That's going to teach you how to survives, if no other game can.
It's the only survival game I know that really modifies the display if someone pokes on of your eyes: beware of that eagle's beak when you are fighting for food.
even if it's not documented, you _have_ access to the source
even if you do not have time to access/read the source, the problem are usually in the open, generally discussed by someone else you could easily locate. If you are the first one, someone is usually going to answer you.
On linux, most of the configuration is done in _text_ files, and most of the system set-up is done by sh/bash shell script. Get familiar with shell scripting (it's a minimal requirement anyway), and you usually can read you way through. For example, it's a very good way to understand how the system starts, in details.
Of course, RTFM/RTFMan is always a good idea, but usually, a " --help" gets you through most of the time.
Now, of course, not everything is a shell script, and you do not have the time to study the manual pages or the documentation. Make sure that you have various tracing tools (system/network/etc):
strace : for system calls
lsof : for system calls and file/network access
tcpdump/wireshark : for network tracing
/procs : can do some of this all, but whithout real-time tracing.
Using those tools on misbehaving/unknown programs is going to give you some insight on how they work, and _what_ exactly they are doing. Their output can really be intimidating, but once you get some minial knowledge about protocols and other inner workings
And of course, having some basic idea in programming in the langague of you main applications is going to be helpful, but that really depend on how much time you want to devote to it and how programming-inclined you are.
Never forget that the unix philosophy is not about monolythic applications, but rather distributing tasks to smaller utilities. So learn about all those funny commands that are displayed when you press any keyboard letter and . You are going to be surprised: did you know that linux has "cut" and "paste" has commands ?
Reinstall everything from scratch and trusted media.
It's not because ou think you only have a spambot that there's no trojan/backdoor/rootkit lurking in the background.
Be paranoid: do no trust any executable code, and even not your (hopefully) backed-up data.
Otherwise, you might just end up putting back yet another future spam/DDOS/phishbot on the net.
Could you guys refrain from publishing BAD Microshaft PR for god's sake ???
Who cares that they are going to have and publish a fscking SP1 to vista because they do not know how to developp an OS anymore ?
Whot want Vista for once ?
That's enough that we have to look a the fskcing Microshaft adverts on/. for crying out loud, leave the Msoft PR to Msoft.
That's what strike me with the legal way US of seeing things in U.S.: it's not written somewhere that you should use your common sense when using anything, so we have the right to sue.
What kind of country are you building for your daughters and sons ?
Well, since the ultrasound triangulation idea is neat anyway, but apparently lacks feedback, the two technologies could actually be coupled, the laser lighting up were a "key" has been pressed, or were the "mouse" is detected.
I wonder however is tapping the whole day on hard surface like a table would not create strain somewhere in the hand/arm system.
And what about ergonomic keyboard ? Could they do this on a curved surface that would be awesome too.
Well, that's what I do in my machines already: buy two hard drives of the same model, and set up the system so everything is a/dev/md? array. Or on disabled system, I use cygwin/rsync. Yes it's an inferior solution, but it's still cheap backups.
Same here, with an 12Gb quantum hard drive: smelled funny, blocked the computer, removed the hard drive (after some case-sniffing exercise;-). My hd controller looked like the TFA one, burned/desoldered wires, cracked IC casing, etc. But no fire anywhere.
Now If someone happen to have some disk controller for 12Gb quantum HD, please e-mail me, I'm buying;)
The first pentium-based PC I bougth (a DELL P120) had a desktop case. For some reason, when I wanted to put a new HD in it, I had to try a few combinations before finding out that to boot the damn beast, I had to put the biggest HD alone on the primary controller, and the CD as a master on the secondary controller, while the other HD was the slave.
Any other combination would'nt boot, period.
Oh, And I had to isolate the primary HD from touching some part of the chassis, otherwise it would not boot as well.
Go figure...
I totally disagree.
Like someone else pointed, the medieval version of that game can (and will) be picked up by any people older than 8.
As well, we had tournaments with the hunter and gatherer version, and I can tell you that assigning everything to luck is just a bad excuse for losing. We are still playing this game with my 30+ friends, and knowing the layout of the tiles by heart helps a lot.
Now, if you really want to tone down luck, just make sure that everybody plays with two tiles to choose from in his hand, for example.
Anyway, our recommendations:
medieval carcassone: good for beginner, especially with the inn extension (allows 6 players)
hunter and gatherers: very good fun for a long time for the vanilla version.
settlers version: advanced one, can be very frustrating, but probably the more refined one. Lot of finesse and more options than before.
Here is the timeline here:
(large ~2000 R&D center, users on NT/2000 depending on the time)
- we had admin right
- they (the all-knowing corporate IT nazis) removed it, were asked to put it back for some people.
- devised a complicated process to allow for it, with the suitable delay and approval hurdles: You had admin rights but just for a week, etc...
- as the request flowed in, overloaded manager asked to simplify the process, which eventually decayed to
- as the request flowed even more, the delay became longer as time passed.
- right now, you ask for admin rights, you get them 1h after, hassle-free, for all eternity. As well, just mention you had them before in case you get reinstalled. Everybody technical and his friendly managers have them.
Note: I tried this priv/unpriv scheme @home, and discovered it sucks so much on any msoft platform.
I can imagine the msoft managers talk from here: "look, we improved the security model so much you do no need to giv'em admin (cringes from the poor techies)". It's kind of revealing to learn that even msoft people were requiring admin rights. Talk about eating your own medicine.
nuff said.
I never tried them on a portable platform, but they are great in term of lightness and usability, not counting the easy to drop and pick back factor. Maybe a bit of lobbying would help porting them on light(er) platforms ? They for sure runs without problem in wine.
merry xmas to all !
There is no disk/media/storage array large enough that it won't eventually fill up.
...In generally half the time you thought would be the more pessimistic.
I know, those are all corrolaries of Murphy's law, but hey.
Dude, I just have to tell you that if I start to wear something cleaner that I use to wear, my boss is going to wonder where I'm going to go interview next.
Senior techy speaking here: if you need to dress up to get respect, that's just sad.
"most of your work is presentation and communication": so what you need your dear friend Armani to help here: a clean tee-shirt and jeans is no sufficient ?
Then go play in the same league with the other that need suits and ties to enhance their self-respect. I'll just do productive work in comfortable clothes.
Of course, it could be my lack of "I want to climb that f*&?$g so-called social ladder". I'm interested more in my life than in promotions, sorry.
Fuckm feels like trolling tonitght, but you yapping yuppi attitude pisses me of.
OH, and my boss dresses normaly, no slob, but no tie either. God help us all.
Well, If you cared to read your own linked archives, you could read this:
* From: Alex Rubenstein * Date: Fri Oct 21 13:45:24 2005
Gary,
I understand your statement, but I am sure the gentleman below does not.
If you want a story to be done, so that the world can see how something like this can impact thousands of businesses, the best bet would be to help educate this guy so that he has something to write.
Are, were you trying to scare him off from doing a story?
Personally, I am quote fed up with the issues that the huge providers have and cause, yet never have anyone document it, find out about it, or do anything about it. I laud this guys effort for actually trying to do his job and expose something that needs to be exposed.
I am now putting on my level-3 bullet proof jacket, and will be looking over my shoulder for the next 3 NANOGs.
Seems like someone want the media attention,/. is not the worst choice here. Of course, the sensationalism could have been avoided, I can grant you this. Does this warrant cursing, hmmm....
Slashdot Mirror
That's going to teach you how to survives, if no other game can.
It's the only survival game I know that really modifies the display if someone pokes on of your eyes: beware of that eagle's beak when you are fighting for food.
- even if it's not documented, you _have_ access to the source
- even if you do not have time to access/read the source, the problem are usually in the open, generally discussed by someone else you could easily locate. If you are the first one, someone is usually going to answer you.
On linux, most of the configuration is done in _text_ files, and most of the system set-up is done by sh/bash shell script. Get familiar with shell scripting (it's a minimal requirement anyway), and you usually can read you way through. For example, it's a very good way to understand how the system starts, in details.Of course, RTFM/RTFMan is always a good idea, but usually, a " --help" gets you through most of the time.
Now, of course, not everything is a shell script, and you do not have the time to study the manual pages or the documentation. Make sure that you have various tracing tools (system/network/etc):
Using those tools on misbehaving/unknown programs is going to give you some insight on how they work, and _what_ exactly they are doing. Their output can really be intimidating, but once you get some minial knowledge about protocols and other inner workings
And of course, having some basic idea in programming in the langague of you main applications is going to be helpful, but that really depend on how much time you want to devote to it and how programming-inclined you are.
Never forget that the unix philosophy is not about monolythic applications, but rather distributing tasks to smaller utilities. So learn about all those funny commands that are displayed when you press any keyboard letter and . You are going to be surprised: did you know that linux has "cut" and "paste" has commands ?
It's not because ou think you only have a spambot that there's no trojan/backdoor/rootkit lurking in the background.
Be paranoid: do no trust any executable code, and even not your (hopefully) backed-up data.
Otherwise, you might just end up putting back yet another future spam/DDOS/phishbot on the net.
OK: /. gleeful "let's bash vista" trolls need it ?.
- hardocp is slashdotted
- mirrordot is slashdotted too (!).
Where is mirrormirrordotdot, when the
System: w2k sp4
- Seamonkey 1.11 goes into memory allocation hell, killed it after 5 mins at 100% cpu (not the most stable one: a cpu pig usually anyway)
- Firefox 2.0.0.3 : The image "dontloadthis.jpg" cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.
- IE 6.0.2800.1106C0 : display a big empty image, and uses a !@#!@$ lot of memory too.
Pick your poison, Nuff said.Anybody else spotted this ?
Could you guys refrain from publishing BAD Microshaft PR for god's sake ???
Who cares that they are going to have and publish a fscking SP1 to vista because they do not know how to developp an OS anymore ?
Whot want Vista for once ?
That's enough that we have to look a the fskcing Microshaft adverts on
...Some /. reader parser crashing, or what ?
Because yes, RTFM=big pain here, no doubt.
Oh, and be very carefull: having to run through a serial line and beeing forced to use lynx _and_ a web server is quite _not_ the same, dude.
"All bastards are bastards, but some bastards is *bastards*."
-- (Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent)That's what strike me with the legal way US of seeing things in U.S.: it's not written somewhere that you should use your common sense when using anything, so we have the right to sue. What kind of country are you building for your daughters and sons ?
Well, since the ultrasound triangulation idea is neat anyway, but apparently lacks feedback, the two technologies could actually be coupled, the laser lighting up were a "key" has been pressed, or were the "mouse" is detected. I wonder however is tapping the whole day on hard surface like a table would not create strain somewhere in the hand/arm system. And what about ergonomic keyboard ? Could they do this on a curved surface that would be awesome too.
Well, that's what I do in my machines already: buy two hard drives of the same model, and set up the system so everything is a /dev/md? array. Or on disabled system, I use cygwin/rsync. Yes it's an inferior solution, but it's still cheap backups.
Same here, with an 12Gb quantum hard drive: smelled funny, blocked the computer, removed the hard drive (after some case-sniffing exercise ;-). My hd controller looked like the TFA one, burned/desoldered wires, cracked IC casing, etc. But no fire anywhere.
;)
Now If someone happen to have some disk controller for 12Gb quantum HD, please e-mail me, I'm buying
The first pentium-based PC I bougth (a DELL P120) had a desktop case. For some reason, when I wanted to put a new HD in it, I had to try a few combinations before finding out that to boot the damn beast, I had to put the biggest HD alone on the primary controller, and the CD as a master on the secondary controller, while the other HD was the slave. Any other combination would'nt boot, period. Oh, And I had to isolate the primary HD from touching some part of the chassis, otherwise it would not boot as well. Go figure...
I can imagine the msoft managers talk from here: "look, we improved the security model so much you do no need to giv'em admin (cringes from the poor techies)". It's kind of revealing to learn that even msoft people were requiring admin rights. Talk about eating your own medicine. nuff said.
After this, getting my first Apple ][, I remember being thrilled by looking at BASIC and saying: "What ? you can really use _all_ those variables ?"
I never tried them on a portable platform, but they are great in term of lightness and usability, not counting the easy to drop and pick back factor. Maybe a bit of lobbying would help porting them on light(er) platforms ? They for sure runs without problem in wine. merry xmas to all !
I know, those are all corrolaries of Murphy's law, but hey.
'nuff said.
Senior techy speaking here: if you need to dress up to get respect, that's just sad.
"most of your work is presentation and communication": so what you need your dear friend Armani to help here: a clean tee-shirt and jeans is no sufficient ? Then go play in the same league with the other that need suits and ties to enhance their self-respect. I'll just do productive work in comfortable clothes.
Of course, it could be my lack of "I want to climb that f*&?$g so-called social ladder". I'm interested more in my life than in promotions, sorry.
Fuckm feels like trolling tonitght, but you yapping yuppi attitude pisses me of. OH, and my boss dresses normaly, no slob, but no tie either. God help us all.
Seems like someone want the media attention, /. is not the worst choice here. Of course, the sensationalism could have been avoided, I can grant you this. Does this warrant cursing, hmmm....
Nice to see that for once someone not high on testosterone did make it into this sorry male-dominated geek world.
Keep on the good work, lass !