Personally, I couldn't stand any of the SNK games I've ever played. I played a lot at a place called "Gamer's Heaven" that had the console and you paid by the hour to play in the back room on their consoles. I used to try the NeoGeo every once in a while and it was just dull. I hated the colors and the games were not fun for me.
My single favorite fighting game is the original Street Fighter II. The combos were an accident and required actual knowledge and practice and if you really truly knew how to play you could pop a quarter in and play through the single player version with the amusing interlude of challengers every once in a while.
I was a faithful SFII player through Champion and Turbo but after that the whole genre was ruined (save for the Virtua Fighter series).
I have 2k server (got it from a friend) with a Linksys wireless network adapter running on a headless system with an AMD K6-2 350 and 256MB RAM (that I also got for free). The system has only a 2-gig hard drive so I can't store the music on that system. What I've done instead is installed VNCserver and Winamp on that system. I then created two shares on my wife's laptop (the system with all the MP3s), one to her MP3 folder and one to her CDROM drive. If she has a CD full of MP3s in the drive she VNCs to the server, opens Winamp, opens the shared CDROM drive, and plays the songs she wants. She then closes VNCviewer and the songs play until she VNCs back in and stops it.
A pair of shorty headers and a pair of 3" stainless steel exhaust pipes.
For my birthday I got a disc brake upgrade. Maybe for my next birthday it'll be an engine rebuild kit with a tricked out cam and time to put the Vortec heads on my car. In fact, I have the next few years booked with requests and none of it is computer stuff.
Of course, that's because I test stuff for work at home and it's usually much better than I could afford anyway.
Yes they were. Their relationship with Lucent (Agere now) gave them exclusivity pretty much. I believe Lucent's RG products for the PC market was purposefully crippled to keep Apple's so much better.
Intel and Dell are both offering a router that is easily configurable via http and doesn't require proprietary software to be installed. It also has a "firewall", two RJ45 ports, etc.
Actually, the Orinoco branded "Residential Gateway" was really just an airport without the cool apple software. If you ran the apple software, though, it worked with it just fine. The problem with the first generation stuff was that WEP was enabled out of box and that required some setting up. Consumer products should just work out of the box without any configuration besides plugging it in. The next generation products are broadcasting their SSIDs and have encryption disabled. And they all have two RJ45 ports. It's worthless without them as far as I'm concerned.
If a company has multiple access points, though, the wireless systems roam between access points and there end up being fewer clients associated per AP. Also, some access points (like the Dell AP-1000) have two wireless cards with each acting as an antenna. This also segregates the client base.
A friend of mine just said "Isn't is horrible that we can now think 'I hope it was just a plane crash' when something like this happens?"
From the location of the crash and proximity to the airport it looks like it might have just been an accident. If not, then it is yet another nail in the terrorist's coffins.
I saw a KVM over IP switch at an enterprise vendor expo.
Imagine having a KVM switch running something like VNC on it that would let you control the switch by software and also allow you to configure the BIOS and preboot stuff over the internet.
Hell, you could even do it wirelessly! I was blown away by the whole thing.
The one problem with it, though, is that they're giving away a free flat panel monitor with it. Something expensive enough that a flat panel becomes schwag is too expensive for me!
I don't believe that's true at all. I just looked at the loc.gov link and compared it to the story and they are, in fact related. I don't know how you can say the parent was offtopic or unrelated to the article. In fact, I found his link to be more interesting than the game boy link.
Note how vivid the pictures taken in Russia are. Also, read the article and you will see that the glass plate negatives were reflected through a device known as a "magic lantern" that combined the three images to make one full color image.
Well put. We do need to keep in mind the things we have in common (such as Linux). I usually find out about the latest Mozilla releases here that I wouldn't normally go looking for, but since it's so easy to just link to it from my default page I usually go grab it and jack with it for a while. My point being that the really important releases should be reported on because these projects bring us together.
Wil, that was great interview. You've really impressed some people out here and not (only) by speaking to us in our language and proving you're one of us, but by being a real person and damn funny.
I know you've heard something a lot like this before, but before this interview I hadn't thought anything about Wesley Crusher or the actor who played him since he was on the show and barely anything even then.
Notice I used "he" above? I don't even associate you (or your writing, actually, because that's all I know about you) with the actor who played the kid on Star Trek. You're just a guy who has a site out there with random shit that is not only funny, but poignant. And now you have another person who admires what you do.
Bravo for staying real, finding your funny, flirting with the hostess in front of your wife, not becoming a "former child actor", and being a geek. You're one of the beautiful people as well as a Morlock. Pretty good feat, huh?
Rember, though, PWS was effected by the holes as well which would likely bring the numbers up to those of Apache. Especially if you count the multitude of small web servers in large companies that aren't accessible from outside the wirewall but end up getting in and wreaking havoc within the corporate intranet.
There's really a need for laptops when you consider the flexibility. I have both a desktop for gaming and a portable that I actually use all the time.
A portable with wireless can be used in bed, on the couch, in the pool, on the chais lounge, while you're pooping, while you're cooking, at a desk, and sitting on the porch swing out front. How can you beat that?
I love my laptop(s) and have opened it up and completely taken it apart a number of times. Of course, I really can't upgrade mine at this time. It's kind of hard to find an upgrade for a system with a 1.13 GHz processor, a 32MB GeForce2Go video card, and a 15" 16x12 LCD.
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Personally, I couldn't stand any of the SNK games I've ever played. I played a lot at a place called "Gamer's Heaven" that had the console and you paid by the hour to play in the back room on their consoles. I used to try the NeoGeo every once in a while and it was just dull. I hated the colors and the games were not fun for me.
My single favorite fighting game is the original Street Fighter II. The combos were an accident and required actual knowledge and practice and if you really truly knew how to play you could pop a quarter in and play through the single player version with the amusing interlude of challengers every once in a while.
I was a faithful SFII player through Champion and Turbo but after that the whole genre was ruined (save for the Virtua Fighter series).
My wife says Winamp doesn't put big pauses inbetween songs.
I'll ask my wife and get back with you. I don't listen much to the music but she has it on all day.
I have done it a different way using Windows:
I have 2k server (got it from a friend) with a Linksys wireless network adapter running on a headless system with an AMD K6-2 350 and 256MB RAM (that I also got for free). The system has only a 2-gig hard drive so I can't store the music on that system. What I've done instead is installed VNCserver and Winamp on that system. I then created two shares on my wife's laptop (the system with all the MP3s), one to her MP3 folder and one to her CDROM drive. If she has a CD full of MP3s in the drive she VNCs to the server, opens Winamp, opens the shared CDROM drive, and plays the songs she wants. She then closes VNCviewer and the songs play until she VNCs back in and stops it.
A pair of shorty headers and a pair of 3" stainless steel exhaust pipes.
For my birthday I got a disc brake upgrade. Maybe for my next birthday it'll be an engine rebuild kit with a tricked out cam and time to put the Vortec heads on my car. In fact, I have the next few years booked with requests and none of it is computer stuff.
Of course, that's because I test stuff for work at home and it's usually much better than I could afford anyway.
Yes they were. Their relationship with Lucent (Agere now) gave them exclusivity pretty much. I believe Lucent's RG products for the PC market was purposefully crippled to keep Apple's so much better.
Intel and Dell are both offering a router that is easily configurable via http and doesn't require proprietary software to be installed. It also has a "firewall", two RJ45 ports, etc.
And it's only $289 from Dell.
Actually, the Orinoco branded "Residential Gateway" was really just an airport without the cool apple software. If you ran the apple software, though, it worked with it just fine. The problem with the first generation stuff was that WEP was enabled out of box and that required some setting up. Consumer products should just work out of the box without any configuration besides plugging it in. The next generation products are broadcasting their SSIDs and have encryption disabled. And they all have two RJ45 ports. It's worthless without them as far as I'm concerned.
I've found that the best way to create a network is to have your laptop systems use wireless and your desktops use the wired "backbone".
Our three laptops and print server are all wireless but our desktops are all hardwired.
If a company has multiple access points, though, the wireless systems roam between access points and there end up being fewer clients associated per AP. Also, some access points (like the Dell AP-1000) have two wireless cards with each acting as an antenna. This also segregates the client base.
A friend of mine just said "Isn't is horrible that we can now think 'I hope it was just a plane crash' when something like this happens?"
From the location of the crash and proximity to the airport it looks like it might have just been an accident. If not, then it is yet another nail in the terrorist's coffins.
I saw a KVM over IP switch at an enterprise vendor expo.
Imagine having a KVM switch running something like VNC on it that would let you control the switch by software and also allow you to configure the BIOS and preboot stuff over the internet.
Hell, you could even do it wirelessly! I was blown away by the whole thing.
The one problem with it, though, is that they're giving away a free flat panel monitor with it. Something expensive enough that a flat panel becomes schwag is too expensive for me!
I don't believe that's true at all. I just looked at the loc.gov link and compared it to the story and they are, in fact related. I don't know how you can say the parent was offtopic or unrelated to the article. In fact, I found his link to be more interesting than the game boy link.
Note how vivid the pictures taken in Russia are. Also, read the article and you will see that the glass plate negatives were reflected through a device known as a "magic lantern" that combined the three images to make one full color image.
For some reason, every time I read this headline I see "Bans Bean Bags".
Well put. We do need to keep in mind the things we have in common (such as Linux).
I usually find out about the latest Mozilla releases here that I wouldn't normally go looking for, but since it's so easy to just link to it from my default page I usually go grab it and jack with it for a while.
My point being that the really important releases should be reported on because these projects bring us together.
Maybe whiners should go in their own category so we could set out user prefs to not display their whining.
Wil, that was great interview. You've really impressed some people out here and not (only) by speaking to us in our language and proving you're one of us, but by being a real person and damn funny.
I know you've heard something a lot like this before, but before this interview I hadn't thought anything about Wesley Crusher or the actor who played him since he was on the show and barely anything even then.
Notice I used "he" above? I don't even associate you (or your writing, actually, because that's all I know about you) with the actor who played the kid on Star Trek. You're just a guy who has a site out there with random shit that is not only funny, but poignant. And now you have another person who admires what you do.
Bravo for staying real, finding your funny, flirting with the hostess in front of your wife, not becoming a "former child actor", and being a geek. You're one of the beautiful people as well as a Morlock. Pretty good feat, huh?
Did you fry the motherboard, processor and RAM?
Hell, if you just fried the proc you can buy an upgraded one for practically nothing.
Look at my link.
Rember, though, PWS was effected by the holes as well which would likely bring the numbers up to those of Apache. Especially if you count the multitude of small web servers in large companies that aren't accessible from outside the wirewall but end up getting in and wreaking havoc within the corporate intranet.
Especially in an all-Microsoft shop.
Order it online using your friend's service tag.
Golly, depending on the video card you have you could probably buy the GF2Go from Dell spare parts and put it in your system.
You might just need a BIOS upgrade, though.
There's really a need for laptops when you consider the flexibility. I have both a desktop for gaming and a portable that I actually use all the time.
A portable with wireless can be used in bed, on the couch, in the pool, on the chais lounge, while you're pooping, while you're cooking, at a desk, and sitting on the porch swing out front. How can you beat that?
I love my laptop(s) and have opened it up and completely taken it apart a number of times. Of course, I really can't upgrade mine at this time. It's kind of hard to find an upgrade for a system with a 1.13 GHz processor, a 32MB GeForce2Go video card, and a 15" 16x12 LCD.
Don't go getting jealous now!