Wow, lots of ex-Earthlink people posting recently - I worked in the Harrisburg callcenter - dialup/broadband for a year, hosting for 2 1/2 years. Just one minor nitpick, the Mindspring hosting farm in Atlanta was not RedHat based (at least when I started in hosting in 2001), it was all Digital Unix 4/5 (depending on the server).
Our UNIX of choice for our workstations up here was FreeBSD - my first experience with it, and now I run it at home on my server.
Earthlink cable is resold through AOL/TimeWarner, (until recently) Charter Communications, and I believe Comcast was in the works. They're not filtered from using other SMTP servers
All of the ELNK dialup and DSL customers have port 25 blocked - RADIUS can do some pretty neat things:)
"Sattelite? HAHAHA! 3000ms latency destroys all advantages of broadband... It may have became better now, but it is still more expensive than DSL or cable."
Actually the average latency for most two-way satellite connections is about 800ms these days - still really horrible for gaming, but your average 2-way satellite user isn't exactly a CounterStrike addict - primarily people living in rural (sometimes VERY rural) areas, average age seems to be about 50 in my experience.
The game is called SSX, and honestly it RULES. The place you saw it at most likely had some crap connect to whatever display it was on. The EB I got my copy at had it running on a Phillips-esque flatscreen TV, and it blew me away. I can notice some polys on the larger architecture, but as a whole the game is rather smooth, not to mention addicting.
Now, if you want other titles to get that look nice, there's Dead or Alive 2 Hardcore, an enhanced version of DoA2 that came out for DreamCast. I don't know what specifically is different (except for the graphics, of course), but it looks GREAT. Summoner, Evergrace, and Armored Core 2 also are very graphically pleasing games. And if you can wait till Jan 2001, Gran Turismo 2000 will be out, which is absolutely STUNNING.
There's not exactly a lot UUNet or PSINet can do about spammers. They resell dialup services to TONS of ISPs, they don't really sell to the customers. Now, if somehow you can figure out what ISP the person's account is with, you can actually get something done. And if that person turns out to be using an Earthlink account, may Bob have mercy on their accounts:). I work for Earthlink (who uses both PSINet and UUNet), and we do our damnedest to remove spammers from our customer base.
Yeah, it's damned easy to forge From: fields, but it's worth a shot at least.
BTW, if you DO get spam from an earthlink.net or mindspring.com address (or a fullon hostname from either), send that stuff off to spam@mindspring.com. My buddies in AUP need work to do:)
My only problem with that configuration is that my shoulders are the size of a small city:). Keyboards aren't exactly large either, so I like to have a key arrangement that doesn't cramp me. One of my friends came up with this arrangement about 3 years ago, and I use it in almost any game these days:
E,D - forward,back
S,F - strafe left, right
A - jump
Z - duck
Q,W - Inventory left, right
Space - Inv use
Ctrl - Environment use (buttons and such)
Shift - Force walk (I use always run)
Tab - Inventory (for games with an inventory screen
Standard mouselook setup, with mousewheel used for weapon switching
There's the basics, if a game needs extra mappings, I can find space for it (Heretic 2 was a fun one to figure out!)
If you want to disable file sharing on your cable/DSL connection but keep it on your network at home, just go into the Network control panel, find the TCP/IP that's bound to the cable/DSL modem's NIC, go to the properties, hit the Bindings tab, and uncheck the file and printer sharing part. Reboot, and voila.
The basic idea of Divx was okay, but there were a couple things about the implementation I REALLY didn't like.
1. Locking the disks to your player. What if you wanted to take the disk to a friend's house? Can't do it. And I do that kind of thing a lot, so that would, as they say, suck.
2. They're made to be throwaway disks. Did anyone think of the environmental impact of these things? They're not exactly going to degrade in a timely manner. I know there's disk recycling programs, but they're not very widespread unfortunately.
What about going to movies, doctor's appointments, football games, PTA meetings, weekend lunches, church (if you happen to be religious), picnics, meeting friends, trips, etc etc etc?
I honestly don't think pure Communism will ever work, at least with humans as we know them. Why? People are assholes. The majority of people will take the path of least resistance. And since in a purely Communist state, everyone would be equal regardless of how hard they worked or what they did, a LOT of people are going to piddle around doing not much, or the bare minimum, causing less to be available for the people, causing......problems!
Of course, I don't think ANY pure system will ever work, it has to be some hybrid of different socio-economic systems. People are too fickle and too different to try any one thing.
Like the other poster said, probably a Vortex2-based card. I think the Diamond MX300 runs it, and there's a couple other cards that I don't know the names of. Be careful though, Aureal's been having financial problems as of late (you may have heard), and if someone doesn't buy the company soon (I know Gulliemont is interested, as is Creative themselves), you may be stranded with a card that gets no driver updates. You can still get support for it from S3, even though they officially dissolved Diamond a couple weeks ago. As for linux support, there's Aureal support in OSS (gotta pay for it), and there MIGHT be in ALSA, though you should check it out yourself.
SBLive's have problems in Win2k as well. The DirectSound and EAX don't work very well, if at all. And if you have an SMP machine, just don't even bother. Blue screens abound.
This all is due to the fact that Creative doesn't LISTEN to Microsoft when it comes to driver specs for Win2k. Dumbasses.........
Dude you stole the words out of my damn mouth. DAMN YOU....DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN YOU! (had to do it:)
Seriously though, Gundam Wing is a pretty deep series. It doesn't romanticize war, it shows it for what it is: nasty sheit. Like the above poster says, it shows why using unmanned machines for battle is a bad idea. It tells us that for a soldier, the battles are never over (a recurring theme in the series, most prominently shown by the Heero/Zechs conflicts). It questions if total pacifism is possible in the world. Really makes you think about the world. Guess that's why I like the series so much.
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Wow, lots of ex-Earthlink people posting recently - I worked in the Harrisburg callcenter - dialup/broadband for a year, hosting for 2 1/2 years. Just one minor nitpick, the Mindspring hosting farm in Atlanta was not RedHat based (at least when I started in hosting in 2001), it was all Digital Unix 4/5 (depending on the server).
Our UNIX of choice for our workstations up here was FreeBSD - my first experience with it, and now I run it at home on my server.
Earthlink cable is resold through AOL/TimeWarner, (until recently) Charter Communications, and I believe Comcast was in the works. They're not filtered from using other SMTP servers
:)
All of the ELNK dialup and DSL customers have port 25 blocked - RADIUS can do some pretty neat things
"Sattelite? HAHAHA! 3000ms latency destroys all advantages of broadband... It may have became better now, but it is still more expensive than DSL or cable." Actually the average latency for most two-way satellite connections is about 800ms these days - still really horrible for gaming, but your average 2-way satellite user isn't exactly a CounterStrike addict - primarily people living in rural (sometimes VERY rural) areas, average age seems to be about 50 in my experience.
OK I'm SEVERELY nitpicking, but Turok wasn't first with the railgun either. Shadow Warrior from 3d Realms had it first.
:)
Given SW only came out like 3 months before Turok, but like I said, I'm nitpicking
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
The game is called SSX, and honestly it RULES. The place you saw it at most likely had some crap connect to whatever display it was on. The EB I got my copy at had it running on a Phillips-esque flatscreen TV, and it blew me away. I can notice some polys on the larger architecture, but as a whole the game is rather smooth, not to mention addicting.
Now, if you want other titles to get that look nice, there's Dead or Alive 2 Hardcore, an enhanced version of DoA2 that came out for DreamCast. I don't know what specifically is different (except for the graphics, of course), but it looks GREAT. Summoner, Evergrace, and Armored Core 2 also are very graphically pleasing games. And if you can wait till Jan 2001, Gran Turismo 2000 will be out, which is absolutely STUNNING.
The DreamCast SUPPORTS WinCE. The VAST majority of games don't use it.
I would suppose, then, that you don't use x86 processors either, since they support Windows as well, eh?
There's not exactly a lot UUNet or PSINet can do about spammers. They resell dialup services to TONS of ISPs, they don't really sell to the customers. Now, if somehow you can figure out what ISP the person's account is with, you can actually get something done. And if that person turns out to be using an Earthlink account, may Bob have mercy on their accounts :). I work for Earthlink (who uses both PSINet and UUNet), and we do our damnedest to remove spammers from our customer base.
:)
Yeah, it's damned easy to forge From: fields, but it's worth a shot at least.
BTW, if you DO get spam from an earthlink.net or mindspring.com address (or a fullon hostname from either), send that stuff off to spam@mindspring.com. My buddies in AUP need work to do
My only problem with that configuration is that my shoulders are the size of a small city :). Keyboards aren't exactly large either, so I like to have a key arrangement that doesn't cramp me. One of my friends came up with this arrangement about 3 years ago, and I use it in almost any game these days:
E,D - forward,back
S,F - strafe left, right
A - jump
Z - duck
Q,W - Inventory left, right
Space - Inv use
Ctrl - Environment use (buttons and such)
Shift - Force walk (I use always run)
Tab - Inventory (for games with an inventory screen
Standard mouselook setup, with mousewheel used for weapon switching
There's the basics, if a game needs extra mappings, I can find space for it (Heretic 2 was a fun one to figure out!)
There's a very small 4th group that is there too.
:)
D) The consumate gamer. They don't care what platform it is, if the games are good, they'll get it.
I fall into that category. The way I see it, the platform doesn't make the games, the games make the platform.
Of course, I have a good income, a Visa, and a penchant for impulse buying, so that may be part of it too
If you want to disable file sharing on your cable/DSL connection but keep it on your network at home, just go into the Network control panel, find the TCP/IP that's bound to the cable/DSL modem's NIC, go to the properties, hit the Bindings tab, and uncheck the file and printer sharing part. Reboot, and voila.
The basic idea of Divx was okay, but there were a couple things about the implementation I REALLY didn't like.
1. Locking the disks to your player. What if you wanted to take the disk to a friend's house? Can't do it. And I do that kind of thing a lot, so that would, as they say, suck.
2. They're made to be throwaway disks. Did anyone think of the environmental impact of these things? They're not exactly going to degrade in a timely manner. I know there's disk recycling programs, but they're not very widespread unfortunately.
I don't think that ELNK is going to be caching MSN pages, seeing as MSN is a competitor to us :)
Easy 1) It's not java, it's C++ (small amounts of ASM optimizations
2) The engine sucks, and the renderers, save the Glide one, suck
Tim Sweeney could use a smack with the OpenGL bible........
What about going to movies, doctor's appointments, football games, PTA meetings, weekend lunches, church (if you happen to be religious), picnics, meeting friends, trips, etc etc etc?
You only drive 400 times a year?
I honestly don't think pure Communism will ever work, at least with humans as we know them. Why? People are assholes. The majority of people will take the path of least resistance. And since in a purely Communist state, everyone would be equal regardless of how hard they worked or what they did, a LOT of people are going to piddle around doing not much, or the bare minimum, causing less to be available for the people, causing......problems!
Of course, I don't think ANY pure system will ever work, it has to be some hybrid of different socio-economic systems. People are too fickle and too different to try any one thing.
I dunno, Silkworms are pretty cheap these days. Ask the Brits what they think of anti-ship missiles :)
Did you notice that the guy is wearing a wedding band? Food for thought
Coolness. I know they had driver problems earlier in the series, but this does help. Thanks :)
Like the other poster said, probably a Vortex2-based card. I think the Diamond MX300 runs it, and there's a couple other cards that I don't know the names of. Be careful though, Aureal's been having financial problems as of late (you may have heard), and if someone doesn't buy the company soon (I know Gulliemont is interested, as is Creative themselves), you may be stranded with a card that gets no driver updates. You can still get support for it from S3, even though they officially dissolved Diamond a couple weeks ago. As for linux support, there's Aureal support in OSS (gotta pay for it), and there MIGHT be in ALSA, though you should check it out yourself.
SBLive's have problems in Win2k as well. The DirectSound and EAX don't work very well, if at all. And if you have an SMP machine, just don't even bother. Blue screens abound.
This all is due to the fact that Creative doesn't LISTEN to Microsoft when it comes to driver specs for Win2k. Dumbasses.........
The midnight bomber who bombs at midnight?
Yeah baby yeah yeah!
Dude you stole the words out of my damn mouth. DAMN YOU....DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN YOU! (had to do it :)
Seriously though, Gundam Wing is a pretty deep series. It doesn't romanticize war, it shows it for what it is: nasty sheit. Like the above poster says, it shows why using unmanned machines for battle is a bad idea. It tells us that for a soldier, the battles are never over (a recurring theme in the series, most prominently shown by the Heero/Zechs conflicts). It questions if total pacifism is possible in the world. Really makes you think about the world. Guess that's why I like the series so much.