Napster 2.0 was originally called Duet, then renamed to Pressplay. This was created by the original MP3.com and not the corporate bastard child taking the current name of MP3.com. Roxio had bought the name Napster, then came to MP3.com to use pressplay for the back end. They then ripped it out of the MP3.com group of products and struck out on their own, renaming pressplay to Napster 2.0. The back end was well designed last I saw of it, but I can't vouch for what has been done with it since they moved off on their own.
For the LAMP lovers, it did run on Redhat 6.2-9.0, with apache 1.x, MySQL 3.23.x and tons of 'drunken coded' perl and a few other fun languages. No telling what it is now, but you might still see mention of duet and pressplay in urls and in random guts of the programs.
I bought one of these bundles as well, and the instructions said you had to mail it in to get the game software.
However, when the game came out, I put in the code directly into steam and it worked. No pesky snail mail, no need to wait for hard media. It gave me access to everything software wise. I think Valve did a good job on this, even if steam is a little clunky to deal with.
Sun still runs things like oracle rather well. A lot of big companies continue to run Sun to keep their precious oracle databases running in a somewhat reliable manner. While Linux on hefty hardware can run oracle, and oracle in windows is a joke, you'd really need to bump up to Intel 64bit to really get close to how solaris can do it.
But that's about all I see solaris good for lately. Everything else is run a lot cheaper and faster on linux.
I still actively play a lot of the text based games myself. Be it MUD, MUSH, MUSE, or any other version of the MU* base, there is something for just about any subject you can think of. If it's a geeky genre, you can bet on finding at least 10 or more MU* catering to that.
These games have to attract people solely on gameplay, content, and quality of characters/players in their little world. You'll also find that most of these places ask for no money at all, and are often paid for entirely by the owner. A few have made the leap to pay for play, but those are rare compared to the free ones. Finding them is pretty easy, just look for any MU* listing out there.
http://maelstrom.areth.org/mud/ is a small list of active places that even includes 'talker' based chats rooms, while http://www.mudconnector.com/ is one of the larger ones and even lists pay for play.
If you want to see an interesting MUD that is a mix of a few of the more geekier genres in one, I recommend http://www.areth.org/ as something you don't find everywhere else.
It was supposed to be MUCH worse than what you see. The original plan was to have TVs in front of all the equipment so workers could watch TV and work out at the same time, with CABLE no less. They also planned to create a full cafeteria for employees only, some 24 hour thing because we worked all hours. They also intended to install a rock climbing wall and a number of other gaudy things. The work out equipment is not worth it though, we really used that stuff to ne end, so it is all pretty beat up.
It is sad how easily the life of MP3.com can be summed up, but it was a lot more than just a few lines. All that studio equipment? There were a lot of artists that recorded at the company, and all the voice/video work for MP3.com was all in house. We had a very do-it-yourself attitude with everything we could get away with. If you think the audio stuff was impressive, you should have seen the video equipment.
The video games were sorta my fault.
We bought what was cheap and still fun, they didn't give us much to work with. When we bought those arcade machines, it was after the big spending, but they wanted to keep the engineers happy. The galaga machine is not worth the effort, as the monitor is dead. Ms Pacman works great, and so does 1942 and Soul Edge(Yes, the original, the game before Soul Calibar)
MKII worked decently, and the rest isn't worth more than a few hundred bucks for the lot. They require a lot of maintenance because the parts are old. I had to replace the street fighter parts constantly for just the little use we had from employees.
"This Thing" is a light actually. The silver is a soft silk-like cloth with metal rings keeping the shape. It has wheels on the bottom, and a large flap on hinges. I used that thing to block the sunlight when I held movies viewing in the BAR (Big Ass Room) there. There were two of them that sat on either end of the security desk. The light was a cool looking blue color, and I think I remember it having moving parts inside at some point.
The rockets were cooler when you got two together and made one big one.
I miss that place a lot.
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Napster 2.0 was originally called Duet, then renamed to Pressplay. This was created by the original MP3.com and not the corporate bastard child taking the current name of MP3.com. Roxio had bought the name Napster, then came to MP3.com to use pressplay for the back end. They then ripped it out of the MP3.com group of products and struck out on their own, renaming pressplay to Napster 2.0. The back end was well designed last I saw of it, but I can't vouch for what has been done with it since they moved off on their own. For the LAMP lovers, it did run on Redhat 6.2-9.0, with apache 1.x, MySQL 3.23.x and tons of 'drunken coded' perl and a few other fun languages. No telling what it is now, but you might still see mention of duet and pressplay in urls and in random guts of the programs.
I bought one of these bundles as well, and the instructions said you had to mail it in to get the game software.
However, when the game came out, I put in the code directly into steam and it worked. No pesky snail mail, no need to wait for hard media. It gave me access to everything software wise. I think Valve did a good job on this, even if steam is a little clunky to deal with.
Sun still runs things like oracle rather well. A lot of big companies continue to run Sun to keep their precious oracle databases running in a somewhat reliable manner. While Linux on hefty hardware can run oracle, and oracle in windows is a joke, you'd really need to bump up to Intel 64bit to really get close to how solaris can do it.
But that's about all I see solaris good for lately. Everything else is run a lot cheaper and faster on linux.
I still actively play a lot of the text based games myself. Be it MUD, MUSH, MUSE, or any other version of the MU* base, there is something for just about any subject you can think of. If it's a geeky genre, you can bet on finding at least 10 or more MU* catering to that.
These games have to attract people solely on gameplay, content, and quality of characters/players in their little world. You'll also find that most of these places ask for no money at all, and are often paid for entirely by the owner. A few have made the leap to pay for play, but those are rare compared to the free ones. Finding them is pretty easy, just look for any MU* listing out there.
http://maelstrom.areth.org/mud/ is a small list of active places that even includes 'talker' based chats rooms, while http://www.mudconnector.com/ is one of the larger ones and even lists pay for play. If you want to see an interesting MUD that is a mix of a few of the more geekier genres in one, I recommend http://www.areth.org/ as something you don't find everywhere else.
All the people that could figure out the camera were layed off before they took the pictures...
It was supposed to be MUCH worse than what you see. The original plan was to have TVs in front of all the equipment so workers could watch TV and work out at the same time, with CABLE no less. They also planned to create a full cafeteria for employees only, some 24 hour thing because we worked all hours. They also intended to install a rock climbing wall and a number of other gaudy things. The work out equipment is not worth it though, we really used that stuff to ne end, so it is all pretty beat up.
It is sad how easily the life of MP3.com can be summed up, but it was a lot more than just a few lines. All that studio equipment? There were a lot of artists that recorded at the company, and all the voice/video work for MP3.com was all in house. We had a very do-it-yourself attitude with everything we could get away with. If you think the audio stuff was impressive, you should have seen the video equipment.
The video games were sorta my fault. We bought what was cheap and still fun, they didn't give us much to work with. When we bought those arcade machines, it was after the big spending, but they wanted to keep the engineers happy. The galaga machine is not worth the effort, as the monitor is dead. Ms Pacman works great, and so does 1942 and Soul Edge(Yes, the original, the game before Soul Calibar) MKII worked decently, and the rest isn't worth more than a few hundred bucks for the lot. They require a lot of maintenance because the parts are old. I had to replace the street fighter parts constantly for just the little use we had from employees.
"This Thing" is a light actually. The silver is a soft silk-like cloth with metal rings keeping the shape. It has wheels on the bottom, and a large flap on hinges. I used that thing to block the sunlight when I held movies viewing in the BAR (Big Ass Room) there. There were two of them that sat on either end of the security desk. The light was a cool looking blue color, and I think I remember it having moving parts inside at some point. The rockets were cooler when you got two together and made one big one. I miss that place a lot.