Yes, ssh can get you into the box, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you will be able to patch some jury-rigged system you have set up.
Well, you can do pretty much anything you could as if you were sitting down at the computer. I don't see how patching or shutting off such a system would be any more difficult, unless you were very stupid in designing it.
Red Hat certifications can lock administrators in to Red Hat-specific skills
I don't like Red Hat. I don't really like Fedora, either. I think SuSE, Mandrake, Gentoo, and Debian fill all the niches that pretty much any Linux user could ever need.
That said, distro "lock-in" is necessary to some extent. Having tried nearly every distro available, I know there is no Linux 'standard' especially when it comes to common administrative tasks like package management, updates, and system configuration. So I doubt that Red Hat is teaching specific skills any more than is necessary.
It's sad to see such an icon go, but it has been a while since Sierra released anything really good. I think they peaked about ten years ago, with Quest for Glory 4 and King's Quest 6. It was all downhill from there.
Still, I doubt many young gamers realize the influence that Sierra had on the industry. These are the people who developed the very first graphical adventures when everyone else was just using text. They might have been one of the first to use motion capture to animate a game (King's Quest 5). They were innovative, and they created what are certainly some of the best computer games ever made. I realize the lack of flashy 3D graphics is a turn-off these days, but I played through the QFG series again about a year ago and loved it. No one else has done anything that rivals QFG and KQ5+6. The adventure genre has simply been dead for ten years.
If history shows anything, it's that people who aren't gamers just don't really care too much about upgrading any more.
Not quite true. There are a lot of other people who can make good use of a fast processor (or two) and gobs of memory. For example, I'm a software developer who uses multiple VMware virtual machines for testing. Faster compiling would be very nice too.
Things like CAD or video editing are also very CPU intensive. So no, gamers are definitely not the only ones who benefit from upgrades.
Why not associate usernames with schedules and save yourself the hassle? Require a VPN logon for the wireless network, and deny access to specific users at the right times.
It doesn't have the best interface, but KOrganizer is pretty good if you use KDE. You can even store your data remotely and access it via FTP or SSH through kioslaves.
If people really want to use it on an ipod, why dont they just get it off iTMS? If youre using an ipod, you are a lot more likely to use music mostly in a digital format.
Probably because they don't want to spend an extra $10 -- when they already paid $14-25 for the album -- just so they can put the music they already bought into another format.
God damnit people, click the "reply to this" link!
*sigh* When you're selling software to businesses, you CANNOT expect them to install 50+MB of.Net crap in addition to your software on each and every computer..Net is NOT installed by default, even on XP.
And as I said, there are still people running NT4, which obviously does not support.Net at all.
When I was developing for Windows platform, I never needed any documentation other than MSDN.
You haven't done anything very unusual then. I'm writing software that has to support NT4. Try searching for NetSetupComponentInstall. It's a valid API function, but all you'll find are a couple references on Google Groups.
And I have to say I refuse to use.Net for the same reason I won't use Java for anything serious: it requires you to install a huge VM on each machine.
Anyone who's tested out the release candidate for Windows XP SP2 shouldn't be surprised by this. SP2 attempts to detect antivirus software, and warns that you should install it if you don't have it. I guess the next logical step is selling your own, rather than recommending third-party products. To quote PA, it smells like money.
The laptop isn't a bad option, especially since you've probably already got it and the battery, but you might want to look at mini-ITX or nano-ITX, which will hopefully be available soon. They're smaller and probably consume less power.
IIRC, Helldesk people bitch about this - people calling up and saying 'I can't get to www.mytimewastingbullshitpage.com, is the net down?' Not realizing that just becuase one or two or thirty sites are down, the net is still up....
Now now. I'm sure most of these people don't actually mean "is the Internet down"; they really mean "is something wrong on your end?", they just lack the technical experience and vocabulary to really understand things.
When a number of sites stop working, it can be for several reasons. The last time it happened on my ISP, part of their backbone was down.
It's an infinite series with 1 as its limiting sum. You can add as many nines to the end as you like but it will never equal 1
Oh no, please don't. You've obviously never taken any serious mathematics, or you'd have a much better standing of what infinity is. It's not just a really big number.
To put it in simple terms, here's another version of the proof in the Blizzard press release:
The obvious solution, if you're willing to spend the money, is to put two 80GB hard drives into a RAID 1 array. It's highly unlikely that both will fail at the same time, so when one does, replace it with a new one. Repeat as necessary.
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Well, you can do pretty much anything you could as if you were sitting down at the computer. I don't see how patching or shutting off such a system would be any more difficult, unless you were very stupid in designing it.
Um, sure. It's called ssh, best friend of Unix admins everywhere.
I don't like Red Hat. I don't really like Fedora, either. I think SuSE, Mandrake, Gentoo, and Debian fill all the niches that pretty much any Linux user could ever need.
That said, distro "lock-in" is necessary to some extent. Having tried nearly every distro available, I know there is no Linux 'standard' especially when it comes to common administrative tasks like package management, updates, and system configuration. So I doubt that Red Hat is teaching specific skills any more than is necessary.
Still, I doubt many young gamers realize the influence that Sierra had on the industry. These are the people who developed the very first graphical adventures when everyone else was just using text. They might have been one of the first to use motion capture to animate a game (King's Quest 5). They were innovative, and they created what are certainly some of the best computer games ever made. I realize the lack of flashy 3D graphics is a turn-off these days, but I played through the QFG series again about a year ago and loved it. No one else has done anything that rivals QFG and KQ5+6. The adventure genre has simply been dead for ten years.
Not quite true. There are a lot of other people who can make good use of a fast processor (or two) and gobs of memory. For example, I'm a software developer who uses multiple VMware virtual machines for testing. Faster compiling would be very nice too.
Things like CAD or video editing are also very CPU intensive. So no, gamers are definitely not the only ones who benefit from upgrades.
Why not associate usernames with schedules and save yourself the hassle? Require a VPN logon for the wireless network, and deny access to specific users at the right times.
It's also really slow and doesn't seem to work with Firefox. And it's a stupid name. No thanks.
It doesn't have the best interface, but KOrganizer is pretty good if you use KDE. You can even store your data remotely and access it via FTP or SSH through kioslaves.
Exactly. When new data breaks your model, it's time to fix your model. That's what science is all about.
Probably because they don't want to spend an extra $10 -- when they already paid $14-25 for the album -- just so they can put the music they already bought into another format.
God damnit people, click the "reply to this" link!
Done and done.
You certainly did...
File a bug report! The Mozilla devs will probably be happy to fix a bug that's easily reproducible.
Very strange. Try a different BT client. There are tons available. BitTornado is a nice one that's cross-platform.
Check out his posting history.
It worked fine for me, upgrading from 0.6 to 0.7 on XP. Even my Enigmail settings survived.
And as I said, there are still people running NT4, which obviously does not support .Net at all.
You forgot one giant market: Internet servers. The vast majority of web servers are running Apache.
You are joking, right?
You haven't done anything very unusual then. I'm writing software that has to support NT4. Try searching for NetSetupComponentInstall. It's a valid API function, but all you'll find are a couple references on Google Groups. .Net for the same reason I won't use Java for anything serious: it requires you to install a huge VM on each machine.
And I have to say I refuse to use
Anyone who's tested out the release candidate for Windows XP SP2 shouldn't be surprised by this. SP2 attempts to detect antivirus software, and warns that you should install it if you don't have it. I guess the next logical step is selling your own, rather than recommending third-party products. To quote PA, it smells like money.
The laptop isn't a bad option, especially since you've probably already got it and the battery, but you might want to look at mini-ITX or nano-ITX, which will hopefully be available soon. They're smaller and probably consume less power.
Now now. I'm sure most of these people don't actually mean "is the Internet down"; they really mean "is something wrong on your end?", they just lack the technical experience and vocabulary to really understand things.
When a number of sites stop working, it can be for several reasons. The last time it happened on my ISP, part of their backbone was down.
The other cars pop out of nowhere and swerve randomly without signaling. That's highly unrealis...oh, wait.
Oh no, please don't. You've obviously never taken any serious mathematics, or you'd have a much better standing of what infinity is. It's not just a really big number.
To put it in simple terms, here's another version of the proof in the Blizzard press release:
Got it? You should have learned this kind of stuff in pre-calc.
The obvious solution, if you're willing to spend the money, is to put two 80GB hard drives into a RAID 1 array. It's highly unlikely that both will fail at the same time, so when one does, replace it with a new one. Repeat as necessary.