Hot Coffee was an interesting little "feature" of the game, but I don't know anybody who would part with the cash necessary to buy the game to see a game version of something that can find live recordings of in plenty of places on the Internet. (And I'm sure I'm not helping Google's case for fighting the government with that. I think the government official just wanted an easy way to find it because they couldn't figure it out themselves.) Great little bonus feature for those who are already in the sales figures, but nothing groundbreaking to reinvigorate sales.
Jesus freaking christ (or any other mythological creature of your choice), just rent an SUV for your trips. Fewer would have to be manufactured, reducing the polution caused in building your gas hogs. A couple of sedans will get your family to dinner if you want all 7 together. Worst case, a minivan for the around town use by the family and a fuel efficient work car for whoever has to drive further for their job. It's how my wife and I move a family of 8 around. If we want dinner out, there are plenty of nice places between my work and home, so we meet there after I get off work to have enough room to move the family about. For our occassional date out alone (relatives provide the babysitting), we just use my car.
I was looking forward to this thing for months and these are the games they include?!?! I hope they at least fixed the bug that made Impossible Mission impossible to complete.
I had to seriously rethink my need for color. I don't print family photos, and I can get better results from the printer at the drug store kiosk. I wanted something that would not gum up if I also went long periods without printing. I eventually ditched my inkjet for a cheap laser. I picked up the cheapest Brother laser known to work with Linux/CUPS and haven't looked back.
I can tell you that as a prior member of the military, there aren't any janitorial staff to worry about. When our shift on watch was over, it was our job to clean up a designated area, including possibly stripping and waxing the floors. Soldiers and [Imperial] Sailors are taught more than just how to steer a ship and fire a gun. We're taught a certain amount of self-maintainance as well.
Now the contractors working on the second death star? I agree with the roofer in the conversation with Dante. They knew they were working for the government and that the government had enemies (the rebels). They should make sure their life insurance is paid up (and doesn't have a combat zone clause, as so many do) before they start such a job, if they're truly taking it to take care of the family.
PHP supported the use of older GD libraries on Windows, some of which still have the GIF support in them. All PHP had to do was not remove the capability detection they already had.
WTF does a server need a graphics processor for? Given it's Windows and absolutely must have its GUI running (for some strange performance draining reason), wouldn't it spend most of it's time waiting for a local login? Would the login screen now consist of some kind of super-intense 3-d login mechanism or some kind of VR maze/puzzle to login now?
I've found some good deals on www.ubid.com. I picked up a 4 port KVM switch for $20 when they were going for $200+ at the time elsewhere. The bid-butler auctions are best. Set you max bid and let it re-bid for you up to the amount you set as others bid.
I've never had to return anything I bought from them and it arrived in perfect condition (well, as perfect as can be expected on a refurbed monitor I bought).
I've been a big fan of Mandrake since 5.3. I stuck with them through a few x.0 fiascos and rarely been affected by whatever mistakes people have discovered. That being said, what Mandrake's done with 10.0 and the idea of the community release is to shorten the beta and RC cycle down, releasing a distro that's "mostly ready" so the final bugs can be worked out before the "official" version. I translate that to the community release being just another release candidate and have no plans to install it on my regular use home system (as opposed to the beta testing system I normally leave on Cooker) until they get the rest of the kinks worked out.
In the meantime, that former Cooker system is compiling the kernel for a LiveCD / i686 Stage 3 Gentoo 2004.0 install. I look forward to seeing just how different these 2 distros are to use on a daily basis. (Save any stage 1 for real performance comments. I did that back when 1.4 was released and didn't want to sit around so long again.)
3. The end-user documentation included with the redistribution,
if any, must include the following acknowledgment: "This product includes software developed by The XFree86 Project, Inc (http://www.xfree86.org/) and its contributors", in the same place and form as other third-party acknowledgments. Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the software itself, in the same form and location as other such third-party acknowledgments.
Perhaps the solution to this problem is just to not include any end-user documentation and to not include any third party acknowledgement.
Books on use and installation of Linux would have to be purchased separately. (Possibly some small, free version made available to consumers to overcome the reluctance to buy a book just to be able to use their shiney, new OS.)
Not knocking pine, mutt, or elm, but you can't connect to Mail.Yahoo.com with those unless you've paid for POP access and set up fetchmail if those don't use POP themselves. (I don't know for sure, I've never used them.)
I guess I can stop studying for my RHCE. I'll be concentrating on the cross-distro certifications instead.
One of the things that attracted me to the idea of becomming a RHCE was that I could use my home LAN to experiment with the concepts presented in my book and observe changes in each new version of Red Hat as it came out.
Somehow, I don't think the idea of a FCE (Federoa Certified Engineer) is going to catch on.
At my future interview: "No, sir. I haven't had any experience with the latest Red Hat ES, but I've used Fedora for years."
Of my 7 systems, 2 had been converted to Red Hat for my studies. I'm thinking I'll swap them over to other distros now. I've got Mandrake on 3 already, so perhaps a Debian, Gentoo, or Slackware.
I seem to remember owing Gentoo some updates on a shell script I wrote...
I put the kids' computers in my office with me. They have some privacy in that my back is turned to them and I won't read over their shoulders, but something objectionable is likely to catch my eye as I go by.
There is nothing to prevent a BitTorrent recipient redistributing it. But it cheapens our personal investment in MandrakeClub and our belief in supporting MandrakeSoft though that club if we take our paid-for priveleges and just hand them over to anyone who asks.
You'll have your free Mandrake 9.2 ISO files. You'll have them in a couple of weeks like all the others who can not or will not support Mandrake through the club or by contributing to the development of the Mandrake distribution.
I put up my $120 / year for Mandrake. Where's yours?
Just set up a script to run lynx and dump the results to/dev/null. Have it sleep for a minute or two. Rinse. Repeat. The system sees port 80 traffic and you can bump the hit counter on something like the schools own home page.
I'm also ex-military. I was pretty good back in the days of Quake 1 (and then I had kids). I can tell you that being able to point a gun with a mouse in no way helps you aim a real gun. Every time I had to do my re-qualification in small arms I was lucky to pass. (Fortunately, I was in the Navy, not a front-line soldier in the Army or Marine Corps.) After years of playing FPS games, I feel no more inclined to kill people who annoy me (or not) than before I started playing such games. Games like GTA, Quake or even Dungeons and Dragons (remember those old stories) don't make kids into sociopaths. I believe the most they do is give sociopaths a particular theme to use. If you eliminated all the modern movies, whose to say these problem children wouldn't choose to theme their actions on something as classic as Robin Hood and go around shooting people at random with a bow and arrow.
If a music store will take them back unopened for a full refund (no BS restocking fees or anything), I'd happily buy a few thousand worth of CDs to take back the next day.
Uh... My girlfriend doesn't have a CD player. Yeah. That's it.
Better, I got a machine that requires a person push a particular number to verify they are not a telemarketing service or add me to their do not call list under penalty of law for calling back if they are. The auto-dialer systems can't get through it and the human telemarketers understand the rules and that I'm looking to collect some small claims lawsuit money if they give me a go. I haven't had a telemarketer call in months. It's called a "screen machine" and it's the best $50 I ever spent.
Much as I'd rather not install it on a system, just to keep people from accidentally running malicious code, the VB Scripting Engine does come with Windows 98 and above. So people can write VBScript (.vbs) programs even with the basic Windows setup for no extra money.
I used to hate info until I discovered that
info --subnodes --output - | less
makes it work just like man:) Debian actually provides proper manpages for a lot of these programs.
So what we need in our.bashrc is...
alias man2="info --subnodes --output - | less"
Am I correct in this? (Never tried aliasing something with a pipe before.)
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Hot Coffee was an interesting little "feature" of the game, but I don't know anybody who would part with the cash necessary to buy the game to see a game version of something that can find live recordings of in plenty of places on the Internet. (And I'm sure I'm not helping Google's case for fighting the government with that. I think the government official just wanted an easy way to find it because they couldn't figure it out themselves.) Great little bonus feature for those who are already in the sales figures, but nothing groundbreaking to reinvigorate sales.
Jesus freaking christ (or any other mythological creature of your choice), just rent an SUV for your trips. Fewer would have to be manufactured, reducing the polution caused in building your gas hogs.
A couple of sedans will get your family to dinner if you want all 7 together. Worst case, a minivan for the around town use by the family and a fuel efficient work car for whoever has to drive further for their job.
It's how my wife and I move a family of 8 around. If we want dinner out, there are plenty of nice places between my work and home, so we meet there after I get off work to have enough room to move the family about. For our occassional date out alone (relatives provide the babysitting), we just use my car.
I was looking forward to this thing for months and these are the games they include?!?! I hope they at least fixed the bug that made Impossible Mission impossible to complete.
I had to seriously rethink my need for color. I don't print family photos, and I can get better results from the printer at the drug store kiosk. I wanted something that would not gum up if I also went long periods without printing. I eventually ditched my inkjet for a cheap laser. I picked up the cheapest Brother laser known to work with Linux/CUPS and haven't looked back.
I can tell you that as a prior member of the military, there aren't any janitorial staff to worry about. When our shift on watch was over, it was our job to clean up a designated area, including possibly stripping and waxing the floors. Soldiers and [Imperial] Sailors are taught more than just how to steer a ship and fire a gun. We're taught a certain amount of self-maintainance as well.
Now the contractors working on the second death star? I agree with the roofer in the conversation with Dante. They knew they were working for the government and that the government had enemies (the rebels). They should make sure their life insurance is paid up (and doesn't have a combat zone clause, as so many do) before they start such a job, if they're truly taking it to take care of the family.
PHP supported the use of older GD libraries on Windows, some of which still have the GIF support in them. All PHP had to do was not remove the capability detection they already had.
I highly recommend adblock.mozdev.org for all your anti-Microsoft marketing needs.
WTF does a server need a graphics processor for? Given it's Windows and absolutely must have its GUI running (for some strange performance draining reason), wouldn't it spend most of it's time waiting for a local login? Would the login screen now consist of some kind of super-intense 3-d login mechanism or some kind of VR maze/puzzle to login now?
My wife has me pick up the Sunday paper for the coupons. The news gets dumped in the trash because we read it online already.
I've found some good deals on www.ubid.com. I picked up a 4 port KVM switch for $20 when they were going for $200+ at the time elsewhere. The bid-butler auctions are best. Set you max bid and let it re-bid for you up to the amount you set as others bid.
I've never had to return anything I bought from them and it arrived in perfect condition (well, as perfect as can be expected on a refurbed monitor I bought).
I've been a big fan of Mandrake since 5.3. I stuck with them through a few x.0 fiascos and rarely been affected by whatever mistakes people have discovered. That being said, what Mandrake's done with 10.0 and the idea of the community release is to shorten the beta and RC cycle down, releasing a distro that's "mostly ready" so the final bugs can be worked out before the "official" version. I translate that to the community release being just another release candidate and have no plans to install it on my regular use home system (as opposed to the beta testing system I normally leave on Cooker) until they get the rest of the kinks worked out.
In the meantime, that former Cooker system is compiling the kernel for a LiveCD / i686 Stage 3 Gentoo 2004.0 install. I look forward to seeing just how different these 2 distros are to use on a daily basis. (Save any stage 1 for real performance comments. I did that back when 1.4 was released and didn't want to sit around so long again.)
I'm glad he copied it. I tried going through their free pass commercial and it consistently refused to continue on through to the article.
I really must remember not to visit Salon.com ever again.
Perhaps the solution to this problem is just to not include any end-user documentation and to not include any third party acknowledgement.
Books on use and installation of Linux would have to be purchased separately. (Possibly some small, free version made available to consumers to overcome the reluctance to buy a book just to be able to use their shiney, new OS.)
Not knocking pine, mutt, or elm, but you can't connect to Mail.Yahoo.com with those unless you've paid for POP access and set up fetchmail if those don't use POP themselves. (I don't know for sure, I've never used them.)
If we were working for IBM or its lawyers, wouldn't it be within their rights have us work on researching this evidence for flaws?
Who wouldn't sign up for that public internship program?
Tomorrows headline: IBM Offers Public Internship to World. World Signs Up.
I guess I can stop studying for my RHCE. I'll be concentrating on the cross-distro certifications instead.
One of the things that attracted me to the idea of becomming a RHCE was that I could use my home LAN to experiment with the concepts presented in my book and observe changes in each new version of Red Hat as it came out.
Somehow, I don't think the idea of a FCE (Federoa Certified Engineer) is going to catch on.
At my future interview: "No, sir. I haven't had any experience with the latest Red Hat ES, but I've used Fedora for years."
Of my 7 systems, 2 had been converted to Red Hat for my studies. I'm thinking I'll swap them over to other distros now. I've got Mandrake on 3 already, so perhaps a Debian, Gentoo, or Slackware.
I seem to remember owing Gentoo some updates on a shell script I wrote...
I put the kids' computers in my office with me. They have some privacy in that my back is turned to them and I won't read over their shoulders, but something objectionable is likely to catch my eye as I go by.
There is nothing to prevent a BitTorrent recipient redistributing it. But it cheapens our personal investment in MandrakeClub and our belief in supporting MandrakeSoft though that club if we take our paid-for priveleges and just hand them over to anyone who asks.
You'll have your free Mandrake 9.2 ISO files. You'll have them in a couple of weeks like all the others who can not or will not support Mandrake through the club or by contributing to the development of the Mandrake distribution.
I put up my $120 / year for Mandrake. Where's yours?
I've done URPMI updates to Mandrake since 7.2 and I've *never* had to use --force.
I do prefer "urpmi --auto-select -M -c -p"
Just set up a script to run lynx and dump the results to /dev/null. Have it sleep for a minute or two. Rinse. Repeat.
The system sees port 80 traffic and you can bump the hit counter on something like the schools own home page.
I'm also ex-military. I was pretty good back in the days of Quake 1 (and then I had kids). I can tell you that being able to point a gun with a mouse in no way helps you aim a real gun. Every time I had to do my re-qualification in small arms I was lucky to pass. (Fortunately, I was in the Navy, not a front-line soldier in the Army or Marine Corps.)
After years of playing FPS games, I feel no more inclined to kill people who annoy me (or not) than before I started playing such games.
Games like GTA, Quake or even Dungeons and Dragons (remember those old stories) don't make kids into sociopaths. I believe the most they do is give sociopaths a particular theme to use. If you eliminated all the modern movies, whose to say these problem children wouldn't choose to theme their actions on something as classic as Robin Hood and go around shooting people at random with a bow and arrow.
If a music store will take them back unopened for a full refund (no BS restocking fees or anything), I'd happily buy a few thousand worth of CDs to take back the next day.
Uh... My girlfriend doesn't have a CD player. Yeah. That's it.
Better, I got a machine that requires a person push a particular number to verify they are not a telemarketing service or add me to their do not call list under penalty of law for calling back if they are.
The auto-dialer systems can't get through it and the human telemarketers understand the rules and that I'm looking to collect some small claims lawsuit money if they give me a go.
I haven't had a telemarketer call in months. It's called a "screen machine" and it's the best $50 I ever spent.
Much as I'd rather not install it on a system, just to keep people from accidentally running malicious code, the VB Scripting Engine does come with Windows 98 and above. So people can write VBScript (.vbs) programs even with the basic Windows setup for no extra money.
Am I correct in this? (Never tried aliasing something with a pipe before.)