I agree, One L is an excellent book, but it is thin on a lot of details. You should pick up a copy of Law School Confidential for a better overview of what it takes, why you should do it, and more importantly why you shouldn't. It really opened my eyes.
I had a 60 cleric and 60 bard on the Everquest test server. I quit the game a while back because I went back to college to actually do something with myself. After being away for a while I actually shiver at the thought of playing it again. Here is how the addiction is formed for those of you who wonder.
level 1. You are a worm. You don't even have clothes. Anything you find that you can use is a treasure, and if you find something your level you have a good chance of killing it. You spend a four hours running around in circles trying to figure out the poor interface and looking at female elven breasts. MMMMMmmm elf fetish.. hmm what was I saying... oh yea. You go to work the next day and tell the guys how you are going to play America's army that night because the EQ interface is shite.
level 5. You are a grub worm. You figure you paid for the game, and you might as well check it out for your remaining free month. You may actually have a nasty shirt or pair of pants to wear now, and possibly a rusty sword, or in my clerics case a rotten staff of some sort. You spend your hard earned money on black bread and water, barely having enough to keep from dying of starvation. Danger is at every turn, and you have to watch your back or any monster can jump you and kill you outside of the city zones. It's kind of exiting, but the interface is still shite.
Level 10. You are a noob. Stop begging for food from the rich as hell older characters., or talking to them, or standing around them stinking up their air because they hate you. Today you grudgingly left your land of milk and honey (aka near naked elfs) and made the trip from the elven continent to the main continent. Well you tried anyways, but the boat bugged out and dropped you in the middle of the ocean where you ran afoul of some big monsters and died losing all of your stuff. You petition a gm for help, but they don't answer. It must be the same bug that caused you to get dumped in the ocean. You make the trip again naked, and this time you actually get to Freeport the human city. You run into a hot little blue elf (THEY MAKE THEM IN BLUE??? MMMMM) and begin to put on your best lines. Once you tell her you don't have any plat to give her she tells you she is a guy. OMG you think to yourself, she didn't even have an Adams apple. You log that night at 1am bleary eyed and tired thinking that cross dressers are shite.
Level 15. You are a noob - get used to it, your going to be for a long time. You have been playing sporadically, not wanting to repeat the 1am work night thing, but you play all weekend to get to 20 because you didn't have any real plans anyways, and it's good to relax and veg out sometimes. You think to yourself quite often that the game would be better without so many people crowded into zones trying to kill the same monsters. You die all the time doing stupid stuff, but how he hell are you supposed to know what to do when everyone seems to talk their own language here "lol, stfu, noob, afk, brb, log, mob, assist, group, killsteal, zerg, wtf, wth, gate, port, bind, ks."
Actually I was going to go to level 60, but fark it, you get the point. I've got homework to do, and writing a post about EQ even takes too much damn time lol;). By the time your in the 50's you will spend weeks to get a level, show up red eyed for work, never have anything planned on the weekend, and if you smoke god help your chimney puffing self. Your online friends become better known to you than your real friends because your real friends gave up on your worthless ass.
Oh, and your still a damn noob because you haven't been playing since beta.
I thought that was the red book... oh well it's been a long time since someone stole mine and I've forgotten.
I did click on your link though, and was somewhat amused by the cross marketing going on with Amazon. Here's what was below the unix SAH book.
Customers who wear clothes also shop for:
Clean Underwear from Amazon's Eddie Bauer Store
Ladybug Rain Boots from Amazon's Nordstrom Store
Suede Headwraps from Amazon's International Male Store
Cheetah Print Slippers from Amazon's Old Navy Store
For a limited time get $30 to spend at Amazon when you spend $50 in Amazon's new Apparel Store!
Dear sir, you may find that trolls such as yourself roll in their own feces when crammed in a tight pen crowded with a hundred other trolls with no other place to do number 2.
Pigs do not typically wallow in their own feces unless forced to by the condition of their entrapment. They are truely no more "dirty" than any other critter in the wild, in fact many people that own them as pets will argue they are cleaner than domesticated animals.
And no I'm not a vegetrendian, but I don't delude myself with your drivel either. I'm an omnivore, and that's unlikely to change.
WHO DOES NUMBER 2 WORK FOR??
YOU TELL NUMBER 2 WHO'S BOSS!!
I went with the SR series over the picturebook very recently. I used a picturebook a bit, then sent it back. The half screen is just too annoying in productivity software to me, let alone gaming. I have heard the touchpad vs a keyboard pointer, but both suck, and the jogdial is just an annoyance where I like to sit my thumb on both laptops so I disable it. This leaves you with the pain of scrolling up and down to see anything on the picturebook. I love my SR even with that damn jog dial where it is, I usually run it for around 5 hours on a single charge and I don't have the extended life battery. The only thing I'm disgruntled about is RedHat being a pain in the ass to install on it because of some wierd conflict between the mostly useless sony memory stick port and the usb port. There is a work around to get the CDROM install in RedHat to work on older models of the SR's but it doesn't seem to work on this version. If anyone has had any luck with a CDROM based RedHat install with a new SR drop me a line.
It's my favorite stone. In a high quality it is more expensive than a diamond, It's harder to see flaws since it's a color stone, and as far as I know it's still the only naturally occuring color changing stone in the world. The majority change colors from somewhere in the light blue to dark purple depending on the light. When your fiancee goes showing it off she can say that you love her more than a diamond.
Yea yea I used to be a jeweler, now I'm a Linux nerd, don't ask.
First I would like to say that I love your novels. One of the great things about your writing is that in one genre you run the full spectrum of style. I particularly like the Tarot series, and wish you hadn't had such publishing problems which killed it's chances at becoming more popular. I especially love how in your books you often take a little time to inform the readers of what you are doing, and how you are doing it. You are one of the people that motivated me to make the leap from reading to writing, and for that I thank you.
As for my word processor of choice, I have not used StarOffice, but I currently use OpenOffice 1.0.
My question may be a bit off topic, but I am more interested in the current state of author to publisher manuscript submission. Do publishers still ask for hard copy, or do you now send an electronic file via email or other means? I would venture to guess it might be a mixture of the two, so if you do send an electronic copy what type of file format do they insist upon? I know OpenOffice supports saving different file types, so I assume StarOffice does as well, but has this ever been a dilemma to you?
Thank you for your time Mr. Anthony, and have a nice summer in Florida^D^D^D^D^D^D^DXanth
Linux VS OS/2 Warp -- A survivors tale.
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The year was 1994. I was still kind of newbish about operating systems, but had a real burning desire to learn. My little Packard Bell 486 DX2-66 with 4 megs of memory came preloaded with Windows 3.1. I was working at Babbages at the time, and we had just recieved a shipment of OS/2 Warp, including a couple free(beer) versions for employees to take home with them so we would know more about the product to sell it. A friend of mine had just gotten in his 85+ boxed set of linux slackware floppies in the mail (kernel version 1.1.18 if I remember correctly but it could have been prior). We sat down side by side that night, him on his 386 with 2 megs of memory, and me on my 486. OS/2 took me a good 4 hours to install, mainly due to the fact that I was so limited on memory, however he had linux up and running within what seemed to be minutes. I was aghast at how blazingly fast he was able to start doing things while I was still watching the stupid install screen. I had used the HPUX system at school and remembered all the neat stuff I learned I could do just from a telnet session, and that was all she wrote. That evening I was running slackware on my little POS Packard Hell, and the OS/2 box was in the trash can.
What killed OS/2 more than anything was the people like me with 4 megs of ram, back when an 8MB stick would cost you around 400(us) dollars. The timing of 95 hit perfectly with manufacturers(coincidence?) rolling out systems with 8 megs or more memory.
On a side note I trashed my linux install the day after I installed it with a recursive delete and had to reinstall windows to have an operating system. It didn't detour me from using Linux, just made me accountable for my actions from then on out. I never made that mistake again (just one very similar; ).
I'm 26, and I'll admit it. Between my unhealthy addiction to my PS2, and my 200+ days on Everquest before I finally woke the **** up, I am an obscessive compulsive gamer. I check Penny Arcade every day even if there is not a new strip out. I walk around in the gaming store for hours just reading the back of boxes, even if I have already read everything about the game on the best damn review site on the net
However outside games I use Gnucash, Gphoto, Kword, VI, The Gimp, and all the other great stuff I can find that is GPL. I also use a couple of proprietary programs under linux, but I won't advertise for them here.
I absolutely pine for the day that I can use my fastest machine with my best video card/mouse/processor/ram for linux instead of MS Windows and feed my gaming twitch at the same time!
Not one of my friends would NOT like to escape to Linux to play games. Just ask them the next time they are in DAOC or some other direct X game that doesn't play nice with the windows key, and end up getting booted out by a miskey. Gamers hate 2 things above all others. Lag and that GD windows key.
Sliding windows is flow control, not error recovery.
I would trust UDP with anything I would trust TCP with as long as the application does the error checking on the data, which is exactly what they are saying their product does. TCP is really high overhead compared to UDP, and not always necessary. One of the reasons for TCP was so that programers wouldn't have to deal with as much, but if you can make something that handles it more efficiently then you only have to send a retransmit request whenever there is lost data, and not after every window.
Maybe it's my tendacy to fight for the underdog but I feel UDP has gotten the shaft. It's a great way to slam traffic around, and as secure as your application is written to make it.
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I agree, One L is an excellent book, but it is thin on a lot of details. You should pick up a copy of Law School Confidential for a better overview of what it takes, why you should do it, and more importantly why you shouldn't. It really opened my eyes.
I wish I had some mod points for your sig :P
I had a 60 cleric and 60 bard on the Everquest test server. I quit the game a while back because I went back to college to actually do something with myself. After being away for a while I actually shiver at the thought of playing it again. Here is how the addiction is formed for those of you who wonder.
;). By the time your in the 50's you will spend weeks to get a level, show up red eyed for work, never have anything planned on the weekend, and if you smoke god help your chimney puffing self. Your online friends become better known to you than your real friends because your real friends gave up on your worthless ass.
level 1. You are a worm. You don't even have clothes. Anything you find that you can use is a treasure, and if you find something your level you have a good chance of killing it. You spend a four hours running around in circles trying to figure out the poor interface and looking at female elven breasts. MMMMMmmm elf fetish.. hmm what was I saying... oh yea. You go to work the next day and tell the guys how you are going to play America's army that night because the EQ interface is shite.
level 5. You are a grub worm. You figure you paid for the game, and you might as well check it out for your remaining free month. You may actually have a nasty shirt or pair of pants to wear now, and possibly a rusty sword, or in my clerics case a rotten staff of some sort. You spend your hard earned money on black bread and water, barely having enough to keep from dying of starvation. Danger is at every turn, and you have to watch your back or any monster can jump you and kill you outside of the city zones. It's kind of exiting, but the interface is still shite.
Level 10. You are a noob. Stop begging for food from the rich as hell older characters., or talking to them, or standing around them stinking up their air because they hate you. Today you grudgingly left your land of milk and honey (aka near naked elfs) and made the trip from the elven continent to the main continent. Well you tried anyways, but the boat bugged out and dropped you in the middle of the ocean where you ran afoul of some big monsters and died losing all of your stuff. You petition a gm for help, but they don't answer. It must be the same bug that caused you to get dumped in the ocean. You make the trip again naked, and this time you actually get to Freeport the human city. You run into a hot little blue elf (THEY MAKE THEM IN BLUE??? MMMMM) and begin to put on your best lines. Once you tell her you don't have any plat to give her she tells you she is a guy. OMG you think to yourself, she didn't even have an Adams apple. You log that night at 1am bleary eyed and tired thinking that cross dressers are shite.
Level 15. You are a noob - get used to it, your going to be for a long time. You have been playing sporadically, not wanting to repeat the 1am work night thing, but you play all weekend to get to 20 because you didn't have any real plans anyways, and it's good to relax and veg out sometimes. You think to yourself quite often that the game would be better without so many people crowded into zones trying to kill the same monsters. You die all the time doing stupid stuff, but how he hell are you supposed to know what to do when everyone seems to talk their own language here "lol, stfu, noob, afk, brb, log, mob, assist, group, killsteal, zerg, wtf, wth, gate, port, bind, ks."
Actually I was going to go to level 60, but fark it, you get the point. I've got homework to do, and writing a post about EQ even takes too much damn time lol
Oh, and your still a damn noob because you haven't been playing since beta.
Kids who play videogames kill people! Ladies, I'm talking to you.
Good marketing strategy..
Bad combover.
Gnump3d 1.0 just released! Just a shameless plug for a very nice OGG/MP3 streaming server I've started using.
I thought that was the red book... oh well it's been a long time since someone stole mine and I've forgotten.
I did click on your link though, and was somewhat amused by the cross marketing going on with Amazon. Here's what was below the unix SAH book.
Customers who wear clothes also shop for: Clean Underwear from Amazon's Eddie Bauer Store
Ladybug Rain Boots from Amazon's Nordstrom Store
Suede Headwraps from Amazon's International Male Store
Cheetah Print Slippers from Amazon's Old Navy Store
For a limited time get $30 to spend at Amazon when you spend $50 in Amazon's new Apparel Store!
As we all know, Cheetah Print Slipers are all the rage among the Unix crowd.
Dear sir, you may find that trolls such as yourself roll in their own feces when crammed in a tight pen crowded with a hundred other trolls with no other place to do number 2. Pigs do not typically wallow in their own feces unless forced to by the condition of their entrapment. They are truely no more "dirty" than any other critter in the wild, in fact many people that own them as pets will argue they are cleaner than domesticated animals. And no I'm not a vegetrendian, but I don't delude myself with your drivel either. I'm an omnivore, and that's unlikely to change. WHO DOES NUMBER 2 WORK FOR?? YOU TELL NUMBER 2 WHO'S BOSS!!
I went with the SR series over the picturebook very recently. I used a picturebook a bit, then sent it back. The half screen is just too annoying in productivity software to me, let alone gaming. I have heard the touchpad vs a keyboard pointer, but both suck, and the jogdial is just an annoyance where I like to sit my thumb on both laptops so I disable it. This leaves you with the pain of scrolling up and down to see anything on the picturebook. I love my SR even with that damn jog dial where it is, I usually run it for around 5 hours on a single charge and I don't have the extended life battery. The only thing I'm disgruntled about is RedHat being a pain in the ass to install on it because of some wierd conflict between the mostly useless sony memory stick port and the usb port. There is a work around to get the CDROM install in RedHat to work on older models of the SR's but it doesn't seem to work on this version. If anyone has had any luck with a CDROM based RedHat install with a new SR drop me a line.
SRX Series
Picturebook
It's my favorite stone. In a high quality it is more expensive than a diamond, It's harder to see flaws since it's a color stone, and as far as I know it's still the only naturally occuring color changing stone in the world. The majority change colors from somewhere in the light blue to dark purple depending on the light. When your fiancee goes showing it off she can say that you love her more than a diamond.
Yea yea I used to be a jeweler, now I'm a Linux nerd, don't ask.
Yea, for inventing the reason I've been sitting in a 63F data center all night with a runny nose and a huge coat on in Texas. YaYAAHhhhchooOOOO.
First I would like to say that I love your novels. One of the great things about your writing is that in one genre you run the full spectrum of style. I particularly like the Tarot series, and wish you hadn't had such publishing problems which killed it's chances at becoming more popular. I especially love how in your books you often take a little time to inform the readers of what you are doing, and how you are doing it. You are one of the people that motivated me to make the leap from reading to writing, and for that I thank you.
As for my word processor of choice, I have not used StarOffice, but I currently use OpenOffice 1.0.
My question may be a bit off topic, but I am more interested in the current state of author to publisher manuscript submission. Do publishers still ask for hard copy, or do you now send an electronic file via email or other means? I would venture to guess it might be a mixture of the two, so if you do send an electronic copy what type of file format do they insist upon? I know OpenOffice supports saving different file types, so I assume StarOffice does as well, but has this ever been a dilemma to you?
Thank you for your time Mr. Anthony, and have a nice summer in Florida^D^D^D^D^D^D^DXanth
The profit is in the happy meals young Padawan.
The year was 1994. I was still kind of newbish about operating systems, but had a real burning desire to learn. My little Packard Bell 486 DX2-66 with 4 megs of memory came preloaded with Windows 3.1. I was working at Babbages at the time, and we had just recieved a shipment of OS/2 Warp, including a couple free(beer) versions for employees to take home with them so we would know more about the product to sell it. A friend of mine had just gotten in his 85+ boxed set of linux slackware floppies in the mail (kernel version 1.1.18 if I remember correctly but it could have been prior). We sat down side by side that night, him on his 386 with 2 megs of memory, and me on my 486. OS/2 took me a good 4 hours to install, mainly due to the fact that I was so limited on memory, however he had linux up and running within what seemed to be minutes. I was aghast at how blazingly fast he was able to start doing things while I was still watching the stupid install screen. I had used the HPUX system at school and remembered all the neat stuff I learned I could do just from a telnet session, and that was all she wrote. That evening I was running slackware on my little POS Packard Hell, and the OS/2 box was in the trash can.
What killed OS/2 more than anything was the people like me with 4 megs of ram, back when an 8MB stick would cost you around 400(us) dollars. The timing of 95 hit perfectly with manufacturers(coincidence?) rolling out systems with 8 megs or more memory.
On a side note I trashed my linux install the day after I installed it with a recursive delete and had to reinstall windows to have an operating system. It didn't detour me from using Linux, just made me accountable for my actions from then on out. I never made that mistake again (just one very similar; ).
http://www.kali.net/
I used kali all the time a long time go.
Wooo I can finally tell folks to KEEP their CD's. D00d, what are you thinking! Don't trash that AOL CD, it's got a current kernel on it!
I'm 26, and I'll admit it. Between my unhealthy addiction to my PS2, and my 200+ days on Everquest before I finally woke the **** up, I am an obscessive compulsive gamer. I check Penny Arcade every day even if there is not a new strip out. I walk around in the gaming store for hours just reading the back of boxes, even if I have already read everything about the game on the best damn review site on the net
However outside games I use Gnucash, Gphoto, Kword, VI, The Gimp, and all the other great stuff I can find that is GPL. I also use a couple of proprietary programs under linux, but I won't advertise for them here.
I absolutely pine for the day that I can use my fastest machine with my best video card/mouse/processor/ram for linux instead of MS Windows and feed my gaming twitch at the same time!
Not one of my friends would NOT like to escape to Linux to play games. Just ask them the next time they are in DAOC or some other direct X game that doesn't play nice with the windows key, and end up getting booted out by a miskey. Gamers hate 2 things above all others. Lag and that GD windows key.
Kharma Martyrs ?
No, you can do retrans out of the application rather than the protocol.
Sliding windows is flow control, not error recovery.
I would trust UDP with anything I would trust TCP with as long as the application does the error checking on the data, which is exactly what they are saying their product does. TCP is really high overhead compared to UDP, and not always necessary. One of the reasons for TCP was so that programers wouldn't have to deal with as much, but if you can make something that handles it more efficiently then you only have to send a retransmit request whenever there is lost data, and not after every window.
Maybe it's my tendacy to fight for the underdog but I feel UDP has gotten the shaft. It's a great way to slam traffic around, and as secure as your application is written to make it.
Nice little doc over TCP and sliding windows for anyone that might want one.