1. Generals
2. Generals - Zero Hour expansion
3. Rise Of Nations
4. Warcraft III
5. Age Of Kings
6. Command and Conquer Red Alert 2
7. CnC Yuris Revenge
8. Battlefield 1942
9. MotoGP
10. Superbike 2001
That usually gets me started.
I recall reading in the Kismet documentation
(my choice for my Zaurus) that Netstumbler
use could be detected by NIDS tools...
I wonder if this is still true.
OK, so I'm not the only one here running my own
mail server. A low-powered linux box on my network
with a webmail server, always on, that retrieves
my POP3, hotmail, and Yahoo! mail and puts it in
one place for me and only me to access. No ads,
no Patriot act searches, full control.
So, there's some cool features in Gmail from the
sounds of it, but it doesn't sound like anything
that couldn't be integrated into a personal webmail
installation.
Redhat may be the standard, but the tools do
work quite well with a vanilla 2.6 kernel
and Slack distro (my personal experience).
The tool vendors certify for the most
mainstream vendor they can find with
corporate support, and I cant blame them.
What has always rocked about *nix is that when you become a seasoned user,
the text config files and powerful command line are far more flexible than any GUI. Yes, Linux needs GUI work like
Redhat and SUSE have been forwarding, but I really hope it can be kept to a layer on top of the existing framework. Please, no registry and piles of control panels to get lost in!
I did a bit better in the Boston area: Comcast basically paid me $5/mo to get basic cable. Almost... the deal was I was a modem-only customer and they dropped my bill $15 if I would pay $10 to sign up for basic-basic cable (about a dozen channels). This was after years of us just ignoring their attempts to price us into getting cable TV.
I was told by an employee that sometimes in a dual-provider market, showing headcount to advertisers and shareholders is more valuable than getting money for the service.
Given how much whining I read on this site about
outsourcing and monopolies, I seriously doubt
most Slashdotters would read Atlas Shrugged in
any format! (ducks...)
The pharmaceuticals industry is not, and that is why Americans pay idiotic amounts for their drugs.
There are those that believe that the reason Americans pay idiodic amounts for their drugs is the large cost of getting FDA (read: Government) approval.
Its sad to think there are so many educated people who believe their government is best equipped to look out for their economic and social well-being. Let's face it folks, Microsoft is a monopoly because we made it one. I, for one, have taken steps to get Microsoft products off my PC and off the PCs of many others. This is how its done, by people's free choice. It doesn't take a lawsuit.
Thanks for the only comment on this story that doesnt make my stomach turn.
Funny how we can live in a world that punishes a business for not competing enough (the EUs second highest fine was to a cartel), and also for competing too well. I cant stand Microsoft products, but I cant say that Quicktime and Real are any less annoying desktop citizens. I can say I dont need the governments help in switching browsers!
I downloaded Opera 7 with voice a while back from IBM's site for my Sharp Zaurus. Just to have it, never installed it... after all, memory is at a premium and who wants the world to hear what sites they're surfing during a meeting?
Rumor I heard was he's homeless and lives at MIT.:)
His hatred of paying for software extends to housing
too...
____
For most who won't know, the Stata center was named
for the founder of Analog Devices (you guys know
what "analog" means, right?).
I don't game on linux because I don't like first
person shooters. Yeah, they can be fun for the
first hour, but its the thinking games, like the
real-time strategies(Age Of Empires, Generals,
Rise Of Nations) that I like and there doesn't
even seem to be a whisper of these types of titles
coming out on Linux.
Crossover Office has been great for me on my laptop. I work at
a plant with 1000 Microsoft users and they can't write a five-word meeting notice without putting it in a Word document. For the sub-$60 license fee, it has been worth every penny. I keep Star Office going on my Sun and Ooffice on my desktop linux system, but more often than not, they can't properly open MS documents.
Yes, it would be great if I could convince a billion dollar company to convert all its employees to Ooffice, and convince all our vendors and customers to convert, and convince all the technical organizations to use Ooffice presentation software at the conferences. But instead, I just paid the $60 and got back to work.
This isn't exactly true. I need to open more ports now to use these online services. Each game uses so many, no off-the-shelf router can store their configs all at once. A lot of the people don't get it right, and all time spent starting a game is lost when one person can't join. When the server is down, you can't play, because they don't allow you to direct-IP anymore. What are you are talking about is match-making, which is a good service if you don't mind playing against a group of children who disconnect or cheat at an alarming rate. And if you don't mind installing Microsoft's Active-X elements for the Zone. But I am an adult who has adult friends who just want to play each other without hanging out in silly lobbies. Does that make sense?
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1. Generals
2. Generals - Zero Hour expansion
3. Rise Of Nations
4. Warcraft III
5. Age Of Kings
6. Command and Conquer Red Alert 2
7. CnC Yuris Revenge
8. Battlefield 1942
9. MotoGP
10. Superbike 2001
That usually gets me started.
Developing websites with Perl/PHP is what I do to unwind from my engineering job. I guess anything you do for money becomes unfun and stressful.
I recall reading in the Kismet documentation (my choice for my Zaurus) that Netstumbler use could be detected by NIDS tools... I wonder if this is still true.
OK, so I'm not the only one here running my own mail server. A low-powered linux box on my network with a webmail server, always on, that retrieves my POP3, hotmail, and Yahoo! mail and puts it in one place for me and only me to access. No ads, no Patriot act searches, full control. So, there's some cool features in Gmail from the sounds of it, but it doesn't sound like anything that couldn't be integrated into a personal webmail installation.
Redhat may be the standard, but the tools do work quite well with a vanilla 2.6 kernel and Slack distro (my personal experience). The tool vendors certify for the most mainstream vendor they can find with corporate support, and I cant blame them.
> Isn't New England is among the most water-rich areas of the country?
If by water-rich, you mean very expensive water bills, then yes.
is that he complains about the price of a 5-cent wing nut at Lowes and seeks out another source. Now that is cheap!
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/30/13 11221&mode=thread&tid=111&tid=120&tid=126&tid=133& tid=186&tid=187
The IT Support Help Desk? You`re guaranteed to get a virus there!
Finally, I can answer emails and weld half-inch steel with my PDA.
I've got the Assembler cartridge! But I can't remember the entry point to run it. Back to read data, poke data looping. :(
What has always rocked about *nix is that when you become a seasoned user, the text config files and powerful command line are far more flexible than any GUI. Yes, Linux needs GUI work like Redhat and SUSE have been forwarding, but I really hope it can be kept to a layer on top of the existing framework. Please, no registry and piles of control panels to get lost in!
I did a bit better in the Boston area: Comcast basically paid me $5/mo to get basic cable. Almost... the deal was I was a modem-only customer and they dropped my bill $15 if I would pay $10 to sign up for basic-basic cable (about a dozen channels). This was after years of us just ignoring their attempts to price us into getting cable TV. I was told by an employee that sometimes in a dual-provider market, showing headcount to advertisers and shareholders is more valuable than getting money for the service.
Given how much whining I read on this site about outsourcing and monopolies, I seriously doubt most Slashdotters would read Atlas Shrugged in any format! (ducks...)
There are those that believe that the reason Americans pay idiodic amounts for their drugs is the large cost of getting FDA (read: Government) approval.
Its sad to think there are so many educated people who believe their government is best equipped to look out for their economic and social well-being. Let's face it folks, Microsoft is a monopoly because we made it one. I, for one, have taken steps to get Microsoft products off my PC and off the PCs of many others. This is how its done, by people's free choice. It doesn't take a lawsuit.
Thanks for the only comment on this story that doesnt make my stomach turn. Funny how we can live in a world that punishes a business for not competing enough (the EUs second highest fine was to a cartel), and also for competing too well. I cant stand Microsoft products, but I cant say that Quicktime and Real are any less annoying desktop citizens. I can say I dont need the governments help in switching browsers!
I downloaded Opera 7 with voice a while back from
IBM's site for my Sharp Zaurus. Just to have it,
never installed it... after all, memory is at a
premium and who wants the world to hear what sites
they're surfing during a meeting?
Rumor I heard was he's homeless and lives at MIT. :)
His hatred of paying for software extends to housing
too...
____
For most who won't know, the Stata center was named for the founder of Analog Devices (you guys know what "analog" means, right?).
They had to include a screen--how else could it run Windows?
I don't game on linux because I don't like first person shooters. Yeah, they can be fun for the first hour, but its the thinking games, like the real-time strategies(Age Of Empires, Generals, Rise Of Nations) that I like and there doesn't even seem to be a whisper of these types of titles coming out on Linux.
Crossover Office has been great for me on my laptop. I work at a plant with 1000 Microsoft users and they can't write a five-word meeting notice without putting it in a Word document. For the sub-$60 license fee, it has been worth every penny. I keep Star Office going on my Sun and Ooffice on my desktop linux system, but more often than not, they can't properly open MS documents. Yes, it would be great if I could convince a billion dollar company to convert all its employees to Ooffice, and convince all our vendors and customers to convert, and convince all the technical organizations to use Ooffice presentation software at the conferences. But instead, I just paid the $60 and got back to work.
How about the candidates I've been seeing lately that claim they are experienced in "Pearl". If you can't spell it, how do ya run it?
This isn't exactly true. I need to open more ports now to use these online services. Each game uses so many, no off-the-shelf router can store their configs all at once. A lot of the people don't get it right, and all time spent starting a game is lost when one person can't join. When the server is down, you can't play, because they don't allow you to direct-IP anymore. What are you are talking about is match-making, which is a good service if you don't mind playing against a group of children who disconnect or cheat at an alarming rate. And if you don't mind installing Microsoft's Active-X elements for the Zone. But I am an adult who has adult friends who just want to play each other without hanging out in silly lobbies. Does that make sense?
Its kind of like a TV ad that extends out of the TV and blocks the exits.