Amen man, I have been an avid Blizzard fan for years, but their recent bad attitude toward anything not Blizzard, and their shaky EULA's of questionable legality. And now this, I won't be letting Blizzard have any more of my hard earned money.
I may own, Warcraft, Warcraft 2 (and bnet edition), Starcraft, and Diablo II, but don't hold your breathe waiting for me to fork even 5 bucks over for W3.
We have a large population of MIS majors at my school..... having no concept of why anyone would want to be in a management position iask them at every oppurtunity to explain to me, why they want the job.
Answer is always, MONEY.
Fact is, it pays well. MIS majors don't go into it because they want to lead, norbecause they have the capacity to lead, they want the fast cash. Most MIS majors that have taken some classes with me are disagreeable, standofish, and very disrespectful of other's opinions. It reminds me of two kinds of people:
1) people who want lots of money. 2) managers
Quite frankly, I don't even think MIS should exist as a major ANYWHERE, in my own, humble, few years of work as a part time contractor, the best managers, with the happiest staff, and the best results, are former programmers themselves. They can cod, which earsn them respect from their team members, plus they know what is reasonable and what is not. They have been pulled into the position because someone with a brain above them saw that they had a flair for taking charge. So you get a guy who can motivate, and get in the dirt and lend a hand on the task at hand.
Your average manager unfortunately, is like a stereotypical 90 day wonder in the army. The Lt from Good morning Vietnam is a classic example, thinsk because he outranks you, and makes more money than you that he commands respect and is better than you. very few people command respect, and when a person thinks they are better than you, they usually aren't commanding respect.
yeah, I hate dselect too, and apt-get isn't do grand either in my book. My advice is still, strip it down to the bottom, and build it back up slowly, piece by pice..... its how it should be done anyways, and keep track of everything you install...... and make a customized boot disk for later installations, so you can pop it in, partition up, and run far far away.
wait, this was that thread about not enough memory for a net install..... ummmmmm
Laptop, not network, Laptop, I am an idiot who never learned to use the preview button. Old Laptop ram is hard to find, old network ram..... I have no clue what I was thinking either....
yeah, that is one problem, it needs a pile of ram to do a network install....... for some reason. Fortunately, I have an old parts dealer down the street from my place, so I can always just go spend 10 bucks and stretch a machine just a little further.
But for what your doing, slackware or debian would probably be easier. I like to deploy redhat on stuff cause I have all its quirks pretty much figured out. Debian, I have to take with a little faith.
As for slack.... I'm still trying to figure out why I stopped using slack, I remember it being a pure joy to work with for the most part).It has been a while, I should try slack 8 out.
Oh wait you said network.... yeah kind iof ram is harder to find these days. Go debian..... or OpenBSD, I love OpenBSD on a laptop, although with only 540 megs of space.... the ports tree will clog the system up really fast.
No oits not, you just uncheck EVERYTHING in the package list. Then go rpm happy and install bare minimums as needed. I can get red Hat 7.2 on a 235 meg HD.
Really, I don't think any mailers have a problem reading normal outlook mail. I have one person who mails me from outlook, and I have no problems. html bugs me more. Its when people write their mail in word and mail it as an attachment that it gets under my skin. I COULD save the attachment, log into my win2k box, grab it from a samba shared home dir, and open it in word, but I ain't gonna do it. I would just love to make outlook users open ym mail in a text editor or something in order to read it. Some of them get on my nerves.
So you are sugesting that we fix their mistakes? Gee, let us just allow Microsoft to do whatever standard lacking approah they want, and the rest of us will just conform to that. No, they conform to use buddy, or we give em hell. Standards exist for a reason, if you don't follow them, fine, but don't go around expecting other people to follow your new, non-standard standard.
That's like me going around saying, "I'm not schizzoaffective, the rest of the world just needs to conform to my way of thinking." Isn't gonna happen, and it shouldn't happen.
Good thing Sorcery Linux really has my attention, and I have been feeling retro slackish lately too, I can ditch Red Hat if this happens. I kick myself everytime I remember Netscape is already there's.
I can handle mozilla being slightly connected to aol, I can handle being on AIM for the appeasement of all my friends who don't grok irc, but no way in hell is my operating system gonna be "so easy to use, why the fuck isn't it number?"
Yeah, I couldn't disagree more with your statement regarding Linux not doing games. My current favorite four games run in Linux, often better than on my windows 2000 machine. My Linux box has a geForce 2 MX in it, my windows box has an ati 8 MB rage pro something. Guess which is the better video card? And yes, I put it in my Linux box, I get better performance out Quake 3 Arena in Linux.
The Linux Gamer market may be a niche inside a niche, but were there, and we can be just as loud as annoyingly bad starcraft players on Battle.Net
well, they are trying to label it as a mild sexual assault charge. they say if the therapist believes that he is in need of therepy to calm his sexual urges, that he will have to serve his sentence in a state mental hospital.
Even if it ends up being a nasty fine, his reputation is ruined, he has to transfer high schools, and I still fail to see how any of what the state is doing is legal at all.
Oh no mom didn't, they told us he either had to go through with this, or he'd go straight to jail. Still no trial, and he is being tried as an adult at age 15.
best part is, even though he is innocwent until oproven guilty *laughs* he doesn't stand a chance, the plaintiff is a straight A student, my little brother struggles, and is a constant behavior problem. He's as good as gone. AT this point, he is just trying to get out of going to Juvvi hall until he is 18, which would pretty much ruin his life in one way or another.
And just so the world knows, girl slaps him on the ass.... so the next day, he does it back, except beforehand, he said something that offended a friend of hers, so she screamed sexual harrassment.
The lesson is, don't flirt with women, even if they flirt with you first, cause they can always scream "rape." or osme other utter bullshit, and completely destroy a small life.
Not innocent until proven guilty anymore I'm afraid. My little brother was arrested, thrown in prison for a weekend, and now has to go to "therepy" where doctor patient confidentiality has been thown out the window because the state needs to know, "why he did it, and if if he'll do it again."
He has yet to go to trial, where is his innocence before proof of guilt?
I wouldn't say OS X rocks, there are simply way too many root exploits that anyone could accidently happen upon. I won't respect OS X until I no longer have root access to all those machiens I'm not supposed to have root on....
If it does rock, its like one of those bad 80's hair bands that rocked badly, like Poisen.
Yes man, I still use AfterStep, its the only window manager that offers so much configurability, with such a little memory footprint. But I think a lot of people are turned off by the fact that ya have to write the config files by yourself, and there are a ton of them.
But I still wonder what the appeal of the heavy weights is, I can run afterstep on a 25 mhz machine, gnome wants more power than my dual 400 mhz has to offer.
Two: Ever seen the stuff they run on supercomputers today? Simulating a supernova for 1 nano second can take a month of CPU time on some of the world's fastest supercomputers. Oh, its still very nessesary. If the past is any indication of the future, we will always need blazing fast machines to push the limits in the scientific world.
I assume you mean big iron as in mainframe, which is NOT a supercomputer by any means. Mainframes do the work that runs this world, supercomputers help us discover what we'll do in tommorow's world. They are very different worlds.
ACtually, it wasn't designed to carpet bomb, it was one of the first designs to carry multiple nuclear weapons. Even better eh?
Actually, you see it carpet bombing on TV a lotm, but that's not really what the Air Force uses it for much, it was first used in the method we see on TV in the gulf war, in open desert against iraqi Military, the B-52 isn't a penetration aircraft anymore, so you can't use it to bomb out cities much these day.
But it can carry a ton of cruise missiles, and shoot from a 120 miles away, at a city.
BTW, behind enemy lines portrays mines as they are, its a decent movie. Will almost make you cry at the children are playiong in the streets, carefully stepping over tripwires.
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Amen man, I have been an avid Blizzard fan for years, but their recent bad attitude toward anything not Blizzard, and their shaky EULA's of questionable legality. And now this, I won't be letting Blizzard have any more of my hard earned money.
I may own, Warcraft, Warcraft 2 (and bnet edition), Starcraft, and Diablo II, but don't hold your breathe waiting for me to fork even 5 bucks over for W3.
besides, I think Warcraft 3 looks a little dumb.
But Taco! This is an article about Microsoft, of course its evil!
We have a large population of MIS majors at my school..... having no concept of why anyone would want to be in a management position iask them at every oppurtunity to explain to me, why they want the job.
Answer is always, MONEY.
Fact is, it pays well. MIS majors don't go into it because they want to lead, norbecause they have the capacity to lead, they want the fast cash. Most MIS majors that have taken some classes with me are disagreeable, standofish, and very disrespectful of other's opinions. It reminds me of two kinds of people:
1) people who want lots of money.
2) managers
Quite frankly, I don't even think MIS should exist as a major ANYWHERE, in my own, humble, few years of work as a part time contractor, the best managers, with the happiest staff, and the best results, are former programmers themselves. They can cod, which earsn them respect from their team members, plus they know what is reasonable and what is not. They have been pulled into the position because someone with a brain above them saw that they had a flair for taking charge. So you get a guy who can motivate, and get in the dirt and lend a hand on the task at hand.
Your average manager unfortunately, is like a stereotypical 90 day wonder in the army. The Lt from Good morning Vietnam is a classic example, thinsk because he outranks you, and makes more money than you that he commands respect and is better than you. very few people command respect, and when a person thinks they are better than you, they usually aren't commanding respect.
but again.... management.
not spell checking cause its late, sue me.....
yeah, I hate dselect too, and apt-get isn't do grand either in my book. My advice is still, strip it down to the bottom, and build it back up slowly, piece by pice..... its how it should be done anyways, and keep track of everything you install...... and make a customized boot disk for later installations, so you can pop it in, partition up, and run far far away.
wait, this was that thread about not enough memory for a net install..... ummmmmm
*runs and hides*
Laptop, not network, Laptop, I am an idiot who never learned to use the preview button. Old Laptop ram is hard to find, old network ram..... I have no clue what I was thinking either....
yeah, that is one problem, it needs a pile of ram to do a network install....... for some reason. Fortunately, I have an old parts dealer down the street from my place, so I can always just go spend 10 bucks and stretch a machine just a little further.
But for what your doing, slackware or debian would probably be easier. I like to deploy redhat on stuff cause I have all its quirks pretty much figured out. Debian, I have to take with a little faith.
As for slack.... I'm still trying to figure out why I stopped using slack, I remember it being a pure joy to work with for the most part).It has been a while, I should try slack 8 out.
Oh wait you said network.... yeah kind iof ram is harder to find these days. Go debian..... or OpenBSD, I love OpenBSD on a laptop, although with only 540 megs of space.... the ports tree will clog the system up really fast.
No oits not, you just uncheck EVERYTHING in the package list. Then go rpm happy and install bare minimums as needed. I can get red Hat 7.2 on a 235 meg HD.
yeah well, Loki died on my birthday too, so I guess the world's always finding ways to balence itself out.
Damned planet.
Nuintari
its pretty cool that hey broke cookies on my birthday!
Really, I don't think any mailers have a problem reading normal outlook mail. I have one person who mails me from outlook, and I have no problems. html bugs me more. Its when people write their mail in word and mail it as an attachment that it gets under my skin. I COULD save the attachment, log into my win2k box, grab it from a samba shared home dir, and open it in word, but I ain't gonna do it. I would just love to make outlook users open ym mail in a text editor or something in order to read it. Some of them get on my nerves.
So you are sugesting that we fix their mistakes? Gee, let us just allow Microsoft to do whatever standard lacking approah they want, and the rest of us will just conform to that. No, they conform to use buddy, or we give em hell. Standards exist for a reason, if you don't follow them, fine, but don't go around expecting other people to follow your new, non-standard standard.
That's like me going around saying, "I'm not schizzoaffective, the rest of the world just needs to conform to my way of thinking." Isn't gonna happen, and it shouldn't happen.
Good thing Sorcery Linux really has my attention, and I have been feeling retro slackish lately too, I can ditch Red Hat if this happens. I kick myself everytime I remember Netscape is already there's.
I can handle mozilla being slightly connected to aol, I can handle being on AIM for the appeasement of all my friends who don't grok irc, but no way in hell is my operating system gonna be "so easy to use, why the fuck isn't it number?"
Yeah, I couldn't disagree more with your statement regarding Linux not doing games. My current favorite four games run in Linux, often better than on my windows 2000 machine. My Linux box has a geForce 2 MX in it, my windows box has an ati 8 MB rage pro something. Guess which is the better video card? And yes, I put it in my Linux box, I get better performance out Quake 3 Arena in Linux.
The Linux Gamer market may be a niche inside a niche, but were there, and we can be just as loud as annoyingly bad starcraft players on Battle.Net
well, they are trying to label it as a mild sexual assault charge. they say if the therapist believes that he is in need of therepy to calm his sexual urges, that he will have to serve his sentence in a state mental hospital.
Even if it ends up being a nasty fine, his reputation is ruined, he has to transfer high schools, and I still fail to see how any of what the state is doing is legal at all.
Oh no mom didn't, they told us he either had to go through with this, or he'd go straight to jail. Still no trial, and he is being tried as an adult at age 15.
best part is, even though he is innocwent until oproven guilty *laughs* he doesn't stand a chance, the plaintiff is a straight A student, my little brother struggles, and is a constant behavior problem. He's as good as gone. AT this point, he is just trying to get out of going to Juvvi hall until he is 18, which would pretty much ruin his life in one way or another.
And just so the world knows, girl slaps him on the ass.... so the next day, he does it back, except beforehand, he said something that offended a friend of hers, so she screamed sexual harrassment.
The lesson is, don't flirt with women, even if they flirt with you first, cause they can always scream "rape." or osme other utter bullshit, and completely destroy a small life.
Not innocent until proven guilty anymore I'm afraid. My little brother was arrested, thrown in prison for a weekend, and now has to go to "therepy" where doctor patient confidentiality has been thown out the window because the state needs to know, "why he did it, and if if he'll do it again."
He has yet to go to trial, where is his innocence before proof of guilt?
I wouldn't say OS X rocks, there are simply way too many root exploits that anyone could accidently happen upon. I won't respect OS X until I no longer have root access to all those machiens I'm not supposed to have root on....
If it does rock, its like one of those bad 80's hair bands that rocked badly, like Poisen.
Are the first post lamers gonna fight over who gets LAST POST?
Yes man, I still use AfterStep, its the only window manager that offers so much configurability, with such a little memory footprint. But I think a lot of people are turned off by the fact that ya have to write the config files by yourself, and there are a ton of them.
But I still wonder what the appeal of the heavy weights is, I can run afterstep on a 25 mhz machine, gnome wants more power than my dual 400 mhz has to offer.
jesus, this wasn't that funny..... not worth 5, christ.
and a cluster of those!..... oh wait, nuts....... never mind.
One: Because we can.
Two: Ever seen the stuff they run on supercomputers today? Simulating a supernova for 1 nano second can take a month of CPU time on some of the world's fastest supercomputers. Oh, its still very nessesary. If the past is any indication of the future, we will always need blazing fast machines to push the limits in the scientific world.
I assume you mean big iron as in mainframe, which is NOT a supercomputer by any means. Mainframes do the work that runs this world, supercomputers help us discover what we'll do in tommorow's world. They are very different worlds.
ACtually, it wasn't designed to carpet bomb, it was one of the first designs to carry multiple nuclear weapons. Even better eh?
Actually, you see it carpet bombing on TV a lotm, but that's not really what the Air Force uses it for much, it was first used in the method we see on TV in the gulf war, in open desert against iraqi Military, the B-52 isn't a penetration aircraft anymore, so you can't use it to bomb out cities much these day.
But it can carry a ton of cruise missiles, and shoot from a 120 miles away, at a city.
BTW, behind enemy lines portrays mines as they are, its a decent movie. Will almost make you cry at the children are playiong in the streets, carefully stepping over tripwires.
Oy yeah, maybe I should mentioned that power and data don't mix.
I shoul;d hed my own advice, the giant knot bwehind ym amchiens takes me back to my boyscout days everytime try to move it.