Dungeon Siege, one of the most hyped games Microsoft has released, was given terribly high scores (96% in one magazine, etc), but it seems that nobody played it in multi-player mode - it was terrible! You effectively had to play for a day-and-a-half to complete a quest to move onto the next one, you couldn't do later quests without completing earlier ones, and there was no Save feature. It was Diablo2 done wrong. Then again the whole transportation system was a joke anyway, it really was more complicated than it should have been - give me a Town Portal spell anyday!
The new 4th generation DVD-RAM drives can do: - DVD-RAM - DVD-R(G) - DVD-R/W
Remember that DVD-RAM is the only standard that is reliable for backups, the only one with (optional) data verification, the only one with long life cycles for constant use (100,000 records vs 100-1000 for DVD-/+R/W).
Does anyone have tips for sendmail configuration for some of these, eg disabling ESMTP user listing, blocking irregularly configured incoming SMTP servers, etc?
There are other PowerPC motherboard suppliers our there still, notably Genesi Sarl which ships a Micro-ATX board of its own design, as opposed to the OEMed Mai Teron board that both TerraSoft and Eyetech have been licensing. There are a limited number of Pegasos 1 motherboards available from Genesi and a Pegasos 2 motherboard is in development for release later this year. Additionally Eyetech has been pre-selling their "AmigaONE" boards, which as I mentioned are based on the old Mai Teron design.
Please note that the current Peagsos 1 boards use the same chipset as the Teron boards, except for the addition of a chip dubbed the April which fixes some bugs in the chipset. The new Pegasos 2 boards will use a completely different chipset from Marvell.
I also forgot to mention their similar deals with the music industry to ship copy protected CDs using the WM9 format. All part of the same business plan - they have the computer industry by the gonads, now it is time for the movie and music industries to feel the pain.
Remember folks, this is part of their plan to take over the movie industry content distribution, as was their deal a year or two ago to have the WM9 codec in DVD player chips. Pretty soon you'll see them making exclusive deals with movie companies to have movies shown in the digital theatres then only available in their custom WM9-DVD format, and they'll do it with some blockbusters so people will feel they _have_ to buy new players. SSDD.
Tiki 1.6, currently under development and due for probably release within the next few weeks, is getting a calendaring system and they are looking at this being one of the few major features left to add. Maybe with some assistance (nudge, nudge) it could expand beyond the current goals into what you are discussing in the next version? Right now I'm finishing off adding LDAP support, and it already has webmail, NNTP, file and image galleries, wiki, weblog, and a really flexible permissions system.
I used to work for Staples and they had similar plans. We earned a small portion of the value of each plan and were pushed to sell one with every electronic device we sold, the managers using this as an excuse to pay us low wages. At a first glance they seemed to be worth it, especially when devices started shipping with shorter and shorter warranties, but since leaving there I've discovered the other side of the equation...
The warranties themselves suck. You'll spend an extra few hundred dollars on 3 years of "in-house" service, which in reality means that they will cover the shipping costs to have something sent off for repair. Worse still, the customer has to cover the costs first and then they are refunded later, meaning yet more money out of the customer's pocket.
I had a 19" Pixie monitor for several years which I bought at Staples and got a warranty plan on it. One day it stopped working. I called up the 800 number for the warranty plan it was on and was told that they would cover the shipping costs, but that I would have to pay for it first and they would refund me later. Being broke at the time I ended up not doing this - the cost of the warranty plan would have paid for the repair, and then some.
So, though you'll be told by managers that it is the right thing to do, don't believe them, it is a waste of money, just like extended warranties on cars.
Tiki 1.5 added some (hidden) features that would help with documentation, notably a system for structuring Wiki pages into a book-like structure. You'll need to search the dev list archives for information on how to use it though, it won't be making its official presence felt until v1.6 is released but it is there and does apparently work well with 1.5 anyway.
From the article: 2) Collect illegally produced digital music file.
3) Edit illegally produced digital music file (damage sound quality).
4) Distribute digital music file on network.
All of these are illegal under the DMCA.
Oh, I get it, it's ok to break the exact same laws you're trying to get the general public to stop breaking. I know, lets run around and rob the thieves and rape the rapists, that'll get them to stop too. Why didn't we think of it before?
The SWT engine in Eclipse seems pretty cool - rather than using Java's standard slow SWING engine you get a toolkit that passes through to the native UI, which results in a much more responsive application.
Here's a snippet from the release info on the current beta release:
"Lot of new features: Surveys, Trackers, Newsletters, Webmail. Many security improvements and settings including challenge response authentication. Improvements to the wiki batch uploads for file galleries and others."
Tiki has a flexible user groups system that allows for finely tuned permissions. Every function of Tiki has its own set of permissions that can be granted on a system wide basis or a per object basis, eg you can deny access to blogs by default and give individual user groups their own blog that only they can write to but that their subordinates could read.
And going forward Tiki just seems set to keep growing and improving in time!
Tiki (http://tikiwki.sf.net/) has an extremely flexible permissions system, the most flexible that I've found and I've tested most of the open-source content management systems out there. Tiki also has a shipload of cool features - image galleries, file galleries, weblogs, wiki, etc, etc.
"16 percent of the nonusers say they would turn to the Internet first the next time..".
So 16% would use the net for healthcare and government information. That still means 84% would NOT. So why is this being promoted as a victory for the Internet over alternative communications methods?
After having used it in a production environment for the last few months with a company that churns out tonnes of sites, I'd have to say that Dreamweaver sucks. Sure, it has some new XHTML stuff and improved support for CSS, but it is still HEAVILY based in HTML3 standards!
Having set it up on a large-ish site recently, I'd have to say that Tiki is simply awesome! Weblogs, forums, file and image galleries, FAQ system, on and on and on, with a really cool user management system. http://tikiwiki.sf.net/ has everything you need.
Mike, Amiga Inc would have done the OS in-house if they had the money, but they didn't. Gateway wasn't interested in the OS either, or indeed the entire platform, which again was why they farmed it off. As a business decision the only reasons you do something like that is a) if you don't have the money to do yourself, or b) if it sc$$ws up then you have someone else to blame.
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I thought the Ents were wonderful, more of them will make it worthwhile as far as I'm concerned.
That's easy, eat more meat, less carbohydrates, works wonders.
Dungeon Siege, one of the most hyped games Microsoft has released, was given terribly high scores (96% in one magazine, etc), but it seems that nobody played it in multi-player mode - it was terrible! You effectively had to play for a day-and-a-half to complete a quest to move onto the next one, you couldn't do later quests without completing earlier ones, and there was no Save feature. It was Diablo2 done wrong. Then again the whole transportation system was a joke anyway, it really was more complicated than it should have been - give me a Town Portal spell anyday!
Won't the large quantities of poisons used also kill off any animals that eat it? Are they going to be able to remove it all from the ecosystem?
The new 4th generation DVD-RAM drives can do:
- DVD-RAM
- DVD-R(G)
- DVD-R/W
Remember that DVD-RAM is the only standard that is reliable for backups, the only one with (optional) data verification, the only one with long life cycles for constant use (100,000 records vs 100-1000 for DVD-/+R/W).
Does anyone have tips for sendmail configuration for some of these, eg disabling ESMTP user listing, blocking irregularly configured incoming SMTP servers, etc?
Do you know of any sites that explain how to do some of these for sendmail, either via patches or (preferable) using some config changes? Thanks.
This has nothing to do with Apple, the TerraSoft Teron board was strictly aimed at the Linux market.
There are other PowerPC motherboard suppliers our there still, notably Genesi Sarl which ships a Micro-ATX board of its own design, as opposed to the OEMed Mai Teron board that both TerraSoft and Eyetech have been licensing. There are a limited number of Pegasos 1 motherboards available from Genesi and a Pegasos 2 motherboard is in development for release later this year. Additionally Eyetech has been pre-selling their "AmigaONE" boards, which as I mentioned are based on the old Mai Teron design.
Please note that the current Peagsos 1 boards use the same chipset as the Teron boards, except for the addition of a chip dubbed the April which fixes some bugs in the chipset. The new Pegasos 2 boards will use a completely different chipset from Marvell.
I also forgot to mention their similar deals with the music industry to ship copy protected CDs using the WM9 format. All part of the same business plan - they have the computer industry by the gonads, now it is time for the movie and music industries to feel the pain.
Remember folks, this is part of their plan to take over the movie industry content distribution, as was their deal a year or two ago to have the WM9 codec in DVD player chips. Pretty soon you'll see them making exclusive deals with movie companies to have movies shown in the digital theatres then only available in their custom WM9-DVD format, and they'll do it with some blockbusters so people will feel they _have_ to buy new players. SSDD.
Tiki 1.6, currently under development and due for probably release within the next few weeks, is getting a calendaring system and they are looking at this being one of the few major features left to add. Maybe with some assistance (nudge, nudge) it could expand beyond the current goals into what you are discussing in the next version? Right now I'm finishing off adding LDAP support, and it already has webmail, NNTP, file and image galleries, wiki, weblog, and a really flexible permissions system.
I used to work for Staples and they had similar plans. We earned a small portion of the value of each plan and were pushed to sell one with every electronic device we sold, the managers using this as an excuse to pay us low wages. At a first glance they seemed to be worth it, especially when devices started shipping with shorter and shorter warranties, but since leaving there I've discovered the other side of the equation...
The warranties themselves suck. You'll spend an extra few hundred dollars on 3 years of "in-house" service, which in reality means that they will cover the shipping costs to have something sent off for repair. Worse still, the customer has to cover the costs first and then they are refunded later, meaning yet more money out of the customer's pocket.
I had a 19" Pixie monitor for several years which I bought at Staples and got a warranty plan on it. One day it stopped working. I called up the 800 number for the warranty plan it was on and was told that they would cover the shipping costs, but that I would have to pay for it first and they would refund me later. Being broke at the time I ended up not doing this - the cost of the warranty plan would have paid for the repair, and then some.
So, though you'll be told by managers that it is the right thing to do, don't believe them, it is a waste of money, just like extended warranties on cars.
Tiki 1.5 added some (hidden) features that would help with documentation, notably a system for structuring Wiki pages into a book-like structure. You'll need to search the dev list archives for information on how to use it though, it won't be making its official presence felt until v1.6 is released but it is there and does apparently work well with 1.5 anyway.
From the article:
2) Collect illegally produced digital music file.
3) Edit illegally produced digital music file (damage sound quality).
4) Distribute digital music file on network.
All of these are illegal under the DMCA.
Oh, I get it, it's ok to break the exact same laws you're trying to get the general public to stop breaking. I know, lets run around and rob the thieves and rape the rapists, that'll get them to stop too. Why didn't we think of it before?
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Damien
The SWT engine in Eclipse seems pretty cool - rather than using Java's standard slow SWING engine you get a toolkit that passes through to the native UI, which results in a much more responsive application.
Here's a snippet from the release info on the current beta release:
"Lot of new features: Surveys, Trackers, Newsletters, Webmail. Many security improvements and settings including challenge response authentication. Improvements to the wiki batch uploads for file galleries and others."
Tiki has a flexible user groups system that allows for finely tuned permissions. Every function of Tiki has its own set of permissions that can be granted on a system wide basis or a per object basis, eg you can deny access to blogs by default and give individual user groups their own blog that only they can write to but that their subordinates could read.
And going forward Tiki just seems set to keep growing and improving in time!
Damien
Tiki (http://tikiwki.sf.net/) has an extremely flexible permissions system, the most flexible that I've found and I've tested most of the open-source content management systems out there. Tiki also has a shipload of cool features - image galleries, file galleries, weblogs, wiki, etc, etc.
"16 percent of the nonusers say they would turn to the Internet first the next time..".
So 16% would use the net for healthcare and government information. That still means 84% would NOT. So why is this being promoted as a victory for the Internet over alternative communications methods?
After having used it in a production environment for the last few months with a company that churns out tonnes of sites, I'd have to say that Dreamweaver sucks. Sure, it has some new XHTML stuff and improved support for CSS, but it is still HEAVILY based in HTML3 standards!
Having set it up on a large-ish site recently, I'd have to say that Tiki is simply awesome! Weblogs, forums, file and image galleries, FAQ system, on and on and on, with a really cool user management system. http://tikiwiki.sf.net/ has everything you need.
.. that unlike AOS4 it is available now.
Mike, Amiga Inc would have done the OS in-house if they had the money, but they didn't. Gateway wasn't interested in the OS either, or indeed the entire platform, which again was why they farmed it off. As a business decision the only reasons you do something like that is a) if you don't have the money to do yourself, or b) if it sc$$ws up then you have someone else to blame.
There's also new a site at http://pegasos-usa.com/ that is the new sales / information point for the US market.
This is on their to-do list for next year!