Would I be able to put this inline between our AP's and our bandwidth manager - http://www.etinc.com ? Or is this only useful on the client side? It would be very nice to be able to prioritize like this and reduce latency for everyone involved...
That's not stopping my company from buying 3 XServes in 3 months, me from buying an iBook and iMac for personal use, and me from pushing new users toward apple and away from PC's.
FYI, sendmail can be fixed. Hopefully Apple releases a patch today.:P
FYI: If you were kidding, I got it. If you weren't....ack.:)
Make sure that spamd, spamc, and spamass are all running as daemon processes, and if spamd fails add this to the beginning of the script:
$Sys::Hostname::host = 'my.hostname.com';
Ah...auto spam filtering. Tweak the files in/etc/spamassassin as to your liking for system wide, and in ~/spamassassin for users. Enjoy.:)
More POPs (Points of Presence) required!
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Wireless Mesh Networks
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· Score: 4, Informative
We are deploying a city-wide 802.11b network as we speak, and although it 'eliminates the need for expensive cell towers', we are able to get on top of two well-placed high rises and cover a good portion of the area. Less equipment expense for us is ALWAYS a good thing.
We would not be able to afford getting rights in all the places needed to make this feasible. Heck, the hassle of GETTING the rights needed would be make this prohibitive.:(
...at least at the beginning. If in reality there were a way to set up a large bank of machines running 42x cd writers, and upon request burn a disc out of a vending machine....wait, why ISN'T this being done for music more than a couple of years old?
Our studio recording classes in college would have 2 or 3 power macs hooked up to single speed SCSI cd-r drives, and people sitting around playing Marathon, drinking coffee, and swapping out cd's. Another person sitting there stamping on labels.:)
Interesting to see a company making it's mark by sitting around, playing Marathon, and burning CD-R's.
1. Should it be illegal to tell someone how to do something?
NO
2. Should it be illegal to actually do said 'thing'.
Yes, so long as said thing violates what the citizens want to be wrong.
In the end, I don't want to be breaking the law by simply knowing something, and sharing that knowledge. That's the thing the DMCA does that scares me.
There's one there somewhere. At a loss, I just have to say that this is really cool!:)
Seriously though, I've looked into homebrewing hard cider, and come across some pretty decent articles. That would make for really easy cleanup though. Rock on!
There's no law stating that we have to look at ads. Although I see the problem paying the bills, a flaw in a business model is not the problem of the application coder (namely: me, you, and most people reading this site).
Okay, I'll bite. I spend most of my time using FreeBSD and MacOS X. Most of the histories I've read state that Linux a much "like" Unix, on purpose in fact, but that it is not.
I've an open mind to be corrected on that stance if I'm wrong. Linux is so Unix like in fact that I would not be able to tell the difference even as an admin dumped at a prompt anymore. If it's at the kernel level that makes it that different that's fine by me. Doesn't make *that* much difference.:)
I mean seriously...if the computing system is going to come under scrutiny, how is that trolling?
There comes a point where you have to step back and ask yourself what the best way to go about a problem is. Unix is old. I know, Linux is not Unix, but still...depending on who's calling the shots there, they could very well decide that a 20+ year old OS is too archain to be used on the shuttle.
Then again, the shuttle itself is pressing that age.
I sincerely hope that *nix in general doesn't wind up being deemed "arcain" or old in this case. Obsolete.
Choose your word for old or out of date. Not trying to be anti-ms, but there are more obscure operating environments that could be used as well, just seems like unix would be a good choice for such an application.
For some reason it never really appealed to me. I've watched others play, and perhaps that's the crux. It's one of those things you can't just watch, and have to play for yourself.
*shrugs*
Dunno, but it never made it onto my radar screen.
Karma Whore - Cut and paste
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Sim-Dud?
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2 -- In announcing stellar quarterly earnings last week, Electronic Arts reported knockout performances from virtually all its big-name video games. The notable exception to the hit list was the game that may have the most bearing on the company's future.
Over the holidays, Electronic Arts rolled out the Sims Online, an Internet-based game that the company has invested in heavily and that industry analysts have touted as crucial to the company to sustain its stock performance. But during its earnings call last Wednesday, the company said its subscriber base for the Sims Online is 82,000, a figure the company deemed notably disappointing.
A day later in an interview, the company's president, John S. Riccitiello, said the number of subscribers was half what Electronic Arts expected. And he disclosed that some seasoned video game players were giving very low ratings to the Sims Online, a game in which players buy the software for about $40 and then pay $10 a month to interact over the Internet in a two-dimensional world, chatting and building virtual homes and businesses. It is based on the three-year-old line of Sims games that have sold nine million copies, becoming one of the best-selling games ever.
The slow momentum for the online version appears to be leading to a reassessment -- both by analysts and the company itself -- about the game's prospects. Mr. Riccitiello, who, in fairness, has for months preached caution about how long it would take to build the online business, said he was optimistic over the long run, but he also seemed to raise the possibility the game might flounder.
"We wanted this to grow into a `third arm,' " he said of the Sims Online, referring to Electronic Art's dominance in PC-based games and in console games as its first "two arms." But, he said that if it did not work out for the company, "as a problem, it's only a hangnail."
To even suggest the Sims Online could fail is a far cry from the way it has been heralded -- by industry analysts and video game and mainstream news media. For example, it appeared last year on the cover of Newsweek with the headline: The New World of Internet Games.
Disclosure of the game's early returns came on the same day Electronic Arts announced its exceptional third-quarter results. The company reported that its earnings per share beat analyst estimates by 12 cents, and that it sold more than a million copies of 11 different games, including Madden N.F.L. 2003, Medal of Honor Frontline and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
"They had a positive perfect storm," said John G. Taylor, a analyst of the video-game industry for Arcadia Investment, asserting the company had an exceptional portfolio of games, good movie licenses, including Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, and strong execution. The biggest challenge, he said, is "What do they do for an encore?"
Mr. Taylor said he believed that the company could overcome the slow start on the Sims Online and that "from an investor standpoint, most people are willing to let E.A. play this thing out."
"If it works, it'll be a massive positive," he said. "If it doesn't, it'll be a neutral."
Jeff Goverman, managing director of Pacific Crest Securities, said the upside still remained strong for the company because subscription-based online games "are a better business" than regular video games because they have "recurring revenue, are less seasonal and have higher margins." But he said that if the business "continues to underperform, it's a drag on earnings."
In its earnings call, Electronic Arts said that for its fiscal year 2003, which ends March 31, it expected to lose $70 million on its ea.com division, which includes the Sims Online.
Warren C. Jenson, the company's chief financial officer, said in the call that the loss was a result of higher than anticipated marketing costs, a slower than expected increase in purchasers and subscribers and other factors. He added, "This financial performance is not acceptable for us and we are committed to aggressively minimizing these losses."
As to what it will take to spur momentum for the Sims Online, Mr. Riccitiello said the company was drawing on research from its current user base. He said in general players are rating the game a "7" on a scale of 1 to 10, with the strongest reviews coming from mainstream players, as opposed to people deeply immersed in the online game culture. But he said that compares to a rating of "mid-8's" that is typically garnered by the offline version of the Sims.
And Mr. Riccitiello said that many of the lowest ratings were coming from the game's beta testers -- typically hard-core game players. Some "are rating it exceedingly low," he said. He did not specify the concerns, but postings on some consumer Web sites give an idea of the criticisms. For instance, on Amazon.com, a consumer named Deana Morss from Casper, Wyo., wrote in a review posted last week that she was "bored to tears" and that there was not much for her character to do in the online world.
"What I ended up doing, before giving up and playing my offline Sims games, was leaving the game running while I went off to do other things around the house," the reviewer wrote. "This game has all the fun of watching your screen saver over and over again."
Mr. Riccitiello said the company was planning in April to address the concerns with several improvements, including upgrading the chat capabilities, introducing casino games, like blackjack, and making it easier for users to trade virtual commodities. The changes "should address what the hard-core gamer needs and massively improve what the mass market needs."
The company is projecting that it will have from 300,000 to 400,000 subscribers by the end of the calendar year.
He said that online gaming would eventually be a huge market, and the Sims Online would be a leader. "We've learned more about the online market and have more technology in place than anyone else." But, he said, "I don't think it's going to pay out for us in the very, very near term."
I've never had more than a user shell account under Solaris. I'm used to MacOS X, FreeBSD, and Red Hat Linux. That being said, from an administrator's POV, what differences/benefits would there be for me to use Solaris, other than knowing another Unix? Most of my work under FreeBSD and Linux are command line, OSX I do an awful lot in terminal out of habit, but it's my primary OS.
Honestly, i386 is available, just not sure of the benefits of doing so...
Slashdot Mirror
Would I be able to put this inline between our AP's and our bandwidth manager - http://www.etinc.com ? Or is this only useful on the client side? It would be very nice to be able to prioritize like this and reduce latency for everyone involved...
That's not stopping my company from buying 3 XServes in 3 months, me from buying an iBook and iMac for personal use, and me from pushing new users toward apple and away from PC's.
:P
:)
FYI, sendmail can be fixed. Hopefully Apple releases a patch today.
FYI: If you were kidding, I got it. If you weren't....ack.
While you're at it grab spamass-milter from http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/spamass-milt/ , add this line to you site.config.m4:
/etc/spamassassin as to your liking for system wide, and in ~/spamassassin for users. Enjoy. :)
APPENDDEF(`conf_sendmail_ENVDEF', `-DMILTER')
Use CPAN to install SpamAssassin:
perl -MCPAN -e shell;
install Mail::SpamAssassin
quit
Then compile spamass-milter. Add this to your sendmail.mc file:
INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamass-milter', `S=local:/var/run/spamass-milter.sock,F=')
Make sure that spamd, spamc, and spamass are all running as daemon processes, and if spamd fails add this to the beginning of the script:
$Sys::Hostname::host = 'my.hostname.com';
Ah...auto spam filtering. Tweak the files in
We are deploying a city-wide 802.11b network as we speak, and although it 'eliminates the need for expensive cell towers', we are able to get on top of two well-placed high rises and cover a good portion of the area. Less equipment expense for us is ALWAYS a good thing.
:(
We would not be able to afford getting rights in all the places needed to make this feasible. Heck, the hassle of GETTING the rights needed would be make this prohibitive.
...at least at the beginning. If in reality there were a way to set up a large bank of machines running 42x cd writers, and upon request burn a disc out of a vending machine....wait, why ISN'T this being done for music more than a couple of years old?
:P
Grr...oh the ideas, and it'll never happen.
Our studio recording classes in college would have 2 or 3 power macs hooked up to single speed SCSI cd-r drives, and people sitting around playing Marathon, drinking coffee, and swapping out cd's. Another person sitting there stamping on labels. :)
Interesting to see a company making it's mark by sitting around, playing Marathon, and burning CD-R's.
Wait....where do I sign up?
Because the mac version was $10 more AND none of the rebates in store would apply.
I came *this* close to installing TurboTax on my Mac via VirtualPC or Bochs (cheaper) and then I read the box closely.
"Will not work on the Macintosh Platform using Windows emulation software."
I took it back and used TaxAct instead. I nearly installed it on my fiancee's PC instead. Ick.
You have to be on some sort of crack to write to a person's boot sector. Period. That's just off limits.
an anonymous coward. How fitting. :P
Why? Because I want to draw attention to you. I'm curious...
:)
Curious whether or not that argument would hold up in court.
That...and it's funny.
This is precisely the point that needs to get across.
Screw their intent. I don't care WHAT they intended to do. If they hacked their satellite system and broke the law, fine.
If they simply DESCRIBE how to do so, that should not be illegal. Period.
of course,
....
In Soviet Russia, the DMCA violates you!
eeeeyuuuu!
1. Should it be illegal to tell someone how to do something?
NO
2. Should it be illegal to actually do said 'thing'.
Yes, so long as said thing violates what the citizens want to be wrong.
In the end, I don't want to be breaking the law by simply knowing something, and sharing that knowledge. That's the thing the DMCA does that scares me.
Ack...friday night, no one's looking.
Wait, why does my brew taste like Tide?
There's one there somewhere. At a loss, I just have to say that this is really cool! :)
Seriously though, I've looked into homebrewing hard cider, and come across some pretty decent articles. That would make for really easy cleanup though. Rock on!
So far as apps are concerned, again no.
There's no law stating that we have to look at ads. Although I see the problem paying the bills, a flaw in a business model is not the problem of the application coder (namely: me, you, and most people reading this site).
If you don't want your content being redisplayed on another site, place appropriate copyright and seek protections therein.
Don't stifle the technology. Treat the cause, not the symptom.
Uh, have to go story digging, but my understanding was that recently Linux *WAS* starting to be used in space missions.
:P Wasn't even attempting to.
Man, had no idea I was trolling so badly.
Okay, I'll bite. I spend most of my time using FreeBSD and MacOS X. Most of the histories I've read state that Linux a much "like" Unix, on purpose in fact, but that it is not.
:)
I've an open mind to be corrected on that stance if I'm wrong. Linux is so Unix like in fact that I would not be able to tell the difference even as an admin dumped at a prompt anymore. If it's at the kernel level that makes it that different that's fine by me. Doesn't make *that* much difference.
How so?
:(
I mean seriously...if the computing system is going to come under scrutiny, how is that trolling?
There comes a point where you have to step back and ask yourself what the best way to go about a problem is. Unix is old. I know, Linux is not Unix, but still...depending on who's calling the shots there, they could very well decide that a 20+ year old OS is too archain to be used on the shuttle.
Then again, the shuttle itself is pressing that age.
Who knows.
I sincerely hope that *nix in general doesn't wind up being deemed "arcain" or old in this case. Obsolete.
Choose your word for old or out of date. Not trying to be anti-ms, but there are more obscure operating environments that could be used as well, just seems like unix would be a good choice for such an application.
*shrugs*
Did someone say Target? And Wal-Mark? *scribbles*
Wait...why would I shop ONLINE for something that's down the street again?
Oh, right, no sales tax.
No diff anymore.
Bye bye website.
For some reason it never really appealed to me. I've watched others play, and perhaps that's the crux. It's one of those things you can't just watch, and have to play for yourself.
*shrugs*
Dunno, but it never made it onto my radar screen.
Over the holidays, Electronic Arts rolled out the Sims Online, an Internet-based game that the company has invested in heavily and that industry analysts have touted as crucial to the company to sustain its stock performance. But during its earnings call last Wednesday, the company said its subscriber base for the Sims Online is 82,000, a figure the company deemed notably disappointing.
A day later in an interview, the company's president, John S. Riccitiello, said the number of subscribers was half what Electronic Arts expected. And he disclosed that some seasoned video game players were giving very low ratings to the Sims Online, a game in which players buy the software for about $40 and then pay $10 a month to interact over the Internet in a two-dimensional world, chatting and building virtual homes and businesses. It is based on the three-year-old line of Sims games that have sold nine million copies, becoming one of the best-selling games ever.
The slow momentum for the online version appears to be leading to a reassessment -- both by analysts and the company itself -- about the game's prospects. Mr. Riccitiello, who, in fairness, has for months preached caution about how long it would take to build the online business, said he was optimistic over the long run, but he also seemed to raise the possibility the game might flounder.
"We wanted this to grow into a `third arm,' " he said of the Sims Online, referring to Electronic Art's dominance in PC-based games and in console games as its first "two arms." But, he said that if it did not work out for the company, "as a problem, it's only a hangnail."
To even suggest the Sims Online could fail is a far cry from the way it has been heralded -- by industry analysts and video game and mainstream news media. For example, it appeared last year on the cover of Newsweek with the headline: The New World of Internet Games.
Disclosure of the game's early returns came on the same day Electronic Arts announced its exceptional third-quarter results. The company reported that its earnings per share beat analyst estimates by 12 cents, and that it sold more than a million copies of 11 different games, including Madden N.F.L. 2003, Medal of Honor Frontline and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
"They had a positive perfect storm," said John G. Taylor, a analyst of the video-game industry for Arcadia Investment, asserting the company had an exceptional portfolio of games, good movie licenses, including Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, and strong execution. The biggest challenge, he said, is "What do they do for an encore?"
Mr. Taylor said he believed that the company could overcome the slow start on the Sims Online and that "from an investor standpoint, most people are willing to let E.A. play this thing out."
"If it works, it'll be a massive positive," he said. "If it doesn't, it'll be a neutral."
Jeff Goverman, managing director of Pacific Crest Securities, said the upside still remained strong for the company because subscription-based online games "are a better business" than regular video games because they have "recurring revenue, are less seasonal and have higher margins." But he said that if the business "continues to underperform, it's a drag on earnings."
In its earnings call, Electronic Arts said that for its fiscal year 2003, which ends March 31, it expected to lose $70 million on its ea.com division, which includes the Sims Online.
Warren C. Jenson, the company's chief financial officer, said in the call that the loss was a result of higher than anticipated marketing costs, a slower than expected increase in purchasers and subscribers and other factors. He added, "This financial performance is not acceptable for us and we are committed to aggressively minimizing these losses."
As to what it will take to spur momentum for the Sims Online, Mr. Riccitiello said the company was drawing on research from its current user base. He said in general players are rating the game a "7" on a scale of 1 to 10, with the strongest reviews coming from mainstream players, as opposed to people deeply immersed in the online game culture. But he said that compares to a rating of "mid-8's" that is typically garnered by the offline version of the Sims.
And Mr. Riccitiello said that many of the lowest ratings were coming from the game's beta testers -- typically hard-core game players. Some "are rating it exceedingly low," he said. He did not specify the concerns, but postings on some consumer Web sites give an idea of the criticisms. For instance, on Amazon.com, a consumer named Deana Morss from Casper, Wyo., wrote in a review posted last week that she was "bored to tears" and that there was not much for her character to do in the online world.
"What I ended up doing, before giving up and playing my offline Sims games, was leaving the game running while I went off to do other things around the house," the reviewer wrote. "This game has all the fun of watching your screen saver over and over again."
Mr. Riccitiello said the company was planning in April to address the concerns with several improvements, including upgrading the chat capabilities, introducing casino games, like blackjack, and making it easier for users to trade virtual commodities. The changes "should address what the hard-core gamer needs and massively improve what the mass market needs."
The company is projecting that it will have from 300,000 to 400,000 subscribers by the end of the calendar year.
He said that online gaming would eventually be a huge market, and the Sims Online would be a leader. "We've learned more about the online market and have more technology in place than anyone else." But, he said, "I don't think it's going to pay out for us in the very, very near term."
I've never had more than a user shell account under Solaris. I'm used to MacOS X, FreeBSD, and Red Hat Linux. That being said, from an administrator's POV, what differences/benefits would there be for me to use Solaris, other than knowing another Unix? Most of my work under FreeBSD and Linux are command line, OSX I do an awful lot in terminal out of habit, but it's my primary OS.
Honestly, i386 is available, just not sure of the benefits of doing so...