Team Fortress 2Fort4 is hands down the greatest Game Level ever designed. This was Team Fortress, it defined the game. Its shocking it didn't get a mention.
I built a MythTV box recently, its a dual boot with Windows Media Center all the same hardware. Under Media Center TV Output was "click" and the video is on the TV. A week in and the thing still will not show me video on my TV under Linux. I can get the Linux console to show sort of...blurry and constantly scrolling...X I got nothing, it boots into X and All I get is a blank Blackscreen...!
I am a Linux expert and a hardware expert and I am still struggiling with this...how do we expect the average Joe to be able to use Linux.
....I have written many times and even received replies once or twice the are uniformly in the camp of I'll say and do what ever the media concerns pay me to say and do. He is a profoundly bad man, thank GOD the american public as a whole had better sense than to elect that dickhead as the president.
Since the Upgrade proces sis really just a huge extention of the normal single package upgrade/install process, and its time proven its never a problem.
The Box that runs my domain started out as slack 8 box and has been upgraded to each follwing releases as Patrick has put them out and is frequently synced against Slack current inbetween.
Can't do business by developing, Building, and selling products/services? Thats OK, we have this great business plan, it can't fail! Business by litigation.
1. Virus protection is a good start. 2. True limited user accounts where the students have only User level rights. Make accounts individual per user, you'll need a domain controller if there is not already one to accomplish this however. (Depending on scope you might be able to rededicate one of the machines as a DC) 3. Force password changes on a monthly basis, to help stop the passing around of passwords. 4. Secure the Domain Admin account, a good idea is share the account between two users, each with only half of the password. 5. Remove all local user accounts, and rename the local admin account, disable guest if it is enabled. 6. Content Filtering Proxy, if it can be budgeted for... 7. Microsoft SMS Server, but now things are starting to get expensive
Na, any corporation sending email that is not directed to a single user with whom they already had a relationship (aka I already bought a product from you, NOT your partners, not some other related company, etc) and that single user willing provided their email address. Thats Spam, if I don't know your email address before you send my mail, if I didn't invite you to communicate with me, you are spamming me. I genernally just work through a white list personally, your not on my list of people whos email address I know, your mail gets silently bounced, I never see it you never know it wasn't delievered. I used to do a real bounce but the traffic was bogging the server down. I'd prefer I didn't have to do this, I'd prefer that only the people I know, and perhaps the people they know who they felt secure in providing my email address to could email me. However with all the spam I have no choice I don't want to see spam in my inbox ever. I don't want to have to deal with the false positives and potential misses of filters so its a whitelist.
It really is that simple, if I don't know you your spamming me, and I don't want your mail.
Users have decided to put their faith in what Spamhaus says is or is not spam. If they say these people are spammers then they are, and the users don't want the mail coming from them. End of story. If they are pulled from Spamhaus then the users will just enter them in their blacklists directly either way they will get blocked.
Its a stupid arguement...they are spammers if we the general public or our trusted agent (Spamhaus) say they are...
Ok, I admit that the premise is working on me I've heard about this thing so much my brain just screams to play it...but come on already when is this thing gonna get delivered! Its approaching DNF proportions of Ok great, but where the hell is it!
...at least this sort of survey. Asking the general uninformed population about an issue they know nothing abount and can formulate the questions in anyway that makes your conclusion valid is improper. If they had asked the same question of informed internet aware users, such as visitors to Slashdot, arstechnica, anandtecg, toms, dslreports, etc...the results would be different than what they wanted them to be no matter how babdly and twistedly they formulated the questions.
Net Neutrality needs to happen its good for everyone, the ISPs must not make the rules, the people using the internet must.
BTW: The article is by SF writer David Brin
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The Original Post didn't mention that I thought it might be of interest to some people to know that ahead of time. Perhaps influencing the descion about reading it or not.
Everyonce in a great great while I have some small hope of seeing good TV and justifying that stupid cable bill. Then the Scifi channel pulls this idiocy. So when is the BattleStar Galactica cancellation notice coming? Perhaps they will find somemore washed up or also ran wrestling leaugues to show. Well at least maybe they will find another channel for the show.
Same fiber to the home concept...10x+ the speed...
The w3c isn't relavant anyway....
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...they are way behind the curve, the innovations and recommendations for standards of the innovations have no parity. The largest market share holder for browsers doesn't fully support the recommendations anyway, and appears not to have any intention to in the newar future. Even when a recommendation is published and closely followed much of it never makes sense to anyone except its designers.
Inorder to be fully usuable a recommendation should have examples throught of making use of the things being documented and much more explict definations of what is expected output/results of making use of an element of the recommendation. But alas NO....
Even the people's Champion Mozilla/Gecko/Firefox does fully, cleanly and totally impliment recommendations that have existed for years. And even if it did the 8000lb gorilla does even less in the standards compliance department. Mean hell the java/ecmascript standard hasn't changed much in years and it still reqires hacks to support both browsers at once.
CSS is even worse...hell they don't even in all cases provide the same events support, and how long has that been standardized.
Nope the w3c will remain ineffectual (which in my opinion probably contributes to their lackadaisical attitude) until the standards start getting properly, cleanly and fully implimented, otherwise whats the point of having standards and/or improving them.
The current state of things is like having 3 almost indentical light blubs, one that is designed to the socket (works pretty much all the time), one that is a hair to small for the socket (works for the most part but once in while due to climate variations loses contact, sputters a little might need adjustment from time to time to keep working), and one that is a hair to wide (you can get it into the socket but it might crack doing so and need to be fixed/replaced alot, might need s a little forcing to get lit up in the first place).
...SGI needed to wise up about 5+ years ago and seen that there is NO money in hardware. They should have bailed from the hardware market and concentrated on their software offerings. They should have openned the hardware architechture up, and provided details no making compatibile hardware. Then offered up the software and support to make their core software products run on any old pile of x86 hardware.
I have been a subscriber since issue #2, I bought #1 in the store. I used to love this mag, unfortunately I have found of late, esspecially after a recent revamp, that the mag has gone WAY down hill. The Cover stories are still good, and the general games coverage still seems decent. However in the past they had several excellent monthly columns. The ones from the early days have faded away, they were not really replaced per se. New columns have come along, but they seem mainly like fluff and read like fluff. They used to cater to "hardcore" (defined in the loves to play games and wants all the best knowledge on playing games, and what's coming) and casual gamers alike. Now they still cater to "hardcore" (but defined in the when i get off my skate/snow board lets go play some games) and the cusal gamer is sorta out in the cold.
The columns are as I said pretty fluffy. In the case of a couple areas what used to be several pages are now reduced to a perhaps two pages (Hard Stuff).
In the long run its cheaper, its supported(24/7/365) by a huge multinational Corp that generally knows you have a a problem and solve it remotely even before you do...
Anything else is a waste of time money and effort.
In the end you no licensing the entire source code, most of the core functionality should be locked up in.dll's or.so's the end customer can't generall touch. However your software does have areas that the users can touch and customize the functionality of...
This is how most Helpdesk support software works (from companies such as Peregine, Clarify, Applix, Remedy, etc) you should probably look to do something along those lines. It will however probably require some changes to your code base to enable such functionality.
Yes RAID5....Got that, however STILL have to backup the RAID array every so often! Double disk failures are rare, and remembering this is a home setup there are certain dangers that a real datacenter is pretty kmuch immune to that are almost unavoidable in a house. Everything is on APC power protection and such however I can't control the roof suddenly deciding to leak, or the foundation cracking and letting water in or a pipe bursting, the washer hose blowing or a thousand other things. I can do my best but there are situations that the RAID just isn't gonna do it.
And lets not forget the ultimate home setup issue...$$$...I love RAID but all and all its expensive for what it does and convincing the wife that its worth the money that you are not going to use (from her prespective, you bought 1.5 TB of storage but you can only store 1 TB worth of stuff?) that drive.
What I was really getting at is the old reliable backup methods seem to have fallen by the wayside. I liked tape it was affordable, and often in its heyday the tapes were bigger than some of the hard drives. It could be automated, it was mindless. The buy another drive method seems nice except i have to go pull it in and mount it each time I want to do a backup.
This drive increases the ever widening gap between available storage and backup media. Great I can buy a 750GB drive...however how the hell am I gonna back this thing up...actually even with many many dics how am I gonna backup 750GB. There is a huge disparity in the amount of data we can store these days and the stuff we have to back it up. There is no afforadable backup solution for this much data.
Just regular windows shares. The systems don't seem to take network drive mappings into account when a new device is plugged in, or infact added to the system. As far as the system is concerned that Drive letter is fair game.
I've never been motivated enough to go looking for a fix.
I agree the Sun announcement is somewhat unclear and misleading. They are still not giving the community what they are looking for... The desire is for Java that the open/free community can hack on, improve and get the features they are looking for into the core implimentation. This is still not possible.
Lets put a real world Slashdot effect to good use. I think I can manange to scape together $300 in the next year. Getting the bulk of slashdotters to sign up would go a long way toward the pledge goal.
Yes, Yes they are not offical offering the thing up for sale, and it might never happen, but its worth it just to show support for the idea.
If it came to be I'd more than likely donate the third machine too...although it might also make an interesting hack project, see how much effort it would take to add a real power supply and/or battery.
The guy is not right and someone (I don't know who) needs to step in and take control of the matter.
Actually lets use all this Homeland security crap for something useful. Tickets will only be issued in a persons name and ONLY that person can use them!
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Team Fortress 2Fort4 is hands down the greatest Game Level ever designed. This was Team Fortress, it defined the game. Its shocking it didn't get a mention.
I built a MythTV box recently, its a dual boot with Windows Media Center all the same hardware. Under Media Center TV Output was "click" and the video is on the TV. A week in and the thing still will not show me video on my TV under Linux. I can get the Linux console to show sort of...blurry and constantly scrolling...X I got nothing, it boots into X and All I get is a blank Blackscreen...!
I am a Linux expert and a hardware expert and I am still struggiling with this...how do we expect the average Joe to be able to use Linux.
....I have written many times and even received replies once or twice the are uniformly in the camp of I'll say and do what ever the media concerns pay me to say and do. He is a profoundly bad man, thank GOD the american public as a whole had better sense than to elect that dickhead as the president.
I have NEVER had a slackware upgrade fail...EVER!
Since the Upgrade proces sis really just a huge extention of the normal single package upgrade/install process, and its time proven its never a problem.
The Box that runs my domain started out as slack 8 box and has been upgraded to each follwing releases as Patrick has put them out and is frequently synced against Slack current inbetween.
Can't do business by developing, Building, and selling products/services? Thats OK, we have this great business plan, it can't fail! Business by litigation.
1. Virus protection is a good start.
2. True limited user accounts where the students have only User level rights. Make accounts individual per user, you'll need a domain controller if there is not already one to accomplish this however. (Depending on scope you might be able to rededicate one of the machines as a DC)
3. Force password changes on a monthly basis, to help stop the passing around of passwords.
4. Secure the Domain Admin account, a good idea is share the account between two users, each with only half of the password.
5. Remove all local user accounts, and rename the local admin account, disable guest if it is enabled.
6. Content Filtering Proxy, if it can be budgeted for...
7. Microsoft SMS Server, but now things are starting to get expensive
Na, any corporation sending email that is not directed to a single user with whom they already had a relationship (aka I already bought a product from you, NOT your partners, not some other related company, etc) and that single user willing provided their email address. Thats Spam, if I don't know your email address before you send my mail, if I didn't invite you to communicate with me, you are spamming me. I genernally just work through a white list personally, your not on my list of people whos email address I know, your mail gets silently bounced, I never see it you never know it wasn't delievered. I used to do a real bounce but the traffic was bogging the server down. I'd prefer I didn't have to do this, I'd prefer that only the people I know, and perhaps the people they know who they felt secure in providing my email address to could email me. However with all the spam I have no choice I don't want to see spam in my inbox ever. I don't want to have to deal with the false positives and potential misses of filters so its a whitelist.
It really is that simple, if I don't know you your spamming me, and I don't want your mail.
Users have decided to put their faith in what Spamhaus says is or is not spam. If they say these people are spammers then they are, and the users don't want the mail coming from them. End of story. If they are pulled from Spamhaus then the users will just enter them in their blacklists directly either way they will get blocked.
Its a stupid arguement...they are spammers if we the general public or our trusted agent (Spamhaus) say they are...
Ok, I admit that the premise is working on me I've heard about this thing so much my brain just screams to play it...but come on already when is this thing gonna get delivered! Its approaching DNF proportions of Ok great, but where the hell is it!
...at least this sort of survey. Asking the general uninformed population about an issue they know nothing abount and can formulate the questions in anyway that makes your conclusion valid is improper. If they had asked the same question of informed internet aware users, such as visitors to Slashdot, arstechnica, anandtecg, toms, dslreports, etc...the results would be different than what they wanted them to be no matter how babdly and twistedly they formulated the questions.
Net Neutrality needs to happen its good for everyone, the ISPs must not make the rules, the people using the internet must.
The Original Post didn't mention that I thought it might be of interest to some people to know that ahead of time. Perhaps influencing the descion about reading it or not.
I can't really take it seriously until it integrates with Visual Studio.
.Net is far to much of a pain to program unless its being done in VS.
Anything
Everyonce in a great great while I have some small hope of seeing good TV and justifying that stupid cable bill. Then the Scifi channel pulls this idiocy. So when is the BattleStar Galactica cancellation notice coming? Perhaps they will find somemore washed up or also ran wrestling leaugues to show. Well at least maybe they will find another channel for the show.
Same fiber to the home concept...10x+ the speed...
...they are way behind the curve, the innovations and recommendations for standards of the innovations have no parity. The largest market share holder for browsers doesn't fully support the recommendations anyway, and appears not to have any intention to in the newar future. Even when a recommendation is published and closely followed much of it never makes sense to anyone except its designers.
Inorder to be fully usuable a recommendation should have examples throught of making use of the things being documented and much more explict definations of what is expected output/results of making use of an element of the recommendation. But alas NO....
Even the people's Champion Mozilla/Gecko/Firefox does fully, cleanly and totally impliment recommendations that have existed for years. And even if it did the 8000lb gorilla does even less in the standards compliance department. Mean hell the java/ecmascript standard hasn't changed much in years and it still reqires hacks to support both browsers at once.
CSS is even worse...hell they don't even in all cases provide the same events support, and how long has that been standardized.
Nope the w3c will remain ineffectual (which in my opinion probably contributes to their lackadaisical attitude) until the standards start getting properly, cleanly and fully implimented, otherwise whats the point of having standards and/or improving them.
The current state of things is like having 3 almost indentical light blubs, one that is designed to the socket (works pretty much all the time), one that is a hair to small for the socket (works for the most part but once in while due to climate variations loses contact, sputters a little might need adjustment from time to time to keep working), and one that is a hair to wide (you can get it into the socket but it might crack doing so and need to be fixed/replaced alot, might need s a little forcing to get lit up in the first place).
...SGI needed to wise up about 5+ years ago and seen that there is NO money in hardware. They should have bailed from the hardware market and concentrated on their software offerings. They should have openned the hardware architechture up, and provided details no making compatibile hardware. Then offered up the software and support to make their core software products run on any old pile of x86 hardware.
I have been a subscriber since issue #2, I bought #1 in the store. I used to love this mag, unfortunately I have found of late, esspecially after a recent revamp, that the mag has gone WAY down hill. The Cover stories are still good, and the general games coverage still seems decent. However in the past they had several excellent monthly columns. The ones from the early days have faded away, they were not really replaced per se. New columns have come along, but they seem mainly like fluff and read like fluff. They used to cater to "hardcore" (defined in the loves to play games and wants all the best knowledge on playing games, and what's coming) and casual gamers alike. Now they still cater to "hardcore" (but defined in the when i get off my skate/snow board lets go play some games) and the cusal gamer is sorta out in the cold.
The columns are as I said pretty fluffy. In the case of a couple areas what used to be several pages are now reduced to a perhaps two pages (Hard Stuff).
...you'll thank yourself later.
In the long run its cheaper, its supported(24/7/365) by a huge multinational Corp that generally knows you have a a problem and solve it remotely even before you do...
Anything else is a waste of time money and effort.
...its called "customization" licenses.
.dll's or .so's the end customer can't generall touch. However your software does have areas that the users can touch and customize the functionality of...
In the end you no licensing the entire source code, most of the core functionality should be locked up in
This is how most Helpdesk support software works (from companies such as Peregine, Clarify, Applix, Remedy, etc) you should probably look to do something along those lines. It will however probably require some changes to your code base to enable such functionality.
Ok, let me clarify...
Yes RAID5....Got that, however STILL have to backup the RAID array every so often! Double disk failures are rare, and remembering this is a home setup there are certain dangers that a real datacenter is pretty kmuch immune to that are almost unavoidable in a house. Everything is on APC power protection and such however I can't control the roof suddenly deciding to leak, or the foundation cracking and letting water in or a pipe bursting, the washer hose blowing or a thousand other things. I can do my best but there are situations that the RAID just isn't gonna do it.
And lets not forget the ultimate home setup issue...$$$...I love RAID but all and all its expensive for what it does and convincing the wife that its worth the money that you are not going to use (from her prespective, you bought 1.5 TB of storage but you can only store 1 TB worth of stuff?) that drive.
What I was really getting at is the old reliable backup methods seem to have fallen by the wayside. I liked tape it was affordable, and often in its heyday the tapes were bigger than some of the hard drives. It could be automated, it was mindless. The buy another drive method seems nice except i have to go pull it in and mount it each time I want to do a backup.
This drive increases the ever widening gap between available storage and backup media. Great I can buy a 750GB drive...however how the hell am I gonna back this thing up...actually even with many many dics how am I gonna backup 750GB. There is a huge disparity in the amount of data we can store these days and the stuff we have to back it up. There is no afforadable backup solution for this much data.
Just regular windows shares. The systems don't seem to take network drive mappings into account when a new device is plugged in, or infact added to the system. As far as the system is concerned that Drive letter is fair game.
I've never been motivated enough to go looking for a fix.
I agree the Sun announcement is somewhat unclear and misleading. They are still not giving the community what they are looking for...
The desire is for Java that the open/free community can hack on, improve and get the features they are looking for into the core implimentation. This is still not possible.
Lets put a real world Slashdot effect to good use. I think I can manange to scape together $300 in the next year. Getting the bulk of slashdotters to sign up would go a long way toward the pledge goal.
Yes, Yes they are not offical offering the thing up for sale, and it might never happen, but its worth it just to show support for the idea.
If it came to be I'd more than likely donate the third machine too...although it might also make an interesting hack project, see how much effort it would take to add a real power supply and/or battery.
The guy is not right and someone (I don't know who) needs to step in and take control of the matter.
Actually lets use all this Homeland security crap for something useful. Tickets will only be issued in a persons name and ONLY that person can use them!