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The del Monte Story
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The Nobel scrunch
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The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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Right in the NutZ
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
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MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
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else
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MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
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This one[^], obviously.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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...but it is a game! 'Maze' (or something similar, couldn't find it on google), I played it on UNIX (IBM SP2?!)
during my apprenticeship...
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Looks like Wolfenstein 3D
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The "Aardwolf" level!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No problem, just press the keys "M" + "L" + "I"at the same time, ammo and health incoming
I realize now I'm too old for this sh*t
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I'd forgotten that one!
(I can still remember IDDQD, IDKFA, and IDSPISPOPD though! )
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Those also have a function in Doom 3! I just had a replay not long ago, to prepare for the new Doom and it was a neat easter egg.
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I looked at the hardware specs for the new version and my jaw hit the floor!
I'd have to spend the best part of £1000 to get a PC capable of playing a £40 game! Elephant that!
Doom 3 I played a couple of times, but it was too linear (same problem with Duke Nukem Forever) - you couldn't play it the way you wanted to, you had to go the way they wanted you to go, do what they wanted you to do, when they wanted you to do it. I preferred the sense of freedom you got (though you didn't actually have any) in the originals.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I was lucky enough to just fall into the category, where my hardware is good enough to run on medium to low settings. I will surely replay it once I get a new, better computer. I can see why you wouldn't want to upgrade your computer just for a game, I wouldn't either.
Yeah Doom 3 was linear, but I liked the atmosphere. It got cheesy at times, but the first few levels, Delta 4, Hell, levels leading up to your confrontation with Sarge and the last two were pretty good. The rest were more or less filler and yeah it gets boring. I've played Duke Nukem Forever too, but didn't really expect it to be as 3D was. Same with Tomb Raider, while the reboot is very good in 1-4(Last Revelation) you could pretty much complete a level the way you wanted. Do a speed run and skip most of it, or just spend a few hours per level, finding everything. With the new ones there is a mandatory path for completing the story and it's pretty much linear, but you can always go for 100% completion, which extends your gameplay time.
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No, to feel old you have to remember typing in 1,000 lines of code from a C&VG article, finding it won't work and spending weeks trying to find the bloody typing error that you hadn't made because the b'stard editor had printed the wrong bloody listing!
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Ah, rubber keyboards; stretchy cassette tapes. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Nostalgia isn't what it used to be!
Are you sure? I can't remember
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I played that (and finished it) on a Prime 400 back in the late seventies...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I am working remotely today. To get to my development machine, here is what is needed:
Laptop -> VPN -> Remote desktop 1 -> Remote Desktop 2 (from 1) -> Remote Desktop 3 (from 2) -> Remote Desktop 4 (from 3)
I just cant minimize the correct session anymore.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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That's a common issue when maintaining a network-isolated Test Zone or DEV environment. Got to have one jump box with a NIC in the dev zone and one NIC in a accessible zone.
Having that many remote desktop sessions though just spells disaster, and I wonder if it's a symptom of larger issues afoot in the organization
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Not really a disaster. It just gets complicated when I am not in office. And I only have laptop screen to use. No other monitors to make my life easy.
Wait, while I was typing, just realized something. So what if monitors at home are broken. I have a TV I can use!
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Hopefully an old CRT TV that you can slap
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We used (in my old place) a similar setup to provide access to a control system for the vendor,
Vendor -> Citrix App Server -> RDP (Onshore Engineering Station) -> RDP (offshore Engineering Station) -> RDP (Operator Stations)
or something along that lines.
A few years back, I have actually caught myself out once at home when I managed to lock myself out of my own computer I was on, and could only recover by powering it down. I had RDPd across to a VM at my ISP and then meant to then rdp to another machine somewhere, but accidently RDPd back into the machine I had started from (I had enabled RDP on it so I could access it when offshore), This then locked me out of everything.
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Epic. Just like creating time machine and going to current time. Then, stopping yourself from creating time machine. So now, you are in now and cannot get to real now since you don't have time machine in this (real? fake?) now you are in. Hey Einstein, where you at? SOS
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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I think it's very refreshing to access my work station in generally the same way a hacker would.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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