This is precisely the reason I think games on boot CDs is a bad idea. Instead of just giving me one.EXE which knows how to interface with my system, I get a whole OS and game combination that'll be picky about everything from my video BIOS revision to my keyboard hardware.
This type of activity is best left for game consoles.
So, for Windows users, using a copy protected game that requires you to shut off loads of crap and then restart it when you're done is more efficient?
I have never heard of a game where you "shut off loads of crap and restart" to play a game on an XP box.
If you need to do this, you should not have to reboot. Just stop/start services as needed with services.msc or through your control panel. You can even script these changes if you hit Google.
It's hard not to look quiet when in contrast your opposition are literally flooding streets, blocking traffic, making death threats, covering their cars with more bumper stickers than there is paint, using Hollywood stardom to pump inept political messages, and so on and so on.
How about Arnold being gov of California? Don't you think that is quite an extreme example of what you just critisized Democrats for? Do you think Arnold would have become a politician of such great power so quickly without his Hollywood background? Do you think he would have guest-starred at the RNC without this, as well?
It's mostly the people who mind their own business and go to work every day who are voting Bush.
It is very narrow in your thinking that those out causing trouble in the streets are Democrats. Those are not traditional voters, those are just wild people who are out to vent. On that note, you are aware that Democrat presidents have had the holy hell protested out of them, too. Right? That is what happens in a free society.
Dacek said Wednesday that she fears that critics of the new voting system may try to physically sabotage the machines. She pointed to a recent incident in which a poll judge had to be ordered to return a voting machine that was used for demonstrations at an suburban folk festival.
Does anyone else find it rather strange they are worried about the "critics" and not the ones who seem to be in a big hurry to get these insecure systems in place? In my mind, the critics are the ones trying to stop a possible hi-jacking of democracy.
This reads like a AM radio talk show host comparing protestors at a convention to terrorists.
Because the last time I had to schedule reboots for a mchine of mine was around 10 years ago.
So you have not upgraded a kernel in 10 years?
Oh yes, last time I used Windows, my bad.
No Windows experience in 10 years? Good for you. I am glad to see someone so well-balanced in their experience comment on this topic. Personally, I don't go bragging on forums about gaping holes in my resume.
If you want to be taken seriously, it might be a good idea to quote things people actually say.
This is not AM radio and you are not a political commentator. If you want to discuss an issue, let us discuss it; But do not try and create an extremist and then bash it in the same post.
To cut to the point, I think you have mixed up the meanings of "objective" and "sanitized" news.
The majority of US media is sanitized for your viewing pleasure. There is also the issue of all major media outlets being owned or heavily invested in by conservatives.
Any company with proper communication requires IT to send an email to staff reminding people of upcoming downtimes, whether the outage is by your staff or ISP. I think it is unprofessional to abruptly take away a client or employee's resources without warning. Nobody likes that type of IT guy. I find being liked comes in very handy when reviews come around and better-paying positions open up.:)
The principle motive of any company is to maximise its profits. If Google thinks working in China will enhance their profitability and they don't mind the draconian laws then it makes sense for them to enter that market.
I would love to see this same poster's comment if this article stated MSN's search engine was being censored in China. I think we would see an entirely different and less supportive comment.
But hey, Google got the geeks before going public. I'll bet you an open proxy list Google will be considered a giant debacle in a year or two. No, I am no expert. But, I remember when Excite, Yahoo, and Deja were all the rage at some point. They all went to crap as soon as public money poured in. All that was left were a lot of disappointed investors and banner ads in ever free bit of real estate in one's browser.
and these are heavy used mail servers.. no need to reboot on a nightly basis!! good grief (charley brown)
Right, the code used for mail serving is some of the most mature server code out there. This is far more reliable than say a Linux box set up with proprietary, closed src, business applications with their own bugs.
My feelings are the article may have mistakenly blamed Windows for a problem with one of the server applications running on it. It is not typical for even Win2k to hang unexpectedly when running good hardware and well-written code.
I say fuck it. There is no point in ever trying to defend logic when it stands in the way of the Microsoft bash-fests on/..
Just to clarify, I am not saying Windows servers can and will run as reliably as a properly configured BSD, Solaris, or Linux box. I am just trying state that Windows is reliable, if properly configured, but will probably not win an uptime competition. Big whoop. Reboot your shit during maintenance windows, regardless of OS, you run a much better chance of finding pending hardware failures. It is much better to powercycle that database server and get an error detecting the SCSI bus during a maintenance window than for it to happen at 5:30AM on a Monday or during your vacation.
Then again, I could be overly anal. I just like to avoid the reputations gained by those before me.:)
Yeah, that being out early with the weakest console sure helped Sega and the Saturn!!
This system failed due to not having much developer support and miserable marketing. It had little to do with being first, with exception to the price of the system.
Microsoft has incredible support from developers. They will also get loads of media attention and will advertise as much as needed to sell their consoles.
Simply put, this won't be a repeat of another company's mistakes. Yeah, the PS3 may be better if it comes out a year later but that is a year worth of lost sells. Probably not going to happen.
Too bad everyone has to poo poo on every move Microsoft makes.. Oh wait.. None of this has happened yet. Everyone is poo pooing on things Microsoft hasn't even done yet. Greeat..
You have to love a system that requires downtime as part of uptime. How many Linux users have this problem? (Please press the Start button to shut down (stop) the computer.)
Well, in the past 10 years I have had a number of clients who have had Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac systems that were critical to their day to day routine and they did nightly/weekly/monthly reboots as part of their maintenance.
I guess when you grow up and get out of high school, you will find that your linux box running as a DSL router is not a good example of a production server.
Yeah, Opera is installed on here too. It will not properly render most websites, so I don't bother with it.
I do have an intrusion prevention box running which stops the all known bits of code evil to IE before it even gets to my system. That good enough for ya, AC?
Well, that has been my experience the three times I have used Steam. Once when it came out, again about a year ago, then once more a few months ago.
While situated on my DSL line, I would get the same results as on my office workstation on an OC3. I would get a maximum of 10K/sec, while average would be about half a K.
Then every time I would power up my systems, they would try to connect to Steam and pull new content without asking permission. Yes, I know how to disable this, but I think a game has overstepped its boundries when it throws content updating on system startup without at least asking my permission or letting the user know first.
What is next? Automatically utilizing P2P distribution without forewarning the user?
It is also unfortunate. On my XP box, I have to run IE due to Mozilla based browsers running very slow, using tons of ram, and unexpectedly crashing on me while I am working.
I know this will probably get me some negative mod points, but it is my personal experience. Until something better arrives, I will be using Avant for IE.
It gets rid of the pre-ordering / limited copies at shop / queueing at midnight problem too.
It does not get past the 0.49K/sec transfer rates coming off Steam's network after reading for the 18th day in a row "We are working on upgrading our bandwidth" notices they posted over two years ago.
Steam is garbage and it's purpose is not to make the gamer's experience a better one.
I especially like how the "excuse" for steam used to be to "stop cheating". Since Steam came around, the number of exploits has risen instead of decrease. Great work.
I find it unwise to try and say which game is better before one of them even comes out. I am aware of the gaming community's attitude that anything not out is better than everything currently out. This isn't always true.
Everyone also seems to forget the community is what makes a game great. Most will be bored with the single-player mode several weeks into the game, it is only when the mod community works its magic that a game becomes legendary.
Just look at how well Counter-Strike did on a modded Quake engine compared to the beautiful colored light festival of Unreal. Unreal was technically a better engine, but none of the mods for it were worth playing.
Also keep in mind how much work idsoft has done with games after their release. They tend to make many of their own additions and modifications to ease out game play and make the engine useful to gamers and developers for years. Just take a look at how far the Quake1 engine went in it's first year out. Also remember how quickly Q1 was retooled to support 3DFX cards when they first hit the market.
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This is precisely the reason I think games on boot CDs is a bad idea. Instead of just giving me one .EXE which knows how to interface with my system, I get a whole OS and game combination that'll be picky about everything from my video BIOS revision to my keyboard hardware.
This type of activity is best left for game consoles.
So, for Windows users, using a copy protected game that requires you to shut off loads of crap and then restart it when you're done is more efficient?
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I have never heard of a game where you "shut off loads of crap and restart" to play a game on an XP box.
If you need to do this, you should not have to reboot. Just stop/start services as needed with services.msc or through your control panel. You can even script these changes if you hit Google.
Finally, don't be a troll.
I used to do this back in the DOS days. I would tend to have a boot floppy set aside crafted precisely for the game I was going to play.
Personally, I am much happier being able to alt-tab out of BF1942 to TS into my other station and check email in Outlook without having to reboot.
It sounds more like you need an Xbox than a PC, though.
It's hard not to look quiet when in contrast your opposition are literally flooding streets, blocking traffic, making death threats, covering their cars with more bumper stickers than there is paint, using Hollywood stardom to pump inept political messages, and so on and so on.
How about Arnold being gov of California? Don't you think that is quite an extreme example of what you just critisized Democrats for? Do you think Arnold would have become a politician of such great power so quickly without his Hollywood background? Do you think he would have guest-starred at the RNC without this, as well?
It's mostly the people who mind their own business and go to work every day who are voting Bush.
It is very narrow in your thinking that those out causing trouble in the streets are Democrats. Those are not traditional voters, those are just wild people who are out to vent. On that note, you are aware that Democrat presidents have had the holy hell protested out of them, too. Right? That is what happens in a free society.
Dacek said Wednesday that she fears that critics of the new voting system may try to physically sabotage the machines. She pointed to a recent incident in which a poll judge had to be ordered to return a voting machine that was used for demonstrations at an suburban folk festival.
Does anyone else find it rather strange they are worried about the "critics" and not the ones who seem to be in a big hurry to get these insecure systems in place? In my mind, the critics are the ones trying to stop a possible hi-jacking of democracy.
This reads like a AM radio talk show host comparing protestors at a convention to terrorists.
Because the last time I had to schedule reboots for a mchine of mine was around 10 years ago.
So you have not upgraded a kernel in 10 years?
Oh yes, last time I used Windows, my bad.
No Windows experience in 10 years? Good for you. I am glad to see someone so well-balanced in their experience comment on this topic. Personally, I don't go bragging on forums about gaping holes in my resume.
If you want to be taken seriously, it might be a good idea to quote things people actually say.
This is not AM radio and you are not a political commentator. If you want to discuss an issue, let us discuss it; But do not try and create an extremist and then bash it in the same post.
To cut to the point, I think you have mixed up the meanings of "objective" and "sanitized" news.
The majority of US media is sanitized for your viewing pleasure. There is also the issue of all major media outlets being owned or heavily invested in by conservatives.
That is handy, thank you. It is not quite what I was hoping for, but alphabetical sorting is a lot easier to look at than the default.
Time to hit google and find more of these.
Those guys sound mean.
:)
Any company with proper communication requires IT to send an email to staff reminding people of upcoming downtimes, whether the outage is by your staff or ISP. I think it is unprofessional to abruptly take away a client or employee's resources without warning. Nobody likes that type of IT guy. I find being liked comes in very handy when reviews come around and better-paying positions open up.
The principle motive of any company is to maximise its profits. If Google thinks working in China will enhance their profitability and they don't mind the draconian laws then it makes sense for them to enter that market.
I would love to see this same poster's comment if this article stated MSN's search engine was being censored in China. I think we would see an entirely different and less supportive comment.
But hey, Google got the geeks before going public. I'll bet you an open proxy list Google will be considered a giant debacle in a year or two. No, I am no expert. But, I remember when Excite, Yahoo, and Deja were all the rage at some point. They all went to crap as soon as public money poured in. All that was left were a lot of disappointed investors and banner ads in ever free bit of real estate in one's browser.
I'm pretty negative, eh?
Well, yeah. But that does little good until their providers upgrade.
Getting an ISP to make large technical changes is too not hard..
Getting any of the union telco/comm workers to lift a finger in the name of change; that is the hard part.
Check with your router vendor's website. It is quite likely they have a flash upgrade which supports ipv6.
It would only make sense due to the fact that most of these devices are based on BSD code.
and these are heavy used mail servers.. no need to reboot on a nightly basis!! good grief (charley brown)
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:)
Right, the code used for mail serving is some of the most mature server code out there. This is far more reliable than say a Linux box set up with proprietary, closed src, business applications with their own bugs.
My feelings are the article may have mistakenly blamed Windows for a problem with one of the server applications running on it. It is not typical for even Win2k to hang unexpectedly when running good hardware and well-written code.
I say fuck it. There is no point in ever trying to defend logic when it stands in the way of the Microsoft bash-fests on
Just to clarify, I am not saying Windows servers can and will run as reliably as a properly configured BSD, Solaris, or Linux box. I am just trying state that Windows is reliable, if properly configured, but will probably not win an uptime competition. Big whoop. Reboot your shit during maintenance windows, regardless of OS, you run a much better chance of finding pending hardware failures. It is much better to powercycle that database server and get an error detecting the SCSI bus during a maintenance window than for it to happen at 5:30AM on a Monday or during your vacation.
Then again, I could be overly anal. I just like to avoid the reputations gained by those before me.
Yeah, that being out early with the weakest console sure helped Sega and the Saturn!!
This system failed due to not having much developer support and miserable marketing. It had little to do with being first, with exception to the price of the system.
Microsoft has incredible support from developers. They will also get loads of media attention and will advertise as much as needed to sell their consoles.
Simply put, this won't be a repeat of another company's mistakes. Yeah, the PS3 may be better if it comes out a year later but that is a year worth of lost sells. Probably not going to happen.
Too bad everyone has to poo poo on every move Microsoft makes.. Oh wait.. None of this has happened yet. Everyone is poo pooing on things Microsoft hasn't even done yet. Greeat..
I agree. I have had uptimes of well over 50 days with Windows boxes. Busy ones, at that.
I think this article misses the actual cause as probably being something related to the third party applications they are running on the system.
You have to love a system that requires downtime as part of uptime. How many Linux users have this problem? (Please press the Start button to shut down (stop) the computer.)
Well, in the past 10 years I have had a number of clients who have had Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac systems that were critical to their day to day routine and they did nightly/weekly/monthly reboots as part of their maintenance.
I guess when you grow up and get out of high school, you will find that your linux box running as a DSL router is not a good example of a production server.
Yeah, Opera is installed on here too. It will not properly render most websites, so I don't bother with it.
I do have an intrusion prevention box running which stops the all known bits of code evil to IE before it even gets to my system. That good enough for ya, AC?
Well, that has been my experience the three times I have used Steam. Once when it came out, again about a year ago, then once more a few months ago.
While situated on my DSL line, I would get the same results as on my office workstation on an OC3. I would get a maximum of 10K/sec, while average would be about half a K.
Then every time I would power up my systems, they would try to connect to Steam and pull new content without asking permission. Yes, I know how to disable this, but I think a game has overstepped its boundries when it throws content updating on system startup without at least asking my permission or letting the user know first.
What is next? Automatically utilizing P2P distribution without forewarning the user?
It is also unfortunate. On my XP box, I have to run IE due to Mozilla based browsers running very slow, using tons of ram, and unexpectedly crashing on me while I am working.
I know this will probably get me some negative mod points, but it is my personal experience. Until something better arrives, I will be using Avant for IE.
You sir, should refrain from making derogatory remarks towards other users who have had a bad experience with this service.
There is really no HL engine, it is just the Quake/Quake2 engine with a few extra bits added on to it.
It gets rid of the pre-ordering / limited copies at shop / queueing at midnight problem too.
It does not get past the 0.49K/sec transfer rates coming off Steam's network after reading for the 18th day in a row "We are working on upgrading our bandwidth" notices they posted over two years ago.
Steam is garbage and it's purpose is not to make the gamer's experience a better one.
I especially like how the "excuse" for steam used to be to "stop cheating". Since Steam came around, the number of exploits has risen instead of decrease. Great work.
I find it unwise to try and say which game is better before one of them even comes out. I am aware of the gaming community's attitude that anything not out is better than everything currently out. This isn't always true.
Everyone also seems to forget the community is what makes a game great. Most will be bored with the single-player mode several weeks into the game, it is only when the mod community works its magic that a game becomes legendary.
Just look at how well Counter-Strike did on a modded Quake engine compared to the beautiful colored light festival of Unreal. Unreal was technically a better engine, but none of the mods for it were worth playing.
Also keep in mind how much work idsoft has done with games after their release. They tend to make many of their own additions and modifications to ease out game play and make the engine useful to gamers and developers for years. Just take a look at how far the Quake1 engine went in it's first year out. Also remember how quickly Q1 was retooled to support 3DFX cards when they first hit the market.
This post is +5 Funny to me. I'm sorry I don't have mod points to hand out right now. It must be from all the off-topic posts. :-)