encap is a better and more established system that works on the same general idea - put everything in/usr/local/encap/PACKAGE-VERSION, and symlink into place. It's mostly just used at UIUC, but good Gods it works well. I use it for absolutely everything, and essentially refuse to install anything on our systems that won't support it. And I have yet to encounter a workplace where it doesn't win over absolutely everyone with its simplicity within six months.
Also, cpanencap is the perfect tool for perfecting Perl's module system. All it needed was versioning.
They haven't aired a new episode of Zim since October. I haven't heard of any plans to air new episodes yet. Therefore, I kindof doubt that the above reasons for not cancelling Zim are valid...nor do I think that Zim has been saved. -Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@killfile.org)
If you want to do something useful about Deja, make a method of distributing newsgroup archives that various people have collected through the years. I know I've got tens of thousands of posts sitting around on my machine...if one site kept track of where those posts were, I'd be happy to share them to the world. Which isn't to say that I've come up with much...
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I personally think that FASA's great flaw was in keeping more than three games. They'd been successful until bringing it up to five...
Let me explain. Early on they had Star Trek, Battletech, and Renegade Legion. Then they wanted to add Shadowrun into the mix - and they dropped Star Trek. When they wanted to add Earthdawn, they dropped Renegade Legion. When they wanted Crimson Skies, they dropped Earthdawn. This worked fine until they also wanted Vor and Crucible...
(To be clear, I'm *really* going to miss FASA. It was a good company with a fun name. Sure, they'd gone downhill in recent years, but I was willing to forgive them if they'd just start publishing things again...)
The Shadowrun sourcebooks are all presented as text files on a large BBS, with responses from the users that are occasionally more interesting than the text file itself.
Slashdot is Shadowland.
Other than that, I think that Katz is making a bit too much out of this and taking a lot of the source material out of context. Shadowrun is a neat game, yeah (I've got and have read all of the sourcebooks and novels, etc), but it's more of a reflection of our times than anything. It started with the Japanese MegaCorps when it came out in 1989 (when the game world was in 2050); now that we're less scared of the Japanese taking over the world, it's the German and American Megas that you have to watch out for. When our fear of cults was high, a large insect cult took over Chicago; now that it's technology, it was a section of Seattle that was taken by a Artificial Intelligence.
And, as other have pointed out, if anything we're deckers. Tortises, in this case - we don't have direct neural connections. Yet.
There ought to be open tours of the CAVE, sponsored (IIRC) by the local ACM chapter, during EOH (Engineering Open House) - March 5-6, IIRC (I couldn't find a URL for EOH. Damned University.)
- Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@killfile.org)
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Am I being a tad arrogant here? Not half as arrogant as anyone who thinks issuing 3rd party cancel messages is acceptable under any circumstances.
Go read the Cancel FAQ will ya? That oughta answer your implied question of "who would think that 3rd party cancels are a good idea?".
And, no, I can't just "switch" to another provider. There *is* *no* *other* cablemodem ISP in the area. And no DSL either.
Use an old dialup connection, if you have to. Or you can always post through DejaNews or one of the commercial Usenet providers.
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encap is a better and more established system that works on the same general idea - put everything in /usr/local/encap/PACKAGE-VERSION, and symlink into place. It's mostly just used at UIUC, but good Gods it works well. I use it for absolutely everything, and essentially refuse to install anything on our systems that won't support it. And I have yet to encounter a workplace where it doesn't win over absolutely everyone with its simplicity within six months.
Also, cpanencap is the perfect tool for perfecting Perl's module system. All it needed was versioning.
- Google Groups: NANAS
- Charter
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- nana.* Homepage
(Yes, I know others have stated some of this stuff, but it's worth mentioning it again.)This is cooler, and we've been doing it for years.
They haven't aired a new episode of Zim since October. I haven't heard of any plans to air new episodes yet. Therefore, I kindof doubt that the above reasons for not cancelling Zim are valid...nor do I think that Zim has been saved.
-Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@killfile.org)
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I wish nobody else had, either. Gods, leave him alone, people!
Oh: the Dungeon seems appropriate right now.
- Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@killfile.org)
> Goddards Law time
Godwin.
http://www.killfile.org/faqs/godwin.faq
If you want to do something useful about Deja, make a method of distributing newsgroup archives that various people have collected through the years. I know I've got tens of thousands of posts sitting around on my machine...if one site kept track of where those posts were, I'd be happy to share them to the world. Which isn't to say that I've come up with much...
Let me explain. Early on they had Star Trek, Battletech, and Renegade Legion. Then they wanted to add Shadowrun into the mix - and they dropped Star Trek. When they wanted to add Earthdawn, they dropped Renegade Legion. When they wanted Crimson Skies, they dropped Earthdawn. This worked fine until they also wanted Vor and Crucible...
(To be clear, I'm *really* going to miss FASA. It was a good company with a fun name. Sure, they'd gone downhill in recent years, but I was willing to forgive them if they'd just start publishing things again...)
Slashdot is Shadowland.
Other than that, I think that Katz is making a bit too much out of this and taking a lot of the source material out of context. Shadowrun is a neat game, yeah (I've got and have read all of the sourcebooks and novels, etc), but it's more of a reflection of our times than anything. It started with the Japanese MegaCorps when it came out in 1989 (when the game world was in 2050); now that we're less scared of the Japanese taking over the world, it's the German and American Megas that you have to watch out for. When our fear of cults was high, a large insect cult took over Chicago; now that it's technology, it was a section of Seattle that was taken by a Artificial Intelligence.
And, as other have pointed out, if anything we're deckers. Tortises, in this case - we don't have direct neural connections. Yet.
- Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@killfile.org)
> Eep eep
"Eek eek!".
Sorry, I care about these things.
- Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@killfile.org)
- Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@killfile.org)
Go read the Cancel FAQ will ya? That oughta answer your implied question of "who would think that 3rd party cancels are a good idea?".
And, no, I can't just "switch" to another provider. There *is* *no* *other* cablemodem ISP in the area. And no DSL either.
Use an old dialup connection, if you have to. Or you can always post through DejaNews or one of the commercial Usenet providers.
- Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@killfile.org)
1. You can crosspost in news.admin.*, no problem. You just can't crosspost to news.admin.net-abuse.policy.
2. The approval header was probably set by accident, as the user does generally post to @home groups with that header.
3. The third posting was actually by David Ritz, and I did approve it.
- Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@killfile.org)
Of course, they forge-approved it to two newsgroups that I moderate, and my 'bots cancelled it.
Aah, well, I reposted it in news.admin.net-abuse.policy. Enjoy, folks.
- Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@killfile.org)