My mind blanks as the earth reforms. I focus on the the individual particles, it must be perfect, an action which would have taken me days and completely exausted me before, now takes only a few seconds. When the structure is completed I pick her up and levitate with her in my arms one last time. I set her down in the coffin, thinking about what could have been if I came to her help a few minutes earlier. I step outside the room and order the earth to seal it. Nobody shall ever know what lies beyond this barrier, I tell it. It obeys, knowing my pain.
I form a dagger of pure crystal out of nothing. I think about what powers will be lost to humanity, how many will die because I will not be there to help them, but it is meaningless to me. She was everything to me and I lost her to my greed. It is better this way, I tell myself.
I walk outside and see the sun setting behind the hills. It asks me if I need anything, and I tell it I need guardians. Moments later, the link is broken and out of the fire come four giant fire elementals. They request instruction. I tell them to destroy this forest and then return here, forever guarding this building, never to yield to any intruders. They turn and go.
I force my body fully into this plane. Feelings of vulnerability overwhelm me, I become mortal again. I walk back into the building and the earth understands, opening the passage for me. I sit next to her, touching her cold hand. I am sorry, I think, the thought echoing through the fabric of reality, a sign of how powerful I have become. I drive the dagger into my heart feeling not pain, but relief. I am sorry, I think again, and this time I feel she is responding. Perhaps we will be together in whatever is to come, I silently say to myself. I smile as I close my eyes and submit to the darkness.
But the powers that be will not let me rest. I have been assigned the role of the deathbringer of a strange world I have never seen before, with the promise that I will be reunited with my love at the end of time. There is nothing but death for those whom I set my gaze upon, and nobody understands why I do it. I am hated and feared by them, but I do not care.
.. which games you are playing. Sure, quake might be good for reflexes, but you don't exactly learn anything else. Baldur's gate 2 has great learning potential, especially if you play a solo mage. Simulations are great for teaching physics, etc.. I think most can be learnt from RPGs where you have enough freedom for bad choices to reflect in the game, fallout 2 was excellent in this.
But think about it for a second? What about other software? If a windows user installs unix, doesn't he (eventually) learn a shitload of beneficial things? Things not only intellectually stimulating, but also great if you're looking for a job, and it's fun too. My opinion is that for instance, learning linux (or any unix really) has more good effects than playing games, combined with todays internet information services (bookwarez;), who needs school?
(I hope I didn't violate Merriam-Webster's copyright there...)
I know you were joking, but there is an important distiction here: citing a small part of M-W to explain something is fair use, but distributing it as a whole without a licence is a copyright violation.
You have to understand that these are the people who have spent a lot of their time trying to understand how to seperate the sound from noise, you can't blame them for being bitter and tactless. Trust me when I say that listening and correcting crackpots gets old really quick, especially when the time could have been used in far better ways.
You should read sci.research.new-theories and you'll see what I mean.
Well, not really, gentoo has had the option since 2.6.0-test1 came out. The portage tree is wonderfully updates within a few hours with the main branch and others (mm, aa, ac, ck,...), so the only thing you need to do is check out/usr/portage/sys-kernel and decice which one you want to have at install time (or later, if you're upgrading like me)
Don't be fooled by labels such as "beta" and "test", I've been running 2.6.0-test1-mm2 on a server for about a week now and it's extremely stable. If you need any of the features that the 2.6 branch introduces or if you just want to try it out, mandrake is the way to go.
OTOH, the only thing I dislike about mandrake is that they force KDE down your throat like it's the next best thing after bread and butter, I really wish they would include mode optinons at install like wm2, ion, openbox, icewm, but also install the qt and gtk libs in the background so you could run gnome/kde applications. That way more people would find out about the alternatives to KDE (it's too distracting and relativealy slow for my tastes.)
how about you using a browser that doesn't allow popups (opera, all mozilla derivates, konqueror, all text browsers and dillo are just a few that come to mind), or if you really need to stick to the current browser, why not just use a proxy that blocks them (squid, junkbusters, proximitron, tinyproxy,... the list goes on) ?
Looks like team fortress classic in the star wars universe. But as it was with TFC it will be with this mod, the gamers will either make it great, or make it horribly lame.
Keep that in mind next time you start the game up only to shoot your team mates into the back.
For those who have never seen the game before; the purpose of this game is to guide a glider through various rooms in order to collect the 6 magic stars. In order to do so, you must avoid obstacles, such as enemy gliders, bouncing basketballs, jumping goldfish, water drips, and running into walls, shelves, or falling on the floor. The glider moves by trading height for distance. It is controlled by the direction keys (default), or you can define the key control. Floor vents and candles give you the chance to increase your height. The candle causes special problems; if you get too close, you'll catch on fire. Besides collecting the stars, you also collect points. Points are collected by running into clocks (they actually work and tell the correct time), and also by passing through rooms. It was a really good game too (sigh, I miss my mac, had to sell it;()
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 09:03:40 -0500 From: "Schmehl, Paul L" Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Oh no - the feds are on to us:-) To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com Envelope-to: xxx X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlato r: Thread-Topic: [Full-Disclosure] Oh no - the feds are on to us:-) Thread-Index: AcNYERdtC6ehtjvNRBGGZ9vx79rvtQAJG6hg X-MIME-Autoc onverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by netsys.com id h71E3e816766 Errors-To: full-disclosure-admin@lists.netsys.com X-BeenTher e: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com X-Mailman-Versio n: 2.0.12 Precedence: bulk
The feds aren't the only ones. On another list I monitor a Microsoft rep admitted that Microsoft believes there will be a major event, and they are urging admins to "batten the hatches". Pretty are for MS to admit to that.
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
-----Original Message----- From: Larry Roberts [mailto:larryr@netbeam.net] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 2:33 AM To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com Subject: [Full-Disclosure] Oh no - the feds are on to us:-)
Group, Not sure if everyone saw this yet. http://www.msnbc.com/news/946460.asp?cp1=1
That's pretty fucking scary if you think about it, the company I work for runs it's site on a winnt4 machine (hey, it's a small company), I called them up and told them about it and they said they're going to switch to freebsd during the weekend.
We all know they're lying, the question now is what are they getting out of it?
Do they get a deal with MS?
Do they hope IBM will buy them?
Do they just hope to raise share prices for a while?
All of the above?
It's high time for things to clear up really.
This is turning out to be a huge problem, we got the exploit a bit *cough*early*cough* and by simply joining a channel on IRC you get a handful of IPs, of which at least a few are exploitable. And then they wonder why there are a thousands of ddos zombie machines running windows!
But there's another problem, a lot of people are starting to distrust microsoft and are turning off the automatic update / not getting service packs instead of switching to another operating system.
Why did they have to wait so long? Couldn't this have been done _before_ so many people lost their money/got expelled. Do we really need to make so much noise before they make things happen?
All in all, I'm glad they finally got their act together, but I worry that the only reason they're doing this is because the RIAA has something else planned..
Apparently, you only have rights if you belong to a group big enough to actually influence politics.
Slashdot Mirror
My mind blanks as the earth reforms. I focus on the the individual particles, it must be perfect, an action which would have taken me days and completely exausted me before, now takes only a few seconds. When the structure is completed I pick her up and levitate with her in my arms one last time. I set her down in the coffin, thinking about what could have been if I came to her help a few minutes earlier. I step outside the room and order the earth to seal it. Nobody shall ever know what lies beyond this barrier, I tell it. It obeys, knowing my pain.
I form a dagger of pure crystal out of nothing. I think about what powers will be lost to humanity, how many will die because I will not be there to help them, but it is meaningless to me. She was everything to me and I lost her to my greed. It is better this way, I tell myself.
I walk outside and see the sun setting behind the hills. It asks me if I need anything, and I tell it I need guardians. Moments later, the link is broken and out of the fire come four giant fire elementals. They request instruction. I tell them to destroy this forest and then return here, forever guarding this building, never to yield to any intruders. They turn and go.
I force my body fully into this plane. Feelings of vulnerability overwhelm me, I become mortal again. I walk back into the building and the earth understands, opening the passage for me. I sit next to her, touching her cold hand. I am sorry, I think, the thought echoing through the fabric of reality, a sign of how powerful I have become. I drive the dagger into my heart feeling not pain, but relief. I am sorry, I think again, and this time I feel she is responding. Perhaps we will be together in whatever is to come, I silently say to myself. I smile as I close my eyes and submit to the darkness.
But the powers that be will not let me rest. I have been assigned the role of the deathbringer of a strange world I have never seen before, with the promise that I will be reunited with my love at the end of time. There is nothing but death for those whom I set my gaze upon, and nobody understands why I do it. I am hated and feared by them, but I do not care.
I have become a Troll.
I don't see this as having a major effect, most USENET users tend to run unix these days.
.. which games you are playing. Sure, quake might be good for reflexes, but you don't exactly learn anything else. Baldur's gate 2 has great learning potential, especially if you play a solo mage. Simulations are great for teaching physics, etc.. I think most can be learnt from RPGs where you have enough freedom for bad choices to reflect in the game, fallout 2 was excellent in this.
But think about it for a second? What about other software? If a windows user installs unix, doesn't he (eventually) learn a shitload of beneficial things? Things not only intellectually stimulating, but also great if you're looking for a job, and it's fun too. My opinion is that for instance, learning linux (or any unix really) has more good effects than playing games, combined with todays internet information services (bookwarez;), who needs school?
So why the hell do I have a gut? Just a thought but, do you sit in your chair from dusk till dawn? That could it be you know.
(I hope I didn't violate Merriam-Webster's copyright there...)
I know you were joking, but there is an important distiction here: citing a small part of M-W to explain something is fair use, but distributing it as a whole without a licence is a copyright violation.
Copyright violators not interested in copyright?
What are the chances??
You have to understand that these are the people who have spent a lot of their time trying to understand how to seperate the sound from noise, you can't blame them for being bitter and tactless. Trust me when I say that listening and correcting crackpots gets old really quick, especially when the time could have been used in far better ways.
You should read sci.research.new-theories and you'll see what I mean.
Oh great, soon war for observers will look like a session of panzer general only with real people dying.
read this
Well, not really, gentoo has had the option since 2.6.0-test1 came out. The portage tree is wonderfully updates within a few hours with the main branch and others (mm, aa, ac, ck, ...), so the only thing you need to do is check out /usr/portage/sys-kernel and decice which one you want to have at install time (or later, if you're upgrading like me)
Don't be fooled by labels such as "beta" and "test", I've been running 2.6.0-test1-mm2 on a server for about a week now and it's extremely stable. If you need any of the features that the 2.6 branch introduces or if you just want to try it out, mandrake is the way to go.
OTOH, the only thing I dislike about mandrake is that they force KDE down your throat like it's the next best thing after bread and butter, I really wish they would include mode optinons at install like wm2, ion, openbox, icewm, but also install the qt and gtk libs in the background so you could run gnome/kde applications. That way more people would find out about the alternatives to KDE (it's too distracting and relativealy slow for my tastes.)
how about you using a browser that doesn't allow popups (opera, all mozilla derivates, konqueror, all text browsers and dillo are just a few that come to mind), or if you really need to stick to the current browser, why not just use a proxy that blocks them (squid, junkbusters, proximitron, tinyproxy,... the list goes on) ?
Looks like team fortress classic in the star wars universe. But as it was with TFC it will be with this mod, the gamers will either make it great, or make it horribly lame. Keep that in mind next time you start the game up only to shoot your team mates into the back.
is called daggerfall.
Be warned about two things though:
1) The graphics suck
2) it can ruin your (real) life.
For those who have never seen the game before; the purpose of this game is to guide a glider through various rooms in order to collect the 6 magic stars. In order to do so, you must avoid obstacles, such as enemy gliders, bouncing basketballs, jumping goldfish, water drips, and running into walls, shelves, or falling on the floor. The glider moves by trading height for distance. It is controlled by the direction keys (default), or you can define the key control. Floor vents and candles give you the chance to increase your height. The candle causes special problems; if you get too close, you'll catch on fire. Besides collecting the stars, you also collect points. Points are collected by running into clocks (they actually work and tell the correct time), and also by passing through rooms. It was a really good game too (sigh, I miss my mac, had to sell it ;()
That's pretty fucking scary if you think about it, the company I work for runs it's site on a winnt4 machine (hey, it's a small company), I called them up and told them about it and they said they're going to switch to freebsd during the weekend.
We all know they're lying, the question now is what are they getting out of it? Do they get a deal with MS? Do they hope IBM will buy them? Do they just hope to raise share prices for a while? All of the above? It's high time for things to clear up really.
This is turning out to be a huge problem, we got the exploit a bit *cough*early*cough* and by simply joining a channel on IRC you get a handful of IPs, of which at least a few are exploitable. And then they wonder why there are a thousands of ddos zombie machines running windows!
But there's another problem, a lot of people are starting to distrust microsoft and are turning off the automatic update / not getting service packs instead of switching to another operating system.
Why did they have to wait so long? Couldn't this have been done _before_ so many people lost their money/got expelled. Do we really need to make so much noise before they make things happen? All in all, I'm glad they finally got their act together, but I worry that the only reason they're doing this is because the RIAA has something else planned.. Apparently, you only have rights if you belong to a group big enough to actually influence politics.