Before Tribes 2, I'd spent a few years playing less. So, my other real favorites are old: Populus, Ghengis Khan, Lemmings.... Damn, somebody will probably read this who was born after I first played Populus.
I think you may have missed the point of the parent post, which I read as "the corporate world doesn't understand or appreciate the value of raw talent as demonstrated in this type of non-professional accomplishment." I think that's usually true, too. Most job postings I see these days are more interested in how many languages or architectures you know.
Whatever the AC really meant, I think you'll enjoy life a lot more if you remove the large chip from your shoulder.
Some of them might. You need an example that is equivalent for the anti-religious nuts.
So, say your logo was a Roman collar, no face, just shoulders with collar and neck. And, it has NOTHING to do with religion or Christianity, it's just a reference, say, to some part of your special development process where you "bless" the code.
Do you have to explain this logo at the beginning of presentations? You sure as hell do if one of these secularist fanatics is in your audience. (Or , for that matter, one of most of the people who aren't sure about the cartoon devil, either!)
The daemon is a fine _mascot_ and is not going away, as several pointed out. He's not a particularly good logo, though, and I can see why the project wants something different for a logo. (I would expect to see some stylized version of a trident and/or daemon.) Marketing and branding matter. Ask Firefox. (Surely, we all remember their tortured search for a name and logo.)
It irritates me that so many people will look beyond the many advantages of having a good logo to help build a brand and instead focus like a laser on the giant non-issue of... over-sensitive christians.
I love the little daemon mascot. But, he's old and it shows -- he screams "hobbyist". Having a good logo, too, would be good for the project.
It's not just your opinion, it's a fact. (Which is to say, it's my opinion, too.)
T2 base is much better than T2 classic. T2 classic just allows players to go too darn fast. It makes many CTF maps nearly impossible to defend and anyone who's skied themselves up to a ridiculous speed impossible to hit. In the base game, it requires a vehicle to get up that much speed, which leads to a much better and more balanced game.
Tribes 2 is a fantastic game. Go out and get it now! It's relatively tough, but well, well worth the time to learn. I've really no interest in T:V because I still have so much fun playing T2.
Be careful with the tags during a pre release cycle. I got burned during the 5.2 pre release cycle using (iirc) RELENG_5. It's not exactly the same as BETAX. As I understand it, work continues on RELENG_5 and it can sometimes be a little hairy in between the beta snapshots. (OTOH, it could also contain a bug fix to problems in the latest beta.)
This CVS tags helps but doesn't fill in all the blanks when there are betas floating around. We're sort of in the twilight zone. RELENG_5 had been pointing to CURRENT, now it's being preened for RELEASE, and soon after it will point to STABLE (or, rather, STABLE will point to it).
I'm not sure if RELENG_5_3 has been branched yet or not. If it hasn't, you'll find out real quick when cvsup starts deleting every file in your source tree. (Hit enter with one hand and hover over ctl-c with the other.:) )
I'm just a happy user. If I've made any mistakes above I look forward to the corrections.
Now the pilots can chit-chat with their friends on the phone for the whole flight. Just like four out of five idiots driving around Atlanta. I can hardly wait!
mergemaster is the most painful part of a FreeBSD upgrade. 20 minutes of paging through files that I've never touched and probably never will (with a couple of minor exceptions).
I see its purpose, but it could be made much less painful by putting most of those files into/usr/defaults/ and then letting the user put his overrides into a file of the same name in/etc/. Just as we do with rc.conf. Throw in a switch to mean "update everything in/etc/defaults/ without asking me" and everyone should be happy. (That is, the curious and the masochists can still page through every changed config' file.)
I'm pretty sure the proper interpretation of "4.x/-STABLE" would be "a 4.x release or -STABLE" and similarly for "5.x/-CURRENT" --> "a 5.x release or -CURRENT".
I agree completely, in general, that managers should not be allowed to pick OS's. Nevertheless, in reality, at many big companies many services will be run on big money vendor platforms that are all commercial OS's. Big companies love big companies and they love to give each other huge contracts. That's the way of the world.
Why does this article keep saying, in effect, that OpenBSD is almost as good as FreeBSD? It took a little while for it to sink in, but now I get it.
The pointy-haired middle manager is never going to take your suggestion. But, if you forward him that article and tell him you want to use OpenBSD, he might just get brave and say, "what about FreeBSD?" -- then it will be his idea and you're in!!
Yet, you point out several instances where the chip could be life saving: police and "smart" guns, various military personnel (who often, I promise you, get lost in bad places), officials and others at risk of kidnapping.
Given this, I'd say the best protection we can have is for the chips to be removeable. That way people in special jobs can have them while their life may depend on it and get rid of them later.
And all of this talk about future coercion is over blown. I'm afraid that the chips will be made so useful that people will be standing in line to get them. This isn't the only technology that is going to require us to have a more open and honest government. (Yeah, we're screwed.)
p.s. Don't tell my wife about this!! I'll never get within a mile of another computer store.
Actually, using "dangerously dedicated" should remove any pesky geometry problems. He should try that. (If you don't have to dual boot on that machine).
I had a heck of a problem getting the goemetry right with my newest home box and its 120GB drive. If you must dual boot (and therefore need the right geometry in the fdisk partition table) you should try to get a second opinion from various other utitilites and then enter it manually. The Partition Magic DOS disks finally gave me something good.
I've installed FreeBSD on dozens of different machines and this was the only time sysinstall guessed wrong.
DHCP environments are a good example of when this method can give you more benefits than just having no open ports to scan -- which is a pretty darn big plus too start off with.
I'd suggest that you incorpaorate something like a RSA-SecureID system -- so that you'd have a [nearly] unlimited supply of one time passwords -- and this method becomes even stronger.
I had a favorite Playstation (one) game that was scratched to all hell. (The two year old had literally played hockey with it.) After doing a little googling, I tried the following.
- Get an old T-shirt and some plain old-fashioned toothpaste (they have a fine grit; no gels).
- Put a little paste on there and start polishing. The strokes must be radial! That is, straight lines from the center to the outer edge.
- Keep going. Add a little more paste if need be. If it's bad it could take you 20 minutes.
- Remove all paste with clean side of t-shirt (strokes still radial). You should be in business.
Scratches on the top through to the reflective surface (which is actually closer to the top) or deep gouges may make it hopeless, of course.
I was so happy to get this game back. Hope it works for you.
Let's link the latest FreeBSD nvidia drivers at least. These are still a little dicey on the 5.x branch, though. Something about using static ldt allocations. I recommend turning off GL hacks in your screensaver and you can probably get by with your GL games. More informed comments, as always, are welcome.
This is funny because it is an adaptation of an hilarious Monty Python sketch in which the John Cleese character is trying to return a dead parrot to the pet shop. If you've ever seen it before then you probably sprayed Coke through your nose when reading this.
Now back on-topic, this story is a re-run, it comes up again every few months and is exactly the same. What we all need are bots to repost our old comments whenever "Netcraft" and "BSD" appear in the same story summary.
And, BSD rules. (ruleZ! -- ? or that too linuxey?)
Yeah, the old fashioned way, buy Tribes2. Very recently (month or two) I saw it on sale at Best Buy in Atlanta for $9.99. I bought my own copy there about a year ago and it's the best $10 bucks I ever spent. I also got a copy of the linux version and play it on FreeBSD.
Anyway, the website now says that downloads and CD-keys are "temporarily unavailable" due to high demand. Get yourself a key or used account fast. This game is beyond awesome.
I hate to go even more off-topic, but I'm not being sensitive and you've totally missed my point. I clarify:
It was not a good idea for PHK to make the political comment here on Slashdot. (Even though he was just responding to someone else's complaint of Denmark's excessive taxes.) I disagree with socialism, but still very much support PHK and this project and am serious about soliciting my company to donate.
Given your serious misreading of my post, I'm not sure how you can even tell who does and doesn't agree with you.
Bad idea bringing politics into this discussion. I'm very happy living in the U.S.A. over any of the socialist "utopias" of Europe. At the same time, I don't fault anyone else for living under such a system. (And, from the sound of things, there are more than a few/.ers that ought to move across the pond away from screwed up America.)
I have the greatest regard for PHK and all of his fine work on FreeBSD. I will try hard to get my (big, evil, oppressive) company to contribute.
However, Poul_Henning, I'm afraid that if you ever run for elective office in the U.S.A., you have lost my vote.:)
this struck me as odd, mostly because i interperated MP to be Multi-Processor, and i was on a Uniprocessor machine
I can't find a good link now, but I read somewhere that the GENERIC kernel was going to be made SMP by default. Therefore, you may want to save some overhead and recompile your kernel without the SMP.
> no DON'T get 5-CURRENT. That will likely have changes in it that will bork your system. That's for development and developers, not for end users
A slight exagerration. 5.2-RC1 pretty much is CURRENT. As I understand it, release engineering (or somebody) would say "OK, that looks pretty good" and then take a snapshot of CURRENT and dub it 5.2-RC1. Whatever changes may have happened to CURRENT in the last couple of days would be minor, as CURRENT is still preening for 5.2-RELEASE, and major and/or risky new commits are discouraged in this phase.
Is it that much work to spend two seconds installing bash?
No, it's not. I've built dozens of BSD boxes, at work and at home, and I've never had one without bash, which I install from a package during the installation. It rarely takes as long as two seconds. (... Are you some sly kind of troll?:) )
I like choosing my own shell and I like only having minimalist shells in the base system. Some of these people need to get a life and stop nit-picking.
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Me too. I guess continuing to play a game regularly for years says more about it than any hyped up description ... but that's never stopped me before: http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=111443&c id=9455551
... Damn, somebody will probably read this who was born after I first played Populus.
Before Tribes 2, I'd spent a few years playing less. So, my other real favorites are old: Populus, Ghengis Khan, Lemmings.
I think you may have missed the point of the parent post, which I read as "the corporate world doesn't understand or appreciate the value of raw talent as demonstrated in this type of non-professional accomplishment." I think that's usually true, too. Most job postings I see these days are more interested in how many languages or architectures you know.
Whatever the AC really meant, I think you'll enjoy life a lot more if you remove the large chip from your shoulder.
K.C.
> Would you use Nazi Linux ...
... over-sensitive christians.
Some of them might. You need an example that is equivalent for the anti-religious nuts.
So, say your logo was a Roman collar, no face, just shoulders with collar and neck. And, it has NOTHING to do with religion or Christianity, it's just a reference, say, to some part of your special development process where you "bless" the code. Do you have to explain this logo at the beginning of presentations? You sure as hell do if one of these secularist fanatics is in your audience. (Or , for that matter, one of most of the people who aren't sure about the cartoon devil, either!)
The daemon is a fine _mascot_ and is not going away, as several pointed out. He's not a particularly good logo, though, and I can see why the project wants something different for a logo. (I would expect to see some stylized version of a trident and/or daemon.) Marketing and branding matter. Ask Firefox. (Surely, we all remember their tortured search for a name and logo.) It irritates me that so many people will look beyond the many advantages of having a good logo to help build a brand and instead focus like a laser on the giant non-issue of
I love the little daemon mascot. But, he's old and it shows -- he screams "hobbyist". Having a good logo, too, would be good for the project.
K.C.
It's not just your opinion, it's a fact. (Which is to say, it's my opinion, too.)
T2 base is much better than T2 classic. T2 classic just allows players to go too darn fast. It makes many CTF maps nearly impossible to defend and anyone who's skied themselves up to a ridiculous speed impossible to hit. In the base game, it requires a vehicle to get up that much speed, which leads to a much better and more balanced game.
Tribes 2 is a fantastic game. Go out and get it now! It's relatively tough, but well, well worth the time to learn. I've really no interest in T:V because I still have so much fun playing T2.
K.C.
... since Slackware has the best open source GUI around there's absolutely no point in using BSD on the desktop [modded down] ...
It's a troll because it's true?
It's a troll because it's a non sequitur.
K.C.
Be careful with the tags during a pre release cycle. I got burned during the 5.2 pre release cycle using (iirc) RELENG_5. It's not exactly the same as BETAX. As I understand it, work continues on RELENG_5 and it can sometimes be a little hairy in between the beta snapshots. (OTOH, it could also contain a bug fix to problems in the latest beta.)
:) )
This CVS tags helps but doesn't fill in all the blanks when there are betas floating around. We're sort of in the twilight zone. RELENG_5 had been pointing to CURRENT, now it's being preened for RELEASE, and soon after it will point to STABLE (or, rather, STABLE will point to it).
I'm not sure if RELENG_5_3 has been branched yet or not. If it hasn't, you'll find out real quick when cvsup starts deleting every file in your source tree. (Hit enter with one hand and hover over ctl-c with the other.
I'm just a happy user. If I've made any mistakes above I look forward to the corrections.
K.C.
Now the pilots can chit-chat with their friends on the phone for the whole flight. Just like four out of five idiots driving around Atlanta. I can hardly wait!
K.C.
mergemaster is the most painful part of a FreeBSD upgrade. 20 minutes of paging through files that I've never touched and probably never will (with a couple of minor exceptions).
/usr/defaults/ and then letting the user put his overrides into a file of the same name in /etc/. Just as we do with rc.conf. Throw in a switch to mean "update everything in /etc/defaults/ without asking me" and everyone should be happy. (That is, the curious and the masochists can still page through every changed config' file.)
I see its purpose, but it could be made much less painful by putting most of those files into
K.C.
I'm pretty sure the proper interpretation of "4.x/-STABLE" would be "a 4.x release or -STABLE" and similarly for "5.x/-CURRENT" --> "a 5.x release or -CURRENT".
K.C.
I agree completely, in general, that managers should not be allowed to pick OS's. Nevertheless, in reality, at many big companies many services will be run on big money vendor platforms that are all commercial OS's. Big companies love big companies and they love to give each other huge contracts. That's the way of the world.
K.C.
Why does this article keep saying, in effect, that OpenBSD is almost as good as FreeBSD? It took a little while for it to sink in, but now I get it.
The pointy-haired middle manager is never going to take your suggestion. But, if you forward him that article and tell him you want to use OpenBSD, he might just get brave and say, "what about FreeBSD?" -- then it will be his idea and you're in!!
K.C.
Yet, you point out several instances where the chip could be life saving: police and "smart" guns, various military personnel (who often, I promise you, get lost in bad places), officials and others at risk of kidnapping.
Given this, I'd say the best protection we can have is for the chips to be removeable. That way people in special jobs can have them while their life may depend on it and get rid of them later.
And all of this talk about future coercion is over blown. I'm afraid that the chips will be made so useful that people will be standing in line to get them. This isn't the only technology that is going to require us to have a more open and honest government. (Yeah, we're screwed.)
p.s. Don't tell my wife about this!! I'll never get within a mile of another computer store.
K.C.
Actually, using "dangerously dedicated" should remove any pesky geometry problems. He should try that. (If you don't have to dual boot on that machine).
I had a heck of a problem getting the goemetry right with my newest home box and its 120GB drive. If you must dual boot (and therefore need the right geometry in the fdisk partition table) you should try to get a second opinion from various other utitilites and then enter it manually. The Partition Magic DOS disks finally gave me something good.
I've installed FreeBSD on dozens of different machines and this was the only time sysinstall guessed wrong.
K.C.
DHCP environments are a good example of when this method can give you more benefits than just having no open ports to scan -- which is a pretty darn big plus too start off with.
I'd suggest that you incorpaorate something like a RSA-SecureID system -- so that you'd have a [nearly] unlimited supply of one time passwords -- and this method becomes even stronger.
Remember the onion -- layered security.
K.C.
I had a favorite Playstation (one) game that was scratched to all hell. (The two year old had literally played hockey with it.) After doing a little googling, I tried the following.
- Get an old T-shirt and some plain old-fashioned toothpaste (they have a fine grit; no gels).
- Put a little paste on there and start polishing. The strokes must be radial! That is, straight lines from the center to the outer edge.
- Keep going. Add a little more paste if need be. If it's bad it could take you 20 minutes.
- Remove all paste with clean side of t-shirt (strokes still radial). You should be in business.
Scratches on the top through to the reflective surface (which is actually closer to the top) or deep gouges may make it hopeless, of course.
I was so happy to get this game back. Hope it works for you.
K.C.
Let's link the latest FreeBSD nvidia drivers at least. These are still a little dicey on the 5.x branch, though. Something about using static ldt allocations. I recommend turning off GL hacks in your screensaver and you can probably get by with your GL games. More informed comments, as always, are welcome.
K.C.
This is funny because it is an adaptation of an hilarious Monty Python sketch in which the John Cleese character is trying to return a dead parrot to the pet shop. If you've ever seen it before then you probably sprayed Coke through your nose when reading this.
Now back on-topic, this story is a re-run, it comes up again every few months and is exactly the same. What we all need are bots to repost our old comments whenever "Netcraft" and "BSD" appear in the same story summary.
And, BSD rules. (ruleZ! -- ? or that too linuxey?)
Yeah, the old fashioned way, buy Tribes2. Very recently (month or two) I saw it on sale at Best Buy in Atlanta for $9.99. I bought my own copy there about a year ago and it's the best $10 bucks I ever spent. I also got a copy of the linux version and play it on FreeBSD.
Anyway, the website now says that downloads and CD-keys are "temporarily unavailable" due to high demand. Get yourself a key or used account fast. This game is beyond awesome.
According to the fundraising page (see cheesy HTML bar graphs here) 98.7% of the goal for 6 months funding has already been reached.
I hate to go even more off-topic, but I'm not being sensitive and you've totally missed my point. I clarify:
It was not a good idea for PHK to make the political comment here on Slashdot. (Even though he was just responding to someone else's complaint of Denmark's excessive taxes.) I disagree with socialism, but still very much support PHK and this project and am serious about soliciting my company to donate.
Given your serious misreading of my post, I'm not sure how you can even tell who does and doesn't agree with you.
Bad idea bringing politics into this discussion. I'm very happy living in the U.S.A. over any of the socialist "utopias" of Europe. At the same time, I don't fault anyone else for living under such a system. (And, from the sound of things, there are more than a few /.ers that ought to move across the pond away from screwed up America.)
:)
I have the greatest regard for PHK and all of his fine work on FreeBSD. I will try hard to get my (big, evil, oppressive) company to contribute.
However, Poul_Henning, I'm afraid that if you ever run for elective office in the U.S.A., you have lost my vote.
this struck me as odd, mostly because i interperated MP to be Multi-Processor, and i was on a Uniprocessor machine
I can't find a good link now, but I read somewhere that the GENERIC kernel was going to be made SMP by default. Therefore, you may want to save some overhead and recompile your kernel without the SMP.
For those of you that have been neglected by the gods or ad rotation, look here. (Do you think the red ad was designed to match the /.-BSD theme?)
Whoever she is, I can tell she's into BSD.
> no DON'T get 5-CURRENT. That will likely have changes in it that will bork your system. That's for development and developers, not for end users
A slight exagerration. 5.2-RC1 pretty much is CURRENT. As I understand it, release engineering (or somebody) would say "OK, that looks pretty good" and then take a snapshot of CURRENT and dub it 5.2-RC1. Whatever changes may have happened to CURRENT in the last couple of days would be minor, as CURRENT is still preening for 5.2-RELEASE, and major and/or risky new commits are discouraged in this phase.
Is it that much work to spend two seconds installing bash?
:) )
No, it's not. I've built dozens of BSD boxes, at work and at home, and I've never had one without bash, which I install from a package during the installation. It rarely takes as long as two seconds. (... Are you some sly kind of troll?
I like choosing my own shell and I like only having minimalist shells in the base system. Some of these people need to get a life and stop nit-picking.