I have to agree with the parent. zMUD has some awesome features, for MUDding. However, if you want to do anything else (MUSH, MUX) zMud is crap (No offense at all! It's just geared towards MUDding, and that's what it's good at.) For MUSHs and MUXs, TinyFugue far and away. Nobody has mentioned this yet, but there are Win32 builds of it!
More complete answer? It varies. As someone above pointed out, they range from Role-Play Only (I.e., no code.. glorified (if even that) chat room) to Hack-N'-Slash (Everquest without pretty pictures). Also, a lot of times the word "MUD" includes MUSHs (Multi-User-Shared-Hallucination/-Simulated-Hell), MUXs (Multi-User-eXperience, IIRC), MUSEs (Multi-User-Simulated-Environment), and MAREs (Of which there is precisely one, but I don't remember what it stands for). There are only a handful of MUSEs still around, and I am fairly certain they are all social and/or educational, and sparsely popualted. Of MUSHs there are two predominant varities, Tiny- and PennMUSH. Tiny is more geared towards pen-and-paper-type RPGs converted to electronic form, whereas Penn happens to be slightly more suitable for space-based sci-fi games. Much like the Republican and Democratic parties, there is really very little difference to the two. For TinyMUX, the only one worth using is Brazil's MUX 2.0, and it only stands out if you're using it to play a World of Darkness game (Vampire, Mage, Werewolf, etc.). MUDs vary, and I am not very educated on them. Generally they're a lot more like videogames than their four-letter counterparts. There's also MOOs, which are sort of like the bastard child of a MUD and a MUSH. I don't know much about this last type, either.
One protocol to rule them all One protocol to find them One protocol to bring them all And in the darkness to bind them.
So it's a master-slave-model distributed filesystem with autosensing of new nodes, that automatically propogates changes to the master node and binds additions to automagically generated mount points.
The main point of my article was the short-term effects of a revolution, and I pointed out the analogies between the Industrial Revolution and the current revolution(?) we're going through: Over-cheap, over-plentiful labor, and a period of rapid progression in whatever field is in question.
The short term effects, plainly put, are a drop in the standard of living for most of the population; Even if lower wages meaning lower costs, most companies will just see that as an opportunity to increase their profit margin, at the very least keeping their prices equal to what they were before; Total change in buying power? Negative.
I'll be the first to admit that this is a somewhat selfish point of view. I want to be able to live well when I get a job in my field of computer science. I want to be able to provide for my children when, and if, I ever have any. If the only way I can get a job without getting a new degree is by moving to India and making (don't blast me, I don't know the actual numbers) $10,000 a year, I don't think I'll be able to do either of what I want.
As to claims that the costs of living in India are simply lower, whether or not they are true, my concern is not food and housing... My concern, as a tried and true geek, are gadgets; And correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think my 30" LCD is any cheaper in India than it is in the States, and, as a potential parent one day, being able to send my children to good schools. Possibly my school. When it costs me $5K/semester to go where I go - a public University as a citizen of this state - How can I afford to help provide for my childrens' education, 20 years from now, making no money in whatever country IT has been outsourced to?
(BTW: "Yeah, we moved around a lot when I was a kid." "Army brat?" "No, IT.")
So, I was in History 106 today, and my professor says to us, "One of the primary characterizations of the industrial revolution was a period of rapid change." Rapid change, sort of like how you buy a video card, and a month later it's obsolete, and two months later it's a paperweight.
Reading this article has got me thinking, though. One of the other characterizations of the industrial revolution was cheap labor- the massive influx of immigrants into the U.S., who proceeded to work for dirt and drive "Americans" out of jobs. If you recall, it only made everybody's - except the wealthy, of course - living conditions worse. This is not a good thing. Being only a mere computer scientist, I hesitate to speculate on what far-reaching sociological effects this will have, but at the very least, in the near future, this is not a good thing. Last time this happened, we unionized, but I don't think that will work this time. I wish I had a solution (since in three years when I graduate I probably won't have a job), but I can't see one.
And, for the record, I wasted three mod points to post this.
If this annoymous invader then offers to help replace the locks with ones that are harder to pick, sure. I mean, what's the big f-cking deal? He didn't cause damage, plain and simple. All he did was embarass their security people. I wish I could get $300K every time I got embarassed.
The tactic is broadly to remind those it catches of the truly draconian penalties the law in the United States allows ($150,000 per song - and you don't have to be a Berkeley mathematician to multiply that a few times to get more dollars that any student loan could cover).
Then when the poor student has picked himself up from the floor and the blood returns to his face, the lawyers will say broadly: "OK, we'll let you off the fine if you agree to pay, let's say, a mere $15,000".... Furthermore, in one recent case, a college student was told that just by filing an answer in court, the cost of any final settlement would rise by $50,000.
If this isn't extortion, By God, I don't know what is.
super-sonic jets The concorde is grounded. Segway The name is purposefully mis-spelled because stupid people wouldn't know how to pronounce it if it were the right way. super-computers in a 24U enclosure... Suffer from pretty severe heating/power problems. how does that work? 'nuf said.
Codeweaver's Crossover Office supports Photoshop, says the article. This version of wine (sort of like Transgaming's, but..) is costing money (something like $60 a copy, IIRC), rather than being free.:/ This would completely free me from the tyrrany of Windows.. If only I had Exchange.
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Imagine a beowulf of these!
Yeah, and I forgot; Just because it's always been this way means its the best way.
I have to agree with the parent. zMUD has some awesome features, for MUDding. However, if you want to do anything else (MUSH, MUX) zMud is crap (No offense at all! It's just geared towards MUDding, and that's what it's good at.) For MUSHs and MUXs, TinyFugue far and away. Nobody has mentioned this yet, but there are Win32 builds of it!
Technically? Multi-User-Dungeon.. Text-based Everquest. (Don't flame me)
, MUXs (Multi-User-eXperience, IIRC), MUSEs (Multi-User-Simulated-Environment), and MAREs (Of which there is precisely one, but I don't remember what it stands for). There are only a handful of MUSEs still around, and I am fairly certain they are all social and/or educational, and sparsely popualted. Of MUSHs there are two predominant varities, Tiny- and PennMUSH. Tiny is more geared towards pen-and-paper-type RPGs converted to electronic form, whereas Penn happens to be slightly more suitable for space-based sci-fi games. Much like the Republican and Democratic parties, there is really very little difference to the two. For TinyMUX, the only one worth using is Brazil's MUX 2.0, and it only stands out if you're using it to play a World of Darkness game (Vampire, Mage, Werewolf, etc.). MUDs vary, and I am not very educated on them. Generally they're a lot more like videogames than their four-letter counterparts. There's also MOOs, which are sort of like the bastard child of a MUD and a MUSH. I don't know much about this last type, either.
More complete answer? It varies. As someone above pointed out, they range from Role-Play Only (I.e., no code.. glorified (if even that) chat room) to Hack-N'-Slash (Everquest without pretty pictures). Also, a lot of times the word "MUD" includes MUSHs (Multi-User-Shared-Hallucination/-Simulated-Hell)
TheOneRingSCSI?
One protocol to rule them all
One protocol to find them
One protocol to bring them all
And in the darkness to bind them.
So it's a master-slave-model distributed filesystem with autosensing of new nodes, that automatically propogates changes to the master node and binds additions to automagically generated mount points.
Neat.
The main point of my article was the short-term effects of a revolution, and I pointed out the analogies between the Industrial Revolution and the current revolution(?) we're going through: Over-cheap, over-plentiful labor, and a period of rapid progression in whatever field is in question.
The short term effects, plainly put, are a drop in the standard of living for most of the population; Even if lower wages meaning lower costs, most companies will just see that as an opportunity to increase their profit margin, at the very least keeping their prices equal to what they were before; Total change in buying power? Negative.
I'll be the first to admit that this is a somewhat selfish point of view. I want to be able to live well when I get a job in my field of computer science. I want to be able to provide for my children when, and if, I ever have any. If the only way I can get a job without getting a new degree is by moving to India and making (don't blast me, I don't know the actual numbers) $10,000 a year, I don't think I'll be able to do either of what I want.
As to claims that the costs of living in India are simply lower, whether or not they are true, my concern is not food and housing... My concern, as a tried and true geek, are gadgets; And correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think my 30" LCD is any cheaper in India than it is in the States, and, as a potential parent one day, being able to send my children to good schools. Possibly my school. When it costs me $5K/semester to go where I go - a public University as a citizen of this state - How can I afford to help provide for my childrens' education, 20 years from now, making no money in whatever country IT has been outsourced to?
(BTW: "Yeah, we moved around a lot when I was a kid." "Army brat?" "No, IT.")
So, I was in History 106 today, and my professor says to us, "One of the primary characterizations of the industrial revolution was a period of rapid change." Rapid change, sort of like how you buy a video card, and a month later it's obsolete, and two months later it's a paperweight.
Reading this article has got me thinking, though.
One of the other characterizations of the industrial revolution was cheap labor- the massive influx of immigrants into the U.S., who proceeded to work for dirt and drive "Americans" out of jobs. If you recall, it only made everybody's - except the wealthy, of course - living conditions worse. This is not a good thing. Being only a mere computer scientist, I hesitate to speculate on what far-reaching sociological effects this will have, but at the very least, in the near future, this is not a good thing.
Last time this happened, we unionized, but I don't think that will work this time. I wish I had a solution (since in three years when I graduate I probably won't have a job), but I can't see one.
And, for the record, I wasted three mod points to post this.
If this annoymous invader then offers to help replace the locks with ones that are harder to pick, sure. I mean, what's the big f-cking deal? He didn't cause damage, plain and simple. All he did was embarass their security people. I wish I could get $300K every time I got embarassed.
The tactic is broadly to remind those it catches of the truly draconian penalties the law in the United States allows ($150,000 per song - and you don't have to be a Berkeley mathematician to multiply that a few times to get more dollars that any student loan could cover).
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Then when the poor student has picked himself up from the floor and the blood returns to his face, the lawyers will say broadly: "OK, we'll let you off the fine if you agree to pay, let's say, a mere $15,000".
Furthermore, in one recent case, a college student was told that just by filing an answer in court, the cost of any final settlement would rise by $50,000.
If this isn't extortion, By God, I don't know what is.
super-sonic jets
The concorde is grounded.
Segway
The name is purposefully mis-spelled because stupid people wouldn't know how to pronounce it if it were the right way.
super-computers in a 24U enclosure...
Suffer from pretty severe heating/power problems.
how does that work?
'nuf said.
Depends what flavour of OS the cup is running.
why don't you put you money where your mouth is file suit against SCO
Because we're poor, and the whole point of this is that we want to keep our money in our wallets?
You don't understand. It's not affected, because nobody uses it. You can't infect something that isn't running, right?
or SCO CEO?
Smart mail? Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
I should check out Linux from Scratch?
Yes.
Is it that different from Gentoo?
Yes.
Multistate Anti TeRorism Information X-Change ...Yeah, well, I still agree with you.
"We'll call it Matrix, that way all those geeks that oppose tyrrany will thank it's cool."
"But Boss, wasn't the Matrix an evil, tyrranical computer that wanted to subjugate and/or destroy humanity and free thought?"
***VOIP***
You get a nickle if you get the reference. And, I don't mean the generic The Matrix reference.
What Linux distro is similar to Contiki?
Linux From Scratch.
like RedHat, Gentoo, Suse that runs on a 486 with superior performance and uses virtual no resources like Contiki?
Yes.
but what REAL available distros are available?
Linux From Scratch.
I was going to mod, but...
227-6709?! That's my phone number!
Eh, it's litigious extortion.
Codeweaver's Crossover Office supports Photoshop, says the article. This version of wine (sort of like Transgaming's, but..) is costing money (something like $60 a copy, IIRC), rather than being free. :/ This would completely free me from the tyrrany of Windows.. If only I had Exchange.
Part of it could be that it's just flat out easier, knowledge/abilities aside, to support a Linux box than a Windows box.
Windows: Oh? You need some new software installed from the CD we have here? Well, I'll just mosey on down there in a day or two and get that done.
Linux: Ssh..mount..install-sh..Done.
No, SCO is protecting Linux from those evil people that want to corrupt its source with their "free" and "open" additions. Uhm... I think?