At work I have two different systems. One is running Win2K (I have to support it, so I need to know it.) the other running RH 6.1. The RH 6.1 system is almost always connected to my home router/server/firewall through ssh2. I email my wife pretty much throughout the day and converse with her secure in the knowledge that when I send an email it hits the Roadrunner server, and is picked up about 2 minutes later by my wife's computer. You can't beat that. Her emails to me hit the Roadrunner server, and go directly to mine. So I guess if you had a packet sniffer on the POP3 server you could see everything I'm doing. I'm thinking of setting up a pop3 server on my server that only she and I will use, but that's kind of a longer term task.
Wouldn't it be nice to get the IP address and bandwidth and not use them at all for any services whatsoever? RoadRunner doesn't cost too much, but any discount would be welcome. Hell, if it was a static IP I wouldn't have to use them or anybody else for mail, web hosting, etc. I'm already wired for it at home. I just have a dynamic IP that makes it impossible for any type of Hostname that can be accessed by anyone else.
We are parting on the best of terms (leaving right AFTER a project completes is the considerate way to go).
So does that mean that you consider Brian Hook inconsiderate for leaving before Quake 3 was out the door? Or was Brian correct that HIS part of the developement process was complete?
Jon Katz is just the kind of shortsighted pundit that would have been proclaiming a couple of years ago that the internet would be the place where everything is done in the future. That's like saying that the Dremel will be the only tool someone uses forever. It doesn't make any sense. While being useful for many things I do throughout the day, the net is not a panacea. It's a large part of my life, but doesn't permeate it. So poor people and people living in the third world don't have to worry. They can live happy, healthy, productive lives and never be connected to the internet. Thanks, Jon Katz. I couldn't have figured that out without your help.
I don't think MS will be selling or distributing a Linux version of Office, but they might do a developmental version concurrently with the version of Office for OSX. Their even might be a bit of portable code in the Mac version. On the bright side, though, Mac Office isn't nearly as integrated with the OS as Windows Office is. Hopefully the Linux version will not be either.
This isn't to say I'm going to buy the product by any means. I work at a MS OEM and I can get anything they sell for free, so I might take it home when it comes out and play with it just long enough to get sick of it. Then I'll format the partition I installed it in and go back to Pico.
Luckily most of my playing of the original was on the Super Nintendo. The glitches were taken out of that version. I played against someone who knew how to magic throw once and still won. Not that it was easy, mind you. Once you got into Champion Edition and the rest, though, Chun Li was the bomb.
It was a joke. Barney on the Simpsons was the one doing "Number four."
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Yup. Blanca's bitch-ass always got stung by my air step. After they added the cheatin' ass jump he could sometimes get me after I stomped him when he was in electricity mode, but I learned how to throw him on the way down, so it was all good. I love that game.
I'm afraid you're sadly mistaken. Chun Li could recover from a block very quickly and throw Guile's chump ass with zero problems. Besides that, she had that little bitch-slap that was great for humiliation. Even after they gave her a fireball and all that interesting shit I still used her as either a ground character with throwzilla magic or an air character who could bounce off walls, throw in the air, and multitap you on the head. Even if you were in a special move. Guile was my bitch when I played Chun.
Number four. Number four. Number four. Number four. Number four. Number four.
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I don't think it crushed the joke at all. More subtle and it would have been recognized as a joke right away. The reason it's funny is that you really get believing it and see the email addresss. It catches you.
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It all started in Street Fighter II. I started off with Ken (I consider him a gateway drug. He looks so effiminate.) and of course got hooked on Chun Li. I mean, she was so strong. She could throw from feet away and I could kick everyone's ass with her. After learning her idiosyncracies, I couldn't play with anyone else. Since Street Fighter, women in fighting games have been either too weak, just wierd, or their boots clashed with their tights, so I've played as men. Of course, with Virtual Fighter 2 I played as the drunk. I guess that says a little something about my state of mind, huh? If I can't be a woman I'll self-destruct. With the advent of Quake, the female skins were always too butch. What fun was that? Might as well just play as the Marine.
With Quake II, the female model was fine, but she just couldn't match up to Chun Li. I thought the magic was gone. A Chun Li model came out, but by then I was playing Half-Life with that boring Gordon Freeman.
That brings me to the crux of the problem. Now that Quake 3 is out, there's a model named Mynx who looks good, isn't too weak, doesn't have annoying pain sounds, and doesn't have any weaknesses. The problem is that if I were to play as her my son would rag on me and make fun of me. What should I do? I'm all confused.
Katz has started throwing little bits of chatspeak into his articles like f2f and "that's my two bytes". Is this an attempt to appeal to computer (l)users, or has he just picked up some pithy sayings from his buddies in the chat rooms? That's what I think. Let's hear from you.
I use Lynx because with it I gan curcumvent my company's proxy server. I ssh into my box at home and use Lynx to do research, download cracks, lookup hacking info, and look at ASCII art pr0n. When other techs can't get info from Deja.com because the proxy server is down, I'll look it up for them with Lynx and give them the answer. Funny thing is, I can never get any info from support.microsoft.com.
Wrote the gEdit help file. This thread has motivated me to target yet another app to write a help file for.
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If you live in Texas and you are sued for civil damages your wages cannot be garnisheed. That's reason enough for me as the "little guy" to not give a flying fuck. Sometimes you need to think cavalierly of the consequences because you are doing the right thing.
Second off, you're wrong about Linus. Linus does not own a trademark that applies to domain names. Go ahead and read the patent application yourself on the webite, Linus' trademark is only on the word "Linux" when used as the name of an operating system. What Linus did was flat out bullying and nothing else. If he had come after me, I would have fought him in court and made his lawyers look like the retards they are.
Actually, you're wrong about Linus. If a company offered a bunch of Microsoft domain names for sale, such as MicrosoftExpert.com, MicrosoftSupport.com, etc, MS would've been on them like white on rice. The same applies to any company. It's not unfair practice. The problem on the web is that many products share the same name space. If there was an.os or.comp TLD, you could make that argument. Unfortunately, when there are only three real name spaces and no enforcement on seperating them, your trademark needs to be enforced fairly but rigorously.
Actually, I'm paid by the hour and don't mind it too much. It's the answering calls that's the pits. Especially because our front line techs aren't exactly trained well. It helps that while they're telling me what problems they're encountering that I can tune out and tune in to Slashdot until their little monologue has run out of steam. Usually they're just asking how to find the power button anyway.
Actually, I built my firewall/router/mail server using spare parts and a burnt Red Hat CD. It's not really that hard. I should actually write a howto about it.
I don't know if I made a boneheaded move or something, but I thought the parent of this advocated only two different categories: Group or Single. That's why I asked about those two, as they could be considered either. Besides, I'd split the categories up much more if it were up to me. There's be a whole subsection for '80s New Wave bands with known homosexual lead singers. That's where all the good stuff came from anyway.
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At work I have two different systems. One is running Win2K (I have to support it, so I need to know it.) the other running RH 6.1. The RH 6.1 system is almost always connected to my home router/server/firewall through ssh2. I email my wife pretty much throughout the day and converse with her secure in the knowledge that when I send an email it hits the Roadrunner server, and is picked up about 2 minutes later by my wife's computer. You can't beat that. Her emails to me hit the Roadrunner server, and go directly to mine. So I guess if you had a packet sniffer on the POP3 server you could see everything I'm doing. I'm thinking of setting up a pop3 server on my server that only she and I will use, but that's kind of a longer term task.
As for your sig, would you like to be added to the list at www.wildwoman.org/slashdotnames.html?
Wouldn't it be nice to get the IP address and bandwidth and not use them at all for any services whatsoever? RoadRunner doesn't cost too much, but any discount would be welcome. Hell, if it was a static IP I wouldn't have to use them or anybody else for mail, web hosting, etc. I'm already wired for it at home. I just have a dynamic IP that makes it impossible for any type of Hostname that can be accessed by anyone else.
Leave the man alone! He's veklempt.
Seriously, though, I don't like that either. It's too Here's what I think, my little geek minions, now give me your little opinion.
So does that mean that you consider Brian Hook inconsiderate for leaving before Quake 3 was out the door? Or was Brian correct that HIS part of the developement process was complete?
If Bubble Bobble isn't ported to the new system, there will be hell to pay!
Jon Katz is just the kind of shortsighted pundit that would have been proclaiming a couple of years ago that the internet would be the place where everything is done in the future. That's like saying that the Dremel will be the only tool someone uses forever. It doesn't make any sense. While being useful for many things I do throughout the day, the net is not a panacea. It's a large part of my life, but doesn't permeate it. So poor people and people living in the third world don't have to worry. They can live happy, healthy, productive lives and never be connected to the internet. Thanks, Jon Katz. I couldn't have figured that out without your help.
This isn't to say I'm going to buy the product by any means. I work at a MS OEM and I can get anything they sell for free, so I might take it home when it comes out and play with it just long enough to get sick of it. Then I'll format the partition I installed it in and go back to Pico.
By the way, I was not being sarcastic at all. Seriously.
Luckily most of my playing of the original was on the Super Nintendo. The glitches were taken out of that version. I played against someone who knew how to magic throw once and still won. Not that it was easy, mind you. Once you got into Champion Edition and the rest, though, Chun Li was the bomb.
It was a joke. Barney on the Simpsons was the one doing "Number four."
Yup. Blanca's bitch-ass always got stung by my air step. After they added the cheatin' ass jump he could sometimes get me after I stomped him when he was in electricity mode, but I learned how to throw him on the way down, so it was all good. I love that game.
I'm afraid you're sadly mistaken. Chun Li could recover from a block very quickly and throw Guile's chump ass with zero problems. Besides that, she had that little bitch-slap that was great for humiliation. Even after they gave her a fireball and all that interesting shit I still used her as either a ground character with throwzilla magic or an air character who could bounce off walls, throw in the air, and multitap you on the head. Even if you were in a special move. Guile was my bitch when I played Chun.
Number four. Number four. Number four. Number four. Number four. Number four.
I don't think it crushed the joke at all. More subtle and it would have been recognized as a joke right away. The reason it's funny is that you really get believing it and see the email addresss. It catches you.
With Quake II, the female model was fine, but she just couldn't match up to Chun Li. I thought the magic was gone. A Chun Li model came out, but by then I was playing Half-Life with that boring Gordon Freeman.
That brings me to the crux of the problem. Now that Quake 3 is out, there's a model named Mynx who looks good, isn't too weak, doesn't have annoying pain sounds, and doesn't have any weaknesses. The problem is that if I were to play as her my son would rag on me and make fun of me. What should I do? I'm all confused.
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Katz has started throwing little bits of chatspeak into his articles like f2f and "that's my two bytes". Is this an attempt to appeal to computer (l)users, or has he just picked up some pithy sayings from his buddies in the chat rooms? That's what I think. Let's hear from you.
I use Lynx because with it I gan curcumvent my company's proxy server. I ssh into my box at home and use Lynx to do research, download cracks, lookup hacking info, and look at ASCII art pr0n. When other techs can't get info from Deja.com because the proxy server is down, I'll look it up for them with Lynx and give them the answer. Funny thing is, I can never get any info from support.microsoft.com.
Wrote the gEdit help file. This thread has motivated me to target yet another app to write a help file for.
If you live in Texas and you are sued for civil damages your wages cannot be garnisheed. That's reason enough for me as the "little guy" to not give a flying fuck. Sometimes you need to think cavalierly of the consequences because you are doing the right thing.
Actually, you're wrong about Linus. If a company offered a bunch of Microsoft domain names for sale, such as MicrosoftExpert.com, MicrosoftSupport.com, etc, MS would've been on them like white on rice. The same applies to any company. It's not unfair practice. The problem on the web is that many products share the same name space. If there was an .os or .comp TLD, you could make that argument. Unfortunately, when there are only three real name spaces and no enforcement on seperating them, your trademark needs to be enforced fairly but rigorously.
Actually, I'm paid by the hour and don't mind it too much. It's the answering calls that's the pits. Especially because our front line techs aren't exactly trained well. It helps that while they're telling me what problems they're encountering that I can tune out and tune in to Slashdot until their little monologue has run out of steam. Usually they're just asking how to find the power button anyway.
Actually, I built my firewall/router/mail server using spare parts and a burnt Red Hat CD. It's not really that hard. I should actually write a howto about it.
Is the install process pretty easy? From what I hear it takes a little to get around the standard Mac boot process.
I don't know if I made a boneheaded move or something, but I thought the parent of this advocated only two different categories: Group or Single. That's why I asked about those two, as they could be considered either. Besides, I'd split the categories up much more if it were up to me. There's be a whole subsection for '80s New Wave bands with known homosexual lead singers. That's where all the good stuff came from anyway.