When I was in the Navy, working as an enlistedman in a technical field, I hated it when our division had an officer who had an engineering degree. They always assumed they understood the full technical requirements and tried to micromanage our day to day lives. ( This was before the term "micromanagement" was invented.:)
After entering the civilian world, this changed and I came to value "most" of my technically astute managers. (At least those that did not micromanage.)
There are two key differences in those environments. First, the military tends towards micromanagement by (unofficially) teaching its officers that they are "elite" and better than the enlistedmen. Second, and most important, the technical requirements are clearly defined by an external agency and relatively unchanging. Most technicians can and do deal with problems quickly and effectively. (Field stripping a gun comes to mind.)
Having an "engineer" come in and introduce ad-hoc changes to support requirements, that directly contradict the mandated, external requirements, leads to chaos very quickly.
I believe you missed the point of the article. Like the author, I also assumed that the systems had standard ulimit settings. After all, this has been a known issue for, literally, decades! I stopped testing for ulimit settings on distributions years ago, after they all appeared to have sane defaults.
It is simply impossible/impractical for a sysadm to test every system that they support for every stupid little default setting! They will miss one.
That is where the distributions "add their value". They should be running all those tests prior to release. Then sysadms can focus on exceptions to common, good practice, instead of having to watch every little step they take.
Installing a new distribution should not be the equivalent to walking into a security mine field.
The problem is that the US Government dropped the ball and allowed M$ to continue to act in an illegal manner. Thus the European community has to defend itself against a foreign predator, which is what MicroSoft has become.
If MicroSoft wants to do business in Europe, it needs to obey their laws. Since it has decide to ignore thier laws, Europe has two options.
1 - Punish them through financial fines 2 - Forbid them to do business in Europe
I suspect that, buried somewhere in their laws, their is a third option. Arrest and jail the officers who are instructing the company to break the law. "As and american", would you prefer Knight Gates as Jail Bird Gates?
We have three TiVo units and pay the fees. I must be unusual in that I believe in paying for services that people provide me. The TiVo systems have saved me a lot of fuss and bother between different family members trying to remember to start different VCR units when someone is not able to watch their favorite show.
The Season Pass function, coupled with the ability to shared shows between the three units, more than makes it worth the monthly fee.Heck, the Season Pass feature has a habit of discovering copies of shows being broadcast on unexpected channels -- keeping the Red Dwarf fans very happy.
As far as "God-given property rights" are concerned, even if I weren't agnostic, I'd dearly love to hear you quote the Scriptures which define ideas as property, especially since a great deal of the Scriptures emphasize getting their own message distributed as widely as possible.
As a Christian, I do NOT agree with the parent post's assertion about "God-given property rights", but I find that I can not let your statement pass unchallenged.
I challenge you to demonstrate to me that there is a "great deal of emphasis" on "getting the message distributed as widely as possible" in the Scriptures. Many churches may have that emphasis, but the majority of the Scriptures are simply stories, histories and meditations.
Well, I worked for NASA Ames. We were always complaining that we were becoming technologically stale, because the contractors did the "fun" work and all we did was push contracts.
Management claimed at the time that we were allowed to allocate 10% of our time to independant research. Unfortunately, the never ending paper-pushing workload insured that we never really could take advantage of that opportunity.
That is why I no longer work at Ames. For me, being a government researcher meant being a contract monitor. Not an ideal work assignment.
Granted, this was ten years ago, but I suspect not much has changed.
Email (let's drop the hyphen)
"I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I'd used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime."
Surprisingly, I had to call our local power company yesterday and their message about monitoring calls for quality/training had a spot where you could refuse call monitoring. . .
Peer-to-peer networking is an excellent example of letting a good thing keep running even when somebody wants it to come down.
Hmmm.... What about a peer-to-peer Neverwinter Nights server?
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I got accepted into the beta on Wednesday, downloaded the files and found the login server down... with no notes on the forums with updated status. Every time I did succeed in getting logged to the tutorial server, I was quickly dropped with an error that indicated that the server was no longer responding. Finally, on Friday night I succeeded in getting two hours of gameplay.
I considered the gameplay to be frustrating;
[1] To me it appeared that they inverted mouse button functionality. Right clicking was used for movement and for the pull down menu on mobs. Unfortunately, everytime I tried to right click on a mob, it moved and I ended up clicking on the ground and moving to that location. I simply had a problem breaking my habits on mouse utilization.
Note: I've played other point-and-click movement games, such as Neverwinter Nights, without that problem.
[2] Quests were typical, but frustrating. Most of the ones I took started with harvesting minerals. Only, everthing had a "white" label, which I found, by asking in game, meant resource exhausted. I simply could not find any resources in the newbie area that were not completely exhausted.
[3] Combat was simple, but I never did figure how to/con a mob. If I [examined] one, there was no indication of its hostility... which I found out was not an indication of [indifference] when a horde of scorpions attacked me.
All in all, after about two hours of game play, I was still trying to learn how to play. That is too long for a normal person and unacceptable for someone who has played multiple online games and participated in multiple betas. . .
I have looked at setting up a stream of my music collection for my enjoyment. I'd love sometype of web based frontend that would allow me to add/drop songs from the stream; add wieghting scores to a song, such that ones I really like are played more often than others; and be able to feed to stream output to someplace like Shoutcast or Live365.
And, the killer, I want this tool to be open sourced on Linux, eliminating tools like WinAMP.
It will take awhile for older people to accept video games as something more than sophomoric entertainment, but once that happens, interactive entertainment will take off.
As a 59 year old EQ adict (now playing EQ 2), do I count as old?
It doesn't matter if its spelt correctly in every instance as long as your point comes across.
However, the point of the article was that the writers were not getting their points across. The bottomline is simple. "What we have here, is a failure to communicate."
The most interesting things happening to the MMORPG world will happen in November. Everquest 2 is set to launch on November 8th, while a large majority of the Beta testers have said that it is not ready for release. Of course, that didn't stop SOE from releasing Star Wars: Galaxies well before it was stable, so why should it stop them for Everquest 2?
I beg to disagree. This is the third or fourth time I've participated in a MMORPG beta and EverQuest2 is better prepared than any of the others were, especially SWG and Horizons. Most of the beta testers are busy playing, while a small collection of whiners are busy complaining.
Agreed, there are issues that still need to be addressed, but nothing like those still present in SQG. EQ2, based on character balance, zone construction, mob AI, the questing system and simply great playability, is game is definately ready for release.
I remember, many moons back, before the major tax overhaul (in the eighties I think) where people, such as doctors and engineers, got to an income level where their effective tax rate was over 50%. What did they do? They stopped working. After all, why work if you keep less than half of what you earn? It really contributed to the growth of golf courses. Yeapers === Income tax is better....
Am I the only one bothered by this trend toward absentee ballots? There is a major SOCIAL reason for voting booths. No one can force you to vote or pay for your vote if you can't show them your vote.
Of course I voted for [censored] Sarge! Do you think I want more KP? Here, look..."
Looking at the article title - Science: Tempratech Self-Cooling Can
Science is a hotlink that takes you to http://science.slashdot.org/
The summary has a LEGO as its graphic. It takes you to http://science.slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=159, which is the Slashdot:: Entertainment:: Toys page.
Slashdot Mirror
When I was in the Navy, working as an enlistedman in a technical field, I hated it when our division had an officer who had an engineering degree. They always assumed they understood the full technical requirements and tried to micromanage our day to day lives. ( This was before the term "micromanagement" was invented. :)
After entering the civilian world, this changed and I came to value "most" of my technically astute managers. (At least those that did not micromanage.)
There are two key differences in those environments. First, the military tends towards micromanagement by (unofficially) teaching its officers that they are "elite" and better than the enlistedmen. Second, and most important, the technical requirements are clearly defined by an external agency and relatively unchanging. Most technicians can and do deal with problems quickly and effectively. (Field stripping a gun comes to mind.)
Having an "engineer" come in and introduce ad-hoc changes to support requirements, that directly contradict the mandated, external requirements, leads to chaos very quickly.
I have to add my vote to this one. Teaming up the student in both programs is an excellent idea!
I believe you missed the point of the article. Like the author, I also assumed that the systems had standard ulimit settings. After all, this has been a known issue for, literally, decades! I stopped testing for ulimit settings on distributions years ago, after they all appeared to have sane defaults.
It is simply impossible/impractical for a sysadm to test every system that they support for every stupid little default setting! They will miss one.
That is where the distributions "add their value". They should be running all those tests prior to release. Then sysadms can focus on exceptions to common, good practice, instead of having to watch every little step they take.
Installing a new distribution should not be the equivalent to walking into a security mine field.
The problem is that the US Government dropped the ball and allowed M$ to continue to act in an illegal manner. Thus the European community has to defend itself against a foreign predator, which is what MicroSoft has become.
If MicroSoft wants to do business in Europe, it needs to obey their laws. Since it has decide to ignore thier laws, Europe has two options.
1 - Punish them through financial fines
2 - Forbid them to do business in Europe
I suspect that, buried somewhere in their laws, their is a third option. Arrest and jail the officers who are instructing the company to break the law. "As and american", would you prefer Knight Gates as Jail Bird Gates?
We have three TiVo units and pay the fees. I must be unusual in that I believe in paying for services that people provide me. The TiVo systems have saved me a lot of fuss and bother between different family members trying to remember to start different VCR units when someone is not able to watch their favorite show.
The Season Pass function, coupled with the ability to shared shows between the three units, more than makes it worth the monthly fee.Heck, the Season Pass feature has a habit of discovering copies of shows being broadcast on unexpected channels -- keeping the Red Dwarf fans very happy.
Just a note. For you [fortunate] individuals who may have SCO system on your network. Be careful about setting up firewall blocks for port 617.
sco-dtmgr 617/tcp SCO Desktop Administration Server
sco-dtmgr 617/udp SCO Desktop Administration Server
I ran a scan of the larger corporate network and found a lot of these hiding out there...
As a Christian, I do NOT agree with the parent post's assertion about "God-given property rights", but I find that I can not let your statement pass unchallenged.
I challenge you to demonstrate to me that there is a "great deal of emphasis" on "getting the message distributed as widely as possible" in the Scriptures. Many churches may have that emphasis, but the majority of the Scriptures are simply stories, histories and meditations.
Well, I worked for NASA Ames. We were always complaining that we were becoming technologically stale, because the contractors did the "fun" work and all we did was push contracts.
Management claimed at the time that we were allowed to allocate 10% of our time to independant research. Unfortunately, the never ending paper-pushing workload insured that we never really could take advantage of that opportunity.
That is why I no longer work at Ames. For me, being a government researcher meant being a contract monitor. Not an ideal work assignment.
Granted, this was ten years ago, but I suspect not much has changed.
Email (let's drop the hyphen)
"I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I'd used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime."
Surprisingly, I had to call our local power company yesterday and their message about monitoring calls for quality/training had a spot where you could refuse call monitoring. . .
Hmmm.... What about a peer-to-peer Neverwinter Nights server?
I got accepted into the beta on Wednesday, downloaded the files and found the login server down... with no notes on the forums with updated status. Every time I did succeed in getting logged to the tutorial server, I was quickly dropped with an error that indicated that the server was no longer responding. Finally, on Friday night I succeeded in getting two hours of gameplay.
/con a mob. If I [examined] one, there was no indication of its hostility... which I found out was not an indication of [indifference] when a horde of scorpions attacked me.
I considered the gameplay to be frustrating;
[1] To me it appeared that they inverted mouse button functionality. Right clicking was used for movement and for the pull down menu on mobs. Unfortunately, everytime I tried to right click on a mob, it moved and I ended up clicking on the ground and moving to that location. I simply had a problem breaking my habits on mouse utilization.
Note: I've played other point-and-click movement games, such as Neverwinter Nights, without that problem.
[2] Quests were typical, but frustrating. Most of the ones I took started with harvesting minerals. Only, everthing had a "white" label, which I found, by asking in game, meant resource exhausted. I simply could not find any resources in the newbie area that were not completely exhausted.
[3] Combat was simple, but I never did figure how to
All in all, after about two hours of game play, I was still trying to learn how to play. That is too long for a normal person and unacceptable for someone who has played multiple online games and participated in multiple betas. . .
This is a tangental question.
I have looked at setting up a stream of my music collection for my enjoyment. I'd love sometype of web based frontend that would allow me to add/drop songs from the stream; add wieghting scores to a song, such that ones I really like are played more often than others; and be able to feed to stream output to someplace like Shoutcast or Live365.And, the killer, I want this tool to be open sourced on Linux, eliminating tools like WinAMP.
Rats! I was hoping to qualify as a "young whippersnapper" . . .
The bottomline is simple. "What we have here, is a failure to communicate."
Citizens For Personal Rapid Transit
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Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)
Austin Citizens for Personal Rapid Transit (ACPRT)
Just to get you started....
(Slashdot wouldn't accept this one...)
Personal Rapid Transit Index Pag
http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/PR
I beg to disagree. This is the third or fourth time I've participated in a MMORPG beta and EverQuest2 is better prepared than any of the others were, especially SWG and Horizons. Most of the beta testers are busy playing, while a small collection of whiners are busy complaining.
Agreed, there are issues that still need to be addressed, but nothing like those still present in SQG. EQ2, based on character balance, zone construction, mob AI, the questing system and simply great playability, is game is definately ready for release.
I want my, I want my, I want my EQ2!
News at eleven.....
I remember, many moons back, before the major tax overhaul (in the eighties I think) where people, such as doctors and engineers, got to an income level where their effective tax rate was over 50%. What did they do? They stopped working. After all, why work if you keep less than half of what you earn? It really contributed to the growth of golf courses. Yeapers === Income tax is better....
Would the writings of C.S.Lewis count? Out of the Silent Planet was first published in 1943.
How can a sarcastic post about voting security be marked as a troll in a discussion on voting security? Please MOD UP.
Am I the only one bothered by this trend toward absentee ballots? There is a major SOCIAL reason for voting booths. No one can force you to vote or pay for your vote if you can't show them your vote.
Of course I voted for [censored] Sarge! Do you think I want more KP? Here, look..."
Looking at the article title -
:: Entertainment :: Toys page.
Science: Tempratech Self-Cooling Can
Science is a hotlink that takes you to http://science.slashdot.org/
The summary has a LEGO as its graphic. It takes you to http://science.slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=159, which is the Slashdot
Is this intentional, or an editing mistake?
Sakshale