gotta love it... i have lost way too much time to that machine in the form of Ultima III, Ultima IV, Bard's tale, Wasteland, Infocom games...
Space Taxi.. Jumpman... Lode Runner... H.E.R.O....
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well... a "grass roots" campaign is one thats started by common ordinary people and get enough movement to effect the big organizations (govt or corporations or whatever)...
an "astroturf" campaign is an attempt by a large organization to/manufacture/ "grass roots" support.
examples of astroturf campaigns include the "million mom march" and last years MS campaign to stop the anti-trust trial.
what, you think that MS would come out and say "yep well, you caught us, sorry about that... hope you dont find the other ones... i mean... uh... this is against our policy, we had no idea it was in there, it was a rogue developer"
yeh...
and i've got some wonderful swamp land in florida. Act now, and i'll throw in a bridge in Brooklyn...
C) Love the RTS stuff... Starcraft, Red Alert 2, Dune 2000... yeh yeh , startcraft runs unde WINE and all, but i dont think you can do human vs. human games?
the backdoor thing was a rumor is just about every single bbs system that was out there...
everyone supposedly had a back-door that you could use everywhere...
funny thing was, that i supposedly "knew" some of them, and they wouldnt work...
at the very end of the bbs days, was "robo bbs" which was a graphical clienty thing... too bad it sucked...
ok... renegade wasnt the/worst/... WWiV & stock telegard were much worse, as well as Major BBS and PC Board...
though i knew of a guy that took the trouble of taking WWiV and hacking it into looking and acting like MS-DOS... why? i dont know... i couldnt figure out why the fuck he would do that...
funny thing is, is that every now and again, someone from the old boards puts two and two together and emails me... (my old handle is still my username in my email address:-))
i wanna have an old fashioned meet-up of all the old people... see where they are now, what they're doign and what not...
anyway...
theold hpac boards were great... nothing like some good old anarchy to go around...
but i cant help but wondering if the total generated traffic is really the bottleneck, or if it would be the sum of the latencies that really slows it down...
i mean, each client is only passing a small amount of data between each, so i dont know if the agregation (sp) of the total bandwidth usage is a... useful... measurement...
maybe its the start of too much specialization, and that we will all forget how to do mundane things, and then when we all forget how to do everything, the empire will collpase, and then some place called a "foundation" will set up a pseudo religion and make everyuthing okee dokee....
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i used to be able to get from 5:30 - midnight only watching simpsons, frasier and seinfeld...
and thne i realized that i was wasting every 5:30 to midnight and got rid of my tv ...
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gotta love it... i have lost way too much time to that machine in the form of Ultima III, Ultima IV, Bard's tale, Wasteland, Infocom games...
Space Taxi.. Jumpman... Lode Runner... H.E.R.O. ...
oh lord... i spent an awful lot of time on that box...
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an "astroturf" campaign is an attempt by a large organization to /manufacture/ "grass roots" support.
examples of astroturf campaigns include the "million mom march" and last years MS campaign to stop the anti-trust trial.
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yeh...
and i've got some wonderful swamp land in florida. Act now, and i'll throw in a bridge in Brooklyn...
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C) Love the RTS stuff ... Starcraft, Red Alert 2, Dune 2000 ... yeh yeh , startcraft runs unde WINE and all, but i dont think you can do human vs. human games?
come on... some of us get sick on FPS's ...
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Grrr...
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now... if you could decipher the insane DATA statements at the end of C64 programs, i'd be impressed.
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March 26th 1011 ... I must restate my hyposthesis....
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suse may end up the #1 distribution because... well, europe LOVES it... germans especially...
and, i think that suse may actually be /profitable/, even... something that is unheard of for US distribution companies...
yeh yeh... their american division got fscked... but there is more to the world than the good ole US of A...
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diablo2 isnt grabbing me the same way... something about mindlessly bashing on the mouse buttons that doesnt do it for me...
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read the fucking blurb up top... rob specificaly mentions acid, and i am querying about it...
how the hell is this off-topic?
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or is he implying that he was on acid when he decided to do plain-text UserID's and PW's?
or is he, right now, as we speak, tripping his face off in order to deal with the insanity of running /.?
com on rob, we wanna know... how's the trip?
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renegade was pretty good considerring the much less-good alternatives of WWiV and un-hacked telegard....
have you considerred porting yours to linux and making it telnet-able?
you know you use emacs too much when you try to ctrl-c->ctrl-X out of this post...
sigh
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everyone supposedly had a back-door that you could use everywhere...
funny thing was, that i supposedly "knew" some of them, and they wouldnt work...
at the very end of the bbs days, was "robo bbs" which was a graphical clienty thing... too bad it sucked...
ok... renegade wasnt the /worst/... WWiV & stock telegard were much worse, as well as Major BBS and PC Board...
though i knew of a guy that took the trouble of taking WWiV and hacking it into looking and acting like MS-DOS... why? i dont know... i couldnt figure out why the fuck he would do that...
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i wanna have an old fashioned meet-up of all the old people... see where they are now, what they're doign and what not...
anyway...
theold hpac boards were great... nothing like some good old anarchy to go around...
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i was into the 610 area, which used to be 215...
remember Minas Morgul, or Planet Magrethea?
sighh....
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gotta go with oblivion...
at least you werent raving about WWiV or some telegard hack...
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i mean, each client is only passing a small amount of data between each, so i dont know if the agregation (sp) of the total bandwidth usage is a ... useful ... measurement...
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they do advertising... just not those stupid large banner ads...
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maybe its the start of too much specialization, and that we will all forget how to do mundane things, and then when we all forget how to do everything, the empire will collpase, and then some place called a "foundation" will set up a pseudo religion and make everyuthing okee dokee....
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UNICODE!!!!
real men would use EBCDIC.
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