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The problem with predatory fish is they tend to live fast and die young, either by design (insert pet shop conspiracy here), or because of sick feeder fish (insert another pet shop conspiracy here). My friend had a bunch of those cool little barracudas that will gobble up guppies, but they would always die withing 2 - 4 weeks. I thought maybe he was overfeeding them, but I dunno...
Other fish however last a long time, as long as they don't eat each other.
2.5 million B.C.: OOG the Open Source Caveman develops the axe and releases it under the GPL. The axe quickly gains popularity as a means of crushing moderators' heads.
100,000 B.C.: Man domesticates the AIBO.
10,000 B.C.: Civilization begins when early farmers first learn to cultivate hot grits.
3000 B.C.: Sumerians develop a primitive cuneiform perl script.
2920 B.C.: A legendary flood sweeps Slashdot, filling up a Borland / Inprise story with hundreds of offtopic posts.
1750 B.C.: Hammurabi, a Mesopotamian king, codifies the first EULA.
490 B.C.: Greek city-states unite to defeat the Persians. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the Greeks "get it".
399 B.C.: Socrates is convicted of impiety. Despite the efforts of freesocrates.com, he is forced to kill himself by drinking hemlock.
336 B.C.: Fat-Time Charlie becomes King of Macedonia and conquers Persia.
4 B.C.: Following the Star (as in hot young actress) of Bethelem, wise men travel from far away to troll for baby Jesus.
A.D. 476: The Roman Empire BSODs.
A.D. 610: The Glorious MEEPT!! founds Islam after receiving a revelation from God. Following his disappearance from Slashdot in 632, a succession dispute results in the emergence of two troll factions: the Pythonni and the Perliites.
A.D. 800: Charlemagne conquers nearly all of Germany, only to be acquired by andover.net.
A.D. 874: Linus the Red discovers Iceland.
A.D. 1000: The epic of the Beowulf Cluster is written down. It is the first English epic poem.
A.D. 1095: Pope Bruce II calls for a crusade against the Turks when it is revealed they are violating the GPL. Later investigation reveals that Pope Bruce II had not yet contacted the Turks before calling for the crusade.
A.D. 1215: Bowing to pressure to open-source the British government, King John signs the Magna Carta, limiting the British monarchy's power. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1348: The ILOVEYOU virus kills over half the population of Europe. (The other half was not using Outlook.)
A.D. 1420: Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press. He is immediately sued by monks claiming that the technology will promote the copying of hand-transcribed books, thus violating the church's intellectual property.
A.D. 1429: Natalie Portman of Arc gathers an army of Slashdot trolls to do battle with the moderators. She is eventually tried as a heretic and stoned (as in petrified).
A.D. 1478: The Catholic Church partners with doubleclick.net to launch the Spanish Inquisition.
A.D. 1492: Christopher Columbus arrives in what he believes to be "India", but which RMS informs him is actually "GNU/India".
A.D. 1508-12: Michaelengelo attempts to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling with ASCII art, only to have his plan thwarted by the "Lameness Filter."
A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly moderated down to (-1, Flamebait).
A.D. 1553: "Bloody" Mary ascends the throne of England and begins an infamous crusade against Protestants. ESR eats his words.
A.D. 1588: The "IF I EVER MEET YOU, I WILL KICK YOUR ASS" guy meets the Spanish Armada.
A.D. 1603: Tokugawa Ieyasu unites the feuding pancake-eating ninjas of Japan.
A.D. 1611: Mattel adds Galileo Galilei to its CyberPatrol block list for proposing that the Earth revolves around the sun.
A.D. 1688: In the so-called "Glorious Revolution", King James II is bloodlessly forced out of power and flees to France. ESR again triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1692: Anti-GIF hysteria in the New World comes to a head in the infamous "Salem GIF Trials", in which 20 alleged GIFs are burned at the stake. Later investigation reveals that many of the supposed GIFs were actually PNGs.
A.D. 1769: James Watt patents the one-click steam engine.
I agree with you totally, especially with laptops, but have you looked into other factors, like some of the useless junk OEMs like to put in the disk images? The first thing I do with a new computer is fdisk/format/reinstall and eliminate all the cruft.
Another issue is all the power saving features on Intel *-m processors tends to lag it down a lot. Just uncompressing the Linux kernel at boot takes a lot longer on my PIII-m 933 Thinkpad than it does on my old PIII 600E home machine.
I dunno about XP but 2k and older require WinPoet, and at least in my case, some crusty old butchered version of Netscape 4.x to set up the account. Once you have a working username and password you can dump it and use whatever browser you want.
Whoa! Are you talking about the one where the kid gets the lightsaber for Christmas and cuts his dad in half? That one won't be included either, not that I'm involved in this conspiracy in any way.
They're trying to round up the last two dozen or so Star Trek fans out there and submit them for "rehabilitation"... probably every fan made Star Wars movie ever made, 24/7, for 2 weeks, and the funny one (the Imperial Stormtroopers Cops episode) isn't included.
If an application or package requires another application or library to be in a specific place without some sort of manual override either on the command line or in a conf file then the application is broken, not the filesystem. You can easily get around filesystem inconsistancies with a soft link, done either manually or in a pre-install script within the package.
By working in a Technical school I see the confusion firsthand, especially among self proclaimed Windows experts that have no concept of the command line or a multiuser OS. Most of the filesystem is irrelevant to most users, as long as it's a fresh install where all executables are in the path, and most config files are in or under/etc. What confuses most users is the concept of a root user, the '/root' directory, and '/', the root of the filesystem. Telling someone to put a file in the root or home directorys can have interesting results.
Another problem which has to do more with just the command line is absolute vs relative paths. Telling someone to put a file in./mobilesales instead of just mobilesales is looking for trouble. Either they will assume they can do this while anywhere in the filesystem, or they won't see the period in front of the slash and put it at the root of the filesystem.
The NYC government is not liberal per se, more like limosine liberal. A sufficent amount of campaign contributions is enough to sway their political views. A perfect place for Hillary Clinton.
As a volunteer firefighter 10 minutes from the City line, it's depressing and disturbing to hear that the City's funds are so mismanaged that eight FDNY firehouses have to be closed.
By 10 minutes from the city line, I assume you would be in Nassau county, since noone can get across the Hudson from Jersey in less than an hour. I would like to add that it's depressing and disturbing to hear that Nassau County's financial situation is just as bad, and that it could get worse. Whenever I think things are horrible in the city, I just pick up a Newsday and laugh at Nassau County.
Everyone also forgets that you only have to sign up for EQ once, and they bill you every 3 months. You can easily overlook a $30 charge on your bill that only shows up every three months.
OTOH, my friend got a pre approved CC application in the snail mail to the name Imso Gothic.
I think the most important phrase of the article is "if the router is misconfigured", which means if you don't know WTF you're doing, stay away from the expensive toys. There's no need for the government to mandate changing the protocol, just mandate proper training for the people that administer the equipment.
Id probably sees most of their money come from licensing the engine, so in the long run you can probably double or triple the initial returns from the original game. MOHAA, ST Elite Force, and Fakk2 were all based on the Quake3 engine, and RTCW is just a major modification of Quake3 Team Arena, and most of the art, levels, and gameplay was farmed out by Nerve and others. Activision also gets their cut for promotion.
I'd like to know whether Croteam (Serious Sam) has any engine licensing deals in the works. I don't know of any other FPS shooter that can handle the amount of enemies Serious Sam throws at you at one time.
Anyone remember Dave Taylor, crack.com, and the now defunct Golgotha Project? He wanted to make the first commercial game for Linux, but after the dot com crash investor interest diminished quickly.
It was a nice idea, but he ran out of money after a year or so. The site is still up and they have some of the code available for download.
On my ship, we usually had enough people for 3 shifts, 4 hours on, 8 hours off. The reason for written logs is to:
Keep people awake and busy
Keep records of equipment performance
Force people to walk around and keep an eye on things
Provide written proof that the first three things are being done
It would cost thousands of dollars per compartment to monitor everything that could go wrong.
During normal working hours we did maintenance. That includes fixing whatever broke and preventive. There aren't any extra people on board that just fix stuff. Whoever is qualified to operate the equipment usually maintains it too.
Also, if someone sees that a critical system is going to fail, the EOOW (Engineering Officer Of the Watch) is the person to notify. The ChEng will know soon enough when he hears the ECC alarm, the lights go out, and he senses that soothing feeling of the ship bobbing helplessly along in the middle of the sea.
Treasure Island is also where the Navy's west coast firefighting and damage control school was held. The Coast Guard trained there too. I went to both, the first time I sprayed water on fires you can't put out, the second time plugging leaks in bulkheads and pipes that have just enough pressure to blow apart the patch you just spent a half hour placing. Fun fun.
I think the best part of TI was the mess hall. They had the best baked beans I ever had, and I'd eat like 2 bowls of it. When I got back to the ship I'd stink the entire Propulsion division out of the berthing, especially my LPO who slept in the bunk right below mine.
With all the dust and/or fiberglass in the walls the inside of the computer case will be a mess within days. Using some sort of dryer vent going outside would be better.
You forgot to mention the snapshot system they employ as well, which will scan the HD and registry of all clients before and after the install and allow you to completely clean any app from the workstations. Unfortunately, Zenworks and Snappshot still rely on the applications own install utilities, so this probably won't help much.
About a quarter of NYC is blacked out to Nextel, especially in the Greenpoint area, and it was like this long before 9/11. Luckily LCDs don't have to worry about burn in like CRTs or my old i1000 would have 'no svc' permanantly etched in the display.
Basic Nextel service costs $39.95 right now I believe. That's around 200 minutes or so, including the direct connect. What they neglect to inform everyone is that every time you push that DC button, you'll get charged for a minute, even if it's just for a 2 second "yes", "no", or "I'm outside". Those minutes dry up fairly quick, even if you only know 2 or 3 people with DC capable phones. I have yet to find anyone using Nextel that actually pays what their original calling plan cost. Fortunately, Customer Service will be more than happy to help you sign up for a better contract, such as $99/mo unlimited, which you wouldn't really need if they didn't screw you with the billing shenanigans.
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Illiad's been doing this for a while.Old news.
The problem with predatory fish is they tend to live fast and die young, either by design (insert pet shop conspiracy here), or because of sick feeder fish (insert another pet shop conspiracy here). My friend had a bunch of those cool little barracudas that will gobble up guppies, but they would always die withing 2 - 4 weeks. I thought maybe he was overfeeding them, but I dunno...
Other fish however last a long time, as long as they don't eat each other.
2.5 million B.C.: OOG the Open Source Caveman develops the axe and releases it under the GPL. The axe quickly gains popularity as a means of crushing moderators' heads.
100,000 B.C.: Man domesticates the AIBO.
10,000 B.C.: Civilization begins when early farmers first learn to cultivate hot grits.
3000 B.C.: Sumerians develop a primitive cuneiform perl script.
2920 B.C.: A legendary flood sweeps Slashdot, filling up a Borland / Inprise story with hundreds of offtopic posts.
1750 B.C.: Hammurabi, a Mesopotamian king, codifies the first EULA.
490 B.C.: Greek city-states unite to defeat the Persians. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the Greeks "get it".
399 B.C.: Socrates is convicted of impiety. Despite the efforts of freesocrates.com, he is forced to kill himself by drinking hemlock.
336 B.C.: Fat-Time Charlie becomes King of Macedonia and conquers Persia.
4 B.C.: Following the Star (as in hot young actress) of Bethelem, wise men travel from far away to troll for baby Jesus.
A.D. 476: The Roman Empire BSODs.
A.D. 610: The Glorious MEEPT!! founds Islam after receiving a revelation from God. Following his disappearance from Slashdot in 632, a succession dispute results in the emergence of two troll factions: the Pythonni and the Perliites.
A.D. 800: Charlemagne conquers nearly all of Germany, only to be acquired by andover.net.
A.D. 874: Linus the Red discovers Iceland.
A.D. 1000: The epic of the Beowulf Cluster is written down. It is the first English epic poem.
A.D. 1095: Pope Bruce II calls for a crusade against the Turks when it is revealed they are violating the GPL. Later investigation reveals that Pope Bruce II had not yet contacted the Turks before calling for the crusade.
A.D. 1215: Bowing to pressure to open-source the British government, King John signs the Magna Carta, limiting the British monarchy's power. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1348: The ILOVEYOU virus kills over half the population of Europe. (The other half was not using Outlook.)
A.D. 1420: Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press. He is immediately sued by monks claiming that the technology will promote the copying of hand-transcribed books, thus violating the church's intellectual property.
A.D. 1429: Natalie Portman of Arc gathers an army of Slashdot trolls to do battle with the moderators. She is eventually tried as a heretic and stoned (as in petrified).
A.D. 1478: The Catholic Church partners with doubleclick.net to launch the Spanish Inquisition.
A.D. 1492: Christopher Columbus arrives in what he believes to be "India", but which RMS informs him is actually "GNU/India".
A.D. 1508-12: Michaelengelo attempts to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling with ASCII art, only to have his plan thwarted by the "Lameness Filter."
A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly moderated down to (-1, Flamebait).
A.D. 1553: "Bloody" Mary ascends the throne of England and begins an infamous crusade against Protestants. ESR eats his words.
A.D. 1588: The "IF I EVER MEET YOU, I WILL KICK YOUR ASS" guy meets the Spanish Armada.
A.D. 1603: Tokugawa Ieyasu unites the feuding pancake-eating ninjas of Japan.
A.D. 1611: Mattel adds Galileo Galilei to its CyberPatrol block list for proposing that the Earth revolves around the sun.
A.D. 1688: In the so-called "Glorious Revolution", King James II is bloodlessly forced out of power and flees to France. ESR again triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1692: Anti-GIF hysteria in the New World comes to a head in the infamous "Salem GIF Trials", in which 20 alleged GIFs are burned at the stake. Later investigation reveals that many of the supposed GIFs were actually PNGs.
A.D. 1769: James Watt patents the one-click steam engine.
I agree with you totally, especially with laptops, but have you looked into other factors, like some of the useless junk OEMs like to put in the disk images? The first thing I do with a new computer is fdisk/format/reinstall and eliminate all the cruft.
Another issue is all the power saving features on Intel *-m processors tends to lag it down a lot. Just uncompressing the Linux kernel at boot takes a lot longer on my PIII-m 933 Thinkpad than it does on my old PIII 600E home machine.
I dunno about XP but 2k and older require WinPoet, and at least in my case, some crusty old butchered version of Netscape 4.x to set up the account. Once you have a working username and password you can dump it and use whatever browser you want.
Whoa! Are you talking about the one where the kid gets the lightsaber for Christmas and cuts his dad in half? That one won't be included either, not that I'm involved in this conspiracy in any way.
They're trying to round up the last two dozen or so Star Trek fans out there and submit them for "rehabilitation" ... probably every fan made Star Wars movie ever made, 24/7, for 2 weeks, and the funny one (the Imperial Stormtroopers Cops episode) isn't included.
If an application or package requires another application or library to be in a specific place without some sort of manual override either on the command line or in a conf file then the application is broken, not the filesystem. You can easily get around filesystem inconsistancies with a soft link, done either manually or in a pre-install script within the package.
By working in a Technical school I see the confusion firsthand, especially among self proclaimed Windows experts that have no concept of the command line or a multiuser OS. Most of the filesystem is irrelevant to most users, as long as it's a fresh install where all executables are in the path, and most config files are in or under /etc. What confuses most users is the concept of a root user, the '/root' directory, and '/', the root of the filesystem. Telling someone to put a file in the root or home directorys can have interesting results.
./mobilesales instead of just mobilesales is looking for trouble. Either they will assume they can do this while anywhere in the filesystem, or they won't see the period in front of the slash and put it at the root of the filesystem.
Another problem which has to do more with just the command line is absolute vs relative paths. Telling someone to put a file in
The NYC government is not liberal per se, more like limosine liberal. A sufficent amount of campaign contributions is enough to sway their political views. A perfect place for Hillary Clinton.
Kinda reminds me of the movie Seven.
Yes, I'd like this box delivered to these GPS coordinates at exactly 7 PM tomorrow.
Everyone also forgets that you only have to sign up for EQ once, and they bill you every 3 months. You can easily overlook a $30 charge on your bill that only shows up every three months.
OTOH, my friend got a pre approved CC application in the snail mail to the name Imso Gothic.
I think the most important phrase of the article is "if the router is misconfigured", which means if you don't know WTF you're doing, stay away from the expensive toys. There's no need for the government to mandate changing the protocol, just mandate proper training for the people that administer the equipment.
Id probably sees most of their money come from licensing the engine, so in the long run you can probably double or triple the initial returns from the original game. MOHAA, ST Elite Force, and Fakk2 were all based on the Quake3 engine, and RTCW is just a major modification of Quake3 Team Arena, and most of the art, levels, and gameplay was farmed out by Nerve and others. Activision also gets their cut for promotion.
I'd like to know whether Croteam (Serious Sam) has any engine licensing deals in the works. I don't know of any other FPS shooter that can handle the amount of enemies Serious Sam throws at you at one time.
Anyone remember Dave Taylor, crack.com, and the now defunct Golgotha Project? He wanted to make the first commercial game for Linux, but after the dot com crash investor interest diminished quickly.
It was a nice idea, but he ran out of money after a year or so. The site is still up and they have some of the code available for download.
Keep people awake and busy
Keep records of equipment performance
Force people to walk around and keep an eye on things
Provide written proof that the first three things are being done It would cost thousands of dollars per compartment to monitor everything that could go wrong.
During normal working hours we did maintenance. That includes fixing whatever broke and preventive. There aren't any extra people on board that just fix stuff. Whoever is qualified to operate the equipment usually maintains it too.
Also, if someone sees that a critical system is going to fail, the EOOW (Engineering Officer Of the Watch) is the person to notify. The ChEng will know soon enough when he hears the ECC alarm, the lights go out, and he senses that soothing feeling of the ship bobbing helplessly along in the middle of the sea.
MM3 CheezyDee (U.S.S. Mauna Kea)
Treasure Island is also where the Navy's west coast firefighting and damage control school was held. The Coast Guard trained there too. I went to both, the first time I sprayed water on fires you can't put out, the second time plugging leaks in bulkheads and pipes that have just enough pressure to blow apart the patch you just spent a half hour placing. Fun fun.
I think the best part of TI was the mess hall. They had the best baked beans I ever had, and I'd eat like 2 bowls of it. When I got back to the ship I'd stink the entire Propulsion division out of the berthing, especially my LPO who slept in the bunk right below mine.
MM3 CheezyDee (U.S.S. Mauna Kea)
With all the dust and/or fiberglass in the walls the inside of the computer case will be a mess within days. Using some sort of dryer vent going outside would be better.
You forgot to mention the snapshot system they employ as well, which will scan the HD and registry of all clients before and after the install and allow you to completely clean any app from the workstations. Unfortunately, Zenworks and Snappshot still rely on the applications own install utilities, so this probably won't help much.
About a quarter of NYC is blacked out to Nextel, especially in the Greenpoint area, and it was like this long before 9/11. Luckily LCDs don't have to worry about burn in like CRTs or my old i1000 would have 'no svc' permanantly etched in the display.
Basic Nextel service costs $39.95 right now I believe. That's around 200 minutes or so, including the direct connect. What they neglect to inform everyone is that every time you push that DC button, you'll get charged for a minute, even if it's just for a 2 second "yes", "no", or "I'm outside". Those minutes dry up fairly quick, even if you only know 2 or 3 people with DC capable phones. I have yet to find anyone using Nextel that actually pays what their original calling plan cost. Fortunately, Customer Service will be more than happy to help you sign up for a better contract, such as $99/mo unlimited, which you wouldn't really need if they didn't screw you with the billing shenanigans.