Fair, I do recall that they did give a bunch of people refunds which prompted them to promise the next one for free. Still, The gamer's bill of rights idea was basically killed dead in the water by stardock because of elemental,
Wardell went on to map out some of his thinking on individual items in the bill, explaining: "On the console, you don't release as many buggy games, because of the pain of patching on consoles, but on the PC, we've gotten to the point where we just say, 'Eh, we'll just patch it.' That's bull. It's wrecking our industry."
"We're going to release things that are done, even if we have to delay it. We're going to not put in obnoxious copy protection. We will support the game after release. We have this set of principles, and there will be a logo on the game that gamers can trust means the game is done, and will be supported."
When you say stuff like that and then go onto release a game which was buggy, unplayed with broken mechanics far too early. People are immediately going to call you out on it as PC gamer did
introduced by Brad Wardell of Stardock? That certainly went well for them with Elemental : War of Magic, that was completely unplayable on release and basically not complete. It was so bad that they had to give away the expansion, Elemental: Fallen Enchantress for free?
A friend once told me that "You have to be in it for yourself.".
If you decided to stay on, would this crucial time stop soon? Or as I suspect, go on forever. This situation actually is so close to what a couple of guys here are going through, I had to ask around if it was one of us who submitted it.
The captain of that flight Eric Moody is hilarious
Despite the lack of time, Moody made an announcement to the passengers that has been described as "a masterpiece of understatement":[3][4] “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control. I trust you are not in too much distress.
followed by the gem
"He then called out how high they should be at each DME step along the final track to the runway, creating a virtual glide slope for them to follow. It was, in Moody's words, "a bit like negotiating one's way up a badger's arse"."
You used to be able to click on a link to anything you had listed in music and be able to see anyone else in your network who had also listed the same band/musican in their profile.
Changing things like "Become a fan" to a "like" is relying on people not noticing and cliking Like because their used to doing that on friend's status updates.
My current policy is to setup sudo to allow them to use the yum command and that is it. Anything else is asking for trouble. (which is pretty much what the old default in Fedora 12 acheived)
One person I gave the root password and I told him to use yum/the pretty gui to install stuff, 3 days later he had downloaded dozens of random rpms from god knows where. At which point I came along and just typed "yum -y install randomScientificSoftware"
This guy is a pretty high up scientist, so his time isn't cheap and he wasted 3 days on this. He could be doing whatever his specialist field is instead of trying to figure out what is the most difficult way to install software on linux.
If I don't give root passwords, then they'll report to their supervisors saying that the reason they can't do anywork is because I haven't given them a root password.
I currently have a ticket open requiring the root password because "the user can't do what they want" or something similar. I tried to explain using sudo to them, but this seems beyond them. If i give them the root password it gets written onto a postit note on their monitor.
I know it's get Fedora in it's name but it's been accepted into as a package into Debian (and thus ubuntu).
It's pretty cool, designed to control alot of systems at once and avoid having to ssh into them all at once, has a build in certification system, a bunch of modules written for it already , usable from the command line so you can easily add it into your scripts and has a python api so if you really wanted some you could throw together some django magic if you wanted a web front end. OpenSymbolic is a webfront end for it already although I haven't checked it out.
Not exactly what you wanted as there's a bunch of work you'd need to do to get it to do the things you want.
"The intelligence centre will store names, addresses, telephone numbers, seat reservations, travel itineraries and credit card details of travellers. "
which i assume is a tad more than they have already. I like how the government now needs a database for:
my credit cards dna/other "biometric data" all the emails I send all the websites I visit all the phone calls I make all the details of my children
obviously you need all of our credit card details to fight terror!
"â It has been a different matter for 5.10.0 in Fedora. For that, the maintainer has been very communicative, and so we were able to help him fix problems and get Perl 5.10.0 into Fedora Core 9."
"Spacewalk manages software content updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other Linux distributions such as Fedora, CentOS, and Scientific Linux, within your firewall." http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/
yeah it's basically the same here, except it's "bugger we've run out of space... just do a search for mp3s avis and send an email to the offending user saying, 'you shouldn't have these files, we're getting rid of them'". It's not a malicous snooping, but it's then when you realise there's hundreds of gigs of data which is either duplicated or made up complete rubbish
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Fair, I do recall that they did give a bunch of people refunds which prompted them to promise the next one for free. Still, The gamer's bill of rights idea was basically killed dead in the water by stardock because of elemental,
Wardell went on to map out some of his thinking on individual items in the bill, explaining: "On the console, you don't release as many buggy games, because of the pain of patching on consoles, but on the PC, we've gotten to the point where we just say, 'Eh, we'll just patch it.' That's bull. It's wrecking our industry."
"We're going to release things that are done, even if we have to delay it. We're going to not put in obnoxious copy protection. We will support the game after release. We have this set of principles, and there will be a logo on the game that gamers can trust means the game is done, and will be supported."
When you say stuff like that and then go onto release a game which was buggy, unplayed with broken mechanics far too early. People are immediately going to call you out on it as PC gamer did
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20027
introduced by Brad Wardell of Stardock? That certainly went well for them with Elemental : War of Magic, that was completely unplayable on release and basically not complete. It was so bad that they had to give away the expansion, Elemental: Fallen Enchantress for free?
http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/09/03/elemental-launch-was-catastrophic-poor-judgment/
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/10/26/fallen-enchantress-free-elemental-stardock/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamer's_Bill_of_Rights
http://www.destructoid.com/crashes-and-drama-surround-elemental-s-launch-182350.phtml
A friend once told me that "You have to be in it for yourself.".
If you decided to stay on, would this crucial time stop soon? Or as I suspect, go on forever. This situation actually is so close to what a couple of guys here are going through, I had to ask around if it was one of us who submitted it.
Guess it's time to jump ship.
The captain of that flight Eric Moody is hilarious
Despite the lack of time, Moody made an announcement to the passengers that has been described as "a masterpiece of understatement":[3][4]
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control. I trust you are not in too much distress.
followed by the gem
"He then called out how high they should be at each DME step along the final track to the runway, creating a virtual glide slope for them to follow. It was, in Moody's words, "a bit like negotiating one's way up a badger's arse"."
You used to be able to click on a link to anything you had listed in music and be able to see anyone else in your network who had also listed the same band/musican in their profile.
Changing things like "Become a fan" to a "like" is relying on people not noticing and cliking Like because their used to doing that on friend's status updates.
yes, yes and yes.
My current policy is to setup sudo to allow them to use the yum command and that is it. Anything else is asking for trouble. (which is pretty much what the old default in Fedora 12 acheived)
One person I gave the root password and I told him to use yum/the pretty gui to install stuff, 3 days later he had downloaded dozens of random rpms from god knows where. At which point I came along and just typed "yum -y install randomScientificSoftware"
This guy is a pretty high up scientist, so his time isn't cheap and he wasted 3 days on this. He could be doing whatever his specialist field is instead of trying to figure out what is the most difficult way to install software on linux.
If I don't give root passwords, then they'll report to their supervisors saying that the reason they can't do anywork is because I haven't given them a root password.
someone mod this person up now.
I currently have a ticket open requiring the root password because "the user can't do what they want" or something similar. I tried to explain using sudo to them, but this seems beyond them. If i give them the root password it gets written onto a postit note on their monitor.
oh i forgot to add it's available for RHEL/CentOS systems through EPEL
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
https://fedorahosted.org/func/
I know it's get Fedora in it's name but it's been accepted into as a package into Debian (and thus ubuntu).
It's pretty cool, designed to control alot of systems at once and avoid having to ssh into them all at once, has a build in certification system, a bunch of modules written for it already , usable from the command line so you can easily add it into your scripts and has a python api so if you really wanted some you could throw together some django magic if you wanted a web front end. OpenSymbolic is a webfront end for it already although I haven't checked it out.
Not exactly what you wanted as there's a bunch of work you'd need to do to get it to do the things you want.
both projects feed off each other
everyone will continue to bitch and moan about which one is better
world will keep turning.
you mean spacewalk/satellite http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/screenshots.html or perhaps func https://fedorahosted.org/func/
yeah but FTA it says
"The intelligence centre will store names, addresses, telephone numbers, seat reservations, travel itineraries and credit card details of travellers. "
which i assume is a tad more than they have already. I like how the government now needs a database for:
my credit cards
dna/other "biometric data"
all the emails I send
all the websites I visit
all the phone calls I make
all the details of my children
obviously you need all of our credit card details to fight terror!
who cares about ext4 when the release name is Leonidas http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-January/msg00004.html
this is what the red hat bugzilla is for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ bugs. or perhaps the fedora forums http://fedoraforum.org/ or perhaps #fedora on freenode.
Not a windows story on slashdot, because posting about it here is not really going to get it fixed...
exactly all you need to do is include things about how linux is a $25 billion dollar industry for a start http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/10/linux-ecosystem-worth-25-billi.html .
Point out how widely used it is in universities, how much it's used in the industry
Oh and your average unix admin earns about $80000 a year http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/layouthtmls/swzl_compresult_national_IT10000152.html
yeah and I thought Texas was a center for data centers? (ofc not saying they're all running linux) http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/08/16/the-texas-data-center-phenomenon/
don't worry, just like every single other government IT project, it'll just cost billions of pounds and not work better than a paper based system
or how often your the sysadmin for a bunch of scientists who ask you a question.
"so i go into this directory"
cd /into/a/really/long/directory/without/using/tab/completion
"and run this command" /why/don't/you/just/add/this/to/your/path/command
and they type REALLY slowly, sometimes i'm sitting there for a good ten minutes before i just get angry
if you're just looking for where some shell command like gcc is located just use
which gcc
i like using fuser -m to identify what's using a mounted resource
and fuser -u will tell you the user ids
then fuser -k will kill all the processes using it
the latest version supplied by redhat that is. Which is what the problem is all about.
could you explain what's crap about perl in fedora?
according to those perl guys, the fedora guys are quite good
from this blog
http://use.perl.org/~nicholas/journal/37274
"â It has been a different matter for 5.10.0 in Fedora. For that, the maintainer has been very communicative, and so we were able to help him fix problems and get Perl 5.10.0 into Fedora Core 9."
From the spacewalk website
"Spacewalk manages software content updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other Linux distributions such as Fedora, CentOS, and Scientific Linux, within your firewall." http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/
it's planned to tie in with freeIPA https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/TheRoadmap
yeah it's basically the same here, except it's "bugger we've run out of space... just do a search for mp3s avis and send an email to the offending user saying, 'you shouldn't have these files, we're getting rid of them'". It's not a malicous snooping, but it's then when you realise there's hundreds of gigs of data which is either duplicated or made up complete rubbish