As I mentioned in a post in a different article, I've had a painfully annoying run in with Window Activate while in the middle of a computer upgrade.
I feel your pain. I provide all our company's in house tech support. If a machine goes down and needs a hard drive replaced, I don't fudge around calling up Microsoft when the WPA thing starts bitching. I have a utility that patches an operating system file, and bam, no more WPA or WGA bullshit. If they want to accuse me of being a pirate, they can come on in and look at the product key hologram stickers on every box I do this to. Its not that I'm pirating it, I just don't have time to jump through all their hoops. Alot of my users do all their work on the computer, and if its down for more than 2 hours or so I start to get flak.
It works for me too. If you need complex IDEs to visualize the structure of your project, like the program Smith, its grown beyond your control. I do alot of web development with PHP/Mysql and some AJAX, and all I use is a command shell and vi. If I really want to get crazy I'll bust open another terminal window. Really helps me keep everything modular. Choosing meaningful yet concise names for your files is also key, as is organizing a projects source files in the local filesystem. Like you said, it just works for me.
AOL has been badware since its inception. Even back in the day with version 3.0, why the hell did we need an entire goddamn program just to establish a dial up connection?
Y'know, this whole life thing, its like all I ever get done doing is breathing in, then breathing out. And what the hell's with this locomotion? You mean I gotta put one foot in front of the other how many times?
One day one of my servers at a remote location 'died'. One user who claimed to be pretty computer savvy reported that the machine wasn't seeing its hard drive anymore, it was giving invalid boot device error messages. Sure enough, I could tell the hard drive wasn't even spinning up. I pulled the drive out, asked the secretary to slap it, reinstalled it, and the server booted. Without a word I strolled out of the office. The self proclaimed 'computer savvy' user still tells tales of how I 'bitch slapped' the server into repairing itself. Incidentally the machine has been working fine for 9 months now.
I wonder what they would have thought if my next step, putting the drive in the freezer, would have fixed it? To the untrained user, anything us geeks can do to fix a computer is considered nothing short of magic.
Tim Roberts is a con artist. Its a simple scheme, start a company, blow the initial capital on booze and hookers, declare the company bankrupt, clean up for a month or so and start over with a new company with new investors.
And what's up with the 'e' and 'r' keys being so close together? I'm always interchanging thr two. Fuck it, let's campaign against them, too. Ah you know what, maybe my time and effort would be better spent LEARNING TO TYPE PROPERLY
Nintendo is seriously getting their shit together here. Casual online gaming is exactly what alot of players are looking for. I know I'd much rather log in, play a few rounds of Mario Kart, and log out than invest thousands of hours/dollars in some MMORPG just to get to the point where my character doesn't die when a rat sneezes nearby.
I used to work as a help desk technician in college. One of my duties was to give out copies of Windows XP to anyone with a name and a valid university ID card. I still have one of the custom made cds as a coaster on my coffee table with the university's name and the serial number stamped right on it.
There's no demand for these because 99 out of 100 people don't even know the concept exists, let alone understand its potential to make their lives better. Even the few that have heard of or own Tivo's think of it as some magical box, and not just a PC with specialized software and inputs. I'll even admit that before I stumbled onto MythTV, judging from their advertising, it looked to me like these media center PCs had nothing more than special versions of Windows that had mp3s and attaching camcorders in mind. The true benefits of such a machine were never clearly explained in all the hype, and so the general attitude still remains "I'm not sitting at the computer desk to watch tv" or "I don't want a computer in my living room"
wait, worst one more time ads were the intellitxt ones splattered throughout the article. It used to be you just had to watch where you click to set the focus for your scroll wheel, now if you're not careful your pointer becomes hopelessly entrenched in a mine field of intellitxt garbage.
Apple does seem to be getting 'up in our faces' alot more lately. Their new tv ads are a huge slap in the face to Microsoft, and may actually be the thing to get people wondering. Their only downfall is their prices, you see a Macbook, who's behind it, some clean cut suited up fellow sipping latte at starbucks.
And 640k ought to be enough for anybody. Back in the day it was, but look at today. The graphics in my toolbar alone probably take up more than 640k. You build better hardware, the software engineers will find some way to make it run slower.
With CPU manufacturers chasing higher performance per watt and less heat production, you would think GPU makers won't be far behind, but consider the consumers. Your average XJoexGamerX doesn't care how high his mom's electric bill goes, he needs his 400 fps in goddamnit.
a United Federation of Planets. In which, money has no value and people work only to better themselves and their world around them. Too bad Roddenberry never explains how society was ever able to abandon materialism...
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As I mentioned in a post in a different article, I've had a painfully annoying run in with Window Activate while in the middle of a computer upgrade.
I feel your pain. I provide all our company's in house tech support. If a machine goes down and needs a hard drive replaced, I don't fudge around calling up Microsoft when the WPA thing starts bitching. I have a utility that patches an operating system file, and bam, no more WPA or WGA bullshit. If they want to accuse me of being a pirate, they can come on in and look at the product key hologram stickers on every box I do this to. Its not that I'm pirating it, I just don't have time to jump through all their hoops. Alot of my users do all their work on the computer, and if its down for more than 2 hours or so I start to get flak.
And the phrase "remove vista startup sound" will become the most popular google search next to 'natalie portman'.
It works for me too. If you need complex IDEs to visualize the structure of your project, like the program Smith, its grown beyond your control. I do alot of web development with PHP/Mysql and some AJAX, and all I use is a command shell and vi. If I really want to get crazy I'll bust open another terminal window. Really helps me keep everything modular. Choosing meaningful yet concise names for your files is also key, as is organizing a projects source files in the local filesystem. Like you said, it just works for me.
OK, I was a little vague, but my original point was that even at version 3.0, AOL had way too much bloat.
AOL has been badware since its inception. Even back in the day with version 3.0, why the hell did we need an entire goddamn program just to establish a dial up connection?
That's how you're opposed to say it, I could of told you that.
This dipshit deserves my foot 62% of the way up her ass. Is that 100% violent?
You'd think someone with a PhD would have something better to do than fucking testify in front of congress about some stupid video game.
Y'know, this whole life thing, its like all I ever get done doing is breathing in, then breathing out. And what the hell's with this locomotion? You mean I gotta put one foot in front of the other how many times?
Unix box? Turned off? They can do that?
Will this do anything my *nix box won't?
Theft implies one party is deprived of something while the other gains it.
One day one of my servers at a remote location 'died'. One user who claimed to be pretty computer savvy reported that the machine wasn't seeing its hard drive anymore, it was giving invalid boot device error messages. Sure enough, I could tell the hard drive wasn't even spinning up. I pulled the drive out, asked the secretary to slap it, reinstalled it, and the server booted. Without a word I strolled out of the office. The self proclaimed 'computer savvy' user still tells tales of how I 'bitch slapped' the server into repairing itself. Incidentally the machine has been working fine for 9 months now.
I wonder what they would have thought if my next step, putting the drive in the freezer, would have fixed it? To the untrained user, anything us geeks can do to fix a computer is considered nothing short of magic.
which goddamn controller it uses, would they just release the fucking GC version already, I've had it preordered for over 2 years now.
Tim Roberts is a con artist. Its a simple scheme, start a company, blow the initial capital on booze and hookers, declare the company bankrupt, clean up for a month or so and start over with a new company with new investors.
And what's up with the 'e' and 'r' keys being so close together? I'm always interchanging thr two. Fuck it, let's campaign against them, too. Ah you know what, maybe my time and effort would be better spent LEARNING TO TYPE PROPERLY
Nintendo is seriously getting their shit together here. Casual online gaming is exactly what alot of players are looking for. I know I'd much rather log in, play a few rounds of Mario Kart, and log out than invest thousands of hours/dollars in some MMORPG just to get to the point where my character doesn't die when a rat sneezes nearby.
I used to work as a help desk technician in college. One of my duties was to give out copies of Windows XP to anyone with a name and a valid university ID card. I still have one of the custom made cds as a coaster on my coffee table with the university's name and the serial number stamped right on it.
There's no demand for these because 99 out of 100 people don't even know the concept exists, let alone understand its potential to make their lives better. Even the few that have heard of or own Tivo's think of it as some magical box, and not just a PC with specialized software and inputs. I'll even admit that before I stumbled onto MythTV, judging from their advertising, it looked to me like these media center PCs had nothing more than special versions of Windows that had mp3s and attaching camcorders in mind. The true benefits of such a machine were never clearly explained in all the hype, and so the general attitude still remains "I'm not sitting at the computer desk to watch tv" or "I don't want a computer in my living room"
wait, worst one more time ads were the intellitxt ones splattered throughout the article. It used to be you just had to watch where you click to set the focus for your scroll wheel, now if you're not careful your pointer becomes hopelessly entrenched in a mine field of intellitxt garbage.
bow to our new ov;lkj aw forget it.
Apple does seem to be getting 'up in our faces' alot more lately. Their new tv ads are a huge slap in the face to Microsoft, and may actually be the thing to get people wondering. Their only downfall is their prices, you see a Macbook, who's behind it, some clean cut suited up fellow sipping latte at starbucks.
The core security system has not been broken.
This core security system doesn't seem to do much if one can play pirated games without breaking it.
And 640k ought to be enough for anybody. Back in the day it was, but look at today. The graphics in my toolbar alone probably take up more than 640k. You build better hardware, the software engineers will find some way to make it run slower.
There is nothing, seriously nothing, you can get from this show that you couldn't find with a simple trip to your local neighborhood Gamefaqs.com.
So they have started linking to videos of hot girls reading their FAQ's?
With CPU manufacturers chasing higher performance per watt and less heat production, you would think GPU makers won't be far behind, but consider the consumers. Your average XJoexGamerX doesn't care how high his mom's electric bill goes, he needs his 400 fps in goddamnit.
a United Federation of Planets. In which, money has no value and people work only to better themselves and their world around them. Too bad Roddenberry never explains how society was ever able to abandon materialism...