Someone I know played Lineage a lot some years ago.
Recently bored with WoW, he returned an old favourite only to nearly drop that one as well, until he got himself a bot.
Now he's playing non-stop, trying to figure out the best way to configure the whole thing, and not get caught; literally, he's playing a different game, bot-ting, that just happens to have Lineage as a context.
He's even thinking of joining a bot-ting clan
Last night he was playing two (bot-ted) characters on Lineage, tinkering with Sims 2, AND trying out Spore, all at the same time! The last two he ditched within an hour.
He kind of wishes that there were servers on which bot-ting was "legal" so he could enjoy "the game" even more.
At first I thought this might be interesting in the winter, y'know, pumping that lukewarm air into the rest of the building, as an indirect heating source.
But there's only so much heat the staff is going to tolerate, and in the summer, well, if you reversed the flow,..., you'd have a tad of a vicious cycle going.
Actually, I'm hoping that TweakUI will let you make the "notification" appear if you want it to, that way I can increase my street-cred with my l33t buddies!
Or how new "sections" should let you quickly mark them as not-something-you-want-on-the-cover-page for the first week of its inception into the "officially released" realm.
Thank you for sharing. The last time I saw the world in such absolutes, I was overcoming addiction myself.
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I don't pirate music; why not?
Initially when Windows-only DRM started showing up on albums I got really scared. At the time I used to buy 1-3 CDs a week, music was a constant part of my life, yet the only way I listened to music was through my mp3 player, and all I had was an iBook. When the iTunes store showed up I got an iPod and I started buying again, only for a short time that is, until some other music site shut down and left its customers hanging!
For over a year now I've noticed that I don't listen to music much, and even then I keep listening to the same stuff, or rather, mostly to my existing collection. I don't seek out new music anymore. It stopped being enjoyable. That drive is gone.
Over the years it would bother me quite a bit, not having a legit version and all, but I just couldn't afford nor even justify the cost of it, and then I got a hold of a Elements CD that came with a scanner, and saw it as Photoshop without the plugins, etc. So when the next version came out I bought it; it was a few hundred dollars rather than over a thou... that's when I discovered that they'd decided to bring back plugins and whatnot, but limit the colour depth you could ultimately work with, making it an utterly useless purchase (for me).
Perhaps now that breaking security for Vista will become such a trivial matter, all those evil malware coders will focus on other, more challenging OSes...
Mind you, a lot of people consider a product's solidity by the number of patches released, so, Vista is about to start looking real good, nah?
ahh. recently I've bought a new PC, and over the course of two weeks, have had some parts upgraded and now a new problem is being diagnosed; throughout the whole process, I'd notice the BIOS settings changing every time, and once a CD-ROM (disc) of mine never came back, when there was no reason to even take it out of the drive!
I decided to disregard my impulsive imagination trying to convince me that I wasn't getting the same parts back with each visit; I'd simply check the specs and figured that as long as I got what I'd paid for, the potential rotations were best ignored.
I guess I simply haven't been a "customer" in a long time.
I'm good looking AND a regular here, yet I don't ever comment on anyone's appearance; it's just irrelevant, crass and superficial, and speaks (unwelcome) volumes about the initiator rather than anything about the viewed subject:
I thought she looked like a rather happy mom, the emotion communicated here being love(ly)...
Where's the part about how FBI students/recruits get to confiscate their equipment for an undetermined amount of time, and interrogate them for illicit trading of digital feline (kitty) pornography "materials"?
I recall doing work for a new client, where I made suggestions as to how to distribute admin access on their new NetWare network... the last tech guy had locked them out of their old server some years ago:
First they wanted everyone to login as Supervisor; I explained that it only took one of them to change the password, and then they'd be out of luck.
I suggested that they actually didn't need admin access, so they could simply keep a password in a safe (just in case) and otherwise use normal accounts for day-to-day use, but then they made the point that they didn't want me to be the only one with access...
I was a consultant, and in fact a friend of a friend of the owners, so I wasn't impacted, but they sure were: in the end, only the accountant was made admin equivalent, though everyone's passwords were "go", including his.
This was the best I could do!
Their system was just as vulnerable to lockout but at least I hope to have reduced the potential for human error/accidents.
What about fantasy NPCs fitting real-world brand names within their dialogue, or even names of characters, places, spells, etc?
Like Priest Chrysler complaining how some thieves from the Prada clan past the Timex river have been buggin him of late, and he'd like for you to get his Gilette blade of Purity back from them so he can cut the wedding cake.
1st character = type of resource (Server/Router/Switch/workstation/DBNAME/ClusterName 2nd character = environment (Production/Lab/Test 3-5 = site/location abbreviation 5-x = role (and sometimes product) abbreviation y = increment
One important thing to note, the first character is the most important; the naming scheme can be distinct across types.
For example, when it came time to devise things for end-user nodes and things like printers, it became more useful to tie things to other attribues, like Language, Desktop/Laptop and Cost center. Mind you these were also managed by different teams (with different identification needs).
Keep in mind that you can access things like asset tags remotely, or at least gather them during your inventory process, should you need that for support/replacement purpoces.
I found myself signed up to a bunch of sites I couldn't make heads nor tail of, until eventually I also got signed onto a yahoo forum. Since this had a structure I understood, it became clear to me that spammers were injecting email addresses in there, to (possibly) scan the group for people who complained about being signed up and thus confirming the validity of their addresses!
I simply notified abuse and they acted promptly; perhaps most recipients were less inclined to bother to peruse the content and realize it was bogus.
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So this thing isn't on a TCP/IP network, right? 'Cause otherwise, methinks one could use some layer 2 info to start digging.
Do you have the same "problems" or behaviour when you have Bluetooth disabled? --Are you getting hacked?
Someone I know played Lineage a lot some years ago.
Recently bored with WoW, he returned an old favourite only to nearly drop that one as well, until he got himself a bot.
Now he's playing non-stop, trying to figure out the best way to configure the whole thing, and not get caught; literally, he's playing a different game, bot-ting, that just happens to have Lineage as a context.
He's even thinking of joining a bot-ting clan
Last night he was playing two (bot-ted) characters on Lineage, tinkering with Sims 2, AND trying out Spore, all at the same time! The last two he ditched within an hour.
He kind of wishes that there were servers on which bot-ting was "legal" so he could enjoy "the game" even more.
Think of it as voluntary outsourcing; or, insourcing?
"misinformation", oh and "layers". ;)
If air goes out, then, air must come in.
At first I thought this might be interesting in the winter, y'know, pumping that lukewarm air into the rest of the building, as an indirect heating source.
But there's only so much heat the staff is going to tolerate, and in the summer, well, if you reversed the flow, ..., you'd have a tad of a vicious cycle going.
Actually, I'm hoping that TweakUI will let you make the "notification" appear if you want it to, that way I can increase my street-cred with my l33t buddies!
We'll have these Sweded by tomorrow, no problem.
Or how new "sections" should let you quickly mark them as not-something-you-want-on-the-cover-page for the first week of its inception into the "officially released" realm.
Thank you for sharing. The last time I saw the world in such absolutes, I was overcoming addiction myself.
--
I don't pirate music; why not?
Initially when Windows-only DRM started showing up on albums I got really scared. At the time I used to buy 1-3 CDs a week, music was a constant part of my life, yet the only way I listened to music was through my mp3 player, and all I had was an iBook. When the iTunes store showed up I got an iPod and I started buying again, only for a short time that is, until some other music site shut down and left its customers hanging!
For over a year now I've noticed that I don't listen to music much, and even then I keep listening to the same stuff, or rather, mostly to my existing collection. I don't seek out new music anymore. It stopped being enjoyable. That drive is gone.
DRM killed this consumer.
Over the years it would bother me quite a bit, not having a legit version and all, but I just couldn't afford nor even justify the cost of it, and then I got a hold of a Elements CD that came with a scanner, and saw it as Photoshop without the plugins, etc. So when the next version came out I bought it; it was a few hundred dollars rather than over a thou... that's when I discovered that they'd decided to bring back plugins and whatnot, but limit the colour depth you could ultimately work with, making it an utterly useless purchase (for me).
So I decided that I'd paid my dues.
Suddenly, I'm not hungry anymore.
Perhaps now that breaking security for Vista will become such a trivial matter, all those evil malware coders will focus on other, more challenging OSes...
Mind you, a lot of people consider a product's solidity by the number of patches released, so, Vista is about to start looking real good, nah?
ahh. recently I've bought a new PC, and over the course of two weeks, have had some parts upgraded and now a new problem is being diagnosed; throughout the whole process, I'd notice the BIOS settings changing every time, and once a CD-ROM (disc) of mine never came back, when there was no reason to even take it out of the drive!
I decided to disregard my impulsive imagination trying to convince me that I wasn't getting the same parts back with each visit; I'd simply check the specs and figured that as long as I got what I'd paid for, the potential rotations were best ignored.
I guess I simply haven't been a "customer" in a long time.
I'm good looking AND a regular here, yet I don't ever comment on anyone's appearance; it's just irrelevant, crass and superficial, and speaks (unwelcome) volumes about the initiator rather than anything about the viewed subject:
I thought she looked like a rather happy mom, the emotion communicated here being love(ly)...
Perhaps *that* was too much to bare?
Where's the part about how FBI students/recruits get to confiscate their equipment for an undetermined amount of time, and interrogate them for illicit trading of digital feline (kitty) pornography "materials"?
Sounds like a script for a good movie, nah?
Why oh why doesn't Blizzard simply buy the code (along with some NDA clauses) in the first place?
I feel the urge to look up "pun"...
wait 'till you've started toying with the "option" key...
I recall doing work for a new client, where I made suggestions as to how to distribute admin access on their new NetWare network... the last tech guy had locked them out of their old server some years ago:
First they wanted everyone to login as Supervisor; I explained that it only took one of them to change the password, and then they'd be out of luck.
I suggested that they actually didn't need admin access, so they could simply keep a password in a safe (just in case) and otherwise use normal accounts for day-to-day use, but then they made the point that they didn't want me to be the only one with access...
I was a consultant, and in fact a friend of a friend of the owners, so I wasn't impacted, but they sure were: in the end, only the accountant was made admin equivalent, though everyone's passwords were "go", including his.
This was the best I could do!
Their system was just as vulnerable to lockout but at least I hope to have reduced the potential for human error/accidents.
What about fantasy NPCs fitting real-world brand names within their dialogue, or even names of characters, places, spells, etc?
Like Priest Chrysler complaining how some thieves from the Prada clan past the Timex river have been buggin him of late, and he'd like for you to get his Gilette blade of Purity back from them so he can cut the wedding cake.
Cold Flusion.
Aperture's "library" is just a folder; Use "Show Package contents" from "Get Info" and copy all the originals wherever you want.
exactly!
1st character = type of resource (Server/Router/Switch/workstation/DBNAME/ClusterName
2nd character = environment (Production/Lab/Test
3-5 = site/location abbreviation
5-x = role (and sometimes product) abbreviation
y = increment
One important thing to note, the first character is the most important; the naming scheme can be distinct across types.
For example, when it came time to devise things for end-user nodes and things like printers, it became more useful to tie things to other attribues, like Language, Desktop/Laptop and Cost center. Mind you these were also managed by different teams (with different identification needs).
Keep in mind that you can access things like asset tags remotely, or at least gather them during your inventory process, should you need that for support/replacement purpoces.
I found myself signed up to a bunch of sites I couldn't make heads nor tail of, until eventually I also got signed onto a yahoo forum. Since this had a structure I understood, it became clear to me that spammers were injecting email addresses in there, to (possibly) scan the group for people who complained about being signed up and thus confirming the validity of their addresses!
I simply notified abuse and they acted promptly; perhaps most recipients were less inclined to bother to peruse the content and realize it was bogus.