.RAR = superior compression compared to gzip .TAR thrown in for good measure
Why not go with the superior cross-platform compression? With a little work they could have done just that. That was the point.
"And if you hang in there for a long time, put in your due, get a sharp head about you, you might just land the coveted Perm Tester position and the 36k yearly that comes with it."
$36K...gee, if I didn't have to relocate, that would be good (more than I make now.) But since nobody but me lives here (not true, but it sometimes feels like it) I'd be doomed. For all the abuse, that $10 and hour just ain't worth it--and I know what I'm talking about, 'cuz I was telemarketer for 2 years..and I'm still filled with self-loathing over it 10 years later...
"Well, one of the items some States in the US has for it's governors is a line item veto. So basicly the governor can sign off on the main portion and veto the extra crap. This was talked about, at one time, for the president to stop this paticular problem...but has not happend."
Line Item Veto at the Presidential level was declared Unconstitutional, so it will never happen.
"Why the hell is this allowed? Why should things that have nothing to do with the original bill be included in a vote to pass it into law? And why are laws often voted on without representatives even reading the bill?"
YES! YES! A THOUSAND TIMES YES! I have been saying that same damn thing for over 2 years now, I've written about it, I've suggested legislation to Congress, The Pres, and anyone else who would listen, and you know what? It fails. Why? Porkbarrel politics. See that's where these people make their mark, they know that their assnine ideas fall flat on their own so they tack it onto a bill that has good stuff in it that has to pass. Like putting a raise for Congress in a bill giving lawmakers greater powers to do good... It's sad, really. I'd have to say, Austrailia has their act together on this one.
"The reason according to Elke Monssen-Engberding, director of the Ministry for Family Affairs: 'It portrays war as the only way to resolve conflicts.'""
Gee, just like WWi and WWII (both started by Germans over conflicts)? Nice, real nice. Like the pot calling the kettle black.
When rar gives better compression? Since CPU speed won't be a factor anymore, it would make sense to go with a compression system that is more compact.
Using just the standard options, here's my results:
.CAB actually won, but that one has some problems (like being Windows), and of the remainder.RAR is best and is cross-platform. I would have used.RAR...
LUGS are great, if you have one and it isn't run by a doofus. Plus some areas simply don't have any.
I've gone onto numerous linux news groups and in the first few lines of my post have told whomever would help that I used the man, read the manual, even googled the useage and found no help and then went on to talk about what the problem is and STILL got "RTFM" and useless things like "man samba."
It have been my experience that those who want to sincerely help are being drowned out by the yahoos. It's a signal-to-noise ratio problem. I've even gone so far as to email the coder who wrote the program and at least 80% of the time receive no reply. Yup, that fosters belief in the OSS movement. NOT.
Linux has a problem, and this is it. It can't be fixed by me, it has to be fixed by those few in the right places. Linux will never evolve without that.
First off, the man pages pretty much suck in every distro (since they're the same, that's no shock.) For a new person to nab a distro, beit Slack or RH or whatever and let them loose with only the "use man" statement as an answer will drive them mad. That is what's wrong with the GNU/OSS/Linux situation today: the documentation is (a) non-existant; or, (b) crappy and incomplete; or, (c) out of date [don't believe me, take a look at tldp.org--half their shit is over 2 years old and hasn't been updated.]
Linux would do well to have someone somewhere write decent documentation. Right now reading the manual (for instance Sendmail) will make many lose it. Q-mail isn't much better. Not to mention Squid log parsers (only found one that was worth a shit, and it ain't Calamaris.) *sigh*
When a noob needs help, they can only do a few things:
(a) use man; or,
(b) hit up the newsgroups; or, (c) try to fathom the often shittiest documentation ever written [by the author]; or, (d) say fuck it and go back to Windows.
They'll try "a", and will get little help; then they'll try "b" and get infinitely non-helpful advice like "use man" or "RTFM"; then they'll try "c" which will cause them to scream; and then they'll go to "d", and when they reach option "d" the GNU/OSS/Linux movement has lost another potential convert. If world religions were that fubar (and some are) there'd be no churches, mosques, or synagoges anywhere.
Branding about useless help (like "use man") isn't the answer. The answer is in proper documentation, well written, up do date, concise, and correct. Just because someone can write code does not make them a good documentation author. That's why there are technical writers and their ilk. Because at the end of the line, someone will want to make it work and if the docs aren't available/right/readable/helpful then they're going to say "fuck this shit!" and move on.
And that is failure; and the GNU/OSS/Linux failure is Windows' gain.
You know, if every (American) wrote to your congresspersons and demanded a department that had the right to review and revoke patents and trademarks this sort of thing could be contested and dealt with at a federal level. It would also help weed out the loser ideas at the get-go since they'd be instantly afraid of filing for something that might get challenged and revoked.
I said "wait, it'll be worth it." I, of course, did not wait bacuase I wanted to play immediately. When I said "wait," I didn't realize (and to be fair, neither did Bioware) that it would take this freaking long for the Linux NWN client to see daylight.
But now, you finally can see that I was right. NWN is a killer game, loads of fun. And this next paragraph will contain a bug help and a spoiler, so stop reading now if you don't want to know.
There is an "unresolved" bug in chapter 2e, the pinnacle of the host tower, sometimes if the bug takes hold you cannot complete the adventure. Luckily there is a fix. Make sure you have at least version 1.26 of the client (in Windows--naturally this should have been fixed by now for the Linux client), but if that doesn't work search the NWN forums using the words HOST TOWER BUG, searching back nearly a year. The "cure" is in there. (It hit me hard too, so I know what I'm talking about.) Oh, and don't get attached to Aribeth...;)
expect the end of all new and cool looking Apple products. Al Gore is the most dull person on the planet, expect a new Apple direction to reflect that. Maybe they'll go with the beige box idea, that's pretty well boring.
Here is a link that Slashdot previously posted about a guy who successfully used 47USC227 to sue spammers. You can do it too. Go for the money, or gonads, whichever turns you on the most.
Gee, theft get's thieves caught. That's not only funny, but ironic. They dereve to be nabbed! In other words: fuck 'em. If you steal a signal, especially in today's automatic, managed, bandwidth-capped world, you should never be surprised that you find yourself looking at a bill with plenty of zeroes on it.
God, I love it when this kind of thing happens. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside to see morons, pirates, and general thieves get sent to the cleaners. Caveat Emptor, my brothers.:)
When an author says his work was not well done, that should be a sure fire red-flag that perhaps the whole thing should be aborted like an unviable fetus.
You know, if people periodically checked Windows Update, this would not be that big of a deal; additionally, if you have SP3 installed you can tell it to automagically install any critical updates for you without prompting. Case solved.
"Bonus question: How can you disable the NMI interrupt on the 6502? (Yes, there is a way)."
Jumper a wire on the motherboard. IIRC it was NMI to ground or something like that. On the old Apple II systems, that would dump any program to assembler and from there you could do things like copy the uncopyable, etc.
Any level of additional security, brought about by "lying" or "fooling" is a great thing. After all, nobody needs to know your OS except you. But my opinion is that people should keep their faked responses within the realm of reason. No Sega Dreamcasts, no TI calculators, no Epson Dot Matrix LQ-2170 printers... If you lie, it must be a believable lie or it will be transparently obvious and the h4x0r will figure it out instantly. And that's not a security boon at all.
That kind of thing happens all the time, with the requirements being whacked. It's weird, it's almost like the people that are hiring these people expect miracles. Can't wait for one to show up asking that the employed pay the company, that would be rich!;)
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In the Beta, this is true, but there are some rumblings that when it ships it will be on by default.
You can turn off the Luna interface and make XP look just like 2000.
.RAR = superior compression compared to gzip
.TAR thrown in for good measure
Why not go with the superior cross-platform compression? With a little work they could have done just that. That was the point.
"And if you hang in there for a long time, put in your due, get a sharp head about you, you might just land the coveted Perm Tester position and the 36k yearly that comes with it."
$36K...gee, if I didn't have to relocate, that would be good (more than I make now.) But since nobody but me lives here (not true, but it sometimes feels like it) I'd be doomed. For all the abuse, that $10 and hour just ain't worth it--and I know what I'm talking about, 'cuz I was telemarketer for 2 years..and I'm still filled with self-loathing over it 10 years later...
"Well, one of the items some States in the US has for it's governors is a line item veto. So basicly the governor can sign off on the main portion and veto the extra crap. This was talked about, at one time, for the president to stop this paticular problem...but has not happend."
Line Item Veto at the Presidential level was declared Unconstitutional, so it will never happen.
"Why the hell is this allowed? Why should things that have nothing to do with the original bill be included in a vote to pass it into law? And why are laws often voted on without representatives even reading the bill?"
YES! YES! A THOUSAND TIMES YES! I have been saying that same damn thing for over 2 years now, I've written about it, I've suggested legislation to Congress, The Pres, and anyone else who would listen, and you know what? It fails. Why? Porkbarrel politics. See that's where these people make their mark, they know that their assnine ideas fall flat on their own so they tack it onto a bill that has good stuff in it that has to pass. Like putting a raise for Congress in a bill giving lawmakers greater powers to do good... It's sad, really. I'd have to say, Austrailia has their act together on this one.
"The reason according to Elke Monssen-Engberding, director of the Ministry for Family Affairs: 'It portrays war as the only way to resolve conflicts.'""
Gee, just like WWi and WWII (both started by Germans over conflicts)? Nice, real nice. Like the pot calling the kettle black.
When rar gives better compression? Since CPU speed won't be a factor anymore, it would make sense to go with a compression system that is more compact.
.RAR is best and is cross-platform. I would have used .RAR...
Using just the standard options, here's my results:
Original file: 732,921,856 bytes
.ZIP compressed: 725,244,234 bytes
.CAB compressed: 719,244,234 bytes
.RAR compressed: 719,855,409 bytes
.TAR compressed: 732,928,000 bytes
.BZ2 compressed: 732,884,505 bytes
.LHA/.LZH compressed: 725,886,696 bytes
.BH compressed: 725,251,468 bytes
.tar.gz compressed: 725,254,634 bytes
.CAB actually won, but that one has some problems (like being Windows), and of the remainder
LUGS are great, if you have one and it isn't run by a doofus. Plus some areas simply don't have any.
I've gone onto numerous linux news groups and in the first few lines of my post have told whomever would help that I used the man, read the manual, even googled the useage and found no help and then went on to talk about what the problem is and STILL got "RTFM" and useless things like "man samba."
It have been my experience that those who want to sincerely help are being drowned out by the yahoos. It's a signal-to-noise ratio problem. I've even gone so far as to email the coder who wrote the program and at least 80% of the time receive no reply. Yup, that fosters belief in the OSS movement. NOT.
Linux has a problem, and this is it. It can't be fixed by me, it has to be fixed by those few in the right places. Linux will never evolve without that.
Linux would do well to have someone somewhere write decent documentation. Right now reading the manual (for instance Sendmail) will make many lose it. Q-mail isn't much better. Not to mention Squid log parsers (only found one that was worth a shit, and it ain't Calamaris.) *sigh*
When a noob needs help, they can only do a few things:They'll try "a", and will get little help; then they'll try "b" and get infinitely non-helpful advice like "use man" or "RTFM"; then they'll try "c" which will cause them to scream; and then they'll go to "d", and when they reach option "d" the GNU/OSS/Linux movement has lost another potential convert. If world religions were that fubar (and some are) there'd be no churches, mosques, or synagoges anywhere.
Branding about useless help (like "use man") isn't the answer. The answer is in proper documentation, well written, up do date, concise, and correct. Just because someone can write code does not make them a good documentation author. That's why there are technical writers and their ilk. Because at the end of the line, someone will want to make it work and if the docs aren't available/right/readable/helpful then they're going to say "fuck this shit!" and move on.
And that is failure; and the GNU/OSS/Linux failure is Windows' gain.
That's pretty decent as well, you know. Never mind that it's a little old (and comes prepackaged with Red Hat.)
We'll just make Iraq foot the bill, after all they have the resources, all they'll need to do is just sell oil. No biggie.
In resonse, I'll give only one reason why America is awesome:
"Trogdar, the Burninator."
You know, if every (American) wrote to your congresspersons and demanded a department that had the right to review and revoke patents and trademarks this sort of thing could be contested and dealt with at a federal level. It would also help weed out the loser ideas at the get-go since they'd be instantly afraid of filing for something that might get challenged and revoked.
...just a thought...
I said "wait, it'll be worth it." I, of course, did not wait bacuase I wanted to play immediately. When I said "wait," I didn't realize (and to be fair, neither did Bioware) that it would take this freaking long for the Linux NWN client to see daylight.
;)
But now, you finally can see that I was right. NWN is a killer game, loads of fun. And this next paragraph will contain a bug help and a spoiler, so stop reading now if you don't want to know.
There is an "unresolved" bug in chapter 2e, the pinnacle of the host tower, sometimes if the bug takes hold you cannot complete the adventure. Luckily there is a fix. Make sure you have at least version 1.26 of the client (in Windows--naturally this should have been fixed by now for the Linux client), but if that doesn't work search the NWN forums using the words HOST TOWER BUG, searching back nearly a year. The "cure" is in there. (It hit me hard too, so I know what I'm talking about.) Oh, and don't get attached to Aribeth...
Check this strip out, it's the real Gabe...
expect the end of all new and cool looking Apple products. Al Gore is the most dull person on the planet, expect a new Apple direction to reflect that. Maybe they'll go with the beige box idea, that's pretty well boring.
Anna Malle, not Anne Malle... Not that I have seen her work or anything... D'OH! I think I admitted to something I shouldn't have.
...wonder how I knew that?...
By the way, she's an Iowan from Ft. Madison.
Here is a link that Slashdot previously posted about a guy who successfully used 47USC227 to sue spammers. You can do it too. Go for the money, or gonads, whichever turns you on the most.
Gee, theft get's thieves caught. That's not only funny, but ironic. They dereve to be nabbed! In other words: fuck 'em. If you steal a signal, especially in today's automatic, managed, bandwidth-capped world, you should never be surprised that you find yourself looking at a bill with plenty of zeroes on it.
:)
God, I love it when this kind of thing happens. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside to see morons, pirates, and general thieves get sent to the cleaners. Caveat Emptor, my brothers.
When an author says his work was not well done, that should be a sure fire red-flag that perhaps the whole thing should be aborted like an unviable fetus.
You know, if people periodically checked Windows Update, this would not be that big of a deal; additionally, if you have SP3 installed you can tell it to automagically install any critical updates for you without prompting. Case solved.
"Bonus question: How can you disable the NMI interrupt on the 6502? (Yes, there is a way)."
Jumper a wire on the motherboard. IIRC it was NMI to ground or something like that. On the old Apple II systems, that would dump any program to assembler and from there you could do things like copy the uncopyable, etc.
Any level of additional security, brought about by "lying" or "fooling" is a great thing. After all, nobody needs to know your OS except you. But my opinion is that people should keep their faked responses within the realm of reason. No Sega Dreamcasts, no TI calculators, no Epson Dot Matrix LQ-2170 printers... If you lie, it must be a believable lie or it will be transparently obvious and the h4x0r will figure it out instantly. And that's not a security boon at all.
That kind of thing happens all the time, with the requirements being whacked. It's weird, it's almost like the people that are hiring these people expect miracles. Can't wait for one to show up asking that the employed pay the company, that would be rich! ;)