Actually, I recently bought Alien Hominid as well, off of an advert I saw -- I remembered playing the flash game on the web, thinking that it would be so much better with a PS2 controller.
Excellent 2d game.
Gradius 5 has 3d elements throughout the game, but the gameplay is all 2D, which I'm happy to say keeps to the tradition of the Gradius series.
Keep the 2d sidescroller/shooters comin!!! I'll keep buying, that's for sure.
There are a few ways to solve this, but here's the easiest:
The equipment at work is the property of work. It is not to be abused, or used outside the scope of what is deemed proper by IT.
We locked machines down about 5 years ago - had people complaining up a storm about not having access to "their" machine. Simple things back then, such as not being able to change their background or screen saver.
Some of us within IT do have full admin access to our machines (development etc) - but this is with the understanding that if we screw something up, we're REALLY responsible. But, if a normal user happens to get admin on their box and we notice, they get a new image on their machine, and their boss gets billed.
That tends to stop any sort of "goofing around w/company property" that can happen in a less organized... organization....
Also, keep in mind that if you're running a pretty solid network, you will know a few things:
1. Mac addresses of machines. At my workplace, it's mostly Dell machines, a few Compaqs and a few legacy kingston ethernet cards in either (more about this in #2) 2. All ethernet devices have a pre-defined "preamble" that defines the manufacturer. Dump your arp table off of your managed switch and look for these.
If you get good at this, you would be able to glance at your switch's tables and see at the very least which switch is housing the rogue AP.
p.s. I like the etherkiller idea, although it would get me fired. I did once receive a "bad" dhcp address from someone who attached a home router, attempting to use it as a switch. They didn't shut off the DHCP server in the router, but plugged it into our network on the "lan" side. Our managed switches pointed us to the Jack #, then we just looked it up on the print, confiscated the router, and took it to their boss.
That's exactly my thoughts. Since I hadn't worked on one, I didn't know if they did a whole new "car"... You know, they tell you in the ads "The new Cobalt" but since it looks like a cavalier, and replaced the cavalier, it just smacks of rehash...
Lotus actually still kicks ass, only in the form of Notes.
My workplace uses Notes exclusively, and I have friends that use Notes in their workplace. And after using Notes, I don't see how anyone would want to use any other mail client - probably since we have so much invested in documentation in DBs on Notes..... Doesn't seem like that functionality exists in Outlook, right?
But seriously, I agree - if you're going to create something that you expect to be accepted by anyone in a professional manner, you may as well go that extra mile to make it a professional presentation.
Seriously, tnough - what is different on the Cobalt than was on the Cavalier? I've only ever seen them from their exterior... I wouldn't imagine Chevy would totaly re-do everything in the car, if it's just a badge and some external appearance updates.
Knowing how GM usually throws the cars together (having worked on my share), it's probably sharing a lot of the parts that the Cavalier used to use... am I right?
I think a lot of people also turn off their machines at night, and then fire them up as needed.
Given, I could send my machine into "Hibernate", but since my machine is fairly quick to start up, I don't worry about that. I have 2 Linux boxes up 24x7 (Firewall, File Server) using their power management features for the disks etc. As well, I have a SageTV box on 24x7 as a VCR replacement. (Oh yea, the wife never turns off her machine, unless I do it for her..... Sends me up the wall sometimes..)
So, from a Windows standpoint, I don't think that most people would leave their machines on all the time, and that's probably why boot time for them "seems" to be so important.
I remember playing mp3's on my p133 w/32 MB of ram. As well, I had a PCI Virge S3 video card...
The driver for that card sucked some ass. See, back in the 2d days of being the "fastest" card, some asshat thought it would be cool to have the driver lock out the PCI bus when doing screen updates.
Of course, this made the screen maybe 1% more responsive. But, when you scrolled in Navigator/IE/%browser%, it would cause skipping.
Always used to piss me off, until I got learned at the interweb thingy and found the fix... was actually just an option in some odd file somewhere....
If you're like me, you've probably done this before.
You just get done plastic tying everything in your rack, and something breaks.
You decide to replace a system, or get a new KVM, which seriously throws off your cabling. Then you get the joy of cutting off all the tie wraps.
A hint from me - if you want to keep your wires out of your way, but are always messing with things, use velcro strips. At work we have these "rolls" of velcro that are very handy - 3M makes them. The ones I use at home are "surplus" ones from work though - not the brand new ones, but on the racks that get decommissioned, and aren't as "new looking" as the 3m stuff.
You can tell when a reciew is a review, and an advertisement is an advertisement.
Ripped from the FA:
"it will also breeze through black text at up to 32 pages per minute (ppm) and colour documents at remarkable speeds of up to 31 ppm."
Now, come on. This is just getting ridiculous. There is NO WAY that this printer can print out a page every 2 seconds. I would bet money that the only way you'd get a page per minute count like this is to print a blank word document in black and white.
And even then, I doubt the paper feeding mechanism is that fast.
I really wish someone would hold manufacturers to their specs. This is just insane.
480p is actually native DVD quality. To get to 720p you'd have to upsample, which I'm sure can look better in certain cases (in other words, I don't have enough money to blow on a set/player to find out in my own home...)
Generals (and the Zero Hour expansion) are probably some of the most fun RTS games that you can play. They've finally taken the C&C platform, updated it to 3D, and placed native (i.e. user) support for TCP/IP.
My complaint? We can't (3 people) get through any match without a Multiplayer Mismatch. In addition, even if the game does get out of lockstep, they don't provide a way to get back into lockstep once this happens, so you're screwed and have to start a new game.
They should have taken a page from Age of Kings -- If you got disconnected from a multiplayer game (whether by net connection or game crash) - every person would save their current state, and you could restart the game from that saved state.
We all 3 paid full price for each copy of generals, as well as the Zero Hour expansion pack, and we are all PLENTY pissed off that these problems still plague what is a very very solid game.
Of course, we'll all bend over again when the next C&C game comes out. And we'll probably still bitch. Doesn't mean something shouldn't be done about the shoddiness of EA.
That's because people nowadays want something fast and easy. They don't want to invest a whole lot of time in listening to music for the music, they want something that picks them up, or reminds them of a time in their life when they listened to the song before.
My wife hates Dream Theater. Don't know why - she enjoys music. I actually like it.... not for the lyrics (I've never liked music for the lyrics) but for the wonderful things that band can do with their instruments.
"The Best" means that someone has an opinion about something that makes them feel that that something is able to fill a solution or need above the other choices they know about.
More often than not, however, people do get blindsided by things they don't know. For example, if I hadn't read about the grandparent's post of ultravnc, I may not have ever heard about it. At this point, I am going to look into it as a solution for managing my own boxes at work and at home, as a possible replacement for plain-vanilla VNC.
So, seeing what others think is "the best" actually can help people out from time to time. Even if it just annoys you so.
Friend of mine likes to play UT. Has an IDSL connection, since they couldn't get ADSL over to his apartment...
Anyways, he doesn't like the ping. So he put up a wireless USB dongle in his living room and leeches off of the neighbors when he's gaming.
He will sit there and bitch about the pings... I have to keep reminding him that if he wants decent cable modem speed and latency, he should try paying the monthly service fee for it.....
Then why haven't you given up your internet access and computer? That could save lives man!
And if you're at work, well why don't you get all your money together and send it to Africa? Heck, every time your employer pays you, direct deposit it into Africa....
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have sex with your wife
Not everybody can afford to take care of yet another child.
Hell, then have sex with MY WIFE. She's fixed.
(yes, it's a joke)
Here's my vote for Gradius 5.
Actually, I recently bought Alien Hominid as well, off of an advert I saw -- I remembered playing the flash game on the web, thinking that it would be so much better with a PS2 controller.
Excellent 2d game.
Gradius 5 has 3d elements throughout the game, but the gameplay is all 2D, which I'm happy to say keeps to the tradition of the Gradius series.
Keep the 2d sidescroller/shooters comin!!! I'll keep buying, that's for sure.
There are a few ways to solve this, but here's the easiest:
The equipment at work is the property of work. It is not to be abused, or used outside the scope of what is deemed proper by IT.
We locked machines down about 5 years ago - had people complaining up a storm about not having access to "their" machine. Simple things back then, such as not being able to change their background or screen saver.
Some of us within IT do have full admin access to our machines (development etc) - but this is with the understanding that if we screw something up, we're REALLY responsible. But, if a normal user happens to get admin on their box and we notice, they get a new image on their machine, and their boss gets billed.
That tends to stop any sort of "goofing around w/company property" that can happen in a less organized... organization....
Also, keep in mind that if you're running a pretty solid network, you will know a few things:
1. Mac addresses of machines. At my workplace, it's mostly Dell machines, a few Compaqs and a few legacy kingston ethernet cards in either (more about this in #2)
2. All ethernet devices have a pre-defined "preamble" that defines the manufacturer. Dump your arp table off of your managed switch and look for these.
If you get good at this, you would be able to glance at your switch's tables and see at the very least which switch is housing the rogue AP.
p.s. I like the etherkiller idea, although it would get me fired. I did once receive a "bad" dhcp address from someone who attached a home router, attempting to use it as a switch. They didn't shut off the DHCP server in the router, but plugged it into our network on the "lan" side. Our managed switches pointed us to the Jack #, then we just looked it up on the print, confiscated the router, and took it to their boss.
That's exactly my thoughts. Since I hadn't worked on one, I didn't know if they did a whole new "car"... You know, they tell you in the ads "The new Cobalt" but since it looks like a cavalier, and replaced the cavalier, it just smacks of rehash...
Lotus actually still kicks ass, only in the form of Notes.
My workplace uses Notes exclusively, and I have friends that use Notes in their workplace. And after using Notes, I don't see how anyone would want to use any other mail client - probably since we have so much invested in documentation in DBs on Notes..... Doesn't seem like that functionality exists in Outlook, right?
but that kind of shoddy editing
:)
What are you doing on Slashdot?
But seriously, I agree - if you're going to create something that you expect to be accepted by anyone in a professional manner, you may as well go that extra mile to make it a professional presentation.
Sounds like you want to make it like the annoying, sound-filled flash ads... "Hit the president to get a free car!!!" ... ugh....
Compare the Cobalt to the Cavalier
Seriously, tnough - what is different on the Cobalt than was on the Cavalier? I've only ever seen them from their exterior... I wouldn't imagine Chevy would totaly re-do everything in the car, if it's just a badge and some external appearance updates.
Knowing how GM usually throws the cars together (having worked on my share), it's probably sharing a lot of the parts that the Cavalier used to use... am I right?
I think a lot of people also turn off their machines at night, and then fire them up as needed.
Given, I could send my machine into "Hibernate", but since my machine is fairly quick to start up, I don't worry about that. I have 2 Linux boxes up 24x7 (Firewall, File Server) using their power management features for the disks etc. As well, I have a SageTV box on 24x7 as a VCR replacement. (Oh yea, the wife never turns off her machine, unless I do it for her..... Sends me up the wall sometimes..)
So, from a Windows standpoint, I don't think that most people would leave their machines on all the time, and that's probably why boot time for them "seems" to be so important.
I remember playing mp3's on my p133 w/32 MB of ram. As well, I had a PCI Virge S3 video card...
The driver for that card sucked some ass. See, back in the 2d days of being the "fastest" card, some asshat thought it would be cool to have the driver lock out the PCI bus when doing screen updates.
Of course, this made the screen maybe 1% more responsive. But, when you scrolled in Navigator/IE/%browser%, it would cause skipping.
Always used to piss me off, until I got learned at the interweb thingy and found the fix... was actually just an option in some odd file somewhere....
ummm. same thing as when I use nero to burn an audio cd.
No extra step required.
If you are not allowed to drill,
That just put an interesting picture into my head... kinda like a "Drill License"
If you're like me, you've probably done this before.
You just get done plastic tying everything in your rack, and something breaks.
You decide to replace a system, or get a new KVM, which seriously throws off your cabling. Then you get the joy of cutting off all the tie wraps.
A hint from me - if you want to keep your wires out of your way, but are always messing with things, use velcro strips. At work we have these "rolls" of velcro that are very handy - 3M makes them. The ones I use at home are "surplus" ones from work though - not the brand new ones, but on the racks that get decommissioned, and aren't as "new looking" as the 3m stuff.
But I digress. Velcro will make your life easier.
You can tell when a reciew is a review, and an advertisement is an advertisement.
Ripped from the FA:
"it will also breeze through black text at up to 32 pages per minute (ppm) and colour documents at remarkable speeds of up to 31 ppm."
Now, come on. This is just getting ridiculous. There is NO WAY that this printer can print out a page every 2 seconds. I would bet money that the only way you'd get a page per minute count like this is to print a blank word document in black and white.
And even then, I doubt the paper feeding mechanism is that fast.
I really wish someone would hold manufacturers to their specs. This is just insane.
== YAY for Cyrix and Transmeta!!!!!
Oh wait. compile(); probably just means compileMediocreBranch();...
720p (DVD quality)
480p is actually native DVD quality. To get to 720p you'd have to upsample, which I'm sure can look better in certain cases (in other words, I don't have enough money to blow on a set/player to find out in my own home...)
Yup, illegal activities in a game.
I oughta send them a link to PimpWars.
Or I could give em a copy of Dopewars for the Palm, if they want to commit crimes in a game on the go.
Generals (and the Zero Hour expansion) are probably some of the most fun RTS games that you can play. They've finally taken the C&C platform, updated it to 3D, and placed native (i.e. user) support for TCP/IP.
My complaint? We can't (3 people) get through any match without a Multiplayer Mismatch. In addition, even if the game does get out of lockstep, they don't provide a way to get back into lockstep once this happens, so you're screwed and have to start a new game.
They should have taken a page from Age of Kings -- If you got disconnected from a multiplayer game (whether by net connection or game crash) - every person would save their current state, and you could restart the game from that saved state.
We all 3 paid full price for each copy of generals, as well as the Zero Hour expansion pack, and we are all PLENTY pissed off that these problems still plague what is a very very solid game.
Of course, we'll all bend over again when the next C&C game comes out. And we'll probably still bitch. Doesn't mean something shouldn't be done about the shoddiness of EA.
Spoken like someone who hasn't dealt with big-business politics before.
That's because people nowadays want something fast and easy. They don't want to invest a whole lot of time in listening to music for the music, they want something that picks them up, or reminds them of a time in their life when they listened to the song before.
My wife hates Dream Theater. Don't know why - she enjoys music. I actually like it.... not for the lyrics (I've never liked music for the lyrics) but for the wonderful things that band can do with their instruments.
"The Best" means that someone has an opinion about something that makes them feel that that something is able to fill a solution or need above the other choices they know about.
More often than not, however, people do get blindsided by things they don't know. For example, if I hadn't read about the grandparent's post of ultravnc, I may not have ever heard about it. At this point, I am going to look into it as a solution for managing my own boxes at work and at home, as a possible replacement for plain-vanilla VNC.
So, seeing what others think is "the best" actually can help people out from time to time. Even if it just annoys you so.
Even if it is on your private property?
Gonna have to tell my friends about that one... They always make fun of me for locking my car up back in Hicktown, PA (where we're all from)...
Funny story.
Friend of mine likes to play UT. Has an IDSL connection, since they couldn't get ADSL over to his apartment...
Anyways, he doesn't like the ping. So he put up a wireless USB dongle in his living room and leeches off of the neighbors when he's gaming.
He will sit there and bitch about the pings... I have to keep reminding him that if he wants decent cable modem speed and latency, he should try paying the monthly service fee for it.....
Then why haven't you given up your internet access and computer? That could save lives man!
...
And if you're at work, well why don't you get all your money together and send it to Africa? Heck, every time your employer pays you, direct deposit it into Africa.
wow.