I played Asheron's Call for 3 years as a 'hardcore' player (40+ hours a week). Played in multiple worlds, and I played with a lot of people. In the PvP world (Darktide), the entiriry of your life was pure Chaos. High level players would sit in the 'newbie' towns and just kill newbs repeatedly. The only way out was to have another high level friend escort you away from everyone else.
On the 'normal' servers, it was totally different. True you had your jerks / scammers etc, but for the most part, people helped each other out. I was in one of the largest guilds for the world for a couple years (even sat on the executive board) and it was interesting to see the dynamic as users pulled resources together to buy the guilds mansion (you honestly couldn't support a mansion without a largish group to donate resources). People in the guild helped each other out on missions, on getting upgrades in armor and spells, and everyone benefitted.
Everyone's experience in the online world is different, but for the most part people will surprise you.
Just a FYI for those still looking
on
How Were You Fired?
·
· Score: 2, Informative
One of my/. friends / fans has started Slashdot JobCenter where job listings and applicants can be found in one location. Give it a look. I've added my company's listings and there are a few others around. Granted, its not as good as some of the bigger engines, but at least you'll know that other/. heads are potentially going to be your screeners.
On Linux, change it to 0, on Solaris, 5 (other Unices should be similar). The system will come all the way up, and go all the way back down EVERY time. Will only work once they have shutdown the box, so it may take a while, but eventually it will hit them.
I think that the way that Transgaming and Codeweavers (Winex and Crossover respectively) manage revenue collection / open source application source generation is very intelligent. For a small fee, you get their 'enhanced' version of an open source program (wine), for which they get paid. In return, both companies contribute to the source of the main project with well bug-tested code. It may be a rev or two behind their 'pay' applications, but it allows the project to make great leaps and bounds being funded totally by commercial use.
Personally - I have purchaced both and use them extensively to get to everything from Office 2000 to Diablo II working on my Linux boxes at home and work. I like that with Winex, I purchace a 'subscription' for $5 a month, which I can discontinue at any time, which only cuts me off from updating my binary.
If Microsoft was willing to publish 'old' API suites for free (even ones for Windows 9x), it would be a step in the right direction. It would give the communities of Windows Application Developers a stand on the playing field for begining to develop stable applications in the new (XP / Windows 2003 Server) environment.
I used to be in charge of a small group of guys who did hardware integration on Sun and Compaq platforms. On a particularly busy day, one of the more 'weighty' of my co-workers was working on an Enterprise 250 server, and carrying it over to the rack for QA when he summarily tripped over a pallet on the floor, and landed the entirity of his bulk on the 250 he was previously carrying. Of course, I'm thinking oh crap, are you okay, followed closely by oh crap, that box costs a pretty penny and he just broke it.
Once we decided he wasn't going to die, I picked up the 250 myself and moved to the QA rack, by some act of god, it booted and showed no ill effects of having close to 400 lbs of human land on it.
You won't see those intel POS computers doing that!
Unfortunately, a lot of the keys that are thought of as useless are actually quite useful in a programming / scripting environment.
$ for i in *; do `echo $i | awk '{print $1}' | sed -e '/s/foo//'` ; done
The Scroll lock is a throwback to a time of 300 baud monitors. Instead of piping the output through less or more or whatever, you could stop the terminal using the scroll lock key (and know it was locked instead of having terminal problem by the associated LED).
I do and others like me who use non-Linux X servers like Solaris. I use Ximian Desktop because Evolution isn't well suited for a Ultra Sparc IIi 400 mhz with 128 mb of RAM, whereas the Ximian desktop is.
Its called DVD. My friend and co-worker has a killer entertainment system with the centerpiece natrually being his HDTV. He uses it almost exclusively for DVD. He has all of the expensive decoders, but doesn't use em much. Lets face it when you're pulling the waves out of the air, static at 1080 is still static.
The beautiful irony of this is that its apparently ok for kids to pick up whores on the roadside of the red light district and bang em, but killing a pimp for money's not okay....
Most 'good' datacenters have the same things. Multiple connections to power, water, electricity - good physical security et al. I've worked at and visited many datacenters, and nothing here outside of the ability to withstand explosives is all that different from anything else I've seen stateside. The big difference is that they're dumb enough to advertise it.
I'm glad ZDNet has the time to waste on stories like this. Physical security is nothing without a secure network to run in. All the `dead man zone's` in the world mean nothing if it isn't backed up on the network side by a good solid firewall.
Actually, Asheron's Call is the only reason that I still have a Windows Partition anymore on my main box at home. All joking aside, its a GREAT game. It wasn't developed my Microsoft, nor is it managed by them, but by a company called Turbine. If you'd like to learn more about this addiction, feel free to browse some of my favorite fan sites, Crossroads of Dereth or Asheron's Call Stratics. Of course you can also check my guilds site which I administer, called Strife.
The BIGGEST deal is that Microsoft wasn't able to scale to the task at hand. Originally, they had a login association field of 10 characters, wheras the Zone allowed logins of up to 16 characters. Whoops, didn't see that coming.
As a player of Asheron's Call, I have to say - its a slick game. I've invested about 2 years into my character, and I love her. Now with Microsuck screwing up the whole passport connection, I had to go 2 whole days without AC. That may not sound like much, but I have an addiction problem. I had to load up the Sims to get my fill of meddling with people's lives.
Zone is different in that we still have our Zone names. Now I'm fortunate enough to have to remember one for the.Net Passport, one to associate my Zone name to it (once its associated, its just window dressing), and a different name for my Hotmail account.
Through the beauty (ha!) of.net, I now have 4 passport logins, so that my hotmail / msn messanger account is in no way attached to my Asheron's Call account (which has a credit card connected to it) or my ISDN account (I used to be a M$ admin in a former life), or my regular Zone account.
The beauty of it all is that NOONE can easily get into games - Again Microsuck underestimated the load that thousands of players would have on NT servers. Poor Microsuck. I'm writing them for a credit to my account. Bastages.
And I'm addicted to gaming. It's not just me. In the game I play (Asheron's Call) most of the people I play with, play at least 8 hours a day. This is above and beyond the 8 hours of work most of us put in. Add it all up, and that means 8 hours to sleep, eat, be social, and drive to and fro. Do I have a problem... of course. Do I want to change it? No!
Only someone who violates the law "willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain" can be convicted.
So the solution here is not to do it for profit. It seems to me that open sourced freeware would be excluded from this law. This would include DeCSS since it has no commercial advantage nor private financial gain.
The solar-voltaic energy stored in the garage would enable a small electrolysis machine to seperate the water into its base components (hydrogen and oxygen) for the car's fuel. Presumably this could be echoed on the commercial side, having large `plants` that would essnetially break water into its base components. Couple this with his other invention (the de-salinizer) could turn the oceans into giant fuel fields, that would be replenishing ((2)H2 + 02 = (2)H20). Infinate energy. Viola!
As envisioned by McMaster, Cicak, Guy, and others working on the MRE, the engine is the centerpiece of a revolution that reaches well beyond automotive technology to challenge basic assumptions about energy and the environment. McMaster calculates that 1,200 square feet of solar panels on the roof of a garage receiving 2,200 hours of sunshine a year could, with the help of an electrolysis device no bigger than a washing machine, produce enough hydrogen and oxygen to drive an MRE-powered car 200 miles a day. The oxygen would be bottled in scuba-like tanks that would snap into place under the hood. The hydrogen, more volatile and more dangerous, would be piped around the car's chassis through 180 feet of tubing, divided into 3-foot sections, each sealed off from the next by a set of valves.
I found a link to another description of the brace here. It seems like a pretty cool little toy for doing this sort of rehab. I'd much rather have this than a woman yelling at my face that I can lift my leg, I just have to try harder.
Slashdot Mirror
I played Asheron's Call for 3 years as a 'hardcore' player (40+ hours a week). Played in multiple worlds, and I played with a lot of people. In the PvP world (Darktide), the entiriry of your life was pure Chaos. High level players would sit in the 'newbie' towns and just kill newbs repeatedly. The only way out was to have another high level friend escort you away from everyone else.
On the 'normal' servers, it was totally different. True you had your jerks / scammers etc, but for the most part, people helped each other out. I was in one of the largest guilds for the world for a couple years (even sat on the executive board) and it was interesting to see the dynamic as users pulled resources together to buy the guilds mansion (you honestly couldn't support a mansion without a largish group to donate resources). People in the guild helped each other out on missions, on getting upgrades in armor and spells, and everyone benefitted.
Everyone's experience in the online world is different, but for the most part people will surprise you.
One of my /. friends / fans has started Slashdot JobCenter where job listings and applicants can be found in one location. Give it a look. I've added my company's listings and there are a few others around. Granted, its not as good as some of the bigger engines, but at least you'll know that other /. heads are potentially going to be your screeners.
On Linux, change it to 0, on Solaris, 5 (other Unices should be similar). The system will come all the way up, and go all the way back down EVERY time. Will only work once they have shutdown the box, so it may take a while, but eventually it will hit them.
This image shows the watch, complete with BSOD. Sorry - I saw it, had to comment...
I think that the way that Transgaming and Codeweavers (Winex and Crossover respectively) manage revenue collection / open source application source generation is very intelligent. For a small fee, you get their 'enhanced' version of an open source program (wine), for which they get paid. In return, both companies contribute to the source of the main project with well bug-tested code. It may be a rev or two behind their 'pay' applications, but it allows the project to make great leaps and bounds being funded totally by commercial use.
Personally - I have purchaced both and use them extensively to get to everything from Office 2000 to Diablo II working on my Linux boxes at home and work. I like that with Winex, I purchace a 'subscription' for $5 a month, which I can discontinue at any time, which only cuts me off from updating my binary.
If Microsoft was willing to publish 'old' API suites for free (even ones for Windows 9x), it would be a step in the right direction. It would give the communities of Windows Application Developers a stand on the playing field for begining to develop stable applications in the new (XP / Windows 2003 Server) environment.
I used to be in charge of a small group of guys who did hardware integration on Sun and Compaq platforms. On a particularly busy day, one of the more 'weighty' of my co-workers was working on an Enterprise 250 server, and carrying it over to the rack for QA when he summarily tripped over a pallet on the floor, and landed the entirity of his bulk on the 250 he was previously carrying. Of course, I'm thinking oh crap, are you okay, followed closely by oh crap, that box costs a pretty penny and he just broke it.
Once we decided he wasn't going to die, I picked up the 250 myself and moved to the QA rack, by some act of god, it booted and showed no ill effects of having close to 400 lbs of human land on it.
You won't see those intel POS computers doing that!
Unfortunately, a lot of the keys that are thought of as useless are actually quite useful in a programming / scripting environment.
$ for i in *; do `echo $i | awk '{print $1}' | sed -e '/s/foo//'` ; done
The Scroll lock is a throwback to a time of 300 baud monitors. Instead of piping the output through less or more or whatever, you could stop the terminal using the scroll lock key (and know it was locked instead of having terminal problem by the associated LED).
I do and others like me who use non-Linux X servers like Solaris. I use Ximian Desktop because Evolution isn't well suited for a Ultra Sparc IIi 400 mhz with 128 mb of RAM, whereas the Ximian desktop is.
Think before you spout.
Hell - just have him copy-edit Rob's stuff... No offense Taco. I guess speeling iz opshunal here at slashdot...
So, my Work PC is now GNU/MS/XP?
My work Sun box is GNU/Solaris?
Maybe this works in your disturbed world, but it doesn't fly in mine.
Same here, but then again, we do have some nice OC-96's here at work. Its good working for a major pop.
Its called DVD. My friend and co-worker has a killer entertainment system with the centerpiece natrually being his HDTV. He uses it almost exclusively for DVD. He has all of the expensive decoders, but doesn't use em much. Lets face it when you're pulling the waves out of the air, static at 1080 is still static.
The beautiful irony of this is that its apparently ok for kids to pick up whores on the roadside of the red light district and bang em, but killing a pimp for money's not okay....
glad to see our hearts are in the right place.
Most 'good' datacenters have the same things. Multiple connections to power, water, electricity - good physical security et al. I've worked at and visited many datacenters, and nothing here outside of the ability to withstand explosives is all that different from anything else I've seen stateside. The big difference is that they're dumb enough to advertise it.
I'm glad ZDNet has the time to waste on stories like this. Physical security is nothing without a secure network to run in. All the `dead man zone's` in the world mean nothing if it isn't backed up on the network side by a good solid firewall.
Actually, Asheron's Call is the only reason that I still have a Windows Partition anymore on my main box at home. All joking aside, its a GREAT game. It wasn't developed my Microsoft, nor is it managed by them, but by a company called Turbine. If you'd like to learn more about this addiction, feel free to browse some of my favorite fan sites, Crossroads of Dereth or Asheron's Call Stratics. Of course you can also check my guilds site which I administer, called Strife.
The BIGGEST deal is that Microsoft wasn't able to scale to the task at hand. Originally, they had a login association field of 10 characters, wheras the Zone allowed logins of up to 16 characters. Whoops, didn't see that coming.
As a player of Asheron's Call, I have to say - its a slick game. I've invested about 2 years into my character, and I love her. Now with Microsuck screwing up the whole passport connection, I had to go 2 whole days without AC. That may not sound like much, but I have an addiction problem. I had to load up the Sims to get my fill of meddling with people's lives.
Zone is different in that we still have our Zone names. Now I'm fortunate enough to have to remember one for the .Net Passport, one to associate my Zone name to it (once its associated, its just window dressing), and a different name for my Hotmail account.
Through the beauty (ha!) of .net, I now have 4 passport logins, so that my hotmail / msn messanger account is in no way attached to my Asheron's Call account (which has a credit card connected to it) or my ISDN account (I used to be a M$ admin in a former life), or my regular Zone account.
The beauty of it all is that NOONE can easily get into games - Again Microsuck underestimated the load that thousands of players would have on NT servers. Poor Microsuck. I'm writing them for a credit to my account. Bastages.
And I'm addicted to gaming. It's not just me. In the game I play (Asheron's Call) most of the people I play with, play at least 8 hours a day. This is above and beyond the 8 hours of work most of us put in. Add it all up, and that means 8 hours to sleep, eat, be social, and drive to and fro. Do I have a problem ... of course. Do I want to change it? No!
XOSL is known to support
- BeOS
- MS-DOS
- FreeDOS
- Linux (with Lilo)
- Solaris
- VxWorks 5.x
- Windows 95/98/Me
- Windows NT/2000
- ...and others...
I read that as meaning it just boots up lilo, it still needs it to run Linux. Presumably, you'd install lilo on the partition, instead of the MBR.Only someone who violates the law "willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain" can be convicted.
So the solution here is not to do it for profit. It seems to me that open sourced freeware would be excluded from this law. This would include DeCSS since it has no commercial advantage nor private financial gain.
one link... Here l0phtcrack. Cracking windows passwords for years.
Imagine a Beowulf of these! Mod me down - I deserve it :P
Here is the official link to donjoy's webpage regarding the product.
I found a link to another description of the brace here. It seems like a pretty cool little toy for doing this sort of rehab. I'd much rather have this than a woman yelling at my face that I can lift my leg, I just have to try harder.