In my local music/video/dvd emporium the collectors editions with the free granite statue of gollum and the special edition of two towers cost less than the special edition of two towers.
why? because the store is sick of carrying a bunch of stock that takes up half of their storeroom and noone buys. I did buy the collectors edition the other day, took the dvd out and threw the rest of the packaging in the bin.
They cycle the various series constantly on TV, if you have a mind to collect them you can get 3-4 various episodes a day on video tape. Why the hell do you want to spend god knows how much on a DVD collection? if you wanted to keep it for posterity videotape the bloody things.
The nGage was badly designed as both a phone and a handheld game platform. there will be some unit that combines gba with phone, but this (and all historical upstarts) isnt it.
At the start of the consumer 3d graphics business Voodoo were clearly superior, I still have a Voodoo 1 laying around somewhere, there were problems; the whole passthrough cable thing, the lack of windowed support & 16bit clour were all problematic. As an upgrade Voodoo offered the second revision that could run in SLI mode. It required two PCI slots in addition to your 2d graphics card and was horrendously expensive.
nVidia released the TNT that offered similar performance, in one card (not 3!), did 32 bit colour and was significantly cheaper.
3DFX was never competitive from then on, offering weaker, more expensive products that relied on brand name support.
The widespread adoption of D3D / OpenGL around this time over the proprietary Glide API was the nail in the coffin.
Mr. Praline : 'Ello. I wish to register a complaint.
Mr. Praline : 'Ello, Miss?
Owner : (turning around, very angry) What do you mean, "miss"?
Mr. Praline : I'm sorry, I have a cold.
Mr. Praline : I wish to make a complaint!
Owner : (hurriedly) Sorry, we're closin' for lunch...!
Mr. Praline : Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this troll, what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
Owner : Oh yes, the, ah, the BSD is dead... What's, ah... W-what's wrong with it?
Mr. Praline : I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it.
Owner : No, no, 'e's ah... he's resting.
Mr. Praline : Look, matey, I know a dead troll when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Owner : No no, h-he's not dead, he's, he's restin'!
Mr. Praline : Restin'?
Owner : Y-yeah, restin.' Remarkable troll, the BSD is dead, isn't it, eh? Beautiful plumage!
Mr. Praline : The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead!
Owner : Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!
Mr. Praline : All right then, if he's resting, I'll wake him up!
(shouting at the cage)
'Ello, Polly! Mister Troll! I've got a lovely fresh cuttle fish for you if you wake up, Mr. Troll...
(owner hits the cage)
Owner : There, he moved!
Mr. Praline : No, he didn't, that was you pushing the cage!
Owner : I never!!
Mr. Praline : Yes, you did!
Owner : I never, never....
(He pulls the troll out of the cage and screams into its ear.)
Mr. Praline : 'ELLO POLLAAAAAAAY! POLL-EE! POLLY TROLL! WAKE UP!
(He bangs its head against the store counter, horribly hard.)
TESTIIIING! TESTIIIING! THIS IS YOUR NINE-O' CLOCK ALARM CALL!
(He does it again, harder.)
POLL-EEEEEEE!
(He tosses it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor. Longish pause.)
Now that's what I call a dead troll.
Owner : No, no.... No, he's stunned.
Mr. Praline : STUNNED?
Owner : Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin' up! BSD is deads stun easily, major.
Mr. Praline : Look my lad, I've had just about enough of this. That troll is definitely deceased, and when I bought it not half an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out after a long squawk.
Owner : Well, he's... he's, ah... probably pining for the fjords.
(Praline looks angrily back and forth, stuttering.)
Mr. Praline : PININ' for the FJORDS? What kind of talk is that? Look, why did he fall flat on his back the moment I got 'im home?
Owner : The BSD is dead prefers kippin' on its back! Remarkable troll, isn't it, guv, eh? Lovely plumage!
Mr. Praline : (coldly) Look, I took the liberty of examining that troll when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.
(pause)
Owner : Well, of course it was nailed there! If I hadn't nailed that troll down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em apart with its little pecker, and VOOM!
Mr. Praline : "VOOM?"
(Praline puts the cage down and take the troll into his hands.)
Mr. Praline : Look matey, this troll wouldn't "voom" if you put four thousand volts through it! It's bleedin' demised!
Owner : It's not! I-It's pining!
Mr. Praline : It's not pinin,' it's passed on! This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late troll! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed him to the perch he would be pushing up the daisies! Its metabolical processes are of interest only to historians! It's hopped the twig! It's shuffled off this mortal coil! It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This.... is an EX-TROLL!
(pause)
Owner : Well, I'd better replace it, then.
(He disappears behind the counter.)
Mr. Praline : (turning to camera) If you want to get anything done in this country you've got to complain 'til you're blue in the mouth.
(The owner returns.)
Owner : Sorry guv, we're fresh out of trolls.
Mr. Praline : I see. I see, I get the picture.
Owner : (quietly) I-I've got a slug.
(pause)
Mr. Praline : (sweet as sugar) Does it talk?
Owner : Not really, no.
Mr. Praline : Well, it's SCARCELY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT then, IS IT?
Owner : Listen, I'll tell you what, tell you what, if you go to my brother's pet shop in Bolton, he'll replace your troll for you.
Mr. Praline : Bolton, eh?
Owner : Yeah.
Mr. Praline : All right.
(He leaves.)
I went the opposite direction, rather than specialise I chose to generalise. I have a huge amount of variety in my work, am well respected and get to make many decisions on technical implementation.
aka alt.sysadmin.recovery is where most burnt out sysadmins can be found:)
Seriously, if you have a broad knowledge of complex systems & the interactions between them and aren't afraid of using Powerpoint & Project then move in to an infrastructure architecture / project management role. These jobs can involve long hours but typically no pagers.
Security is good fun and good money, but a pager is required and it can get pretty hectic if things go titsup.com
We have a stack of Netra T1's (8) and another bunch Dell PowerApps (6). They are both nice reliable machines and I have had no problems with either. The T1's we use have higher specs than the PowerApps, but the PowerApps are well specified. I'm assuming the X1's are of a lower spec.
The Dell boxes have a really nice bios, you can configure them to take input and output during the POST through a serial port which is invaluable, the Sun does the same but uses an RJ45 connecter (which is different to bigger Sun servers, which is different to Cisco equip, which is different to Arrowpoints... bleh). The Dell hardware also performs impeccably with FreeBSD, had a few of them running as firewalls for 6 months with no problems.
Anyway, they are both good machines - pick the one your happier looking after.
Why not stick a box in the DMZ purely for this kind of requirement. Then allow users with legitimate business reasons for using SSH to have accounts on it.
Not all that different from an application level proxy really.
I really don't understand what the reason to port ASP to *BSD (or Linux for that matter) is. Their is a decent, cross platform scripting language in the shape of PHP and the primary benefits of using ASP are only available for Win32 platforms.
ASP on Win32 is pretty good in that it allows you to interface with the COM API's (and i'm assuming, been a while.NET framework). This structure does allow you to develop more complex sites & puts it into competition with JSP / Servlets. Without the COM support it's just a scripting language framework, and VBScript doesn't really compare well to the other freely available scripting languages.
I lived in Brighton for 8 years and never had *any* problems, I even had a late night job in one of those bad areas you mention without any problems.
I've also lived in a few big cities, and live in London now & comparatively Brighton is safe - the worst troubles are caused by Londoners out for the night.
Not only is it incredibly vaporous, Indrema just don't have the marketing $$$ to sell the ting, or to get any top flight developers on board.
Joe Consumer has heard of the Playstation2, knows who Nintendo are and will know what the XBox is when Microsoft start pushing it. Why would he buy an Indrema when he sees these competitors?
Why would any retail store stock it? The big players really help out the stores to shift units & make it attractive for them to do so. Indrema doesn't have the cash for this.
What big name killer apps will it have? Sony have people like Namco & Sega writing stuff for their boxes, Nintendo are well Nintendo really. Microsoft have Square. Indrema has dodgy ports of old PC games maybe.
I know Exchange 5.5 had a *horrible* LDAP schema, and i'm guessing that this is still the case with Exchange 2k, Netscape's schema is a lot more flexible & pretty much leaves you in charge of how it looks (except for all the config stuff in NetscapeRoot).
As an aside, Outlook Express has no difficulties handling the Schema in Exchange 5.5, but the last time I tried Communicator it wasn't so happy. Not sure about the reciprical situation.
These observations apply to Exchange 5.5 only, I've never used 2000
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In my local music/video/dvd emporium the collectors editions with the free granite statue of gollum and the special edition of two towers cost less than the special edition of two towers.
why? because the store is sick of carrying a bunch of stock that takes up half of their storeroom and noone buys. I did buy the collectors edition the other day, took the dvd out and threw the rest of the packaging in the bin.
They cycle the various series constantly on TV, if you have a mind to collect them you can get 3-4 various episodes a day on video tape. Why the hell do you want to spend god knows how much on a DVD collection? if you wanted to keep it for posterity videotape the bloody things.
The nGage was badly designed as both a phone and a handheld game platform. there will be some unit that combines gba with phone, but this (and all historical upstarts) isnt it.
You want to watch that, there are certain exclusions with d20 regarding "Interactive Games"
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The way I read it is you can use the rules, but you cant call it d20 or reference d20 - but i'm not a lawyer.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/oglfaq
At the start of the consumer 3d graphics business Voodoo were clearly superior, I still have a Voodoo 1 laying around somewhere, there were problems; the whole passthrough cable thing, the lack of windowed support & 16bit clour were all problematic. As an upgrade Voodoo offered the second revision that could run in SLI mode. It required two PCI slots in addition to your 2d graphics card and was horrendously expensive.
nVidia released the TNT that offered similar performance, in one card (not 3!), did 32 bit colour and was significantly cheaper.
3DFX was never competitive from then on, offering weaker, more expensive products that relied on brand name support.
The widespread adoption of D3D / OpenGL around this time over the proprietary Glide API was the nail in the coffin.
here
, 2808054,00.html
Talks about who ncsoft are and what Garriot is doing with them. No mention of property deals for all you office space geeks though.
If you prefer to cut and paste then go here: http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/news/0,10870
Mr. Praline : 'Ello. I wish to register a complaint.
Mr. Praline : 'Ello, Miss?
Owner : (turning around, very angry) What do you mean, "miss"?
Mr. Praline : I'm sorry, I have a cold.
Mr. Praline : I wish to make a complaint!
Owner : (hurriedly) Sorry, we're closin' for lunch...!
Mr. Praline : Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this troll, what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
Owner : Oh yes, the, ah, the BSD is dead... What's, ah... W-what's wrong with it?
Mr. Praline : I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it.
Owner : No, no, 'e's ah... he's resting.
Mr. Praline : Look, matey, I know a dead troll when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Owner : No no, h-he's not dead, he's, he's restin'!
Mr. Praline : Restin'?
Owner : Y-yeah, restin.' Remarkable troll, the BSD is dead, isn't it, eh? Beautiful plumage!
Mr. Praline : The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead!
Owner : Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!
Mr. Praline : All right then, if he's resting, I'll wake him up!
(shouting at the cage)
'Ello, Polly! Mister Troll! I've got a lovely fresh cuttle fish for you if you wake up, Mr. Troll...
(owner hits the cage)
Owner : There, he moved!
Mr. Praline : No, he didn't, that was you pushing the cage!
Owner : I never!!
Mr. Praline : Yes, you did!
Owner : I never, never....
(He pulls the troll out of the cage and screams into its ear.)
Mr. Praline : 'ELLO POLLAAAAAAAY! POLL-EE! POLLY TROLL! WAKE UP!
(He bangs its head against the store counter, horribly hard.)
TESTIIIING! TESTIIIING! THIS IS YOUR NINE-O' CLOCK ALARM CALL!
(He does it again, harder.)
POLL-EEEEEEE!
(He tosses it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor. Longish pause.)
Now that's what I call a dead troll.
Owner : No, no.... No, he's stunned.
Mr. Praline : STUNNED?
Owner : Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin' up! BSD is deads stun easily, major.
Mr. Praline : Look my lad, I've had just about enough of this. That troll is definitely deceased, and when I bought it not half an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out after a long squawk.
Owner : Well, he's... he's, ah... probably pining for the fjords.
(Praline looks angrily back and forth, stuttering.)
Mr. Praline : PININ' for the FJORDS? What kind of talk is that? Look, why did he fall flat on his back the moment I got 'im home?
Owner : The BSD is dead prefers kippin' on its back! Remarkable troll, isn't it, guv, eh? Lovely plumage!
Mr. Praline : (coldly) Look, I took the liberty of examining that troll when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.
(pause)
Owner : Well, of course it was nailed there! If I hadn't nailed that troll down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em apart with its little pecker, and VOOM!
Mr. Praline : "VOOM?"
(Praline puts the cage down and take the troll into his hands.)
Mr. Praline : Look matey, this troll wouldn't "voom" if you put four thousand volts through it! It's bleedin' demised!
Owner : It's not! I-It's pining!
Mr. Praline : It's not pinin,' it's passed on! This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late troll! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed him to the perch he would be pushing up the daisies! Its metabolical processes are of interest only to historians! It's hopped the twig! It's shuffled off this mortal coil! It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This.... is an EX-TROLL!
(pause)
Owner : Well, I'd better replace it, then.
(He disappears behind the counter.)
Mr. Praline : (turning to camera) If you want to get anything done in this country you've got to complain 'til you're blue in the mouth.
(The owner returns.)
Owner : Sorry guv, we're fresh out of trolls.
Mr. Praline : I see. I see, I get the picture.
Owner : (quietly) I-I've got a slug.
(pause)
Mr. Praline : (sweet as sugar) Does it talk?
Owner : Not really, no.
Mr. Praline : Well, it's SCARCELY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT then, IS IT?
Owner : Listen, I'll tell you what, tell you what, if you go to my brother's pet shop in Bolton, he'll replace your troll for you.
Mr. Praline : Bolton, eh?
Owner : Yeah.
Mr. Praline : All right.
(He leaves.)
Of course they get it, Java is the target here.
I went the opposite direction, rather than specialise I chose to generalise. I have a huge amount of variety in my work, am well respected and get to make many decisions on technical implementation.
:)
Oh and the money isn't bad either
aka alt.sysadmin.recovery is where most burnt out sysadmins can be found :)
Seriously, if you have a broad knowledge of complex systems & the interactions between them and aren't afraid of using Powerpoint & Project then move in to an infrastructure architecture / project management role. These jobs can involve long hours but typically no pagers.
Security is good fun and good money, but a pager is required and it can get pretty hectic if things go titsup.com
Not on the Dells, you can plug a null modem cable and off you go - they have been designed with the datacentre in mind.
We have a stack of Netra T1's (8) and another bunch Dell PowerApps (6). They are both nice reliable machines and I have had no problems with either. The T1's we use have higher specs than the PowerApps, but the PowerApps are well specified. I'm assuming the X1's are of a lower spec.
The Dell boxes have a really nice bios, you can configure them to take input and output during the POST through a serial port which is invaluable, the Sun does the same but uses an RJ45 connecter (which is different to bigger Sun servers, which is different to Cisco equip, which is different to Arrowpoints... bleh). The Dell hardware also performs impeccably with FreeBSD, had a few of them running as firewalls for 6 months with no problems.
Anyway, they are both good machines - pick the one your happier looking after.
I have one of those too, excellent mouse - and i'm right handed.
Why not stick a box in the DMZ purely for this kind of requirement. Then allow users with legitimate business reasons for using SSH to have accounts on it.
Not all that different from an application level proxy really.
...when you misread the title of this as Extreme Ultraviolent lithography.
Because Maths is a concatanation of Mathematics
djbdbs is free but it isn't Free
I didn't say it was. I said it was pointless running it on a platform that doesn't have COM.
I really don't understand what the reason to port ASP to *BSD (or Linux for that matter) is. Their is a decent, cross platform scripting language in the shape of PHP and the primary benefits of using ASP are only available for Win32 platforms.
.NET framework). This structure does allow you to develop more complex sites & puts it into competition with JSP / Servlets. Without the COM support it's just a scripting language framework, and VBScript doesn't really compare well to the other freely available scripting languages.
ASP on Win32 is pretty good in that it allows you to interface with the COM API's (and i'm assuming, been a while
I lived in Brighton for 8 years and never had *any* problems, I even had a late night job in one of those bad areas you mention without any problems.
I've also lived in a few big cities, and live in London now & comparatively Brighton is safe - the worst troubles are caused by Londoners out for the night.
Just finished upgrading all of them to 1.3.17...
Not only is it incredibly vaporous, Indrema just don't have the marketing $$$ to sell the ting, or to get any top flight developers on board.
Joe Consumer has heard of the Playstation2, knows who Nintendo are and will know what the XBox is when Microsoft start pushing it. Why would he buy an Indrema when he sees these competitors?
Why would any retail store stock it? The big players really help out the stores to shift units & make it attractive for them to do so. Indrema doesn't have the cash for this.
What big name killer apps will it have? Sony have people like Namco & Sega writing stuff for their boxes, Nintendo are well Nintendo really. Microsoft have Square. Indrema has dodgy ports of old PC games maybe.
MUD Enterprise Edition
doh! you were talking about Outlook 2000 not Exchange... Still, I think the schema issues still apply - does it work in Outlook Express?
I know Exchange 5.5 had a *horrible* LDAP schema, and i'm guessing that this is still the case with Exchange 2k, Netscape's schema is a lot more flexible & pretty much leaves you in charge of how it looks (except for all the config stuff in NetscapeRoot).
As an aside, Outlook Express has no difficulties handling the Schema in Exchange 5.5, but the last time I tried Communicator it wasn't so happy. Not sure about the reciprical situation.
These observations apply to Exchange 5.5 only, I've never used 2000