Nah, it's panzer time when people get outnumbered..:-)
I also configured the server so that everyone starts with light weapons 3, and can hit level 4 pretty easy. This is to give em all an opportunity to run around in-game madly shooting they're duel pistols, shouting out to their office mates "ze enemy iz weakened!"
Oh and btw, the slang for "game?" is "ze enemy.." Heheh.
Downloads for Enemy Territory (Linux/Windows): here
The background behind why it's free, is that the developers Splash Damage were working on a single player and multiplayer expansion for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, but in the end ditched the single player version, and released the MP version free!?
The map we play is small and fun, available from here.
Only purpose I can see with Solaris x86 is a portable jumpstart server running under vmware on my laptop. Useful for those emergency outages late at night.
Of course, whether it RUNS under vmware is another issue.
So far we've had lan games with up to 15 other players at a time (including some who VPN over cable to play from home). We typically start at around 5pm and play for an hour or so. It has become so prevalent that when a bunch of us were discussing matrix revolutions, one guy unconsciously referred to the rocket launcher's they used as a "panzerfaust".:-)
Productivity hasn't been hampered (until 5pm that is). Teamwork also seems to have improved as well as communication with people in other groups not on our floor. There also has been an increase in those "fight club" type acknowledgements/glances as we pass each other in the hall.
We also have a new way to test latency of the new network links we put in place.:-)
I've just spent two days perusing PDAreviewSpot.com and PDAbuyersGuide.com, looking at what is out there. I've got my own SL-5500, but i felt like a new toy.
The things that a "killer" features for PDA's (by my standard) are:
Useable keyboard: Ok, this is more approaching a palmtop, but it's a nice feature.
Minimum bluetooth connectivity
Wifi (or ability to use expansion slot for wifi).
Linux/Mac connectivity
I just discovered the ultra-spiffy Sony Clie UX-50. This little baby just appeared here in Australia, and has a few things which'd make any geek drool. Built-in Wifi/Bluetooth, 640x480 screen, Wifi hotspot scanner software, USB, camera, microphone. Take a look at the pictures, it is damn nice.
I'm currently trying to figure out exactly what I need a PDA for, so I can make an appropriate purchase. As I do late-night support on occassion, I need a PDA that can do SSH, GPRS over bluetooth (via my bluetooth phone), and if possible, have some sort of keyboard (Some of the Sony models have nice ones).
Looking at the SL6000 screenshots, it looks like they have made the keyboard a bit more friendly, but I'm not sure what else has changed. If you want the QTopia environment on your PDA, you can get one of the relatively cheap iPaq's and install OPIE on it. Still, it looks like a great device to hack on.
Now, please excuse me while I go back to drooling over PDA's.
Here in Australia I heard a radio advert for the online store Everything Linux, on the 2UE (Sydney) channel. My mind suffered a brief freeze for a second - Linux - advertised on radio!?
OpenBSD 3.4 was a real stinker in these tests. The installation routine sucks, the disk performance sucks, the kernel was unstable, and in the network scalability department it was even outperformed by it's father, NetBSD. OpenBSD also gets points deducted for the sabotage they did to their IPv6 stack. If you are using OpenBSD, you should move away now.
Sabotage? Someone able to bring me up to speed on this?
As for the installation routine, it is something out of the dark ages, considering even redhat 4.0 - my first Linux installation - had a curses based install. However, if you ignore that, it still seems a decent enough platform - I use it on an Ultra5 at work and as my firewall/NAT gateway at home.
What I'd now like to see, which is what often doesn't occur, is for each OS camp to provide tuning suggestions to the researcher, and have him re-perform the tests. This is because no production webserver is likely to be untuned from the default installation.
Oh and the read-only sysctl problem for FreeBSD that he mentions was probably due to securelevel's being on (meaning you can't modify kernel variables).
This happened at our office, with Welchia. But in this instance the consultant was from IBM.
Now we're forcing all third-parties using our internal lan to either use our standard operating system (SOE) build, or VPN in using secureclient (which enables us to manage a firewall on their system).
Of course, when you can still plug in your PC and get a dhcp ip address... Bleh.
As recently as last weekend, I emerged abiword 2.0 (on my gentoo desktop), and tried to open my resume (in.doc format) that I've constantly been updating over the years.
Go to open it.. crash.
In addition, I was getting strange refresh issues with Abiword (had to scroll up and down the page to get it to properly display edited text - ie, deleted words werent getting deleted from the screen).
Yes Abiword is attractive-looking (way less visual clutter than alternative office suites), but because of the issues I described above, I won't be using it anytime soon.
There is a real chance that Robertson's platform will take over the market for VOIP, because to date, there isn't a similar *consumer* handset marketed by the various Telco bigwigs (Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, etc), and funnily enough, Microsoft also hasn't picked up on the concept yet.
Using an open technology platform for this also makes sense, as it enables third party providers to tailor SIP-based solutions without needing to sign up for a proprietary protocol.
In fact, it seems like its only groups such as SIPphone that will release such products, because the main communication companies have too much invested in traditional PSTN infrastructure.
One cool idea I have for these units would be an optional expansion slot within which you could place some sort of crypto accelerator card. VOIP STU-III anyone?;-)
The better the codebase is, and if indeed it is so portable a simple./configure ; make install will suffice, the more platforms software "X" will run on. For commercial software, this means that they don't have to bend over backwards for a slight increase in marketshare by offering a commercial (if unsupported) piece of software for the more esoteric UNIX platforms out there.
Ie, if you were a company that created a word processor built on C/C++, and you had made an effort to use appropriate configure scripts on Unix to assist in creating builds, by putting a small amount of time in to enable the code to build on esoteric-platform-1, and it worked, you suddenly have an entirely new (if small) market to sell your product to.
However, if your application sucks, nobody is going to buy it. But if you sold each application with a license that enabled *any* platform (ie, pay $49 and download program for windows/linux/bsd), and not having to pay for a copy of the linux vs bsd version, woo.. happy endusers.
I dunno what I'm saying at this point, just rambling.:-)
I had a very similar problem recently too. I had to recreate all my directories on the bad reiserfs partition from/lost+found after a fsck.reseirfs --rebuild-tree
But hey, at least they were there, but I still don't know what caused it in the first place. At least my blind trust of journaling filesystems has been smacked with a reality check.
I've also recently recommended reiserfs on a software raid installation at work. Lets hope that doesn't turn around and bite me in the ass.:-P
I'm suprised if this isn't already present in the game. The games I play (Enemy Territory and America's Army) have been a pleasure to play compared to back when cheats where prevalent (in America's Army at least).
Explain how encryption will resolve UCE/spam, instead of just using a buzzword without backing it up with practical information.
We've had PGP and derivatives for around ten years now, and where are we? The general emailing populace don't have a clue what it is, and even if and when they did learn about it, they'd probably use it incorrectly.
Oh, and this still doesn't address unsolicited commercial email. The proposed RFC the article talks about is intended to stop the sending of UCE from "protected" domains/isp's implementing the feature. This is a major step forward.
We are a big Checkpoint shop (stateful inspection firewall). With regards to which is better, the issue seems more to be: 1. What is the industry standard 2. What can we get support for locally.
Application firewalls have really done poorly here in Australia. I speak from experience - used to be a security 'engineer' (read, install Gauntlet), and have since moved on to network security administration.
The main vendors I've seen in the marketplace are (or were) Gauntlet, Sidewinder, and Cyberguard.
NAI dropped the ball with Gauntlet both here and abroad. The technology behind it is excellent, but the support really, really sucked. In addition, the administration was performed via a highly unintuitive java-based application, that everyone I knew *hated* to use. You often ended up simply going back to the command-line to configure the beasts.
Sidewinder I have no formal experience with, but have heard good reviews. Secure Computings presence in Australia was limited to international firms that required its use. There was no "storefront" for quite some time.
Cyberguard I have seen at a handful of places, mainly banks (and apparently also at various.gov.au sites).
All of these are technically good products. But due to their lack of popularity and market presence, they don't get used.
So it's a glorified packet filter I go to add a rule to now..;-)
This gives slashdot users greater reason to move across to something like Jabber. The issue of course will be all our friends, families and business contacts who continue to use services like MSN and Yahoo who probably won't want (or know) to move across.
Slashdot Mirror
Nah, it's panzer time when people get outnumbered.. :-)
I also configured the server so that everyone starts with light weapons 3, and can hit level 4 pretty easy. This is to give em all an opportunity to run around in-game madly shooting they're duel pistols, shouting out to their office mates "ze enemy iz weakened!"
Oh and btw, the slang for "game?" is "ze enemy.." Heheh.
Downside is that you need a lot of patience to play AA:O, because there are no respawns. Not something my co-workers have a lot of. :-(
Downloads for Enemy Territory (Linux/Windows): here
The background behind why it's free, is that the developers Splash Damage were working on a single player and multiplayer expansion for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, but in the end ditched the single player version, and released the MP version free!?
The map we play is small and fun, available from here.
I set this up for a few of us at the office, and now we have up to 20 players on a friday afternoon, including some VPN'ing in from home to play.
We've managed to also include managers and some people 40+ who haven't played FPS games before, and after a week they become a lot more proficient.
Currently running it on a linux server (700 MHz box next to me), and we play it from our 2.0Ghz desktop PC's.
Best thing about it.. it is FREE.
Only purpose I can see with Solaris x86 is a portable jumpstart server running under vmware on my laptop. Useful for those emergency outages late at night.
Of course, whether it RUNS under vmware is another issue.
So far we've had lan games with up to 15 other players at a time (including some who VPN over cable to play from home). We typically start at around 5pm and play for an hour or so. It has become so prevalent that when a bunch of us were discussing matrix revolutions, one guy unconsciously referred to the rocket launcher's they used as a "panzerfaust". :-)
:-)
Productivity hasn't been hampered (until 5pm that is). Teamwork also seems to have improved as well as communication with people in other groups not on our floor. There also has been an increase in those "fight club" type acknowledgements/glances as we pass each other in the hall.
We also have a new way to test latency of the new network links we put in place.
The things that a "killer" features for PDA's (by my standard) are:
I just discovered the ultra-spiffy Sony Clie UX-50. This little baby just appeared here in Australia, and has a few things which'd make any geek drool. Built-in Wifi/Bluetooth, 640x480 screen, Wifi hotspot scanner software, USB, camera, microphone. Take a look at the pictures, it is damn nice.
I'm currently trying to figure out exactly what I need a PDA for, so I can make an appropriate purchase. As I do late-night support on occassion, I need a PDA that can do SSH, GPRS over bluetooth (via my bluetooth phone), and if possible, have some sort of keyboard (Some of the Sony models have nice ones).
Looking at the SL6000 screenshots, it looks like they have made the keyboard a bit more friendly, but I'm not sure what else has changed. If you want the QTopia environment on your PDA, you can get one of the relatively cheap iPaq's and install OPIE on it. Still, it looks like a great device to hack on.
Now, please excuse me while I go back to drooling over PDA's.
Eek!
..or if there is, would someone let me know what they are.
There is no public benefit to having copyright restrictions for such a long period of time.
Here in Australia I heard a radio advert for the online store Everything Linux, on the 2UE (Sydney) channel. My mind suffered a brief freeze for a second - Linux - advertised on radio!?
Sabotage? Someone able to bring me up to speed on this?
As for the installation routine, it is something out of the dark ages, considering even redhat 4.0 - my first Linux installation - had a curses based install. However, if you ignore that, it still seems a decent enough platform - I use it on an Ultra5 at work and as my firewall/NAT gateway at home.
What I'd now like to see, which is what often doesn't occur, is for each OS camp to provide tuning suggestions to the researcher, and have him re-perform the tests. This is because no production webserver is likely to be untuned from the default installation.
Oh and the read-only sysctl problem for FreeBSD that he mentions was probably due to securelevel's being on (meaning you can't modify kernel variables).
What does strict typing have to do with maintenance of a large body of code?
You compiled KDE overnight!? What beowulf cluster have you got tucked away...?
This happened at our office, with Welchia. But in this instance the consultant was from IBM.
Now we're forcing all third-parties using our internal lan to either use our standard operating system (SOE) build, or VPN in using secureclient (which enables us to manage a firewall on their system).
Of course, when you can still plug in your PC and get a dhcp ip address... Bleh.
This is fantastic, but how long till the boca raton gang move to vietnam or somewhere similar to continue their "business".
Correction: Linksys knew this requirement. Cisco has since acquired them.
As recently as last weekend, I emerged abiword 2.0 (on my gentoo desktop), and tried to open my resume (in .doc format) that I've constantly been updating over the years.
Go to open it.. crash.
In addition, I was getting strange refresh issues with Abiword (had to scroll up and down the page to get it to properly display edited text - ie, deleted words werent getting deleted from the screen).
Yes Abiword is attractive-looking (way less visual clutter than alternative office suites), but because of the issues I described above, I won't be using it anytime soon.
There is a real chance that Robertson's platform will take over the market for VOIP, because to date, there isn't a similar *consumer* handset marketed by the various Telco bigwigs (Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, etc), and funnily enough, Microsoft also hasn't picked up on the concept yet.
;-)
Using an open technology platform for this also makes sense, as it enables third party providers to tailor SIP-based solutions without needing to sign up for a proprietary protocol.
In fact, it seems like its only groups such as SIPphone that will release such products, because the main communication companies have too much invested in traditional PSTN infrastructure.
One cool idea I have for these units would be an optional expansion slot within which you could place some sort of crypto accelerator card. VOIP STU-III anyone?
The better the codebase is, and if indeed it is so portable a simple ./configure ; make install will suffice, the more platforms software "X" will run on. For commercial software, this means that they don't have to bend over backwards for a slight increase in marketshare by offering a commercial (if unsupported) piece of software for the more esoteric UNIX platforms out there.
:-)
Ie, if you were a company that created a word processor built on C/C++, and you had made an effort to use appropriate configure scripts on Unix to assist in creating builds, by putting a small amount of time in to enable the code to build on esoteric-platform-1, and it worked, you suddenly have an entirely new (if small) market to sell your product to.
However, if your application sucks, nobody is going to buy it. But if you sold each application with a license that enabled *any* platform (ie, pay $49 and download program for windows/linux/bsd), and not having to pay for a copy of the linux vs bsd version, woo.. happy endusers.
I dunno what I'm saying at this point, just rambling.
I had a very similar problem recently too. I had to recreate all my directories on the bad reiserfs partition from /lost+found after a fsck.reseirfs --rebuild-tree
:-P
But hey, at least they were there, but I still don't know what caused it in the first place. At least my blind trust of journaling filesystems has been smacked with a reality check.
I've also recently recommended reiserfs on a software raid installation at work. Lets hope that doesn't turn around and bite me in the ass.
How it works is detailed here.
I'm suprised if this isn't already present in the game. The games I play (Enemy Territory and America's Army) have been a pleasure to play compared to back when cheats where prevalent (in America's Army at least).
I recall seeing this mentioned in a hacker "e-zine" article many moons ago. Perhaps someone could dig it up?
Explain how encryption will resolve UCE/spam, instead of just using a buzzword without backing it up with practical information.
We've had PGP and derivatives for around ten years now, and where are we? The general emailing populace don't have a clue what it is, and even if and when they did learn about it, they'd probably use it incorrectly.
Oh, and this still doesn't address unsolicited commercial email. The proposed RFC the article talks about is intended to stop the sending of UCE from "protected" domains/isp's implementing the feature. This is a major step forward.
Take your buzzords elsewhere.
We are a big Checkpoint shop (stateful inspection firewall). With regards to which is better, the issue seems more to be:
.gov.au sites).
;-)
1. What is the industry standard
2. What can we get support for locally.
Application firewalls have really done poorly here in Australia. I speak from experience - used to be a security 'engineer' (read, install Gauntlet), and have since moved on to network security administration.
The main vendors I've seen in the marketplace are (or were) Gauntlet, Sidewinder, and Cyberguard.
NAI dropped the ball with Gauntlet both here and abroad. The technology behind it is excellent, but the support really, really sucked. In addition, the administration was performed via a highly unintuitive java-based application, that everyone I knew *hated* to use. You often ended up simply going back to the command-line to configure the beasts.
Sidewinder I have no formal experience with, but have heard good reviews. Secure Computings presence in Australia was limited to international firms that required its use. There was no "storefront" for quite some time.
Cyberguard I have seen at a handful of places, mainly banks (and apparently also at various
All of these are technically good products. But due to their lack of popularity and market presence, they don't get used.
So it's a glorified packet filter I go to add a rule to now..
Don't forget ActiveTcl! ;-)