Publicity ? Set up a cluster and benchmark it. It's numbers won't be all that much, but you'll get a good press release at it. The politicians will eat that sh*t right up. You might even be able to leverage it into some grant money.
Your side note is a sad but true sign of the times.
I agree. WHFRP was a lot of fun. They put out some outstanding adventures for it. And somehow, GW managed to make an intrinsically fun game. The career system was fun even though intrinsically limited. It did make for interesting characters. Anyone ever play a ratcatcher in ANY other game ? A college buddy played a wanna-be trollslayer based on two classic comedy bits. First was the name, from Carlin's "Phucke, Phucke of the Mountain !" and then the personality was 100% USDA Grade A Yosemite Sam. "I'm the rootin'est tootin'est axe-swingingest ork -slayingest dwarf west of the Misty Mountains."
Or a mediocre national advertising campaign pushing easy multiplayer for the N-Gage. By "testing" he probably means "got it subsidized and might break the contract and give it back".
I was evaluating fax servers back in 1998 when I ran into an example of this. I forget the brand of the fax server, we didn't pick 'em so they faded from memory quickly. The Windows client had the usual 'refresh' button, and so did the Mac client. But the button on the Mac didn't do anything since it updated automatically.
Do (did) Windows programs not have an event loop or other construct where you poll for input and update your windows ?
Twenty minutes ? I'm on a consumer DSL network in California and I'm seeing activity on ZoneAlarm every 3-5 seconds. It's all merely "Medium" severity, except for a HiPri packet for port 1028 coming from a machine in what appears to be China - DNS fails on the tracert after ahost names 'chinatelecom' on Cogent's network. The rest seem to be from all over: France, Poland, Verizon's network, Germany etc.
It's terrifying, really. Next time I have to install Windows, I'm not even going to have a router in the house.
Except for use as a virtual server. One the Mac, Virtual PC is an amazing x86 emulator - it comes with a normal OEM version of Windows. On x86 it has all the uses that VMware does. The top hits on Google for VMware include a lot of articles on using it as a "honeypot". It's also very useful for testing purposes.
The core technology is probably still pretty good, but watch out when the original Conenctix engineers leave. Connectix has always done wonderfully tricky things. Stacker was a pretty cool idea (and a performance boost in a certain range of CPU vs drive speed ratios). But RAMDoubler did the same thing to memory to allow more programs to run in less physical RAM; it patched the OS' memory-access routines. And was no less stable than the Mac OS of the time was. They also wrote a better 68040 emulator than Apple had back when parts of the OS hadn't been rewritten for PowerPC yet; that was SpeedDoubler. They also did a dual-platform Playstation emulator that was never perfect, but was good enough for a hundred-plus games, they even defended it against a Sony lawsuit. Which probably cost them enough money that they wound up getting acquired by Microsoft.
Uncommon Valor is an operational game set in the South Pacific from May 1, 1942 to December 31, 1943. 30 mile hexes, one day turns, units are tracked to squads, mortars and of course individual planes or PT boats.
It is *not* a tactical sim. The most control you have is to set operational postures and aircraft missions. Each day's action is fought out by friendly and enemy AI. Watching a major airstrike go after the wrong group is definitely exciting, maybe too frustrating for some. Your main concern as the player will be to keep your bases supplied and a steady flow of aircraft to the front lines. You get to do plenty of micromanagement in logistics.
The game is well supported, it got plenty of patching - sadly it needed it. The developers are now upgrading the engine to cover the whole frickin' war in the Pacific (and will then retrofit the new engine back to the South Pacific campaign).
I've dealt with Stanford IT before. I have nothing but respect for the stundents, staff and faculty of Stanford. That said, their IT management are bloody clueless morons, actively committed to misserving the end users. Where a true BOFH succedes through skill and guile, the Stanford group stumbles along with sloth, apathy and ignorance.
This is the group that merged with the UCSF med school and failed. They had to undo the merger. I was on the UCSF helpdesk at the time (for that hourly, I'd almost do helpdesk again) and we regularly got calls from Stanford people who hod gotten sick of wrong or late answers from their helpdesk. Errors in the systems, data simply not entered, calls not returned, basic troubleshooting botched - we saw it all.
I am not at all surprised that the management team that tolerated that helpdesk turns out to be profoundly incompetent in other areas as well. Along with the project management skills of a herd of diseased elk they have all the organizational talent of a unicellular organism. It's honestly shocking that people like that aren't flipping burgers, not that they'd ever make shift supervisor at a national fast food chain.
I was in software retail when MS MOney was launched to compete with Quicken. We had stacks of Quicken for $49.95 and stacks of MS Money for, ultimately, $5.00. We couldn't move MS Money at any price. People would walk right by the huge endcaps MS paid for to spend more on Quicken.
In a nice demonstration of the Law of Perceived Value, sales of MS Money fell off as the price went down. People figure that if it's marked down that heavily, then it must suck. Pretty much everyone who bought it at all paid at least $39.95 for it.
Then they tried to buy Intuit and the FTC raised an eyebrow.
If you're going to go tethered, then why not just go inflatable for the remote unit ? Other than snagging cable you won't have too many problems from having a balloon floating over your robot. It just needs to be bouyant enough to lift a small camera. I'd suggest using compress-air cartridges to inflate the balloon, you probably don't want to hassle with any sort of compressor.
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Oh yes people do choose a shipping company based on their IT advantages. The features available for managing 20 people routinely sending FedEx shipments, each with their own billing codes, address books, tracking number lookups etc. are very important. We've recently added an admin account and 50 user accounts to our FedEx account. If they couldn't provide a way for managing all this activity we'd find an overnight provider who can.
We're an ad agency, naturally we're weird, but we can't be the only industry who looks to IT solutions to make our lives easier.
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Put the required fonts in/System/Library/Fonts and make sure they only have read access to that directory. If you aren't on OS X yet, turn on filesharing (use appropriate permissions [1] )or use ARD to push the fonts so you can fix 'em remotely.
I do have to assume the OP is a newbie, Quark suckiness should be taking up way more than 1%:-) I kid, I kid, buggy versions of Font Reserve are a hefty chunk of my support calls as well - as are studio managers who insist on 800MB font libraries with duplicate font names in 'em. FR isn't *supposed* to be stable with that going on, it'd be nice as it was but you can't design an idiot-proof general-purpose program to handle every explicitly stupid situation.
[1] Determining appropriate permissions is left as an exercise for the reader. Hint: nobody by the admin account should be able to get at the System Folder !
According to the article, "Comcast users send out about 800 million messages a day, but a mere 100 million flow through the company's official servers." so until the zombies get updated this'll stop 700 million spam a day.
About fucking time a provider started doing something about their users.
Two words in support and amplification of Eggplant's remark:
Belt Sander
Put THAT video out P2P.
You misuse it, you lose it.
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So is Apple. Mach itself, as well as BSD were mature when OS X came out. By 10.3 they have a very nice integration accomplished. I like the feature set in the Finder/Aqua combination now, I could use Panther for a few years.
If you can spring for boutique hardware it's a really nice system. If you can't, try Darwin. Its claim to fame is being a microkernel-based BSD.
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The current hope is that a successful movie run will get Firefly back on the air. Until then, get the DVD set already !
How much do you like your job ?
Possibly the most insightful and most informative comment ever posted on this board.
:-)
And yes, I have said that before. That's why it's qualified
Publicity ? Set up a cluster and benchmark it. It's numbers won't be all that much, but you'll get a good press release at it. The politicians will eat that sh*t right up. You might even be able to leverage it into some grant money.
Your side note is a sad but true sign of the times.
I agree. WHFRP was a lot of fun. They put out some outstanding adventures for it. And somehow, GW managed to make an intrinsically fun game. The career system was fun even though intrinsically limited. It did make for interesting characters. Anyone ever play a ratcatcher in ANY other game ? A college buddy played a wanna-be trollslayer based on two classic comedy bits. First was the name, from Carlin's "Phucke, Phucke of the Mountain !" and then the personality was 100% USDA Grade A Yosemite Sam. "I'm the rootin'est tootin'est axe-swingingest ork -slayingest dwarf west of the Misty Mountains."
Good times. Sean, Pat - get in touch !
Earthlink. I need to switch back to Speakeasy now that I can get something faster and cheaper than an ISDN line.
Or a mediocre national advertising campaign pushing easy multiplayer for the N-Gage. By "testing" he probably means "got it subsidized and might break the contract and give it back".
I was evaluating fax servers back in 1998 when I ran into an example of this. I forget the brand of the fax server, we didn't pick 'em so they faded from memory quickly. The Windows client had the usual 'refresh' button, and so did the Mac client. But the button on the Mac didn't do anything since it updated automatically.
Do (did) Windows programs not have an event loop or other construct where you poll for input and update your windows ?
Twenty minutes ? I'm on a consumer DSL network in California and I'm seeing activity on ZoneAlarm every 3-5 seconds. It's all merely "Medium" severity, except for a HiPri packet for port 1028 coming from a machine in what appears to be China - DNS fails on the tracert after ahost names 'chinatelecom' on Cogent's network. The rest seem to be from all over: France, Poland, Verizon's network, Germany etc.
It's terrifying, really. Next time I have to install Windows, I'm not even going to have a router in the house.
Except for use as a virtual server. One the Mac, Virtual PC is an amazing x86 emulator - it comes with a normal OEM version of Windows. On x86 it has all the uses that VMware does. The top hits on Google for VMware include a lot of articles on using it as a "honeypot". It's also very useful for testing purposes.
The core technology is probably still pretty good, but watch out when the original Conenctix engineers leave. Connectix has always done wonderfully tricky things. Stacker was a pretty cool idea (and a performance boost in a certain range of CPU vs drive speed ratios). But RAMDoubler did the same thing to memory to allow more programs to run in less physical RAM; it patched the OS' memory-access routines. And was no less stable than the Mac OS of the time was. They also wrote a better 68040 emulator than Apple had back when parts of the OS hadn't been rewritten for PowerPC yet; that was SpeedDoubler. They also did a dual-platform Playstation emulator that was never perfect, but was good enough for a hundred-plus games, they even defended it against a Sony lawsuit. Which probably cost them enough money that they wound up getting acquired by Microsoft.
Uncommon Valor is an operational game set in the South Pacific from May 1, 1942 to December 31, 1943. 30 mile hexes, one day turns, units are tracked to squads, mortars and of course individual planes or PT boats.
It is *not* a tactical sim. The most control you have is to set operational postures and aircraft missions. Each day's action is fought out by friendly and enemy AI. Watching a major airstrike go after the wrong group is definitely exciting, maybe too frustrating for some. Your main concern as the player will be to keep your bases supplied and a steady flow of aircraft to the front lines. You get to do plenty of micromanagement in logistics.
The game is well supported, it got plenty of patching - sadly it needed it. The developers are now upgrading the engine to cover the whole frickin' war in the Pacific (and will then retrofit the new engine back to the South Pacific campaign).
Posted anonymously.... methinks somebody has a lot of data sitting on Dave's server.
I've dealt with Stanford IT before. I have nothing but respect for the stundents, staff and faculty of Stanford. That said, their IT management are bloody clueless morons, actively committed to misserving the end users. Where a true BOFH succedes through skill and guile, the Stanford group stumbles along with sloth, apathy and ignorance.
This is the group that merged with the UCSF med school and failed. They had to undo the merger. I was on the UCSF helpdesk at the time (for that hourly, I'd almost do helpdesk again) and we regularly got calls from Stanford people who hod gotten sick of wrong or late answers from their helpdesk. Errors in the systems, data simply not entered, calls not returned, basic troubleshooting botched - we saw it all.
I am not at all surprised that the management team that tolerated that helpdesk turns out to be profoundly incompetent in other areas as well. Along with the project management skills of a herd of diseased elk they have all the organizational talent of a unicellular organism. It's honestly shocking that people like that aren't flipping burgers, not that they'd ever make shift supervisor at a national fast food chain.
I was in software retail when MS MOney was launched to compete with Quicken. We had stacks of Quicken for $49.95 and stacks of MS Money for, ultimately, $5.00. We couldn't move MS Money at any price. People would walk right by the huge endcaps MS paid for to spend more on Quicken.
In a nice demonstration of the Law of Perceived Value, sales of MS Money fell off as the price went down. People figure that if it's marked down that heavily, then it must suck. Pretty much everyone who bought it at all paid at least $39.95 for it.
Then they tried to buy Intuit and the FTC raised an eyebrow.
If you're going to go tethered, then why not just go inflatable for the remote unit ? Other than snagging cable you won't have too many problems from having a balloon floating over your robot. It just needs to be bouyant enough to lift a small camera. I'd suggest using compress-air cartridges to inflate the balloon, you probably don't want to hassle with any sort of compressor.
PowerPoint. An abomination on the face of computing.
Well, not THAT bad, but it's pretty poorly designed.
3 > 2.999... ?
What about that one ?
Funny, SCO isn't a member of ICANN...
Oh yes people do choose a shipping company based on their IT advantages. The features available for managing 20 people routinely sending FedEx shipments, each with their own billing codes, address books, tracking number lookups etc. are very important. We've recently added an admin account and 50 user accounts to our FedEx account. If they couldn't provide a way for managing all this activity we'd find an overnight provider who can.
We're an ad agency, naturally we're weird, but we can't be the only industry who looks to IT solutions to make our lives easier.
Put the required fonts in /System/Library/Fonts and make sure they only have read access to that directory. If you aren't on OS X yet, turn on filesharing (use appropriate permissions [1] )or use ARD to push the fonts so you can fix 'em remotely.
:-) I kid, I kid, buggy versions of Font Reserve are a hefty chunk of my support calls as well - as are studio managers who insist on 800MB font libraries with duplicate font names in 'em. FR isn't *supposed* to be stable with that going on, it'd be nice as it was but you can't design an idiot-proof general-purpose program to handle every explicitly stupid situation.
I do have to assume the OP is a newbie, Quark suckiness should be taking up way more than 1%
[1] Determining appropriate permissions is left as an exercise for the reader. Hint: nobody by the admin account should be able to get at the System Folder !
According to the article, "Comcast users send out about 800 million messages a day, but a mere 100 million flow through the company's official servers." so until the zombies get updated this'll stop 700 million spam a day.
About fucking time a provider started doing something about their users.
Rent T3, I really liked how everything came full circle.
Yeah, he saw it when it was called "Wrath of Khan".
Two words in support and amplification of Eggplant's remark:
Belt Sander
Put THAT video out P2P.
You misuse it, you lose it.
So is Apple. Mach itself, as well as BSD were mature when OS X came out. By 10.3 they have a very nice integration accomplished. I like the feature set in the Finder/Aqua combination now, I could use Panther for a few years.
If you can spring for boutique hardware it's a really nice system. If you can't, try Darwin. Its claim to fame is being a microkernel-based BSD.