Like you, I was playing on the PC well before Wolf3d, Doom, Quake, etc came out.
Most current modern games (like the current iterations of Doom, Overwatch, etc.) are too flashy and have too many different colors, landscape and building details, and distractions for me to be able to focus well on the hunt.
I'd recommend TF2.Half-Life, HL2 (and episode 1 & 2) are good as well. Also Portal and Portal 2.All of them use older, more simple engines that won't support all of the flashy effects, and as a byproduct make it easier for me to understand what's going on around me. Plus, they work well and don't need cutting-edge PCs as well.
Now get off my lawn!
Unless I missed something and we're having an "OMG ponies!" flashback, how did this trolling submission by an obviously ill-equipped editor get posted?
I'll just throw this out there: I was tasked with the same requirement of backing up people's desktops 6-7 years ago and the solution that I went with was some home-grown Powershell scripts and using the built-in VSS service on the workstations.
I grab the bare necessary files to rebuild a workstation and then dump the backups to the user's home directory on the server (which is then automatically backed up). Take a look at the scripts I wrote
Here's the rub -- if the company owns significant address space, they're likely using it for their internal systems as well, not external access only.
I worked at Eastman Kodak for a number of years (who, at least at one point, owned a significant amount of public IP space) and we used public IPs for all of our internal systems as well, no NAT'ing private address ranges.
Yes, there is an annual cost for support on the device. However, it's minimal (~$70/year) and the ability to manage and monitor from anywhere is nice.
I'm actually not sure what functionality is lost without maintenance, but I assume it's like most of their other products in that you stop receiving updates but it continues working fine with the last installed version.
You could do all of this through software (openVPN, etc.), but honestly life is too short to go through all the effort required as well as making sure it all works and stays updated. I'm getting too old for this crap and just need something that works in the least amount of time and effort required.
I'd recommend you look at something like the Meraki MX64/MX64W at all three locations, it will do all of the necessary tunneling and filtering you need (with the advanced security license), as well as allow you to monitor what is happening on the network.
Additionally, it's all cloud managed so you can view and configure the device from anywhere.
I deploy these at work for our remote offices, and just purchased a similar setup at home (an MX64 and two MR18). I can filter what my kids get to as well as easily support remote backups and administration at my parents home.
I was laid off earlier this year, and like you, did not have any certs. From my research, the one that seems to pay off the best, and is in reasonable demand is ITIL. If you want to go more technical, look at CCNA and A+. All are fairly cheap and especially the ITIL can be fairly easy to study for and pass if you've been working in IT management for a while.
It took 70 years for voyager to reach the heliopause
Um, actually the Voyager probes were launched in the late 70s, so it's been less than 40 years.
A return trip would certainly take a while longer due to slowing down, sample gathering, and then managing to accelerate back home. But this wouldn't be the first time that projects have begun that are longer than a typical human lifespan.
This doesn't have anything to do with a kernel fork; indeed, in the Windows world you're using the same kernel and drivers regardless of workstation, server, etc.
This has more to do with the support systems in place, eg, using standard init scripts, leaving logs in text format, etc.
I saw the announcement yesterday afternoon, and found it listed already in my available games (since I had previously purchased it for Windows, under WINE).
It works wonderfully under Linux: it's faster, uses less resources, and doesn't crash nearly as often as it did under WINE.
I'm extremely happy, as this was one of the few reasons I still have a WINE install in place.
I did what you suggested, spent about 10 minutes looking around.
Yes, there are buildings, and yes there are cars. But, I saw hardly any cars (mainly buses, and only a handful of those), and I also didn't see any parking lots. So, either I completely missed it, or you're seeing something I'm not.
Just for kicks, I looked up a list of the world's poorest countries, and picked #1, Congo. While I don't see as many industrial/high-rise buildings in the cities (definitely many more individual homes) I see more cars and other signs of human travel and habitation.
Today there are a lot of programmers of the opinion that if the user has JavaScript off then its their own fault and consuming the page without JavaScript is as silly as trying to consume it without HTML.
is asinine. It's not difficult to put a noscript tag with a reasonable explanation for clients. All production sites should have graceful fall-back for accessibility and other client issues anyway.
You're absolutely right. However, I'll admit to now being one of the people giving up.
I happily spent days tweaking every config.sys and highmem option 20 years ago.
Nowadays I'm lucky to get 2-3 hours a week to play, and I'm not going to waste half of it just trying to get the damn game started. Hell, I just bought and started playing the original Bioshock last week, and made sure before I did that it worked 100% under Wine before I did.
It's not just legacy systems -- there are still current systems being deployed using FreeDOS, such as a few of the fast-food drive-through order screens, elevator news systems, etc.
Unfortunately, children will explore and learn things you don't want them to regardless how much we will (or want to) shelter them.
That said, the solution my wife and I have is we tell them certain things are appropriate, and others are not. When they're older, they can view them, but for now it's not appropriate.
We have two Popcorn C-300s, and the media I don't want the kids to watch are in a separate directory called "Not Appropriate". That way, you don't have to go nuts with security and lockdowns, and your kids know what's there. Knowing the media is there but shouldn't be viewed also teaches them self-restraint.
I once worked for a company that produced equipment used in hospitals, and I can vouch for the issues installing updates as well.
Moreover, hopelessly stupid things were done such as hard-coding the hosts file for remote diagnostics, and logging in and running applications as the Windows Administrator account.
Furthermore, the hospital IT staff was equally incompetent, in that even if (by some miracle) we wanted to patch the products we had to jump through hoops to do so, and even simple things like DNS resolution were filtered for our devices.
Instead of using any existing language (written or spoken), you use mathematics and pictograms. Essentially the same as how they did the drawing on Voyager.
Just start with a basic number system, individual atoms, then a description of radiation, time periods, etc. None of those should change within a few million years.
If you want to give a start and end date, just use a star chart based on the current location of earth with of a few obvious bodies for reference and project it forward.
I'd highly recommend the series So You Want to Be a Wizard? series by Diane Duane for kids in the 8-15 age range, although they read fine for older ages as well.
And before anyone asks, I'd recommend them over the Harry Potter series.
For older kids (12-18), the Amber series by Roger Zelazny is great as well. There's also the old Danny Dunn series.
Finally, depending on the kids' maturity level, go for the classics (Stranger in a Strange Land, A Wrinkle in Time).
*shaking stick* Now get off my lawn, whipper snapper!:P
Hey, some of us used to have to scrounge together floppies for Slackware, deciding whether we really needed X or not. Sad thing was, I went back to OS/2 at the time since it had better hardware support:)
Unlike previous releases where I jumped in fairly early in the beta process (beta 2 or 3), I waited to move to Karmic until the release. I also decided to do a clean install this time to ensure I wouldn't run into any upgrade issues.
Unfortunately, despite the supposed "papercut" fixes, this release seems far more prone to problems. On my Dell Latitude 620 (with Intel graphics, mind you):
Where Jaunty did great handling my laptop display and external monitor, Karmic has had no end of problems; problems that kept enforcing mirroring of displays, continually defaulting to 1024x768, random placements of the taskbar and notification popups, etc. See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8229025 about moving the taskbar.
The system defaulted to enabling compiz. I turned it off while troubleshooting all of the other video errors, but now it won't enable again.
Despite the touted KMS, I still have a 2-3 second wait at boot (text mode from Grub I'm assuming), and later a 2-3 second delay with a blank screen excepting an underscore in the top-left corner that shows up between the boot image (eg, usplash) and the "pulsing" gdm startup
The overall boot time (from power on to entering my password) is roughly identical to Jaunty -- I don't notice any difference.
Power usage seems to be about the same, although powertop has reported a spike of 33W whereas before I never saw it go over 19W.
Much higher memory usage reported in system monitor (previously most of the memory was allocated to cache, now most of it is allocated to programs).
About the only good thing I can say (which may also be attributed to the larger 500G drive I swapped in for the install), is that overall the system seems smoother and more responsive.
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Like you, I was playing on the PC well before Wolf3d, Doom, Quake, etc came out. Most current modern games (like the current iterations of Doom, Overwatch, etc.) are too flashy and have too many different colors, landscape and building details, and distractions for me to be able to focus well on the hunt. I'd recommend TF2.Half-Life, HL2 (and episode 1 & 2) are good as well. Also Portal and Portal 2.All of them use older, more simple engines that won't support all of the flashy effects, and as a byproduct make it easier for me to understand what's going on around me. Plus, they work well and don't need cutting-edge PCs as well. Now get off my lawn!
Unless I missed something and we're having an "OMG ponies!" flashback, how did this trolling submission by an obviously ill-equipped editor get posted?
There may be something in the local water supply, as the author has phrases such as "with one of the now putting" and "would be have" in the article.
I'll just throw this out there: I was tasked with the same requirement of backing up people's desktops 6-7 years ago and the solution that I went with was some home-grown Powershell scripts and using the built-in VSS service on the workstations.
I grab the bare necessary files to rebuild a workstation and then dump the backups to the user's home directory on the server (which is then automatically backed up). Take a look at the scripts I wrote
Here's the rub -- if the company owns significant address space, they're likely using it for their internal systems as well, not external access only.
I worked at Eastman Kodak for a number of years (who, at least at one point, owned a significant amount of public IP space) and we used public IPs for all of our internal systems as well, no NAT'ing private address ranges.
Yes, there is an annual cost for support on the device. However, it's minimal (~$70/year) and the ability to manage and monitor from anywhere is nice. I'm actually not sure what functionality is lost without maintenance, but I assume it's like most of their other products in that you stop receiving updates but it continues working fine with the last installed version.
I'd recommend you look at something like the Meraki MX64/MX64W at all three locations, it will do all of the necessary tunneling and filtering you need (with the advanced security license), as well as allow you to monitor what is happening on the network.
Additionally, it's all cloud managed so you can view and configure the device from anywhere.
I deploy these at work for our remote offices, and just purchased a similar setup at home (an MX64 and two MR18). I can filter what my kids get to as well as easily support remote backups and administration at my parents home.
It soiunds to me like you watched the link to Idiocracy that was posted on /r/fullmoviesonyoutube recently.
I was laid off earlier this year, and like you, did not have any certs. From my research, the one that seems to pay off the best, and is in reasonable demand is ITIL. If you want to go more technical, look at CCNA and A+. All are fairly cheap and especially the ITIL can be fairly easy to study for and pass if you've been working in IT management for a while.
Um, actually the Voyager probes were launched in the late 70s, so it's been less than 40 years.
A return trip would certainly take a while longer due to slowing down, sample gathering, and then managing to accelerate back home. But this wouldn't be the first time that projects have begun that are longer than a typical human lifespan.
This doesn't have anything to do with a kernel fork; indeed, in the Windows world you're using the same kernel and drivers regardless of workstation, server, etc.
This has more to do with the support systems in place, eg, using standard init scripts, leaving logs in text format, etc.
I saw the announcement yesterday afternoon, and found it listed already in my available games (since I had previously purchased it for Windows, under WINE).
It works wonderfully under Linux: it's faster, uses less resources, and doesn't crash nearly as often as it did under WINE.
I'm extremely happy, as this was one of the few reasons I still have a WINE install in place.
Long time or not, this is a good thing for Microsoft to do, as well as for the community in general.
Unfortunately, however, it's under a non-commercial license, so any FreeDOS developers still need to avoid contact with it to avoid any IP complaints.
I did what you suggested, spent about 10 minutes looking around.
Yes, there are buildings, and yes there are cars. But, I saw hardly any cars (mainly buses, and only a handful of those), and I also didn't see any parking lots. So, either I completely missed it, or you're seeing something I'm not.
Just for kicks, I looked up a list of the world's poorest countries, and picked #1, Congo. While I don't see as many industrial/high-rise buildings in the cities (definitely many more individual homes) I see more cars and other signs of human travel and habitation.
is asinine. It's not difficult to put a noscript tag with a reasonable explanation for clients. All production sites should have graceful fall-back for accessibility and other client issues anyway.
You're absolutely right. However, I'll admit to now being one of the people giving up. I happily spent days tweaking every config.sys and highmem option 20 years ago. Nowadays I'm lucky to get 2-3 hours a week to play, and I'm not going to waste half of it just trying to get the damn game started. Hell, I just bought and started playing the original Bioshock last week, and made sure before I did that it worked 100% under Wine before I did.
It's not just legacy systems -- there are still current systems being deployed using FreeDOS, such as a few of the fast-food drive-through order screens, elevator news systems, etc.
Unfortunately, children will explore and learn things you don't want them to regardless how much we will (or want to) shelter them.
That said, the solution my wife and I have is we tell them certain things are appropriate, and others are not. When they're older, they can view them, but for now it's not appropriate.
We have two Popcorn C-300s, and the media I don't want the kids to watch are in a separate directory called "Not Appropriate". That way, you don't have to go nuts with security and lockdowns, and your kids know what's there. Knowing the media is there but shouldn't be viewed also teaches them self-restraint.
I once worked for a company that produced equipment used in hospitals, and I can vouch for the issues installing updates as well. Moreover, hopelessly stupid things were done such as hard-coding the hosts file for remote diagnostics, and logging in and running applications as the Windows Administrator account. Furthermore, the hospital IT staff was equally incompetent, in that even if (by some miracle) we wanted to patch the products we had to jump through hoops to do so, and even simple things like DNS resolution were filtered for our devices.
In order to drive a car, you need a government-mandated license indicating a minimum competency level so you aren't a danger to others.
In order to fly a plane, you need a government-mandated license indicating a minimum competency level so you aren't a danger to others.
The right to practice law, become a doctor, and even have a job (by requiring social security number) is mandated by law.
Why are people allowed to create a public safety problem by opting out of "required" vaccines?
Instead of using any existing language (written or spoken), you use mathematics and pictograms. Essentially the same as how they did the drawing on Voyager.
Just start with a basic number system, individual atoms, then a description of radiation, time periods, etc. None of those should change within a few million years.
If you want to give a start and end date, just use a star chart based on the current location of earth with of a few obvious bodies for reference and project it forward.
I'd highly recommend the series So You Want to Be a Wizard? series by Diane Duane for kids in the 8-15 age range, although they read fine for older ages as well. And before anyone asks, I'd recommend them over the Harry Potter series. For older kids (12-18), the Amber series by Roger Zelazny is great as well. There's also the old Danny Dunn series. Finally, depending on the kids' maturity level, go for the classics (Stranger in a Strange Land, A Wrinkle in Time).
Hey, some of us used to have to scrounge together floppies for Slackware, deciding whether we really needed X or not. Sad thing was, I went back to OS/2 at the time since it had better hardware support :)
Unlike previous releases where I jumped in fairly early in the beta process (beta 2 or 3), I waited to move to Karmic until the release. I also decided to do a clean install this time to ensure I wouldn't run into any upgrade issues.
Unfortunately, despite the supposed "papercut" fixes, this release seems far more prone to problems. On my Dell Latitude 620 (with Intel graphics, mind you):
About the only good thing I can say (which may also be attributed to the larger 500G drive I swapped in for the install), is that overall the system seems smoother and more responsive.
Don't start celebrating prematurely. There's a good article on Quirksmode about why IE6 will continue to live on corporate intranets.