But I'll have to get to the right coast somehow... that, and your Oracle server may wind up becoming a MySQL server at the end of the day (hey, they're both DATABASES, right? Who'll know the difference?:o)...
But this begs the question: Don't you have DBAs whose job it is to do this Oracle upgrade? All they do is login as "oracle," and. . .
The reason they both suck is because it's basically a straight port of the win32 version to Unix using Mainwin. I'm convinced MS did this just to say, "Look, everyone! We're cross-platform, too!" when in fact they were not.
you just have to go on which one has the games you want.
Which -one-? See, I'm perfectly fine with this logic, and this is what I use to drive my purcases.
The thing is, there're TWO consoles that meet this criterion, so I have them both. I also have a DC (bought it after they quit hardware support for it, alas. Great Sonic bundle, tho!). Now I have a gaming desk filled with 4 Japanese consoles (Genesis, DC, PS2, and the gamecube), and I still play them all regularly
There've been rumblings about Nintendo doing a Dreamcast in certain countries. . . unfortunate; it's got some great games!
Simply put, I voted against them twice (PS2 12/2001 and the GC/Luigi bundle last month) with my wallet, as well as many times coinciding with each game I bought for those consoles (and that translated to $0 for Gates and his dancing monkey boy).
The bad thing wrt Dragon's Lair 3D is that I most likely won't be able to put Animal Crossing down to play it!
What do you think would happen? Other companies come out with their own proprietary junk which is universally hated by everyone, yet lived with. Maybe competitors infringe on the big guy's patents, but cover it up really good, then "settle out of court for an undisclosed sum" when they're busted...
They all seem to have the same goal: Separate the consumer (yes, consumer. You exist to consume the stuff we force down your throat whether you want it or not) from anything of monetary value contained in their wallets, and not give them anything of value in return.
Sun and others should intrude in a major way on the x86 server space. Sure, keep their current lines up, but don't look over this market because the CPU is perceived as "home desktop class."
I know what I'm going to do. Chiefly, I'm not going to support the Intel-based PC industry next purchase. Sure, I'll be doing something arguably worse (paying Jobs for pretty plastic), but my displeasure will have been registered. It's a lose-lose situation, tho, because I still have all that other x86 trash to keep running.
Not even M-x viper-mode could make me stop using vi. emacs for me is only good for passing lines (or PAGES) of IRC channel to M-x doctor.
Here's how my editor progression went:
- pico (1995)
- joe (1996, I was a big wordstar(DOS) freak)
- vi (1997, because it worked EVERYWHERE!)
Similarly, my mailer progression went:
- pine (1995)
- elm (shortly thereafter)
- mutt (1997, elm-compatible, yet threaded!)
I use vi for -everything-, even as my email editor... but not as my login shell (yet:o)... depending on the state of ruin my win* box is in, vim is the default editor there as well (hell, a real notepad and pen works better than notepad).
Wouldn't the customers have their own regions, which look like separate machines and which are administered by the customer? No need for IBM to see any source, let alone bother with the overall admin of the region.
We are guaranteed the right to freedom of speech, however,
I have no obligation to answer my phone
I have no obligation to answer my door
Executing this simple strategy has been highly effective in my dealings with unwanted solicitation. I don't look like an ass, and they get to guess whether or not I'm alive.:o)
Missouri residents can get on the MO no-call list via the web. It seems to have worked, as my phone doesn't ring nearly as much now.
Of course, my old strategy (not answering the *(@#$!@# phone unless I want to) has always been very effective. Caller ID made it easier. Those legit calls who have no Caller ID most always leave messages on voicemail, then I can call them back.
His point, which you obviously ignored, was that if he had to do 27hr in a suit&tie, it'd be sheer murder. That, and he'd probably murder you on Monday if you took a shit on his heroics, especially when it sounds like he solved someone else's problem.
Personally, I'd HAVE to quit this job if they made me wear expensive suits 5 days a week (when I'm wearing business casual now, which doesn't include jeans, shorts, and worn-out garments. We'd be sent home and docked pay to get changed if we violated the dress code. A nice shirt and a pair of Dockers-class pants satisfies it).
That's all that matters, actually. I mean, merit of the little guy's arguments be damned...
I wonder if there's a mod chip out there that can't be struck down in court. Isn't the issue at hand about mod chips with MS's BIOS (or a derivative) included, anyway? Alas, the cynical side of me says that if MICROS~1 doesn't like it, they can just bankrupt whoever's doing the dirty deed...
Doesn't matter; I definitely won't buy an xbox, and the fact that it's from MS is becoming a bigger part of the reason I made that decision. Right now, the main repellant is the lack of content that I find interesting.
The "floor the gas to turn off the fuel injectors" thing is by design. This feature is also in GM's cars (at least those which used TBI). This is known as the "flood clear" feature. Of course, if you do this while the engine isn't flooded, the car won't start.
Apparently, when I was in USAF and the fleet had just started getting fuel-injected vehicles, airmen used to carbs were tripping this feature... so each "new" vehicle had something like "DO NOT FLOOR GAS PEDAL WHILE STARTING" on the dashboard.
Even if you DO police your kids, you're not going to keep these things (violence, sex, nudity, drugs, fighting, curse words, etc...) a secret for very long. No amount of legislation is going to mitigate your responsibility as a parent to explain to your kids what it all means when they stumble on it.
My basic problem with violent games legislation is that it has the potential to be carried to its logical extreme -- NO games may contain anything bad or controversial! If this happens, I'll be playing some very old games. I already do this, playing games that're 20yr old or more, but without the piss-poor attitude that goes along with being treated like a 7-year-old.
Parents should definitely decide if their kids can play these games, but I don't want them telling a 32-year-old man who knows fake from real what he can and cannot play.
So, I was supposed to go out and get called names, and be shoved around, and be picked last for the kickball team, and this is supposed to relieve stress?
Having experience as a kid who was repeatedly told that he sucked, I can tell you that this interaction was the cause of anxiety, anger, and aggression. With no humans who gave a shit, and no machines to serve as an outlet, how does the problem get solved?
You may be right on the threshold part of your statements, but I think you're exactly wrong on the rest.
Despite the valid points of you and others, KDE's desktop won't ever see display time on my screen.
Why? Because I made it so. The apps are responsible for my GNOME preference, even tho I'm sure KDE equivalents exist for each app. KDE was ugly and "looked just like win95," and that perception I got from the first impression stuck. GNOME had themes and looked however I wanted it to look, but its stability was nothing short of shit.
Also, the "mountain out of a molehill" situations from both GNOME and KDE advocates turned me off. Guess what this RHS thing is? Another artificial mountain.
... so I ignored both desktops entirely, while running their apps, tho the large percentage of apps were of the gtk variety (not necessarily GNOME-compliant). Two KDE apps I used to run were kwintv and kicq, and that was because they Just Worked when nothing else did. I still do this today, even tho I have no KDE apps that I run. (I run the GNOME panel, but that's basically all of GNOME I run. I came from AfterStep and fvwm, btw)
On "ending the desktop war," forget it. No one will be able to stop either side, and you've got millions of folks like me who will just run their own idea of a desktop, and be able to run the apps from the other desktops, or (heaven forbid) the Master Desktop.
The address pans out to $FFD7. It may be of use in the Apple///, which had funny memory at $FFD0.FFEF... bank switch regs, timers, etc... those 32 bytes worked similar to $C0XX page in a II series.
I'd like to find some detailed docs, but we're talking about the/// here:o)
I believe that IOS access lists are pretty good... they may even be "stateful" in a sense (it's been awhile since I've researched that)... but the main job of any router is one thing and one thing only: forward packets.
I had a 7206 (with a poor NPE-150) with several hundred lines of extended access lists on it. It's a wonder things weren't really slow. That router is history now that we've moved labs and I got to build a new network.
I'll agree with you that iptables's setup is rather obtuse. I'm battling that right now. I wish it were easier to properly set up a default-deny firewall and have stuff like DCC sends work straight away.
However, sometimes there are nasty bugs in cisco's IOS, but you can almost avoid it by using latest stable IOS release.
There are cases I've run into where the "latest stable IOS release" doesn't support the hardware I have in the chassis, so I had to use one of the EARLY RELEASE SOFTWARE versions in the train, or go back to a previous release train to get the hardware working.
But yes, going to the latest RELEASE SOFTWARE in the train usually works.
If I were in this position, I'd let the family run whatever they wanted. After all, they're not on my network, they bought their own computers, and they should be able to learn from their own mistakes. I can -suggest- they try Mozilla or Opera instead of just using IE, but alas, that's just my suggestion.
I use Mozilla, spell The Company's name "MICROS~1," and enhance my usability under their OS with cygwin. Keeps the frustration in check, especially after the last round of troubleshooting a locking-up laptop which went into a machine check (and apparently was a motherboard driver issue). At least I have more respect for MS than, say... shrub!
It is no wonder that Linux "isn't on the desktop" given the current attitude of RTFM that pervades.
I just got MacOS X last week, and I assure you I have had to "RTFM," such as it were, to get things to work. netinfo, their whacked gcc, locations of various files, the general BSD aroma emanating from the G4 which used to run 9... "where the crap is the termcap on this system?"... etc.
It's my opinion that users should be required to do a bit of reading up on things, no matter how easy someone makes the computer to use. OTOH, "RTFM" is not a suitable excuse for a patently difficult procedure.
I've always had the command line. Always. One major reason why I never latched onto an Apple after the IIgs (or, to be more specific, their GUI-only offers) is that I couldn't stand the drool-proof paper approach.
MacOS X changes all that.
I have my command line, complete with a reasonable fax of Unix. I wish I could make things like ps more sysv-like, but the various nits like that are minor. I also have the option to configure all the important stuff without using vi, but by using the system prefs. Very slick.
Take points away for them foisting win32-specific executable content (ActiveX) on us, as well as win32-specific scripting (vbscript).
The main reason I don't use IE at all, even tho I use win32 and MacOS X, and instead use Mozilla, is because IE essentially is a win32-specific application. IE only gets used for windows update, and the various vendor portals I test that use garbage like ActiveX and VBscript.
(I refuse to refer to IE as an "OS component," like the EULA seems to want us to do.)
I disagree with your very last sentence. I might not even communicate -why- I do, either, but the point I'm trying to make is that parents have to start being responsible for the upbringing of their kids.
I know I'll never have kids if I can help it, but 1) their upbringing under me would definitely not be the "positive experiences" way you describe; 2) they'd not get their hands on violent game one until I was sure they knew fantasy from reality, and could keep them separate.
It's safe for me to say that they WOULD get their hands on violent/racy games before they left adulthood, tho. How else would I teach them that these games are not only acceptable to buy and play, but fun?
I've been on IRC since 1995. I even started my own IRC network in early 1996. All I can say about things lie this is, it's sad.
Moving a given channel to another network isn't exactly easy. My little hangout has moved networks 4 times since 1995, and each time, we lose folks. We moved networks mainly due to excruciating lag (and, in the case of EFnet and cajnet, losers taking over channels or DOSing the whole network) and constant netsplits (dal.net c.1998).
What's really "fun" (haha, right) is when a channel has infighting and splits up. Enjoyment-wise, that's right up there with ice cream headaches and root canals.
Oh, and the way our network is run, I certainly don't have to solicit a paycheck. One of the prerequisites to keeping my server on was that I could still have a job. Gotta face reality, y'know. The other 8 or so servers out there are admin'd the same way. Very low maintenance; we all have day jobs.
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Games like Tempest and Asteroids were originally vector as well. Quite interesting, yet different if you're used to only raster games.
I'll do it!
:o) ...
But I'll have to get to the right coast somehow... that, and your Oracle server may wind up becoming a MySQL server at the end of the day (hey, they're both DATABASES, right? Who'll know the difference?
But this begs the question: Don't you have DBAs whose job it is to do this Oracle upgrade? All they do is login as "oracle," and. . .
The reason they both suck is because it's basically a straight port of the win32 version to Unix using Mainwin. I'm convinced MS did this just to say, "Look, everyone! We're cross-platform, too!" when in fact they were not.
Which -one-? See, I'm perfectly fine with this logic, and this is what I use to drive my purcases.
The thing is, there're TWO consoles that meet this criterion, so I have them both. I also have a DC (bought it after they quit hardware support for it, alas. Great Sonic bundle, tho!). Now I have a gaming desk filled with 4 Japanese consoles (Genesis, DC, PS2, and the gamecube), and I still play them all regularly
There've been rumblings about Nintendo doing a Dreamcast in certain countries. . . unfortunate; it's got some great games!
I stuck it to MS... twice.
Simply put, I voted against them twice (PS2 12/2001 and the GC/Luigi bundle last month) with my wallet, as well as many times coinciding with each game I bought for those consoles (and that translated to $0 for Gates and his dancing monkey boy).
The bad thing wrt Dragon's Lair 3D is that I most likely won't be able to put Animal Crossing down to play it!
What do you propose other companies do?
Forget MICROS~1 exists for a moment.
What do you think would happen? Other companies come out with their own proprietary junk which is universally hated by everyone, yet lived with. Maybe competitors infringe on the big guy's patents, but cover it up really good, then "settle out of court for an undisclosed sum" when they're busted...
They all seem to have the same goal: Separate the consumer (yes, consumer. You exist to consume the stuff we force down your throat whether you want it or not) from anything of monetary value contained in their wallets, and not give them anything of value in return.
Sun and others should intrude in a major way on the x86 server space. Sure, keep their current lines up, but don't look over this market because the CPU is perceived as "home desktop class."
I know what I'm going to do. Chiefly, I'm not going to support the Intel-based PC industry next purchase. Sure, I'll be doing something arguably worse (paying Jobs for pretty plastic), but my displeasure will have been registered. It's a lose-lose situation, tho, because I still have all that other x86 trash to keep running.
Here's how my editor progression went:
- pico (1995)
- joe (1996, I was a big wordstar(DOS) freak)
- vi (1997, because it worked EVERYWHERE!)
Similarly, my mailer progression went:
- pine (1995)
- elm (shortly thereafter)
- mutt (1997, elm-compatible, yet threaded!)
I use vi for -everything-, even as my email editor... but not as my login shell (yet :o) ... depending on the state of ruin my win* box is in, vim is the default editor there as well (hell, a real notepad and pen works better than notepad).
Wouldn't the customers have their own regions, which look like separate machines and which are administered by the customer? No need for IBM to see any source, let alone bother with the overall admin of the region.
- I have no obligation to answer my phone
- I have no obligation to answer my door
Executing this simple strategy has been highly effective in my dealings with unwanted solicitation. I don't look like an ass, and they get to guess whether or not I'm alive.Of course, my old strategy (not answering the *(@#$!@# phone unless I want to) has always been very effective. Caller ID made it easier. Those legit calls who have no Caller ID most always leave messages on voicemail, then I can call them back.
His point, which you obviously ignored, was that if he had to do 27hr in a suit&tie, it'd be sheer murder. That, and he'd probably murder you on Monday if you took a shit on his heroics, especially when it sounds like he solved someone else's problem.
Personally, I'd HAVE to quit this job if they made me wear expensive suits 5 days a week (when I'm wearing business casual now, which doesn't include jeans, shorts, and worn-out garments. We'd be sent home and docked pay to get changed if we violated the dress code. A nice shirt and a pair of Dockers-class pants satisfies it).
That's all that matters, actually. I mean, merit of the little guy's arguments be damned...
I wonder if there's a mod chip out there that can't be struck down in court. Isn't the issue at hand about mod chips with MS's BIOS (or a derivative) included, anyway? Alas, the cynical side of me says that if MICROS~1 doesn't like it, they can just bankrupt whoever's doing the dirty deed...
Doesn't matter; I definitely won't buy an xbox, and the fact that it's from MS is becoming a bigger part of the reason I made that decision. Right now, the main repellant is the lack of content that I find interesting.
... hardware which I'll never buy. Ever.
No xbox for me, because there're no games that interest me. When I say "no games," that's what I mean by that.
Definitely no crippled hardware for me. I'll stretch the lifespan of my current machines to the hilt.
The "floor the gas to turn off the fuel injectors" thing is by design. This feature is also in GM's cars (at least those which used TBI). This is known as the "flood clear" feature. Of course, if you do this while the engine isn't flooded, the car won't start.
Apparently, when I was in USAF and the fleet had just started getting fuel-injected vehicles, airmen used to carbs were tripping this feature... so each "new" vehicle had something like "DO NOT FLOOR GAS PEDAL WHILE STARTING" on the dashboard.
Even if you DO police your kids, you're not going to keep these things (violence, sex, nudity, drugs, fighting, curse words, etc...) a secret for very long. No amount of legislation is going to mitigate your responsibility as a parent to explain to your kids what it all means when they stumble on it.
My basic problem with violent games legislation is that it has the potential to be carried to its logical extreme -- NO games may contain anything bad or controversial! If this happens, I'll be playing some very old games. I already do this, playing games that're 20yr old or more, but without the piss-poor attitude that goes along with being treated like a 7-year-old.
Parents should definitely decide if their kids can play these games, but I don't want them telling a 32-year-old man who knows fake from real what he can and cannot play.
"interacting with one's peers..."
So, I was supposed to go out and get called names, and be shoved around, and be picked last for the kickball team, and this is supposed to relieve stress?
Having experience as a kid who was repeatedly told that he sucked, I can tell you that this interaction was the cause of anxiety, anger, and aggression. With no humans who gave a shit, and no machines to serve as an outlet, how does the problem get solved?
You may be right on the threshold part of your statements, but I think you're exactly wrong on the rest.
Why? Because I made it so. The apps are responsible for my GNOME preference, even tho I'm sure KDE equivalents exist for each app. KDE was ugly and "looked just like win95," and that perception I got from the first impression stuck. GNOME had themes and looked however I wanted it to look, but its stability was nothing short of shit.
Also, the "mountain out of a molehill" situations from both GNOME and KDE advocates turned me off. Guess what this RHS thing is? Another artificial mountain.
On "ending the desktop war," forget it. No one will be able to stop either side, and you've got millions of folks like me who will just run their own idea of a desktop, and be able to run the apps from the other desktops, or (heaven forbid) the Master Desktop.
Not sure it'd help.
///, which had funny memory at $FFD0.FFEF ... bank switch regs, timers, etc... those 32 bytes worked similar to $C0XX page in a II series.
/// here :o)
The address pans out to $FFD7. It may be of use in the Apple
I'd like to find some detailed docs, but we're talking about the
I had a 7206 (with a poor NPE-150) with several hundred lines of extended access lists on it. It's a wonder things weren't really slow. That router is history now that we've moved labs and I got to build a new network.
I'll agree with you that iptables's setup is rather obtuse. I'm battling that right now. I wish it were easier to properly set up a default-deny firewall and have stuff like DCC sends work straight away.
However, sometimes there are nasty bugs in cisco's IOS, but you can almost avoid it by using latest stable IOS release.
There are cases I've run into where the "latest stable IOS release" doesn't support the hardware I have in the chassis, so I had to use one of the EARLY RELEASE SOFTWARE versions in the train, or go back to a previous release train to get the hardware working.
But yes, going to the latest RELEASE SOFTWARE in the train usually works.
If I were in this position, I'd let the family run whatever they wanted. After all, they're not on my network, they bought their own computers, and they should be able to learn from their own mistakes. I can -suggest- they try Mozilla or Opera instead of just using IE, but alas, that's just my suggestion.
I use Mozilla, spell The Company's name "MICROS~1," and enhance my usability under their OS with cygwin. Keeps the frustration in check, especially after the last round of troubleshooting a locking-up laptop which went into a machine check (and apparently was a motherboard driver issue). At least I have more respect for MS than, say... shrub!
I just got MacOS X last week, and I assure you I have had to "RTFM," such as it were, to get things to work. netinfo, their whacked gcc, locations of various files, the general BSD aroma emanating from the G4 which used to run 9... "where the crap is the termcap on this system?" ... etc.
It's my opinion that users should be required to do a bit of reading up on things, no matter how easy someone makes the computer to use. OTOH, "RTFM" is not a suitable excuse for a patently difficult procedure.
I've always had the command line. Always. One major reason why I never latched onto an Apple after the IIgs (or, to be more specific, their GUI-only offers) is that I couldn't stand the drool-proof paper approach.
MacOS X changes all that.
I have my command line, complete with a reasonable fax of Unix. I wish I could make things like ps more sysv-like, but the various nits like that are minor. I also have the option to configure all the important stuff without using vi, but by using the system prefs. Very slick.
Take points away for them foisting win32-specific executable content (ActiveX) on us, as well as win32-specific scripting (vbscript).
The main reason I don't use IE at all, even tho I use win32 and MacOS X, and instead use Mozilla, is because IE essentially is a win32-specific application. IE only gets used for windows update, and the various vendor portals I test that use garbage like ActiveX and VBscript.
(I refuse to refer to IE as an "OS component," like the EULA seems to want us to do.)
The Mt. Dew must've come from Canada today.
I disagree with your very last sentence. I might not even communicate -why- I do, either, but the point I'm trying to make is that parents have to start being responsible for the upbringing of their kids.
I know I'll never have kids if I can help it, but 1) their upbringing under me would definitely not be the "positive experiences" way you describe; 2) they'd not get their hands on violent game one until I was sure they knew fantasy from reality, and could keep them separate.
It's safe for me to say that they WOULD get their hands on violent/racy games before they left adulthood, tho. How else would I teach them that these games are not only acceptable to buy and play, but fun?
I've been on IRC since 1995. I even started my own IRC network in early 1996. All I can say about things lie this is, it's sad.
Moving a given channel to another network isn't exactly easy. My little hangout has moved networks 4 times since 1995, and each time, we lose folks. We moved networks mainly due to excruciating lag (and, in the case of EFnet and cajnet, losers taking over channels or DOSing the whole network) and constant netsplits (dal.net c.1998).
What's really "fun" (haha, right) is when a channel has infighting and splits up. Enjoyment-wise, that's right up there with ice cream headaches and root canals.
Oh, and the way our network is run, I certainly don't have to solicit a paycheck. One of the prerequisites to keeping my server on was that I could still have a job. Gotta face reality, y'know. The other 8 or so servers out there are admin'd the same way. Very low maintenance; we all have day jobs.