Muds are obsolete? only if you have no imagination. I dislike EQ and others compared to certain MUDs as to the amazing ability of the best monitor in the world: Imagination.
MCL for Windows. ZMud Free for Windows (They have a free version up) mushclient for Windows gmud for windows
I have an updated version. Erwin was helpful and we were able to update my MCL to Mandrake 9.1. If you are interested I can talk to Erwin about maintaining it.
Running a successful Mud for a bit I have come into plenty of clients.
MCL - Mud Client from Erwin Andreasen. Those in the ROM field know Erwins great work on signals, copyover etc. MCL is just incredible. Link: http://www.andreasen.org/mcl/
Zmud - www.zuggsoft.com - Free clients are decent but still not as overwhelmingly powerful for Windows as Zmud.
Zmud is by far the most used, followed by Gmud and the Java Telnet clients we have on our website.
Just go to google or freshmeat and search. Its more fun checking around than just taking our word for it.
Well.. may as well plug the mud as well www.mageslair.net - Welcome to the Addiction.
I am always very careful whenever I post anywhere. Anything that comes close to my job or interests that my job affects. If you have not learned that management of your company may find your notes somewhere.
Years ago, I posted something similiar in an abject statement during my job, that I was supposed to address. Without going into specifics we got threatened to be sued because of FACTUAL statements. I did not get fired but was forced to post a retraction.
If what you say is true, and part of your job to say such things.. and you still get smacked.. its time to move to something different.
Problem? There is very little jobs out there that are that isolated that you can avoid such issues.
I get both CGW and PCGamer. but PCGamer also gives glowing reviews to steaming piles of crap.
However, they get on these bandwagons of bad games.. It seems they dont understand genre's at times and like Pool of Radiance, a strict slow dungeon crawl, was considered not fun. Heck it was a blast.. but I like those games.
SUN has reportedly bought a license. So big Unix writers are doing it.
I would figure that HP would have bought a license for HPUX anyways, as SUN would for SOlaris. Both of which more than likely would infringe more than Linux since they are direct UNIX variances.
For the original GUI master and for the ease of use..
BXPro and Viewkit that lives on Top of OpenMotif 2.2.
http://www.openmotif.org
Sun/HP and so many more platforms already have GUI builders using the UIL programming language. BXPro/Uimx/Sun Workshop/etc.. Motif is alive and strong.
If I download mp3 tracks (worse quality) and have a scratched, piece of crap CD that has the same song.. am I not just backing the Music up? or replacing it?
How many CD's, Disks, etc have I lost to time? I purchased the content... does the media have to be purchased constantly and REpurchasing content?
If Only I could find some of the nice things I had years ago... alas.. they are degraded.
bring up mozilla. put it down in Windows and minimize it. wait say 30 minutes.. and try accessing it again.. takes over 30 seconds before you can address it.
Unlike IE.. which is instant.
Please oh please stop adding features and make it fast! It had enough features now!
1. Find a game that you can play at lunch. Request your company get a Ping Pong table or a Foosball table. Believe it or not, they are activities that help.
2. NO SODA. Water WATER WATER water.
3. Meat based sandwitches for lunch, no CARBS. Keep carbs low.
4. Decent dinner but try and keep PASTAS and Potatoes and BREAD low.
5. Did I mention no SODA's?
6. Get into a Duffer Softball League. It helps.
Sugar and Grains = FAT for us Computer Programmer Geek Types.
Down from 330 to 290 using this in 3 months. WEEEEEEEEE
- You could not program your way outta a hello world contest.
There have been many instances of Open Source theft by companies as well as others taking "credit" where it is not due. Does the DOJ just go after those it is politically pressured to go after? In other words, because a individual developer is not making direct money does this affect your stances on IP law?
Also, how do you feel about the DOJ under George W. Bush dropping the Microsoft case like a Hot Potatoe and selling out to a settlement which is now being flaunted by Microsft right now?
Re:This will be resolved in the courts
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Your knowledge is NOT, repeat, NOT copywritable. Just because you know a technique for doing something that enhances things does not mean its bad.
You are HIRED for your knowledge of say.. a SONAR. Well, most sonars work very similiar.. sending a beam of energy into the water and reading the return energy. By saying that you know there is differences in the reflective properties of WATER due to tempature.. does not mean that information is COPYWRITABLE.
This has to do with the way the VM is saved. We have tried very hard to get a true CC Linux for our contracts but the "Secure" OS needs the following:
A page of memory when freed must be cleared. This includes Virtual memory saved to disk or even laying around in memory.
Linux current does not have this. Sorry folks.
Because I like you guys, here is Alan Cox's response to an email concerning this very issue:
------------- > 1. When a process removes itself/crashes: is the memory blocks zeroed out > and then free'd, or does the data still remain in memory just marked free?
It remains in memory, but it will be cleared before being given to another process if it was private memory. Much of a process of course is shared pages in read only format (eg the binary). These pages are simply shared and reused. If a process wrote to a copy of such a page it got a private copy which will not be given back to someone else.
> 2. When swapping to disk and you read the block into memory and clean it > (Zero it out), does the block on disk get immediatly updated or is it just > marked "free" and still has the data on disk?
Linux like most OS's does a lazy rewrite when swapping. When you swap something back into memory it is left on disk as if we have to swap it out again it saves writing it back to disk once more. Again when we allocate new memory to a process we erase the data so a new task always sees empty disk blocks and empty memory (subject to there being no bugs as is always the case).
The disk case is more complex. There are situations that ext2/ext3 like the BSD UFS may expose data after a crash/restart. The ext3 file system supports a slightly slower performing mode that guarantees this won't happen.
Alan Cox ---------------
What does this mean? It means Linux needs a lot of work before it has CC.
LordMage - Working to better yourself.
Rules based Gaming.
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I have always wondered what the main difference between computer gaming and Pen and Paper gaming. The difference is the assumed rules. If we can set up a universe that has a really good predefined set of rules, like "if (breathing) then alive" etc, then we could put together a real universe.
I remember experimenting with Prolog which is not a set functional language but a rules-based language. By constantly checking the rules you can generate new rules and build a universe (genetically, nuerally).
Our minds are rule based, while our problem solving is sequential. This is the difference and I am glad these people are working on it.
Double Jeopardy is a foundation of our consitution. It includes "What could be lesser included charges" because it is based on the OFFENSE (time frame being within a set bounds) not on the laws you are to be tried with.
The case where the guy and his ex-gf kills his wife. They find him not guilty and then they find pictures of the actual crime being committed. Sure hes guilty, but he never went to jail on the murder (They did get him on perjury charges).
For all the crap about the DMCA and the laws and such in the US, I am so glad we have Double Jeopardy and the right to be tried by our peers. We can get off by jury nullifaction and say "SCREW YOU GOVERNEMENT, the COUNTRY wanted it this way" while in other countries, you can be tried until the government gets you.
I use parasoft's Insure++ product. This is a current "Super Memory Debugger" and has a lot of seriously nice features. I did a study and found that Insure++ did find more errors than Purify and since Insure++ was crossplatform to Linux, I was able to convince my company to switch.
Is it me? or are we missing a serious point here: Software was not delivered as promised. This causes lawsuits in itself. If a company promises SW at Time X, and fails to deliver, they incur penalties.
If Sendo was at fault on the SW delays, then MS has a recourse. If MS failed to deliver then MS side of the deal is invalid and anything they learned from that deal is considered "recoverable" and sendo has a right to recover the costs of the trade secret value.
Yes.. SW delays can cause companies to get sued. The US government penalizes thier contractors all the time
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Slight mistake.
I meant MCL for Linux.
Mud Clients are a dime a dozen. Those listed are the most used.
Tintin++ and tinyfugue are archiac versions of what MCL is.
Muds are obsolete? only if you have no imagination. I dislike EQ and others compared to certain MUDs as to the amazing ability of the best monitor in the world: Imagination.
MCL for Windows.
ZMud Free for Windows (They have a free version up)
mushclient for Windows
gmud for windows
You can get help from others when you use these.
I have an updated version. Erwin was helpful and we were able to update my MCL to Mandrake 9.1. If you are interested I can talk to Erwin about maintaining it.
:)
Its a great client and his site is up:
http://www.andreasen.org/mcl/
Use it
Running a successful Mud for a bit I have come into plenty of clients.
MCL - Mud Client from Erwin Andreasen. Those in the ROM field know Erwins great work on signals, copyover etc. MCL is just incredible. Link: http://www.andreasen.org/mcl/
Zmud - www.zuggsoft.com - Free clients are decent but still not as overwhelmingly powerful for Windows as Zmud.
Zmud is by far the most used, followed by Gmud and the Java Telnet clients we have on our website.
Just go to google or freshmeat and search. Its more fun checking around than just taking our word for it.
Well.. may as well plug the mud as well
www.mageslair.net - Welcome to the Addiction.
I am always very careful whenever I post anywhere. Anything that comes close to my job or interests that my job affects. If you have not learned that management of your company may find your notes somewhere.
Years ago, I posted something similiar in an abject statement during my job, that I was supposed to address. Without going into specifics we got threatened to be sued because of FACTUAL statements. I did not get fired but was forced to post a retraction.
If what you say is true, and part of your job to say such things.. and you still get smacked.. its time to move to something different.
Problem? There is very little jobs out there that are that isolated that you can avoid such issues.
You forget, we have to replace the processor fans a lot more than I would have expected. (Too detailed and who knows who would sue now).
SUN hardware is great except for that in my experience.
They have a EULA for the Xbox Live.. but not for the normal operations.
Problem: If you never signed it, this update will still happen.
and thus...
The only one who may be "Fair and Balanced" in this?
Dont trust the media, they tend to put salt on you and eat you for breakfast.
I had been wondering about CGW myself.
I get both CGW and PCGamer. but PCGamer also gives glowing reviews to steaming piles of crap.
However, they get on these bandwagons of bad games.. It seems they dont understand genre's at times and like Pool of Radiance, a strict slow dungeon crawl, was considered not fun. Heck it was a blast.. but I like those games.
Shrug, in the end.. Blame Canada.
Please, SCO spare us the bandwidth. Shut Up!
And then I would lose my Daily SCO Story(ies)? No way.. this is as fun as watching a train wreck in action, appealing to my baser tech instincts.
SUN has reportedly bought a license. So big Unix writers are doing it.
I would figure that HP would have bought a license for HPUX anyways, as SUN would for SOlaris. Both of which more than likely would infringe more than Linux since they are direct UNIX variances.
Hey.. Muds are still going strong :)
I just released a Codebase Open Source for a Mud.. its growing.
Now we are waiting to get people off EverCrack on onto MageCrack (www.mageslair.net 7060).
Yea.. its my dream too.
According to the Virginia Pilot...
SUN Microsystems ALSO purchased a UNIX license.
For the original GUI master and for the ease of use..
BXPro and Viewkit that lives on Top of OpenMotif 2.2.
http://www.openmotif.org
Sun/HP and so many more platforms already have GUI builders using the UIL programming language. BXPro/Uimx/Sun Workshop/etc.. Motif is alive and strong.
I wonder..
If we get one person to license the code, then since they can "sub license" the code.. they give all the code to EVERYONE free.
has to be cheaper and end all this crap once and for all.
This is so true.
If I download mp3 tracks (worse quality) and have a scratched, piece of crap CD that has the same song.. am I not just backing the Music up? or replacing it?
How many CD's, Disks, etc have I lost to time? I purchased the content... does the media have to be purchased constantly and REpurchasing content?
If Only I could find some of the nice things I had years ago... alas.. they are degraded.
Try doing this.
bring up mozilla. put it down in Windows and minimize it. wait say 30 minutes.. and try accessing it again.. takes over 30 seconds before you can address it.
Unlike IE.. which is instant.
Please oh please stop adding features and make it fast! It had enough features now!
1. Find a game that you can play at lunch. Request your company get a Ping Pong table or a Foosball table. Believe it or not, they are activities that help.
2. NO SODA. Water WATER WATER water.
3. Meat based sandwitches for lunch, no CARBS. Keep carbs low.
4. Decent dinner but try and keep PASTAS and Potatoes and BREAD low.
5. Did I mention no SODA's?
6. Get into a Duffer Softball League. It helps.
Sugar and Grains = FAT for us Computer Programmer Geek Types.
Down from 330 to 290 using this in 3 months. WEEEEEEEEE
- You could not program your way outta a hello world contest.
There have been many instances of Open Source theft by companies as well as others taking "credit" where it is not due. Does the DOJ just go after those it is politically pressured to go after? In other words, because a individual developer is not making direct money does this affect your stances on IP law?
Also, how do you feel about the DOJ under George W. Bush dropping the Microsoft case like a Hot Potatoe and selling out to a settlement which is now being flaunted by Microsft right now?
Your knowledge is NOT, repeat, NOT copywritable. Just because you know a technique for doing something that enhances things does not mean its bad.
You are HIRED for your knowledge of say.. a SONAR. Well, most sonars work very similiar.. sending a beam of energy into the water and reading the return energy. By saying that you know there is differences in the reflective properties of WATER due to tempature.. does not mean that information is COPYWRITABLE.
This has to do with the way the VM is saved. We have tried very hard to get a true CC Linux for our contracts but the "Secure" OS needs the following:
A page of memory when freed must be cleared. This includes Virtual memory saved to disk or even laying around in memory.
Linux current does not have this. Sorry folks.
Because I like you guys, here is Alan Cox's response to an email concerning this very issue:
-------------
> 1. When a process removes itself/crashes: is the memory blocks zeroed out
> and then free'd, or does the data still remain in memory just marked free?
It remains in memory, but it will be cleared before being given to another
process if it was private memory. Much of a process of course is shared
pages in read only format (eg the binary). These pages are simply shared
and reused. If a process wrote to a copy of such a page it got a private
copy which will not be given back to someone else.
> 2. When swapping to disk and you read the block into memory and clean it
> (Zero it out), does the block on disk get immediatly updated or is it just
> marked "free" and still has the data on disk?
Linux like most OS's does a lazy rewrite when swapping. When you
swap something back into memory it is left on disk as if we have to swap
it out again it saves writing it back to disk once more. Again when we
allocate new memory to a process we erase the data so a new task always
sees empty disk blocks and empty memory (subject to there being no bugs
as is always the case).
The disk case is more complex. There are situations that ext2/ext3 like the
BSD UFS may expose data after a crash/restart. The ext3 file system supports
a slightly slower performing mode that guarantees this won't happen.
Alan Cox
---------------
What does this mean? It means Linux needs a lot of work before it has CC.
LordMage - Working to better yourself.
I have always wondered what the main difference between computer gaming and Pen and Paper gaming. The difference is the assumed rules. If we can set up a universe that has a really good predefined set of rules, like "if (breathing) then alive" etc, then we could put together a real universe.
I remember experimenting with Prolog which is not a set functional language but a rules-based language. By constantly checking the rules you can generate new rules and build a universe (genetically, nuerally).
Our minds are rule based, while our problem solving is sequential. This is the difference and I am glad these people are working on it.
Double Jeopardy is a foundation of our consitution. It includes "What could be lesser included charges" because it is based on the OFFENSE (time frame being within a set bounds) not on the laws you are to be tried with.
The case where the guy and his ex-gf kills his wife. They find him not guilty and then they find pictures of the actual crime being committed. Sure hes guilty, but he never went to jail on the murder (They did get him on perjury charges).
For all the crap about the DMCA and the laws and such in the US, I am so glad we have Double Jeopardy and the right to be tried by our peers. We can get off by jury nullifaction and say "SCREW YOU GOVERNEMENT, the COUNTRY wanted it this way" while in other countries, you can be tried until the government gets you.
I use parasoft's Insure++ product. This is a current "Super Memory Debugger" and has a lot of seriously nice features. I did a study and found that Insure++ did find more errors than Purify and since Insure++ was crossplatform to Linux, I was able to convince my company to switch.
Have not regretted it.
So.. is this Saber-C stuff Open Source/Free yet?
Is it me? or are we missing a serious point here: Software was not delivered as promised. This causes lawsuits in itself. If a company promises SW at Time X, and fails to deliver, they incur penalties.
If Sendo was at fault on the SW delays, then MS has a recourse. If MS failed to deliver then MS side of the deal is invalid and anything they learned from that deal is considered "recoverable" and sendo has a right to recover the costs of the trade secret value.
Yes.. SW delays can cause companies to get sued. The US government penalizes thier contractors all the time