I don't see why anyone would think playing online games is fun. No nice Game Over screens, no consistant aim; have to spend thousands hours of meaningless labour, not to mention paying forever to keep playing.
Yeah, right...
If you excuse me, I need to make arrows out of the wood I harvested an hour. I kinda need them to fight dragons in dungeon Deceit.
Most open source hardcore zealots of just to blided by their MS-hatred to see clear.
I for one don't hate MS, I love their keyboards mouses and games; may be I'm not falling into your definition of 'hardcore':)
Redhat does not have a huge development team, it's just a handfull of people customizing unpaid-for-software other had made.
You mean their Customer Development Team right? They're hardly 'handful', but I don't argue with you on that. Have you really look at what Redhat is offering? You need more than a 'handful' of development teams to maintain their Redhat Enterprise and Advanced Server version. Not to mention their own redhat-* packages and many other GUI wrapper of free software.
The great majority of open source development is unpaid labour.
Is that still considered 'labour' if we like to do that?:) Besides, we got jobs because we're packages mainteners.
I believe it's you who need to pop your head out of the soil and face the reality.
I know it's just a joke, but RedHat really makes some serious contribution to the community. First it's a distro of its own from day one, rather than a straight fork from other distro; Second it constantly contributes back to the community with their huge development teams; third their keep bunch of maintainers(e.g. Alan Cox) well-fed so that they could continue with their contribution without worrying about their morgage.:)
We, along with many other companies around here, have serious enterprise deployment of Redhat Linux and Oracle, thanks to their Redhat+Oracle enterprise initiatives.
However their vendors don't seem to catch up with trend. I got many calls this week from a ASL sales asking for some clarification to our order:
"Are you sure you don't need Arcserve for Linux for your tape drive?...dar? oh tar...tar? I really think you need Arcserve for schedule backup....cron?...."
"Are you sure you don't need GEAR PRO for your CDRW drives? I believe you need it for writing some CDRW....I don't think there's any CDRW burning software bundled....what cdrecord?...."
but in our place you can't get an IT job in military unless you've passed background/family/mentality tests because the job is very close to intelligence operations which involves a lot of classified materials.
The closest I know has his family working for the Government for three generations and has no criminal records among their closer relatives AND close friends.
So, your academic qualifications are minor issue here.:)
Although all video clips have been taken away from their official site due to "flood of webtraffic", you can still download a video from there directly.:)
In Windows 2000/XP (maybe NT4.0?), if your computer or server crashes it will leave an event message in the Event Viewer for you to review on what went wrong.
Exactly what parallel universe are you living in? I've never ever get useful event log after the NT/2K goes BSOD.
Nothing could help you when your system dies in less graceful way.
Or you want to know where is the location of kernel log without having to RTFM?:)
As someone who's worked in Java for for over 5 years, I welcome C# and it's buddies to the OpenSource world.
I highly recommend you stick to Java.
All our major projects are developed under J2EE and we first use Tomcat as it's free. Later we switched to BEA because it has better performance; years later we changed our deployment to Oracle App servers for Linux because Oracle offered some attractive discounts for their Linux initiatives. We saved huge amount of operational/maintenance budge in switching from UNIX/Windows to Linux.
All of the migrations took us very minimal efforts because all J2EE platforms are pretty much agree on the same standard. Sweet isn't it?:)
I don't think you've such a freedom in.NET platform, and I don't see it's justifiable to implement.NET on Linux than Windows. You're right that MS is holding the balls of Mono and they could do whatever they like with it. So, why take the risk?
(Ok Ok, I know SUN is holding the balls of others with that J2EE certification, but you can see their difference.:)
Discs in fact are way better method of storage than traditional tape storage due to ease of accessiblity. However, in order replace tape for long term archiving, more has to be done than making durable discs.
The other major fact is Recoverability. It's not unusual to find defective tapes before their end-of-life and we must send them to experts for retrieval of important data in them. They've technologies to recover the data, like baking the tape(yeah, bake them in oven, but please don't do it with your kitchen oven:). I do not know exactly how but they must have something to charge us enoromous amount of money for recovery.:)
I'm not sure if existing technology could effectively recover data from aged, defective discs. That's something we must consider before they could replace traditional tape storage for long term archiving.
2. Increase the market share by flooding the market with free software.
This business model works when you can find a way to extend your other business in the new market share conquered. A typical example(but not very successful) is Netscape. Hotmail is always free and it's good to remain free for the sales of other products, e.g. Outlook.
Some business still execute this kind of plan even after the big boom. Those companies which failed with this business model during the boom is due to the fact that they don't have any concrete plan to make use of the advantage of high market share earned. (or the VC money arrive before they could make a plan;)
Oh great! Next time a user calls and asks where's his excel sheet he saved yesterday, instead of teaching him to use 'Find' over phone I can just tell him: "It's not lost, it's just invisible.":)
The Australian Customs Service has admitted the security blunder, but told customs officers in an email that no sensitive operational information was lost.
As we can see it's a well-planned action, and there's almost no way to sell the two mainframe for good profit. The major cost center of a mainframe lies mainly in the operational and maintanence, which are not applicable to stolen hardware.
Obviously, their target is the data within. If the authority do not start investigating what information the thieves are looking for and the possible use of the information within the stolen hw, the consequence might be very serious.
No more official BS. Do something before too late.
When the pet is hungry, it shows a picture of a type of food like an apple. You then have to take a picture of something red, which the phone interprets as an apple and feeds to your pet."
When it shows a picture of a banana, I then have to take a picture of something yellow, long and curvey, and the nearest and the most convenient object shall be....hmm, may be I should just let it die.
that you're only required to upgrade to Enterprise edition. In our case we run Oracle cluster(RAC) we've no choice but to use a more expensive Advanced Server(AS) version. Oracle only supports Oracle cluster on RedHat AS atm, regardless of the fact that AS provides no extra value to the extra cost. E.g. we paid more to buy AS just for more options like High Availability, but we've to turn it off for Oracle cluster to work properly. Why force us to pay more for something that doesn't work with your damn product? After much protests Oracle plans to support RAC on Enterprise edition NEXT YEAR. #$@$
Many posters up there thought that one can always seek support elsewhere. They're obviously don't understand the situation or haven't work in the same field. You could say Linux supports can be found everywhere, but we can hardly find support for the commercial apps on them. Say if Oracle only offers supports on Redhat AS, you've no chance to seek support from Oracle when you're running it on, say, Debian, though it works perfectly in my experience.
However, don't get me wrong. I just rant about the increasing cost but Oracle+Redhat solutions are still the most cost effective around. Oracle and Redhat aren't stupid, they'll increase cost up to the point that you still think it's worthy to pay. (unlike Microsoft, their stupid licensing pratices made a lot of companies around here switch already:)
you can pay people to level for you. In Taiwan you can pay less than 2 bucks per days to hire someone who happens to hang around in Internet shop all day. Those kids are so willingly to do what they love to do while earning a little wage and staying in shop for free. It's becoming popular as those 'power gamers' you hire can level much better than you.:D
You don't approach those 'power gamers' directly rather you pay the Internet shop owers to hire them for you. The shop owner bascially charge no commission in this deal but he'll charge you internet access fee for the gamer(s) you hire.
It has already become a social problem in Taiwan as that actually encourage kids skipping classes and social life. Besides, this is an awful sweatshop practise, though the employees seem to be very happy about it, but not their parents.:)
I've been told similar business has been found in Korea. Anyone knows?
Richard Garriott and the other founders of Origin may be gone, but the developer is still alive and kicking.
They've gone for good. Richard, or Lord British, and the rest of the founders, are idealists.
In the beginning of UO, Lord British and Designer Dragon insisted that there should have a completely free environment in which online players could create their own economy and communities. The free economy system collapsed immediately as players to players trading couldn't drive the in-game economy, and player-oriented craftsmanships weren't be able to take a major part in economy; thus we still had to rely on gold and treasure respawning. Unrestricted players' behavior did not result in healthy grow of communities, but instead a living hell of PK-everywhere.
LB and DD's idea could have been suceeded, if there's no exploits and abusive behavior does not affect others, but that kind of ideal online environment simply doesn't exist.
UO had undergone radical changes after LB, DD and the rest of idealists were gone. House system, for example, has been changed such that the ownership doesn't rely on just one in-game stealable object - key, and trading become more secure. That kind of changes would not be seen when LB still around.
Although it's many years too late for a 3D UO to come, but I'd absolutely give UXO a try.
why we haven't seen such thing happen in US yet. iirc threatening someone with lawsuit without any intention to take legal action, especially when money is involved(licence fee), is illegal in countries under common laws system. This is a serious case of anti-competitive business practise, and in worse scenario it can be regarded as blackmailing. Those FUD letters and 'offers to switch' falls perfectly into both.
I was kinda expecting the massive lawsuits against SCO from those fortune 500 companies whom SCO sent FUD letters to. Those fortune 500 lawyers are either too whimp or too lazy to actually look into the case.
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I don't see why anyone would think playing online games is fun. No nice Game Over screens, no consistant aim; have to spend thousands hours of meaningless labour, not to mention paying forever to keep playing.
Yeah, right...
If you excuse me, I need to make arrows out of the wood I harvested an hour. I kinda need them to fight dragons in dungeon Deceit.
Most open source hardcore zealots of just to blided by their MS-hatred to see clear.
:)
:) Besides, we got jobs because we're packages mainteners.
I for one don't hate MS, I love their keyboards mouses and games; may be I'm not falling into your definition of 'hardcore'
Redhat does not have a huge development team, it's just a handfull of people customizing unpaid-for-software other had made.
You mean their Customer Development Team right? They're hardly 'handful', but I don't argue with you on that. Have you really look at what Redhat is offering? You need more than a 'handful' of development teams to maintain their Redhat Enterprise and Advanced Server version. Not to mention their own redhat-* packages and many other GUI wrapper of free software.
The great majority of open source development is unpaid labour.
Is that still considered 'labour' if we like to do that?
I believe it's you who need to pop your head out of the soil and face the reality.
Disclaimer: I don't work for Redhat
I know it's just a joke, but RedHat really makes some serious contribution to the community. First it's a distro of its own from day one, rather than a straight fork from other distro; Second it constantly contributes back to the community with their huge development teams; third their keep bunch of maintainers(e.g. Alan Cox) well-fed so that they could continue with their contribution without worrying about their morgage. :)
We, along with many other companies around here, have serious enterprise deployment of Redhat Linux and Oracle, thanks to their Redhat+Oracle enterprise initiatives.
However their vendors don't seem to catch up with trend. I got many calls this week from a ASL sales asking for some clarification to our order:
"Are you sure you don't need Arcserve for Linux for your tape drive?...dar? oh tar...tar? I really think you need Arcserve for schedule backup....cron?...."
"Are you sure you don't need GEAR PRO for your CDRW drives? I believe you need it for writing some CDRW....I don't think there's any CDRW burning software bundled....what cdrecord?...."
"Are you sure you don't need any antivirus sof"
*DIALTONE*
and here I come to rescue
:)
while true; do wget --delete-after http://sitefinder.verisign.com/ ; done
If we all do this everyday they'd be very happy and don't need to twist the DNS again!
Not only you must get back on time, you MUST get back before your boss, and leave later than her/him.
It can't be wrong in any economic situation.
but in our place you can't get an IT job in military unless you've passed background/family/mentality tests because the job is very close to intelligence operations which involves a lot of classified materials.
:)
The closest I know has his family working for the Government for three generations and has no criminal records among their closer relatives AND close friends.
So, your academic qualifications are minor issue here.
I don't believe it unless I read it by myself, repeatedly!
Time to fire up my favourite browser wget.
while [ true ] ; do wget -r -nd --delete-after http://www.sco.com/ ; done
That's too bad! They only give US excuses to invade Canada. :)
Although all video clips have been taken away from their official site due to "flood of webtraffic", you can still download a video from there directly. :)
:)
Enjoy, and be nice.
In Windows 2000/XP (maybe NT4.0?), if your computer or server crashes it will leave an event message in the Event Viewer for you to review on what went wrong.
:)
Exactly what parallel universe are you living in? I've never ever get useful event log after the NT/2K goes BSOD.
Nothing could help you when your system dies in less graceful way.
Or you want to know where is the location of kernel log without having to RTFM?
As someone who's worked in Java for for over 5 years, I welcome C# and it's buddies to the OpenSource world.
:)
.NET platform, and I don't see it's justifiable to implement .NET on Linux than Windows. You're right that MS is holding the balls of Mono and they could do whatever they like with it. So, why take the risk?
:)
I highly recommend you stick to Java.
All our major projects are developed under J2EE and we first use Tomcat as it's free. Later we switched to BEA because it has better performance; years later we changed our deployment to Oracle App servers for Linux because Oracle offered some attractive discounts for their Linux initiatives. We saved huge amount of operational/maintenance budge in switching from UNIX/Windows to Linux.
All of the migrations took us very minimal efforts because all J2EE platforms are pretty much agree on the same standard. Sweet isn't it?
I don't think you've such a freedom in
(Ok Ok, I know SUN is holding the balls of others with that J2EE certification, but you can see their difference.
Discs in fact are way better method of storage than traditional tape storage due to ease of accessiblity. However, in order replace tape for long term archiving, more has to be done than making durable discs.
:). I do not know exactly how but they must have something to charge us enoromous amount of money for recovery. :)
The other major fact is Recoverability. It's not unusual to find defective tapes before their end-of-life and we must send them to experts for retrieval of important data in them. They've technologies to recover the data, like baking the tape(yeah, bake them in oven, but please don't do it with your kitchen oven
I'm not sure if existing technology could effectively recover data from aged, defective discs. That's something we must consider before they could replace traditional tape storage for long term archiving.
I know it might sound a bit strange to you, but:
;)
2. Increase the market share by flooding the market with free software.
This business model works when you can find a way to extend your other business in the new market share conquered. A typical example(but not very successful) is Netscape. Hotmail is always free and it's good to remain free for the sales of other products, e.g. Outlook.
Some business still execute this kind of plan even after the big boom. Those companies which failed with this business model during the boom is due to the fact that they don't have any concrete plan to make use of the advantage of high market share earned. (or the VC money arrive before they could make a plan
It will probably be based on SQL Server
:)
Oh great! Next time a user calls and asks where's his excel sheet he saved yesterday, instead of teaching him to use 'Find' over phone I can just tell him: "It's not lost, it's just invisible."
Or is Microsoft just making sure that they secure themselves another generation of coders/admins/users?
:)
My entire life of high school is all Microsoft, but it doesn't make me less of a Linux geek.
Teenagers can learn and adapt to new things quickly. If MS really wants to buy coders, establish a MS University. I know they can afford it.
The Australian Customs Service has admitted the security blunder, but told customs officers in an email that no sensitive operational information was lost.
As we can see it's a well-planned action, and there's almost no way to sell the two mainframe for good profit. The major cost center of a mainframe lies mainly in the operational and maintanence, which are not applicable to stolen hardware.
Obviously, their target is the data within. If the authority do not start investigating what information the thieves are looking for and the possible use of the information within the stolen hw, the consequence might be very serious.
No more official BS. Do something before too late.
Tales of Symphonia - A full preview complements more than 20 new screens.
When the pet is hungry, it shows a picture of a type of food like an apple. You then have to take a picture of something red, which the phone interprets as an apple and feeds to your pet."
When it shows a picture of a banana, I then have to take a picture of something yellow, long and curvey, and the nearest and the most convenient object shall be....hmm, may be I should just let it die.
that you're only required to upgrade to Enterprise edition. In our case we run Oracle cluster(RAC) we've no choice but to use a more expensive Advanced Server(AS) version. Oracle only supports Oracle cluster on RedHat AS atm, regardless of the fact that AS provides no extra value to the extra cost. E.g. we paid more to buy AS just for more options like High Availability, but we've to turn it off for Oracle cluster to work properly. Why force us to pay more for something that doesn't work with your damn product? After much protests Oracle plans to support RAC on Enterprise edition NEXT YEAR. #$@$
:)
Many posters up there thought that one can always seek support elsewhere. They're obviously don't understand the situation or haven't work in the same field. You could say Linux supports can be found everywhere, but we can hardly find support for the commercial apps on them. Say if Oracle only offers supports on Redhat AS, you've no chance to seek support from Oracle when you're running it on, say, Debian, though it works perfectly in my experience.
However, don't get me wrong. I just rant about the increasing cost but Oracle+Redhat solutions are still the most cost effective around. Oracle and Redhat aren't stupid, they'll increase cost up to the point that you still think it's worthy to pay. (unlike Microsoft, their stupid licensing pratices made a lot of companies around here switch already
1) Abuse the hell out of it and secretly release the exploits when you get tired of getting multiple PhD/MSc/BSc in various subjects.
:)
:P
2) Contact the most famous security firms around, tell them about your foundings and get an early employment contract before your graduation.
Option 1 sounds attractive but option 2 can save you from getting your ass into federal prison.
you can pay people to level for you. In Taiwan you can pay less than 2 bucks per days to hire someone who happens to hang around in Internet shop all day. Those kids are so willingly to do what they love to do while earning a little wage and staying in shop for free. It's becoming popular as those 'power gamers' you hire can level much better than you. :D
:)
You don't approach those 'power gamers' directly rather you pay the Internet shop owers to hire them for you. The shop owner bascially charge no commission in this deal but he'll charge you internet access fee for the gamer(s) you hire.
It has already become a social problem in Taiwan as that actually encourage kids skipping classes and social life. Besides, this is an awful sweatshop practise, though the employees seem to be very happy about it, but not their parents.
I've been told similar business has been found in Korea. Anyone knows?
Richard Garriott and the other founders of Origin may be gone, but the developer is still alive and kicking.
They've gone for good. Richard, or Lord British, and the rest of the founders, are idealists.
In the beginning of UO, Lord British and Designer Dragon insisted that there should have a completely free environment in which online players could create their own economy and communities. The free economy system collapsed immediately as players to players trading couldn't drive the in-game economy, and player-oriented craftsmanships weren't be able to take a major part in economy; thus we still had to rely on gold and treasure respawning. Unrestricted players' behavior did not result in healthy grow of communities, but instead a living hell of PK-everywhere.
LB and DD's idea could have been suceeded, if there's no exploits and abusive behavior does not affect others, but that kind of ideal online environment simply doesn't exist.
UO had undergone radical changes after LB, DD and the rest of idealists were gone. House system, for example, has been changed such that the ownership doesn't rely on just one in-game stealable object - key, and trading become more secure. That kind of changes would not be seen when LB still around.
Although it's many years too late for a 3D UO to come, but I'd absolutely give UXO a try.
why we haven't seen such thing happen in US yet. iirc threatening someone with lawsuit without any intention to take legal action, especially when money is involved(licence fee), is illegal in countries under common laws system. This is a serious case of anti-competitive business practise, and in worse scenario it can be regarded as blackmailing. Those FUD letters and 'offers to switch' falls perfectly into both.
I was kinda expecting the massive lawsuits against SCO from those fortune 500 companies whom SCO sent FUD letters to. Those fortune 500 lawyers are either too whimp or too lazy to actually look into the case.
To put it more simpler, this is the first weapon used by the robotic grinning lady in T3. :)