If we all do our jobs a tech savy users and teach close family and friends then our knowledge will slowly spread and we could finally be rid of MSN once and for all. While we are at it we can get people off AOL for dialup / broadband and show them how the computer actually works. With Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" button theres no need for AOL keywords.
MSN and Yahoo still have a long way to go. I like Google for its simplistic site design and its lack of obtrusive banner advertisements shoved in your face. I use the word simplistic cautiously because as we all know Google is very powerful and keeps getting better every day. Who seriously wants to support Microsoft anyways?
I am very happy with the progress Novell has been making with SuSE. More then a few people were worried about the takeover but it seems to only be getting better and better for SuSE. Novell seems to be doing a good job of marketing SuSE to businesses small, medium, and large.
"1, here comes the 2 to the 3 to the 4,
everybody drunk out on the dance floor, Now everybody in the club gettin tipsy, everybody in the club gettin tipsy"
Its time for ISP's to take responsiblity for the shit that they host. Didint Gates say that spam will be dead by 2006? (
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/24/tech/mai n595595.shtml). Time to start breaking down doors Bill. I guess he could just use a backdoor in to the spammers running windows.
The Google Toolbar. Not very hidden but its amazing. http://toolbar.google.com/ Has a built in popup blocker search box and best of all its free and no spyware. Also the View PDF as HTML http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:xWrqav2j1Y8J:w ww.boston.com/globe/acrobat/today.pdf+&hl=en&ie=UT F-8 Lets just I dont like AdobePDF files.
I was going to go to CXG but due to a lack of planning on my end I could not make it there. Personally being involved in the cs gaming community and knowing some of the CXG staff members personally as well as some attendees there are a number of events that gotfrag either didn't know about or didn't want to post about. Everyone has been talking about bandwidth issues. Yes in fact it was planed to have a T3 for the event, delay after delay they instead ended up getting a business dsl line. Somehow this was just enough to support 20 players at the same time logged in. Valve's power outage didn't help the situation. One of the attendees pointed out to myself that recon getting up on stage asking for a COD cd so they can install a dedicated server shows just how well planned this advent was. All in all after the fact it turns out that Valve has a "LAN" specific version of cs 1.6 (for cyber cafes without internet and LAN parties) that doesn't use their steam technology, but no at CXG had known about this before the event or they just deemed it to be a non issue. The event had been in the planning for almost 2 years seeing as how different cs 1.5 and 1.6 are they might have not planed for this originally. GBL (Game Broadcasting Live www.GBLeSports.com) were the official radio broadcasters to cover all the CXG action. In fact because of the low amount of CXG staff that showed up they helped run the networking cables and setting up tables. There was a huge meeting at CXG early Saturday as gotfrag pointed out. Every single event sponsor was trying to do what ever they could to salvage this event. Looks like they weren't successful. In regards to cash flow problems. Believe it or not CXG even with all those sponsors were unable to pay (or at least as of this date) qualifier money to some of the teams. This is also apart of why only half the amount of teams they expected to show up did (transportation isn't free). I believe that this event has and will hurt the Counter-Strike community.
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If we all do our jobs a tech savy users and teach close family and friends then our knowledge will slowly spread and we could finally be rid of MSN once and for all. While we are at it we can get people off AOL for dialup / broadband and show them how the computer actually works. With Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" button theres no need for AOL keywords.
MSN and Yahoo still have a long way to go. I like Google for its simplistic site design and its lack of obtrusive banner advertisements shoved in your face. I use the word simplistic cautiously because as we all know Google is very powerful and keeps getting better every day. Who seriously wants to support Microsoft anyways?
lack of accountability? lack of accountability? oh the irony. What a tangled web you weave Microsoft.
Definitely front page material.
In totaly unrelated news Blizzard has a "Hot New Job - Network Operations Manager" as well as a few other positions including "Senior Server Programmer". If you wish to apply you can visit Blizzard.com
"1, here comes the 2 to the 3 to the 4, everybody drunk out on the dance floor, Now everybody in the club gettin tipsy, everybody in the club gettin tipsy"
Its time for ISP's to take responsiblity for the shit that they host. Didint Gates say that spam will be dead by 2006? ( http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/24/tech/mai n595595.shtml). Time to start breaking down doors Bill. I guess he could just use a backdoor in to the spammers running windows.
The Google Toolbar. Not very hidden but its amazing. http://toolbar.google.com/ Has a built in popup blocker search box and best of all its free and no spyware. Also the View PDF as HTML http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:xWrqav2j1Y8J:w ww.boston.com/globe/acrobat/today.pdf+&hl=en&ie=UT F-8 Lets just I dont like AdobePDF files.
I was going to go to CXG but due to a lack of planning on my end I could not make it there. Personally being involved in the cs gaming community and knowing some of the CXG staff members personally as well as some attendees there are a number of events that gotfrag either didn't know about or didn't want to post about. Everyone has been talking about bandwidth issues. Yes in fact it was planed to have a T3 for the event, delay after delay they instead ended up getting a business dsl line. Somehow this was just enough to support 20 players at the same time logged in. Valve's power outage didn't help the situation. One of the attendees pointed out to myself that recon getting up on stage asking for a COD cd so they can install a dedicated server shows just how well planned this advent was. All in all after the fact it turns out that Valve has a "LAN" specific version of cs 1.6 (for cyber cafes without internet and LAN parties) that doesn't use their steam technology, but no at CXG had known about this before the event or they just deemed it to be a non issue. The event had been in the planning for almost 2 years seeing as how different cs 1.5 and 1.6 are they might have not planed for this originally. GBL (Game Broadcasting Live www.GBLeSports.com) were the official radio broadcasters to cover all the CXG action. In fact because of the low amount of CXG staff that showed up they helped run the networking cables and setting up tables. There was a huge meeting at CXG early Saturday as gotfrag pointed out. Every single event sponsor was trying to do what ever they could to salvage this event. Looks like they weren't successful. In regards to cash flow problems. Believe it or not CXG even with all those sponsors were unable to pay (or at least as of this date) qualifier money to some of the teams. This is also apart of why only half the amount of teams they expected to show up did (transportation isn't free). I believe that this event has and will hurt the Counter-Strike community.