err.. edit: Not that Second Life is necessarily in the same boat as other MMOs - it's rather experimental, and not a retail game, as far as I can tell. Still sucks if you happened to fork over real cash and spend real time building your 'estate' though.
This is why I'll never subscribe to the MMO model of games - their primary goal is to milk it for all it's worth (the shareholders will see to that, if it's a public company). Even worse when the publisher is also the host, since they can fuck the game over to make it more suitable to making money.
Sorry, the server software must either be free or come with the game client to avoid the natural tendencies of business: monopoly rules. Freely available server software doesn't stop anyone operating a subscription based premium server though, but they won't be able to shaft the market.
Uh, the parent should be +1 Funny not +1 Insightful.
Just like oil, gold, diamands and whatever else are everywhere, so is Opal. It's just easier to get at in some places than others (see also: War on Iraq II:)
And where a certain feature (colour, texture, critter, etc) is more naturally abundant in whatever form, the local wildlife will evolve to emulate it to avoid getting eaten.
So you have reptiles that look like tree bark, butterflies that look like snake eyes, and bugs that look like expensive rocks.
Good answer but it makes me wonder... how is this weeding trough the registry simpler than unix administration?
Dynamically inherited, fine (ish) grained ACLs. The only trick is figuring out what users need access to, managing the permissions one you know is much easier.
it's a Hornet Nest not much different than/etc
Unix has a.. what.. 30 year history of system/user separation. Windows, games especially, still lives with the (pre-)Win9x mindset that doesn't have (useful) user separation.
Shit, it's been almost 10 years since Windows 95, and there's still games being released that won't save games and put screenshots in the user's profile (equivalent of ~ on Unix). Lazy programmers need to get their shit together.
it's about requiring the use of open standards, and avoiding single vendor lock in....
There's also the problem of entrenched "we're a Microsoft/IBM/Apple/whatever shop" cultures where emplyees and PHBs just won't want to deal with anything outside their comfort zones, and so resist any effort to change. Problem is, this costs bucks/trouble, so now they need an excuse.
Judging from the above comments, Kermit was too damn complicated. Many/most BBS programs/terminals had their own internal X/Y/Z-modem implementations, so unless there's standard subset of Kermit suitable for the BBS crowd, it's in the programmer's best interest to implement something simpler.
Wasn't there some agreement/policy about not landing/crashing shit into Europa and possibly contaminating it with Earth bacteria (or nuclear fuel/waste as the case may be)?
I think there was an article a couple months ago about a probe being redirected and crashed into Jupiter while it still had fuel to do so, rather than allow it's orbit to decay into Europa.
(you can wait for the friendly neighbourhood karma-whore for links, I couldn't be stuffed:)
Gnome and KDE don't protect you from shell deletions, only what you delete via their API.
Norton Utilities includes an extension to the command line so things deleted there (or anywhere via whatever non-Recycle Bin API they use) will also go to the Recycle Bin.
OTOH, it fills the 'Bin up pretty quick, since lots of apps create and delete many temporary files, and you normally only want the things you've interactively deleted.
When Microsoft release updates, you get them straight away. When Linus, etc. release updates, Debian might get around to putting it into the stable branch in 3-4 years.
I run at 132x60, in textmode. I find the performance of framebuffers pretty lame, particularly at anything higher than what I can get in text mode. Is FB even 2D accelerated? (using Matrox G200 and various GeForce boards and the relevant drivers).
"Sure! A priority recall of that tape costs $120, which will be charged to your department. I'll just confirm with your manager... what's that? Never mind? Sweet."
Same with reprinting thousand page reports. "I'm sorry sir, but if you lost it, you pay for the paper. Or, you can stop being a whiny prat and read it on the Intranet."
x86 boxes would fail under the load that Sparcs can hold up under.
Woops, lost it. OS, not CPU, is the key here.
And they're bloody reliable, and when they break, Sun's support contracts are excellent.
And they will continue to do so, so long as Sun still make their own motherboards, certify their own memory, and just generally build proper server systems. Controlling that might be a problem... but if PHBs are really as interested in 'support' as some say, then they'll go with a real Sun instead of Solaris and some DIY box.
Unless said AI is running on some radically different type of computer (slashdotted, can't check) using some kind of volatile analog medium to store it's consciousness, there's no reason shutting it down would kill the AI. Keep it on tape until someone sets up a Matrix for unwanted AIs.
They suspended Moriarty before putting him in a standalone simulation, didn't they? If Starfleet are cool with it, who are we to argue.
Being that Mac is no longer Adobe's largest market, and Apple have been stealing some of Adobe's thunder lately, I think it's more likely Adobe would shaft them just as much as Windows users.
Connected to the internet to get the RPC patch, and got infected with this work in under a minute
Same thing happened to me with RedHat 5.x - hacked via BIND in under 30 minutes. Fortunately I almost always use Midnight Commander, and show all files (why the fuck is the default hiding things from me?!?) and spotted a dot-file under / (my systems never have files under / only directories). So I F3'ed it and suprise, there's the root password.
After I busted the guy on IRC, he had the nerve to ask me for a shell account. Told him to fuck off, while I did a full reinstall from scratch. Even though he promised he only added an account for himself and didn't compromise any other binaries, it's not worth the risk (esp. since the install was less than an hour old).
I have a 2.4Ghz Dell on my desktop right now, and my old Duron 700 at home shits all over it.
Between the lame hardware (5400rpm HDD?!) and the Corporate Standard Install of Windows, it's barely worth the upgrade from the 400Mhz NT4 boxen before it.
Crap hardware and poor administration, however, are not Windows or Microsoft's fault. I know Windows' true capabilities to be contrary to what I'm seeing, so the correct course of action is to contact IT and get them to shove their ghost image up their arse and do it properly, not go running off to the happy trippy RDF land of Mac.
Is it me or does the ACL situation of *nix just suck compared to NTFS? Do I have to go commercial? Maybe Novell-on-Linux (free personal edition?)? Or are decent* ACLs in the works?
Doesn't really matter if Samba is the most badass file server ever, SMB or otherwise, if managing TBs of data is like pulling teeth, departments will choose NT.
*I know there are ACL filesystems for Linux, but from what I've seen they're pretty basic.
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Ignore those Start -> run -> calc posts.
:) you won't have ripped that mofo off yet..
Win-R -> calc.
Being that you don't play games at work (right?
err.. edit: Not that Second Life is necessarily in the same boat as other MMOs - it's rather experimental, and not a retail game, as far as I can tell. Still sucks if you happened to fork over real cash and spend real time building your 'estate' though.
This is why I'll never subscribe to the MMO model of games - their primary goal is to milk it for all it's worth (the shareholders will see to that, if it's a public company). Even worse when the publisher is also the host, since they can fuck the game over to make it more suitable to making money.
Sorry, the server software must either be free or come with the game client to avoid the natural tendencies of business: monopoly rules. Freely available server software doesn't stop anyone operating a subscription based premium server though, but they won't be able to shaft the market.
Uh, the parent should be +1 Funny not +1 Insightful.
:)
Just like oil, gold, diamands and whatever else are everywhere, so is Opal. It's just easier to get at in some places than others (see also: War on Iraq II
And where a certain feature (colour, texture, critter, etc) is more naturally abundant in whatever form, the local wildlife will evolve to emulate it to avoid getting eaten.
So you have reptiles that look like tree bark, butterflies that look like snake eyes, and bugs that look like expensive rocks.
Dynamically inherited, fine (ish) grained ACLs. The only trick is figuring out what users need access to, managing the permissions one you know is much easier.
Unix has a.. what.. 30 year history of system/user separation. Windows, games especially, still lives with the (pre-)Win9x mindset that doesn't have (useful) user separation.
Shit, it's been almost 10 years since Windows 95, and there's still games being released that won't save games and put screenshots in the user's profile (equivalent of ~ on Unix). Lazy programmers need to get their shit together.
1971 - Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, FL. Roy Disney dies
2003 - Roy Disney resigns as vice-chairman of the Walt Disney entertainment
group
I'm hoping one of them named their kid Roy...
Judging from the above comments, Kermit was too damn complicated. Many/most BBS programs/terminals had their own internal X/Y/Z-modem implementations, so unless there's standard subset of Kermit suitable for the BBS crowd, it's in the programmer's best interest to implement something simpler.
Wasn't there some agreement/policy about not landing/crashing shit into Europa and possibly contaminating it with Earth bacteria (or nuclear fuel/waste as the case may be)?
:)
I think there was an article a couple months ago about a probe being redirected and crashed into Jupiter while it still had fuel to do so, rather than allow it's orbit to decay into Europa.
(you can wait for the friendly neighbourhood karma-whore for links, I couldn't be stuffed
Gnome and KDE don't protect you from shell deletions, only what you delete via their API.
Norton Utilities includes an extension to the command line so things deleted there (or anywhere via whatever non-Recycle Bin API they use) will also go to the Recycle Bin.
OTOH, it fills the 'Bin up pretty quick, since lots of apps create and delete many temporary files, and you normally only want the things you've interactively deleted.
25 microns = 0.025 millimeters
Are there inch-based microns too or something?
I compiled from the Debian source + patches packages. Why does apt-get update not indicate there are new patches to apply to my kernel?
When Microsoft release updates, you get them straight away. When Linus, etc. release updates, Debian might get around to putting it into the stable branch in 3-4 years.
Way to go guys.
I run at 132x60, in textmode. I find the performance of framebuffers pretty lame, particularly at anything higher than what I can get in text mode. Is FB even 2D accelerated? (using Matrox G200 and various GeForce boards and the relevant drivers).
"Sure! A priority recall of that tape costs $120, which will be charged to your department. I'll just confirm with your manager... what's that? Never mind? Sweet."
Same with reprinting thousand page reports. "I'm sorry sir, but if you lost it, you pay for the paper. Or, you can stop being a whiny prat and read it on the Intranet."
Reviews featuring benchmarks taken from real games, preferably the specific games you intend to play.
Who gives a fig if drivers are 'creatively optimised' for real games, so long as the quality doesn't suffer?
Benchmark apps are for e-wang waving.
Woops, lost it. OS, not CPU, is the key here.
And they will continue to do so, so long as Sun still make their own motherboards, certify their own memory, and just generally build proper server systems. Controlling that might be a problem... but if PHBs are really as interested in 'support' as some say, then they'll go with a real Sun instead of Solaris and some DIY box.
Unless said AI is running on some radically different type of computer (slashdotted, can't check) using some kind of volatile analog medium to store it's consciousness, there's no reason shutting it down would kill the AI. Keep it on tape until someone sets up a Matrix for unwanted AIs.
They suspended Moriarty before putting him in a standalone simulation, didn't they? If Starfleet are cool with it, who are we to argue.
Being that Mac is no longer Adobe's largest market, and Apple have been stealing some of Adobe's thunder lately, I think it's more likely Adobe would shaft them just as much as Windows users.
After I busted the guy on IRC, he had the nerve to ask me for a shell account. Told him to fuck off, while I did a full reinstall from scratch. Even though he promised he only added an account for himself and didn't compromise any other binaries, it's not worth the risk (esp. since the install was less than an hour old).
I have a 2.4Ghz Dell on my desktop right now, and my old Duron 700 at home shits all over it.
Between the lame hardware (5400rpm HDD?!) and the Corporate Standard Install of Windows, it's barely worth the upgrade from the 400Mhz NT4 boxen before it.
Crap hardware and poor administration, however, are not Windows or Microsoft's fault. I know Windows' true capabilities to be contrary to what I'm seeing, so the correct course of action is to contact IT and get them to shove their ghost image up their arse and do it properly, not go running off to the happy trippy RDF land of Mac.
I'm using XFS ATM, and it does the same. It's still not a patch on NTFS.
Where are the dynamic ACLs?
Can you inherit execute (ie. traverse) permissions on folders but not files?
Then there's more fine grained control that just doesn't fit into the rwx scheme.
Is it me or does the ACL situation of *nix just suck compared to NTFS? Do I have to go commercial? Maybe Novell-on-Linux (free personal edition?)? Or are decent* ACLs in the works?
Doesn't really matter if Samba is the most badass file server ever, SMB or otherwise, if managing TBs of data is like pulling teeth, departments will choose NT.
*I know there are ACL filesystems for Linux, but from what I've seen they're pretty basic.