Before u go saying I got shit from mommy and daddy, go read my journal, and fuck off. I doubt you've had to work as hard as I have. See now you're steppin over the line. I just stuck to comments about your comment in relation to the story, but now you're talkin shit about my upbringing?
Are you sitting here on sunday drinking yourself beligerently talking shit to someone you don't even know on slashdot because,
A. Talkin this way to real people scares you B. You're just bored and trying to fill up digital space? C. You're just a big freeking loser.
I'd opt for c, I dunno. Maybe some other/.ers would care to drop some insight on this.
Maybe you're not drinking and thats the problem. Chill out, stay ontopic, and don't talk out your ass ok? It'll make slashdot more fun for you.
As someone else pointed out, high framerate also makes the controls more responsive. The more responsive you are (epsecially in a FPS like doom) the better your accuracy, everything.
It doesn't stop at just the responsiveness of the controls either, playing any FPS on a tv over the net blows. I know this from trying CS on my 52" wega via the SVHS out on my video card, and playing halo for the Xbox.
I guess if you don't really want to take playing doom3, or any other FPS seriously, then yeah, go ahead and play on your crappy little PS2.
But understand this, I snapped at your initial comment because you talked shit about doom3 like it was garbage code produced by an idiot, and that just wasn't the case. You sound like a man who's jealous of carmack (and who wouldn't be with the fine mamma he has by his side:)
Your comment lacked comment sense, deal with it.
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Hey i'm on it right now with 150 other people all saying the same thing...
The parent doesn't deserve mod points because there IS no doom 3 here. Completely useless utter nonsense dog dick crap. SO MOD THE PARENT DOWN
Are you smokin? Poorly written game? You fucking twit.
ID *IS* the company that pushes FPS technology to it's fullest. Carmack is a fucking Genius. Unreal is nothing more than a DoomMeToo. Ever since wolfenstien3d (i'm talkin 286 here, not RTCW) People wanting to play ID games have been buying, upgrading their home pc's for years. It's a completely new scene (6-7 year old scene?)
aS FAR A ps2 being beefier than a top of the line PC, don't make me chuckle. Shit's gonna be emulated soon nuff. NV30 will run circles around the PS2 graphics stuff without even breaking a sweat.
Your crappy NTSC Tv at the most can display at a resolution of 720x480, while any PC can do resolutions way beyond that. Also to note, your TV refreshes at 60hz, so at the most it could only spit out 60 FPS on a tv.
Computers with monitors will go beyond the resolution, and beyond the framerate of the PS2. Modern SGI monitors can refresh at 150, so as long as the video card can keep up with the refresh rate, it can spit out 150fps.
Use "comment sense" before you make stupid comments like that and I wont have to kill you.
SID's only matter if the machines are all in the same domain, for stand alone servers it makes no difference. You prolly knew that but forgot because you're soo smart you told me to read the MS site.
Shaddup, just shaddup before I bury my boot in your ass ok? I just get back from a great night of drinking to find your stupid ass comment sitting right underneath my +5 comment and you're as irritating as a hemmoroid. K?
One thing that we all hated about the.com period, poser geeks.
During that time, geek was shiek. Everyone and their sister was trying to be geek, people that had absolutely no idea of what underlying technology was powering their company would run around touting it as something grand, like upper upper class l33t society, gods gift to geekdom society.
So we had a lot of people with money hopping on the technology bandwagon, the politicians want their money (simple so far right?) Just like the CEO's that ran around swindling the savings out of unsuspecting retiree's for their latest.com whatever the fuck.
So basically we have a food chain like this..
Politicians swindle money from CEO's CEO's swindle money from retiree's Retiree's are plankton, they just kind of float around.
Now all this money floating around for technology, well it created a need for an IT infrastructure and support personal. People like myself were able to get their foot in the door and get their carreers started because of this. It was awesome because people like me who are sort of antisocial and enjoy solitude with a computer were finally able to fit into the scheme of society to be brought out of our darken CRT lit caves and into the cookie cutter cleanroom of cubicles and flourescent lighting.
Well, at least a few of the companies I worked for, the plankton started asking questions like...
"Is it ready yet?"
After a while, they got sick of being food for the CEO's, and like a food chain, everyone went elsewhere to look for food.
So now it seems everyone from the president on down are sort of being anti technology. I see construction workers still have jobs. Construction hasn't seen nearly the hit technology has. Nor has most of the other pre.com sectors out there. Military is growing steadily which is sort of scary.
Sad thing to see it all go. For once in my life I had found something that people liked about me that just came naturally. But back to the politics.
Right now there is more investment than ever in anything that does not equal technology. America is gearing up for war according to our president. In fact he mentioned something about a draft last thursday. The only thing that comes to my mind when I hear that is my younger brother or cousins. At 29, constant smoker, married and house ownin, they wouldn't want me. 24?? 23? 25? These are the ages of the youngest males in my family.
Politicians don't want to touch technology because it's left a bad taste in our mouths. A lot, and I mean a lot of really hard working people that put their money into these dot coms that dot bombed just would never vote for someone techno related because of it.
Bah, it's saturday, this comment is boring me, Hey post a michael story ok?
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Just a few random thoughts on this..Sorry moderators if I get too bleeding edge for you:)
This was listed under developers when it should have been listed under desktop monkeys that run around putting out fires everytime the sales groups comes back with a crateload of laptops that just got smashed through the Chicago Ohara airport baggage system and now he/she has to get these laptops ready for the next trade show kind of person. (zoolander speak, gotta love it)
I remember doing this a few years back when I worked for Altigen. Well, ok it was transferring over the SCSI bus instead of ethernet... Here's what happened.
There was some big 'ol trade show in vegas and we were getting chummy with 'ol compaq. They wanted us to be a VAR by adding our telephony system to their servers. So as a show of like, i dunno what to call it, good faith? They shipped us 10 of their top of the line servers all decked out sweet.
Hmm, what year was that? 2000? Well, win2k was just out and our version of ghost hadn't quite caught up to M$'s new moving target NTFS. (Everytime you install any MS they do little tweaks to the MBR that aren't backwards compatible.) So me and my partner were sitting there scratching our heads. The servers had arrived 1 day before the show (late, fuqin compaq) so our choices were...
a. stay up all night installing these motherfuckers one by one. b. figure it out.
Well, my partner was totally windows at that time, and I had been using linux for about a year and open source was getting me jazzed. I had a linux system I had scratched together from broken parts in the warehouse running next to my 2k system. So I went around IRC and reading up howto's about DD.
I made some notes and yanked the IDE drive out of my system, walked over to the compaq's and pulled a drive from each one, then filled one of them with all the drives. I put my linux IDE drive in the system and booted.
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda
It was a suspenseful moment to say the least. We watched as the first image was being made and almost held our breaths in anticipation as we waited for it to boot up.
Success!
That night we both went home totally stoked that we got it done without hassle. We just repeated the process for the rest of the machines and we got to go home early. I fucking hate this gay ass penguin OS for a desktop (it really sucks!!!) but i'll take it any day over any commercial product if I need to save my ass.
Yes when I think of America I think of the great west, dudes driving the cattle train across the open prairie, cookie w00pin up some beans over the fire, and somewhere a coyote is howling under the full moon.
You never know with religion, maybe there's something to it, maybe there isn't. Maybe life imitates art, art imitates life.
In the case of Raiders of the lost Arc the movie was done so well that one could almost "imagine" it to be real. Does the vatican hold onto ancient relics with seemingly supernatural powers? Could some of these be alien technology recovered years ago by clerics?
What of other things such as Exorcisms, demonic possesions, spirit speak and the like, will the cases surrounding these events be made public.
I was baptized catholic, but thats about it. I'm really curious to see if any of the cool stuff that went on in hollywood catholisism goes on in real life.
Maybe 10 years ago your statement would have been true...
But go on e-bay and you will find a ton of old sun boxes, i've seen IPC's for 5 dollars, 5 fucking dollars for a system that was not engineered to be a "Genereal Purpose" box.
Here's a few links randomly grabbed from e-bay. (Note this is better stuff than IPX/IPC's..)
Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 200 MHz 256 MB Server $61.00
Sun Ultra Enterprise 2,1024MB,2x300MHz,9GB $405.00
Yeah, 10 years ago, I would have totally agreed with you. But today, sun hardware is easy to get, and why fuck yourself with hardware that isn't going to retain it's resale value or less than server class construction? Why even bother with desktop 3 layer process motherboards that needs heatsinks up the ass for overclocked, overworked IO glue chips when you could have something that was built right the first time for the same price?
You must buy a lotta crack with that Solaris cert you got, cause your reasoning makes me think you're crack smokin.
Solaris on x86 is like putting perfume on a pig. Any IPC/IPX will run circles in IO performace next to a pentiumII. Any modern sun system will absolutely spank any x86 hardware.
By the time you get done buying all the parts for your high end x86 solaris server with an adaptec 29160, 5 drive array, 2 gigs of ram, and a 2 gigahertz processor you could have bought a modern sun for the same price with half the ram and half the processor speed, but three times the memory and disk IO so it really evens out.
I've dealt with handling different media types over the years on my website
over the years. The worst and I mean the worst part about it is you
always have to triplicate or quadricate your work because if you leave any
kind of browser or platform out whines will be a calling from the peanut
gallery.
Years ago we used real, but then real started bloating the crap outta their
player with nagging popups and BSOD, so people started wanting windows media
more, since it was installed in the OS and didn't require a seperate download.
Problem is, most people in the publishing industry use macs, so we had to
do quicktime too. Right now anytime the boss says "Do some digital video"
I go "Ugggh!" because I have to do work to deliver to 4 different
platform.
Which is why this statement caught my eye..
The Helix platform will provide a single solution for all your digital
media delivery. Currently, three disparate digital media architectures power
90% of media consumption. To maximize audience potential, enterprises and
service providers are often forced to support all three platforms, including
separate operating as well as development costs for each platform. This wastes
time, money, and resources that could be better spent elsewhere. The Helix
platform services all three of those architectures, today!
So no more jumpin hoops between 6 different applications to make
content? Thats fucking bitchin as hell!!! I've been using linux lately
for both firewire and BT878 capture, and although the editing tools don't
compare to premiere or virtual dub, the reliability of the capture
is so much better than it was in windows, I can't look back. Helix
looks to be an alternative to getting a lot of work done all at once, instead
of application hopping. (Which sucks)
I see Helix doing well, i'm going to fuck around with it today if I can.
Anything that gives me more time for pr0n and counterstrike is priceless.
I worked at mothers cookies in oakland CA for a spell. You think malaysia is dangerous?
I would pull off the 880 by the colliseum,mc arthur blvd? It takes you through a very derilict section of oakland factories.
The entire complex is surrounded by bobwire. If you drive down the street, less than a block, you are in one of the worst neighborhoods in oakland. I had a friend who lived in the neighborhood, he wasn't shittin me either about the danger. I went to his house twice to hang out and that was enough for me.
The server room was cool, about 40degrees all the time so you wore a jacket when you went in there. But pullin wire....Ohhh my god!
I had to run a fiber line from the main building to some office in the back of the bakerery. Now before you get the picture of little mothers running around with cookie sheets and kenmoore ovens you have to understand.... That is not what a huge production cookie plant is.
Imaging a HUGE fricken warehouse with conveyer belts of cookies going everywhere, machinery whiiring and cookies going into boxes and filled with creme and those animal cookies with the dots, all in this HUGE room about the size of a football field.
One end was the mixing end, where they had these mixing machines the size of my garage. Into those would go 50 gallon oil drums of butter, lard. Huge bags of flour being loaded by forklift, ect.
Now at the time, wireless hadn't really made it mainstream. So my mangers convienced mothers fiber would be good since it would provide the best ROI. They were sold and I was sent out to work.
Now the factory was built from steel girders covered with that tin roofing, the stuff that looks like a ruffles potato chip. I got up there to where the top girders are and before my eyes was the most treachorous wire run I ever saw.
Remember what I said about 50 gallon oil drums of lard? Well, when the cookies baked, the lard would vaporize and rise to the ceiling then settle on the steel girders. Over the years a 1/4" layer of lard had deposited 70 feet up in the rafters.
I put my finger in the goop to see how slippery it was.
No friction.
I called the office and told my boss. Later he called one of his friends to subcontract the work out too.
*Disclaimer* Despite the lard, mothers cookies makes a great product, and was an awesome place to work. If you ever get the chance to work there, jump on it, you won't regret it (or the 50cents a bag price for employees:)
How would you call that a troll? I simply pointed out that the beuty of this method *IS* more cost effectivive than to.
A. Hire people to call and remind people it's time to renew. B. Hire lawers to handle the cases of "They didn't notify us!"
The C. part, which wouldn't really go with the flow of the above 2 points would be computer geeks (like you and me) stay on top of things like renewing our domain registrations because it is part of the entire passion of what we do.
Take my uncle for example, he's a ford mechanic. He's kept the same 87 mercury cougar running for years, while the one I got in the better condition than his was then isn't in a drivable state at the moment. He takes as much pride in pulling into the garage at home, and putting his car up on jacks at night as I do fsck'ng my hard drive and recompiling my kernel. It's passion for the art that makes us do what we do.
So anyways, no i'm not trolling, just pointing out how our passions dictate our interest in what we do.
Slash sometimes looks over the fact that it only represents %10 of the internets user base at the most. The other %90 of the web is owned by places like chucks kitchen remodeling or mary's giftbaskets, where their webspace is nothing more than an online business card they created with page creator.
Although Registrars.com mail is annoying, I just make a killfile and it automagically disapears from my inbox. I know when I registered my domains and when I have to renew them. Yet for every 1 guy like me there are 10 guys that isn't.
Now sure, it may seem like registrar is using predatory tactics with headlines like.
"YOU MAY LOSE YOUR DOMAIN IF YOU DONT ACT NOW"
But have you ever tried to get a non computer person to get motivated and do something on a computer related task? Procrastinate, procrastinate, procrastinate is what they will do. I can just imagine the volume of calls that registrar.com must have recieved from angry domain holders when they lost their domain to some cybersquatter. Not just calls, but lawsuits too no doubt.
Obviously it's a lot easier to send out these menacing e-mails than it is to staff a call center to deal with the angry phone calls and complaints. My hats off to them for such a great idea! I think i'm going to send a mail to my exchange users now...
CLEAN OUT YOUR MESSAGES FROM YOUR OUTLOOK PST OR YOU WILL LOSE YOUR COMPUTER!!
Coming from an abusive home, I have to say I am thankful for the taxes that went to my public defender, the taxes that paid for the childrens shelter, and the taxes that paid the judges salary. Now that i'm a somewhat well adjusted adult, I pay property tax on my house, income tax, all kinds of taxes. These kids that are being exploited on the internet need someone to look out for them, cause it sure as hell doesn't sound like you will.
Kids are human beings and our future, they're not some commodity that you can make that sort of statement on. Cattle, yes, kids no. Whoever gave you a mod point should be ashamed of themselves
Check out terminatorX
No I mean really check it out, check out the turntables section. See
the one made by toqer? Yeah thats me... Well anywho, on with my comment.
I know 3 DJ's (more hobbiest) and I spent a little time watching how they
scratch records, mix and all that good stuff. I noticed that when they scratched,
they had a special slip pad underneath the vinyl so it would slide smoothly.
This got me to thinking that it was the record that provided the most
tactile feedback to the DJ, and not just the turntables.
So I did that first prototype, it works good, but black doesn't reflect well
enough so I would like to do something different. Here comes my big question
to the people in the know.
Since this device is more than just a mouse (it takes pictures and sends
them back to the pc) could you track the position on the record with a visual
cue? Like a pattern, a barcode or something? I'm thinking if it could
be done, just distribute a PDF so people could print up thier own records.
Let me see your precious PBX re-route a call around some huge disaster like let's say 9-11. Because the internet was designed inherently to deal with routing packets around bad hops I would think it's MORE reliable than point to point connections.
There was a ton of people without phones after 9-11. The whole "it's unreliable" is fud put out by bells so they don't have to upgrade a degrading infrastructure.
And don't think for one minute the telco's are overlooking packet switching either. If I remember right MCI uses nothing but packet switched networks for transcontinental links. It's cheaper to multiplex a line rather than to dedicate one.
Right now the only hurdle for VOIP is the lack of IPv4 address space, which is being addressed by IPv6 which is supposed to give us like a trillion trillion addresses.
BTW, do you think all cell phones use analog transmission? No, PCS is a packet switching network if I ever saw one. Plenty of people call 911 on cell phones.
So keep your little trolling FUD about VOIP being a trainwreck to yourself, it's just not true.
Cisco IP Phones are designed to enhance productivity and address the specific needs of the variety of users in your organization. The Cisco IP Phones 7960G and 7940G feature a large, pixel-based LCD display and can support additional information services including Extensible Markup Language (XML) capabilities. XML-based services can be customized to provide users with access to a diverse array of information such as stock quotes, employee extension numbers, or any Web-based content. The possibilities are endless
Last time I checked, XML was everywhere which means you could build a phone system to suit your needs
Hey man, i'm toq, maybe you've seen my posts around here?:)
Anyways I just wanted to give my opinion on why this is bad. MS has over $40billion in cash reserves. This is enough money to subsidize anything they want to, which is a really scary thought. So right now MS is subsidizing DRM development through a network of smaller projects like the Xbox, funding cheerleaders to go to hollywood (RARA RA M$ OWNIN YOUR PC IS GREAT!!) and getting chip makers to make the actual chips to go into the final product.
When it comes time for a "final product" no doubt that will be subsidized too. Unfortunately there are no.gov regulations that would stop them from selling a DRM equipped peice of hardware for far less than a non DRM equipped peice of hardware. I would imagine any hardware company not willing to produce MSDRM compliant stuff will be left out in the cold because they won't recieve funding from M$ to develop it.
Furthermore, when a first time computer buyer goes to buy a pc, will they buy the fully pre built "Compatible with hollywood!" PC or will they pay the extra money to have a non DRM pc built.
Customer "You mean its not compatible with hollywood?"
For us tech hounds, we know we'll end up having to support this shit somewhere down the line. Personally, I don't want to touch it with a 10 foot pole. I can see my CEO now...
CEO, "I tried to access this insider trading site (porn) on my sleek sony vaio (it looks cool)and it said I wasn't Hollywood compatible? Bob from accounting said hollywood compatible computers are cheaper than non holywood compatible ones."
See that's the basic, sometimes flawed logic of the pc illiterate public.
And that's where I see all this going. I see MS and NBC and AOL getting together for one HUGE fucking ORGY to screw us. I see future media being created that REQUIRES you to have this hardware to listen to it. Yet the PC illiterate do not even stop to think "Tape recorder next to the radio" DRM is flawed from the beginning in that sense, so really this is just MS's 3rd reich (1st riech killed os2, 2nd killed beos, 3rd is goin after linux)
Anyways, good luck to you Mr. Stallman, i'll be here in the trenches trying to prevent MS from going onto my friends and families computers. Not many people can sit back and see the whole picture but you can, and should be commended for that.
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Hey nine nine, one more thing...
/.ers would care to drop some insight on this.
Before u go saying I got shit from mommy and daddy, go read my journal, and fuck off. I doubt you've had to work as hard as I have. See now you're steppin over the line. I just stuck to comments about your comment in relation to the story, but now you're talkin shit about my upbringing?
Are you sitting here on sunday drinking yourself beligerently talking shit to someone you don't even know on slashdot because,
A. Talkin this way to real people scares you
B. You're just bored and trying to fill up digital space?
C. You're just a big freeking loser.
I'd opt for c, I dunno. Maybe some other
Maybe you're not drinking and thats the problem. Chill out, stay ontopic, and don't talk out your ass ok? It'll make slashdot more fun for you.
Framerate=life
:)
Haven't you ever seen the alien pc motto?
As someone else pointed out, high framerate also makes the controls more responsive. The more responsive you are (epsecially in a FPS like doom) the better your accuracy, everything.
It doesn't stop at just the responsiveness of the controls either, playing any FPS on a tv over the net blows. I know this from trying CS on my 52" wega via the SVHS out on my video card, and playing halo for the Xbox.
I guess if you don't really want to take playing doom3, or any other FPS seriously, then yeah, go ahead and play on your crappy little PS2.
But understand this, I snapped at your initial comment because you talked shit about doom3 like it was garbage code produced by an idiot, and that just wasn't the case. You sound like a man who's jealous of carmack (and who wouldn't be with the fine mamma he has by his side
Your comment lacked comment sense, deal with it.
DON'T DO IT!!
Hey i'm on it right now with 150 other people all saying the same thing...
The parent doesn't deserve mod points because there IS no doom 3 here. Completely useless utter nonsense dog dick crap. SO MOD THE PARENT DOWN
kthnx bye.
Are you smokin? Poorly written game? You fucking twit.
ID *IS* the company that pushes FPS technology to it's fullest. Carmack is a fucking Genius. Unreal is nothing more than a DoomMeToo. Ever since wolfenstien3d (i'm talkin 286 here, not RTCW) People wanting to play ID games have been buying, upgrading their home pc's for years. It's a completely new scene (6-7 year old scene?)
aS FAR A ps2 being beefier than a top of the line PC, don't make me chuckle. Shit's gonna be emulated soon nuff. NV30 will run circles around the PS2 graphics stuff without even breaking a sweat.
Your crappy NTSC Tv at the most can display at a resolution of 720x480, while any PC can do resolutions way beyond that. Also to note, your TV refreshes at 60hz, so at the most it could only spit out 60 FPS on a tv.
Computers with monitors will go beyond the resolution, and beyond the framerate of the PS2. Modern SGI monitors can refresh at 150, so as long as the video card can keep up with the refresh rate, it can spit out 150fps.
Use "comment sense" before you make stupid comments like that and I wont have to kill you.
SID's only matter if the machines are all in the same domain, for stand alone servers it makes no difference. You prolly knew that but forgot because you're soo smart you told me to read the MS site.
Shaddup, just shaddup before I bury my boot in your ass ok? I just get back from a great night of drinking to find your stupid ass comment sitting right underneath my +5 comment and you're as irritating as a hemmoroid. K?
kthnx
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One thing that we all hated about the .com period, poser geeks.
.com whatever the fuck.
.com sectors out there. Military is growing steadily which is sort of scary.
During that time, geek was shiek. Everyone and their sister was trying to be geek, people that had absolutely no idea of what underlying technology was powering their company would run around touting it as something grand, like upper upper class l33t society, gods gift to geekdom society.
So we had a lot of people with money hopping on the technology bandwagon, the politicians want their money (simple so far right?) Just like the CEO's that ran around swindling the savings out of unsuspecting retiree's for their latest
So basically we have a food chain like this..
Politicians swindle money from CEO's
CEO's swindle money from retiree's
Retiree's are plankton, they just kind of float around.
Now all this money floating around for technology, well it created a need for an IT infrastructure and support personal. People like myself were able to get their foot in the door and get their carreers started because of this. It was awesome because people like me who are sort of antisocial and enjoy solitude with a computer were finally able to fit into the scheme of society to be brought out of our darken CRT lit caves and into the cookie cutter cleanroom of cubicles and flourescent lighting.
Well, at least a few of the companies I worked for, the plankton started asking questions like...
"Is it ready yet?"
After a while, they got sick of being food for the CEO's, and like a food chain, everyone went elsewhere to look for food.
So now it seems everyone from the president on down are sort of being anti technology. I see construction workers still have jobs. Construction hasn't seen nearly the hit technology has. Nor has most of the other pre
Sad thing to see it all go. For once in my life I had found something that people liked about me that just came naturally. But back to the politics.
Right now there is more investment than ever in anything that does not equal technology. America is gearing up for war according to our president. In fact he mentioned something about a draft last thursday. The only thing that comes to my mind when I hear that is my younger brother or cousins. At 29, constant smoker, married and house ownin, they wouldn't want me. 24?? 23? 25? These are the ages of the youngest males in my family.
Politicians don't want to touch technology because it's left a bad taste in our mouths. A lot, and I mean a lot of really hard working people that put their money into these dot coms that dot bombed just would never vote for someone techno related because of it.
Bah, it's saturday, this comment is boring me, Hey post a michael story ok?
--toq
Just a few random thoughts on this..Sorry moderators if I get too bleeding edge for you :)
:)
This was listed under developers when it should have been listed under desktop monkeys that run around putting out fires everytime the sales groups comes back with a crateload of laptops that just got smashed through the Chicago Ohara airport baggage system and now he/she has to get these laptops ready for the next trade show kind of person. (zoolander speak, gotta love it)
I remember doing this a few years back when I worked for Altigen. Well, ok it was transferring over the SCSI bus instead of ethernet... Here's what happened.
There was some big 'ol trade show in vegas and we were getting chummy with 'ol compaq. They wanted us to be a VAR by adding our telephony system to their servers. So as a show of like, i dunno what to call it, good faith? They shipped us 10 of their top of the line servers all decked out sweet.
Hmm, what year was that? 2000? Well, win2k was just out and our version of ghost hadn't quite caught up to M$'s new moving target NTFS. (Everytime you install any MS they do little tweaks to the MBR that aren't backwards compatible.) So me and my partner were sitting there scratching our heads. The servers had arrived 1 day before the show (late, fuqin compaq) so our choices were...
a. stay up all night installing these motherfuckers one by one.
b. figure it out.
Well, my partner was totally windows at that time, and I had been using linux for about a year and open source was getting me jazzed. I had a linux system I had scratched together from broken parts in the warehouse running next to my 2k system. So I went around IRC and reading up howto's about DD.
I made some notes and yanked the IDE drive out of my system, walked over to the compaq's and pulled a drive from each one, then filled one of them with all the drives. I put my linux IDE drive in the system and booted.
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda
It was a suspenseful moment to say the least. We watched as the first image was being made and almost held our breaths in anticipation as we waited for it to boot up.
Success!
That night we both went home totally stoked that we got it done without hassle. We just repeated the process for the rest of the machines and we got to go home early. I fucking hate this gay ass penguin OS for a desktop (it really sucks!!!) but i'll take it any day over any commercial product if I need to save my ass.
Thanks
--toq
Yes when I think of America I think of the great west, dudes driving the cattle train across the open prairie, cookie w00pin up some beans over the fire, and somewhere a coyote is howling under the full moon.
Awwwoooooooooooooooooooo
You never know with religion, maybe there's something to it, maybe there isn't. Maybe life imitates art, art imitates life.
In the case of Raiders of the lost Arc the movie was done so well that one could almost "imagine" it to be real. Does the vatican hold onto ancient relics with seemingly supernatural powers? Could some of these be alien technology recovered years ago by clerics?
What of other things such as Exorcisms, demonic possesions, spirit speak and the like, will the cases surrounding these events be made public.
I was baptized catholic, but thats about it. I'm really curious to see if any of the cool stuff that went on in hollywood catholisism goes on in real life.
Dude I can fit a 21inch CRT in my pants with all the weight loss from being laid off :P
Before I can build a predator suit out of OLED's?
Maybe 10 years ago your statement would have been true...
But go on e-bay and you will find a ton of old sun boxes, i've seen IPC's for 5 dollars, 5 fucking dollars for a system that was not engineered to be a "Genereal Purpose" box.
Here's a few links randomly grabbed from e-bay. (Note this is better stuff than IPX/IPC's..)
Sun
Ultra Enterprise 2 200 MHz 256 MB Server $61.00
Sun
Ultra Enterprise 2,1024MB,2x300MHz,9GB $405.00
Sun
Ultra 10 Workstation w/ 21in Monitor $575
Yeah, 10 years ago, I would have totally agreed with you. But today, sun hardware is easy to get, and why fuck yourself with hardware that isn't going to retain it's resale value or less than server class construction? Why even bother with desktop 3 layer process motherboards that needs heatsinks up the ass for overclocked, overworked IO glue chips when you could have something that was built right the first time for the same price?
You must buy a lotta crack with that Solaris cert you got, cause your reasoning makes me think you're crack smokin.
Solaris on x86 is like putting perfume on a pig. Any IPC/IPX will run circles in IO performace next to a pentiumII. Any modern sun system will absolutely spank any x86 hardware.
By the time you get done buying all the parts for your high end x86 solaris server with an adaptec 29160, 5 drive array, 2 gigs of ram, and a 2 gigahertz processor you could have bought a modern sun for the same price with half the ram and half the processor speed, but three times the memory and disk IO so it really evens out.
over the years. The worst and I mean the worst part about it is you always have to triplicate or quadricate your work because if you leave any kind of browser or platform out whines will be a calling from the peanut gallery.
Years ago we used real, but then real started bloating the crap outta their player with nagging popups and BSOD, so people started wanting windows media more, since it was installed in the OS and didn't require a seperate download. Problem is, most people in the publishing industry use macs, so we had to do quicktime too. Right now anytime the boss says "Do some digital video" I go "Ugggh!" because I have to do work to deliver to 4 different platform.
Which is why this statement caught my eye..
The Helix platform will provide a single solution for all your digital media delivery. Currently, three disparate digital media architectures power 90% of media consumption. To maximize audience potential, enterprises and service providers are often forced to support all three platforms, including separate operating as well as development costs for each platform. This wastes time, money, and resources that could be better spent elsewhere. The Helix platform services all three of those architectures, today!
So no more jumpin hoops between 6 different applications to make content? Thats fucking bitchin as hell!!! I've been using linux lately for both firewire and BT878 capture, and although the editing tools don't compare to premiere or virtual dub, the reliability of the capture is so much better than it was in windows, I can't look back. Helix looks to be an alternative to getting a lot of work done all at once, instead of application hopping. (Which sucks)I see Helix doing well, i'm going to fuck around with it today if I can. Anything that gives me more time for pr0n and counterstrike is priceless.
I've worked tons of places pullin wire...
:)
I worked at mothers cookies in oakland CA for a spell. You think malaysia is dangerous?
I would pull off the 880 by the colliseum,mc arthur blvd? It takes you through a very derilict section of oakland factories.
The entire complex is surrounded by bobwire. If you drive down the street, less than a block, you are in one of the worst neighborhoods in oakland. I had a friend who lived in the neighborhood, he wasn't shittin me either about the danger. I went to his house twice to hang out and that was enough for me.
The server room was cool, about 40degrees all the time so you wore a jacket when you went in there. But pullin wire....Ohhh my god!
I had to run a fiber line from the main building to some office in the back of the bakerery. Now before you get the picture of little mothers running around with cookie sheets and kenmoore ovens you have to understand.... That is not what a huge production cookie plant is.
Imaging a HUGE fricken warehouse with conveyer belts of cookies going everywhere, machinery whiiring and cookies going into boxes and filled with creme and those animal cookies with the dots, all in this HUGE room about the size of a football field.
One end was the mixing end, where they had these mixing machines the size of my garage. Into those would go 50 gallon oil drums of butter, lard. Huge bags of flour being loaded by forklift, ect.
Now at the time, wireless hadn't really made it mainstream. So my mangers convienced mothers fiber would be good since it would provide the best ROI. They were sold and I was sent out to work.
Now the factory was built from steel girders covered with that tin roofing, the stuff that looks like a ruffles potato chip. I got up there to where the top girders are and before my eyes was the most treachorous wire run I ever saw.
Remember what I said about 50 gallon oil drums of lard? Well, when the cookies baked, the lard would vaporize and rise to the ceiling then settle on the steel girders. Over the years a 1/4" layer of lard had deposited 70 feet up in the rafters.
I put my finger in the goop to see how slippery it was.
No friction.
I called the office and told my boss. Later he called one of his friends to subcontract the work out too.
*Disclaimer* Despite the lard, mothers cookies makes a great product, and was an awesome place to work. If you ever get the chance to work there, jump on it, you won't regret it (or the 50cents a bag price for employees
How would you call that a troll? I simply pointed out that the beuty of this method *IS* more cost effectivive than to.
A. Hire people to call and remind people it's time to renew.
B. Hire lawers to handle the cases of "They didn't notify us!"
The C. part, which wouldn't really go with the flow of the above 2 points would be computer geeks (like you and me) stay on top of things like renewing our domain registrations because it is part of the entire passion of what we do.
Take my uncle for example, he's a ford mechanic. He's kept the same 87 mercury cougar running for years, while the one I got in the better condition than his was then isn't in a drivable state at the moment. He takes as much pride in pulling into the garage at home, and putting his car up on jacks at night as I do fsck'ng my hard drive and recompiling my kernel. It's passion for the art that makes us do what we do.
So anyways, no i'm not trolling, just pointing out how our passions dictate our interest in what we do.
My favorite odd todd line.
And the fact that I seriously considered volunteering, made me feel better
about not..volunteering.
Seriously....
Slash sometimes looks over the fact that it only represents %10 of the internets user base at the most. The other %90 of the web is owned by places like chucks kitchen remodeling or mary's giftbaskets, where their webspace is nothing more than an online business card they created with page creator.
Although Registrars.com mail is annoying, I just make a killfile and it automagically disapears from my inbox. I know when I registered my domains and when I have to renew them. Yet for every 1 guy like me there are 10 guys that isn't.
Now sure, it may seem like registrar is using predatory tactics with headlines like.
"YOU MAY LOSE YOUR DOMAIN IF YOU DONT ACT NOW"
But have you ever tried to get a non computer person to get motivated and do something on a computer related task? Procrastinate, procrastinate, procrastinate is what they will do. I can just imagine the volume of calls that registrar.com must have recieved from angry domain holders when they lost their domain to some cybersquatter. Not just calls, but lawsuits too no doubt.
Obviously it's a lot easier to send out these menacing e-mails than it is to staff a call center to deal with the angry phone calls and complaints. My hats off to them for such a great idea! I think i'm going to send a mail to my exchange users now...
CLEAN OUT YOUR MESSAGES FROM YOUR OUTLOOK PST OR YOU WILL LOSE YOUR COMPUTER!!
*clicks send*
# it costs tax money to enact and to enforce
That is such a terrible point.
Coming from an abusive home, I have to say I am thankful for the taxes that went to my public defender, the taxes that paid for the childrens shelter, and the taxes that paid the judges salary. Now that i'm a somewhat well adjusted adult, I pay property tax on my house, income tax, all kinds of taxes. These kids that are being exploited on the internet need someone to look out for them, cause it sure as hell doesn't sound like you will.
Kids are human beings and our future, they're not some commodity that you can make that sort of statement on. Cattle, yes, kids no. Whoever gave you a mod point should be ashamed of themselves
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Great movie, really hard to understand ending.
Check out terminatorX
No I mean really check it out, check out the turntables section. See the one made by toqer? Yeah thats me... Well anywho, on with my comment.
I know 3 DJ's (more hobbiest) and I spent a little time watching how they scratch records, mix and all that good stuff. I noticed that when they scratched, they had a special slip pad underneath the vinyl so it would slide smoothly. This got me to thinking that it was the record that provided the most tactile feedback to the DJ, and not just the turntables.
So I did that first prototype, it works good, but black doesn't reflect well enough so I would like to do something different. Here comes my big question to the people in the know.
Since this device is more than just a mouse (it takes pictures and sends them back to the pc) could you track the position on the record with a visual cue? Like a pattern, a barcode or something? I'm thinking if it could be done, just distribute a PDF so people could print up thier own records.
Rotf back on you...
Let me see your precious PBX re-route a call around some huge disaster like let's say 9-11. Because the internet was designed inherently to deal with routing packets around bad hops I would think it's MORE reliable than point to point connections.
There was a ton of people without phones after 9-11. The whole "it's unreliable" is fud put out by bells so they don't have to upgrade a degrading infrastructure.
And don't think for one minute the telco's are overlooking packet switching either. If I remember right MCI uses nothing but packet switched networks for transcontinental links. It's cheaper to multiplex a line rather than to dedicate one.
Right now the only hurdle for VOIP is the lack of IPv4 address space, which is being addressed by IPv6 which is supposed to give us like a trillion trillion addresses.
BTW, do you think all cell phones use analog transmission? No, PCS is a packet switching network if I ever saw one. Plenty of people call 911 on cell phones.
So keep your little trolling FUD about VOIP being a trainwreck to yourself, it's just not true.
Why are people still using the outdated PBX system? Why should
you be limited to 64 channels on a T1 line? What about VOIP???
Case
in point... Cisco 7900 Series IP phones..
Cisco IP Phones are designed to enhance productivity and address the
specific needs of the variety of users in your organization. The Cisco IP
Phones 7960G and 7940G feature a large, pixel-based LCD display and can support
additional information services including Extensible Markup Language (XML)
capabilities. XML-based services can be customized to provide users with
access to a diverse array of information such as stock quotes, employee extension
numbers, or any Web-based content. The possibilities are endless
Last time I checked, XML was everywhere which means you could build a
phone system to suit your needs
IBM officially dropped OS/2 support this year, it was on slash, can't find the link.
And what's to stop you from just unplugging your spiffy new linux voicemail server from the network? So you're os/2 arg is pretty flawed there bud.
Hey man, i'm toq, maybe you've seen my posts around here? :)
.gov regulations that would stop them from selling a DRM equipped peice of hardware for far less than a non DRM equipped peice of hardware. I would imagine any hardware company not willing to produce MSDRM compliant stuff will be left out in the cold because they won't recieve funding from M$ to develop it.
Anyways I just wanted to give my opinion on why this is bad. MS has over $40billion in cash reserves. This is enough money to subsidize anything they want to, which is a really scary thought. So right now MS is subsidizing DRM development through a network of smaller projects like the Xbox, funding cheerleaders to go to hollywood (RARA RA M$ OWNIN YOUR PC IS GREAT!!) and getting chip makers to make the actual chips to go into the final product.
When it comes time for a "final product" no doubt that will be subsidized too. Unfortunately there are no
Furthermore, when a first time computer buyer goes to buy a pc, will they buy the fully pre built "Compatible with hollywood!" PC or will they pay the extra money to have a non DRM pc built.
Customer "You mean its not compatible with hollywood?"
For us tech hounds, we know we'll end up having to support this shit somewhere down the line. Personally, I don't want to touch it with a 10 foot pole. I can see my CEO now...
CEO, "I tried to access this insider trading site (porn) on my sleek sony vaio (it looks cool)and it said I wasn't Hollywood compatible? Bob from accounting said hollywood compatible computers are cheaper than non holywood compatible ones."
See that's the basic, sometimes flawed logic of the pc illiterate public.
And that's where I see all this going. I see MS and NBC and AOL getting together for one HUGE fucking ORGY to screw us. I see future media being created that REQUIRES you to have this hardware to listen to it. Yet the PC illiterate do not even stop to think "Tape recorder next to the radio" DRM is flawed from the beginning in that sense, so really this is just MS's 3rd reich (1st riech killed os2, 2nd killed beos, 3rd is goin after linux)
Anyways, good luck to you Mr. Stallman, i'll be here in the trenches trying to prevent MS from going onto my friends and families computers. Not many people can sit back and see the whole picture but you can, and should be commended for that.