed, straight faced, that the phalanx-defeats-fighter jet phoenominon was 'the pilots falling asleep and crashing into hillsides' resulting in the little before known 'hypnotic phalanx' which could induce sleep.:-)
Only units with more movement points than their attackers will retreat. The first 'normal' unit with said ability is the Chariot, followed by the Horseman, then all the way up to the Knight. The chariot is crap, otherwise, the horseman has the same stats as the Jaguar Warrior. However, it requires the Horses strategic resource.
The downside, of course, being that when my little contenant was at war with the Greek (to the left) and the Zulu (to the right) and I teched up to Iron Working for my beloved Legionairres, there was NO BLOODY IRON on my map! Had JUST made it to gunpowder and started upgrading my SPEARMEN (no iron; no pikemen) to musketmen when the greek Knights (again; no iron, no knights) took my capital and started razing my cities.
Oh well; I think it's great. Guess what; sometimes you get the short end of the stick.
Otherwise the horse and buggy company could get an injunction against the car comapny for having a superior product.
As I recall, they pretty much did. There were some horrible, absolutely horrible, laws about stupid things horseless carriage drivers had to do, put in place by those who didn't want to see the old guard industries put out.
http://www.girder.nl.
And how long until we see Google just link to 'ask slashdot.' I mean, really. Come on.
Oh, and do a search for 'UIR' if you're handy with a soldering iron.
Allow users to delete data from their hard drive??? What a utterly novel concept.
It is when you consider that your average OS doesn't erase data, it merely unlinks it and forgets that it's there. The data still exists until overwritten.
Because, moron, as has been repeatedly pointed out among the clueful, computers aren't cars
So? Isn't it unfair to the aftermarket headlight makers? People won't buy aftermarket lights if the ones included are 'good enough' and that means the major car companies can shut out said aftermarket light makers using their unfair control over the vehicles.
I've had mixed experience with Dell support.
We got a Powervault 130T; four DLT IV drives, 28 DLT tape slots, and a roboarm. We got the four hour support option.
Well, it arrived broke. It took them three weeks, IIRC, to replace it. They said the four hour didn't apply, as it wasn't in production. That sucked.
Then, a month or two ago, the motherboard in the thing fried. So we called support. They had a replacement motherboard there in two hours, and a guy to install it an hour after that.
Wasn't a Dell guy, but they contract out lots.
The funniest crash I've seen is in the N64 game Conker's Bad Fur day. Don't read this if you don't like spoilers.
Towards the end, Conker is about to be killed by an "Aliens" xenomorph. Then it freezes. Solid. Conker looks around. Just his eyes move. Then he climbs out of the "Aliens" exoskeleton, looks around, and says something to the effect of 'oh look, a total freeze/lockup bug made it past the programmers." He then proceeds to blackmail the programmers (who interact with him through a green c:\ type prompt which appears on screen) to get rid of the beastie and give him cool things.
PlayStation and PlayStation II were not prone to crashing.
Ahhh selective memory. The PlayStation was VERY bad for crashing due to heat, for the first several hardware revs; I remember seing, for sale, units that were the size of a PS, and were nothing but two fans; you put your PS on top of it, and it blows up, improving the ventilation.
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Yes, but unfortunately, they know they're screwed either way, because the vast majority of the Slashdot community, no doubt because their parents still pay the bills, deeply and fervently believe that 'information wants to be free' and 'selling is wrong' and 'profit is for Microsoft, and Microsoft is EVIL.'
Oh, and they consider it a great personal triumph that they can download a piece of software that can interpret HTML and not render certain parts of it. Go you 1337 h4x0r5. And yet quite a few of them have no problem, according to the other comments, with paying 20 bucks a year for a subscription to a glossy magazine of ads, with the occasional article.
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Subscriptions that eliminate banner ads do not add much value for the purchaser especially in a technically savvy crowd like Slashdot where users that know how to install and configure JunkBuster [junkbuster.com] to get rid of ads abound.
Slashdot continues to exist. That enough value? Jesus Christ, do you have any idea how much the server hardware, bandwidth, and expertise to run this site cost in a month?
And at that point, you should have a cluster. Period.
No one box will have full uptime.
But wait, you say, what about a mainframe?
Well, a mainframe is just a cluster in a box. At a really really low level. So when you hotswap a CPU, you're just knocking out a cluster node.
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Civ3 has contoured maps. Elevations and terrain features affect strategies and combat. For example, positioning an artillery unit on top of a mountain will increase its range considerably.
And take a look, for example, at this screenshot
supporting SSM's contention. In specific, look at the red border of the city as it crosses the hills.
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Don't think so, cuz Civ3 has countoured maps; a hill is actually a hill, instead of a flat square with a hill picture. Think Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
Of course I will do what is asked. I am quirky, individual, driven, but am a team player. I also know how to make a point. The next time this sort of thing happens (which is often), I'll insist on being paid the OT in my contract. I'll also go back to making him personally call me when he needs help from me on my time when the operations team is unable to fix a problem.
You'd be surprised what a 'work to rule' campagain can do; especially if you can get the entire team to go for it.
For the non militarily inclined amoung us, REMF stands for Rear Echelon Mother Fucker, a breed of 'superior' officer known for generating stuipid orders that get the guys in the trenches killed.
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Sure there is a disparity in the tone of the reporting,
but I doubt it that it was consciously intentional.
That's what makes it all the worse.
1. You will note that while there is a report, there is already a fix for the linux 'bug'.
Well, as a counter example, code red's patch was out a month before code red. And why do you put the word 'bug' in quotes? Are you intimating that it's not actually a bug?
There are about 8 thousand (note artitrary figure) times more exploits on the Windoze platform. The normal reaction from M$ is to first disclaim and deny its existence, then proclaim that either it is not a bug at all or that it has no known security risks associated with it. Exploits by script kiddies go on for about 8 months before a patch might be out. By then it's too late.
Yeah, ok. Goes to character of the witness, your honor. Makes up figures and expects them to stick.
3. Note that outside of NT (and 2k server), there exist no privileged role to protect system resources. So you don't even have to go thru the trouble of a 'root' exploit to kill the computer. You can just do it thru an email.;-)
What? What does this have to do with how Linux bugs are reported versus Windows 2000/XP/NT bugs? Try to at least compare fruit to fruit, as opposed to comparing fruit to animals. Apples to oranges is a luxury, however.
Windows NT (now known as 2000 or XP) has always had a POSIX subsystem, and only recently lost the OS/2 subsystem.
As originally designed, NT was a full microkernal, and was supposed to run EVERYTHING through an abstraction layer; write a "Windows NT" program and it would just run on your MIPS copy, or PowerPC copy, or x86 copy. At the time, computers were too slow to do the translation.
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The higher end server ethernet cards tend to do this automatically; they generally create a virtual NIC for the OS to use, then do it all transparently to the OS. This allows for clustering and for failover of NICs. Said highend cards are also often multiport. Dells, for example, tend to use the Intel ones.
Only units with more movement points than their attackers will retreat. The first 'normal' unit with said ability is the Chariot, followed by the Horseman, then all the way up to the Knight. The chariot is crap, otherwise, the horseman has the same stats as the Jaguar Warrior. However, it requires the Horses strategic resource.
The downside, of course, being that when my little contenant was at war with the Greek (to the left) and the Zulu (to the right) and I teched up to Iron Working for my beloved Legionairres, there was NO BLOODY IRON on my map! Had JUST made it to gunpowder and started upgrading my SPEARMEN (no iron; no pikemen) to musketmen when the greek Knights (again; no iron, no knights) took my capital and started razing my cities. Oh well; I think it's great. Guess what; sometimes you get the short end of the stick.
Dreamcast's 'killer app list' includes Soul Calibur, which was a launch title. And is widely considered to still be one of the best titles available.
http://www.girder.nl. And how long until we see Google just link to 'ask slashdot.' I mean, really. Come on. Oh, and do a search for 'UIR' if you're handy with a soldering iron.
I've had mixed experience with Dell support. We got a Powervault 130T; four DLT IV drives, 28 DLT tape slots, and a roboarm. We got the four hour support option. Well, it arrived broke. It took them three weeks, IIRC, to replace it. They said the four hour didn't apply, as it wasn't in production. That sucked. Then, a month or two ago, the motherboard in the thing fried. So we called support. They had a replacement motherboard there in two hours, and a guy to install it an hour after that. Wasn't a Dell guy, but they contract out lots.
Oh, for Somebody's sake. It contains two fans, which are oriented horizontally, resulting in an airflow upwards.
The funniest crash I've seen is in the N64 game Conker's Bad Fur day. Don't read this if you don't like spoilers. Towards the end, Conker is about to be killed by an "Aliens" xenomorph. Then it freezes. Solid. Conker looks around. Just his eyes move. Then he climbs out of the "Aliens" exoskeleton, looks around, and says something to the effect of 'oh look, a total freeze/lockup bug made it past the programmers." He then proceeds to blackmail the programmers (who interact with him through a green c:\ type prompt which appears on screen) to get rid of the beastie and give him cool things.
Yes, but unfortunately, they know they're screwed either way, because the vast majority of the Slashdot community, no doubt because their parents still pay the bills, deeply and fervently believe that 'information wants to be free' and 'selling is wrong' and 'profit is for Microsoft, and Microsoft is EVIL.' Oh, and they consider it a great personal triumph that they can download a piece of software that can interpret HTML and not render certain parts of it. Go you 1337 h4x0r5. And yet quite a few of them have no problem, according to the other comments, with paying 20 bucks a year for a subscription to a glossy magazine of ads, with the occasional article.
Or edit boot.ini and just use the nt boot loader
And at that point, you should have a cluster. Period. No one box will have full uptime. But wait, you say, what about a mainframe? Well, a mainframe is just a cluster in a box. At a really really low level. So when you hotswap a CPU, you're just knocking out a cluster node.
Don't think so, cuz Civ3 has countoured maps; a hill is actually a hill, instead of a flat square with a hill picture. Think Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
For the non militarily inclined amoung us, REMF stands for Rear Echelon Mother Fucker, a breed of 'superior' officer known for generating stuipid orders that get the guys in the trenches killed.
Windows NT (now known as 2000 or XP) has always had a POSIX subsystem, and only recently lost the OS/2 subsystem. As originally designed, NT was a full microkernal, and was supposed to run EVERYTHING through an abstraction layer; write a "Windows NT" program and it would just run on your MIPS copy, or PowerPC copy, or x86 copy. At the time, computers were too slow to do the translation.