No I didn't. I played Duke Nuke'em 3D to death. After the terrible reception that Forever got, I didn't want to spoil my good memories of the game. I've spoiled too many old favorites by revisiting them in emulators or playing half-hearted remakes. Elite on the Amiga consumed around 18 months of my life. I spent every waking hour outside of work playing the games. I want this game to be great but I doubt it can live up to that level of nostalgia.
I've managed to get XP clients to join an NT domain using Samba as a PDC. Samba 4 wasn't an option at the time, but I don't see why AD emulation should be beyond the realms of posibility.
The biggest problems I had were the cryptic errors from the Windows boxes, not Samba.
I've stumbled across a couple of machines running MS-DOS and ancient accounts packages when auditing organisations. They're normally tucked away in a long forgotten corner and run by some old dear who has been using it for years and knows all the quirks.
The problem isn't the software, it still works and does the job, However, people insist on replacing the old hardware with a network manageable PCBox, breaking the old app in the process. Why these things can't be treated as a standalone appliance and left alone is beyond me.
Shame about the lack of images*, archive.org is the only remaining evidence of Cliff Bleszinski's Cat-Scan.com. The site doesn't have the same comedy value without all the scans of squished cats.
*Yes, yes, I know that archiving images would require many extra fucktons of storage, but it would be worth it in some cases.
If you've run the Android VM that was knocking about a while back, you'll know that using a mouse to interact with an Android device is horrible. The long press and gesture method works fine for fingers, but when you've got a mouse in your hand, certain things happen without the concious mind getting in the way. TFA may be talking about mobile devices, but if any mobile OS is to take on the desktops, it needs to support traditional input methods.
Except this isn't game development. It's an production line. Attach your part to the assembly and pass it to the next station, repeat until the shift change whistle goes. It's mindless repetition for drones, not imaginative thinking to expand the mind.
However, if the kid is paid a decent wage, why not allow it? We are too quick to apply our values to other societies. Kids under the age of 10 scrape a living collecting garbage for recycling in the slums of India. All of a sudden the Chinese kid's life looks much better.
This is why some hospitals in the UK got hit hard by Conficker. Microsoft had patched the vulnerability months before, some systems were deemed 'too important' to reboot or suffer any downtime. As a result, they went unpatched and got floored when the shit hit the fan months later.
A system I was working on got hit badly by Conficker because we had a four month approval process for patches. We were still waiting for approval to install the patches when the whole network got infected.
Needless to say a much shorter approval process is now in place.
Agreed. This is no more or less important than any of the other protests.
However, if those who feel aggrieved see that this demo doesn't even feature in the local news when the violent and radical protests of last month got world wide coverage, which option will be chosen next time they want to protest?
The mainstream media probably won't even run this story.
Muslims need to fit the stereotype of running around burning flags and threatening to behead unbelievers before they'll stand a chance of getting on the news.
> People with 'causes' such as PETA need more to do.
Couldn't agree more. Take Heather Mills, a few years back she decided to tell us that we should all be Vegan and drink Rats milk to prevent global warming. This was on behalf of VIVA! a Vegetarian & Vegan pressure group.
Despite the obvious logistical problem of getting enough milk from rats, cats, dogs or whatever she was ranting about, my main problem with this is that she delivered this epiphany from a pointlessly huge 4x4 Chelsea Tractor with the engine running the whole time. This was November in London, so she probably had the heaters going flat out the whole time too.
Also, the VIVA! website states that fur, leather and wool are evil and should be boycotted. You can clearly see from the picture that she has leather seats in her pointless gas guzzler.
Clearly a case of "Do as I say, not as I do". I'd say she shot herself in the foot, but it would be in bad taste.
UK Computer Studies seemed to revolve around the BBC in the mid 80s. The BASIC was OK, and had a Turtle and LOGO if you felt like digging it out of the cupboard.
I remember the lessons were odd, lots of low level theory and assembler. Looking back, I don't think the teachers really understood much. They read us the text, then let us loose on the computers without any real direction. As a result I did most of my learning on a ZX Spectrum at home.
I do remember that the BBC had several sound channels though, and a simple for/next loop through channel 0 produced a cool tune to impress my classmates.
My CCNA class skipped IPv6 in favour of extra security stuff because 'no-one cares about IPV6'.
I've since done some HP Networking training and exams. They're better on teaching open standards; LACP rather than etherchannel, LLDP rather than CDP, etc. However, the material still glossed over IPv6. There were very few questions on it in the exams, and if it's not in the exam, people won't learn it.
...and then people will learn to work to the metrics instead of actually being productive.
Suddenly, the reports say everything is peachy, but in reality nothing is getting done. The managers sit in meetings scratching their heads wondering what has gone wrong, and try to fix it by setting more targets and measuring them with metrics.
XBox Live is a good example. I've now all but given up playing with randoms as being called a 'faggot / douchebag / retard / fucktard' throughout the game doesn't really add much to the experience.
Sadly, it has become so common that it's almost like background noise.
I've cycled to work for over 20 years and never worn a helmet. In that time, I've been knocked off twice by stupid car drivers. A helmet would have made no difference at all on either occasion.
However, I make my kids wear helmets because they wobble around at low speed and have no road sense. When they're old enough they can make an informed choice too.
In spite of the current state of affairs and regardless of where loyalties lie regarding choices in tech, geeks everywhere owe a huge debt of gratitude to you and the other pioneers of computing.
I'd like the echo the above sentiment and says thanks for your efforts.
Sometimes we forget that we are only where we are today because we stand on the shoulders of giants.
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No I didn't. I played Duke Nuke'em 3D to death. After the terrible reception that Forever got, I didn't want to spoil my good memories of the game. I've spoiled too many old favorites by revisiting them in emulators or playing half-hearted remakes.
Elite on the Amiga consumed around 18 months of my life. I spent every waking hour outside of work playing the games. I want this game to be great but I doubt it can live up to that level of nostalgia.
Yep. I'm praying this doesn't become another Duke Nuke'em Forever. Some things are better in a rose-tinted rearview mirror.
However, I will be following this with everything crosssed for a good outcome.
I've managed to get XP clients to join an NT domain using Samba as a PDC. Samba 4 wasn't an option at the time, but I don't see why AD emulation should be beyond the realms of posibility.
The biggest problems I had were the cryptic errors from the Windows boxes, not Samba.
I've stumbled across a couple of machines running MS-DOS and ancient accounts packages when auditing organisations. They're normally tucked away in a long forgotten corner and run by some old dear who has been using it for years and knows all the quirks.
The problem isn't the software, it still works and does the job, However, people insist on replacing the old hardware with a network manageable PCBox, breaking the old app in the process. Why these things can't be treated as a standalone appliance and left alone is beyond me.
Shame about the lack of images*, archive.org is the only remaining evidence of Cliff Bleszinski's Cat-Scan.com. The site doesn't have the same comedy value without all the scans of squished cats.
*Yes, yes, I know that archiving images would require many extra fucktons of storage, but it would be worth it in some cases.
It's been up for a while.
Nice reference, thank you for brightening my afternoon. My fellow office dwellers are now all staring at me.
Every HP networking webinar I see manages to crowbar the Magic Quadrant slide in somewhere. Someone must believe the hype.
If you've run the Android VM that was knocking about a while back, you'll know that using a mouse to interact with an Android device is horrible.
The long press and gesture method works fine for fingers, but when you've got a mouse in your hand, certain things happen without the concious mind getting in the way.
TFA may be talking about mobile devices, but if any mobile OS is to take on the desktops, it needs to support traditional input methods.
Also, pass some of that fine bounty to the customer to increase the chances of the incidents being reported.
Except this isn't game development. It's an production line. Attach your part to the assembly and pass it to the next station, repeat until the shift change whistle goes. It's mindless repetition for drones, not imaginative thinking to expand the mind.
However, if the kid is paid a decent wage, why not allow it? We are too quick to apply our values to other societies. Kids under the age of 10 scrape a living collecting garbage for recycling in the slums of India. All of a sudden the Chinese kid's life looks much better.
This is why some hospitals in the UK got hit hard by Conficker. Microsoft had patched the vulnerability months before, some systems were deemed 'too important' to reboot or suffer any downtime. As a result, they went unpatched and got floored when the shit hit the fan months later.
A system I was working on got hit badly by Conficker because we had a four month approval process for patches. We were still waiting for approval to install the patches when the whole network got infected.
Needless to say a much shorter approval process is now in place.
Agreed. This is no more or less important than any of the other protests.
However, if those who feel aggrieved see that this demo doesn't even feature in the local news when the violent and radical protests of last month got world wide coverage, which option will be chosen next time they want to protest?
The mainstream media probably won't even run this story.
Muslims need to fit the stereotype of running around burning flags and threatening to behead unbelievers before they'll stand a chance of getting on the news.
One is handy, the other is nice. I'll leave you to work out which is which.
Yep.
It's a very handy/nice thing to have, but you can live without it.
> People with 'causes' such as PETA need more to do.
Couldn't agree more. Take Heather Mills, a few years back she decided to tell us that we should all be Vegan and drink Rats milk to prevent global warming. This was on behalf of VIVA! a Vegetarian & Vegan pressure group.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/76247-drink-rats-milk-says-heather
Despite the obvious logistical problem of getting enough milk from rats, cats, dogs or whatever she was ranting about, my main problem with this is that she delivered this epiphany from a pointlessly huge 4x4 Chelsea Tractor with the engine running the whole time. This was November in London, so she probably had the heaters going flat out the whole time too.
Also, the VIVA! website states that fur, leather and wool are evil and should be boycotted. You can clearly see from the picture that she has leather seats in her pointless gas guzzler.
Clearly a case of "Do as I say, not as I do". I'd say she shot herself in the foot, but it would be in bad taste.
UK Computer Studies seemed to revolve around the BBC in the mid 80s. The BASIC was OK, and had a Turtle and LOGO if you felt like digging it out of the cupboard.
I remember the lessons were odd, lots of low level theory and assembler. Looking back, I don't think the teachers really understood much. They read us the text, then let us loose on the computers without any real direction. As a result I did most of my learning on a ZX Spectrum at home.
I do remember that the BBC had several sound channels though, and a simple for/next loop through channel 0 produced a cool tune to impress my classmates.
My CCNA class skipped IPv6 in favour of extra security stuff because 'no-one cares about IPV6'.
I've since done some HP Networking training and exams. They're better on teaching open standards; LACP rather than etherchannel, LLDP rather than CDP, etc. However, the material still glossed over IPv6. There were very few questions on it in the exams, and if it's not in the exam, people won't learn it.
...and then people will learn to work to the metrics instead of actually being productive.
Suddenly, the reports say everything is peachy, but in reality nothing is getting done. The managers sit in meetings scratching their heads wondering what has gone wrong, and try to fix it by setting more targets and measuring them with metrics.
Relevant Dilbert
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-12-21/
XBox Live is a good example. I've now all but given up playing with randoms as being called a 'faggot / douchebag / retard / fucktard' throughout the game doesn't really add much to the experience.
Sadly, it has become so common that it's almost like background noise.
Happens all the time. Must be some sort of Freudian vision slip.
Agreed.
I've cycled to work for over 20 years and never worn a helmet. In that time, I've been knocked off twice by stupid car drivers. A helmet would have made no difference at all on either occasion.
However, I make my kids wear helmets because they wobble around at low speed and have no road sense. When they're old enough they can make an informed choice too.
^This^
In spite of the current state of affairs and regardless of where loyalties lie regarding choices in tech, geeks everywhere owe a huge debt of gratitude to you and the other pioneers of computing.
I'd like the echo the above sentiment and says thanks for your efforts.
Sometimes we forget that we are only where we are today because we stand on the shoulders of giants.