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| Displayed name | Djur Revolutions |
| Member number | 3149 |
| Title | Babelicious |
| Postcount | 999 |
| Homepage | http://desperance.net |
| Registered | Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, April 24 2004 18:27
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If one does not intend to support one's own product for a reasonable amount of time until it is mature and stable, one should not release said product at all. And in response to this topic: HUFF HUFF OH GOD MR. VOGEL YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE ME STRETCH MARKS -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 20 2004 16:41
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The entire oeuvre of historical fiction, alternate and otherwise: FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP HUFF PUFF HUAUGUAUUGH OH GOD HONEST ABE --- I read the Darksword trilogy. I have no idea why I read them all, but I did. I mostly skimmed the last one, and then I read the preview of the fourth one, and then I went and killed someone. Weis and Hickman are horrible hacks. No author worth their salt produces that many books without the vast majority of them being utter garbage (the Asimov Effect; he was saved by writing a few really awesome series). I think I remember the Deathgate series. It had the assassin, right? Hugh the Hand? And the child he tried to molest, and the world was a bunch of floating islands in a big tornado, and the elves did mechanical stuff and the humans did magic? See, the general idea didn't suck that much. But the stories themselves sucked and got steadily worse. -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 18 2004 18:54
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Tolkien was a better linguist than he was a writer. Frankly, he was a terrible writer, and his contributions to the RPG world must be weighed against the acres of crap that he spawned -- Piers Anthony, Terry Goodkind, the Dragonlance series, etc. His contemporary CS Lewis was twice the writer he was. -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, April 15 2004 19:08
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SELinux is pretty cool. The Gentoo team outfitted a computer with it and networked it, advertising that the root account had no password. It still hasn't been hacked, since even root is carefully sandboxed. The GNOME/KDE war seems so silly to me. I'm frankly glad that they're beginning to collaborate, because it would be a great leap to have the two systems be at least superficially similar. Sharing desktop information, menus, maybe even themes, etc. Then, the GNOME people can go on stripping every last bit of functionality out of their software, and the KDE people can go on and finally turn KDE into a really fancy assembler. -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, April 15 2004 17:18
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Just because I have used Solaris in the past doesn't mean I like it or Sun. :-p Java isn't terrible, but it's a pity that the only two current viable VMs are JVM and .Net, only the latter of which has a semblance of a Free implementation, and both of which suck. I'm crossing my fingers for Parrot. -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, April 15 2004 17:15
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Here's a critique of Unix. It's old, but it's still pretty valid. Essentially, Unix tends to concentrate on aggregations of simple, unsophisticated applications and the ingenuity of system admins as opposed to a carefully architected design. Simplicity is valued over completeness and perfection. Also, NT had a slightly more robust permissions system until recently, but NSA's SELinux has introduced some pretty damn sophisticated security abilities to Linux. -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, April 14 2004 16:23
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On the "Sea Change" tour, Beck would regularly perform "Nobody's Fault But My Own" solo with a harmonium. The song is usually played with a full accompaniament of European and Indian instruments, but the solo harmonium gives the song a rather spooky and desolate atmosphere. -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 13 2004 18:38
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Sherlock Holmes represents a Victorian England that never existed and never will exist. It was mere fiction, and rather fantastic at that. -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 13 2004 18:23
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What immediately sprung to mind was Star Wars and Final Fantasy III (US). It's been done. As a word of warning -- the "hurr I was being controlled" angle is played out. -------------------- I've got a pyg in a poke. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 13 2004 18:23
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What immediately sprung to mind was Star Wars and Final Fantasy III (US). It's been done. As a word of warning -- the "hurr I was being controlled" angle is played out. -------------------- I've got a pyg in a poke. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 13 2004 13:48
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PnP is not obsolete. It offers both unlimited flexibility and face-to-face social interaction, neither of which CRPGs offer. -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, April 12 2004 21:14
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quote:Never heard of Steve Jackson? GURPS and Illuminati fetish and all that good stuff? Damn, you must think everyone here is thirteen. Alec: what bad habits? It's only as rulesy as you make it, and it's no more rulesy than the average RPG. The DM should take care of most of the technical crap for you. [ Monday, April 12, 2004 21:18: Message edited by: Maaya ] -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, April 12 2004 14:15
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quote:Ah, yes. When women spoke only when spoken to, and blacks knew their place. -- I thought "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" was pretty good. As was "Bruce Almighty," actually. Jim Carrey hasn't been Ace Ventura for a decade. [ Monday, April 12, 2004 14:17: Message edited by: Maaya ] -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
| Website Overhaul and Reorganization in General | |
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written Sunday, April 11 2004 18:15
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I don't think I should have to ruin the rest of my browsing experience to account for inconsiderate idiots. Why don't you just change your site to flash random colors at 60 FPS and maybe put in an ActiveX control that executes FORMAT C: and sends emails to the President threatening his life? It would be SO EASY for you to just change the colors so they were different or less contrasting. But you won't. That's a great idea, until you nearly kill someone and they sue the shirt off your back. -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 11 2004 13:36
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Actually, no. You weren't rated until just now. -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
| I'm Back &im wishin u a happy easter in General | |
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written Sunday, April 11 2004 13:34
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 -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 11 2004 11:42
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I automatically rate anyone discussing karma one star. -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
| Remember the Alamo in General | |
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written Saturday, April 10 2004 21:33
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Hellboy is great. Since the Alamo takes a "huff three cheers for treacherous slimeballs" viewpoint, I'm sure it sucks eggs through a garden hose. -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, April 10 2004 15:25
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What about the movie's mysterious Satanic figure? I don't recall reading anything about THAT in the Gospels. -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, April 10 2004 11:17
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The Passion is better cinema than the teachings of a pacifist rabbi, and better cinema means more money in Mel's pocket. -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, April 10 2004 09:10
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He's making a joke that your site gave him a seizure. Regardless, I'm sensitive to that sort of thing. It's really irresponsible to say "I won't change it until I've endangered at least one person's life," you know. -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, April 9 2004 23:32
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Visual Basic is a huge, festering blemish on the face of computer programming. It's worse than Java. -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, April 9 2004 11:57
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Nicer than what? The red-on-blue is a really bad idea, you know. It can trigger epileptic attacks in some people. -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, April 9 2004 08:58
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I mentioned OS X, but I'll clarify. Apple can't say OS X is Unix. It isn't certified, and it probably couldn't be. They can say it's Unix-based, though, since it's a mutated NeXTStep which is itself a heavily mutated Mach/BSD hybrid, and BSD was begat by SysV Unix. But the only BSD derivative that is an official Unix is Solaris/SunOS. And Unix is basically as far away from DOS as one can get. MS-DOS was based on (stolen from) QDOS, which was a sloppy imitation of CP/M, which was intended to be a VMS-like system for personal computers. DEC'S VMS operating system was actually the yin to Unix's yang. Unix and VMS geeks always used to get in arguments back in the '70's, since they represented such different ideologies. (VMS tended towards monolithic software, where Unix tended towards tiny, specialized programs.) VMS was and still is considered the most stable multi-user operating system ever released. Some VMS machines have been up for decades. Interestingly enough, one of the main architects of VMS later was hired by Microsoft and became the project head for Windows NT. Some of VMS's concepts were used in WinNT. Sadly, the whole "stable, reliable, secure" bit was left out. Anyway, DOS and Unix are as separate as can be. DOS is a single-tasking execution environment for small computers; it's barely an OS. Programs it runs basically run on the bare metal, since DOS provides such lousy APIs by itself. It provides absolutely no memory protection or device regulation. Unix, on the other hand, is a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system. It provides a complete set of IO and systems functions, and provides a regular and uniform interface to devices. Memory is protected, and permissions are applied strictly to keep each user in their place. -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 6 2004 12:08
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What you saw in Jurassic Park was Silicon Graphics' FSN 3D file manager, running on the IRIX operating system. Unix is a name referring to a class of computer operating systems. The original Unix was written by Thompson and Richie at AT&T's Bell Labs; they utilized their new C programming language to do so. Thus, C and Unix were wed from birth. Unix was popular because, unlike its predecessor MULTICS, it was small and flexible. It was what's called a "time-sharing" system; today, we'd call that "multi-tasking." It allowed multiple people to use a single mainframe at once. Over the years, different companies licensed the Unix operating system from AT&T. Among these were: * IBM (developed AIX) * SGI (developed IRIX) * Microsoft (developed Xenix) * Santa Cruz Operation (purchased Xenix and developed SCO Unix) University of California - Berkeley also developed their own version of Unix from the original source code, called Berkeley Software Distribution -- BSD. After some costly lawsuits, most of BSD was rewritten to contain no AT&T code. As a result, BSD was an entirely separate implementation of Unix with no copyright enforced on it. The current holder of the Unix trademark is the Open Group, which certifies "official" Unixes. The current holder of the copyright on the original Unix code is SCO Group, which resulted from an unholy matrimony of Caldera and the original SCO. There are two pedigrees of Unix, as a result. They are called 'SysV' (developed from AT&T code) and 'BSD' (developed from Berkeley code). (The following are all offical Unixes.) SysV systems: IBM AIX SGI IRIX Caldera/SCO OpenUnix and UnixWare Hewlett-Packard HP-UX BSD systems: Sun Microsystems' Solaris FreeBSD OpenBSD NetBSD (an assortment of other *BSD forks) In addition, there are a group of "Unix-like" or "Unix-based" systems. These behave superficially or mostly like Unix, but differ in significant ways or do not derive from the original Unix code. GNU/Linux is a Unix-like system, developed by the Free Software Foundation and a Finnish programmer named Linus Torvalds. It derives no code from the original Unix, and was developed originally to work on home PCs such as the Intel 386. Since then, it has expanded to be suitable for "big iron", and has gained some support from Unix heavies such as IBM and Novell. Sun Microsystems and Microsoft Corporation consider Linux to be a threat to their (respective) Solaris and Windows NT operating systems. NeXTStep was a hybrid system, whose differences from its BSD base are rather technical. Instead of focusing on the traditional Unix programming system, NeXTStep used a special programming language (Objective-C) and its own set of libraries. NeXT developed their own computers, and NeXTStep environments ran on PowerPC and Intel machines. They were eventually purchased by Apple Computers, who based their recent Mac OS X on NeXT technology. (Thus, OS X is not a Unix; it is a Unix-like for kernel reasons.) BeOS was developed by Be Inc. (now defunct, owned by Palm) and had some Unix-like characteristics mixed with MacOS-style simplicity. Unfortunately, it was a desktop system that only supported single-user login. I could go on, but I figure I've lost you already. To sum up, "Unix" describes operating systems that follow a set of conventions regarding multiple users, user interface, and programming. EDIT: I use GNU/Linux, by the way, and have for almost seven years. I have experience with Solaris, AIX, and most of the BSDs as well. The primary difference between Unix-like systems and their competitors (VMS and today WinNT) are pretty technical and philosophical. [ Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:12: Message edited by: Maaya ] -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
) I worked for a popular provider of PNP gmes back in my misspent youth.