When I was 16, I was an assistant clan leader for a very small (10 member) Rogue Spear clan. We had one member - the leader, in fact - who was over 20 (he was 28), and we referred to him as "old man."
Now 23, I'm among the younger in my WoW guild. The vast majority of our members are family men and women and many are parents. Instead of having 10% of our members legally adults, we have 60%. That's a hell of a change.
On the 1-10 scale of writing a decent troll post that incites others to argue with you, I give this one about a 3. -1 for the name calling and -1 for the swearing.
I don't want Webmin. I don't want an additional piece of software written in an interpreted language I need to install separately just so I can escape config file hell. Linux still has one thing missing, and it's why I'm a Windows guru: I'll take my built in GUI, thank you much, and you can have your trolling and your Webmin.
Okay...essentially, the core change is that GoDaddy is moving their parked sites from BIND to MS DNS. Curiously, most of the argument here focuses elsewhere (LAMP, IIS, LAMP's components vs alternatives).
I use MS DNS 2003. It's nice. It's easy to use. I enjoy having a GUI built in and supported by the developer in addition to having the power of command line editing. The only thing I wish I could change is that it uses a sequential zone serial number instead of a dated one (ie, instead of 2006032301, 2006032302, 2006032303, it uses a raw format - 1, 2, 3...)
Sometimes, it's just not possible at all. My boss, for example, asks - rather, demands - that our organization's website be accessible to them in Dreamweaver. The problem is this: My pages are WAI A compliant and written in XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.1, and CSS 2.1. The moment they hit "save" with Dreamweaver, it rewrites half the damn code in the page, changing indentations, switching out tags, and often changing things that weren't really any of its concern in the first place, adding CSS classes with names like "L1" instead of "bluebox" and inserting p tags everywhere. I'm left with a Microsoft-as-Borg kind of choice: assimilate and use Dreamweaver, or be defeated.
I try to create standards compliant, accessible websites, but the boss is worried about any emergencies that might pop up and require their immediate attention. Without being able to pull away from programs that change the pages around and aren't really aware of standards, I may not be able to do it at all.
(Side note: if anyone knows how to force the 'Reaver to leave my code alone, could you reply, please?)
If you have an all-Windows server environment (it doesn't sound like you do, but if you do), MS AD and DNS under Server 2003 handles almost everything automatically. You can insert your own entries if you want (CNAMEs), but on all small and many medium sized networks you can leave DNS as a totally hands off affair. Just make sure the DDNS updates are set to secure.
These people are doing something that disrupts the economy in online games and, in most cases, is wholesale against the rules. They have to buy account after account because they continually get banned. Their presence is detrimental to the game in numerous ways - from their inability to communicate with other players to the spam mail and tactics they use to 'sell' their virtual goods.
How is this empowering? Sounds more like selfish to me. Stop playing my game! You're breaking the rules and making it worse for everyone!
Buying items from a reputable, well-tested online company like (for example) Newegg or Amazon is one thing. Buying collectibles off eBay is one thing.
Buying a big ticket luxury item - ANY such item - cars, real estate, houses, deeds...that's misguided at best unless you live in proximity to the seller and can see it (inspect it) yourself presale. We have a term for people who will buy things like this with full and total trust in the seller. It's called "sucker." Or, if you're a proponent of our legal system, "plaintiff."
But that's the point. These sites are being censored totally and completely, personal time or not. Plus, the question of whether Americans are willing to continue to sacrifice their rights during wartime - something we have a history of doing - is currently coming under debate again.
You have about 5 minutes to log back in after an involuntary disconnect and you can skip the queue. NB: In this case, "log back in" would be when the character select screen appears.
I'm sort of the one man IT department for a small nonprofit that is dependent on technology for tons of different things. Recently, we've begun looking into security for our office (I'll spare you the grisly details.) A traditional CCTV system is completely out of the question. A network camera like the Axis 207 ($300 range) is doable in the hardware sense, but they want an additional $600 for DVR software. I have a spare box I could toss Linux on if there were a good F/OSS solution out there.
In short: it's not just the big boys that are looking for these things!:)
On the topic of old Dells and this thread - the boss wanted me to spend $1500 or somesuch nonsense on Listserv software and licensing. I pulled an Optiplex GX110 (P3 733/128MB ram) out of a closet. Not exactly as described in the article, but something that was no longer in use on our network. Toss a basic Debian install, exim 4, and Mailman on that puppy. Boom. Bought a $30 switch because I'm lazy (no wiring!) and plugged it in over in a quiet corner of the office.
IF you have Dreamweaver configured properly, and IF you're not trying to do anything too cute or fancy, and IF you're making a new webpage and not revising an existing one, Dreamweaver can output XHTML 1.0 Strict/CSS 2.1.
Since those three conditions are only ever met under the best of circumstances, I suggest your favorite text editor as a replacement for it. Seriously. Hand coding your pages is just as fast as creating them in Dreamweaver, albeit with a higher learning curve, and what you can craft with the pure code is fantastic.
Exactly. Go back and look at Nixon's platform. I'm serious. If he ran for President today, he'd be further left than most of the Democratic party. (Full disclosure: I'm quite liberal, but not very partisan.)
Education, peace, diplomacy, and public service. No religion, no war, no big business. (He does want smaller government, a more conservative ideal.) Overall, it's startling.
This argument is sometimes used to justify prejudicial behavior. In this case, it's being used to try to prevent it, and it's still wrong. Basically, "she was dressed like a whore, so she deserved to get assaulted" is the line of reasoning being used. If the guild's recruiting has the -potential- to incite prejudicial comments among the immature and clueless, then they shouldn't be allowed at all? No. It's always the transgressor's fault. Always.
There's also a candidate for political office (iirc) in Texas who wants to add a 50% tax on all "violent" games (without really any definition of what is violent and what is not). The bill in question essentially would make almost all video games 1.5x more expensive. (...He also wants to add a 10% tax to all soft drinks and a $10,000 tax to all abortions. Take that as you will.)
It's more targeted at those who have a login and regularly comment but always post as AC anyway to avoid the repercussions of their unconstructive (non-contructive? sp) comments.
I'd like to think that with an educated demographic, a community like/.'s would have a reduced rate of this kind of thing, but apparently it's more common than I realized. That's what sparked my sig.
I donno, but it seems likely (though not copy-paste). Lately, because of Fark's more community based nature on story submission, it's beaten/. to the punch on a whole bunch of stuff.
Let me clarify, just in case: Almost all major dungeons have a two letter abbreviation related to their name. Some have three. One is named for its boss instead of its name because that would ocnflict - DM is Dire Maul, and VC is Deadmines (VC for Van Cleef, the boss).
Short list of other major dungeons, in case they are referenced in this article:
Gnomeregan (no abbreviation)
Uladaman (no abbreviation)
AV, Alterac Valley
AB, Arathi Basin
BFD, Blackfathom Deeps
BRD, Blackrock Depths
LBRS and UBRS, Lower and Upper Blackrock Spire
BWL, Blackwing Lair
Maraudon (no abbreviation)
MC, Molten Cor)
RFD/RFK, Razorfen Downs and Kraul
SM, Scarlet Monastery
Strat, Stratholme
Scholo, Scholomance
WSG, Warsong Gulch
ZF, Zul'Farrak
ZG, Zul'Gurub
(PS I don't know what the Hordies use for their faction-only instances. Sorry. <3)
It's 2 hours for the 15 and less endgame instances, providing that the instance doesn't expire (ie: all the players left). For 20 man instances, it's eight hours for the regular trash and six for the chokepoints; for 40, it's more. Essentially, one night's raiding should be doable in the major instances without respawns.
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When I was 16, I was an assistant clan leader for a very small (10 member) Rogue Spear clan. We had one member - the leader, in fact - who was over 20 (he was 28), and we referred to him as "old man."
Now 23, I'm among the younger in my WoW guild. The vast majority of our members are family men and women and many are parents. Instead of having 10% of our members legally adults, we have 60%. That's a hell of a change.
On the 1-10 scale of writing a decent troll post that incites others to argue with you, I give this one about a 3. -1 for the name calling and -1 for the swearing.
I don't want Webmin. I don't want an additional piece of software written in an interpreted language I need to install separately just so I can escape config file hell. Linux still has one thing missing, and it's why I'm a Windows guru: I'll take my built in GUI, thank you much, and you can have your trolling and your Webmin.
Okay...essentially, the core change is that GoDaddy is moving their parked sites from BIND to MS DNS. Curiously, most of the argument here focuses elsewhere (LAMP, IIS, LAMP's components vs alternatives).
I use MS DNS 2003. It's nice. It's easy to use. I enjoy having a GUI built in and supported by the developer in addition to having the power of command line editing. The only thing I wish I could change is that it uses a sequential zone serial number instead of a dated one (ie, instead of 2006032301, 2006032302, 2006032303, it uses a raw format - 1, 2, 3...)
I really don't see what the big deal is...
Sometimes, it's just not possible at all. My boss, for example, asks - rather, demands - that our organization's website be accessible to them in Dreamweaver. The problem is this: My pages are WAI A compliant and written in XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.1, and CSS 2.1. The moment they hit "save" with Dreamweaver, it rewrites half the damn code in the page, changing indentations, switching out tags, and often changing things that weren't really any of its concern in the first place, adding CSS classes with names like "L1" instead of "bluebox" and inserting p tags everywhere. I'm left with a Microsoft-as-Borg kind of choice: assimilate and use Dreamweaver, or be defeated.
I try to create standards compliant, accessible websites, but the boss is worried about any emergencies that might pop up and require their immediate attention. Without being able to pull away from programs that change the pages around and aren't really aware of standards, I may not be able to do it at all.
(Side note: if anyone knows how to force the 'Reaver to leave my code alone, could you reply, please?)
No, one up from that. He built R2D2.
;)
No, really. I'm serious.
If you have an all-Windows server environment (it doesn't sound like you do, but if you do), MS AD and DNS under Server 2003 handles almost everything automatically. You can insert your own entries if you want (CNAMEs), but on all small and many medium sized networks you can leave DNS as a totally hands off affair. Just make sure the DDNS updates are set to secure.
These people are doing something that disrupts the economy in online games and, in most cases, is wholesale against the rules. They have to buy account after account because they continually get banned. Their presence is detrimental to the game in numerous ways - from their inability to communicate with other players to the spam mail and tactics they use to 'sell' their virtual goods.
How is this empowering? Sounds more like selfish to me. Stop playing my game! You're breaking the rules and making it worse for everyone!
Buying items from a reputable, well-tested online company like (for example) Newegg or Amazon is one thing.
Buying collectibles off eBay is one thing.
Buying a big ticket luxury item - ANY such item - cars, real estate, houses, deeds...that's misguided at best unless you live in proximity to the seller and can see it (inspect it) yourself presale. We have a term for people who will buy things like this with full and total trust in the seller. It's called "sucker."
Or, if you're a proponent of our legal system, "plaintiff."
But that's the point. These sites are being censored totally and completely, personal time or not. Plus, the question of whether Americans are willing to continue to sacrifice their rights during wartime - something we have a history of doing - is currently coming under debate again.
You have about 5 minutes to log back in after an involuntary disconnect and you can skip the queue. NB: In this case, "log back in" would be when the character select screen appears.
Um, how is this different than Bots 2?
Thank you for the thoughts and info, guys. Zoneminder looks like a great option. We'll test out flexTPS, too.
I'm sort of the one man IT department for a small nonprofit that is dependent on technology for tons of different things. Recently, we've begun looking into security for our office (I'll spare you the grisly details.) A traditional CCTV system is completely out of the question. A network camera like the Axis 207 ($300 range) is doable in the hardware sense, but they want an additional $600 for DVR software. I have a spare box I could toss Linux on if there were a good F/OSS solution out there.
:)
In short: it's not just the big boys that are looking for these things!
On the topic of old Dells and this thread - the boss wanted me to spend $1500 or somesuch nonsense on Listserv software and licensing. I pulled an Optiplex GX110 (P3 733/128MB ram) out of a closet. Not exactly as described in the article, but something that was no longer in use on our network. Toss a basic Debian install, exim 4, and Mailman on that puppy. Boom. Bought a $30 switch because I'm lazy (no wiring!) and plugged it in over in a quiet corner of the office.
IF you have Dreamweaver configured properly, and IF you're not trying to do anything too cute or fancy, and IF you're making a new webpage and not revising an existing one, Dreamweaver can output XHTML 1.0 Strict/CSS 2.1.
Since those three conditions are only ever met under the best of circumstances, I suggest your favorite text editor as a replacement for it. Seriously. Hand coding your pages is just as fast as creating them in Dreamweaver, albeit with a higher learning curve, and what you can craft with the pure code is fantastic.
Exactly. Go back and look at Nixon's platform. I'm serious. If he ran for President today, he'd be further left than most of the Democratic party. (Full disclosure: I'm quite liberal, but not very partisan.)
Education, peace, diplomacy, and public service. No religion, no war, no big business. (He does want smaller government, a more conservative ideal.) Overall, it's startling.
Come to think of it, that would make the full keyboard cost over $300. Damn.
Still really freakin' cool, though.
The pre order section says the cut rate pre order price is $100 (for the Mini).
This argument is sometimes used to justify prejudicial behavior. In this case, it's being used to try to prevent it, and it's still wrong. Basically, "she was dressed like a whore, so she deserved to get assaulted" is the line of reasoning being used.
If the guild's recruiting has the -potential- to incite prejudicial comments among the immature and clueless, then they shouldn't be allowed at all? No. It's always the transgressor's fault. Always.
There's also a candidate for political office (iirc) in Texas who wants to add a 50% tax on all "violent" games (without really any definition of what is violent and what is not). The bill in question essentially would make almost all video games 1.5x more expensive.
(...He also wants to add a 10% tax to all soft drinks and a $10,000 tax to all abortions. Take that as you will.)
It's more targeted at those who have a login and regularly comment but always post as AC anyway to avoid the repercussions of their unconstructive (non-contructive? sp) comments.
/.'s would have a reduced rate of this kind of thing, but apparently it's more common than I realized. That's what sparked my sig.
I'd like to think that with an educated demographic, a community like
I donno, but it seems likely (though not copy-paste). Lately, because of Fark's more community based nature on story submission, it's beaten /. to the punch on a whole bunch of stuff.
Yie. That was littered with typos. My apologies. It's Uldaman and Molten Core.
Almost all major dungeons have a two letter abbreviation related to their name. Some have three. One is named for its boss instead of its name because that would ocnflict - DM is Dire Maul, and VC is Deadmines (VC for Van Cleef, the boss).
Short list of other major dungeons, in case they are referenced in this article:
(PS I don't know what the Hordies use for their faction-only instances. Sorry. <3)
It's 2 hours for the 15 and less endgame instances, providing that the instance doesn't expire (ie: all the players left). For 20 man instances, it's eight hours for the regular trash and six for the chokepoints; for 40, it's more. Essentially, one night's raiding should be doable in the major instances without respawns.