Like some people pointed out, why spending you free time in front a computer: get you some great board games/card, and have some fun !
We have been doing this since 2003, and it's a "tradition" that attracts more and more people (depending of course on the workload).
Here is a list of games that did very well:
When my girlfriend had her first look @ XP, she immediately identified it to teletubbies, showing typical femal insight and color taste.
Seriously, @work we use win2k, and there is no big chance it will be changed now, given all the trouble we had certifiying/patching/etc.
The only major incentive to change would be a major security hole that went unpatched. Given what happened to win98, I have the feeling that MS is in for yet another: "(angry background noise from the business world): OK, OK, here are X years more of support"
You're probably !$&"! right, now that I had a look here, I can tell that we had a mix indy, indigo 2 and indigo.
Of course, they might not be expensive for you guys, but from the point of view of a poor student, they were top of the line thingy... And they were coming with the biggest screen we had a that time too.
It might not correspond to the "extreme" definition, but it certainly felt like it !
Warblade: yes, I concur. There should even be a cooperative mode in the final version, but now two players can still have fun in competitive mode... And that's what we do !
From our glorious past, we liteerally used to play days long scenarios on settlers I (here at bluebytes), because it allowed players to have thei own half of the screen, and it accepted two mices at the same time. Too bad they dropped the concept afterward and the AI sucked big time...
Actually, we bought Carcassonne
around April this year, and this is a great board game.
It is challenging enough for adults, but a 7-year old can play and have fun.
Give it a try, and you'll understand.
Boogie Bass Hacked
On January 3rd, 2001 with 102 comments
vonmar writes "A 20-second re-recordable message has been hacked into the "Boogie Bass" talking fish. The audio is stored on an ISD 1420P solid-state...
Section: Articles > Toys
Score: 1.2
Well, It did not happen to me, but I had from a reliable source that videotron (my own ISP as well) started blocking computer infected with some most popular worms/trojan.
I do not know how they do the detection part, but one of my colleagues came for advice on how to clean/up secure his own PC, because it was shut down from the network.
Their method is really simple:
John Doe machine is infected
It is shut down from the network
John Doe calls to investigate what's wrong
Get an explanation, is reconnected to allow him to download some anti-virus/pers. FW, etc...
Everybody is happy
I like this attitude, because even if it does not prevent on-purpose spam, it at least prevent unknowable people to spread nastywares. The only problem beeing that the help desk should point to the IPS URL where they explain how to secure your machine. I hope they will get it right...
Disclaimer:
I'm not a XP specialist, just yet another of those corporate guy that managed to introduce some XP practices (ie _automated_ testing) at the class level and at the component level.
Yes, adding a test for each bugfix, that's good for new code/patches. And should be absolutely followed.
However, I'm under the impression our good friend Mr Pleonastic is after some way to apply testing (whatever the scope of it) to legacy code.
Our experience there is that, even for code recently written, trying to retrofit even class/function-level testing is a royal pain in whatever you use for sitting.
Because one of the major advantage introduced by good basic testing practice are cleaner interfaces and/or better functionnal separation.
If this is wrong in the design, then find time to write code for the highest level of abstraction you easily can write test for.
Do not forget as well that when you start automating test, which again is a "good thing (TM)", do not forget that you will have to maintain your test code base as well. Include that in your schedule.
Last advice: an good automated test is unforgiving. What will happen most of the time when a test will break is because the test itself is wrong. This is usefull to asses modification just introduced.
I concur: for example, my ISP DHCP server uses an adress in the 10.x.x.x range, even though I'm getting a real internet-routable IP. Remember that DHCP does just require layer two connectivity, plus maybe some collaboration from the local router (a.k.a gateway).
This probably presents the advantage of:
Preventing waste of relatively precious IP space.
Protecting the DHCP server from the internet, since packets outside my ISP network will not be routed to it.
Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in/home/httpd/vhosts/tweaktown.com/httpdocs/poll/inc lude/class_mysql.php on line 31 Connection Error
MySQL Error : Connection Error Error Number: 1040 Too many connections Date : Tue, August 26, 2003 06:58:15 IP : 192.75.88.232 Browser : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612 Referer : http://slashdot.org/ PHP Version : 4.3.2 OS : Linux Server : Apache/1.3.28 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) FrontPage/5.0.2.2623 mod_ssl/2.8.15 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.3.2 mod_perl/1.26 Server Name : www.tweaktown.com Script Name :/document.php
The chess move fits well into the Walldorfer concept to reduce the commercial meaning from data base servers to. SAP turns the nose, data bases actually the all world commodity became already longer and no cause, users enormous license costs abzuverlangen.
I did my Ph.D. in just that field: gas detection by means of arrays of sensor.
Ok, it was 9 years ago, but the subject of it changed from possibilities of sensors array processing to trying to cope with the fact that those sensors were exhibiting horrible sensibility drift over time.
Because the main problem with those sensors is that they are using a chemical compounds that binds the gas molecule. To simplify, the weight of the bound gas molecules increases the load of the crystal, thus affecting its frequency response.
The main problem of such a system is that the binding tends to have permanent effects, thus altering durably the sensor response over time, up until it becomes unusable or exhibit too different a behavior for its signal to be processed efficiently.
What usually happens is that a misinformed journalist just happens to hear about that "famous new electronic nose"...
But up to now, such noses failed to find any industrial applications, just because of the sensivity drift. I clearly remember reading some literature from that Di Natale guy 9 years ago, making the same bold claims.
If someone from the italian team reads/., I will be greatly interested by there take on the drift matter.
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We have been doing this since 2003, and it's a "tradition" that attracts more and more people (depending of course on the workload). Here is a list of games that did very well:
If you are interested, just tell me, I'll keep you posted.
Have cool lunches, guys !
Seriously, @work we use win2k, and there is no big chance it will be changed now, given all the trouble we had certifiying/patching/etc.
The only major incentive to change would be a major security hole that went unpatched. Given what happened to win98, I have the feeling that MS is in for yet another: "(angry background noise from the business world): OK, OK, here are X years more of support"
strip it Dude, strip it !
Well, the last free version as a feature called "Media Library" that has satisfying search/edit functions.
Of course, they might not be expensive for you guys, but from the point of view of a poor student, they were top of the line thingy... And they were coming with the biggest screen we had a that time too.
It might not correspond to the "extreme" definition, but it certainly felt like it !
Su root, uncomment the entry in /etc/services and lo ! Friday night were turned into combat-mode flight simulator lan parties.
That was of course 10-15 years before lan parties were invented, of course.
But if you go back to:
Caffeine > Accessories >SnoozAlert disappears from the available items !!!
I want access to the April 1st's !
Please help me.
Bottom line: most project managers do not even bother to schedule performance test, even less performance improvment activities.
That's a redhat-based distribution that let you install a web-managed router/gateway/proxy/name it.
The home edition is free, so if you have some old hardware, then you spare the hassle of the administration.
Of course, I own a d-link router as well, and it work without problem, but of course we do not do much p2p here.
Just choose your poison... But do not forget intermediate options. And no, I do not work@/for clark connect.
Now what:
"Its amazing the difference between U.S. viewpoint and world viewpoint."
WTF ? That bush moron and his family/host of politial friends are establishing a military dictature and waging war on foreign countries.
I wonder what that difference might based upon, no really.
Yeah, that really feels like karma burning/let's launch a flamewar day !
Now that would be an answer:
S: you see ,with those remot-controll screw, you...
Nah, VNC rulez !
If you get a signal 11, start diasgnosing at lower level !
Well, that sound exactly like any other software developpment jobs, or even working in the industry at large...
From our glorious past, we liteerally used to play days long scenarios on settlers I (here at bluebytes), because it allowed players to have thei own half of the screen, and it accepted two mices at the same time. Too bad they dropped the concept afterward and the AI sucked big time...
Actually, we bought Carcassonne around April this year, and this is a great board game. It is challenging enough for adults, but a 7-year old can play and have fun. Give it a try, and you'll understand.
Boogie Bass Hacked On January 3rd, 2001 with 102 comments vonmar writes "A 20-second re-recordable message has been hacked into the "Boogie Bass" talking fish. The audio is stored on an ISD 1420P solid-state... Section: Articles > Toys Score: 1.2
I do not know how they do the detection part, but one of my colleagues came for advice on how to clean/up secure his own PC, because it was shut down from the network.
Their method is really simple:
I like this attitude, because even if it does not prevent on-purpose spam, it at least prevent unknowable people to spread nastywares. The only problem beeing that the help desk should point to the IPS URL where they explain how to secure your machine. I hope they will get it right...
And yes, this is not really relevant.
But wait a minute !
- create a gaming sweat shop
- make sure that pissed of employee can't work anywhere
- profit...
Hmmm..Yes, adding a test for each bugfix, that's good for new code/patches. And should be absolutely followed.
However, I'm under the impression our good friend Mr Pleonastic is after some way to apply testing (whatever the scope of it) to legacy code.
Our experience there is that, even for code recently written, trying to retrofit even class/function-level testing is a royal pain in whatever you use for sitting.
Because one of the major advantage introduced by good basic testing practice are cleaner interfaces and/or better functionnal separation.
If this is wrong in the design, then find time to write code for the highest level of abstraction you easily can write test for.
Do not forget as well that when you start automating test, which again is a "good thing (TM)", do not forget that you will have to maintain your test code base as well. Include that in your schedule.
Last advice: an good automated test is unforgiving. What will happen most of the time when a test will break is because the test itself is wrong. This is usefull to asses modification just introduced.
This probably presents the advantage of:
- Preventing waste of relatively precious IP space.
- Protecting the DHCP server from the internet, since packets outside my ISP network will not be routed to it.
just myThen you get some other people to dance in the middle... Because feedback is necessary to play better.
Yes, I'm living in north america...
My two favorite:
Just in the mood of wasting bandwidth.Ok, it was 9 years ago, but the subject of it changed from possibilities of sensors array processing to trying to cope with the fact that those sensors were exhibiting horrible sensibility drift over time.
Because the main problem with those sensors is that they are using a chemical compounds that binds the gas molecule. To simplify, the weight of the bound gas molecules increases the load of the crystal, thus affecting its frequency response.
The main problem of such a system is that the binding tends to have permanent effects, thus altering durably the sensor response over time, up until it becomes unusable or exhibit too different a behavior for its signal to be processed efficiently.
What usually happens is that a misinformed journalist just happens to hear about that "famous new electronic nose"...
But up to now, such noses failed to find any industrial applications, just because of the sensivity drift. I clearly remember reading some literature from that Di Natale guy 9 years ago, making the same bold claims.
If someone from the italian team reads /., I will be greatly interested by there take on the drift matter.