The quests had me addicted. I played DAOC for about 6 months before I got tired of grinding. The quests have you explore everywhere and the fact that each area gives you xp for finding it, your map updates with the details, etc is pretty sweet.
lvl 20 undead warlock so far. Thanksgiving weekend I became one with my iMac. 12 - 16 hour days playing that game. When sunday came around I looked up, blinked, and remembered I had a family to talk too and tried to get back to some semblance of a normal life.
...I'm playing (actively) on a iMac G5. while it's video card isn't that hot I'm only getting 15 - 20fps and i've seen posts where the GeForce 6800 on PCs is getting that rate. It may be more bandwidth related? Not sure.
I'm going to try it on my Powerbook 12" with the Go 5200 chipset and see what it looks like.
Blizzard made a fan for life with me on this one. This is the first MMORPG game that I konw of that has simultaneous mac/pc users that have the same server. EQ and others have the 'short bus' for Mac users and the PC users get to interact.
PC kids won't know that Mac users are on from what I can tell
I see them all the time at RDU when I'm going places for business. Though I try rather hard to conceal the wires and stuff which works to a disadvantage when people try and talk to you and you're in a zone listening to music.
I must admit after upgrading from 2G to 4G to get a bigger hard drive I don't feel like the early adopter I once was because everyone has a 'newer one' but ah what do I care, I got 40GB of music now.
This was my first time voting in NC. Previously I've lived in KS and voted in multiple elections. At that time you just folded it in half per the instructions and stuck it in a box and off you went. I didn't see any sleeves anywhere, and didn't get any in the primary elections I participated in either.
It's kind of odd. You get a private little booth to mark the ballot. But then you have to go stand in line and stick it into some kind of motorized paper sucking thing. So while standing in line with nothing to look at I noticed the people who were standing in front of me holding their ballots out in front of them...
..it is also obvious that Slashdot has an international readership. Would there be any way to re-run the poll restricting it to US bound IP address to see if the race isn't so runaway for Kerry from the slashdot side?
That being said, I'm all for Kerry to win. But I live in a pretty red state. Though while standing in line to feed my paper ballot marked with a pen into some thing I saw that the few people in front of me had all voted for Kerry/Edwards which I found interesting, considering how little either party has paid attention to North Carolina this year.
real geeks spend all that real money from their real jobs on other real technology and wear only vendor and logo wear to work and have a huge collection of 'collector items' of companies that no longer exist.
Come on. Sure it has it's celtic roots but check this out:
The true origins of Halloween lie with the ancient Celtic tribes who lived in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Brittany. For the Celts, November 1 marked the beginning of a new year and the coming of winter. The night before the new year, they celebrated the festival of Samhain, Lord of the Dead. During this festival, Celts believed the souls of the dead--including ghosts, goblins and witches--returned to mingle with the living. In order to scare away the evil spirits, people would wear masks and light bonfires.
When the Romans conquered the Celts, they added their own touches to the Samhain festival, such as making centerpieces out of apples and nuts for Pomona, the Roman goddess of the orchards. The Romans also bobbed for apples and drank cider--traditions which may sound familiar to you. But where does the Christian aspect of the holiday come into play? In 835, Pope Gregory IV moved the celebration for all the martyrs (later all saints) from May 13 to November 1. The night before became known as All Hallow's Even or "holy evening." Eventually the name was shortened to the current Halloween. On November 2, the Church celebrates All Souls Day.
The purpose of these feasts is to remember those who have died, whether they are officially recognized by the Church as saints or not. It is a celebration of the "communion of saints," which reminds us that the Church is not bound by space or time.
Well unfortunately most of those were Windows worlds where a SUDO type command wasn't as easy to do as it is in linux, but yes I agree with what you are saying. Because I've even had co-workers that I'd like to have taken a bat too that did something incredibly stupid to 'fix' a problem when they didn't know how to reallyf ix it.
My personal favorite was searching the registry for every instance of the server name and changing it in Windows NT 4.0 because there was a netbios name conflict on the network. Right after I, as the senior engineer on the project said "do not touch anything, I will be there in 15 min" and the 15 min it took me to get there this was done.
Hello format C: Roasted everything, not sure if Windows 2000 or 2k3 could recover better from that bug god that sucked.
...To me this just highlights the differences of the developer communities. The comment of 'amazing how they got together' vs. yelling at each other is the culture of the respective sales methods of the hardware and/or operating systems they are built on.
PC Hardware (teir one) vendors spend weeks with FUD about the other products. (IE Tommy Boy and "But what if the Guarantee Fairy's a crazy glue sniffer? Next thing you know there's change missing from your dresser and your daughter's knocked up. I've seen it a hundred times.")
Windows does the same thing from a development standpoint (DOS isn't done till Lotus won't run) and to some extent the semi-zealotry of the OSS community (to parapharase Mike Myers 'If it's not GPL it's CRAP!' and all the associated 'KDE is l33t gnome is proprietary' type things.
So far I've read multiple 'stupid user' accounts. It amazes me that so many people are so arrogant because they see this type of stuff day in and day out that they'd expect every person out there to think of people this evil to come up to them with this type of attack.
People genuinely trust folks, that's why they call it social engineering. You can walk just about anywhere with a clipboard and a pen and get access to just about anything in a standard business environment.
Working for a vendor I've had many 'seasoned sysadmins' rattle off a password to me like it was nothing. Granted I've never once used them outside the context that they were given but the fact that some of them would affect the bottom line of the company with a few simple commands would not be the best thing.
Do I call those admins stupid? no, not really. Guess that is where I differ. I don't find the BOFH and similar things funny either though.
My wife must be immune from that virus. once the time period where 'you might die from an emballism if you do' was over it was back to the nightly fun.
First off I'm not a security expert, but I'm a hardware guy. I don't know to ask some of the more specific questions when I sit through some things, and since primarily I'm a server person I don't care what the desktops/notebooks do too much. But since I am aware that these chips might make it to a server someday I try and keep tabs on it. This is what I know/been able to find on the subsystem.
From my understanding there are two ideas for 'security' so to speak. The first is a dude the comes up and decides what you can/can't use at the BIOS level. The TCG device in the Tpad is a encryption/decryption chip that is called via APIs from the software, which is in this case IBM's free software tools that you can download.
From the whitepaper I found: The Embedded Security Subsystem consists of two distinct components: an integrated security chip and IBM Client Security Software (CSS) that can be downloaded. The integrated security chip is a cryptographic microprocessor that employs encryption keys and processes to help secure data, communications and digital identity.
Next time you are at such a seminar try asking if you are permitted to know your own keys to your own data. If you want to be specific ask about your Private Endorsement Key and your Root Storage Key.
It doesn't use those terms in the tech whitepaper but here is what they say:
Level 0 or base hardware key pair - The base hardware key pair resides entirely on the Embedded Security Chip. A user creates the hardware private key through the Administrator Utility.
Level 1 or platform key pair - An administrator creates the platform key pair in the Administrator Utility.
Level 2 or user key pair - User key pairs are associated with a specific user as defined by the operating system logon password. Upon creation, the private user key is encrypted with the public key of the platform key pair.
Level 3 or credential key pair - Credential key pairs are specific to a user and a specific application. During an application key-generation event, the private key associated with the credential is encrypted with the user public key of the user as specified by the operating system logon password.
No where in that discussion does it say to me that you have no control over your keys. Or does it? You tell me, you seem to know more on this subject that I do.
Again, I'm only regurgitating what I'm learning about this, but to me this doesn't sound as evil as the BIOS based 'hey you can't put that on if I don't want you too' type product.
...even monster hit bands like TLC still can go bankrupt because the record company wows them with advances and what not, and then at the end of the year they 'settle up' and bang, you're in the hole.
2) iTMS = about 400 songs out of 4000 or so that are on the iPod (playing through my desktop stereo as I type) but I easily have another 4000 songs ripped that I don't have in my iTunes playlist right now. All of them are from physical media I purchased since 1990 or so when I started buying CDs
Man, did anyone read the article or check out how IBM markets them on their webpages? These things are for encrypting documents, passwords, storing things you don't want people to get to easily. I've sat through a few seminars and presentations from IBM and how they tout this is to protect your DATA from other people, not protect a copyright holder from you.
Did I say I flipped only through commercial media? Have you turned on a TV lately? Just because I remember that MTV was music video channel doesn't make me that old.
I've found many interesting non-corporate rock, no thanks to my radio. Actually I've gotten many good recommendations from Slashdot folks.
Must have struck a nerve on the spank to the music folks, because I got more jabs & 'you suck' posts than agreement this time.
But the RIAA should learn the lesson that the MPAA has learned:
That, and produce a quality product. I'm hard up to find any new music that isn't over sampled over produced stripping teeny bopper. I mean with the iPod and you listen to the music without her shaking her ass your face on the screen you see the crap for what it is.
No, you A) Have to pay a license fee to show the movie whether or not you B) want to play the sound is up to you
It's a target of a C&D letter because they didn't get the rights to show the film in the first place. If they got the rights to do show it, then this would be a moot point.
It's not like a bunch of geeks dressed up as star wars characters were going on stage and doing the movie without the original lines, it was showing the movie a la MST3K which they need the rights to do so.
It's easy to throw that little bone out now isn't it? How about in the 30s when concentration camps weren't known, and people that ran those businesses didn't have a clue as to what their product might have been used for until it was too late?
Hindsight is 20/20, and it's easy to spout off on a forum on 'how things need to be done'
China is a sovreign nation and just because we don't agree with how they plan on running their country doesn't mean we can't find a way to do business within their constraints. China is an emerging market. They are trying to do both communism and free market in a weird way, and if a company wants to grow any they need China to do so. If you don't play by their rules, you're removed from a one billion person market quite quickly.
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The quests had me addicted. I played DAOC for about 6 months before I got tired of grinding. The quests have you explore everywhere and the fact that each area gives you xp for finding it, your map updates with the details, etc is pretty sweet.
lvl 20 undead warlock so far. Thanksgiving weekend I became one with my iMac. 12 - 16 hour days playing that game. When sunday came around I looked up, blinked, and remembered I had a family to talk too and tried to get back to some semblance of a normal life.
...I'm playing (actively) on a iMac G5. while it's video card isn't that hot I'm only getting 15 - 20fps and i've seen posts where the GeForce 6800 on PCs is getting that rate. It may be more bandwidth related? Not sure.
I'm going to try it on my Powerbook 12" with the Go 5200 chipset and see what it looks like.
Blizzard made a fan for life with me on this one. This is the first MMORPG game that I konw of that has simultaneous mac/pc users that have the same server. EQ and others have the 'short bus' for Mac users and the PC users get to interact.
PC kids won't know that Mac users are on from what I can tell
I see them all the time at RDU when I'm going places for business. Though I try rather hard to conceal the wires and stuff which works to a disadvantage when people try and talk to you and you're in a zone listening to music.
I must admit after upgrading from 2G to 4G to get a bigger hard drive I don't feel like the early adopter I once was because everyone has a 'newer one' but ah what do I care, I got 40GB of music now.
This was my first time voting in NC. Previously I've lived in KS and voted in multiple elections. At that time you just folded it in half per the instructions and stuck it in a box and off you went. I didn't see any sleeves anywhere, and didn't get any in the primary elections I participated in either.
You don't think Wake too? Historically it's wake/orange/durham are Democratic and so was Charlotte area, the rest was republican.
I live up in Wake Forest, or over, however you look at the map.
It's kind of odd. You get a private little booth to mark the ballot. But then you have to go stand in line and stick it into some kind of motorized paper sucking thing. So while standing in line with nothing to look at I noticed the people who were standing in front of me holding their ballots out in front of them...
..it is also obvious that Slashdot has an international readership. Would there be any way to re-run the poll restricting it to US bound IP address to see if the race isn't so runaway for Kerry from the slashdot side?
That being said, I'm all for Kerry to win. But I live in a pretty red state. Though while standing in line to feed my paper ballot marked with a pen into some thing I saw that the few people in front of me had all voted for Kerry/Edwards which I found interesting, considering how little either party has paid attention to North Carolina this year.
real geeks spend all that real money from their real jobs on other real technology and wear only vendor and logo wear to work and have a huge collection of 'collector items' of companies that no longer exist.
from The Saint Anthony Messenger
Well unfortunately most of those were Windows worlds where a SUDO type command wasn't as easy to do as it is in linux, but yes I agree with what you are saying. Because I've even had co-workers that I'd like to have taken a bat too that did something incredibly stupid to 'fix' a problem when they didn't know how to reallyf ix it.
My personal favorite was searching the registry for every instance of the server name and changing it in Windows NT 4.0 because there was a netbios name conflict on the network. Right after I, as the senior engineer on the project said "do not touch anything, I will be there in 15 min" and the 15 min it took me to get there this was done.
Hello format C: Roasted everything, not sure if Windows 2000 or 2k3 could recover better from that bug god that sucked.
PC Hardware (teir one) vendors spend weeks with FUD about the other products. (IE Tommy Boy and "But what if the Guarantee Fairy's a crazy glue sniffer? Next thing you know there's change missing from your dresser and your daughter's knocked up. I've seen it a hundred times.")
Windows does the same thing from a development standpoint (DOS isn't done till Lotus won't run) and to some extent the semi-zealotry of the OSS community (to parapharase Mike Myers 'If it's not GPL it's CRAP!' and all the associated 'KDE is l33t gnome is proprietary' type things.
Just my $0.02
So far I've read multiple 'stupid user' accounts. It amazes me that so many people are so arrogant because they see this type of stuff day in and day out that they'd expect every person out there to think of people this evil to come up to them with this type of attack.
People genuinely trust folks, that's why they call it social engineering. You can walk just about anywhere with a clipboard and a pen and get access to just about anything in a standard business environment.
Working for a vendor I've had many 'seasoned sysadmins' rattle off a password to me like it was nothing. Granted I've never once used them outside the context that they were given but the fact that some of them would affect the bottom line of the company with a few simple commands would not be the best thing.
Do I call those admins stupid? no, not really. Guess that is where I differ. I don't find the BOFH and similar things funny either though.
Does Monkey Boy need to learn how to chant Developers! Developers! Developers! in Hindi?
My wife must be immune from that virus. once the time period where 'you might die from an emballism if you do' was over it was back to the nightly fun.
From my understanding there are two ideas for 'security' so to speak. The first is a dude the comes up and decides what you can/can't use at the BIOS level. The TCG device in the Tpad is a encryption/decryption chip that is called via APIs from the software, which is in this case IBM's free software tools that you can download.
From the whitepaper I found: The Embedded Security Subsystem consists of two distinct components: an integrated security chip and IBM Client Security Software (CSS) that can be downloaded. The integrated security chip is a cryptographic microprocessor that employs encryption keys and processes to help secure data, communications and digital identity.
Next time you are at such a seminar try asking if you are permitted to know your own keys to your own data. If you want to be specific ask about your Private Endorsement Key and your Root Storage Key.
It doesn't use those terms in the tech whitepaper but here is what they say:
No where in that discussion does it say to me that you have no control over your keys. Or does it? You tell me, you seem to know more on this subject that I do.
Again, I'm only regurgitating what I'm learning about this, but to me this doesn't sound as evil as the BIOS based 'hey you can't put that on if I don't want you too' type product.
...even monster hit bands like TLC still can go bankrupt because the record company wows them with advances and what not, and then at the end of the year they 'settle up' and bang, you're in the hole.
1) 0%
2) iTMS = about 400 songs out of 4000 or so that are on the iPod (playing through my desktop stereo as I type) but I easily have another 4000 songs ripped that I don't have in my iTunes playlist right now. All of them are from physical media I purchased since 1990 or so when I started buying CDs
3) 0%
4) 90 - 95%
5) 0% I have no friends
Man, did anyone read the article or check out how IBM markets them on their webpages? These things are for encrypting documents, passwords, storing things you don't want people to get to easily. I've sat through a few seminars and presentations from IBM and how they tout this is to protect your DATA from other people, not protect a copyright holder from you.
Did I say I flipped only through commercial media? Have you turned on a TV lately? Just because I remember that MTV was music video channel doesn't make me that old.
I've found many interesting non-corporate rock, no thanks to my radio. Actually I've gotten many good recommendations from Slashdot folks.
Must have struck a nerve on the spank to the music folks, because I got more jabs & 'you suck' posts than agreement this time.
...802.11a and 802.11g, b isn't mentioned.
But the RIAA should learn the lesson that the MPAA has learned:
That, and produce a quality product. I'm hard up to find any new music that isn't over sampled over produced stripping teeny bopper. I mean with the iPod and you listen to the music without her shaking her ass your face on the screen you see the crap for what it is.
One free track a week. Can't complain about that. But I'm sure someone will.
No, you A) Have to pay a license fee to show the movie whether or not you B) want to play the sound is up to you
It's a target of a C&D letter because they didn't get the rights to show the film in the first place. If they got the rights to do show it, then this would be a moot point.
It's not like a bunch of geeks dressed up as star wars characters were going on stage and doing the movie without the original lines, it was showing the movie a la MST3K which they need the rights to do so.
It's easy to throw that little bone out now isn't it? How about in the 30s when concentration camps weren't known, and people that ran those businesses didn't have a clue as to what their product might have been used for until it was too late?
Hindsight is 20/20, and it's easy to spout off on a forum on 'how things need to be done'
China is a sovreign nation and just because we don't agree with how they plan on running their country doesn't mean we can't find a way to do business within their constraints. China is an emerging market. They are trying to do both communism and free market in a weird way, and if a company wants to grow any they need China to do so. If you don't play by their rules, you're removed from a one billion person market quite quickly.
...This is hotmail, not .Mac. Steve Jobs reality distortion field only works with Apple related products.