I am an IT Manager in a 98/2000 shop and have been keeping an eye of the NOW project for some time. Some friends and I were planning on doing some small time consulting setting up these networks. The NOW project sure had a lot of potential to blow anything any other company was offering out of the water both administratively and from a users point of view. It would have been a pretty easy sell to a lot of small businesses (assuming the price wasn't outrageous).
Well, all I can say is I hope this project is finished one way or another. It saddens me to see something that could so easily revolutionize go away like this. Wanna talk about innovation? This is truely it (erm at least adaptation to something that really works for business).
I don't think many people realize how much this could have benefited the Linux community. Progeny NOW is needed NOW!
Re:um, yeah, whatever
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Make Your Own DSL
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One thing you have to remember is most T-1, DSL, etc contracts specifically state you can not resell bandwidth. If you were going to do this you better make sure whatever you use for your uplink legally lets you resell bandwidth (99% of the time its going to be illegal).
Now if only most, erm, all distros made setting up geforce-ish cards a snap (and sound!) and game companies would give Loki a fair deal on doing the ports instead of fucking them over until the port isn't worth it, we, the users/players, would be sitting pretty.
But the world isn't fair to some, erm most. Full speed ahead! I wish you luck, Loki.
Or maybe I am just the kiss of death. I have idsl from Megapath and this will be the second time I am switched. The first company I was with, Northpoint, was constantly going down and not resyncing when the line would come back up, thus forcing me to reset the router every time. Sometiems this would happen once a day, sometimes 10 times a day. I will not miss northpoint!
Megapath switched me to Rhythms and I couldn't have been happier. Not one problem with my dsl (same router) many months. I did get a couple wierd disconnects recently but the router re-synced...and for the love of god, didn't make me reset it. Praise the DSL gods!
If for one will sorely miss Rhythms unless somehow Covad steps up to the plate (but I hear Covad is more like Northpoint). Either way I am sure the marriage won't be long as Covad is going bankrupt as well. What happens then? =(
We all know Linus is undisputedly the copyright holder for "Linux" name but Linux.info is registered by Tokio Matsumoto of the company Bijou Co.ltd.
Domain Name: LINUX.INFO
Created On: 2001-JUL-29 23:52:08.0 UTC
Expiration Date: 2006-JUL-29 23:52:08.0 UTC
Trademark Name: linux
Trademark Date: 2000-01-24
Trademark Country: JP
Trademark Number: 4346339
Sponsoring Registrar: 5073-GM
Status: NEW
Status: LOCKED
Status: OK
I would love to tell you guys about all the failed demos we have but unfortuantely I am under and NDA, that and the chances my stock will actually be worth something would be hurt. =(
Lets just say our software was specifically designed to know it was going to fail so we could use previous data to fake a success.
We also had a company wide meeting where our executives did a spin job to tell us when we go home to kiss our wives we should tell her everything went A-OK since even though the data wasn't real time, the older data we used was perfectly legit since it ran from a successful test 3 days before.
I just wish I could tell you more as it is too fucking funny (and sad in a very pathetic sort of way).
actually the article mentions the Sims running under wine at LinuxTag as well as the part about Konqueror running ActiveX componants. And yes, I know the difference between ActiveX and DirectX.
I guess your the one being wacked with the cluestick. =(
I guess this probably just will sound like me whining but I had to install win98 on my girlfriend's machine and stop having her use Debian because she kept complaining she couldn't play Sims under Linux. Of course the reason I installed Linux was because she kept complaining 98 was crashing. Grr!!
I loved Doom growing up. I leeched it off a bbs and grabbed my 4 disk copy of doom (at 2400 baud) and played it secretly (on my dad's gateway 486sx/33) for many hours fearing my parents finding out(my parents eventually caught me but they didn't actually care). When doom2 came out I again leeched the 5 disk version of another bbs. Things were good. I soon hooked up with a bunch of people to play modem doom (at 9600bps but while using a 14.4kbps) (and later ipx) both dm and coop. One of those people soon became one of my best friends.
A few years later Quake came out (idcracked it off the shareware cdrom). Lucky for me my dad worked for the gov't and for some reason they had money to buy new computers and he got a p60 with 16 megs of ram. What a beautiful machine. I got the supa-l33t dos tcp/ip hack and could now play quake online by hitting a website with a semi-current list of servers and writing them down, exiting to dos and starting quake (-maxheap 16000 baby!) The coolest part about the illegal tcp/ip hack for dos was that you could ping fine to the server but all the death messages would queue up for like 5 minutes then dump 100 lines to the console. Those were the days of playing until 5am and going to school at 7am. Soon I was able to convince my parents to buy a p166 with 32 megs of ram and win95 so I could actually play the game like normal people (err learn to program...yah). I even cracked quakespy/gamespy so I could get the full feature set (my cracked version still works).
This new computer along with quake and my hate for community college finally forced me to quit school after repeatedly getting absolutely terrible grades semester after semester. I had been working as an IT tech at a few companies (mostly to play quake on better hardware and use their net connection) so I decided to go full time into IT. Now I am a 21 year old (started at age 20) IT Manager for a pre-ipo biotech company (with umm, lots of probably worthless stock options) making a really nice salary and I owe it all to Quake.
In the end doom/quake:
1. helped me make friends with people like myself including my best friend.
2. taught me to pirate games
3. helped me to learn to program
4. got me intrested in IT (for the unaudited high speed connections)
5. got me to pay attention to hardware
6. landed me a management job that pays well and potentially could make me a millionaire (but I am not holding my breathe!)
Personally, being able to point all my success at a couple games makes me sad...but oh well =)
FYI, quake2 sucks. Is it just me or did anyone who liked q2 never actually play q1 or doom multiplayer? I paided for q3 (must...stop...pirating...games...I...enjoy...)now that I can actually afford it. Q1 and Doom still are the ultimate when it comes to FPS, both single and multiplayer.
Re:Audiophiles are *worse* than drug addicts
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"Whereas the Good News club is just trying to save your soul, the audiophiles are both trying to steal your soul and bilk your wallet at the same time."
I believe the Good News club wants to bilk your wallet as much as the next guy. But its for the good of baby Jesus and not an overseas business man.
I was kinda hoping this year and next year would would be when the horns locked between free software (as in GPL/BSD licensed) and subscription-based (as in Microsoft's). I felt strongly this would be the epic battle...and the turning point. It kinda irks me to see it delayed.
Why is now a better time than later? For one the economy is slowing down and that means the peanut counters are watching what is spent. Also, all the new Microsoft software doesn't have major advancements (ie. major imitation of other innovative software). That, combined with subscription based software spells disastor, IMHO. Being an IT Manager I see no reason to upgrade my 100 machines running w2k and office2k just to pay XX money XX times a year. Without subscription based software a lot of managers will probably fall into the same upgrade routine down every two years thus far (wait for complaints someone emailed a Word doc they can't read with their slightly older yet basically just as functional copy of Word).
With Samba's new features like adding printers and remote management as well as ACL lists coming into maturity the outlook (no pun intended) looks bad for MS on all fronts. I want the 2 bulls locking horns this year. I know a bunch of you say they are already locking, but I disagree. It has been mostly a stare down until the upgrade cycle comes around this time.
Lets remember, IT Managers only have so much ability for change. No CIO/COO/CFO is going to go for non MS stuff unless it seriously hits them in the pocket book...and on a monthly basis. Status quo is good enough until then.
Anyway, lets all hope MS changes their mind back because the time is right with the slowing economy, the maturity of free software and lack of real "new stuff" in the next versions of MS software, for free software to win the war.
one of my older co-workers was talking about medical companies buying up patents then locking and sealing them away because they would compete with things that company owns and/or be disruptive.
My friend was talking about a shot that would prevent cavities for life if given to an infant. Apparently, it was bought by thr dentistry association a long time ago (1970s or earlier according to him) because it would effectively put dentists out of business for the most part. When I tried to find more info about this on the 'net, I could not. If my friend is correct about the shot and the patent date I think the patent should have expired by now.
http://www.eisonline.com is the company that bought the tradewars rights and continues to support and develop for the current tradewars 3.xx. The point I am getting at is that www.tradewars.com has been for sale for years from one of those bulk domain sales sites. Seems as if someone bought it and now is claiming to be making a graphical tradewars. I doub tthey even own the rights so they can make that claim. Oh well, something seems fishy.
Those games don't have any score or any actual ending (you can't "win"). I could think of a couple good ways to measure Ultima Online. Most PKs. I know a guy with 2000 officially. That most count for something. =)
Maybe Ashren's Call could be judged by level, and EverCamp..erm Quest judged by who has the most uberloot and/or paid the most money for it on ebay.
As usual, silly companies are biting the hand that (helps) feed them (for free). Who makes these decisions? sheesh
And in other news, the may be the straw the makes me decide to stop purchasing Nintendo systems after 15+ years.
Re:I Got 0.11 But I Cheated.
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No url but I got a.16 w/o cheating. At the beginning I was doing.24 everytime like 5 times then a bunch of.17s before finally getting a.16 and closing the browser.
Here is a hint, try clicking and holding stop and then just letting it go when the color changes. Maybe that is cheating. =)
Yah the bugs kinda kill the game. There are still a few that need to be squashed. As far as open source helpers, I doubt that will happen. =) There are a bunch of win32 ones and even a way to translate com ports to tcp/ip so twhlper and all those dos com port helpers will work. As an alternative, there are scripts that people have released for qmodem/telix/ZOC. They work just as well but without a database program.
There are many free tradewars games out there. The 2 servers that are better by far are twgs.tradewars.org and bbs.intergate.cx Tradewars was ported to be a standalone telnet game running on win32 platforms. Meaning no bbs software actually needed.
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I am an IT Manager in a 98/2000 shop and have been keeping an eye of the NOW project for some time. Some friends and I were planning on doing some small time consulting setting up these networks. The NOW project sure had a lot of potential to blow anything any other company was offering out of the water both administratively and from a users point of view. It would have been a pretty easy sell to a lot of small businesses (assuming the price wasn't outrageous).
Well, all I can say is I hope this project is finished one way or another. It saddens me to see something that could so easily revolutionize go away like this. Wanna talk about innovation? This is truely it (erm at least adaptation to something that really works for business).
I don't think many people realize how much this could have benefited the Linux community. Progeny NOW is needed NOW!
One thing you have to remember is most T-1, DSL, etc contracts specifically state you can not resell bandwidth. If you were going to do this you better make sure whatever you use for your uplink legally lets you resell bandwidth (99% of the time its going to be illegal).
They were ahead of their time and I salute them.
Now if only most, erm, all distros made setting up geforce-ish cards a snap (and sound!) and game companies would give Loki a fair deal on doing the ports instead of fucking them over until the port isn't worth it, we, the users/players, would be sitting pretty.
But the world isn't fair to some, erm most. Full speed ahead! I wish you luck, Loki.
Or maybe I am just the kiss of death. I have idsl from Megapath and this will be the second time I am switched. The first company I was with, Northpoint, was constantly going down and not resyncing when the line would come back up, thus forcing me to reset the router every time. Sometiems this would happen once a day, sometimes 10 times a day. I will not miss northpoint!
Megapath switched me to Rhythms and I couldn't have been happier. Not one problem with my dsl (same router) many months. I did get a couple wierd disconnects recently but the router re-synced...and for the love of god, didn't make me reset it. Praise the DSL gods!
If for one will sorely miss Rhythms unless somehow Covad steps up to the plate (but I hear Covad is more like Northpoint). Either way I am sure the marriage won't be long as Covad is going bankrupt as well. What happens then? =(
Winzip just opens it and asks what kind of files I want to add to the archive!?!?
There an html or pdf or gasp text version floating around anywhere?
*wonders why you need to gzip files when apache's mod_gzip does it for you* =)
Yes, I run win98 at work
We all know Linus is undisputedly the copyright holder for "Linux" name but Linux.info is registered by Tokio Matsumoto of the company Bijou Co.ltd.
Domain Name: LINUX.INFO
Created On: 2001-JUL-29 23:52:08.0 UTC
Expiration Date: 2006-JUL-29 23:52:08.0 UTC
Trademark Name: linux
Trademark Date: 2000-01-24
Trademark Country: JP
Trademark Number: 4346339
Sponsoring Registrar: 5073-GM
Status: NEW
Status: LOCKED
Status: OK
Maybe Microsoft.info is still free...
I would love to tell you guys about all the failed demos we have but unfortuantely I am under and NDA, that and the chances my stock will actually be worth something would be hurt. =(
Lets just say our software was specifically designed to know it was going to fail so we could use previous data to fake a success.
We also had a company wide meeting where our executives did a spin job to tell us when we go home to kiss our wives we should tell her everything went A-OK since even though the data wasn't real time, the older data we used was perfectly legit since it ran from a successful test 3 days before.
I just wish I could tell you more as it is too fucking funny (and sad in a very pathetic sort of way).
and here I was thinking I was the only idiot who read it like that on first glance. Glad to see I have company. =)
actually the article mentions the Sims running under wine at LinuxTag as well as the part about Konqueror running ActiveX componants. And yes, I know the difference between ActiveX and DirectX.
I guess your the one being wacked with the cluestick. =(
I guess this probably just will sound like me whining but I had to install win98 on my girlfriend's machine and stop having her use Debian because she kept complaining she couldn't play Sims under Linux. Of course the reason I installed Linux was because she kept complaining 98 was crashing. Grr!!
Good job Wine project people!
I loved Doom growing up. I leeched it off a bbs and grabbed my 4 disk copy of doom (at 2400 baud) and played it secretly (on my dad's gateway 486sx/33) for many hours fearing my parents finding out(my parents eventually caught me but they didn't actually care). When doom2 came out I again leeched the 5 disk version of another bbs. Things were good. I soon hooked up with a bunch of people to play modem doom (at 9600bps but while using a 14.4kbps) (and later ipx) both dm and coop. One of those people soon became one of my best friends.
w that I can actually afford it. Q1 and Doom still are the ultimate when it comes to FPS, both single and multiplayer.
A few years later Quake came out (idcracked it off the shareware cdrom). Lucky for me my dad worked for the gov't and for some reason they had money to buy new computers and he got a p60 with 16 megs of ram. What a beautiful machine. I got the supa-l33t dos tcp/ip hack and could now play quake online by hitting a website with a semi-current list of servers and writing them down, exiting to dos and starting quake (-maxheap 16000 baby!) The coolest part about the illegal tcp/ip hack for dos was that you could ping fine to the server but all the death messages would queue up for like 5 minutes then dump 100 lines to the console. Those were the days of playing until 5am and going to school at 7am. Soon I was able to convince my parents to buy a p166 with 32 megs of ram and win95 so I could actually play the game like normal people (err learn to program...yah). I even cracked quakespy/gamespy so I could get the full feature set (my cracked version still works).
This new computer along with quake and my hate for community college finally forced me to quit school after repeatedly getting absolutely terrible grades semester after semester. I had been working as an IT tech at a few companies (mostly to play quake on better hardware and use their net connection) so I decided to go full time into IT. Now I am a 21 year old (started at age 20) IT Manager for a pre-ipo biotech company (with umm, lots of probably worthless stock options) making a really nice salary and I owe it all to Quake.
In the end doom/quake:
1. helped me make friends with people like myself including my best friend.
2. taught me to pirate games
3. helped me to learn to program
4. got me intrested in IT (for the unaudited high speed connections)
5. got me to pay attention to hardware
6. landed me a management job that pays well and potentially could make me a millionaire (but I am not holding my breathe!)
Personally, being able to point all my success at a couple games makes me sad...but oh well =)
FYI, quake2 sucks. Is it just me or did anyone who liked q2 never actually play q1 or doom multiplayer? I paided for q3 (must...stop...pirating...games...I...enjoy...)no
Has any other country even addressed this issue yet?
Yes, I believe another country has.
"Whereas the Good News club is just trying to save your soul, the audiophiles are both trying to steal your soul and bilk your wallet at the same time."
/me watchs his karma drop
I believe the Good News club wants to bilk your wallet as much as the next guy. But its for the good of baby Jesus and not an overseas business man.
I was kinda hoping this year and next year would would be when the horns locked between free software (as in GPL/BSD licensed) and subscription-based (as in Microsoft's). I felt strongly this would be the epic battle...and the turning point. It kinda irks me to see it delayed.
Why is now a better time than later? For one the economy is slowing down and that means the peanut counters are watching what is spent. Also, all the new Microsoft software doesn't have major advancements (ie. major imitation of other innovative software). That, combined with subscription based software spells disastor, IMHO. Being an IT Manager I see no reason to upgrade my 100 machines running w2k and office2k just to pay XX money XX times a year. Without subscription based software a lot of managers will probably fall into the same upgrade routine down every two years thus far (wait for complaints someone emailed a Word doc they can't read with their slightly older yet basically just as functional copy of Word).
With Samba's new features like adding printers and remote management as well as ACL lists coming into maturity the outlook (no pun intended) looks bad for MS on all fronts. I want the 2 bulls locking horns this year. I know a bunch of you say they are already locking, but I disagree. It has been mostly a stare down until the upgrade cycle comes around this time.
Lets remember, IT Managers only have so much ability for change. No CIO/COO/CFO is going to go for non MS stuff unless it seriously hits them in the pocket book...and on a monthly basis. Status quo is good enough until then.
Anyway, lets all hope MS changes their mind back because the time is right with the slowing economy, the maturity of free software and lack of real "new stuff" in the next versions of MS software, for free software to win the war.
one of my older co-workers was talking about medical companies buying up patents then locking and sealing them away because they would compete with things that company owns and/or be disruptive.
My friend was talking about a shot that would prevent cavities for life if given to an infant. Apparently, it was bought by thr dentistry association a long time ago (1970s or earlier according to him) because it would effectively put dentists out of business for the most part. When I tried to find more info about this on the 'net, I could not. If my friend is correct about the shot and the patent date I think the patent should have expired by now.
Can anyone help with this?
"Anti-abortionists" who truely believe killing doctors is A-OK, but the abortions, themselves, are wrong.
It pales your "contridiction" in comparison, but I suppose that isn't important.
http://www.eisonline.com is the company that bought the tradewars rights and continues to support and develop for the current tradewars 3.xx. The point I am getting at is that www.tradewars.com has been for sale for years from one of those bulk domain sales sites. Seems as if someone bought it and now is claiming to be making a graphical tradewars. I doub tthey even own the rights so they can make that claim. Oh well, something seems fishy.
But am I the only one still longing for inter-bbs (and local only) BRE, FE, and SRE (if it supported it!) Man those games were simple awesome.
Don't get me wrong, TW is easily the best game bbs's have ever seen but you can still play TW even today through telnet.
Tell me where a good solar realms elite game is and I will give you a cookie! =)
Those games don't have any score or any actual ending (you can't "win"). I could think of a couple good ways to measure Ultima Online. Most PKs. I know a guy with 2000 officially. That most count for something. =)
Maybe Ashren's Call could be judged by level, and EverCamp..erm Quest judged by who has the most uberloot and/or paid the most money for it on ebay.
As usual, silly companies are biting the hand that (helps) feed them (for free). Who makes these decisions? sheesh
And in other news, the may be the straw the makes me decide to stop purchasing Nintendo systems after 15+ years.
No url but I got a .16 w/o cheating. At the beginning I was doing .24 everytime like 5 times then a bunch of .17s before finally getting a .16 and closing the browser.
Here is a hint, try clicking and holding stop and then just letting it go when the color changes. Maybe that is cheating. =)
Yah the bugs kinda kill the game. There are still a few that need to be squashed. As far as open source helpers, I doubt that will happen. =) There are a bunch of win32 ones and even a way to translate com ports to tcp/ip so twhlper and all those dos com port helpers will work. As an alternative, there are scripts that people have released for qmodem/telix/ZOC. They work just as well but without a database program.
There are many free tradewars games out there. The 2 servers that are better by far are twgs.tradewars.org and bbs.intergate.cx Tradewars was ported to be a standalone telnet game running on win32 platforms. Meaning no bbs software actually needed.