Empire is another game that has the opportunity for scripting in the clients, and hasn't suffered too much as a result... (AIUI)
(Disclaimer: I've never actually gotten around to dedicating the fairly large amount of time apparently required to play Empire, but I seem to read through how it works every 6 months or so and not quite try it)
On all SCSI machines, the Floptical was a practical way of adding floppy support too - SGI Indy's have a slot in the side for a floptical drive, whose main purpose was really to be a 1.44M floppy disk (it was optional unfortunately, so I don't have one:( )
That's too bad, because Iomega were replacing the drive and damaged media for free (in the UK at least).
I have a Zip-100 at work and a Zip-250 at home (seemed like a good idea at the time), and until I got a 15Gb removable HD, it was great as a super-floppy storage method. It also seems to be one of the only 'super-floppy' formats that is about as popular on Macs as it is on PCs.
...to a 2 September 1999 article from Next Generation magazine.
Which could easily have a month's lead-time - certainly the few times I've ever dealt with (non-news) items for magazines, they have a surprisingly huge lead time.
But, having been a Monarchs season-ticket holder for the last three seasons they were around, the quality of the football is (was) generally pretty shaky... The only reason it was really interesting was as an opportunity to actually go to a game rather than see it on TV.
Unless you really *ARE* an 31337 h4x0r, there is not much point in running them on the desktop.
The two machines I spend my time in front of (at work and at home) are both Windows dual-booting with a unix. At home FreeBSD 4.1, and at work Debian. I think I probably would rank those OS's in terms of Desktop niceness and usability: Win2k, FreeBSD, Debian. This is out-of-the-box setup of each.
In terms of hardware support, Win2k supports everything, FreeBSD and Debian seem about equal, although I haven't bothered try to get my USB devices working on either since that seems a bit of a lost cause if it isn't a common device (it's a Plustek scanner, a Wacom Intuos and an MS Strategic Commander). As far as I can tell, both 'support USB' to the extent they can tell the devices are there, and not much more.
Either Addison-Wesley or O'Reilly had a really nice set of 4 or 5 books describing BSD4.4 (or 4.4Lite) when it was released, written by the developers. They seem to have disappeared lately though - I guess they're out of print. 4.4 originally came out a good while ago now.
It was pretty cool, but with only 200k, I don't know how secure it could have been.
It depends if it's storing data, or just a key. A 1638400-bit key is probably considered at least fairly secure:-) All it would do is identify you in some way to the database that really holds the data, like web sessions do.
All Windows 2000 users are familiar with the "Blue Screen of Death".
I am familiar with it. It's what my NT Workstation used to do before I install Win2k pro. I don't think either of my desktop W2K systems has ever BSODed on me.
The error message you cite is more of a sign of a bad DBA than anything (the DB server's disk is full - that's not the OS's fault, or Microsoft's).
Everything beyond that is fact, or close to it, but I doubt the open-sourceness is relevant to 97% or so of MS's customers. Price is more likely a factor. But so is familiarity - even moving from one linux distro to another can take a fair bit of re-orientation.
I'm not a microsoft fan particularly, but I'm less of a fan of people who feel that 'microsoft fan' is somehow the ultimate insult.
Alternatively, maybe the price of CDs will come down when people stop ripping off the labels...
Back in the day, before CDRs were affordable when all you could do was make a tape, CDs were not cheap. Do you really believe that record companies have a set profit target that they won't want to exceed?
I'm not sure I see the availability of a ubiquitous GUI tool for Linux, but someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
The Athena widgetset is part of the standard X11 distribution, but it has the unfortunate side-effect of making your apps look like they escaped from a 70s research lab.
As I understand it, what 'real commercial developers' use is something like XDesigner and Motif, which gets you an environment a lot like VB in many ways, and an app that will run on any (CDE based, anyway) relatively current commercial unix system. Motif is now free, so it ought to start appearing as standard in linux distros, if it hasn't already (I haven't upgraded my linux box in a year or more).
I used XDesigner briefly at college, about 8 years ago, and it was pretty funky stuff - I guess the nearest to it for linux/free things would be Glade.
Actually it's more the wierd delays between action and reaction.
WM behaviour is fair game - that's what WMs are all about. I never have been much of a fan of mwm/4Dwm, but it can be tweaked to work more how I'd like. On the third hand, I have found that I haven't gotten around to spending that usual afternoon with.Xdefaults doing that, because it does work well enough. I mostly use it a display for other random boxes at home (netbsd, freebsd etc) because it has such a nice monitor and keyboard. The thing is old/slow enough to be annoying for doing actual work on.
Try TkMan - integrating texinfo and man into a single (quite nice) Tk front end. Formats pages better than xman too, typically. Oh, with full-text search if you want it, via swish.
I have an SGI Indy with Indigo Magic, and it's not that great... the main things I liked about the IRIX experience weren't really UI related - good online docs (effectively all the manuals in PDF), good integrated multimedia support (digicam etc) and ISDN/PPP support with sensible setup. I always thought the desktop was kind of clunky.
Of course, the site is already toast, so it's possible that it's a huge improvement, but IM as of IRIX 6.2 is no great shakes. I'd rather have KDE2 from what I have seen of that.
I'm a Brit, I couldn't even tell you what an HOV lane is, although I could take a decent guess from context. Whatever they are, we don't have them.
High-Occupancy Vehicle - buses, carpools (2+ people in one car) etc. I believe they were talking about adding one to the M4, from Heathrow into the city at one point. At least one northern city has some (I think it was Leeds).
On a slightly related note, I've wondering lately about how hard it'd be to build mW-level RDS radio transmitters, to send a very localised message (eat at joes, speed trap on the next bridge, whatever) to anyone with their 'Traffic Alert' turned on. Unlike the reciever though, there's not a lot of point in making a single-chip encoder, so I suspect that no-one has, to stop people like me...
Do you have a filter to produce this crap, or are you wasting your valuable time producing it by hand? (and where is the filter?:-) )
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Aside from the fact that my grandmother won't touch anything with more than 3 (large) buttons on it, last time I checked MacOS doesn't come with any development tools, so what do the users have to do with it? In the current Mac world (not counting OSX for a second), Mac users rarely see source of anything, let alone compile it themselves.
As a developer, I'll re-run make and make tardist, or whatever the equivalent is for Mac development. Users can then download/buy the program as either a fat binary (NeXT style) or the one for their computer model (WinCE style). Besides, of all people, mac users know a little about having an OS across multiple architectures.
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Why is this better than putting 4GB straight into the server? SQL can be made to allocate and keep it all... I don't see the point.
but poland is miles away...
Empire is another game that has the opportunity for scripting in the clients, and hasn't suffered too much as a result... (AIUI)
(Disclaimer: I've never actually gotten around to dedicating the fairly large amount of time apparently required to play Empire, but I seem to read through how it works every 6 months or so and not quite try it)
The typical academic journal has a crew of slow-moving self-interested editors and reviewers to keep in tweed jackets too, remember...
She's adamant that the country needs to focus more on reading to children under the age of 5.
But presumably not in groups, or schools where they don't have to buy their own book.
On all SCSI machines, the Floptical was a practical way of adding floppy support too - SGI Indy's have a slot in the side for a floptical drive, whose main purpose was really to be a 1.44M floppy disk (it was optional unfortunately, so I don't have one :( )
That's too bad, because Iomega were replacing the drive and damaged media for free (in the UK at least).
I have a Zip-100 at work and a Zip-250 at home (seemed like a good idea at the time), and until I got a 15Gb removable HD, it was great as a super-floppy storage method. It also seems to be one of the only 'super-floppy' formats that is about as popular on Macs as it is on PCs.
...to a 2 September 1999 article from Next Generation magazine.
Which could easily have a month's lead-time - certainly the few times I've ever dealt with (non-news) items for magazines, they have a surprisingly huge lead time.
But, having been a Monarchs season-ticket holder for the last three seasons they were around, the quality of the football is (was) generally pretty shaky... The only reason it was really interesting was as an opportunity to actually go to a game rather than see it on TV.
Unless you really *ARE* an 31337 h4x0r, there is not much point in running them on the desktop.
The two machines I spend my time in front of (at work and at home) are both Windows dual-booting with a unix. At home FreeBSD 4.1, and at work Debian. I think I probably would rank those OS's in terms of Desktop niceness and usability: Win2k, FreeBSD, Debian. This is out-of-the-box setup of each.
In terms of hardware support, Win2k supports everything, FreeBSD and Debian seem about equal, although I haven't bothered try to get my USB devices working on either since that seems a bit of a lost cause if it isn't a common device (it's a Plustek scanner, a Wacom Intuos and an MS Strategic Commander). As far as I can tell, both 'support USB' to the extent they can tell the devices are there, and not much more.
Either Addison-Wesley or O'Reilly had a really nice set of 4 or 5 books describing BSD4.4 (or 4.4Lite) when it was released, written by the developers. They seem to have disappeared lately though - I guess they're out of print. 4.4 originally came out a good while ago now.
It was pretty cool, but with only 200k, I don't know how secure it could have been.
:-) All it would do is identify you in some way to the database that really holds the data, like web sessions do.
It depends if it's storing data, or just a key. A 1638400-bit key is probably considered at least fairly secure
"...takes a lot more skill then that."
What is it with you people? THEN is not the same as THAN.
You legally could inside the EU!
All of it? You mean they all actually agreed on something?
All Windows 2000 users are familiar with the "Blue Screen of Death".
I am familiar with it. It's what my NT Workstation used to do before I install Win2k pro. I don't think either of my desktop W2K systems has ever BSODed on me.
The error message you cite is more of a sign of a bad DBA than anything (the DB server's disk is full - that's not the OS's fault, or Microsoft's).
Everything beyond that is fact, or close to it, but I doubt the open-sourceness is relevant to 97% or so of MS's customers. Price is more likely a factor. But so is familiarity - even moving from one linux distro to another can take a fair bit of re-orientation.
I'm not a microsoft fan particularly, but I'm less of a fan of people who feel that 'microsoft fan' is somehow the ultimate insult.
Alternatively, maybe the price of CDs will come down when people stop ripping off the labels...
Back in the day, before CDRs were affordable when all you could do was make a tape, CDs were not cheap. Do you really believe that record companies have a set profit target that they won't want to exceed?
I'm not sure I see the availability of a ubiquitous GUI tool for Linux, but someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
The Athena widgetset is part of the standard X11 distribution, but it has the unfortunate side-effect of making your apps look like they escaped from a 70s research lab.
As I understand it, what 'real commercial developers' use is something like XDesigner and Motif, which gets you an environment a lot like VB in many ways, and an app that will run on any (CDE based, anyway) relatively current commercial unix system. Motif is now free, so it ought to start appearing as standard in linux distros, if it hasn't already (I haven't upgraded my linux box in a year or more).
I used XDesigner briefly at college, about 8 years ago, and it was pretty funky stuff - I guess the nearest to it for linux/free things would be Glade.
Actually it's more the wierd delays between action and reaction.
.Xdefaults doing that, because it does work well enough. I mostly use it a display for other random boxes at home (netbsd, freebsd etc) because it has such a nice monitor and keyboard. The thing is old/slow enough to be annoying for doing actual work on.
WM behaviour is fair game - that's what WMs are all about. I never have been much of a fan of mwm/4Dwm, but it can be tweaked to work more how I'd like. On the third hand, I have found that I haven't gotten around to spending that usual afternoon with
Try TkMan - integrating texinfo and man into a single (quite nice) Tk front end. Formats pages better than xman too, typically. Oh, with full-text search if you want it, via swish.
I have an SGI Indy with Indigo Magic, and it's not that great... the main things I liked about the IRIX experience weren't really UI related - good online docs (effectively all the manuals in PDF), good integrated multimedia support (digicam etc) and ISDN/PPP support with sensible setup. I always thought the desktop was kind of clunky.
Of course, the site is already toast, so it's possible that it's a huge improvement, but IM as of IRIX 6.2 is no great shakes. I'd rather have KDE2 from what I have seen of that.
I'm a Brit, I couldn't even tell you what an HOV lane is, although I could take a decent guess from context. Whatever they are, we don't have them.
High-Occupancy Vehicle - buses, carpools (2+ people in one car) etc. I believe they were talking about adding one to the M4, from Heathrow into the city at one point. At least one northern city has some (I think it was Leeds).
On a slightly related note, I've wondering lately about how hard it'd be to build mW-level RDS radio transmitters, to send a very localised message (eat at joes, speed trap on the next bridge, whatever) to anyone with their 'Traffic Alert' turned on. Unlike the reciever though, there's not a lot of point in making a single-chip encoder, so I suspect that no-one has, to stop people like me...
IIRC, OJ is still in the top 3 or 4 for single-season and all-time rushing records.
I would personally lean more towards Barry Sanders for favourite RB, but he's definitely a candidate.
Do you have a filter to produce this crap, or are you wasting your valuable time producing it by hand? (and where is the filter? :-) )
Aside from the fact that my grandmother won't touch anything with more than 3 (large) buttons on it, last time I checked MacOS doesn't come with any development tools, so what do the users have to do with it? In the current Mac world (not counting OSX for a second), Mac users rarely see source of anything, let alone compile it themselves.
As a developer, I'll re-run make and make tardist, or whatever the equivalent is for Mac development. Users can then download/buy the program as either a fat binary (NeXT style) or the one for their computer model (WinCE style). Besides, of all people, mac users know a little about having an OS across multiple architectures.