You do realize that an Apple II remake would sell like hotcakes to the retro community, right? You do realize that you can buy a fully functioning apple ][ e, gs or c on ebay for around $20-$50 with a monitor, two floppy drives and quite often, a printer also. I have been tempted. Repeatedly. The shipping usually costs more than the system.
Yeah, well Windoze earned its reputation as a buggy, inseure OS.
Working as a desktop support admin since 1999 supporting mac and windows boxes, I can say that the reputation is fully justified, just as os9 and before's reputation as a crashy operating system was justified.
How many people run a PHP server application on top of OS X and expose it to the internet (as opposed to an intranet)??? enough to have been found by scanners and exploited. Pretty much everyone I know runs OS X as a workstation. Everyone you know is not everyone. I can't think of anyone doing so with an OS X box. The people you can think of is a very small subset of computer users.
I personally have used an os x box as an FTP server, a file server, and a web server. I know of several all mac businesses in the NY Metro area, with mac workstations and X-Serve servers. I know lots of mac design geeks that have explored the various extensions to Apache - php, perl, etc, to 'jazz' up the functionality of their sites. The PHP server application that you refer to is probably part of a web server setup, so naturally it would HAVE to be "exposed to the internet". and I know a crapload of people with mac laptops that just think a mac is for listening to music, emailing their friends, looking at myspace or facebook half of the day, and working on their screenplay or great american novel.
I am the original poster that got modded down faster than a housecat gets fucked.
j00 say: It means that 90% of racism is culture, not skin color. And I have absolutely no problem with rejecting someone out on their ass based on their (or lack of) culture.
I say it means that the dominant culture does whatever the fuck they want until there is an anti discriminination law passed, and then they just do it more stealthily.
Well at least we are in a better situation than those african countries where opposing cultures are at bloody violent war with each other (Hutu vs Tutsi anyone?). I seem to recall some sort of Serbian Croatian battle also where females of the underdog cultures were raped and men were killed. _That_ practice goes back a long way.
So, flamebait or not, in a society that proclaims itself a "melting pot" and "equal opportunity employer" etc. ad nauseum, to be intolerant of a subculture (no matter how small) is nothing less than hypocrisy. As someone that has seen different IT 'types', the sandal and ponytail set are usually stone cold geniuses compared to the guy in the suit that went to Technical College.
and furthermore, we don't want to see any nappy hair or dreadlocks in our lily white corporate environment either ! Also, anyone that is darker than a frat boy on spring break is a threat as well. We will definitely not use any of their software. If you are black, you better be as Huxtable as it can get, buddy. Only hair trimmed above the hairline is acceptable, no beards, even if you have a chronic skin condition that prevents you from shaving daily.
Prejudice is still alive and well. POWER TO THE PEOPLE. STICK IT TO THE MAN. ETC!
Well, probably 22 years on the mainframe a few decades ago....I see a lot of those around where I work
I second this ! I was forced to take a windows XP administration class here in New York City, and there were a couple of those grizzled old dudes in my class. The funny part is the two oldest most grizzled dudes were admins at the NYPD. Turns out they mostly supported a bunch of wierd legacy servers and DB's.
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Well, I went to a club in New York City two weeks ago to hear hip hop mega producer Just Blaze and wouldn't ya know it he showed up with a powerbook and didn't play a single vinyl record. imho the scratching software makes a rather tricky thing too easy to overuse. scratching should be used intelligently, not just to scratch the shit out of every mix. a subtle blend or dramatic cut is in order if you are rocking a dance floor, djing is not just doing a scratch competition. as is popular with many quick mix dj's, Blaze would play maybe two verses and a chorus then scratch into a new track. it seemed frenzied and like he was trying to cover too much ground musically. it was impressive what he could do though. of note most of the clubgoers that night were trainspotters, and not very many people danced...
A good dj makes his set a journey, works with the crowd, and hopefully if they are a creative dj, tries to express a certain feeling or distinguishable style. Good transitions are what people notice most about dj's. Your mixes and transitions will make or break you. There is nothing more painful to hear than a botched mix. Learning to mix well takes practice, and you should record your practice sessions and listen to them a bit later to gain some objectivity. you will hear what worked and what didn't, and can give yourself something to work on. It isn't something you can learn overnight, and takes dedication.
The main problem I see with this one is Virtual PC. I can do the exact same thing with my iMac G5 at home by simply starting up VPC and booting XP.
Its a challenge! This guy wants to do it, and is willing to pony up money to fund the challenge. Why have a problem with it at all? Now you have one more problem than you had an hour ago, Dual boot vs. Virtualization, the debate continues.
Keep in mind that Virtual PC introduces its own bugs and shortcomings. In trying to load up a bunch of kids games on the virtual pc of my g5, i had one work out of a dozen or so. I finally gave up.
you're so right. I'll go a step further..... I went to a really hoody house in brooklyn the otherday, this guy has exposed drywall and tattered cloth as doors. But what he DOES have is a PS2, a great stereo, and a HUGE TV that takes up half of the room. Video games are now a part of the culture, the street culture especially, and believe that when you go into the 'hood' they'll have hdtv and a ps3 aNd a 360. The console market is NOT the PC gamer market, and price is not the obstacle.
Maybe if they had looked on google earth, they would have seen the liquor store on the corner, the holes in the roof, and the thugs standing on the corner slangin. I daresay that these people's mistake was not that they used the internet to buy property, but that they didn't use the internet enough. Look up median income, crime statistics, etc. etc. Then go look at it. I mean even when you buy a used car, you want to take it for a drive first.
Open plan is even worse, jesus christ I can't bear open plan, oh dear god please don't make me go back to open plan, please!
it was all so fake too, at (flashy dead dot.com) it was all open, EXCEPT for the two top guys and the managing director. It was all a strategy to spend less money on renovations and more money on cocaine and boat parties anyway. and aerons.
Listen, any box on a well connected pipe with some free disk space is of great interest to the hacking community. It also happens that cracking a *nix box garners far more cred than cracking a windows box.
The weakest drive fails first. Power down the RAID box to replace the bad drive, so you can bring it back up and restore the data.
well, no. enterprise level raid has spinning spares and hotswappable everything. you can lose two drives and still be running as long as you get those replacements in there before number 3 goes. been there, and yes, it happened when we shut down for maintenance. In the real world catastrophic failure happens. Raid is not used as a backup usually, it is used to keep data available in the event of a hard drive failure. That is why you have a tape backup every night of the raid, and an extra set offsite somewhere. We have all heard the phrase, "a backup of the backup".
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I think there is a blurry line drawn in the sand where fair business practice is separated from monopolistic and unfair business practice. AMD thinks Skype is walking the line or may have crossed over it. But I'm just some guy and thats just what I think.
The real ripoff action is the double whammy. You get charged seller fees on ebay (which is a double whammy in itself, listing fee plus percentage of complete auction) and then paypal takes a cut also.
I had a completely different experience. Must be because I was heavily into pulp fiction around that time, and neuromancer is very pulpy. I must admit as short as it is it was hard to read straight through though.
Come on... Slashdot folks worried about a non-official kernel compile? I've recompiled the Darwin kernel on my MacOS X install before and run it off the custom compile. Yay open source, and stuff.
I usually recompile the kernel right after my midnight snack.
There are plenty of puzzle and card games as well as the new cool games. As a 37 year old, I am still as excited as playing a new game as I was when I was 15. One difference is that I want to jump in, play for an hour or so, then jump out. It is for this reason that I have avoided MMORPGs. I waited my whole life for these games to arrive, playing muds, single player dungeons (mines of moria / krozair on the plato cluster, dungeon master on my ST, wizardry on my apple ][, nethack on every computer I have ever had). Now I don't want to use up all of my time playing them. I imagine when I slow down in my later years, I will enjoy the latest immersive dungeon or space game more than watching the 3dTV or whatever we have in 25 more years, but for now I just blast away for an hour or so and then go about my business as usual. One big hit with the older and younger crowd is and will always be sports games, especially golf. Also don't underestimate the denial of old people thinking that they are still young ! (looks in the mirror, "you still got it, champ")
Control. The more control google has, the more power google has. Information is power. Be sure of this, google is where the first AI will come to 'life' it will be the head, and the body will be this massive freaking database that google has compiled. Larry Page and Sergey Brin will end up topside of the gravity well, I have to stop rereading neuromancer for the 143rd time. WINTERMUTE CAN YOU HEAR ME ????????? Half of my karma to the first person that can pinpoint the moment in time that I descended from informative to raving lunatic. Well, just a quick game of nethack and I get to come up from the basement for some of mom's meatloaf and some refreshing mountain dew. Aww out of cheetos _again_... ch ching.
I love that Idea, sounds vaguely like that terrible movie, Falling Down. I'm thinking GTA: Bangalore, where you can outsource your jackings for like 1/4 the price of a domestic jacking.
Until she has to go back out into the real world with this at the top of her resume: 2006 - 2008, Played Video Games
Have you visited the creative world of resume writing?
Her resume would surely have something along the lines of Graphic Designer, or Data Broker, or Database Administrator, or some other nifty way to euphemize "made clothes for avatars is MMORPG". Hell, the two years that I sold paintings for an art dealer on ebay, I was a webmaster, customer service rep, or sales representative depending on who I was giving my resume to.
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You do realize that an Apple II remake would sell like hotcakes to the retro community, right?
You do realize that you can buy a fully functioning apple ][ e, gs or c on ebay for around $20-$50 with a monitor, two floppy drives and quite often, a printer also. I have been tempted. Repeatedly. The shipping usually costs more than the system.
Yeah, well Windoze earned its reputation as a buggy, inseure OS.
Working as a desktop support admin since 1999 supporting mac and windows boxes, I can say that the reputation is fully justified,
just as os9 and before's reputation as a crashy operating system was justified.
How many people run a PHP server application on top of OS X and expose it to the internet (as opposed to an intranet)???
enough to have been found by scanners and exploited.
Pretty much everyone I know runs OS X as a workstation.
Everyone you know is not everyone.
I can't think of anyone doing so with an OS X box.
The people you can think of is a very small subset of computer users.
I personally have used an os x box as an FTP server, a file server, and a web server.
I know of several all mac businesses in the NY Metro area, with mac workstations and X-Serve servers.
I know lots of mac design geeks that have explored the various extensions to Apache - php, perl, etc, to 'jazz' up
the functionality of their sites. The PHP server application that you refer to is probably part of a web server setup,
so naturally it would HAVE to be "exposed to the internet".
and I know a crapload of people with mac laptops that just think a mac is for listening to music, emailing their friends,
looking at myspace or facebook half of the day, and working on their screenplay or great american novel.
I am the original poster that got modded down faster than a housecat gets fucked.
j00 say: It means that 90% of racism is culture, not skin color. And I have absolutely no problem with rejecting someone out on their ass based on their (or lack of) culture.
I say it means that the dominant culture does whatever the fuck they want until there is an anti discriminination law passed, and then they just do it more stealthily.
Well at least we are in a better situation than those african countries where opposing cultures are at bloody violent war with each other (Hutu vs Tutsi anyone?). I seem to recall some sort of Serbian Croatian battle also where females of the underdog cultures were raped and men were killed. _That_ practice goes back a long way.
So, flamebait or not, in a society that proclaims itself a "melting pot" and "equal opportunity employer" etc. ad nauseum, to be intolerant of a subculture (no matter how small) is nothing less than hypocrisy. As someone that has seen different IT 'types', the sandal and ponytail set are usually stone cold geniuses compared to the guy in the suit that went to Technical College.
and furthermore, we don't want to see any nappy hair or dreadlocks in our lily white corporate environment either !
Also, anyone that is darker than a frat boy on spring break is a threat as well. We will definitely not use any of their software.
If you are black, you better be as Huxtable as it can get, buddy.
Only hair trimmed above the hairline is acceptable, no beards, even if you have a chronic skin condition that prevents you
from shaving daily.
Prejudice is still alive and well. POWER TO THE PEOPLE.
STICK IT TO THE MAN.
ETC!
Well, probably 22 years on the mainframe a few decades ago....I see a lot of those around where I work
I second this ! I was forced to take a windows XP administration class here in New York City, and there were a couple of
those grizzled old dudes in my class. The funny part is the two oldest most grizzled dudes were admins at the NYPD.
Turns out they mostly supported a bunch of wierd legacy servers and DB's.
Well, I went to a club in New York City two weeks ago to hear hip hop mega producer Just Blaze and wouldn't ya know it he showed up with a powerbook and didn't play a single vinyl record. imho the scratching software makes a rather tricky thing too easy to overuse. scratching should be used intelligently, not just to scratch the shit out of every mix. a subtle blend or dramatic cut is in order if you are rocking a dance floor, djing is not just doing a scratch competition. as is popular with many quick mix dj's, Blaze would play maybe two verses and a chorus then scratch into a new track. it seemed frenzied and like he was trying to cover too much ground musically. it was impressive what he could do though. of note most of the clubgoers that night were trainspotters, and not very many people danced...
A good dj makes his set a journey, works with the crowd, and hopefully if they are a creative dj, tries to express a certain feeling or distinguishable style. Good transitions are what people notice most about dj's. Your mixes and transitions will make or break you. There is nothing more painful to hear than a botched mix. Learning to mix well takes practice, and you should record your practice sessions and listen to them a bit later to gain some objectivity. you will hear what worked and what didn't, and can give yourself something to work on. It isn't something you can learn overnight, and takes dedication.
-dj dave trouble
dj since 1991
vinyl only
The main problem I see with this one is Virtual PC. I can do the exact same thing with my iMac G5 at home by simply starting up VPC and booting XP.
Its a challenge! This guy wants to do it, and is willing to pony up money to fund the challenge.
Why have a problem with it at all? Now you have one more problem than you had an hour ago,
Dual boot vs. Virtualization, the debate continues.
Keep in mind that Virtual PC introduces its own bugs and shortcomings. In trying to load up
a bunch of kids games on the virtual pc of my g5, i had one work out of a dozen or so. I finally
gave up.
you're so right. I'll go a step further..... I went to a really hoody house in brooklyn the otherday,
this guy has exposed drywall and tattered cloth as doors. But what he DOES have
is a PS2, a great stereo, and a HUGE TV that takes up half of the room. Video
games are now a part of the culture, the street culture especially, and believe that
when you go into the 'hood' they'll have hdtv and a ps3 aNd a 360. The console market
is NOT the PC gamer market, and price is not the obstacle.
Maybe if they had looked on google earth, they would have seen the liquor store on the corner, the holes in the roof, and the thugs standing on the corner slangin. I daresay that these people's mistake was not that they used the internet to buy property, but that they didn't use the internet enough. Look up median income, crime statistics, etc. etc. Then go look at it. I mean
even when you buy a used car, you want to take it for a drive first.
Open plan is even worse, jesus christ I can't bear open plan, oh dear god please don't make me go back to open plan, please!
it was all so fake too, at (flashy dead dot.com) it was all open, EXCEPT for the two top guys and the managing director. It was
all a strategy to spend less money on renovations and more money on cocaine and boat parties anyway. and aerons.
.
.
Listen, any box on a well connected pipe with some free disk space is of great interest to the hacking community.
It also happens that cracking a *nix box garners far more cred than cracking a windows box.
I think we can speak for most of us here when I say,
ENOUGH ALREADY ! It has jumped the freaking shark or
whatever.
The weakest drive fails first. Power down the RAID box to replace the bad drive, so you can bring it back up and restore the data.
well, no. enterprise level raid has spinning spares and hotswappable everything. you can lose two drives and still be running as long as you get those replacements in there before number 3 goes. been there, and yes, it happened when we shut down for maintenance. In the real world catastrophic failure happens. Raid is not used as a backup usually, it is used to keep data available in the event of a hard drive failure. That is why you have a tape backup every night of the raid, and an extra set offsite somewhere. We have all heard the phrase, "a backup of the backup".
I think there is a blurry line drawn in the sand where fair business practice is separated from monopolistic and unfair business practice. AMD thinks
Skype is walking the line or may have crossed over it. But I'm just some guy and thats just what I think.
An old timer like you should know better than to make a Simpsons reference without a proper citation.
What happened to the Touch Screen Video IPod they were suppossed to announce?
same thing that happens every keynote, rumored != supposed to
especially in the case of apple announcements.
The real ripoff action is the double whammy. You get charged seller fees on ebay (which is a double whammy in itself, listing fee plus percentage of complete auction) and then paypal takes a cut also.
Family games are family games, no?
We like a hearty deathmatch after dinner, helps us all sleep a little better.
I had a completely different experience. Must be because I was heavily into pulp fiction around that time, and neuromancer is very pulpy. I must admit as short as it is it was hard to read straight through though.
Come on... Slashdot folks worried about a non-official kernel compile? I've recompiled the Darwin kernel on my MacOS X install before and run it off the custom compile. Yay open source, and stuff.
I usually recompile the kernel right after my midnight snack.
There are plenty of puzzle and card games as well as the new cool games. As a 37 year old, I am still as excited as playing a new game as I was when I was 15. One difference is that I want to jump in, play for an hour or so, then jump out. It is for this reason that I have avoided MMORPGs. I waited my whole life for these games to arrive, playing muds, single player dungeons (mines of moria / krozair on the plato cluster, dungeon master on my ST, wizardry on my apple ][, nethack on every computer I have ever had). Now I don't want to use up all of my time playing them. I imagine when I slow down in my later years, I will enjoy the latest immersive dungeon or space game more than watching the 3dTV or whatever we have in 25 more years, but for now I just blast away for an hour or so and then go about my business as usual. One big hit with the older and younger crowd is and will always be sports games, especially golf. Also don't underestimate the denial of old people thinking that they are still young ! (looks in the mirror, "you still got it, champ")
Control. The more control google has, the more power google has. Information is power. Be sure of this, google is where the first AI will come to 'life' it will be the head, and the body will be this massive freaking database that google has compiled. Larry Page and Sergey Brin will end up topside of the gravity well, I have to stop rereading neuromancer for the 143rd time. WINTERMUTE CAN YOU HEAR ME ????????? Half of my karma to the first person that can pinpoint the moment in time that I descended from informative to raving lunatic. Well, just a quick game of nethack and I get to come up from the basement for some of mom's meatloaf and some refreshing mountain dew. Aww out of cheetos _again_...
ch ching.
I love that Idea, sounds vaguely like that terrible movie, Falling Down. I'm thinking GTA: Bangalore, where you can outsource your jackings for like 1/4 the price of a domestic jacking.
Until she has to go back out into the real world with this at the top of her resume: 2006 - 2008, Played Video Games
Have you visited the creative world of resume writing?
Her resume would surely have something along the lines of Graphic Designer, or Data Broker, or Database Administrator, or some other nifty way to euphemize "made clothes for avatars is MMORPG". Hell, the two years that I sold paintings for an art dealer on ebay, I was a webmaster, customer service rep, or sales representative depending on who I was giving my resume to.