It probably wouldn't be much bigger than your average.ISO-file I guess.. but it being in a database, setting loose a query on it to collect it all would seem complicated at the very least.
I remember a Sega Megadrive and a 386DX(?) were once merged into a single PC-like box in the early '90s. The Megadrive was great for gaming, but sadly the two systems were completely separated. You couldn't program the gfx chips of the Megadrive through the 386. And Sonic the Hedgehog looked much better on a big TV screen anyway;-)
I wonder who will be the first to lose their job when the.NET Server crashes, thereby taking down dozens of virtual machines.
I sometimes run VMWare on Linux, but that's just to play Ultima 7. Can't say Linux ever crashed down from under my Avatar. Win2K actually did, using the same VMware version.. ominous at best. I'm not touching it with a 10 foot pole!
Try playing a C64 data tape in a normal deck or a CD-ROM in an audio player (if it will play at all). That's the kind of stuff you're going to experience! Hopefully it'll be more pleasing visually..
It doesn't actually kill the cursor.. it sets the text colour to black. Maybe I should add a FOR/NEXT loop to hide any sprites too. Those were at 2040-2047 if I recall correctly.. have to test this!;-))
Hehe.. no, but the box is still going strong. It contains a backup of all drivers and specific packages any IS-worker might need in the field. Just in case. RA, Wildcat, and all those others are such wonderfully low-spec ways to make data available across a dialup link. I remember being a kid and running a full 4-line BBS including interactive doorgames and mail on a puny 386sx at 20MHz. with 4MB of RAM. The kind of stuff that gets outperformed by today's Gameboys. The pentium at work sadly doesn't have Tradewars;-)
Not very long ago I set up a box with DR-DOS and RA and set up a small menu for a remote office that had trouble getting onto the internet and needed some drivers. I posted the drivers onto my "BBS", had them dial in, and presto the remote office was back on the VPN in no time. That's the kind of skill that comes in handy when real shit happens.. and it was fun to look at the post-dotcom admins' faces;-)
At my workplace we have locked-down Win2K workstations. Software installation is "impossible" on them. However, there is always some bit of the system's harddisk that's writable to me. c:\winnt\temp does the job well in my case. I can put whatever single.exe I want to run there and start it from any explorer window. That's how I run a VNC-viewer to log in on my home Linux box, and PuTTY for when I just need a quick terminal. Occasionaly my.exe's disappear, but I just put them back in and it keeps working. I'd guess executing a key logger wouldn't be much more difficult..
This is indeed true! But the same goes for my older Athlon 1100 in the other corner of the server room I'm in now. The building's heating system failed a few weeks ago while temperatures were around 0 degrees outside. The whole building was extremely cold for a day, but not this small room. It contains 4 athlon-based servers and a workstation for admin tasks. I spent the whole day there basking in the heat these babies dissipated.
The EU is not as tightly knit together as the states in the USA or Australia. The 15 EU members each have sovereign governments, each of which is democratically formed.
Thereby forgetting that your much praised democracy also stemmed from Europe (not to mention your language, bulk of your culture and most of your country's inhabitants' ancestors).
As for the US having to clean up our mess, the US were too busy looking in the mirror to see Pearl Harbor coming. It's only then that you interfered in WWII. Not to save Europe, but to retain a market for your exporting companies and to save your OWN asses from communism that was closing in on you quite rapidly. Don't go telling me that the US were so noble to "save" Europe because Eisenhower/Roosevelt felt sorry for us. It's all about the Benjamins, it is now, and it was then.
What business did you have interfering in Vietnam? Korea? etc..
Also I hear of quite a few neighborhoods in the bigger cities of the US where the police don't even dare to patrol anymore.
And how about slavery? Sure, there have always been regimes that made use of slave labor, but your fair and democratic USA made use of it on an enormous scale for centuries.
Also tell me which country in the EU still executes prisoners? None, I can tell you. I was happy to read the news of governor George Ryan changing 156 death sentences into imprisonment in Illinois. Be not quick in dealing out death to those who deserve it if you can't give life back to the dead who deserve it. Death sentences are just plain barbaric!
You're also right in your previous statements. But the rant above just goes to show that bot the US and EU have dirty hands in many ways. If it werent for The West as I'll call them collectively, there'd probably be a lot less war in this world than there is now.
I actually forgot.. POKE 646,0 or you'd be stuck with a blinking blue cursor that could still burn a neat little square into your screen given enough time;-)
From my experience (FreeBSD fileservers under pretty heavy punishment from a publishing house internally) I can say RAID works like a charm using vinum. Of course it supports hardware RAID controllers, but those should perform roughly equally under every OS.
Journaling, well, I don't think one could call SoftUpdates actual journalling.. but it works like a charm really. It's fast, reliable and there are no lenghty fsck's for when the server ever needs to reboot (security patches).
The servers I speak of have been running steadily for well over a year without any unplanned reboots. Of course I reboot them when security patches demand it, but those are few and many don't even require rebooting. I also had a disk blow up on me some months ago. Vinum did what it had to do and the box just kept on running. (Whose slogan is that again?? I never had this kind of 'luck' with NT-servers. RAID would work, but the box would go south together with a disk fairly soon)
As for the single CPU-bit: I don't have any first-hand experience with SMP-systems but I hear 5.0 has some really great support for SMP in its kernel quite on par with Solaris. Fileserving witn Samba, Netatalk and NFS isn't exactly taxing on the CPU, so I'd like to hear some experiences from people who do run renderfarms on FreeBSD.
Damn I don't have mod-points today, but hear hear!! My history with Word goes even further back to version 2.0. Back then it was actually good compared to the rest of the word processors.But ever since Word95 (and Windows95 for that matter) came out, Windows and Office went steadily downhill.. although I'm none too happy about openoffice either..
..in some art class I took. Don't know if it was this film, but the lecture was about how nitrate films autocombust after some time in storage and the reason why celluloid is so much better. I don't remember much of the class, but the professor showed us a video of deteriorating nitrate film similar to what's on that site. Could it be the same, or has it actually been done before and Slashdot just never picked up on it?
Ultima runs exceptionally well inside a VMWare virtual machine under both Linux and Windows. I have an athlon 2000+ on which I do this, and it works perfectly. No sound though, which is sad because the Guardian's voice is awe inspiring at times!
No. You're thinking of a socialist country, like one would find in europe.
Exactly where in Europe do you find socialist countries?? Just about all of them except the totalitarian and overly dogmatic Vatican are democracies these days. I don't know about most of the newly formed states when Yugoslavia collapsed, but my best guess is that these are emerging democracies as well.
But as for who owns bandwidth on the other side of the pond from your perspective: it's a mixture of academic institutions, private and state-owned telephone companies, and network operators like UUnet, Qwest, Abovenet et al. Google for the Gigaport project for some in-depth info on a BIG academic network.
I don't know how easy or hard it would be, or what exactly you mean by perverting an ACL..
Would it be so hard to implement ACL's just as securely as the current mode bits in UNIX? I'm not a coder or a security expert, so I don't know... It's just the idea of ACL's that seems really appealing to my layman's mind.
Not all things Windows are bad. I like the ACL's in Windows NT. They're more versatile than the unix mode bits and their 3 options and I have wondered why this isn't the default type of model on unixes ever since I started working on them. "I want to allow TWO groups access to a directory, how??" I've gotten used to the mode bits and their quirks and workarounds to get things done, but simply having a permissions flag on every object with an accompanying ACL to control acces on a per-user basis. This would require user accounts for individual daemons, but that's not a bad thing as far as I can tell.
The BSD's are different OS'es and clearly state so whereas Linux distro's all pretend to be the same OS. I dare to say the BSD's (except OS X) are so much identical that operating boxes running the different versions will take very little getting used to. Installing them is a different story, but operating NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD works very similarly. They have the same filesystem arrangements, they all have their own ports collection, keep their config in the same places.
Even though there are differences, those are much easier to overcome than for example the differences between Debian and SuSE. And some distro's from the same manufacturer even manage to mess up the whole filesystem layout and configuration when they jump a point release. I'm very happy with the consistency provided to me by FreeBSD from 4.0 to 4.6.2. It's been predictable, stable and easy to use. My servers run BSD, period. The maturity of the OS'es shows and that's a good thing on the server.
I am willing to keep my eyes (and my desktop machine) open though, so if you have any suggestions for a killer Linux distro, I'd gladly give it a try.
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It probably wouldn't be much bigger than your average .ISO-file I guess.. but it being in a database, setting loose a query on it to collect it all would seem complicated at the very least.
I remember a Sega Megadrive and a 386DX(?) were once merged into a single PC-like box in the early '90s. The Megadrive was great for gaming, but sadly the two systems were completely separated. You couldn't program the gfx chips of the Megadrive through the 386. And Sonic the Hedgehog looked much better on a big TV screen anyway ;-)
I tried exult.. and didn't like it. It still has several plot holes that the originals don't have. However I'm waiting for it to get better.
I wonder who will be the first to lose their job when the .NET Server crashes, thereby taking down dozens of virtual machines.
I sometimes run VMWare on Linux, but that's just to play Ultima 7. Can't say Linux ever crashed down from under my Avatar. Win2K actually did, using the same VMware version.. ominous at best. I'm not touching it with a 10 foot pole!
Try playing a C64 data tape in a normal deck or a CD-ROM in an audio player (if it will play at all). That's the kind of stuff you're going to experience! Hopefully it'll be more pleasing visually..
It doesn't actually kill the cursor.. it sets the text colour to black. ;-))
Maybe I should add a FOR/NEXT loop to hide any sprites too. Those were at 2040-2047 if I recall correctly.. have to test this!
Hehe.. no, but the box is still going strong. It contains a backup of all drivers and specific packages any IS-worker might need in the field. Just in case. RA, Wildcat, and all those others are such wonderfully low-spec ways to make data available across a dialup link. I remember being a kid and running a full 4-line BBS including interactive doorgames and mail on a puny 386sx at 20MHz. with 4MB of RAM. The kind of stuff that gets outperformed by today's Gameboys. ;-)
The pentium at work sadly doesn't have Tradewars
Not very long ago I set up a box with DR-DOS and RA and set up a small menu for a remote office that had trouble getting onto the internet and needed some drivers. I posted the drivers onto my "BBS", had them dial in, and presto the remote office was back on the VPN in no time. ;-)
That's the kind of skill that comes in handy when real shit happens.. and it was fun to look at the post-dotcom admins' faces
Either you have my kind of humor.. or you've had your head in the sand for a while. I hope it's the first ;-)))
At my workplace we have locked-down Win2K workstations. Software installation is "impossible" on them. However, there is always some bit of the system's harddisk that's writable to me. c:\winnt\temp does the job well in my case. I can put whatever single .exe I want to run there and start it from any explorer window. That's how I run a VNC-viewer to log in on my home Linux box, and PuTTY for when I just need a quick terminal. Occasionaly my .exe's disappear, but I just put them back in and it keeps working. I'd guess executing a key logger wouldn't be much more difficult..
It's 646 for the cursor..
;-)
POKE 646,0
53281 is the screen center, 53280 the border and 646 the cursor. Time to change my sig.
You forgot the quote marks.. it's:
LOAD "*",8,1
to actually load the first file from disk drive 1. After that you have to
RUN
it to actually have it start. Man that stumped me when I first got my C64 back when I was 5!
This is indeed true! But the same goes for my older Athlon 1100 in the other corner of the server room I'm in now. The building's heating system failed a few weeks ago while temperatures were around 0 degrees outside. The whole building was extremely cold for a day, but not this small room. It contains 4 athlon-based servers and a workstation for admin tasks. I spent the whole day there basking in the heat these babies dissipated.
The EU is not as tightly knit together as the states in the USA or Australia. The 15 EU members each have sovereign governments, each of which is democratically formed.
Thereby forgetting that your much praised democracy also stemmed from Europe (not to mention your language, bulk of your culture and most of your country's inhabitants' ancestors).
As for the US having to clean up our mess, the US were too busy looking in the mirror to see Pearl Harbor coming. It's only then that you interfered in WWII.
Not to save Europe, but to retain a market for your exporting companies and to save your OWN asses from communism that was closing in on you quite rapidly. Don't go telling me that the US were so noble to "save" Europe because Eisenhower/Roosevelt felt sorry for us. It's all about the Benjamins, it is now, and it was then.
What business did you have interfering in Vietnam? Korea? etc..
Also I hear of quite a few neighborhoods in the bigger cities of the US where the police don't even dare to patrol anymore.
And how about slavery? Sure, there have always been regimes that made use of slave labor, but your fair and democratic USA made use of it on an enormous scale for centuries.
Also tell me which country in the EU still executes prisoners? None, I can tell you. I was happy to read the news of governor George Ryan changing 156 death sentences into imprisonment in Illinois. Be not quick in dealing out death to those who deserve it if you can't give life back to the dead who deserve it. Death sentences are just plain barbaric!
You're also right in your previous statements. But the rant above just goes to show that bot the US and EU have dirty hands in many ways. If it werent for The West as I'll call them collectively, there'd probably be a lot less war in this world than there is now.
I actually forgot.. POKE 646,0 or you'd be stuck with a blinking blue cursor that could still burn a neat little square into your screen given enough time ;-)
From my experience (FreeBSD fileservers under pretty heavy punishment from a publishing house internally) I can say RAID works like a charm using vinum. Of course it supports hardware RAID controllers, but those should perform roughly equally under every OS.
Journaling, well, I don't think one could call SoftUpdates actual journalling.. but it works like a charm really. It's fast, reliable and there are no lenghty fsck's for when the server ever needs to reboot (security patches).
The servers I speak of have been running steadily for well over a year without any unplanned reboots. Of course I reboot them when security patches demand it, but those are few and many don't even require rebooting. I also had a disk blow up on me some months ago. Vinum did what it had to do and the box just kept on running. (Whose slogan is that again?? I never had this kind of 'luck' with NT-servers. RAID would work, but the box would go south together with a disk fairly soon)
As for the single CPU-bit: I don't have any first-hand experience with SMP-systems but I hear 5.0 has some really great support for SMP in its kernel quite on par with Solaris. Fileserving witn Samba, Netatalk and NFS isn't exactly taxing on the CPU, so I'd like to hear some experiences from people who do run renderfarms on FreeBSD.
Damn I don't have mod-points today, but hear hear!! My history with Word goes even further back to version 2.0. Back then it was actually good compared to the rest of the word processors.But ever since Word95 (and Windows95 for that matter) came out, Windows and Office went steadily downhill.. although I'm none too happy about openoffice either..
..in some art class I took. Don't know if it was this film, but the lecture was about how nitrate films autocombust after some time in storage and the reason why celluloid is so much better. I don't remember much of the class, but the professor showed us a video of deteriorating nitrate film similar to what's on that site. Could it be the same, or has it actually been done before and Slashdot just never picked up on it?
Last time I tried Exult, it gave strange glitches when playing U7 Serpent Isle.. :-(( Did it improve much over the past 6 months??
Ultima runs exceptionally well inside a VMWare virtual machine under both Linux and Windows. I have an athlon 2000+ on which I do this, and it works perfectly. No sound though, which is sad because the Guardian's voice is awe inspiring at times!
No. You're thinking of a socialist country, like one would find in europe.
Exactly where in Europe do you find socialist countries?? Just about all of them except the totalitarian and overly dogmatic Vatican are democracies these days. I don't know about most of the newly formed states when Yugoslavia collapsed, but my best guess is that these are emerging democracies as well.
But as for who owns bandwidth on the other side of the pond from your perspective: it's a mixture of academic institutions, private and state-owned telephone companies, and network operators like UUnet, Qwest, Abovenet et al. Google for the Gigaport project for some in-depth info on a BIG academic network.
I don't know how easy or hard it would be, or what exactly you mean by perverting an ACL..
Would it be so hard to implement ACL's just as securely as the current mode bits in UNIX? I'm not a coder or a security expert, so I don't know... It's just the idea of ACL's that seems really appealing to my layman's mind.
Not all things Windows are bad. I like the ACL's in Windows NT. They're more versatile than the unix mode bits and their 3 options and I have wondered why this isn't the default type of model on unixes ever since I started working on them. "I want to allow TWO groups access to a directory, how??" I've gotten used to the mode bits and their quirks and workarounds to get things done, but simply having a permissions flag on every object with an accompanying ACL to control acces on a per-user basis. This would require user accounts for individual daemons, but that's not a bad thing as far as I can tell.
Just my pennies,
Bas
The BSD's are different OS'es and clearly state so whereas Linux distro's all pretend to be the same OS. I dare to say the BSD's (except OS X) are so much identical that operating boxes running the different versions will take very little getting used to. Installing them is a different story, but operating NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD works very similarly. They have the same filesystem arrangements, they all have their own ports collection, keep their config in the same places.
Even though there are differences, those are much easier to overcome than for example the differences between Debian and SuSE. And some distro's from the same manufacturer even manage to mess up the whole filesystem layout and configuration when they jump a point release. I'm very happy with the consistency provided to me by FreeBSD from 4.0 to 4.6.2. It's been predictable, stable and easy to use. My servers run BSD, period. The maturity of the OS'es shows and that's a good thing on the server.
I am willing to keep my eyes (and my desktop machine) open though, so if you have any suggestions for a killer Linux distro, I'd gladly give it a try.