Yep as the other says karma... Would like to see some current photos. Try to include the building number and street name as such so that we can see that the place is the place...
The photo hardocp has is of a drop mailing place photo's of the current location would be much appreciated.
I'm running cooker 10 so I might be able to help point out some of the changes that will help "Joe User".
The most significant change is with the scheduler. X is much more responsive to the user now... You get used the the standard interface and have to wait as the screen redraws and such to the point that you really don't notice. Changing to the new kernel I have noticed that X seems significantly better. The system seems much more responsive than it used to be.
The packages that I upgraded seem to have more features as well. For instance Bittorrent now has an upload and download display so that I can see how much I have uploaded vs downloaded on any given torrent... Where as before it seemed that it was taking forever to download files, and my upload stream always was filled... I can now see that on any given torrent I am uploading about 50-100% more than I am downloading... Very nice...
Also my previous version was Mandrake 8.0 and I had to build and create several packages on my own. Now most of the packages seem that I use on a daily basis are included. Which saves me problems as well. I was able to just nuke my previous / partition keeping my/home partition and just reinstall the system without having to rebuild all my tools since most of them are included.
When I originally built the 2.6 kernel I was having sound problems... ie It doesn't play... Now 10.0rc1 had same problems... Which is why I pulled cooker and implemented it... Now sound is actually being recognized and configured automatically. Note that I did not have problems with sound with 8, but as I noted I was trying to upgrade to the 2.6 kernel and started to have problems...
Integrated alsa sound is also nice... The mixer works better than the old oss sound system.
Those are the major changes. The responsive increase, additional packages, more features in packages I already use, and the ease of setup with everything just working mark it up as a win in my book.
Not really making progress. They are a public company now due to some waving of stocks at the end of 2003, acquiring some guy's consulting firm.
So they have had to have a viable business address to get the paperwork filed..
Anyway... I find it interesting reading the SEC filings that their whole concept comes down to a VPN to deliver content which they haven't started on yet.
Reading the latest reviews, where they actually show a box... Nice packaging, but couple of thoughts... If they are running a vpn and drm why do they need to communicate with ssl? Additional thoughts abound as to how long they expect their ssl encryption to be valid as one side the the communication is compromised...
Shrug, must be one of those things like the sealed unit the console comes in. It's impossible to take the plastic appart to get at the insides... right?
Anyway, all smoke and mirrors so far. I like how they have $5000 stock, no incoming capital, yet set the value of the stock to 5000 times it's starting price and run a 4 to 1 split on all outstanding stock... wow, instead of $5k they are now worth a cool $25 million... Oh and they say their chief competitors are xbox, nintendo and sony. Somehow I doubt even if they did have $25 million they could compete head to head with their competition...
Just goes to show what I know about business... I always thought it was about trying to make a product which you then sold to make money.
Hmmm, anybody is a overly generic term... I started having back pain when we switched over to these chairs, after a month I snuck in one of my chairs from home...
Supposedly the new chairs, were ergonomic, but the didn't work for me at all.
Just wanted to point out that the US gives or used to give about 10 billion a year in the late 80's early 90's if anything I would expect that number to have risen... $1 Billion is a bit low...
Anyone have a link for the 2004 budget? Maybe we could look into it further..
I notice a lot of people suggesting magnifying classes and the like, however I have a couple of comments on Macular Degerneration.
Macular Degeneration is not merely marked by difficulty to see small things it is a condition that degenerats the light receptors in the eye itself. Primarily the portion of the eye that is used to see straight ahead. So basically they people end up using periphial(sp?) vision in order to see since most of their eyesight straight ahead is gone.
The need to increase the size of the text is not an issue of being able to focus on the text, but is a need to greatly magnify the text so that it can be seen out the corner of their eyes. Near-sighted and farsighted issues are completely different.
I too am interested in a low cost solution to allow the people I know to read letters, but it can be desk based... Currently I think the best option is to use a camera plugged into a 42" or larger television. But I would like to hear other suggestions.
PS. A recent report in Science news in suggests that there may be hope of treatment to stem the loss of sight. Soon it may prevent people with this condition from getting any worse. However it will not improve any loss vision. Improvement will probably have to wait on artificial eyes.
Working with a number of ISP's, ie running one myself in the past. I would recommend going with C-panel... The system works well and is updated quite often.
Rolling your own distribution and keeping apache/postfix/frontpage extentions/webmin/etc up to date takes more time than it's worth and eats your profit margin up.
Depending on the space you have available, I would go with some 1u or 2u units. Frankly with 150 domains you can probably run all of them on 1-2 systems with decent hardware.
I strongly recommend against plesk, as they have a number of issues or have had in the past.
I'm actually having a few problems following this conversation, but still figured I could drop in my two cents.
This is what a free market is about, using the product that best suits your need. RMS of course thinks that all software should be free, however most people feel that proprietary software does have it's place in the world.
So if Photoshop fills this person's needs, he is perfectly sane and reasonable to use the product. There is nothing wrong with that at all. If in the future Adobe is not meeting his goals, he will likely download the gimp to look at it again... There is no "law" in GPL software that says you have to use it.
As for the people insulting him, he states his opinions and why he made his decision. Not being able to save gifs though not a technical problem is still a reason to purchase commercial software merely to license the ability to produce gifs... There is no or was no getting around the license. It's no insult to the gimp that he doesn't choose to use it.
Try to remember that there are a bunch of different people here with lots of different mindsets.
You note responses one way, but there are differing opinions on the matter here... Personally I only get involved or upset when they abuse the law, ie trampling on personal rights. They might not be doing it to me, but if they are allowed to then it's only a matter of time before someone starts doing it to me...
Their priorities as I see them are to get rid of the people that play the game. Looks like older accounts were hit harder than new accounts and most bot only accounts weren't touched at all.
Think about it this way... if you get rid of the old timers the people that still play a lot and you leave in all the botters/hacks/pk then it becomes a lot harder for the noobs.
As you start shedding more people in the game, more people leave because there is no one to play with without being pk'd. No reward for lots of effort...
Looks to me after thinking about it for a day, they want to kill diablo but do it in a way that the users are blamed so that everyone buys their new product.
Makes me glad that I decided not to purchase any new blizzard products when they attacked bnetd.
I vote for option C... They know they can't stop it so they are spreading FUD.
As I understand it they only have a couple of people working on battle net. So hand analysing seems unlikely.
Oh, as far as tracking point a to point b times... Interestingly the concensus is that getting tagged causes this... yet I've been "tagged" even without using mapping features. Thankfully, since I cannot play public games anymore This isn't a problem and private games are uneffected.
Frankly the only people suffering here will be/are the honest players. I finally got my first ist rune the other day... after only 5 years playing... haven't found a soj since before LOD. Nice to know there's people with 20-40 of each running around.
Blah, spilt milk I guess. At least I enjoy playing when I'm not being drop hacked or trigger hacked or trade hacked.
They aren't responding to that at all... There is nothing to do with unsportsmanship in the game... The players with trigger hack, hacked items, drop hack are not being targeted.
Frankly, I use maphack specifically because I got drop hacked and killed a few times... There really is no other way to protect yourself... I don't see blizzard doing anything about this...
Shrug. Frankly I find it a little unusual that the last go round people that had never botted got cut and others that bot all the time weren't... Just checked a bot channel that I know of and most of the bots look to be up and running.
This seems to be FUD to me. Besides their deleting accounts, not removing cd keys... I takes about 2 hours to get a bot up and running on another account... And heck that even might be slow.
As far as this being a behavioral problem and not a "chemical" disorder, consider the following.
Studies have shown that the AD(d/hd) brain is 3-5% smaller than "normal" brains.
MRI findings show the the adhd brain untilizes less glucous(sp?) than a normal brain in the frontal and speach centers of the brain.
A significant lack of "white matter" in the brain has been found in those diagnosed with adhd than in the general population...
While diagnosis might be a bit of a problem still, the fact is that there are significant differences between the adhd brain and the normal brain. It's estimated that about 5% of the population has add is one form or another.
Just letting you know that it's far more than a behavioural problem.
Actually, you may want to get yourself tested for ADHD, the symptems you are describing are pretty much the diagnoses for ADD/ADHD.
I can relate to sitting down to work, and at the end of a 12-16 hour day only having 1/2 of work done. It's gotten to the point that I am now spending most of my time working on getting a diagnoses and the problem fixed.
The way ADHD works is a bit insidious. Without an understanding of how it works it's easy to label yourself as not working hard enought, etc. My first realization that I might have a problem was when I took Wellbutrin for the first time, it became easier to make decisions, ie betweeen making a decision to do something and actually getting started took about 2 hours with the Wellbutrin it was instant, ie decide to go to the store, grab keys and jump in the car.
Anyway, I suggest getting yourself tested for ADHD by an expert. Testing should take approx 6-8 hours for complete testing.
Correct me if I am wrong, but The Last Starfighter was never an released game... There were plans to make a game to capitalize on the movie, but I don't think it ever happened. Tron also doesn't work since the game was made based on the moving, not the movie being made based on the game.
To replace the two that I disqualified I add the following Tomb Raider and Mortal Combat
Basic came out about what 2.5 years after the last chainmail?
Basic, expert, ad&d, masters then the second edition and on... Personally, the basic rules tended to be better with it's very simple rules with a good DM, guess their called GM's now, it could be a fun game... AD&D though I played for several years, going back to basic brought back some of the excitement to the game.
I'm currently playing Dangerous Journeys with massive revision of the rules, editing needs a bit of work... It brought back a lot of the fun of the original games as well... Too bad TSR killed it. Haven't looked at Legendary Journeys yet, but will get around to it sometime... The online version is due out in 2004. Article at gamasutra, free registration yada yada yada
Nod, I think that they changed over to this format because of the way people "play" the market... Still you would think that Harvard would have held out to do things the "right" way..
Sigh, my biggest example of a good company gone bad is ATT. They used to be a good and steady employer, but nowdays their training budget is minimal and they continue to go through rounds of mandated layoffs...
Silly, because 3 months later the people they laid off come back as contractors at a higher income, but I guess ATT doesn't have to pay benefits to contractors and they can lay them off anytime they want...
Just sad how the bottom line overrides good business sense... Screw your customers today to get a buck rather than support them properly so that they are your customer tomorrow...
I think Mandrake (the person not the company) was working with a fairly decent open source speech synthesiser(sp?) last time we talked... been about 2 years now I think... but a quick check of his site shows that he's still working with the same company and thus probably still has good links from him homepage, ie http://www.mandrake.net/
Yes in the short term you can run lean and have better productivity... But this is bad business in my opinion...
If you have no training for your employees, not because of income, but because none of them can be spared, you are going to have to hire all of your talent new.
If you people are streched so thin, then your going to have burnout and have to replace those workers.
If your facing a 20-30% turnover rate... Your employees will have no loyalty to the company, because the company has no loyalty to them.
Personally, I think that companied that have been in business for a while, say 10-20 years minimum and have built up a staff of experienced employees. Don't really realize how much this will cost them... Traing new employees is expensive for anything except menial jobs...
If your company is dropping a lot of deadweight, that suggests managers that are not doing their jobs... But upper-management doing job cuts across the board are not doing their jobs properly either.
When the big name business schools changed over from teaching business from looking 5, 10, and 20 years into the future and started concentrating on quarterly income it was a sad day.
Yes, it's more expensive to support a custom application rather than one that is generic in function...
A lot of small companies run system administration support... If you need continuing support contact one of them... For instance my company will do it for a modest monthly maintenance fee and bill for the actually hours worked.
But you'll still be paying around 4000 a year, maybe 1800 if you have no problems during the year.
It's better to go to someone that specializes in exaclty the type of product you need usually.
Personally, the only reason I avoid proprietary software is licensing issues... Far better to buy the best product and service. Not use open-source unless it fits the need.
Anyway, that being that... You should check out google's search engine... It's a 1U unit you throw on a network and it does pretty much everything necessary... Support costs should be low since that's their main business.
IE, proprietary, but the company is ethical... Contrary to other search engines that require payment for links..
If you still want to go with an open source project feel free to give my company a call and we'll see what we can do for you... But remember that open source isn't always the best solution.
Slashdot Mirror
Yep as the other says karma... Would like to see some current photos. Try to include the building number and street name as such so that we can see that the place is the place...
The photo hardocp has is of a drop mailing place photo's of the current location would be much appreciated.
I'm running cooker 10 so I might be able to help point out some of the changes that will help "Joe User".
/home partition and just reinstall the system without having to rebuild all my tools since most of them are included.
The most significant change is with the scheduler. X is much more responsive to the user now... You get used the the standard interface and have to wait as the screen redraws and such to the point that you really don't notice. Changing to the new kernel I have noticed that X seems significantly better. The system seems much more responsive than it used to be.
The packages that I upgraded seem to have more features as well. For instance Bittorrent now has an upload and download display so that I can see how much I have uploaded vs downloaded on any given torrent... Where as before it seemed that it was taking forever to download files, and my upload stream always was filled... I can now see that on any given torrent I am uploading about 50-100% more than I am downloading... Very nice...
Also my previous version was Mandrake 8.0 and I had to build and create several packages on my own. Now most of the packages seem that I use on a daily basis are included. Which saves me problems as well. I was able to just nuke my previous / partition keeping my
When I originally built the 2.6 kernel I was having sound problems... ie It doesn't play... Now 10.0rc1 had same problems... Which is why I pulled cooker and implemented it... Now sound is actually being recognized and configured automatically. Note that I did not have problems with sound with 8, but as I noted I was trying to upgrade to the 2.6 kernel and started to have problems...
Integrated alsa sound is also nice... The mixer works better than the old oss sound system.
Those are the major changes. The responsive increase, additional packages, more features in packages I already use, and the ease of setup with everything just working mark it up as a win in my book.
Not really making progress. They are a public company now due to some waving of stocks at the end of 2003, acquiring some guy's consulting firm.
So they have had to have a viable business address to get the paperwork filed..
Anyway... I find it interesting reading the SEC filings that their whole concept comes down to a VPN to deliver content which they haven't started on yet.
Reading the latest reviews, where they actually show a box... Nice packaging, but couple of thoughts... If they are running a vpn and drm why do they need to communicate with ssl? Additional thoughts abound as to how long they expect their ssl encryption to be valid as one side the the communication is compromised...
Shrug, must be one of those things like the sealed unit the console comes in. It's impossible to take the plastic appart to get at the insides... right?
Anyway, all smoke and mirrors so far. I like how they have $5000 stock, no incoming capital, yet set the value of the stock to 5000 times it's starting price and run a 4 to 1 split on all outstanding stock... wow, instead of $5k they are now worth a cool $25 million... Oh and they say their chief competitors are xbox, nintendo and sony. Somehow I doubt even if they did have $25 million they could compete head to head with their competition...
Just goes to show what I know about business... I always thought it was about trying to make a product which you then sold to make money.
Actual 5th court decision
http://regionalweb.texoma.net/
Hmmm, anybody is a overly generic term... I started having back pain when we switched over to these chairs, after a month I snuck in one of my chairs from home...
Supposedly the new chairs, were ergonomic, but the didn't work for me at all.
Not that I agree with your statements...
Just wanted to point out that the US gives or used to give about 10 billion a year in the late 80's early 90's if anything I would expect that number to have risen... $1 Billion is a bit low...
Anyone have a link for the 2004 budget? Maybe we could look into it further..
If I remember the chart of resistances correctly, diamond is even more conductive than silver by about 5-10 times I think...
Someone interested in looking up the link?
I notice a lot of people suggesting magnifying classes and the like, however I have a couple of comments on Macular Degerneration.
Macular Degeneration is not merely marked by difficulty to see small things it is a condition that degenerats the light receptors in the eye itself. Primarily the portion of the eye that is used to see straight ahead. So basically they people end up using periphial(sp?) vision in order to see since most of their eyesight straight ahead is gone.
The need to increase the size of the text is not an issue of being able to focus on the text, but is a need to greatly magnify the text so that it can be seen out the corner of their eyes. Near-sighted and farsighted issues are completely different.
I too am interested in a low cost solution to allow the people I know to read letters, but it can be desk based... Currently I think the best option is to use a camera plugged into a 42" or larger television. But I would like to hear other suggestions.
PS. A recent report in Science news in suggests that there may be hope of treatment to stem the loss of sight. Soon it may prevent people with this condition from getting any worse. However it will not improve any loss vision. Improvement will probably have to wait on artificial eyes.
Working with a number of ISP's, ie running one myself in the past. I would recommend going with C-panel... The system works well and is updated quite often.
Rolling your own distribution and keeping apache/postfix/frontpage extentions/webmin/etc up to date takes more time than it's worth and eats your profit margin up.
Depending on the space you have available, I would go with some 1u or 2u units. Frankly with 150 domains you can probably run all of them on 1-2 systems with decent hardware.
I strongly recommend against plesk, as they have a number of issues or have had in the past.
I'm actually having a few problems following this conversation, but still figured I could drop in my two cents.
This is what a free market is about, using the product that best suits your need. RMS of course thinks that all software should be free, however most people feel that proprietary software does have it's place in the world.
So if Photoshop fills this person's needs, he is perfectly sane and reasonable to use the product. There is nothing wrong with that at all. If in the future Adobe is not meeting his goals, he will likely download the gimp to look at it again... There is no "law" in GPL software that says you have to use it.
As for the people insulting him, he states his opinions and why he made his decision. Not being able to save gifs though not a technical problem is still a reason to purchase commercial software merely to license the ability to produce gifs... There is no or was no getting around the license. It's no insult to the gimp that he doesn't choose to use it.
Yeah, might as well outlaw that toyota to, ever seen what one of them does to a dog or pedestrian?
Since 12 people screwed up I don't think that any of the 4-6 million people there should be allowed to drive... Grin....
Try to remember that there are a bunch of different people here with lots of different mindsets.
You note responses one way, but there are differing opinions on the matter here... Personally I only get involved or upset when they abuse the law, ie trampling on personal rights. They might not be doing it to me, but if they are allowed to then it's only a matter of time before someone starts doing it to me...
It was called the millennium act because though the law was passed in 1998, it's provisions did not go into effect until Jan 1st 2000.
Their priorities as I see them are to get rid of the people that play the game. Looks like older accounts were hit harder than new accounts and most bot only accounts weren't touched at all.
Think about it this way... if you get rid of the old timers the people that still play a lot and you leave in all the botters/hacks/pk then it becomes a lot harder for the noobs.
As you start shedding more people in the game, more people leave because there is no one to play with without being pk'd. No reward for lots of effort...
Looks to me after thinking about it for a day, they want to kill diablo but do it in a way that the users are blamed so that everyone buys their new product.
Makes me glad that I decided not to purchase any new blizzard products when they attacked bnetd.
I vote for option C... They know they can't stop it so they are spreading FUD.
As I understand it they only have a couple of people working on battle net. So hand analysing seems unlikely.
Oh, as far as tracking point a to point b times... Interestingly the concensus is that getting tagged causes this... yet I've been "tagged" even without using mapping features. Thankfully, since I cannot play public games anymore This isn't a problem and private games are uneffected.
Frankly the only people suffering here will be/are the honest players. I finally got my first ist rune the other day... after only 5 years playing... haven't found a soj since before LOD. Nice to know there's people with 20-40 of each running around.
Blah, spilt milk I guess. At least I enjoy playing when I'm not being drop hacked or trigger hacked or trade hacked.
They aren't responding to that at all... There is nothing to do with unsportsmanship in the game... The players with trigger hack, hacked items, drop hack are not being targeted.
Frankly, I use maphack specifically because I got drop hacked and killed a few times... There really is no other way to protect yourself... I don't see blizzard doing anything about this...
Shrug. Frankly I find it a little unusual that the last go round people that had never botted got cut and others that bot all the time weren't... Just checked a bot channel that I know of and most of the bots look to be up and running.
This seems to be FUD to me. Besides their deleting accounts, not removing cd keys... I takes about 2 hours to get a bot up and running on another account... And heck that even might be slow.
As far as this being a behavioral problem and not a "chemical" disorder, consider the following.
Studies have shown that the AD(d/hd) brain is 3-5% smaller than "normal" brains.
MRI findings show the the adhd brain untilizes less glucous(sp?) than a normal brain in the frontal and speach centers of the brain.
A significant lack of "white matter" in the brain has been found in those diagnosed with adhd than in the general population...
While diagnosis might be a bit of a problem still, the fact is that there are significant differences between the adhd brain and the normal brain. It's estimated that about 5% of the population has add is one form or another.
Just letting you know that it's far more than a behavioural problem.
Actually, you may want to get yourself tested for ADHD, the symptems you are describing are pretty much the diagnoses for ADD/ADHD.
I can relate to sitting down to work, and at the end of a 12-16 hour day only having 1/2 of work done. It's gotten to the point that I am now spending most of my time working on getting a diagnoses and the problem fixed.
The way ADHD works is a bit insidious. Without an understanding of how it works it's easy to label yourself as not working hard enought, etc. My first realization that I might have a problem was when I took Wellbutrin for the first time, it became easier to make decisions, ie betweeen making a decision to do something and actually getting started took about 2 hours with the Wellbutrin it was instant, ie decide to go to the store, grab keys and jump in the car.
Anyway, I suggest getting yourself tested for ADHD by an expert. Testing should take approx 6-8 hours for complete testing.
Correct me if I am wrong, but The Last Starfighter was never an released game... There were plans to make a game to capitalize on the movie, but I don't think it ever happened. Tron also doesn't work since the game was made based on the moving, not the movie being made based on the game.
To replace the two that I disqualified I add the following Tomb Raider and Mortal Combat
Yeah, that's what I was thinking...
Basic came out about what 2.5 years after the last chainmail?
Basic, expert, ad&d, masters then the second edition and on... Personally, the basic rules tended to be better with it's very simple rules with a good DM, guess their called GM's now, it could be a fun game... AD&D though I played for several years, going back to basic brought back some of the excitement to the game.
I'm currently playing Dangerous Journeys with massive revision of the rules, editing needs a bit of work... It brought back a lot of the fun of the original games as well... Too bad TSR killed it. Haven't looked at Legendary Journeys yet, but will get around to it sometime... The online version is due out in 2004. Article at gamasutra, free registration yada yada yada
Gamasutra Interview with Gygax
Nod, I think that they changed over to this format because of the way people "play" the market... Still you would think that Harvard would have held out to do things the "right" way..
Sigh, my biggest example of a good company gone bad is ATT. They used to be a good and steady employer, but nowdays their training budget is minimal and they continue to go through rounds of mandated layoffs...
Silly, because 3 months later the people they laid off come back as contractors at a higher income, but I guess ATT doesn't have to pay benefits to contractors and they can lay them off anytime they want...
Just sad how the bottom line overrides good business sense... Screw your customers today to get a buck rather than support them properly so that they are your customer tomorrow...
I think Mandrake (the person not the company) was working with a fairly decent open source speech synthesiser(sp?) last time we talked... been about 2 years now I think... but a quick check of his site shows that he's still working with the same company and thus probably still has good links from him homepage, ie http://www.mandrake.net/
Yes in the short term you can run lean and have better productivity... But this is bad business in my opinion...
If you have no training for your employees, not because of income, but because none of them can be spared, you are going to have to hire all of your talent new.
If you people are streched so thin, then your going to have burnout and have to replace those workers.
If your facing a 20-30% turnover rate... Your employees will have no loyalty to the company, because the company has no loyalty to them.
Personally, I think that companied that have been in business for a while, say 10-20 years minimum and have built up a staff of experienced employees. Don't really realize how much this will cost them... Traing new employees is expensive for anything except menial jobs...
If your company is dropping a lot of deadweight, that suggests managers that are not doing their jobs... But upper-management doing job cuts across the board are not doing their jobs properly either.
When the big name business schools changed over from teaching business from looking 5, 10, and 20 years into the future and started concentrating on quarterly income it was a sad day.
Trai
Yes, it's more expensive to support a custom application rather than one that is generic in function...
A lot of small companies run system administration support... If you need continuing support contact one of them... For instance my company will do it for a modest monthly maintenance fee and bill for the actually hours worked.
But you'll still be paying around 4000 a year, maybe 1800 if you have no problems during the year.
It's better to go to someone that specializes in exaclty the type of product you need usually.
Personally, the only reason I avoid proprietary software is licensing issues... Far better to buy the best product and service. Not use open-source unless it fits the need.
Anyway, that being that... You should check out google's search engine... It's a 1U unit you throw on a network and it does pretty much everything necessary... Support costs should be low since that's their main business.
IE, proprietary, but the company is ethical... Contrary to other search engines that require payment for links..
If you still want to go with an open source project feel free to give my company a call and we'll see what we can do for you... But remember that open source isn't always the best solution.