I can't believe that no one has mentioned that this was built using.NET. And now it's down because it couldn't handle the stress. That's almost TOO easy, c'mon. No MS bashing? I'm disappointed.
how in the hell did this get modified as "interesting" when it doesn't even contain a grain of truth?
Ok, I guess it does contain one fact. Sun DID win their lawsuit over the use of Java.
plus it's way off topic.
Well you know what, Sun's Java is just the Watcom C++ compiler renamed as Java, errr no wait it's really just renamed SmallTalk and Lisp spliced with a GC library, err no wait lemme take off my tin foil hat and get another transmission from Omicron Perseus V so I'll know what fact to make up next.
Raymond Chens web log. Lately he's been discussing IA 64 programming. I don't pretend to understand 1/2 of what he's talking about but I thought some of the readers here might be interested in what he has to say.
My Treo 90 doesn't appear to be upgradeable to OS 5. I guess now it won't be upgradeable to 5 or 6. Meanwhile, Palm ISV's keep making OS5 only applications.
It's the windows upgrade treadmill, except portable and you can't just upgrade the software. I have to buy a whole new device to run the latest apps.
You know I thought it was PC rearing it's ugly head too but then I noticed that they removed all the Black male characters?
Boomer and Tigh, an Asian woman and a drunk bald white guy? Smooth move Ajax. It's like PC gone wrong.
Hope there is a series so I can find out that "Sheeba" is Boxy's pet gerbal or something. Maybe we'll find out that Apollo is a hermaphrodite during sweeps.
So far, all of the system administrators I've had to deal with accept the fact that they aren't programmers and just concentrate on making the servers run correctly.
The few times I've had a run in with a SysAdmin, I've known FAR more than they have about the systems they are administering. It's hard for someone to argue confidently with you when you are right and can prove it.
To the poster who complained about the sysadmins, how would you like it if someone came over and told you how to write that function or that you needed to use an unchecked string buffer in that method?
Most of the people that I see having problems with SysAdmins are the ones that don't know what the hell they are doing and say things like "We need to open up port 1434/UDP on the firewall so that I can administer the SQL Server from my desk and from home." or "Just create a user with administrator priviliages on the server, we'll run the database and web app processes with that user. That way we don't have to spend a lot of time troubleshooting any permission issues"
Say, why not offer free ad rotation for these kind of charitable drives on Slashdot?
Rather than seeing the same Visual Studio ad for the 1000th time, we could see a link to Breast Cancer research dontaion drive or to the PA toy drive or even just the United Way. Pick some charities. You've got a big hammer here, why not use it to build a house rather than a store?
I think they could have gotten just as much publicity by staging a "nude piss in" at the Seattle Times HQ or a nunnery rather than collecting toys and money for sick kids.
If you have, you'd notice that Seattle is broken into distinct districts. Fremont, Ballard, Ravenna, Laurelhurst, First Hill, Capitol Hill, Belltown, etc... Each with it's own distinct personality, community centers, festivals, and people.
So with Red Hat ending their free Linux product, Mandrake perhaps with one foot in the grave at least hovering around the cemetary, and SuSE being acquired by Novell (mmmmmm, batch file goodness and 5 1/4" boot disks:) good times) are there any companies left that think they can make money off of Linux by giving it away?
I guess we should say Long live Debian and Gentoo?
I'm a casual gamer, working for a living and having a life tends to get in the way of my gaming habit. >:( I haven't bought a PS/2 because of the strength of the GC titles that are available. Hell, I bought Metroid Prime back in December and I'm about 20% of the way through the game. That's pretty casual.
The second reason I haven't purchased a PS/2 or an XBox is the LACK of a price drop in those two consoles. They ALMOST had me fooled when they dropped from $199 to $179, but then Sony bundled a NIC with their console and went back to charging $199 again.
I don't think the cost of the games is going to deter a casual gamer from buying a GC, a smaller library might. But if they look at spending $199 vs. $99 for something that they'll play once or twice a week I'm going to bet that the lower priced one will win out. What good is having hundreds of games if you can only play one at a time and it takes you months to finish one?
(kind of a newbie question, but other people might want to know)
I'm running Red Hat 7.1 on my file server. The only binaries I can find at the site even close to that say they are for RH 7.3.(http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Package s/RedHat/RPMS/i386/) Can I use these on my RH 7.1 system?
It pretty much says everything I was going to say. It might look troll-ish, but it's the truth. For a lot of people, these MMORPGs don't hold a lot of appeal. I've tried playing Anarchy Online twice and Ultima Online twice. Each time I ended up cancelling due to lack of interest after a month. Who wants to spend 3 hours fishing?
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Doesn't integrating KDR with OO.o really go against the Unix principal of having lots of smaller programs that do one thing very well?
I mean I've got to deal with enough "integrated programs" that crash my OS at work.
You know, if it's possible to Googlebomb Sco with litigious bastards and Bush with miserable failure, I wonder if we can Google bomb "Internet Explorer Bug" with "Install Mozilla"?
ARGH, I suck. I made this joke an hour after you!!
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A free XBox with every happy meal? How low will they go to elbow their way into the market?
I can't believe that no one has mentioned that this was built using .NET. And now it's down because it couldn't handle the stress. That's almost TOO easy, c'mon. No MS bashing? I'm disappointed.
how in the hell did this get modified as "interesting" when it doesn't even contain a grain of truth?
Ok, I guess it does contain one fact. Sun DID win their lawsuit over the use of Java.
plus it's way off topic.
Well you know what, Sun's Java is just the Watcom C++ compiler renamed as Java, errr no wait it's really just renamed SmallTalk and Lisp spliced with a GC library, err no wait lemme take off my tin foil hat and get another transmission from Omicron Perseus V so I'll know what fact to make up next.
Raymond Chens web log. Lately he's been discussing IA 64 programming. I don't pretend to understand 1/2 of what he's talking about but I thought some of the readers here might be interested in what he has to say.
My Treo 90 doesn't appear to be upgradeable to OS 5. I guess now it won't be upgradeable to 5 or 6. Meanwhile, Palm ISV's keep making OS5 only applications.
It's the windows upgrade treadmill, except portable and you can't just upgrade the software. I have to buy a whole new device to run the latest apps.
You know I thought it was PC rearing it's ugly head too but then I noticed that they removed all the Black male characters?
Boomer and Tigh, an Asian woman and a drunk bald white guy? Smooth move Ajax. It's like PC gone wrong.
Hope there is a series so I can find out that "Sheeba" is Boxy's pet gerbal or something. Maybe we'll find out that Apollo is a hermaphrodite during sweeps.
So far, all of the system administrators I've had to deal with accept the fact that they aren't programmers and just concentrate on making the servers run correctly.
The few times I've had a run in with a SysAdmin, I've known FAR more than they have about the systems they are administering. It's hard for someone to argue confidently with you when you are right and can prove it.
To the poster who complained about the sysadmins, how would you like it if someone came over and told you how to write that function or that you needed to use an unchecked string buffer in that method?
Most of the people that I see having problems with SysAdmins are the ones that don't know what the hell they are doing and say things like "We need to open up port 1434/UDP on the firewall so that I can administer the SQL Server from my desk and from home." or "Just create a user with administrator priviliages on the server, we'll run the database and web app processes with that user. That way we don't have to spend a lot of time troubleshooting any permission issues"
Most of the wrong assumptions involve where I want to go today.
Say, why not offer free ad rotation for these kind of charitable drives on Slashdot?
Rather than seeing the same Visual Studio ad for the 1000th time, we could see a link to Breast Cancer research dontaion drive or to the PA toy drive or even just the United Way. Pick some charities. You've got a big hammer here, why not use it to build a house rather than a store?
I think they could have gotten just as much publicity by staging a "nude piss in" at the Seattle Times HQ or a nunnery rather than collecting toys and money for sick kids.
Been to Seattle recently?
If you have, you'd notice that Seattle is broken into distinct districts. Fremont, Ballard, Ravenna, Laurelhurst, First Hill, Capitol Hill, Belltown, etc... Each with it's own distinct personality, community centers, festivals, and people.
So with Red Hat ending their free Linux product, Mandrake perhaps with one foot in the grave at least hovering around the cemetary, and SuSE being acquired by Novell (mmmmmm, batch file goodness and 5 1/4" boot disks :) good times) are there any companies left that think they can make money off of Linux by giving it away?
I guess we should say Long live Debian and Gentoo?
You are correct, ZORK would suck on a Gamecube.
Dammit, and I was just thinking about installing 4.8 on an old machine I have. I got it with the 'latest', to the U.S. at least, issue of LinuxFormat.
Now I feel compelled to download 4.9 instead of 4.8 and try and install it.
not to mention it stacks well!
I own 5 games for my Gamecube.
I RENT a lot of games for my gamecube.
I'm a casual gamer, working for a living and having a life tends to get in the way of my gaming habit. >:( I haven't bought a PS/2 because of the strength of the GC titles that are available. Hell, I bought Metroid Prime back in December and I'm about 20% of the way through the game. That's pretty casual.
The second reason I haven't purchased a PS/2 or an XBox is the LACK of a price drop in those two consoles. They ALMOST had me fooled when they dropped from $199 to $179, but then Sony bundled a NIC with their console and went back to charging $199 again.
I don't think the cost of the games is going to deter a casual gamer from buying a GC, a smaller library might. But if they look at spending $199 vs. $99 for something that they'll play once or twice a week I'm going to bet that the lower priced one will win out. What good is having hundreds of games if you can only play one at a time and it takes you months to finish one?
Give my regards to oblivion.
But I'm always wrong.
What was he towing?
eTow.com, your one stop source for all your towing needs.
That was the biggest problem with the dotComs, too much specialization.
(kind of a newbie question, but other people might want to know)
e s/RedHat/RPMS/i386/) Can I use these on my RH 7.1 system?
I'm running Red Hat 7.1 on my file server. The only binaries I can find at the site even close to that say they are for RH 7.3.(http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packag
It pretty much says everything I was going to say. It might look troll-ish, but it's the truth. For a lot of people, these MMORPGs don't hold a lot of appeal. I've tried playing Anarchy Online twice and Ultima Online twice. Each time I ended up cancelling due to lack of interest after a month. Who wants to spend 3 hours fishing?
do questions like this make it to the front page?