Although I appreciate this review being a old school gamer, it is impossible to give a great review on Doom 17 years later. Experiencing a game like this for the first time when there wasn't anything else like it was truly amazing. There are alot of nay-sayers commenting and they are most likely after doom's time. I just remember those late nights when everyone was asleep and all the lights were off. It was just you, a pair of headphones hooked up to your 8 bit sound blaster card, and the frightening glow of your 13 inch CRT screen. When you reached the later levels of the game where the monsters scream the most deathly noises you've ever heard, it almost made you shit your pants. Nonetheless I kept playing it over and over again. It really shaped future FPS games. Wolf 3D was awesome of course, but doom was simply a horror game. Great stuff.
When the Internet blows up, you guys are more than welcome to dial up to my BBS and we can play LORD, go back to Fidonet, and enjoy the finer things in life.
I have one buddy on my facebook newsfeed that posts the achievements he's won. usually one a day. I look at it and say "I don't give a crap. Who cares? Why would you post this?". Then I started playing Doodle Jump and realized the true importance of informing the world of your accomplishments. It makes you feel like a bad ass.
It is unfortunate but I think Mozilla is way too late jumping on this mobile browser bandwagon. People are already way too comfortable and probably aren't going to be switching browsers anytime soon unless new phones come preinstalled with Firefox mobile. And I don't see anybody doing that considering that Apple is sticking with Safari, and the Android is using their own Chrome blend. Frankly it's useless. I've never been an Apple fan, but damn that Safari for the iPod touch and iPhone is probably one of the best I've used.
yea, and there's still loads of line-of-business applications that require IE in conjunction with the.NET framework. businesses are the only people still relying on IE6. everyone else is just lazy.
Like a lot of people, I started off with BASIC and thought that is how programming was. I never was exposed to anything object oriented. The day I was exposed to C I decided to give up programming haha. But alas, 15 years later, I found a really good book written by the Head First Labs (O'Reilly) all about how to use MySQL and PHP. I think those who were DEAD SET on BASIC back in the day, should have no problem whatsoever using MySQL. It is plain english. Yes it's a database, but it is exciting when you learn to use it. Add some PHP and you start learning the essential format of more modern code. Simply understanding what semicolons, curly brackets, concatenation, and the basic operators do, will get you very far.
The bottom line is that serial ports are still leet. I don't see why they should phase them out. I use a crappy Pentium 133mhz Laptop running NetBSD for my console work. when it dies, I will buy another one for $30 on eBay. I always thought it was for security anyway. Being able to only admin certain features of routers and other devices using only the serial console. nothing wrong with that. plus, a lot of the firmwares I've seen can be installed via TFTP server and you don't even need to transfer anything over the serial connection. it's there merely as means to administer the machine. all hail the serial console. and the pinouts are easy as shit. there's only 9 freakin pins for christ's sake and all 9 of them aren't even used half the time.
give them FreeBSD and the handbook and tell them to actually do something instead of giving in to the needs of all these picky and pretentious computer users nowadays.
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Regardless of what people actually *need* Internet 7 or below for, it has major security flaws. If it is one thing my customers want to know, it is how to better protect themselves.
I love the Atom 330 processor. If you want a cheap media center PC, go Mini-ITX, unless of course you want mega HD/blu-ray/confounded new age this and that. About 6 months ago I bought one of those Intel D945GCLF2 boards with the Atom 330 practically soldered on to the board. Couldn't be happier at the $84 price tag on Newegg. Yea its not a blazing fast machine, and yea its only got s-video, but it works great on my old CRT television with a stunning resolution of 640x480. Full screen movies, streaming video from websites, and just about anything else works fantastically. It's a fun DOSbox computer as well. Nothing like playing Oregon Trail, Concentration, Commander Keen, and BioMenace on my 32" Trinitron. Between the case, RAM and motherboard, I spent about $150 or so. Other components were laying around the house. Great bargain and highly recommended. Would love to see the 330 on a netbook.
Your boss is full of shit and has a problem with other people actually enjoying or at least trying to cope with their job. It is common amongst people who are in charge or, are scared of and in love with money. It's like when you're cleaning the house. Listening to music makes the job quicker, easier to cope with, and sometimes truly enjoyable and rewarding. That is what work should feel like. But it is dickheads like him that set stupid policies based on his own feelings, rather than actual data and proof.
Although I always enjoy the opportunity to recommend FreeBSD to somebody, I didn't really get an explanation of your needs. Are you going to be running servers? Desktop? Or just having fun? I imagine that you're just going to have some fun since you just want to learn something new. In that case I'd definitely go with FreeBSD. It is a great "learning" OS and is well documented thanks to the Handbook. The/usr/ports collection has the source code for just about any piece of software you'd ever need, and the dependencies are all taken care of for you. You get some pretty awesome hardware support, server daemons are incredibly easy to configure, it is robust as all hell, doesn't use a lot of resources, can also make a great desktop OS, lots of smart people on IRC you can get help from, and countless amounts of other things. Additionally I'd go with FreeBSD because there are a large percentage of servers on the internet use this OS. If IT is your profession, it definitely won't hurt to learn FreeBSD. All you need to know is,/etc/rc.conf and/usr/ports. Then you just move on from there:-) Good luck!
Not here to bash Google or to talk about what IS or IS NOT an operating system. But the GDGT vmware image runs horrible on my machine. Even after dedicating 4+ gigs of RAM to the VM. Not sure if it's just a mega mega beta release, but I'd like to see how it runs natively on a netbook or something. The videos shown at their conference were pretty impressive. Oh and most people are forgetting that "UI IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE" for christ's sake quit your Google belly aching. they know what they're doing.
absolutely. it is very common amongst rootkits. typically they are.sys files that are completely hidden but loaded as actual drivers. not even a regular dir/ah will show you their existence. However mounting the filesystem from a Linux boot disk, or even the Windows Recovery Console will reveal the files. be sure not to simply delete the file for you may get a bluescreen. it is best to disable the service that is associated with the driver via the Recovery Console, then delete the file. rootkitrevealer is another simple application that shows you all files hidden from the Windows API.
for the regular user, I can understand wanting the "feeling" that you're protected. however, when even the shittiest and lamest rogue-AV programs like WinAntiSpyware, Antivirus2009, System Protector Pro, Police Pro, and all the other bogus products can't be stopped by even the best of AV software, ya gotta think. these scanning programs don't do shit and make you feel like they have. so, understand how your system works. use Sysinterals Autoruns to see what shit is being loaded on your system. and become familiar with our dear friend combofix provided by Bleeping Computer. It is the only tool worth a damn that can also get rid of severe rootkits. Sometimes for the real bad ones you'll need to use the Windows Recovery Console to delete files hidden from the Windows API as well as disable infected drivers/services. AV will still be a joke since the bottom line is, you can still get infected. especially if you are prone to getting viruses anyway due to your browsing habits.
if you're not a god damn idiot and follow best practices, then yes it will be plenty secure. there's no reason to make security seem like this really difficult thing to implement and only reallllly smart people like those who make Drupal and Joomla can do.
This has always been a debated topic. Depending on the needs of your client, or yourself, sometimes it is best just to make a custom CMS. Some non-developer types out there might scoff at this, but think of it this way. You could literally make your own CMS after learning some basic functions of PHP and MySQL. As a matter of fact, as a "designer" I think it is necessary that you understand these concepts. Once you see what is involved with making a simple CMS, then figure out whether or not you should use a big solution like Drupal or Joomla. But in all honestly, once you learn how to CREATE, INSERT, ALTER and UPDATE data from forms, and use the mysqli_connect function, you'll soon start to realize that you can be much more artistic with your sites. I'm not saying everyone should make a custom CMS, but the majority of small clients just want to edit the text on their homepage, put up new pics in their photo galleries, have a user submitted testimonials page that they can moderate, and keep in touch with their website visitors with the help of a mailing list. All of which can be accomplished with a couple days of reading up on some basic PHP and MySQL tutorials.
I've tried so hard to use Joomla and Drupal, and it just isn't for me. I could spend DAYS trying to figure out how to make a custom theme, or simply spend a couple hours making my own site layout from scratch, throw in a couple divs and some PHP scripts, and be done with it.
NOT THE BROWSER! Although I love the browser, the Chromium B.S.U. game has been out for quite a bit longer. If you ever enjoyed playing fast paced jet fighter games like space invaders on crack, then you will like Chromium B.S.U. It reminds me a lot of "Raptor" for DOS back in the day, which also was quite a bad ass game. Other than that, quite a few people already mentioned Nexuiz. I particularly enjoy OpenArena as well even though it is just a new skin for Quake 3. It is free, and plays nice and fast. Lots of fun.
As much as I love my 22" widescreen LCD monitor, I still miss the crisp, solid, and reliable CRT. This article is a prime example of why we have used CRT's for such a long time. But what I want to know is, why hasn't anyone mass produced a Thin CRT yet? I'm sure all of you remember the articles posted back in 2004 about Samsung developing a Thin CRT. What the hell happened and why did this idea fall through?
Haha sorry to confuse you. The point of my post was that Vista itself was merely a beta version of Windows that Microsoft used us all as guinea pigs for so that they could develop Windows 7 instead.
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Dude, that's the exact noise that made me cringe in fear. Great game. Definitely makes me want to play it again. Thanks for the reply.
Although I appreciate this review being a old school gamer, it is impossible to give a great review on Doom 17 years later. Experiencing a game like this for the first time when there wasn't anything else like it was truly amazing. There are alot of nay-sayers commenting and they are most likely after doom's time. I just remember those late nights when everyone was asleep and all the lights were off. It was just you, a pair of headphones hooked up to your 8 bit sound blaster card, and the frightening glow of your 13 inch CRT screen. When you reached the later levels of the game where the monsters scream the most deathly noises you've ever heard, it almost made you shit your pants. Nonetheless I kept playing it over and over again. It really shaped future FPS games. Wolf 3D was awesome of course, but doom was simply a horror game. Great stuff.
When the Internet blows up, you guys are more than welcome to dial up to my BBS and we can play LORD, go back to Fidonet, and enjoy the finer things in life.
I have one buddy on my facebook newsfeed that posts the achievements he's won. usually one a day. I look at it and say "I don't give a crap. Who cares? Why would you post this?". Then I started playing Doodle Jump and realized the true importance of informing the world of your accomplishments. It makes you feel like a bad ass.
It is unfortunate but I think Mozilla is way too late jumping on this mobile browser bandwagon. People are already way too comfortable and probably aren't going to be switching browsers anytime soon unless new phones come preinstalled with Firefox mobile. And I don't see anybody doing that considering that Apple is sticking with Safari, and the Android is using their own Chrome blend. Frankly it's useless. I've never been an Apple fan, but damn that Safari for the iPod touch and iPhone is probably one of the best I've used.
damn those subomains!!!!! damn them all to hell!!!!
yea, and there's still loads of line-of-business applications that require IE in conjunction with the .NET framework. businesses are the only people still relying on IE6. everyone else is just lazy.
Like a lot of people, I started off with BASIC and thought that is how programming was. I never was exposed to anything object oriented. The day I was exposed to C I decided to give up programming haha. But alas, 15 years later, I found a really good book written by the Head First Labs (O'Reilly) all about how to use MySQL and PHP. I think those who were DEAD SET on BASIC back in the day, should have no problem whatsoever using MySQL. It is plain english. Yes it's a database, but it is exciting when you learn to use it. Add some PHP and you start learning the essential format of more modern code. Simply understanding what semicolons, curly brackets, concatenation, and the basic operators do, will get you very far.
The bottom line is that serial ports are still leet. I don't see why they should phase them out. I use a crappy Pentium 133mhz Laptop running NetBSD for my console work. when it dies, I will buy another one for $30 on eBay. I always thought it was for security anyway. Being able to only admin certain features of routers and other devices using only the serial console. nothing wrong with that. plus, a lot of the firmwares I've seen can be installed via TFTP server and you don't even need to transfer anything over the serial connection. it's there merely as means to administer the machine. all hail the serial console. and the pinouts are easy as shit. there's only 9 freakin pins for christ's sake and all 9 of them aren't even used half the time.
give them FreeBSD and the handbook and tell them to actually do something instead of giving in to the needs of all these picky and pretentious computer users nowadays.
Regardless of what people actually *need* Internet 7 or below for, it has major security flaws. If it is one thing my customers want to know, it is how to better protect themselves.
I love the Atom 330 processor. If you want a cheap media center PC, go Mini-ITX, unless of course you want mega HD/blu-ray/confounded new age this and that. About 6 months ago I bought one of those Intel D945GCLF2 boards with the Atom 330 practically soldered on to the board. Couldn't be happier at the $84 price tag on Newegg. Yea its not a blazing fast machine, and yea its only got s-video, but it works great on my old CRT television with a stunning resolution of 640x480. Full screen movies, streaming video from websites, and just about anything else works fantastically. It's a fun DOSbox computer as well. Nothing like playing Oregon Trail, Concentration, Commander Keen, and BioMenace on my 32" Trinitron. Between the case, RAM and motherboard, I spent about $150 or so. Other components were laying around the house. Great bargain and highly recommended. Would love to see the 330 on a netbook.
Your boss is full of shit and has a problem with other people actually enjoying or at least trying to cope with their job. It is common amongst people who are in charge or, are scared of and in love with money. It's like when you're cleaning the house. Listening to music makes the job quicker, easier to cope with, and sometimes truly enjoyable and rewarding. That is what work should feel like. But it is dickheads like him that set stupid policies based on his own feelings, rather than actual data and proof.
I forgot to mention that FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE just came out the other day, and ZFS is no longer in experimental stages. Go with FreeBSD plz.
Although I always enjoy the opportunity to recommend FreeBSD to somebody, I didn't really get an explanation of your needs. Are you going to be running servers? Desktop? Or just having fun? I imagine that you're just going to have some fun since you just want to learn something new. In that case I'd definitely go with FreeBSD. It is a great "learning" OS and is well documented thanks to the Handbook. The /usr/ports collection has the source code for just about any piece of software you'd ever need, and the dependencies are all taken care of for you. You get some pretty awesome hardware support, server daemons are incredibly easy to configure, it is robust as all hell, doesn't use a lot of resources, can also make a great desktop OS, lots of smart people on IRC you can get help from, and countless amounts of other things. Additionally I'd go with FreeBSD because there are a large percentage of servers on the internet use this OS. If IT is your profession, it definitely won't hurt to learn FreeBSD. All you need to know is, /etc/rc.conf and /usr/ports. Then you just move on from there :-) Good luck!
Not here to bash Google or to talk about what IS or IS NOT an operating system. But the GDGT vmware image runs horrible on my machine. Even after dedicating 4+ gigs of RAM to the VM. Not sure if it's just a mega mega beta release, but I'd like to see how it runs natively on a netbook or something. The videos shown at their conference were pretty impressive. Oh and most people are forgetting that "UI IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE" for christ's sake quit your Google belly aching. they know what they're doing.
absolutely. it is very common amongst rootkits. typically they are .sys files that are completely hidden but loaded as actual drivers. not even a regular dir /ah will show you their existence. However mounting the filesystem from a Linux boot disk, or even the Windows Recovery Console will reveal the files. be sure not to simply delete the file for you may get a bluescreen. it is best to disable the service that is associated with the driver via the Recovery Console, then delete the file. rootkitrevealer is another simple application that shows you all files hidden from the Windows API.
for the regular user, I can understand wanting the "feeling" that you're protected. however, when even the shittiest and lamest rogue-AV programs like WinAntiSpyware, Antivirus2009, System Protector Pro, Police Pro, and all the other bogus products can't be stopped by even the best of AV software, ya gotta think. these scanning programs don't do shit and make you feel like they have. so, understand how your system works. use Sysinterals Autoruns to see what shit is being loaded on your system. and become familiar with our dear friend combofix provided by Bleeping Computer. It is the only tool worth a damn that can also get rid of severe rootkits. Sometimes for the real bad ones you'll need to use the Windows Recovery Console to delete files hidden from the Windows API as well as disable infected drivers/services. AV will still be a joke since the bottom line is, you can still get infected. especially if you are prone to getting viruses anyway due to your browsing habits.
please re-read "I'm not saying everyone should make a custom CMS" a few more times.
if you're not a god damn idiot and follow best practices, then yes it will be plenty secure. there's no reason to make security seem like this really difficult thing to implement and only reallllly smart people like those who make Drupal and Joomla can do.
This has always been a debated topic. Depending on the needs of your client, or yourself, sometimes it is best just to make a custom CMS. Some non-developer types out there might scoff at this, but think of it this way. You could literally make your own CMS after learning some basic functions of PHP and MySQL. As a matter of fact, as a "designer" I think it is necessary that you understand these concepts. Once you see what is involved with making a simple CMS, then figure out whether or not you should use a big solution like Drupal or Joomla. But in all honestly, once you learn how to CREATE, INSERT, ALTER and UPDATE data from forms, and use the mysqli_connect function, you'll soon start to realize that you can be much more artistic with your sites. I'm not saying everyone should make a custom CMS, but the majority of small clients just want to edit the text on their homepage, put up new pics in their photo galleries, have a user submitted testimonials page that they can moderate, and keep in touch with their website visitors with the help of a mailing list. All of which can be accomplished with a couple days of reading up on some basic PHP and MySQL tutorials.
I've tried so hard to use Joomla and Drupal, and it just isn't for me. I could spend DAYS trying to figure out how to make a custom theme, or simply spend a couple hours making my own site layout from scratch, throw in a couple divs and some PHP scripts, and be done with it.
NOT THE BROWSER! Although I love the browser, the Chromium B.S.U. game has been out for quite a bit longer. If you ever enjoyed playing fast paced jet fighter games like space invaders on crack, then you will like Chromium B.S.U. It reminds me a lot of "Raptor" for DOS back in the day, which also was quite a bad ass game. Other than that, quite a few people already mentioned Nexuiz. I particularly enjoy OpenArena as well even though it is just a new skin for Quake 3. It is free, and plays nice and fast. Lots of fun.
As much as I love my 22" widescreen LCD monitor, I still miss the crisp, solid, and reliable CRT. This article is a prime example of why we have used CRT's for such a long time. But what I want to know is, why hasn't anyone mass produced a Thin CRT yet? I'm sure all of you remember the articles posted back in 2004 about Samsung developing a Thin CRT. What the hell happened and why did this idea fall through?
Your idiotic comment explains why you posted it anonymously.
Haha sorry to confuse you. The point of my post was that Vista itself was merely a beta version of Windows that Microsoft used us all as guinea pigs for so that they could develop Windows 7 instead.