I've seen Kelly's people doing the exact same job for 3 or 4 years.
Kelly's are fun people to work for, when they fire you they don't have the balls to talk to you at the office, they call you at home and tell you not to come in. They mail you your stuff.
I seriously doubt most HR droids will bother trying to find my homepage. I've gone into interviews where the people interviewing me had no idea what was in my resume, much less done a Google search on my old Usenet posts.
Yeah, sounds similar, a transparent undelete mechanism. I think they'd have the same effect but they're not exactly the same thing, NetWare undelete works at the filesystem level, libtrash intercepts calls to glibc.
I've never heard of this, is it in widespread use? Do any distros include libtrash out-of-the-box?
One of the nicest things about the NetWare file system was the built-in undelete functionality. When a file was deleted, it wasn't overwritten immediately, and you could use SALVAGE to get it back.
If you had a lot of spare disk space, you could still SALVAGE files weeks or months later.
All I want for Xmas is for the Novell filesystem guys to sit down with Linus or Reiser or somebody and shoehorn this into Linux.
But have they done anything interesting? Will they be a contributing
member of the community? Why should I get excited about Novell?
They've had their own
Sourceforge clone
up for a year or 2, hosting a few dozen projects.
Some of this stuff is unsupported, but some of it is official Novell stuff, like their ConsoleOne developer's kit, or the NW version of PHP, Perl etc.
We're not talking NW3.12, SYSCON and FIRE PHASERS anymore, the latest NetWare comes with MySQL, Perl and PHP right on the installation CDs.
These guys aren't going to open up the really awesome stuff (NDS, the NetWare base OS), but they've become pretty good at opening up their add-on tools etc.
Although none of the developers think it is particularly relevant, this question comes up frequently enough in the mailing lists that it is answered here. www.openbsd.org and the main OpenBSD ftp site are hosted at a SunSITE at the University of Alberta, Canada. These sites are hosted on a large Sun system, which has access to lots of storage space and Internet bandwidth. The presence of the SunSITE gives the OpenBSD group access to this bandwidth. This is why the main site runs here. Many of the OpenBSD mirror sites run OpenBSD, but since they do not have guaranteed access to this large amount of bandwidth, the group has chosen to run the main site at the University of Alberta SunSITE.
I also enjoyed Nahlakh, at least up until the point I got stuck:)
They're very similar, although Nahlakh is much harder.
I found the Natuk interface was a bit more streamlined, and there's more of a plot.
It's a real shame that more people didn't register those games, the author hasn't put out anything new in years because he had to go back to his day job.
Natuk is a great shareware RPG dungeon crawl game.
Spoiler alert:
You play a party of selfish orcs. At the end of the game, there is one final battle to kill the king.
After a very difficult fight, you win. The party now realizes that only one person can be the new king. You pick one member of your party, and play him as the game degenerates into a deathmatch. The last surviving party member becomes king. A shocking and hilarious way to end the game.
Many of you have probably seen this, but it's an interesting story about one guy who did a lot of card counting, and what he thinks about the gambling mentality and casinos in general.
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Is that in Edmunton? That's pretty reasonable, I thought it was more expensive then that.
I still say Down East is cheaper. Totally unscientific survey:
MLS.ca tells me there are ~200 4-bedroom houses in Fredericton for $160K
MLS.ca tells me there are ~120 4-bedroom houses in Edmunton for $160K
What's the population of Edmunton? Freddy is *well* under 100K.
Freddy is more expensive then say Saint John, but who the hell wants to live in SJ?
Eh, I'm not so sure.
I've seen Kelly's people doing the exact same job for 3 or 4 years.
Kelly's are fun people to work for, when they fire you they don't have the balls to talk to you at the office, they call you at home and tell you not to come in. They mail you your stuff.
>Cost of living is pretty low in Edmonton.
Compared to what?
Low compared to Toronto or Vancouver. Outrageous compared to Saskatoon, Winnipeg, or Fredericton.
I seriously doubt most HR droids will bother trying to find my homepage. I've gone into interviews where the people interviewing me had no idea what was in my resume, much less done a Google search on my old Usenet posts.
SALVAGE also worked in NW 2.12, for what it's worth.
>Is the Mozilla Public License anything like the GPL, in the sense of
>requiring you to open the source of any code that's derived from MPL'ed
>code?
Guess what the first link is when you google for "Mozilla Public License"?
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
>And it has X.28... that's even better than X.25.
*Shudder*
That's what I call damning with faint praise.
Yeah, sounds similar, a transparent undelete mechanism. I think they'd have the same effect but they're not exactly the same thing, NetWare undelete works at the filesystem level, libtrash intercepts calls to glibc.
I've never heard of this, is it in widespread use? Do any distros include libtrash out-of-the-box?
One of the nicest things about the NetWare file system was the built-in undelete functionality. When a file was deleted, it wasn't overwritten immediately, and you could use SALVAGE to get it back.
If you had a lot of spare disk space, you could still SALVAGE files weeks or months later.
All I want for Xmas is for the Novell filesystem guys to sit down with Linus or Reiser or somebody and shoehorn this into Linux.
There's nothing wrong with IPX/SPX, but some of the associated NetWare baggage sucked, i.e. SAPs.
I have a wee bit of nostalgia for IPX/SPX, but I sure as hell don't miss my SAP filters.
They've had their own Sourceforge clone up for a year or 2, hosting a few dozen projects.
Some of this stuff is unsupported, but some of it is official Novell stuff, like their ConsoleOne developer's kit, or the NW version of PHP, Perl etc.
We're not talking NW3.12, SYSCON and FIRE PHASERS anymore, the latest NetWare comes with MySQL, Perl and PHP right on the installation CDs.
These guys aren't going to open up the really awesome stuff (NDS, the NetWare base OS), but they've become pretty good at opening up their add-on tools etc.
Planescape Torment was similar, you could get a lot of XP by talking your way out of fights, or bypassing them.
Often you could still go back and kill everyone anyway, and get extra XP from killing the critters.
Not that I know of, but I have no idea who I'm talking to.
I doubt it, that article has only been up for a week.
Would be nice if you pointed to the original article.
Hopefully you've got friends/roomies/etc in your courses.
Get 3 or 4 people together, each one buys a textbook and let the others scan it.
In school they told me that smoking was bad, I should eat a balanced diet, I shouldn't drink, and I should never smoke pot.
And look at me now!
...she'll realize that she actually wants to fuck me instead of just being my friend!
It's gonna happen!!
Any day now!
Probably.
Please?
>Microsoft aren't regular 'deadline'-missers - opting to release sub-par software instead just to reach the deadline.
Oh yeah? Just how long was WinNT the only MS server platform? What eventually became W2K was delayed for a *very* long time.
One day, I was going through my notes, cramming for a final exam. I realized that I had never opened the assigned textbook for that course!
After that, I didn't buy any textbooks until I was assigned a reading or an exercise out of it. I avoided buying about 1 text/year that way.
I also enjoyed Nahlakh, at least up until the point I got stuck :)
They're very similar, although Nahlakh is much harder.
I found the Natuk interface was a bit more streamlined, and there's more of a plot.
It's a real shame that more people didn't register those games, the author hasn't put out anything new in years because he had to go back to his day job.
Natuk is a great shareware RPG dungeon crawl game.
Spoiler alert:
You play a party of selfish orcs. At the end of the game, there is one final battle to kill the king.
After a very difficult fight, you win. The party now realizes that only one person can be the new king. You pick one member of your party, and play him as the game degenerates into a deathmatch. The last surviving party member becomes king. A shocking and hilarious way to end the game.
>Have you considered putting another hard disk in the computer and using RAID?
RAID doesn't help if you delete or overwrite a file. RAID is not a substitute for backups.
Many of you have probably seen this, but it's an interesting story about one guy who did a lot of card counting, and what he thinks about the gambling mentality and casinos in general.
This series of articles is a very interesting look at casinos, how they work, and the psychology of gamblers.