I thought the reasons are clear.. M$ is going to push ODF for a while, wait till it has penetrated all levels, then spring the "BTW, we have 183 patents covering this, so all your ODF are belong to us"
I am so tired of all these stupid Star Wars games. The movies, while entertaining, were childish and shallow. The games just suck, but they still just keep coming.. one after another after another. (Star Trek is about one step behind)
IMHO the last good SW game was X-Wing v Tie Fighter.. but the last great LA game was
SWOTL! thats 'Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe' for you yung'uns. I would actually go out and buy the box if someone created a SWOTL2 using, say, an IL2 type engine.. just keep it away from MS's CFS....
There seems to be a dearth of good combat flight sims nowadays. Everyone wants to see blood splattering the walls, but you haven't lived till you survive a long dogfight with a burst of your 50Cal guns, then leisurely swing around to hose your enemy again as he swings under his canopy, helpless and inviting...
Actually, it was not the basement. It used to be underground parking level of the 'fashion center' back when it was a fashion center... which explains the huge concrete pillars that held up the rest of the building. We just needed to get away from Sega and Macromedia up on the higher floors... their wireless networks were so crappy, and wide open that we couldn't resist just using them all the time.. we could even read their email...
I'm a Linuxcare survivor. Almost nobody remembers the original pitched name of 'the penguinarium', but I remember when CNN-Financial called us 'Linux services Powerhouse'. If not for the VC meddling, we would have stomped red hat into being just another distro. At the very end, we were trying to merge with Turbolinux (remember them too?) just to stay afloat. The real Linuxcare ended then. What came after was just a rotting corpse...
At one time there where around 300 really smart people working there, with a couple of self-serving brainless VC plants in charge trying to squeeze money out of an unworkable business plan and into their own pockets. Employees included the original authors of PHP, Samba (one of), kernel traffic (hey zack!), and too many apps to remember... we did the first version of a 'sourceforge' (our demo was basically copied.. hey, isn't that open source though.. they did it better). We did the first custom builds of debian for IBM thinkpads (I think they are still using them). The Linuxcare BBC (bootable business card) was one the best little tools around. I still love scaring M$ 'security' admins with one of them.
Not to name names, but do you all remember when Etrade was having all kinds of problems back around '99 and '00, being down for hours on end, the wrong trades going through, accounts getting redirected, etc. Their CIO(CEO? don't' remember) eventually left under a cloud. Took his 'secretary' (using the term very loosely for what her duties actually were.. couldn't spell or type, but certainly took dictation quite well) and a few months later was CIO at Linuxcare. We talked with friends at Etrade, and got the bad news. He brought his own ideas on how everything should run. It was all very new, groundbreaking, earthshattering technology (if we happened to be in the year 1965!), and of course brought in the 'consultants' from a firm that he and the CEO just happened to have a lot of investments in.
When the entire IT, Web Dev, and Labs departments start having secret meetings about how to get rid of the CIO, you know there's a problem. The best was when we hung effigies of him in our areas, with nooses made from CAT-5.
Ah yes, the good old days.. Dave, Dave, and Art were the best guys I had ever worked for, but they got eaten alive by the VC sharks. Hopefully sputnik.com will make it big for dave and art..
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So a supposed 'rock' takes a quick look at us, and we open fire with Elderdeath weapons? Wars have started that way...
I thought the reasons are clear.. M$ is going to push ODF for a while, wait till it has penetrated all levels, then spring the "BTW, we have 183 patents covering this, so all your ODF are belong to us"
How could I rant about how bad they are if I hadn't spent hours playing them. 'I hate this. Just another couple of hours, then I quit...'
I am so tired of all these stupid Star Wars games. The movies, while entertaining, were childish and shallow. The games just suck, but they still just keep coming.. one after another after another. (Star Trek is about one step behind) IMHO the last good SW game was X-Wing v Tie Fighter.. but the last great LA game was SWOTL! thats 'Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe' for you yung'uns. I would actually go out and buy the box if someone created a SWOTL2 using, say, an IL2 type engine.. just keep it away from MS's CFS.... There seems to be a dearth of good combat flight sims nowadays. Everyone wants to see blood splattering the walls, but you haven't lived till you survive a long dogfight with a burst of your 50Cal guns, then leisurely swing around to hose your enemy again as he swings under his canopy, helpless and inviting...
Actually, it was not the basement. It used to be underground parking level of the 'fashion center' back when it was a fashion center... which explains the huge concrete pillars that held up the rest of the building. We just needed to get away from Sega and Macromedia up on the higher floors... their wireless networks were so crappy, and wide open that we couldn't resist just using them all the time.. we could even read their email...
Crap, I forgot..
Our 4/1 joke of ReRover.com was, and still is I think, the best ever...
check it out on wayback...
strange thing is.. it isn't a joke anymore.. it's reality..
ReRover. It's a Dog's life. Again.
I'm a Linuxcare survivor. Almost nobody remembers the original pitched name of 'the penguinarium', but I remember when CNN-Financial called us 'Linux services Powerhouse'. If not for the VC meddling, we would have stomped red hat into being just another distro. At the very end, we were trying to merge with Turbolinux (remember them too?) just to stay afloat. The real Linuxcare ended then. What came after was just a rotting corpse...
At one time there where around 300 really smart people working there, with a couple of
self-serving brainless VC plants in charge trying to squeeze money out of an unworkable business plan and into their own pockets. Employees included the original authors of PHP, Samba (one of), kernel traffic (hey zack!), and too many apps to remember... we did the first version of a 'sourceforge' (our demo was basically copied.. hey, isn't that open source though.. they did it better). We did the first custom builds of debian for IBM
thinkpads (I think they are still using them). The Linuxcare BBC (bootable business card) was one the best little tools around. I still love scaring M$ 'security' admins with one of them.
Not to name names, but do you all remember when Etrade was having all kinds of problems back around '99 and '00, being down for hours on end, the wrong trades going through, accounts getting redirected, etc. Their CIO(CEO? don't' remember) eventually left under a cloud. Took his 'secretary' (using the term very loosely for what her duties actually were.. couldn't spell or type, but certainly took dictation quite well) and a few months later was CIO at Linuxcare. We talked with friends at Etrade, and got the bad news. He brought his own ideas on how everything should run. It was all very new, groundbreaking, earthshattering technology (if we happened to be in the year 1965!), and of course brought in the 'consultants' from a firm that he and the CEO just happened to have a lot of investments in.
When the entire IT, Web Dev, and Labs departments start having secret meetings about how to get rid of the CIO, you know there's a problem. The best was when we hung effigies of him in our areas, with nooses made from CAT-5.
Ah yes, the good old days.. Dave, Dave, and Art were the best guys I had ever worked for, but they got eaten alive by the VC sharks. Hopefully sputnik.com will make it big for dave and art..
Linuxcare. Support for the Revolution! err... At the Center of Linux!