Search on "best search engine". altavista and Yahoo are #1 and #2, and whowehere is #4. I honestly don't think these funny results were planted by google on purpose. They do seem to say something about: A) Google's ranking algorithms-- they apparently aren't kidding when they say that linking is a big factor, and B) How much vocal hatred there is on the net for M$:-)
Did you try changing the default video settings in Q3? The first time I tried it, I got ~ 1 fps, till I cut back on color depth and stuff. Also, it will only work with the X server at 16 bpp.
I basically just followed the instructions in the page above, and everything went ok. Try searching google or deja.com for other's experiences.
You can play Q3A on nVidia. Check out nvidia's linux FAQ. It's got links to the drivers, and instructions for Q2/Q3. Yes, they all say it can't be done, etc etc, but believe me, I run Q3test on a TNT2 all the time, it works fine. It's just not officially supported. Have fun!:-)
First: Think REALLY hard before you decide you want cable modem service. Cable companies are legendary for incompetence.
Second: I've never had cable internet, so no useful advice there. BUT I used to have adelphia cable TV, and boy are they bad. I've seen how bad they are at their core business, the idea that they're in cable internet now scares me a lot.
I also got DSL through Bell Atlantic. I've mentioned it here before. Basically, their phone guy was nervous, but didn't make a fuss. He just told me they don't officially support Linux, but if I wanted to use it anyway, ok. I have a static IP, although it doens't seem like that's guaranteed to remain in the future. The only complaint I have is that when I moved down the street, they charged me another hundred bucks "connection fee" even though I was using the same phone number and connecting to the same goddamn exchange. Their techs had even switched over the DSL service, and the "customer service" people didn't know it. Total comedy of errors, that netted me about a dozen phone calls. But the service worked perfectly the whole time, so it was more like entertainment for me than a real problem.
I signed up for DSL with Bell Atlantic, and the phone person did pause when I told them Linux. I said "Is there a problem?" He said "Well, we don't support that..." I went "I know. I don't need support. I know what I'm doing." They were fine after that.
And their ppp does take a damn long time to connect. I had to set the timeout extra-extra long to get the damn thing to work with dialup. No more of that, now though. DSL is A Good Thing:-)
Oh yeah. Fairfax Station. Ugh. Miles and miles of perfect little homes nestled on their snug 1/2 acre, with Wally and the Beav playing out back. And you're never more than 4 miles from the nearest Target.
DC gets a bad rap, but there are a lot of people who would rather not live in the endless NoVa suburbia. Whatever your choice is, more power to ya. And yes, currently I live in "the yuppie section" of DC (Dupont), but I used to live in heavily hispanic Adams Morgan, and I miss my old neighbors.
There's also poor sections of town, and dangerous sections. Show me a city where there aren't poor and dangerous sections. All I know is I've never once felt threatened walking around the city, alone, very late at night. People are just nicer here. Whenever I'm in NoVa, everyone looks hurried, mean and unhappy.
I roll my windows up and lock the doors when I leave the city.
Well, there's already a "Virginia is for Losers" parody sticker, so if we're to keep up with this "Internet Catpital" thing, then you're right, it should be "Virginia is for Lusers." --A proud DC resident.
But look at it from the point of view of a reader in a hurry. The fact that you said something first doesn't make any difference if there's a higher-ranked posting (for whatever reason) that also says it. This is true. And moving higher ranked comments up also discourages "first-post"ing (although it also produces some really odd "first posts," I've seen ones that are at the bottom of the page, and numbered like 76. What's up with that?). But I still feel like it encourages people not to read comments that might still be worthwhile. Isn't this what we have thresholds for, after all? Well, regardless, it's not my site, and Rob can still anything he damn well pleases. I feel like the/. community is a really cool and unique, and also fragile, thing, though. Some of these changes worry me a bit. Any idea what purpose karma will ultimately serve (y'know, besides determining what form you get reincarnated in)? CT keeps mentioning that he's "using it in other areas of the site," etc. I'm curious.
In my experience, the times when 'well' architectured systems suck is when some manager with experience in, say, Visible Analyst decides it's up to him to engineer the whole system from the get-go, unencumbered by any knowlege of the language it'll be written in, or the strengths and limitations of that language.
The most important thing about all of this is that software development goes in cycles. First you make it work, then you make it right, then you make it fast. Leaving out any of these steps is very bad.
Another very bad thing is when you have the whole system planned out in excruciating detail before you write line one of code. Inevitably, one of your assumptions will turn out to be totally unworkable, and if it's already set in stone, that will probably break everything else. Generally you have to sketch the broad strokes, fill in the major code, find out what works and what doesn't, throw away what you've done so far, and start for real. That's just the way it is, and if you don't plan to throw away your first try, you'll just end up being overbudget and late when you have to throw it away anyway.
Ok, this has nothing to do with this thread. If you don't care about/. moderation issues, stop reading now.
Still with me? Good. So, my comment above (the one that this is in reply to), you'll note, was comment number 5 to this story. When comments started to appear, it was the first one, by virtue of a default +2 score. Someone gave it one moderation point for being informative or interesting or something.
So later on, some other people had written better comments than mine, and got nice high 4's and 5's, and did anyone notice that now comments "float" up to the top of the page when they get high scores? So suddenly my post (which started out first), was way down the list, and got scored down as "redundant"! Ok, I don't know about you, but dammit, I said it first! All those other people are the redundant ones.
Seriously, I'm not just bitching because I got mod'ed down. This is a bad feature of the system-- in fact, most of the recent changes are generally in the direction of making sure that the high-scoring stay high-scoring, and the low scoring disappear. Think about it-- you bubble high-scored posts up, they get more readers, and more moderators notice them and give them higher scores. Meanwhile, some AC said something brilliant down the page, but no one ever gets there.
I don't know what to do about this... just something to chew on.
Point made. My post above relates specifically to Linux installs (Apache/mod_php). Use NT at your own risk (hey! that's what the EULA tells you anyway, right?):-)
I can't comment on cold fusion, as I haven't used it. Generally when I need to create a web application, it comes down to php3 or perl (apache/mod_perl). I've found that php3 is *really* good for fairly lightweight stuff, especially simple DB-driven applications. If you need to write a web interface for a database, and it doesn't need a lot of complicated user info or state info, php3 is a great choice. the database syntax is very easy, and it talks to most anything.
Perl is also good for the same things, but there's a bit more overhead, and that needs to be balanced against what you need to do. For larger applications, I would definitely choose perl, since there's just a lot more you can do with perl.
I've also used php3 for building template based web sites which have active and static parts. It's also really nice for this. Want your pages to all look roughly the same? Code a header and a footer up in php3, and just include them in a template. Makes site management really easy, and the syntax is fast to develop in, if you have any perl or c experience (or ASP or probably cold fusion, for that matter).
I know people have built very complex applications in php3, and it seems to work for them. I've never done that though. As always, whatever makes you happy, go with it.:-)
Actually, this is more of the same website-vandalism crap that we always hear about in the media. It's kind of funny that the Indian and Pakistani militaries are doing the same 31337 h4X0Ring that fourteen year olds are doing here. Far from a _REAL_ cyberwar though. We won't read about that one, when it happens...
somebody should e-mail zdnet and let them know to check slashdot before they post linux articles
But a lot of the articles on/. come from ZDnet. So if they checked here before posting articles there and we checked there before posting articles here, well... the readerships of/. and ZDnet would trade places, for one thing, and no one would ever post anything!
Yeah, but hardly any pages have a doctype, and the unbalanced tags that show up in the validator are mostly closing tags for opening tags that the validator decided are incorrect. Like if they didn't put quotes in the opening font tag, the validator will point out the closing font tag as incorrect ("unmatched"). Basically, validators are nitpicky little beasts, and don't have the last word in HTML correctness. Some of their other errors are, for example, using UL without LI tags, to indent sub-matches without bulleting. Anyway, this thread has already gone way too far-- my point is just that "correct" html is often ugly as hell, and I appreciate the simplicity of google's design more than I would appreciate perfection in their code.:-)
It's not really "completely broken and non-compliant HTML". They just, for whatever reason, didn't use any quotes in their tags. I imagine some coder got tired of escaping everything. It's not the best form, but at least it's consistent. I'm not aware of any browsers that will not render this properly.
How hard would it be to write a "confuser" that basically threw lots of extraneous stuff at the monitoring program? Something kind of like what the character in Cryptonomicon uses to confuse the Van Eck phreakers? I guess it all depends on how these monitors work. How do they capture keystrokes? And would it be possible to use the normal keystroke channel only for false (generated) keystrokes, and repoint apps to get their keyboard input from a different channel?
Likely this wouldn't work for company monitoring (they'd call you up and tell you to cut it out) but as a defense against unwanted/illegal monitoring software, how feasable would this be?
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Search on "best search engine". altavista and Yahoo are #1 and #2, and whowehere is #4. I honestly don't think these funny results were planted by google on purpose. They do seem to say something about: :-)
A) Google's ranking algorithms-- they apparently aren't kidding when they say that linking is a big factor, and
B) How much vocal hatred there is on the net for M$
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I think it would be cool if the moon said "P I Z". The Greys would wonder what the hell was going on next time the stopped by....
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I didn't have to add any of that command line stuff. My command line is ./linuxquake3. That's it.
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I basically just followed the instructions in the page above, and everything went ok. Try searching google or deja.com for other's experiences.
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You can play Q3A on nVidia. Check out nvidia's linux FAQ. It's got links to the drivers, and instructions for Q2/Q3. Yes, they all say it can't be done, etc etc, but believe me, I run Q3test on a TNT2 all the time, it works fine. It's just not officially supported. Have fun! :-)
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Second: I've never had cable internet, so no useful advice there. BUT I used to have adelphia cable TV, and boy are they bad. I've seen how bad they are at their core business, the idea that they're in cable internet now scares me a lot.
YMMV.
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I also got DSL through Bell Atlantic. I've mentioned it here before. Basically, their phone guy was nervous, but didn't make a fuss. He just told me they don't officially support Linux, but if I wanted to use it anyway, ok. I have a static IP, although it doens't seem like that's guaranteed to remain in the future. The only complaint I have is that when I moved down the street, they charged me another hundred bucks "connection fee" even though I was using the same phone number and connecting to the same goddamn exchange. Their techs had even switched over the DSL service, and the "customer service" people didn't know it. Total comedy of errors, that netted me about a dozen phone calls. But the service worked perfectly the whole time, so it was more like entertainment for me than a real problem.
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And their ppp does take a damn long time to connect. I had to set the timeout extra-extra long to get the damn thing to work with dialup. No more of that, now though. DSL is A Good Thing :-)
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DC gets a bad rap, but there are a lot of people who would rather not live in the endless NoVa suburbia. Whatever your choice is, more power to ya. And yes, currently I live in "the yuppie section" of DC (Dupont), but I used to live in heavily hispanic Adams Morgan, and I miss my old neighbors.
There's also poor sections of town, and dangerous sections. Show me a city where there aren't poor and dangerous sections. All I know is I've never once felt threatened walking around the city, alone, very late at night. People are just nicer here. Whenever I'm in NoVa, everyone looks hurried, mean and unhappy.
I roll my windows up and lock the doors when I leave the city.
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and Maine is "Vacationland", and New Jersey is "The Garden State". Since when did these things have to make any sense?
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Good god, what am I doing? Replying to an AC troll? How low have I sunk??
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Well, there's already a "Virginia is for Losers" parody sticker, so if we're to keep up with this "Internet Catpital" thing, then you're right, it should be "Virginia is for Lusers." --A proud DC resident.
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Anyone ever seen the "Virginia is for Lovers" stickers? Heh.
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But look at it from the point of view of a reader in a hurry. The fact that you said something first doesn't make any difference if there's a higher-ranked posting (for whatever reason) that also says it. This is true. And moving higher ranked comments up also discourages "first-post"ing (although it also produces some really odd "first posts," I've seen ones that are at the bottom of the page, and numbered like 76. What's up with that?). But I still feel like it encourages people not to read comments that might still be worthwhile. Isn't this what we have thresholds for, after all? Well, regardless, it's not my site, and Rob can still anything he damn well pleases. I feel like the /. community is a really cool and unique, and also fragile, thing, though. Some of these changes worry me a bit. Any idea what purpose karma will ultimately serve (y'know, besides determining what form you get reincarnated in)? CT keeps mentioning that he's "using it in other areas of the site," etc. I'm curious.
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Not to mention that the subject line "G.C. Scott: The Voice of Drugs" would make a great name for a band.
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The most important thing about all of this is that software development goes in cycles. First you make it work, then you make it right, then you make it fast. Leaving out any of these steps is very bad.
Another very bad thing is when you have the whole system planned out in excruciating detail before you write line one of code. Inevitably, one of your assumptions will turn out to be totally unworkable, and if it's already set in stone, that will probably break everything else. Generally you have to sketch the broad strokes, fill in the major code, find out what works and what doesn't, throw away what you've done so far, and start for real. That's just the way it is, and if you don't plan to throw away your first try, you'll just end up being overbudget and late when you have to throw it away anyway.
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Still with me? Good. So, my comment above (the one that this is in reply to), you'll note, was comment number 5 to this story. When comments started to appear, it was the first one, by virtue of a default +2 score. Someone gave it one moderation point for being informative or interesting or something.
So later on, some other people had written better comments than mine, and got nice high 4's and 5's, and did anyone notice that now comments "float" up to the top of the page when they get high scores? So suddenly my post (which started out first), was way down the list, and got scored down as "redundant"! Ok, I don't know about you, but dammit, I said it first! All those other people are the redundant ones.
Seriously, I'm not just bitching because I got mod'ed down. This is a bad feature of the system-- in fact, most of the recent changes are generally in the direction of making sure that the high-scoring stay high-scoring, and the low scoring disappear. Think about it-- you bubble high-scored posts up, they get more readers, and more moderators notice them and give them higher scores. Meanwhile, some AC said something brilliant down the page, but no one ever gets there.
I don't know what to do about this... just something to chew on.
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Point made. My post above relates specifically to Linux installs (Apache/mod_php). Use NT at your own risk (hey! that's what the EULA tells you anyway, right?) :-)
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Perl is also good for the same things, but there's a bit more overhead, and that needs to be balanced against what you need to do. For larger applications, I would definitely choose perl, since there's just a lot more you can do with perl.
I've also used php3 for building template based web sites which have active and static parts. It's also really nice for this. Want your pages to all look roughly the same? Code a header and a footer up in php3, and just include them in a template. Makes site management really easy, and the syntax is fast to develop in, if you have any perl or c experience (or ASP or probably cold fusion, for that matter).
I know people have built very complex applications in php3, and it seems to work for them. I've never done that though. As always, whatever makes you happy, go with it. :-)
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Actually, this is more of the same website-vandalism crap that we always hear about in the media. It's kind of funny that the Indian and Pakistani militaries are doing the same 31337 h4X0Ring that fourteen year olds are doing here. Far from a _REAL_ cyberwar though. We won't read about that one, when it happens...
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But a lot of the articles on /. come from ZDnet. So if they checked here before posting articles there and we checked there before posting articles here, well... the readerships of /. and ZDnet would trade places, for one thing, and no one would ever post anything!
Reminds me of that Greek guy... ZD-eno was it? :-)
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Yeah, but hardly any pages have a doctype, and the unbalanced tags that show up in the validator are mostly closing tags for opening tags that the validator decided are incorrect. Like if they didn't put quotes in the opening font tag, the validator will point out the closing font tag as incorrect ("unmatched"). Basically, validators are nitpicky little beasts, and don't have the last word in HTML correctness. Some of their other errors are, for example, using UL without LI tags, to indent sub-matches without bulleting. Anyway, this thread has already gone way too far-- my point is just that "correct" html is often ugly as hell, and I appreciate the simplicity of google's design more than I would appreciate perfection in their code. :-)
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And what about this, while we're being sticklers? :-)
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It's not really "completely broken and non-compliant HTML". They just, for whatever reason, didn't use any quotes in their tags. I imagine some coder got tired of escaping everything. It's not the best form, but at least it's consistent. I'm not aware of any browsers that will not render this properly.
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Likely this wouldn't work for company monitoring (they'd call you up and tell you to cut it out) but as a defense against unwanted/illegal monitoring software, how feasable would this be?
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