I bought 11th hour, still content with my DX2/66. It played fine, until I got an upgrade. Then it ran awesome. I didn't realize how slow the game was running until then. Friggin amazing. Windows 95 could do things. Not just grind away and sort of do things.
Wow, I remember that game all the time. It seems like once a month or so I'll hear something in a soundtrack in a movie, or a song, that is so close to the very distinctive music in that game.
Of all the memories of my life that get triggered by sounds the 11th Hour (and 7th Guest) are the one that pops up most. I can still see the beckoning finger bones:) A lot of the puzzles in both were cool.
Off topic I know, but since we're reminiscing I'll take the risk of a good mod thrashing:)
And never mind the "poorer" countries. Their biggest challenge will be Australia. Not because they cannot deliver a quality service, but because they will not.
Look fuckers. I don't care where you live, or what the UN wants. If I can get away with charging $99.00 a month for 5Mbps I'm going to do it. I don't care where you live, what you do, or why you need it. The only thing I care about is how to get you to part with as much cash as possible and give it to me. BTW, way back when, when we first rolled out cable and you all thought it was worth it in order to watch TV without advertising? Priceless! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! See you suckers on the way to the bank!
Thanks for the support Slashdot. As CanHasDIY notes, it doesn't mean that the decision will be reversed, and I think at best this will be the start of a process to getting the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions revisited by Congress. But hopefully it'll help.
Or, it could help raise the number of required people "signing" the petition to be doubled! They will find ways to not listen!:)
P.S. I did sign it, and have signed others in the past. But I really think it's a sort of "let's make the people think they have a say, when it doesn't include a dollar or millions"
My entire state, according the the ACLU map, is in this zone. Our state motto is: "Live Free or Die". I laugh, sadly, every time I hear somebody say that here with pride.
Oh, we don't have to wear seat belts though. I guess I just don't understand what "Live Free" means as obviously not being required to wear seat belts is more than an even trade for losing your 4th Amendment rights.... Riiiiiight.
You mean, let's see how long until we declare that the Jamaican people need to be "liberated".
Or . . . how long until we need to send a massive force there after a "natural disaster" to help out.
In the old days one might interpret "massive force" as military. I think we could go straight to a massive corporate presence as it is they who control things anyway. If that doesn't work then we have trade sanctions, etc and finally the military. If this scenario is not for today, my guess is it will be soon.
There's actually *more* fun to be had there. You don't have just the luxury of making your online presence, but as many alter egos with the same name as you'd like. You can bury yourself in so much varied information that no one will know what to believe.
Actually you may be on to something here. Ok, the person is using the real name for the domain and is smearing someone. Create a lot of similar domains, create a lot of conflicting information, use SEO tactics to bring them up front. Make sure the real name of the person being harassed is used everywhere. Link to those sites from multiple places. Use her real name on forums, etc. Make sure that all the info you post contradicts itself. In other words, create so much "noise" that nobody is likely to know what to believe and the domain using her real name is just one of many that has conflicting information.
We do have shrimp as well as prawns, it's just that while they're the same basic animal prawns can get really big, bigger than marron sometimes, and shrimps are necessarily small, about thumbnail size.
No wonder I don't feel very full after eating "Shrimp on the Barbie" here at Outback in the states:) They've been holding out on us, eating all the prawns themselves. Bastards!
I don't think you quite understand. They're not religious holidays. They are recognition of the passing of the seasons and the cycle of life. And yes, there may have been multiple deities involved so I suppose you could consider religious in some fashion. But not in the modern sense of Christianity. These holidays were already being celebrated before Christianity and those trying to show folks "the way" incorporated these celebrations to do so as the local population weren't going to give them up. Best to co-op them and basically Christians said: "this holiday means this" where "this" conveniently tied into the whole that was being preached.
Don't mean to offend anyone, Christians or not, but let's recognize that these holidays have been around for a long long time. Longer than Christianity. (Note, not talking about Thanksgiving, as that is not a "religious" holiday although the celebration of a good years harvest goes back many, many years.) This was directed at the comments concerning Christmas and Easter.
From the summary: " Potential attackers would, of course, first have to establish which games are installed on the target computer. "
Create a list of games by popularity, you're bound to find one of them somewhere. In other words, they may not be able to target a specific computer but the odds are good that they'd find many they could target. Even a specific computer, if you know anything about the owner, quite likely might have popular games x,y and z on it based the owner's preferences.....
Also, a lot of people are mentioning HVAC. It might be a good idea to have a slightly higher (1psi) air pressure in the server room than the rest of the plant. This way contaminants will tend to flow away from the server room, instead of towards it.
This! I've had a number of clients build new facilities and they always wanted to hide the server room in a place away from the office space in order to have more office space available. Link in a room off the warehouse. I'd make sure and tell them they'd better make sure airflow into the room is filtered and that the air pressure is greater in the room than outside or they'd be sucking all kinds of dirt into the server room
This is also a problem with exhausting outside. Air flowing at a high rate to the outside has to bring it in from somewhere. Restaurants use what's called "make up air" returns in the kitchen so as not to pull the A/C or heat from the dining area. Basically the make up air was a separate vent to the outside located within exhaust hoods over grills and what not.
Fortunately, many of these were HVAC companies doing their own installation and they took my advice.
The old photos all show the unrestored version, and all photos of the restored version are recent and copyrighted. It's an ugly practice and needs to be outlawed.
If I had a choice of working where the software was the product the company was selling (and I'm not quite sure that this is the case in your current job, but seems to be more so based on what you said) or working where IT and software development is a cost center, I'd pick the former every time. I once worked at at place (Dir. of Software Development) and guess who was treated the best and made the most money: Sales or IT?
We were a necessary drain on the company, at least that's how upper management viewed it. They couldn't see that with no IT infrastructure, including the code we developed that the whole company ran on, there would be no sales.
I'm not surprised that Apple has rejected an App that has the purpose of getting people interested in the author's own political agenda. Not that I agree or disagree with it what he's trying to do. Just that Angry Birds may be angry, but pigs aren't representing countries, political affiliations or sensitive topics in general.
I'm not saying there is not a place for this type of App. But think about it, Apples App store is frequently referred to as a "Walled Garden" It's not a place to rock the boat so to speak. Regardless of whether or not that's "right" doesn't matter. It's Apple's garden, and they can do as they please.
Now personally, I won't buy an Apple product that walls me in from information that could potentially be enlightening to me. And I'm sure Apple doesn't care.
Sorry, read Linux instead of Unix. Same principles apply though.
Best answer I can give you: if you're good enough, you'll be able to tell if they're good enough. When I talk to someone I have a pretty good feel if they're as good at their job as I am at mine. Got a carpenter buddy. He's a damn fine one. I'm not, but I still know he is.......
Believe it or not, there are plenty of professionals out there with significant admin experience with both Unix and Windows. Being a Windows professional doesn't make you some sort of dirt-eating Tauron, nor does it necessarily make you a "fan" who's chosen his side in some nerd-rage fight to the death.
Most definitely. I was a server admin for clients of mine who were too small to have one full time. Ran Linux on my own desktop, also had Windows and Linux servers running on different machines. I could deal with either. I wasn't a "fan" of anything. I was a professional who took care of my clients. Unix, Linux, Windows, it didn't matter. What mattered was my knowledge and making whatever they had chosen to run work. And work well.
As far as how to gauge their skills.... You won't be able to, as the good ones will know more than you do. Pay attention to what they have done in the past, contact their previous employers. Certs don't mean much, I've run across a few that didn't know anymore than was needed to pass the tests.
Maybe pose problems in a Linux domain that you are familiar with, ask them how they would handle that in Windows. Ask them to explain how it works differently from what you're doing. Ask them general security questions that should be known by all server admins. Firewalls, etc.
If you're in charge, you need to be able to assess their work. And that depends on the type of Win servers you're going to run. Outward facing? Database? In-house application only?
So much depends on what the servers do. Someone may be a great domain admin, but suck at the database side of things.
I know, not much help. But please don't call them "fans":)
Ah, the return of Clippy? "It looks like you're trying to use Windows" or some other inane or obvious comment. Or perhaps Bob? Damn, where are they when you need them.
Those things would not be Color printing. In fact, you could view this process as monochrome too, except when the comparitively long wavelength visible light hits it, it acts in a similar way to a pigmint (well, diffraction isn't exactly the same, but similar enough).
Pigmint, huh. Isn't that the pork rind they leave on your pillow at night at a Motel 6 in the south?:)
Telemetry will be continuously relayed back to earth, true, but with not much less than about a 15 minute latency, owing to the fact that Mars roughly a quarter of a light-hour from earth right now.
Given this post, and all the other by you below, I think they should have just told you (and only you, as the rest of us have no problem with this) that the landing was happening about 15 minutes later than it is. I bet you'd be happy then:)
If MZ sold some of his shares, then he made money at the initial, higher price. He sold 30.2 million shares at $37.58, netting him over a billion dollars. Even if Facebook goes bankrupt tomorrow, Zuckerberg is a billionare (not just a "paper billionare").
I believe MZ sold what he did to cover his tax expenses. He held onto much more than he sold. Even at the lower value today of those shares he's still made out big time. The caveat however, is that he is beholden to those that he wasn't before.
People so worried about a massive decades long goverment flouride consipracy that can be beat by buying a water filter..
Sorry, I don't understand. Are we talking about flourine or flouride? I'm 54 (and no chemist so I don't know the difference, please excuse me) and the water I grew up with was flouridated, the toothpaste I use also contains one of the above. To the poster below regarding black teeth. I still have all my teeth and they are not black. Daily brushing and flossing seem to have kept them in pretty good shape over the years.
So..... instead of assuming that everyone knows the dangers, please educate me. That's an honest request actually. I'm no fan of the things the government has done that have been proven to be of harm to the general citizenship, and I believe many such a thing has probably happened. But please, more info. If I need a few more layers on the tinfoil hat I'd like to know:)
The best practice here is to remove their access at the moment they're notified and escorted off premises if the data is that important.
That was SOP at a client I did work with. Nobody in house could handle the changes required to disable access to the systems so when someone was being fired, they let me know and I disabled access early in the morning of the day of their termination.
One time they asked me to do that for a person in a key position and I asked them repeatedly if they were going to terminate the person as soon as they walked in the door the next morning. They assured me, repeatedly, that they would be waiting at the door to take them into the owners office. Of course I had explained the consequences if they didn't (The employee would know before being told, which is a bit rude in my opinion, not to mention if the employee wanted to create a scene before being escorted out the door they'd have time to do it.)
Of course, I get a call first thing in the morning from the person being terminated: "I can't log into the system..." Idiots......
One final benefit I can imagine is that it's a way of using state money to waste the resources of anti-gun control groups who have undoubtedly tried to sue this law out of existence.
Don't underestimate the funding of the NRA, nor the likes of Ted Nugent or those that feel the USA is going to hell and want to be armed when it happens. Personally, I'm against most anything that limits my rights. I am not against people paying the price for abusing their rights such as shooting someone with a gun acting as the aggressor. You hear it all the time: the only people that gun control will hurt are those who have guns and have no intention of committing crimes with one.
There is the case, often mentioned, of crimes of passion, and how gun control would lower their occurrence. For example a distraught husband who shoots his wife upon finding out that she cheated on him. I'd bet that most of those cases are easily solved without resorting to such means as a national gun registry or micro-stamping, etc. Too many mistakes are made in a crime of passion. People aren't thinking, they're reacting to a visceral emotion, not carefully planning a murder. Even if they were, as pointed out in other posts, there are easy ways to circumvent this stuff.
And I'll bet almost no one here has ever encountered a vertical or horizontal "hold" control. In those days, we had to establish picture sync ourselves, AND WE LIKED IT!
Probably not many, but I do, for sure. The show "Outer Limits" played off those and other "features" very well in the opening scene of each episode. And for those who liked to mess with those controls to enhance somebody's viewing pleasure: did you every try rotating the yoke on the back of the picture tube 180 degrees? Lots of fun!
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Wow, I remember that game all the time. It seems like once a month or so I'll hear something in a soundtrack in a movie, or a song, that is so close to the very distinctive music in that game.
Of all the memories of my life that get triggered by sounds the 11th Hour (and 7th Guest) are the one that pops up most. I can still see the beckoning finger bones :) A lot of the puzzles in both were cool.
Off topic I know, but since we're reminiscing I'll take the risk of a good mod thrashing :)
Look fuckers. I don't care where you live, or what the UN wants. If I can get away with charging $99.00 a month for 5Mbps I'm going to do it. I don't care where you live, what you do, or why you need it. The only thing I care about is how to get you to part with as much cash as possible and give it to me. BTW, way back when, when we first rolled out cable and you all thought it was worth it in order to watch TV without advertising? Priceless! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! See you suckers on the way to the bank!
Or, it could help raise the number of required people "signing" the petition to be doubled! They will find ways to not listen! :)
P.S. I did sign it, and have signed others in the past. But I really think it's a sort of "let's make the people think they have a say, when it doesn't include a dollar or millions"
My entire state, according the the ACLU map, is in this zone. Our state motto is: "Live Free or Die". I laugh, sadly, every time I hear somebody say that here with pride.
Oh, we don't have to wear seat belts though. I guess I just don't understand what "Live Free" means as obviously not being required to wear seat belts is more than an even trade for losing your 4th Amendment rights.... Riiiiiight.
Well there was enough to write a lengthy Wikepedia entry about those :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codpiece
In the old days one might interpret "massive force" as military. I think we could go straight to a massive corporate presence as it is they who control things anyway. If that doesn't work then we have trade sanctions, etc and finally the military. If this scenario is not for today, my guess is it will be soon.
Actually you may be on to something here. Ok, the person is using the real name for the domain and is smearing someone. Create a lot of similar domains, create a lot of conflicting information, use SEO tactics to bring them up front. Make sure the real name of the person being harassed is used everywhere. Link to those sites from multiple places. Use her real name on forums, etc. Make sure that all the info you post contradicts itself. In other words, create so much "noise" that nobody is likely to know what to believe and the domain using her real name is just one of many that has conflicting information.
No wonder I don't feel very full after eating "Shrimp on the Barbie" here at Outback in the states :) They've been holding out on us, eating all the prawns themselves. Bastards!
Another reading of Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" is in order here :)
I don't think you quite understand. They're not religious holidays. They are recognition of the passing of the seasons and the cycle of life. And yes, there may have been multiple deities involved so I suppose you could consider religious in some fashion. But not in the modern sense of Christianity. These holidays were already being celebrated before Christianity and those trying to show folks "the way" incorporated these celebrations to do so as the local population weren't going to give them up. Best to co-op them and basically Christians said: "this holiday means this" where "this" conveniently tied into the whole that was being preached.
Don't mean to offend anyone, Christians or not, but let's recognize that these holidays have been around for a long long time. Longer than Christianity. (Note, not talking about Thanksgiving, as that is not a "religious" holiday although the celebration of a good years harvest goes back many, many years.) This was directed at the comments concerning Christmas and Easter.
From the summary:
" Potential attackers would, of course, first have to establish which games are installed on the target computer. "
Create a list of games by popularity, you're bound to find one of them somewhere. In other words, they may not be able to target a specific computer but the odds are good that they'd find many they could target. Even a specific computer, if you know anything about the owner, quite likely might have popular games x,y and z on it based the owner's preferences.....
This! I've had a number of clients build new facilities and they always wanted to hide the server room in a place away from the office space in order to have more office space available. Link in a room off the warehouse. I'd make sure and tell them they'd better make sure airflow into the room is filtered and that the air pressure is greater in the room than outside or they'd be sucking all kinds of dirt into the server room
This is also a problem with exhausting outside. Air flowing at a high rate to the outside has to bring it in from somewhere. Restaurants use what's called "make up air" returns in the kitchen so as not to pull the A/C or heat from the dining area. Basically the make up air was a separate vent to the outside located within exhaust hoods over grills and what not.
Fortunately, many of these were HVAC companies doing their own installation and they took my advice.
Ugly indeed. As an example, I give you this:
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/23/church-masterpiece-restored-as-mr-bean-would-do-it/
If I had a choice of working where the software was the product the company was selling (and I'm not quite sure that this is the case in your current job, but seems to be more so based on what you said) or working where IT and software development is a cost center, I'd pick the former every time. I once worked at at place (Dir. of Software Development) and guess who was treated the best and made the most money: Sales or IT?
We were a necessary drain on the company, at least that's how upper management viewed it. They couldn't see that with no IT infrastructure, including the code we developed that the whole company ran on, there would be no sales.
Just food for thought there......
I'm not surprised that Apple has rejected an App that has the purpose of getting people interested in the author's own political agenda. Not that I agree or disagree with it what he's trying to do. Just that Angry Birds may be angry, but pigs aren't representing countries, political affiliations or sensitive topics in general.
I'm not saying there is not a place for this type of App. But think about it, Apples App store is frequently referred to as a "Walled Garden" It's not a place to rock the boat so to speak. Regardless of whether or not that's "right" doesn't matter. It's Apple's garden, and they can do as they please.
Now personally, I won't buy an Apple product that walls me in from information that could potentially be enlightening to me. And I'm sure Apple doesn't care.
Sorry, read Linux instead of Unix. Same principles apply though.
Best answer I can give you: if you're good enough, you'll be able to tell if they're good enough. When I talk to someone I have a pretty good feel if they're as good at their job as I am at mine. Got a carpenter buddy. He's a damn fine one. I'm not, but I still know he is.......
Most definitely. I was a server admin for clients of mine who were too small to have one full time. Ran Linux on my own desktop, also had Windows and Linux servers running on different machines. I could deal with either. I wasn't a "fan" of anything. I was a professional who took care of my clients. Unix, Linux, Windows, it didn't matter. What mattered was my knowledge and making whatever they had chosen to run work. And work well.
As far as how to gauge their skills.... You won't be able to, as the good ones will know more than you do. Pay attention to what they have done in the past, contact their previous employers. Certs don't mean much, I've run across a few that didn't know anymore than was needed to pass the tests.
Maybe pose problems in a Linux domain that you are familiar with, ask them how they would handle that in Windows. Ask them to explain how it works differently from what you're doing. Ask them general security questions that should be known by all server admins. Firewalls, etc.
If you're in charge, you need to be able to assess their work. And that depends on the type of Win servers you're going to run. Outward facing? Database? In-house application only?
So much depends on what the servers do. Someone may be a great domain admin, but suck at the database side of things.
I know, not much help. But please don't call them "fans" :)
Ah, the return of Clippy? "It looks like you're trying to use Windows" or some other inane or obvious comment. Or perhaps Bob? Damn, where are they when you need them.
Pigmint, huh. Isn't that the pork rind they leave on your pillow at night at a Motel 6 in the south? :)
Given this post, and all the other by you below, I think they should have just told you (and only you, as the rest of us have no problem with this) that the landing was happening about 15 minutes later than it is. I bet you'd be happy then :)
(Meant in good fun!)
I believe MZ sold what he did to cover his tax expenses. He held onto much more than he sold. Even at the lower value today of those shares he's still made out big time. The caveat however, is that he is beholden to those that he wasn't before.
Sorry, I don't understand. Are we talking about flourine or flouride? I'm 54 (and no chemist so I don't know the difference, please excuse me) and the water I grew up with was flouridated, the toothpaste I use also contains one of the above. To the poster below regarding black teeth. I still have all my teeth and they are not black. Daily brushing and flossing seem to have kept them in pretty good shape over the years.
So..... instead of assuming that everyone knows the dangers, please educate me. That's an honest request actually. I'm no fan of the things the government has done that have been proven to be of harm to the general citizenship, and I believe many such a thing has probably happened. But please, more info. If I need a few more layers on the tinfoil hat I'd like to know :)
That was SOP at a client I did work with. Nobody in house could handle the changes required to disable access to the systems so when someone was being fired, they let me know and I disabled access early in the morning of the day of their termination.
One time they asked me to do that for a person in a key position and I asked them repeatedly if they were going to terminate the person as soon as they walked in the door the next morning. They assured me, repeatedly, that they would be waiting at the door to take them into the owners office. Of course I had explained the consequences if they didn't (The employee would know before being told, which is a bit rude in my opinion, not to mention if the employee wanted to create a scene before being escorted out the door they'd have time to do it.)
Of course, I get a call first thing in the morning from the person being terminated: "I can't log into the system..." Idiots......
Don't underestimate the funding of the NRA, nor the likes of Ted Nugent or those that feel the USA is going to hell and want to be armed when it happens. Personally, I'm against most anything that limits my rights. I am not against people paying the price for abusing their rights such as shooting someone with a gun acting as the aggressor. You hear it all the time: the only people that gun control will hurt are those who have guns and have no intention of committing crimes with one.
There is the case, often mentioned, of crimes of passion, and how gun control would lower their occurrence. For example a distraught husband who shoots his wife upon finding out that she cheated on him. I'd bet that most of those cases are easily solved without resorting to such means as a national gun registry or micro-stamping, etc. Too many mistakes are made in a crime of passion. People aren't thinking, they're reacting to a visceral emotion, not carefully planning a murder. Even if they were, as pointed out in other posts, there are easy ways to circumvent this stuff.
Probably not many, but I do, for sure. The show "Outer Limits" played off those and other "features" very well in the opening scene of each episode. And for those who liked to mess with those controls to enhance somebody's viewing pleasure: did you every try rotating the yoke on the back of the picture tube 180 degrees? Lots of fun!