i've been running a web server and proxy box in this same case for 4 years now. somehow it didn't seem that cool.
actually, it was all running on a 120 meg Mac IDE drive from Apple's first attempt at cutting costs by dropping SCSI. talk about a frankenstein machine, i didn't have the adapters to use a 3 1/4" floppy drive power with the big ol' honking drive power supply connectors, so to boot the box from floppy for the install I had to drag the thing over next to my main PC case and "jump" the floppy power over....
almost makes me nostalgic for my first days of linux use. almost.
I think "if" is the operative word here, and is qhat's causing all of the questions. Shouldn't the ISP, upon receiving the request, actually verify that the "offending user" is breaking the law before terminating th account?
Couldn't this means of cutting off internet access be very widely misused and abused? It seems that members of the MPAA could pretty much drop anyone's access, even a competitors, with just a phone call. Not even a phone call to a lawyer.
It's beyond unfortunate, it's downright fucked up. Basically, He Who Has The Most Lawyers Wins in pretty much every case. At that point, what are rights? What good are laws, if they can be bought like stocks?
I use Charter Pipeline cable service, through Earthlink, and I lost access for 2 full weeks. They're overcharging for the service as it is, and during the outage they stopped answering their phones and never let *any* of their customers know what was going on, what was being done, and when it was going to be fixed.
If I'm paying through the nose for a high speed connection, and it disappears for 2 solid weeks, you can bet that I want some money back. They're giving us all a free month of service now.
I think he covered it pretty clearly. You're saying that it's a status-consciousness thing to drive a lexus over a toyota. He's saying the same thing, except that he's calling the status-conscious people morons.
I'd also like to point out that you're not buying status, you're buying perceived status. Your personal echelon of society may be wowed, but there are those above and below you (not you personally, the hypothectical you) who will be completely unimpressed or (as the ads will have you believe) completely wowed.
Personally, I can't imagine being wowed by a lexus, anymore than I would be unimpressed with a toyota.
I have an office of 30 people on an NT domain with win2k laptops for everyone. I have a data center with about 12 servers running oracle, sql7, exchange, iis, etc. I have a 4 tier QA network in-house running WebLogic, Resin, Oracle and AFS. I also have a 6 machine production environment at Dellhost running Apache, JServ and SQL7. On top of that, I have a 4 tier, 9 machine production environment running at exodus with Weblogic, Resin, Oracle and AFS.
I manage all of this by myself, including all of the myriad problems from the 30 users (my mouse isn't working.... can I get a set of speakers? i need new antivirus software....), tech support for 3 versions of a software product that we don't sell anymore but still have to support, and I have to manage finding a new hosting partner and planning for future architecture of our ASP product.
I can multitask 'til my head falls off, but productivity only happens when you're allowed to actually focus on one thing for at least 2 hours. Getting your brain into and out of each mindset can take up to 15 minutes to half an hour. It's not easy, it's not fun, and overall it can lead to far too much stress from not being able to complete things on time or as completely as you'd like to.
Oh yeah, throw 4 or 5 mandatory meetings per week into that mix, and you've got my life. Yay.
Also, I'm sure all those art school graduated, maya using kids are not going to be very familiar with fsck or how to setup their xf86config when they have problems with their video card.
Well, it'll be pre-configured for the only video card the system will ever use.
I think it could bring a lot of the simplicity of console use (no driver issues to worry about, no need to worry if this card or that card is supported....
size is key too. i had a free jornada for a few months, but i returned it because i hated it so much.
my palm 5 with its omnisky modem attached is still smaller than the jornada all by itself.
when i have to drop a beeper, a PDA with wireless access, plus keys and a wallet into my pockets, i don't want to have to carry around a big ol' brick like the CE devices are, espcially when you pop the modems onto them.
i have wireless ssh, aim and icq, plus IRC, web, email and VNC on my palm. what more could I need?
The mass of players finds quirks and exploits them much better then the small beta teams. And no, Beta 4 wasn't huge.
No, it wasn't huge, but they were finding hundreds of problems during the beta that were still unfixed when they went gold. I've seen a lot of messages saying that "You can't find all of the problems in beta, you need the full load," but that would assume that they had fixed the problems they found with the smaler beta testing load, which is still entirely untrue.
There remains the question, however -- if the company was going to fold, and noone would have gotten to ever play the game, is it better that the company funded itself from gamers' dollars?
...but they couldn't even get that right. after downloading the 600 meg beta, installing it, creating an account and finally logging in, I was told that there was a financial problem with the account. Interesting, seeing as how there are no financial aspects to a free beta testing account.
After 3 weeks and repeated emails from myself and hundreds of others, I never heard back from Funcom and gave up.
But, along the way, I visited all of the forums, and alt.games.anarchy-online, and discovered that I really didn't want to get involved anyway. Right up to the day before they "launched" people would spend hours getting to the goal of a mission such as picking up an object and returning with it, only to discover that they couldn't pick it up.
People are getting trapped in rooms without any way to get out, even after quitting, suiciding and restarting. The lag is often interminable.
Granted, the company is not currently charging the monthly fee until the game is complete, but really, if they recognized that it wasn't complete, why go gold? Why ship?
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I believe it was Warp version 4, but it was called Merlin. I was a beta tester.
Man, talk about creativity...
i've been running a web server and proxy box in this same case for 4 years now. somehow it didn't seem that cool.
actually, it was all running on a 120 meg Mac IDE drive from Apple's first attempt at cutting costs by dropping SCSI. talk about a frankenstein machine, i didn't have the adapters to use a 3 1/4" floppy drive power with the big ol' honking drive power supply connectors, so to boot the box from floppy for the install I had to drag the thing over next to my main PC case and "jump" the floppy power over....
almost makes me nostalgic for my first days of linux use. almost.
actually, it was just bad html tags. i'm still not entirely sure how i got it that wrong, it was just bold and italics tags...
If
I think "if" is the operative word here, and is qhat's causing all of the questions. Shouldn't the ISP, upon receiving the request, actually verify that the "offending user" is breaking the law before terminating th account?
Couldn't this means of cutting off internet access be very widely misused and abused? It seems that members of the MPAA could pretty much drop anyone's access, even a competitors, with just a phone call. Not even a phone call to a lawyer.
It's beyond unfortunate, it's downright fucked up. Basically, He Who Has The Most Lawyers Wins in pretty much every case. At that point, what are rights? What good are laws, if they can be bought like stocks?
I use Charter Pipeline cable service, through Earthlink, and I lost access for 2 full weeks. They're overcharging for the service as it is, and during the outage they stopped answering their phones and never let *any* of their customers know what was going on, what was being done, and when it was going to be fixed.
If I'm paying through the nose for a high speed connection, and it disappears for 2 solid weeks, you can bet that I want some money back. They're giving us all a free month of service now.
So, is it codenamed for a certain mutated sea monkey?
Ever see the episode of NewsRadio where Matthew discovers Dilbert cartoons?
I have a new image of Katz in my head, and he looks like Andy Dick.
I would say that he should post to Plastic.com, but I think he'd be severely outclassed by the posters over there.
It's cool to see seanbaby getting attention, but really...
troll? huh?
oh god, thinkgeek is going to pack it into corn syrup and add caffeine by the end of the week....
Did you finish gravity's rainbow?
I've started it twice now. I tink I'll have to take a month off from work to get through it.
heh. heheheh. heheheheheheheheheheheh..... hehehehaehahahahahahahaaaaaaaahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa.... oh, man...... heheheh. muahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaHAHA HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa...
hee heeeeeeee....
...and you can have your PVR, and the NASA channel.
I think he covered it pretty clearly. You're saying that it's a status-consciousness thing to drive a lexus over a toyota. He's saying the same thing, except that he's calling the status-conscious people morons.
I'd also like to point out that you're not buying status, you're buying perceived status. Your personal echelon of society may be wowed, but there are those above and below you (not you personally, the hypothectical you) who will be completely unimpressed or (as the ads will have you believe) completely wowed.
Personally, I can't imagine being wowed by a lexus, anymore than I would be unimpressed with a toyota.
yeah, they'd use shorten. lossless audio compression for the masses. easy to use tools for windows and the various unices. winamp and xmms plugins.
.wav files, but you get all of the original audio data.
they're about 1/2 the size of
I have an office of 30 people on an NT domain with win2k laptops for everyone. I have a data center with about 12 servers running oracle, sql7, exchange, iis, etc. I have a 4 tier QA network in-house running WebLogic, Resin, Oracle and AFS. I also have a 6 machine production environment at Dellhost running Apache, JServ and SQL7. On top of that, I have a 4 tier, 9 machine production environment running at exodus with Weblogic, Resin, Oracle and AFS.
I manage all of this by myself, including all of the myriad problems from the 30 users (my mouse isn't working.... can I get a set of speakers? i need new antivirus software....), tech support for 3 versions of a software product that we don't sell anymore but still have to support, and I have to manage finding a new hosting partner and planning for future architecture of our ASP product.
I can multitask 'til my head falls off, but productivity only happens when you're allowed to actually focus on one thing for at least 2 hours. Getting your brain into and out of each mindset can take up to 15 minutes to half an hour. It's not easy, it's not fun, and overall it can lead to far too much stress from not being able to complete things on time or as completely as you'd like to.
Oh yeah, throw 4 or 5 mandatory meetings per week into that mix, and you've got my life. Yay.
This kills me -- install Redhat, choose the custom option, then DE-select "Web Server."
Run through the rest of the install, and... tada, apache was installed anyway.
Also, I'm sure all those art school graduated, maya using kids are not going to be very familiar with fsck or how to setup their xf86config when they have problems with their video card.
Well, it'll be pre-configured for the only video card the system will ever use.
I think it could bring a lot of the simplicity of console use (no driver issues to worry about, no need to worry if this card or that card is supported....
size is key too. i had a free jornada for a few months, but i returned it because i hated it so much.
my palm 5 with its omnisky modem attached is still smaller than the jornada all by itself.
when i have to drop a beeper, a PDA with wireless access, plus keys and a wallet into my pockets, i don't want to have to carry around a big ol' brick like the CE devices are, espcially when you pop the modems onto them.
i have wireless ssh, aim and icq, plus IRC, web, email and VNC on my palm. what more could I need?
The mass of players finds quirks and exploits them much better then the small beta teams. And no, Beta 4 wasn't huge.
No, it wasn't huge, but they were finding hundreds of problems during the beta that were still unfixed when they went gold. I've seen a lot of messages saying that "You can't find all of the problems in beta, you need the full load," but that would assume that they had fixed the problems they found with the smaler beta testing load, which is still entirely untrue.
There remains the question, however -- if the company was going to fold, and noone would have gotten to ever play the game, is it better that the company funded itself from gamers' dollars?
...but they couldn't even get that right. after downloading the 600 meg beta, installing it, creating an account and finally logging in, I was told that there was a financial problem with the account. Interesting, seeing as how there are no financial aspects to a free beta testing account.
After 3 weeks and repeated emails from myself and hundreds of others, I never heard back from Funcom and gave up.
But, along the way, I visited all of the forums, and alt.games.anarchy-online, and discovered that I really didn't want to get involved anyway. Right up to the day before they "launched" people would spend hours getting to the goal of a mission such as picking up an object and returning with it, only to discover that they couldn't pick it up.
People are getting trapped in rooms without any way to get out, even after quitting, suiciding and restarting. The lag is often interminable.
Granted, the company is not currently charging the monthly fee until the game is complete, but really, if they recognized that it wasn't complete, why go gold? Why ship?
Nusphere is pretty far from a non-profit organization. But then again, so is Slashdot.
.edu now?
I once taught someone to write PHP code. Can I register for a
padding? in baseball?
There's a really good article called "Where in the World is VOIP Banned" here with a followup here.