Won't say what wireless company I work for, but we have 15 buildings in Canyon Park in Bothell. We are actually using the Alstate building, so Alstate gets the tax break.
I watched some S/VCD mpegs via ssh tunnel using AAlib, more of a gimmick, but neat. I do have problems with sound, and havn't found a perfect solution. Piping sound doesnt always works. But I suspect a mp3 server would fix the problem.
Strange how streaming, capturing, or even using Video over a network is overlooked on retail software. I'd love a retail version of xbox media player that can capture (timeshift)video.
Could someone explain why Freetrade has to have extended copyright provisions for other countries? Other than pure poltical reasons to enforce US corporate values, I don't see the need for Australia to give in for American interests.
This reminds me when President Bush went to Canada to protest the use of medical marijuana. It would increase drug use! Pure propaganda.
I'm sure they are saying if they don't extend copyright issues, it will increase Piracy, also...
Amazing, I bet Australia passes every law written by American corporate interests. For Free Trades Sake (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
You want 5.1 (or more) channel sound in your compressed audio? Ogg Vorbis has it today. mp3's founders are working hard to hack something into that format, but that's all it is, a hack.
Hey, a hacked.mp3 format that will still play on all my hardware is fine by me. OF course I'd rather have the most clean, compressed, multichannel format out now, but not at the expense of buying a new car stereo, new dvd player, new portable mp3 player, and convert all the music I already have. Mp3 works, but yes, SACD sounds so much better, but I can't play SACD on anything I own!
It's like the Vinyl to CD migration, do you really want to change all your electronic formats every other year? Almost sounds like licensing, no thanks!
Pity our corporate overlords would rather have zombies at their desks for a full 8 hours than surrender a few minutes for a nap.
8 hours? 12 Hours are the norm, 7 days a week. And 20 hour days are seeming to pop up more often. If I was union, I'd say call my Shop Steward after 8.
I work at a telco soon to be the 3rd on your list.
But anyways. I work in operations in the dataside (GPRS/EDGE/UMTS), we work 60-80 hour weeks to make sure the network is up, that everything is working correctly. The hardware is always being patched, upgraded, its a constant juggle. And this is common for all carriers.
Then we have the field who does the RF piece. Base stations for each market, Cell site deployment and tuning. Most of the markets outsource to either ericsson, nokia, nortel or lucent. This is the worse thing that can happen, low paid contractors..
Then there is the Call centers, mass low paid jobs with high turnover, and half are outsourced to major low pay parts of the country. (Atlanta anyone?)
So, where is the ownership, pride of the company? Everyone is working for a paycheck. Where is the bonus awards for people? Where is the respect of management for its employees?
The total lack of responsibility of the CEO's have screwed over the companys. Stock sharing is a joke, 98% of the employees are loosing money while VP's,CEOs', etc just gave themselves stock at half the merger price.
Basically it comes down that all the Telcos are Major corporations, with little groups (fiefdoms) that can't work together. Outsourcing to save money, and shady back room deals buying software that cant do the job, but someone got a kick back. The skill level of the Customer care group never rises because of the high turn around rate due to low pay, so might as well offshore them.
Lets put it this way, pay the person to do a job, and make sure there are enough people. Without enough people to do the job, correctly, with pride and ownership, the companies are doomed to fail with customer service.
Ever go to a more expensive place because they did good quality? Every shopped around for the most cheapest cellphone and rate plan?
Maybe trade some of those billions in revenue to make a good company. What a novel idea.
BTW, you do realize most Telcos use the same vendors and hardware? So the only difference is the people. And if all the companies are ran the same, what is the difference then?
Maybe it will get better when all hardware is the same, and the only thing left is good customer service.
We use/appl (/opt in a jam) for all our software. And most production software uses its own/etc, bin,log,lib, directories./appl/oracle with everything in its own directory.
While this works, I dont care for gentoo's problems with Mozilla and QT3 compiles, you can recompile an application and break 2 others, gets to be a hassle. But you trade the hassle for speed, or ease (I guess)
Sometimes I just want to rpm -ivvh --force --nodeps and forget about it. And to tell the truth, there is alot of misc stuff on linux/bsd/solaris boxes that could be cleaned up. X directories alone are garbage./usr/X/lib/X11/fonts WTF, I've always hated how X puts files that are not libs in/lib.
And this/share directory, how about a simple/fonts directory for the entire system?
OSX on the other hand is set out clean, they did a good job the personal/home directories. I love how fink is just in/sw for the whole system, and doesnt touch a system file. Even my WinXP box has a cleaner directory structure.
Think Gobolinux might be on to something. I'm gonna install it later and try it out.
I have a friend who set his kid up a little freebsd box when he was 6. The kid sitting at the login prompt, started hitting keys and pounding away. Dad came back noticed the kid somehow created an error, and was sitting at the command prompt, logged into the OS.
He now has to tell us his son started hacking at the age of 6 everytime we talk about hackers.
Wow, depends on what High Paying is. If its work a few years and quit then its worth it. If its working 80 hours a week for 52 weeks a year, expect your wife to take the kids an leave.
Also expect to get burnt out.
We have the reverse problem, they moved us from hourly to salary to save money, then expected the same 80 hour weeks. Most people where working the 80 hours for OT, now that they left the company, the work load increased, and PHB want us to do the job with fewer people.
I said, I'm not working another 20 hour day. Stood my ground and they hired some contracters. Only thing they could do was fire me, and man I need a vacation.
Sometimes spending time with the wife is more important than being single and rich. (Or broke if you have kids and paying child support)
Society has finally reached so low that it has forced us to created an alternative virtual world to live in.
Actually, its nice people can have an outlet to do things that they cant do in real life. This is why you see so many Marijuana art in the game, Goth looking people. Our society won't permit or allow people to be totaly free, sometimes you have to go online to make a little digital freedom.
Some peoples just cant show up as the bank teller dressed on Goth in RL, so SL has to do. The USA wont allow gay's to marry, or legalize drugs, online you can be and do what you want. (Well, mostly, but thats another topic...)
I would imagine that people with these second lives could better spend the time improving their first ones.
If they live a full healthy productive lifes, whats a few hours a night online with friends having fun? Really annoying people think they know whats best for you. Its the same as going to the bar after work, or going on nature walks, or sitting and playing a guitar...
Amazing how many Slashdot readers are Conservatives. People should be free from moral censorship, as in (They should... comments) just shows how far from a open democracy we really are.
I ask my fellow/.-ers, why? Why waste your money on "virtual real estate"? Are we all really this stupid?....
I've been tinkering around with second life. You have to own land to have more objects. The more objects you build the more land you must own. If you own a store, you must own enough land to support all the objects you have on display.
Also, land is where you can build your virtual house/store/castle/etc. And people can charge to use it or buy things from you when you are no there.
I have not spent any real money other than the monthly service contract. I was lucky enough to get a good piece of land when someone sold a nice plot next to water.
BTW, lots of people tinker around in Second life due to the programmer, 3d artist features. While you can just go around and chat, you can also build and sell, or a nice combination of both.
I'm glad they are building up ingame communications, like radio, and instant messaging. Think of a VR world with its own Internet, with its own websites for services.
While the GFX is not on par with Unreal2004, it is the best looking VR world (besides sims online, which isnt a true VR world)
I guess people dont remember MOO's and all the building people did on those, with text only objects.
Maybe Visual IRC is a close description, where you can build scripts or theme the look of everything.
I use cygwin on a daily basis, was nice to see that on an upgrade it removed all of Xfree and upgraded to X.org X11 server.
Seems everyone is ditching Xfree. (About damn time too!)
BTW, those use mentioned screen because they don't want to use a mouse. There are X window managers like EvilWM or Ratpoison that are mouseless. Though, my favorite WM is IceWM with the PicoGUI theme. Though I like to modify it with additional buttons. Freshmeat has a ton of themes for it.
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I really hate that G4 merged with TechTV. I tivo ScreenSavers, TechLive(g4 canceled) and Martin unscrewed. Xlive is fun to watch if its a game I want to buy. Great channel for geek news.
The website tv ep history is gone, its an ugly POS. Shame.
Wonder what g4techtv will become, because if it goes mainstream its going to suck.
Exactly, even linux geeks don't want to spend hours manually configuring sound card drivers to get rid of white noise!
But I guess, Fedora is cutting edge, so you get the bugs on it.
Personally, I've seen too many bugs in all the new distros, Gentoo, Mandrake (which had serious nforce driver issues), Fedora.
Mandrake 9 and SuSE are the most cleanest, stable and need less config time to setup.
I think install reviews need a "configuration" section, how much did you need to configure to get rid of annoyances or to get applications working. If you had to google or read a forum to fix a bug on install, the distro goes from 100% to 90%.
Maybe Linux distro's for desktop use needs quality control? It's half way through 2004, and the current batch of distros (bsd included) are configuration messes. WTF happened?
There are lots of people that don't have the 3 things to battle in courts. They pay the parking tickets, they take plea bargains, they can't miss work, the list goes on.
You are too busy to your life to worry about your rights. Sad when you realize you don't have those rights at the end of the day.
I've hoped technology could correct this, e-voting, instant polls, communications with elected officials, but it hasn't.
Gabe is my next door neighbor. Kinda funny, I get home, my wife says we have new neighbors and hes a cartoonist. She says, this is the name of his cartoon and hands me a piece of paper. I looked at the piece of paper and about fainted when it said "Penny Arcade". (Wife doesn't read comics, go figure..)
So I grabbed a wrapping paper tube and knocked on the door, he signed it (google Cardboard Tube Samurai) and started talking to him. I mentioned I read his cartoon's daily with a script called "DailyScripts". Lets just say he wasn't happy that I use a script that downloads his comic and he didn't get the click through revenue.
Or it could be he's a Console gamer and I'm a PC gamer. lol
I Dont know where you work, but at my company, all the engineers, operations and salesmen have laptops. Since we work everywhere, and have to be able to take the office with us. They just give a docking station for work and home. Same goes for all the vendors that show up, Nortel, Lucent, etc, all have laptops.
Now I started with a P2-300, 5 years ago, and finally worked my way up to a p4-2.4ghz. The new guys get 1.4ghz mobile intel dell's. If they dont get a hand me down 600mhz machine.
BTW, presentations? Not even close. A few putty terminals, tab'ed webbrowser, java apps, excel, outlook, remedy ticket system, multiple admin gui's, remote desktop, vnc, and winamp going in the background. Java app's alone need some hefty CPU. I'm so freaking glad to have a machine that keep up with the bloat of the applications I run.
You keep the slow CPU's, I want more speed, ram and faster HD's. I'd trade the battery for more speed.
When you need an old piece of hardware, its nice have it on a shelf. 256mg harddrives are good for firewalls, so are those older 486's. And of course those 486's need memory and maybe a couple ISA nic cards.
Or maybe you want a old 486 with a soundblaster card, old modem, and printer to be a fax machine.
BTW, box of 3 foot phone cords dont do much, but with a couple extenders can become a time saver. Even something as simple as an old floppy drive can be a project saver.
I don't have that much software, but Openoffice should work. Just a simple spreadsheet.
Myself, I have a metal rack I bought. I keep a few boxes with cables on the middle racks, separated in 3 boxes by power/converters, misc, computer cables. Bottom rack has computer cases, routers. Top rack has HD's, CPU's, add in cards, modems. Works for me. And the rack only cost me 75 bux at the hardware store. Openoffice is free, so was the boxes.
Come to think about it, doing something native in Openoffice would be cool. Maybe use it's mysql db interface with openoffice. Could be quite the little learning experience.
We need Hexen or Heretic ported to a newer engine. Miss having a FPS with a porkolator or turn people into chickens. Tribes Vengence, CounterStrike Source (aka HL2 multiplayer) are also ones I'm waiting to come out.
History games are ok, but I miss games as fun as Duke Nuke3d, with trip wires, and shrink rays, or even classic the SkyNet terminator game. Fakk2 was another great FPS, or American McGee's Alice in wonderland.
Maybe a time travel game, where you have to go back and win old battles with modern weapons. Nice snipers rifle against some pirates. Oh the carnage.
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Won't say what wireless company I work for, but we have 15 buildings in Canyon Park in Bothell. We are actually using the Alstate building, so Alstate gets the tax break.
A lady at our work bought a used Bluebird Sparrow for 5K before batteries. Also no sales tax on the Batteries.
Work put in a special parking spot with power outlet, so she can charge it. They get a tax write off for supporting alternative vehicals.
She drives it from Seattle to Bothell every day. Few problems, but it fits her needs. She did have to buy a new drive belt, but no other problems yet.
We already have a bunch of people looking and useing smaller bio-diesel trucks.
Small niche companies can make a profit...
I watched some S/VCD mpegs via ssh tunnel using AAlib, more of a gimmick, but neat. I do have problems with sound, and havn't found a perfect solution. Piping sound doesnt always works. But I suspect a mp3 server would fix the problem.
Strange how streaming, capturing, or even using Video over a network is overlooked on retail software. I'd love a retail version of xbox media player that can capture (timeshift)video.
Could someone explain why Freetrade has to have extended copyright provisions for other countries? Other than pure poltical reasons to enforce US corporate values, I don't see the need for Australia to give in for American interests.
This reminds me when President Bush went to Canada to protest the use of medical marijuana. It would increase drug use! Pure propaganda.
I'm sure they are saying if they don't extend copyright issues, it will increase Piracy, also...
Amazing, I bet Australia passes every law written by American corporate interests. For Free Trades Sake (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
You want 5.1 (or more) channel sound in your compressed audio? Ogg Vorbis has it today. mp3's founders are working hard to hack something into that format, but that's all it is, a hack.
.mp3 format that will still play on all my hardware is fine by me. OF course I'd rather have the most clean, compressed, multichannel format out now, but not at the expense of buying a new car stereo, new dvd player, new portable mp3 player, and convert all the music I already have. Mp3 works, but yes, SACD sounds so much better, but I can't play SACD on anything I own!
Hey, a hacked
It's like the Vinyl to CD migration, do you really want to change all your electronic formats every other year? Almost sounds like licensing, no thanks!
Pity our corporate overlords would rather have zombies at their desks for a full 8 hours than surrender a few minutes for a nap.
8 hours? 12 Hours are the norm, 7 days a week. And 20 hour days are seeming to pop up more often. If I was union, I'd say call my Shop Steward after 8.
I work at a telco soon to be the 3rd on your list.
But anyways. I work in operations in the dataside (GPRS/EDGE/UMTS), we work 60-80 hour weeks to make sure the network is up, that everything is working correctly. The hardware is always being patched, upgraded, its a constant juggle. And this is common for all carriers.
Then we have the field who does the RF piece. Base stations for each market, Cell site deployment and tuning. Most of the markets outsource to either ericsson, nokia, nortel or lucent. This is the worse thing that can happen, low paid contractors..
Then there is the Call centers, mass low paid jobs with high turnover, and half are outsourced to major low pay parts of the country. (Atlanta anyone?)
So, where is the ownership, pride of the company? Everyone is working for a paycheck. Where is the bonus awards for people? Where is the respect of management for its employees?
The total lack of responsibility of the CEO's have screwed over the companys. Stock sharing is a joke, 98% of the employees are loosing money while VP's,CEOs', etc just gave themselves stock at half the merger price.
Basically it comes down that all the Telcos are Major corporations, with little groups (fiefdoms) that can't work together. Outsourcing to save money, and shady back room deals buying software that cant do the job, but someone got a kick back. The skill level of the Customer care group never rises because of the high turn around rate due to low pay, so might as well offshore them.
Lets put it this way, pay the person to do a job, and make sure there are enough people. Without enough people to do the job, correctly, with pride and ownership, the companies are doomed to fail with customer service.
Ever go to a more expensive place because they did good quality? Every shopped around for the most cheapest cellphone and rate plan?
Maybe trade some of those billions in revenue to make a good company. What a novel idea.
BTW, you do realize most Telcos use the same vendors and hardware? So the only difference is the people. And if all the companies are ran the same, what is the difference then?
Maybe it will get better when all hardware is the same, and the only thing left is good customer service.
Why do you need a 3D graphics monster for Logic? Or Photoshop? If you want to play games, you can also order the G5 with a Radeon 9800 XT built in.
OSX uses the GFX card instead of the CPU to render AQUA in all its glory. So a Faster GFX card actually makes the desktop faster on OSX.
The offloading makes a big difference on which GFX card you have.
We use /appl (/opt in a jam) for all our software. And most production software uses its own /etc, bin,log,lib, directories. /appl/oracle with everything in its own directory.
/usr/X/lib/X11/fonts WTF, I've always hated how X puts files that are not libs in /lib.
/share directory, how about a simple /fonts directory for the entire system?
/home directories. I love how fink is just in /sw for the whole system, and doesnt touch a system file. Even my WinXP box has a cleaner directory structure.
While this works, I dont care for gentoo's problems with Mozilla and QT3 compiles, you can recompile an application and break 2 others, gets to be a hassle. But you trade the hassle for speed, or ease (I guess)
Sometimes I just want to rpm -ivvh --force --nodeps and forget about it. And to tell the truth, there is alot of misc stuff on linux/bsd/solaris boxes that could be cleaned up. X directories alone are garbage.
And this
OSX on the other hand is set out clean, they did a good job the personal
Think Gobolinux might be on to something. I'm gonna install it later and try it out.
I have a friend who set his kid up a little freebsd box when he was 6. The kid sitting at the login prompt, started hitting keys and pounding away. Dad came back noticed the kid somehow created an error, and was sitting at the command prompt, logged into the OS.
He now has to tell us his son started hacking at the age of 6 everytime we talk about hackers.
Wow, depends on what High Paying is. If its work a few years and quit then its worth it. If its working 80 hours a week for 52 weeks a year, expect your wife to take the kids an leave.
Also expect to get burnt out.
We have the reverse problem, they moved us from hourly to salary to save money, then expected the same 80 hour weeks. Most people where working the 80 hours for OT, now that they left the company, the work load increased, and PHB want us to do the job with fewer people.
I said, I'm not working another 20 hour day. Stood my ground and they hired some contracters. Only thing they could do was fire me, and man I need a vacation.
Sometimes spending time with the wife is more important than being single and rich. (Or broke if you have kids and paying child support)
Society has finally reached so low that it has forced us to created an alternative virtual world to live in.
Actually, its nice people can have an outlet to do things that they cant do in real life. This is why you see so many Marijuana art in the game, Goth looking people. Our society won't permit or allow people to be totaly free, sometimes you have to go online to make a little digital freedom.
Some peoples just cant show up as the bank teller dressed on Goth in RL, so SL has to do. The USA wont allow gay's to marry, or legalize drugs, online you can be and do what you want. (Well, mostly, but thats another topic...)
I would imagine that people with these second lives could better spend the time improving their first ones.
If they live a full healthy productive lifes, whats a few hours a night online with friends having fun? Really annoying people think they know whats best for you. Its the same as going to the bar after work, or going on nature walks, or sitting and playing a guitar...
Amazing how many Slashdot readers are Conservatives. People should be free from moral censorship, as in (They should... comments) just shows how far from a open democracy we really are.
I ask my fellow /.-ers, why? Why waste your money on "virtual real estate"? Are we all really this stupid?....
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I've been tinkering around with second life. You have to own land to have more objects. The more objects you build the more land you must own. If you own a store, you must own enough land to support all the objects you have on display.
Also, land is where you can build your virtual house/store/castle/etc. And people can charge to use it or buy things from you when you are no there.
I have not spent any real money other than the monthly service contract. I was lucky enough to get a good piece of land when someone sold a nice plot next to water.
BTW, lots of people tinker around in Second life due to the programmer, 3d artist features. While you can just go around and chat, you can also build and sell, or a nice combination of both.
I'm glad they are building up ingame communications, like radio, and instant messaging. Think of a VR world with its own Internet, with its own websites for services.
While the GFX is not on par with Unreal2004, it is the best looking VR world (besides sims online, which isnt a true VR world)
I guess people dont remember MOO's and all the building people did on those, with text only objects.
Maybe Visual IRC is a close description, where you can build scripts or theme the look of everything.
BTW, just like IRC, there are #hottub channels.
I didnt see anyone mention the whole Ctrl Insert, Shift Insert option.
Works on some linux apps and desktops, still works in windows.
I have my putty setup as an X window, middle mouse click, right mouse extends, middle pastes.
What pisses me off is command shell for windows, I just start up sshd under cygwin and use putty to ssh into my own windows box. Much better...
Ok, now if you slow it down, you can find out exactly where he lives! Turn at the white fence!
First one there, MOBLOG IT!
GO!
I use cygwin on a daily basis, was nice to see that on an upgrade it removed all of Xfree and upgraded to X.org X11 server.
Seems everyone is ditching Xfree. (About damn time too!)
BTW, those use mentioned screen because they don't want to use a mouse. There are X window managers like EvilWM or Ratpoison that are mouseless. Though, my favorite WM is IceWM with the PicoGUI theme. Though I like to modify it with additional buttons. Freshmeat has a ton of themes for it.
I really hate that G4 merged with TechTV. I tivo ScreenSavers, TechLive(g4 canceled) and Martin unscrewed. Xlive is fun to watch if its a game I want to buy. Great channel for geek news.
The website tv ep history is gone, its an ugly POS. Shame.
Wonder what g4techtv will become, because if it goes mainstream its going to suck.
Anyone know if there is an http/proxied enabled ntp program? Cant find anything for a firewalled machine, been using ssh tunnel. (kinda on topic)
Exactly, even linux geeks don't want to spend hours manually configuring sound card drivers to get rid of white noise!
But I guess, Fedora is cutting edge, so you get the bugs on it.
Personally, I've seen too many bugs in all the new distros, Gentoo, Mandrake (which had serious nforce driver issues), Fedora.
Mandrake 9 and SuSE are the most cleanest, stable and need less config time to setup.
I think install reviews need a "configuration" section, how much did you need to configure to get rid of annoyances or to get applications working. If you had to google or read a forum to fix a bug on install, the distro goes from 100% to 90%.
Maybe Linux distro's for desktop use needs quality control? It's half way through 2004, and the current batch of distros (bsd included) are configuration messes. WTF happened?
There are lots of people that don't have the 3 things to battle in courts. They pay the parking tickets, they take plea bargains, they can't miss work, the list goes on.
You are too busy to your life to worry about your rights. Sad when you realize you don't have those rights at the end of the day.
I've hoped technology could correct this, e-voting, instant polls, communications with elected officials, but it hasn't.
Sad.
Slightly off topic.
Gabe is my next door neighbor. Kinda funny, I get home, my wife says we have new neighbors and hes a cartoonist. She says, this is the name of his cartoon and hands me a piece of paper. I looked at the piece of paper and about fainted when it said "Penny Arcade". (Wife doesn't read comics, go figure..)
So I grabbed a wrapping paper tube and knocked on the door, he signed it (google Cardboard Tube Samurai) and started talking to him. I mentioned I read his cartoon's daily with a script called "DailyScripts". Lets just say he wasn't happy that I use a script that downloads his comic and he didn't get the click through revenue.
Or it could be he's a Console gamer and I'm a PC gamer. lol
I Dont know where you work, but at my company, all the engineers, operations and salesmen have laptops. Since we work everywhere, and have to be able to take the office with us. They just give a docking station for work and home. Same goes for all the vendors that show up, Nortel, Lucent, etc, all have laptops.
Now I started with a P2-300, 5 years ago, and finally worked my way up to a p4-2.4ghz. The new guys get 1.4ghz mobile intel dell's. If they dont get a hand me down 600mhz machine.
BTW, presentations? Not even close. A few putty terminals, tab'ed webbrowser, java apps, excel, outlook, remedy ticket system, multiple admin gui's, remote desktop, vnc, and winamp going in the background. Java app's alone need some hefty CPU. I'm so freaking glad to have a machine that keep up with the bloat of the applications I run.
You keep the slow CPU's, I want more speed, ram and faster HD's. I'd trade the battery for more speed.
Throw it all out.
When you need an old piece of hardware, its nice have it on a shelf. 256mg harddrives are good for firewalls, so are those older 486's. And of course those 486's need memory and maybe a couple ISA nic cards.
Or maybe you want a old 486 with a soundblaster card, old modem, and printer to be a fax machine.
BTW, box of 3 foot phone cords dont do much, but with a couple extenders can become a time saver. Even something as simple as an old floppy drive can be a project saver.
I don't have that much software, but Openoffice should work. Just a simple spreadsheet.
Myself, I have a metal rack I bought. I keep a few boxes with cables on the middle racks, separated in 3 boxes by power/converters, misc, computer cables. Bottom rack has computer cases, routers. Top rack has HD's, CPU's, add in cards, modems. Works for me. And the rack only cost me 75 bux at the hardware store. Openoffice is free, so was the boxes.
Come to think about it, doing something native in Openoffice would be cool. Maybe use it's mysql db interface with openoffice. Could be quite the little learning experience.
We need Hexen or Heretic ported to a newer engine. Miss having a FPS with a porkolator or turn people into chickens. Tribes Vengence, CounterStrike Source (aka HL2 multiplayer) are also ones I'm waiting to come out.
History games are ok, but I miss games as fun as Duke Nuke3d, with trip wires, and shrink rays, or even classic the SkyNet terminator game. Fakk2 was another great FPS, or American McGee's Alice in wonderland.
Maybe a time travel game, where you have to go back and win old battles with modern weapons. Nice snipers rifle against some pirates. Oh the carnage.
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