Take 'em right off. Get up, boy. I bet you can squeal. I bet you can squeal like a pig. C'mon boy, squeal like a pig. C'mon, squeal!
In case you were wondering, the Dueling Banjos is the theme song of Deliverance, and the quote above is from the scene where the hicks rape Ned Beatty.
Ever wonder why CmdrTaco and his ilk are always taking about being pantless? Now you know.
While the efficacy of Alan Cox's resignation as a symbolic protest may be debatable, the immediate practical ramifications need to be highlighted: Alan Cox will not be arrested while attending a Usenix conference in the U.S.. The DMCA is real and in our faces right now.
Don't scoff: he hacks closed hardware, and, judging from his diary, with great relish. All it takes in one disgruntled hw manu to have him arrested when he is in the U.S. because he circumvented "encryption" in one of their products in order to get to work or be supported by the Linux kernel.
Offering a free/low cost trial period to get them hooked may be a good idea. You must be sure that the scheme will not be vulnerable to abuse, though.
You may wish to consider different pricing systems. In particular, a non-flat model (that turns flat at a break-even point) may convince those non-hardcore gamers to play.
If you do charge a monthly flat fee, give automatic, pro-rated refunds when the server goes down. We all hate the phone/DSL/cable companies because they basically say "fuck you" when the service is unvailable and they do nothing to fix it or you have to wait on hold for 2 hours in order to bitch to get a refund for lack of service. Whereas switch phone/cable/dsl providers is a pain in the ass, dropping a game is very easy.
The free (as in beer) software and then charge for service is exactly opposite of the model followed by games like quake and tribes2.
Do not wield the heavy hand of god. One of the reasons for the popularity of games like quake is that they are open enough so that people that are extermely creative can make your world better than you could possibly had hoped. Think of the possibilities if, in addition to creating players, people could actually modify the world they inhabit. I don't know if games like Everquest allow this but the ability to make different maps in quake is one reason for it's longevity. You may even develop the ability to compensate those individuals that create popular parts of your world.
Granted, freeing (as in libre') the client will allow you to improve it but, depending on how much you trust the players, players may develop their own clients that actually work better than your client, thereby increasing the popularity of the game. Most people would develop cheating clients so you should be very careful about this. A game with cheaters is no fun and players (i.e., payers) will drop like flies.
(Or should I say "backside"?) Now she can be in more (R-rated) movies where she can be naked.
Yes, I read the article where she talks about spending more time with her progeny and husband and stage acting. I'm just hoping the money runs out soon, at least before her looks do.
I and about 20 other people still regularly play quake (qw creeper ctf). The most popular server is currently madhouse.
I have tried q3a but it has too much of a spacey feel to it. I like the dungeon-y feel of quake. I also tried tribes2 but it was way too complicated to satisfy my fps needs.
This is why a SSH application level proxy is needed. In that case you could configure the proxy to disallow some of the more objectionable aspects of ssh, e.g., port forwarding. How to do this without ssh thinking a man-in-the-middle-attck is ocurring is left as an exercise for the reader.
I'm not quite sute what you mean by FTP support integrated into the editor but emacs has nearly everything in it, including support for FTP (ange-ftp) and web browsing. Somehow I doubt whatever you're working on will be viewable in a text web broswer though.
The pathologically eclectic rubbish lister will list your rubbish easily, especially with formats and DBI. Evaling formats from a separate file will help those for whom even the simplest of programming blows their minds.
Ah yes, that reminds me of the Apple ][s at in the high school library. (I was in HS in the early 80s.) Initially the machines were in a secluded area, allowing me and my friends to play zork on them to our heart's content. The librarians didn't like this so they moved them out into the open where the screens were easily visible.
After that I had to resort to writing countdown timers in applesoft that would continuously beep when they hit zero. Of course I was sure to disable control-reset. Then there was the time I downloaded a dingbats-like font to the library's Imagewriter. I actually got called into the principal's office for that one. The funny thing was, all you needed to do was turn the fucking thing off to fix it.
I used Kodak Photonet with some success. Note that this is not the same thing as the link off Kodak's site, which is some horrible system that requires IE.
You upload your images to Kodak with either a input type="file" widget in a form or by supplying a url of the image (I did the latter). Select the print size and number of copies, give them your CC info and viola in a couple weeks you'll get your prints in the mail.
The cost is fairly low. My only complaint was that the prints were too dark, even though they looked good on my monitor (probably because I jack the gamma up for playing quake). While you are waiting for your prints they have a convenient system for status checking.
At least he knows who is in charge of the calendar
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"Hallmark won't return my calls. Bill Gates won't return my calls."
This guy must be an idiot savant to be in the GBOWW as a human calculator but come up with something this stupid. Smart people need to realize they are not smart about everything. E.g., Einstein may have been a good physicist but his philosophic views on peace are embarrassing.
Gphoto already has the capibility to tell the
camera to take a picture (although not all cameras are created equally) and download it to your pc. It may be possible to do it command-line with gphoto v1 but certainly with the new gphoto v2 framework it should be easy enough to do it.
Keep in mind that compact flash has a limited lifetime compared to other backing store so you may use up your cf quickly. Also, I believe the flash bulb in a camera has a short lifetime too.
One way to manually do it would be to use m4 macros in your group file and create a script "vigroup" (ala vipw) that opens the/etc/group.m4 file for editing and then process it with m4 into/etc/group afterward.
For one who is well-experienced in perl 5.005 a chapter giving info about the changes would be very useful. Please don't direct me to the CHANGES file. I want something that has been digested, similar to the way rest of the book
presents the information in the perl man (or pod) pages.
Another useful section would be tips on porting scripts from 5.005 and 5.6. Not just some brush-off like "most of your scripts should run unmodified." Certainly 5.6 has corrected some things that were awkward or buggy in 5.005. What are thay so I can audit my code to take advantage of the better handling in 5.6?
Mutant technocrat females found: that's how I read. I thought to myself: Bruce Perens has finally gone off the deep end. He is making an army of mutant females to further his politcal agenda. Or he would have, had his plot not been uncovered in time.
Slashcode uses mod_perl. If it actually uses the power of it, rather than merely the Apache::Registry speed hack, then you will need a service that supports mod_perl.
You'll also need an isp that supports mysql, or, if slashcode is written to use DBI in a portable manner then at least a service that supports DBI access to some database.
No, not in the basement with your Playboy
collecction. I assume your SO doesn't like the look of a huge stockpile of CDs, especially in all the "modern" cheap, black, plastic, and wire cd towers you can get at Wal Mart for $19.99. In that case you could get an apothecary-like piece of furniture (i.e., a chest of drawers piece with more and smaller compartments) that is designed to hold CDs. Access is as easy as pulling out a drawer.
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Take 'em right off. Get up, boy. I bet you can squeal. I bet you can squeal like a pig. C'mon boy, squeal like a pig. C'mon, squeal!
In case you were wondering, the Dueling Banjos is the theme song of Deliverance, and the quote above is from the scene where the hicks rape Ned Beatty.
Ever wonder why CmdrTaco and his ilk are always taking about being pantless? Now you know.
Here are some good general Unix books (I may have the titles somewhat off):
Here are some more general books:
I would bet some books on Artifical Intelligence would have wide appeal.
While the efficacy of Alan Cox's resignation as a symbolic protest may be debatable, the immediate practical ramifications need to be highlighted: Alan Cox will not be arrested while attending a Usenix conference in the U.S.. The DMCA is real and in our faces right now.
Don't scoff: he hacks closed hardware, and, judging from his diary, with great relish. All it takes in one disgruntled hw manu to have him arrested when he is in the U.S. because he circumvented "encryption" in one of their products in order to get to work or be supported by the Linux kernel.
Doesn't beta exactly mean the feature list is frozen?
Turtle, bah. I call mine a slug. My wife hasn't run out on me but she is mad at me for some reason.
A few more ideas:
Offering a free/low cost trial period to get them hooked may be a good idea. You must be sure that the scheme will not be vulnerable to abuse, though.
You may wish to consider different pricing systems. In particular, a non-flat model (that turns flat at a break-even point) may convince those non-hardcore gamers to play.
If you do charge a monthly flat fee, give automatic, pro-rated refunds when the server goes down. We all hate the phone/DSL/cable companies because they basically say "fuck you" when the service is unvailable and they do nothing to fix it or you have to wait on hold for 2 hours in order to bitch to get a refund for lack of service. Whereas switch phone/cable/dsl providers is a pain in the ass, dropping a game is very easy.
The free (as in beer) software and then charge for service is exactly opposite of the model followed by games like quake and tribes2.
Do not wield the heavy hand of god. One of the reasons for the popularity of games like quake is that they are open enough so that people that are extermely creative can make your world better than you could possibly had hoped. Think of the possibilities if, in addition to creating players, people could actually modify the world they inhabit. I don't know if games like Everquest allow this but the ability to make different maps in quake is one reason for it's longevity. You may even develop the ability to compensate those individuals that create popular parts of your world.
Granted, freeing (as in libre') the client will allow you to improve it but, depending on how much you trust the players, players may develop their own clients that actually work better than your client, thereby increasing the popularity of the game. Most people would develop cheating clients so you should be very careful about this. A game with cheaters is no fun and players (i.e., payers) will drop like flies.
(Or should I say "backside"?) Now she can be in more (R-rated) movies where she can be naked.
Yes, I read the article where she talks about spending more time with her progeny and husband and stage acting. I'm just hoping the money runs out soon, at least before her looks do.
I and about 20 other people still regularly play quake (qw creeper ctf). The most popular server is currently madhouse.
I have tried q3a but it has too much of a spacey feel to it. I like the dungeon-y feel of quake. I also tried tribes2 but it was way too complicated to satisfy my fps needs.
Why oh why did they have to use br to break each line of the paragraphs rather than simply enclosing the whole paragraphs in p tags?
The site looks like crap in Konqueror with a narrow window. Each paragraph has a full line and then a line with only one word and then a break.
Then there's the comment in the irc log:
danoo: Hell yeah! The new look is sweet, it renders fast
danoo: and it works on all browser/platform variations I
danoo: use! Thumbs up!
Sheesh.
This is why a SSH application level proxy is needed. In that case you could configure the proxy to disallow some of the more objectionable aspects of ssh, e.g., port forwarding. How to do this without ssh thinking a man-in-the-middle-attck is ocurring is left as an exercise for the reader.
I'm not quite sute what you mean by FTP support integrated into the editor but emacs has nearly everything in it, including support for FTP (ange-ftp) and web browsing. Somehow I doubt whatever you're working on will be viewable in a text web broswer though.
The pathologically eclectic rubbish lister will list your rubbish easily, especially with formats and DBI. Evaling formats from a separate file will help those for whom even the simplest of programming blows their minds.
Ah yes, that reminds me of the Apple ][s at in the high school library. (I was in HS in the early 80s.) Initially the machines were in a secluded area, allowing me and my friends to play zork on them to our heart's content. The librarians didn't like this so they moved them out into the open where the screens were easily visible.
After that I had to resort to writing countdown timers in applesoft that would continuously beep when they hit zero. Of course I was sure to disable control-reset. Then there was the time I downloaded a dingbats-like font to the library's Imagewriter. I actually got called into the principal's office for that one. The funny thing was, all you needed to do was turn the fucking thing off to fix it.
I used Kodak Photonet with some success. Note that this is not the same thing as the link off Kodak's site, which is some horrible system that requires IE.
You upload your images to Kodak with either a input type="file" widget in a form or by supplying a url of the image (I did the latter). Select the print size and number of copies, give them your CC info and viola in a couple weeks you'll get your prints in the mail.
The cost is fairly low. My only complaint was that the prints were too dark, even though they looked good on my monitor (probably because I jack the gamma up for playing quake). While you are waiting for your prints they have a convenient system for status checking.
enjoy
."Hallmark won't return my calls. Bill Gates won't return my calls."
This guy must be an idiot savant to be in the GBOWW as a human calculator but come up with something this stupid. Smart people need to realize they are not smart about everything. E.g., Einstein may have been a good physicist but his philosophic views on peace are embarrassing.
Gphoto already has the capibility to tell the camera to take a picture (although not all cameras are created equally) and download it to your pc. It may be possible to do it command-line with gphoto v1 but certainly with the new gphoto v2 framework it should be easy enough to do it.
Keep in mind that compact flash has a limited lifetime compared to other backing store so you may use up your cf quickly. Also, I believe the flash bulb in a camera has a short lifetime too.
One way to manually do it would be to use m4 macros in your group file and create a script "vigroup" (ala vipw) that opens the /etc/group.m4 file for editing and then process it with m4 into /etc/group afterward.
For one who is well-experienced in perl 5.005 a chapter giving info about the changes would be very useful. Please don't direct me to the CHANGES file. I want something that has been digested, similar to the way rest of the book presents the information in the perl man (or pod) pages.
Another useful section would be tips on porting scripts from 5.005 and 5.6. Not just some brush-off like "most of your scripts should run unmodified." Certainly 5.6 has corrected some things that were awkward or buggy in 5.005. What are thay so I can audit my code to take advantage of the better handling in 5.6?
Mutant technocrat females found: that's how I read. I thought to myself: Bruce Perens has finally gone off the deep end. He is making an army of mutant females to further his politcal agenda. Or he would have, had his plot not been uncovered in time.
Is it (back)bone-less too? I like my Internet experience nice and squishy.
Slashcode uses mod_perl. If it actually uses the power of it, rather than merely the Apache::Registry speed hack, then you will need a service that supports mod_perl.
You'll also need an isp that supports mysql, or, if slashcode is written to use DBI in a portable manner then at least a service that supports DBI access to some database.
No, not in the basement with your Playboy collecction. I assume your SO doesn't like the look of a huge stockpile of CDs, especially in all the "modern" cheap, black, plastic, and wire cd towers you can get at Wal Mart for $19.99. In that case you could get an apothecary-like piece of furniture (i.e., a chest of drawers piece with more and smaller compartments) that is designed to hold CDs. Access is as easy as pulling out a drawer.
Tunnelling over port 80 is (part of) the answer. The other part is having a server on the other side of the facist firewall that proxies for you. Oddly, this weeks Need to Know mentions this problem. See http://http-tunnel.com/newpage/icqp.htm for Windows software that does it and http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel.html for Unix software.
That's okay as long as I get agent.coop.