IIRC, you could use the WCII graphics tileset (and maybe the sounds) in FreeCraft, but all actual code was FreeCraft. (There were native FreeCraft tilesets, of course. But they weren't very good. I only used FreeCraft with native tilesets even though I own WCII and Starcraft.)
I'm not sure how that translates legally, but I always thought FreeCraft was a dangerous name for the project.
I haven't looked at the site in a while. They had been making lots of improvments and in some ways the multiplayer games were cooler. You could see a "replay" of the game a la the Civ games.
Well, if you download this KnoppixMAME iso you can simply boot it up and play the ROM images right off your hard drive. You don't have to install Linux or configure it. It will auto-configure to your system.
Your only two possible time-takers would be if you're not familiar with Linux:
1: and have more than one HDD partition you might have to click on more than one desktop icon ("is it hda1 or hda5?")
2: It may take you a little bit to figure out how to launch XMAME. I didn't RTFA so I don't know if they have a nice GUI frontend or if you need to find it and load or ROM or if you need to run MAME from a command prompt. But you will have to find the ROMs on your HDD from your desktop first, becaus your HDDs aren't mounted until you browse them.
You'll have to confirm the removals, and you'll assign a password to user knoppix so you can log in as that user. You could also create a new user to log into FTP from.
hosts.allow and hosts.deny are symlinked to the read-only image, so if you want to roll your own you'll still have to delete the links and then create new ones from scratch or with cp.
The start command will create new keys in KNOPPPIX, too. You have to assign knoppix (or root or a new user) a password to be able to log in, of course.
And the joystick connector is inside the case, of course. Where else would it be? (To non-Apple ][ owners, it's a DIP connector just like a rom package.)
At least my floppy disks don't get destroyed if I forget to close the disk before I pull it out!
I don't recall having a problem on the P166, but like I say it's dedicated to Kazaa. If your work PCs are anything likt mine, they may have a virus scanner daemon, multiple versions of Java (each vendor prefers a different version), some remote management software daemons and other stuff I can't think of right now. These things can bring an otherwise decent PC to its knees in a hurry.
People complaing about the 1GHz and 2GHz PCs being slow for IE and Word and such, and they're right. Sad.
I also understand that compared to you, I should not call myself a sysadmin;)
Aw, shucks. But I don't run the whole thing. I just admin 4/26's on a single router and a few switchs with a hundred or so PCs, a few servers and a couple dozen printers. (For some crazy reason everybody wants their own network printer. I keep telling them in a business a networked HP 2000C is way more expensive than a networked HP 8150DN over the long haul. They even have a 4500C for color, but they still want their own printers, and then they want them on the network. Silly users. But I digress.)
Another thing is that you probably have absolute power over your 8 PCs and DSL, but even though I know I'm the most important person to the end user there is a bureaucracy that demands all sorts of silly things and limits my discretion. There's ups and downs to every situation.
I guess I wasn't thinking outside of my situation. I'm on an intranet of two class B networks (subnetted/26) and 100 or so class C networks. So in my situation bandwidth hogs must die.
In a small shop or a commercial data center bandwidth isn't as much as a worry. (Back when I worked at a data center my coworker ran Napster from the NOC at 10Mbit internet. Sweeeeeeet.)
But I wouldn't voluntarily install any adware/spyware/virus magnet like Kazaa wherever I work. Even at home it's banished to an old Pentium 166 with Win95 that's only turned on when I want to use Kazaa. Okay, okay. I put Kazaa Lite on my main PC. But not at work.
Another issue: What if the RIAA sees OpenOffice.org or something on your Kazaa share and DOS'es your work connection? Or sues?
Not that I'm picking on you. I'm just bored and posting a lot to Slashdot to see myself type I guess.
But I do think it's OK for record companies to spoof P2P networks and try to disrupt them.
You think it's okay for American corporations to disrupt activities of American citizens?
Okay, if it's illegal or a civil court issue, fine, take it to court. But since when is it okay for them to decide who's naughty and who's nice and take action themselves?
Oh, it's too expensive to sue everyone? Hmmm. maybe there's a reason for that. Maybe there's a reason "piracy" is so "rampant". Rather than changing the laws to allow themselves to attack without due process perhaps they should look at their business model and current technology and reconsider how they do business.
According to that I am OS/2 Warp. Heh. I actually did have and like OS/2 2.1 and then OS/2 Warp. It was far cooler than Win95 except for not having any apps or supporting any hardware.:-/
Based on their possible answers I think I would've rather been Debian or Slackware, not coincidentally my two favorite flavors of Linux.
Heh, they give you the Hurd if you don't answer all the questions.
(Come to think of it, I've tried most of those OSes listed.)
I hadn't heard of Strongbad Email before you posted it. I'm at a PC with no sound now, so I'll have to check it out later.
But that's the point. I can now see it in Mozilla Firebird just by clikcing it. But the Flash ads just sit there blank instead of distracting me. I don't need IE anymore. (Except for work.:-P )
I'm fairly sure there's an open source viewer and some open source creation tools. I've read about some on-the-fly generated SWF like for charts and graphs. The links should on the site somewhere.
This is one of those things I'll figure I'll get around to playing with someday.
Mozilla Firebird (Phoenix) has a "Flash click to play" extension. I used to not install the Flash plugin in a Mozilla browser and just switch to IE when I actually wanted flash, but now I get a blank box that says "flash click to play...". Sweet.
Posted this as Karhgath previously as an error. Sorry.
I don't think you understand Microsoft's tactic. They ALWAYS did the same thing:
1) Start with something free or an upgrade. 2) Incrementally and slowly add more and more restrictive claims. Auto-update, DRM, etc. 3) If the people start complaining too much, roll-back to previous claims, which isn't much better. 4) Wait for a while. 5) Go to 2.
This has been MS tactics for as long as I can remember. So, I don't think we should claim victory right now.
(Hey, it's already up to score 10, why not 15, mods?) (Disclaimer for the clueless: okay, I copied and pasted this and it's not mine.)
1: Download Mozilla Firebird 2: Install "Nuke Images" plugin 3: Click link (from home only with no kids around) 4: Quickly right-click and choose "Remove this image" on each pic. (try not to look directly at it) 5: Read article and think "how the hell can that guy do that?" 6: ??? 7: Profit!
I expected to see a lot of sold-short shares, but only 0.8% of float is short.
Heh, there are some gems in that profile:
"The SCO Group, Inc. develops and markets software based onthe Linux operating system and provides related services that enable the development, deployment and management of Internet access devices and specialized servers."
Management Effectiveness Return on Assets (ttm) -8.48% Return on Equity (ttm) -32.47%
If I read that last one right, more than two-thirds of the stock is owned by the company. Isn't that a bit unusual? On the other hand, the management/board of directors has complete control over whether or not they can be bought out, right?
Now given the above information, look at this:
52-Week Change +1234.8%
52-Week Change relative to S&P500 +1260.0%
I think that the problem is that most of the people who were making the insane dollars they were don't want to take on a $30K-$40K job, even if basic administration or technician work will pay the bills.
I was in a similar situation three years ago. In 2000 I had quit two jobs and was looking for something that paid at least $50k and was otherwise palatable for me. I had an interesting and stable job offer, but it was "only for $28k" and I refused it.
I ran though all my money and doubled my debt before I decided I couldn't hold out anymore and got a retail job.
A month or so later I finally landed a tech job again at $30k, way less than I had made two jobs ago and way way less than I thought I was worth. But by then my ego was nonexistent and I was thrilled to be back in the industry.
I later went back to the employer I had been steady with before 2000 because they made it worth my while and were more stable than my $30k job.
An ego is a very expensive thing to have. I'll have all that debt paid of within a year, and next time I'm out of a job I'll take that $28k tech job instead of turning my nose up at it. If you plan ahead (i.e., don't drive expensive cars or carry CC debt) you can easily pay your bills with $28k or even much less.
Slashdot Mirror
IIRC, you could use the WCII graphics tileset (and maybe the sounds) in FreeCraft, but all actual code was FreeCraft. (There were native FreeCraft tilesets, of course. But they weren't very good. I only used FreeCraft with native tilesets even though I own WCII and Starcraft.)
I'm not sure how that translates legally, but I always thought FreeCraft was a dangerous name for the project.
I haven't looked at the site in a while. They had been making lots of improvments and in some ways the multiplayer games were cooler. You could see a "replay" of the game a la the Civ games.
My time isn't. :(
Well, if you download this KnoppixMAME iso you can simply boot it up and play the ROM images right off your hard drive. You don't have to install Linux or configure it. It will auto-configure to your system.
Your only two possible time-takers would be if you're not familiar with Linux:
1: and have more than one HDD partition you might have to click on more than one desktop icon ("is it hda1 or hda5?")
2: It may take you a little bit to figure out how to launch XMAME. I didn't RTFA so I don't know if they have a nice GUI frontend or if you need to find it and load or ROM or if you need to run MAME from a command prompt. But you will have to find the ROMs on your HDD from your desktop first, becaus your HDDs aren't mounted until you browse them.
All you have to do is "su - ; apachectl restart", and you're good to go.
/etc/init.d/apache start
/etc/init.d/apache start
/etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny /etc/init.d/inetd restart
/etc/init.d/ssh start
Assuming you're at the $ prompt in X you'll need to do this:
sudo su -
And since it's Debian-based you can use Debian's:
from the # prompt. Or you shortcut it with:
sudo
FTP
While we're on the subject, ftp is a bit trickier. This is one way:
knoppix$ sudo su -
knoppix# rm
knoppix# rm
knoppix# passwd knoppix
knoppix#
You'll have to confirm the removals, and you'll assign a password to user knoppix so you can log in as that user. You could also create a new user to log into FTP from.
hosts.allow and hosts.deny are symlinked to the read-only image, so if you want to roll your own you'll still have to delete the links and then create new ones from scratch or with cp.
SSH
knoppix$ sudo
knoppix$ sudo passwd knoppix
The start command will create new keys in KNOPPPIX, too. You have to assign knoppix (or root or a new user) a password to be able to log in, of course.
The early adapters . . .
That's got to be the best pun I've seen in a long time.
Well, near-pun or Freudian slip or something.
myhair@darkstar$ps
d a -expatd
init
klogd
inetd
smtpd
pop3d
imapd
spamfs
viagrad
celeb-photosd
college-degreed
nigeri
apache
bash
myhair@darkstar$
Hmmm, I think I have some configs to tweak.
ROFL.
Ah, those were the days.
And the joystick connector is inside the case, of course. Where else would it be? (To non-Apple ][ owners, it's a DIP connector just like a rom package.)
At least my floppy disks don't get destroyed if I forget to close the disk before I pull it out!
I don't recall having a problem on the P166, but like I say it's dedicated to Kazaa. If your work PCs are anything likt mine, they may have a virus scanner daemon, multiple versions of Java (each vendor prefers a different version), some remote management software daemons and other stuff I can't think of right now. These things can bring an otherwise decent PC to its knees in a hurry.
;)
/26's on a single router and a few switchs with a hundred or so PCs, a few servers and a couple dozen printers. (For some crazy reason everybody wants their own network printer. I keep telling them in a business a networked HP 2000C is way more expensive than a networked HP 8150DN over the long haul. They even have a 4500C for color, but they still want their own printers, and then they want them on the network. Silly users. But I digress.)
People complaing about the 1GHz and 2GHz PCs being slow for IE and Word and such, and they're right. Sad.
I also understand that compared to you, I should not call myself a sysadmin
Aw, shucks. But I don't run the whole thing. I just admin 4
Another thing is that you probably have absolute power over your 8 PCs and DSL, but even though I know I'm the most important person to the end user there is a bureaucracy that demands all sorts of silly things and limits my discretion. There's ups and downs to every situation.
I guess I wasn't thinking outside of my situation. I'm on an intranet of two class B networks (subnetted /26) and 100 or so class C networks. So in my situation bandwidth hogs must die.
In a small shop or a commercial data center bandwidth isn't as much as a worry. (Back when I worked at a data center my coworker ran Napster from the NOC at 10Mbit internet. Sweeeeeeet.)
But I wouldn't voluntarily install any adware/spyware/virus magnet like Kazaa wherever I work. Even at home it's banished to an old Pentium 166 with Win95 that's only turned on when I want to use Kazaa. Okay, okay. I put Kazaa Lite on my main PC. But not at work.
Another issue: What if the RIAA sees OpenOffice.org or something on your Kazaa share and DOS'es your work connection? Or sues?
Not that I'm picking on you. I'm just bored and posting a lot to Slashdot to see myself type I guess.
But I do think it's OK for record companies to spoof P2P networks and try to disrupt them.
You think it's okay for American corporations to disrupt activities of American citizens?
Okay, if it's illegal or a civil court issue, fine, take it to court. But since when is it okay for them to decide who's naughty and who's nice and take action themselves?
Oh, it's too expensive to sue everyone? Hmmm. maybe there's a reason for that. Maybe there's a reason "piracy" is so "rampant". Rather than changing the laws to allow themselves to attack without due process perhaps they should look at their business model and current technology and reconsider how they do business.
If governmental workers are like me, they are bored and use Kazaa at work.
Kazaa at work? What are you thinking? I vote for blowing up your network cable at least.
(I'm a network admin. I barely tolerate AIM and YM, but Kazaa turns me into BOFH.)
According to that I am OS/2 Warp. Heh. I actually did have and like OS/2 2.1 and then OS/2 Warp. It was far cooler than Win95 except for not having any apps or supporting any hardware. :-/
Based on their possible answers I think I would've rather been Debian or Slackware, not coincidentally my two favorite flavors of Linux.
Heh, they give you the Hurd if you don't answer all the questions.
(Come to think of it, I've tried most of those OSes listed.)
I hadn't heard of Strongbad Email before you posted it. I'm at a PC with no sound now, so I'll have to check it out later.
:-P )
But that's the point. I can now see it in Mozilla Firebird just by clikcing it. But the Flash ads just sit there blank instead of distracting me. I don't need IE anymore. (Except for work.
The SWF specification.
I'm fairly sure there's an open source viewer and some open source creation tools. I've read about some on-the-fly generated SWF like for charts and graphs. The links should on the site somewhere.
This is one of those things I'll figure I'll get around to playing with someday.
Mozilla Firebird (Phoenix) has a "Flash click to play" extension. I used to not install the Flash plugin in a Mozilla browser and just switch to IE when I actually wanted flash, but now I get a blank box that says "flash click to play...". Sweet.
Does CrazyBrowser or Opera do something similar?
What OS defines me as a person?
Posted this as Karhgath previously as an error. Sorry.
I don't think you understand Microsoft's tactic. They ALWAYS did the same thing:
1) Start with something free or an upgrade.
2) Incrementally and slowly add more and more restrictive claims. Auto-update, DRM, etc.
3) If the people start complaining too much, roll-back to previous claims, which isn't much better.
4) Wait for a while.
5) Go to 2.
This has been MS tactics for as long as I can remember. So, I don't think we should claim victory right now.
(Hey, it's already up to score 10, why not 15, mods?) (Disclaimer for the clueless: okay, I copied and pasted this and it's not mine.)
Oops. I missed that. Good point.
All I can say is (with ominous awe):
DAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmn.
. . .one million percent profit.
Well, 1234.8% profit. (Scroll to bottom, left side just below graph. Percentage at posting time is 52-week performance as of 6-13-2003.)
. . . a smaller Linux-related business . . .
At this point, calling SCO a "Linux-related business" is kind of like calling Hitler the leader of a Judaism-related organization.
(Not to diminish the holocaust; that's just the first example to jump to mind.)
*** OUT OF STOCK ***
:-)
You slashdotted the mini DVDs. Are you proud?
I didn't see any explanation on his page about how his software works. Did anyone else find info on his software to run nBot?
1: Download Mozilla Firebird
2: Install "Nuke Images" plugin
3: Click link (from home only with no kids around)
4: Quickly right-click and choose "Remove this image" on each pic. (try not to look directly at it)
5: Read article and think "how the hell can that guy do that?"
6: ???
7: Profit!
(Sorry 'bout those last two)
Heh, I looked and he's right. (Scroll to bottom.)
I expected to see a lot of sold-short shares, but only 0.8% of float is short.
Heh, there are some gems in that profile:
"The SCO Group, Inc. develops and markets software based onthe Linux operating system and provides related services that enable the development, deployment and management of Internet access devices and specialized servers."
If I read that last one right, more than two-thirds of the stock is owned by the company. Isn't that a bit unusual? On the other hand, the management/board of directors has complete control over whether or not they can be bought out, right?
Now given the above information, look at this:Makes sense to me. (not)
I think that the problem is that most of the people who were making the insane dollars they were don't want to take on a $30K-$40K job, even if basic administration or technician work will pay the bills.
I was in a similar situation three years ago. In 2000 I had quit two jobs and was looking for something that paid at least $50k and was otherwise palatable for me. I had an interesting and stable job offer, but it was "only for $28k" and I refused it.
I ran though all my money and doubled my debt before I decided I couldn't hold out anymore and got a retail job.
A month or so later I finally landed a tech job again at $30k, way less than I had made two jobs ago and way way less than I thought I was worth. But by then my ego was nonexistent and I was thrilled to be back in the industry.
I later went back to the employer I had been steady with before 2000 because they made it worth my while and were more stable than my $30k job.
An ego is a very expensive thing to have. I'll have all that debt paid of within a year, and next time I'm out of a job I'll take that $28k tech job instead of turning my nose up at it. If you plan ahead (i.e., don't drive expensive cars or carry CC debt) you can easily pay your bills with $28k or even much less.
Crap. According to this (which is supposed to be in this frameset) the deadline is past for excluding myself.
I never included myself, so I don't get a settlement, and I don't care about that because I didn't want those settlement terms, anyway.
But since I didn't explicitly exclude myself, does that mean I've lost all legal options to pursue a claim that they conspired to price gouge me?