HL2 refused to run because too much time had passed since the last time Steam had updated.
Interesting. It's been 6 months since I last started Steam-- last week I fired up Steam to download The Lost Coast. Steam updated in less then an hour, and experienced no problems whatsoever.
I think Steam is a pretty good idea. Sure beats having to drive to Best Buy when I just want to play a game during the evening.
True, being a nonprofit means you don't have much money to spend on computer software. However, it also means you are probably VERY shortstaffed and cannot spend a ton of time trying to cobble together a complicated solution.
Nonprofits can get very sweet deals on discounted software (WinXP for $50 a seat, etc). This organization should seek out a low cost commericial solution-- and save time AND money, rather then waste time on intellectual masturbation.
I usually care when it's in my best interest. However after a while, sometimes I stop caring and give.
I am too busy to waste too much time trying to get some of this shit to work. I want to USE my computer to do work, not spend hours twiddling settings just to get basic functionality.
In the video card scenario mentioned above, I had to spend hours fiddling with stupid CC flags, downloading obscure libraries which weren't included with the distro, recompiling, twiddling stupid video flags, finding bugs, etc.
And this point, I give up. I was hoping for a quick 30 minute project on a Sunday afternoon, and this sort of thing can suck up the entire afternoon. I'll happily use another operating system that lets me work.
Please don't get high and mighty and blame the distro provider. This has happened on every distro I've tried for different components-- Debian, Suse, RedHat, Fedora & Ubuntu.
This is the first I've heard of this situation involving Linspire. All I can say is, "Sounds good!"
I can't believe how many times I have been stymied when configuring Linux because it didn't support my major-vendor video card. The "Open Source" version of certain drivers don't work. I tried an OSS implementation of some Nvidia drivers and it could barely spit out any video at all, much less allow me to use the advanced options on the card. I know the OSS developers tried hard, and I appreciate that. However, it just didn't work.
At times like these, I don't really care about politics or philosophy. I'm just trying to get the computer working, and if I get stuck because of OSS, I'll just abandon the project.
I suppose this is the reason why I haven't been a serious user of any Linux Desktop software for years. I use Linux as a server all the time, on dozens of different machines. It works great as a Server.
ok. I helped you enter the code. It was my only attempt which did NOT print back to the log below.
And apparently I closed a door, or opened a door. And once I got a little grid.
And 01100110 is ascii for f. 01100110 backwards is 01100110, wich is also F.
NOW WHAT?
Is this one of the Stanford-esqe Games? Or are you just a fan of Lost? Wait, you're in New Zealand? Or Malaysia? And what is "Cross-correlation rate restraints".
I guess it depends on where you are. The average IT pro with 6-7 years experience around here (SF Bay Area) easily makes 75K
I lived through the dotcom bust (As you can tell, I'm pretty bitter;), and was an unemployeed "IT Pro" for a year, and I even took one of those crap 50K jobs.
I don't see the same situation today, at all. Things will never be as good as they were around 1997-2000, but they have vastly improved over 2001-2003. *many* people are leaving their old "Pay sucks but it survived the crash" jobs for a better job.
You can always explain to employers when contacted why you did what you did.
Most employeers would probably find this sketchy and a little unbelievable. "What is he trying to hide?"
Have some balls. Most of us are "at will" employees, which means we can quit our job at any time for any reason; and our employeer can fire us at any time, for many different reasons.
You have a right to look for a job-- you have an OBLIGATION to look for ways to make your own life better. *they* have a right to consider laying you off, hiring a replacement or outsourcing your job to save the company money. This is the business life in the 21st century-- don't take it personally. Just make sure you treat them as they treat you. It's fair.
Don't let your employeer determine your rights. If they are upset, tough shit. They are probably in a position to fix the problems which lead to your job search.
If you're reprimanded, start looking for a job even harder and quit. Try to remain professional, but don't give them anything more.
This is unprofessional, but for extra fun, quit while it's most inconvenient for them (like a few weeks before the next software release).
I guess I don't ever see it getting that big. I doubt that online gaming will ever have that much influence on the real world economy. This is a dream of science fiction.
Signifigant on a global scale, as in "manifestly impact worldwide commerce". Oracle bugs can cause signifigant affects on a global scale. A bug in WoW affects a much smaller part of the population.
If every electronic database froze up tomorrow, the worldwide economy would be signifigantly damaged.
If every WoW server crashed tomorrow, there would be very little impact on the worldwide economy.
Games & virtual real estate will never impact the real-world economy signifigantly. Databases handle trillions of dollars worth of business transactions every year. Games will never reach that scale.
There is a pretty big difference in Scale. You can't compare WoW to Oracle.
An Oracle Database for a mid-sized website can easily cost hundreds-of-thousands of dollars. We pay Oracle Jockys a 6 figure salary to maintain the behemoth. It's critical to the business. For that price, I expect top-of-the-line support.
I wouldn't expect stellar support for WoW -- it costs something like $20/month. I'm suprised you attempt to compare the two.
The total license fees for Microsoft products for a 100-person office (100 workstations, Exchange, a dozen Windows Servers) is relatively low compared to the cost of the Oracle Database. From Microsoft, I expect good support-- the product needs to behave well, we need access to emergency support, etc.
you have the neo-con/far right wing religious types
To be fair, there are many hippyish/far left wing types and centrist-types who don't vaccinate their kids either, or who choose to use some sort of 'homeopathic' alternative to vaccinations.
From my perspective, the primary motivation for these parents is the fear over mercury/thimerosal in the vaccines, grouping many vaccines together in a single doctor visit for an infant, etc.
This was a business decision, not a technical descision. Probably an exclusive agreement made with the PHB in charge of WoW.
"But why do we need two providers? ATT has assured me that they can provide all the bandwidth we need, and that they have failover capability! *plus* their datacenters are built on SPRINGS!"
For every company with a name like "Oracle", "google" and "Red Hat", there were 10 companies who went bust, and who just happened to have names like "Monkeybrains", etc.
It's easier to configure then Debian, has a nice user interface and has included modern packages like 'x.org' and 'PHP5' for quite some time now. Ubuntu isn't for everyone, but that's fine. That's why you have Debian and other distros.
Myself, I use Ubuntu for my desktop because it is easy to install, configure & upgrade. The install was painless. With Debian, I found that I spent too much time trying to get my video card working, managing packages, and searching for modern packages on 3rd party websites. During Install I'll get stuck at some screen and need to search the web from a different computer to check for some wierd setting.
When I last checked 5-6 months ago, Debian stable was still using PHP4 as the default. PHP5 came out in what, 2004? x.org isn't slated for Debian stable until the next major release, right?
Debian is probably a fine server OS, but for my desktop & home servers I want something more modern.
Slashdot Mirror
HL2 refused to run because too much time had passed since the last time Steam had updated.
Interesting. It's been 6 months since I last started Steam-- last week I fired up Steam to download The Lost Coast. Steam updated in less then an hour, and experienced no problems whatsoever.
I think Steam is a pretty good idea. Sure beats having to drive to Best Buy when I just want to play a game during the evening.
Is colinux still alive? It is far from a complete project, and has had only a single 0.0.X update in the last year.
The project is cool, but doesn't work very well and seems quite stale.
True, being a nonprofit means you don't have much money to spend on computer software. However, it also means you are probably VERY shortstaffed and cannot spend a ton of time trying to cobble together a complicated solution.
Nonprofits can get very sweet deals on discounted software (WinXP for $50 a seat, etc). This organization should seek out a low cost commericial solution-- and save time AND money, rather then waste time on intellectual masturbation.
Linux was not put together for your convenience.
What are you saying? That Linux was put together for the convenience of the Linux developers, but not for users?
Linux was put together for people to use. If license issues prevent people from using Linux, then the project will get used less.
I usually care when it's in my best interest. However after a while, sometimes I stop caring and give.
I am too busy to waste too much time trying to get some of this shit to work. I want to USE my computer to do work, not spend hours twiddling settings just to get basic functionality.
In the video card scenario mentioned above, I had to spend hours fiddling with stupid CC flags, downloading obscure libraries which weren't included with the distro, recompiling, twiddling stupid video flags, finding bugs, etc.
And this point, I give up. I was hoping for a quick 30 minute project on a Sunday afternoon, and this sort of thing can suck up the entire afternoon. I'll happily use another operating system that lets me work.
Please don't get high and mighty and blame the distro provider. This has happened on every distro I've tried for different components-- Debian, Suse, RedHat, Fedora & Ubuntu.
This is the first I've heard of this situation involving Linspire. All I can say is, "Sounds good!"
I can't believe how many times I have been stymied when configuring Linux because it didn't support my major-vendor video card. The "Open Source" version of certain drivers don't work. I tried an OSS implementation of some Nvidia drivers and it could barely spit out any video at all, much less allow me to use the advanced options on the card. I know the OSS developers tried hard, and I appreciate that. However, it just didn't work.
At times like these, I don't really care about politics or philosophy. I'm just trying to get the computer working, and if I get stuck because of OSS, I'll just abandon the project.
I suppose this is the reason why I haven't been a serious user of any Linux Desktop software for years. I use Linux as a server all the time, on dozens of different machines. It works great as a Server.
The timestamp on the files makes me think this is an outdated game/prank of some sort.
Well, Smiley and Simley are two very simleyer words, aren't they.
ok. I helped you enter the code. It was my only attempt which did NOT print back to the log below.
And apparently I closed a door, or opened a door. And once I got a little grid.
And 01100110 is ascii for f. 01100110 backwards is 01100110, wich is also F.
NOW WHAT?
Is this one of the Stanford-esqe Games? Or are you just a fan of Lost? Wait, you're in New Zealand? Or Malaysia? And what is "Cross-correlation rate restraints".
Dang. HELP ME OUT HERE.
I guess it depends on where you are. The average IT pro with 6-7 years experience around here (SF Bay Area) easily makes 75K
;), and was an unemployeed "IT Pro" for a year, and I even took one of those crap 50K jobs.
I lived through the dotcom bust (As you can tell, I'm pretty bitter
I don't see the same situation today, at all. Things will never be as good as they were around 1997-2000, but they have vastly improved over 2001-2003. *many* people are leaving their old "Pay sucks but it survived the crash" jobs for a better job.
You can always explain to employers when contacted why you did what you did.
Most employeers would probably find this sketchy and a little unbelievable. "What is he trying to hide?"
Have some balls. Most of us are "at will" employees, which means we can quit our job at any time for any reason; and our employeer can fire us at any time, for many different reasons.
You have a right to look for a job-- you have an OBLIGATION to look for ways to make your own life better. *they* have a right to consider laying you off, hiring a replacement or outsourcing your job to save the company money. This is the business life in the 21st century-- don't take it personally. Just make sure you treat them as they treat you. It's fair.
Don't let your employeer determine your rights. If they are upset, tough shit. They are probably in a position to fix the problems which lead to your job search.
If you're reprimanded, start looking for a job even harder and quit. Try to remain professional, but don't give them anything more.
This is unprofessional, but for extra fun, quit while it's most inconvenient for them (like a few weeks before the next software release).
I guess I don't ever see it getting that big. I doubt that online gaming will ever have that much influence on the real world economy. This is a dream of science fiction.
No no no. It is a fingernail of a gigantic cave troll. It just keeps growing & growing until the top crumbles off.
Those pictures are a little freaky.
Is english your second language? Not a problem, but I couldn't understand you at all.
Signifigant on a global scale, as in "manifestly impact worldwide commerce". Oracle bugs can cause signifigant affects on a global scale. A bug in WoW affects a much smaller part of the population.
If every electronic database froze up tomorrow, the worldwide economy would be signifigantly damaged.
If every WoW server crashed tomorrow, there would be very little impact on the worldwide economy.
You're living in fantasy land.
Games & virtual real estate will never impact the real-world economy signifigantly. Databases handle trillions of dollars worth of business transactions every year. Games will never reach that scale.
There is a pretty big difference in Scale. You can't compare WoW to Oracle.
An Oracle Database for a mid-sized website can easily cost hundreds-of-thousands of dollars. We pay Oracle Jockys a 6 figure salary to maintain the behemoth. It's critical to the business. For that price, I expect top-of-the-line support.
I wouldn't expect stellar support for WoW -- it costs something like $20/month. I'm suprised you attempt to compare the two.
The total license fees for Microsoft products for a 100-person office (100 workstations, Exchange, a dozen Windows Servers) is relatively low compared to the cost of the Oracle Database. From Microsoft, I expect good support-- the product needs to behave well, we need access to emergency support, etc.
you have the neo-con/far right wing religious types
To be fair, there are many hippyish/far left wing types and centrist-types who don't vaccinate their kids either, or who choose to use some sort of 'homeopathic' alternative to vaccinations.
From my perspective, the primary motivation for these parents is the fear over mercury/thimerosal in the vaccines, grouping many vaccines together in a single doctor visit for an infant, etc.
I find it all pretty scary.
(My family is all vaccinated)
SSH, Curses & Screen is often text. It's easy to keep a couple dozen commandline programs organized this way.
VNC is mostly used for a GUI. Many people find it hard to keep a dozen Bittorrent windows open this way.
This was a business decision, not a technical descision. Probably an exclusive agreement made with the PHB in charge of WoW.
"But why do we need two providers? ATT has assured me that they can provide all the bandwidth we need, and that they have failover capability! *plus* their datacenters are built on SPRINGS!"
For every company with a name like "Oracle", "google" and "Red Hat", there were 10 companies who went bust, and who just happened to have names like "Monkeybrains", etc.
"War on Drugs"
I've use Yahoo Mail since 1997.
Yahoo marks every email from Yahoo Groups as Spam unless I explicitly add the address to my addressbook.
Now, that's efficient, ain't it.
I think I've only been to MySpace once... it wasn't very interesting.
It's easier to configure then Debian, has a nice user interface and has included modern packages like 'x.org' and 'PHP5' for quite some time now. Ubuntu isn't for everyone, but that's fine. That's why you have Debian and other distros.
Myself, I use Ubuntu for my desktop because it is easy to install, configure & upgrade. The install was painless. With Debian, I found that I spent too much time trying to get my video card working, managing packages, and searching for modern packages on 3rd party websites. During Install I'll get stuck at some screen and need to search the web from a different computer to check for some wierd setting.
When I last checked 5-6 months ago, Debian stable was still using PHP4 as the default. PHP5 came out in what, 2004? x.org isn't slated for Debian stable until the next major release, right?
Debian is probably a fine server OS, but for my desktop & home servers I want something more modern.