I have to agree with you with all the different modules and haks for this game, It's addicting with the toolset for module building you can write scripts to do things that push the game engine and do things the Companys behind it didn't envision being possible.
It has a community behind it that will still be developing new and fairly cool stuff for years to come yet...I don't see a port of NWN2 for linux or the Mac yet, so it will see new modules developed by the users of those two platform for quit a while yet. It also has a community that will not bite from the poisoned Pay to Play apple. Myself I'll buy the Premium Modules when they are released but that's more to keep the bug fixes coming, the Persistent Worlds are were it's at.
If you don't like any of the Persistent Worlds you are more than welcome to build one of your own and flavor it to your tastes. The Persistent Worlds and thier communities are were this game's staying power lie.
This is the game I buy for friends,or for people who get to much sleep every night...
Year's ago when I ran screaming from the M$ camp it was a very simple choice. BSD's future hung under a cloud, with threats of lawsuits standing in it's shadow.
I was going to run a Unix, and looked hard at using BSD. However at that time I wasn't going to invest time and code into a system that I might not be able to legally use. In the end it was the GPL that made up my mind...
So while I've played with BSD a bit it's with Linux and the GPL that I'll invest my time and effort. It was true then and for it's still true now, Guess I'm a Loser...but a happy one.
As someone who is also working with the NWN toolset and putting together content for Neverwinter Nights.
I have to agree bioware could close thier doors tommorrow and you would still have a community and new content to use with the game. Come to think about it... With just what content I've downloaded for NWN since I started playing the game, I could play for at least 1500hrs just to explore the stuff already my harddrive.
What I enjoy most about playing NWN on a PC is the persistant worlds on line, I see them as the heart of the community. And If you don't like the the default models for something, or you want something speacial gmax or maya are your friend.
On a console what I see is spoon fed content, and most of that taste all to much the same.
I see myself playing and putting together content for NWN for a least another 4yrs. At which time the guys that bought a Console will be looking for a new one.
After using linux on my desktop for five plus years and not touching a windows box but to clean virus and spyware off them. I had to use a XP box for the last two months to run an app that hadn't yet been ported to linux.
The first week I felt like someone cut my legs off with a chainsaw, and that gentlemen still hasn't changed. After the first month I found most of the tweaks needed to make the machine stable.
After two months of dealing with an Operating System that gobbles up ram and cpu time like a football team at all you can eat dinner. All I can say is that it's the bloated OS that will be the death windows as we know it. The stupid tricks used to make the it seem fast became almost a joke which would have been funny, but for the work I was trying get done.
On a possive note... the app I'm using has been ported to linux, so now just need to find the time to move that work off XP. I know how fast the same box deals with the same work loads running Gentoo Linux so my coffee breaks are over.
I look at a 5 1/4" floppy drive as an extra layer of security for small files, I want to kept from prying eyes.
Simply because you don't see many of them these days, and most the one's you do see are homes for giant dust bunnies!
In another ten years...I may say the same thing about 3 1/2" floppies, however some of the old 5 1/4" drives are built like a tank, while the 3 1/2" drives as of late most are junk.
You've been lucky if you haven't
lost any music or data to Bit Rot.
One of my favorite albums is slowly
dying of bit rot, I ripped mp3's from
it was almost new. I Wish, I'd have
made a backup of the album because
at this point the mp3's sound better
than what's left of the damn cdrom that
I paid $19.00 for.
What makes me sick is there isn't a single scratch on this thing and two songs on it are totally trashed because the damage and the rest
are headed that way. Me has the feeling that
15 years from now my 78's may still be alive
and listenable but my cdroms???
Cute story, but in my world what generally happens is Word currupts a stupid document to the point it can't open it, user puts it on a floppy brings it to me, I open it with OpenOffice and save it as an.rtf
Hero for a day... say good-bye to a little formatting, but here is that document you worked on for 4 hrs.
Love wasting my time fixing the same crap over and over with M$ products.
I own two ipaq H3600's first thing I did was dump the Pocket PC crap and put linux on them. With a pcmcia sleeve, a 10/100 integrated card, and real trouble shooting tools like tcpdump.
They are the cat's meow when you find yourself in drop ceiling with a hub someone stuck there years ago and forgot about. Last time I pulled out my PDA in that situation, the tech I was working with would have killed for one. If you are trouble shooting a network problem that takes you into a attic or into a crawl space that laptop is not the animal you want to use.
Install prismstumbler and add a directional antenna, getting a idea of what the wireless neighborhood looks like is a piece of cake.
Contacts, phone numbers, notes hell I got a cheap Casio device that's better for that stuff and If it gets run over by a car tire I'm out less then $50.00.
Just did a search that took me to the form at www.knoppix.net the md5sum in a post of one of the site admins from Mon May 03,2004 11:16 pm matches what you and I got...
Seem's every time there's a story about Bind
the security fud flies. Well guess what ISC
has been saying for years Don't use Bind 4,
and Bind 8 has problems that can't be addressed
without a major code rewrite, but people being
what they are you'll find them both in use.
The guys running Bind 8 drag thier feet at
upgrading because they know Bind 9 will refuse to load thier borked up Bind 8 zone files. Then they
scream like hell, when there is yet another hole
found in Bind 8 code.
Sorry no pity here, any one using the old releases should have moved to 9 long ago, and
now that there is support they can buy into
I'm sure they can hire someone to convert
their zone files to conform to Bind 9. Last
excuse for running a Bind 8 server is gone.
Haven't flown since 1981, and until airlines start
treating customers like human beings again, odds
are slim to none I ever will again. Now that the
feds and the airlines both get to treat us like
cattle and lose/destroy and our equipment. I've made
it clear at my current job... I'll quit before I'll
fly period.
Have to agree I use an 1500watt intervertor and
two 6volt golf cart batteries for the
backup power for my lan. Batteries are going
on 5years old and with a full charge can
keep 4 servers and one monitor going for
in excess of 6hrs off a full charge before I have
to start powering equipment down. And even at
that point they will still power a laptop for
another 14hrs.
Just remember to keep them charged,clean and
the water levels up, and they should last
seven to eleven years before they need replacement. Only ever use distilled water
in them. As far as bang for the buck they can't
be beat.
Used the early 4.0 stuff on a few projects only bug that bit me was a release where the bits to bind it to an ip address were borked. Checked it's mailing list and it was a issue that was resolved, and fix was in the next release also there was a workaround for the release I was using.
Say what you want but it was solid backend for the program using in my case.
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I have to agree with you with all the different
modules and haks for this game, It's addicting
with the toolset for module building you can
write scripts to do things that push the game
engine and do things the Companys behind it
didn't envision being possible.
It has a community behind it that will still be
developing new and fairly cool stuff for years
to come yet...I don't see a port of NWN2 for
linux or the Mac yet, so it will see new modules
developed by the users of those two platform for
quit a while yet. It also has a community that
will not bite from the poisoned Pay to Play
apple. Myself I'll buy the Premium Modules when
they are released but that's more to keep the
bug fixes coming, the Persistent Worlds are were
it's at.
If you don't like any of the Persistent Worlds
you are more than welcome to build one of your
own and flavor it to your tastes. The Persistent
Worlds and thier communities are were this game's
staying power lie.
This is the game I buy for friends,or for people
who get to much sleep every night...
Year's ago when I ran screaming from the M$ camp
it was a very simple choice. BSD's future hung
under a cloud, with threats of lawsuits standing
in it's shadow.
I was going to run a Unix, and looked hard at using BSD. However at that time I wasn't going to invest time and code into a system that I might not be able to legally use. In the end it was the GPL that made up my mind...
So while I've played with BSD a bit it's with
Linux and the GPL that I'll invest my time and
effort. It was true then and for it's still
true now, Guess I'm a Loser...but a happy one.
As someone who is also working with the NWN toolset and putting together content for Neverwinter Nights.
I have to agree bioware could close thier doors
tommorrow and you would still have a community
and new content to use with the game. Come to think about it...
With just what content I've downloaded for NWN since I started playing the game, I could play for at least 1500hrs just to explore the stuff already my harddrive.
What I enjoy most about playing NWN on a PC
is the persistant worlds on line, I see them as
the heart of the community. And If you don't like
the the default models for something, or you want
something speacial gmax or maya are your friend.
On a console what I see is spoon fed content,
and most of that taste all to much the same.
I see myself playing and putting together content
for NWN for a least another 4yrs. At which time the guys that bought a Console will be looking for
a new one.
After using linux on my desktop for five plus years and not touching a windows box but to clean virus and spyware off them. I had to use a XP box for the last two months to run an app that hadn't yet been ported to linux.
The first week I felt like someone cut my legs off with a chainsaw, and that gentlemen still hasn't changed. After the first month I found
most of the tweaks needed to make the machine stable.
After two months of dealing with an Operating System that gobbles up ram and cpu time like a football team at all you can eat dinner. All I can say is that it's the bloated OS that will be the death windows as we know it. The stupid tricks used to make the it seem fast became almost a joke which would have been funny, but for the work I was trying get done.
On a possive note... the app I'm using has been ported to linux, so now just need to find the time to move that work off XP. I know how fast the same box deals with the same work loads running Gentoo Linux so my coffee breaks are over.
I look at a 5 1/4" floppy drive as
an extra layer of security for small files,
I want to kept from prying eyes.
Simply because you don't see many of them
these days, and most the one's you do
see are homes for giant dust bunnies!
In another ten years...I may say the same
thing about 3 1/2" floppies, however some
of the old 5 1/4" drives are built like a
tank, while the 3 1/2" drives as of late
most are junk.
You've been lucky if you haven't lost any music or data to Bit Rot.
One of my favorite albums is slowly dying of bit rot, I ripped mp3's from it was almost new. I Wish, I'd have made a backup of the album because at this point the mp3's sound better than what's left of the damn cdrom that I paid $19.00 for.
What makes me sick is there isn't a single scratch on this thing and two songs on it are totally trashed because the damage and the rest are headed that way. Me has the feeling that 15 years from now my 78's may still be alive and listenable but my cdroms???
Cute story, but in my world what .rtf
generally happens is Word currupts
a stupid document to the point
it can't open it, user puts it on
a floppy brings it to me, I open it
with OpenOffice and save it as an
Hero for a day... say good-bye
to a little formatting, but here
is that document you worked on
for 4 hrs.
Love wasting my time fixing the
same crap over and over with M$
products.
Guess they will get to sue me for patent
infringment the next time I use my
finger to inject 60hz into an
amp to see if the chip is still alive.
I own two ipaq H3600's first thing I
did was dump the Pocket PC crap and
put linux on them. With a pcmcia sleeve,
a 10/100 integrated card, and real
trouble shooting tools like tcpdump.
They are the cat's meow when you find
yourself in drop ceiling with a hub
someone stuck there years ago and forgot
about. Last time I pulled out my PDA
in that situation, the tech I was
working with would have killed for
one. If you are trouble shooting a network
problem that takes you into a attic or
into a crawl space that laptop is
not the animal you want to use.
Install prismstumbler and add a
directional antenna, getting a idea
of what the wireless neighborhood
looks like is a piece of cake.
Contacts, phone numbers, notes hell
I got a cheap Casio device that's
better for that stuff and If it gets
run over by a car tire I'm out less
then $50.00.
Just did a search that took me to
the form at www.knoppix.net the md5sum
in a post of one of the site admins
from Mon May 03,2004 11:16 pm
matches what you and
I got...
Longhorn upgrades will mean when I dumpster dive for my next work station I can do much,much better than a Pent 166MMX.
Must remember to thank Bill for XP release and all my free linux boxes.
Seem's every time there's a story about Bind the security fud flies. Well guess what ISC has been saying for years Don't use Bind 4, and Bind 8 has problems that can't be addressed without a major code rewrite, but people being what they are you'll find them both in use.
The guys running Bind 8 drag thier feet at upgrading because they know Bind 9 will refuse to load thier borked up Bind 8 zone files. Then they scream like hell, when there is yet another hole found in Bind 8 code.
Sorry no pity here, any one using the old releases should have moved to 9 long ago, and now that there is support they can buy into I'm sure they can hire someone to convert their zone files to conform to Bind 9. Last excuse for running a Bind 8 server is gone.
Haven't flown since 1981, and until airlines start treating customers like human beings again, odds are slim to none I ever will again. Now that the feds and the airlines both get to treat us like cattle and lose/destroy and our equipment. I've made it clear at my current job... I'll quit before I'll fly period.
Have to agree I use an 1500watt intervertor and two 6volt golf cart batteries for the backup power for my lan. Batteries are going on 5years old and with a full charge can keep 4 servers and one monitor going for in excess of 6hrs off a full charge before I have to start powering equipment down. And even at that point they will still power a laptop for another 14hrs. Just remember to keep them charged,clean and the water levels up, and they should last seven to eleven years before they need replacement. Only ever use distilled water in them. As far as bang for the buck they can't be beat.
Used the early 4.0 stuff on a few projects only bug that bit me was a release where the bits to bind it to an ip address were borked. Checked it's mailing list and it was a issue that was resolved, and fix was in the next release also there was a workaround for the release I was using.
Say what you want but it was solid backend for
the program using in my case.