If I go rooting through my parts box I can see something like LM555 or something else indicative of what exactly the chip is and does.
If these are to be used in windshields, or other LCD displays, how the *hell* are you going to know what chip you have to replace should it malfunction?
Man oh man just when I got the parts drawer organized , they had to go and do this. Well at least I won't be able to see the clutter.. Out of sight, out of mind:)
I'd love to see a wide survey of just what ads, and where people are willing to tolerate, or would be likely to visit. I own 3 domains , phpglue.com.net and.org , and I wanted to do something with them.
Would be a really neat community focusing on what other similar communities leave out, like how to build something like thttpd with php5 + sqlite / etc. Interesting stuff. Some sane ajax lessons, whatever people wanted to contribute.
The problem is if it takes off, that little hobby is screaming for a few dual opty's and its own switch, or a cluster. Thats a ton of cash to spend. So you can...
1 - throw a few google ads up nobody clicks.
2 - throw lots of google ads up and hope a few get clicked
3 - beg for donations to keep the site up
Or, a combination of the above. I'm pretty keen at being able to tell if someone's putting up a site just to pollute a SE and get me to click ads. So when I find them, I usually leave unless I *really* need to get at whatever content (if any) they have. But putting up my neat idea and putting adsense up, well I fear other people would put me in the same boat as the clicktraps.
I know I could craft a very very nice looking site with perfectly semantically correct html, i.e. use of proper headings, unordered lists where appropriate, etc. But I'm almost afraid to. I'm either going to go broke supporting it or get passed by from the people I hope to serve with it.
I know placement of ads is important too, I wouldn't interrupt a tutorial with a freakin banner (man I can't stand that). I'm not worried about the sites making money, I'm worried about them costing money. I wish people wouldn't abuse adsense like they do , takes a really useful tool away from folks who (just may) put something useful up that turns up well in a search. Maybe I'll try subscriptions but.. not likely to get much with those. Servers are expensive:(
Referring to war as 'annoying' is glib and tasteless.
>> Does "third-world" poverty not annoy you?
I live in the third world (I'm an American living in the Philippines). Yes, actually it does. However the topic was not about third world poverty.
>> Is this really the most annoying thing in the world?
No, its not. You have a point and I'll happily rephrase my post.
"Click traps are one of the most annoying things one can find while using a search engine, in my opinion."
I'm very sorry that my rather quick (and late night reply) bothered you so. So I will set an ego-less example (In accordance with my simple life) and hope that you see the value of it:)
>> What a simple life. I envy your clarity of thought.
Envy only leads to emotional distress (that blood pressure thing....) So does ego.
But I also don't recommend dwelling on war and poverty either. Perhaps you could Google Buddhism , but beware the clicktraps;)
Looks like a human being (at google) checked the site. I just did too, and found absolutely no meaningful content on it whatsoever. In fact, every link I clicked took me to some place where I could spend money, thus compensating kinderstart for the referral.
This is known as a "clicktrap" and (imho) is the most annoying thing in the world to happen upon.
People use Google because your chances of finding what you want, quickly are good. I.e. being taken directly to the "end of the line" , either right to a store itself, or to an article, or something else related to your search. Not to one of the stupid internet polluting man in the middle wastes of disk space.
You can go to a site like shitlance and pay someone from India a few hundred bucks to arrange hundreds of lasting (and good) backlinks. Search that site for "SEO" and you'll see what I mean.
A small office network, only about 300 machines. They also provide web hosting to clients (who also must have access to their own individual zones edited via C-Panel web control panel), and maintain 2 standard caching NS's for co-located clients to query from within leased space in the office.
Static (and light) use, never really changes so it suits them well.:) The HT's + Debian (almost) never have problems and its very very easy to just toss in more ram to increase the capacity of the nodes later. All they run is BIND and ha-lvs, nothing else really malloc()'ing in the tree so they sail pretty smoothly @ 128 MB per node. Less than 500 zones.
They wanted to try a Virtualized cluster to see how it went for something small.. so it was a good way to demonstrate what could be done on a larger scale if they ever felt like actually spending money.
Gotta work with the budget they give ya:) You could easily change that to be 2 dual xeons with 4GB registered and 72k drives, allocate 1GB per node. Sort of like a swiss army knife.
>> London - a cultural 'mish-mash' of confused homos and foreigners with their harlot clothes >> and their whorish ways, their 'anything goes' attitude!
I think you read your map wrong, that was Times Square.
>> America was hi-jacked
Correct.
>> the establishment has been in struggle ever since half the decent Christians left!
So that leaves the other half, plus the non-decents elsewhere. O.k., I feel a bit better.
>> Did you know they legalise drugs, prostitutes and gays?
That was Times Square too. And those are walking directions (start at drugs, left with prostitutes and generally turn instantly gay).. it happens.
>> we better start making some changes and my faith is in our glorious leader George W Bush >> to push... yes, you did mention sodomy... he's pushin just fine. How is it on your 'end' ?
I hope, when I die I've left behind something that inspires. The desire to create I believe comes from somewhere deep within and is a capacity that clings within you despite what life tosses your way.. it never seems to fade. For him, it never will, people will take the best part of him, what he was able to dream together and make it their own.
I think that's truly immortality, when you stop and think about what shapes your creativity.
Didn't find his age on the blog? Wow he looked young. Opera hasn't seen the real fruits of his efforts and creativity (just yet, but starting to.. ) , I'm sad that he won't.
ROFLMAO! Its on a shared web hosting server to boot it seems. Seems MySQL isn't available.. but the banners seem to load just fine.. hmmm.
(mental note to add no self slashdotting to AUP on my hosting sites).
List to do today :
1 - Shoot self in foot 2 - Self Slashdot 3 - Find new web host (looks like he got suspended? Just re-checked and getting a blank) 4 - Make static pages
The card itself is a great idea (Not a huge fan of ATI but I'll wait for the specs), idea itself sounds solid and kinda neat. Too bad a few million people now equate it with:
Service Unavailable
(sigh..) Buddy, ATI didn't need your help for that:)
A little more info would have helped..
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Would love to help you, but not sure if these are all internal domains? mixed? How are the zones organized now?
I use a single system image cluster (A small Xen virtualized one) with my own little sqlite concoction to keep track of what is soa for what. This lets me easily shift things around with a back end I wrote using PHP5.
I have 2 machines, each has 7 nodes (1 director and 6 real nodes) each with 128 MB allocated to it. This gives me failover, load balancing and the convenience of the single system image without the hassles of nfs breaking, and no trust relationships to hassle with.
I have each node running a seperate config, with CVIP running directing queries from the Internet to the 2 nodes SOA for the domain as seen from the outside world.
This lets me put each node on a different network, but using only 1 nic (I should use 2 but I'm cheap) per machine. I really didn't *need* the admin back end, (grep works wonders so does find) but it makes things simple.
I also haven't had a 3AM wake up due to a DNS outage in quite a while:) Total cost :
2 P4 HT's, 4 SATA drives, and about 12 hours of time to set it up. No single point of failure either:)
Sounds like you're in a bowl of spaghetti.. I'd tame it soon before you get blamed for the previous guy's lack of effort.
Originally for the Commie, but later ported to PC's. Graphics for its time were awesome (simple sprites but they were COOL sprites!) plenty of plot and plenty of games within the game. Not many were able to get past the game without the clue books, but it was possible.
Was one of the games that helped to put Electronic Arts on the map. 10 or so years later (after it wasn't sold anymore) I got nostalgic and called EA to see about ordering them , I missed playing them and low and behold they still got many requests, and had plent of not only games but clue books on hand. It developed a cult following.
I liked the view the most, I think.. instead of looking down on your party from above you looked at what they looked at (sort of doom style). Plenty of easter eggs too:) I think there may even be a group working on porting it to a php -> ajax clone and open sourcing it, however when I went looking for the blog that mentioned it to provide it here I couldn't find it.
I enjoyed Ultima, FF and the rest, but Bards Tale was my all time favorite.
>> The DoJ is trying to protect everyone from pornography
That's not why we (the people) created the DOJ.
>> People this is one of the most morally destabilizing sins since attacking Americans
Child pornography has been around loooooooooong before that happened.
>> we should be adopting the approaches used in the Middle East particularly: Monitoring of all internet access by faith-based guides
Church and State separation prohibits that. In that other (ironically) faith based doctrine we call the Constitution. However that one is where we, the people put our faith in our government.
>> gouging of eyes, and strict dress codes
Jeb, is that you?
>> Google I hope you're happy for all the lives you've destroyed through facilitating this evil.
You have a (semi) valid point. Google does not facilitate it, humans do. Humans work at Google, and more of them (ought) to be seeing exactly what is in their index and what they make easy to find. So should every other SE on the Internet.
Our legal system permits the DOJ to subpoena *any* individual's records if they can show probable cause for use in any trial aiming to convict a sex offender, and Google has complied with such in the past. What the DOJ is doing is called "fishing" , and its illegal, unconstitutional and unethical.
Ok, let see what's on channel 169, hmm how about 269... wait, try 369... nah see what's on 469.. I didn't mention channel 69 because that's now msnxxxbc.
There are far more greater dangers our children are exposed to on a daily basis than internet porn. I have a 4 month old and quite frankly my fear that she'll have clean air to breathe is more startling to me than what she might or might not be able to access on the internet. But.. I kind of like to watch my kid and see what she gets into, novel concept.
This is the result of lazy parents who want their p4 to babysit their children safely, without much attention from them.
Much like our lawmakers, parent's need to understand technology before exposing their children (or their legal pads) to it. I think congressmen should have to display a CCIE / CCIP along with that spiffy Harvard degree if they wish to legislate the portion of the internet US entities serve.
But in the spirit of cooperation and being a good citizen, I'll take ta.xxx please.
Could someone much smarter than I am please calculate the amount of oxygen that has been processed (and wasted) on this effort?
>> I remember Whiz Kids. It was a Simon & Simon spinoff, wasn't it? >> I haven't seen it since it originally aired. Are there downloads >> anywhere?
I'm more than sure one or more good natured geeks have compiled the series however current laws would prohibit its sale or distribution, even if the network / owner itself was not distributing it. I tried to find some DVD's a few years ago hoping perhaps some compilation was released but didn't have any luck.
Now that you mention it, It was on after Simon & Simon, but I didn't know it was a spin off of the series itself, however I do remember 'Rick & AJ' making guest appearances in the show.
That show made me go buy BASIC magazines weekly and spend hours keying in hundreds of lines of code on the trash-80's 'slightly raised membrane' keypad (the thing was like a calculator you could hook up to a TV more than a computer). I remember saving them to tape (audio casette).
The thing about Tron, My TRS-80 came a good.. several years after the movie was out of circulation, and the tech in the movie was still plausable, and still way more advanced than anything I had. It made me want to create things because I knew *someone* could, so why not me?:) I get a little miffed when I see it called a flop.
Does anyone remember ADAM? First PC I can remember that shipped with a dot matrix printer, came out just after Coleco made their attempt.
I'm going to go look for my Tron light disc frisbee, I think I still have it somewhere.
Egads we really are in the thick of it aren't we? (as in the Internet community at large)
You're right, Licensed should have been the word. I was thinking about that after I hit the "submit" button but too late.
Here's a suggestion for Slashdot , a 'pc' chart. But not personal computer, politically correct. Actually should be a 'pn' chart, 'politically necessary'. PC would denote wording in order to avoid offending someone. PN would denote wording needed to keep words like 'copyrighted' from being used out of context. I know it seems pedantic, but I really think its needed:)
I thought the lines were a little short to get in
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I saw Tron, opening night, and its one of the things that made me really, really want to figure out how those nifty looking typewriters with screens could do so much. I didn't know what memory was, I didn't know what a processor did, I barely understood how a calculator worked and if you said Binary I'd say "Sure, I have a Huffy!".
We're always looking at value as something monetary. Tron made me go get my first trash-80 (Err Tandy TRS-80 heheh) and later my first Commie. I wanted to know how those things worked.
You all may remember the short lived series "Whiz Kids" , with the talking computer that looked like it was assembled from stereo components. That was another one way ahead of its time.
The value of the film wasn't how much it grossed , if you want to calculate that, then calculate the life time earnings of those who got into computers partly because of seeing it and you may be surprised:)
However only 15 minutes of CGI? I somehow (not sure why, because I know what was available then) thought most of it was CGI.. but yes, that would have been very very difficult at the time. My bubble sort of broke reading that article, never really thought about the making other than being fascinated as a child with the results.
Much like the show Whiz Kids, it was just a little too abstract for most people. Entertainment isn't entertainment to most if it requires too much thought.
Tron got to be the pavement others were able to ride in on. So wallet aside, I don't think the film was a flop. I was too young to remember any hoop-la coming from Disney about the film.. I wonder how it would have done if it had been underplayed before release.
Cool article, if you can wade through the advertisements:)
If nothing else it helps to show lawmakers some actual case law (in their lanugage) to say "store and forward" doesn't always imply the same thing, its the content that is of interest.
I hope if nothing else this case helps focus more on the content, and less on the delivery method. A parallel being torrents that bring you linux Distributions vs torrents that bring you copyrighted media.
Just shows, we really *dont* shoot the messenger these days:) At least not this time.
However you're right, its frivilous and sets no real precedent. But makes way for some perhaps:)
Good point (and my bad for the sweeping statement). IBM did have quite a bit to do with it.
I had an old Think Pad , my first Penguin Laptop. It played a little sound byte when booting (RH7) :
"I'm Good Enough, and I'm Smart Enough, And Dog Gonnit, People Like Me!"
On airplanes I used to mouth the words as it played, and it (usually) got me a bit more leg room as the person next to me would generally move after giving me (and my odd looking screen) a strange look.
But the topic was Red Hat, and moderation has been meyhem lately.. so I didn't want to go too far off topic (like I am now... );)
I'm wondering if they aren't just going to Include Xen, this would explain the sudden push on Xen's part to get a working FC4 installer out the door.
I'm not the world's biggest RH fan as far as using it, however I do respect that RH basically made Linux the household word that it is.
The end result, regardless of the politics is going to be web sites and databases remaining available to visitors a larger percent of the time, and end users getting a firmer grasp on how their OS works:) Either way you go this is going to be a good thing.
For consultants specializing in helping to bring virtualization to the table for their clients, fear not.. people are going to need help with this for years to come. I think it will help us do what we like doing (plan networks) instead of worrying so much about the semantics of getting (x software) installed and working. This means easier work, quicker turnover and more clients.
My concern is RH distributes (stock) very insecurely. My hope is they also address issues like/dev/shm allowing execution, and other (seemingly) little quirks that allow so much spam to wind its way throughout the internet. They're catching up, it seems with just how people are using their product, hosting web sites (broadly). I hope they also make it safer in the process so that whatever layer they use for virtualization doesn't also get a rep for being insecure.
I'm not a huge Fedora fan, but I do respect them enough to withold judgement until I see what they put out. I guess you could count me as 'cautious, but anxious' to see it.
Ubuntu is open source. Think about the time and effort that went into writing said installer. If I were writing one, I'd log everything too while I developed it, otherwise how the hell am I going to see if all input has been processed correctly?
I might remind you that the installer is their only chance to successfully install their *free* OS on *your* system, its critical they get it right, and they did.
Someone obviously forgot to remove that portion from the install log, yeah ok I agree that was a major brainfart.. however please don't go calling the authors incompetent until you, yourself have released your own (perfect) operating system, or something better than Ubuntu.
You write as though you paid Ubuntu to write that distribution just for you. I think the more serious issue here is your ego displayed, in plain text , on slashdot.. not the password in the log file as you are obviously out to cause more irritation than the bug itself.
Perhaps you should go back to Microsoft Bob. I think thats more to your speed. If you have any complaints, the person responsible is the wife of Bill Gates, go talk to her.
I noticed that cockroaches also chow down on anything resembling cellulose... in particular cigarette butts or styrofoam.
I guess its the bacteria feeding within the pores of it that they're after, and not simply just digesting the styrofoam for the sake of eating something filling.
I would also assume that THHN (common wire insulator made from polyethelene and polystyrene) has the same attraction for them.
Kinda cool:) I always wondered what nutruitional value those things could possibly have for any living thing.
Hmm.. didn't you know all regular expressions are actually classified?
I guess we're worried that the japanese will combine it with opensource.nokia.com and try and take over the world again, from their cell phones.
You know I think these douchebags are headed for the biggest political bellyflop ever seen. I'm going to sit back, pop some popcorn and watch it happen.
1. Understand what your legislating 2) Legislate it.
Their list looks similar, however they skipped rule #1 with an awk -F) '{print $2}'
Oh my god another regular expression. Slashdot servers will be siezed!
Lets replace their desktop and PDA OS's with BSD for a year. Then we'll see some sensible oxygen being processed by our lawmakers. Until then just laugh, its all you can do.
We used quite a bit more discretion in what we did or didn't stick our noses into.
We entered WW II rather late, and really because we simply had no other choice. We swore up and down we wouldn't get into Vietnam.. then we went kind of gung ho in Kuwait, then we just sort of pulled out all of the stops. So now we have our nose basically everywhere.
However if ever the US was more "unreachable" , its now.
China is no saint and I think was largely over-coddled by Clinton. However I think its largely UNDER-coddled by Bush.
Seems we can't get enough of extremes (and apparently) extremists.
To date we allowed one evil genius dictator rise to almost conquor Europe, and then we threw everything we had at some dumbass in Iraq. What happened to the middle?
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I noticed windshields , etc ..
:)
If I go rooting through my parts box I can see something like LM555 or something else indicative of what exactly the chip is and does.
If these are to be used in windshields, or other LCD displays, how the *hell* are you going to know what chip you have to replace should it malfunction?
Man oh man just when I got the parts drawer organized , they had to go and do this. Well at least I won't be able to see the clutter.. Out of sight, out of mind
I'd love to see a wide survey of just what ads, and where people are willing to tolerate, or would be likely to visit. I own 3 domains , phpglue .com .net and .org , and I wanted to do something with them.
...
.. not likely to get much with those. Servers are expensive :(
Would be a really neat community focusing on what other similar communities leave out, like how to build something like thttpd with php5 + sqlite / etc. Interesting stuff. Some sane ajax lessons, whatever people wanted to contribute.
The problem is if it takes off, that little hobby is screaming for a few dual opty's and its own switch, or a cluster. Thats a ton of cash to spend. So you can
1 - throw a few google ads up nobody clicks.
2 - throw lots of google ads up and hope a few get clicked
3 - beg for donations to keep the site up
Or, a combination of the above. I'm pretty keen at being able to tell if someone's putting up a site just to pollute a SE and get me to click ads. So when I find them, I usually leave unless I *really* need to get at whatever content (if any) they have. But putting up my neat idea and putting adsense up, well I fear other people would put me in the same boat as the clicktraps.
I know I could craft a very very nice looking site with perfectly semantically correct html, i.e. use of proper headings, unordered lists where appropriate, etc. But I'm almost afraid to. I'm either going to go broke supporting it or get passed by from the people I hope to serve with it.
I know placement of ads is important too, I wouldn't interrupt a tutorial with a freakin banner (man I can't stand that). I'm not worried about the sites making money, I'm worried about them costing money. I wish people wouldn't abuse adsense like they do , takes a really useful tool away from folks who (just may) put something useful up that turns up well in a search. Maybe I'll try subscriptions but
Off my soapbox...
>> I envy your simple life.
:)
....) So does ego.
;)
:)
That's bad for your blood pressure.
>> Does the war in Iraq not annoy you?
Referring to war as 'annoying' is glib and tasteless.
>> Does "third-world" poverty not annoy you?
I live in the third world (I'm an American living in the Philippines). Yes, actually it does. However the topic was not about third world poverty.
>> Is this really the most annoying thing in the world?
No, its not. You have a point and I'll happily rephrase my post.
"Click traps are one of the most annoying things one can find while using a search engine, in my opinion."
I'm very sorry that my rather quick (and late night reply) bothered you so. So I will set an ego-less example (In accordance with my simple life) and hope that you see the value of it
>> What a simple life. I envy your clarity of thought.
Envy only leads to emotional distress (that blood pressure thing
But I also don't recommend dwelling on war and poverty either. Perhaps you could Google Buddhism , but beware the clicktraps
Hope you have a better day
Looks like a human being (at google) checked the site. I just did too, and found absolutely no meaningful content on it whatsoever. In fact, every link I clicked took me to some place where I could spend money, thus compensating kinderstart for the referral.
:)
This is known as a "clicktrap" and (imho) is the most annoying thing in the world to happen upon.
People use Google because your chances of finding what you want, quickly are good. I.e. being taken directly to the "end of the line" , either right to a store itself, or to an article, or something else related to your search. Not to one of the stupid internet polluting man in the middle wastes of disk space.
You can go to a site like shitlance and pay someone from India a few hundred bucks to arrange hundreds of lasting (and good) backlinks. Search that site for "SEO" and you'll see what I mean.
Off my soapbox
A small office network, only about 300 machines. They also provide web hosting to clients (who also must have access to their own individual zones edited via C-Panel web control panel), and maintain 2 standard caching NS's for co-located clients to query from within leased space in the office.
:) The HT's + Debian (almost) never have problems and its very very easy to just toss in more ram to increase the capacity of the nodes later. All they run is BIND and ha-lvs, nothing else really malloc()'ing in the tree so they sail pretty smoothly @ 128 MB per node. Less than 500 zones.
.. so it was a good way to demonstrate what could be done on a larger scale if they ever felt like actually spending money.
:) You could easily change that to be 2 dual xeons with 4GB registered and 72k drives, allocate 1GB per node. Sort of like a swiss army knife.
Static (and light) use, never really changes so it suits them well.
They wanted to try a Virtualized cluster to see how it went for something small
Gotta work with the budget they give ya
>> London - a cultural 'mish-mash' of confused homos and foreigners with their harlot clothes >> and their whorish ways, their 'anything goes' attitude!
.. it happens.
... yes, you did mention sodomy ... he's pushin just fine. How is it on your 'end' ?
I think you read your map wrong, that was Times Square.
>> America was hi-jacked
Correct.
>> the establishment has been in struggle ever since half the decent Christians left!
So that leaves the other half, plus the non-decents elsewhere. O.k., I feel a bit better.
>> Did you know they legalise drugs, prostitutes and gays?
That was Times Square too. And those are walking directions (start at drugs, left with prostitutes and generally turn instantly gay)
>> we better start making some changes and my faith is in our glorious leader George W Bush >> to push
This could be the world's most expensive honeypot, designed to make neighboring countries spend heaps and heaps of cash to keep up on nothing.
.. made by Sony.
.. move along .. move along ..
Meanwhile, the *real* defense system is tied into George Bush's Play Station
No cause for concern there folks, nothing more to see here
I hope, when I die I've left behind something that inspires. The desire to create I believe comes from somewhere deep within and is a capacity that clings within you despite what life tosses your way .. it never seems to fade. For him, it never will, people will take the best part of him, what he was able to dream together and make it their own.
.. ) , I'm sad that he won't.
I think that's truly immortality, when you stop and think about what shapes your creativity.
Didn't find his age on the blog? Wow he looked young. Opera hasn't seen the real fruits of his efforts and creativity (just yet, but starting to
ROFLMAO! Its on a shared web hosting server to boot it seems. Seems MySQL isn't available .. but the banners seem to load just fine .. hmmm.
:)
(mental note to add no self slashdotting to AUP on my hosting sites).
List to do today :
1 - Shoot self in foot
2 - Self Slashdot
3 - Find new web host (looks like he got suspended? Just re-checked and getting a blank)
4 - Make static pages
The card itself is a great idea (Not a huge fan of ATI but I'll wait for the specs), idea itself sounds solid and kinda neat. Too bad a few million people now equate it with:
Service Unavailable
(sigh..) Buddy, ATI didn't need your help for that
Would love to help you, but not sure if these are all internal domains? mixed? How are the zones organized now?
:) Total cost :
:)
.. I'd tame it soon before you get blamed for the previous guy's lack of effort.
:)
I use a single system image cluster (A small Xen virtualized one) with my own little sqlite concoction to keep track of what is soa for what. This lets me easily shift things around with a back end I wrote using PHP5.
I have 2 machines, each has 7 nodes (1 director and 6 real nodes) each with 128 MB allocated to it. This gives me failover, load balancing and the convenience of the single system image without the hassles of nfs breaking, and no trust relationships to hassle with.
I have each node running a seperate config, with CVIP running directing queries from the Internet to the 2 nodes SOA for the domain as seen from the outside world.
This lets me put each node on a different network, but using only 1 nic (I should use 2 but I'm cheap) per machine. I really didn't *need* the admin back end, (grep works wonders so does find) but it makes things simple.
I also haven't had a 3AM wake up due to a DNS outage in quite a while
2 P4 HT's, 4 SATA drives, and about 12 hours of time to set it up. No single point of failure either
Sounds like you're in a bowl of spaghetti
HTH
Originally for the Commie, but later ported to PC's. Graphics for its time were awesome (simple sprites but they were COOL sprites!) plenty of plot and plenty of games within the game. Not many were able to get past the game without the clue books, but it was possible.
.. instead of looking down on your party from above you looked at what they looked at (sort of doom style). Plenty of easter eggs too :) I think there may even be a group working on porting it to a php -> ajax clone and open sourcing it, however when I went looking for the blog that mentioned it to provide it here I couldn't find it.
Was one of the games that helped to put Electronic Arts on the map. 10 or so years later (after it wasn't sold anymore) I got nostalgic and called EA to see about ordering them , I missed playing them and low and behold they still got many requests, and had plent of not only games but clue books on hand. It developed a cult following.
I liked the view the most, I think
I enjoyed Ultima, FF and the rest, but Bards Tale was my all time favorite.
When Desert Storm hit, Americans rallied and made Saddam toilet paper.
:)
:) Coming soon to thinkgeek?
When 9/11 hit, we made Usama Bin Laden toilet paper.
Someone ought to make this document into toilet paper, since its now officially useless otherwise
It's the American thing to do
>> The DoJ is trying to protect everyone from pornography
That's not why we (the people) created the DOJ.
>> People this is one of the most morally destabilizing sins since attacking Americans
Child pornography has been around loooooooooong before that happened.
>> we should be adopting the approaches used in the Middle East particularly: Monitoring of all internet access by faith-based guides
Church and State separation prohibits that. In that other (ironically) faith based doctrine we call the Constitution. However that one is where we, the people put our faith in our government.
>> gouging of eyes, and strict dress codes
Jeb, is that you?
>> Google I hope you're happy for all the lives you've destroyed through facilitating this evil.
You have a (semi) valid point. Google does not facilitate it, humans do. Humans work at Google, and more of them (ought) to be seeing exactly what is in their index and what they make easy to find. So should every other SE on the Internet.
Our legal system permits the DOJ to subpoena *any* individual's records if they can show probable cause for use in any trial aiming to convict a sex offender, and Google has complied with such in the past. What the DOJ is doing is called "fishing" , and its illegal, unconstitutional and unethical.
>> Why does Google hate children?
Awww Jeb! It IS you!
Ok, let see what's on channel 169, hmm how about 269 ... wait, try 369 ... nah see what's on 469 .. I didn't mention channel 69 because that's now msnxxxbc.
.. I kind of like to watch my kid and see what she gets into, novel concept.
There are far more greater dangers our children are exposed to on a daily basis than internet porn. I have a 4 month old and quite frankly my fear that she'll have clean air to breathe is more startling to me than what she might or might not be able to access on the internet. But
This is the result of lazy parents who want their p4 to babysit their children safely, without much attention from them.
Much like our lawmakers, parent's need to understand technology before exposing their children (or their legal pads) to it. I think congressmen should have to display a CCIE / CCIP along with that spiffy Harvard degree if they wish to legislate the portion of the internet US entities serve.
But in the spirit of cooperation and being a good citizen, I'll take ta.xxx please.
Could someone much smarter than I am please calculate the amount of oxygen that has been processed (and wasted) on this effort?
>> I remember Whiz Kids. It was a Simon & Simon spinoff, wasn't it?
.. several years after the movie was out of circulation, and the tech in the movie was still plausable, and still way more advanced than anything I had. It made me want to create things because I knew *someone* could, so why not me? :) I get a little miffed when I see it called a flop.
>> I haven't seen it since it originally aired. Are there downloads
>> anywhere?
I'm more than sure one or more good natured geeks have compiled the series however current laws would prohibit its sale or distribution, even if the network / owner itself was not distributing it. I tried to find some DVD's a few years ago hoping perhaps some compilation was released but didn't have any luck.
Now that you mention it, It was on after Simon & Simon, but I didn't know it was a spin off of the series itself, however I do remember 'Rick & AJ' making guest appearances in the show.
That show made me go buy BASIC magazines weekly and spend hours keying in hundreds of lines of code on the trash-80's 'slightly raised membrane' keypad (the thing was like a calculator you could hook up to a TV more than a computer). I remember saving them to tape (audio casette).
The thing about Tron, My TRS-80 came a good
Does anyone remember ADAM? First PC I can remember that shipped with a dot matrix printer, came out just after Coleco made their attempt.
I'm going to go look for my Tron light disc frisbee, I think I still have it somewhere.
Egads we really are in the thick of it aren't we? (as in the Internet community at large)
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You're right, Licensed should have been the word. I was thinking about that after I hit the "submit" button but too late.
Here's a suggestion for Slashdot , a 'pc' chart. But not personal computer, politically correct. Actually should be a 'pn' chart, 'politically necessary'. PC would denote wording in order to avoid offending someone. PN would denote wording needed to keep words like 'copyrighted' from being used out of context. I know it seems pedantic, but I really think its needed
I saw Tron, opening night, and its one of the things that made me really, really want to figure out how those nifty looking typewriters with screens could do so much. I didn't know what memory was, I didn't know what a processor did, I barely understood how a calculator worked and if you said Binary I'd say "Sure, I have a Huffy!".
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We're always looking at value as something monetary. Tron made me go get my first trash-80 (Err Tandy TRS-80 heheh) and later my first Commie. I wanted to know how those things worked.
You all may remember the short lived series "Whiz Kids" , with the talking computer that looked like it was assembled from stereo components. That was another one way ahead of its time.
The value of the film wasn't how much it grossed , if you want to calculate that, then calculate the life time earnings of those who got into computers partly because of seeing it and you may be surprised
However only 15 minutes of CGI? I somehow (not sure why, because I know what was available then) thought most of it was CGI.. but yes, that would have been very very difficult at the time. My bubble sort of broke reading that article, never really thought about the making other than being fascinated as a child with the results.
Much like the show Whiz Kids, it was just a little too abstract for most people. Entertainment isn't entertainment to most if it requires too much thought.
Tron got to be the pavement others were able to ride in on. So wallet aside, I don't think the film was a flop. I was too young to remember any hoop-la coming from Disney about the film.. I wonder how it would have done if it had been underplayed before release.
Cool article, if you can wade through the advertisements
If nothing else it helps to show lawmakers some actual case law (in their lanugage) to say "store and forward" doesn't always imply the same thing, its the content that is of interest.
:) At least not this time.
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I hope if nothing else this case helps focus more on the content, and less on the delivery method. A parallel being torrents that bring you linux Distributions vs torrents that bring you copyrighted media.
Just shows, we really *dont* shoot the messenger these days
However you're right, its frivilous and sets no real precedent. But makes way for some perhaps
Good point (and my bad for the sweeping statement). IBM did have quite a bit to do with it.
.. so I didn't want to go too far off topic (like I am now ... ) ;)
I had an old Think Pad , my first Penguin Laptop. It played a little sound byte when booting (RH7) :
"I'm Good Enough, and I'm Smart Enough, And Dog Gonnit, People Like Me!"
On airplanes I used to mouth the words as it played, and it (usually) got me a bit more leg room as the person next to me would generally move after giving me (and my odd looking screen) a strange look.
But the topic was Red Hat, and moderation has been meyhem lately
I'm wondering if they aren't just going to Include Xen, this would explain the sudden push on Xen's part to get a working FC4 installer out the door.
:) Either way you go this is going to be a good thing.
.. people are going to need help with this for years to come. I think it will help us do what we like doing (plan networks) instead of worrying so much about the semantics of getting (x software) installed and working. This means easier work, quicker turnover and more clients.
/dev/shm allowing execution, and other (seemingly) little quirks that allow so much spam to wind its way throughout the internet. They're catching up, it seems with just how people are using their product, hosting web sites (broadly). I hope they also make it safer in the process so that whatever layer they use for virtualization doesn't also get a rep for being insecure.
I'm not the world's biggest RH fan as far as using it, however I do respect that RH basically made Linux the household word that it is.
The end result, regardless of the politics is going to be web sites and databases remaining available to visitors a larger percent of the time, and end users getting a firmer grasp on how their OS works
For consultants specializing in helping to bring virtualization to the table for their clients, fear not
My concern is RH distributes (stock) very insecurely. My hope is they also address issues like
I'm not a huge Fedora fan, but I do respect them enough to withold judgement until I see what they put out. I guess you could count me as 'cautious, but anxious' to see it.
Ubuntu is open source. Think about the time and effort that went into writing said installer. If I were writing one, I'd log everything too while I developed it, otherwise how the hell am I going to see if all input has been processed correctly?
.. however please don't go calling the authors incompetent until you, yourself have released your own (perfect) operating system, or something better than Ubuntu.
.. not the password in the log file as you are obviously out to cause more irritation than the bug itself.
I might remind you that the installer is their only chance to successfully install their *free* OS on *your* system, its critical they get it right, and they did.
Someone obviously forgot to remove that portion from the install log, yeah ok I agree that was a major brainfart
You write as though you paid Ubuntu to write that distribution just for you. I think the more serious issue here is your ego displayed, in plain text , on slashdot
Perhaps you should go back to Microsoft Bob. I think thats more to your speed. If you have any complaints, the person responsible is the wife of Bill Gates, go talk to her.
I noticed that cockroaches also chow down on anything resembling cellulose ... in particular cigarette butts or styrofoam.
:) I always wondered what nutruitional value those things could possibly have for any living thing.
I guess its the bacteria feeding within the pores of it that they're after, and not simply just digesting the styrofoam for the sake of eating something filling.
I would also assume that THHN (common wire insulator made from polyethelene and polystyrene) has the same attraction for them.
Kinda cool
This has now been vollied as much as the "does a glass of wine a day really help your heart, and only red wine?" question.
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How many times do they need to dig up researchers to find causes for class action lawsuits before someone starts howling wolf?
Every high paid attorney in the world has a cell phone
Hmm.. didn't you know all regular expressions are actually classified?
I guess we're worried that the japanese will combine it with opensource.nokia.com and try and take over the world again, from their cell phones.
You know I think these douchebags are headed for the biggest political bellyflop ever seen. I'm going to sit back, pop some popcorn and watch it happen.
1. Understand what your legislating
2) Legislate it.
Their list looks similar, however they skipped rule #1 with an awk -F) '{print $2}'
Oh my god another regular expression. Slashdot servers will be siezed!
Lets replace their desktop and PDA OS's with BSD for a year. Then we'll see some sensible oxygen being processed by our lawmakers. Until then just laugh, its all you can do.
We used quite a bit more discretion in what we did or didn't stick our noses into.
.. then we went kind of gung ho in Kuwait, then we just sort of pulled out all of the stops. So now we have our nose basically everywhere.
We entered WW II rather late, and really because we simply had no other choice. We swore up and down we wouldn't get into Vietnam
However if ever the US was more "unreachable" , its now.
China is no saint and I think was largely over-coddled by Clinton. However I think its largely UNDER-coddled by Bush.
Seems we can't get enough of extremes (and apparently) extremists.
To date we allowed one evil genius dictator rise to almost conquor Europe, and then we threw everything we had at some dumbass in Iraq. What happened to the middle?
At least we get an A for effort, eh?