DragonQuest, by SPI, did this long before anyone else in the pen and paper world. There are still a large group of DQ enthusiasts, too. You can check a bunch of us out via http://www.dragonquest.org/dqlinks.html
Sadly, this game and company got bought by TSR shortly before they sold out to Wizards of the Coast. A new, less-well-liked version of DragonQuest was released by TSR, but, last I heard Hasbro, who own WotC, had no plans to release a version of DQ. Nor did they plan to sell the rights to anyone. And, yes, several crazy people like me asked about it. DragonQuest really was that good a fantasy RPG and, for the pen and paper market, far, far ahead of its time.
No, the worse thing is people use their laptops on public, free wifi networks and think they're safe. It's not about using a public terminal at a library or something like that. The problem is using a business laptop that was setup using at least some kind of security, one would hope, then taking outside of that protected zone but NOT CHANGING THE WAY THE LAPTOP IS USED.
The average user makes no distiction between a wifi network behind a firewall at a corporate HQ, free wifi at a coffee shop and the wifi router their 15-year-old kid setup for them because they couldn't understand the instructions.
No, sorry, as a frustrated writer, creativity does NOT happen rarely. What happens rarely is a publishing or broadcasting system that's willing to take a risk on something new when they can make money on something established that they KNOW makes money. People who live well off someone else's creativity are risk adverse when it comes to actually spending their own money, or collecting ours.
Right now, in someone's basement or back office, an idea a thousand times more creative than "Wagon Train" in space is dying for lack of funding and the pressures of a consumer economy.
Dude, that's too bad. Most of the people who read my blog are women under the age of fourty. In fact, a fair number are under thirty. Ironically, most of them aren't even what I'd call geeks, even though my blog is called "Diary of a Network Geek". Of course, I get my fair share of porn peddlers, too, but, still....
What? Are you kidding? Does anyone on Slashdot take into account people who can't afford on-line services? Or computers? Believe it or not, they can still manage CD players and CDs for their music. (Yes, these people do, in fact, exist, so stop with the shock and surprise. Not everyone is a technogeek like we are.) So, no, the CD as a distribution media for music has a pretty long life still.
Dude, they do have "Nerd Grranimals". It's called Dockers and The Gap.
Honestly, I think people being clueless about how to dress is what's behind the move back to dress codes some places. It's hard for men to go too far wrong in a suit and tie. It can be done, but it's hard.
Women... Well, how many can there be on Slashdot anyway? They're on their own!
It was quite helpful, actually. I especially appreciate the link to the SANS literature. I wasn't aware that you could get that without taking their courses, for which I have neither the time nor the funds.
Sorry, I missed this story even being posted until today. For some reason, it never showed up in my notifications.
I'm not moving to Linux "just because". I'm moving to Linux because the boss wants to do it and currently they run Windows NT on a dying server. I've worked with Linux, primarily as an application server as opposed to a file server, for about four years and I've worked with other flavors of Unix as an operator. I was primarily concerned with properly securing the fileserver, being able to monitor security on it and explain it to the poor sucker who will eventually replace me. To answer your questions, which weren't actually relavent to the question, as far as I'm concerned; we have a separate firewall appliance, I'll be using Syncsort to backup to removable drives, and Linux because I've never touched BSD. And, yes, I know the most up to date info is on the web somewhere, but, as I said, I like having an actual book to read.
I *used* to be from the North Suburbs and watched Chicago politics like sports. (Can't tell the players without a program!) Also, my family is from the South Side. My grandfather used to own a hardware store in Morgan Park back before the Depression. From what my parents tell me, Hiz Honor, Mayor Daley the First, was as crooked as a three-dollar bill and mobbed up, but *he* always did things for Chicago. Yes, not everyone agreed with him, but often the results bore out over time. And, like him or not, he gave quite a bit of his life to Chicago and always did what he thought would benefit the majority of Chicagoans. Not that I disagree with the fact that he was both brutal and a rascist. He was.
I actually met his widow once at a Catholic church in Bridgeport. My parents are friends with one of the priest there. He was celebrating his original ordination, as I recall. Anyway, she was an interesting lady. Tough as nails, but nice and polite, too. I sort of felt like I was being interviewed when I met her. Measured and evaluated, as it were. Since I made it out alive, I guess I passed muster!
Interesting times back home. I'll have to ask Mom and Dad about the camera thing. I'll bet folks are up in arms. Cheers, Jim
You know, I had a Great-Great Uncle that made a bundle from this sort of arrangement. He "bought" patents from his workers, as well as inventing a few things himself. He made quite a bit of money at it, too. Unfortunately, all that money was gone by the time I was around. Well, that and I'm from the "poor, but honest" side of the family who lost their hardware business after the Depression.
Oh, well, I guess I'll have to invent something so insignificant that my current employer doesn't want it. Then market it so that everyone "needs" one.
Um, the last time I installed Citrix, it *required* Terminal Services. Of course, that has been a couple of years, so I may be remembering it wrong, but... In any case, Citrix really isn't that bad, if you have the rest of your network security configured right. Just make sure to set up dynamic account creation and deletion on the Citrix machine. (Oh, I was using NDS for my security, too, BTW. I've really only used Citrix in Novell shops. And, we *did* consider the Citrix servers the weak point in our security, but that was because it ran on WindowsNT/2K.)
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I don't normally do the "me, too" kind of posts, but I'm with you. For one thing, I've been out of work for most of the past year. In fact, it was 11.5 months straight and my unemployment ran out. Then, these nice folks came along and said "We've got a swell job for you. You won't be a supervisor, you'll take a $13,000 paycut, and you'll have to shave your beard." I hesitated at the beard thing for about three days, then jumped. And, I jumped just in time, too. I get paid tomorrow and the bill collectors just started calling Thursday last week.
Man, the economy sucks for IT people in most areas right now. I'd wear a suit, even if it was a monkey-suit literally, if it kept me from being out on the street.
Actually, I wasn't asking for help picking out clothes. I know what I want. I'm just having a hard time finding it. I already wear Dockers, the Geek's Garanimals. Just like 95% of everyone who's answered this story.
Thank you for a) reading the actual question, b) answering it, c) not being snide about why I was asking, and d) not trying to impress everyone with your wit.
We're supposed to be high-order thinkers here, aren't we? Why do you suppose so few other people were getting this question?
Go figure.
Thanks again!
Bingo! Trying to look the same without wearing a Polo brand shirt. Personally, I'd rather have a penguin, or BSD devil, on my shirt than a damn horse. But, remember, it's always more fun to rant on/. than it is to actually answer a question.
And, after a year of being out of work, I'd rather fit in a little more than be out on my ass again. I'd just prefer to wear something that retains some small shred of individuality. And, maybe use Tux the way Apple used their logo.
Check your user agreement with the phone company again. You actually can NOT access their service with "any equipment you want". They have restrictions. They also restrict their liability based on what equipment you do, in fact, use.
Remember the days of Ma' Bell? Back when you had to buy your phone from them? We really haven't come that far, it just seems like it from where we started....
I'm with you. Anyone who says Metatags aren't used in search engine rankings hasn't actually used them. Last time I checked, on Google, using the search terms "CNE" and "resume", I was the number one hit.
Now, I'm unemployed anyway, but, still, I made the search engines do what I wanted!
Well, okay, Novell uses their own version of a Linux kernel, but they've been doing it for more than a year. It's part of their ZENWorks for Desktops package. It makes a bootable Linux partition that will boot to the network and allow the ZENWorks imaging server to force disk images down to the desktop from the network.
*sigh* Time to evangelize a little.... I don't see many people talking about Novell here, or anywhere else, these days and it's a real shame. They pioneered the PC-based local-area-network market! Okay, sure, Xerox was working on the idea first, but Novell actually made some headway with it. *They* are the company that Micro$oft had to beat for years and years. In my opinion, Novell still has a better product than Micro$oft. (Never mind the fact that I'm Novell certified!) And, like I said, Novell has been using Linux boot partitions for way more than a year in corporate environments. Good luck, Novell. I hope you make a comeback soon.
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DragonQuest, by SPI, did this long before anyone else in the pen and paper world. There are still a large group of DQ enthusiasts, too. You can check a bunch of us out via http://www.dragonquest.org/dqlinks.html
Sadly, this game and company got bought by TSR shortly before they sold out to Wizards of the Coast. A new, less-well-liked version of DragonQuest was released by TSR, but, last I heard Hasbro, who own WotC, had no plans to release a version of DQ. Nor did they plan to sell the rights to anyone. And, yes, several crazy people like me asked about it. DragonQuest really was that good a fantasy RPG and, for the pen and paper market, far, far ahead of its time.
No, the worse thing is people use their laptops on public, free wifi networks and think they're safe. It's not about using a public terminal at a library or something like that. The problem is using a business laptop that was setup using at least some kind of security, one would hope, then taking outside of that protected zone but NOT CHANGING THE WAY THE LAPTOP IS USED.
The average user makes no distiction between a wifi network behind a firewall at a corporate HQ, free wifi at a coffee shop and the wifi router their 15-year-old kid setup for them because they couldn't understand the instructions.
Hey, if we don't build the space station, where will Dr. Heywood Floyd go on his way to check out the Monolith?
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No, sorry, as a frustrated writer, creativity does NOT happen rarely. What happens rarely is a publishing or broadcasting system that's willing to take a risk on something new when they can make money on something established that they KNOW makes money. People who live well off someone else's creativity are risk adverse when it comes to actually spending their own money, or collecting ours.
Right now, in someone's basement or back office, an idea a thousand times more creative than "Wagon Train" in space is dying for lack of funding and the pressures of a consumer economy.
Dude, that's too bad. Most of the people who read my blog are women under the age of fourty. In fact, a fair number are under thirty. Ironically, most of them aren't even what I'd call geeks, even though my blog is called "Diary of a Network Geek". Of course, I get my fair share of porn peddlers, too, but, still....
What? Are you kidding? Does anyone on Slashdot take into account people who can't afford on-line services? Or computers? Believe it or not, they can still manage CD players and CDs for their music. (Yes, these people do, in fact, exist, so stop with the shock and surprise. Not everyone is a technogeek like we are.)
So, no, the CD as a distribution media for music has a pretty long life still.
Dude, they do have "Nerd Grranimals". It's called Dockers and The Gap.
Honestly, I think people being clueless about how to dress is what's behind the move back to dress codes some places. It's hard for men to go too far wrong in a suit and tie. It can be done, but it's hard.
Women... Well, how many can there be on Slashdot anyway? They're on their own!
It was quite helpful, actually. I especially appreciate the link to the SANS literature. I wasn't aware that you could get that without taking their courses, for which I have neither the time nor the funds.
Thank you!
Thank you.
But, to be honest, I'm terribly embarassed by that mistake. I suppose that's what I get for submitting stories late at night, past my bedtime!
Sorry, I missed this story even being posted until today. For some reason, it never showed up in my notifications.
I'm not moving to Linux "just because". I'm moving to Linux because the boss wants to do it and currently they run Windows NT on a dying server. I've worked with Linux, primarily as an application server as opposed to a file server, for about four years and I've worked with other flavors of Unix as an operator. I was primarily concerned with properly securing the fileserver, being able to monitor security on it and explain it to the poor sucker who will eventually replace me.
To answer your questions, which weren't actually relavent to the question, as far as I'm concerned; we have a separate firewall appliance, I'll be using Syncsort to backup to removable drives, and Linux because I've never touched BSD. And, yes, I know the most up to date info is on the web somewhere, but, as I said, I like having an actual book to read.
Thanks for your input though.
Jim aka RyuMaou
Oddly enough, someone's thought of that already.
/. 'em... (Yeah, like that request would help anything!)
http://www.e-sheep.com/spiders/
It's a damn good web comic, so don't
So, next year, remember that we're not a two party system and vote for, say, a Libertarian.
You did actually vote this year, right?
Cheers!
I *used* to be from the North Suburbs and watched Chicago politics like sports. (Can't tell the players without a program!) Also, my family is from the South Side. My grandfather used to own a hardware store in Morgan Park back before the Depression.
From what my parents tell me, Hiz Honor, Mayor Daley the First, was as crooked as a three-dollar bill and mobbed up, but *he* always did things for Chicago. Yes, not everyone agreed with him, but often the results bore out over time. And, like him or not, he gave quite a bit of his life to Chicago and always did what he thought would benefit the majority of Chicagoans. Not that I disagree with the fact that he was both brutal and a rascist. He was.
I actually met his widow once at a Catholic church in Bridgeport. My parents are friends with one of the priest there. He was celebrating his original ordination, as I recall. Anyway, she was an interesting lady. Tough as nails, but nice and polite, too. I sort of felt like I was being interviewed when I met her. Measured and evaluated, as it were. Since I made it out alive, I guess I passed muster!
Interesting times back home. I'll have to ask Mom and Dad about the camera thing. I'll bet folks are up in arms.
Cheers,
Jim
You know, I had a Great-Great Uncle that made a bundle from this sort of arrangement. He "bought" patents from his workers, as well as inventing a few things himself. He made quite a bit of money at it, too. Unfortunately, all that money was gone by the time I was around. Well, that and I'm from the "poor, but honest" side of the family who lost their hardware business after the Depression.
Oh, well, I guess I'll have to invent something so insignificant that my current employer doesn't want it. Then market it so that everyone "needs" one.
Yeah, right.
Um, the last time I installed Citrix, it *required* Terminal Services. Of course, that has been a couple of years, so I may be remembering it wrong, but...
In any case, Citrix really isn't that bad, if you have the rest of your network security configured right. Just make sure to set up dynamic account creation and deletion on the Citrix machine. (Oh, I was using NDS for my security, too, BTW. I've really only used Citrix in Novell shops. And, we *did* consider the Citrix servers the weak point in our security, but that was because it ran on WindowsNT/2K.)
I don't normally do the "me, too" kind of posts, but I'm with you.
For one thing, I've been out of work for most of the past year. In fact, it was 11.5 months straight and my unemployment ran out. Then, these nice folks came along and said "We've got a swell job for you. You won't be a supervisor, you'll take a $13,000 paycut, and you'll have to shave your beard." I hesitated at the beard thing for about three days, then jumped.
And, I jumped just in time, too. I get paid tomorrow and the bill collectors just started calling Thursday last week.
Man, the economy sucks for IT people in most areas right now. I'd wear a suit, even if it was a monkey-suit literally, if it kept me from being out on the street.
Welcome to the new, New Economy.
Actually, I wasn't asking for help picking out clothes. I know what I want. I'm just having a hard time finding it. I already wear Dockers, the Geek's Garanimals. Just like 95% of everyone who's answered this story.
Thank you for a) reading the actual question, b) answering it, c) not being snide about why I was asking, and d) not trying to impress everyone with your wit.
We're supposed to be high-order thinkers here, aren't we? Why do you suppose so few other people were getting this question?
Go figure.
Thanks again!
Bingo! Trying to look the same without wearing a Polo brand shirt. Personally, I'd rather have a penguin, or BSD devil, on my shirt than a damn horse. But, remember, it's always more fun to rant on /. than it is to actually answer a question.
And, after a year of being out of work, I'd rather fit in a little more than be out on my ass again. I'd just prefer to wear something that retains some small shred of individuality. And, maybe use Tux the way Apple used their logo.
Just a thought....
Actually, I was looking for something other than golf shirts. Golf shirts I have plenty of, but button downs seem harder to come by.
But, thanks anyway...
Check your user agreement with the phone company again. You actually can NOT access their service with "any equipment you want". They have restrictions. They also restrict their liability based on what equipment you do, in fact, use.
Remember the days of Ma' Bell? Back when you had to buy your phone from them? We really haven't come that far, it just seems like it from where we started....
High-heels with magnetic soles should take care of it. Don't all the chicks in porn movies wear high-heels all the time anyway?
I'm with you. Anyone who says Metatags aren't used in search engine rankings hasn't actually used them. Last time I checked, on Google, using the search terms "CNE" and "resume", I was the number one hit.
Now, I'm unemployed anyway, but, still, I made the search engines do what I wanted!
Well, okay, Novell uses their own version of a Linux kernel, but they've been doing it for more than a year. It's part of their ZENWorks for Desktops package. It makes a bootable Linux partition that will boot to the network and allow the ZENWorks imaging server to force disk images down to the desktop from the network.
*sigh* Time to evangelize a little....
I don't see many people talking about Novell here, or anywhere else, these days and it's a real shame. They pioneered the PC-based local-area-network market! Okay, sure, Xerox was working on the idea first, but Novell actually made some headway with it. *They* are the company that Micro$oft had to beat for years and years. In my opinion, Novell still has a better product than Micro$oft. (Never mind the fact that I'm Novell certified!) And, like I said, Novell has been using Linux boot partitions for way more than a year in corporate environments.
Good luck, Novell. I hope you make a comeback soon.
Thanks,
Jim