If you haven't already played it, you should definitely try out Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
It took me 78 hours to complete, but I taking my time, and I think I did pretty much all of the side quests that I could.
And the best thing about KOTOR is its replayability - I finished it playing as a light-side Jedi, and I intend to start playing again soon, as a dark Jedi. Will be a completely different playing experience, different side-quests are available, different force powers...
An NT machine with uptime > 5 years is perfectly possible. WinNT 4.0, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 (thats Windows NT4/2k/XP/2k+3) are not that bad, and keep on getting better. I'd even say that 2k and 2k+3 are good. its true what MS say about most crashes being the result of driver problems. I develop.Net code on this windows box all day at work, and I reboot once a week, when I power down my machine for the weekend, if I remember. I've gone a couple of months without a reboot to see what happened. Nothing happened. Last time we took down our production DB (ok, to apply a security patch), which handles way over 500,000 transactions a day on ms-sql2k, it had been up for 8 months without missing a beat.
Yes, MS releases security patches. No, its not always necessary to install them. A good admin will have disabled all unneccessary services & features, and if there is a patch for a service you aren't using, why would you install the patch, especially if the machine was running inside a trusted network.
From the linked article: District Judge Donald Thompson violated the code of judicial conduct "by his repeated use of a device known as a penis pump during non-jury and jury trials in his courtroom
<AustinPowers mode="on">'Its not my bag baby!'</AustonPowers>
At tech-ed this year I actually asked some of the MS guys if they would smarten up their support for mozilla, and they said basically said no. (unsurprising really)
On the plus side, a LOT of the microsoft techies there, and even some of the MS people were firefox fans. A MS security guru also gave a very good session, and he got lots of laughs from the audience with his IE/(in)security jokes...
However, some of ASP.Net's built-in features (like validators) don't work on non-ie browsers, simply because MS were to lazy to make things standards-compliant.
These problems can be worked around tho - drop in peter blum's validators, which have an identical API, but work in all browsers... very nice.
A bit off topic, can you reccommend any websites where I can learn how to do CSS properly? I'll admit I usually use lots of nested tables for things.... where can I learn how to do this with CSS:)
From the artist's caption: "This ball is crumpled from a single uncut square. I suggested that they could crumple a ball themselves, but they wanted to defer to "the artist." Who am I to argue?"
Microsoft don't want to force anyone to access MS office remotely from their servers on Redmond or anything. Infact, they aren't even that interested in going thin client - why would they, it would reduce the number of windows licenses they can sell.
They are thinking of new ways of allowing people to colaborate on projects/documents, they are looking beyond the standard model of network drives, email and templates we use now, and they are actually doing some fairly cool stuff. The glue that holds all these colaboration tools together does run on a server, but microsoft don't want to provide the service, just the software.
They realize that office software is becoming a comodity, and they are looking beyond that - and at the same time trying to make sure the OS doesn't also become a comodity. To survive, both office and windows need something to differentiate them from all their competitors, like OpenOffice and linux, and microsoft seem to be banking on building colaboration tools into office and windows to provide that differentiation.
Like it or not, I think MS is years ahead of open source in this area.
Download process explorer from www.sysinternals.com. It will tell you the full path, command line and TONS of stuff about each process.
It will even tell you what files/registry entries the process has open, and what DLLs it has loaded.
I've often seen spyware in a DLL that is open so can't be deleted. Sometimes they load themselves into explorer.exe.
Open process explorer, search for the DLL and it will tell you the processes that have it open. Either kill the process, or force close the file handle (often nukes the process, but whatever...) then delete the dll.
Yes, SOMETIME it will definitely be worth us going into space, to live. But I agree with James van Allen in saying that the only reason right now is exploration, but there isn't anything wrong with that.
The way I see it, there are two reasons why its not worth going out into space right now.
1) Its very difficult, and hence expensive. Its all fine and dandy talking about the resources ripe for the picking out there, but right now its just not worth the effort. We've got enough of those resources down here (for now) and its hard to see a return on investing in asteroid mining right now.
2) Who really wants to live out there? We've got wide open spaces down here, plenty of fresh air (for now), nature around us (again, for now...) Living in space or on some airless rock doesn't appeal to many people, compared to how we've got it down here.
BUT - both of these things will probably change, the way we're going with our planet. Unfortunately unless we change our ways in a hundred years or two, we'll mainly be living under glass domes or in underground caverns. Either that or we're exinct... If we are forced into using technology like closed biospheres that is currently only used for space travel to just survive, then we'll have no option but get a lot better at it, and suddenly spreading to live on other planets will be both cheaper and more attractive.
If we continue to fuck up this planet, its much more likely we'll spread out across our solar system, and maybe one day to others.
I believe we should start expanding our knowledge and developing techniques for space exploration now though, while time is on our side.
The way I see it, there are two reasons why its not worth going out into space right now.
1) Its very difficult, and hence expensive. Its all fine and dandy talking about the resources ripe for the picking out there, but right now its just not worth the effort. We've got enough of those resources down here (for now) and its hard to see a return on investing in asteroid mining right now.
2) Who really wants to live out there? We've got wide open spaces down here, plenty of fresh air (for now), nature around us (again, for now...) Living in space or on some airless rock doesn't appeal to many people, compared to how we've got it down here.
BUT - both of these things will probably change, the way we're going with our planet. Unfortunately unless we change our ways in a hundred years or two, we'll mainly be living under glass domes or in underground caverns. Either that or we're exinct... If we are forced into using technology like closed biospheres that is currently only used for space travel to just survive, then we'll have no option but get a lot better at it, and suddenly spreading to live on other planets will be both cheaper and more attractive.
If we continue to fuck up this planet, its much more likely we'll spread out across our solar system, and maybe one day to others.
They weren't really a way of speeding up your system, more a way of slowing it down so older games wouldn't run impossibly fast. Lotsa old XT games didn't compensate for variable CPU speed well, or at all, and were impossibly fast when run on an AT (286+).
Saw a classic bit of "car graffiti" the other day... It was on the back of a bus that had obviously done a lot of miles on a gravel road since its last wash. It said:
If this was the case, couldn't we measure the redshift of light from objects in the outer solar system, like neptune etc?
Infact, wouldn't the redshift of light reflected off neptune (I was going to say uranus... but you read that out aloud and keep a straight face...) be even more evident than the redshift of the signals from pioneer, since the light has gone from the sun, to uran...^G^G^G^G NEPTUNE and then back to earth...?
I guess there are a few professional rocket scientists hanging out here (and plenty of amateurs...), so now is a good time to ask a question that has bugged me for a long time:
Has any consensus been reached over what has caused the unexpected change in velocity of the Pioneer 10 and 11, Ulysses and Galileo probes? Remember this?
Since this was announced I've done some regular googling to see if this has ever been adequately explained. There are plenty of pages out there with plenty of theories, but most of the sites discussing this also have theories about things like zero-point energy generators, perpetual motion machines, that sort of stuff... Hardly the sort of thing that smells of proper scientific method.
I have found this paper, which looks very interesting, and much more authoritive, but its is unfortunately waaay over my head!
There is still a lot of discussion on this topic, can any astrophysics lurking here comment? Are we looking at a modification of gravity? Does this tie in with dark matter/energy?
In shepards bush/acton you can't swing a cat without hitting 3 or 4 antiopodean backpackers (young people from SA, NZ, AU). These areas are very safe, I used to live there. Finsbury, Streatham.... well, you have a point there!
Oh yeah, S3 on linux. For me, S3 support is a must-have. I've considered moving my laptop to linux for a couple of years now, and the major reason I haven't is the lack of proper power managerment support. If its finally there, then I'm installing linux NOW. Can someone advise me what distro is the best for laptop support?
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If you haven't already played it, you should definitely try out Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
It took me 78 hours to complete, but I taking my time, and I think I did pretty much all of the side quests that I could.
And the best thing about KOTOR is its replayability - I finished it playing as a light-side Jedi, and I intend to start playing again soon, as a dark Jedi. Will be a completely different playing experience, different side-quests are available, different force powers...
I shouldn't bother even replying, but...
.Net code on this windows box all day at work, and I reboot once a week, when I power down my machine for the weekend, if I remember. I've gone a couple of months without a reboot to see what happened. Nothing happened. Last time we took down our production DB (ok, to apply a security patch), which handles way over 500,000 transactions a day on ms-sql2k, it had been up for 8 months without missing a beat.
An NT machine with uptime > 5 years is perfectly possible. WinNT 4.0, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 (thats Windows NT4/2k/XP/2k+3) are not that bad, and keep on getting better. I'd even say that 2k and 2k+3 are good. its true what MS say about most crashes being the result of driver problems. I develop
Yes, MS releases security patches. No, its not always necessary to install them. A good admin will have disabled all unneccessary services & features, and if there is a patch for a service you aren't using, why would you install the patch, especially if the machine was running inside a trusted network.
Simple, they plan to extradite the server owner.
:(
It doesn't matter where the files are hosted
Innocent until proven guilty? The {MP|RI}AA are trying hard to make proving your innocence your responsibility.
I guess the best thing to do is ignore the takedown notice, and hope they are stupid enough to start proceedings without checking what they've got.
Hehehe...
From the linked article:
District Judge Donald Thompson violated the code of judicial conduct "by his repeated use of a device known as a penis pump during non-jury and jury trials in his courtroom
<AustinPowers mode="on">'Its not my bag baby!'</AustonPowers>
Thanks for the links and info!
At tech-ed this year I actually asked some of the MS guys if they would smarten up their support for mozilla, and they said basically said no. (unsurprising really)
On the plus side, a LOT of the microsoft techies there, and even some of the MS people were firefox fans. A MS security guru also gave a very good session, and he got lots of laughs from the audience with his IE/(in)security jokes...
If you like exchange's mozilla webmail client, you'll LOVE the mozilla MSN client
check it out on http://webmessenger.msn.com
Its still in beta, and the site is up and down a bit, but MAN, whoever wrote that knows their DHTML.
Completely correct.
:)
However, some of ASP.Net's built-in features (like validators) don't work on non-ie browsers, simply because MS were to lazy to make things standards-compliant.
These problems can be worked around tho - drop in peter blum's validators, which have an identical API, but work in all browsers... very nice.
A bit off topic, can you reccommend any websites where I can learn how to do CSS properly? I'll admit I usually use lots of nested tables for things.... where can I learn how to do this with CSS
Check out the "ball"
From the artist's caption:
"This ball is crumpled from a single uncut square. I suggested that they could crumple a ball themselves, but they wanted to defer to "the artist." Who am I to argue?"
You're correct, but you're missing my point. Why would anyone upgrade to the next version of windows if they were accessing their apps remotely?
To get people to upgrade their windows license, MS have to build new wizzy features into the OS that give users a compelling reason to upgrade.
Did you read the article?
Microsoft don't want to force anyone to access MS office remotely from their servers on Redmond or anything. Infact, they aren't even that interested in going thin client - why would they, it would reduce the number of windows licenses they can sell.
They are thinking of new ways of allowing people to colaborate on projects/documents, they are looking beyond the standard model of network drives, email and templates we use now, and they are actually doing some fairly cool stuff. The glue that holds all these colaboration tools together does run on a server, but microsoft don't want to provide the service, just the software.
They realize that office software is becoming a comodity, and they are looking beyond that - and at the same time trying to make sure the OS doesn't also become a comodity. To survive, both office and windows need something to differentiate them from all their competitors, like OpenOffice and linux, and microsoft seem to be banking on building colaboration tools into office and windows to provide that differentiation.
Like it or not, I think MS is years ahead of open source in this area.
Download process explorer from www.sysinternals.com. It will tell you the full path, command line and TONS of stuff about each process.
It will even tell you what files/registry entries the process has open, and what DLLs it has loaded.
I've often seen spyware in a DLL that is open so can't be deleted. Sometimes they load themselves into explorer.exe.
Open process explorer, search for the DLL and it will tell you the processes that have it open.
Either kill the process, or force close the file handle (often nukes the process, but whatever...)
then delete the dll.
Yes, SOMETIME it will definitely be worth us going into space, to live. But I agree with James van Allen in saying that the only reason right now is exploration, but there isn't anything wrong with that.
The way I see it, there are two reasons why its not worth going out into space right now.
1) Its very difficult, and hence expensive. Its all fine and dandy talking about the resources ripe for the picking out there, but right now its just not worth the effort. We've got enough of those resources down here (for now) and its hard to see a return on investing in asteroid mining right now.
2) Who really wants to live out there? We've got wide open spaces down here, plenty of fresh air (for now), nature around us (again, for now...)
Living in space or on some airless rock doesn't appeal to many people, compared to how we've got it down here.
BUT - both of these things will probably change, the way we're going with our planet. Unfortunately unless we change our ways in a hundred years or two, we'll mainly be living under glass domes or in underground caverns. Either that or we're exinct...
If we are forced into using technology like closed biospheres that is currently only used for space travel to just survive, then we'll have no option but get a lot better at it, and suddenly spreading to live on other planets will be both cheaper and more attractive.
If we continue to fuck up this planet, its much more likely we'll spread out across our solar system, and maybe one day to others.
I believe we should start expanding our knowledge and developing techniques for space exploration now though, while time is on our side.
The way I see it, there are two reasons why its not worth going out into space right now.
1) Its very difficult, and hence expensive. Its all fine and dandy talking about the resources ripe for the picking out there, but right now its just not worth the effort. We've got enough of those resources down here (for now) and its hard to see a return on investing in asteroid mining right now.
2) Who really wants to live out there? We've got wide open spaces down here, plenty of fresh air (for now), nature around us (again, for now...)
Living in space or on some airless rock doesn't appeal to many people, compared to how we've got it down here.
BUT - both of these things will probably change, the way we're going with our planet. Unfortunately unless we change our ways in a hundred years or two, we'll mainly be living under glass domes or in underground caverns. Either that or we're exinct...
If we are forced into using technology like closed biospheres that is currently only used for space travel to just survive, then we'll have no option but get a lot better at it, and suddenly spreading to live on other planets will be both cheaper and more attractive.
If we continue to fuck up this planet, its much more likely we'll spread out across our solar system, and maybe one day to others.
They weren't really a way of speeding up your system, more a way of slowing it down so older games wouldn't run impossibly fast. Lotsa old XT games didn't compensate for variable CPU speed well, or at all, and were impossibly fast when run on an AT (286+).
When I met my now-wife at a rave in london, she was wearing a t-shirt that said on the front:
:P
"I tried to say no to drugs but they just wouldn't listen"
Thats a hopeless argument.
I can argue linux isn't free at all using your exact same method.
You need a computer to run linux, the computer isn't free, therefore linux isn't free.
QED.
Saw a classic bit of "car graffiti" the other day... It was on the back of a bus that had obviously done a lot of miles on a gravel road since its last wash.
:)
It said:
"I wish my wife was this dirty"
Nice..
All your base are belong to UT2k4!!
Thanks :)
/. crowd?
Still haven't got any physicists/astrophysics to bite tho... Am I overestimating the
This is modded insightfull and informative???
Thats waaay more funny than the original joke. The moderators really are on drugs today...
If this was the case, couldn't we measure the redshift of light from objects in the outer solar system, like neptune etc?
Infact, wouldn't the redshift of light reflected off neptune (I was going to say uranus... but you read that out aloud and keep a straight face...) be even more evident than the redshift of the signals from pioneer, since the light has gone from the sun, to uran...^G^G^G^G NEPTUNE and then back to earth...?
I guess there are a few professional rocket scientists hanging out here (and plenty of amateurs...), so now is a good time to ask a question that has bugged me for a long time:
:)
Has any consensus been reached over what has caused the unexpected change in velocity of the Pioneer 10 and 11, Ulysses and Galileo probes? Remember this?
Since this was announced I've done some regular googling to see if this has ever been adequately explained. There are plenty of pages out there with plenty of theories, but most of the sites discussing this also have theories about things like zero-point energy generators, perpetual motion machines, that sort of stuff... Hardly the sort of thing that smells of proper scientific method.
Other theories include drag from dust, Changing velocity of light and "tired light redshift" (what the HELL is THAT???)
I have found this paper, which looks very interesting, and much more authoritive, but its is unfortunately waaay over my head!
There is still a lot of discussion on this topic, can any astrophysics lurking here comment? Are we looking at a modification of gravity? Does this tie in with dark matter/energy?
Ta
In shepards bush/acton you can't swing a cat without hitting 3 or 4 antiopodean backpackers (young people from SA, NZ, AU). These areas are very safe, I used to live there. Finsbury, Streatham.... well, you have a point there!
Problem is I doubt if you can just siphon off the sludge from your (no doubt smelly) algae pond straight into your tank.
:^)
The article does mention that the oil produced by the algae would have to be processed by a refinery.
So, this is not going to replace diesel, its replacing crude oil.
you did read the article, didn't you...
Oh yeah, S3 on linux. For me, S3 support is a must-have. I've considered moving my laptop to linux for a couple of years now, and the major reason I haven't is the lack of proper power managerment support. If its finally there, then I'm installing linux NOW. Can someone advise me what distro is the best for laptop support?