I had it in my shorts, I hit the pool. Still did not know it was in my short, threw them in the wash. Then the drier.
Found the damn thing when I was folding my shorts the next day, with water on the inside of it. Set it up on desk at work for about 3 days and pluged it in as it had the only known good copy of some offsite routers. Took a couple seconds and wamo there is my data, pull it off to the desktop. Reach down and find the little bugger all fogged up on the inside. 2 weeks on my desk for a real long term dry out and that damn thing still works like a charm.
I have to agree here on that you can't fix something overnight. I was just pointing out what was best stated below:
Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was getting tired of being stared at. -- Steve Martin in Roxanne
I would really like to ask if these guys ever thought of putting together a startup....because let me tell you, they already have the right frame of mind.
dude, chill out is was a joke about getting it for free.
Actually, it was a self scan deal and they just put me on anouther one. The Money changer was out of order with a blue screen.
You people really should loosin up. Not everything should be taken so literal.
I have seen them and 4 different locations.
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#1. The Day of a VC visit the front plasma display at the receptionist was runing on nt 4.0 machine. BSOD....that instill trust.
#2. Buying some groceries at the local food market...scan..scan...scan....bang! MY FOOD IS FREE!!!
#3. While on vacation in Hawaii at a access kiosk. Aloha never ment so much to me, I missed home so much less at that moment.
#4. At a change counter you dump you loose change in and get green backs, ironic that it was at the same places as the above scanner. Free money, free food, I LIKE IT!
They have a MMPOG coming out soon. They did not thing about this kind of shit for 2 years.
MMPOGS as in DOAC/SWG/EQ don't handle a little hack as well as something like Diablo/warcraft/starcraft. Blizzard has always had the out of "free service" we do the best we can.
They will charge for Worlds of Warcraft. They need to show "we are serious" about cheating. LOOK what we did! It cost them nothing and was a great PR move. Even if it was 2 years late, mark my words you will see it in print to prop up the hipe on WOW.
They did not do it to stop cheaters in Diablo/war-starcraft. They did it to sell there new game because they know people in that area of gaming will not live with it, they will leave. Unlike the people that play currently on BNET. No one pays to play in a hacked world....
If you where not a anonymous coward I might actually care and have a nice talk about the pros and cons of each of them....You expect me to take advice from you if you can even get the acronym right?!?....
Don't you mean can't?!?
See how easy that was to hose up. You could come at me and sound a lot more credible yourself if you took the time to make sure you did it yourself.
So easy to do it, so hard to forgive. Hugs and kisses...
As much as I would like to agree with you here something is missing.
You see in the real world if you kill someone you goto jail and pay what ever price your culture puts on human life. In the game world you actually may get a status point, or a level up. If you steal your going to get punished, in the game you just got something cool with no down side.
When you die in the real world, you die. In that game world you clone at the nearest waypoint, stargate, cloning facility...etc.etc. 95% of the time with all your money and stuff.
It is about leaving all the world of "real" behind. Once you start making your online world more important than your living world and thing really start to take on value you are in for a world of hurt.
Last night I lost a small house on SWG because I forgot to pay a simple 5k in credits. That mistake cost me about 500,000 units of resources and about 3 million credits in weapons. Did I get bent, well actaully I did...But I just started up the factories and moved on. It's just a game everything is just time and fun. If you don't have fun and it is work why would you care?
Do not, I repeat do not go with a cheap ass no one supports you solution of white boxes with IDE raids.....Don't FUCKING DO IT!!!
You like your job? You want to keep it? Buy something with 4 hour support gold contract or close to it.
I have done SANS for the last 5 years and when you loose an MS module, or your HBA goes nuts, or your switch drops it's config your in a world of hurt if you don't already know how to fix it. GET THE SUPPORT. You suck up on this and loose 4 terra of data, every sql server in your network goes down your screwed.
I don't know how to say this any stronger...NO NO NO NO....do not go cheap on this. Do not listen to people taht say something cheap will work...Do not, not get the support contract. If you don't the unforgivable will happen, Murphy will come down and take a giant shit right on top of you.
Does SANS work? IS it worth it...hell yes it is. I have used it in 40 million+ hit a month webfarm back ended by MS SQL, I have used it with Oracle, I have used it with AIX and it improved everything everywhere. With everything from MS clusters, to crappy little Novell file feeders. IT is wonderful...when it is working. It works 99.9% of the time but when it goes it goes big, and if you can't fix it.. your standing there holding the bag for all you data. Keep in mind you have moved it all to a single point of failure....now are you really going to trust that to some Rube Goldberg POS some linux zeolots told you would work just as well?
Go buy a big name if your pushing around that much data and buy a contract. Ask you boss if that data vanished overnight if it would be and issue. Think about using super DLT or LTO 10+ tape drives to back it up on the fiber switch to reduces you backup time. Think about snap shot technology that basically does a slice to slice copy then backs up offline. Think about near line storage. These are the things you think about when you get this deep into it. Money will always be an object, ask them to put a price on the data...how much is it realy worth? Then move forward to protect it as if you where holding cash.
----wow end rant here. Sorry guys, you just don't mess around with crap when you get to the level that you need a SANS. Hobbling together a bunch of crap is the fastest way out the door. You don't believe me? Then you have never put together a real system, with real world money, and real world problems. They don't wait for you to find a driver, or a web page with the solution. They just show you the door.
Every week there's a venerability announced. What do you expect people to say? MS is certainly not good at keeping software secure so why shouldn't people complain and foam at the mouth? IMO MS deserves every bit of the criticism it gets.
Now, for those of use that don't install Directx9 on our clusters, webservers, and ftp servers this is not an issue.
Kind of like you guys on linux that don't need to worry about the BIND flaw if your not running BIND.
The fact of the matter is Windows if far from perfect. True. You can however secure your windows box in such a matter that 90% of the issues that everyone foams at the mouth about don't apply to you. I don't need index servcies...it is not on my machine. I don't need SQL, it is not on my machine. I don't need IE, I run Mozilla and don't have to worry about that.
What most linux users that bash microsoft the most forget is that windows can be secure if you strip all the crap off it that you don't need and lock it down. I am even going to go out on a limb and say that if all I run is DNS, strip it down to on listen on those ports, lock up the passwords, and firewall it in along with disabling all the other service it would run very very well and not require a reboot for a very long time. Sounds kind of what you do with linux no?
You see windows run all kinds of freaky stuff, and it runs in from all different directions doing numerous different tasks. Each piece of software that loads on it brings with it a host of new ways to get into it. Strip a windows box down to do only one thing and lock it up, drop it behind a firewall, and you have a very secure box. Drop it online out of the box wide open running everything under the sun including directX9, iis, sql, ftp, IE, IM, netmeeting, vnc, outlook, citrix, word, excel, access, foxpro, interdev, ISA, and any host of other endless programs on it and your going to have issues.
Just my 2 cents. Linux is great for a lot of things, so is Windows. Just don't assume that Linux is secure just because it is Linux. It has everything to do with the person setting it up. Linux can be set up bad just like windows. It just happends that windows is set up for shit more often....
Thanks, at this point I need to call procurement and ask for a new monitor without coffee and snot on it. Coffee stings coming out your nose, did you know that?
Read my virtual lips...content, content, content...and more content. Rinse repeat.
How hard is it to keep adding new stuff. Take that standard MMO that has done well(DOAC, AC, UO..etc..etc) and just have some guys that do nothing but add content, so much that you can't really do it all and you will have a fan base that does not leave.
I think Vonage needs to get in bed with Cisco just a little more and bring out one of the "voip" phones.
Cisco has a phone that will jump onto a wireless network and call home to momma. Now as the wireless networks crop up everywhere it would make sence to have a cell phone that would scan for open wireless networks, jump on call Vonage via IP and make the call happen. If that is not around jump on the Cell Tower your under. If you at home jump on your regular Vonage service or your wifi at the house.
Well been surfing for over 20 years...holly shit am I getting older....wakebaording for about 8, and my latest hobby is Glassblowing.
The glassblowing is great fun. When it comes to this you really are getting midevil, the techniques have not changed for hundreds of years...at least the basics. Nothing like making your own glasses...I am currently making large aprox 10 inch high, 4 inch wide glass mugs. My goal was to have a glass that was able to be filled the the rim with ice, then hold a whole diet coke without having to carry the 1/2 full can around. That way I could fill it and grab a second can to take with me. Currently I have made about 10 of them with the last 2 being snapped up by friends.
I don't know if you noticed, but most of the worker driods on this game are UO vets. Not that this will make is a winner, but I at least give it some sort of a chance.
You have a group of people that have 2 huge games under their collective belt. Now if it was a new game developer I would assume they would make a lot of the same mistakes, being this is the 3rd time around for most of them I expect to see some changes.
I like the idea of droids, and NPC doing the tedious stuff. I like the idea of a perma death jedi. I even like the idea of a non-combat way of living in a VR world. Now all these might not be what I want to do, but it adds spice.
I think this one will be a fun game to play if nothing else to be able to wonder around and shoot a blaster or swing a light sabre around and scream "THE FORCE IS IN MY SHORTS!".
Come on have some fun with it, just a game don't get so serious.
Little girl down the hall seems to think that if you don't give a shit about anything or anyone your life and job are very easy.
She demonstrates this by not reloading the coffee, drinking everyone elses diet coke, opening up every virus on the net, and sending out 3+gig attachments to every mailing list on the server. Maybe she is the DEBLE!
We have contracted out the services of Libert to supply us with a 20 unit array of Air Condition Units to keep this "HyberWall" HyperCool. After completion we found the cooling of this monstrosity was more than the wall itself.
To quote the last words of the Project Head "Hey where do we plug this in at?".
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I guess they are going to have to issue a patch to stop the machines from patching....ironic.
I had it in my shorts, I hit the pool. Still did not know it was in my short, threw them in the wash. Then the drier.
Found the damn thing when I was folding my shorts the next day, with water on the inside of it. Set it up on desk at work for about 3 days and pluged it in as it had the only known good copy of some offsite routers. Took a couple seconds and wamo there is my data, pull it off to the desktop. Reach down and find the little bugger all fogged up on the inside. 2 weeks on my desk for a real long term dry out and that damn thing still works like a charm.
Go figre....
I have to agree here on that you can't fix something overnight. I was just pointing out what was best stated below:
Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was getting tired of being stared at.
-- Steve Martin in Roxanne
We have a link from the US to the UK.
It is redundant, unless we have 2 faults.
We have a single fault...but we don't repair it.
So then we have anouther one!
I would really like to ask if these guys ever thought of putting together a startup....because let me tell you, they already have the right frame of mind.
dude, chill out is was a joke about getting it for free.
Actually, it was a self scan deal and they just put me on anouther one. The Money changer was out of order with a blue screen.
You people really should loosin up. Not everything should be taken so literal.
#1. The Day of a VC visit the front plasma display at the receptionist was runing on nt 4.0 machine. BSOD....that instill trust.
#2. Buying some groceries at the local food market...scan..scan...scan....bang! MY FOOD IS FREE!!!
#3. While on vacation in Hawaii at a access kiosk. Aloha never ment so much to me, I missed home so much less at that moment.
#4. At a change counter you dump you loose change in and get green backs, ironic that it was at the same places as the above scanner. Free money, free food, I LIKE IT!
Donnez-moi un certain bebe chaud d'amour de horney!!!
Just what the average joe girl needs...comp from a chick made with photoshop, and a slider bar for increasing bust size.
I can hear it now:
Nerd "Yea she was ok, but she was eating my pizza and I could not tweak her breast any larger than a B cup."
Geek "Well did she at least wear something that got your little Elvis to sing and dance?"
Nerd "She really got bent when I told her she should be wearing Tia'wik Dancing Thong."
Geek "Don't you just wish you could re-roll your honey?!"
---phffff!
One day when I have more time to type I will spell/grammer check my posts....until then!
They have a MMPOG coming out soon. They did not thing about this kind of shit for 2 years.
MMPOGS as in DOAC/SWG/EQ don't handle a little hack as well as something like Diablo/warcraft/starcraft. Blizzard has always had the out of "free service" we do the best we can.
They will charge for Worlds of Warcraft. They need to show "we are serious" about cheating. LOOK what we did! It cost them nothing and was a great PR move. Even if it was 2 years late, mark my words you will see it in print to prop up the hipe on WOW.
They did not do it to stop cheaters in Diablo/war-starcraft. They did it to sell there new game because they know people in that area of gaming will not live with it, they will leave. Unlike the people that play currently on BNET. No one pays to play in a hacked world....
If you where not a anonymous coward I might actually care and have a nice talk about the pros and cons of each of them. ...You expect me to take advice from you if you can even get the acronym right?!? ....
Don't you mean can't?!?
See how easy that was to hose up. You could come at me and sound a lot more credible yourself if you took the time to make sure you did it yourself.
So easy to do it, so hard to forgive. Hugs and kisses...
As much as I would like to agree with you here something is missing.
You see in the real world if you kill someone you goto jail and pay what ever price your culture puts on human life. In the game world you actually may get a status point, or a level up. If you steal your going to get punished, in the game you just got something cool with no down side.
When you die in the real world, you die. In that game world you clone at the nearest waypoint, stargate, cloning facility...etc.etc. 95% of the time with all your money and stuff.
It is about leaving all the world of "real" behind. Once you start making your online world more important than your living world and thing really start to take on value you are in for a world of hurt.
Last night I lost a small house on SWG because I forgot to pay a simple 5k in credits. That mistake cost me about 500,000 units of resources and about 3 million credits in weapons. Did I get bent, well actaully I did...But I just started up the factories and moved on. It's just a game everything is just time and fun. If you don't have fun and it is work why would you care?
Do not, I repeat do not go with a cheap ass no one supports you solution of white boxes with IDE raids.....Don't FUCKING DO IT!!!
You like your job? You want to keep it? Buy something with 4 hour support gold contract or close to it.
I have done SANS for the last 5 years and when you loose an MS module, or your HBA goes nuts, or your switch drops it's config your in a world of hurt if you don't already know how to fix it. GET THE SUPPORT. You suck up on this and loose 4 terra of data, every sql server in your network goes down your screwed.
I don't know how to say this any stronger...NO NO NO NO....do not go cheap on this. Do not listen to people taht say something cheap will work...Do not, not get the support contract. If you don't the unforgivable will happen, Murphy will come down and take a giant shit right on top of you.
Does SANS work? IS it worth it...hell yes it is. I have used it in 40 million+ hit a month webfarm back ended by MS SQL, I have used it with Oracle, I have used it with AIX and it improved everything everywhere. With everything from MS clusters, to crappy little Novell file feeders. IT is wonderful...when it is working. It works 99.9% of the time but when it goes it goes big, and if you can't fix it.. your standing there holding the bag for all you data. Keep in mind you have moved it all to a single point of failure....now are you really going to trust that to some Rube Goldberg POS some linux zeolots told you would work just as well?
Go buy a big name if your pushing around that much data and buy a contract. Ask you boss if that data vanished overnight if it would be and issue. Think about using super DLT or LTO 10+ tape drives to back it up on the fiber switch to reduces you backup time. Think about snap shot technology that basically does a slice to slice copy then backs up offline. Think about near line storage. These are the things you think about when you get this deep into it. Money will always be an object, ask them to put a price on the data...how much is it realy worth? Then move forward to protect it as if you where holding cash.
----wow end rant here. Sorry guys, you just don't mess around with crap when you get to the level that you need a SANS. Hobbling together a bunch of crap is the fastest way out the door. You don't believe me? Then you have never put together a real system, with real world money, and real world problems. They don't wait for you to find a driver, or a web page with the solution. They just show you the door.
Every linux fanboy does what you just did.
Every week there's a venerability announced. What do you expect people to say? MS is certainly not good at keeping software secure so why shouldn't people complain and foam at the mouth? IMO MS deserves every bit of the criticism it gets.
Now, for those of use that don't install Directx9 on our clusters, webservers, and ftp servers this is not an issue.
Kind of like you guys on linux that don't need to worry about the BIND flaw if your not running BIND.
The fact of the matter is Windows if far from perfect. True. You can however secure your windows box in such a matter that 90% of the issues that everyone foams at the mouth about don't apply to you. I don't need index servcies...it is not on my machine. I don't need SQL, it is not on my machine. I don't need IE, I run Mozilla and don't have to worry about that.
What most linux users that bash microsoft the most forget is that windows can be secure if you strip all the crap off it that you don't need and lock it down. I am even going to go out on a limb and say that if all I run is DNS, strip it down to on listen on those ports, lock up the passwords, and firewall it in along with disabling all the other service it would run very very well and not require a reboot for a very long time. Sounds kind of what you do with linux no?
You see windows run all kinds of freaky stuff, and it runs in from all different directions doing numerous different tasks. Each piece of software that loads on it brings with it a host of new ways to get into it. Strip a windows box down to do only one thing and lock it up, drop it behind a firewall, and you have a very secure box. Drop it online out of the box wide open running everything under the sun including directX9, iis, sql, ftp, IE, IM, netmeeting, vnc, outlook, citrix, word, excel, access, foxpro, interdev, ISA, and any host of other endless programs on it and your going to have issues.
Just my 2 cents. Linux is great for a lot of things, so is Windows. Just don't assume that Linux is secure just because it is Linux. It has everything to do with the person setting it up. Linux can be set up bad just like windows. It just happends that windows is set up for shit more often....
Ok, just wondering but does anyone else feel the matrix pressing on right on the base of your spine?
Thanks, at this point I need to call procurement and ask for a new monitor without coffee and snot on it. Coffee stings coming out your nose, did you know that?
Read my virtual lips...content, content, content...and more content. Rinse repeat.
How hard is it to keep adding new stuff. Take that standard MMO that has done well(DOAC, AC, UO..etc..etc) and just have some guys that do nothing but add content, so much that you can't really do it all and you will have a fan base that does not leave.
I think Vonage needs to get in bed with Cisco just a little more and bring out one of the "voip" phones.
Cisco has a phone that will jump onto a wireless network and call home to momma. Now as the wireless networks crop up everywhere it would make sence to have a cell phone that would scan for open wireless networks, jump on call Vonage via IP and make the call happen. If that is not around jump on the Cell Tower your under. If you at home jump on your regular Vonage service or your wifi at the house.
It just seems to simple not to do.
Well been surfing for over 20 years...holly shit am I getting older....wakebaording for about 8, and my latest hobby is Glassblowing.
The glassblowing is great fun. When it comes to this you really are getting midevil, the techniques have not changed for hundreds of years...at least the basics. Nothing like making your own glasses...I am currently making large aprox 10 inch high, 4 inch wide glass mugs. My goal was to have a glass that was able to be filled the the rim with ice, then hold a whole diet coke without having to carry the 1/2 full can around. That way I could fill it and grab a second can to take with me. Currently I have made about 10 of them with the last 2 being snapped up by friends.
All in all, give it a go it is a lot of fun.
I don't know if you noticed, but most of the worker driods on this game are UO vets. Not that this will make is a winner, but I at least give it some sort of a chance.
You have a group of people that have 2 huge games under their collective belt. Now if it was a new game developer I would assume they would make a lot of the same mistakes, being this is the 3rd time around for most of them I expect to see some changes.
I like the idea of droids, and NPC doing the tedious stuff. I like the idea of a perma death jedi. I even like the idea of a non-combat way of living in a VR world. Now all these might not be what I want to do, but it adds spice.
I think this one will be a fun game to play if nothing else to be able to wonder around and shoot a blaster or swing a light sabre around and scream "THE FORCE IS IN MY SHORTS!".
Come on have some fun with it, just a game don't get so serious.
Anyone else equate Buddism with apathy?
Little girl down the hall seems to think that if you don't give a shit about anything or anyone your life and job are very easy.
She demonstrates this by not reloading the coffee, drinking everyone elses diet coke, opening up every virus on the net, and sending out 3+gig attachments to every mailing list on the server. Maybe she is the DEBLE!
We have contracted out the services of Libert to supply us with a 20 unit array of Air Condition Units to keep this "HyberWall" HyperCool. After completion we found the cooling of this monstrosity was more than the wall itself.
To quote the last words of the Project Head "Hey where do we plug this in at?".
Lada da da la da da....I was going to rename my browser until I go high...my browser is still messed up because I got high...lada da da dada.
I was going to change it again but I got..I was going to pay my licence fee but I got high...because I got high...la da da da dadada.
la da da da da
I was going to reason with them, but they got high...
HOOOOOOOOOO...ahahhahahaha...turn the shit off..
dude your killing me....
next thing you will tell me is that my math is wrong.
Classic.
38% Windows bash.
22% Linux worship.
16% Katz bash.
13% OS penis messuring.
8% punctuation correction.
2% spelling correction.
1% comedy.
1% math correction.
1% sig.